[Scene: Manor. Kitchen. Prue and Piper are making a potion. There are ingredients everywhere. Piper puts something in a pot and a flame shoots up.]

Piper: Okay, even if this works, we still have to find Belthazor.

Prue: Well, I have an idea how to do that but first things first. Cockles.

Piper: Cockles?

Prue: They're over by the crickets.

Piper: And what exactly are they?

Prue: Small leaping insects that chirp.

Piper: That's funny. I meant the cockle shells, not the crickets.

Prue: I'm not really sure but as long as they help vanquish Belthazor that's all I really care about.

Piper: It would be nice to get back to our lives such as they were.

Prue: Pigs feet.

Piper: Yecchh.

Prue: Yecchh?

Piper: Yecchh.

Prue: So you can slice up a chunk of demon flesh but you can't touch pigs foot.

Piper: I'm a vegetarian.

Prue: Since when?

Piper: Since now.

Prue: Now is not the time to get squeamish, okay. This recipe is very important. We have to follow it to a tee. (Prue puts a pigs foot in the pot and another flame shoots up.) Ooh!

Piper: Poor piggy.

Prue: Uh, everything's in there, we just need to get the slice of Belthazor flesh and we're good to go. Let's test it. Pheebs?

Piper: Something tells me she's not in a vanquishing mood.

Prue: Why not?

Piper: She's worried about Cole. She hasn't heard from him in over a week.

Prue: And that's a bad thing?

Piper: Prue.

Prue: You know what? I don't like him and I don't trust him. And is has nothing to do with being a greasy lawyer either.

(Phoebe walks in.)

Phoebe: Greasy what?

Piper: Uh, greasy layer. There's a greasy layer on this potion.

Prue: Too much mandrake.

Piper: Okay, uh, what do you say we do this incantation.

Phoebe: Anything to get rid of Belthazor before Cole gets back. And he is coming back.

Piper: Okay.

Prue/Piper/Phoebe: "Spirits of air, forests and sea, set us of this demon free; beasts of hoof and beasts of shell, drive this evil back to hell."

(The potion bubbles.)

Phoebe: Uh-oh, didn't work.

Prue: No, you forgot the Belthazor flesh.

Piper: Oh yes.

Phoebe: How can we forget the Belthazor flesh?

(Piper gets the flesh out of the fridge.)

Prue: Is it just slack or...?

Piper: Give me a second, lady. Alright, ready? (She puts the flesh in the pot and it explodes. Piper falls to the ground.)

Phoebe: Piper!?

(They help her up.)

Prue: Are you alright?

Piper: It's the attack of the killer pigs feet. Remind me to step back next time.

[Scene: Cemetery. People are there attending a funeral.]

[Cut to a grave. Belthazor falls to the ground and leans against a headstone. He is hurt. He gets up and stumbles over to a mausoleum. He leaves a spot of blood on the headstone.]

[Cut back to the grave. A demon (Krell) appears and wipes the blood off of the headstone. He smells it and looks around. He sees the door of the mausoleum close.]

[Cut inside the mausoleum. Belthazor is hiding in there. Krell walks in.]

Krell: You know what I am, Belthazor. You know you can't escape from me know that you can't shimmer anymore. You'd be pleased, the bounty on you was determined by the source himself. A reflection no doubt of your triumphs and your betrayals. You're wounded, powerless, think of your legacy, Belthazor. I as a legend, not a coward.

(Belthazor runs towards the door. Krell sees him and tries to zap him. Belthazor zaps a column and it falls near the demon. Belthazor runs outside. He changes back into Cole, then back to Belthazor, then back into Cole. Cole walks over to the people who attended the funeral. Krell walks out of the mausoleum.)

Cole: (to a woman) Mind if I hitch a ride?

Woman: Are you going to the wake?

Cole: Yeah, yeah, sure.

Woman: Come on.

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[Scene: Manor. Prue comes down the stairs. Phoebe walks into the foyer.]

Prue: Hey.

Phoebe: I'll be back.

Prue: Um, where you going?

Phoebe: I am going to school (they go into the living room) and then I'm going to Cole's.

(Phoebe puts some books in her bag.)

Prue: Okay, aren't you forgetting something? Like vanquishing Belthazor?

Phoebe: Wait, I though you had to write a spell to summon him first.

Prue: Yes, and it's done. I'm using the one that we called Melinda from the past with, just re-wrote it a little bit.

Phoebe: Really? Think it'll work?

Prue: Well, yeah, I mean, it should. It's magic calling magic. Although in this case dark magic. Phoebe, why are you going to Cole's again? I mean, what do you really expect to find?

