CHARMED 5X12: CENTENNIEL CHARMED ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON WB: 01/19/2003 TRANSCRIBED FROM WB Written by BRAD KERN Directed by JAMES L. CONWAY Transcript by Intrepid Courtesy of http://www.webphilia.com/~anthology/wnp.html Please do not archive without permission. RATING: TV-14-DLV ========================== DISCLAIMER: ========================== "CHARMED", "The Charmed Ones" and other related entities are owned, (TM) and (c) by CONSTANCE M. BURGE, AARON SPELLING Television Inc (A Paramount / Viacom Co.) and WB (AOL Time Warner Company). All Rights Reserved. This transcript was made without their permission, approval, authorization or endorsement. Any reproduction, duplication or distribution of this material in any form is expressly prohibited. It is absolutely forbidden to use it for commercial gain. Leave the headers/disclaimers in tact because it lists all those who have made this transcript possible for your enjoyment and provide a link back to the site where this file originated http://www.webphilia.com/~anthology/wnp.html For corrections / inaccuracies, please contact the Transcriptionist at (intrepidly002@yahoo.com) ========================== SUMMARY: In a final bid to regain his past happiness with Phoebe, Cole agrees to receive the powers of the Avatar which he then uses to create a reality where he's still married to Phoebe and where Paige never discovers her heritage as a Charmed One. ========================== CHARMED 5X12: CENTENNIEL CHARMED ========================== FADE IN. [EXT. MANOR - NIGHT] [INT. MANOR - ATTIC - NIGHT] (LEO orbs into the attic. He looks around and finds that no one's there.) LEO: Paige? Come on, Paige. I know you're here. You summoned me. (Off to the side, LEO hears a clatter. He turns around.) LEO: Paige? (Outside the attic window, the tree branches hit against the glass. LEO looks around knowing that he's not alone in the attic.) (Something approaches him from behind. It comes closer and closer to him.) LEO: Paige? (Sure enough, something invisible in the form of a transparent human gets close enough to LEO to jump inside him from behind. LEO is taken by surprise. The invisible force works itself into LEO. He writhes around in pain as it incorporates itself in him.) (Finally, LEO explodes.) (PAIGE orbs into the attic, triumphant with the success of her test.) PAIGE: Ha! That is a vanquish! (LEO orbs back in to the attic. He's pretty ticked at being used in that manner.) LEO: (angry) Damn it, Paige! I would appreciate it if you didn't practice on me. I may be dead, but it still hurts! PAIGE: I'm sorry, Leo, but I think I came up with the perfect way to vanquish Cole. (PAIGE walks toward the opened Book of Shadows on the table.) PAIGE: I kept thinking ... what is it that makes him so indestructible? And then I thought, it's his protection shield. So I came up with a potion that makes me invisible long enough so I can get past it, say a spell, and blow him up from the inside. LEO: Firstly, congratulations. Cool potion. (Pleased, PAIGE smiles and curtseys.) PAIGE: Thank you. LEO: Secondly, it will never work. Ok, even if it does, it's not something you should be going at alone. Whatever the ultimate solution is, it lies within the Power of Three. PAIGE: Yeah, well, we have tried that. Besides, I'm a witch, too, and I don't see why I can't try to operate on my own every once in a while. LEO: You can, and you have. But Cole is different, and you know it. PAIGE: No, I don't know that, Leo. Now, I have worked really hard on this by myself for days. I know I can do this. And I want to do it ... for Phoebe. (PAIGE walks out of the attic. LEO is left standing there concerned about what she might do.) CUT TO: [INT. COLE'S PENTHOUSE - NIGHT] (The elevator bell rings and the doors open. COLE is standing inside the elevator loosening his tie. He has a blank look on his face, lost in his own thoughts. He finally walks out of the elevator and into his empty apartment.) (He pulls out his wallet from his suit pocket and puts it along with his keys on the side table. On the table is a framed photograph of him and PHOEBE taken during happier times.) (He picks up the photograph and sighs. He looks at his reflection in the mirror.) COLE: (softly) Happy birthday. (He turns around and walks into his living room. He's still holding the framed photograph and takes the time to examine it closely under the living room lights.) (Behind him, PAIGE'S invisible form ripples through the living room from the balcony doors. She makes her way toward COLE from behind.) (Unaware of his visitor, COLE puts the framed photograph down on the table near the lamp.) (It's in this vulnerable position that PAIGE dives into COLE. He writhes around in pain and discomfort as PAIGE incorporates herself into COLE. Finally, COLE explodes.) (PAIGE orbs in to the penthouse. She gasps and smiles in triumph.) PAIGE: I did it! (Or not.) (Something alerts PAIGE that maybe COLE is not completely vanquished. She looks around and sees COLE'S black particles appear and form in front of her. She's not smiling any more.) PAIGE: Oops. (The black particles hit PAIGE with a force that propels her backward through the closed balcony doors. PAIGE changes to an orb light and shoots out of COLE'S penthouse.) (COLE reforms in his living room. He's angry -- incredibly angry at what PAIGE has done to him. He takes a couple of steps toward the now broken balcony doors and lets out a roar into the night.) CUT TO: [EXT. SAN FRANCISCO BAY - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS] (In the evening sky, an orb light shoots out from the general direction of the city and toward the bay. The orb light crashes into the water with a loud splash.) (PAIGE breaks surface sputtering out water.) (PAIGE sneezes.) PAIGE: Ah-choo! HARD CUT TO END OF TEASER ROLL TITLE CREDITS (COMMERCIAL SET) FADE IN. [EXT. MANOR -- DAY] [INT. MANOR - SOLARIUM - DAY] PHOEBE: And breathe, two ... three ... four, and relax ... two ... three ... four ... (PHOEBE is walking around PIPER who is sitting precariously balanced on a large blue rubber ball. She exhales slowly. She's doing pregnancy exercises with everyone standing around and watching.) PHOEBE: And breathe, two ... three ... (PIPER lifts her arms up and promptly falls off of the large rubber ball.) PIPER: Whoop! (LEO steps forward to grab her, but PIPER still falls on the floor.) LEO: You all right? (LEO helps her up. PIPER has had it with the large rubber ball.) PIPER: No ... I am not ... all right! PHOEBE: Ok, come on, back on the ball. PIPER: You get back on the ball. I quit. EVE: It's hard at first, I know, Piper, but the birthing ball really can make the delivery much easier, especially for home births. PIPER: Hospital, people. How many times do I have to tell you crazy people? Hospital. I'm goin' to the hospital. PHOEBE: (ignoring PIPER completely and addressing EVE) What about water birth? Can we do that at home? EVE: Sure. We can rent a tub. PIPER: (annoyed) What am I, a dolphin? I'm not giving birth to fish. LEO: (quietly) Well, actually, dolphins aren't fish. They're mammals. PIPER: Shut up! (PAIGE walks in.) PAIGE: Hey, guys. Sorry I'm late. I overslept. Hi, Eve. EVE: That's ok. We're just getting started. (EVE opens her bag. LEO, still concerned about PAIGE and her plans, looks pointedly at her.) LEO: Late night? PAIGE: (glares back) As a matter of fact, yes. (LEO doesn't