Charmed: Destiny Altered
Another Wicca This way Comes?
Teaser
(Scene: Halliwell Manor. August 2, 1977. A young Patricia Halliwell is holding a white bundle and crying quietly, as her mother, Penelope Halliwell, paces the attic floor.)
Penny: Patty, he'll be here any minute.
Patty: Mom, I can't do this.
Penny sighs, and goes to comfort her daughter.
Penny: She'll have a good home, and she'll be loved. Besides, the Grand Design will ensure she's reunited with the girls. Phoebe saw it in a premonition. (to herself) That reminds me, I have to bind the powers.
Patty: Not that. I can't lie to Sam again.
Penny (sternly): Patricia, I forbid you to tell that man the truth.
Patty (angrily): I will not lie to him about his daughter!
Penny opens her mouth to argue, but a shower of orbs stop her. A tall, grayish-haired man with blue eyes appeared.
Sam: Hello Penny. Patty.
Patty and Penny share a look.
Patty: Sam, we need to talk...
[Scene: South Bay Social Services. A young brunette woman, named Paige Matthews, is seated at her desk and pops in a CD into her computer. She turns her attention to the computer screen.]
Woman: Social services. May I help you?
Paige: Printing! (She notices that a mysterious wind blows out her lit candle. She gets up from her chair and takes a few steps to her right. Paige's back is turned when a newspaper mysteriously appears, landing on the floor next to Paige. She turns and bends over to pick up the newspaper. She looks around.)
Woman: South Bay Social Services. May I help you? (She glances at the paper, noticing the obituary section, informing about Dr. Griffith's Death and where and when the funeral will be held. The obituary reads: Dr. Griffith... "Funeral Services will be held today at Memorial Cemetery, 11:00AM.)
Cowan: Paige, you find that study yet? (Paige's boss, Mr. Cowan, emerges from his office and sees her reading the article. He goes up to her.) Paige, did you hear me? (Paige continues to keep her eye on Dr. Griffith's obituary and grabs her jacket.)
Paige: Yeah. It's in the printer. I'm sorry, I have to go. (She begins to leave.)
Cowan: What do you mean go? Go where? Paige! Hey, Paige!
Opening Credits
Act 1
[Scene: Manor. Parlor. Phoebe, dressed for the funeral, adjust some flowers on the table. She walks into the living room, where Piper, dressed in a dark dress, is sitting on the chair, staring vacantly at the floor bearing the kind of grief only a witch who's lost a Innocent knows. She gives her sister a small smile.]
Phoebe: Can I get you anything? (She touches her tenderly on the shoulder. She looks up at her.)
Piper: No thanks Pheebs.
(Phoebe waters a plant and fiddles with a few plants. Phoebe looks up to find Leo entering the parlor with Cole. Both men are dressed in suits.)
Leo: Look who's back.
Phoebe: Cole! (She runs to him and embraces him in her arms and then releases him.) I was afraid you weren't going to make it to the funeral.
Cole: Well, I - I can't make it… or, shouldn't anyway. The Source has got every demonic bounty hunter out there looking for me.
Phoebe: Yeah. So what else is new?
Cole: This is different. Saving you makes it a different, makes me a traitor - and he not going to stop until he finds me and I don't want that happening at Dr. Griffith's funeral.
Phoebe: So, we'll protect you.
Cole: You can't protect me.
Phoebe: Why not? We're the Charmed Ones. I don't understand. Isn't it harder to track a demon in a cemetery, Cole? You have to go. I need you there.
(Cole nods. Piper escorts Darryl in through the front door.)
Darryl: Hey, how are you holdin' up?
Phoebe: Okay. (She and Darryl hug and slowly step away from each other.) It's sweet of you to stop by.
Darryl: Had to
(Leo moves over to hug his wife, who's struggling to hold it all together.)
[Scene: Prue's bedroom. Prue's partially dressed, sitting in front of the mirror, lost in her thoughts, absentmindedly brushing her hair. A beat later, Phoebe eases open the door and enters.]
