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INT. MANOR - DINING ROOM - NIGHT. We continue from where we left off from before ...
As the stream of fire continues to fly at Paige, who just stands there, shocked at what's happening, a figure orbs in beside Paige and something appears and tackles her to the ground.
The fire flies past Paige and hits the wall, scorching it. The person who tackled Paige and saved her, a handsome man about the age of Paige, stands up and faces the Shadow.
He extends his arm and casts out an extreme white light from his hand. The glow embraces the Shadow. The Shadow screeches and backs away from the white light, before disappearing out of the dining room.
The man helps Paige up.
MAN
Are you okay?
PAIGE
Yeah. I'm fine. Thanks. What did you do to him?
MAN
Oh, you mean the Shadow? A powerful light spell. Little trick I
learned from my parents. It's the Shadow's one weakness, but it
won't be for long. Once he grows stronger, light will practically
bounce off of him.
PAIGE
Okay, who are you?
MAN
Me? I'm John, but most people call me Jack.
PAIGE
Jack, eh? How do I know that's your real name?
JACK
Come on, Paige. Do you really think I would orb in here and save
a Charmed One's neck just so I could strangle her myself?
PAIGE
Orb? You orb? That makes you-
JACK
A Whitelighter. Part Whitelighter, actually. My other half is witch.
PAIGE
Yo-you're part witch and part whitelighter?
JACK
Yeah. Kind of like you, right?
PAIGE
Me? W-wait, how do you know that? Who are you?
JACK
You know about Magic School, don't you? The library there is open
to the public. Well, it used to be at least. Until they decided to close
the school down because of Gideon.
As Paige hears those last few sentences of the fact that Magic School is being closed down, a flare of determination is seen in her place, but she remains silent.
JACK (cont'd)
But anyway, that's not what we should be worried about. Right
now, we have to focus on freeing your sisters from the body-bind
the Shadow cast on them, otherwise, you have no hopes of
vanquishing him.
PAIGE
Body-bind?
JACK
It's the Shadow's specialty. The ability to bind someone in place,
and freeze their body over completely. They're not dead, I assure
you that. So we have to focus on releasing them from the bind.
Mind if I take a look at your Book of Shadows?
PAIGE
No, Jack. I don't think we can release them from the bind.
JACK
Sure. Why not? You're a Charmed One, aren't you?
PAIGE
Yeah, one who has plenty of experience with this kind of stuff.
Okay? So I'll be directing, and you will be assisting. Got it?
Jack smiles and allows Paige to go first. Paige gives a little nod of triumph and heads out of the dining room. Jack follows. As Paige heads out, she passes the frozen figure of Leo and she taps him lightly on the chest.
PAIGE (to frozen Leo)
You're probably safer this way, anyway.
INT. UNDERWORLD - CAVE. Barbas is there, waiting. The Shadow appears.
BARBAS
Did you kill them?
THE SHADOW
Almost. I hit the middle sister with a body-bind.
BARBAS
A body-bind, is not death. What happened?
THE SHADOW
I almost killed the youngest one, but then another witch, a male
one, appeared and saved her. He cast light upon me, and I fled.
Light is my weakness.
BARBAS
A male witch, huh? Haven't seen one of those for decades. So the
Charmed Ones are still alive?
THE SHADOW
Just barely. I shall not fail again this time, though. As I continue to
use the spirits and ghosts of the matriarchs as my energy source, I
get stronger. Soon, they'll be dead before we know it.
INT. MANOR - ATTIC - NIGHT. Paige has the Book of Shadows open to a page. Jack stares at it, confused.
JACK
A spell to multiply his powers? You want to multiply the Shadow's
powers? Do you have some kind of death wish?
PAIGE
No, Jack, I've been thinking. If we cast the spell to multiply it's
strength, we will be multiplying it's strength by three, or so the spell
reads. More strength, means it needs more power. Since it will be
weak since it has no power, we can vanquish it.
JACK
I don't know. If it's that easy, why hadn't witches done it before?
PAIGE (pleased)
Because I'm a genius.
JACK
Paige.
PAIGE
Okay, look, worst scenario: we orb out of here, right?
THE SHADOW (v.o.)
If you can, that is.
Paige and Jack spin around, only to see the hovering mist in the attic. Jack throws out his hand and as light begins to flow out from it, the Shadow sends a telekinetic wave that throws Jack across the attic.
PAIGE
Jack!
THE SHADOW
Well, look on the bright side, Paige. You'll finally be able to meet up
with Prue, huh?
