6x04: Shock It To Me

[The Virtual Series]

CHARMED: RESET REALITY (A new Alternate Universe series brought to you by Daniel, 4Ever, Drama, Xenith, and a host of others!)

STARRING:



SHANNEN DOHERTY...Prue Halliwell
HOLLY MARIE COMBS...Piper Halliwell
ALYSSA MILANO...Phoebe Halliwell
ROSE McGOWAN...Paige Matthews

CO-STARRING:



BRIAN KRAUSE...Leo Wyatt
DORIAN GREGORY...Darryl Morris
CHELSEA BRUMMET...Melinda Halliwell
DREW FULLER...Chris Halliwell

CHARMED: RESET REALITY is a concept conceived and copyrighted by Daniel Taylor and cannot be copied without his permission.

Based on the television show "Charmed" created by Constance Burge and featuring characters created by her and Brad Kern.

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6.04 SHOCK IT TO ME

GUEST-STARRING:
ERIC DANE
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS
JAMES READ

Script written by...CAMILLE (FOUREVER CHARMED)

Script edited by...DRAMA (ASSASSIN WITCH)

Script proofread by...CAMILLE (FOUREVER CHARMED), DRAMA (ASSASSIN WITCH), DTAYLOR (ASTRAL ECHO)

Executive Producer...DTAYLOR (ASTRAL ECHO)

Produced by...DRAMA, FOUREVER CHARMED, XENITH

Directed by...Craig Zisk

[The Virtual Series]

Shock It To Me

Teaser

[Scene: Banquet hall. The room is filled with women and men in business suits, the majority of whom are of Caucasian and Chinese decent, all with champagne glasses in their hands. They’re facing a stage where an very professional looking older woman of Chinese decent is standing at a podium, smiling as applause dies down. She turns to her left and holds out her hands in a theatrical way.]

CHINESE WOMAN: And now I’d like to present our guest of honor, Mr. Jason Dean!

(Applause fills the room again as the a young man walks out on stage, smiling and waving his arm to the men and women on the floor. Bright flashes go off as photographers flash shots of JASON DEAN walks across the stage. As he reaches the podium, the CHINESE WOMAN leaves the stage, and JASON adjusts the microphone as the applause quiets. He clears his throat.)

JASON: Thank you, thank you all so much. I’m honored to be here with you today and I’m even more honored for the merger of our telecommunications! (Another round of applause rings out. JASON nods and smiles.) I’m pleased to announce that our new television network will be premiering at eight o’ clock tonight.

(The CHINESE WOMAN returns to the stage with a glass of champagne in each hand. She hands one to JASON.)

JASON: Thank you, Lane.

(LANE nods and holds up her glass.)

LANE: A toast, Jason?

(JASON nods and holds up his glass.)

JASON: To Chi-Dean, Inc.

LANE: To Chi-Dean, Inc.

(LANE and JASON clink their glasses. The crowd bursts into cheers and applause again as everyone in the audience begins to clink their champagne glasses with one another. All at once, the whole room takes a drink from their glasses.)

[Scene: Dark room. Heavy black velvet drapes have been drawn over the walls and the furniture is covered with the same black fabric. On the floor, another velvet blanket has been draped, though it’s the color of blood. Located in the center of the red blanket is an iron pot filled with a gooey red liquid. A small shaft of light flows into the darkness, hitting the pot and making it gleam for a moment, then the light is blocked by a bulky figure dressed in a dark hooded robe. The figure walks through the doorway and shuts the door. It moves to the pot and kneels down in front of it. The figure reaches into its pocket and retrieves a silver chain with a midnight colored onyx crystal hanging on the end. The figure pitches forward and takes the chain in both hands and slowly submerges it into the red mixture.]

FIGURE: “Sub judice!” (The red liquid begins to bubble.) “Sub poena!” (The red liquid turns black.) “Superio omnia!” (A sound like thunder echoes in the room.) “Suum cuique tribuere!”

(Three bolts of lightning strike down in a circle around the figure and deposit three demons with physiques similar to those of body builders, all of whom are wearing skin tight black leather suits and matching face masks making them resemble a more modern version of an olden days’ executioner’s costume. Each of the three demons are carrying giant silver axes. The FIGURE rises to its feet and drapes the onyx chain over its black hood and around its neck. The FIGURE reaches into its pocket and retrieves a photograph that it then drops into the black goo. The photograph lands on top of the goo. The man in the photo is to be in his mid twenties to early thirties; JASON DEAN. The picture is suddenly pulled under by the thick black sauce and disappears into the bowl. The three demons bow their heads and disappear in the same bolts of lightning they appeared in.)

Clickable Credits.

[The Virtual Series]

{SCENE: The song “Electricity,” written by Elton John and Lee Hall and sung by Elton John, is heard as stock shots of San Francisco are shown while the Guest Credits are rolled.}

Act One

[Scene: Manor. Kitchen. PAIGE MATTHEWS walks in, adjusting the strap of her dark magenta tank top. She notices a pair of legs, clad in tan pants, kneeling on the floor and sticking out from behind the refrigerator door. PAIGE squints and suddenly PRUE HALLIWELL pops out from behind the door holding a creamsicle. She pulls herself up using the handle on the fridge door and then shuts it and starts to peel away the wrapper on her ice cream when she notices PAIGE staring at her.]

PRUE: What are you looking at?

(PAIGE points dumbly to PRUE’s hot tangerine and lemon colored top.)

PAIGE: I didn’t know it was possible to make clothes out of the sun’s rays. (She shields her eyes.) That’s so bright it actually hurts my eyes!

(PRUE glares as she bites into her creamsicle.)

PRUE: It was the biggest top I have short of putting on a bulky sweater in the middle of summer.

PAIGE: Well, that’s what happens when you refuse to buy maternity clothes.

PRUE: But they’re so hideous!

PAIGE: Not all of them. (PRUE makes a disbelieving face.) Okay, fine, you’re right, they’re hideous, but do you really want to ruin all your clothes because you’re too proud to wear maternity?

(PRUE lifts up her billowy sun colored top, revealing the pregnant bump she was concealing as well as the top button of her tan pants, which is not buttoned but instead held together with a safety pin.)

PRUE: Why not? It’s been working so far.

(PAIGE’s mouth drops open.)

PAIGE: Okay, that’s it! We are so going maternity shopping today!

PRUE: What? No! I can’t. I have-

PAIGE: Nothing to do? (She folds her arms matter-of-factly.) I know that you don’t have any job-related work to do; Piper told me how Corso’s been giving you light assignments because of your pregnancy and you, being you, have already done them, which means you are completely free to go shopping with me.

(PRUE grunts.)

PRUE: Don’t you have work or something?

PAIGE: Nope, I switched days off with Lila this week. (She snaps her fingers.) So spit spot, sister, we’ve got shopping to do!

[Cut to Phoebe’s bedroom. PHOEBE HALLIWELL is seated cross-legged on her bed, surrounded by newspaper want ads. A scattered number of the want ad boxes under “Jobs” are highlighted in hot pink. PHOEBE leans back against her headboard tiredly and exhales noisily. From the corner of her eye, she sees the headline, “Ask Karen” and lazily reaches for the paper.]

PHOEBE: An advice column, huh? (She looks the column up and down and then eyes the want ads again.) I sure could use some advice right now. (There’s a knock at the door. PHOEBE looks up.) Who is it?

PAIGE's VOICE: Just me.

PHOEBE: It’s unlocked.

(PAIGE walks in. PHOEBE sets down the advice column.)

PHOEBE: What’s up?

PAIGE: Hey, Prue and I are gonna head down to the mall to do some baby shopping; do you want to come?

(PHOEBE thinks on the idea for a minute, then shakes her heads.)

PHOEBE: Thanks but no thanks, (she pats the want ads) I’m a little busy right now.

PAIGE: You sure?

(PHOEBE nods.)

PHOEBE: Yeah. I really need to get a leg up on the whole job thing because we desperately need the third income coming into the house, especially with the baby only about three months away.

(PAIGE shrugs.)

PAIGE: Alrighty, I guess we’ll see you later then. (She starts to leave, then looks back.) If you change your mind, just give us a call.

PHOEBE: I will.

(PAIGE leaves. PHOEBE gives another look at her want ads, then grabs one that’s sitting near her right hand and holds it up.)

PHOEBE: Guess I should get started. (She grabs the phone next to her bed and dials the number located on the job ad.)

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Chris’s room. Twenty-four-year-old CHRIS HALLIWELL is sleeping on a makeshift air mattress. He turns restlessly in his sleep, then rolls onto his back and stirs. His eyes flicker open and he looks straight up to find the face of his twenty-four-year-old twin sister, MELINDA HALLIWELL, staring down at him. His face puckers up as if he’d just eaten a lemon.]

CHRIS: (sarcastically) Oh, just what I wanted to see first thing in the morning. (He throws his covers off and sits up.) I guess I should take it as a bad omen.

(MELINDA glares. She bounces BABY CHRIS HALLIWELL on her hip as she feeds him a bottle.)

MELINDA: Only you could sleep through your incessant wailing.

(CHRIS sneers as he stands up and snatches his infant self from his sister.)

CHIS: I was probably crying because I knew you were in the very next room. (He sets his bottle down and grabs a burp cloth and puts it over his shoulder, then begins to burp himself.) Where’s Mom?

MELINDA: She had to take Grandpa to the airport. He’s got some business meeting in L.A. this week.

CHRIS: And Dad?

MELINDA: With a charge.

(CHRIS groans.)