Phoebe: Prue? (She doesn't react, just keeps brushing. Phoebe approaches her.) Honey, we have to go.
Prue: I don't want to go.
Phoebe: Why not? (Phoebe kneels down beside her.)
Prue: Because if I go, that'll mean that Dr. Griffith's really dead, and I don't think I can handle that.
Phoebe: We can handle it together. (Prue shakes her head.)
Prue: I've never failed. I've always succeeded. This is the second Innocent I've lost.
Phoebe: Prue...
Prue: Why couldn't save him?
Phoebe: We tried.
Prue: But we didn't. Why did they orb me out?
Phoebe: The Elders? They couldn't. They don't have that kind of power.
Prue: Then what the hell happened? (She gets up, walks away from her, and finds a Kleenex. Phoebe follows.)
Phoebe: It's okay to be angry…
Prue: I'm not angry. I am furious! Don't you understand? The wrong person survived! I survived because I'm Charmed, but he should have survived because he was the Innocent!
[Scene: Underworld. A darkly cloaked figure appears in front of a shadowy figure known as the Oracle.]
Oracle: May I be seen?
The Source: Have you found Belthazor?
Oracle: No, something else... (He considers that for a beat, then turns and waves his clawed hand at The Oracle. A creepy but sexy young woman, materializes from the depths, stroking her ever-present crystal ball.) Something more important, perhaps.
The Source: Nothing is more important.
Oracle: Not even The Charmed Ones?
(The Source turns back to the Oracle as she looks into her crystal ball, sees whips of smoke forming inside.)
The Source: What do you see?
Oracle: I see – a witch's family secret. I see... another.
(Scene: Mausoleum. Phoebe spots the last mourner comforting Dr. Griffith's mother-Paige.)
Paige I'm so sorry for your loss.
Mrs. Griffith: Thank you.
Paige turns to leave, but Phoebe steps forward.
Phoebe: Have we met before?
Paige: No. I don't... I don't think so.
Phoebe: I'm…
Paige: Phoebe Halliwell. I know.
(Phoebe shakes Paige's hand -- then gets hit with a powerful premonition: Paige is on a skyscraper rooftop helipad. She screams as she squeezes her eyes shut in fear as the demon Shax gestures and sends a concessive blast toward her to kill her. Phoebe stumbles to the floor after her premonition ends.)
Piper: Phoebe.
Leo: Phoebe?
(Prue, Piper, Leo, Darryl, and Cole rush over to her as Paige, oblivious, but not wanting to stick around, leaves. Leo and Victor help Phoebe stand up.)
Prue: Are you all right?
Phoebe: I saw him... the demon that killed Dr. Griffith.
Leo: Shax? What was he doing?
Phoebe: He was killing that girl.
Piper: What girl?
Phoebe: The one I was just talking to. We've gotta go find her...
(2 Bounty Hunters suddenly materialize on either side of Cole and immediately fire lightning bolts at him. Cole dives, just barely avoiding the bolts, which blow up the altar.)
Leo: Go. Go.
(Leo pulls Darryl behind a pillar for safety. He looks on in disbelief. Cole rolls, comes up firing, vanquishing Bounty Hunter #1, but Bounty Hunter #2 appears. Before he can kill Cole, though, Phoebe runs up and knocks him to the ground with an expert martial arts move.)
Prue: Stop it. (Bounty Hunter #2 spins to fire at Phoebe, but Cole fires an energy ball at the Bounty Hunter, blowing him up in a shower of fiery sparks. Prue lets out an irritated, angry yell.) Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!! Damn it! This is his funeral, for God's sake! Can't we at least bury him in peace?! Is that too much to ask?!
(A vase of flowers orbs into the wall. She then storms out in tears.)
Act 2
(Scene: Prue storms in followed by Piper, Phoebe, Leo and Cole.)
Phoebe: I didn't see her anywhere.
Leo: Who?
