(The girls reappear.) (They hug.) I had to give him immunity to your powers in exchange for your lives. Nicholas: You see, twenty-four years ago today, your mother and I made a pact to spare her life, she gave up your future powers to me. Patty: He tried to kill me. Patty: Mother! Patty: The only way to vanquish him in your time would be for me to unless the ring and take away its immunity. Prue: From making a pact with a warlock named Nicholas. Prue: Good, at least we know where he is. Prue: No. That's the day that mum made the pact with Nicholas. Twinkling lights encircle them and they disappear.) We cast a spell to come back in time to help you. You came back for one reason, to break the pact. [Cut to the stairs.
Plan: A: A powerful warlock; Q: What is Nicholas? A: Nicholas; Q: Who is the warlock who shows up to the sisters' mother's funeral? A: the girls' powers; Q: What did Nicholas exchange for the life of the sisters' mother? A: the 1970s; Q: When did the sisters go back in time to prevent the pact? A: the pact; Q: What do the sisters try to prevent? A: Patty; Q: Who breaks the pact with Nicholas? A: the future; Q: Where does Nicholas go after the sisters break the pact? A: their respective abilities; Q: What is Nicholas no longer immune to? A: their late grandmother; Q: Who left a spell for the sisters to use to defeat Nicholas? Summary: A powerful warlock, Nicholas, shows up claiming that he made a pact with the sisters' mother in which he spared her life in exchange for the girls' powers. Fleeing him, the three sisters go back in time to the 1970s when their mother was still alive and they try to prevent the pact. They manage to get Patty to break the pact and return to the future where he is no longer immune to their respective abilities and vanquish him with a very strong spell left for such a purpose by their late grandmother.