CHRIS: No wonder you took the initiative to take care of my needs. (He dabs away the milk on BABY CHRIS’s lips with the burp cloth and sets it aside. MELINDA rolls her eyes.)

MELINDA: Oh, don’t start with me; I haven’t had that wonderful life giving potion called coffee yet and therefore I haven’t the strength to deal with your drama. (She waves her hand dismissively and flounces out of his room. CHRIS stares down at his infant self.)

CHRIS: And she has the nerve to call us dramatic. (Suddenly, CHRIS’s eyes widen in time with BABY CHRIS, who begins to cry. Lights start flashing throughout the room and what CHRIS can see of the hallway as an ear piercing siren-like noise blares in their ears.) Oh no!

[Cut to the living room. BABY MELINDA HALLIWELL is swinging back and forth in her electric baby swing as a hideous horned demon advances on her. BABY MELINDA is crying and the demon appears to be moving in slow motion, breaking through her freezes as it attempts to get to her. MELINDA bolts in from the hallway, literally sliding to a stop behind the couch. She raises her hands and the demon becomes completely stationary. CHRIS orbs in between the demon and BABY MELINDA’s swing. He swings out his arm and the horned demon crashes through the sliding glass doors. MELINDA runs through the living room and jumps over the broken glass as the demon starts to get up from where he was thrown. MELINDA glances around and spots gardening sheers lying on the patio next to some gardening gloves and a bag of potting soil. She grabs the sheers and stabs them into the chest of the horned demon. He explodes, leaving a scorch mark among the shattered glass. As CHRIS steps outside, she lifts her head and gives him a dirty look.]

MELINDA: The sliding glass doors? Really Chris?

CHRIS: Hey, (he waves his hand towards the living room) I just saved your ass!

MELINDA: You did not! I had him before you rode in on your gallant orbs. (She puts her hands on her hips.) And I could’ve vanquished him without breaking the sliding glass doors.

(CHRIS rolls his eyes.)

CHRIS: Whatever, (he steps back into the house) I’m going to go get the broom and duster. (He walks off. MELINDA steps back into the living room to see her infant self still swinging contentedly in her baby swing.)

MELINDA: (growling) Brothers!

[Scene: Downtown San Francisco. Mall. Parking lot. PAIGE’s lime green VW Bug pulls in and rolls around the car before parking in the shade of a tree near the front of the mall.]

[Cut to inside Paige’s VW Bug. PAIGE is dropping her keys into her purse as PRUE reaches to unbuckle her seatbelt. When the seatbelt doesn’t unbuckle, PRUE shakes it.]

PRUE: Uh, Paige, I think something’s wrong here.

PAIGE: Oh, (she frowns) yeah, it’s been sticking the last couple days. (She sighs.) Here, let me see. (She leans over and reaches for the seatbelt, but there’s a small spark and it shocks PAIGE’s hand.) Ow!

(PRUE flinches.)

PRUE: Sorry! (She motions her hand over the seatbelt and it pops open.) I’ve been very static clingy this week. (She shakes her head.) You should’ve seen me when I woke up this morning, it’s like my sheets were magnetically drawn to me or something. (They get out of the car.)

PAIGE: We’ll add some anti-static spray to our shopping list then. (She rubs her hand where she was shocked.) That really hurt, by the way.

[Scene: Manor. Phoebe’s bedroom. PHOEBE is standing in front of her mirror, holding up two different tops in front of her, trying to decide which one to put on. Tucked between her shoulder and ear is her cell phone.]

[Scene: San Francisco International Airport. PIPER HALLIWELL walks VICTOR BENNETT up to the end of the security line.]

PIPER: Well I guess this is as far as I go.

VICTOR: Thanks for driving me Piper.

PIPER: No problem, Dad. (pause) I guess I’ll see you in a week, right?

(VICTOR nods.)

VICTOR: Give the kids my love.

PIPER: I will. (They hug.) Be careful. (They line moves up.) I guess that’s my cue. (VICTOR picks up his luggage.) Okay, I gotta go. (She waves and walks away. She suddenly wrinkles her nose and pats her purse, feeling it vibrating.) Ooh. (She reaches into her purse and pulls out her cell phone and answers it.) Hello?

[Cut to Phoebe. She’s pulling two more shirts out of the closet.]

PHOEBE: Hey, are you busy right now?

[Cut to Piper. She’s leaving the airport.]

PIPER: Uh, going home…what’re you doing?

[Cut to Phoebe. She sighs as she throws two more shirts onto the bed where there’s a growing pile of shirts.]

PHOEBE: Wondering if you might be able to do me a favor?

[Cut to Piper. She’s unlocking the driver’s side of her dark green jeep.]

PIPER: What kind of favor?

[Cut to Phoebe. She grabs a skirt out of the closet and holds it up to her waist in front of the mirror.]

PHOEBE: I got a job interview-

[Cut to Piper. She’s tucked her cell phone between her ear and shoulder as she buckles herself.]

PIPER: Oh that’s great, sweetie!

[Cut to Phoebe. She throws the skirt over the back of the chair at her vanity.]

PHOEBE: Yeah, but the problem is, I’ve got no car and I was kind of wondering if…

[Cut to Piper. She fires up her jeep and begins driving.]

PIPER: I could give you a ride? (She sighs.) Sure Pheebs, I’d be happy to. (She turns out of the airport.) Where are you at right now?

[Cut to Phoebe. She stares at her reflection in the mirror.]

PHOEBE: At the Manor. (pause) Thanks, Piper. (She hangs up and tosses the phone onto her pile of clothes.) Now, if only I could find something that actually looks presentable for a job interview. (She looks at her clock.) Well, Prue isn’t exactly wearing her good suits right now…

[Scene: Downtown San Francisco. Mall. Mommy Wear. PRUE is standing in front of a dressing room, holding up her arms with a look of extreme irritation written across her face. She’s wearing a lacy lavender baby doll style maternity top and white lacy pants in a flower pattern.]

PRUE: Have I mentioned that I look ridiculous?

PAIGE: Three times and counting.

(PRUE turns to a mirror, glaring at her reflection.)

PRUE: I don’t understand why they don’t have anything that isn’t so… (She picks a fruzzy pink maternity dress with three little stitched frogs at the top off a nearby rack.) …cute.

PAIGE: It’s a maternity store, not Demon-Fighters-R-Us.

(The CLERK walks over with a bright smile on her face.)

CLERK: (to PRUE) Ooooh! Don’t you look beautiful! (She reaches out to touch PRUE’s stomach.) How far along- (Her hand gets shocked and she yanks it back quickly and rubs it as she eyes PRUE. PRUE smiles sweetly.)

PRUE: Static electricity. (She shoves the frilly pink maternity dress at the CLERK.) Gotta go! (She ducks back into the dressing room and pulls the red curtain shut. The CLERK turns around and sees PAIGE. PAIGE laughs nervously and forces a fake smile.)

PAIGE: Hormones.

(The CLERK forces a smile and nods.)

CLERK: A huh.

(The CLERK briskly walks away. PAIGE’s fake smile disappears and she walks over to the dressing room and shakes the red curtain as she barges in.)

PAIGE: Prue!

BREAK

[The Virtual Series]

Act Two

[Scene: Barrington Equity Incorporated. Waiting room. PIPER and PHOEBE are seated together. PHOEBE is strumming her fingers together nervously. PIPER glances around and then leans over to her sister.]

PIPER: (whispering) I don’t know about this, Pheebs. It doesn’t really seem like your type of thing.

PHOEBE: (whispering) Well, I won’t know that until I try, right?

PIPER: (whispering) But a sales representative? Phoebe, you have a degree in psychology, this is like…anti-psychology.

PHOEBE: (whispering) No…not totally. I mean, (she shrugs) to sell stuff to someone that doesn’t really want to buy it involves a degree of psychological manipulation, right? (PIPER glares.) Okay, fine…so it’s not what I want, but it was the highest paying ad I found.

PIPER: (whispering) And is it really worth it if you’re unhappy?

PHOEBE: (whispering) Who says I’ll be unhappy?

PIPER: (whispering) Phoebe, you’re my little sister, I’ve known you your entire life, and I know this isn’t what you want. You want to help people, not con them.

PHOEBE: (whispering) Look, just go with it for now, please? I never said this was something I wanted to do forever, I just need something now because the Manor really needs a third income, especially with Prue going onto maternity leave soon.

(PHOEBE leans back in her chair and looks at her watch. She glances around with a bored frown, then notices a stack of business magazines on a waiting table. She leans forward and grabs the top one called “Business Men.” She opens it and begins to flip through the pages, not really paying attention to them. Suddenly, her shoulders tighten and her eyes clamp shut.)

[Premonition: JASON and LANE are standing in the hallway of a hotel, saying goodbye. LANE leaves and JASON waves as she disappears down the hall, then he swipes his key card with the name “Ballmark,” and opens the door to room 415. No sooner does he shut the door and turn around does he find one of the demons with the executioner-like outfit on who swipes his axe at JASON, decapitating him.]

[Cut back to the present. PHOEBE gasps as she comes out of the premonition. She stares down at the full color picture of JASON.]

PIPER: Phoebe?

(PHOEBE scans the caption under the picture.)

PHOEBE: “Jason Dean.” (She looks up.) We’ve got to get out of here! (She gets up and bolts for the door with the magazine in hand. PIPER looks flustered but runs after her. After they leave, someone walks out of the back room.)

WOMAN: Phoebe Halliwell? (She looks around, but the waiting room is empty.)

