(Scene: Lucas' old place. Everything is torn and broken and a mess is made of the place. A man steps in and taps the stick on the ground. The bottomless pit opens and a glowing ball flies out of the pit. It turns into the Sin Box and floats to the man. He opens it, waves his hand over it and the Sin Balls brightly glow. He laughs sinisterly.)
Man: The Charmed Ones will never know what him them.
(Cut to a gated community. Paige pulls in front of a house in her VW Beetle. She walks up to the door and knocks. Porter answers.)
Porter: Hey, Paige.
Paige: Hey, Porter. Is she here? (Porter nods. Paige steps in.) Where is she?
Porter: In the living room. (Paige and Porter step into the living room where Porter's adoptive mother is sitting.) Mom, this is Paige Matthews. (Paige reaches out to shake her hand.)
Porter's Mom: Who is she?
Porter: She's…
Paige: I'm his sister.
Porter's Mom: Porter, you have a sister?
Porter: Yeah, I didn't know until about a month and a week ago.
Porter's Mom: And I am just finding out now? How are you two siblings?
Paige: My…our mother and father put us both up for adoption when we were young.
Porter's Mom: Cynthia was your mother too? (Porter nods yes to Paige.)
Paige: Yes. She was.
Porter's Mom: So what are you here for?
Paige: I came to ask you…um...if Porter could move out of here and in with me and our half-sisters, Piper and Phoebe.
Porter's Mom: Why would I let Porter move in with you if I don't even know you?
Paige: Because me and Porter are blood relatives.
Porter's Mom: He is not leaving me without legal representation from both sides.
Porter: But Mom…
Porter's Mom: But nothing…I'm not letting you move in with anybody who I don't know is dependable.
Porter: Mom, Paige has a degree in social work so she is very dependable and responsible.
Porter's Mom: No.
Porter: Please, mommy? (Porter makes a puppy dog pout.)
Porter's Mom: Um…okay…Porter, I am willing to reason with you and Ms. Matthews. You can spend a week with her and these Piper and Phoebe people, and if you come back okay, I will turn custody over to Ms. Matthews, but once again with legal representation.
Porter: Okay. One week starting today?
Porter's Mom: Yes. So see you next Tuesday.
(Time lapse. Porter and Paige are in the car.)
Porter: You have no idea how easy that was. Normally my mom is a stick in the mud, but we got off easy because I kinda…used magic. (Porter ducks his head and puts his hands over his head.)
Paige: Well, I say practice makes perfect. What spell did you use?
Porter: The spell to promote compromise. Wait, you're not mad?
Paige: No, that's Piper's territory. (They drive by a store that is surrounded by cops and a SWAT team. Paige and Porter get out and join the crowd. Darryl is there.) Darryl! (Darryl comes over to them.) Darryl, what's going on?
Darryl: A store manager is holding hostages in there. (Pointing to Porter.) Who is that?
Porter: Porter, her brother and another M-A-G-I-C user. Piper warned me that you don't like the 'M word'.
Paige: Why is the manager holding hostages?
Darryl: Apparently the manager has some demands that he wants met.
Paige: Well, what does he want?
Darryl: He wants 100,000 in crisp hundred dollar bills and an imported Italian Ferrari.
Paige: Huh. (Porter grabs the sides of his head, in pain.) What's wrong, Porter?
Porter: Don't you feel that?
Paige: Feel what?
Porter: A strong vibration of demonic activity.
Paige: What do you mean? There's no demon around here?
Porter: Is there? Maybe it's a possessor demon or something. (There's a sudden loud bang.)
Darryl: Did he just shoot his gun? (Paige nods.) I think he shot his gun.
Porter: So what you going to do?
Darryl: I guess we are going to have to fire. Men! Get in your positions and aim.
Porter: No, Darryl, I have an idea. Paige, can you orb us into like a bathroom inside or something?
Paige: Yeah, probably.
Darryl: Oh, no. I'm not going to let you use magic on this one. Besides, Prue faced a problem like this and got hurt. (He turns to Paige and Porter and finds they are gone.) Damn it! They never listen to me.
(Cut to a bathroom. Paige and Porter orb in.)
Paige: So what's the plan?
Porter: Well, if this is a human crisis, you could probably talk him down. I mean you were a social worker and all.