Phoebe: The girl from my premonition.
Cole: You sure didn't recognize her from anywhere? (She sighs.)
Phoebe: Well, she did look familiar like I've seen her somewhere before. But somehow, we got to find her before nightfall, or else…
Leo: Maybe you should just try and focus on the girl. You said she was attacked on a rooftop?
Phoebe: Yeah. One with a heli-pad… but it a tall building, although, there were a lot of taller ones around it.
Leo: Okay, so we just need to figure out which building it was before Shax does. (Piper walks up to them.)
Prue: And do what exactly? You can't defeat Shax, (pause) not without the Power of Three.
Phoebe: Uh, Prue. We're the Charmed Ones. We are the Power of Three.
Prue: Not anymore. Before the funeral, I talked to Grams. She told that Mom's whitelighter, Sam, is my father, which makes my half-whitelighter (pause) and your half-sister. The prophecy indicates three sisters. Even if did include half-sisters, the three sisters must each have a different power of Melinda Warren's. I don't any-more.
Phoebe: But you've said Power of Three spells.
Leo: Well, she wasn't half-whitelighter, then. There was no influence from her whitelighter side. Once her whitelighter side awakened, Prue didn't fit into the category of a whitelighter.
Prue: According to Grams, I'm supposed to help Leo guide you on your Charmed destiny.
Piper (angrily): What Charmed destiny?
Leo: Piper…
Piper: No, Leo, I won't. I don't want to do this anymore, okay? It-It's over! You can tell them that we buried their precious Charmed Ones when we buried Dr. Griffith. (She spins and stalks up the stairs. Leo starts to follow, but Phoebe stops him.)
Phoebe: No, leave her be. She needs to be alone. Look, I don't know where we go from here, but I do know that I can't let that girl die.
Cole: The question remains, how are you going to stop Shax without the Power of Three to say the vanquishing spell?
Phoebe: I'm hoping that a demon, a witch (she looks at Prue) and a half-witch, half-whitelighter fighting together might be enough. Interested?
Prue just nods.
Cole: Why not? It's better sitting around waiting for the next bounty hunter to attack.
[Cut to Underworld. The Source materializes in a fiery display.]
The Source: Anything? (The Oracle, still coiled around her smoke-filled crystal ball, looks up from it.)
Oracle: Unfortunately since the last attack, Belthazor has been very elusive -
The Source: Leave Belthazor to the bounty hunters. What about the other?
(The Oracle confidently waves her hand over the crystal ball.)
Oracle: Her future's becoming much more clear. And, it appears, short-lived... (The crystal ball shows swirling smoke inside as it begins to form into the image of a dancing woman, Paige.)
[Cut to P3. Paige is dancing with her boyfriend, Shane. The club is hopping - a hot band lights up the place. The song ends, the crowd cheers, then Paige and Shane drifts over to their table and sit. Paige looks distracted, distant.]
Shane: You all right?
Paige: Me? Yeah, why?
Shane: Well, you seem... a little quieter than usual. That's all.
Paige: What makes you think I'm not like this all of the time.
Shane: Well, we've been dating for a month now. So, I think I'd know. (To a passing waitress) Uh, hey, can we get a couple of long necks?
Waitress: Sure.
Paige: (To waitress) Make mine a mineral water, please?
Waitress: Mm-mmm.
Paige: (To waitress) Thanks. (The waitress notes the order and leaves.) So much for how well you know me cowboy. I don't drink. I used to have kind of a problem during liquids… lot of problems, actually, but that's all behind me.
Shane: Do you want to go someplace else, or…?
Paige: No, no, no, I like it here. Gosh. I should. I've been coming to P3 for the last year or so, on and off. I mean, ever since that...
Shane: Ever since what?
