Witch Trial

Written by: Brad Kern
Transcribed by: Cintia Bueno
With adjustments by: Shay Fitzpatrick

[Scene: Halliwell house. There's no lights on. Phoebe comes in.]

Phoebe: Hello? Anybody home? Sister witches, guess what?

(Phoebe sees Piper with some guy on the couch.)

Piper: Ooh, Ohh. Are you nuts?

Phoebe: What are you doing?

Guy: Hi.

Phoebe: Hi.

Piper: Ooh.

(Piper freezes him.)

Phoebe: Hi.

Piper: Sister witches? I can’t believe you said that. What’s the matter with you?

Phoebe: How was I supposed to know that you were gonna be here with anybody? Last I heard that you were meeting a banker friend about the loan. (Sarcastic) Is this the credit check?

Piper: It’s not what you think... we were just... we... we... were just kissing... that’s all.

Phoebe: Piper, you don’t have to justify it. You’re single. You’re responsible. You’re way overdue in the sex department. I say go for it.

Piper: I’m not way overdue. (Phoebe gives her the look.) All right, maybe a little. But that’s besides the point. I would never just sleep with a guy to get something. You know that

Phoebe: Piper, give yourself a break. You’re going through a lot right now. No job, straining to buy a club, you haven’t hear from Leo in weeks.

(Prue shows up speaking on the cell phone)

Prue: All right, the preview is at 5 and the auction Sunday at 11

Piper: (to Prue) Oh no, Prue. Go back outside. Go on. Hurry!

(Prue goes back outside. The guy unfreezes.)

Guy: So, you must be Prue.

Phoebe: Uh, no. Actually...

(Prue comes in again.)

Prue: (on phone) Alright, yeah, yeah, I'll see you then.

Phoebe: She’s Prue. I’m Phoebe.

Piper: Rob, can we take a rain check on the rest of the evening? It’s getting kind of crowded in here.

Rob: Okay, sure.

Piper: Yeah. Okay, uh. So I’ll meet you tomorrow at the club at the noon. Great. Thanks for dinner.

Rob: All right.

(He kisses her.)

Rob: Bye.

(Rob leaves.)

Prue: So, did you get the loan?

Piper: Hopefully. I’ll find out tomorrow.

Prue: Well, my fingers are crossed.

(Piper giggles)

Phoebe: Wait. You guys. Where are you going?

Prue: Well, I have an auction coming up. I have clients to call.

Phoebe: Wait, you guys. Don’t you even know what tomorrow is? (They stare at her.) It’s our one year anniversary of becoming witches. HELLO.

Piper: Tomorrow is? Really?

Prue: So...

Phoebe: So? So? It’s a day to celebrate. And not just because it’s our anniversary but because it falls on one of the most powerful wiccan days of the year. The autumnal equinox. Now, according to this witch that I met today at bookstore...

Piper: Hold it. A witch?

Prue: You didn’t tell her about us, did you?

Phoebe: Well, yeah, sure. I did. Why not? I mean, I didn’t tell her that we’re magical witches, obviously. Look, I’m sorry but I think after everything we’ve been through it’s important to learn as much as we can about who we are. Forewarned is forearmed.

Prue: And I think that we should leave well enough alone. I mean, we’ve been demon-free for over a month now, I’d like to keep it that away.

Piper: Amen to that.

(Piper and Prue leave Phoebe alone.)

[Scene: Next morning, in the attic. The Book Of Shadows pages start to turn by themselves. Phoebe enters the attic.]

Phoebe: Prue, Piper...

Prue: What’s going on?

Phoebe: Uh, I don’t know!

Piper: Why does the book do that? How does the book do that?

(Phoebe reads what the book shows.)

Phoebe: "Rite of passage. Fight it with the Power of one or else..."

(Abraxas shows up. It gets really windy. Prue hesitates to use her powers against him and he steals the book.)

Piper: What the hell was that?

Phoebe: The Book Of Shadows? Where’s the Book of Shadows?

Piper: So much for being demon-free.

Opening Credits

[Scene: Still in the attic. Phoebe is knocking the wall. Piper and Prue are cleaning up.]

Piper: Did you find anything?

Phoebe: Nothing. But whatever it was literally came out of nowhere and disappeared into nowhere.

Piper: Well, it took the Book of Shadows somewhere. And he’s powerful too. No other demons been able to steal the book.

Prue: But if he’s so powerful, why didn’t he kill us?

Phoebe: He probably didn’t want to go up against you.

Prue: Me? What do you mean?