[Scene: Downtown San Francisco. Mall. Ice cream stand. PRUE is standing in line again, wearing her bright orange and yellow top. She slides a five dollar bill across the counter and takes a bite out of her triple scoop cone as she waits for her change. She sighs contentedly as the man places her change in her outstretched palm and then she walks over to PAIGE, who is waiting with two bags on her arms.]

PAIGE: I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone devour as much ice cream in a year as I’ve seen you devour in the last three days.

PRUE: I can’t help it, (she takes another bite from her top ice cream scoop) it’s just so good! (They start walking again. PRUE begins to pick at her shirt in annoyance.)

PAIGE: What’s the matter?

PRUE: It’s that static again.

PAIGE: It’s so weird how it just started up randomly. (She frowns.) Do you think it could be a pregnancy symptom?

PRUE: I’ve never heard of static electricity during pregnancy, (she shrugs) but I guess there’s a first time for everything.

(PAIGE points to Baby Gap.)

PAIGE: Hey c’mon, let’s go check in there.

PRUE: I thought we were just going maternity shopping? (She points to the bags.) Can’t you just be happy that you talked me into those monstrosities?

PAIGE: Nope. (She grins and heads into the store. PRUE groans and follows.)

[Scene: Inside Piper’s green jeep. PIPER is driving and PHOEBE is curling her fingers anxiously.]

PHOEBE: …the Ballmark Hotel, I’m sure of it. (She looks at the speedometer.) Can you step on it?

PIPER: I’m already going ten over!

PHOEBE: Piper, this guy is going to be beheaded! We needed to be there like ten minutes ago!

PIPER: There wasn’t a clock in your vision by any chance, was there? (PHOEBE begins to obsessively squeeze the armrest.) Why would a demon want to decapitate that Dean guy anyway?

PHOEBE: Does it really matter?

PIPER: I’m just speaking out loud.

PHOEBE: Well, it does appear that he’s some internationally successful businessman and we both know how much the Underworld hates people who do good things for the world. (She suddenly throws up her hands.) Oh my god, why didn’t I think of this earlier? Chris! Chris!

PIPER: What are you calling him for?

PHOEBE: Because Chris can orb and Melinda can freeze!

[Scene: Ballmark Hotel. Hallway. JASON and LANE are walking together, talking and laughing.]

JASON: I think it went it great, don’t you?

LANE: I see a lot of future endeavors for our companies, Mr. Dean. (They stop at room 415.)

JASON: I think this is my stop. (He gives a brief bow.) Zai jian.

(LANE smiles and returns gesture.)

LANE: Zai jian. (She leaves and JASON waves until she disappears down the hallway. He then reaches into his pocket and retrieves his card key.)

[Cut to down the hallway. PHOEBE, MELINDA, and CHRIS run around the corner.]

MELINDA: Where is he?

PHOEBE: I don’t know, I don’t know- (She sees him entering his room.) There!

(MELINDA throws up her hands, freezing the hallway. PHOEBE tears down the hallway, running for the room. MELINDA and CHRIS run after her. PHOEBE reaches the room first and slides in behind a frozen JASON. As she enters, she sees the demon in the executioner-like outfit. He swings his axe at her.)

PHOEBE: Whoa! (She levitates above the axe and it embeds itself in the door. MELINDA and CHRIS reach the door. The demon pulls his axe out just before CHRIS waves his arm, throwing open the door. MELINDA hits her brother.)

MELINDA: Chris, the axe!

(CHRIS holds out his hands and the axe flies into them. He swings it at the demon and embeds it in the demon’s chest, who explodes along with the axe. PHOEBE levitates to the floor and quickly motions her hands.)

PHOEBE: Out, out, out!

(MELINDA points to the door.)

MELINDA: Well we can’t just leave it like that. (She bobs her head in a girly way.) “Let the object of objection become but a dream as I cause the seen to be unseen.” (A swirl of white lights surround the axe hole and instantly repair it.)

PHOEBE: Where’d you learn that?

MELINDA: It’s Aunt Paige’s favorite spell.

(CHRIS hits her. She rubs her arm and then hits him back. PHOEBE shakes her head.)

PHOEBE: Okay, let’s go.

(MELINDA and CHRIS scoot out around frozen JASON, but as PHOEBE tries to move around him, her arm brushes his.)

[Premonition: JASON is washing his hands in the bathroom when a bolt of lightning appears behind him. He sees the reflection of the execution clad demon and attempts to yell when the demon swings his axe at JASON’s neck.]

[Cut back to the present. PHOEBE gulps.]

PHOEBE: We’re not done here.

CHRIS: What do you mean we’re not done here? (He motions to the hallway.) We need to unfreeze this scene and get out of here before someone catches us!

PHOEBE: Whatever is after him, there’s more than one. I just saw him attacked again.

(CHRIS glowers.)

CHRIS: Great!

(PHOEBE holds up her finger.)

PHOEBE: I’ve got an idea. (She steps back into the hallway, looks down both sides, then motions to her niece.) Unfreeze it.

MELINDA: Are you sure?

PHOEBE: Yes!

(MELINDA holds up her hands and the hallway unfreezes. JASON resumes walking into his room, unaware of the three people behind him. Suddenly, PHOEBE runs and tackles him down.)

JASON: What the hell?!

(PHOEBE cups his mouth.)

PHOEBE: Shh, please, you need to come with me.

JASON: What the hell are you talking about? (PHOEBE climbs off JASON and holds out her hand to help him up.) Who are you and what do you want?

PHOEBE: I - (she looks back and MELINDA and CHRIS) we - have been sent by the SFPD. We have reason to believe that someone may be trying to kill you.

(JASON’s eyes widen.)

JASON: Why should I trust you?

PHOEBE: Would you like to call them yourself?

(JASON narrows his eyes.)

JASON: Yes. (He refuses PHOEBE’s hand and gets up on his own. PHOEBE motions to the phone.)

PHOEBE: Ask for Inspector Darryl Morris, he sent us.

(JASON looks at the phone warily, then begins to back up to it, still keeping an eye on PHOEBE, CHRIS and MELINDA. He then grabs the phone and dials.)

[Scene: San Francisco Police Department. DARRYL MORRIS walks up to his desk where his phone is ringing. He picks it up.]

DARRYL: Inspector Morris speaking, how can I help you?

PHOEBE's VOICE: Darryl, it’s Phoebe.

(DARRYL groans.)

DARRYL: Oh, I know what this means. (He sits down and shields the mouthpiece with his hand.) What’s going on.

PHOEBE's VOICE: Are you familiar with the name Jason Dean?

DARRYL: One of the youngest international self made millionaires? Uh, yeah, I am. What about him?

PHOEBE's VOICE: Well…I happen to have him standing next to me – frozen – waiting to talk to you. To make a long story short, I had two premonitions of demons trying to kill him and so I told him that there’s a threat on his life and you sent me to protect him.

DARRYL: And you want me to corroborate that?

PHOEBE's VOICE: That would be great!

(DARRYL sighs and places his hand to his forehead.)

DARRYL: Put him on the phone.

[Cut to Jason’s hotel room.]

PHOEBE: Thanks, Darryl! (She slides the phone into JASON’s frozen hand and nods to MELINDA, who motions her hand and unfreezes him.)

JASON: Hello?

DARRYL's VOICE: Mr. Dean, this is Inspector Morris of the San Francisco PD…

BREAK

[The Virtual Series]

Act Three

[Scene: Downtown San Francisco. Mall. Baby Gap. PRUE is looking at a white crib while PAIGE is behind a black crib, inspecting a pink and lavender bassinet. PAIGE motions her hand.]

PAIGE: Hey! Come check this out. (PRUE walks over.) Isn’t it cute? (She spins the connecting mobile.) It’s even got its own Winnie the Pooh mobile! (She sticks her hand into the bassinet and presses it onto the padding.) And it’s nice and plush, too.

(PRUE wrinkles her nose as she looks at the price tag.)

PRUE: That’s not so cute. (She shakes her head.) Besides, I was thinking of just using the bassinet Piper had for Melinda.

(PAIGE grunts.)

PAIGE: (sarcastically) Oh, hand-me-downs, nice.

PRUE: What’s wrong with hand-me-downs?

PAIGE: Uh, that they’re hand-me-downs?

PRUE: Piper and Phoebe got them and they turned out fine.

PAIGE: See, (she waves her hand) you would say that.

PRUE: Explain that, please?

(PAIGE rolls her eyes.)

PAIGE: You were the oldest, you never got hand-me-downs, so you don’t know how much they suck.

PRUE: And if memory serves me, you were an only child! So who are you to be saying that to me?

PAIGE: Yes, but I had friends who weren’t, and so I saw firsthand how much they hated hand-me-downs. (She starts to walk away, but PRUE trots after her.)

PRUE: It’s only a bassinet, Paige. It was barely used by Piper as it was. That’s kind of the point of bassinets, to barely use them and then put out extra money for a crib. (She rolls her eyes.) It’s still like brand new and it’s not like the baby is going to know the difference.

PAIGE: Until she sees the pictures.

(PRUE rolls her eyes.)

PRUE: You worry too much. (She pats her sister’s back.) Cut it back some, will ya? You’ll start to get worry lines before your time.

(PAIGE playfully slaps her sister.)

PAIGE: You’re one to talk. (They start to walk out of the store when the security alarms go off. They stop and look around, only to realize they’re the only ones near the exit. A security guard walks over and motions his hand.)

SECURITY GUARD: Excuse me, but I need you both to step this way. (PAIGE and PRUE exchange expressions, but ultimately follow the security guard, who takes PAIGE’s bags and begins to look for any shoplifted merchandise.)

