Charmed (1998–2006): Season 3, Episode 12 - Wrestling with Demons - full transcript

I don't get it. Who'd want to kill me?

We're not sure. But our sources
believe that your life is in danger.

- Protective...
- "Our sources"?

What is this, government surveillance?
You have people watching me?

Mr. Chang, your picture was
in the Metro section today.

Because I planted some trees.

Mr. Chang, there were four
brutal murders in the last week.

The only common denominator is

the victim's picture was in the Metro
section the day they died.

The mayor's in Metro today.
You guys harassing him?

- Mr. Chang, I am trying to help you.
- I don't have any money or enemies.



Why would anyone want to kill me?
This is crazy.

All right, what do we do if Darryl
can't convince him to lay low?

Well, we follow him, and if a demon
attacks, we kick some Wiccan ass.

Look who's back
and badder than ever.

It feels good to be back.

It's the best way to put this
whole Cole thing behind me.

Yeah, well that's quite a turnaround.

- What do you mean?
- Well, it's just that, I mean,

you know, up until last week,
you were kind of quiet

and not really interested in things
demonic. And now...

I am back. Bad guys, beware.

Too bad we don't know
who the bad guy is.

Yeah, well, at least we know
who his next victim is.

- Hey.
- Hey.



- So did you get anything out of him?
- Just a migraine. That's about it.

So, what, you're just gonna
let him go?

I don't have a choice.
He declined protection.

Phoebe, are you sure he's the guy
you saw get attacked

- in your premonition?
- Oh, yeah.

And it happened at night too,
so we can't just let him go.

All right. Then we need to split up
in teams.

First one to see a demon yells
"vanquish," okay? Come on.

Innocents and alleys.
Don't they ever learn?

Yeah, I know. Come on.

What the hell?

- You again?
- Shut up. Keep your head down.

What happened?
Why did you let him get away?

I know that demon.

I dated that demon.

I think they're lost, Piper. Dead.

No. They're not. Completely.

Piper waters when she's nervous.

There's nothing to be nervous about.
Chang's in protective custody.

No, it's not him. It's the whole
"my boyfriend is a demon" thing.

It kind of hits a nerve with all of us.
And obviously I'm not that upset,

because I'm with Leo,
who is obviously not...

Piper also babbles
when she's nervous.

I resent that. I am expressing
a valid concern

about this continuing issue
in our lives.

What are you babbling about?

You know, if I could freeze
the two of you, I would. Often.

So here's the demon that we're looking
for. Or at least who he used to be.

- Tom Peters.
- Wait, I didn't know you dated

the captain
of the college football team.

- How suburban.
- Yeah, he was a great guy.

I remember Peters. He blew out his
knee three weeks into his rookie year.

- What, about five, six years ago?
- Leo!

There were rumours about gambling
debts and that whole scene.

There's also a missing person's.
It never got closed.

- He just kind of disappeared.
- More like went underground.

I wonder if his mom still lives
in town. Leo!

A woman on a mission?

I guess the captain of the football team
was a bigger deal than we ever knew.

Prue, are you sure we should
pursue this?

Ask Phoebe. It was her premonition.
All right, where on earth is...?

Leo, what took you so long?

I had... Have a situation.

You mean an "us" situation
or a "you" situation?

Don't tell me they changed their
minds about us getting married.

If that is the case, then you can
orb me up there right now...

Babbling.

It has nothing to do with them.
It has to do with me.

I sort of, kind of,
lost the wedding ring.

Got a great ring guy downtown
if you need one.

He doesn't need one. He has a ring,
Mom's ring.

I gave it to him so he could give it back
to me at the perfect romantic moment.

Wow, Leo, you lost Mom's ring.
It's a good thing you're dead already.

I had it in my pocket, Piper.
And all the orbing in and out and...

Your orbs are grass
if you do not find that ring.

All right, hi. Before blood is spilled,
can I just ask a business question?

Is it possible to turn a human
into a demon?

Well, there's rumours. Stories
about demons recruiting humans.