Paige: Oh, never mind. It's boring. (Pause) All right, but if I tell you all about Paige and you use it against me, I will get out my voodoo doll and make you sorry you're a man. (Pauses) So my sad story is that I'm adopted, only it's not so sad because I loved my parents, God rest. So after they died, I went searching for my birth mother, hoping to get some answers. (She begins to doodle on a napkin.) I went to the police, found the church I got dumped at... I checked around. I figured she must've lived near here, you know? They even thought I might've been... related to the Halliwell sisters for a minute, but their Mom died a long time ago, so I gave up on that.
Shane: Well, did you ever meet the sisters, ask them about it or...
Paige: Yeah right. "Hi. I think your Mom might've abandoned me at birth. What's for dinner?" No. I don't think so. (The waitress brings them their drinks, allowing Paige to lean back, try to end this painful topic. Shane, though, cares, wants to know more.)
Waitress: Here you are.
Paige: Thanks.
Waitress: You're welcome
Shane: So that, that still doesn't explain why you keep coming here.
Paige: Well, one of the sisters… owns it, so… I don't know. I guess I just kind of feel - connected somehow. That's why I went to the funeral today. I just felt like I had to. Okay. I sound certifiably insane. Good job, Paige. Way a go. (Shane, touched, shuts her up by leaning in and giving her a kiss. She responds, then pulls back slightly, allowing her vulnerability to show.) Don't hurt me, okay? I can't handle anymore right now. (His answer is another kiss, deeper, meaningful. She accepts it, returns the passion. They part, stare into each other's eyes. Hers are ablaze.) Come on. I have something to show you.
(Shane hurriedly tosses a twenty on the table. They leave. The cocktail napkin Paige was doodling on had a drawing of a rough version of the triquetra, the Power of Three.)
(Scene: Skyscraper. Prue and Phoebe are bundled up. Cole approaches from behind, handing Phoebe a thermostat cup of coffee.]
Cole: Here. (Phoebe lowers the binoculars, turns to take the cup.)
Phoebe: Oh, thanks. I think this is the right place. But maybe we should try one of the other rooftops just to make sure.
Cole: Or maybe we should follow your first instincts and stay right here.
Phoebe: Okay. But, what if I'm wrong? That girl will get killed.
Prue: You can't save every innocent, Phoebe, or stop every demon.
Phoebe: Yeah. Well, I have to stop this one. I just hope that by me saying the vanquishing spell, it wounds him enough that you can take him out. (Cole snuggles from behind.)
Cole: I got a better idea. How about you and me go someplace? You know? Drop off the face of the earth together, disappear?
Phoebe: Hmm. Don't tempt me.
Cole: Things have changed, Phoebe. We can't pretend we can go on like this. It's only a matter of time before The Source finds me, which means every minute you're with me, you're in danger.
Phoebe: I've lost too much already Cole. I'm not losing you, too.
Prue: Ooh, looks like your instincts were right.
Phoebe: We've gotta shimmer over there! (She turns and raises binoculars.)
Prue: And tell her what? That a demon's gonna attack? I think we should stay right here. (They wait as Paige, oblivious to the looming danger, leads a reluctant Shane to the center of the heli-pad.)
Shane: Aren't you afraid that we're gonna to get caught?
Paige: I like an element of danger. (She lets go of his hand, then spins around, arms out wide, looking up at the stars, free.) Oh. Look at the stars. They're so beautiful! They make me feel... free. (She takes off her jacket slightly He kisses her. Meanwhile, Phoebe lowers the binoculars and turns away. Cole is still looking.)
Phoebe: All right, any ideas?
Cole: A couple. (Phoebe smacks him.)
Phoebe: I meant about what we do now. I mean, we can't just keep watching, it's not right.
(Cole takes the binoculars from Phoebe and takes a look.)
Cole: You're right. We shouldn't just keep watching. (Phoebe blocks his view.)
Phoebe: Okay, very good. (A moving tornado materializes out of thin air and races toward the unsuspecting lovers. The demon, Shax, appears and fires a concussive blast. Paige opens her eyes at the last second and sees it over Shane's shoulder.)
Paige: Shane!!
