Power Outage
Cole's apartment
Phoebe and Cole are lying in bed. They are kissing. Phoebe stops.
Cole says "What? No, tell me."
Phoebe says to him "I don't know. It just seems like whenever I get close to you, you pull away from me. Why do you do that? What are you so afraid of telling me?"
Cole says "Phoebe, don't." He rolls over.
Phoebe says "I wanna know. I deserve to know."
Cole says "Phoebe, you don't know what you're asking." He sits up with his back facing her.
Phoebe says "Whatever it is, you can't keep running from it. And you can't keep pretending that it's not coming between us. You can't keep hiding from the truth." Cole turns into Belthazor and attacks Phoebe. Cole wakes up. One of the triad members is in his apartment.
Triad #1 says "That wasn't so difficult, was it?"
Cole says "What are you doing here?"
Triad #1 says "Reminding you of your inner nature, Belthazor. One that would be in your best interest to reconnect with... soon."
Cole says "I won't let you down."
Triad #1 says "You already have. You vowed to destroy the witches, instead, you bedded one of them."
Cole says "That was a mistake. I..."
The triad member waves his hand in front of Cole and a dagger appears in his hand.
Triad #1 says "Find demonic help if you have to, Belthazor, but you better find a way to kill the witches or we'll kill you."
There is a laugh and Jared flames in "Ha. I beg to differ."
The triad guy turns around "My liege, what can I do for you?"
Jared ignores the triad guy and says to Cole "If you kill my son I will find you, Belthazor."
He and the triad guy disappear.
Opening credits
P3
Prue, Piper and Phoebe are sitting in the alcove. Phoebe is looking around for Cole. "Alright, look, we know that Belthazor is not going to stop until he kills us. Phoebe? Phoebe!" Prue says and Phoebe looks at her. "Hi. I hate to interrupt your whole staring off into space aimlessly thing that you've got going on right now but in case you forgot, evil triad agent."
"Like you would even let me forget, Prue." Phoebe reminds her
Prue says "Well, if he's as powerful of a demon as Michael and Leo say he is, he is probably gonna be immune to our powers. That's why we need to practice our counterattacks so the next time he shows up, we can get some demon flesh."
"White meat or dark meat?" Piper asks.
Prue says "I don't like the idea of demon fillet either, but it might help us with the vanquishing potion. Hello? Pheebs?"
Phoebe says "Cole is forty-five minutes late. You would think he would be on time after he sleeps with a girl, you know."
Piper says "Can we fast forward? Because I got Fastball coming in in a couple of days and I need to get some stuff done."
Phoebe says "Cole!" She stands up. Cole is walking towards them. "He's here, he's here."
As Cole is walking he is talking to himself "I'm sorry but we have to stop seeing each other, okay. Why? Because, because I gotta kill you, that's why. Smooth."
Prue says "Alright, we are practicing the, uh..." She sees Cole approach them and pauses.
"Sorry I'm late." Cole says to Phoebe.
"It's okay." Was her reply.
"The earthquake drill tomorrow at 3:00." Prue continues trying not to sound suspicious.
Piper says to her "I'm sorry; madam president, but I have a doctor's appointment."
Prue says "Piper, you never know when an earthquake is going to strike."
Piper says "I guess not. I guess I will reschedule then."
Cole says "Phoebe, we, uh, need to talk."
Prue says to Phoebe "Uh, Phoebe, earthquake drill tomorrow at 3:00."
Phoebe says "Okay, but if you need me there by 3:00 you have to lend me your car because I have class right after it."
Prue says "That's fine, just try not to leave my gas tank on empty this time."
"I left your gas tank empty once, okay, get over it, let it go." Phoebe says turning back to Cole.
"Twice." Prue says holding up two fingers.
Phoebe says "I'm sorry, what-what were you saying?"
Cole says "Actually, if we could, uh..."
Prue says "Oh, and Pheebs, I need the car back by 5:00 because I have a photo shoot at P3 tomorrow."
"P3?" Piper asks "Did you forget to inform the owner of P3?"
Prue says "I'm sorry but my location fell out at the last moment and I couldn't find you and I thought that you would say yes."
Piper says "Of course you did and did you forget about our home owners meeting that's at our house tomorrow afternoon?"
Prue says "I totally spaced. Uh, Pheebs, will you cover for me?"
Phoebe says "No way. In the last one it took them two and a half hours to decide where to put the garden gnomes."
"Um, alright, do you want the car or not?" Prue asks as a joke
Cole laughs and Phoebe says "Hate you."
Prue says "No you don't you love me."
Piper says "I'd love to get back to work. Okay, you two kids behave." Prue and Piper walk away.
Phoebe says to Cole "Uh, I'm sorry about that. Sister stuff. You know, there's a fine line between love and hate. So what did you wanna talk about?"
Cole says "Um, actually, I have to go."
Phoebe says "Wh- wait, what?"
Cole says "I'm sorry, Phoebe, it's just this big case I've been working on and I think I just had an epiphany on how to win it." He kisses her. "Forgive me."
"Ugh." Phoebe says walking off.
Outside P3
Cole walks out the doors and says to his shadow "Tell the triad I've figured out how to destroy the Charmed Ones." His shadow floats down into a drain.