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. PIPER’s green jeep pulls into the driveway. PIPER presses the garage button located on her visor and the garage door opens. She pulls in, turns off the car, and presses the button again so the door shuts. PIPER, CHRIS, MELINDA, JASON, and PHOEBE get out of the car and PIPER moves to the door leading into the house and unlocks it.]

JASON: Why did you bring me here?

(PHOEBE glances at her sister.)

PHOEBE: Because nobody will suspect that you’re here.

(PHOEBE ushers JASON into the door after PIPER, follows him, and then CHRIS and MELINDA bring up the rear. JASON finds himself in the kitchen as MELINDA shuts the door leading back to the garage. PIPER drops her purse on the table.)

PIPER: Would you like anything to drink, Mr. Dean?

JASON: Water would be good, actually.

PIPER: Of course. (She pulls a glass out of the cupboard and moves to the freezer to get some ice as LEO WYATT walks in. He stops in his tracks.)

PHOEBE: Oh, Leo, good, perfect! (She walks over to him, then stops.) Uh, Leo Wyatt, (she motions to JASON) Jason Dean, Jason Dean (she motions to her brother-in-law) Leo Wyatt. (LEO nods.)

LEO: Nice to meet you.

(JASON vaguely nods his head.)

JASON: Likewise…

(PIPER hands JASON his glass of ice water.)

JASON: Thank you. (He takes a long drink. PHOEBE smiles sheepishly, then pushes LEO out of the kitchen.)

PHOEBE: (whispering to LEO) I need to talk to you for a minute. (to everyone else) We’ll be right back! (She leads LEO down the hallway and pushes him into CHRIS’s room and shuts the door.) I need you to orb me to the Manor.

LEO: Wait, what’s going on? I thought Chris said he was just going there to expedite saving your innocent?

PHOEBE: Well, that was before I saw him being killed again, so now I need to find whatever demonic clan is after him. (She pats LEO’s chest.) So orb! (They orb out.)

[Cut to the kitchen. JASON is tapping his fingers on his knee nervously.]

JASON: So who exactly is supposed to be after me?

PIPER: Uh, well… (She sits down in a chair across from him.) We’re not sure, exactly.

JASON: Not sure?

PIPER: Uh… (She smiles weakly.) It was more like…an anonymous tip.

(JASON touches his head.)

JASON: I can’t believe this!

MELINDA: Is there anyone who may have a grudge against you?

JASON: Are you joking? Only about every person I’ve ever bought out, laid off, fired, or ended business deals with.

CHRIS: How about anyone very recently?

JASON: Uh, (he shakes his head) there was one person, (he taps his hand on the table) my accountant, Jim Brookes. I found out he was skimming money off the funds I was donating to charity, so I fired him and then brought a lawsuit against him.

(MELINDA opens a draw and grabs a pen and writes down “Jim Brookes” in her palm.)

MELINDA: Alright, thanks, (to PIPER and CHRIS) I’m gonna go follow up on this. (She leaves. The sound of a baby crying echoes from down the hall. PIPER raises her finger.)

PIPER: Excuse me a moment, I have to check on that. (She gets up and leaves. CHRIS leans on the table and stares awkwardly at JASON, who returns the look.)

[Scene: Manor. Attic. LEO is looking over PHOEBE’s shoulder. PHOEBE shakes her head.]

LEO: Nothing at all looks familiar?

PHOEBE: No. (The pages start to turn themselves and PHOEBE steps back. They settle on down and PHOEBE leans forward.)

LEO: “Executioner Demons.”

PHOEBE: That would explain the outfits…and axes. (She runs her finger down the page.) “Minions of a low order. Demonic mercenaries incapable of original thoughts or deed. Usually found in the employ of high level demons or mortals proficient in dark arts.”

LEO: It looks like this is more difficult than we thought. These guys are just the hired guns, so Jason won’t be safe until we get the puppet master.

PHOEBE: The good news is that these guys are pretty easy to vanquish. Apparently all we have to do is kill them with their own weapons or use valerian potions on them. (She closes the Book.)

[Scene: Downtown San Francisco. Mall. Women’s restroom. PAIGE holds up an orange bottle that reads, “Anti-Static!” She takes off the cap.]

PAIGE: Close your eyes. (She sprays the bottle over PRUE.) Turn around. (PRUE turns around and PAIGE sprays her again.) Alright, now that should take care of things. (She puts the top back on the bottle and drops it into one of her shopping bags.) How do you feel?

PRUE: Only one way to find out. (She reaches out and touches PAIGE’s hand, but ends up shocking her.)

PAIGE: Ow! (She folds her arms.) What the hell? This is ridiculous! (She opens the door and stomps out.) Okay, that it, we’re going home and I’m cooking up a potion to end your static once and for all.

PRUE: Personal gain?

PAIGE: Honey, your static is setting off store security. I think a potion is well within our rights.

PRUE: You don’t know it set off the alarm.

PAIGE: Well, what else could it be…in four different stores?

PRUE: Bad wiring?

PAIGE: A huh, because we were the only ones it happened to. (She shakes her head.) Nope, I think you were onto something with it being a magical pregnancy symptom.

[Scene: Manor. Kitchen. PHOEBE holds up an empty bottle upside down.]

PHOEBE: Great, we’re out of valerian herbs.

LEO: I could orb over to Chinatown and pick some up.

PHOEBE: Oh, would you? That would be great! (She raises her finger.) But you should drop me off back at your house first otherwise they might start to wonder where we are.

[Scene: San Francisco Police Department. DARRYL is sitting at his desk with his phone to his ear, typing “Brookes, Jim” into the search box in his computer. An hourglass comes up as the computer loads, then a picture and profile of JIM BROOKES appears. DARRYL scans the page.]

DARRYL: He was sued for fifty thousand by Jason Dean for stealing from his charity fund, but other than that, he doesn’t have any other convictions.

MELINDA's VOICE: Does he have an address?

DARRYL: Ten-fifteen Templar Avenue.

MELINDA's VOICE: Great! Thanks Uncle D! Talk t’ya later. (The line goes dead. DARRYL squints.)

DARRYL: “Uncle D”?

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Kitchen. BABY CHRIS is sitting on PIPER’s lap, sucking on a pacifier, while BABY MELINDA is in the floor in her baby walker.]

JASON: No offense, but you and your sister seem like the most unassuming people to be protecting someone from murder attempts.

(PHOEBE walks in.)

PHOEBE: Isn’t that a good thing? You wouldn’t want someone protecting you that people would assume is protecting you, would you?

JASON: I guess you have a point.

PIPER: Trust me, Mr. Dean, we have a long history of protecting innocent people. You’re in safe hands.

(MELINDA pokes her head in.)

MELINDA: I’ve got an address. Want me to check it out?

PHOEBE: Actually, maybe Chris and I should go? You can, (she motions her hands in a PIPER-like fashion) you know, so it might be safer if you stayed here with Jason and Piper.

MELINDA: Good idea. (She hands PHOEBE a piece of paper with JIM’s name and address on it. PHOEBE looks it over.)

PHOEBE: Thanks. (to PIPER and JASON) We’ll be back soon. (She heads down the hallway.) Chris!

BREAK

[The Virtual Series]

Act Four

[Scene: 1015 Templar Avenue. PHOEBE and CHRIS are standing on the sidewalk. PHOEBE looks at the address on the paper MELINDA gave her and then up at the house.]

PHOEBE: I think this is it. (They walk up the walkway and PHOEBE bangs on the door. Nobody answers, so PHOEBE raises her hand to bang on it again when CHRIS stops her.)

CHRISs: I’ve got a better way. (He waves his hand over the lock and the door clicks and pops open. PHOEBE narrows her eyes.)

PHOEBE: I’ve been meaning to ask you, how do you-

MAN’s VOICE: Who the hell are you?!

(PHOEBE and CHRIS look to see JIM BROOKES standing near the stairs, staring wide eyed at them. They walk inside and JIM grabs a crystal vase from a mini table near him. He waves it threateningly.)

JIM: Don’t come any closer!

CHRIS: I wouldn’t do that if I were you.

(JIM starts to walk backwards.)

JIM: I’m calling the police!

(CHRIS discretely twitches his fingers and suddenly JIM trips and falls. The crystal vase hits the ground and shatters. PHOEBE bounds over to JIM and grabs his arms behind his back, holding him in place.)

PHOEBE: What do you have against Jason Dean?

JIM: What? (He starts to shake his head.) I don’t know what you’re talking about!

PHOEBE: You sent someone to kill him. Why?

(JIM shakes his head fearfully.)

JIM: No, I didn’t, I swear!

CHRIS: (to PHOEBE) I’m going to go have a look around. (He walks upstairs. PHOEBE yanks JIM up from the ground and pushes him against the wall.)

PHOEBE: Look, I don’t take kindly to people who lie to me, so just tell me, why did you summon the Executioners?

JIM: Executioners?

(PHOEBE sighs.)

PHOEBE: Don’t play dumb. (She presses her arm to his throat.) I want you to call them off.

(JIM is shaking.)

JIM: I don’t know what you’re talking about, I swear!

(CHRIS comes back down the stairs.)

CHRIS: I didn’t find any demonic paraphernalia.

JIM: D-d-demonic paraphernalia? Wh-what are you talking about?!

[Premonition: There’s a flash of JIM is purchasing a bag of marijuana and then another flash of JIM passing out after he’s smoked his marijuana.]

[Cut back to the present. PHOEBE let’s go of JIM, allowing him to slide to the floor. CHRIS looks confused.]

PHOEBE: It’s not him.

CHRIS: How do you know?

PHOEBE: Unless “proficient in dark arts” means successfully passing out on illegally purchased marijuana, it’s not him. (She looks down at JIM, who’s cowering near her feet.) What do we do with him?