Phoebe: That’s what the Book of Shadows says. Fight it with The Power of One. That’s gotta mean your power. It’s the strongest.

Prue: Says who?

Phoebe: Says every demon or warlock we’ve been gone up against

Piper: She’s right, Prue. The power of one’s gotta mean you, otherwise it would’ve said the Power of Three. The only question is how are we gonna find this demon. We don’t know anything about him.

Phoebe: We better think of something fast, because without the Book of Shadows, we’re not the Charmed Ones anymore.

(Doorbell rings)

[Cut to downstairs.]

Phoebe: Coming. (Phoebe answers the door.) Uh, hi...

Jenny: Can I use your phone, please?

Phoebe: Uh, well, actually...

Jenny: Please? It’s an emergency. Please??

Phoebe: Okay. Come on in. It’s right around that corner.

(Jenny is calling. Piper and Prue shows up.)

Piper: (to Phoebe) Are you out of your mind?

Phoebe: What was I supposed to do? Say no? Look at that poor girl.

(Dan appears.)

Dan: Jenny? Jenny, come on. Talk to me.

Prue, Piper and Phoebe: Whoa!

Jenny: International Operator, please. Saudi Arabia.

Prue: Saudi Arabia?

Dan: I’m sorry. We’re moving in the next door. Or at least we’re trying to. Our phone’s not hooked up yet.

Phoebe: So, you’re our new neighbors?

Dan: Name’s Dan. Uh, Dan Gordon.

Jenny: (still on the phone) I don’t care if the circuits are busy. I have to talk to my mom.

Dan: And that’s my niece Jenny. Who’s obviously not talking to me. Jenny, sweet, come on.

(Jenny leaves.)

Dan: I’m sorry. It’s nice meeting you.

Phoebe: You too. (Dan leaves.) I saw him first.

Piper: Demons now, drooling later.

Prue: Look, I have to meet my client before the preview.

Phoebe: Oh, wait a minute. The scariest demons we’ve ever run across opens up some portal at our attic, and steals the Book of Shadows and you want to go into the office?

(Prue leaves, quietly)

Phoebe: Whoa... (to Piper) What’s the matter with her?

Piper: Uh, it’s the first demon she’s faced since Andy died. Maybe it’s bringing up some bad memories.

[Scene: Astral plane. Abraxas is there with the Book. He turns to the back page and starts reading the spell backwards.]

[Scene: Park.]

Piper: What are we doing here?

Phoebe: Celebrating the Equinox. Can’t you just feel it? The energy in this place? It’s a convergence.

Piper: It’s a crock. I thought we were supposed to meet your witch friend.

Phoebe: We are. This is where she told us to meet her. Now, please just relax.

Piper: Relax? My life was a mess before our little wake up call this morning, remember?

Phoebe: Oh, Stevie.

Stevie: Hey, Phoebe. I’m so glad you could make it.

Phoebe: Um, actually we are not here for this. We needed to talk to you about something. This is my sister, Piper.

Piper: Hi.

Stevie: Hey Piper, it’s very nice to meet you. Are you witch too?

Piper: Uh, sorta... maybe... I don’t know. Uh, is everybody here one, also?

Stevie: Oh, no. No, no, no... It’s just a group of believers women who know of this special place and who’ve come to celebrate. By the way, happy anniversary.

Phoebe: That’s what we wanted to talk to you about. Why did you say that today was gonna be a powerful day for us?

Stevie: Because your anniversary falls on the Equinox. Which is a powerful day in and of itself for you, this convergence of powers is even stronger. The potential greater. All you have to do is connect. You wanna try it?

Phoebe: Try it? How?

Stevie: Let us begin?

(Stevie walks where the other women are.)

Piper: I don’t wanna connect.

Phoebe: We have to connect.

(All the women start to take off their clothes.)

Piper: I don’t wanna try it.

Phoebe: Ok, but we have to, because...

Piper: Why?

Phoebe: What have we got to lose, okay?

(They turn and see all the women naked.)

Piper: Well, apparently we’ve got our clothes to lose.

Phoebe: I see that.

Piper: No... (Phoebe makes Piper join the circle and starts herself takes off her clothes.) Whoa, Whoa. Wait. What are you doing?

Phoebe: When in Rome

Piper: No!No!No! We’re not in Rome, Phoebe. We’re in California. It’s illegal here.

Phoebe: It’s totally natural, ok? Go for it, ok? Come on

Piper: God. This is ridiculous... can I keep my shoes on?