Outside in an alley somewhere
Michael, Rosaline and Zeke are playing baseball with energy balls. Michael creates an energy ball and Rosaline is cheering Zeke on trying to motivate him. Michael throws it and Zeke hits it and it hits some old dumpster making a loud crash. Some lady opens her window "Hey you kids stop making so much noise its three a.m. my baby is trying to sleep."
"Sorry." Rosaline says to the lady and she closes her window.
Michael creates a larger yet more powerful energy ball than before and throws it and Zeke hits it hard and it flies back to Michael and he disappears. "Mikey." Zeke says.
There are small black dots buzzing around "What is that?" Rosaline asks.
Michael reforms "Not bad bro." he says as blue and red blinking lights appear behind Michael. A police officer gets out of the car followed by newbie cop. "Whoa, what's going on here?" Michael asks.
The newbie grabs Michael and says "We got a complaint that there are creeps hanging out around here making noise." He says putting the cuffs on him.
Michael turns his head and sees Darryl "No wait…Darryl. Andy." Michael says and Darryl and Andy walk up to him.
"Let him go he was here for me undercover." Morris says and the newbie un-cuffs him
Andy goes to the officers and says "Best if you omit the undercover part from your report huh?"
The three teenagers go behind the dumpster as the lady comes out. "That's them they were making so much noise." The lady says pointing at them.
Rosaline turns around and says "Who I don't see anyone."
"Inspector listen to me…" The lady says and Darryl listens and Michael, Zeke and Rosaline listen in "That girl and her creepy friends were doing something with lights."
"Creepy friends," Michael says "She better say that to my face" he says ready to walk out there. Michael thinks for a second "She's crazy arrest her I was just looking for my baseball." Michael closes his eyes and freezes the entire scene and they orb out and everything unfreezes.
Manor: Conservatory
Later that morning Michael is asleep on the couch Rosaline is sitting in the chair sleeping and Zeke is sleeping on the other couch. Prue is on the phone and Piper is sitting at the table "No, I'm planning on getting to P3 early to confirm the stylist. Alright, I'll see you there. Bye." She hangs up. "Is there a reason why Zeke and Rosaline are here?" She asks.
"Yes, because they came home late last night looking for Zeke's baseball and I thought I'd let them sleep." Piper says.
"Oh ok. Hey, where's Phoebe?" Prue asks Piper.
Phoebe walks in "I'm here. Do you guys know if Cole called?"
Piper says "Not since the last time you asked."
Phoebe says "Okay, I need some sisterly advice. Is he doing the whole blow her off after sex thing and I'm just not reading the signs?"
Piper says "Probably not since the signs Prue read as an empath prove that he loves you."
Phoebe says "Okay, well, supernatural guarantees aside, I am getting the feeling that he is avoiding me. I have no idea where we stand."
Prue says "Well, maybe it's got something to do with whatever he's hiding from me."
Belthazor barges through the door "Demon!" Phoebe levitates in the air and kicks him. He falls against the table. Belthazor throws out an energy ball
"Piper, watch out." Prue warns as an energy ball comes her way. Piper freezes it. Prue astral projects onto the table behind Belthazor. "Uh, excuse me." She kicks him in the head. Prue flips off the table. "Piper, now."
Piper picks up a knife and slices his neck. Belthazor changes into Leo.
Leo says "Ouch, you got skin."
Prue astral projects back in her body
Phoebe says "Hey, Leo, do you think you can make yourself look like Brad Pitt?"
Prue says "Alright you guys, that was, um, good. Although, Phoebe, I think you need more force on your kick and Piper, a little less hesitating on the slicing and dicing, okay. Should we try it again?"
"No, I'd like to have a boyfriend left when this is over." Piper says.
"Okay, where are your keys, Prue?" Phoebe asks.
Prue says to her "Hey, don't forget to pick up food for the homeowners meeting."
"Okay, how am I possibly gonna pick up food when I have to get your car back right away?" Phoebe asks.
Prue says "Well, I can't do it, I have to prep for my shoot."
Prue and Phoebe look at Piper "What? Don't look at me." Prue looks at Piper "I guess I'll reschedule my doctors appointment again."
Phoebe says "You're cute."
Cole's apartment
Cole and a demon called Andras is there. Cole places a knife in his altar. "Have you ever destroyed siblings? Sisters?"
"Sisters?" Andras asks "I pit nations against each other, I start wars, riots."
Cole says "I've reviewed your resume, Andras. Rather unfocused, actually. My needs are very particular."
Andras says "I can infect anybody. Anybody who's angry."
"That's your way in? Through anger?" Cole asks.
Andras says "I see it in my victims. It envelops them. Then I turn that anger into rage. Rage that continues until they commit an act of violence."
"Think you could work your magic on the Charmed Ones?" Cole asks.
"You said sisters, not witches." Andras says to him.
Cole says "Ah, but they are sisters, first and foremost and that, I believe, is their Achilles' heel. Break that bond and we break the very foundation of their powers. Without their powers they're defenseless."
"Which sister shall we start with?" Andras asks.
Cole says "The most vulnerable, the youngest."
Campus
Phoebe walks out of the building talking on her phone "Class went late and then I had to go to the library to get a book for psych class so I'm running a little late but I will be there." She walks towards Prue's car. "Yeah, very funny, I was born late. Ha ha. I promise I will be there, okay. I'll be home sss..." She sees Cole standing next to the car. "Soon. Gotta go, bye." She hangs up. "Uh, what are you doing here?"