look happy with PAIGE. Meanwhile, EVE finds what she's been looking for in her bag. She takes out a large plastic tube-like device. PIPER catches a glimpse of it and does a double-take.) PIPER: (to EVE) What the hell is that? EVE: (smiling) Uh, nipple enhancer. For breast-feeding. PIPER: (no way) Whoa ... (PHOEBE chuckles. EVE turns back to her bag.) (PAIGE sneezes ... ) PAIGE: Ah-choo! (... and orbs out of the room. PIPER looks surprised at PAIGE'S disappearing act. PAIGE reappears.) PHOEBE: Gesundheit. PAIGE: Thanks. I've been sneezing my head off all morning. (EVE turns to look at PAIGE and PHOEBE.) LEO: Not to mention the rest of you. EVE: A little ginger root and raspberry leaf will take care of that. Old gypsy remedy. PIPER: I think we got some of that in the kitchen. Why don't you go see if we got some of that in the kitchen? (EVE looks at PIPER and smiles. PIPER indicates the kitchen.) EVE: Sure. Be right back. (EVE leaves the room and heads to the kitchen.) (PAIGE looks confused. PHOEBE and PIPER usher PAIGE out of the Solarium and into the Living Room for more privacy. LEO follows.) PAIGE: What? Pipe ... [INT. MANOR - LIVING ROOM - DAY - CONTINUOUS] PAIGE: What? PIPER: Do you not realize that you just sneezed and orbed at the same time? PHOEBE: Ooh. It's a good thing Eve didn't see that. PAIGE: Well, we saved her gypsy clan. I think she'd be fine with it. PHOEBE: Yeah, well, it's one thing to know, and it's another thing to actually see it. LEO: I'm more interested in why it happened ... what caused it. (PAIGE knows where this is going and glares at LEO.) LEO: I think you should tell them. PAIGE: Fine. I tried to vanquish Cole last night. PIPER: What?! PAIGE: I know. Don't do the big sister guilt thing, ok? I knew what I was doing, and it almost worked ... until I got all wet. LEO: I ...tried to talk her out of it. Mmm ... PHOEBE: Paige, you could've been killed. PAIGE: So what else is new? I just wanted to give you a little peace. (PHOEBE sighs.) PHOEBE: That's very sweet, but I don't need Cole to be vanquished to find peace. I'm ok. Really. I am free of him emotionally. PIPER: And besides, I thought we agreed to take a vanquishing hiatus during my last trimester. PAIGE: Well, that's why I didn't want to bother you. PIPER: Well, you should've, because this is not something you can do by yourself. PAIGE: Obviously, I disagreed. (PAIGE walks out of the room. PHOEBE shakes her head and PIPER sighs.) CUT TO: [EXT. COLE'S PENTHOUSE - DAY] [INT. COLE'S PENTHOUSE - DAY] (COLE is looking out the balcony doors. He's speaking to someone whom we can't see.) COLE: My problems are none of your concern. (COLE turns away from the balcony and walks out of camera. Behind him, in the living room, is one of the Avatars. COLE turns around and faces the Avatar.) COLE: All that should matter to you is that I'm willing to join your kind ... become an Avatar. AVATAR: I understand. And we're pleased to hear it. Still ... I can't help but wonder ... why now ... after all this time? COLE: You have unlimited powers, don't you? AVATAR: We have the power to elevate powers such as yours ... to raise them above the restraints of Good and Evil. COLE: Which makes them unlimited, yes? AVATAR: Yes. COLE: Then that's why for now. (beat) Which means, I assume, that I can use these powers to manipulate, say ... time? (beat) Reality, even? AVATAR: Understand, Cole, these ... powers are not meant to be used for personal vendettas. They're meant to be used with others like us ... to shape a future we control. COLE: Oh, I understand very well, indeed. And believe me ... I'm all for it. But I need to take care of something first. And to do that, I need unlimited powers. AVATAR: I'm afraid that can't be allowed. COLE: Then I'm afraid I can't join you. (The Avatar turns to look at COLE.) COLE: (calmly) Who are you kidding? You need me. (COLE turns his back on the Avatar and walks away from him and back to the spot in front of the balcony doors.) COLE: Otherwise, you never would've come to me in the first place. Just one favor. That's all I ask. (COLE turns around to face the Avatar.) And then I'm yours. (The Avatar doesn't say anything. He simply looks at COLE. Camera holds on COLE.) CUT TO: [EXT. COLE'S APARTMENT -- DAY] [EXT. SAN FRANCISCO CITY - NIGHT] [EXT. P3 - NIGHT] CUT TO: [INT. P3 -- NIGHT] (Inside the club, Special Musical Guest, MICHELLE BRANCH sings, "Goodbye to You" on stage.) (The song ends and the audience applauds.) DJ: Michelle Branch, everyone! (LEO makes his way through the crowd and toward PHOEBE and PIPER who are sitting with DARRYL and his wife. He's carrying a couple of champagne glasses and a tub with a chilled bottle of champagne.) PHOEBE: Hi. LEO: Glasses. PHOEBE: Ok. (LEO hands the glasses to PHOEBE who in turn hands one to DARRYL'S wife.) PHOEBE: Ok, here you go. (PIPER holds up her bottle of water.) PIPER: A toast ... to Lieutenant Morris. Congratulations. (Everyone holds up their glass, when DARRYL realizes that someone's missing from the group.) DARRYL: Wait. Shouldn't we wait for Paige? PHOEBE: Um, I don't think she's gonna make it, 'cause she has a really bad cold. Cheers! (Everyone clinks their glasses in congratulations.) PIPER: Long overdue. LEO: Cheers. (PAIGE enters the club and walks down the stair entrance. PHOEBE sees her. Her eyes widen and she gives PIPER a knowing look trying to signal her ... without being too obvious about it.) PHOEBE: Oh ... uh ... we'll be right back. PIPER: We will? (PIPER turns around and also sees PAIGE enter the club.) We will. (PHOEBE stands up.) PHOEBE: Uh ... Leo, keep...pouring. (PIPER stands and they both leave. DARRYL and his wife, SHEILA watch them go.) DARRYL: (murmuring to his wife) Uh ... don't mind them. They--they do that a lot. CUT TO: [INT. P3 - NIGHT -- CONTINUOUS] (PIPER and PHOEBE meet up with PAIGE.) PAIGE: Hi, guys. PHOEBE: Are you out of your mind? What are you doing here? PAIGE: I'm ... going to Darryl's party? PIPER: The sneezing, Paige, the sneezing. PAIGE: Oh, that? No. Eve's little miracle cure worked great. I haven't sneezed all day. (looking over their shoulders) Is that Darryl's wife? She's cute. (PAIGE takes a step forward toward them when PIPER and PHOEBE stop her.) PIPER: Wait, wait, wait, wait. First, we chat. PHOEBE: Come on. (PIPER and PHOEBE lead PAIGE to the side where they sit at an empty table.) PAIGE: I told you, everything's fine. PIPER: No. It's not about that. PHOEBE: It's about this morning when you left. You seemed really upset. (PAIGE smiles and brushes it aside with a wave of her hand.) PAIGE: Oh, that? No. I was just having a girlie mood. You know. (She chuckles.) PIPER: No, I think we all know it's a little bit more than that. Something's been bugging you, so why don't you just talk to us? PAIGE: Ok. You really want to know? (she takes a deep breath and plunges on) I've just been kind of feeling a little suppressed lately. It's not your problem. It's my problem, and I know you guys are the best thing that's ever happened to me. I do. PIPER: But ... there's a "but" ... PAIGE: I just feel like ... you know, having been an only child for 25 years, I'm used to doing everything on my own, and it seems like lately I have do everything by committee, and it's just ... PHOEBE: You feel like you've lost yourself along the way? PAIGE: Yeah. (PHOEBE nods in understanding.) PIPER: Ok, so ... what can we do? PAIGE: It's not you. It's me. I just