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Oh, Richard

[Scene: Alley. Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige are there, under attack from Rennek and a demon. Paige is tending to a lethally injured pregnant teenage girl.]

Piper: Paige, we could really use your help here!

Phoebe: How's the girl?

Paige: She's dead. (Rennek is watching them.) But her baby is still alive. I hope this works. (Piper throws a potion at the demon and he is vanquished.) Baby!

Prue: Come out, Rennek! We know all about you!

(Rennek is kneeling over a dead man with a bottle. Something is coming out of the man and going into the bottle.)

Rennek: I was hoping we could hold off this meeting a little longer!

PIper: Good way to do that is to stop attacking Whitelighters.

(Rennek stands up, capping the bottle.)

Rennek: I'll think about it. Tell your husband I said hi.

(Piper goes to blow him up but he black orbs away. Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige, holding the baby, which is now wrapped up in a blanket, walk over to examine the dead man.)

Piper: So that was Rennek?

Prue: Not much of a threat. All he did was hide and run off.

Paige: Leo said they fought for decades.

(Piper goes over to Paige to see the baby.)

Piper: Who do we have here?

Paige: Baby John Doe. His mom didn't have any ID. Pretty sure she's homeless. (Phoebe starts playing with the baby.) Do we know if she was the Whitelighter's charge?

Prue: Doubt it. That would have been the guy that ran away when the big scary demon appeared.

Paige: We're not too far from social services. I can ask my old boss about her. (to the baby) Maybe he can help me figure out what to do with you, too.

[Scene: Montana Estate. Paige, Richard, their daughters, and the baby are there. The baby is in the crib between Tamora and Kat. All of the kids are sleeping.]

Richard: Explain to me again why we're doing this?

Paige: It's just until Bob can find the family.

Richard: And if he can't?

Paige: Then we do what we have to for Little Richard.

Richard: Paige, don't do that.

Paige: We have to call him something. What's bothering you?

Richard: Do you think this darklighter will come after you? Or the girls?

Paige: Part-Whitelighters are probably low on the list. Tam and Kat haven't even come into their powers yet.

Richard: It isn't a good time to bring another child into our lives.

Paige: When is?

Richard: That's my point.

Paige: I could always e-mail the demons a work schedule. Fight between feedings.

Richard: Do you always have to joke?

Paige: Yes. It's how I cope with the death, and the battles, and the… everything. I can't take it too seriously, because all it is, is serious. So I joke, and I deflect, and I deal. And it kills me that I couldn't save that girl, or that boy a few months back. But I can be here for this child, and other children. That's why I help out at Magic School. That's why I do what I do.

[Scene: Cave.]

Rennek: I got out of there as soon as I could. Didn't engage the Charmed Ones.

(Rennek hands Neena the bottle.)

Neena: I wanted to keep them out of this. (Neena takes the bottle.) Would've left them out of it entirely if I didn't need to divide up the Source's power to make my army strong enough.

Rennek: You honestly think it's smart to hide your real plan from the demons?

Neena: By the time they realize what we're up to, I'll have what I want.

Rennek: But will I get what you promised?

Neena: Rennek, don't you trust me?

Rennek: You did kill your last partner.

Neena: Hogan wasn't a partner. He was a means to an end. A distraction to keep the demons occupied.

Rennek: To keep them from figuring out who you are? They're going to figure it out eventually.

Neena: But not soon enough. (She looks at the bottle.) You've collected enough orbs for our army?

Rennek: All that's left is your share.

Neena: It's going to take a little more than Whitelighter powers to get me where we're going. I need a small contingent of demons, for a start.

[Scene: Montana Estate. Paige and Richard are talking.]

Paige: What's this really about? You've been distant for months.

Richard: No, I haven't.

Paige: Ever since you were possessed by the Source's magic, you've been closed off. You pull away from me. You don't hold the girls as much as you used to.

Richard: I'm afraid.

Paige: Of your daughters? Of me?

Richard: Of everything. Don't get me wrong. I love you. I love the girls. But I feel powerless, in every sense of the word. I'm afraid to bring a mortal child into this.

Paige: It's only until they find his family.

Richard: You know more than anyone the odds of that.

Paige: I found mine.

Richard: And look what your life's been like since then.

Paige: Absolutely wonderful. And at times, terrifying.

Richard: It's just so sudden.

Paige: Well, things tend to happen fast in this family. (Paige's cell phone rings.) We don't have to decide anything today. (She answers her phone.) Hello?

Prue: Turn on your TV.

Paige: Not really a good time.

Prue: Channel eight.

(Paige turns on the TV.)

Reporter: We'd hoped to bring you video from the scene but our chopper is grounded by the fog.

Paige: Fog? What….? Oh.

Reporter: The police have closed the Golden Gate Bridge until they can determine the cause of the falling debris.

Paige: Mysterious fog and falling debris?

Prue: Get Phoebe and orb over to the bridge. Cole's got me and Piper. Leo's going to meet us there.

Paige: On my way. (Paige hangs up and looks at Richard.) I'm so sorry. I promise we'll continue this later. Can't let the place where you proposed get destroyed.

[Scene: Golden Gate Bridge. Neena and Rennek are there with an army of demons attacking three Elders. Prue, Piper, and Cole smoke-fade in, and Phoebe and Paige orb in.]

Paige: We have to help the Elders!

Piper: I'm open to suggestions.

Neena: Fly, my pretties, fly! I've always wanted to say that.

Phoebe: Let's start with the gal doing the bad Wicked Witch impression. (The girls are attacked by a giant winged demon.) Incoming!

(They all dodge and Piper freezes the demon. Neena grabs one of the Elders.)

Neena: Now, be gentle, Rennek.

(Rennek fires at the Elder she is holding and gets him in the heart, killing him instantly. Neena absorbs his magic.)

Paige: No!

Neena: Oh, hello. And goodbye!

(Neena tries to blasts them but Paige orbs them down from the bridge. Leo gets there.)

Leo: Got here as fast as I could. The police blocked off the bridge.

Piper: We found the woman behind all this. That's her.

(Leo looks to see Neena.)

Leo: No. It can't be. We have to go. Now. Paige, get us out of here!

(Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Paige, Cole, and Leo orb out.)

[Scene: Halliwell Manor. Conservatory. Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Paige, Cole, and Leo orb in.]

Paige: Leo, who is she?

Piper: What kind of evil lunatic are we dealing with now?

Leo: She's not evil. Not before now, at least. She's a witch, just like you. Well, actually, that's not true at all. She's not just a witch. She's the first witch.