Cole says "I got a break in my case, decided to take the afternoon off."
Phoebe says to him "Oh, that must've been quite an epiphany you had last night."
Cole says "Yeah, it was. I came to apologize, Phoebe, for walking out on you so abruptly. That was rude."
Phoebe says "Yeah, it was rude."
Cole says "I'd love to make it up to you. I made early dinner reservations at Risso's."
"No, I-I have to get Prue's car back." Phoebe says.
Cole says "I was hoping we could talk."
"About what?" Phoebe asks.
Cole says "About the other night. You and me, where we stand."
Phoebe says "Um, I would like to, I actually would really like to, but I promised Prue that I'd do the homeowners meeting tonight, so..."
Cole says "That's alright, I understand. It was worth a try." He kisses her and starts to walk away.
Phoebe says "Cole, uh..." He stops and turns back around. "I could probably get Piper to handle the meeting."
Cole says "Yeah? You sure she won't be angry?"
Phoebe says "Oh, she's gonna be furious but she'll just suppress it and take it out on me later. Um, you pick me up in an hour?"
Cole says "I'll be there." Phoebe gets in the car. Cole flicks his hand and the gas starts leaking out. She beeps the horn and drives off.
Michael's school
Michael is sitting at a lab tale in the science room and is working on something when a Kool guy walks in "Hey, Mike." He says sitting beside him.
"Hey, what's up?" Michael asks.
"Nun much, man." He sees Michael pour some substance in a beaker "What are you doing?"
"Trying to create this thing for my cousin." Michael says pouring another substance and the liquid turns blue.
"Is that birdock root?" The kool guy asks.
"Yes it is, TJ." Michael says "What are you doing? Don't you have detention?"
"I never said I was going to go." TJ says as Zeke walks in.
"Mikey, I think that the teacher is a white…" He stops upon seeing TJ sitting there "person." Zeke finishes for a cover.
TJ gets up to leave and Zeke accidently runs into him "Excuse you." TJ says
"Guys, behave." Michael says
"Hey I worked on this the other day you just put the eye of newt…" Zeke says about to put some in.
"No, Zeke wait…" Michael says as Zeke drops it in and there is a big explosion and everyone goes flying.
TJ gets up and says "I, uh, got to go." He walks out of the room. "Let's go." Michael says flaming he and Zeke out.
TJ walks down the hallway and looks around before looking back at the wall and closing his eyes and opening them up to see through the wall "What do you know, he has a magical power." He says to himself before heading out the doors.
Manor: Living room
The home owners meeting is being held and the neighbors are arguing.
Kitchen
Leo enters as Piper starts to carry the tray of food out "Oh, watch the, uh…"
Piper trips over Prue's tripod, which is lying on the floor under the table. Leo catches her and manages to save the tray of food. "Oh! Ohh… Prue!" She says seeing her camera equipment on the ground. She looks at Leo and says "Welcome to Prue's world of cluttered photography. I can't believe I got roped into this." Piper says.
He hands her back the tray as they head back to the table "How did you get roped into heading the refreshment committee?" Leo asks.
"They didn't have time." Piper explains
"And you do?" Leo replied.
"Well, my doctor's appointment doesn't count as high priority." Piper explains to him.
"Well, couldn't you make something simpler, you know, chips and dip?" Leo asks thoughtfully.
"Leo, I was a chef. I can't make chips and dip." Piper explains.
"Maybe you need to tell your sisters how you feel. Better yet, next time just say no." Leo suggests.
"Okay, Leo, you obviously do not have sisters. One minute you're arguing about something and then suddenly you're arguing about who stole who's Malibu Barbie in 1979." Piper says.
Prue walks in and asks "Hey, is Phoebe home yet?"
Piper looks at her "No," then she holds up an empty box "and where-where's all the mineral water?"
"Uh, there's some down in the basement." Prue says to her.
Leo says "I'll get it." Leo goes in the basement. Piper carries a plate of food into the living room.
Neighbor #1 says "It's our property, it's our money and we are building a fence."
Piper puts the food down and says to the neighbors "Goat cheese pizza and onion tartlets for the vegetarians..."
Neighbor #2 just says to the others "We want our privacy because we've had enough of your snooping."
Neighbor #3 says "Snooping?"
Piper continues to explain about the food "And the-the chicken satay has peanuts in case anybody's allergic." Phoebe sneaks in and Piper says "Phoebe, nice of you to show."
Phoebe says "Uh, Piper?" Piper walks over to Phoebe. "I need a huge favor. Can I talk to you upstairs?"
Michael and Zeke walk in at that moment and Phoebe starts to go upstairs "Oh, no you don't." Piper says and the neighbors start arguing. "Phoebe." Piper freezes the neighbors. Michael and Zeke walk over to them "Phoebe, this is not fair."
"Whoa. I guess I chose a bad time to come home huh?" Michael asks.
Phoebe says "I know it's not but the last thing I expected was for Cole to ask me out, okay. So could you please cover for me?"
"I-I already rescheduled my doctors appointment twice." Piper says.
Phoebe points behind her and says "Well, Leo was a doctor before he died."
"That's really not the point." Piper says.
"Well, he was a doctor though." Michael points out and Piper glares at him "I know not the point sorry." He says.