(CHRIS stares at JIM, then pulls a small black book from his pocket, opens it and hands it to PHOEBE. He points to the left page labeled, “To Erase A Memory.”)

CHRIS: Read that.

PHOEBE: “Thoughts,
Beliefs,
Truths,
Images,
All of these you hold onto tightly,
What I now mention you will release.”

(A white glow passes over JIM. He shakes his head and stares at PHOEBE and CHRIS.)

JIM: Who are you? (He realizes he’s sitting on the ground and scrambles to his feet. CHRIS grabs his black book from PHOEBE and slips it back into his jacket pocket.)

CHRIS: Okay, Mr. Brookes! You really don’t want to buy our Dutchman vacuum, we get the hint! (He rolls his eyes and motions to PHOEBE.) Come on, Liz, let’s try the next house.

(JIM looks utterly confused as CHRIS and PHOEBE leave. As CHRIS shuts the door, PHOEBE bursts out laughing.)

PHOEBE: Vacuum salesmen?

CHRIS: It worked, didn’t it?

PHOEBE: Where did you learn that spell?

CHRIS: The future, where else?

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Living room. JASON is sitting on the couch, watching the news. MELINDA walks out with a tray of sandwiches.]

MELINDA: Hey, my mom made some- (A bolt of lightning appears behind JASON, depositing EXECUTIONER DEMON #2. A siren and lights begin to blare simultaneously. JASON begins to turn around when the room freezes, with EXECUTIONER DEMON #2’s axe mere inches from JASON’s neck.) Time out!

(MELINDA hurries over to the couch, sets the tray down, and slides the axe out of the demon’s hands. She in turn swings it, slicing EXECUTIONER DEMON #2 through the back and causes him to explode. She breathes a sigh of relief and then picks up her tray and blinks her eyes, causing the room to unfreeze. JASON looks behind him.)

JASON: What is that- (He realizes the alarm is no longer on. He turns his head around and sees MELINDA.) Where did you come from?

MELINDA: Uh, (she shrugs) you probably didn’t hear me because of the alarm. (She smiles sweetly.) My dad’s rewiring it right now. If it goes off again, don’t pay any attention to it. (She shoves her tray at him.) Sandwich?

[Scene: Manor. Driveway. Paige’s green VW Bug pulls up. She and PRUE gather their shopping bags and head for the front doors.]

PAIGE: On the bright side, I think at least some of the things we picked up were kind of classy.

PRUE: Name one.

PAIGE: Uhhh…oh! I know, (she unlocks the front door) that ivory satin top with the floral trim wasn’t too bad.

PRUE: It was also for someone waaaay more pregnant than me.

PAIGE: Oh don’t worry, you’ll get there in a few months. (They walk through the entry way and into the dining room, where they drop their bags on the table. PAIGE moves into the kitchen and PRUE follows.)

PRUE: Whatcha doin’?

PAIGE: Working on that potion.

PRUE: I thought you were joking.

(PAIGE pulls an armful of herbs out of the herb cabinet.)

PAIGE: Does it look like I’m joking? (She sets the jarbs on the island.) Why don’t you go check on Phoebe? Maybe show her some of your new clothes.

(PRUE wrinkles her nose. She grabs a fudgesicle from the freezer and heads out of the kitchen.)

PAIGE: And remember not to zap her!

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Kitchen. PIPER is boiling water over the stove and LEO is standing next to her. He passes her both a packet of dried leaves and a root beer colored bottle.]

LEO: I wasn’t sure which one would be more useful, so I got both the dried perennials and the valerian oil.

(PIPER inserts a few drops of brownish-yellow oil into the boiling water and then a pinch of dried herbs.)

PIPER: Well, since we have both, why not use both? (She holds out her hand.) The scotch broom leaf, please?

(LEO hands her a jar of dried yellow flowers. PIPER sprinkles some into the pot and then grabs a chunk of mandrake root and uses her knife to shave some into the pot. PIPER picks up a long wooden spoon and begins to stir the mixture as MELINDA walks in with her empty tray in hand.)

MELINDA: FYI, the innocent’s getting restless out there. And he was attacked again.

LEO: (worriedly) He was attacked again?

MELINDA: No worries, I took care of it. (She sets the tray by the sink and then moves to peer over her parents’ shoulders.) How goes the potion?

(PIPER turns the heat down to a simmer and puts on the lid.)

PIPER: Ten minutes on simmer and it should be done. (She takes off her apron.) Have you heard from Phoebe and Chris?

[Scene: San Francisco Police Department. CHRIS and PHOEBE walk in. PHOEBE walks up to DARRYL’s desk and DARRYL groans.]

DARRYL: What do you need now?

(PHOEBE leans in towards DARRYL and shields her mouth with her hand.)

PHOEBE: Jason’s address.

DARRYL: What? Why?

CHRIS: Brookes isn’t the one.

PHOEBE: We need to search Jason’s home; I might be able to get a premonition off something there and crack the case.

(DARRYL types JASON's name into his computer and a waits as a picture and profile load onto the screen.)

DARRYL: It isn’t exactly local.

(PHOEBE pats CHRIS's shoulder.)

PHOEBE: Don’t worry, we’ve got it covered.

(DARRYL jots down JASON’s home address and hands it to PHOEBE.)

DARRYL: I hope this will be the last one?

CHRIS: Us too. (They turn to leave but PHOEBE glances over her shoulder.)

PHOEBE: By the way, you may want to check out Mr. Brookes again. Something tells me that Jason’s cash wasn’t the only green he had illegally.

(DARRYL lifts a brow.)

DARRYL: You mean to tell me he’s been flying a little - high - over our radar?

PHOEBE: I couldn’t have said it better myself. (She and CHRIS leave. DARRYL picks up his phone again.)

DARRYL: Hey…I think I might have an update on that accountant thief, Jim Brookes…

[Time lapse. PHOEBE is staring out a giant skyline window with a view of New York.]

PHOEBE: Well, I’ve gotta say, this brings back memories. Although, (she nods) my view pretty much consisted of smog and drunken bums.

CHRIS: Hey, we came here for a reason, so can you please help? It’s not like I can get premonitions over here.

PHOEBE: Oh, stop your bellyaching.

CHRIS: Well, he is your innocent.

(PHOEBE begins to walk around the living room, touching various objects but gets nothing. She eyes a door across the room.)

PHOEBE: What about over there? (She walks over to the room and pushes it open, revealing JASON’s bedroom.) Bingo. People always have revealing things in their bedrooms. (She starts opening up drawers and digging around inside, waiting for a premonition to strike. She hears CHRIS make a grunting sound.)

CHRIS: We’ve been looking for over twenty minutes, if we haven’t found anything by now, what makes you think continuing to search will produce any results?

PHOEBE: I’m not sure it will, but right now (she grabs a picture on the dresser) it’s the only lead we’ve got (she sets the picture down and trails her hand across the dresser) so I’m trying to make sure we don’t miss anything. (She runs her hand along another picture and freezes up.)

[Premonition: The black cloaked figure who summoned the Executioner Demons is standing within its ritual room as it removes its hood, revealing itself to be a glossy haired blonde woman.]

[Cut back to the present. PHOEBE picks up the photograph and sees the blonde woman from her vision, shaking hands with JASON.]

PHOEBE: Chris, come here. (CHRIS walks over and PHOEBE shows him the picture.) I think this is it, (she points to the woman in the picture) she summoned the Executioner Demons.

(CHRIS takes the picture.)

CHRIS: Chloe Lucas?

PHOEBE: You know her?

CHRIS: No, but I know of her.

PHOEBE: From the future I take it?

CHRIS: No, from the present. (PHOEBE raises her eyebrows.) What? For two months while Melinda was trying to integrate herself into your lives I had nothing to do but watch T.V.

PHOEBE: You couldn’t have gotten your own job?

CHRIS: And risk messing with other people’s destinies?

(PHOEBE shakes her head.)

PHOEBE: You know what? Just tell me everything you know about Chloe.

CHRIS: She’s been in the news a lot recently. She’s one of the rarities in the world of business, working her way up from virtually nothing. Very recently she was involved a company merger with Dean Inc.-

PHOEBE: As in Jason Dean, as in, my innocent?

CHRIS: Yes-

PHOEBE: Why didn’t you feel the need to tell me that before?

CHRIS: You don’t even know what I’m about to say.

PHOEBE: The merger went bad?

CHRIS: Publically, it was a mutual decision, but there are a number of people who theorize Dean pulled out at the last minute.

PHOEBE: Why?

CHRIS: I don’t know. Like I said, it’s just speculation.

PHOEBE: We need to talk to Jason.

BREAK

[The Virtual Series]

Act Five

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Living room. PHOEBE is holding up the picture from JASON's apartment. JASON looks furious. CHRIS, MELINDA, and PIPER are also there.]

JASON: Where did you get this? (He grabs the photograph from PHOEBE’s hand.)

PHOEBE: That doesn’t matter right now, what does, is what happened between you two. (pause) Why was the merger between your companies called off? (JASON doesn’t say anything, instead he just looks at the picture.) Jason, please, we can’t help you unless you help us.

JASON: We were dating. (PHOEBE looks a little surprised.) Secretly, it was only a few months in, but we decided to merge our companies anyway. (He looks up.) That’s how we’d met, at a business conference in New York. We were so much alike that we had an instant connection…

PHOEBE: But what about the merger?

JASON: Right before we were going to make the merger official, I found some documents.

CHRIS: What kind of documents?

