Renaissance
(2x08 : Carrier)
Written by CRAIG SWEENEY Directed by NICK GOMEZ
**Previously on the 4400** Diana reads Maia's journal and reports to NTAC.
Nina: As far as this department knew, Maia wasn't having visions anymore.
Diana: She was keeping them secret from me. Writing everything down in a diary. Diana receives some mail.
Diana: It's a subpoeana
Maia: What do they want?
Diana: Your diary Collier warns Shawn away from liv.
Collier: Don't reveal your healing ability, because if you heal one of them, you'll have to heal them all. Shawn heals Livs boyfriend.
Collier: One day, all of this will be yours. The paperwork's been drawn up. The lawyers know what to do. The sniper prepares to shoot Collier.
Collier: Everything's in place. Collier is shot.
Shawn: He had a vision to save the future and now he won't be here to see us achieve it. But we will achieve it. Shawn stands by Collier's casket. Tom enters the room at the museum.
Alana: None of this is real to me either. This is where they altered us. Gave me the ability to create the world we've been living in. Alana and Tom renew their marriage vows.
Alana: Thomas **Present Time** Tom and Alana return home and speak with Kyle as they eat dinner.
Kyle: So let me see if I've got this straight. You two met, fell in love and spent eight years together in some kind of alternate reality. And now you're here with eight years of love and marriage under your belts in what to us was no time at all.
Tom: Yeah, that, that, that about sums it up, yeah. Kyle laughs.
Kyle: I'll play along. If you two start calling each other honey bunny, I'm SO outta here.
Alana: I told you he'd try, Thomas.
Kyle: How'd you know that?
Alana: Well you might be meeting me for the first time, but I know all about you. Your smart, your favourite writer is Alan Moore and your favourite meal is meatloaf.
Kyle: Well I can't be exactly the same. You said there was no 4400, so that means no coma. No time lost.
Tom: No major problems, that's right. You were happy. Successful.
Kyle: Meaning what?
Tom: Nothing. We used to talk about medical school, remember? Over there, you went to Stanford.
Kyle: How'd I do?
Tom: You graduated with honours. You became a neurologist.
Kyle: Must have made you proud.
Tom: I'm always proud of you.
Kyle: Right. But Doctor Kyle Baldwin in that world you were vacationing in, came from your mind, right?
Alana: Uh, actually it was my mind.
Kyle: Right, but you created it using his memories.
Tom: Kyle! I'm just as proud of what you've accomplished here! Prouder. Diana is in the office when Marco enters.
Marco: Hey.
Diana: You wanna know why all lawyers are jerks? Cos they spend a lifetime reading this crap. He sits on her desk.
Marco: What kind of crap specifically? I'm a pretty good interpreter.
Diana: I have 24 hours to turn Maia's diary over to NTAC and not one legal option to get out of it.
Marco: What are you going to do?
Diana: Well, what NTAC wants, NTAC gets. But I have a nine year old daughter at home who's counting on me to protect her.
Marco: Is there any way I can help?
Diana: Yeah, you can slap me upside the head for mentioning the diary in the first place. It didn't save Collier's life and now it's making mine hell.
Marco: How about I just make some fresh coffee instead.
Diana: Thanks.
Marco: Yeah. He leaves the office. Back at the Baldwin house and Kyle is sat on the sofa reading the newspaper which has a story on Collier's murder. Alana enters the room.
Alana: Do you think they'll find the man who did it?
Kyle: By they, you mean, Thomas? Yeah, probably. Dad always gets his man. You heading out?
Alana: Yes, I have to keep reminding myself I don't live here anymore. Kyle looks at her and then turns his head away.
Alana: Look Kyle. Your father and I love each other.
Kyle: That's great. There's not enough love in the world. But I just met you. Give me a few day's before I start calling you Mom, ok?
Alana: Uh, you've got one of those already. I'd settle for being a good friend. And I'll keep bribing you with meatloaf until you give in. She leaves the room. The scene shifts to a diner. All the customers and staff lie dead. Outside, people lie on the pavement and in cars. A woman, Jean Delynn Baker, an abductee who disappeared on Oct 27th 1999, stands among the dead and is visibly upset. She walks through the many bodies littering the street. A limo arrives at the 4400 centre. A few men rush to greet the man who steps out of the car.
Man: Hello Mr Ross. Did you have a good flight?
Matthew: Yeah, thanks.
Man: Now would you like me to show you around, or do you wanna get some rest.
Matthew: Neither. Take me to Mr Farrell.
Man: Yes sir. Right this way. Shawn and Lucy are in his office.
Lucy: They've been waiting three day's.
Shawn: Tell publicity I'm not sure yet.
Lucy: They're saying we're past our deadline. We have to release this press statement. He reads the statement.
Shawn: This is supposed to be coming from me? I don't even understand half of what it say's. It doesn't sound like me, Lucy.
Lucy: So change it. You're the boss. Oh, and legal needs signatures now or no-one get's paid. Including legal.
Shawn: I can only do one thing at a time.
Lucy: So let's start with the statement. Matthew enters the office.
Lucy: Why don't you dictate something to me?
Matthew: No press statement! If the press wants to know what Mr Farrell is thinking, they can watch 60 minutes along with the rest of America. I've already booked an exclusive interview with our new face at the 4400. That's all for now. He hands Lucy back the file.
Matthew: Thanks. Lucy looks at Shawn and leaves.
Matthew: I'm sorry to just jump in like that. I thought you could use a hand. Matthew Ross.
Shawn: Yes. Yeah. What are you doing in Seattle?
Matthew: I go where I'm needed.
Shawn: You've come to the right place.
Matthew: It's no coincidence, Shawn. Jordan made it clear that in the event of his death, I was to step up front and center to help you out.
Shawn: Well, another in a long line of plans that Jordan neglected to share with me. But I'm glad you're here. Jordan talked about you a lot.
Matthew: You're gonna have to hire yourself a new lobbyist. I'm moving to the home office for the time being.
Shawn: Pick any office you want. You start right away. Uh, these letters. Everyone knows I can heal, now.
Matthew: Jordan had every intention of revealing your healing ability to the public, but he was planning on doing it in stages. We don't have that luxury anymore. We'll deal with it.
Shawn: I can't go outside anymore. There's sick people, press, they follow me everywhere!
Matthew: And they will for the rest of your life. The ground just shifted under your feet. You either find your balance or you fall on your ass. This center's the new Lourdes. Nobody's gonna be calling us a cult, anymore. We're turning away people faster than we can sign them up. In ten years, this movements gonna be one of the most dominant faiths on the planet
Shawn: Stop. I'm glad things are going so well, I am, but a week ago I was just some guy trying to beat the last level of Doom. I wasn't the Pope then and I'm not the Pope now.
Matthew: Yes you are and you need to start getting used to it. Back at NTAC.
Nina: The FBI is spearheading the hunt for the man who killed Jordan Collier. Oh, but we are still in the game and NTAC is making this collar. I'm not having someone else clear up are mess for us.
Agent: Then we'd better get moving. We all know there's an expiration day on these manhunts. Trail starts getting cold after 48 hours.
Tom: I wanna have a look at employee sign in sheets for every office building and parking garage within a ten block radius of the center.
Agent: We've already cross examined everyone on those books.
Diana: Well then we have to look OFF the books. This guy shot a public figure in broad daylight. There has to be an eyewitness.
Nina: And so far Tom, the only one who has seen this killer, is you. April and Maia are at a newstand. April is scratching lottery cards.
April: Loser. Pathetic loser! Sweetie, whatever you do, never, ever gamble. It's wrong and it's stupid.
Maia: Then why do you do it?
April: Because unlike your Mommy, your Aunt April doesn't have a steady income. She's an artist and artists always need cash. Which is where the stupid part comes in, because I always lose. So, this whole see the future thing? It doesn't just apply to Earth shattering events, huh?
Maia: Not always.
April: So, if I were to ask you which card I....
Maia: That one! Maia points to a card.
April: I'll take this one right here. Thanks. She scratches the card and is a winner.
April: Baby girl. You are my new lucky charm. Tom and Diana go into Nina's office.
Nina: I'm pulling you off the Collier case.
Tom: What are you talking about? We still have half that neighbourhood to canvas.
Nina: Well, it's gonna have to wait. She runs a tape.
Nina: 10.37am Pacific Standard. The Federal Emergency Management Agency sent in a task force to the town of Granite Pass Oregon, population 273, where there's been an outbreak of a lethal, highly contagious and as yet unidentified virus.
Diana: Airborne?
Nina: Yeah, likely.
Tom: Man made?
Nina: Unknown. All we do know is, if you went to sleep in Granite Pass last night, chances are, you're filling out a body bag this morning. There's only one resident that FEMA hasn't accounted for yet. Jean Delynn Baker, aged 30. Returnee 0188. Disappeared in '99.
Tom: Divorced, no kids. Psych profile say's she's a loner.
Diana: Looks like things have been pretty grim for her since she got back. Hasn't been able to hold down a job. Unemployed four times in the last year.
Nina: And now she's the only resident of Granite Pass Oregon, who can't be accounted for. So we've got two possibilities.
Diana: Either she's immune to this virus, in which case we could study her. Look for a cure.
Tom: Or else, she's the carrier.
Nina: Either way, your job is the same. Use whatever resources you need and find her. Jean get's a lift in a truck.
Truck Driver: So, you gonna tell me where you're headed? Jean is crying and doesn't answer.
Truck Driver: I never could stand the sight of a woman in tears. I guess that's why I never got married. You in some kind of trouble? Run off from your family? Law on your tail?
Jean: Seattle. I'm going to Seattle.
Truck Driver: It's a big city. You want me to just drop you on the edge of town?
Jean: I'm going to the 4400 center. I gotta get there. Jean's hands are covered in blisters.
Truck Driver: What the hell for? You joining up?
Jean: Just get me as close as you can, please!
Truck Driver: If you're looking for salvation, you're not gonna find it there. What you wanna do is give yourself over to your true Lord and saviour. Purification day is coming. The signs are everywhere. Pestilence, plague's.
Jean: Tell me about it. I woke up in a town full of dead people this morning. My mother, my father, everyone.
Truck Driver: Yeah? How come you survived?
Jean: I think maybe I caused it.
Truck Driver: You? Now I know you're messing with me. Ok, go ahead. Laugh at the Jesus freak! But I'm telling you. The whole world will be wiped clean soon enough.
