Teleplay by: Sheryl J. Anderson
Story by: Sanford Golden
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[Scene: Manor. Prue, Piper and Phoebe walk in the kitchen carrying shopping bags.]
Piper: Any day that brings new shoes is a good day.
Phoebe: Are you kidding? This was a great day. Yoga, pedicures, shopping, lunch. When have we had more fun?
Prue: It's nice to bond through something other than vanquishing for a change.
Phoebe: Yeah, but I gotta hand it to those pesky little demons. They sure have brought us closer together.
Prue: Maybe you should write them a thank you note.
(Prue turns on the TV.)
Reporter: Early this morning when an argument between neighbours at a block party turned into a street parole, residents of several apartment buildings...
Prue: Ugh.
(She turns off the TV.)
Piper: Some people are just crazy.
Prue: Doesn't it seem like this kind of stuff has been happening a lot here lately?
Phoebe: Random social violence is encouraged by a general D clan and ethical thinking. Well, according to my sociology professor. He said that we don't think about the big questions enough.
Prue: The big question is how did you stay awake through his class?
Phoebe: Not only did I stay awake but I actually enjoyed it. Which is why I bought this book. (She gets a book out of a bag.) It's filled with really deep profound questions, which would actually make a good bar game at P3.
Piper: Oh, great, solve the problems of the world while doing Jell-O shots.
Phoebe: Okay, let's see if I can find a really good one. (She puts on her glasses and opens up to a page in the book.) Okay, what if a building was on fire? Do you save five strangers or one sibling?
Prue: I thought that you said that these were hard questions. That's easy, sibling.
Piper: Of course.
Phoebe: Ditto. Okay, my turn, my turn.
(Phoebe hands Prue the book. The doorbell rings.)
Piper: Okay, don't answer anything until I answer that.
Phoebe: Okay, faster though, faster.
(Piper answers the door.)
Piper: Hi.
Leo: Hi.
(They kiss.)
Piper: Since when do you ring instead of orb?
Leo: Well, I'm just trying to respect everybody's space since the three of you have been so, uh...
(Prue and Phoebe walk in.)
Phoebe: Hey, Leo.
Leo: Tight these days.
Prue: So, um, are you here for all of us?
Leo: No, this isn't business. I was just about to invite Piper to an early dinner before her Paula Cole show.
Piper: Oh.
Leo: Oh, do you have other plans?
Piper: Uh, not exactly. We've just been hanging out all day spending some quality non-magic time.
Leo: Oh, alright, no problem. Rain check?
Prue: Um, Piper, why don't you go with Leo? I mean, we're totally cool with it. Pheebs and I will go to the club early, keep an eye on things.
Piper: I have a new assistant manager and she's all checked out so she can take care of things.
Phoebe: Still, we'll go and make sure everything's okay. We'll bring the book, maybe stir up some trouble.
Prue: How about stirring up some margaritas?
Phoebe: Ooh, that's good.
(They link arms and walk back in the kitchen.)
Piper: So it's a date.
Leo: Alright.
[Scene: On the street. Leo and Piper are in Piper's car. They pull up at a stop sign.]
Piper: I didn't mean that I didn't enjoy being with you, all I meant was that Phoebe and Prue would've enjoyed the restaurant too.
(A guy in a car pulls up behind them and starts honking his horn and yelling.)
Leo: I wish you were normal sisters, they're never this close.
Piper: And it's a problem that we are?
Leo: No. It just seems that sometimes I'm breaking up a great party when I wanna be alone with you.
(They guy behind them continues honking the horn.)
Piper: Leo, I have room for all of you in my life and in my heart.
Leo: I still need to know which room's mine because... (The guy drives around them and speeds around the corner.) Okay.
[Cut to the guy. He crashes into a Ute with crates of fruit in the back and the fruit flies out of it onto the road. Piper and Leo pull up.]
Piper: Oh, no. (The man that was driving the Ute gets out and storms over to the other guy driving the car. He pulls him out of the car and they start fighting. Other people try to break up the fight. One guy picks up a watermelon and throws it at Piper's car. It smashes all over the windshield. Piper and Leo get out.) What on earth? (They walk over near the fighting men. The guy throws another watermelon towards Piper and Leo but Piper freezes it before it can hit them. Everyone else freezes except Leo and one of the four horseman is standing near by. The horseman looks around confused. He then sees Piper and Leo and starts running.) Leo?
Leo: I see him. (Piper runs after him.) Wait, Piper, you don't know what he is. (Leo runs after Piper.)
[Cut to the horseman. He runs around the corner of a building and suddenly a horse appears. He jumps on the horse and they disappear. Piper and Leo run around the corner and wonder where he went.]
[Cut to a field. The four horsemen on horses suddenly appear, galloping along.]
Opening Credits
[Scene: P3. Paula Cole is singing. Prue and Phoebe are sitting at the bar watching her. The bartender hands back the book to Prue. Paula Cole finishes her song.]
Paula: Thank you, P3, you've been great. Thank you.
(Piper and Leo walk up to Prue and Phoebe.)
Phoebe: Hey, I can't believe you guys missed Paula Cole, she was awesome.
Piper: We saw a pretty awesome show ourselves.
Prue: I thought that you guys went to dinner.
Piper: We did and then for dessert we did a little demon hunting.
Prue: What happened?
Piper: Well, there was this road rage thing and it was completely out of control, so I froze the entire street except for this a guy in a suit.
Leo: And he takes off. Your sister doesn't listen to me so we chase him down into an alley. Nothing, he vanished into thin air.
Phoebe: Wait, a demon that causes road rage?
Piper: I don't know if he caused it or was attracted by it.
Prue: Well, the kind of creature that gets off in that kind of thing would certainly explain why the city's been such a mess lately. He's probably some lower level mischief maker.
Leo: As soon as we figure out who he is and what he wants will be better for everyone.
Piper: Yeah, except for those of us who have to get rid of him.
Phoebe: Okay, we can sit around here being pessimistic or we can go to the house and check the Book of Shadows.
[Scene: A field. The four horsemen are there.]
War: What happened?
Strife: First of all I wanna let you all know that I was out on the field and things are looking good. The public is really responding.
War: But...
Strife: We might have a problem.
War: Did you screw up?
Strife: No, why would you assume that?
Famine: Please don't fight.
Death: It's all they know how to do.
Strife: A freezing witch saw me. Caught me working.
War: A good witch?
Strife: I would say so. She chased me, I think she thought she could stop me.
War: That is a problem.
Strife: Fixable. I think we can still move forward with our plan and still make our deadline.
Famine: But the deadline's 7:00 tomorrow night. The source is gonna...
War: Find her and kill her.
Famine: How are we gonna find her?
War: Set a trap. If she's a good witch she'll want to stop us. All we have to do is give her something she'll want to stop.
[Scene: Manor. Attic. Phoebe and Piper are there. Phoebe's flipping through the Book Of Shadows.]
Piper: Wait, stop right there.
Phoebe: The demon of cruelty.
Piper: Hardens the heart, corrodes the soul...
Phoebe: And is a woman.
Piper: Oh, oops.
(Prue and Leo walk in.)
Prue: Hey, so how is it going?
Piper: In big fat circles. We've been reading all night and there's no one in here that matches the guy I saw.
Phoebe: We do have a list of six potential matches though.
Piper: But there's no picture so we're sort of shooting in the dark. My best guess is the demon of anarchy.
Leo: Hey, you can't just guess. Alright, you have to be sure. It's very dangerous to engage an enemy unless you know who he is and what he wants.
Piper: Leo, honey, we have done this a couple of times.
Leo: No, I didn't mean...
Prue: You know, Leo, it would be great to know every single thing about our enemies but that's not always the case.
Leo: I know, but...
Phoebe: And if this guy is causing riots we can't just hang out and wait for inspiration, you know.
Leo: Okay, three against one. I-I just, I was working that's all.
Phoebe: Okay, so no offense to the Whitelighter but we're going with the Demon of Anarchy, right?
Prue: Yes, the Demon of Anarchy.
Piper: Okay, so this potion doesn't even require a double boiler.
Phoebe: And it's your basic iambic pentameter chant. It's a very nice simple vanquish.
Piper: Okay, so all we have to do now is figure out where this guys gonna show up next.
Prue: Alright, well, who do we know that would be keeping track of anarchy?
[Time lapse. Prue is on the phone with Morris.]
Morris: Yeah, Prue, but the department has all sorts of violence and the captain is calling in civil disturbances. In my professional opinion the whole city's lost its friggin' mind. We got street riots, looting, arson. We're two crimes away from being placed on tactical alert. You're not calling to tell me that all this trouble's because of you know what, are you?