think maybe ... I need to start ... looking for my own place to live. (PHOEBE looks surprised by this bombshell.) CUT TO: [INT. COLE'S PENTHOUSE - NIGHT -- CONTINUOUS] (In the middle of COLE'S living room, the Avatar performs a ritual to increase COLE'S powers. COLE is on his knees in front of the Avatar, a white beam of light emitting from the Avatar's hands shines on COLE.) AVATAR: (chanting) Ribus uero fecit orum, bitis danae arca, convenio hospito fortis mundus.... (The ritual is over. The Avatar lowers his hands. COLE exhales as he feels the power within him. COLE slowly opens his eyes.) AVATAR: Well? How do you feel? COLE: I feel alive ... powerful. (COLE stands up.) AVATAR: You are one of us now. Come. (The Avatar starts to turn intending for COLE to follow him. COLE, however, has different plans.) COLE: Uh, uh, uh. Not so fast. First, I get my wife back once and for all. AVATAR: That's ... what you wanted? (laughs) Your new powers can't affect love. COLE: Maybe not ... but I'm hoping they'll change the one event that led to our downfall -- the day that Phoebe met her new sister ... the day The Charmed Ones were reconstituted. AVATAR: Go back in time? COLE: No. Better. Undo what was to change what is. We were at our best, Phoebe and I, before Paige. If they hadn't found each other ... we'd be married, instead ... AVATAR: You have no idea what you're getting into. Changing the past to create an alternate reality has unforeseen consequences, Cole, even for you. The ripple effect of even one small change could ... COLE: I don't care! I am not spending another hundred birthdays without her. (The Avatar knows that there is nothing he can say to COLE at this point to dissuade him from what he wants to do. He shakes his head and disappears, leaving COLE alone in his apartment.) (COLE is determined. He buttons up his jacket and starts to chant. The winds pick up. COLE spreads out his arms to affect the spell.) COLE: (chanting) Magna ... tempus ... dormiebat ribus. HARD CUT TO: [INT. P3 -- NIGHT] (PAIGE is suddenly hit with the urge to sneeze. She takes a deep breath. PIPER and PHOEBE, both seeing PAIGE in the throes of a sneeze, kick into motion.) PAIGE: Ah-ah-ah-- PIPER: Oh, no, you don't. PHOEBE: No sneezing, no sneezing! (PAIGE pinches the bridge of her nose hoping that it'll stop her urge to sneeze. The three of them stand and PIPER immediately ushers them into the back of the club. pushing people of the way.) PIPER: Back hall! Back hall. Back hall. Look out, people. Pregnant lady comin' through. [INT. P3 - BACK HALL - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS] (The door to the back hall opens. PIPER and PAIGE walk in. PAIGE is still clutching her nose and gasping for air as her sneeze takes control. PIPER closes the door just in time.) (PAIGE sneezes.) PAIGE: Ah...ah... unh...unh ... unh ... ah...ah-choo! (And just as before, PAIGE orbs out leaving PIPER alone in the back room.) HARD CUT TO: [INT. COLE'S PENTHOUSE - NIGHT -- CONTINUOUS] (Back in his apartment, COLE casts the spell. The room around COLE spins as the spell works its magic.) FLASH TO WHITE: [EXT. SAN FRANCISCO CITY - NIGHT] (A golden band of reality changing ripples through the city leaving it darker than it was before.) [INT. DOPPLE (ALTERNATE) P3 - BACK HALL -- NIGHT -- CONTINUOUS] (PAIGE orbs back in to the room. It's dark, it's quiet and she's all alone.) PAIGE: Oh ... major sneeze. Hey, who turned out the lights? And the heat? (PAIGE puts on her jacket.) Ooh. Piper? Piper? (PAIGE turns around to look for PIPER. She's not there.) (PAIGE reaches for the door, grabs the door knob and twists. The door opens and falls to the floor of its hinges with a loud crash. P3 has been reduced to an abandoned garbage dump. There's rubbish littering the floor.) (PAIGE walks out of the back room. She can't believe her eyes. A cold wind blows chilling PAIGE. She clutches her jacket tighter around her. There's junk on the floors; cobwebs hanging from the ceiling and a cold, dead silence in the air.) (She stops as she sees the neon P3 sign broken on the floor. Camera holds on PAIGE.) FADE TO BLACK. (COMMERCIAL SET) FADE IN. [INT. DOPPLE P3 -- NIGHT] (PAIGE walks out and looks around this place that she doesn't know. She immediately calls out to the one person who can help her.) PAIGE: Leo?! (There's no response. She tries again.) PAIGE: Leo! (The rubbish on the floor rustles and a figure emerges. It's a bum living inside the abandoned nightclub. PAIGE gasps in surprise.) PAIGE: Oh, god! You scared me. BUM: Who are you? What are you doing here? LEO: I could ask you the same thing! (The BUM, just as surprised at PAIGE'S intrusion as she is, pulls out a knife.) PAIGE: Hey, it's o -- it's ok. BUM: This is MY crib! PAIGE: Your CRIB? This is my sisters' club. (PAIGE holds out her hand and tries to disarm the BUM, but it doesn't work.) Knife! Knife! What the hell is wrong with my powers? (The BUM takes advantage of PAIGE'S momentary distraction and rushes her with the knife. PAIGE easily sidesteps the BUM and in a smooth flip, throws him to the ground.) (The BUM is surprised at being bested. He scrambles to his feet and runs out of the club.) PAIGE: Leo! (LEO orbs in. He looks around the club to look for the person who called him.) PAIGE: (angry) Damn it! Where the hell have you been? LEO: Who are you? PAIGE: Are you kidding? (looking at him, she realizes) You're not kidding. It's me, Paige, your sister-in-law. LEO: Look, I don't know who you are, lady, and I don't have time for games. All hell is breaking loose out there, so if you don't mind -- PAIGE: Have you lost your mind? Do you notice anything different? (PAIGE spreads out her arms indicating the club. LEO looks around. As far as he's concerned, it looks typical to him.) LEO: No. Not really. So, if you'll excuse me... (LEO starts to orb out and is stopped by PAIGE.) PAIGE: Wait! Uh ... I'm your charge, too. How else could you have heard my call? (She's got him there.) PAIGE: Thank you. I just don't understand how all this could have happened. LEO: How what could have happened? PAIGE: This! Piper's club! It's totaled! Doesn't that strike you as the least bit odd? LEO: You know Piper? PAIGE: Of course. Leo, the club. LEO: What about it?! It's been like this for over a year, ever since Piper walked away from it, right after Prue died. PAIGE: That is not true! The club was kicking ass! Michelle Branch was just playing here when I sneezed, and then I or -- orbed out. (to herself) Maybe if I sneeze again. (PAIGE tries to sneeze. Pathetically.) PAIGE: Ah-choo! (PAIGE looks up at LEO.) PAIGE: Did I orb? LEO: How do you know about orbing? Piper? PAIGE: Just take me to her. She'll figure all this out. She always does. (LEO looks around, hesitant to do this for a stranger.) PAIGE: Please! What have you got to lose? (Against his better judgement, LEO sighs. He holds out his hand, PAIGE grasps it and they orb out of the dilapidated club.) CUT TO: [EXT. TRAIN TRACKS -- NIGHT] (PAIGE and LEO orb to behind a pile of dirt in an abandoned lot. PAIGE looks around, confused.) PAIGE: What are we doing here? LEO: Shh! Piper's hunting. (LEO kneels down out of sight. PAIGE follows suit. Down below, the figure of a man is sprawled out on the ground. In front of him, a familiar-looking demon appears. It's the LAZARUS DEMON. He looks at the unconscious man on the ground and leans down above him.) PIPER: (o.s.) Hey! (High up