Jean: Look, I don't think you're a freak at all, Mr. Matter of fact, I believe everything you're saying. Diana and Tom arrive in Granite Pass. They both are wearing hazmat suits. Diana takes a look at one of the bodies lying in the street.
Diana: The eyes and fingernails show only slight discolouration.Rigormortis has barely set in. What do the autopsy's show?
Agent: Nothing we have a name for. Their internal organs are pretty much liquified. This thing works fast.
Diana: So you just took your helmet off. You got a death wish?
Agent: This virus get's released, dissipates and then disappears within a half hour. Seen enough?
Diana: Plenty. Diana and Tom take their helmets off.
Tom: So everyone died this morning, because they were within the virus' original radius.
Diana: Right. and if you'd drove through town an hour later, you would have been fine.
Tom: That's something, anyway. But Orson Bailey and Trent Applebaum. When a 4400 manifests an ability, they get more intense, quickly.
Diana: Which means, if Jean Delynn Baker, is transmitting the virus.
Tom: Yeah, she might be just warming up. Shawn is reading some letters from people begging for his help.
Letter 1: Doctors say they can't stop my cancer from spreading...
Letter 2: I'veworked hard all my life. Tuberculosis is eating up my life savings. My beloved wife of 40 years...
Letter 3: Grandma told me to pray, so when I saw you on TV, I knew....
Letter 4: Help me. Shawn is upset and throws the letters onto the floor. Someone knocks on the door.
Lucy: Shawn, it's Lucy. You're scheduled for the new key's address. Everybody's waiting. Shawn? Lily is pushing Isabelle through a hallway at the center. Matthew walks alongside her.
Lily: I'm flattered. I'm just not sure I can take a job, right about now.
Matthew: Richard's going to be travelling quite a bit. The daycare here is first rate and completely free.
Lily: Well for one thing, I'm not sure I'm qualified. I mean, Assistant Director of Human Resources. I had my first daughter right out of college. You could fit my entire resume on half a page.
Matthew: You're a 4400. It's like an advanced graduate degree, around here. Besides, Jordan talked about you.
Lily: Oh, I'm sure he did.
Matthew: He said you had the gift of empathy. That you were a natural born organiser and that you had a knack for bringing out the best in people.
Lily: Jordan said that about me?
Matthew: You're a returnee. You're smart. We empower people like you around here. Tom and Diana go to Jean's house and find Marco there.
Marco: Wipe your feet.
Tom: A killer airborne virus has been released and you're worried about muddy footprints. He waves his finger at him.
Marco: It's still somebody's home.
Diana: So this is where Jean Delynn Baker, lived.
Marco: Until she hit the road, yeah.
Tom: Did she keep a schedule or any kind of daily planner?
Scientist: Yeah, but I think it went out the window when she realised her entire home town had been wiped out.
Diana: Anyone get in touch with her parents?
Scientist: This was her house. They were sleeping upstairs when the virus hit.
Tom: Ok, you guy's aren't leaving this house, until you've gone through everything. Letter's, phone bills, grocery lists. Marco, listen to me. Find me a pattern. The way she thinks. She's on the run, I want to beat her to wherever she's headed. Marco takes a picture of Diana as she leaves the room.
Scientist: Flirt!
Marco: You heard the man. The 4400 center switchboard room.
Operator: 4400 center. How may I direct your call.
Jean: I didn't mean to do it. I didn't mean to kill them. I, these, these blisters. Jean is calling from a motel room.
Jean: They itch so bad.
Operator: Killed who?
Jean: I need you to help me, please!
Operator: Who is this?
Jean: I'm a 4400 and there's something wrong with me. Everybody that I'm around dies and I don't know how to stop it. I don't know how to stop it. The operator calls for a supervisor.
Operator: Tell me your name and where you are. Matthew arrives when the call ends.
Matthew: How many people dead?
Operator: She said, hundreds. But there's nothing about it on the news.
Matthew: Could be they're trying to keep it quiet. And there is a 4400 named Jean Baker?
Operator: She said she's staying at a motel near the squirrel hill exit on the 64. Matthew turns to Lucy.
Matthew: Get me NTAC on the phone. Maia is sat in front of a mirror putting on make-up. April comes in carrying a laptop.
April: Yes! You were right! Philadelphia creamed them!
Maia: How much did you win?
April: $200 for Aunt April. All because of you. My little genius. Now, I'm looking at Chicago versus New York, even up. Chicago's the home team, which gives them some advantage, but New York is coming off a three game winning streak. So who's your pick?
Maia: How much are you betting?
April: The whole 200 bucks. Which won't win me enough to retire on, but a girls gotta start somewhere. So, you getting anything?
Maia: Do you like me?
April: What kind of question is that?
Maia: I mean, like me for myself. Or because I tell you stuff that's gonna happen.
April: Honey, listen. I love you for who you are, not what you can do. Always. Ok? Maia nods and smiles
Maia: I'd go with Chicago.
April: Chicago it is. Now come on! Aunt April is gonna take you out for pizza. Go wash up and take your Mom's stuff off. You know she get's kind of uptight about.... April takes Maia's hand and looks at some rings on her fingers.
April: Oh yeah. This is my Mother's engagement ring. Where did you get this?
Maia: I always play with it.
April: This is a very valuable ring. Which means it is not for little girl's to play with. Now wash good or I'll order anchovies. Go! Maia leaves and April looks at the ring. Alana is in the kitchen preparing dinner. Kyle runs in.
Kyle: Hey!
Alana: Hey!
Kyle: Don't take this the wrong way, but how did you get in here?
Alana: Ah, your Dad gave me a key.
Kyle: A little early for dinner, isn't it?
Alana: A little early for eating. Not for preparing. Can you cook?
Kyle: Sorry, I'm a world class brain surgeon, not a chef. But I can empty a grocery bag with the best of them though. But I have to warn you. You're ignoring the number one rule of Dad.
Alana: Which is?
Kyle: The longer and more carefully you prepare for a family event...
Alana: The more likely it is he won't show.
Kyle: Guess you do know the man. Which means, I guess, you also know me, which I'm sorry, is really weird.
Alana: You have to admit, it's a little strange for me too. We have this eight year relationship and I have to keep reminding myself that it doesn't really exist.
Kyle: So tell me. Was I like number one in my class at medical school?
Alana: Does it matter Kyle? You're not in competition with yourself.
Kyle: I'm just curious!
Alana: Well you keep bringing it up. It's more than curiosity.
Kyle: So what if it is? If you knew that there was some parallel universe, where a better, smarter version of yourself was walking around. How would you feel?
Alana: He wasn't better and he wasn't smarter. He was you.
Kyle: He just had options I'll never have. No 4400, no coma. He got to go to medical school.
Alana: Who say's you don't have that option?
Kyle: I'm 21. I'm a freshman in college.
Alana: So you started a little late. You keep thinking I know two Kyle's. I don't. I just know you. You wanna be a Doctor? I know for a fact that you can pass your MCAS Tom and Diana make their way in the car to Jean's motel.
Diana: Jean Baker is in a motel about 10 miles ahead.
Tom: Right now, half of NTAC is headed for that place. Mortimer and Felconi should be there already.
Diana: It's weird huh? Responding to a tip that came from inside the 4400 center.
Tom: Well Shawn did tell me he wanted to cooperate with us. Guess he mean't it. They arrive at the motel to find many cars already there. Tom show's his ID to a sheriff manning a roadblock.
Tom: Excuse me. We're NTAC. We need to get through here.
Sheriff: I'll open it for you.
Diana: So what's going on down there?
Sheriff: A dead trucker. Look's like it came on sudden. They make their way over to the truck which has veered off the road. The trucker is lying over the steering wheel, dead. It's the same man that gave Jean a lift. They return to the car and head to the motel. Jean is sat on the bed reading, when tear gas is thrown through the window. Men in hazmat suits burst in and grab her.
Man: Jean Delynn Baker!
Jean: No, no, no! What are you doing? I called you for help!
Man: We know! Come with us!
Jean: No, you're scaring me! Please stop, they start to itch when I get scared! Please! Get away from me! The two men fall to the ground.
Jean: God! She runs out of the room. Her hands are bleeding and the sores are weeping. As she runs outside, other men fall to the ground. She get's into a car and drives away. Back in the car with Tom and Diana.
Diana: That trucker died not more than three hours ago.
Tom: He couldn't have picked up Jean more than two hours before that.
Diana: Which means he was exposed, infected and killed in like what, 20 minutes. That's faster than any virus I've ever seen. Tom's phone rings.
Tom: Mortimer and Falcone. Look's like we're playing backup.[Into the phone] Baldwin!
Jean: It's not my fault.
Tom: Who is this? Jean is in the car.
Jean: I called you for help! You tossed tear gas into my room!
Tom: Jean Baker. How did you get Mortimer's phone?
Jean: How do you think I got it? They scared me. They came barging into my room!
Tom: What did you do to them?
Jean: I guess you thought those suits they had on would keep them safe, huh? Well you were wrong, ok? Nobody's safe! That's why I'm warning you. You stay away from me, ok? Just keep everyone away!
Tom: Where are you?
Jean: I'm driving.
Tom [To Diana]: I think she took their car. Call Jarvis. Get a beat on it. [To Jean] Jean, where are you? Where you're going. We wanna help you.
Jean: No, I tried that! No-one can help me. No-one ever could! Why should it be any different now!!
Tom: I know you don't wanna kill anyone, but listen to me. There's a virus that's growing inside you. It's incredibly lethal.
Jean: I've always been toxic. I've poisoned every relationship I've ever had!
Tom: This is different.
Jean: Yes! They made it real! My parents always thought I was a walking disaster. They never got to see how right they were.
Tom: Jean, it doesn't have to be like that. You want this to be over? It can be. Just find a deserted spot, pull over and wait for us to come to you.
Jean: I don't need you. I'm taking care of it myself.
Tom: What are you gonna do?
Jean: I'm gonna end this before I kill anyone else!
Tom: End what?
Jean: This phonecall, this day, everything!
Tom: Look Jean, just, just wait, hold on, just....
Jean: Goodbye. The call ends.
Tom: She say's she going to kill herself.
Diana: Well I'm not sure that's a solution. It could trigger another release of the virus.
Tom: Do we have a fix on her?
Diana: Yeah. She's travelling west on the 99. Jarvis has got three helicopters in the air. If she doesn't pull over, there's orders to incinerate. Shawn talks with Matthew.
Matthew: Vacation? For how long?