(The blast makes Shane go flying backwards, knocking himself out. Paige screams. Shax throws another concussive blast at Paige. Paige raises her hand, and the blast soars back into Shax. It wounds him, she stared at her hand in fear. Realizing that she's still alive, somehow. Paige turns the other way and runs to the roof access tower. Shax, surprised at her power, turns back into a tornado and follows.)
Phoebe: She's a witch? Did you see that? She's a witch!
Cole: Come on! (Cole grabs her and shimmers out with her. Prue orbs after them)
[Cut to Paige, running for her life, scampers down the stairs onto the catwalk then stops as she hears the ominous sound of the tornado approaching. She slowly turns to see Shax standing there. But before he can throw another concussive blast, he stops as he sees Cole and Phoebe shimmer in and Prue orbs in. Paige turns, just in time to see the tail end of the shimmer and orb, shocked.]
Paige: What the hell?
Phoebe: Get outta here! Hurry! Go! Go! (Cole fires an energy ball at Shax, but it barely fazes him. He fires another one as Paige, freaked, takes off running up the stairs.)
Cole: Say the spell, damn it!
Phoebe: Evil wind that blows, that which forms below. No longer may you dwell. Death takes you with this spell. (Shax, though, manages to get off a concussive blast at Cole, which knocks him over the stairway rail. Just as Shax, in agony, turns into a ghostly wind and streaks away from the scene. Phoebe, panic- stricken, runs to the edge. Cole plummets five stories, but just before he pancakes, he recovers enough to shimmer out.) Cole! (Cole shimmers next to Phoebe, who gasps and emotionally hugs him, afraid she almost lost him.) That was too close...
Cole: It's okay, I'm all right. I just don't know about your innocent.
Act 3
[Scene: Manor. Kitchen. Leo is debating with Cole, Phoebe and Prue with what they say. Piper's in the background.]
Leo: Are you sure she moved it? Are you sure that it wasn't something else?
Phoebe: Leo, she held up her hand and the blast sped back towards Shax.
Leo: It just doesn't make any sense.
Prue: Why not?
Leo: Because why would Shax want to kill a witch?
Prue: Maybe he doesn't know she's a witch.
Leo: Right, the Source sends out his personal assassin, but doesn't know who he's after? (Piper, in the background, clatters the pots that she's washing, noticeably.)
Prue: (To Leo) Is it possible that she didn't know that she was a witch?
Leo: No. Why?
Cole: Because she acted as if she didn't. She acted just as surprised as we were when she attacked.
Leo: Well that doesn't make any sense either.
Phoebe: Okay, why don't you go up and ask the Elders what does make sense so we don't go risking our lives again? (Leo looks at Piper.)
Leo: I'll be right back. (He orbs out. Phoebe covers her eyes.)
Cole: Maybe I should, uh, go to the other side and see what I can find out. (Phoebe looks at him.)
Phoebe: No.
Cole: I'll be careful. Nobody'll see me. Besides, it could be good to me to go back down, confused any bounty hunters that might be trying to track me. Don't worry. I won't disappear.
(Cole kisses Phoebe on the cheek and shimmers out. Piper is hunched over the sink and Phoebe moves closer to her sister.)
Phoebe: Hey, you okay?
Piper: Yeah. Sure, why not? We could have another funeral tomorrow. I mean, all the dishes are out and we pretty much know who to invite. (She holds a small white towel in her hand and faces Phoebe.)
Prue: Piper...
Piper: Just tell me one thing. Are you two insane or are you just plain stupid? We bury Dr. Griffith this morning and you go off tonight and nearly join him. What the hell is the matter with you?
Phoebe: We were trying to save an innocent.
Piper: No. You were trying to get yourself killed, which is what this family does best is get killed. (She throws the towel onto a counter in frustration and anger.) Isn't it obvious by now that our only destiny is to die? And you are making it way too easy for them, Phoebe. You are just walking right into it! (Prue and Phoebe embraces Piper.)
