The Good, The Bad and the Alex

“The Good, The Bad and the Alex”
Season 3, Episode 15
Air date	May 7, 2010
Writer	Todd J. Greenwald
Director	Victor Gonzalez
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"The Good, The Bad and the Alex" is the fifteenth episode of season three of Wizards of Waverly Place, and the sixty-sixth of the overall series. It first aired on May 7, 2010.

Summary

Alex is caught off guard when she discovers her friend Stevie is leading a wizard revolution. To the dismay of Justin and Harper, she decides to help Stevie with her quest to make sure no wizard ever has to give up their powers again. Alex agrees to Stevie shortly after Stevie barricades the wizard portal with squeeze pipes. Then, Alex and Stevie asked Max to joined in their revolution and Max agrees. Also, Max declares himself as king, so everyone has to obey his commands.

Justin, knowing his sister, orders a Chinese soup with fortune cookies to explain what will happen in the future. Alex is seen telling Harper that after it was all over they would still be friends. Justin tries to stop her, thinking that she will take the powers all to herself,but Alex saves the day by turning Stevie into a rock type substance freezing her, transporting the spells to her brother. Later Stevie is killed by Max when he touches her, and is vanished from existence forever. Alex does not matter, it will have has is only true friend Harper, who was, is and will stay close to Alex in the need. After all, Harper had always believed that after a few days, Alex would have done the right thing.

Spells

• Fortunato Amontillado-Causes a person to come to the wizard depending on where he or she is.

Quotes

• Alex: (about Stevie's revolution) I knew there was something I liked about you, but this... this is genius. You are my new role model.
• Stevie: Please, Alex. I'm sure this is something you would have eventually come up with yourself.
• Alex: Yeah, now that's true. I take it back. I'm my own role model again.
• (Warren has just fainted because of Harper's stare) Alex: Quick! Give me a pen! I love drawing moustaches on people who can't stop me!

Trivia

• Absent: Maria Canals Barrera as Theresa Russo
• Note: The spell "Fortunato Amontillado" is a reference to Edgar Allen Poe story "The Cask of Amontillado" dealing with passing someone trapped through a barrier, like in the story where the main character seals his enemy up by chaining him to a wall and sealing that section of the room up by building a wall leaving him there to die.
• The address that the jack-in-the-box gives for Warren is 1313 Mockingbird Lane. That is the same address that the Munsters live at.
• This episode has a rare moment from Disney as not only did a character die, but Stevie Nichols died on screen.
• This episode shows where wizards have their lost powers sent to. If broken all wizards would keep their powers forever.
• In this episode a machine is shown to be what transfers a wizard family's power to the winner of the wizarding competition. In the movie, Jerry just grants Alex an orb of magic to transfer the family powers to her.

Even though everyone though it was evil, it might have actually been better, and bad wizards would have their powers taken away.