Shawn: A month, maybe two, I don't know.
Matthew: You think that's what the center, the movement, needs right now?
Shawn: I don't know Matthew, but I'm damned sure it's what I need right now.
Matthew: I think you're going to have to settle for a long weekend. I hear Future Sound [SP] is nice.
Shawn: You're not hearing me.
Matthew: I'm ignoring you. There's a difference.
Shawn: Listen! I'm not saying I can't do this. I will lead this movement. But Jordan just died and I need some time to get my head around that.
Matthew: You're gonna have to grieve on the run, like the rest of us. It's called being a grown up.
Shawn: Don't lecture me about my responsibilities! You just got here. And if this place needs me the way that you keep saying that it does. Then it's gonna have to work around me sometimes.
Matthew: Look around you. We can do that. Mary O'Connell, taken 1972. Very promising empath. Robert Fields, 1987. Genius with numbers and pattern recognition. John Gerten...
Shawn: Who are these people?
Matthew: Replacements. Potentially. None of them make the slam dunk you would, but I'm ready to move this center forward, with you or otherwise.
Shawn: Jordan used to talk to me that way, sometimes. He was great at getting me to see things his way. You? You're not quite there yet.
Matthew: Your healing power makes you unique. Jordan knew it. I believed it. I came here to work with you, but you're asking me to work around you and that I can't do.
Shawn: Then you are going to have to spend some quality time with that list, because I'm leaving. I'm sure you won't miss a beat though. I know there's a huge demand for pattern recognition! Shawn leaves the room.
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Marco is still at Jean's house and is on the phone with Tom.
Marco: That's, that's, that's impossible. Mortimer and Falcone were wearing state of the art biohazard gear. That stuff's engineered to withstand an anthrax attack.
Tom: They're dead, Marco! Obviously, whatever she's releasing is a little crafter than the anthrax virus.
Marco: If it got through those suits, that means the antigen's operating on a sub atomic level.
Diana: Which basically makes it unstoppable.
Marco: Yeah, pretty much.
Tom: Jean told me Mortimer and Falcone scared her when they came into her room. Is it possible the release of this virus is connected to her emotional state?
Marco: Yeah, more than possible, it's likely. Her medicine cabinet is basically a neon sign flashing, borderline personality disorder. She's got cortisone creams for stress rashes. An assortment of your finer phsyco pharmaceutical's. Xanax, Prozac.
Tom: We get it, Marco. She's a wreck.
Marco: A wreck who's body acts as a delivery system for the virus she's producing. The same way flowers release pollen.
Diana: What, she's emitting spores?
Marco: Something like that. Look, spores are just reproductive bodies released by her vascular system. Now the human body is one big vascular system, you know, it runs on blood flow.
Diana: Yeah, which can speed up or slow down. depending on moods, feelings...
Marco: Right. So when Jean's blood get's going. When she's angry, confused, upset, whatever, a killer virus goes airborne.
Tom: We're not far from her car now, Marco. Any advice on how to deal with her?
Marco: Uh, don't piss her off? Shawn is in his office attempting to write a letter. Many screwed up pieces of paper lay scattered around him. Lily enters the room, carrying Isabelle.
Shawn: Hey.
Lily: Hey.
Shawn: How are you Lily?
Lily: Good. I heard um, you're leaving for a while.
Shawn: Huh, that was fast. Anyway I uh, I don't know how long I'm gonna be gone.
Lily: What are you gonna do?
Shawn: Ah, for starters, I'm gonna disappear for a while. Then um, I don't know, who know's? I mean, I don't have to work here to make people healthy, so I guess I could go anywhere.
Lily: So you're just gonna kind of roam the Earth, Kung Fu style?
Shawn: Like I'd shave my head or wear a robe, but something like that I guess.
Lily: Well you could take these with you. Check out the return address. Stop of in Gloucester, Massachusetts . Do a quick healing and then go on your way. She looks at the begging letters.
Shawn: You know about the letters?
Lily: Oh Shawn, they're everywhere. Each one sadder than the next. It's too much to take, almost. It did give me an idea though. But your leaving so we'll talk it over when you get back.
Shawn: No Lily! Like I said, I don't know when that's gonna be, so please. I would love to hear what you have to say.
Lily: Alright, well I was thinking. I mean, we're not a hospital and we're not a charity and still thousands of these requests keep pouring in every day. I mean, no wonder you feel overwhelmed. We're not set up to handle this.
Shawn: Yes exactly! That's why I gotta get outta here.
Lily: What if we set up a foundation. Part of this place, but seperate. Hire a staff who's only job is to open these letters and find the neediest cases. People that we can help that no-one else can.
Shawn: But that is still saying no to thousands of people.
Lily: That's right Shawn. But what if we can say yes to one? You heal one person a day, every day.
Shawn: That's a big job though. Deciding who deserves it most.
Lily: Well, so you form a committee and you load it up with Doctors, social workers...
Shawn: And you?
Lily: Oh, well...
Shawn: Come on, it's your idea. You should at least be there to help make it happen.
Lily: Yeah, I just took a job at human resources. I think I could probably get you transferred. She smiles Tom and Diana arrive to find Jean's car on fire. Tom makes his way over to one of the firefighters.
Tom: Did you find a body in there?
Firefighter: Can't get close enough yet.
Tom: As soon as you can, we need to retrieve it.
Diana: She said she wanted to end it.
Tom: I guess we could send Marco and his boy's back down to the basement. We might find a ripple effect on this one. His phone rings.
Tom: Excuse me. Baldwin!
Jean: I came close, but, I don't know.
Tom: Jean.
Jean: I couldn't go through with it.
Tom: That's good. Nobody wants you dead. Just tell me where you are.
Jean: No, you can't help me. The 4400 Center can't help me, but it doesn't matter. I finally know where I'm supposed to go.
Tom: Tell me where. I'll meet you there.
Jean: You ever read the bible, Baldwin?
Tom: I went to Sunday School.
Jean: Spent some time with it back at the motel. The time is at hand.
Tom: That's Revelations, right?
Jean: But do you know what it means? I bet you don't. See, these blisters, they form on my hands. You get it.
Tom: Not sure I do, Jean.
Jean: They're talking about me in that book. You got family?
Tom: Jean, what are you talking about?
Jean: Go to 'em. Hug 'em real tight. I finally figured it out. Why they sent me back. I'm part of their plan. They want me to do this.
Tom: Do what?
Jean: Purify Humanity. She puts the phone down and leaves the booth.
Diana: She was quoting Revelations? Never a good sign, Tom.
Tom: She's gone from wanting to help, wanting to stop all this, to believing she's the end of the world. So what does she mean?
Diana: She said they wanted her to do this, right? Well that implies it's out of her hands.
Tom: Destiny.
Diana: Well she's giving up responsibility.
Tom: Yeah, that's one way to deal with being a walking plague. Pretend the decision's out of your hands.
Diana: I don't think she even wants to think about it anymore. I think she just wants it over.
Tom: Well that's her mindset. It still doesn't tell us where she's going.
Diana: She's on auto pilot, Tom. My best guess? She does whatever she planned on doing before the bodies started rolling. Marco is looking through a notebook, and phones Tom.
Tom: Marco.
Marco: Today's Tuesday, right?
Tom: It's Wednesday, Marco.
Marco: My bad. Uh, she's only got one thing written down for the day. She's filing her unemployment claim...in downtown Portland. Maia is reading in her room and hears April shouting out.
April: Son of a bitch! I don't believe it! April bursts through the door.
April: Am I dreaming, or did you not tell me that Chicago would win? Do you know what I bet?
Maia: $200? Maia is lying on her front, still reading a book.
April: Try my Mother's diamond engagement ring and now it's gone! All because I believed in you! Trusted you! And you let me down!
Maia: You lied to me! You said winning didn't matter. You said you liked me anyway. She begins to cry.
April: Ah, so you knew Chicago could lose, didn't you. Right from the jump, this was all just a test! April sits on the bed. Shawn and Matthew walk through the center.
Matthew: A foundation? Don't you think we have our hands full already?
Shawn: It's one person a day. Once it's up and running, it's not really gonna eat into my time.
Matthew: I thought you were looking for privacy. If you do this, you're stepping into a whitehouse spotlight.
Shawn: Yes, but it's on my terms.
Matthew: It would be good publicity. Not too hard to get off the ground. You could get some huge names for that filtering committee. I think it's a good idea.
Shawn: Well I'm glad that you approve, but I wasn't really asking for your permission. Shawn walks away.
Matthew: I would hope not. Jean stands on the pavement outside the Portland Employment Division. Diana and Tom approach her.
Tom: Jean. Jean turns and looks at them.
Jean: Baldwin.
Tom: That's right.
Jean: You should have stayed away.
Diana: Look around you. All these people, they haven't done anything to hurt you.
Jean: They haven't done anything to help me, either. Besides, it doesn't matter. I don't have a choice. I am doing what they wanted me to do.
Tom: You don't have to accept that. You have a choice.
Jean: Yeah, like I had a choice when I was abducted. I never had a choice. Ever! They got the right girl for the job. What are you doing here, anyway? You should have gone back to your family, like I said.
Tom: No I'm, I'm right where I wanna be.
Jean: You must have some kind of death wish.
Tom: You think your here to kill people? I think I'm here to stop you. They infected you Jean, and that was wrong. But you don't have to let them make you into a mass murderer.
Jean: I'm already a killer!
Tom: No, you haven't decided to kill anyone. That's what you're doing right now! Whatever you're thinking about, destiny or fate, whatever, you're wrong. You don't have to do this. You don't. He holds his hand out to her.
Jean: Wanna hear something funny? I believe you. But it's too late. Blisters have appeared on her hands.
Jean: Oh, they're so white! I can't stop it now. I itch so bad! I don't.... Diana shoots her through the heart and as she begins to fall, Tom catches her, gently lowering her to the ground. Medics run over and spray her hands. Later, Diana is back in the office. Marco walks in.
Marco: Hell of a day. How you holding up?
Diana: Well, I'm scheduled for physichiatric counselling on Monday. Saved thousands of innocent people. Had to shoot a woman, to do it.
Marco: Hey, you did what you had to do. Anyway, uh, I'm not sure if this is a good time, but I made you a little something. He hands her a black book with the word's Maia's Diary written on the front.
Marco: It's kind of a, well a fake version of Maia's diary. It should fool just about anybody.
Diana: You forged this to get NTAC off my back?
