EPISODE ONE: SOMETHING WICCA THIS WAY COMES PART ONE

Primrose's name is different in each chapter sometimes her sisters call her Prim or Rose, but someone else will have a different name for her

At an ordinary apartment, a woman is giving her cat some.

"Come on, baby. Good girl."

She then walks over to her altar and lights the candles with just a touch of her finger. She doesn't notice that someone is standing outside her window, so she starts saying a spell.

"Ancient one of the earth so deep, master of moon and sun. I shield you in my wiccan way, here in my circle round, asking you to protect this space, and offer your sun force down."

When she hears the footsteps behind her, she quickly turns around, but she relaxes when she sees who it is.

"What are you doing here?"

She asks him with a smile, happy to see her lover. When suddenly he pulls a knife and plunges it in her stomach. Through the thunder, no one hears her scream.

It's once again stormy in San Francisco, what else is new, when Piper is on her way home. Luckily, she had her umbrella with her. What can you say? She was charmed.

Piper: Prue, Prim"

Prue: In here, working on the chandelier."

Oh God, she forgot all about the.

Piper: Sorry I'm late.

Prue: What else is new. Piper, I would have been here to meet the electrician myself, but you know I can't leave the museum until six. I didn't even have time to change.

Piper: I just didn't realise how long I was in China town. Could Primrose not meet him?"

Primrose: No sorry, I was in college, remember some of us, still aren't graduated.

Prue: Don't worry sweaty, you are almost there just another two months, and you already have job offers, by the way have you decided which job you are going to take

Primrose: I'm going to take the job at the hospital it's a great offer and learning experience and its good pay which means I can help out more with bills and stuff

Piper: Oh, honey you shouldn't have to worry about that

Primrose: I know but I want to help, and I want to make you guys and Mom and Grams proud of me

Prue wraps her arm around her baby sister's shoulder

Prue: Oh, Sweetie you are Graduated from college almost 2 years early, you have four amazing job offers. Believe me we are immensely proud of you and I know that so are Mom and Grams

Primrose: Thanks Prue. But I am nervous about tomorrow I have to spend the day in the burn unit as a part of my training I know its going to very easy, but I am just nervous about seeing people badly hurt.

Prue: Is it just tomorrow or do you have to go more than one day?

Primrose: I have to go one day and then I go back to OBGYN and Maternity until I graduate

Prue: You can do it sweetie you are stronger than you think you are

Piper: She is right Prim you are very strong; I think you take after Prue

Primrose smiles at that

Primrose: Thank you Piper, oh I made you some chocolate chip muffins they are a sort of good luck for your second interview tomorrow.

Piper: Oh, thank you sweetie. Did Jeremy call?

Prue: No, but he had some fabulous roses and a package delivered."

Prue: What were you doing in China town? I thought that you had an interview in North Beach."

Piper: I did but I went to Young Lee market after my interview to get the ingredients for my audition recipe tomorrow.

Prue and Piper continue their conversation, while following Primrose.

Prue: So, that Wolfgang-puck knock-off didn't hire you then?"

Piper: No, but this just may get me the job. (While opening the package)

Prue: Jeremy sent you port?

Piper: The ultimate ingredient for my recipe. Oh my God, I don't believe it. Tell me that's not our old spirit board?

Prue: Yeah, Primrose found it in the basement when I was looking for the circuit tester."

Piper starts reading the inscription on the back "To my four beautiful girls. May this give you the light to find the shadow find the shadows. The power of four, evil be no more. Love, Mom." We never did figure out what this inscription meant."

Prue: Well, maybe we should send it to Phoebe. That girl is so in the dark, maybe a little light will help.

Primrose: Can I have the spirit board I never got to know Mom?

Prue: Yes, you can have it

Piper: "You're always so hard on her.

Prue: Piper, the girl has no vision, no sense of the future.

Piper: I really think Phoebe's coming around.

Prue: Well, as long as she doesn't come around here, I guess that's good news."

And with that Prue and Primrose walk out on them.

That night the cops are already investigating the woman's murder. When a young male arrives at the scene, he is immediately approached by another cop.

Darryl: Well, it's about time."

Andy: I got here as soon as I heard. Another dead female, right? Mid to late twenties."

Darryl:(Not paying attention to what he just said.) "I've been paging you for over an hour, Trudeau, where have you been?

Andy: Checking out a lead.

Daryl: What lead?"

Andy: One that didn't go anywhere."

Daryl: You're avoiding my question."

Andy: Because you don't want to know that I went to an occult shop."

Daryl: You hate me, don't you? You wanna see me suffer."