Phoebe says "I know, and I would never ask but this is important. He wants to have the talk. You know, are we a couple, are we a one-nighter, are we friends, are we friends that had a one-nighter?"
Piper says "Okay, I get it."
Leo walks in "Ever planning on unfreezing the neighbours?" he asks
Phoebe says to Piper "Piper, just this once. You know how much I want this relationship to work."
Piper says "Well, I guess I don't have much of a choice." Phoebe hugs her and runs upstairs. "You are so helping me run this meeting."
The Whitelighters call Leo "They're calling."
Piper says "Uh, no, no, no." Leo orbs out. "Leo." He drops the bottle he was holding and Piper catches it. "Chicken!" she looks at Michael and Zeke "You two are going to help me…" Piper says
"Ok we'll help." Michael says.
Piper unfreezes the neighbors.
Outside
Cole drives up in his car. He closes his eyes. "Andras." He says and Andras appears in the passenger seat "If Phoebe's right, Piper will be primed and ready for you."
"I thought we were starting with Phoebe." Andras says.
Cole says "We did. I did. She's the reason Piper's angry and she'll be the reason Prue and Michael get angry. You just make sure you get there to capitalize on that."
"Don't you need to enrage all three of the sisters plus the cousin for your plan to work?" Andras asks.
"You infect Piper, Michael and Prue, I'll bring Phoebe back home. They'll blame her for everything." Cole explains
Andras says "Your legend is well deserved, Belthazor. You know, for someone about to score one of the biggest victories in centuries, you don't seem very happy about it."
Cole says "Just do your job."
Andras gets out of the car
Inside
Neighbour #4 says "Your fence will block the sun for my flowers."
Neighbor #1 says "Well, then I suggest you take it up with the sun."
Neighbor #4 says "Oh, great, great idea."
"Okay, uh, why don't you build a shorter fence? Or move your flower bed?" Piper suggests
"Why don't you just put the fence somewhere else?" Michael says.
Neighbor #4 says "No, it is not my azaleas that are the problem."
The neighbors continue arguing. The doorbell rings.
Piper says "Okay, everyone please just try and calm down."
"People." Michael says calmly.
Phoebe runs past the living room "Bye, honey." She says to Piper.
Piper says "Phoebe, Phoebe, Phoebe! Those are my earrings." Phoebe leaves. "Hey!" Andras is standing outside looking in. A ball of light comes out of his hand and hits Piper. "Okay, everybody shut up!" Everyone shuts up. "I have had it with your petty problems and your stupid fence and your stupid flower beds. There are bigger problems in the world to worry about. Just get a life and grow up!"
"Piper." Zeke says.
Neighbor #3 says "Ugh, you can't speak to us like that."
Piper says "Oh yeah?" She throws a plate of food at them. "Everybody get out of my house! Get out of my house before I throw you out."
Neighbor #4 starts walking "With pleasure."
Neighbor #3 says "Perhaps we should build a fence to keep you in."
Piper says "Good idea."
Neighbor #3 says "I'll speak to your sister and brother-in-law about the way you behave."
Piper says "Even better idea! Move it! Move it! Move it!" Everyone leaves. "And stay out!"
"Okay, Piper calm down." Michael says
Commercial Break
Risso's
People are dancing. Cole and Phoebe are sitting at a table are laughing "Wait, you actually wore a penguin costume?" Cole asks her.
Phoebe says "Yes, and I handed out balloons to kids. I was fifteen, leave me alone, I needed a job."
Cole says "I bet you were cute."
Phoebe says "I had to do this walk."
Cole says "Uh, no."
Phoebe gets up and walks like a penguin. They laugh harder. She sits back down and they stop laughing "You've come a long way, haven't you?" Cole asks.
Phoebe says "Yeah, yeah, I think I have. And of course I'm still living with my two sisters, my brother-in-law and my cousin and still going to college, you know, eventually I'd like to work past that."
Cole says "You don't like living with your sisters?"
Phoebe says "Um, it's more out of necessity. But enough about me. Tell me about you. Am I the only one with a past here?"
Cole says "Mine's not very interesting."
Phoebe says "More secrets."
Cole says "I don't like to talk about my past much or my family. I lost them a long time ago."
Phoebe says to him "Oh, I'm sorry. I know how that feels. Um, I never knew my mother and my father left when I was really little. So we were raised by our grandmother. She's not with us anymore."
Cole says "But you still have your sisters and your brother-in-law and your cousin."
Phoebe says "Yeah. And I thank god for them everyday. I don't know what I would do if I lost them. Are you okay?"
Cole says "Phoebe, there's something I have to tell you." He pauses and says "I'm a terrible dancer."
"You're a terrible dancer?" She repeats in disbelief "Something tells me that's not what you were gonna say." A slow song comes on. "Come on." She stands up.
Cole says "No, no, really, I..."
Phoebe says "Okay, look, if we're not gonna talk about us and we're not gonna talk about you, we're gonna dance."
Cole says "I can't." He stands up.
Phoebe says "You can. Why would you bring me here if you're not gonna dance?" They walk onto the dance floor and slow dance.
Manor: Kitchen
Prue is on the phone when she walks in "I'm sorry I didn't make it." Piper and Michael walk in. "No, I didn't forget. I loaned my car to someone and obviously..." Piper slams down a plate of food on the table. "They forgot to fill the tank." Then she looks at Piper and Michael "Keep it down will you?" she says in the phone "Alright, one more chance is all that I'm asking for." Then she says to Piper "Where's Phoebe?"
