Disclaimer: I do not own anyone or anything, except for Phoenix and Persephone.
Author's Note: Thank you for the reviews, follows, and favorites. They were much appreciated. :)
My personal take on the Leo arc this season was that Chris set him on the path, but it was still Leo's choices that made him an Elder. Once he was, he had a higher calling, so he couldn't just say no, even for Piper and Wyatt. In fact, it would have been highly selfish for him to do so. Think of all the other families that he could have saved that would have been lost if he had placed his own above them. And Leo never really abandoned his family regardless. Leo may not have been with Piper romantically anymore, but he was still around all the time, he still helped Piper and the others when they needed him, and he still visited and babysat Wyatt a lot. That's more than either of my own parents have ever done for either each other or me, so...
As for Prue summoning the Trok demon... I'm pretty sure that all of the Charmed Ones can summon demons without a spell at this stage, or at least certain ones. In canon, Phoebe was the one to summon the Trok demon in the same manner, but it's not on her power listing. Which suggests it's probably a power that they all possess, not just her. Alternatively, the Trok demon could just be a demon that can be summoned that way. We're not given any background info on it.
Phoebe won't lose her powers in this story, nor will Darryl become a Grade A asshole, no.
Forget Me...Not
[Scene: Manor. Parlor. Prue and Cole smoke-fade in, and Piper, Phoebe, and Paige orb in. Prue is holding Phoenix, Cole is holding Persephone, and Piper is holding Wyatt.]
Cole: We don't have much time. They're gonna follow us.
Phoebe: How are we supposed to stop them?
Piper: Well, we have to think of something. We can't just let them take the kids.
(Magical lights appear in the room.)
Paige: Uh, incoming!
(The Cleaners, wearing white suits, appear.)
Cleaner #1: It's pointless to run.
Prue: You can't have them.
(Prue and Piper try to blow them up but they just catch it in their hands.)
Cleaner #1: You're only delaying the inevitable, I'm afraid. Now if you don't mind, we have a lot of cleaning to do.
(They wave their hands and the twins and Wyatt disappear. The twins reappear in Cleaner #1's arms and Wyatt reappears in Cleaner #2's arms.)
Prue/Piper/Cole: No!
(Cleaner #2 waves his arm and the girls are thrown off their feet and slide backwards along the floor.)
Piper: Leo! (Leo orbs in.) The kids!
Cleaner #1: An Elder. Good. Perhaps you can explain it to them.
(The girls get up.)
Piper: Explain?
Prue: Explain what?
Piper: Well, do something. Don't just stand there.
Leo: I can't. Nobody can.
Paige: What the hell are you talking about?
Piper: Please, they're just babies.
Prue: It won't happen again.
Cole: We won't let it happen again.
Cleaner #2: Sorry. We can't take that risk.
Cleaner #1: Don't worry. You won't remember any of this anyway.
(Cleaner #1 waves his hand and any baby things laying around the room disappear. Even the nursery upstairs returns to a closet. The Cleaners sparkle away with the kids. Piper looks at Leo, confused.)
Piper: What are you doing here?
Leo: I don't know. I better go.
(He orbs out.)
Phoebe: What were we talking about?
Piper: I don't know.
Phoebe: (to Prue, Piper, and Cole) Are you alright?
Prue: Yeah….
Piper: It feels like we're forgetting something, right?
(Prue and Cole nod.)
Paige: Like what?
Piper: I don't know.
Cole: Must not be very important.
(They look around.)
Phoebe: Well, I'm beat. I'm gonna go up to bed.
Paige: Yeah, I'm tired too.
Piper: Same.
Prue: Same. Coming, Cole?
(Cole nods and everyone goes upstairs.)
Opening Credits
[Scene: Manor. Kitchen. Prue, Piper, and Cole are there making breakfast. The TV is on.]
Weatherman: (on TV) Say goodbye to yesterday's rain and good morning sunshine. It is a beautiful Wednesday in San Francisco, and if you're like me, you'll want to forget all about yesterday.
(Paige walks in.)
Paige: Any infomercials for stain remover on there?
Piper: You have a stain that needs removing?
(Paige goes to the fridge.)
Paige: Yes. I spilled coffee on my blouse yesterday. So that dork walking around the office with the big old stain on her shirt? That'd be me.
Piper: Have you tried baking soda?
Paige: No, it's dry clean only, so it's gonna eat up a half a day's pay.
Prue: The pay is lousy, your boss is a sexist pig. Why don't you just quit? The job sucks and it's just a temp job anyway.
Paige: Because, if I want a life outside of magic, I can't just quit every time a job starts sucking. Besides, I stuck around with the dog walking job, and hey, I winded up helping somebody.
Cole: Yeah, but that was once. What are the odds of something like that actually happening again?
Paige: I don't know. But sometimes they say you gotta ride a lot of different horses on the merry-go-round before you find what you're looking for.
Piper: Carousel.
Paige: Sorry?
Prue: Well, a merry-go-round has lots of animals. A carousel only has horses.
Paige: Okay, why do you even know that, weirdos?
(Prue and Piper stop to think. They hear babies.)
Prue: Did you hear that?
Piper: Yeah.
Cole: Me too.
Paige: I didn't hear anything.
Piper: Now it's gone.
Paige: Now what's gone?
Prue: I know this may sound crazy, but it sounded like... babies.
Paige: Yeah, you're crazy.
Phoebe's Voice: Prue! Piper!
Paige: Oh my god, I heard something.
Cole: Oh, be quiet.
Piper: Coming!
Paige: How long do you think she's gonna spend down there anyway? The rest of her natural life?