Prue: Yeah, well, possibly. We're actually researching that right now. We were kinda calling for your help.
Morris: Look, I really can't leave right now.
Prue: No, no, no, I-I understand and we're not quite there yet but it would really help to know where the latest hotspot is.
[Scene: In a street. Police cars are there with emergency lights flashing. People are rioting. Prue, Piper and Phoebe get out of the car.]
Prue: Don't freeze them yet. Don't let him know that we're here.
Piper: Alright, alright.
Phoebe: What the hell is wrong with these people?
(They start walking through the crowd.)
Piper: I can not wait to kick this guys butt all the way back to... (Phoebe and Piper get split up from Prue.) Alright, alright, this way, this way. (Piper spots Strife standing near by.) That's him, that's him.
Phoebe: Well, let's go introduce ourselves.
Piper: Prue!
(She points to Strife. He sees them and runs off. Prue runs after him and Phoebe and Piper follow behind. Strife runs in an alley and around the corner where the other three horseman are.)
Strife: There are three of them.
(Prue runs around the corner.)
Prue: There's four of you?
(War walks towards her. She tries to use her power but it doesn't work. He grabs her. Piper and Phoebe come around the corner.)
Phoebe: Prue!
War: Stop or I'll snap her neck. (to Strife) Start the chant.
(Strife starts a chant in a weird language.)
Prue: (to Piper and Phoebe) Start the damn chant.
(Phoebe and Piper get a piece of paper out of their pockets and starts the chant.)
Phoebe, Piper: "Sower of discord, your works now must cease, I vanquish thee now, with these words of peace."
(Piper throws a potion at Prue and War's feet and smoke rises around them. A bright light appears and then Prue and War disappear into a vortex.)
Piper: Prue?
Death: What the hell?
(The horseman disappear.)
Phoebe: What just happened?
Piper: I think we just vanquished our sister.
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[Scene: Continued from before.]
Piper: She's gone.
Phoebe: We don't know that.
Piper: Phoebe, we killed Prue.
Phoebe: Piper, stop it okay. I don't wanna hear that.
Piper: You think I wanna say it? I'm the one who made the potion, Phoebe, it's my fault.
Phoebe: Okay, how about having a little faith. Alright, our magic has never let us down before.
Piper: Well, there's a first time for everything isn't there.
Phoebe: She's not dead.
Piper: How do you know that?
Phoebe: Because, Piper, I have no choice but to believe in us and in our magic. Come here. (She puts her arm around her.) Okay, look, if she were dead, we would see her spirit, right? So maybe because we brought the wrong spell something weird happened. Maybe it just sent them some place.
Piper: Where?
Phoebe: I don't know but I believe that we can figure it out and I need you to believe that too. We have Leo and we have the book and we have each other. We can save Prue. There's gotta be a way.
[Scene: Horsemen's Headquarters. The three horsemen are there.]
Famine: There's no way, he's dead and so are we.
Strife: He's not dead, he can't be dead. Maybe shifted to another plane but he can not be dead. Only the source can kill us. We are the anointed ones. The four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Death: The source won't hesitate to kill us of we miss our deadline.
Famine: We were so close. How did this happen?
Death: Somebody got sloppy and attracted a witch.
Strife: We will not fail.
Death: Other teams have failed. They blew it and they paid the price.
Famine: Which we will too if we miss our deadline. And then he'll kill us and take four willing souls from in there and anoint them. They'll be the next four horsemen.
Strife: Glad to see you two aren't giving up.
Death: We need War. He's the big gun. He's the one who's gonna set nation against nation and do all the heavy work.
Strife: Then we'll get him back.
Famine: By 7:00?
Strife: We have to. Now just listen to me, alright.
Death: Who got vanquished and left you boss?
Strife: I have a plan. Do you have a plan? Oh, of course you have a plan, the same plan you always have. Kill them all.
Death: You looking for a fight?
Strife: It's my specialty.
Famine: We don't have much time. Hear him out.
Strife: All we have to do is find out where he is. Let's pull out the old books, do some research. Alright, he has to be somewhere, we will bring him back. There's gotta be a way.
[Apocalypse - 3 hours to go]
[Scene: Manor. Attic. Leo's there. Phoebe and Piper walk in.]
Phoebe: Maybe if we break down the spell and the potion.
(Piper walks over to Leo and they hug.)
Leo: I am so sorry.
Phoebe: Did you find anything?
Leo: I've been looking.
Piper: And? Tell us you've found something.
Leo: Look, I have been through the whole book and I can not find anything that matches the four beings you described.
Phoebe: What about disappearances?
Leo: Nothing.
Phoebe: Okay, we have to look under botched vanquishes.
Leo: Phoebe, I checked it all. I have been through the whole book. There is no explanation for what happened to Prue.
Piper: But you agree she's not dead. (silence) I don't understand. Wait-wait, I, wait a minute, I-I can't do this. Phoebe tells me to have hope and you're telling me that there isn't any? I just need to know.
(A breeze blows through the room. Piper gasps.)
Leo: Are you okay?
Piper: She's here.
Phoebe: Who's here?
Piper: Prue. She went right through me, I felt her presence. It's hard to describe but didn't you see her in the wind?
Phoebe: She's in the wind?
Piper: No, Phoebe, it's like she-she spoke to me, she's alive.
Phoebe: Okay, are you sure because if she's in the wind doesn't that mean that she's a spirit?
Piper: No.
Leo: No, she could be on another plane trying to break through.
Phoebe: Okay, well, then we have to help her. (calling out) Uh, Prue? Prue, honey, are you still here? Help us find you, Prue. (The pointer on the spirit board moves.) H, E, L, P. Honey, how can we help you? (Phoebe gasps.)
Piper: What was that? Did she do it to you too?
Phoebe: No, it was something else. Or someone else. Evil. Cult.
(A bubble-like figure appears and lands on the spirit board. You see Prue's face in it for a second and it disappears.)
Piper: What is that? Prue?
(Then a red bubble-like figure appears and chases the other around the room.)
Leo: She's alive but she's in trouble.
Piper: Okay, so she's alive and if she can find us then we can find her.
Phoebe: So it must be the four suit that's after her. Maybe the combination of our magic did this to them.
Leo: Which means we need to figure out who those suits are.
Piper: Okay, Leo, you go ask your bosses whoever they are, whatever they are, who those guys are and how to get our sister back. Now orb faster.
(Leo orbs out. Phoebe walks over to the Book Of Shadows.)
Phoebe: Wind.
Piper: Wind?
Phoebe: What else? Can you think of anything else?
Piper: Mist.
[Scene: Horsemen's headquarters.]
Famine: I've checked everywhere. I can't figure out what happened.
Strife: I'm telling you it is the witches. They did this, they must know.
(A guy walks up to Death.)
Death: What?
Guy: You should know we're losing momentum across the board especially in war. Peace has broken out in several areas this afternoon.
(They guy leaves.)
Death: Damn it. If we're going down, we're not going alone. Let's find those damn witches and take them down too.
(War shows up on the TV.)
Famine: War. It's him, he's alive.
Death: Hang in there, partner. We'll get you back then we'll punish those witches.
War: No, cease fire. Cooperation.
Strife: Wait, you want us to work with the witches?
War: Get them to free me.
Famine: How are we supposed to find them?
War: Ask the source.
[Scene: Manor. Conservatory. Phoebe and Piper are there. Piper's staring at the spirit board and Phoebe's taking notes from the Book Of Shadows.]
Phoebe: I still haven't found her ---- but I think I have an idea of where Prue might be.
Piper: And how to get her back? Because we have to do that before this thing hurts her.
Phoebe: Well, remember when Leo said that Prue might be on another plane? Well, maybe we banished her somehow. Now, there are eleven planes of existence.
Piper: Eleven planes? We don't have time to search eleven planes. Prue's been quiet for a really long time, maybe we're too late.
Phoebe: Piper, stay with me, okay. We can not give up.
(Leo orbs in.)
Piper: Did you find out where she is?
Leo: No, but I have a message from them.
Piper: She's not...?
Leo: No, no. While I was there they was contacted by their counter parts on the other side.
Phoebe: Are you telling me evil called good and good answered?
Leo: These suits that you're dealing with have the highest possible connections. Their bosses talk to my bosses.
Piper: About Prue?
Leo: About the whole situation. They wanna have a meeting with you.
Piper: Uh, what could they possibly want from us? They already have Prue.