JASON: The kind that said she wasn’t as clean cut as I thought she was. (pause) That’s why I called it off.

PHOEBE: But you still had feelings for her…so you didn’t go public with what you found?

JASON: You’re pretty intuitive, Ms. Halliwell. (He hands the picture back to PHOEBE.) I couldn’t jeopardize myself, my company, or our future by continuing to stay politically and/or emotionally involved with her.

MELINDA: Nothing like a woman scorned.

JASON: You really think she’s trying to kill me?

PHOEBE: Unfortunately, yes. (She grabs CHRIS’s arm.) Let’s go.

JASON: Wait, where are you going now?

PHOEBE: To find Chloe.

JASON: But you don’t even know where she is.

PHOEBE: We have special resources. (to CHRIS) Come on. (She and CHRIS walk out.)

[Scene: Manor. Kitchen. PRUE is sitting at the kitchen table as PAIGE walks over and hands her a cup with brown liquid. PRUE pinches her lips together.]

PRUE: You do realize that kind of looks like sewage.

PAIGE: Oh, that’s gross!

PRUE: My point exactly.

PAIGE: It’s not sewage, just try it and see if it works.

PRUE: What if it has adverse effects? (She sniffs it.) What did you put in this thing anyway? (They hear a clunking sound from upstairs. PRUE puts PAIGE’s potion down.)

PAIGE: I thought you said Phoebe wasn’t here?

PRUE: She’s not.

PAIGE: Then who’s upstairs?

[Cut to the attic. CHRIS is pacing as PHOEBE hovers over a map of the United States with her scrying crystal and the picture of CHLOE. The crystal keeps spinning.]

CHRIS: Why is it taking so long?

PHOEBE: I just started. (She rolls her eyes.) Has anyone ever told you how impatient you are? (She watches the spinning crystal.) Besides, since this is only a picture of Chloe and not something that actually belongs to her, it could slow things down a bit.

(PRUE and PAIGE walk in.)

PAIGE: (surprised) Phoebe?

(PRUE narrows her eyes.)

PRUE: What’re you scrying for?

PHOEBE: Well, we kind of have an innocent.

PRUE: An innocent? Wait, why didn’t you call me and PAIGE?

(PHOEBE shrugs.)

PHOEBE: It was kinda spur of the moment and then I had another vision and then I called the Twins to help and we all seemed to be taking care of it so I guess nobody thought to call you.

PRUE: Phoebe that’s reckless, what if you needed the Power of Three?

PHOEBE: Oh, but we don’t. At least, the woman we’re looking for appears to be mortal.

PRUE: “Appears” and “is” are entirely different things.

(PHOEBE’s crystal drops. She looks at CHRIS.)

PHOEBE: Oh look, she just happens to be in San Francisco today, what a coinkidink.

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Kitchen. PIPER and LEO are bottling vials of valerian potions when PRUE and PAIGE walk in. LEO and PIPER look surprised.]

LEO: When did you get here?

(PHOEBE and CHRIS walk in.)

PHOEBE: When we got here.

PRUE: Thanks for giving us the demonic heads up.

(PIPER holds her finger to her lips.)

PIPER: Shh! (She points.) The innocent - our mortal innocent - is just in the next room with Melinda.

PHOEBE: We think we’ve found Chloe, so Chris and I are going to head over there.

PRUE: I’ll go with you.

PHOEBE: Uh, Prue.

PRUE: What?

(PHOEBE motions to PRUE’s stomach.)

PHOEBE: Axes. These are Executioner Demons. Axes and babies aren’t exactly compatible.

PRUE: I’m pregnant, not porcelain Phoebe!

PIPER: (to PRUE) It sucks being treated as such, doesn’t it?

PHOEBE: In any case- (The demonic alarm system goes off again.) Oh that’s not good!

[Cut to the living room. MELINDA is standing near the sliding glass door with her hands up while JASON is frozen on the couch and EXECUTIONER DEMON #3 is frozen near the entertainment system. PRUE rushes in as MELINDA begins to move towards the demon. PRUE holds out her hand.]

MELINDA: Wait! You have to-

(A bolt of crackling electricity flies out of PRUE’s palm and hits EXECUTIONER DEMON #3 as PHOEBE, PIPER, PAIGE, LEO and CHRIS come into the room. The electric bolt blasts the demon off his feet, right into the entertainment system, breaking it. PHOEBE’s mouth drops open as PRUE stares down at her hand in shock. EXECUTIONER DEMON #3 sees the group of witches and disappears in a bolt of lightning. MELINDA and CHRIS share worried looks.)

PAIGE: Now I know that’s not normal static electricity!

(PHOEBE raises her finger to PRUE.)

PHOEBE: No freaking way! (She stares.) I can’t believe you got that power! That was my power!

PAIGE: (to PHOEBE) What are you talking about? (to PRUE) What was that?

PHOEBE: That was her new power. (She puts her hands on her hips.) My power; the power I had in the future.

(PAIGE twists her head to PRUE.)

PAIGE: You got a new power? (She smacks her forehead.) Well that explains so much.

LEO: It doesn’t make sense, though. Prue’s powers are connected to movement, not electricity.

PIPER: Maybe they’re not her powers, (she motions to PRUE’s stomach) maybe they’re the baby’s?

[Scene: Dark room. This time the room is slightly lit by scattered burning black candles. CHLOE LUCAS and EXECUTIONER DEMON #3 are there. CHLOE looks furious.]

CHLOE: What do you mean he was protected?!

EXECUTIONER DEMON #3: By witches. Powerful witches. They must have been what killed the others.

(CHLOE throws up her arms furiously.)

CHLOE: Of all the people to find witches to protect him… (She stalks over to the pot in the middle of the room and kneels down. The thick black goop is still in her pot. She sticks her finger into the goo.) “Ecce homo!” (A reflection of JASON talking to MELINDA in PIPER and LEO's living room appears in the bowl. CHLOE stands up and brushes her hands together.) We need to lure him away.

(CHLOE purses her lips and moves to a large black cabinet in the corner of the room. She throws it open, revealing five shelves of ritualistic dark arts ingredients and materials. She begins to gather them into her arms.)

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. Kitchen. LEO orbs in. The CHARMED ONES, PIPER, and CHRIS are already gathered there.]

LEO: Piper’s right, The Elders confirmed that Prue hasn’t received a new power, so has to have been channeled from her unborn child.

(PHOEBE sticks out a fat lip.)

PHOEBE: Unbelievable. I’m still the only one with passive powers. (She motions to CHRIS.) Chris is only half whitelighter and he’s still got more active powers than me. (PRUE opens her mouth, but PHOEBE holds up a silencing finger.) Not that I don’t appreciate my own powers, I just…seem to get the runt ones.

PAIGE: Not that I’m not happy for my niece and everything, because of course I am, but I believe we’ve still got an innocent to save, yes?

PHOEBE: Yes.

PAIGE: So, let’s hop to it! (PRUE stands up, but PAIGE pushes her back down.) Oh no you don’t! We can’t have you accidentally channeling that electricity again.

PRUE: But it’s in North Beach, I know that area!

PHOEBE: We have the address, Prue. We’ll be fine. (She waves her hand.) You just stay here with Piper. (She gathers the valerian potions from the table and passes them out to PAIGE, CHRIS, and then pockets three for herself.)

PAIGE: So, what do we do when we catch her? I mean, it’s not like we can bind her powers if she’s already mortal.

LEO: You just have to take her away from her materials. With mortals who dabble in dark arts-

PIPER: She summoned three demons; I think that’s more than dabbling Leo.

LEO: My point is, for mortals, their power comes from their ritualistic materials. (to PRUE, PIPER, & PHOEBE) As you three learned in the past, magic is all around you - it’s in the simplest of nature - and in rare cases, persistent mortals can learn to access it.

PAIGE: So, we just need to slap some handcuffs on her and lock her in a cell?

PIPER: Before you can do that you have to actually find a reason lock her away.

PRUE: And it’s not like demons for hire is a charge that’s going to hold up in court.

PAIGE: So, how do we put a catch her with the smoking gun?

MELINDA’s VOICE: Uh, Jason!

(JASON walks in, followed by MELINDA. The group already in the kitchen briskly turns around. JASON holds up his wrist, revealing a golden Rolex.)

JASON: I have a conference tonight at seven. It’s very important. (to PHOEBE) Please tell me I’m not going to have to miss it.

PHOEBE: Well-

CHRIS: You won’t.

PHOEBE: You won’t? (to CHRIS) He won’t?

(CHRIS shakes his head.)

CHRIS: Absolutely not. Inspector Morris just contacted us, right Phoebe?

PHOEBE: Uh, (she rigidly nods her head) yeah…

CHRIS: He wants us to go with you, undercover, of course…in case Chloe or someone else shows up for her. (He smiles.) We have everything under control.

(PHOEBE makes a nervous cough.)

PHOEBE: Mel, could you um, give us (she motions to her family) a moment?

MELINDA: Oh, right. (She wiggles her fingers at JASON and he freezes. PHOEBE turns to CHRIS.)

PHOEBE: What do you think you’re doing? We can’t let him go to that conference until Chloe is apprehended!

(CHRIS motions to his sister.)

CHRIS: Hey Mel, do you still remember that Inhibitions Spell?

MELINDA: Oh! You mean the one I cast on you when we were fourteen and you were too nervous to ask Gem Woodsen out?

(CHRIS glowers.)

CHRIS: I just asked if you remembered the spell.

MELINDA: Of course.

CHRIS: I think you need to cast it again.

(MELINDA grins.)

MELINDA: I always knew you’d be happy I cast that spell.