above him, PIPER steps out into view. She freezes the demon and jumps down onto the ground. She's also not pregnant in this reality.) PIPER: Feeding time, huh? (PIPER unfreezes the lazarus demon's head. The rest of him remains frozen.) PIPER: Knew you'd take the bait. LAZARUS DEMON: What'd you do to me? Unfreeze me, witch! PIPER: Sure. No problem. Just as soon as you tell me where I can find Shax. (Up above, PAIGE is more than a little confused.) PAIGE: Shax? What's she talking about? We vanquished him already. LEO: Nobody's vanquished Shax. Ever since he killed Prue, Piper's been obsessed with getting revenge on him. (Down below, PIPER blows off the Lazarus Demon's left arm up to his elbow. He bellows in pain.) PIPER: I asked you a question. LAZARUS DEMON: I don't know where Shax is! PIPER: Wrong answer. (PIPER blows off the Lazarus Demon's right arm up to his elbow. He cries out in pain.) PIPER: Ok. Now, we could keep doin' this all night long, 'cause god knows I got nothin' but time, but I'd rather be killing Shax, so why don't you tell me where I can find him? LAZARUS DEMON: Go to hell. PIPER: I'm already there. (PIPER blows the Lazarus Demon up into a pile of dust.) (She turns around and starts walking away. PAIGE runs out of their hiding place and yells out to PIPER.) PAIGE: Wait! (PIPER turns around surprised. Her instincts kicking in and her hands automatically coming up to defend herself against his new threat.) (LEO jumps out in front of PAIGE and puts up a hand to PIPER.) LEO: Piper, don't! (PAIGE finally gets a good look at PIPER and realizes what's different.) PAIGE: Oh, my god. You're not pregnant anymore. PIPER: Who are you? Leo, what are you doing here? PAIGE: It's me, your sister. Paige? PIPER: Look, if this is some lame attempt from The Elders to try and lure me back, you can forget it. Tell 'em to shove it, because I have no loyalties to them anymore, and I don't have any to you. PAIGE: Hey! That's no way to speak to your husband! (PIPER sighs. LEO corrects PAIGE.) LEO: We're divorced. Have been for a while. PAIGE: Ok. What bizarre world have I sneezed my way into? You two are married, and you're expecting-- a magical child, no less. And you, you're not La Femme Nikita. You're a Charmed One. You don't mind kicking ass when you have to, but otherwise, you'd rather be hanging out with your sisters, baking cookies or knitting booties. PIPER: (scoffs and shakes her head) Knitting booties? Clearly, you don't know me at all. (PIPER turns around intending to leave. PAIGE glances at the pile of dust that used to be the LAZARUS DEMON.) PAIGE: Oh, yeah? Well, how come I know you didn't really vanquish the Lazarus demon? PIPER: What are you talking about? PAIGE: As a breed, they resurrect. The only way you can keep their remains down is to bury them in a cemetery. (PIPER doesn't believe PAIGE. She turns her back on them and starts to walk away.) PIPER: (parting shot) Please stay. (Just then, the pile of dust resurrects back into the LAZARUS DEMON. It happens incredibly fast. LEO barely yells out a warning when the DEMON is re-formed and reaches for the pipe on the ground in front of him.) LEO: Pi-Piper! (The DEMON hurls the pipe at PIPER just missing her. PIPER swings around, ducks and blows the LAZARUS DEMON up for a second time.) LEO: (to PAIGE) How did you know that was gonna happen? PAIGE: Because we fought him before in the real world. (PIPER takes a couple of steps toward PAIGE.) PIPER: What do you mean, "we"? PAIGE: We! You, me, Phoebe! Your sisters! Oh, god. This is getting me nowhere. Just orb me to Phoebe. LEO: I can't go to the manor anymore. It's forbidden. PAIGE: What?! Fine. I'll do it myself, but when I fix this, you owe me. (PAIGE storms off leaving PIPER and LEO behind. LEO turns to look at PIPER. PIPER glances back at the pile of dust that used to be the LAZARUS DEMON. She ponders everything that happened there that night.) (Camera holds on PIPER and LEO looking at each other uncertain of what to make of PAIGE..) DISSOLVE TO: [EXT. SAN FRANCISCO BRIDGE - SUNRISE] (In a fast forward time lapse, the sun rises.) CUT TO: [EXT. DOPPLE (ALTERNATE) MANOR - STREET -- DAY] (Outside across the street from the Halliwell Manor, COLE leans against an abandoned car. He looks at the Manor and takes it all in. The Manor is different. There's a thick black iron fence surrounding the property and an armed DEMON standing guard just outside the door. Things are very different here.) (Behind him, The Avatar appears.) AVATAR: What are you waiting for? COLE: What are you doing here? I thought I was the only one to cross over. AVATAR: That won't be your last miscalculation, I'm afraid. Avatars exist outside of time and space. That's why I'm immune to your spell, a spell which I beg you to reverse before it's too late. COLE: Too late for what? AVATAR: For you to die. You're not invincible in this reality, Cole. By changing that one critical event, you've changed even more than you see before you. You've changed you. COLE: What are you talking about? I don't feel any different. AVATAR: But you are different. You've assumed the identity of the Cole in this reality, the one who used to be known as Belthazor, The Source's right-hand man. A powerful demon to be sure, but hardly indestructible. COLE: Belthazor, huh? I told you, that's when Phoebe and I were at our best. AVATAR: Cole, please, believe me. You have no future here. But I promise you'll have a future with us if you'll only undo what you've done. COLE: (sadly) I can't. I have to play this out first. (COLE walks across the street toward the Manor and away from the Avatar. The Avatar leaves.) CUT TO: [INT. DOPPLE MANOR - DAY - CONTINUOUS] (The front door opens and COLE walks in. He closes the door behind him. Standing in front of the staircase is another guard. COLE walks into the foyer past another demon guard. He pauses to look at a large statue.) COLE: Hmmm ... (He turns around toward the Living Room and notices the billiard table in the center of the room.) COLE: Oh. (He continues to walk around the living room re-familiarizing himself with his unfamiliar surroundings.) (He opens the double doors and is greeted with a resounding ... ) ALL: Surprise! Happy birthday! Happy birthday! (In front of him are his friends and acquaintances. Behind him, more people appear in the "empty" living room. The house is now full of people all there to celebrate his birthday.) ALL: Surprise! Happy birthday! Happy birthday! (COLE is thrilled. People greet him and slap him on his back with congratulations.) COLE: Thank you. CROWD: Speech! Speech! Speech! (A large three-layered black birthday cake with red icing on it is brought to the center of the room.) CROWD: (chanting) Speech, speech, speech, speech, speech, speech, speech, speech, speech, speech, speech, speech ... COLE: I really don't know what to say. Um... I'm surprised. I'm very surprised. My compliments. It's a great cake. DESIGNER: Thank you, my liege, although I must admit, I thought you were actually 117. (The crowd groans. The DESIGNER disappears in a flame of fire. The crowd murmurs nervously.) (From behind, the SEER makes her way to the center. Her finger smoking. It was she who killed the DESIGNER.) SEER: I know how sensitive you are about your age. (She bows.) SEER: Happy birthday. COLE: (surprised) Seer, you're alive. (The SEER stares at COLE. COLE stares at the SEER. She laughs. The crowd laughs also.) COLE: So where's, uh, Phoebe? (The SEER doesn't say anything.) COLE: Answer me. (Her eyes look up indicating upstairs. COLE turns around and sees PHOEBE slowly descending the stairs. The crowd gasps and COLE makes his way toward his wife, a look of awe on his face.) (He reaches her and stands eye to eye in front of her. He's speechless.) PHOEBE: What's the matter? Not what you expected? COLE: (whispering) No. No. You look -- you look great, really. PHOEBE: Did you just give me a compliment? COLE: You have no idea how happy I am to see you. (COLE leans in to kiss her and as he gets closer to her lips, PHOEBE turns her head so he kisses her cheek instead. She puts a hand on his chest and slowly pushes COLE away from her.) PHOEBE: Heh. What the hell is the matter with you? (PHOEBE descends the rest of the stairs and makes her way to the first handsome young man she sees and offers him her hand. COLE watches in amazement and confusion. The man lifts PHOEBE's hand to his lips. PHOEBE turns around to look at another young man walking by.) (The SEER walks over to COLE.) SEER: Don't worry about her. My visions have not changed. Once she conceives your magical heir, you won't need to keep up pretenses anymore. I'll take it from there. (The SEER puts her palm against COLE'S cheek.) (Cut to PAIGE across the room watching COLE and The SEER. PAIGE walks through the crowd, looking for PHOEBE. She spots PHOEBE leaving the young man and moving toward the kitchen. PAIGE takes off after her.) CUT TO: [INT. DOPPLE MANOR - KITCHEN - DAY - CONTINUOUS] (The kitchen doors burst open and PHOEBE walks in. She immediately tells the kitchen chef and waitress to leave.) PHOEBE: Leave me. (After they leave, PHOEBE makes her way to the kitchen drawer where she takes out a cigarette and lighter. She lights the cigarette and manages to get in one deep breath before ... ) (PAIGE walks in.) PAIGE: Phoebe. (PHEOBE gasps and puts the lit cigarette out in the nearby container. PHOEBE coughs and turns around to look at the intruder. PAIGE identifies that look.) PAIGE: You don't recognize me. That's ok. Piper didn't either. PHOEBE: Piper? You know Piper? How is she? PAIGE: She's, uh -- different. Look, I don't have a lot of time, so I'm just gonna drop this on you. I am your long-lost sister Paige. I know! It sounds crazy, but it's true. We're all sisters in the real world. (PHOEBE squints and doesn't believe a single word of it.) PHOEBE: Guards! PAIGE: Look, I don't know how he did it, but Cole somehow switched realities in his twisted attempt to get you back. I somehow slipped through the cracks and landed here. I don't know how, either, but I need your help in order to turn things back to the way they're supposed to be. (DARRYL walks in.) DARRYL: You called? (PAIGE turns around and smiles.) PAIGE: Darryl! Hi! PHOEBE: (to DARRYL) Get rid of her. (PAIGE turns around to gape at PHOEBE. DARRYL moves and grabs PAIGE'S arm.) PAIGE: No! What are you doing? PHOEBE: What bodyguards do. (PAIGE can't believe what she's hearing. She's got to take care of DARRYL first. PAIGE turns around and swings the copper frying pan and connects with DARRYL'S forehead knocking him out.) (PHOEBE picks up the knife on the cutting board and holds it up at PAIGE.) PAIGE: Phoebe, I know you better than you know yourself right now, in your heart of hearts, you know you are not meant to be with Cole. In this other life, you are free of him, and you're happy. (PHOEBE squints at PAIGE again. DARRYL wakes up and gets up. He goes for his weapon. PAIGE makes a mad dash for the back door just as DARRYL fires.) (He misses and hits the microwave instead. PAIGE runs out the back door with DARRYL hot on her heels.) (PHOEBE is left alone in the kitchen with PAIGE'S words echoing in her ears.) CUT TO: [EXT. DOPPLE MANOR - DRIVEWAY - DAY - CONTINUOUS] (PAIGE opens the front gate and makes a mad dash onto the driveway. She gets some distance away when DARRYL reaches the front gate.) (PAIGE maneuvers between the parked cars in the driveway.) PAIGE: Leo! (DARRYL reaches the car.) PAIGE: Leo! (PAIGE trips and falls down the driveway just as DARRYL lifts his weapon and takes aim.) PAIGE: Leo! (LEO orbs in and grabs PAIGE'S arm. He looks up and sees DARRYL take aim. DARRYL immediately recognizes him and for a split second hesitates. He fires.) (LEO orbs out just in time for the bullet to miss them both.) (DARRYL is left at the top of the driveway extremely angry.) CUT TO: [EXT. CEMETARY - DAY] (LEO and PAIGE orb in to a cemetary.) PAIGE: Thanks. That was cutting it a little close, don't you think? LEO: You're lucky I came at all. (LEO starts to walk down the path. PAIGE follows.) PAIGE: I'm lucky? You're lucky! Without me, we're all screwed. I'm the only one who can fix this thing. LEO: Oh, yeah. (They stop walking.) PAIGE: Oh, god. It's just so weird. Cole living at the manor, all those demons we vanquished wandering around alive. (beat) Wait a second. If the demons are alive, then that means all the innocents we saved are ... dead. LEO: Not just the innocents, Paige. PAIGE: What are you talking about? (PAIGE looks around and notices for the first time where they are.) PAIGE: What are we doing here? (LEO takes a breath and looks off to the side at a particular grave marker. It reads: PAIGE MATTHEWS BORN 1975 -- DIED 2001 (Camera holds on PAIGE as she looks at LEO.) FADE TO BLACK. (COMMERCIAL SET) FADE IN. [EXT. CEMETARY -- DAY (Camera opens on PAIGE MATTHEWS' grave marker.) LEO: After you left, I went and checked with the Elders. They confirmed your story that there was, in fact, another sister. Only they didn't know until it was too late, until ... after The Source had already had you killed. PAIGE: This reality sucks. (PAIGE turns away from the marker and starts walking down the path. LEO follows her.) LEO: Well, it explains why none of us knew you. We never got a chance to meet you. PAIGE: So, what, you believe me now? LEO: I'm not sure what I believe. The fact is, you're here and you're not supposed to be. PAIGE: Ok. So we've established the fact that I'm here. How come I don't have my powers? LEO: 'Cause you're not living your life anymore. You're living hers. You must have taken over Our Paige's life in this reality, or at least ... the life she would have lived had she not been killed. And since she never met her sisters-- PAIGE: The Power of Three never got back together, and I never got my powers. LEO: Yeah. PAIGE: Lucky me. LEO: Luckier than you think, maybe. If you hadn't sneezed when you did and orbed into the Neutral Plane, nobody would have ever known. PAIGE: Cole would have. He's the one behind this. He altered reality to eliminate me and get Phoebe back. But it's not working. She hates him as much in this reality as she does in ours. Problem is, she's trapped here. LEO: Well, your reality sounds a lot better than this one. Not just for Phoebe. (pause) So, how can I help you get it back? PAIGE: I need my sisters. (LEO doesn't answer her.) PIPER: (o.s.) Well, maybe we can start with two and go from there. (At the sound of her voice, PAIGE turns around to see PIPER approaching them from the side.) PAIGE: What are you doing here? PIPER: Burying the Lazarus demon. I figured if you were right about that, you were probably right about everything else as well. (With a new sense of hope, PAIGE smiles.) CUT TO: [INT. DOPPLE MANOR - LIVING ROOM -- DAY] (COLE amuses himself smoking a cigar and