Piper: Yeah. Long enough to be sure she doesn't shove her tongue down the throat of the next delivery guy.
Phoebe's Voice: I heard that!
(Piper picks up a tray and she, Prue, and Paige head for the basement.)
[Cut to the basement. Phoebe has set up a desk in the corner of the room. She's sitting behind it.]
Phoebe: For your information, we're lucky that guy didn't sue me for sexual harassment!
(Prue, Piper, and Paige walk down the stairs.)
Prue: Well, you were channelling his emotions.
Phoebe: That's not the point. The point is I have to figure out how to work my new power, or I'm gonna have to lock myself down in this basement for the rest of my life. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! (Prue, Piper, and Paige suddenly stop before the bottom of the stairs.) Stay behind the yellow line. (They look down to see a thick yellow line drawn on the ground.) I might channel what you three are feeling.
Piper: So would you like me to toss you your breakfast?
(Prue notices a band-aid stuck to Phoebe's forehead.)
Prue: What happened to your head?
Phoebe: This? I don't know. I've been so scattered lately I must have bumped it or something. Now, are either one of you feeling any strong emotions? Anger? Sadness?
Paige: Annoyance?
Phoebe: You may proceed.
Paige: Thanks.
(Phoebe gets a vibe.)
Phoebe: Wait a minute. Someone's feeling insecure.
(Phoebe looks at Prue and Piper.)
Prue: What?
Piper: We're just feeling a little off today, that's all.
Prue: Stop looking at us like that.
(Piper puts the tray on Phoebe's desk.)
Phoebe: You cut the crust of my toast, and cut my eggs into little bits, and look, there's applesauce and milk. Piper, I'm not in second grade.
Piper: I just thought maybe you'd like some milk for some strong bones.
Prue: It would be healthy for you, Phoebs.
Paige: Okay, what is going on with you two? Carousels, hearing babies, and now milk for strong bones.
Phoebe: Wait. You were hearing babies?
Piper: Forget it, forget it.
Prue: I'm sure it's nothing.
(Prue's cell phone rings. She answers it.)
Prue: Hey, Elise. How'd you like that….? What?
Elise's Voice: You and your sister just get in here!
(Phoebe shakes her head.)
Prue: Uh, Phoebe can't come in today because she is very sick.
Elise's Voice: Yesterday she completely turned the place upside down!
Prue: Wait, but we didn't come in yesterday. Wait, we did? Oh. Oh. Oh. Okay.
(She hangs up.)
Phoebe: What was that about?
Prue: Uh, that was Elise. She wants us to come into work asap or it's our jobs.
Phoebe: Our jobs? Why would she say that?
Prue: I have no idea. Something about yesterday.
Piper: You both must have bumped your heads pretty hard, huh?
Prue: It looks like you're gonna have to brave the big bad world, Phoebs. Come on.
(Phoebe gets up and she, Prue, and Paige head upstairs.)
Piper: Hey, don't forget your coats.
Prue: She's right. It might rain.
Paige: Will you two stop mothering us, please?
[Scene: Ritz Teukolsky Ruben building. Office. Paige is at the reception desk answering the phone.]
Paige: Ritz Teukolsky Ruben, please hold. (Presses a button.) Ritz Teukolsky Ruben, please hold. (Presses a button.) Who are you holding for? You wouldn't happen to need any help with anything, would you? (Flo walks past carrying a box of stuff.) Flo, what happened?
Flo: I just got fired, that's what happened.
Paige: What? (on phone) Oh, not you. You call back or something. (Paige walks around the desk.) I don't understand. Why?
Flo: You oughta know.
Paige: Uh, no, I-I don't and I want to help, believe me. But I can't help you unless you tell me, you know, why you were fired.
Flo: So Mr. Stewart gets me in his office and says either I go out with him again or he fires me. I didn't take his offer, so he told me to pack up. My word against his, you know.
Paige: I would've gone in with you if you asked.
Flo: I did. I asked you yesterday. Obviously I don't rank high enough in importance for you to remember.
Paige: No, no, seriously. I would remember that.
(Mr. Stewart walks over to them.)
Mr. Stewart: Excuse me, do you mind? (Flo storms out.) Back to the phone, Francine.
Paige: Paige, my name is Paige.
Mr. Stewart: Whatever. You're a temp. You want to help people? Sit your pretty ass back down, answer the damn phone.
Commercial Break
[Scene: P4. Day. Back room. Chris is there lazing back on a couch drinking a beer. Leo orbs in.]
Leo: Hey.
Chris: Hey. (Chris gets it together.) Leo! (He jumps up.) Hey! I didn't know you were coming here.
Leo: I can see that. Are you drinking beer?
Chris: I was gonna pay for that.
Leo: Chris, what are you doing sitting around here? Aren't you supposed to be getting to know your new charge?
(A girl wearing only a man's shirt stands at the doorway.)
Girl: Oh. Hi, Leo.
Chris: Okay, look, before you get mad, you were the one who wanted me to have a charge in the first place, remember?
Leo: Yeah, to protect her.
Girl: Oh, he was using protection.
Chris: Yeah, I don't think that's what he meant.
Leo: Chris, are you out of your mind? Besides from this being out of line, it's completely against the rules.
Chris: Yeah, you're one to talk.
Girl: Oh, I don't think that's his point. Why don't I just, um, leave you two alone?
(She leaves.)
Chris: Look, I was just having a little fun. What's the big deal? It's not like I have anything pressing to do anyway.
Leo: You don't have anything pressing? Then why exactly did you come back from the future in the first place?
Chris: Uhh, I don't know. I forgot.