Paige quickly turns to the Book of Shadows and begins to read the spell as fast as she can.
PAIGE (chanting)
Take his powers, blessed be ...
A stream of fire flies at Paige and she trails off mid-spell and orbs out of the attic. The fire misses her. Paige orbs back in.
PAIGE (cont'd)
... multiply their strength by three.
The Shadow glows, and suddenly, two more Shadows appear beside it, hovering just like it.
THE SHADOW (laughing)
You stupid witch. Now you can feel more pain.
PAIGE
Not quite.
One of the Shadows screeches in pain because of the lack of energy. It begins to suck the energy from the real Shadow. The other one does the same thing.
Paige grabs a bunch of potion ingredients and begins to mix them together furiously.
PAIGE (chanting)
Calamus, cedar,
cleavers, vervain.
Cast light upon this wandering Shadow.
Meet no more,
now or tomorrow.
The Shadow in the middle of the three Shadows cries out in pain and lets out a demonic scream, as the other two Shadows continue to steal his energy and Paige's spell takes effect.
Without warning, the Shadow explodes in a fiery burst of light, knocking Paige across the attic and into Jack's arms. They both fall to the ground, Paige wrapped in Jack's arms.
PAIGE
Oh! Hi.
JACK
Hi.
PAIGE
Hi.
JACK
Hi.
Jack stares at her before leaning up to kiss her gently. Paige does not resist. After a few moments, Jack pulls back.
JACK
I'm sorry. That was totally out of line.
PAIGE
No. No, I liked that.
They lean back in for another kiss, but are interrupted as they hear a scream from downstairs.
PAIGE
Ooh, Piper!
INT. MANOR - DINING ROOM - NIGHT. Piper stares at the frozen Leo with Phoebe beside her. Paige comes running downstairs with Jack.
PAIGE
What? What's wrong?
PIPER
W-why is he frozen and I can't unfreeze him?
PAIGE
Oh! That.
Paige gives Leo a little push, reversing her spell. Leo looks around, confused.
LEO
What's going on?
PHOEBE (to Paige)
That's a good question.
PAIGE
Oh, I'll put it this way. One very nice vanquish, and one very nice
guy. Now! Shall we get on with this wiccaning?
INT. MANOR - ATTIC - NIGHT. The sisters, Leo, and Jack come upstairs and see glowing lights on the floor.
PHOEBE (to Paige)
Okay, super witch. What say we get this wiccaning going, eh?
JACK (to Paige)
I better go.
PAIGE
Hey, thanks super man. You really helped me out.
JACK
Won't be the last time.
They kiss and Jack orbs out of the attic.
As Leo slips out of the attic, Paige smiles and gestures. Five lit candles orb in placed in a circle on the attic floor. Paige steps back and chants.
PAIGE (chanting)
Hear these words, hear my cry,
spirit from the other side,
Come to me, I summon thee,
cross now the Great Divide!
Grams materializes in a burst of golden orbs inside the circle, smiling. Leo returns with Baby Chris in one arm, and Wyatt in the other. Grams steps out of the circle and becomes corporeal.
GRAMS
Oh, Paige. I'm so proud of you. You saved the day.
PAIGE
Thanks, Grams.
GRAMS
Now. Let's get this wiccaning started before another demon pops
in, eh?
PIPER
Go for it, Grams.
GRAMS (chanting)
I call forth from space and time,
The matriarchs from the Halliwell line,
Mothers, daughters, sisters, friends,
Our family's spirit without end.
To gather now in this sacred space,
And help us bring this child to grace.
The Halliwell matriarchs beam down from above and into the attic. Baby Chris giggles as he sees the light. Grams takes him into her arms.
GRAMS
The next generation has been born into our family, our legacy. We
pledge to be with this child always. Apart, but never separate. Free,
but never alone. He is one of us, and because of that, we will bless
him with all the goodness that we are. Welcome to the family,
Christopher Halliwell. Blessed be.
THE MATRIARCHS
Blessed be.
PAIGE and PHOEBE
Blessed be.
PIPER and LEO
Blessed be.
Piper smiles and gives Baby Chris a thumbs up sign as Grams gives him back to Piper who cradles him. The matriarchs beam up and out of the attic.
GRAMS
Be good to each other, my darlings.
After one last smile, Grams beams up and out of the attic. Piper continues to smile at Chris, and we hold on Piper, Leo, Wyatt, and Chris.