Leo: Prue and their partner are trapped in another world between good and evil. And the only way to release them is for good and evil to cooperate. You have to work with the suits.
Piper: Are we allowed to do that?
Leo: Look, all they told me was to give you the message and to let you decide whether you wanted to do it.
Phoebe: Did they mention what they think we should do?
Leo: Free will. It's a big thing with them.
Phoebe: Wonderful. So where's the meeting?
Leo: You're gonna do it?
Phoebe: I'm sorry, Leo, did you show up to the party late? Of course we're gonna do it.
Leo: Phoebe, you can never get into bed with evil, you know that. It could be a trap.
Piper: Leo, thank you for your opinion but your bosses did say that they were leaving the decision up to us so maybe you should too.
Leo: Look, I can't. Alright, the last time that you went up against this evil you lost Prue. Alright, now you're gonna go up against it again? Both of you could be lost this time.
Phoebe: But we're not gonna go up against them, we're gonna work with them, right?
Leo: But they'll betray you. Alright, this is how evil works. This is why evil loves free will so much. Because humans use it to follow their heart. And evil takes advantage of that.
Piper: So Leo, what are our options?
Leo: You have to try and save her by yourselves.
Phoebe: But Leo, we don't know how. We have to work with them.
Leo: But you don't even know who they are.
Phoebe: We tried to find them but they weren't in the book.
Leo: Which means they probably aren't even demons or warlocks anyway.
Phoebe: Okay, then what are they?
Leo: In the hierarchy of demons. Ferocious, impossible to vanquish. And these went to extraordinary lengths to ask for this meeting. Who knows what'll happen when the four of them are reunited.
Piper: I don't care what happens, we just want Prue back.
Leo: So do I but this is not the way.
Phoebe: Leo, it's the only way we know. We have to save Prue.
[Scene: A field. Piper and Phoebe are waiting there.]
Piper: This is where we were supposed to come, right?
Phoebe: Right.
Piper: And it's not a trap, right, please tell me we're doing the right thing.
(The horsemen appear.)
Phoebe: Or we're making the biggest mistake in the world.
Strife: Thank you for coming. And you are?
Piper: Anxious to get this over with, let's go.
Strife: Are you in a hurry?
Phoebe: You stalling?
Strife: You want your sister back?
Piper: Do you want your friend back?
Strife: Let's do business.
(He holds out his hand. Piper hesitates for a moment but then shakes his hand. You hear a crack of thunder.)
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[Scene: Manor. Conservatory. Phoebe, Leo and the three horsemen are there. Phoebe picks up a plant off the table and the horsemen step back in alarm.]
Horsemen: Whoa, hey, what are you doing?
Phoebe: Just making room.
Strife: Of course. (Strife reaches in his coat and Phoebe gasps.) Taking notes. (He pulls out a pen.)
Phoebe: Of course.
Strife: Old habits are hard to break. I'm sure we can put that all aside and get this done.
Famine: Or die trying.
(Piper walks in.)
Leo: (whispers to Piper) You know, it's bad enough working with them but to bring them here.
Piper: To the manor where we're the strongest and safest or maybe we should've gone to their place not that they offered.
Leo: And why not? Hmm? Why give up home field advantage unless they're hiding something.
Piper: Of course they're hiding something, they're evil.
Phoebe: Okay, if we can reconstruct exactly what happened in the alley, we might be able to figure out what sent them away and undo that.
(Phoebe has placed some items on the table. Death moves one.)
Death: I was standing there.
Piper: No, actually, I was there, you were here.
(She moves them back.)
Famine: No, he's right. It was more like this.
(He moves them back.)
Phoebe: Okay, you know what? If we can't agree on this, we're not gonna get anything done.
Strife: Okay, it was more like this. I was here, (he moves one) here, (he moves another) and our missing friends were here.
(When he finishes moving them, there are five on the outside in a circle and one in the middle.)
Piper: Phoebe.
Phoebe: I see it, Piper.
Famine: What? What do you see?
(Piper and Phoebe take some long stemmed flowers out of a vase and place them on the table in the shape of a pentagram.)
Death: Pentagram, our lucky sign.
Phoebe: Actually, a pentagram is a sign of good energy until your side stole it.
Piper: Okay, is it possible that the five of us by forming a pentagram somehow created some weird magical energy field?
Phoebe: With Prue and your friend in the middle. There must of been a vortex. Okay, if we can figure out how we opened it, then maybe we can figure out how to open it again.
Strife: And release them.
Leo: And who knows what else.
Death: This is good, keep it up. I'll check things back at the office. Page me when you have the answer. Ladies.
(He leaves.)
Leo: I'm leaving too.
(Piper walks over to Leo.)
Piper: Where are you going?
Leo: (whispering) I'm gonna follow this guy back and find out who he is.
(Leo orbs out.)
Famine: What is he?
Piper: He is none of your business. Okay, since this is supposed to be a joint effort, what is your contribution?
Strife: Perhaps it was the combination of our chants that opened this vortex.
Phoebe: What language were you chanting in?
Strife: Actually it's a dead language that we sometimes use for ceremonial purposes.
Piper: How festive.
Strife: I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours.
Piper: Okay, while you two do that, I'll go remake the potion 'cause we're probably going to need it.
Famine: Mind if I watch?
Piper: Yes I do.
(Piper goes in the kitchen and Famine follows.)
[Scene: Horsemen's headquarters. Death walks down the corridor. Leo orbs in. Someone walks out of a room and sees Leo.]
Guy: Who the hell are you and what the...
(Leo punches him in the face.)
[Scene: Manor. Living room. Phoebe and Strife are sitting on the couch.]
Strife: It's your standard chant to destroy the common witch. Clearly you're no common witch though.
Phoebe: Thank you.
Strife: Okay, first line. I'll interpret. I call you servants of the unholy and then...
Phoebe: Now, being a bad guy and all, you wouldn't happen to be lying to me would you?
Strife: Being a bad guy and all, would you believe me if I told you no?
[Cut back to the Horsemen's headquarters. Leo's walking down the corridor wearing a suit and tie.]
[Cut to a room.]
Death: I don't like these numbers at all. I gave specific instructions to spread cholera. Especially in central Asia. What happened? I'm asking you a question. If somebody is vaccinating these people I wanna know about it. (Leo stands at the doorway.) Find out now. Small pox outbreak in Venezuela. Let it spread.
[Cut back to the manor. Kitchen. Piper notices Famine rubbing his neck. He has a tattoo there.]
Piper: What is that? Tattoo?
Famine: Yes.
Piper: What does it mean?
Famine: Nothing. Goes with the job. What are you doing?
Piper: I am recreating the potion I made for our first meeting. I think it might help get Prue and...
Famine: Our friend.
Piper: Back. So what are you four up to?
Famine: You really expect me to answer that?
Piper: Well, we're supposed to be working together and we don't know anything about each other.
Famine: I know you are a witch.
Piper: And you are...?
Famine: Not. Look, we just want our partner back, that's all you need to know. It's all business, just like it is for you.
Piper: No, she's our sister, it's completely personal.
Famine: Every mortal's weakness. That's why you always lose.
Piper: Hmm.
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[Scene: Manor. Living room. Strife and Phoebe are sitting on the couch.]
Phoebe: Well, this is great, we both did spells the same time but we did it on the wrong people. So I think that we... (she notices Strife staring at her) Am I the only one that's working here?
Strife: Have you always been a witch?
Phoebe: What? Why?
Strife: I don't know, there's something about you. You ever been a demon?
Phoebe: I think we need to get back to our chants.
Strife: Meaning yes?
Phoebe: No. I have never been a demon.
Strife: You know, we're not that different.
Phoebe: No, we're both trying to undo the other side.
Strife: I wanted the challenge.
Phoebe: I think I figured out how good and evil mix together.
Strife: To such powerful results.
Phoebe: I know how to undo that.
(The bubble-like figure appears and floats past Phoebe. She gasps.)
Strife: You alright?
Phoebe: No, uh, I'm a bit queasy.
(Phoebe notices the bubble-like figure and it floats over to the spirit board. The pointer moves to 4 then to H then to O. The red bubble-like figure appears and knocks the pointer on the floor. They both jump up.)
Strife: What's going on?
Phoebe: I don't know.
(The bubble-like figures fly around the room and knock a picture off the wall. They disappear.)
Strife: What did you do?
Phoebe: I didn't do anything, what did you do?
(Piper and Famine come in.)
Famine: What happened?
Strife: Hard to say.
Piper: Are you alright?
Phoebe: I'm not sure.
Famine: So do you have an answer yet?
Phoebe: Reverse polarity.