Piper says "The little witch is not home yet."
Prue still on the phone says "No, tomorrow at P3 will not be a problem. Okay."
Piper says "Actually, excuse me." She takes the phone off of Prue. And says into the phone "Hi, actually, you know what? It is." She hangs up.
"Piper." Michael says with a feeling of anger.
Andras senses Michaels anger and hits him with a ball and then says to himself "I'm sorry my liege I do hope you can forgive me."
"Okay, alright, do you have any idea who that was?" Prue asks.
Piper says "I couldn't care less."
"What is your problem?" Prue demands
Piper says "You are. Get your own damn club and keep your paws off of mine."
Prue says "Okay, whoa, obviously somebody needs a Midol."
Piper says "And I am so sick of all your stuff lying around. If you can't put your equipment away then I will."
She throws one of Prue's camera lenses on the floor. Andras is watching from outside. Another ball of light shoots out of his hand and hits Prue. "Ooh, ooh!" Prue looks around and picks up the blender. "Who the hell do you think you are?" She throws the blender on the floor.
Outside
Cole and Phoebe drive up. Phoebe sits facing Cole "I had a great time tonight." She says to him.
Cole says "Better than being at the homeowners meeting?"
Phoebe says "Mmm, a little. Okay, you're married."
"What?" Cole asks her
Phoebe says "That's the big secret. You're married. You have three kids, and two dogs, and a really cute cat, right? And I'm your seven-year itch?"
Cole says "You found me out."
Phoebe says "Can't get anything past me."
"I guess not." Cole agrees.
Phoebe says "Uh, about the other night. Are you sorry that we, uh..."
Cole says "Not at all. Are you?"
Phoebe says "Depends on what happens next."
Cole says "Too bad you can't predict the future."
Phoebe says "Who says I can't?" They kiss. Andras is near by watching. Cole opens his eyes and sees him. They pull apart. "Um, are you sure you don't wanna come in?"
Cole says "I've gotta get back to the case, you know." She kisses him once more and starts to get out of the car. "Phoebe..."
Phoebe says "Yeah?"
Cole says "Goodbye."
Phoebe says "Goodnight." She gets out of the car and walks up the stairs. He drives away.
Inside the Manor
Prue, Michael and Piper walk into the living room. They are still fighting.
"Sure, you can use P3 for a photo shoot. Hello? Remember me?" Piper says.
Phoebe walks in.
Prue says "Oh, poor Piper. Well, you know what? The martyr routine's getting old."
Phoebe says "Hey, guys, what's going on?"
Prue, Piper and Michael all look at her and say "Shut up!"
Prue says "You know what? I am so sorry that I didn't check with you about your stupid little club, Michael and I were too busy being the only witches concerned about the triad."
Piper says "Oh, right, without the mighty Prue Trudeau and the Mighty Michael Gonzalez we'd all be dead. Get over yourselves guys."
"Excuse me but if it wasn't for me there would be demons attacking you non-stop every single day." Michael yells to the two arguing sisters.
Phoebe says "Michael and Sisters, what has gotten into you two?" She asks the sisters.
Prue looks at Phoebe and says "By the way, you owe me for a car tow and a tank of gas, you little leech."
Phoebe says "I'm sorry, is it gang up on Phoebe day and nobody told me?"
Piper says "News flash! The world does not revolve around Phoebe."
Prue says "Yes, so while you get to spend the night screwing the DA, or while you," She looks at Michael "Are off screwing around with your best buddy we are stuck picking up your guys' slack." A ball of light shoots out of Andras and hits Phoebe.
"Well, I am sorry I hang out with my buddy. I am sorry I have spent the last year and a half trying to find the demon that killed my Mom." Michael says
"They probably tried killing you but they got her instead." Piper retorts back at him.
Phoebe says "What's the matter, Prue? Jealous? All work and no play making you even more boring?"
"She's just jealous that I actually have a best buddy." Michael says.
Prue says to Phoebe and Michael but mostly Phoebe "Oh, yeah, there's a lot to be jealous of. Jealous that I'm still in school, jealous that I'm still unemployed and jealous that I am still living off of my sisters."
Piper says to Phoebe "Yeah, Grams said that you'd never amount to anything."
Prue says "I am so sick of the fact that I've been saddled with the two of you my entire life."
Phoebe says "Whatever, I'm leaving."
"As usual." Michael says causing her to stop walking.
Piper says "Oh, sure, you're such an immature brat, you leave every time you can't hack something."
Phoebe says "Well, there's nothing keeping me here, now is there?"
Prue says "Oh, well, I see that you've inherited dad's talent of bailing."
Phoebe says "That's because the two of us couldn't deal with living with the two of you."
Piper says "Well, at least I'm not so stupid I had to do college twice."
Phoebe says "Well, at least I actually had the courage to go away to college. What's the matter, Piper? The real world too much for you? I am so sick of the three of you ganging up on me and judging me."
Prue says "I am so sick of saving your asses."
"I am so sick of being the one who feels like no one trusts him all the time." Michael says.
Piper says "I'm sick of being taken for granted and those are mine."
Piper rips off Phoebe's earrings "Ouch! Bitch!" Phoebe says.