absently playing billiards. Nearby, DARRYL and The SEER watch.) DARRYL: Whoever she was, she had to be a witch. Otherwise, she couldn't have called for a Whitelighter in the first place. SEER: Your wife, consorting with other witches again? (COLE looks up.) SEER: I don't like it. COLE: Hmmm. (COLE turns back to his game.) DARRYL: And it wasn't just any Whitelighter, either. It was Leo. SEER: Leo? Did he make contact with Phoebe? DARRYL: No. Just the other one ... although I don't know why the witch was here to begin with. SEER: (to COLE) I think you need to have a conversation with your wife. COLE: Let me get this straight. You work for me now, is that right? (DARRYL looks cautiously from COLE to The SEER.) SEER: (to DARRYL) Excuse us. (DARRYL leaves. The SEER walks closer to COLE.) SEER: (to COLE) What's the matter? Not feeling well? COLE: (shakes his head) Why? SEER: You seem a little off today, that's all. You wanted to kill the cop, but your wife cast a spell. She wanted to make him useful, save him. Remember? COLE: I do now. SEER: Forgive me my liege, but your enemies are many, and they are everywhere. Any perceived weakness on your part could leave you vulnerable. (COLE lines up the #13 orange striped billiard ball and prepares to take his shot when he glances up and sees PHOEBE in the arms of a DEMON GUARD. They're laughing and having a grand time. This doesn't sit well with COLE.) (COLE watches as PHOEBE grabs the DEMON GUARD'S hand and leads him upstairs. COLE doesn't like this one bit. He throws the billiard stick on the table and stands to follow them. The SEER intercepts him.) SEER: What are you doing? COLE: I'm gonna kill that bastard. SEER: No! What's the matter with you? You both have your affairs. That's no secret. COLE: (surprised) What? (The SEER turns around and calls out to a young blonde woman standing behind her.) SEER: Darla. (DARLA approaches COLE.) COLE: Who's this? DARLA: Who I always am, baby. (DARLA leans close to COLE and whispers in his ear.) Whoever you want me to be. COLE: I want Phoebe, you understand me? (COLE pushes DARLA away from him.) It's the only damn reason I went through all of this. SEER: Went through all what? (COLE doesn't answer The SEER. Instead, he heads up the stairs. DARLA watches him leave. She turns around and whispers to The SEER.) DARLA: I think we should report this. (The SEER seriously contemplates it.) CUT TO: [INT. DOPPLE P3 - DAY] (PIPER walks through the ruined P3.) PIPER: (to PAIGE) So you say the club is still pretty successful in this alleged other reality of yours? (PAIGE stands in the center of the dance floor and watches PIPER. LEO is sitting cross-legged on the floor to the side.) PAIGE: It's not alleged, it's real, and it's really good. PIPER: Oh, yeah? Am I a millionaire? PAIGE: No. Not that good. PAIGE: Listen, if we want to get this place back to how it used to be, we really ought to- PIPER: How is it that we don't know about you, that we had another sister? LEO: Half-sister, apparently. PAIGE: Right. The Cliffs Notes version: Our mom had an affair with her Whitelighter Sam, but because of the whole Witch-Whitelighter rule thing, they had to give me up at birth. But when The Elders realized they needed me to remake The Charmed Ones, they tossed out that stupid rule, which, as far as I'm concerned, paved the way for you and Leo to be able to keep your baby. (PIPER looks at LEO. LEO looks at PIPER. He doesn't say anything.) PIPER: Well, how pregnant am I, exactly? PAIGE: Phoebe and I are practicing to be your midwives as we speak. We're preparing for the big home birth. PIPER: Home birth? You're nuts. I'd never agree to that. I wouldn't give birth unless it was in-- PAIGE: ... a hospital. Yeah, yeah. You keep saying the same thing in any reality. Hey, who else but a sister would know that? PIPER: We must be pretty close then, the three of us. (PAIGE nods.) PIPER: Like Phoebe and I were with Prue? PAIGE: Yeah. Close enough to have avenged Prue's death together. (This hits home with PIPER.) PIPER: This Cole of yours must have cast a pretty powerful spell to do all of this, but if we vanquish him, the spell should automatically reverse itself. PAIGE: Great, except for we already tried to vanquish him. He's become invincible in our world. LEO: Yes, but we're not in your world. You're in ours. So is he. So if you've assumed Our Paige's life, he must have assumed Belthazor's. PAIGE: Yeah. He would've. PIPER: Did you guys try to vanquish Belthazor ever? PAIGE: No, but you and Prue almost tried. You guys had a vanquishing potion, right? PIPER: How do you know that? PAIGE: The Book of Shadows. It also says that it needs a piece of his flesh to make it work. LEO: That's right. It did. (PIPER looks at LEO. She considers it for only a moment before reaching her decision.) PIPER: All right, then. (PIPER pulls out her knife.) Let's go hunting. CUT TO: [EXT. DOPPLE MANOR - DAY] [INT. DOPPLE MANOR -- PHOEBE'S BEDROOM - DAY -- CONTINUOUS] (PHOEBE is on her bed with the DEMON GUARD she left the party with. They are in each others arms, kissing furiously.) (The bedroom door opens and COLE enters startling PHOEBE and her guest. PHOEBE gasps and the DEMON GUARD scrambles out of bed.) DEMON: (stammering) Sorry, my liege. But I thought-- I didn't think-- (Furious, COLE powers up an energy ball and disintegrates the DEMON GUARD.) (PHOEBE is now furious herself.) PHOEBE: Are you kidding me?! (She gets out of bed.) What did you do that for? COLE: What'd I do what for? You're in here screwing some guy, I'm supposed to ignore it? (yelling) You're my wife, damn it! (PHOEBE puts her dress back on. She's just as angry as he is.) PHOEBE: You have got to be kidding me. After all this time, now you're playing the aggrieved husband? Ha! (COLE can't believe it. He's angry and frustrated. He knocks the items on the dresser near the door onto the floor. PHOEBE watches him with a surprised look on her face - as if she's never seen him behave like this before.) COLE: (frustrated) You don't understand! This is all wrong! This is not the way it's meant to be here! (COLE walks into the bedroom. PHOEBE, still standing by the bed, tries to calm him down some. As he approaches, she back up toward the wall.) PHOEBE: Ok. It's ok. Relax. COLE: This is all messed up. How'd it get messed up? You have no idea what I've given up for you. (PHOEBE can't believe it.) PHOEBE: (yelling) What--what about what I've given up, Cole? I've given up my family, my heritage, my life! COLE: (sarcastically) Oh, yeah? From where I'm standing, it looks like you have a pretty damn good life to me! PHOEBE: (angry low voice) Look ... the only one getting anything out of this is you. And I have no idea what that is. The only reason I'm still here is to make sure that what happened to Prue does not happen to Piper, and you know it. (As she speaks, COLE is overcome by a sense of profound sadness. COLE swallows.) COLE: (quietly) What happened to us, Phoebe? How'd we get here? (PHOEBE doesn't look at him. The reality of the wrongness of this life doesn't escape COLE. He takes a deep gasping breath trying to control his emotions.) COLE: We used to be so in love -- even without your sisters, it's not working. (PHOEBE looks at COLE.) COLE: (beseeching) Why? (PHOEBE shakes her head. ) PHOEBE: (whispers) I don't know. Maybe it just wasn't meant to be. (For one moment, they look at each other. Without another word, PHOEBE walks