Paige: That's dangerous though.
Porter: But if he shoots, you orb the gun away.
Paige: You know, as crazy as it sounds, it just might work. (They cautiously exit the bathroom and see a man holding a woman in one hand and a revolver in the other.)
Man: Can you get me it, you bitch?
Woman: No! I'm sorry! (He fires the gun into the ceiling and throws the woman on the floor.)
Man: You know, there's nothing stopping me from killing you. (He aims the gun at the woman and pulls the trigger.)
Paige: Bullet! (The bullet orbs into Paige's hand. The man turns around and Paige and Porter hide.) Damn, that was close.
Man: Who's there? I said who's there? I said who's there? If you don't come out, I will kill this woman. (Porter and Paige come out of hiding.) Get down on the ground.
Paige: Please. Calm down, we only want to talk to you.
Man: Did they send you?
Paige: No. We just need to talk.
Man: I am through with talking. Talking won't get me my money or my car, god damnit!
Paige: Just put the gun down and nobody will get…(He shoots.) Bullet! (Paige orbs the bullet and accidently throws back at the man. He begins to bleed. Porter looks at Paige in surprise.)
Porter: Paige, you just killed a human. (Paige is stunned.)
Paige: I thought you said he was a demon.
Porter: I said possessed by a demon.
Paige: But if he was, the demon would have separated after we killed the man. (The man's body glows green and a small green ball appears on his chest. Porter goes over to his body and reaches for the ball. Paige slaps his hand.) Porter, if that came out of his body, it will go into yours if you touch it.
Porter: Right. (He ices it.) Is it okay now? (Porter picks it up. Paige grabs his hand and they orb out and reappear outside of the store.)
Paige: Darryl!
Darryl: What?
Porter: He killed himself.
(Cut to the Underworld. The man from the beginning is at a large crystal ball. An image of Paige and Porter appears.)
Man: They've taken the bait, perfectly.
(Cut to the Manor. Piper is in the kitchen making some food. Paige and Porter walk in.)
Piper: Hey, you two.
Paige: Hi. Guess who is ours for the week?
Porter: Me! (Porter eyes Piper's food.) Oh, shrimp! (He grabs some and eats it.)
Piper: Hey! Those where for dinner.
Porter: But you have tons, one piece isn't going to hurt.
Piper: I am trying to make the perfect shrimp cocktail, okay? (Paige goes over to the freezer and opens it. She pulls the block of ice with the green ball out of her purse and puts it in the freezer.) Whoa. What's that?
Paige: We don't know. It came out of an innocent's lifeless body.
Piper: Well, let me see it. (Paige takes it out and hands it to Piper.) Oh no. Leo! (Leo orbs in.)
Leo: What, honey?
Piper: Look what Paige and Porter found. (She shows Leo the ice block.)
Leo: But I thought Prue got rid of them.
Porter: Got rid of what?
Piper: She did, but where did they come from?
Porter: They what?
Leo: The Sin Balls.
Porter: What are the Sin Balls?
Leo: They are balls that contain the powers of the seven deadly sins: Pride, lust, sloth, greed, envy, gluttony, and anger.
Piper: Prue, Phoebe, Leo, and I were infected by them once. They enter the body through touch.
Porter: So if a person can be infected, that means the man must've been infected. But with which sin?
Paige: Well, he wanted what he couldn't have, that sounds like envy.
Piper: What I want to know if how did they come back? We threw them into the bottomless pit.
Leo: I can go check with the Elders.
Piper: Go. (Leo orbs out.)
(Cut to the Bay Mirror. Phoebe walks into the office and sees a crowd of people. She joins the crowd.)
Phoebe: Kate, what's going on?
Kate: The new owner of the paper is here.
Phoebe: Elise's replacement?
Kate: Yeah.
Phoebe: What's his name?
Kate: Mr. Dean. (The crowd breaks up and Phoebe sees Mr. Dean. He motions for her to come to him. She walks to him cautiously.)
Phoebe: I'm sorry, y-y-you're Mr. Dean?
Jason: Jason, please.
Phoebe: Wow, that-that's some weird stuff because you're really... young, young.
Jason: Yeah.
Phoebe: Yeah. (Phoebe nervously fans her face with a copy of the newspaper.)