So "join the evil and see
the underworld"?

Kind of. Apparently the demons
go after humans in need

and strike your classic Faustian deal.

But then the humans are forced
into this training academy,

a program that destroys
their humanity.

And turns them into demons.

Right, and when the recruits graduate,
they have to kill an innocent

to seal the demonic conversion
permanently.

Yeah, it's like a gang initiation.

You go out and kill the first person
that you see, and you're in the gang.

Well, that explains
your four random killings.

Maybe it's graduation time
at the academy.

Well, if it is, Tom is one human
that they're not going to demonise.

Prue, how do you know we're
not too late?

If we didn't get there on time
and stop him...

He would have killed an innocent.
It would've been too late.

But we did stop him, so now
we still have time to save him.

I'm gonna go talk to Tom's mother,
see if she knows anything.

Maybe you guys can come up with,
like, a spell to find him or something.

Mr. Kellman, I swear, I can make
this right. I swear it.

I was clear, wasn't I?

I make your problems go away
and you owe me.

Now, did you forget about the last part
of the deal?

I can pay you back, okay?
I just need more time.

More time?

You don't have any more time.

Your debt is due and payable now.

Please.

I'll do anything.

Oh, yes, you will.

I don't have to go over all of this
again with you too, Tom, do I?

Temporary setback.
It won't happen again.

You know, you're not the only one
exposed here.

You got a contract with me,
and I got a contract with The Source,

five full graduates by tomorrow night.

Now, all the others have made
their kills.

What's the problem?

- A witch intervened.
- What?

A witch?

- How the hell did that happen?
- I don't know.

But I wasn't followed. I used every
safeguard I learned in the academy.

Well, she must be tracking
the innocents.

We'll have to get you another one.
But we're running out of time here.

Just kill this one. But do it fast.
Or else there'll be hell to pay.

- Phoebe.
- I don't want to talk about it.

You have to tell them.
You can't wait any longer.

Well, it's not really an easy thing
to drop into conversation.

You know, like, "Your hair looks great.
Cole's not dead. I let him go."

Confession is good for the soul.

Yeah, well how about we skip
the confession part

and go straight to penance, okay?
I will be such a force for good,

the bad guys won't know
what hit them.

You can't pretend it didn't happen,
Phoebe.

Yeah, and I can't change the fact
that it did, Leo.

So if you will excuse me,
I have a demon to vanquish.

And you have a ring to find.

Scrying for witches,
a spell to find a lost love.

But there's nothing in here
about how to find a demon.

Oh, well, probably because they
usually find us.

- Well, there's gotta be a way.
- If there is, Prue will have to find it.

Was there anything in there,
you know, to help Leo find my ring?

We can't just give up. We have to find
this demon before he kills somebody.

Okay, well, do you got a spell?

Maybe.

I'm afraid to ask.

Just something that I thought

that I needed and then decided
that I didn't.

Okay.

It's a lost-and-found spell.

Wow, perfect timing.

Do I want to know what you were
trying to find?

- Cole.
- Cole?

Honey, you were trying to bring
a demon back from the dead?

No.

He's still alive.

- I never really vanquished him.
- I'm sorry...

It's over. He's not coming back,
and I don't want him to either.

Phoebe, you... You let him go?
Are you out of your mind?

He's not after us anymore.
He won't hurt us.

- No, you don't know that.
- Yes, I do.

Piper, I just... I couldn't kill him.

Phoebe, you lied to us.

I know. I'm sorry.

So this is where this new Wonder
Woman attitude comes from?

- A guilty conscience?
- No.

Well, maybe. I don't know.

You have to tell Prue.

- She won't understand.
- Yeah, well, she's not the only one.

He was so fast. His coach said
he could have run track too.

But all Tom cares about is football.

I'm so sorry that we lost touch, but...

...what happened after he got hurt?
- He was depressed. I understood.

So the stories I heard about
his being in trouble?

The gambling rumours?
Don't believe a word of it.

No one ever came to me
looking for money.

Mr. Kellman would've told me
if there was a problem.