Andy: I wanna solve these murders. Someone's after witches."

Daryl: Women."

Andy: That woman up there, I bet she was killed with an athame."

Daryl: Wrong. Double edged steel knife.

Andy: Right. That's an athame. It's a ceremonial tool. Witches use them to direct energy."

Daryl: That woman didn't direct jack. She was stabbed. Plain and simple."

Andy: Was she found in an altar?

Daryl: Yes.

Andy: Were there carvings on that altar?"

Daryl: Just do me a favour. Don't ever follow a lead without checking with me first.

Andy: You wanna go to occult shops?

Daryl: Get to work okay."

As soon as they come in, a reporter is all over them.

Jeremy: Jeremy Burns. San Francisco Chronicle. You care to comment?"

Andy: A woman was stabbed. Plain and simple.

Jeremy: Well, that's the third one in three weeks."

Andy really didn't need some journalist telling him how to do his job, so walks away.

Prue: I don't get it. I have checked everything, there's no reason why the chandelier should not be working.

Piper: You know how we've been talking about what to do with the spare room? I think you're right; we do need a roommate."

Prue: We can rent the room at a reduced rate in exchange for some help around the house."

Piper: Phoebe's good with a wrench.

Prue: Phoebe lives in New York.

Piper: Not anymore."

Prue: What?"

Piper: She left New York. She's moving back in with us.

Prue: You have got to be kidding.

Piper: Well, I could hardly say no. It's her house too. Grams left it to all four of us."

Prue: Yeah, months ago and we haven't seen or spoken to her since."

Piper: Well, you haven't spoken to her.

Prue: No, I haven't. Look, maybe you've forgotten why I'm still mad at her."

Piper: No, of course not but she had nowhere else to go. She lost her job, she's in debt."

Prue: And this is news? How long have you known about this anyway?"

Piper: A couple of days, maybe a week-or two.

Prue: What about Prim did she know about Phoebe coming home?

Piper: No, she didn't know and as far as I know she hasn't spoken to Phoebe since she left

Prue: "Thanks for sharing. When does she arrive?"

Just then the front door opens and Phoebe walks in.

Phoebe: Surprise! I found the hide-a-key.

Piper: After a look at Prue, Piper also makes her way over to her younger sister.

Piper: Phoebe, welcome home."

Phoebe: Hello, Piper. "

Piper: It's so good to see you. Isn't Prue?

Prue: "I'm speechless.

Primrose walks back into the room

Primrose: Prue can I please borrow your car to go grab a book from the library (she sees Phoebe) What are you doing here?

Phoebe: I'm moving back home Prim

Primrose: Whatever I don't care and only sisters who didn't just up and leave after we buried Grams gets to call me that. My name is Primrose.

Phoebe: Prim

Primrose: Not interested. So, can I borrow your car please Prue I promise that I will always be an hour.

Prue: (she walks over to the table grabs her keys and then walks back over to Primrose and hands her the car keys) Here you go sweetie and be careful

Primrose grabs her backpack and leaves the manor

Phoebe: She really hates me

Prue: Can you blame her; she hasn't heard from since you left, and you knew how devasted she was by Grams's death, she needed us more than ever and you were only thinking of yourself

A car horn beeps.

Phoebe: Oops. I forgot about the cab.

Piper: "I'll get it

Prue: Piper that's my purse

Piper rushes out

Phoebe: Thanks. I'll pay you back."

Prue: Is that all that you brought?

Phoebe: That's all that I own and a bike. Look, I know that you don't want me here

Prue: We're not selling Grams' house."

Phoebe: Is that why you think I came back?

Prue Look, the only reason Piper and I gave up our apartment and moved back here, is because this house has been in our family for generations and Primrose needed us

Phoebe: No history lesson needed. I grew up here too. So, can we talk about what's really bothering you?

Prue: No, I'm still furious with you.

Phoebe: So, you'd rather have a tense reunion filled with boring chitchat and unimportant small talk?

Prue: No, but otherwise we won't have anything to talk about.

Phoebe: I never touched Roger.

Prue: Whoa.

Phoebe: I know you think otherwise because that's what that Armani-wearing, Chardonnay-slugging, trust-funder told you ..."

Piper comes back into the house

Piper: Hey, I have a great idea. Why don't I make a fabulous reunion dinner?"

Prue: I'm not hungry."

Phoebe: I ate on the bus."

And both Phoebe and Prue walk away

Piper: Okay we can try the group hug later when Primrose gets home

Phoebe's room

Piper comes in holding a try with drinks and food on it.

Piper: It's me."