BREAK

[The Virtual Series]

Act Six

[Scene: Piper and Leo’s house. PHOEBE is peering over MELINDA’s shoulder as she writes on a notepad. She sees the words, “My brother don’t know the fun he’s missin’, So cut him some slack and lower his inhibitions.” PHOEBE stifles a snicker.]

PHOEBE: (whispering) Catchy.

MELINDA: I know, right?

CHRIS: (annoyed) Can you please just rewrite the spell?

MELINDA: Okay Mr. Impatient! (She crosses out “My brother” and writes “Chloe” above it, then changes the male pronouns to female pronouns. She holds up the spell.) Done!

PIPER: So, what exactly does this spell do? I mean, is it safe? It isn’t circumventing free will, is it?

MELINDA: Absolutely not! (She gets up.) It just lowers the inhibitions of the person it’s cast upon so that they can fulfill what they want to do and what they weren’t letting themselves do before the spell was cast. In Chris’s case, (CHRIS glares) it allowed him to ask Gem out because he already wanted to ask Gem out. In Chloe’s case, she wants to murder Jason, so it will allow her to attempt to murder him-

PHOEBE: What!

(MELINDA waves her hands.)

MELINDA: Calm down. She won’t succeed, because we’ll be there to keep him from getting hurt, but Uncle D will also be there-

LEO: Uncle D?

MELINDA: Darryl. Uncle Darryl.

LEO: Oh…

MELINDA: Anyway, he’ll be there to catch the murder attempt and viola! He’ll arrest her and all will be right with the world.

PAIGE: So, what are you waiting for? Cast it!

MELINDA: Uh, (she holds up her index finger) one problem…we need something of hers before I can cast it.

PRUE: Anything?

MELINDA: Preferably something biological, like a lock of hair, or something of personal importance. For example-

(CHRIS raises his finger.)

CHRIS: Melinda!

MELINDA: I used the valentine Chris never sent to Gem. (She presses her finger to her lips.) Uh…just know that whatever you take does have to be burned, though.

PIPER: (shocked) You burned your brother’s valentine?

MELINDA: It was three weeks after Valentine’s Day! (She shrugs.) It wasn’t like he was going to send it, so I thought I’d put it to good use anyway.

CHRIS: (yelling) You have such a big mouth! Stop talking about the future!

MELINDA: It’s a story about your silly crush! It’s not going to have echoing effects on the future!

CHRIS: You don’t know that!

MELINDA: God, Chris, you are so paranoid…

(CHRIS throws out his hands furiously.)

CHRIS: Just shut up for once in your life!

MELINDA: Don’t tell me to shut up!

CHRIS: I’ll tell you to shut up if I have to tell you to shut up, and if you’re going to go around blabbing about the future, I’m going tell you to shut up!

(PIPER shifts her eyes almost comically between her grown children.)

MELINDA: You know what Chris, (she throws up her hands as if to catch at ball) you shut up!

(CHRIS starts to shake his head, but his lips are stuck together. His eyes balloon and he starts to throw his hands up and down but only a low growl can be heard from the back of his throat. MELINDA snorts.)

MELINDA: Oh don’t give me that, (she turns away) I’m not in the mood to hear it.

(PIPER’s mouth drops open. She points.)

PIPER: What did you just do to him?

MELINDA: (dismissively) Froze him.

PIPER: (disbelievingly) Froze him?

(MELINDA nods her head slowly.)

MELINDA: Well, froze his lips, technically. (She eyes him.) I could freeze all of him if I wanted, though.

(PIPER blinks in disbelief.)

PIPER: How?

MELINDA: (sarcastically) Uh, (she holds up her hands as if it’s the most obvious thing in the world) with these. (She gives a cute shrug of her shoulders and simultaneous roll of her eyes.) But I can also activate my power through my eyes, too. It’s actually pretty cool! (CHRIS hits MELINDA.) Ow! Would you stop hittin’ me?! (She spins around and squints her eyes; CHRIS’s hands suddenly freeze in mid air. She grins and turns back to her mother, satisfied.) See? Cool, huh?

(PIPER gawks.)

PRUE: But Piper’s powers never worked on us. How come yours works on Chris?

MELINDA: Oh! (to PIPER) That’s what you meant! (She laughs as she looks at her partially frozen twin brother.) That’s simple, really. Our powers don’t work on good witches, and although Chris may be good - (sourly) and even that’s debatable - he still ain’t a witch…so (she bobs her head back and forth) I can freeze him.

(PHOEBE motions her hand.)

PHOEBE: Well, can you kindly unfreeze him so we can finish saving Jason?

MELINDA: (whining) But he’s such a killjoy!

PIPER: (warningly) Melinda.

(MELINDA winces.)

MELINDA: Okay! (She faces a face at her twin.) You don’t have to give me that tone. (She lazily flicks her wrist and CHRIS’s lips and hands unfreeze. She looks at her mother.) Happy now? (PIPER nods. MELINDA rolls her eyes.) Fabulous. (to PHOEBE) Okay, I need that address.

PHOEBE: But we need you to make sure Jason’s safe at the conference.

MELINDA: But I know what I’m looking for as far as something for this spell. Besides, it shouldn’t take too long. I’ll just have Dad orb me over while you guys drive Jason to the conference and we’ll meet up there afterwards. (pause) I can also freeze Chloe if she happens to be at home when we arrive. (PHOEBE looks unsure.) Come on, don’t you trust me? (CHRIS snorts.) Do you want me to freeze you again, Little Brother? (CHRIS grits his teeth.) That’s what I thought. (to PHOEBE) So?

PHOEBE: Fine. (She reaches into her pocket and hands MELINDA the address.)

MELINDA: Great. (She starts to walk over to LEO.)

PHOEBE: Uh, aren’t you forgetting something?

MELINDA: What? (PHOEBE motions to her frozen innocent.) Oh. (She laughs.) Right. (She waves her hand.) Back into position, everyone! (They attempt to get back into the position they were in before MELINDA froze JASON.)

PHOEBE: Was I here or there?

(PAIGE grabs PHOEBE.)

PAIGE: That’s good enough.

(MELINDA unfreezes JASON.)

MELINDA: (to JASON) So, they’ll take you to that conference and (to LEO) we’re going to go follow up on that Chloe lead. (LEO scoots out of the kitchen. He briefly nods to JASON.)

LEO: Nice meeting you.

JASON: (oddly) Right.

[Time lapse. LEO is quietly snooping around the bedroom of what appears to be quaint summer home. MELINDA peeks in.]

MELINDA: I didn’t really find anything useful in the living room or the bathroom. (She walks over to her father.) What about you?

(LEO holds up a hairbrush.)

LEO: It was on the vanity.

(MELINDA begins to pick a few strands of hair out.)

MELINDA: I’m not sure if there’s enough in here to work with. (She suddenly tilts her head to the side.) Do you hear that?

LEO: What?

MELINDA: Shh. (They’re quiet and they begin to hear a low rhythmic murmur.) It sounds like…chanting. (She turns around in a circle.) But where? (She looks at LEO.) Can you sense anything?

(LEO closes his eyes. After a few moments, he walkers over to the bed and begins to push on it.)

LEO: A little help?

MELINDA: Right. (She helps him push the bed aside, revealing a carpet. She grabs the carpet and pushes it away, revealing a door in the floor.) Oh, now that’s original. (She opens the door and waves her hand.) After you. (LEO climbs in and MELINDA follows him.)

[Cut to underneath the summer house. MELINDA gets to the bottom and steps off the ladder. The chanting is louder, but they still can’t make it out. LEO presses his arm protectively in front of MELINDA.]

LEO: (whispering) Stay behind me.

MELINDA: (whispering) But I’m the one who can freeze.

LEO: (whispering) But you’re not impervious to bodily harm.

MELINDA: (whispering) What if there’s a darklighter with her?

LEO: (whispering) Then you can freeze him on the surprise.

(MELINDA rolls her eyes, but follows behind her father nevertheless. As they walk, the passageway gets narrower and the chanting becomes louder. MELINDA gasps.)

LEO: What?

MELINDA: (whispering) She’s chanting a Latin curse! (She pushes LEO along.) Hurry, we’ve got to stop her! (They quicken their pace and eventually come to an opening where flickering lights are bouncing off the wall. MELINDA and LEO peek around the opening and see CHLOE, dressed in her black robes, kneeling before her pot as she chants. She raises her hand above the pot and presses an athame to her palm. MELINDA raises her hands and freezes CHLOE.) Gotcha!

(MELINDA walks up to CHLOE and moves in a circle around her. She leans in and sees the black potion. LEO walks over and also inspects the potion.)

LEO: Wanna bet who this spell is for?

MELINDA: Revenge for two-hundred, Trebek?

LEO: And what’s more important to Chloe than revenge?

(MELINDA wags her finger and grins. She reaches into her pocket and pulls out a lighter and lights the black goo on fire.)

MELINDA: “Chloe don’t know the fun she’s missin’,
So cut her some slack and lower her inhibitions!”

(The fire in the pot billows up and then promptly vanishes with a pop, leaving only smoke to willow from the bowl. MELINDA grabs LEO’s hand and pulls him to the corner of the room. She waves her hand and CHLOE unfreezes. CHLOE stops her chanting and instantly gets up and starts to turn around. MELINDA waves her hand again and CHLOE begins to move in slow motion. MELINDA tugs at LEO's arm, moving him out of CHLOE’s line of vision as CHLOE finally makes her full turn. MELINDA motions her hand once more and CHLOE resumes her full speed and walks out of the room without ever having noticed LEO or MELINDA.)

LEO: (whispering) What was that?