Phoebe: Yeah, but that’s it.

Piper: We’ve got absolutely zero, zero information.

Phoebe: Everybody’s naked. Not just you.

Piper: And now we’re naked.

Phoebe: Shh, ok? Shh.

Gram’s voice: The Power of Three.

Phoebe: Did you just hear that?

Piper: Hear what?

Gram’s voice: The Power of Three.

Phoebe: That... Grams?

(Piper trying to cover her body.)

Piper: Grams? What? Where? I don’t hear anything.

Commercial Break

[Scene: Bucklands.]

Prue: Mrs. Milton. Hi. I’m sorry to keep you waiting.

Mrs. Milton: Oh, no problem. I was just looking around.

Prue: Well, I think that we’ll have a great turnout for the preview. We’ve been getting an excellent response to your husband's collection.

Mrs. Milton: I’m not surprised.

Prue: Now, the opening bid price may look a little low, but don’t worry. It should attract a lot of buyers, which should result in a bidding war. It’s the best way to sell inventory like this a top dollar. Is that all right with you?

Mrs. Milton: I guess I’m having a little more trouble letting go of John’s things than I thought.

Prue: That’s only natural. It’s not easy.

Mrs. Milton: I suppose that you deal with death quite a bit in your line of work, don’t you? I mean, like this, auctioning off some poor widows inheritance.

Prue: This?... unfortunately yes.

Mrs. Milton: I just keep going over and over in my mind the last time I saw him before the accident. And I keep thinking if only I’d done something or said something to stop him from getting in the car, maybe he’d still be alive.

[Scene: Club.]

Piper: Oh, God, Rob. I’m so sorry I’m late. Uh, I got stuck at this thing and then my sister needed a ride, and I’m so totally screwed on the loan now, aren’t I?

Rob: Don’t be ridiculous. I’m just looking around, checking things out.

Piper: It needs a lot of work, uh, I know that. But that’s not a problem and just because the last two owners went bankrupt, doesn’t mean it can’t work. I’ve done 3 separate marketing studies and found a 68% interest in the target clientele.

Rob: Piper...

Piper: Plus, running a restaurant is very similar to running a club.

Rob: You’ve already shown me all this. I’ve got it. I’ve got everything, except for an understanding of why you wanna put yourself in a position to fail like this.

Piper: Uhh.

Rob: Clubs are an extremely high risk business, Piper. You could lose your shirt.

Piper: Well, it wouldn’t be the first time today. Look, I know what I’m getting myself into. I know the risks and actually it’s a lot less risk and a lot a less expensive than starting my own restaurant, which is what I really wanted to do. The point is, I’m tired of working for somebody else and helping them realizing their dreams. I wanna run my own place. This place. And I can do it, too. But not without your help.

Rob: Well, at the risk of you never wanting to go out with me again... Congratulations...

Piper: I got it?

Rob: You go it

Piper: Yay!!!

(Piper hugs him and kisses.)

Rob: Hmmm.

Piper: Whoa.

(Then give him a passionate kiss.)

[Scene: The astral plane. Abraxas reads a spell backwards and unvanquish's Jeremy.]

Abraxas: Were you vanquished by the Charmed Ones?

Jeremy: Yeah, why?

Abraxas: I'm giving you a second chance.

[Back to the club. Piper is still kissing Rob.]

Gram's Voice: The Power of Three. The Power of Three.

Piper: Did you hear that?

Rob: Hear what?

Piper: Grams?

(Jeremy appears and knocks Rob out.)

Piper: Ahh....

Jeremy: You’re dead, witch.

Piper: Oh my God. Jeremy?

(She freezes him and calls Prue)

Prue: Hello?

Piper: Prue, thank God you’re there. Jeremy...

Prue: Piper, calm down, I can’t...

Piper: Attacked me.

Prue: Jeremy?? That is impossible. We vanquished him a year ago.

Piper: Well, apparently he got unvanquished somehow. And since we don’t have the Book of Shadows, we’re gonna have to remember the spell together. I’m conferencing Phoebe. Phoebe, are you there?

Phoebe: AT&T, Power of Three.

Prue: Okay, wait. Wasn’t that it? The Power of Three will set us free.

Piper: Grams...

(Jeremy unfreezes and she freezes him again.)

Piper: Whoa!!!

Prue: What’s the matter?

Piper: He’s...

(He keeps unfreezing and she keep trying to freeze again and again.)

Piper: He’s fighting through my freezes. He’s adjusting or something.

