Billie Jenkins

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Billie Jenkins

Kaley Cuoco as Billie Jenkins

First appearance Still Charmed & Kicking
Last appearance Forever Charmed
Created by Brad Kern

Statistics
Full Name Billie Jenkins
Status Alive
Species Witch; "The Ultimate Power"
Affiliation The Charmed Ones; The Triad (unknowingly)
Notable Family Carl Jenkins (father), Helen Jenkins (mother), Christy Jenkins (sister).
Notable powers As an upper level witch, Billie can cast spells and magically scry, she also possesses the powers of:
Telekinesis
Projection
Having the power of projection, making her "The Ultimate Power" means Billie can effectively:
"Supercharge" another person's powers
Astral project
Time travel
Portrayed by Kaley Cuoco

Billie Jenkins, also known as the Ultimate Power, is a fictional character on The WB television series Charmed. She is played by actress Kaley Cuoco.

Character background

Jenkins was introduced, in the show's eighth season, as a young witch who pays more attention to demon fighting than to her education. Billie was put under the tutelage of the Charmed Ones after she asked them to teach her everything they know about witchcraft. This, at the time when the Charmed Ones were thought to be dead, proved useful for the three sisters, as Billie could carry out smaller magic-related tasks and also to cover for them.

Billie's backstory involves the abduction of her sister, Christy Jenkins, by mysterious demons with unknown intentions. This -- along with the fact that the incident was never mentioned by her parents, leaving Billie even more confused -- was the main motivation for Billie to train and become skilled in using her powers. Her main objective was to find out who kidnapped Christy and why, and to save her if she is still alive. Upon meeting with an Angel of Destiny, Billie was assured that her sister is alive and she will eventually find her. Her sister was revealed to be kidnapped by a surprisingly alive Triad because she - and with Billie's assistance - is the key to "Ultimate Power".

Billie has finally found her sister, after fifteen years. She was teaching Christy how to control her powers. When Christy got kidnapped by the demons that were sent by the Triad, Billie went after her. While they were both down in the underworld, Billie convinced Christy to vanquish the demons. Together, with Christy's pyrokinetic powers and Billie's telekinesis, they killed the demons - creating the Ultimate Power that had been prophecised by the Triad. What Billie doesn't realize is that Christy is working with the Triad, the same trio of demons who sent Cole Turner/Belthazor after the Charmed Ones. It is originally believed that they are the major threat the sisters are supposed to face. This is not the case, as Leo Wyatt, Piper's husband, should have been returned by the Angel of Destiny after two of them were vanquished. The remaining Triad member reminds Christy that Billie is the 'Ultimate Power,' and she must save her (in other words, turn her against the Charmed Ones). Unfortunately, Christy had succeeded in doing so and Billie turned to the darkness although not of her initial free will.

Billie and Christy face the sisters in the manor with both sides empowered by the supernatural force called The Hollow. Because they have both taken in The Hollow, their powers are evenly matched. The power between shoots out in all directions, causing the manor to explode, killing Phoebe, Paige, and Christy. Billie and Piper are the only survivors.

The Hollow returns to its containment following this battle.

Following this destruction, the Angel of Destiny brings back Leo, who stopped Piper from killing Billie. Piper goes into the past to fix the present. After leaving the destroyed manor, Billie realizes that the Triad used her and Christy. Billie returns to the side of the Charmed Ones and helps resurrect the dead witches.

Within a series of events in which Leo and Piper travel through time to fix what happened, Billie realizes that her sister has become a killer. Billie uses her projection power to project herself and the Charmed Ones to the Triad, just before the witches call for the Hollow, and vanquish them as well as Dumain. In an act of rage, Christy fires on Billie, and Billie is forced to kill her in self-defense by reversing her power onto her sister. She breaks down afterwards, but all fences have been mended between her and the sisters, making Billie a strong and worthy ally.

In the final Charmed episode when the Charmed Ones start to write their story down, it is revealed that Billie will babysit Phoebe's daughters.

Powers and Abilities

Billie has the power of telekinesis, and she can use it to amplify her acrobatic abilities. She is cocky in her own powers and skills, but is still bested in a fight by Paige. She later received the power of projection. This power projects Billie's thoughts into reality, and is triggered by strong emotions. It was previously seen used by Kevin in Witches in Tights and Wyatt in Forget Me...Not.

Billie's powers can be very potent, as we have seen many times. Her projection power is key to her being the Ultimate Power, as when it combines with Christy's pyrokenesis power, it amplifies to the point were it can destroy any foe, as can be seen as they both together vanquished the un-vanquishable Noxon demon.

She has demonstrated various uses of her projection power, ranging from: astral projecting her and her sister without a spell, to time travelling, to transforming her parents into Mr. and Mrs. Smith-esque assassins, to killing and resurrecting flora.

Billie inherited her powers from her grandparents on both sides. Her mother and father, however, are perfectly normal human beings (albeit carriers of the witch gene), meaning witchcraft skipped a generation in her family.

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