Jason: You know it's strange. I always pictured a newspaper bullpen as being a little more, I don't know, bustling.
Phoebe: Bus-bus-bustle. (Everyone quickly gets back to work.)
Jason: Oh, hey, no. (Jason laughs.) I grew up reading comic books and The Daily Planet was bustling.
Phoebe: Yeah, well, in all fairness, Superman can move faster than a speeding bullet, so he's got a little leg up on the bustling, you know?
Jason: A woman who knows her superheroes. I'm impressed.
Phoebe: I-I'm Phoebe Halliwell. (She shakes his hand.)
Jason: I know. I've been doing a lot of homework, a lot of reading. Circulation is down and... (He looks down and Phoebe is still shaking his hand.)
Phoebe: Oh, sorry.
Jason: I plan to bring it up and from what I've seen that's gonna start with you.
Phoebe: Wow, that's really sweet. Um…I could, you know, show you around.
Jason: That'd be great.
(Cut to the attic. Paige and Porter are standing by the Book of Shadows.)
Porter: It says here that demonic infectors keep Crystal Boxes that contain balls of each of the Seven Deadly Sins. So if that man had one, does that mean that we should expect more?
Paige: Most likely. Read on.
Porter: These Demons, who were once human and consumed by Sin in Life, use Sin balls to corrupt paragons of Good. Infectors target a victim's predisposition to Sin and magnify it with a Sin ball, leading to the victim's self-destruction within hours. So if it takes hours for self-destruction, then the manager must've been infected for a while.
Paige: But why? It says paragons of Good are the ones infected. Unless he was very reasonable at customer complaints, I don't think he was a paragon of Good. (Leo orbs in, in front of them.)
Leo: The Elders have given me some warning about the Sin Balls.
Paige: Well, what is it?
Leo: They said…Wait, where's Piper?
Porter: I think she's downstairs. (Piper walks in clutching her stomach.)
Piper: No, she's right here.
Leo: Oh, honey, are you okay?
Piper: Just a little sour stomach. So what did the Elders tell you?
Leo: Piper, you remember Lucas? (To Paige and Porter.) Lucas was the former demon infector.
Piper: Yeah, so?
Leo: Well, the Elders sensed a powerful wave of demonic energy over Lucas' old hideout.
Piper: Meaning?
Leo: Meaning that somehow another demon has recovered them balls from the pit and amplified their powers.
Paige: So we have to look out for people who are living embodiments of lust, pride, greed, sloth, gluttony, and anger?
Leo: Basically, yes.
Porter: Should we call Pheebs and warn her?
Piper: I guess so. (Porter leaves the attic.)
(Cut to the living room. Porter grabs the phone and walks into the conservatory. He dials the phone and it rings. Phoebe answers.)
Phoebe: Phoebe Halliwell's office. Phoebe speaking, how may I help you?
Porter: Phoebe's brother speaking, calling to warn her of magical problems.
Phoebe: Hi Porter. What's wrong?
Porter: Apparently the seven deadly sins are back.
Phoebe: The…what…wait…the sins? I thought Prue destroyed them.
Porter: Piper and Leo said that too. I guess some new demon recovered them and made them stronger. So be on the lookout for anyone of them but envy.
Phoebe: Why not envy?
(Cut to Phoebe's office.)
Porter: Paige and I froze the envy ball. (A man appears at Phoebe's door with a heart shaped box. She signals for him to wait.)
Phoebe: Okay. I will be on the lookout. I've got to go Porter.
Porter: Okay, Pheebs. Bye.
Phoebe: Okay sir, you can come in.
Man: I've got a box of chocolates for a Miss Halliwell.
Phoebe: Chocolates? Who are they from?
Man: They are from…
Phoebe: Hang on, did Cole Turner send them? (The man looks at a clipboard.)
Man: No, they are from a secret admirer.
Phoebe: Okay. Leave them on my desk, please. (He puts the box down and leaves Phoebe's office.)
(Cut to the hallway outside the offices. The man opens the door and walks out. He snaps his finger and turns back into the demon. He walks down the hall and flames out.)
(Cut to Phoebe's office. The box on Phoebe's desk fades into the Sin box and then back into the chocolate box.)
To be continued…