Phoebe high kicks Piper but Piper ducks and she hits Michael instead. Piper pushes Phoebe into Prue and Prue pushes her against a chair. Michael throws an energy ball at Prue and she blocks it with her power. It flies back towards him and he shimmers out, the energy ball heads towards Phoebe who levitates and it passes under her legs towards Piper who freezes it. The energy ball unfreezes, hitting a photo frame and it falls off the wall. Phoebe and Michael leave.
Upstairs the triquetra on the Book of Shadows splits apart
Commercial Break
Manor: Living room
Prue is cleaning up some broken glass. Piper bends down beside her "Here."
Prue says "It's alright."
Piper says "I'll get it."
Prue says "Thanks."
Leo orbs in and Piper asks him "What's wrong?"
Leo says "You tell me."
Piper says "Well, we had a little..."
Prue says adding to her sentence "Tiff."
Leo says "Must've been more than little because they felt it."
Piper says "What do you mean they felt it?
Leo says "What ever happened severed the Power of Three."
Prue says "Leo, that's impossible."
Leo picks up a glass bowl and says "Freeze this."
He drops it, she tries to freeze it and it smashes on the floor "Uhh..."
Prue tries to move the glass "What happened to our powers?"
Leo says "That's what we have to figure out. Let's start with your little tiff."
Piper says "Well, that's a bit of an understatement. It was big."
"How big?" Leo asks.
Prue says "Um, do you remember Pearl Harbor?"
Leo says "Okay, so what triggered it?"
Piper says "I-I don't know. Just little things I guess. I really didn't wanna do the stupid meeting and..."
Prue says "My car ran out of gas and because of that I missed my job."
"That's it?" Leo asks.
Prue says "Yeah, I mean, it's weird. We were angry but we shouldn't have been that angry. It was almost like something..."
Piper says "Someone sort of came over us."
Prue says "Yeah, something like Belthazor."
Leo says "That doesn't track because no matter what he does, he doesn't have the power to take away yours. So back to your argument. You yelled and you threw stuff?"
Piper says "Well, we did a little more than that."
Prue says "We used our powers."
"What, on each other? Alright, well, then that's what happened. Your powers are rooted in your bond as sisters and Michael's is rooted in your bond of cousins. Using them against each other must have severed those bonds. Alright, you-you-you need to repair the damage of your relationship fast because without your powers, you are extremely vulnerable. So you need to get Michael and Phoebe..."
Prue says "they're gone."
"Gone? Gone where?" Leo asks.
Prue and Piper exchange a nervous glance before Prue reaches for the phone. "I'll call after I call Andy and tell him not to come home yet."
Cole's apartment
Belthazor is kneeling in front of his altar chanting. There is a knock at the door. Belthazor closes the door to his altar.
Phoebe says "Cole? Cole?"
Belthazor walks over to the door and grabs onto the handle. He starts to open the door.
Hallway
The door opens and Belthazor has changed back into Cole.
Phoebe says "Hi."
"Phoebe, what are you doing here?" Cole asks
Phoebe says "Uh, I don't, I don't know. I was just walking around and I'm sorry, I know it's really late. Can I come in?"
Cole says "Yeah, sure."
Phoebe walks in and Cole closes the door "I had no where else to go." She starts to cry.
Cole says "It's okay." He hugs her. "I'm glad you came here. What happened?"
Phoebe says "After, after you dropped me off, my sisters, Michael and I got into a, a huge fight. It was horrible."
Cole says "You're safe here."
Michael's school
Michael is there working on the science project he has to do and his teacher walks in "Whoa. Mike I didn't know you were here." The teacher sees that Michael is sad "What's wrong?"
"I just got into the worst fight with the sisters." Michael says to the teacher.
"Ok. Calm down Mike and tell me what happened." The teacher says sitting next to him.
"Well, I was there helping Piper with the homeowners meeting and then she just lost it and when Prue came home we all sort have got mad at each other especially when Phoebe got home." Michael explains.
"It will all be okay." The teacher says to him.
"No, not its not going to be okay." Michael says "I threw an energy ball right to my cousin." Michael says and the teacher hugs him.
Manor: Attic
Piper and Prue are scrying for Phoebe and Michael. Leo is looking through the Book of Shadows.
Piper says "Nothing. I-I can't find them. We don't even have basic powers anymore."
Prue says "I can not believe this is happening."
Piper says "What I don't understand is how could Belthazor make us that angry? That's not his power."
Leo is looking in the book and says "No, it's not, but it is his."
Prue and Piper look at the Book "'Andras, the spirit of rage. Uses anger as a portal to enrage his victims until they commit a grievous act of violence'." Piper reads from the book.
Prue says "Yeah, but that doesn't really explain everything. I mean, even if our fight was supernaturally amped, Andras magnifies anger into rage, he doesn't just create it out of thin air."
Piper says "So we gave him the opening."
Leo closes the book and the symbol is split apart "And he took full advantage." Leo says.
Michael's School
Michael is still talking to his teacher about what happened "They said that they pick up the slack while I am out hanging with my friend but I don't blame them they sort of do." Michael says.
"Then what did you say?" The teacher asks
"I said I was sorry for hanging out with my buddy and that I am sorry I have spent the last year or so trying to find the demon that killed my mom." Michael explains "And Piper said that they probably killed her because I was supposed to be killed but they got her instead."