Famine: In the pentagram.
Phoebe: And in the chants. If we stand in opposite points and say the opposite words in chant, save instead of vanquish and so on...
Strife: It will reopen the vortex and get them back and we can get back to business.
Phoebe: And we can get on with our lives.
Strife: It's 6:00 now so why don't we go back to the office, get organised and we can all meet up at 6:30 sharp. We, uh, have an appointment at 7:00.
(They leave.)
Piper: Okay, what really happened?
Phoebe: It was Prue. She was trying to spell something out on the spirit board but all I got was 4 H O.
Piper: 4HO... Four hours? Maybe she feels that's all the time she has left.
[Apocalypse - 49 minutes to go]
[Scene: Headquarters. Leo's in a room looking around. He looks on the wall and notices the four horsemen's faces with their names underneath and numbers underneath that.]
Leo: It can't be.
(A guy storms down the corridor.)
Guy: Security bridge. Grab him.
(Leo orbs out.)
Death: Never mind him, keep working, we're running out of time.
[Scene: Manor. Kitchen. Piper and Phoebe are there. Piper's still making the potion.]
Piper: Are you sure they're willing to do their half?
Phoebe: They seem to want this as badly as we do. (Leo orbs in.) Great, you're here. We're done, we have everything figured out.
Leo: You sure?
Piper: Leo, what are you wearing? Where have you been?
Leo: I just followed the black tie back to his office.
Piper: Leo, they'll think we don't trust them.
Leo: And you shouldn't trust them, Piper. You wanna know who they are? They are the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Piper: The four-four... That's what Prue was trying to tell us.
Leo: Don't you understand what's at stake here? If you save Prue, you will release the fourth horseman and bring about the end of the world.
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[Scene: Manor. Conservatory. Phoebe, Piper and Leo are there.]
Leo: I don't believe you.
Piper: Leo, it doesn't change anything, we would help the source himself if we thought we could get Prue back.
Leo: Listen, they wear the mark of the anointed ones. The omega. It means the end.
Piper: The tattoo on the neck?
Leo: Yes. Look, the missing horseman is War. You've been dealing with Strife, Famine and Death. They're gonna begin the apocalypse as soon as they're reunited.
Phoebe: I thought dodging the Y2K bullet bought us more time on the whole apocalypse thing.
Leo: You know why nothing happened on New Years Eve? Because it wasn't the real millennium. The monks who converted the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar made some critical errors.
Piper: So when does the new millennium start?
Leo: Tonight. Approximately...
Phoebe: 7:00. Which is probably why they wanna meet us at 6:30.
Leo: Right, then all four horsemen can be in place to begin the apocalypse. You can not let that happen.
Piper: Leo, we know what we're doing.
Leo: No, you don't. You're thinking like sisters, mortal sisters.
Piper: Well, what are we supposed to think like?
Leo: Like the Charmed Ones. You have a duty.
Piper: To save our sister.
Phoebe: Look, Leo, we've made up our mind. We're gonna save Prue. It's not like we can beat them without her.
Leo: Only the source can vanquish them, Phoebe. For failing. Think of the times the world has been on the brink. Hitler, the Cuban missile crisis. Each time a team of horsemen has almost succeeded and then failed and been destroyed and replaced by a new team.
Piper: So then we'll make sure that they'll fail too.
Leo: They are closer than any team has ever been.
Piper: Then we obviously need Prue to beat them.
Leo: Oh my God, you have not heard a thing I've said. Look, I love Prue too, you know that. But just like when you went to the future you saw that sometimes there are more important things than saving your sister.
[Apocalypse - 2 minutes to go]
[Scene: Alley. The horsemen are there.]
Famine: Give it up. If War's not back soon we're history. The source is going to burn us off the map.
Strife: We are not going down alone. Instead of just standing here, let's go hunt those witches down and kill them.
Death: I told you they'd double cross us. That's why they sent their man in to spy on us.
(Piper and Phoebe walk around the corner.)
Piper: We were doing research, it's just good business.
Death: Let's just kill them now.
Phoebe: Oh, but you need us. You can't end the world without us.
Strife: So you know who we are.
Phoebe: Yeah, and we came anyway. See, on our side of things we call that good faith.
Famine: Call it whatever you want. Let's just do it. Hurry. You ready?
Phoebe: Bring it on.
(Phoebe and Strife shake hands. Phoebe has a premonition of the apocalypse.)
Strife: Battle stations.
(They stand in their places.)
Piper: What did you see?
Phoebe: Let's just get this over with.
(Strife starts the chant. Piper then starts their chant.)
Piper: "Sower of discord, your help we implore..." Phoebe.
Phoebe: Leo's right. I saw what's gonna happen, Piper. We can't do this, we can't be selfish.
Death: Why aren't you two chanting? (to Strife) You keep going. (to Phoebe and Piper) Why did you stop?
Famine: We're running out of time.
Death: Do you know what you're doing? You're killing your own sister.
Phoebe: There's more at stake here then sisterhood.
Strife: Finished. Did they finish?
Piper: No, and we're not going to.
Strife: We had a deal. We shook on it.
Piper: That was a mistake in more ways than one.
Phoebe: We know what you want. And we're gonna make sure you don't get it.
Piper: Even if it means losing our sister forever.
(The vortex opens.)
Famine: Look, they didn't finish their chant, how can the vortex open?
Strife: The source is opening it.
(The horsemen start getting sucked into the vortex. Phoebe gets the chant our of her pocket.)
Piper: What are you doing?
Phoebe: Well, the vortex is open. If we can finish this before they're destroyed, maybe we can pull Prue out.
Phoebe, Piper: "I summon thee now, with these words of truce."
(Piper throws the potion in the vortex and Prue comes out. The horsemen disintegrate and the vortex closes.)
Piper: Prue, are you alright?
Phoebe: It's okay now, everything's gonna be okay now.
Prue: Thanks for saving my life.
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[Scene: P3. Prue, Piper and Phoebe are sitting in the alcove. They're watching everyone dance.]
Phoebe: Look at them. They'll all live to dance another day and what do we get? We saved the whole darn world. The least we can get is a thank you, you know.
(Leo comes up to them.)
Leo: Ladies.
Phoebe: Hey, Leo.
Leo: I know this has been hard on all of you.
Phoebe: Yeah, well, we sort of made it hard on you too.
Piper: Leo, it's just...
Leo: It's okay, Piper, we were doing our job.
Phoebe: Okay, the master of understatement, is there anything else?
Leo: No, I was just at a meeting and they told me that it was your act of complete selflessness that stopped the source's plan from going forward.
Prue: So the four horsemen were destroyed because Piper and Phoebe were willing to sacrifice me?
Leo: The horsemen's bosses said that it was a sign that there were still too much good in the world to make the apocalypse successful.
Piper: So are they giving up?
Leo: No, in fact they'll probably try harder from now on.
Phoebe: Do you wanna have a drink with us Leo?
Leo: No, you need time together. Just you three. I'll see you.
(He leaves.)
Prue: You know, you two faced an incredibly hard thing and, um, you made the right decision. Through your own free will.
Phoebe: I am so, so, so sorry, Prue.
Piper: So am I.
Prue: There's no apologies necessary. You were all just doing our jobs, I just have to deal with that.
(The bartender comes up to them holding Phoebe's book.)
Bartender: Everyone has to vote on this. What if a building was on fire? Do you save five strangers or one sibling?
Prue, Piper, Phoebe: Five strangers.


DRAGONFIRE
PART TWO
Run time: 24:40
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Lower level
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Mel: Hang on, are you sure this is the right way?
Ace: Course I'm sure. Don't you trust me?
Mel: I don't know. What with the dragon and all that.
Ace: The dragon. It's just something to frighten little children with. It's like witches and goblins. There ain't no such thing.
Ace: Wicked!
Mel: Get down!
Ace: That's not a real dragon. That was a laser beam.
Mel: Look out!
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Ice cliff
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Glitz: It's no use, Doctor. I've located the Ice Garden but there's a distinct absence of dragon or treasure.
The Doctor: Glitz, I sympathise with your disappointment, but I'm about to plummet to my death.
Glitz: Oh, I suppose you want me to risk my neck and come and help you.
The Doctor: Glitz!
Glitz: All right, all right. Don't get your delicates in a twist.
The Doctor: Glitz!
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Refrigeration room
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Kane: Belazs, you astound me. Those two girls should have been searched when they were arrested. You seem to be taking advantage of my former feelings for you. Be warned, the past is an empty slate. I demand absolute loyalty now and forever, and I don't forgive those who betray me. The girls must be stopped before they reach Glitz and the Doctor. They must be eradicated.