FADE OUT
END OF EPISODE
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INT. MANOR - DINING ROOM - NIGHT. We continue from where we left off from before ...
As the stream of fire continues to fly at Paige, who just stands there, shocked at what's happening, a figure orbs in beside Paige and something appears and tackles her to the ground.
The fire flies past Paige and hits the wall, scorching it. The person who tackled Paige and saved her, a handsome man about the age of Paige, stands up and faces the Shadow.
He extends his arm and casts out an extreme white light from his hand. The glow embraces the Shadow. The Shadow screeches and backs away from the white light, before disappearing out of the dining room.
The man helps Paige up.
MAN
Are you okay?
PAIGE
Yeah. I'm fine. Thanks. What did you do to him?
MAN
Oh, you mean the Shadow? A powerful light spell. Little trick I
learned from my parents. It's the Shadow's one weakness, but it
won't be for long. Once he grows stronger, light will practically
bounce off of him.
PAIGE
Okay, who are you?
MAN
Me? I'm John, but most people call me Jack.
PAIGE
Jack, eh? How do I know that's your real name?
JACK
Come on, Paige. Do you really think I would orb in here and save
a Charmed One's neck just so I could strangle her myself?
PAIGE
Orb? You orb? That makes you-
JACK
A Whitelighter. Part Whitelighter, actually. My other half is witch.
PAIGE
Yo-you're part witch and part whitelighter?
JACK
Yeah. Kind of like you, right?
PAIGE
Me? W-wait, how do you know that? Who are you?
JACK
You know about Magic School, don't you? The library there is open
to the public. Well, it used to be at least. Until they decided to close
the school down because of Gideon.
As Paige hears those last few sentences of the fact that Magic School is being closed down, a flare of determination is seen in her place, but she remains silent.
JACK (cont'd)
But anyway, that's not what we should be worried about. Right
now, we have to focus on freeing your sisters from the body-bind
the Shadow cast on them, otherwise, you have no hopes of
vanquishing him.
PAIGE
Body-bind?
JACK
It's the Shadow's specialty. The ability to bind someone in place,
and freeze their body over completely. They're not dead, I assure
you that. So we have to focus on releasing them from the bind.
Mind if I take a look at your Book of Shadows?
PAIGE
No, Jack. I don't think we can release them from the bind.
JACK
Sure. Why not? You're a Charmed One, aren't you?
PAIGE
Yeah, one who has plenty of experience with this kind of stuff.
Okay? So I'll be directing, and you will be assisting. Got it?
Jack smiles and allows Paige to go first. Paige gives a little nod of triumph and heads out of the dining room. Jack follows. As Paige heads out, she passes the frozen figure of Leo and she taps him lightly on the chest.
PAIGE (to frozen Leo)
You're probably safer this way, anyway.
INT. UNDERWORLD - CAVE. Barbas is there, waiting. The Shadow appears.
BARBAS
Did you kill them?
THE SHADOW
Almost. I hit the middle sister with a body-bind.
BARBAS
A body-bind, is not death. What happened?
THE SHADOW
I almost killed the youngest one, but then another witch, a male
one, appeared and saved her. He cast light upon me, and I fled.
Light is my weakness.
BARBAS
A male witch, huh? Haven't seen one of those for decades. So the
Charmed Ones are still alive?
THE SHADOW
Just barely. I shall not fail again this time, though. As I continue to
use the spirits and ghosts of the matriarchs as my energy source, I
get stronger. Soon, they'll be dead before we know it.
INT. MANOR - ATTIC - NIGHT. Paige has the Book of Shadows open to a page. Jack stares at it, confused.
JACK
A spell to multiply his powers? You want to multiply the Shadow's
powers? Do you have some kind of death wish?
PAIGE
No, Jack, I've been thinking. If we cast the spell to multiply it's
strength, we will be multiplying it's strength by three, or so the spell
reads. More strength, means it needs more power. Since it will be
weak since it has no power, we can vanquish it.
JACK
I don't know. If it's that easy, why hadn't witches done it before?
PAIGE (pleased)
Because I'm a genius.
JACK
Paige.
PAIGE
Okay, look, worst scenario: we orb out of here, right?
THE SHADOW (v.o.)
If you can, that is.
Paige and Jack spin around, only to see the hovering mist in the attic. Jack throws out his hand and as light begins to flow out from it, the Shadow sends a telekinetic wave that throws Jack across the attic.
PAIGE
Jack!
THE SHADOW
Well, look on the bright side, Paige. You'll finally be able to meet up
with Prue, huh?
