Pilot

Pilot is the first episode of Secretly Charmed and therefore the season premiere.

Summary
Melinda Pierce is a 19 year old waitress who lives in a world where magical beings fight for there rights. Being one herself, she fears coming out until she has a premonition she can't ignore and soon she finds herself intertwined with a world of demons, witches and a past she doesn't know.

Cast
Characters in bold appear for the first time in the series
 * Main Cast
 * Selena Gomez as Melinda Pierce
 * Jessica Parker Kennedy as Joyle Ashjar
 * Jennifer Stone as Keira Harper
 * Wes Ramesy as Wyatt Halliwell
 * Drew Fuller as Chris Halliwell
 * Guest Cast
 * Aaron Ashemore as Demon
 * Jane Lynch as Brandy June
 * Lucas Grabeel as Asterion Young

Recap
The episode begins with Chris Halliwell running down the street at night in a hurry. He quickly ducks as a fireball goes overhead and blows up a streetlight. Next the demon blinks in front of him and runs him in with a sword. Chris falls too his knees and there's a zoom in on his jacket to the word "Halliwell". The scene changed to Melinda Pierce waking up in a start. She soon sees she's late too work and berates her friends for not waking her up, they explain that she was deep in sleep and it was impossible.

Melinda soon arrives at her work as a waitress to find out that she's lost her job much to her anger. She causes a seen in the restaurant and is taken out by force. Because a co worker feels bad for her, he gives her directions to a restaurant looking for employes. The restaurant is called Halliwell's.

The next scene shows Melinda arriving at the Halliwell's on her bike at night only too see that it's closed. As she's about to turn back, she hears the sound of the streetlight going out as like in her dream. First in denial, she soon decides to run after it. She attempts to round the corner only to be stopped by Wyatt Halliwell, determinedly she goes past him and sees Chris running her way. She ran forward and jumped on him, the two narrowing missing the demon's blinking and stabbing. Wyatt soon comes over and blows up the demon much to Melinda's fear. Not wanting to get involved with classified witches, Melinda runs away.

Melinda comes home to find that Joyle Ashjar and Keira Harper are about to send out a search party for her. She explains to them what happened and that she ran away. Keira believes she had the vision for a reason and investigate further well Joyle is relieved she left when she did.

The next day begins with Melinda walking into Halliwell's only to run into Wyatt. He offers her the job as thanks for the night before but she hesitates realizing he'd be her employer if she worked there. She says she'll think on it and leaves the place only to be stopped by Chris who is much more suspicious of her motives and how she knew to save him. Melinda remains cryptic not wanting to come out as a witch just yet.

When she comes home, Melinda finds that Joyle has been kidnapped by the same demon who had almost killed Chris and that Keira was left in order to send a message to Melinda.

Melinda goes to Halliwell's looking for help. When no one is there Melinda tracks down the Halliwell manor. When no one ks there, Melinda breaks in and eventually finds the attic and the book of shadows. It responds to her touch and flies open to the page where it shows her how to scry. Melinda scrys for Joyle using her borrowed jacket. Melinda find her location.

When Melinda arrives she finds Chris and Wyatt there with Joyle, who was expecting her. Joyle explains that this was why she didn't wwnt them to get involved with the Halliwells.

Melinda decides to take the job in the end and decides to investigate her past much to Keira's prompting and Joyle's displeasure.