"Michael, go home." The teacher says "Go and try to fix things with your cousins."
"But…" Michael says.
"Go!" The teacher snaps at him and Michael leaves.
Cole's apartment
Phoebe says "I was just so angry and I said such horrible things to them and I-I-I didn't really mean any of it." Cole touches he shoulder. She turns around and hugs him. "I'm sorry."
Cole says "Please. Let me get you a tissue. Here." He sits her on the couch with her back to the altar. He walks over to his altar.
Phoebe says "The things that were said. I don't even know where they were coming from." Cole opens the door of his altar. "I mean, I guess it was issues, you know," he reaches in his altar and pulls out a dagger "that were underlying, that were never really dealt with and then, and now all of a sudden, just exploded."
Cole asks "Nothing ever happen like that before?" He closes the altar door.
Phoebe says "Oh, no, not like that. I mean, we used to fight all the time when we were little, you know." Cole starts walking towards her holding the knife. "But since we moved in together, we just, we got really close, you know." Cole pokes the knife in between his belt and sits down beside her. "We have been through so much together." She touches his face. "Thank you for listening to me. And thank you for being there for me."
They kiss. Cole reaches down and pulls the knife out of his belt. He raises it to get ready to stab her but changes his mind and hides it between the couch cushions. They pull apart "I can't. I can't." Cole says.
"What do you mean?" Phoebe asks.
He stands up and says "Phoebe, you need to go home. Now."
Phoebe stands up, hurt "What? Why?"
Cole says "Because you're vulnerable right now. I don't... we shouldn't do this. You need to go home. You need to go and figure out what happened."
She smiles a little "You're right. I do." They walk to the door. "Thank you."
They kiss. Andras appears.
Cole says "You're welcome."
She leaves.
Andras says to Cole "So the rumors are true. You've fallen for a witch."
Cole says "What are you doing here? Get out!"
Andras says "The great Belthazor. Who would've ever thought." Cole gets the knife out between the couch cushions. "I can hardly wait to see what the triad will do when I tell them you failed."
Cole says "I will kill you before you ever get the chance."
Andras says "Yeah? Then you really are a traitor, aren't you?" Cole changes into Belthazor. "Pissed off are you? Good. 'Cause there's something you don't know about me. I can possess my victims too." Andras jumps inside Belthazor. Belthazor roars. He looks into the mirror. "Now, let's go finish what we started shall we?'
Commercial Break
Manor: Conservatory
Prue's on the phone "If you hear from her just tell her to come home, okay, it's an emergency. Thanks." She hangs up. "So Phoebe's not at the club and none of her friends have seen her and Michael isn't at Zeke's or Rosaline's."
"Did you try Cole? And the school?" Piper asks.
Prue says "No answer."
Piper says "If something happens to them I'll never forgive myself."
Leo says "Nothing's gonna happen."
"Leo, something happened to Grams, something happened to mom, something happened to Michael's mom, it kind of runs in the family." Piper says.
Phoebe walks in.
Prue says "Phoebe, thank god."
Phoebe says "Has the tribal council spoken? Am I booted off the island?"
Piper hugs Phoebe "Are you okay?" Piper asks.
Phoebe says "Yeah."
They all stare at the door for Michael to come in.
Piper says to Phoebe "Where were you?"
Phoebe says "I was at Cole's. And after a lot of talking and a lot of tears, he convinced me to come home and deal with what happened."
They all are still looking in the direction of the door and Michael pops up behind Piper "What are we all looking at?" he asks startling the sisters.
"Thank god you're all right." Piper says pulling him into a hug.
Prue says "Anyway, Belthazor is what happened."
Phoebe says "What?"
"How?" Michael asks.
Piper says "Abbreviated version, he used some underling spirit to enrage us and when we fought we lost our powers. No more triquetra, no more Power of Three."
Phoebe says "What, we have no powers? But that means that..."
Prue says "That he's gonna try and come try kill us. Which, when you two didn't come home, we thought that he had already..."
Phoebe says "No, it's okay, I'm fine."
"Me too." Michael says
Phoebe continues "So what do we do? A spell, a vanquish, a potion?"
Leo says "You need to try and restore your bond as sisters and your bond as cousins. I'll give you some privacy. Go hang out with Andy or something." He leaves.
Prue says "A potion would be easier, huh?"
"Totally better." Michael says.
Piper says "Um, Phoebe, Grams didn't say you'd never amount to anything. That was just me being mean. She was, is, very proud of you." Piper turns to Michael and says "Mikey, its not your fault that your mother died. With everything you have accomplished the last year she'd be so proud of you."
Phoebe says "We all know that sometimes I'm not the most responsible person in the world."
"Sometimes I sit in my room thinking if I had at least tried to do something that maybe she'd be here with me." Michael says
Prue says "No, Phoebe, that's all kind of ancient history, isn't it? I mean, you've grown up a lot and I'm sorry if I don't treat you like you have all the time."
Phoebe says "It's okay. Since mom died..."
"You did take care of us and you do still look out for us all the time" Piper says and she turns to Michael "Both of you still look out for us and we don't always say thank you. Sometimes we take you for granted."
Prue says "I don't think I'm the one who's been taken for granted around here. You know, who needs Oprah when we can do it ourselves?" They giggle.
"Do you think we have our powers back?" Phoebe asks.
Belthazor bursts through the door.