Phoebe: Uh, ok.. put us on the speakerphone. We have to say it together.

(He unfreezes again.)

Jeremy: Hehehehehe. You’re not getting away from me this time

Piper: Whoa! Whoa!

Phoebe: Piper!!!

Piper: Hurry! Now! Now, now, now!

Phoebe, Piper and Prue: The Power of Three will set us free. (3x)

Prue: Piper?

Phoebe: Piper?

Piper: Ow. Ow.

Prue: Piper??

Piper: That’s okay. He’s gone. Again!

Commercial Break

[Scene: Still in the club. The paramedics are taking Rob to the hospital.]

Rob: How can you not have seen who attacked me? How is that possible?

Piper: I don’t know. I guess I was blocked or something and then he just sort of disappeared, you know?

Rob: I’m starting to understand why this place keeps going under.

Piper: Oh, no. It’s not a bad crime area. Not at all.

Rob: Well, it’s something I’m going to be checking into. I can assure you of that.

Paramedic: Excuse me, ma’am.

(The paramedics carry Rob outside. Prue walks past him.)

Rob: Yeah, hi, how ya doin'?

Prue: Are you okay?

Piper: Physically, yeah. I think my loan’s on shaky ground. I couldn’t exactly tell Rob "it was just a warlock. Don’t worry about it".

Prue: Uh, oh, it would be a shame if the loan didn’t work out, I mean, this place is great. I used to come here. It has a lot of potential.

Piper: Yeah? You think so?

Prue: Hmm hmm.

Piper: Care you to loan me 60 grand?

Prue: Hmm. Any ideas on where Jeremy came from?

Piper: No, but I don’t want to run into any of the other demons we’ve already vanquished.

Prue: Well, hopefully Phoebe can find some answers in those new books of hers.

Piper: I sure wish she has our book to look it at. Feels kind of lost without it. Although ...

Prue: Although what?

Piper: It was weird but right before Jeremy appeared, I swore I heard Grams.

Prue: Grams?

Piper: I was positive it was her. She said "The Power of Three". And Phoebe said she heard her say it this morning. Maybe Grams was trying to warn me, warn us.

[Scene: Manor. Phoebe's typing on the computer. She looks out the window and sees Jenny. She goes outside.]

Phoebe: Hey there. It’s Jenny, right?

Jenny: Yeah.

Phoebe: We didn’t really get to say hello before. My name is Phoebe. Phoebe Halliwell. And this is Kit the cat. Get it? Kit-cat. Little play on words. So, shouldn’t you be in school?

Jenny: I’m taking a week off.

Phoebe: Really?

Jenny: For the move, you know.

Phoebe: So you’re moving in with your uncle?

Jenny: Well, just for the school year. Until my mom and dad come back.

Phoebe: From Saudi Arabia?

Jenny: My dad’s with the state department. So, he gets transferred a lot.

Phoebe: That sucks. So, did you ever get in touch with your mom?

Jenny: It doesn’t matter.

Phoebe: If it matters to you, it matters. Your secret is safe with me.

Jenny: Well, it’s almost that time in the month, you know? And, well, I need some...

Phoebe: Tampons?

Jenny: Right, yeah.

Phoebe: And you don’t want talk to your uncle about it?

Jenny: But I did. But he went out and bought sanitary napkins...

Phoebe: Ooh.

Jenny: Like that’s gonna work. It’s so embarrassing.

(Phoebe looks at kit’s collar and sees the symbol.)

Jenny: So, do you think maybe you could get some for me instead?

Phoebe: Uh...sure...but...a connection.

Jenny: But what?

(Piper drives in the driveway.)

Phoebe: Uh, I’m really sorry, Jenny, but I have to go.

Jenny: Fine.

Phoebe: Look. I would love to help you out but I gotta believe that your parents wouldn’t have to let you with your uncle if they didn’t think you could trust him at stuff like this. Ask him again. And if he still screw it up, remember, we’re open 24 hours, 7 days a week, right next door, ok?

(Jenny smiles and Phoebe goes until Piper in the Manor)

Phoebe: Piper, wait up. I think I figure out how find who the demon is. All we have to do is ask the Book of Shadows?

Piper: What?

Phoebe: It’s been right in front of us the whole time.

Piper: Kit’s collar?

Phoebe: No, the Triquetra. The symbol of the Power of Three. Our symbol. Maybe that’s what Grams has been trying to tell us.

Piper: Phoebe, you’re rambling.