Marco: I know it's a big thing, but you were kind of over a barrel, so...
Diana: This could get me into a lot of trouble. This could get YOU in a lot of trouble.
Marco: Yeah uh, you don't have to use it if you don't want to. I'm just giving you an option.
Diana: This is insane. It's also, maybe one of the nicest things anybody's ever done for me. Matthew and Lily are in the grounds of the 4400 Center.
Matthew: I wanna thank you for a job well done. You must have been very persuasive.
Lily: I just said what I thought. Your idea for a foundation was terrific.
Matthew: You mean your idea, don't you?
Lily: Do we have to be all cloak and dagger about it? Now you and Shawn both got what you wanted and a lot of sick people are gonna get help.
Matthew: Well you did a lot of good for the center today and I'm not gonna forget it.
Lily: Hey Matthew! You know what the center means to me?
Matthew: What?
Lily: Free rent and daycare for my daughter. I'm not 63. I'm not an 18 year old kid. I don't need you to discover the magic power inside of me.
Matthew: So in other words, you're not a true believer.
Lily: Is that a problem?
Matthew: Not at all. Neither am I. He walks away. Tom arrives home that night and heads to the kitchen. Alana enters.
Alana: You look wiped.
Tom: Don't ask. You didn't have to do this.
Alana: I didn't. Your son's the cook.
Tom: Kyle! I bet he had a little help.
Alana: Well you know, we got to talking. It was nice.
Tom: How was your day Alana?
Alana: Well I bought these pieces from this young artist girl from Benstein, self taught. And she painted this little scrap of garden in her backyard. And it's light and.... Tom kisses her and she carries on telling him about her day. Diana enters Nina's office.
Nina: You ok?
Diana: More or less. But you almost forgot. She places the fake diary on Nina's desk.
Nina: No I didn't. But I thought in line of today's events that I would give you a little extension.
Diana: Well that's not necessary. It's a hot read. Lot's of good stuff about Spongebob.
Nina: Thankyou. Diana leaves the office and Nina begins to read the diary. Kyle is on his laptop looking at pre med courses. He turns to the television, which is showing Collier's murder. He has a flashback to smashing in the shop window and then suddenly the memories of the murder race through his head. Flashes of him burying a bag and shooting Collier. He turns from the television and bends over as though in pain. A witness is at NTAC helping an artist sketch the killer.
Witness: His eyes were more narrow. Yes that's him. His mouth was more flat, not smiling. That's him! The sketch is given to all NTAC members and posted on boards. It is quite a good likeness of Kyle, although not exact.


Teleplay by: Peter Tibbals
Story by: Judd Rubin
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[Scene: Chandler and Monica's]
Chandler: Hey!
Monica: Good morning, Tiger! I'm making you a nice big breakfast so you can keep up your strength for tonight. You're gonna get me good and pregnant.
Chandler: I've got nowhere to go this morning. I'm unemployed! I don't know what I'm gonna do with my life.
Monica: Well, I just lost my erection.
Chandler: I mean, what am I supposed to do with myself?
Monica: You're supposed to find your passion in life. You can be whatever you wanna be now. It's exciting.
Chandler: But it's all so overwhelming. I don't know where to start.
Monica: Hey, wait a second. I can help you with this. You just need to be organized. We can make a list of your qualifications, and categorize jobs by industry. There could be folders and files!
Chandler: Hey! This is where your hyper-organized-pain-in-the-ass stuff pays off!
Monica: I know!!! My erection is back! Opening Titles
[Scene: Central Perk]
Joey: (To Gunther who comes over with coffee and a muffin) Thank you!
Phoebe: Joey, can I have a sip of your coffee and a bite of your muffin?
Joey: Okay.
Phoebe Thank you. (Pours his coffee in a thermos and puts his muffin in her purse.) Thank you!
Joey:: Pheebs, have you ever been bitten by a hungry Italian?
Phoebe: I'm sorry, it's just, I'm a little short on cash.
Joey: If you want I could loan you some money?
Phoebe: Oh no, no, no. I learned never to borrow money from friends. No, that's why Richard Dreyfuss and I don't speak anymore.
Joey: Oh, hey, how about this? Wanna be an extra on my show?
Phoebe: You could do that?
Joey: Yeah, yeah. The pay is pretty good and you could do it for as long as you need.
Phoebe: Oh my god, I'm gonna be on TV!
Joey: Okay, now. I gotta tell you, being on TV isn't as glamorous and exciting as you think.
Phoebe: Oh, really?
Joey: No it is awesome!
(Rachel and Ross enter with Emma)
Ross: Hi guys.
All: (Adlib hellos)
Phoebe: Wow! Hey, why are you all dressed up?
Ross: Rachel and I are bringing Emma to Ralph Lauren today to introduce her to everyone. Doesn't she look cute?
Joey: She sure does. Why does she have a pink bow taped to her head?
Rachel: Well, because if one more person says "what a cute little boy" I'm gonna whip them with a car antenna!
Ross: I think she's gonna be the hit of the office, huh? She's gonna be hotter than peasant blouses and A-line skirts. Can I get a blue bow?
[Scene: Chandler and Monica's]
Monica: (Flipping through bunch of folders as Chandler enters from bathroom) Okay, I have looked through a bunch of career guides, photocopied and highlighted key passages and put them into alphabetical folders so you can make an informed decision.
Chandler: How long was I in there?
Monica: Okay. Let us start with the A's. Advertising.
Chandler: Wait. Advertising! That's a great idea!
Monica: Don't you want to look through the rest?
Chandler: I don't think I have to hear the rest. Advertising makes perfect sense. Sorry you had to waste all this time, though.
Monica: You call eight hours alone with my label maker wasted time? Ooh, now I get to use my shredder!
Chandler: I mean, I can write slogans. I mean, how hard can it be, right? "Cheese. It's milk that you chew." "Crackers. Because your cheese needs a buddy." "A grape. Because who can get a water melon in your mouth?"
Monica: I got one. "Socks. Because your family's feet deserve the best."
Chandler: Honey? Leave it to the pros.
Monica: I actually know someone in advertising. I grew up with this guy who is a vice president at a big agency. Maybe I can get him to meet you? Give me the phone.
Chandler: "The phone. Bringing you closer to people...who have phones."
Monica: "Marriage. It's not for everybody."
[Scene: Ralph Lauren]
Rachel: That went well. Almost everybody knew that she was a girl.
Ross: Yeah, after you punched that one guy who got it wrong, word spread.
Rachel: I'm just gonna go in my office and pick up some stuff . (To the guy behind her desk) Who the hell are you!?
Guy: Who the hell are you?
Rachel: I'm the hell person whose office this is!
Ross: Good one, Rach.
Guy: I'm Gavin Mitchell, the person who's taken over your job.
Rachel: Excuse me?
Gavin: Oh, your baby's so cute. Why did you put a pink bow on a boy?
[Scene: DOOL set]
Phoebe: Joey, look at me! I'm a nurse!
Joey: Yes you are. I think it may be time for my sponge bath. Sorry, I'm just so used to hitting on the extras. So, are you excited about your scene?
Phoebe: Yeah! But I'm a little shaky and nervous.
Joey: Oh, relax. Don't be. You'll be fine, you'll be fine. They'll probably just make you stand in the back.
Director: Okay, okay, okay! (To Phoebe) You. Here, come here, here. You're gonna take this tray, you're gonna stay on this yellow mark. You're gonna move on "action!" You're gonna walk over to the operating table. You're gonna stop on that blue mark, you're gonna put the tray down. Don't walk too fast! But don't doddle.
Phoebe: Okay, now. What?
Director: And...Action!!
(Phoebe starts walking toward the operating table. Her hands are shaking like crazy, causing the tray to rattle.)
Director: Cut! Cut!
Phoebe: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm just a little nervous.
Director: Well, don't be.
Phoebe: Okay, that helps.
Director: And...Action!
(Phoebe starts walking towards the table again. She's even more shaky than before and almost drops the tray.)
Director: Cut!
Joey: Hey, you know what? Don't worry, Pheebs! It usually takes me three takes too! (Off the director's look) Alright, eight.
Director: And...Action!
(Ok, here we go again. Phoebe starts walking toward the operating table, but stops every time the tray starts to rattle. She eventually drops it on the floor, but finishes the scene anyway by putting the now non-existent tray on the table.)
[Scene: Central Perk]
Interviewer: So, do you have any other question about advertising?
Chandler: No, no. But let me show you what I can do. "Bagels and donuts. Round food for every mood."
Interviewer: Monica warned me you might do that. I actually think we might have something for you at the agency.
Chandler: Really? That's great!
Interviewer: It's an unpaid internship.
Chandler: It's funny. When you said "unpaid" it sounded like you said "unpaid."
Interviewer: Come on now. Monica has a good job. And it's not like you have a family to support.
Chandler: Actually, we're trying, and I don't think Monica's gonna wanna postpone it. We're supposed to have s*x tonight. Actually, she's probably at home naked right now. I tend to keep talking until somebody stops me. I can just picture her on the bed right now.
Interviewer: Stop!
Interviewer: Okay.
[Scene: Ralph Lauren]
Rachel: Wait a minute! What do you mean, you're taking over my job?
Gavin: Well, while you were on your baby vacation I was doing your job.
Rachel: A vacation? My idea of a vacation does not involve something sucking on my nipples until they are raw.
Gavin: Clearly you've never been to Sandles Paradise Island.
Rachel: Alright! Don't get too comfortable there, because I'm back in two weeks! And I want everything back to the way it was. I can't say that I care too much for the way you've rearranged my office.
Gavin: I can't say I care too much for that smell you've brought in with you.
Rachel: Excuse me?
Ross: Rach we have a code brown situation.
Rachel: Can you please, please take care of it for me?
Ross: Alright, but you have to do one sometime.
Rachel: Let me just get this straight! So I go have a baby and they send some guy in to do my job?
Gavin: Well, there was talk of shutting down Ralph Lauren all together.
Rachel: That's right. You're very cheeky for a temp.
Gavin: I'm not a temp. I was transferred here from another department.
Rachel: Oh yeah, what department was that? The Jerk department?
Gavin: Oh, they didn't tell me about your quick wit.
Rachel: Did they mention that I'm rubber and you're glue?
Mr. Zelner: (Enters) Gavin, Ralph loved your ideas.
Rachel: Oh, hi Mr. Zelner.
Mr. Zelner: Rachel, I see you've met Gavin. I must say, when you left us we weren't sure what we were gonna do. But then, Gavin to the rescue. Super Gavin!