Kane: What could be more appropriate than to despatch some of Glitz's former crew after the girls. He betrayed his crew, now they can have their revenge. Everyone should be allowed his moment of revenge.
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Base of the Ice cliff
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The Doctor: I say, thank you.
Glitz: It's no use, Doctor. Even if we did find the treasure, it'd take us longer than seventy two hours, and Belazs said if I didn't return Kane's money within seventy two hours they'd confiscate my spacecraft.
The Doctor: Why don't you explain the problem to him?
Glitz: Oh, he'd slice his own mother up to make a point. If he was a mortician, the corpses would keep their eyes open.
The Doctor: Ah.
Glitz: In fact, if Kane knew we were after the...
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Refrigeration room
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Glitz (O.C.): Dragon's treasure, your life expectancy wouldn't be looking too clever at the moment. He's a cold man, Doctor. Cut him open and you won't find a heart, just a lump of ice.
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Base of the Ice cliff
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The Doctor: These types never have any sense of fair play.
Glitz: Exactly. Which is why I've come to the conclusion that play it by the rules is a mug's game. I have decided to hijack the Nosferatu. Which is where you come in, Doctor.
The Doctor: Ah, hang on there a minute, Glitz. I'm engaged in a project of scientific curiosity. I mean, that dragon, or whatever it may turn out to be, could be an undiscovered species.
Glitz: Look, I'll do you a good deal. You help me get the Nosferatu back, and I'll give you the treasure map so's you and Mel can go looking for this dragon. I can't say fairer than that, can I?
The Doctor: You have me there, Glitz. Without the map, I'll never find the creature.
Glitz: You're a man of insight and logic, Doctor.
The Doctor: All right, then. Where's the Nosferatu berthed?
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Refrigeration room
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Glitz (O.C.): In the lower docking bay.
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Restricted zone
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Kane: A work of artistry, my friend. Incandescent artistry. I could almost believe Xana lives again. A unique beauty, yes, but more than that, a criminal genius also. Oh, what a waste. It should have been I who was killed escaping arrest, not you.
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Top of the Ice cliff
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Ace: You're joking. I'm not going down there.
Mel: Look, there's the Doctor's brolly. We must be on the right track.
Ace: What did he have to come this way for? I could break my neck.
Mel: How are we going to get down there?
Ace: Hang on.
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Lower docking bay
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Glitz: There's only one guard. Do you think you can occupy him while I slip on board?
The Doctor: I'll do my best.
Glitz: Go on, then. Away you go.
The Doctor: Excuse me. What's your attitude towards the nature of existence? For example, do you hold any strong theological opinions?
Guard: I think you'll find most educated people regard mythical convictions as fundamentally animistic.
The Doctor: I see. That's a very interesting concept.
Guard: Personally, I find most experiences border on the existential.
The Doctor: Well, how do you reconcile that with the empirical critical belief that experience is at the root of all phenomena?
Guard: I think you'll find that a concept can be philosophically valid even if theologically meaningless.
The Doctor: So, what you're saying is that before Plato existed, someone had to have the idea of Plato.
Guard: Oh, you've no idea what a relief it is for me to have such a stimulating philosophical discussion. There are so few intellectuals about these days. Tell me, what do you think of the assertion that the semiotic thickness of a performed text varies according to the redundancy of auxiliary performance codes?
The Doctor: Yes.
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Nosferatu
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Glitz: Ah, my ship. Soon be light years away from this place.
Belazs: I wouldn't touch those controls if I were you.
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Base of the Ice cliff
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Ace: Wicked. And the bilge bag said this was too dangerous for girls.
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Nosferatu
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Belazs: This spacecraft is mine.
Glitz: Hang on, the seventy two hours aren't up yet. You said if I could get hold of the grotzits I could have the Nosferatu back.
Belazs: Then I shall just have to make sure you don't manage to find the money in time. I shall have to make very sure.
The Doctor: Hello. Not interrupting anything, am I?
Belazs: What are you doing here?
The Doctor: That's a very difficult question. Why is everyone round here so preoccupied with metaphysics?
Glitz: I think she's going to kill us, Doctor.
The Doctor: Ah. An existentialist.
Belazs: Quiet! Only one of us can leave Iceworld aboard the Nosferatu, and one way or the other it's going to be me.
Glitz: What about the boss, Mister Kane? Does he know of your little enterprise?
Belazs: Kane doesn't own me.
The Doctor: Oh, I think he does. I think he bought you like he buys everything in Iceworld.
Belazs: What would you know about it?
The Doctor: I think he bought you a long time ago. He paid seventeen crowns for each of Glitz's crew. How much did he pay for you? Was it worth it? Were you worth it?
Belazs: That's what I sold myself for, Kane's mark. I ought to cut my hand off for doing it.
Belazs: Go on, then. Kill me!
Glitz: Well, come on, Doctor. We've got the Nosferatu back. Let's get out of here.
The Doctor: No, Glitz. You can't go on stealing everything you want, like this Stradivarius and that Dutch master. Pay Kane back his debt, even if it costs a thousand crowns, ten thousand crowns. Pay back the debt. And as for you, your debt to Kane, I don't think you'll be able to pay it off. Ever.
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Restricted zone
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Kane: The whole of eternity has held its breath for this moment. But no one must ever see your work. It exists, that is enough. No one can ever look upon your work and live. Gaze on it and die fulfilled.
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Lower levels
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Mel: What's the matter?
Ace: Shush. Did you hear that?
Mel: Hear what?
Ace: I thought I heard something.
Mel: Well, what kind of something?
Ace: I don't know. Can you see anything?
Mel: Look out!
Ace: Run!
The Doctor: I think we go straight on. Either that, or we don't.
Glitz: Well, now that we've found the Dragonfire, what's next on your list of tourist attractions, Doctor?
The Doctor: Well, I'm not absolutely certain this one's over yet.
The Doctor: It must be generating a spot temperature in excess of fifteen hundred Celsius.
Mel: Right, cover your ears.
Ace: Ace! Yeah, good job. Throw the other one.
Ace: Yeah, go for it, tiger. That was well brill.
Mel: We're not in the clear yet.
Ace: I don't believe it. Not after two cans of Nitro. Nothing can survive that. Come on, Mel, shift!
Mel: Okay!
Ace: Come on! Come on, wake up.
Mel: Oh, what happened?
Ace: It's all right, doughnut. He's gone.
Glitz: Get back, Doctor.
The Doctor: No, Glitz, don't.
Glitz: Why?
The Doctor: We've got no right to kill.
Glitz: Why didn't it kill us?
The Doctor: Perhaps we'd better ask it.
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Refrigeration room
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Kracauer: Can't sleep, Belazs?
Belazs: How old do you think I am, Kracauer?
Kracauer: Thirty three, thirty four?
Belazs: And how old do you think I was when I first agreed to join Kane? Sixteen. That was a long time ago. Do you see this?
Kracauer: Yes, the mark of the sovereign.
Belazs: You'd have thought it would begin to disappear after twenty years.
Kracauer: We sold ourselves. We knew what we were doing. We had a choice.
Belazs: I was sixteen.
Kracauer: Even at sixteen we had a choice.
Belazs: He'll kill us. He'll find someone younger and he'll kill us unless we kill him first.
Kracauer: How do you propose to do that?
Belazs: With heat. Even here in Iceworld it's too warm for him. I've seen inside the restricted zone. That's where he keeps his refrigeration unit. He has to return there whenever his body temperature rises too high.
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Lower levels
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Ace: Do you want some coffee?
Mel: Oh, thanks.
Ace: Do you know what I did for a job when they threw me out of school?
Mel: No.
Ace: I worked as a waitress in a fast food cafe. Day in, day out, same boring routine. Some boring life. It was all wrong. It didn't feel like me that was doing it at all. I felt like I'd fallen from another planet and landed in this strange girl's body, but it wasn't me at all. I was meant to be somewhere else. Each night I'd walk home and I'd look up at the stars through the gaps in the clouds, and I tried to imagine where I really came from. I dreamed that one day everything would come right. I'd be carried off back home, back to my real mum and dad. Then it actually happened and I ended up here. Ended up working as a waitress again, only this time I couldn't dream about going nowhere else. There wasn't nowhere else to go.
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Restricted zone
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Kane: One day, when we return home, I shall erect colossal statues in your honour.
Computer: Current ambient temperature minus ten Celsius. Target temperature minus a hundred and ninety three Celsius. Cabinet temperature dropping.