away from COLE and leaves the room. COLE stands there for a moment, then follows her.) CUT TO: [INT. DOPPLE MANOR - SECOND FLOOR HALLWAY - DAY -- CONTINUOUS] (COLE exits the bedroom and closes the door behind him.) COLE: Phoebe, wait! (He walks down the hallway and turns the corner where he sees PIPER standing there.) COLE: What are you doing here? PIPER: Saving my sister. (PIPER waves her hands and sends a powerful blast at COLE. COLE is flung backward where he hits the cabinet behind him. He falls down to the floor.) PIPER: Now! (LEO and PAIGE orb into the hallway. PAIGE is holding PIPER'S knife. COLE looks up and sees PAIGE.) COLE: You! PAIGE: Surprise. (PAIGE moves. Using the knife, she gets a piece of COLE'S flesh off of his right palm. COLE yells out in pain.) (PAIGE, PIPER and LEO move to the side. PHOEBE comes running down the hallway when she hears COLE yell. PHOEBE sees her sister.) PHOEBE: Piper! (PIPER turns around and looks at PHOEBE.) (It's enough time for COLE to finally get on his feet again. Angry, COLE powers up an energy ball intending to hurl it toward the trio at the end of the hallway. PHOEBE moves to stop him. She grabs his arm and successfully thwarts him.) PHOEBE: No! PIPER: (to LEO) Get us out of here. (The Trio orb out.) (Furious, COLE swings his arm and knocks PHOEBE to the floor. A couple of DEMON GUARDS enter the hallway.) COLE: Go! Go get her sisters! They just attacked me! DEMON: Sisters? You mean there's another? COLE: Yes, damn it. Get 'em and kill 'em on sight. (The DEMON GUARDS disappear to carry out their orders.) (PHOEBE, still on the floor, looks up at COLE.) PHOEBE: Paige was telling the truth. COLE: (harshly) I didn't go through all this ... to lose you, Phoebe. If I'm going down, you're going down with me. (Camera holds on PHOEBE.) FADE TO BLACK. (COMMERCIAL SET) [INT. DOPPLE P3 - DAY] (PAIGE is working on the potion. PIPER stands off to the side watching her work.) PAIGE: Toadflax. Toadflax. Did Leo get the toadflax? (PIPER doesn't say anything. She reaches over to the dish next to PAIGE and grabs a handful of its contents. She gives it to PAIGE.) PAIGE: Thank you. (PAIGE takes it and puts it into the boiling mixture. She continues with the potion.) And we need a dash of cardamum ... a pinch of carrot seeds. (PAIGE looks up at the ceiling and yells.) Hey, where's the mandrake root already? PIPER: (quietly) I'm impressed. You really know this stuff. PAIGE: Of course I do. I learned from the best. (PAIGE throws PIPER a sideways glance and smiles.) I learned from you. (PIPER doesn't say anything. PAIGE turns back to her potion.) (LEO orbs in.) LEO: Mandrake root. PAIGE: All right. Toss it in. (LEO puts the root into the boiling mix. She gives it a stir.) PAIGE: All right. Now all we need ... stand back. (LEO and PIPER take a couple steps backwards. PAIGE tosses in the final ingredient into the pot. The mixture explodes with a loud boom and a puff of smoke.) PIPER: Good memory. LEO: Is that it? Is it ready? PAIGE: Ready as it'll ever be. Can't guarantee it'll work, though. (PAIGE reaches for the baster and starts to fill the vial with the potion.) PIPER: We're only gonna get one chance. Cole has to know why we needed his flesh. He'll be waiting. LEO: What about Phoebe? PIPER: We get her out first so that he can't hurt her. (PAIGE stoppers the vial. PIPER looks over at PAIGE.) PIPER: Ready, sis? (PAIGE looks back at PIPER and smiles.) CUT TO: [EXT. SAN FRANCISCO BAY - NIGHT] [INT. DOPPLE MANOR - DINING ROOM / MAIN HALL -- NIGHT] (PIPER peers out the kitchen doorway and into the main hallway. PAIGE appears behind her and LEO behind her.) PAIGE: Anything? PIPER: No. PAIGE: Ok, come on. (PAIGE walks out of the kitchen and into the foyer. She holds the potion in her hand. As they pass the stairway, PHOEBE comes rushing down them.) PHOEBE: What are you guys doing here? You have to leave now. PIPER: Where's Cole? COLE: (o.s.) Right here. (From the empty sitting room, COLE walks in. Without any warning he powers up an energy ball and hurls it toward PIPER, PAIGE and LEO. Catching them unaware; the energy ball finds their mark. The three are flung backward. They hit the bar counter and fall to the floor. The vial slips out of PAIGE's grip.) PHOEBE: No! (PHOEBE runs over to check them out. COLE motions with his hand and the potion flies into his open palm. He now holds onto the vial.) PHOEBE: What did you do to them? COLE: Exactly what they were gonna do to me. (PAIGE wakes up and checks PIPER'S pulse.) PAIGE: She's still alive. (to Phoebe) Grab her hand. PHOEBE: What? COLE: I don't know how you got here, Paige. But if it's any consolation, I know exactly where I'm gonna bury you ... right next to yourself. PAIGE: (again to Phoebe) Grab her hand. (PHOEBE takes ahold of PIPER'S hand. A blue shimmering light from above reigns down upon them ... anointing them as The Charmed Ones. PHOEBE looks at COLE. She then looks up at the familiar light from above. COLE takes a step toward them and powers up another energy ball. He hurls it at them. The energy ball bounces off the light protectively surrounding the sisters and flies back at COLE.) (COLE ducks in time and the energy ball crashes through the windows behind him.) (PHOEBE and PAIGE stand up. PIPER and LEO are still unconscious on the floor. PHOEBE knows this. She's felt this power before.) PHOEBE: (wonderingly) The Power of Three. PAIGE: That's us. Potion! (PAIGE holds out her hand and the potion that was in COLE'S grip orbs into hers. COLE gasps. PAIGE has her powers back.) PAIGE: I do hate long good-byes. (PAIGE raises her arm intending to end this for good. PHOEBE stops her.) PHOEBE: No! (PHOEBE grabs the vial out of PAIGE'S hand. She turns around to look at COLE. COLE lets out a relieved breath.) PAIGE: Phoebe, are you crazy? Throw it before he shimmers out! (COLE looks at PHOEBE.) COLE: She's not gonna throw it. Are you? PAIGE: Throw the potion. COLE: We've been through so much together ... haven't we? Our love's so strong, nothing can destroy it, not even ... this. We're meant to be together. (For a moment, PHOEBE doesn't move. Then ... ) PHOEBE: I don't think so. (PHOEBE throws the vial at COLE with all her strength. The potion hits COLE and he immediately bursts into flames. He yells out in pain as the flames consume him. COLE explodes. Balthazor is vanquished.) (Camera holds on PHOEBE as she watches.) (Cut to PAIGE as the room swirls around and reality once again changes.) CUT TO: [EXT. SAN FRANCISCO CITY LIGHTS - NIGHT] (The gold ripple travels back over the city changing it from darkness and back to the city of lights that it was before.) [INT. MANOR - MAIN HALL - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS] (Cut back to the swirling hallway. PAIGE appears in a soft glow. The room stops spinning and time resumes. (PAIGE looks around the room cautiously, uncertain whether she's back in her own reality.) PAIGE: (to herself) Oh, please, god, tell me I'm back. (Footsteps sound in the hallway. PIPER appears out of the kitchen and crosses the dining room toward PAIGE. She's in her blue nightgown and holding a pint of ice cream, the spoon stuck in the container. She approaches PAIGE.) PIPER: Oh, there you are. Where'd you orb to? PAIGE: Piper. Are you pregnant? PIPER: Yeah. Where you been? PAIGE: Oh! (Overcome with relief at being back in her own reality, PAIGE throws her arms around a confused PIPER and gives her a big