Leo: You forgot? (Chris laughs. Leo hears a baby's voice.) You hear that?
Chris: What?
Leo: Never mind. We'll talk about this later.
(He orbs out. The girl comes back in.)
Girl: Is he gone?
(Chris nods.)
[Scene: The Bay Mirror. Prue and Phoebe walk in. She looks around and notices everyone in the office has a wound. Broken bones, bandages, black eyes, etc.]
Man: I don't care what she says, Phoebe. I always wanted to do what you did and man was it good to see you do it.
Phoebe: Oh, thanks for your support, Frank. (She turns to meet Elise, who has a black eye, and they go into her office.) Okay. Elise, what is going on out-?
Elise: Sit. (Prue and Phoebe sit down.) I wanted to talk to you alone before I involved any lawyers.
Prue: Lawyers?/Phoebe: What?
Elise: Now I'm not going to pretend that the only reason you two are still working here is that you're an asset to the paper, Prue. But what the hell came over you yesterday, Phoebe?
Phoebe: Yesterday?
Elise: Because there are three workers out with injuries. Jackie has got a broken nose. Not to mention…! (She points to her black eye.)
Phoebe: Yeah, that does look like it hurts a lot.
Elise: It's all I can do to keep lawsuits from pouring in. If there were perhaps a reasonable explanation for your behaviour yesterday-
Phoebe: Elise, I'm sorry, but I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.
Prue: Neither do I.
(Elise grabs their shoulders and Phoebe gets a premonition. In the premonition, Prue and Phoebe are in the office punching everyone out. The premonition ends. Phoebe coughs and stands up.)
Phoebe: I'm feeling a lot worse. Prue, we gotta go.
(Prue and Phoebe leave.)
[Scene: Outside a store. Piper is there. A man walks out of the store carrying a crying baby, a grocery bag, and a pack of diapers. He's having trouble carrying all three.]
Man: Okay, here we go. Come on, sweetheart, now don't be fussy. (Piper looks over. The man drops the diapers. Piper rushes over and picks the diapers up for him.) You want a bottle?
Piper: You know, if you bounce a little, and make a little shushing sound, it usually helps. (The man does as she says.) (to baby) Hi.
Man: Wow, that was amazing. How did you calm him down so fast?
Piper: Well, the shushing sound supposedly reminds them of the womb.
Man: Amazing. You must be a terrific mom to know all this stuff.
Piper: No, actually. I don't have kids.
Man: Really? I guess I just assumed.
Piper: Oh, well, I always wanted them. I babysat a lot, but... I should go.
(She heads for her car.)
Man: Um... (She turns back around.) My diapers?
Piper: Oh. Sorry.
(She balances the diapers on top of the grocery bag.)
Piper: Got it?
Man: Yep. You okay, sweetheart? You want some chips?
(The man walks off.)
[Scene: Manor. Hallway. Leo is there looking at the closet, deep in thought. Piper walks in.]
Piper: Leo?
Leo: Piper? What are you doing here?
Piper: What am I doing here?
Leo: No, that's not what I meant. Just…. I shouldn't be here.
Piper: No, you shouldn't. I mean, I asked you to stay away for a good reason. So that I could learn to live without you.
Leo: I know.
Piper: And if you just keep orbing in whenever you feel like it that's not really gonna help me.
Leo: You're right. I'm sorry. It's just…. Never mind. I should be going.
Piper: What were you gonna say?
Leo: Nothing.
Piper: You haven't by any chance, now this is gonna sound a little weird, um, been hearing things lately, have you?
Leo: Hearing things?
Piper: Yeah, you know, like... I could swear a couple times today I heard a…
Leo: A baby?
Piper: You too? So did Prue and Cole.
Leo: Pretty strange, huh? Do you think it means anything?
Piper: I don't know. I mean, maybe it's just that we both regret not having children, but that wouldn't explain why Prue and Cole hear it too, though they haven't had kids either. Which... why didn't we?
Leo: I don't know. We both wanted to. I guess it just wasn't meant to be.
Phoebe's Voice: Piper, we need you upstairs!
Piper: Be right there! Um, you should probably go.
Leo: But what if you need help? What if it's a demon?
Piper: Leo, you're not our Whitelighter anymore. Chris is.
Leo: Except, he's busy. I gave him another witch to look after yesterday.
Piper: Well, then I guess we're just gonna have to handle it alone, won't we?
(Piper leaves the room.)
[Cut to the attic. Prue, Phoebe, Paige, and Cole are there.]
Paige: So you're saying you started a riot, but you don't remember it?
(Piper walks in.)
Phoebe: Yeah, it must have been how this happened.
Prue: And why Elise was so mad at us.
Paige: I thought Elise was just like that.
Phoebe: Well, yeah, she kind of is. (to Piper) Hey, are you okay? I'm feeling a very emotional vibe from you right now.
Piper: I'm fine. Stop that. What I don't understand is if you don't remember the riot, how do you know you started it?
Phoebe: I had a vision. And by the way, the vision occurred yesterday.
Prue: Maybe you were channelling somebody else's anger.
Phoebe: Probably. I just don't remember.
Piper: So you all have events that you can't remember from yesterday.
Phoebe: Yeah, there was the riot, and Paige's blouse.
Paige: And this thing with this girl Flo from work. (to Piper and Cole) Did you two forget anything?
Cole: You're asking us to remember what we've apparently forgotten?
Piper: I don't know. I remember getting up, I remember going downstairs, but the rest is kind of a blur.
Paige: I think somebody's messing with us.
Prue: Making us forget.
Piper: But these all seem like such random moments to forget. Where's the connection?