Phoebe: Come on in. Thank God. I am starving."

Phoebe: attacking the food.

Piper: Figured." Then she sees Jeremy on TV. " Hey, that's my boyfriend, Jeremy. What happened?

Phoebe: Some woman got whacked."

Piper: Whacked? Phoebe, you've been in New York way too long."

Phoebe: Yeah, I should have stayed. Now, why didn't you tell her I was coming back?"

Piper: And risk her changing the locks? I don't think so and besides, I think you should have been the one to tell her not me."

Phoebe: Good point, Chicken Little. It's just so hard for me to talk to her. She's always been more like a mother."

Piper: That's not her fault. She practically had to sacrifice

Phoebe: Her own childhood to raise us

Piper: And she did pretty much raise Primrose, that is part of the reason she is so responsible, and she is graduating almost 2 years early and she has four job offers

Phoebe: She's graduating 2 years early?

Piper: Yes, she is 20 years old Phoebe, and she is not supposed to graduate until she is 22, she has been taking College classes since she was almost 17, she took some while she was still in high school now, she is almost done with school and she is almost a fully qualified midwife, and she has decided to take the job offer at the hospital

Phoebe: Wow I never even finished college and our baby sister is almost ready to graduate from, wait does she still go to school?

Piper: UC Berkeley, she lived on campus until Grams got sick then she moved back home with us she pretty took over caring for Grams until she died.

Phoebe: Yeah, well, I don't need a mum anymore, you know, I need a sister and I want my baby sister back

Right then Prue knocks on the door, holding a blanket.

Prue: This was always the coldest room in the house."

Phoebe: Thanks.

Andy and Darryl are still in the woman's apartment when people are putting her in a bag. Just before the bag closes, Andy sees a tattoo on her neck. It's a full circle with four interlocking arcs inside.

Andy: It's the same tattoo that was on the other two victims."

Daryl: So, the murderer is killing occults."

Andy: No, the murderers on witch hunts."

Daryl: Oh, yeah, he's five to eight years old and he lives in Salem. Look around, Trudeau. Pentagrams, altars, offerings, all the tools of a freak fest."

Andy: They call them Sabbaths. Which is hardly a freak fest. She was a solitary practitioner. She practiced her craft alone."

Daryl: Mmm."

Andy: Let me ask you something, Morris. Do you believe in U.F.O.'s?"

Daryl: Hell, no."

Andy: Neither do I. But do you believe that there are people out there who do believe in U.F.O.'s?"

Daryl: Yes, but I think they're crazy."

Andy: Well, then why can't you believe that there are people who believe they are witches?"

Daryl: Look, all I know is if you don't stop talking about witches, I'm gonna start questioning you."

Kit jumps up on the bench and she meows. Andy goes over to pat her.

Daryl I'd stay away from that cat, Trudeau. It's been clawing the crap out of everybody. See you at the car."

He leaves Andy alone with cat, which gives Andy the time to get a good look at Kit's collar. It has the same symbol on it that was tattooed on the witch.

Back at Halliwell Manor

Piper and Phoebe are sitting at the table playing with the spirit board.

Phoebe: When did you meet Jeremy?"

Piper: About six months ago - right before Grams died. We met in the hospital cafeteria the day Grams was admitted. He was covering a story and I was bawling over a bagel. So, he handed me a napkin."

Phoebe: How romantic."

Piper: As a matter of fact, it was. The napkin had his phone number on it."

Phoebe laughs

Piper: Stop pushing the pointer

Phoebe: I'm not touching it."

Piper: You used to always push the pointer. More popcorn?"

Piper gets up and heads for the kitchen.

Phoebe: Hey, I forgot your question."

Piper: I asked if Prue would have sex other than herself this year."

Phoebe: That's disgusting. Please say yes

Then the pointer suddenly moves to the letter 'A' by itself.

Phoebe: Piper."

It then moves to 'T'.

Phoebe: Piper, get in here!

Piper: What?

Prue also comes in. the front door opens and closes and Primrose walks in

Prue: What did you guys do now?

Piper: Me? I didn't do anything.

Phoebe: The pointer on the spirit board. It moved on its own. I'm serious. It spelled 'A' 'T'."

Prue: Well, did you push it?

Phoebe: No.

Prue: You used to always push the pointer.

Phoebe: My fingers were barely touching it. Look." She puts her fingers on the pointer, but nothing happens.

Primrose: What's going on?

Prue: Nothing Sweetie Phoebe is just messing about; did you get the book you needed?

Primrose: Yes and thank you for letting me borrow your car.