MELINDA: (whispering) That was my other power, molecular deceleration. I can put things in slow motion. I don’t use it very often, but (she shrugs) in cases like these, it can come in pretty handy. (They hear CHLOE’s footsteps fade away.) Okay, let’s go. (They orb out.)

[Scene: Holmes Conference Hall. Back stage. A few people are prepping JASON, giving him notes and trying to put makeup on him. JASON keeps move away, trying to get away from them. PHOEBE walks up and holds back a smirk.]

PHOEBE: Wow, so “conferences” are really just fashion shows for businessmen, who knew?

(JASON shoos away the prep people and manages a small laugh at PHOEBE’s joke. PHOEBE smiles.)

PHOEBE: Hey, it’s nice to see you have a sense of humor. (She grins.) I didn’t know multimillionaire businessmen had those either.

JASON: Yeah, well, you shouldn’t stereotype, you know?

(PHOEBE looks a little taken aback.)

PHOEBE: Sorry…I guess I didn’t realize-

JASON: Now who’s the one who can’t take a joke? (He smiles. PHOEBE manages a small laugh. There’s a brief silence.) So…everything’s ready for me to go out there?

(PHOEBE nods.)

PHOEBE: We’re all set. (She touches his shoulder.) You’re in safe hands.

JASON: I certainly hope so. (They walk to the curtain. A person off to the side gives JASON a cue.)

WOMAN’s VOICE: And now for our special guest tonight, please give a warm welcome to Mr. Jason Dean!

(JASON puts on a smile as he walks out on stage. PHOEBE peers out, watching him as he makes it to the podium and begins his speech.)

[Cut to back of the auditorium. PAIGE is poised at the back of the room, keeping a lookout for CHLOE.]

[Cut to the front left of the stage. CHRIS is waiting, looking back and forth between the audience and JASON.]

[Cut to the exit doors. PIPER is standing with a stun potion in hand. She presses her hand to her ear.]

PIPER: (whispering) I haven’t seen any sign of her yet.

[Cut to the parking lot. DARRYL and PRUE are seated in an unmarked police car. PIPER’s voice is coming through DARRYL’s radio. PRUE picks up the radio.]

PRUE: Copy that. (DARRYL gives her an odd look.) Neither have we. (She sets the radio down.) What? Isn’t that what you guys always say?

(DARRYL ignores the comment.)

DARRYL: Are you sure this is going to work?

PRUE: The Twins seemed sure.

DARRYL: I’ve been meaning to ask you about that, you keep talking about the Twins making plans. (He looks in his rearview mirror and sees BABY MELINDA and BABY CHRIS seated in their car seats in the back seat.) Are they some kind of Baby Geniuses or something? The Carrie and Sylvester of the magical world?

PRUE: No…they’re just from the future.

DARRYL: From the future? As in…time traveling future?

PRUE: Twenty-four years or so.

(DARRYL rubs his head.)

DARRYL: Oh man, just when you’ve thought you’ve seen it all. (pause) I don’t want to know, do I?

PRUE: Probably not.

DARRYL: Right. (He turns his attention back to his lookout, trying not to think about the future Twins.)

[Cut to Piper. LEO orbs in next to her. She jumps.]

LEO: Chloe’s on her way. Are the reporters ready?

PIPER: All twenty-three of them.

LEO: Good, (he closes his eyes) because she’s walking through the doors right now.

[Cut to the audience. MELINDA keeps looking over her shoulder as she only half listens to JASON’s speech. Suddenly, there’s a loud gunshot. MELINDA blinks her eyes and the room freezes. MELINDA stands up and slowly motions her hand around the room. A pinpoint of a slow moving object becomes visible as it glides through the air in slow motion - the bullet heading for JASON.]

MELINDA: (yelling) Aunt Phoebe, now!

(The room unfreezes but the bullet remains in slow motion as a frenzy of noise fills the air while PHOEBE bounds across the stage and tackles JASON to the ground. MELINDA winks her eye and bullet resumes its normal speed and blasts across the remainder of the room, finally embedding itself in the curtain behind JASON and creating a large rip in the red fabric. Gasps spread across the room as media goes wild.)

[Cut to Darryl and Prue. PRUE points to CHLOE as she comes running out of the building. DARRYL leaps out of his car and holds up his gun.]

DARRYL: Stop or I’ll shoot!

(PRUE narrows her eyes, causing CHLOE to trip. CHLOE falls to the ground and DARRYL runs over and begins to cuff her as two other officers run up. From her passenger seat, PRUE turns around to the infant Twins and gives them a double thumbs up.)

PRUE: A job well done, I’d say.

[Time lapse. PRUE, PAIGE, and CHRIS are standing in the alley behind the Holmes Conference Hall. PAIGE has her nose plugged.]

PAIGE: Is this really necessary? We’ve already taken care of Chloe and the Book did say that these guys aren’t capable of their own original thoughts.

CHRIS: Do you really want to take any chances?

PRUE: Chris is right, we shouldn’t leave any loose ends, just in case.

CHRIS: Thank you.

(PAIGE holds up a spell.)

PRUE & PAIGE: “Executioner who wields thy deadly axe,
We summon you to pay for your unruly acts!”

(A thundering sound is heard, followed by a bright strike of lightning that makes PAIGE lean back. EXECUTIONER DEMON #3 appears before the two Charmed Ones and CHRIS. All at once they throw their valerian potions at the demon’s feet and he explodes with an echoing howl.)

PAIGE: (to CHRIS) Good enough for you?

CHRIS: Great.

PAIGE: Super, (she grabs PRUE’s hand) we’ll see you later. (They orb out. After a moment, so does CHRIS.)

[Scene: Manor. Phoebe’s bedroom. MELINDA is sitting at PHOEBE’s vanity, brushing her hair as she watches her reflection as well as PHOEBE’s reflection in the mirror. From the mirror, MELINDA can see PHOEBE going over more want ads.]

MELINDA: You know, I don’t think you’re going to find what you want in there.

(PHOEBE looks up curiously.)

PHOEBE: Why not?

(MELINDA turns around.)

MELINDA: Witch’s intuition?

PHOEBE: Or future knowledge?

(MELINDA just smiles at her aunt.)

[Cut to the entry way. There’s a knocking at the front door. For several moments there’s no response, then another knock sounds, but this time it’s louder and more incessant, followed by another. Footsteps sound from the living room.]

PAIGE’s VOICE: I’m coming, geeze! (She walks in.) Doesn’t anyone have any patience these days? (PAIGE walks over to the front door and opens it, revealing PIPER standing on the porch holding BABY MELINDA in her baby carrier.) Piper!

PIPER: About time. (She walks in. PAIGE tilts her head as she shuts the door.)

PAIGE: What are you doing here?

PIPER: Can’t your sister stop by?

PAIGE: Yeah…I just wasn’t expecting you.

PIPER: I actually came to talk to Prue. (She looks around.) Where is she?

PAIGE: Uh, (she points) in the sunroom. (She fiddles with the spell in her hands.) Where’s Leo?

PIPER: Getting Chris out of the car…Baby Chris, that is. (PAIGE starts to follow PIPER to the sunroom.) Um, Paige, do you think you could give me a few minutes alone with Prue? (PAIGE looks a little surprised.) Don’t take that the wrong way or anything…I just kind of wanted to talk to her about something…mom to mom so to speak?

PAIGE: Oh, uh, yeah (she waves) go right ahead. (She shrugs.) I’ve got things to do anyway.

(PAIGE watches PIPER head into the sunroom until she’s distracted by the sound of LEO coming in with BABY CHRIS. She heads towards the door.)

PAIGE: Oh, let me shut that for you.

[Cut to the sunroom. PIPER lays BABY MELINDA down in the playpen. PRUE is staring out the windows, watching as the sun is beginning to sink down in the sky, casting yellow and orange swirls in the sky.]

PRUE: What’s wrong?

PIPER: What do you mean?

PRUE: You’ve got a nervous shuffle in your step. (She turns around.) What’s up?

(PIPER heaves a small sigh as she looks out the window.)

PIPER: I just kind of wanted to talk to you about something… (PRUE stares at her sister expectantly.) It’s about Chris and Melinda…the adults, I mean. (She looks at PRUE.) I can’t stop thinking about what they said a few days ago, about the future.

PRUE: About it being destroyed?

PIPER: Yeah. (She clasps her hands.) What bothers me the most is what they said about un-destined events…what do you think that means? (PRUE shakes her head. PIPER sighs.) I hope I haven’t helped to promote whatever happened there.

(PRUE wraps her arm around PIPER’s shoulder.)

PRUE: Don’t be silly, how could you - of all people - have possibly helped to destroy the future? (She squeezes PIPER’s shoulders, but PIPER tears her gaze away from PRUE’s blue eyes and returns them to the sunset outside.)

[The Virtual Series]

End Credits

Co-Starring
Brody Jo Hamilton --- Baby Melinda Halliwell
Jackson Phillip Deveraux Kaufman --- Baby Chris Halliwell
Elizabeth Sung --- Lane
Jason Schuler --- Jim Brookes

Featuring
Simon Brooke --- Executioner Demon #1
Todd Tucker --- Executioner Demon #2
Brian Leckner --- Executioner Demon #3
Amber Stone --- Woman at Barrington Equity Inc.
Amanda Sickler --- Female Announcer at the Holmes Conference Hall

Production & Design
Daniel (Astral Echo) - Co-Casting Director
Camille (Fourever Charmed) - Co-Casting Director
Alex (Criminally Vulgar) - Video Editor (Credits)
Alex (Criminally Vulgar) - Set Designer