Rachel: That's great. So now, Super Gavin, when I come back where are you planning on flying off to?
Gavin: Well, that's up to Mr. Zelner. I'm sure he will make the right decision.
Rachel: (To herself) Oh, wow. Super ass-kissing power.
Mr. Zelner: Incidentally, when are you coming back?
Rachel: Today.
Gavin: You said two weeks.
Rachel: No, I said today! See, for a superhero, not so much with the listening.
[Scene: DOOL set]
Joey: Hey.
Phoebe: Hey. So, what did he say?
Joey: Well, he can be a little rough around the edges, so I'm gonna replace a word he used a lot, with the word "puppy." Okay, so he said: "If your puppy friend doesn't get her puppy act together, I'm gonna fire her mother-puppy ass."
Phoebe: I'm sorry, I can't do this. I'm not an actor.
Joey: That's right, you're not. You're a nurse. You're Nurse With Tray.
Phoebe: Joey.
Joey: No, no. Nurse With Tray doesn't know Joey, she doesn't have time for friends. She gets in that operating room and she carries that tray to the doctor, because if she doesn't, people die!
Phoebe: Who dies?
Joey: (Points to man on operating table) Man With Eye Patch! You get in there and you do your job.
Phoebe: Yes, doctor.
Joey: Okay.
Director: Okay, let's try this one more time.
Phoebe: Hang in there, Man With Eye Patch, your tray is coming!
Director: And...Action!
Phoebe: (Does the scene) Yes, I did it!!! I nailed it!!! Yay! What's next?
Director: The rest of the scene.
Phoebe: Okay, from the top, people!
[Scene: Ralph Lauren]
Rachel: Listen. Sudden change of plans. My maternity leave just ended. They told me that if I didn't come back today, they were gonna fire me.
Ross: What? No, that's illegal. I'm gonna have the labor department down her so fast they won't even...
Rachel: Alright, alright. Calm down Norma Rae. They didn't actually say that. I'm just afraid if I don't come back right now this guy's gonna try to squeeze me out.
Ross: What about Emma? We don't have a nanny.
Rachel: I know. You know, we're just gonna have to figure out a plan tonight. Can you please just take care of her for today?
Ross: Absolutely. Just give me your breast and we'll be on our way.
Rachel: Come on, I don't know what else to do.
Ross: Fine, fine. (To Emma) We'll have fun, won't we? Yes, we will, yes we will. (Gives her a kiss, and the pink bow tapes itself to his head.)
Rachel: Ross?
Ross: Huh?
Rachel: You're pretty.
[Scene: Chandler and Monica's]
Chandler: Whatever I decide to do, I'm gonna be starting a career from scratch. It's gonna be a while before I make a living at it. Maybe now is not the right time to be starting a family.
Ross: So you have to tell Monica you don't want to have a baby right now?
Chandler: Yeah.
Ross: (Hugs Chandler) Good-bye.
Monica: (Enters) Okay, it's baby time. Pants off Bing. (Sees Ross) Didn't see you there Geller.
Chandler: Yeah, Ross is here so...
Ross: Yeah, and I was really hoping that I could hang out. What do you feel like doing?
Monica: We're gonna have s*x.
Ross: I don't feel like having s*x. Maybe we can watch a movie or something.
Monica: Let me put it this way. We're having s*x whether you're here or not.
Ross: Pants off Bing!
[Scene: Ralph Lauren]
Rachel: Alright. Now that I'm back, why don't you just fill me in on what you've been up to?
Gavin: Well, I've changed your screensaver from that picture of *Nsync.
Rachel: Hey, they were popular when I left!
Gavin: Also, I've just been working on this big presentation for tomorrow.
Rachel: Well, I should be involved in that, so why don't you get me up to speed?
Gavin: That's gonna take weeks. Why don't just let me take care of the presentation?
Rachel: Oh, no no no no. I see what you're doing here, alright, listen, this is my job buddy. Okay, I've had it for five years, and I know how it works, so why don't you just
catch me up!
Gavin: Fine.
Rachel: (Sits down in her chair) Oh god. You've totally messed with the back support of my chair. How do you fix this?
Gavin: Hey, you've been here five years, you figure it out.
Rachel: Fine, I will. (Pushes that button thing on the chair that makes it "collapse") Alright, fill me in!
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[Scene: Chandler and Monica's]
Ross: Hey.
Chandler: Hey.
Ross: You have a blue tie that would go with this? Emma spit up on mine.
Chandler: Oh, yeah. But you have to give it back if I get a job. Of course, by that time in the future ties will be obsolete and we'll all be wearing silver jump suits.
Monica: (Enters from the bedroom) Hi, good morning lover. I gotta say after last night, I'm a little weak in the knees.
Ross: Here's an idea. You walk into a room...take a quick scan!
Monica: (To Ross) Sorry. (To Chandler) But I kind of have this feeling that we may have made a baby last night.
Chandler: Oh god, I have to tell you something. You're not pregnant.
Monica: What are you talking about?
Chandler: That thing that I have to do to make a baby. I faked it.
Monica: What!? You faked it?
Ross: You know what? I don't need a tie. I mean, it's better, open collar. You know, it's more casual (He leaves.)
[Scene: DOOL set]
Phoebe: Joey, listen. I can't do this, it doesn't make any sense. Yesterday I was a nurse, and today I'm a waitress at a cafe?
Joey: Oh, sometimes we use the same extras for different parts. It's okay.
Phoebe: Well, it's not okay, because I gave a very memorable performance as the nurse. And now suddenly I'm the waitress? That's gonna confuse my fans.
Joey: Maybe you are a nurse, but you moonlight as a waitress.
Phoebe: Uhuh. Because I'm a single mother, supporting my two children.
Joey: Nice.
Phoebe: Wait a minute. Dr. Drake Ramoray and I work at the same hospital. Wouldn't I come over to say hi to him?
Joey: No, no. See, you and Drake are having a fight.
Phoebe: About what?
Joey: He slept with you and then never called you.
Phoebe: And I just wanted a new daddy for Davy and Becky.
Director: Okay, okay, from the top. And...Action!
Man: So, I'm surprised you agreed to have lunch with me.
Joey/Drake: I'm surprised to, but yet here I am.
(Phoebe walks by and slaps him.)
Director: Cut, cut! What are you doing!?
Phoebe: Yeah, well, I'm very angry at him, because he slept with me and never called me back.
Extra: Me too!
Another extra: Me too!
Joey: Oh, calm down! She means on the show! We need some new extras around here!
[Scene: Chandler and Monica's]
Gavin: (Enters) Wow, you're here already.
Rachel: Yes. Emma and I came in a little early to do research on the presentation. I actually made a few changes, but I think I'm caught up on everything. So ask me anything!
Gavin: How do you fix the chair.
Rachel: Except that! (Mr. Zelner enters) Oh, hello, Mr. Zelner. We're all ready for our presentation this afternoon.
Mr. Zelner: Good, because it's in ten minutes.
Rachel: What? I can't do that! I have the baby, and Ross is not gonna pick her up for another hour.
Mr. Zelner: Well, then Gavin can give the presentation, okay, we have to do it now. Ralph needs to leave early today. He's going helicopter shopping.
Rachel: Well, there you go. You win, you win. You get to do the presentation, you'll knock 'em dead, no one will ever remember that I worked here, and then Ralph will buy his helicopter, and Super Gavin will just fly right along side of him!
Gavin: You can do the presentation.
Rachel: No, I can't, I have a baby.
Gavin: I'll watch her.
Rachel: Why would you do that?
Gavin: Because you've worked really hard, and it's your job, and you're a little crazy.
Rachel: That's really nice.
Gavin: I should tell you that crying women make me very uncomfortable.
Rachel: Then you're not gonna like what's coming. (Starts crying) I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Thank you, thank you.
Gavin: I'm really fine, don't worry, I'm great with children. (To Emma) Gavin Mitchell. Pleased to meet you.
[Scene: DOOL set]
Joey: Please don't fire my friend. Just let me talk to her.
Director: Okay, okay. But this is her last chance.
Joey: Thank you, thank you. How about I do something for you? Tomorrow, I'll bring you a hat, cover up the bald?
Joey: Hey, listen Pheebs. I was just talking to the director, and he was thinking, maybe this time you don't hit Drake, you just wait on the tables?
Phoebe: I can't do that. I'm an actor. I have a process.
Joey: You're a masseuse. You have a table with a hole in it.
Phoebe: Wait a minute, I see what's happening here. You're threatened.
Joey: What?
Phoebe: Yeah, I'm so good in this scene that I'm stealing focus from you. Well, rise to the challenge Tribianni 'cause I just raised the bar. Come join me up here!
Joey: (To the director) Yeah, you can fire her, but I would call security, she won't go easy.
[Scene: Chandler and Monica's]
Monica: You faked it? You couldn't have faked it!
Chandler: Oh yes you can. You just make the faces and the noises.
Monica: Guys can fake it? Unbelievable. The one thing that's ours! Besides, why would you fake it when we're trying to have a baby?
Chandler: That's actually why. Look, I'm starting a whole new career now, and I'm not saying that I don't want to have a baby, I'm just saying maybe we could wait a little while.
Monica: Like a month?
Chandler: Or a year?
Monica: Really, you want to wait a year?
Chandler: It could be less than a year. I mean, you've heard my stuff. "Pants. Like shorts, but longer." (Pause) It'll probably be more than a year.
Monica: I really wanna have a baby.
Chandler: Yeah, me too. Look, I'll just get my old job back.
Monica: No, I want you to have a job that you love. Not statistical analysis and data reconfiguration.
Chandler: I quit and you learn what I do?
Monica: It's just, I think, there's never gonna be a right time to have a baby. I mean, now you're unemployed and in a little while you'll find a new job that'll keep you really busy. There's always gonna be a reason not to do this, but I think once the baby comes, forget about all those reasons.
Chandler: I guess. It's always gonna be scary when we have a baby.
Monica: It's gonna be really scary. I mean, god. When we have a baby, there's gonna be so much that we're not able to control. I mean, the apartment's gonna be a mess, I won't have time to clean it. What if the baby gets into the ribbon drawer? Messes up all the ribbons?! What if there's no room for a ribbon drawer, because the baby's stuff takes up all the space!? Where will all the ribbons go!?!
Chandler: Should we go make a baby right now before you change your mind?
Monica: Yes, please!