Phoebe: Mmm, actually, I was gonna go to his office. And how do you know I've already been to Cole's?

Prue: Well, you got a parking ticket there yesterday when you borrowed my car.

Phoebe: Oops, sorry, I'll pay for it.

Prue: Phoebe, that's not the point. Look, please, don't take this out on me, alright. I'm not the bad guy.

Phoebe: I know, I would just like some understanding, you know, some support here.

Prue: Look, I can't support you when I think you're just setting yourself up to get hurt. I have to be honest with you, we have to be honest with each other. That's the promise we made when Belthazor tried to split us apart, remember?

Phoebe: Yeah, it just doesn't help that you never really liked Cole from the beginning.

Prue: Yeah, well, I mean, you never really like any of my boyfriends either.

Phoebe: That's very true.

Prue: I'm sorry, alright. This is your call and not mine.

(Piper walks in.)

Phoebe: Thank you.

Piper: Okay, are we gonna do this or what?

Prue: Uh, we are, Phoebe's not.

Phoebe: Are you sure?

Prue: Yeah, yeah, go to Cole's. It's fine. Uh, we don't need the power of three to vanquish, just the potion.

Piper: Okay, well, why don't you take this in case.

(She hands Phoebe the potion.)

Phoebe: Okay, just you guys no more whispering, okay. It's hard enough for me to know that Cole's keeping secrets from me. I can't take it from you too.

(She leaves.)

[Scene: An alley. Cole is there. He has his hand pressed against his wound. He leans against the wall and takes of his coat. He unbuttons his shirt and pulls a rag off his wound. He takes off his shirt and tries to rip it in half. He can't so he changes into Belthazor and rips the shirt in half. He holds part of the shirt against his wound. A homeless man walks around the corner and Belthazor runs away. The homeless man walks over to where Cole dropped his coat and picks it up.]

[Scene: Manor. Dining room. Prue and Piper are there. They tip the dining table onto its side.]

Piper: This is gonna be messy.

Prue: That's why we scotch guard. (Prue hands Piper the potion.) You ready?

Piper: I'm ready as I'll ever be.

Prue: Alright.

(They crouch down behind the table.)

Prue, Piper: "Magic forces black and white, reaching out through space and light, be he far or be he near, bring us the demon Belthazor here."

(It gets windy.)

Piper: It's working.

Prue: Alright, you ready?

Piper: Uh-huh.

Prue: On three.

Prue, Piper: 1, 2, 3.

(Krell appears and they throw the potion at him.)

Piper: There's no boom. Why is there no boom?

Prue: I don't know.

Krell: Stupid witches.

Prue: He's not... (He tries to zap them and puts a huge hold in the table.) Ooh, you know what? That is an antique!

(Prue uses her power and he flies towards the grandfather clock. Piper freezes him in mid-air.)

Piper: Not the clock! We can't afford to keep fixing that thing. (They walk over to him.) Unless Belthazor can morph, that is definitely not him.

Prue: Alright, that doesn't make sense. How did we get the wrong demon? Hey, do you think that you could just unfreeze his head? That way we could ask.

Piper: His head?

Prue: Yeah, his head.

Piper: Why not? (Piper unfreezes his head.) That's different.

Prue: That's cool.

(They giggle.)

Krell: What did you do to me?

Prue: Uh, hi, you know what? You're sort of frozen in mid-air therefore we'll be asking the questions, okay? Who are you?

Krell: Someone who's gonna butcher you if you don't unfreeze me right now.

Piper: Okay. (Piper unfreezes him and he crashes into the grandfather clock. Prue gives her a look.) What? It was worth it.

(They go over to him and Prue puts her foot on his chest.)

Prue: Alright, you start talking or we start the bonus round.

Krell: I am Krell, a Zotar.

Prue: Hi, I'm Prue, a Scorpio. Where's Belthazor?

(He pushes Prue's leg off his chest and Prue and Piper back away. Krell stands up.)

Krell: Wait, don't. I won't attack if you don't. I'm a bounty hunter. I track fugitive demons and it looks like we're after the same one.

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[Scene: Outside Cole's office. Phoebe walks up to the door, looks around and then walks inside. She sees someone sitting in Cole's chair facing the wall.]

Phoebe: Cole? (The chair spins around and a man is sitting in it.) Oh, I'm so sorry, I was just looking for Cole Turner.

Man: Well, that's alright, so am I. (He gets out of the chair and walks over to Phoebe.) Reese Davidson. DA Bureau of Investigations. (He shows her his badge.) And you are?

Phoebe: Phoebe.