Phoebe: No, Stevie said all we would have to do is find our connection, right? That if we did, we’d be able to tap into the Power of the Equinox. Well, this got to be it the Triquetra. It’s us. It’s on the cover of the Book of Shadows.

Piper: I still don’t understand how can we ask the Book of Shadows for help... when we DON’T HAVE the book.

(Phoebe grabs Piper and walks in.)

Piper: Uhh!

[Inside the manor.]

Piper: The spirit board?

Phoebe: It told us how to find the Book of Shadows, didn’t it? It can do it again. All you have to do is believe. Now come on. We’re stronger together.

Piper: (sighs) Ooh.

Phoebe: Come on. Ok. Close your eyes and feel it.

Piper: (whispering) I’m feeling. I’m feeling.

Gram's Voice: The Power of Three.

Phoebe: Did you hear that?

Piper: (looking for Grams) Grams?

(The pointer starts to move.)

Phoebe: "A"

Piper: "B", "R", "A", "X", "A", "S"

Phoebe: Abraxas??

[Scene: Astral plane. Abraxas reads another spell backwards.]

[Back in the manor.]

Phoebe: Okay, I found it. "Abraxas. A demon of the astral plane who destroy witches by demonizing their powers." Ok. But what does that have to do with the Book of Shadows?

Piper: Well, that’s where our powers come from, isn’t it? Maybe Abraxas it turning is evil somehow.

Phoebe: That would definitely undo our spells. And explain why Jeremy all of a sudden become unvanquished.

Piper: And the Woogyman.

Phoebe: When did the Woogyman become unvanquished?

Piper: A couple seconds ago.

(You see the Woogyman in the manor.)

Phoebe: Ohh. Freeze it.

Piper: It doesn’t freeze, remember. The spell... what’s the spell. Spell, spell...

Phoebe: "I am light. I am one too strong to fight." I can’t remember the rest.

Piper: Yes you can. Ok, we can. Uh, "Return to dark, where the shadows dwell. You cannot have this Halliwell".

Piper and Phoebe: "Go away and leave my sight. And take with you this endless night".

Piper: That wasn’t so hard.

Phoebe: It’s a good thing we were together.

Piper: Abraxas must be reading the book backwards. That’s how he’s turning it evil

Phoebe: How do you figure?

Piper: The spell to vanquish Jeremy was at the back of the book. And the spell to vanquish the Woogy man was right before that.

Phoebe: Which means more are on their way.

Piper: Uh....huh..

Phoebe: We gotta warn, Prue.

Piper: Uh..huh.. (Phoebe touches a picture of the three of them and has a premonition.) What? What happened?

Phoebe: I saw the warlock Nicholas...killing Prue.

[Scene: Bucklands.]

Guy: Prue, your sister Phoebe’s on the phone.

Prue: Oh, uh, tell her I’ll call her back.

Guy: She said it’s important.

Prue: She always says that it’s important. Just tell her I’ll call her back. It’s okay. Thanks. (The guy leaves.) Mrs. Milton.

Mrs. Milton: Oh, hi.

Prue: I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to startle you.

Mrs. Milton: I had no idea there’d be this many people interested. You’re obviously very good at your job.

Prue: Actually, I think it says more your husband’s collection than it does about me. How long has it been since the accident?

Mrs. Milton: 8 ½ months. How long has it been for you?

Prue: Not very long. (Nicholas appears) Nicholas...

(Prue runs towards her office.)

Mrs. Milton: Prue?

[Cut to Prue's office. Nicholas enters.]

Nicholas: You remember the feeling, don’t you?

(Prue collapses on the floor.)

Prue: Lavender, mimosa, holy thistle, cleanse this evil from our midst scatter...

Nicholas: You’re overheating. Your brain cells are frying. It’s over.

Prue: Scatter it cells throughout time. Let this Nick no more exist.

(Prue vanquishes Nicholas and blanks out.)

Commercial Break

[Scene: Hospital.]

Doctor: Well, your blood pressure’s back to normal. So is your temperature, your electrolytes. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you were perfectly healthy young woman.

Prue: Does that mean I can go home now?

Doctor: Well, I’d like to run few more tests. Find out what caused your body temperature to rise spontaneously like that. Has that ever happened to you before?

Phoebe: It’s happened to us all before.

Prue: Doctor, it’s okay. Really. I think I know how to keep it from happening again.

Doctor: All right. I’ll see to your discharge papers.

Prue: Thanks.

(The Doctor leaves.)

Piper: That was close.

(Prue puts her shoes on.)

Prue: Too close (about Phoebe).