Chandler: Oh, and I promise, I will not fake it this time.
Monica: I wish I could say the same. I'm a little shook up! Closing credits
[Scene: DOOL set]
Joey/Drake: I know you botched that operation on purpose. I can't prove it yet, but when I do, you'll be going to jail for murder. I don't care if you are my brother.
Man: I'm not your brother.
Phoebe/Waitress: What about my children Drake?! Huh!? (She starts running around on the set with a security guy chasing her) No!! No!! No! God!


[Scene: Rodriguez's place. He's looking at pictures of Prue, Piper and Phoebe. Tempus appears in a ball of flame.]
Rodriguez: Tempus...
Tempus: I never expected to see me. Of course not. You are not worthy before now. What is the name you are using?
Rodriguez: Rodriguez.
Tempus: Ah, yes. I have been sent to you, Rodriguez. As a gift.
Rodriguez: Sent? By who?
Tempus: I think you know who and why.
Rodriguez: I can defeat the Charmed Ones on my own. I don't need any help.
Tempus: Really. What makes you think you have actually found the Charmed Ones?
Rodriguez: Are you kidding? After so many of my colleagues have mysteriously vanished in San Francisco this year. It can only be one reason why. I posed as a cop as I believed that one was covering for them. I was right, he was. That's how I found them. Of course, you already know all that don't you. That's what makes me so worthy now, right?
Tempus: Watch your tongue, Rodriguez, lest I split it for you. It's one thing to have found the Charmed Ones, it's quite another to defeat them as those who have gone before you have already discovered. Tomorrow is Wednesday. I want you to get all three witches together in one place by midnight and give it your best shot. But if you fail ...
Rodriguez: I will not fail.
Tempus: Well, if you do, I'll be there to help you learn by you failures. Trust me. Now, how do you expect to get them together?
Rodriguez: Trudeau.
[Scene: A paperboy rides along the road, a car honks and he waves. He throws the paper on the Halliwell's lawn. Inside the manor.]
Weather Girl: (on TV) Good morning, San Francisco. Well, it looks like it's going to be a beautiful Wednesday.
Phoebe: (on the phone) Piper, what are you doing at Quake? It's 8:00 in the morning.
(Prue enters the kitchen.)
Prue: Morning.
Phoebe: Morning. (to Piper) Yes, alright, I'll be there in an hour.
(You can see Kit on the bench and he knocks over a pepper shaker.)
Prue: You'll be where in an hour?
Phoebe: Ah, Quake. Piper's doing that thing for the food network and she needs me to bring her another dress because she spilt marinara sauce over the one she's wearing.
Prue: Just stay out of my closet.
Phoebe: Oh, don't worry, I don't think she'd want to ruin another one of yours.
Prue: (Reading the paper) I don't believe this.
Phoebe: I'm kidding. Don't have an aneurysm.
Prue: No, I'm talking about the paper. Did you see the front page? (Phoebe shakes her head. They hear a crash outside.) Where did you park my car last night?
Phoebe: In the driveway ... I think.
(They run to the window.)
Prue: Mrs. Henderson's car.
Phoebe: Oh, thank God. I mean, that your car's in the driveway and I'm not in the dog house. Is she okay?
Prue: Yeah, just a little fender bender, no big deal. Phoebe, Andy's in trouble.
Phoebe: What? Why? (Prue shows her the paper. Written on the front page is "Inspector Suspected In I.A. Murder.") They think that he killed that Internal Affairs cop? No way.
Prue: Maybe it's a setup, trying to force him to reveal our secret.
Phoebe: Let me see that. (She takes the paper off Prue and has a premonition.)
Prue: What is it?
Phoebe: I saw Andy, Prue. He was dead.
Opening Credits
[Scene: Halliwell Manor. Continued from before.]
Prue: Wait, you said that you didn't see a demon or a warlock in your premonition, right?
Phoebe: No, but the way he was hurled across the room, there had to of been one.
Prue: This room here.
Phoebe: Right here, yeah.
Prue: Okay, and you're positive that it was Andy.
Phoebe: Prue.
Prue: I just want to be sure, alright, this isn't just anybody that we're talking about, you know.
Phoebe: I know, and I care about him too.
Prue: I know you do. I'm sorry. Um, right, why don't you fill in Piper and I'm gonna go warn Andy.
Phoebe: How? He said it was too risky for you to be seen with him.
Prue: Yeah, well, I don't care. Let Internal Affairs find out that we're witches. Andy's life is a lot more important.
Phoebe: Okay, just please be careful. You don't know what kind of demon we're up against.
[Scene: Police station. Andy is in a room with Darryl.]
Darryl: If you ask me, I wouldn't be surprised if Rodriguez was the one who whacked his own partner.
Andy: I.A. already cleared him.
Darryl: I.A. cleared an I.A. Go figure.
Andy: Yeah.
(Rodriguez enters the room.)
Rodriguez: What are you doing here, Morris?
Darryl: Backing my partner, Rodriguez, something you wouldn't know anything about.
Rodriguez: This is between him and me.
Andy: It's okay, Darryl. (Darryl leaves the room.) Just for the record, I'm not saying anything without my lawyer present.
Rodriguez: You don't need a lawyer, that's if you're willing to help me.
Andy: You want me to help you? (He laughs.) What, you can't frame yourself, Rodriguez?
Rodriguez: Look, Andy ...
Andy: Oh, it's Andy now.
Rodriguez: I don't think you had anything to do with my partner's murder. That's right. But what I do think is completely off the record. And I think you'll understand why. (Rodriguez shows Andy a photo.) That's my partner. Or at least what's left of him. No human could of done that to him. I think he was killed by something supernatural. And I think you can help me figure out who or what it is.
Andy: Really. What makes you think that?
Rodriguez: Come on, I know all about those unsolved cases of yours, and I know who's behind them too. Who you've been covering for. It's very noble. You must care about her very much to give up your career for her. Prue Halliwell ... is a witch.
Andy: A witch, huh? You wait here, I'll go warn the Wizard of Oz. (He stands up.)
Rodriguez: I don't have time to screw around, Trudeau. I want you to arrange a meeting between her and me. It has to be tonight. She can help me find who killed my partner, I'll drop all charges against you. I won't tell anyone about her. You think about it, but not too long. (He leaves and Darryl enters.)
Darryl: You alright?
Andy: I'm not sure. I gotta go see Prue.
Darryl: That's funny. She called and said she had to see you too.
[Scene: In the street outside a clock shop. Tempus is waiting there. Rodriguez walks up to him.]
Tempus: Well?
Rodriguez: I'm sure I made Trudeau suspicious of me. She'll have no choice but to meet with me.
Tempus: But you have to get all three of them together.
Rodriguez: Trudeau cares about her. He won't let her risk meeting me alone. He'll insist she have the power of three there with her for protection.
Tempus: And you think you have the power to defeat them all.
Rodriguez: You don't think I do, do you? You think I'll fail.
Tempus: Time will tell.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Scene: Quake. Phoebe has another dress for Piper.]
Piper: Phoebe, over here. (She gives Piper the dress.) Thank God. The segment producer's gonna be here any minute and I am a complete and total wreck.
Phoebe: Piper ...
Piper: I thought I was gonna have to pull a Celine Dion and wear my dress backwards.
Phoebe: Piper, you have gotta listen to me. I had a premonition of Andy dying.
Piper: When?
Phoebe: This morning. Don't you check your voice mail? I called and said it was important.
Piper: Oh, know. Where's Prue?
Phoebe: She's warning him. But in the mean time we have to figure out who the demon is.
(A woman enters Quake. Piper stands behind Phoebe to cover the marinara stain.)
Woman: Piper? Piper Halliwell? I would recognize you anywhere, you have not changed a bit. You don't recognize me do you? It's Joanne. Joanne Hurts, Baker High, class of '92.
Piper: Oh, sure, of course. Joanne, what are you doing here?
Joanne: I'm the segment producer.
Piper: You're the segment producer? (to Phoebe) She's the segment producer.
Phoebe: I heard.
Piper: Wow, what a small world. I thought you moved to New York.
Joanne: I did. And that's where I met my fabulous husband who had this crazy idea of starting this little cable show and putting me in charge of everything. And here we are, the food networks most popular show. Talk about dreams coming true. Anyway, enough about me, what have you been doing?
(Piper freezes Joanne.)
Phoebe: Why'd you do that?
Piper: What am I suppose to say? That I'm a cash strapped, single restaurant manager, who still lives in the same house I grew up in with my sisters?
Phoebe: And the cat, don't forget our cat.
Piper: Phoebe, this isn't funny.
Phoebe: Look, I don't know why you're getting so upset. She is a freak. I'm sorry, but no one is that successful at the age 26. Besides, you are successful, you're talented, you're creative, and the food network is here to see you. Not me, not her, you. Feel better now?
Piper: Very little.
Phoebe: Good. Unfreeze that bitch in heels, you've got a segment to shoot and we've got a demon to find.
[Scene: Park. Andy and Prue are there.]
Andy: Has Phoebe ever been wrong about her premonitions before?
Prue: No. But the good news is every other time we've been able to affect the outcome. Stop the demon or warlock before ...
Andy: Before I get killed. Can I get that in writing?
Prue: Andy, you just have to be extra careful until we figure out who this demon is, okay? (Silence.) Andy.
Andy: I was just thinking ... what if the demon was Rodriguez.
Prue: Why would you say that?
Andy: He pulled me in the station house this morning. I thought he was gonna arrest me. What he really wanted was a meeting with you.
Prue: Meet with me? Why?
Andy: Because he thinks his partner was killed by a supernatural being and somehow, I don't know how he knows you're a witch.
Prue: How would he know that unless ...
Andy: Unless he was the demon.
Prue: Alright, uh, tell Rodriguez to meet me at the manor at 6:00.
Andy: It's too dangerous, Prue.
Prue: I don't have a choice. If I don't meet with him, he'll try to frame you and try to expose me.
Andy: But if he is a demon and it turns out to be a trap.
Prue: And I'll have Piper and Phoebe there to back me up, the power of three.
Andy: Plus one.
Prue: No. You can't be there, Andy. That's where you were in Phoebe's premonition when ... just promise me you'll stay away.
Andy: I can't do that, Prue.
Prue: I mean it. Don't make me use my magic on you. (They smile.) I don't want anything to happen to you, Andy. You know how much I care for you.
Andy: Okay, I promise.