Prue says "Oh!" She tries to use her power. "Alright, no, you try."
Piper tries to freeze him. "No, mine aren't working either." Piper says.
Michael tries to fire an energy ball but nothing happens "Mine either." Michael says.
Phoebe tries levitating and says "We worked on our issues."
Leo runs up behind him and slams a chair over his back. Belthazor hits him in the face "Leo!" Piper yells.
Prue says "No, wait. You guys run, I'll hold him off."
"No, you run with them I will stay and hold him off." Michael says
Phoebe "No, guys, we're in this together."
Piper says "No matter what."
Phoebe sees the triquetra on the Book of Shadows joins back up "Look, the Book." She says.
Prue sees the triquetra and says "Oh." Prue flicks her finger and knocks the knife out of Belthazor's hand. Belthazor throws an energy ball at them and Prue uses her power to block it. It flies back, hits Belthazor and Andras gets knocked out of him. "Okay that's new." She says.
Phoebe says "Demon with demon filling."
Belthazor says to Andras "Nobody crosses me." He throws an energy ball at Andras and he is vanquished. Belthazor picks up the knife.
Prue says "Okay, positions."
He walks towards Phoebe and she kicks him in the face. She lands on the floor and Michael steps up and says "Hey." Belthazor turns around and tries to cut him but Michael flames out and back in behind him. Belthazor throws an energy ball at Michael and Michael flames out before crashing outside.
Prue sees Belthazor throw the knife at Piper "Uh, Piper?"
Piper freezes the knife he throws at her "Whoa."
Prue astral projects behind him and kicks him in the back "Piper the knife." Astral Prue says.
Piper plucks the knife out of the air and slices Belthazor. A chunk of skin falls to the ground. Belthazor roars. He grabs Piper's arm, twists it and hits her in the face. She falls to the floor. Michael gets up and Belthazor grabs him and Prue astral projects back in her body. Mikey hold on she warns in thought and she waves her arm using her power and both Michael and Belthazor crash through the window. He changes back into Cole. He disappears. Prue and Phoebe run over to the window.
"Ow." Michael says as he gets up from the ground.
"Sorry." Prue says
Phoebe says "He's gone."
Prue says "At least for now."
Leo helps Piper up and Piper asks him "Ow. Are you okay?"
Leo says "Yeah. Good thing I'm already dead. Did you get him?"
Piper says "Ooh, yeah." She picks up the skin. "I got a slice."
Prue says "Mmm, yum, the other white meat."
Leo says "Better him than me."
Phoebe says "Well, at least now we can work on the vanquishing spell."
Prue says "Well, better hurry before Belthazor's encore."
P3
Fastball is playing there. Prue walks up to Piper and Phoebe who are sitting in the alcove. She sits down.
"Hey, how did the photo session go?" Phoebe asks.
Prue says "Not as good as if it had been done here but definitely better for our relationship."
Piper says "Well, next time just give me some warning and I'll be happy to accommodate you."
Prue says "Oh, I promise. By the way, how was your doctor's appointment?"
Piper says "It was fine. Everything was normal except my stress level."
Phoebe says "Oh, I don't mean to stress you out even more but I ran into Ellen and Claire and they said they worked everything out with Mrs. Snyder. What did you say to them anyway?"
Piper says "Oh, nothing, I just spoke my mind."
Prue says "Maybe you should handle all the meetings."
Piper says "No. Absolutely not."
Phoebe says "Wow, you're getting good at saying no."
Piper says "Thank you."
Phoebe says "Anyway, I think it's good that we got everything out on the table. And for the sake of innocents everywhere, I think we should always tell each other how we feel."
Piper says "Well, not always. We might kill each other."
Phoebe says "Okay, then most of the time. Just enough to keep demons away from splitting us up."
Prue says "I agree with that." Phoebe looks around for Cole "Haven't heard from Cole yet, huh?"
Phoebe says "No. I still can't figure that guy out. But I will." She looks at Prue and frowns. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm just … really tired. Actually, I feel kind of sick so I'm going to get Andy to take me home." Prue replies. She gives her sisters a quick hug and hurries off to find Andy.
Triad
Cole appears
Triad #1 says "I warned you, Belthazor. I warned you what would what happen if you failed us."
Triad #2 says "He's done more than fail us. He's betrayed us. You've betrayed the source."
Triad #1 says "He's showed sympathy to the witches."
Triad #3 says "And squandered a golden opportunity." A rotating ball of fire appears in Triad #3's hand. "You are allowed one final statement."
Cole says "I've got nothing to say. Except..."
Cole pulls out a knife and throws it at Triad #3. Triad #2 throws a fireball at Cole but Cole disappears and it misses. He reappears behind Triad #1 and breaks his neck. He throws an energy ball at Triad #2 and he is engulfed in flames. Cole stands there and yells at the top of his voice.
Attic
Michael is looking in the book and then he says to himself "I don't understand why I was suddenly outside when the demon attacked." He then turns the page in the book and sees a page on his father and begins to look over the page "'Jared R. Gonzalez is a powerful demon in the underworld he is not to be messed with'." he then scans the page and sees a little article on himself "'Michael Gonzalez is the most powerful demon in the underworld alongside his father. He is said to be the next heir to rule the underworld'." He then sees words form under the article and it reads "' Close ally to the Charmed Ones'."