Paige quickly turns to the Book of Shadows and begins to read the spell as fast as she can.
PAIGE (chanting)
Take his powers, blessed be ...
A stream of fire flies at Paige and she trails off mid-spell and orbs out of the attic. The fire misses her. Paige orbs back in.
PAIGE (cont'd)
... multiply their strength by three.
The Shadow glows, and suddenly, two more Shadows appear beside it, hovering just like it.
THE SHADOW (laughing)
You stupid witch. Now you can feel more pain.
PAIGE
Not quite.
One of the Shadows screeches in pain because of the lack of energy. It begins to suck the energy from the real Shadow. The other one does the same thing.
Paige grabs a bunch of potion ingredients and begins to mix them together furiously.
PAIGE (chanting)
Calamus, cedar,
cleavers, vervain.
Cast light upon this wandering Shadow.
Meet no more,
now or tomorrow.
The Shadow in the middle of the three Shadows cries out in pain and lets out a demonic scream, as the other two Shadows continue to steal his energy and Paige's spell takes effect.
Without warning, the Shadow explodes in a fiery burst of light, knocking Paige across the attic and into Jack's arms. They both fall to the ground, Paige wrapped in Jack's arms.
PAIGE
Oh! Hi.
JACK
Hi.
PAIGE
Hi.
JACK
Hi.
Jack stares at her before leaning up to kiss her gently. Paige does not resist. After a few moments, Jack pulls back.
JACK
I'm sorry. That was totally out of line.
PAIGE
No. No, I liked that.
They lean back in for another kiss, but are interrupted as they hear a scream from downstairs.
PAIGE
Ooh, Piper!
INT. MANOR - DINING ROOM - NIGHT. Piper stares at the frozen Leo with Phoebe beside her. Paige comes running downstairs with Jack.
PAIGE
What? What's wrong?
PIPER
W-why is he frozen and I can't unfreeze him?
PAIGE
Oh! That.
Paige gives Leo a little push, reversing her spell. Leo looks around, confused.
LEO
What's going on?
PHOEBE (to Paige)
That's a good question.
PAIGE
Oh, I'll put it this way. One very nice vanquish, and one very nice
guy. Now! Shall we get on with this wiccaning?
INT. MANOR - ATTIC - NIGHT. The sisters, Leo, and Jack come upstairs and see glowing lights on the floor.
PHOEBE (to Paige)
Okay, super witch. What say we get this wiccaning going, eh?
JACK (to Paige)
I better go.
PAIGE
Hey, thanks super man. You really helped me out.
JACK
Won't be the last time.
They kiss and Jack orbs out of the attic.
As Leo slips out of the attic, Paige smiles and gestures. Five lit candles orb in placed in a circle on the attic floor. Paige steps back and chants.
PAIGE (chanting)
Hear these words, hear my cry,
spirit from the other side,
Come to me, I summon thee,
cross now the Great Divide!
Grams materializes in a burst of golden orbs inside the circle, smiling. Leo returns with Baby Chris in one arm, and Wyatt in the other. Grams steps out of the circle and becomes corporeal.
GRAMS
Oh, Paige. I'm so proud of you. You saved the day.
PAIGE
Thanks, Grams.
GRAMS
Now. Let's get this wiccaning started before another demon pops
in, eh?
PIPER
Go for it, Grams.
GRAMS (chanting)
I call forth from space and time,
The matriarchs from the Halliwell line,
Mothers, daughters, sisters, friends,
Our family's spirit without end.
To gather now in this sacred space,
And help us bring this child to grace.
The Halliwell matriarchs beam down from above and into the attic. Baby Chris giggles as he sees the light. Grams takes him into her arms.
GRAMS
The next generation has been born into our family, our legacy. We
pledge to be with this child always. Apart, but never separate. Free,
but never alone. He is one of us, and because of that, we will bless
him with all the goodness that we are. Welcome to the family,
Christopher Halliwell. Blessed be.
THE MATRIARCHS
Blessed be.
PAIGE and PHOEBE
Blessed be.
PIPER and LEO
Blessed be.
Piper smiles and gives Baby Chris a thumbs up sign as Grams gives him back to Piper who cradles him. The matriarchs beam up and out of the attic.
GRAMS
Be good to each other, my darlings.
After one last smile, Grams beams up and out of the attic. Piper continues to smile at Chris, and we hold on Piper, Leo, Wyatt, and Chris.
FADE OUT
END OF EPISODE