Prue: You're welcome

Prue and Piper turn to leave Right then the pointer moves to the bottom of the board, then back to the letter 'T'.

Phoebe: Ah, it did it again! It moved!"

Prue and Piper turn back around and look at the board.

Prue: It is still on the letter 'T'.

Phoebe: I swear it moved.

The pointer moves again, and Piper sees it too.

Phoebe: There." (Phoebe stands up) Look. You saw that right?"

Piper: I think so, yeah.

Phoebe: I told you I wasn't touching it." The pointer moves again, and Piper starts to freak out.

Piper: Prue, can you come in here for a sec?

Prue and Primrose come back into the room

Prue: Now what?"

Phoebe: (Phoebe starts to write down the letters) I think it's trying to tell us something." She holds up the paper and reads out loud "Attic.

There is a loud clap of thunder and the power goes out.

Piper begins to walk to the door and is followed by Prue and Primrose

Prue: Don't you think you are overreacting? We're perfectly safe here."

Piper: Don't say that. In horror movies, the person who says that is always the next to die."

Prue: It is pouring rain. There is a psycho on the loose. Jeremy's not even home."

Piper: Well, I'll-I'll-I'll wait in the cab until he gets home."

Prue: That'll be cheap."

Piper: Prue, I saw that pointer move."

Primrose: No, look, what you saw was Phoebe's fingers pushing the pointer. There's nothing in the attic, she's playing a joke on us."

Piper: We do not know that. We've lived in this house for months and we've never been able to get that attic door open." She crosses the foyer and picks up the phone. "Great, now the phone doesn't work."

Prue: Yeah, the power's out. Look, go with me to the basement."

Piper: What?"

Prue: I need you to hold the flashlight while I check out the main circuit box."

Piper: Primrose will go with you to the basement.

Primrose: Um yeah okay

Prue: Piper you know how scared she is of the basement

Piper: I know sorry I forgot, and Phoebe will go with you, won't you Phoebe?"

Phoebe: Nope, I'm going to the attic."

Prue: No, you are not. We already agreed.

Phoebe: I am not waiting for some handyman to check out the attic and I am certainly not waiting until tomorrow. I'm going now."

Phoebe walks up the stairs, and Prue and Primrose goes into another room.

Piper decides she really does not want to be alone right now and if she has to choose between her sisters, she feels safest with Prue.

Piper: Prue, Prim wait."

In the meanwhile, Phoebe is trying to open the attic door, but it is locked. She gives up and turns to walk back down the stairs. When she reaches the stairs, she hears a creak and turns to see the attic door opening. She walks inside. A light shine on a trunk and she walks over to it. She opens it and there's a heavy looking book inside. She picks the book up and blows most of the dust off, so she can open it.

"The Book of Shadows." She turns the page and starts to read aloud. "Hear now the words of the witches, the secrets we hid in the night, the oldest of Gods are invoked here, the great work of magic is sought. In this night and in this hour, I'll call upon the ancient power, bring your powers to we sisters four, we want the power, give us the power."

While nobody is downstairs, the chandelier starts glowing and a picture of the four girls change, bringing them all closer together.

When she is done chanting Prue, Piper and Primrose enter the attic.

Prue: What are you doing?"

Phoebe: Uh ... reading an incantation. It was in this Book of Shadows, I found it in that trunk."

Prue and Primrose start looking at the book, while Piper questions Phoebe.

Piper: How did you get in here?"

Phoebe: The door opened."

Piper: Wait a minute, an incantation? What kind of incantation?"

Phoebe: It said something about there being four essentials of magic. Uh, timing, feeling, energy teleportation and coldness of the moon. If we were ever gonna do this, now - midnight on a full moon - is the most powerful time."

Primrose: This? Do what?"

Phoebe: Receive our powers."

Piper: What powers? Wait, our powers? You included me in this?"

Prue: No, she included all of us." (Prue starts reading from the book.) "'Bring your powers to we sisters four.'" It's a book of witchcraft.

The girls are going back downstairs, but the conversation isn't over yet. Now Prue has taken over from Piper to comment on Phoebe.

Prue: Spirit boards, books of witchcraft. It figures all this freaky stuff started when you arrived."

Phoebe: Hey, I wasn't the one who found the spirit board."

Piper: It doesn't matter. Because nothing happened, right Phoebe, when you did that incantation?"

Phoebe: Well, my head spun around, and I vomited split-pea soup. How should I know?"

Piper: Well, everything looks the same."

Phoebe: You're right.

Prue: But the house still needs work."

Piper: Everything feels the same, so nothing's changed."

None of them seeing their photo.

TO BE CONTINUED