Piper: No, I don’t mean her. I mean you. The paramedics said you almost died.

Prue: Yeah, well, what else is new?

Phoebe: We better figure out a way to get the book back from Abraxas because if we don’t, we’re all dead.

Piper: But how? We don’t know where the astral plane is.

Phoebe: Yes, we do. It coexists within our own plane. Remember, that’s what Stevie said.

Prue: Still doesn’t help to find the demon.

Phoebe: Maybe, maybe not. I was thinking... You know how we always thought that nobody could take the Book of Shadows out of the house, but us. Maybe nobody did. Maybe it’s still in the house. It’s just on different plane. The astral plane.

Piper: That would mean Abraxas is still in the house too.

Phoebe: Right. So, we would need to find a doorway or a window to get to his like he used to get to ours and we need to do this before the end of the Equinox, by sunrise tomorrow. And then Prue can kick some astral ass with the Power of One.

(Prue leaves and the girls follow her.)

Piper: Prue, what’s the matter?

Prue: Nothing. I just think that’s it’s a long shot, that’s all.

Phoebe: Well, at least, it’s a shot.

Piper: I agree, I mean, who knows how many other demons and warlocks he’s let loose that we just don’t know about yet?

Phoebe: Or even worse. If Abraxas gets to the first page of the book before we get to him, we’re toast.

Prue: Why?

Phoebe: Because it’s the incantation that gave us our powers, remember? If Abraxas says that backwards too, then we’ll lose them and the book forever.

Prue: So we go back to leading normal lives again. That doesn’t sound so bad.

Pheobe: What? Are you joking?

Prue: No, Phoebe, I’m not joking. Look, we always said that things happen to us for a reason, right? So, maybe the reason this time is to give to us an out.

Piper: Prue, there’s no out. Abraxas will kill us.

Prue: Not if all he wants is the book. After all, that’s the real power, not us.

Piper: If all he wanted was the book, he wouldn’t keep sending demons and warlocks after us.

Prue: We won’t have to worry about that anymore if he gets to the first page

Phoebe: What are you saying, Prue? Look, if we don’t get to him, we stop being witches.

Prue: Exactly. Which means we stop risking our lives all the time. Which means we stop watching the people we love lose theirs.

(Prue leaves.)

Phoebe: Prue...

Piper: Let her be.

[Scene: Manor. Kitchen.]

Phoebe: We’re screwed, you know!

Piper: No, we’re not. If there’s a window, we’ll find it.

Phoebe: That’s not what I meant.

Piper: She’ll come around.

Phoebe: By sunrise? You know how Prue is when she makes up her mind about something. That’s it. We’re screwed.

Piper: And we’re out of wine.

(Doorbell rings.)

Phoebe: I’ll get it. You keep dreaming. (Phoebe answers the door.) Oh, hi.

Dan: Dan.

Phoebe: Dan, right.

Dan: You’re Phoebe... Jenny told me. I hope it’s okay to stop by.

Phoebe: Of course, uh, we were just doing some reading.

Dan: Well, I just wanted to give you this (he hands her a bottle of wine). To say "thanks". You know, for talking to Jenny. Or better yet, for getting her to talk to me.

Phoebe: That’s really sweet. And timely too. But it’s not necessary

Dan: Well, to be honest, I was sort of hoping to get something out of it... I mean... you know, for Jenny. Just in case she needs a woman to talk to again

Phoebe: Ah, of course. Any time. She seems like a great kid.... So... did she tell you what the problem was?

(The both laugh.)

Dan: Any idea what size I’m supposed to get. There’s like... 5.

Phoebe: Uh, junior is probably a safe bet.

Dan: Right... thanks.

Phoebe: Hm.

(Phone rings.)

Dan: Well, uh, see ya around.

Phoebe: Hopefully. Night.

Dan: Night.

[Cut to kitchen. Piper’s on the phone.]

Piper: No, I understand. Ok, bye.

Phoebe: Who was that?

Piper: Rob, the banker. Or rather, his assistant... telling me that my loan has been denied.

(Phoebe touches Piper’s hair.)

Phoebe: Oh, honey, I’m so sorry.

Piper: That’s okay. Just wasn’t meant to be, I guess. Really glad I never slept with him, though. What was I thinking?

Phoebe: (holding her) About Leo, maybe?

Piper: Uh...

Phoebe: Wine?

[Scene: Station.]

Darryl: Hey.

Prue: Hi.

Darryl: You wanna sit down? (they see Andy’s empty table) They haven’t assigned me a new partner yet since Andy died. Here.