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Lower levels
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Ace: There's something I've never told anyone. Do you promise not to laugh, and not to tell no one?
Mel: Of course.
Ace: It's my name. It's not really Ace. My real name's Dorothy. That's how I knew they couldn't be my real mum and dad. My real mum and dad would never have given me a naff name like Dorothy. Come on.
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Restricted zone
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Computer: Minus one hundred and fifty. Minus one hundred and sixty. Minus one hundred and seventy.
Computer: Cabinet temperature rising. Minus one hundred and sixty.
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Ice junction
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Mel: Down there?
Ace: I suppose so.
The Doctor: Ah, Mel, you've brought my umbrella.
Mel: Oh, Doctor!
Ace: Professor! Bilge bag.
Glitz: What's that?
The Doctor: Now, now, stop this squabbling. There's no place for animosity on a serious scientific undertaking.
Mel: Do you mean the dragon?
The Doctor: Well, it's not so much a dragon as more of a semi-organic vertebrate with a highly developed cerebral cortex.
Ace: And it's got laser beams in its eyes. It tried to kill us.
Mel: Yes.
The Doctor: Really? Well, I wonder what you did to annoy it?
Ace: It just came at us, Professor. No warning.
The Doctor: Really. Well, let's see what this vertebrate with laser beams has got to say for itself.
The Doctor: Hello. Where might you have popped up from, then?
Mel: He's been sent by Kane, Doctor.
Ace: He's got masses of them frozen in his deep freeze.
The Doctor: Cryogenesis, eh?
Glitz: Hang about. I'd recognise that mutinous expression anywhere.
Ace: Friend of yours, is he?
Glitz: Pudovkin, old son, you've no idea how pleased I am to see you again.
The Doctor: It's no good, Glitz. Ace says he's been cryogenically frozen.
Glitz: What about the time we captured that space freighter loaded up with all that natural fruit alcohol. We got well dehydrated that night, didn't we?
The Doctor: It's no use. Deep cryogenics freezes the neural pathways.
Glitz: Oh, come on, old son. A joke's a joke. It's me, Sabalom Glitz.
The Doctor: It's completely impossible for him to recall any events prior to cryogenesis.
Pudovkin: I remember.
The Doctor: Except in cases of overwhelming hatred or anger.
Pudovkin: I remember how you always had the best of our pickings.
Glitz: I don't recall.
Pudovkin: I remember. I remember how you sold our entire crew to Kane to be frozen as mercenaries.
Glitz: Oh now, come on, old son, don't go jumping to conclusions.
Ace: I thought he was a friend of yours.
Glitz: More of an acquaintance, actually.
The Doctor: We don't mean you any harm. Do you understand?
Mel: It's friendly.
Ace: It wants us to go with it, Professor.
The Doctor: Well, let's see what our new friend wants to show us, shall we?
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Restricted zone
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Computer: Warning, defrost threshold crossed. Cabinet temperature rising. Plus one Celsius. Plus two Celsius. Plus three Celsius.
Computer: Plus four Celsius.
Kane: What's happening? Can't breathe. Too warm. Kracauer, what is this?
Kane: No, not my statue. No! Who has desecrated the monument? Who?
Kane: Belazs.
Computer: Target temperature minus a hundred and ninety three Celsius. Temperature dropping to zero Celsius. Minus ten Celsius. Minus twenty Celsius.
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Singing Trees
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Mel: This is beautiful, Doctor.
Ace: Here, I can hear singing. Where's it coming from, Professor?
The Doctor: I think he wants us to watch.
Ace: What's he doing, Professor.
The Doctor: Ah, so that's what this is all about, a polydimensional scanning imager. And I bet the creature's using itself as the energy source.
Archivist: Planetary archives, criminal history segment ninety three twelve oh three. Two of the most vicious examples of the criminal mentality have been the leaders of the notorious Kane-Xana gang. Until its demise, this gang carried out systematic violence and extortion unequalled in its brutality. In view of the sheer evil of his crimes, Kane is to be exiled from the planet Proamon and never allowed to return home. He will be banished to the barren planet of Svartos, which has a permanently frozen dark side on which he can survive.
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Refrigeration room
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Kane: Ah, my dear Belazs. You know, I've been thinking. I've been thinking of your request to leave. You've been with me a long time now. I've grown very fond of you, but I've been thinking it over carefully and I've decided. You may leave me.
Belazs: Leave?
Kane: Whenever you wish. Go in fortune and happiness.
Kane: You traitor. I've been planning my revenge for three thousand years. How can you stand in my way now I am so close?
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Singing Trees
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Archivist: Kane's partner, the woman Xana, killed herself during the final siege of the gang's headquarters to avoid being arrested and tried for her crimes.
The Doctor: Fascinating.
Mel: Well, that explains about Kane, but where does the creature come from?
Glitz: And what about the fabulous treasure? Is this it?
The Doctor: Oh, no, no. We might be deep beneath Iceworld, but Kane could find his way here easily enough. No, the treasure's got to be somewhere else, somewhere beyond Kane's reach. What does he fear most?
Ace: Heat. It'll kill him.
The Doctor: Precisely. And what better way of protecting the real treasure than to leave a fire-breathing dragon to guard it? What better protection than if the dragon is the treasure.
Mel: The creature, the treasure?
The Doctor: Am I right? Are you the one that everyone's looking for, treasure?
Glitz: It must be worth a fortune.
The Doctor: No, look past the gold and the gemstone, Glitz. Look at the fire inside. A source of intense optical energy.
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Restricted zone
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The Doctor (O.C.): Look at it through Kane's eyes. See it as an evil mind would see it.
Kane: At last. After three thousand years, the Dragonfire shall be mine.


[PREVIOUSLY_ON]
DELILAH: Sanctum was colonized by a team from Earth made up of families... the Primes.
GABRIEL: Not everyone believes in the divinity of the Primes.
RUSSELL: Children of Gabriel. Nonbelievers must be purified!
WOMAN: Die, nonbelievers!
CLARKE: No!
RUSSELL: It will be your great honor to become one with Simone Prime.
CLARKE: I tried to do better. And then I lost my mom.
RAVEN: The Flame. We have to take it out. I'm not the Commander anymore.
INDRA: Raven, Sheidheda.
NIYLAH: Where did he go?
GABRIEL: No one has ever come out of the Anomaly.
- OCTAVIA: Hope.
- HOPE: I'm so sorry, Octavia.
- ECHO: Knife!
- BELLAMY: No!
Octavia! Octavia!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER ON RADIO]
Octavia!
[SOBBING]
Bellamy? Bellamy!
- [GASP] - Whoa, whoa, easy.
HOPE: Where am I? You're OK. Uh, Bellamy she's awake. Who are you? I was about to ask you the same. Octavia called you Hope. The name Diyoza chose for her unborn child. Diyoza? Octavia? You're, uh... you're hurt. Let me take a look. Let me see.
[THUD]
[COUGHING]
Hope, wait!
[GRUNTING]
Bellamy! Echo!
ECHO: We're not alone. Back inside. Watch the girl. She's already gone. Come on. We can still catch her. Something else came through. Welcome to the party. Where's Bellamy? It took him towards the Anomaly. No, no, no, no. Time's not behaving. We have to get to him first. Echo, you can't shoot what you can't see. Stop talking. I'm opening up a path. Follow me!
[GUNFIRE]
[DOG BARKING]
MADI: Hello.
You said I could start school today. Why are we here? I thought maybe you'd like to see our new home. Russell built it for Simone so she'd have a place that reminded her of the farm she grew up on, back on Earth, before the bombs. Picasso comes with it. We can keep her? Thank you, Clarke.
[DOG BARKING]
CLARKE: Let's go inside.
MADI: Come on, girl.
I don't know what I like less... lying about the Flame or making Madi pretend she's still Commander. Indra thinks it could split Wonkru. You don't agree? I do, and I know we need them unified to keep the peace here. Just... I worry about Madi. Yeah. For now, we keep it quiet. Indra can say that she speaks for heda. But Madi is out of it. She finally gets to be a kid. Come on. There are plenty of rooms for all of us.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER OUTSIDE]
INDRA: Heda. If you don't mind, you're needed elsewhere.
- CLARKE: Where?
- INDRA: We've been here a day, and Wonkru hasn't seen her.
GAIA: Mother, don't be so dramatic. Go on, Madi. Eat your lunch. It's OK. Come on, girl. Let's go.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER OUTSIDE]
MAN: Hey, Madi.
She seems OK.
- INDRA: She is.
- GAIA: She will be.