Phoebe: Well, that's why we wrote a spell to fill in the blanks, but we know you might be reluctant because of what happened the last time we cast a spell on your memory.
Piper: No, you're right, let's do it.
Phoebe: Really?
Piper: Something's going on. The only thing we don't know is what.
Phoebe: Alright, here we go.
Prue/Piper/Phoebe/Paige: "Moments lost make witches wonder/Warlock's plot or demon's plunder/If this is not a prank/Help us to fill in the blanks."
(The room spins around and when it settles down, Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige are there wearing the day before's clothes.)
Prue: It's raining.
Piper: And your band-aid's gone.
Phoebe: And you're wearing that blouse.
Paige: Except for I've got no coffee stain.
(They hear babies.)
Prue/Piper/Cole: Oh my god.
(Prue, Piper, and Cole race out of the room.)
[Cut to the conservatory. The kids are in their bassinet. Prue, Piper, and Cole race in and over to the bassinet, Prue picking up Phoenix, Cole picking up Persephone, and Piper picking up Wyatt. Phoebe and Paige come downstairs.]
Prue: We remember now.
Piper: We're parents.
Commercial Break
[Scene: Manor. Conservatory. Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Paige, Cole, the twins and Wyatt are there. Prue throws a newspaper on the table.]
Prue: Today is yesterday.
Phoebe: Well, the spell didn't return our memories, it just rewound the day.
Paige: Yeah, but why?
Prue: Why else? To help us remember what somebody obviously wants us to forget.
Piper: Okay, but how could we have possibly forgotten about the kids? What could have happened to make that happen?
Cole: It's not just you. We were all made to forget about them.
Phoebe: And a whole bunch of other things.
Paige: Maybe we should just take it into the other room.
Phoebe: I think that's a good idea.
Piper: Okay, here we go. (Piper picks up an old teddy bear.) Hey, lookie, how about this? You like this guy? Hello. No? Phoebs, a little help here.
Phoebe: We hate that toy. It's yucky, and crusty, and gross.
Prue: Okay, then what do they want?
(Phoebe points to the TV.)
Phoebe: That.
(Phoebe and Paige leave the room.)
Piper: Okay. (Piper turns on the TV to a learning channel.) Okay, we'll just be in the next room, okay?
Prue: Okay.
(Prue, Piper, and Cole leave the room. Persephone looks at the TV and the channel changes to gymnastics. Wyatt blinks and the channel changes to a sports show. Phoenix rubs his temples and the channel changes to dragons.)
[Cut to the living room.]
Paige: Okay, we remember everything that happened before today, right?
Phoebe: Yeah, but-
Paige: And we know we're not gonna remember everything unless we do something about it, right?
Phoebe: Paige, don't be impatient with me. I'm feeling so much today, I don't need this too.
Prue: Okay, all she's saying is whatever caused us to forget is what's gonna happen next.
Cole: You just have to relive this day and see where it leads you.
Piper: Yeah, but if we're not careful, where it leads will be right back where we started, without the kids.
Cole: Except we know something is going to happen to them, so all you have to do is look for clues, keep your eyes open, and stop it.
Phoebe: How are we supposed to know what's important and what's not?
Cole: It's all important, because it's all connected to the kids.
Prue: So we just have to see what the connection is. So, Paige, just go to your temp job.
Paige: And wait for coffee to be spilt on me? Fine, so much for my life outside of magic. Now you and Phoebe, you have to go to work and…
Phoebe: Start a riot, and get a cut on my head, and lose our jobs? No, thank you.
Prue: We have to. It's the only way to save the kids.
[Cut to the conservatory. The kids wave their hands and two of the dragons flame out of the TV and one orbs out, reappearing back in outside the house. One pushes on the doors and they open. They fly away.]
Piper: So I guess Cole and I are supposed to stay home-
(They hear a crash.)
Prue/Piper/Cole: Kids?!
(They walk into the conservatory and see the doors wide open.)
Piper: How did those open?
Paige: Must have been the wind.
Cole: But they were locked.
Phoebe: Could be a clue. Let's remember it.
(Paige closes the doors.)
Paige: Okay. Piper, Cole, call us if anything weird happens.
(Piper looks at the TV and then at the kids.)
[Scene: P4. Leo and Chris are there sitting at the bar.]
Chris: You're kidding, right? I don't have time for another charge.
Leo: Why not?
Chris: Because I just don't. Why do you want me to oversee another witch, anyway?
Leo: Because I wanna see what you can do, what you can handle.
Chris: Oh, please. You just don't want me around the sisters all the time because you don't trust me.
Leo: Chris, protecting charges is what we do. Besides, when I was a Whitelighter I had other charges.
Chris: Leo, I didn't come all the way from the future to protect and oversee other charges. I came for one reason and one reason only.
Leo: To protect the kids.
Chris: Yeah.
Leo: From some demon who will attack in the future, but you're not sure which one.
Chris: Hey, man, fine, whatever, don't believe me. All I'm saying is there is no way I am taking on another charge and that's... (A blonde woman walks in.) that.
Woman: Hi, Leo, sorry I'm late.
Leo: That's okay.
Woman: You must be Chris. I'm Natalie.
Chris: (to Leo) Maybe just one more.
[Scene: The Bay Mirror. Prue and Phoebe walk in.]
Woman #2: Prue, thank god you came in. The server crashed and we lost your column. Do you have a hard copy?
Prue: Uh, I'll check in my office.
(A man storms out of Elise's office with Elise following.)
Man: It's not what you did, Elise, it's how you did it.
Elise: Well, lucky I'm editor, so I don't have to care what you think. (He heads for the door.) Don't think we're done here, mister!