(He takes her into another room.)

Prue: Listen, I’m sorry I haven’t come by to see you.

Darryl: Yeah, me too. I’m just glad you’re here now, Prue. I’ve been worried about you.

Prue: I’m all right.

Darryl: Really? Then how come you’ve been avoiding me? And don’t give me back that crap about being too busy ‘cause I know better. I know what you’re going through, Prue. I lost him, too, you know?

Prue: I know. It’s just been so hard, to uh ...

Darryl: What?

Prue: To face you after what happened.

Darryl: Now, see, that’s exactly what I wanted to talk to you about ...

Prue: Darryl, um, I need to know what Andy told you about me and my sisters.... about who we really are.

Darryl: Just that you were involved in some of our unsolved cases, and that you somehow helped stop the killers.

Prue: That’s it? Nothing else?

Darryl: He was my partner, Prue. I didn’t need to know anything else.

Prue: So, then, uh... why did you cover for us when Andy died at the house?

Darryl: ‘cause he asked me to. That’s why I’ve been trying to get a hold of you. To give you a message from him. That morning, after he saw you, Andy told me to tell you that if anything were to happened to him, that it wouldn’t be your fault. He didn’t want you to blame yourself.

Prue: Too late.

(Prue starts to cry and Darryl hugs her)

[Scene: Attic. Piper has drawn the triquetra on the wall with chalk.]

Phoebe: You really think that’s the window?

Piper: You said yourself the triquetra’s the key, our connection. And besides, we keep hearing grams say "The Power of Three". This is what that stands for. Either that or I just screwed up this wall for no reason.

Phoebe: Well, even if it is the window, if Prue doesn’t show up...

(Prue walks in.)

Prue: She’ll show. Better late then never, right? Look, I know that I haven’t exactly been myself lately and I know I’m going through... something. And that I have some things to work through. But I don’t wanna let you down because of it. Right now, it’s not about me. It’s about us.

Phoebe: Attagirl, Prue. I knew you’d come around.

Piper: Excuse me?

Phoebe: Well, I did deep down.

Piper: Are you sure you’re up for this?

(Prue moves the chair using her powers.)

Prue: I’m sure.

Phoebe: Okay, so, when the window opens, Prue, you’ll knock Abraxas away from the Book, so Piper and I can reach in and grab it. And then, while you’re holding him back...

Prue: You’ll find some spell to vanquish him I got it.

Phoebe: Okay.

Piper: Okay, we have to create a circle. 3, 2, 1

(They hold their hands and Phoebe and Piper touches the triquetra in the wall. Abraxas appears.)

Phoebe: Hold on. Now, Prue, now!

Abraxas: First the book, then you.

Phoebe: What’s the matter with you?

Piper: Prue, use your power.

Phoebe: Prue.

(Abraxas uses his power against the sisters and knocks them away.)

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[Scene: Manor.]

Piper: Prue, what happened up there?

Prue: Nothing.

Phoebe: (Furious) Yeah, nothing is exactly the problem.

Prue: I never said that I had the power to go against him. You did, remember?

Phoebe: No, the Book of Shadows did.

Prue: Well, maybe it was wrong. Maybe Abraxas is just too strong.

Piper: Maybe, but that doesn’t explain why you hesitated.

Prue: I didn’t hesitate.

Phoebe: The hell you didn’t Prue. I saw you.

Piper: We both saw you.

Prue: So, what are you saying? This is my fault, is that it? Because I can’t defeat Abraxas?

Phoebe: No, Prue, you can. You just won’t. Okay. Something is holding you back. Something big time and instead of facing it, you’re running from it.

Piper: Phoebe....

Phoebe: But you can’t keep running, Prue. Because you have got to figure out what your problem is, otherwise we are all dead.

(Prue is crying.)

Prue: That’s right, Phoebe. That’s my responsibility, isn’t it? The oldest sister, always supposed to be able to figure things out. Well, if that’s the case, then how come I couldn’t save Andy? If I’m supposed to be so powerful, how come I couldn’t save him? I mean, my God, don’t you understand? Andy died because of me, it doesn’t matter what he said, it was my fault. How could it be good to be witches if all it does is get the people we love killed?

(Now, she’s crying a lot.)

Phoebe: Oh, sweetie.

(Phoebe and Piper hug her.)

Piper: Prue, it’s not your fault. You tried to keep Andy from coming here that night, remember? You tried to warn him but he came anyway. He came because he wanted to.