[Scene: Outside the manor. Andy's sitting in his car. Rodriguez arrives in front of the manor. Andy ducks. Kit growls at Rodriguez. Inside the manor.]
Prue: Alright, let's go over the plan again.
Phoebe: Yeah, let's, because I wanna know why I'm the one answering the door.
Prue: 'Cause you're the one who knows martial arts, alright, that way if Rodriguez shows up and tries something right off the bat, you can knock him down.
Piper: And then I can come in from the living room and freeze him.
Prue: And then I can come down the stairs and send him flying.
Phoebe: I still feel like cannon fodder.
(The doorbell rings.)
Prue: What time is it?
Piper: Just before six. (He rings the doorbell a couple more times.) That's a little too anxious, that's not a good sign.
Phoebe: Which means if he doesn't want to kill Prue, he wants to date her.
(Prue and Piper stare at here.)
Prue: Come on, let's get this day over with.
Phoebe: Okay. (She walks towards the door.) Alright already. (She opens it.)
Rodriguez: Inspector Rodriguez. I'm here to see Prue Halliwell.
Phoebe: Yeah, no kidding. Prue! Piper! Company!
(Rodriguez's eyes glow red and his power throw's Phoebe against the wall and she rolls down the stairs. Piper enters the room.)
Piper: Phoebe!
(Lightning stuff comes out of Rodriguez's hand towards Piper but she freezes it just in time.)
Prue: (Running down the stairs.) Phoebe! (Prue uses her power and the lightening stuff hits Rodriguez adn he explodes and vanishes.)
Piper: Oh my God.
Prue: Oh, God.
Piper: Prue, is she okay?
Prue: She's dead.
Piper: What? Phoebe. Phoebe!
[Scene: Rodriguez's place. Tempus is there holding an hour glass. He pours the sand out into a saucepan. You see out the window that it goes from night to day in seconds. Rodriguez appears.]
Tempus: Hurts to die, doesn't it? Especially at the hands of a witch.
Rodriguez: What happened? Where am I?
Tempus: Exactly where you were when you first met me. Time has been reset, or other I have reset time.
Rodriguez: But they killed me.
Tempus: That was Wednesday night. This is Wednesday morning all over again. This is why I have been sent to you, to keep resetting time until you learn from your failures. Only you will carry with you the memory of what has happened before. And each time you fail, you will learn more until ultimately you will kill all of them.
[Scene: A paper boy rides along the road, a car honks and he waves. He throws the paper on the Halliwell's lawn. Inside the manor.]
Weather Girl: (on TV) Good morning, San Francisco. Well, it looks like it's going to be a beautiful Wednesday.
Phoebe: (on the phone) Piper, what are you doing at Quake? It's 8:00 in ... the morning.
(Prue enters the kitchen.)
Prue: Morning.
Phoebe: Morning. Wait a minute. (Kit knocks over the pepper and meows.) Whoa. I am freaking out. (Into the phone) Okay. I'll be there in an hour (She hangs up.)
Prue: Be where in an hour?
(Phoebe pauses a little.)
Phoebe: Okay. Pinch me.
Prue: What?
Phoebe: No. I mean it. Pinch me. I want to make sure I'm awake because if I am, I am having one killer déjà vu.
Prue: So it's just a déjà vu. Everybody gets them.
Phoebe: Not like this they don't. Look Prue ... something weird is going on here.
(Prue sees the front page)
Prue: I don't believe this.
Phoebe: No. I'm...trust me. This has happened before. Everything.
Prue: I'm talking about the paper. Did you see the front page?
Phoebe: See. Like that. Right there. You said that before. I know it. (Car crashes.) And that has happened before too.
Prue: Where did you park my car last night?
Phoebe: In the driveway and I told you that already the last time you asked me. (Prue leaves. Phoebe sighs. Then whispers the next line.) I think I'm having an aneurysm.
[Cut to Prue looking out the window in the living room.]
Prue: Mrs. Henderson's car. Just a little fender bender, no big deal.
Phoebe: Prue, I am not nuts. Okay, maybe just a little but that's irrelevant here.
Prue: Phoebe, Andy's in trouble.
Phoebe: What? (Prue shows her the paper.) Let me see that. (She takes the paper off Prue and has a premonition.) You know, that was the premonition which I had before.
Prue: Of what?
Phoebe: Of Andy, here, being killed by a demon.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Scene: Police station. Rodriguez barges in the room where Andy and Darryl are.]
Rodriguez: What the hell are you doing here?
Darryl: I'm backing my partner, you got a problem with that?
Rodriguez: Get out now!
Andy: It's okay, Darryl, I got it. (Darryl leaves.) Just for the record, I'm not saying anything without my lawyer present.
Rodriguez: Forget your lawyer, Trudeau. I'm not screwing around this time.
Andy: This time? What are you talking about?
Rodriguez: Bottom line, I know my partner was killed by a supernatural being and I think Prue Halliwell can help me figure out who did it.
Andy: Really? Well, I'll just get the commissioner to signal Batman and then I'll get right on it.
Rodriguez: Do you think I'm joking? I know everything, Trudeau, everything including the fact that Prue Halliwell is a witch. Now you're gonna arrange a meeting with her tonight, you understand, or else I'm gonna bust you ass and expose hers. (He leaves the room and Darryl enters.)
Darryl: What was that about?
Andy: I'm not sure.
[Scene: In the street outside a clock shop. Tempus is waiting there. Rodriguez walks up to him.]
Tempus: Well ...
Rodriguez: Trudeau is sent to meet. But what I need to know is how to avoid the pain of getting vanquished again.
Tempus: It depends on whether you learned enough to vanquish them first. What do you remember?
Rodriguez: Last time I killed the youngest one, Phoebe, without a fight. But then when I turned to kill Piper, I think she's the one who has the power to freeze.
Tempus: Adjust, simply anticipate where she's coming from earlier before she has a chance to freeze you. Then kill Prue.
[Scene: Quake.]
Piper: Andy dies? Are you sure that's what you saw?
Phoebe: Even worse, I know that I've had that premonition before. I mean, before I had it earlier today.
Piper: You mean like yesterday?
Phoebe: Yes ... I mean, no. It's not just the premonition that I've seen before, it's everything. And don't tell me that it's just deja vu because I know it's not.
Piper: Alright, then what is it?
(Joanne enters Quake.)
Joanne: Piper? Piper Halliwell, I would recognize you anywhere. You have not changed one bit. You don't recognise me do you?
Phoebe: It's Joanne. Joanne ... Hertz, right? I'm right aren't I?
Joanne: I'm sorry, have we met?
Phoebe: Yes ... sort of before. Uh, Baker High, class of '92. Although I wasn't in that class.
Piper: Oh, sure, of course, Joanne. Phoebe, how did you ...
Phoebe: (Whispering) That's what I've been trying to tell you. I think we're in some funky time loop here.
Piper: (Whispering) Phoebe ...
Phoebe: (Whispering) Freeze her. I'll show you. (Piper freezes Joanne.) Okay, Joanne here, is the food networks segment producer. She's about to brag how she's happily married to some rich guy, how she's following her dream, how she's had a really bad nose job. Okay, I added the last part, but this is all gonna make you feel like you're wasting your life away in comparison. Unfreeze her, go ahead, see for yourself.
(She unfreezes Joanne.)
Piper: Are you the segment producer?
Joanne: Why, yes, I am.
Piper: Following your dreams are you? Happily married? Stinkin' rich?
Joanne: Well, I don't mean to brag, but ...
(Piper freezes her again.)
Piper: Alright Phoebe, spill it.
Phoebe: Okay, the best I could figure is some demon has cast a spell, and I'm the only one who could sort of see it because my power let's me see things that have happened in different times. Do you have a better explanation?
Piper: No. Alright, so if you're right, do you think this has something to do with Andy be killed?
Phoebe: I don't know, but we're never gonna find who the demon is unless we get to ...
Piper: Book of Shadows, I'm right behind you.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Scene: Park.]
Andy: What if he is a demon and it turns out to be a trap?
Prue: I'll have Piper and Phoebe there to back me up. The power of three.
Andy: Plus one. Me. (Andy sees Prue thinking about something.) What is it?
Prue: This seems a little familiar to me that's all, kinda like deja vu. Never mind. Um, Andy, you can't be at the meeting and Phoebe's premonition that's where you were when ... Just promise me that you'll stay away.
Andy: Prue, I can't do that.
Prue: I mean it. Don't make me use my magic on you. (They smile.) Andy, I don't want anything to happen to you. You know how much I still love you.
Andy: No, I didn't.
(They hug.)
[Scene: Outside Halliwell manor. Andy's sitting in his car. Rodriguez arrives in front of the manor. Andy ducks. Kit growls at Rodriguez. Inside the manor. Prue, Piper and Phoebe are looking at the Book of Shadows.]
Piper: Is there anything in there about time loops?
Phoebe: There's a spell to accelerate time but that's about it. I'm telling you, this is all part of his evil plan. I just haven't had enough time to figure it out yet.
(The doorbell rings.)
Prue: What time is it?
Piper: Just before six.
Phoebe: I'll get it. (The doorbell rings a couple more times.) Alright already. (The door flies open and the lightening out of Rodriguez's hand hits Phoebe and she hits the wall.)
Piper: Phoebe!
(The lightning then hits Piper and she crashes through the glass door. He then tries to get Prue but her power makes the lightning fly back into him. He explodes and vanishes.)
Prue: Oh my God, no. (She runs over to Piper.) Piper. (She's crying.)
[Scene: Rodriguez's place. Tempus turns back time again. Rodriguez appears.]
Rodriguez: Son of a bitch!
Tempus: Failed again, I see.
Rodriguez: Yeah, but I learned. This time I got two of 'em. Third time is the charm.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Scene: Wednesday morning. A paperboy rides along the road, a car honks and he waves. He throws the paper on the Halliwell's lawn. Inside the manor.]
Weather Girl: (on TV) Good morning, San Francisco. Well, it looks like it's going to be a beautiful Wednesday in the Bay area.
(Phoebe's on the phone. She turns off the TV.)
Phoebe: Don't tell me. I already know. You spilt marinara sauce on your dress, right? Am I right? Think Piper, think. Doesn't all of this seem awfully familiar to you?
Prue: (Entering the kitchen.) Morning.