- Mr. Kellman?
- His business manager.

He took such good care of Tom.

And he was a wonderful help to me
after Tom went away.

Mrs. Peters, what do you think
happened?

I think Tom has some things
to take care of.

And he'll be home when he can.
I know it in my heart.

My son's a good man.

Guiding spirits, I ask your charity
Lend me your focus and clarity

Lead me to the one I cannot find
Restore that and my peace of mind

Hey, what's all this?

Oh, we're just looking for Tom, you
know, with a little spell that we created.

You created.

Wow, you came up with
the whole ritual that fast?

Actually, not as fast as you
would think.

Thank you. I really appreciate
you guys doing this for me.

She didn't exactly do it for you.

Okay. So, what did Tom's
mother say?

Poor lady. She talks about him
like he's been gone a week,

as opposed to six years. And
she actually thinks he's coming back.

- Based on?
- Faith, and I'd like to prove her right.

Well, we're doing everything we can.

Yeah, and you know what,
we have saved bad boys before.

What about the priest
with the warlock brothers?

Yeah, but, Prue, he wanted
to be saved.

Can you guarantee that about Tom?
Or any other demon-human mix?

This is not about Cole, okay.
That's a whole other subject.

- One worth discussing.
- Am I missing something here?

- Yeah.
- Yes, actually. We're missing Tom.

And he's someone we should probably
continue talking about.

So if this spell works
and we actually find him,

what do we do?
Do we vanquish him?

Well, I'm hoping that
it won't come to that.

Yeah, but what if it does, Prue?

- What was that?
- You changing the subject.

All right, since when did they start

delivering newspapers
in the afternoon?

Since they started taking out
all the pictures.

It's a pretty cool spell,
if I do say so myself.

Yeah, except what is it telling us?

Oh, that Claudia Gibson will discuss
the mayor's position

on Net News Live today at 2:00,
which is ten minutes ago.

- Our next innocent?
- Yes, and Tom's next victim.

- The keys.
- Thanks, come on.

Jacket.

Well, we didn't bring a vanquish,
but if we throw him into the street,

- that might do the trick.
- We are not gonna vanquish him.

- Prue, he almost killed that woman.
- Almost, but didn't.

All right, we need to get him home.

Wha...? Our home?

You're voluntarily bringing a demon
back to our home?

- Did you find anything yet?
- Not yet.

Well, while we're waiting, this would be
a good time to discuss something.

- Oh, phone. Piper will get it.
- Nope. Machine, remember?

- Leo was right.
- About what?

About the demonic training academy.
It's right here in the Book.

- Really?
- "A brutal training program

which destroys humanity and renders
the subject demonic."

All right, so if Tom
is completely demonic,

he'll have a brand on his arm
with six chevrons.

He's only got five.

Good. That means
he's not fully converted.

We better vanquish him
while we can.

You know, when Cole
was the hybrid in question,

- you were all about saving him.
- Excellent point.

- Yes, well, I learned from my mistake.
- And which mistake was that?

Believing that I could save a demon.

Well, like I said before,
this is different.

Tom, look at me.

Do you remember me from college?

Does that mean he remembers you
or that he doesn't?

- What is going on down there?
- Why don't you guys go and find out.

- And leave you alone with him?
- I can handle him. It's okay.

- Got Tom's file.
- We got Tom.

Rasputin, get off of the...
Get.

- Rasputin?
- You got a dog?

No, that's our gram's dog.
And he's been lost for...

Seven years, Phoebe.

Okay, so there's one small side effect.
We can handle that.

Why is the answering machine
not picking up?

I cast a little spell.

The less I know, the happier I am.

Hello? An old friend of Prue's.
Okay. Let me get a pencil.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Call back again soon.

What is it? What did you find?

Lost friends, Mom's ring.
And your brown hair.

Oh, yeah.

I did not want my brown hair back.
I wanted to keep that lost.

You were a blond
when you answered the door.

- How did it change?
- Well, it must be

because I coloured my hair
in that sink.

