Cast:
Nick Halliwell – Steven Strait
Natalie Halliwell - Eliza Dushku
Nathan Halliwell – Sean Faris
1 x 01 "Charmed and Cursed"
[Halliwell Manor: 2 men are lifting boxes in the house followed by a woman pointing in different directions.
Natalie: Nick put that box in the living room! Nathan! What are you doing? That goes upstairs!
Nathan: (To Nick) What made her the older cousin?
Nick: Who knows?
Natalie: I heard that!
[They all sit on the couch.
Nathan: Can you believe we get to live in your parent's house Nick?
Nick: No, I loved this house ever since my dad moved in.
Natalie: I know, but still the Halliwell Manor!
Nick: Well we are Halliwells aren't we?
[A large book is seen in a box by Nathan. He goes and gets it out of the box.
Nathan: God this thing's heavy!
[Slams book on table.
Nick: Careful! That book has been handed down for centuries!
Natalie: Yeah Nathan, show some heart.
[Suddenly the Book flipped to a pages towards the middle of the Book. All stare in shock.
Natalie: Okay I knew our family Book of Shadows was magical, but it opens on its own?
Nathan: Yeah Uncle Chris told us about it all the time, don't you remember Nick?
Nick: Yeah but I guess Aunt Prue didn't want Natalie to know about magic like Grandma wanted.
[The page in the Book was labeled "To Gain What Was Lost".
Nathan: Well this is interesting…
Nick: What is it?
Nathan: "To Gain What Was Lost"? Did we lose something and not know about it?
Natalie: Who knows, but I would like to finish unpacking.
[Natalie closes the Book and the cousins get up and go to the boxes. The Book flips open to the page once again.
[In Underworld: demons surround a chamber with a sarcophagus.
All Demons: Pastoran Moreno. Unleashes domino.
[Earth shakes and the top of the sarcophagus disappears. Inside is a man with a dog head.
Demon #1: My lord.
[They all bow.
Anubis: How long have I been imprisoned?
Demon #2: 300 years my lord.
[Anubis yells and fire comes from his hands vanquishing Demon #2
Demon #1: My liege, you can still have revenge.
Anubis: Against the Warrens? You bet.
Opening Credit
[Night at Halliwell Manor: Cousins are in the attic placing the Book on the stand.
Natalie: Why does the Book keep opening to that page?
Nathan: It must mean something!
Nick: Maybe, maybe not.
[Book flips open to page.
Nick: But this is getting ridiculous.
Nathan: Lets do what it says!
Nick: You really are Wyatt Halliwell's son. Magic frenzy.
Nathan: Well yeah!
Natalie: Come on it's late I want to go to bed.
Nick: Yeah lets go.
Nathan: You guys go I want to look at the Book for a while.
Natalie: See you in the morning!
[Natalie leaves the attic. Nick goes to Nathan.
Nick: Don't do anything I wouldn't do.
[Winks and leaves. Nathan takes the Book to table and lights 3 candles. Adds rosemary and mandrake root to a potion.
Nathan: What once was lost heed my call, For it stays gone we now shall fall, I call upon the powers here, Bring it to us and make it clear.
[Potion explodes and smoke lifts. White lights appear and fade.
Nathan: Nothing.
[Nathan blows out candles and goes to bed. As they sleep a white light goes into Nick, Nathan, and Natalie.
[Morning Nick is in kitchen making coffee. Natalie is reading newspaper. Nathan enters rubbing eyes.
Nick: Morning Sunshine…
Natalie: When did you go to bed?
Nathan: 2 maybe 3.
Natalie: How do you make it through the day I'll never know.
Nathan: Only because I don't work.
Nick: You will soon!
Nathan: Ha ha…
Natalie: That reminds me, I have a show today.
Nick: Who is your guest this time?
Natalie: Adam Sandler.
Nathan: Oooo get me—
Natalie: No.
Nathan: Why not?
Natalie: Cause your going to meet him.
Nathan: No way! I'll be back in 5 minutes!
[Dashes away.
Nick: You nice cousin you!
Natalie: Well you guys are like my brothers.
Nick: Yeah I am forced to live with you all.
[Nathan runs in.
Nathan: Lets go!
Natalie: Wow that was fast.
[Picks up purse and leaves with Nathan.
[The "Talk With Natalie" Set: Natalie is sitting to get make up done. Nathan is pacing.