Reese: Phoebe? Is that like Cher or Madonna, or do you have a last name?

Phoebe: No, of-of course. Uh, Halliwell. Phoebe Halliwell. Is Cole okay?

Reese: How do you know him?

Phoebe: You didn't answer my question.

Reese: I know. Look, I have no idea if he's alright or not. That's what I'm trying to figure out. Nobody's heard from his since Monday. Are you his girl?

Phoebe: Yeah, I'm his girl.

Reese: Well, did he mention anything to you about what he was doing? Where he was going?

Phoebe: No. A couple of weeks ago he had a suitcase packed but he said his plans had changed.

Reese: What plan?

Phoebe: I don't know. Uh, something about a big case that he was working on.

Reese: Hmm... (He picks up a folder.) Now, according to his filing he hasn't been working on a case, big or small. Not for a couple of months. All he's done is file extensions. Makes you wonder what he's been doing with himself. Well, if you think of anything that might help, (he hands her his card) call me okay. Okay?

Phoebe: Yeah.

(She leaves.)

[Scene: Manor. Conservatory. Prue, Piper and Krell are there.]

Krell: I should've known better then to underestimate him. I thought that because Belthazor couldn't shimmer, his other powers were useless as well.

Piper: So you don't have the power to vanquish him?

Krell: Obviously not. Otherwise I wouldn't have needed to intercept your little calling card, now would I?

Piper: Hey, you know what? How about next time I just freeze your head and then maybe I could kick you in the--

Prue: Alright, uh, so Belthazor was sent by the triad to kill us. How do we know that you weren't sent by them too?

Krell: You're joking, right? I don't believe this. You really don't know? You're Whitelighter must really be sleeping on the job.

Piper: Hey, now wait a minute, pal.

Prue: Piper. What don't we know?

Krell: Belthazor killed the triad. That's why he's on the run, that's why I'm here.

Prue: Why would he do that?

Krell: Probably because they were going to kill him. For failing to kill you. Ironically his inability to shimmer saved him from you killing him.

Prue: So instead we got you.

Krell: Believe me, just the thought of working with you turns my stomachs.

Piper: Stomachs?

Krell: But right now I'm more interested in killing Belthazor than witches.

Piper: Hmm.

Krell: Like it or not, we need each other. You can't find him without me, I can't vanquish him without your potion.

Prue: So then you know where he is?

Piper: Prue, you can't be seriously considering this.

Prue: Answer the question.

Krell: I can track his scent, his blood, when he's in his demonic form not his human one. Fortunately, he can't maintain his human self for long, especially wounded. It drains him.

Piper: Uh, hi, could you come here, over here, please? (Prue goes over to Piper.) We’ve tried working with demons before, it was a bad idea then. And it’s definitely a bad idea now.

Prue: (to Krell) We’ll let you know.

Krell: No, you’ll let me know now. (silence) Think fast. Belthazor won’t stop trying to kill you. Only the heads of the charmed ones will convince the source to spare him.

(He disappears)

Prue/Piper: Leo!

[Scene: Outside Cole’s apartment. Phoebe knocks on the door.]

Phoebe: Cole? Cole, are you in there? ( A neighbour pokes her head out of her apartment.) Oh, sorry. (The neighbour goes back inside. Phoebe sees drops of blood on the carpet leading to Cole’s apartment. She opens his door.) Cole? Hello?

(She walks inside. She sees more drops of blood leading into his bathroom.)

[Cut inside the bathroom. Belthazor is there standing behind the door.]

[Cut back to Phoebe.]

Phoebe: Cole? (She walks into the bathroom and sees Cole putting on a shirt. She gets a fright. She sees his wound.) Cole.

Cole: You really shouldn’t be here.

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[Scene: Cole’s apartment. His bedroom.]

Phoebe: Okay, Cole. Come on, lay down. (He lays down on the bed.) Lay down. Easy. Are you okay?

Cole: Do I look okay?

Phoebe: I’m sorry. Okay, let’s see how bad this is.

Cole: No, no, don’t.

Phoebe: Believe me, I’ve seen worse, Cole.

(She goes to take off the bandage  but he grabs her wrist.)

Cole: I said don’t. Please.

Phoebe: We’ve got to get you to the hospital.

Cole: It’s not safe there, they’ll find me.

Phoebe: Who will find you? What’s going on? Who’s after you. There was somebody looking for you today at your office. An investigator.

(He sits up.)

Cole: You didn’t tell him anything did you?

Phoebe: I don’t know anything.

Cole: What did he look like? You sure he wasn’t a de-- A?