So technically I lost it there,
and now I found it again.

I hope this doesn't affect
my virginity.

Wait, so everything is coming back
to where it was lost?

That means you lost your...

Okay, so it's a big side effect.

Those better be clean.
If not, it's laundry day for you, missy.

You don't scare me. I've been trained
to deal with witches.

I'd forgotten how proud you were
when we knew each other.

I've forgotten you completely.

You don't want to tell me
what happened

because you won't admit
how badly you screwed up.

I didn't.

It's obvious. While you were still
human, you were stupid enough

- to enter into some demonic contract.
- I was never human.

You had to have been. Otherwise you
wouldn't have made it to the academy.

Yes, I know about the academy.
I know about the chevrons.

I also know that you haven't killed
your innocent yet.

I will.

You'll have to get past me first.

Kellman will kill us both if I don't.

Kellman?

Tom, I know who you are,
the person that you were, all right?

And I know that somewhere in there,
it still exists.

Look, Tom, this is who you are,
all right?

This is who your mother is waiting for.

Vanquish me...

...or I will kill you, witch.

Neither is going to happen, all right?
I'm going to save you from yourself,

whether you like it or not.

Okay, so I think I have an idea for...
Whoa.

Yeah, my lost-and-found spell's
a little too enthusiastic.

We're finding stuff all over the house.
It's endless.

I don't mean to sound paranoid,
but after all these years,

I think I've earned that right.

How do you know your spell won't find
demons you've already vanquished?

- Oh, you mean like Belthazor?
- Okay, one demon at a time.

- Did you get anything on Tom?
- Just his missing person's file.

All right, anything on a man
named Kellman?

- What was that?
- That would be Tom escaping.

- What?
- Yeah, I loosened his ropes.

I'm hoping to track him down
to the demon that turned him.

Break him, break his hold on Tom.

Anything you can get me on Kellman,
I'd appreciate, okay?

- All right, I guess we're going now.
- Shouldn't we reverse this spell first?

- All right, you ready?
- Ready for what?

To save him.

- Where did he go?
- It doesn't make any sense.

If he could vanish,
he would've done it before.

I got a bad feeling about this.

It's not just about strength.

Identify the primary weakness,
capitalise on it, zero in and crush him.

I have good news, Mr. Kellman.

- You killed the innocent.
- Better.

I can deliver you three witches.

Witches? I don't care about witches.

I care about deadlines!
Yours and mine.

You know, if I weren't running
out of time, I'd have you...

Is that humanity I'm sensing
from you?

Now, how did that come back?

That was supposed to be drummed
out of you by now.

You need a refresher course.

This is weird. So Kellman poses
as a human, and then what,

gives athletes a way out
of their problems?

Yeah, a demonic way out.

What about your
lost-and-found spell?

Do you think that you could rewrite it
to find Tom?

Maybe. How about:

Show me the path that I cannot find
To save Tom

And restore Prue's peace of mind

Way to go, Pheebs.

No, wait. I want him to watch.

- Oh, yeah.
- Come here.

You want your mama? Say it.
You want your mama?

Remind me again
why we are doing this.

Because your sisters have a thing
for saving bad boys.

If I die before I get married, I'm gonna
be really mad at the two of you.

Oh, God.

Okay, I'd still like to point out

that I have a really bad feeling
about this.

- What the...?
- Oh, no.

I'm the man.

Next!

Tom.

Okay.

- Tom.
- Hey! Hey! Hey! Are you nuts?

Come on, Tommy.

Maybe we need to go back up top
and rethink this whole thing.

You know, that would be
a great plan

if Tom weren't seconds away
from annihilation.

Okay, so we're supposed to risk
our lives to save a demon?

Of course, it's okay now that
it's your demon, right?

The thing is, isn't it silly
for the three of us

to sacrifice ourselves for one guy?
Whatever kind of guy he was?

That's what a demon is, little man!

All right, what kind of witches would
we be if we started playing the odds,

if we started picking
and choosing our innocents?

This is what we do, isn't it?