Man: Screw you, Elise.
(Phoebe's vibes kick in and she gets angry. She taps Elise on the shoulder and when she turns around, Phoebe punches her in the face.)
Prue: Phoebe, no!
(The man points and laughs.)
Security Guard: You think that's funny, huh?
(He punches the man in the face. They grab each other and start fighting.)
Phoebe: Hold it! Wait! Don't!
(Phoebe tries to break them up, but they push her and she hits her head on a desk.)
Prue: Phoebe!
(Phoebe touches her bleeding forehead.)
[Scene: Ritz Teukolsky Ruben Office. Paige and Flo are there.]
Paige: Stay calm, stay calm. Just, you know, tell me what happened.
Flo: Mr. Stewart has been asking me out ever since I got here.
Paige: Okay, so you went on a date.
Flo: Well, if you could call it a date. He tried to grab my ass, I threw a drink in his face. I have avoided him ever since. I'm so stupid. I shouldn't have gone out with him in the first place.
Paige: Okay, so tell me what happened next.
Flo: Next. Next he wants me to meet him in his office tomorrow morning bright and early. He says it's official. I need this job, but I am afraid to face him alone. Do you think maybe you could come with me?
Paige: Of course, absolutely. I don't know how I could forget this.
Flo: Forget what?
Paige: Oh, nothing.
(The three dragons fly past the window.)
Flo: All this is just so typical of my luck with men. I mean, not that you need to hear me complain, but every- (An employee sees the dragons and without looking walks straight for Paige.) Oh, hey, watch it!
(Paige turns around and the employee bumps straight into her, spilling his cup of coffee over her shirt.)
Paige: Oh, coffee.
Employee: I am so sorry.
Paige: It's okay.
Employee: Something weird just flew by the window.
Paige: Something. Something what?
Employee: Uh….
Paige: Spit it out, spit it out.
Employee: Well, to be honest with you, it looked a little like... dragons.
Paige: Dragons? (She looks out the window and sees the dragons in the distance.) Oh, that is so not good.
[Scene: Manor. Conservatory. Piper is there looking at the Book of Shadows. The kids ball their eyes out. Piper puts the book down. She and Cole go over to them. Cole picks up the twins.]
Piper: Oh, Wyatt, sweetie, come on. Mommy's gotta find something to make sure nothing happens to you. Here, look, look, look. (She picks up the old bear.) Right, you hate this. You hate this. (She puts the bear down.) Okay. I'm sorry. (She picks him up.) Did I forget how to be a mommy too? (Prue and the twins flame out.) Prue? (Piper and Wyatt start to orb out.) Wyatt, what are you doing? Wyatt?
(They orb out.)
[Scene: The Bay Mirror. Everyone in the office is fighting with each other. Paige walks in.]
Paige: Oh my god.
Phoebe: Son of a bitch!
(Phoebe punches someone in the face.)
Paige: Phoebe, Prue, no! (Paige pulls them away.) Snap out of it!
Prue: I was just defending myself. Everyone just went crazy.
Phoebe: Oh, no, did I cause all of this?
Prue: Yes.
Paige: Forget all that, we've gotta get out of here. I figured out what we're supposed to be remembering.
Phoebe: I'd be happier just forgetting, I think, at this point.
Prue: Yeah.
Paige: No, no, you wouldn't. There are dragons loose in the city.
Man: Did you say dragons?
Paige: Come on.
[Scene: Street. Cole and the twins flame in, and Piper and Wyatt orb in. They are near a tunnel.]
Piper: Wyatt, you're making mommy very nervous. What are we doing here?
Cole: (to the twins) What is it, you two?
(Piper's phone rings. She answers it.)
Piper: What's up?
Paige: Where are you?
Piper: Where am I? Cole and I are standing outside of the Presidio tunnel where your nephews and niece just brought us.
Paige's Voice: What did you just say?
(Prue, Phoebe, and Paige orb in. Prue takes Phoenix from Cole.)
Paige: They did what?
(They hang up.)
Piper: Are you out of your mind? Aren't you afraid of exposure?
Paige: Yeah, that's why we called.
Piper: What do you mean?
Cole: What are you talking about?
(They hear roars and a car screeches out of the tunnel on fire.)
Phoebe: I think she's talking about that.
(The dragons all fly out of the tunnel and breathe fire. The girls and Cole duck.)
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[Scene: Manor. Conservatory. Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Paige, and Cole are there. The TV is on.]
Reporter: Police are at the tunnel saying it's a miracle no one was hurt although three cars were destroyed. They haven't ruled out terrorism of course, but at the moment they are focusing on some rather bizarre reports of giant birds, which one witness went on record saying they shot fire out of their mouths at cars like dragons.
(Paige turns off the TV.)
Paige: Well, as far as clues go, I would say that's a pretty huge one, wouldn't you?
(Piper places a band-aid on Phoebe's forehead.)
Phoebe: Ow.
Piper: Sorry.
Phoebe: No, it's not my pain I'm reacting to, it's your pain.
Piper: Oh, well, then you should be feeling a little irritated then too.
Phoebe: Piper, why are you blaming yourself? It's not your fault.
Piper: Okay, number one, I haven't actually verbalized guilt yet, so in the future let me confess before you analyze.
Phoebe: Right.
Piper: Secondly, it is my fault because I'm the one that gave the kids the electronic babysitter.
Phoebe: Do you have any idea what she's talking about?
Prue: No
Cole: No.
Paige: Not a clue.
Piper: You want some clues? Try this one on for size. Before you left, the kids were watching a TV show about, wait for it, dragons.
Cole: No.
Prue: They were watching a kids show.