GAIA: There's never been an ex-Commander before. We don't know how having the Flame removed will affect her. Not to mention being taken over by... Sheidheda's gone. Are we sure about that? He's gone. I didn't mean... I... I would just feel better if I knew where that code ended up, that's all.
CLARKE: Ok. Then on your next supply run to the mothership, you can search the computer again. Meantime, we have to establish a routine. Not just for Madi but for all of us. Sanctum is broken, and it's our job to put it back together. If we focus on that, we'll be OK. Now let's eat so we can get back to work. One of us needs to represent the Commander. And I'm hungry. Mothers and daughters. I'm sorry. It's OK, Raven. I'm fine.
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
MAN: ♪ I got darkness on my mind ♪
♪ so the question Mark, it keeps me looking... ♪ Her motor functions seem normal.
CLARKE: Madi, come on. Let's eat. I want to show you your new room. OK. Come on, Picasso.
MURPHY: I see you took the master suite.
NIYLAH: To the victor go the spoils. We all share the clothes, though.
EMORI: It's fine, Clarke. Our room is fine. A little tight, but we'll make it work. Maybe Daniel and Kaylee Prime should live in the palace. Daniel and Kaylee Prime saved your ass, Miller. But a thank you would do.
EMORI: Speak for yourself. That palace is...
INDRA: No one lives in the palace, least of all us. Being seen as conquerors will only make keeping the peace harder. Ahem. Our first meal in our new home. To absent friends. And departed ones
- MILLER: To Abby.
- ALL: To Abby.
Hey! What the hell is your problem? I'm sorry, but I'm not just gonna sit here while he drinks to the woman that he got killed. I didn't know what Russell was gonna do. OK, I... Clarke, you have to believe me. I didn't know. I believe you. Dwelling on the past is not going to get this compound running. And it won't get our compound built.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
What the...
[GROANING LOUDLY]
INDRA: The people of Sanctum have lost their way of life, but many still believe in the Primes.
They blame us. Faith is a powerful thing. A dangerous thing. We can expect conflict between believers and nonbelievers. To make matters worse, the Children of Gabriel are here. Sanctum is their home, too. They want Russell Prime and anyone who believes in him dead. At the moment, they, too, are our allies. Add to that hardened criminals from Earth who Wonkru was at war with a few days ago, and I say we have our hands full being the keepers of the peace. At the point of a gun? Until we're sure all the guns are rounded up, Wonkru will be armed.
MURPHY: An army of cannibal peacekeepers, huh? What could go wrong? Remind me again how long we gotta wait until our compound gets built. Two years if everything goes perfectly.
MAN: Hey! Get away from there! So years.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
INDRA: All right. Stop staring.
It's time to go to work. Heda. Go learn something, OK? Bodyguards? Yeah. But not so close and make sure they leave her alone. Copy that. Too many people.
RAVEN: Good thing A.L.I.E.'s not around. There you are. Thank God. James, what is it? The reactor again? No. This is more explosive than that.
NIKKI: What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?
I'd love for you to say that again.
TREY: Wait. Don't hurt him. Please.
JORDAN: Trey, it's OK. I just meant this palace is sacred to them. I'm sure we can find you someplace else... Don't mind my wife. She's more bark than bite. Hmm.
NELSON: This looks like fun. Criminals and fools. What seems to be the problem?
HATCH: There's no problem. Me and my friends here, we're just looking for a place to lay our heads. You can't do it here. This unholy shrine is now controlled by the Children of Gabriel.
TREY: Like hell it is.
NELSON: Oh. Maybe you didn't hear, but your gods are dead and they are not coming back this time. Tell that to Russell Prime, null. I will. Right before we burn him at the stake. You think killing our god will get your parents to love you again?
[NELSON AND TREY GRUNT]
Now my money's on the guys with the guns.
[DOORS OPEN, GUNS COCK]
INDRA: Children of Gabriel, stand down, now.
The other guns. Here comes the part where the convicts take the blame.
CLARKE: Wrong. But when we woke you to clear the ground for our compound, you agreed to stay in tents. The palace is off limits.
MILLER: That goes for the Children of Gabriel, too. OK. OK, yeah, that's... that's fine. We'll... we'll take your scraps for now. But if we're gonna do the work, then we're gonna hold you to the meaning of the words "our compound." Mm. Let's go. Jordan. You weren't at the farmhouse. We saved you a room. I'm OK above the tavern. Clarke, these people want to see Russell.
INDRA: Out of the question.
NELSON: I told you, you'll see him when he burns. Maybe take a log off the fire. No one is burning at the stake. Not anymore. Then what's being done with him? We haven't figured that out yet. But he's being well cared for. We can't just take your word for that. You're talking about the man who killed her mother. I suggest you say thank you and be on your way. Indra, it's OK. Look, you seem to get on just fine with Jordan. If you won't take my word for it, how about you take his?
[DOOR OPENS]
JORDAN: I know what that's like.
To lose your family years ago and yesterday at the same time. Did you kill yours? Didn't think so. You understand a bare whisper of the agony I feel. Is that why you're not eating? Or sleeping, from the looks of it? I don't need sleep or food. I need death! You look surprised. Or is that concern I see? Why are you here? Your people wanted to make sure you're being treated well. Why do they trust you? Never mind. I don't care. Tell them I'm being treated better than I deserve. Now get out! I think you should have this. [SIGH] You were adjusted. So, now you believe in the divinity of the Primes? Is that it? No. I know you're just a man who lost his way. Then tell me... what did you see? You got a glimpse. A glimpse? Of the truth greater than us all. Yes. No. I don't know. Let me guess. You saw this. You saw it, too? Of course. I created all of Sanctum in its image. What does it mean? I stopped trying to answer that question years ago. Looks like it's your cross to bear now. Unless you're prepared to do the same to me, we're done here.
[DOOR CLOSES]
ECHO: Bellamy! Call out if you can hear me!
[BOTH PANTING]
What the hell are you doing? Making sure we're not being followed. Followed by what? Have you ever seen anything like that? No.
[RUSTLING]
[GUNSHOT]
GABRIEL: Hope, no, stop.
[WOMEN GRUNTING]
I don't want to hurt you. Who are you? Where's Octavia, and why are they taking Bellamy to the Anomaly? Bellamy's gone?
GABRIEL: You know him? You remember? No. You called to him from the tent. This... was in my arm. "Trust Bellamy." I don't remember putting it there, but I think I must have. It's another code. Like the one on Octavia's back. What's it for?
- HOPE: I don't know.
- ECHO: Stop lying!
GABRIEL: Easy. Octavia lost her memory, too. Must be a result of moving through the Anomaly.
- HOPE: What's the Anomaly?
- ECHO: You tell us.
GABRIEL: It's the sound you hear. You said Octavia's name right before you stabbed her. You remembered then, and you remember now. The Anomaly was on top of us then. Yeah, yeah, yeah, then she lost her memory when it receded... taking Octavia with it. Why just her? Why the memory loss? None of this makes any sense, but, my God, it's incredible. We need to get to Bellamy. How fast can you run? I don't know. Let's find out.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[MEN CHEERING]
MURPHY: Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.
EMORI: Stop it.
Here. Listen to this. Kaylee changed because of love, too. Isaac, a null, made her see what they'd become. Aww. Farmer loving the pig she leads to the slaughter. Jackson didn't mean it, John. You didn't kill Abby. Russell did. I told her that it was gonna be good for her. I told them that Abby could make Nightblood out of bone marrow. You did that to save us all. I helped Josephine convince Abby that she was Clarke. Blessed is Daniel. Blessed is... I... I'm so sorry, my lord. I got this. It's OK. He's clearly had enough. Look, you got it all wrong. I know you think that I'm...
RAVEN: Daniel, can I... Can I talk to you? I just need a minute. Act like you hardly know me. What the hell are you talking about? This place is a powder keg. Oh, this is good. Miss morality wants us to be Primes.
Newsflash: you are Primes. That bad choice has sailed. But if these people actually believe you're Daniel and Kaylee, it may still do us some good. The answer's no. Daniel. He blames himself for Abby.
RAVEN: This can't be good. How's Russell?
- TREY: What'd he say?
- JORDAN: It's OK.
TREY: Don't tell me it's OK. We have to help him. Everyone, let's go. Let's go.
NELSON: Children of Gabriel, let's move.
- RAVEN: Here we go again.
- MAN: Get out of the way. Move.
It's a riot again.
JORDAN: Trey, just hang on for a second.
TREY: Free Russell Prime! How dare you put him in a cage!
NELSON: A cage is better than he deserves.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
TREY: Everyone.