- Then let's do it.
- Okay.

- But...
- Just go. Tom!

Your little parlour tricks may work
on some of the newer boys,

but the rest of us will
be a little tougher.

Man, you can't do that around here.

I can't sense the girls anywhere,
which is never good.

Do you know where they might be?

They were tailing their demon,
hoping he would lead them to his...

...bigger demon.
- Do they know who that is?

Prue asked me to check
on a manager named Kellman.

He paid all of Tom's bills
after he disappeared, but...

He could be a recruiter.
Do you have an address?

You think Kellman's a demon?

Well, what kind of powers
do you think we should expect?

Oh, see, okay. Now, that ain't right.

You girls are way out of your league
down here.

You have no idea.

Well, we know that you have
a deadline, Mr. Kellman.

Time to deliver your recruits?

And you think you can stop me, huh?
Think you can save him?

I kind of admire that
level of arrogance.

Thanks. We kind of like to think
of it as confidence.

Well, get over it. He's lost.

I made a deal.

I stand by it.

Now, you see that? Now that's
what I call a quick recovery.

Knocked the humanity
right out of him.

And we got a perfect kill for him too.

Not if we put him on ice.

Kind of hard to make him
kill an innocent now, huh?

- Unfreeze him.
- Nope.

If anything happens to me,
he's gonna stay that way.

- Is that true?
- Yes.

- You're bluffing.
- Are we?

I'm listening.

All right. How about three witches
in exchange for Tom's soul?

- Prue.
- If we win, we get Tom back.

If we lose, you get Tom
and the three of us.

Risk one to gain four.

You really think you can win
in the ring?

Well, we don't really have
much of a choice.

But if we do win, we don't go into
the training program, we go free.

Did your homework.

Okay, you got a deal.

You win, you go free.
But if you lose...

...you die.

I can't control what happens
in the ring, only The Source can.

Understood.

Hey. You know that bad feeling I was
talking about? It's getting stronger.

All right, you need to stay here
and keep Tom frozen.

I hate this crappy freezing power!

Our powers seem to have
a limited effect on these guys,

so we're gonna outmanoeuvre them.

And outsmart them and keep our
shoulders off the mat. Piece of cake.

So I guess we're as ready as
we're ever gonna be.

- Prue, there's one more thing.
- Now?

- Now is your perfect moment?
- Piper, we might die in there.

That doesn't mean
you should tell her now.

Okay, tell me what?

Cole is still alive.

- I never really vanquished him.
- What?

By the way, since you're witches,

I think it's only fair
that I even the playing field.

Look at this face!
This is the face of pain!

And I'm the bringer of pain!
And I'm gonna destroy you!

You'll be crying for mercy!

But I don't know
the meaning of the word!

All right. People think
this is entertainment.

Prue.

- Are we okay?
- Not by a long shot.

Look, Phoebe, if you waited
till now to tell me about Cole

in hopes that we would die
and you wouldn't have to deal with me,

you have another thing coming.

I think that went well.

All right, I'm going to win this fight
and save your ass.

That way I can kick it myself later.

Hi.

Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Wow!

Okay. Oh, God.

Oh, God!

Come on, do something, get angry!
Focus, get motivated!

Prue, listen to me.
She lied to you.

Bigtime! Bigtime lying to you!

Come on, get angry! Come on.

Or else we're in big, deep...

Phoebe, she thinks you're a weakling,
like, bigtime sucker for love.

Oh, God!

Piper!

- Called your bluff.
- Piper!

Let's go see how Mom's doing,
shall we?

Slammer. Yeah, baby.

Say good night!

Prue!

Prue!

- Thank you!
- All right, we have to save Piper.

- How do we do that?
- By kicking ass.

All right. One. Two. Three.

- Anybody else want a piece of this?
- It looks really bad.

- I don't know if we'll make it to Leo.
- Yeah, we will. Come on.

- Leo!
- What happened?

Hurry, I think she stopped breathing.

It's working.

Okay, not that I'm not
thrilled to see you,

but what are you doing here, Leo?