Piper: Well, apparently they magically changed the channel. Of course, that was before they magically teleported me and Cole to the tunnel to find their new friends.
Prue: They did all of that?
Paige: Wait a second, so you're saying the kids conjured dragons?
Piper: Yep, right out of the TV.
Phoebe: Oh, you must be so proud.
Piper: Yeah, or a little irritated.
Prue: Right.
Paige: Okay, if this is true, your little ones are developing some serious powers.
Piper: Yeah, the kind that unleashes dragons on an unsuspecting city. How are we supposed to handle this?
Paige: Well, at least now we know how we lost our memories. Obviously anything connected to the dragons, no matter how remote, was erased. Coffee stains, riots.
Piper: The question is by whom?
Phoebe: Come on, you guys. So the kids made a little magical mess. We've dealt with worse. We'll fix it.
(The Cleaners sparkle in nearby.)
Cleaner #1: Perhaps we can help.
Prue: Who are you?
Cleaner #1: We're known as the Cleaners. And we're here to help.
(Cole's eyes widen.)
Cole: Of course. Oh, no.
Prue: Cole?
Cole: When magic is exposed, they're the ones who cover it up, remove all evidence, erase any memories, whatever is necessary.
Piper: You were the ones who were going to take Wyatt.
Cleaner #1: Well, we won't have to if you can eliminate the exposure risk.
Piper: Exposure?
Prue: You're here to take our kids away, you son of a bitch!
(She tries to blow him up but he just catches the blast in his hand.)
Cleaner #1: I understand your anger. Now you need to understand our position. We're a neutral party. We exist only to protect magic. To that end, your children have become... a problem.
Phoebe: (to Prue and Piper) Easy.
Cleaner #1: However, based upon your past success in covering up your own magic, we've decided to give you a chance.
Cleaner #2: One chance only.
Cleaner #1: To take care of the problem yourselves before it gets out of hand.
Paige: And if we can't?
Cleaner #1: Then we'll have to take care of it for you.
Piper: You can't make us forget everything.
Cleaner #1: There may be some distance echoes that remain, maybe a sense of deja vu here and there, but like most people you'll just pass it off as absent-mindedness, and move on.
Prue: Well, we're not like most people.
Cleaner #1: Won't matter. Clean it up.
Cleaner #2: Or we will.
(The Cleaners sparkle away.)
Paige: At least now we know what happened. Too bad we just won't remember any of it.
Prue: Alright, I think we have the upper hand on this one, don't we? I mean, we know we're recalling the same day, they obviously don't.
Paige: Well, none of this is gonna help unless we figure out how to eliminate the kids' dragons.
(Piper heads for the stairs.)
Prue: Piper.
Piper: Go to the book, work on the dragons, do not take your eyes off the kids.
Prue: Where are you going?
Piper: To call a higher power.
Cole: No one can help with the Cleaners, Piper.
(Piper ignores him as she leaves.)
[Cut to Piper's bedroom. Piper walks in.]
Piper: Leo! Leo, I know you can hear me! I know I told you to go away, but I really need you! Wyatt's in trouble!
(Leo orbs in.)
Leo: What do you mean? What happened?
Piper: There's no time. Just tell me how to stop the Cleaners.
Leo: The Cleaners? Are they after him?
Piper: Yeah.
Leo: What the hell happened?
Piper: Well, he and the twins conjured... some dragons.
Leo: Piper, how could you and Prue let that happen?
Piper: How could we let that happen? You take off and suddenly I'm responsible for every little thing?!
Leo: This is not a little thing!
Piper: Yeah, well, where the hell were you?! Why weren't you watching over his every move up there on your lofty perch?!
Leo: Okay, that's not what I meant.
Piper: Well, then don't say it, because I'm beating myself up enough already about this, and I don't need you beating me up too!
Leo: Sorry. I'm just scared.
Piper: Yeah, so am I. That's why I called you. Because I'm about to lose our son and I don't know what to do. So please help me.
Leo: Piper, if I could-
Piper: No, don't say it. Don't say anything about Elders, or rules, because you know what? He is your son, Leo. There are no rules.
Leo: I'm telling you, the Cleaners are empowered by both good and evil. You can't stop them.
Piper: There has to be a way.
Leo: You don't understand. There isn't. Cleaners have the power to rewrite history. You can't fight that.
Piper: No, you don't understand! I can't do this! I cannot lose Wyatt too!
Leo: Piper, you weren't put in this position to lose Wyatt, which means there is a way. You just have to find it.
Piper: But how?
Leo: I don't know. But if anybody can find it, you can. And maybe it's not a magical solution, maybe it's... maternal. Deep down inside, you can find it. I know you can.
[Cut to the attic. Prue, Phoebe, Paige, Cole, the twins and Wyatt are there. Paige is making a potion while Prue looks through the Book of Shadows. Piper walks in.]
Phoebe: Hey, you alright?
Piper: I don't know. Ask me again when this is all over.
Prue: Was Leo any help?
Piper: I'm not sure yet. Anything on the dragon?
Prue: No. There are dragons in here, obviously. Cole's one. But-
Cole: But these aren't real dragons. If they were, they wouldn't be attacking and they'd be intelligent enough not to expose magic. Those dragons were conjured out of a TV.
Prue: One thing I do know is that we're gonna have to get a tooth, scale, some piece of him in order to make the vanquishing potion even work.
Phoebe: Yeah, we're just kind of winging it, making the most powerful potion that we can.
(Phoebe doubles over in pain.)
Prue: Phoebe.
Piper: What happened?
Paige: Are you alright?