Prue: We are so sorry.
Piper: I cannot handle anything right now, and I certainly cannot handle losing a sister.
[Scene: Hospital. Paige enters Shane's room. He sits up from his bed.]
Shane: Paige.
Paige: Hey.
Shane: What happened?
Paige: Shane, I feel so bad. I just got scared and I ran.
Shane: Of course.
Paige: Are you all right? What'd they say?
Shane: It's no big deal, just a little concussion.
Paige: Oh, no.
Shane: No, I'm gonna be fine. They wouldn't be releasing me if I wasn't, right? I'm just glad you're okay, too.
Paige: Yeah, well, physically anyway.
Shane: Did you talk to the cops yet?
Paige: No. Why?
Shane: Why? They want to find out who attacked us, that's why. I - I told them you saw him.
Paige: You did what?
Shane: Well, you did. Didn't you?
Paige: You rest up. I'll be back. (She kisses Shane.)
(Paige leaves the room.)
[Cut to Manor. Phoebe sits next to the fireplace. Prue walks toward her and hands her a teacup.]
Prue: Here, this should help. It's chamomile. Piper had three cups. (Piper enters and takes a seat on the floor beside Phoebe.)
Phoebe: Thanks. (She takes a sip and sets it aside.)
Phoebe: (She holds hands with Piper.) We're gonna get through this, you know. We just have to stick together. (Leo orbs into the room.) Well?
Leo: Well, they don't know anything about her, so she's definitely not a witch.
Prue: Then why can she move things, Leo?
Leo: They can't explain it. (Both Piper and Phoebe stand up.)
Prue: Then how is it possible that they don't kn... (Cole shimmers into the room.)
Cole: Whew. Sorry I took so long. I had to dodge a couple of bounty hunters.
Leo: Did you find anything out?
Cole: You have no idea what I found out. Turns out the Source knows about your (he gestures towards the sisters) situation doesn't think she's a any witch at all. (He sits on the arm.) In fact, he thinks she might be a... Charmed One. That's why he put Shax on it. He thought the Power of Three was over. Now he's worried that this girl may somehow reconstitute it.
Phoebe: No, but that's not possible. Is that possible? (Leo shrugs. Prue begins to take off.) Prue?
Piper: Prue? (The others follow her. Piper goes to the attic and goes to the book.)
Phoebe: What's going on?
Prue: I'm going to ask Grams what's going on, actually.
Phoebe: Grams?
Prue: Mm-hmm. "The Rest of your Charmed Destiny", she says. There's a reason for everything, she says. So, it's time to summon her back here and find out exactly what that reason is.
Phoebe: Okay, but what should...
Prue: "Here these words. Hear my cry spirit from the other side. Come to me, I summon thee. Cross now the Great Divide!"
(She lets out a semi-satisfied sigh. Grams appears in a bright light.)
Grams: Prue? Why are you calling? Piper, P-Phoebe, wha-what's going on?
Piper: Grams, why does the Source think that the Charmed Ones can be reconstituted?
Grams: I do - I don't know what you're talking about.
Piper: You know what, Grams? You were a lousy liar when you were alive, and now as a ghost, you're worse.
Phoebe: If you know something, Grams, you have to tell us. We deserve to know.
Grams: I can't. I'm sworn to secrecy.
Prue: By who?
Patty: By me. (Patty appears right next to Grams in a bright light.) By me.
Prue: Mom?
Act 4
[Cut to Attic. Patty is explaining to her daughters as she paces.]
Patty: As you know, Prue's father was my whitelighter, Sam. I was young. He was my first whitelighter. He was cute. Afterwards I met your father. When I found out I was pregnant, I knew there was possibility the baby would be Sam. When Prue came out with blue eyes, I knew she was Sam's, but I couldn't bring myself to reveal the truth. He asked me, and I lied.
Penny: Patty…
Patty: I am, Mom. After your father and I split, I became pregnant. This time, I knew who the father was. Victor. I didn't tell Sam until the day we gave her up. We were scared that you'd be denied your powers, your birthright.