Natalie: Will you stop!
Nathan: I'm nervous. Adam Sandler is a god! The god of comedy!
Natalie: Well stop!
[A gust of wind came from her hands knocking over all Natalie's make up.
Nathan: Uh oh…
Commercial Break
Natalie: What did you do?
Nathan: Must have been that prophecy.
Natalie: What prophecy ?!?
Nathan: Well I cast a spell.
Natalie: You did what!
Nathan: Let me finish!
[Natalie's vase of roses on the table grew. Root began to sprout breaking the pot.
Natalie: Talk fast.
Nathan: Well in the Book there was a prophecy. Proclaimed by our Great Aunt Phoebe. 3 cousins, born as the 2nd children of the Matriarch, having the powers of air, earth, and water. Known as the Cursed Ones.
Natalie: No kidding we are cursed!
Nathan: Well I think we just discovered what our powers are.
Natalie: And what would that be?
Nathan: Well you just made wind blow in here and I think I made that rose bloom.
Natalie: We will talk about this later.
[Natalie rushed out of the dressing room. Leaving Nathan behind.
[Halliwell Manor: Natalie and Nathan bickering while Nick types on his laptop.
Nick: What is the matter?
Natalie: Nathan turned us into the Ruined Ones!
Nathan: Cursed Ones.
Natalie: Whatever!
Nick: So…
Natalie: So? SO! We are going to turn out just the way Uncle Chris and Uncle Wyatt and my mom did! Fighting demons, no regular life!
Nick: What's my power?
Natalie: Nick!
Nick: What? I got to know!
Nathan: You control water.
Nick: Cool, lets see.
[Nick saw his glass of water. Concentrating he lifted his hand and the water inside floated out and came into a ball in his hand.
Nick: Cool.
Natalie: Okay I have to admit, yeah.
Nathan: See!
[Sand swirls in back of the Cursed Ones. Inside as the sand fell a man with a dog head appeared.
Anubis: Warrens!
[Fire is burst from his hands and heads toward the 3.
Nick: Duck!
[Pulls Natalie and Nathan to the floor.
Nathan: Who are you?
Anubis: A demon that wants revenge!
[Sends another blast of fire at them.
Commercial Break
[Anubis throws a fireball at them breaking the grandfather clock.
Nick: Great, first demon and something is already broken!
Natalie: How will we get rid of him?
Nathan: With our powers.
Nick: Yeah, but we still cannot control them!
[As they talk the house shakes for Anubis keeps throwing fireballs.
Nathan: Well we have to stop this guy somehow!
Nick: Okay, okay, Natalie you have the more controllable power bow him away or something.
Natalie: What!
Nathan: Do it!
Natalie: Fine!
[Natalie gets up and places her hands out. Air flows from her hands pushing Anubis against the wall.
Natalie: I did it!
Nick: Okay, my turn.
[Nick concentrated and a water ball formed in his hand. H through it at Anubis making him trapped in a water force field almost like underwater.
Nick: Whoa, that's new.
Nathan: You just got this power.
Nick: Yeah but – Hey!
[Anubis broke out of water barrier drenched.
Anubis: Witches!
Nathan: Duh! My turn to try out my power.
[Concentrating Nathan sees a plant and the plant grabs Anubis. Holding him steady.
Nick: I think we need to vanquish this guy.
Natalie: No kidding.
Nathan: At the bottom of the prophecy there was a spell. "The Cursed 3, will be unseen."
Nick: Okay…
[The cousins hold hands.
All: The Cursed 3, will be unseen, the Cursed 3 will be unseen, the Cursed 3 will be unseen!
[Anubis screams and explodes into flames.
Nick: Well that was nifty.
Natalie: Look at the house!
Nathan: Yeah…
[A swirl of black appears and Anubis appears again.
Anubis: This isn't the end!
[Anubis disappears in sand.
Nathan: Well we thought we did.
Natalie: So what do we do?
Nick: Wait lets not chase a person who wants us dead.
Nathan: Yeah.
Natalie: Well I guess out lives won't be boring anymore. Even though mine wasn't.
Nick: Still we will be able to do good.
Nathan: Still our name is kind of… odd. The Cursed Ones?
Nick: Oh well, we are prophesized that way.
Natalie: Well lets clean this mess up.
[They all go to work, by cleaning up the house. Natalie points a hand out and with the air pushing the door it closes.
Closing Credits
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