I was looking for you.
I thought I'd start with Kellman.

- He's the recruiter.
- I figured.

The Elders think the key
to destroying him

is to turn one of his recruits
against him.

So first we have to figure out
a way to save Tom.

All right, so I'll call Morris, get him
to bring Tom's mom to the manor.

Then we just have to figure out a way
to get Tom there.

You want them in the same house?

Yeah, she's gotta be the key
to saving him.

Otherwise, why would Kellman
want Tom to kill her?

Okay, well, maybe I can
figure out a way

to tweak
the lost-and-found spell again.

Lure him to the house.
After all, Tom's a lost soul, right?

- Is she gonna be okay?
- Yeah. Go, I'll take of Piper.

- You sure?
- Yeah.

Maybe we should
talk about this first.

We'll have to figure out
how to take out Kellman on the way.

- That's not what I mean.
- Now's not really the time, Phoebe.

Prue, what if we don't have
any other time?

Look, we may not be able
to defeat Kellman.

- We could lose.
- We won't lose.

How do you know that, Prue?

All you want to do is save Tom,
which is all I wanted to do for Cole.

Okay, Phoebe, don't try
and turn this around on me.

I'm not the one who kept secrets
from you.

Prue, I didn't tell you because
I knew you wouldn't understand.

- You hated Cole.
- No, I didn't trust him, and I was right.

- You never gave him a chance.
- He didn't deserve a chance.

Oh, and what makes Tom
deserve a chance?

He started out good,
he didn't start out trying to kill us.

Can we talk about this later?

Hey.

Guess what? I found Mom's ring.

Mrs. Peters? Inspector Morris,
San Francisco P.D.

Tom?

What was that?
What are those noises?

I'm not quite sure.

Thanks for coming, Mrs. Peters.

- But I don't understand.
- You will soon. Any sign of Kellman?

No, but there are plenty
of other signs.

Seems like some lost souls
were found.

Yeah, we need
to reverse the spell quick.

Where's Tom?

- Tom!
- No!

- How did you?
- Because we're not done with you yet.

I told you it was too late
to save Tom.

But thank you for leading us
to the victim.

Kill her, Tom.

All right, Tom, listen to me.
Look at your mother.

All right, remember what it felt like
to be human.

Remember what it feels like
to be loved.

Prue, we're about to have other
problems from other worlds.

Tom, help me.

Kill her, damn it!

- What the hell is happening?
- I think there are some lost souls

welcoming a new friend.
Get rid of them.

I return what I didn't want to find
Let it be out of sight, out of mind

Mom.

- Mom, I'm so sorry.
- Oh, Tommy.

It's all right. Everything's all right.

I guess some guys
are worth saving after all.

Isn't that beautiful?

Yes, and it's right where it belongs.

So is Tom, by the way,
at home with his mom.

And I got Rasputin back
to the family he was living with.

So maybe the spell wasn't
such a bad thing after all.

Are you kidding?
We're gonna have to have

huge garage sales every Saturday
for, like, the next three months

to get rid of the stuff
that came back.

Yeah, and who knows what trouble
may be caused

if those lost souls
had stayed around.

Okay, okay, I will fix it.

You guys go and have a nice dinner.

So now everything's back to normal.

- What about your hair?
- I'm tempted to keep it.

But I don't know,
I think the blond's coming back.

Is anything else?

No.

You were right about Tom.

And I was wrong about Cole.

I'm sorry.

And you think that just takes
care of it? "I'm sorry"?

No, well, obviously
an apology doesn't fix it.

But I'm not stupid, Prue.
I know that I made a bad choice.

A choice that betrayed us.

I didn't do it to betray you, Prue.

I did it out of love.

Right. Love. Love that
almost got all of us killed.

You wanted to save Tom after,
I don't know, how many years?

Why can't you understand
how I felt about Cole?

Phoebe, what I don't understand
is how you could have lied to us.

Piper, me. A lie that still poses
a threat to all three of us.

Where do we go from here?

I don't know.