Phoebe: And there was nothing that you could have done to stop him Prue. He chose to walk through that door, not because of who you are, honey, but because of who he was.

Piper: Protector of the innocent, just like us.

Prue: I just don’t know if I believe in it anymore.

Phoebe: Honey, we’ve done a lot of good as witches too. You know that. But that doesn’t mean that bad things aren’t gonna happen. But just because we can’t help that, doesn’t mean that is our fault.

Piper: Or yours.

Phoebe: Come here.

(They hug her again.)

Gram's Voice: The Power of Three.

Phoebe: Okay, did you guys hear that?

Piper: Hm hmm.

Prue: Grams?

Gram's Voice: The Power of Three.

Prue: How is that possible?

Phoebe: I don’t know but it’s gonna to be a good thing if we’re all hearing it.

Piper: Maybe it means we’re connected.

Phoebe: To be as one. Maybe that’s what the Book meant by the Power of One.

Piper: The three of us working as one.

Prue: Which is what the triquetra represents.

Phoebe: Almost sunrise. Do you think you’re ready to try the window again?

Prue: Yeah, yeah, but Abraxas will be ready for us here. We have to take him by surprise. Go where we’re most powerful. Where we’re most connected.

[Scene: Park.]

Prue, Piper and Phoebe: (holding their hands) Hear now the words of the witches, the secrets we hid in the night, the oldest of Gods are invoked here, the great work of magic is sought. (We can see Abraxas trying to undo the spell) In this night, and in this hour we call upon the ancient power. Hear now the words of the witches, the secrets we hid in the night, the oldest of Gods are invoked here, the great work of magic is sought.

(The Book shows up in front of the girls.)

Phoebe: Prue, Piper...

Prue: Keep chanting.

Prue, Piper and Phoebe: (holding their hands) Hear now the words of the witches, the secrets we hid in the night, the oldest of Gods are invoked here, the great work of magic is sought.

(Abraxas appears.)

Abraxas: What are you doing? How’d you bring me here?

Prue, Piper and Phoebe: (holding their hands) Hear now the words of the witches, the secrets we hid in the night, the oldest of Gods are invoked here, the great work of magic is sought. In this night, and in this hour we call upon the ancient power. In this night, and in this hour we call upon the ancient power. In this night, and in this hour we call upon the ancient power

(They vanquish Abraxas.)

Phoebe: And we didn’t even have to get naked.

(Prue smiles and Piper laughs.)

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[Scene: Attic. They place the book back on it's stand.]

Prue: That’s more like it.

Piper: I’ll feel better when we erase that window. I don’t want any more demons coming through it.

Phoebe: They can’t. It’s our window, not theirs

Piper: Still better safe than sorry. Especially if we can expect any more demons like Abraxas coming.

Prue: Well, apparently we can (reading the Book of Shadows) "Rite of Passage. Fight it with the Power of one, or else... a more powerful evil that awaits will destroy you"

Phoebe: Wow. I’m glad I didn’t finish reading that, yesterday. I might have changed my mind about not wanting to give up our powers

Prue: No, you wouldn’t have. You like being a witch too much, Phoebe. And you help to remind me that I like being one, too.

Phoebe: Hmm.

Piper: Hey, me three. Too bad it doesn’t pay the bills, though.

Phoebe: (to Prue) Did you get it?

Prue: Hm hm.

Piper: Get what? (Prue hands her an envelope.) What’s this? $60,000? Where did you get this?

Prue: Home equity loan. Phoebe and I took a second out on the house. To help you buy your club.

Phoebe: Actually, our club, technically.

Prue: Right, as long as you don’t mind being partners with your sisters.

Piper: Thank you.

(Piper hugs her sisters.)

Gram's Voice: The Power of Three.

Prue: Grams?

(Grams shows up, as spirit.)

Grams: Hello, my darlings. Oh, it’s nice to see you, or rather, it’s nice being seen by you.

Piper: But but but how is this...

Grams: Possible? All things are possible, my dear. It’s just simply a matter of your being able to do them.

Phoebe: Wait, so you’re the one that keeps turning the pages in the book?

Grams: Just my way of looking after you. As best I can, anyway. Don’t try to understand this. You’re not ready yet. But the fact that you could hear me before, can see me now, means that someday you might be. Be good to each other. I love you.

(She disappears. The pages of the book starts to turn and the girls go there to read.)

Piper: Is it just me, or is this attic getting awful crowed lately?

Prue: Look...

("Happy Anniversary, My Darlings" is written on the page.)

End