We have to go back and get Russell out of there.
CLARKE: Hey. They're going for Russell.
TREY: Let us see our god! Let us see him! Give us Russell! I'm moving him to the palace where we can protect him.
CLARKE: We said the palace was off limits. Every battle plan is perfect till the first shot is fired.
RAVEN: And the Children of Gabriel?
INDRA: They'll be unhappy. It's either this, or we execute him now and be done with it. Hey, thanks for your help.
He wants to be killed. That's all I told them.
Then let's give him what he wants. Death to Primes!
[CROWD SHOUTING "DEATH TO PRIMES"]
We have to do this now.
NELSON: Death to Primes! Get back, get back! We're moving you someplace safe. Why are you protecting the man who killed your mother? Excellent question. If I could kill you for what you did, I wouldn't hesitate. Get him out of here.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
NELSON: There he is!
Death to Primes!
TREY: We won't let you kill him!
JORDAN: Hang on! We can figure this out. Get out of the way. We are moving him to the palace for his own safety.
JORDAN: Nobody has to get hurt! Indra, stop!
TREY: You don't belong here!
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
[SCENE_BREAK]
[LOUD BANG]
Have we learned nothing? Huh? Let them pass! We can trust Wonkru. After all... we are one. We are one.
[CROWD MURMURING "WE ARE ONE"]
- Let's go. - Russell!
- MAN: Let's go.
- SECOND MAN: Right now.
"We are one"? It's from Kaylee's journal. Her slogan when she stopped oblation. You are so hot right now. Sister. My idea. Good one. Of course, now the Children of Gabriel want them dead. The lengths some people will go to live in a castle.
EMORI: We get to live in the castle?
MILLER: If they're gonna get murdered in their sleep, better there than at the farmhouse with us.
RAVEN: He does have a point. I need my hours. OK. For now. At least until they kill you. Why did you draw these? Mm, I don't know. I was bored while they were teaching us about the Primes. Why are they still doing that if they know the truth? I suppose sometimes belief is stronger than the truth.
[FOOTSTEPS]
[DOOR OPENS]
Hi. Sorry we're late. No problem. I hope you don't mind that Madi and I already ate. You know, while you were off rebuilding Sanctum by hand. Who knew putting a broken society back together would be hard work? Clarke... I don't care that you're late. I care why you are.
CLARKE: Madi, Indra's right. We have a lot of work to do. Stop it. Talk to me. I know what it's like to lose a mom. And I can help. Hey. I'm still here. You didn't lose me. Not you, Clarke. She died in my arms. I know what that's like. Well, the woman I floated was not my mom. I'm fine, Madi. Really. I'm going to bed.
[SIGH]
Not my finest moment.
INDRA: Don't be so hard on yourself. You handled that well.
GAIA: You would think that. After my father died, crying was forbidden. We were at war. It made you strong. It made me become a Fleimkepa. The question is, who is the fleimkepa without a Flame? We all have to find our own new path. I just realized I never thanked you. The Flame was your whole world, and yet you chose to save Madi. I can't imagine how hard that must have been for you. Thank you. You should, um, see this. She's drawing memories that are not her own. Sheidheda? I don't know. It could be any of the Commanders or all of them. I'll keep an eye on it. I'm glad she has you in her life. The night Wanheda knelt to Heda. I'm sorry I missed that. Seems like another world.
[EXPLOSION IN THE DISTANCE]
New world. Same problems. I got Madi. Go on. Thank you. Wait. Wait, wait, wait. Too much toxin in the air. I am not in the mood to see my ghost right now, are you?
[INHALES]
[PANTING]
GABRIEL: Ray guns. Cool.
If it shoots, it can be shot at. That was a bad shot, even from far away. Echo? Echo, what are you doing? Testing a theory. A theory? If you're wrong... She's not wrong. It's not trying to kill us. We're not playing by the same rules. Echo, look around you. The particulate matter moves in response to motion. They come close enough... I'll have a target.
ECHO: To set the trap, we have to open up a lead. Follow me.
[LOW THRUM]
Listen.
[LOW THRUM]
Here it comes. No one move, or it won't come close enough.
ROAN: Once a killer, always a killer. You just said don't move. Roan? You didn't use the antitoxin, Echo. Echo, it's not real.
ROAN: Without Bellamy, who will you follow?
- ECHO: Shut up.
- GABRIEL: Quiet.
- ECHO: Now he's in my shot.
- GABRIEL: Shush!
Answer the question, Ash.
ROAN: Without someone to follow, who are you? A girl who killed her only friend and stole her name?
ROAN: The honorless spy who would do anything for her queen, even betray the man she now claims to love? Echo? Echo, it's close. I can do this.
OCTAVIA: Hope. You have to stay quiet. No matter what you hear, you stay quiet. Do you understand? Hope, it's just in your mind.
OCTAVIA: I promise you, Mommy and Aunty O will come back for you. Now, shhh... No, no, don't... Stay down.
GABRIEL: Echo, they're right there. Take the shot. Now. Pull the trigger now. I'm sorry.
[MAN SCREAMING]
ECHO: Gabriel, there could be more.
We have to go. Now.
GABRIEL: We need to know what we're dealing with.
- ECHO: Gabriel...
- GABRIEL: Hold on.
[LABORED BREATHING]
He's just a man. Same tattoos as yours.
[GUNFIRE]
- GABRIEL: Listen.
- ECHO: What is it?
GABRIEL: The Anomaly. It's quieter. They're shutting it down. What does that mean?
GABRIEL: It means they can control it. What if it means they're taking Bellamy through and they don't want us to follow?
GABRIEL, SOFTLY: Let's go.
- ECHO: Bellamy!
- GABRIEL: No, no, no, no, no.
- GABRIEL: Slow down. Echo.
- ECHO: It's closing!
GABRIEL: We go through together. If we're even seconds apart, we could be separated by months. OK?
INDRA: We heard an explosion. Miller, report.
MILLER: They blew up a container on the lower level to pull our attention away from the palace. There's a dozen hardcore believers outside Russell's quarters right now. The adjusters are back in their bibs. Our guards at their door, they withdrew without engaging.
CLARKE: That was the right call, Miller. No one else should die because of what they believe. What other reason is there to die?
NELSON: I couldn't agree more. What the hell is he doing here? He's unarmed. The Children of Gabriel have demands.
- CLARKE: Get in line.
- NELSON: You want peace, we want Russell Prime.
The people that live here should decide Russell's fate, not us.
NELSON: This is our home, too. We were thrown out like garbage. My parents are still here and I don't even know who they are. The Primes did that. I'm sorry that happened to you. But we're not letting you have Russell. Either Russell Prime dies, or Kaylee and Daniel do.
MILLER: Come on, Nelson. You know they're not Daniel and Kaylee. You want them to play dress-up so you can control the sheep, fine. But Russell Prime is ours. You have till tomorrow's second moon to decide. The man does deserve to die, Clarke. Maybe. But the kind of society I want my child to grow up in doesn't take an eye for an eye. Clarke, he killed your... Fine. We'll clear out the fanatics. No. No more violence. So, how do we do it? We don't. Russell does. I'll get Jordan. He's in the tavern.
TREY: We invoke the names of the Primes as we pray. Josephine... Simone... Priya... Russ... Faithful, block the way. She just wants to see Russell. You were gonna search me, right? You wouldn't be dumb enough to let someone bring a gun in to see your god.
JORDAN: It's OK, Trey. You can trust her. Let her pass. They didn't unchain you. I wouldn't let them. I need you to order your people to leave the palace. Tell me, Clarke... How do you go on after you lose everything? You take a breath. Then another. That's it. Now will you give the order or not? If I'd have killed Madi when I had the chance, you'd understand. Wait. I have something for you. Simone left these here, after she was resurrected. They were your mother's. I thought you'd want them back.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
For my mother! Get up. Is this what you want? Yes. Do it. Pull the trigger. Set me free.
[SOBBING]
I'm so sorry.
SHEIDHEDA: Hello, Russell Prime. I prefer your new body. Where is this place? Who are you?
MILLER: Clarke, open the door!
[POUNDING ON DOOR]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING OUTSIDE]
[CLARKE SOBBING]
[POUNDING AND SHOUTING CONTINUE]
Looks like you burn after all. Please. Do not leave me here. What would you want Madi to do?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[PEOPLE COUGHING]
No! Let it burn. Sanctum is free! There are no kings or queens or Primes here! We have no use for a palace. We are the last of the human race, and we've all made mistakes. Tomorrow, Russell Prime dies for his.
[CROWD CHEERING]