hug.) PIPER: Where have you been? What happened to your clothes? (PAIGE glances down at her outfit and ponders it for a moment.) PAIGE: Time must have continued moving on in this reality, too. PIPER: (confused) I beg your pardon? PAIGE: (gleeful) I'm back! (The front door opens and closes. PHOEBE comes home.) PHOEBE: (smiling) Hey! What's going on? PIPER: She's very happy. (PAIGE turns around and sees PHOEBE.) PAIGE: Phoebe! (PAIGE gives PHOEBE a big hug.) PHOEBE: (confused) Hi--oh! Oh, ok. What's the celebration? PAIGE: I'm just ... so happy to be home, that's all! PIPER: You wanted to move out. (PIPER shoves a spoonful of ice cream into her mouth.) PAIGE: I did? God, no. Never! Well, I mean, you know, maybe when I'm married or pregnant or ... hopefully both at the same time. We're sisters. We shouldn't split up until we absolutely have to. You know that, right? PIPER: She's rambling. PHOEBE: I hear that. PAIGE: Ah-choo! (PAIGE sneezes and orbs out. A moment later, she orbs back in, her eyes shut tight. She opens her eyes.) PAIGE: I'm still here, right? PIPER: Mm-hmm. PAIGE: I didn't go anywhere. PHOEBE: No. (PAIGE sighs in relief.) PHOEBE: Paige ... ? ... (beat) ... What did you do? (PAIGE grimaces at PHOEBE'S insight.) CUT TO: [EXT. COLE'S PENTHOUSE - NIGHT] [INT. COLE'S PENTHOUSE- NIGHT] (The broken door to the balcony flaps open in the night breeze. As the apartment looked before, so it looks the same - dark and empty. The doors to the front elevator open. PHOEBE, PIPER and PAIGE walk out.) PHOEBE: Cole? (They look at the empty main room and see no one.) PAIGE: I'm telling you--he's gone. For good. (They walk into the room.) PHOEBE: Yeah ... that's what we thought last time. PIPER: And the time before that. (PAIGE makes her way to the broken balcony door. PHOEBE and PIPER walk deeper into the apartment.) PAIGE: This time is different. He straddled two worlds just like I did, but he wasn't invincible there. (PAIGE reaches the doors and closes them. She turns around.) PAIGE: Cole's not coming back ... ever. PIPER: It just seems far too easy. I don't know how I feel about that. PAIGE: I think you should feel good about it, you know? We don't have to look over our shoulders anymore. (PAIGE walks back toward PIPER. She shrugs her shoulders.) PAIGE: It's over. (On the living room floor, PHOEBE finds and picks up a framed photograph of her and COLE taken during happier times. She looks at it.) PHOEBE: (softly) I guess it just wasn't meant to be. (PAIGE smiles.) PIPER: Let's go. (PHOEBE nods and walks toward her sisters. PIPER turns around and heads back to the elevator. PAIGE follows close behind.) (On her way out, PHOEBE sets the framed photograph upright on the side table. She turns around to look one last time back at COLE'S apartment. She heads toward the elevator. PIPER follows her.) (PAIGE is the last to leave. She, too, turns around to look back at the empty apartment. Behind her, the elevator doors open.) (PAIGE sighs.) PAIGE: (quietly) Happy birthday, Cole. (PAIGE turns around and quickly walks into the elevator where her sisters wait. The elevator doors close.) (Camera holds on the empty foyer.) FADE TO BLACK. ========================== THE END ========================== [Captioning made possible by Spelling Entertainment, Inc. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute --www.Ncicap.Org--] For corrections / inaccuracies, please contact the Transcriptionist at (intrepidly002@yahoo.com) Courtesy of http://www.webphilia.com/~anthology/wnp.html Please do not archive without permission. ========================== TITLE/OPENING CREDITS ========================== CHARMED 5X12: CENTENNIEL CHARMED ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON WB: 01/19/2003 TRANSCRIBED FROM WB Starring: ALYSSA MILANO as Phoebe Halliwell ROSE McGOWAN as Paige Matthews and HOLLY MARIE COMBS as Piper BRIAN KRAUSE as Leo Wyatt JULIAN McMAHON as Cole Turner DORIAN GREGORY as Darryl Morris Created by CONSTANCE M. BURGE Guest Starring JOEL SWETOW as Avatar (of Power) STEVEN DANIEL DEANNA RUSSO KRISTIN RICHARDSON SANDRA PROSPER RICKI LOPEZ and DEBBI MORGAN as The Seer Special Musical Guest MICHELLE BRANCH Consulting Producer: JONATHAN LEVIN Co-Producer: ALISON SCHAPKER Co-Producer: MONICA BREEN Co-Producer: LAURIE PARRES Co-Producer: MARK WILDING Co-Producer: PETER CHOMSKY Producer: KRISTA VERNOFF Producer: HOLLY MARIE COMBS Producer: ALYSSA MILANO Supervising Producer: DANIEL CERONE Co-Executive Producer: JAMES L. CONWAY Produced By: JON PARE Written by BRAD KERN Directed by JAMES L. CONWAY ========================== END CREDITS ========================== Executive Producer: BRAD KERN Executive Producer: AARON SPELLING Executive Producer: E. DUKE VINCENT Spelling Television Inc., A Paramount / Viacom Company Executive Story Editor: CURTIS KHEEL Story Editor: HENRY ALONSO MYERS Co-Starring SEAN MORAN as Designer MICHAEL BERGIN as Handsome Demon GREG PROVANCE as Demon Guard Music by J. PETER ROBINSON Casting by: LESLEE DENNIS, C.S.A. Original Casting by VICTORIA HUFF, C.S.A. Director of Photography: JONATHAN WEST, ASC Production Designer: PAUL STAHELI Editor: STEWART SCHILL Unit Production Manager: JON PARE First Assistant Director: ROBERT METOYER Second Assistant Director: ERIC OLIVER Executive in Charge of Talent: PAMELA SHAE Costume Designer: EILISH Camera Operator: KRIS KROSSKOVE 1st Assistant Camera: RICHARD SOBIN Chief Lighting Technician: KURT JOHNSON Asst. Chief Lighting Technician: DON LEHMAN Set Designer: ROLAND HILL Set Decorator: ROBINSON ROYCE, S.D.S.A. Leadperson: MICHAEL ZUFELT Property Master: ROGER MONTESANO Assistant Property Master: CHRISTY McGEACHY Script Supervisor: NANCY SOLOMAN Costume Supervisor: DANIELA GSCHWENDTNER Dept. Head Key Make-Up Artist: NANET NEW Key Make-Up Artist: ANI MALONEY Key Make-Up Artist: BRET MARDOCK Dept. Head Key Hairstylist: AUDREY FUTTERMAN-STERN Key Hairstylist: LAUREL KELLY Sound Mixer: BRETT GRANT-GRIERSON Location Manager: BOB BOYLE Transportation Coordinator: DAVE BASSETT Production Coordinator: RICK NAPOLI Post-Production Coordinator: LARRY GOLDSTEIN Production Accountant: CHRISSY CORNWALL First Company Grip: STEVE GAUSCHE 2nd Company Grip: TOM HAM Construction Coordinator: STAR FIELDS Stunt Coordinator: NOON ORSATTI Special Effects Coordinator: RANDY CABRAL Visual Effects Supervisor: STEPHEN LEBED Executive Associate: RENATE KAMER Casting Associate: MEGAN ENTRIKEN Assistant to Brad Kern: DOUG E. JONES Assistant to Jon Pare: JULIE SWARTSLEY Assistant to the Writers: ANDREA STEVENS Assistant Editors: ALLISON DUNN Music Editor: NINO CENTURION Supervising Sound Editor: JEFF CLARK Music Coordinator: CELEST RAY Re-Recording Mixers: JOSH SCHNEIDER / BRUCE MICHAELS / KEVIN VALENTINE Film and Electronic Laboratory (tm) by LASERPACIFIC MEDIA Lenses and Panaflex(R) Camera by PANAVISION(R) Digital Sound Editing and Mixing by LASERPACIFIC MEDIA Digital Visual Effects by ENCORE VIDEO Executive in Charge of Production: GAIL M. PATTERSON Executive in Charge of Post-Production: KENNETH MILLER This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States and other countries. Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use may result in civil liability and or criminal prosecution. The places and characters depicted herein are entirely fictitious, and any similarity to any real places or people is purely coincidental. 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