Phoebe: I am, but someone's not. Actually, a bunch of people aren't.
Piper: People? Like people out there people?
Phoebe: I don't know. All I know is I've never felt such pain and fear before in my life.
Paige: Is it the dragons?
Piper: Grab the potions. Prue, Cole, I need to talk to you.
(She waves them over and they talk for a bit before going back over to Phoebe and Paige.)
Paige: What's going on? Do you have a plan?
Piper: Wyatt, sweetie, come on. (She picks Wyatt up, as Prue picks up Phoenix, and Cole picks up Persephone.) Remember your friends, kids? What do you say we find the dragons?
[Cut to the street. People are running away in fear. Prue and Cole smoke-fade in. Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Paige, the twins and Wyatt orb in. They walk down the street passing burning cars.]
Phoebe: God, it looks like a war zone.
(They approach a large pile of cars and other items off the street. They see the three dragons sleeping on the pile.)
Paige: Oh, god. Looks like they made a nest. (The dragons wake up.) Oh, I think we woke them up.
Phoebe: I think we did.
(The dragons roar and stand on top of the pile.)
Paige: Okay, if you're sensing any fear, it would be mine. I think we should go.
Piper: Wait.
Paige: Wait for what?
Piper: The kids.
(Piper nods to Prue and Cole who hand the twins to Phoebe as Piper hands Wyatt to Paige.)
Paige: What are you doing?
Piper: We don't have time to explain. Just make sure they see us.
(Prue, Piper, and Cole move closer to the dragon.)
Paige: Piper, come back!
Prue: Come on, you fire-breathing lizards!
Cole: Come and get us!
(The dragon flies up into the air.)
Paige: Are you guys nuts?
Piper: Stay there!
Paige: We have to stop her.
(The dragons circle the area.)
Phoebe: I think I know what they're doing.
Piper: Come on, kids, don't let us down.
(The dragons fly down towards Prue, Piper, and Cole. They open their mouths and fire starts to escape from it. The kids and Wyatt raise their arms and the dragons explode, the one Wyatt pointed at exploding into a million orbing lights. The explosion pushes Prue, Piper, and Cole backwards.)
Phoebe/Paige: Prue! Piper!
Prue: We're okay. (They get up and Prue takes Phoenix from Phoebe. To Phoenix) Hi, little man, you did it!
(Piper takes Wyatt from Paige.)
Piper: (to Wyatt) I knew you could do it!
(Cole takes Persephone from Phoebe.)
Cole: (to Persephone) Good job!
Paige: Okay, I'm confused. What just happened?
Phoebe: That was the greatest power there is. The parent and child bond.
Paige: So you're saying the kids vanquished the dragons and you knew they were gonna do it.
Piper: Well, I was hoping they wouldn't want anything bad to happen to us.
Paige: Okay, well, that solved that problem.
Phoebe: Now what do we do with this mess?
Prue: We'll figure it out.
(The Cleaners sparkle in.)
Cleaner #1: No, actually, you won't.
Piper: Wait, we did what you asked.
Prue: We got rid of the dragons.
Cleaner #1: But not the exposure risk.
Cleaner #2: The kids.
Paige: No, you can't.
(Paige orbs Piper, Phoebe, and Wyatt out. Cole smoke-fades out with Prue and the twins.)
[Cut to the manor. Foyer. Piper, Phoebe, and Paige orb in, and Prue and Cole smoke fade in. Prue is holding Phoenix, Cole is holding Persephone, and Piper is holding Wyatt.]
Cole: We don't have much time. They're gonna follow us.
Phoebe: How are we supposed to stop them?
Piper: Well, we have to think of something. We can't just let them take the kids.
(Magical lights appear in the room.)
Paige: Uh, incoming.
(The Cleaners appear in the room.)
Cleaner #1: It's pointless to run.
Prue: You can't have them.
(Prue and Piper try to blow them up but they just catch it in their hands.)
Cleaner #1: You're only delaying the inevitable, I'm afraid. Now if you don't mind, we have a lot of cleaning to do.
(They wave their hands and the twins and Wyatt disappear. The twins reappear in Cleaner #1's arms and Wyatt reappears in Cleaner #2's arms.)
Prue/Piper/Cole: No!
(Cleaner #2 waves his arm and the girls and Cole are thrown off their feet and slide backwards along the floor.)
Piper: Please, they're just babies.
Prue: It won't happen again.
Cole: We won't let it happen again.
Cleaner #2: Sorry. We can't take that risk.
Cleaner #1: Don't worry. You won't remember any of this anyway.
(Cleaner #1 waves his hand and any baby things laying around the room disappear. Even the nursery upstairs returns to a closet. The Cleaners sparkle away with the kids.)
Prue: Do you remember?
Cole: Yeah.
Piper: Absolutely everything.
(Paige nods.)
Phoebe: The spell must have worked.
Piper: But not for the kids. They're gone.
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[Scene: Manor. Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige are there. Prue, Piper, and Cole are looking out the window, Phoebe is looking through the Book of Shadows, and Paige is scrying.]
Paige: Ugh, nothing. I can't find the Cleaners anywhere.
Phoebe: Well, they have to exist somewhere, don't they?
Prue: Not necessarily, not even on our plane, not even in our time.
Paige: Maybe we should just summon them.
Piper: And then what?
Paige: I don't know. Maybe we should call Leo again.
Piper: I don't think he can help anymore than he already has.
Cole: How did he help last time?
Piper: By reminding me that I can do this. You know, maybe we are going about this all wrong. Maybe instead of trying to stop them, we should be trying to get them to stop us.
Phoebe: You lost me.
Piper: Well, when magic is exposed, it's there job to clean it up, right?