Phoebe: Freeze. No, not you, Piper. (Kit's on the bench.) Kit knocks over pepper. Meows. (Kit does so. Prue looks at Phoebe as if to say "how'd you know that?") Hold that thought. Okay, Piper, you need to get home as soon as you can, okay, we've got major demon hunting to do. Oh, and if you run into someone named Joanne from high school, just tell her to go stick it. I will explain later, just hurry.
Prue: Okay, what's going on?
Phoebe: Quick, follow me. (They go to the window.) 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Car honks ... (a car honks) skids ... (a car skids) crashes ... (a car crashes) Mrs. Henderson's car. A little fender bender. Good thing I parked your car in the driveway last night, huh?
Prue: How did you know that?
Phoebe: Because this has all happened once before, Prue, maybe even more than once. The day keeps repeating itself. I know it and every time it happens I think I figure it out just a little faster. It must be my power of premonition. Premonition ... I'm supposed to be having a premonition right about now.
Prue: Supposed to? What do you mean?
Phoebe: The paper. Look at the front page. (She does so.)
Prue: Andy.
Phoebe: Is in trouble. More than you know, Prue. If I touch that paper, I will have a premonition . The same one that I've had before. Where Andy gets killed here by a demon. You have got to believe me.
Prue: No, I believe you. The question is what do we do about it?
Phoebe: Well, you've got to go warn Andy. Keep him away from our house at all costs. Meanwhile, I've got to dig through the Book Of Shadows, find a way to vanquish this time demon before he can kill Andy.
[Scene: In the street outside the clock shop. A cuckoo clock chimes and Rodriguez shoots it with his gun.]
Tempus: You really shouldn't of done that. You shouldn't do anything differently if you want to succeed tonight.
Rodriguez: I will succeed tonight, old man. There'll be no more time loops. This time I'll kill Prue first and then the other two and when they die, they're gonna feel every ounce of pain they've given me and then some.
[Scene: Quake.]
Piper: Uh, Joanne, I'm so sorry, but I can't do this segment right now. Um, something's happened, something bad, I have to go.
Joanne: What? Run out of marinara sauce?
Piper: Look, I know I don't have the flashy job or the flashy ring or the flashy designer suit but that doesn't make me less than you or anybody else. And just because I may not have realized my dreams yet like you think you have, doesn't mean I won't find a way to do exactly that. And when I do, you can be damn sure I'll be doing it with my own nose and not the one some discount doctor gave me.
[Scene: Park.]
Andy: A time loop? You mean demons can actually do that sort of thing?
Prue: None that I've ever seen before but if it is a demon, it's the most powerful one we've ever come up against.
Andy: He's going through all this just to kill me. No way, Prue. If he's as powerful as you say, then he's gotta be after you.
Prue: Andy, please just let us handle this. Whatever you do you have to promise me that you'll stay away from the manor.
Andy: I can't promise you that, Prue. If you're right and Rodriguez is the demon then it's a trap.
Prue: Yeah, then I'll have Piper and Phoebe there to back me up, alright, the power of three.
Andy: What if that's what he wants, all three of you together. What if that's the reason he set the time loop?
Prue: We'll just have to take our chances.
Andy: You could get killed, Prue.
Prue: I mean it. This is not your fight. Don't make me use my magic on you. Andy, I would die if anything happened to you. I love you.
Andy: I love you too, Prue.
(They hug.)
[Scene: Outside manor. Andy's in his car. Rodriguez walks past Kit and Kit growls. Rodriguez's eyes glow red and Kit runs away. Andy sees it and grabs his gun.]
Andy: Oh my God, Prue.
[Inside manor. Phoebe's reading the Book of Shadows.]
Phoebe: The devil's sorcerer, Tempus. He can manipulate time anyway he chooses.
Piper: Does it say how to vanquish him?
Phoebe: Uh, take him out of the time that he's in. What ever that means.
[Rodriguez kicks open the door and throws the lightning stuff at Prue, but Piper pushes her out of the way just in time and they fall to the floor. Andy runs in.]
Andy: No!
(He shoots at Rodriguez and Rodriguez throws lightning stuff at him.)
Phoebe: Andy!
(Andy flies through the air and hits a glass cabinet. Piper freezes Rodriguez.)
Piper: Are you okay?
Phoebe: Yeah, is Prue okay?
Piper: Yeah, she's out cold. (They see Andy and run over to him. Piper feels his pulse.) Oh my God. He's dead.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[Scene: Manor. It's 6:15pm. Rodriguez is tied to a chair.]
Phoebe: The only reason you're still alive is because I haven't worked out how to kill you yet.
Rodriguez: Go ahead. Kill me witch. I don't care.
Piper: Phoebe, what are you doing?
Phoebe: I'm trying to save Andy.
Piper: Andy, Andy's dead, you can't save him, Phoebe.
Phoebe: No? We're in a time loop aren't we? All we have to do is start the day over and Andy lives. And I'm willing to bet that his death somehow triggers the time loop?
Rodriguez: I'm impressed. I was told you wouldn't know that.
Phoebe: Really? By who? Tempus? Yeah, we know about him too. And we also know you're not him otherwise you would of started the day by now. So, where do we find him?
Rodriguez: In your nightmares. Kill me. I dare you.
(Piper pulls Phoebe away.)
Piper: Why is he so willing to let us kill him?
Phoebe: Who cares. If he dies, Andy lives. End of story.
Piper: What if that's exactly his plan? To reset the day and he can kill us all next.
Rodriguez: It doesn't matter. The day's gonna reset itself anyway, there's not a damn thing to do about
Piper: Shut up. Come on, we have to wake Prue.
(They bend now next to Prue.)
Phoebe: Prue. Prue. Come on, we need your help.
Andy's voice: Prue. Prue. Come to me, Prue.
(We enter Prue's dream. She and Andy are there. There's a seat swing surrounded by fog.)
Prue: Andy? What's going on? Where are we?
Andy: I'm not quite sure really. I hoped I'd end up here, but not so soon. One thing I do know is that I'm staying. You're not.
Prue: I don't understand.
Andy: I broke your promise, Prue. I came to your house tonight. Turns out Phoebe's premonition was one you couldn't stop after all. Weren't suppose to stop.
Prue: Wait a minute, Andy, no.
Andy: It's okay, Prue, really, trust me. This is my destiny. I know that now. Yours is to continue on. Everything happens for a reason, remember you taught me that.
Prue: This isn't fair.
Andy: You need to go back. You need to keep the time loop from being reset again or you and your sisters will be killed. And I will have died in vein.
Prue: I'll kill Rodriguez for this.
Andy: No you won't. You're not a murderer, Prue, you're a good person who does good things.
Prue: I don't wanna lose you.
Andy: Don't worry. You won't. (They kiss.) I'll always be there for you, Prue. (He disappears.)
Phoebe's voice: Prue, come one, honey. Prue. Prue.
[Back at the manor.]
Piper: Prue, come on, wake up, sweetie.
(She wakes up. They help her off the floor.)
Phoebe: Easy, easy.
Prue: Where is Andy?
Phoebe: Prue, something terrible has happened.
(She sees Andy lying on the floor with a blanket covering him.)
Prue: Oh my God.
Piper: It all happened so fast, Prue. He ran in the door when Rodriguez attacked. He was trying to save us.
Prue: And he'll succeed. Where's the Book of Shadows?
Phoebe: It's right here. Why?
Prue: Where's the spell that you saw to accelerate time?
Rodriguez: What are you doing?
Phoebe: There.
Rodriguez: What's going on?
Piper: But we don't want to accelerate time, we want to reverse it.
Prue: No we don't, trust me. The only chance that we have to get rid of Tempus is to do this by breaking the time loop, okay.
Phoebe: But if we break the time loop we won't be able to save Andy.
Prue: I know.
Piper: Prue, are you sure?
Prue: No I'm not. (She starts reading the spell.) "Winds of time gather 'round, Give me wings to speed my way ..."
Rodriguez: Wait a minute ...
Prue: "Rush me on my journey forward, let tomorrow be today."
Rodriguez: What's happening?
(The hands on the clock speed around the clock face. Tempus turns into fire and disappears.)
Piper: Prue ...
Prue: You know what, just untie him get him outta here.
Phoebe: What?
Piper: He'll kill us.
Prue: No he won't. He doesn't have the power to kill us, otherwise he wouldn't of needed Tempus.
Phoebe: I will not untie him, Prue.
(Prue uses her power and the ropes untie.)
Prue: Get outta here before I change my mind.
Rodriguez: You stupid witch.
(He walks towards the door but stops. He turns around, his eyes glow red, he throws lightning stuff and Prue uses her powers and the lightning goes back to him. He explodes and turns into dust.0
Prue: We may not be murderers but we're no angels either.
(She walks over to Andy, kneels next to him and starts crying.)
[Scene: Cemetery. Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Morris are there. Prue lays a rose on top of Andy's coffin.]
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[Scene: Manor. Kitchen.]
Weather Girl: Good morning, San Francisco, well it looks like it's going to be a gorgeous Monday morning here in the Bay area. (Phoebe turns off the TV.)
Phoebe: She really needs another shtick. That one's getting boring.
Piper: Maybe she should hire Joanne Hertz, boost the ratings.
Phoebe: Speaking of the she devil herself, did you ever call to reschedule your segment?
Piper: No, I'm not going to.
Phoebe: Why?
Piper: I've decided to quit my job.
Phoebe: What?
Piper: And actually, I owe it all to Joanne. She made me realize that somehow I had forgotten what my dreams were, still are. I always wanted to be a chef and have my own restaurant not manage one. It's a good job and it pays okay but it's not my dream job.
Phoebe: I think that's great. I really do. And don't worry, if you need any help trilling the classifieds I am an expert.
(They walk outside where Prue is sitting on the steps.)
Piper: Prue, are you alright?
Prue: Actually I am. Andy's been exonerated, they are now looking for Rodriguez.
Piper: Good luck.
Phoebe: Hey, are you sure you're alright?
Prue: Yeah. I was just thinking all that we've been through since we became witches.
Rodriguez: Give you a headache?
Prue: No actually, it gave me a good feeling. I mean, look, it's hassle and can sometimes screw up our personal lives.
Piper: Amen to that.
Prue: And we do good things together. Helps offset the bad things.
Phoebe: I'm gonna really miss Andy.
Piper: It's gonna be very sad without him.
Prue: Something tells me that he'll always be with us. We better get ready for work.
Piper: I'll tell her later.
Prue: Tell me what?
Piper: Nothing. It's not important.
Phoebe: Nothing. Nothing. (They walk inside and Prue points at the door and it swings shut.)