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
Episode Chronology
← Previous	“Third Wheel”
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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 Nichols 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 states that it does not matter, as she still has her only true friend Harper, who was, is and will stay close to Alex in the end. 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.

Cast

Main Cast

• Selena Gomez as Alex Russo
• David Henrie as Justin Russo
• Jake T. Austin as Max Russo
• Jennifer Stone as Harper Finkle
• David DeLuise as Jerry Russo

Guest Starring

• Hayley Kiyoko as Stevie
• Richard Chiu as Warren
• Ezra Weisz as Clown

Trivia

• Maria Canals Barrera as Theresa Russo was absent from this episode.
• 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 were wolves live at.
• Disney clarified that Stevie did not die. She was sent to an island in the Wizard World.
• This episode shows where wizards who 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.
• This episode is a refrence to the TV series The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Goofs

• In this episode Alex tells Harper she is eating a fried unicorn horn. Moments later in this episode she tells Max that she was giving him a corndog seed. Though Alex could've bought a corndog for herself, and a fried unicorn horn for Harper.
• Alex and Stevie cast a spell that make plastic appear, but wizards have no power against plastic.