Paige: Yeah, so?
Piper: So why can't we expose our magic and force them to deal with us?
Paige: Yeah, but if we do that, what's to stop them from erasing us?
Piper: They wouldn't dare.
Prue: So let's give them something to clean up.
[Cut to a newsroom. The weatherman is discussing the weather in front of the cameras.]
Weatherman: Doppler radar for the Bay area show us that storm is already on its way out, so it looks like San Francisco is finally going to get some good news. Those scattered showers overnight turned partly sunny by morn- (Suddenly, Phoebe and Paige orb in beside him.) Whoa. What the….?
Phoebe: Hi. How you doing? Why don't we get a skycam view of that, shall we?
(Phoebe grabs the weather man and levitates up into the air.)
Weatherman: Help! Get me down from here!
Kinesha: I don't know what's happening here. I….
Paige: Well, it's called magic, Kinesha. Witchcraft, specifically. I really love your... jacket!
(Kinesha's jacket orbs right off her back and into Paige's hands. The weatherman drops down behind Kinesha. Phoebe levitates back down.)
Phoebe: Wanna see more magic? Let's check in with Prue, Piper, and Cole at the Golden Gate bridge. Take it away, girls!
(The Golden Gate Bridge shows up on a TV screen. Then Prue, Piper, and Cole step in.)
Prue/Piper: "Let the object of objection become but a dream/As I cause the seen to become unseen."
(The Golden Gate Bridge vanishes.)
Cole: You might wanna take an alternate route to work in the morning.
[Cut to the manor. Attic. Prue and Cole smoke-fade in. Piper, Phoebe, and Paige orb in.]
Paige: Hmm, not so bad. You should get out more often.
Prue: Yeah, Phoebs.
Piper: Time to come out of the basement.
Phoebe: Maybe you're right.
(The Cleaners sparkle in.)
Cleaner #1: What do you think you're doing? Are you out of your minds?
Piper: Oh, hey, hi. Did you see our little magic act?
Cleaner #2: How is it you still have your memory?
Phoebe: Oh, I think we still have a few surprises that you don't know about.
Prue: Yeah, and if you don't return our kids, you might find out about just a few more.
Cleaner #1: This is pointless. Whatever you do, we'll simply erase.
Cleaner #2: Or we'll erase you.
Paige: You can't. Not if you're truly neutral, that is. 'Cause you see, if you get rid of us, you tip the balance of power from good to evil, and now that's hardly being neutral, now is it?
Piper: You will give us our kids back, or I swear to you, the only thing you will be doing for the next fifty years is cleaning up after us.
Cleaner #1: If we do return them, how do you know you'll be able to control them?
Piper: We're their family.
Prue: If anybody can, we can.
(The twins and Wyatt and their playpen appear in the room.)
Cleaner #1: Everything is as it was. We've erased all evidence of your kids' magic. We'll leave them in your care.
Cleaner #2: For now.
Phoebe: Oh, one more thing. Please. If you could just do me a little teensy-weensy little favor and erase that whole riot I caused at the office. You know, 'cause I don't wanna lose my job.
Prue: Ooh, yeah. It would really suck if we lost those. Might throw off that balance thing because we'd be distracted, you know.
Cleaner #1: It's done. Good luck. Because believe me, you're going to need it.
(The Cleaners sparkle away.)
Phoebe: (to the kids) Are you okay? I'm so happy to see you. I'm so happy to see you. This is just very exciting. They're back. We're back.
Paige: Coffee stain and all.
Prue: Yeah, what are you gonna do about your job? Are you gonna keep it?
Paige: Yeah, I think I will, just so I can see what happens next.
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[Scene: Ritz Teukolsky Ruben building. Mr. Stewart's office. Mr. Stewart and Flo are there.]
Flo: Exactly what are you saying?
Mr. Stewart: Unless you make it... worth my while, I may find your performance here... lacking.
Flo: Mr. Stewart, please, I need this job.
Mr. Stewart: And that is why I'm giving you an opportunity to keep it, if you catch my meaning.
Flo: Absolutely! You know, I like a man who knows what he wants and isn't afraid to ask for it. Now, are you afraid to come get it?
(She sexily plays with her hair.)
Mr. Stewart: You mean, right here and now? Yeah? (into the intercom) Cancel my calls, please.
Secretary Voice: Yes, Mr. Stewart.
(Mr. Stewart stands up and heads towards Flo.)
Flo: Flower pot!
(The flower pot orbs over to Flo and she throws it over Mr. Stewart's head. He groans. Flo shapeshifts into Paige. She shakes her head. She opens the door and Flo is standing there.)
Flo: Oh, Paige. Uh, I thought you were out…. (Mr. Stewart groans.) What happened?
Paige: Well, you see, I overheard Mr. Stewart threatening you. He'll be real lucky if you don't sue. Just go with it.
Flo: Um, thanks, Paige, for whatever you just did for me in here.
Paige: I was wondering why I took this job and now I know. Thank you.
Flo: Thank you.
[Scene: P4. Backroom. Chris is there putting his shoes on. Leo orbs in.]
Leo: Hey.
Chris: Hey. I didn't know you were coming here.
Leo: What are you still doing here, Chris? Shouldn't you be getting to know your new charge?
Chris: Yeah, about that. I'm, uh, going back to what I originally said. I don't have time for her.
Leo: Chris.
Chris: Leo, I mean it. Because whether you believe me or not, I'm here to protect the kids, not other charges. Other than the sisters, of course.
Leo: If that's how you feel about it, I guess I'll reassign her.
Chris: Thank you.
(Leo orbs out.)