Piper: Okay, well this is way too much for me to handle. Way too much.
Patty: Nobody can blame you for being angry, sweetie.
Piper: Angry? Yeah, I'm angry. Um, I'm confused and you know what? This - this is just crazy. You cannot float in here after all these years and go, "Oh gosh, I forgot, by the way, you've got a sister." Especially not today of all days.
Patty: I know it's a lot, sweetie. More than anybody should have to deal with, but you're going to have to deal with it the best way you know how. Losing Prue as part of the Power of Three, learning about another sister... this is your, path. This is your destiny. Get angry at it, cry about it, but don't fight it. Or it'll consume you.
Grams: Come on, Patty. The rest is up to them. (Grams and Patty disappear. Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Leo, and Cole head downstairs.)
Leo: I can't sense where she is because she's technically not a witch yet.
Cole: I see if there's any information in the underworld.
Phoebe: Cole- (he shimmers out before she can finish)
Phoebe: All right, so all we have to go on is that church that Mom mentioned and the nun.
Piper: Okay, let's get one thing straight. I am only doing this to save her. I'm not remotely interested in reconstituting...The Charmed Ones. (Piper is cut off to find Paige waiting for them. The door is left open.)
Paige: I, the door was open. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be here. (Paige turns to leave but Phoebe stops her.)
Phoebe: No, no, no. No, no. We were just coming to look for you.
Paige: You were?
Prue: Yep. Come on in. Welcome. I'm Prue. And this is...
(Prue hooks her arm into Paige's and walks over to Piper, Phoebe and Leo.)
Paige: Piper. I know. I've been to your club. Pretty great.
Piper: Thank you. And you are?
Paige: Paige. My name is Paige.
Phoebe: Hmm. Another P. Imagine that.
Piper: It's nice to meet you. (Piper shakes Paige's hand. A bright blue shines over the girls.)
Paige: Okay. What was that?
Prue: I think that means you're supposed to be here. (The door slams open and a strong wind knocks Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige backwards. Leo is knocked down on the stairs. Shax materializes and walks closer. He is about to strike when Leo jumps on his back.)
Leo: Run! Get upstairs!
Piper: Leo?! (Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige run upstairs. Shax throws him off his back and Leo is knocked out. Shax then looks upstairs.)
[Cut to attic. Prue, Piper, Phoebe, and Paige enter and go to the Book.]
Paige: What are we doing? What is that thing?
Prue: We'll explain later. (Piper flips through the pages of the Book.)
Piper: Okay, just say this spell out loud with us, okay?
Paige: Spells, what are you guys, witches?
Phoebe: And so are you. We hope.
Piper: Well, we're about to find out. (The strong wind breaks through the attic door and Shax materializes. The girls recite the vanquishing spell.)
Piper, Phoebe, Paige: Evil wind that blows, that which forms below. No longer may you dwell. Death takes you with this spell.
(Shax moans in pain as he explodes, vanquished.)
Phoebe: It's not enough. Shax was just the messenger. We gotta get the Source.
Paige: The Source of what?
Prue: Of all evil.
Paige: What have you guys turned me into? (Paige turns and runs out the attic and out of the manor.)
Piper: Paige?
Phoebe: Wait. (Piper and Phoebe start following.)
(Prue closes the Book of Shadows and stares at the Triquetra for a beat. Then she orbs out)
Fade to black.
To Be Continued
Starring…
Prue Halliwell: Shannon Doherty
Piper Halliwell: Holly Marie Combs
Phoebe Halliwell: Alyssa Milano
Paige Matthews: Rose Mcgowan
Cole Turner: Julian McMahon
Leo Wyatt: Brian Krause
Darryl Morris: Dorian Gregory
Guest Starring…
Penelope "Grams" Halliwell: Jennifer Rhodes
Patty Halliwell: Finola Hughes
Sam Wilder: Scott Jaeck