PRUE: Whoa! What did you buy? Doodie. We weren't out of that. Ha ha ha. No, I stepped in it. Again. That man has turned our front walk into a puppy mine field. I cannot believe that guy still lets his dog do his business right in front of our house. Uh, well, we've left notes. And gotten nowhere. Yeah, well, I've had it. The next time I catch him in the act,... I'm gonna give him a piece of my mind. DOG BARKS That couldn't be. Oh, I hope it is. That's them. That's the guy and his dog... I can't believe it. That is so rude. He's just gonna walk away. Then don't let him. Use your magic. Huh? Well, if you can't teach the dog new tricks,... how about the owner? Just think of the money we'd save... on carpet cleaning alone. Phoebe, we can't use our magic... just to teach him or anybody else a lesson. Why not? It's for the greater good. I mean... I mean that's our job, right? Think of it as community service. We'd be doing the whole block a favour. Come on. Unh. OK, Piper. Hope he's not out of my range. Prue. Nice shot. An eye for an eye,... a shoe for a shoe. Ohhh! Duck! Did he see you? So what if he did? What's he gonna do, cry witch? Well, we've done our good deed for the day. I think I deserve 15 minutes of channel surfing. Who wants coffee? I'll grind. Ahhh. TV: ...and Cal Greene tied a record... by smashing his sixth grand slam of the year today. (SIGHS) Aaah! Phoebe, are you OK? Take a deep breath, honey. It's all right. No, it's not. I saw my future. I was being executed. Burned alive. (ROCK MUSIC) Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air. www.able.co.nz Able 2022 Why would a report about a baseball player... trigger a premonition like that? I don't know. All I know is that I could feel it. I could feel the fire. And we were just standing there? That can't be right. That's what I saw. There's no way that we would let that happen,... not in the past, present, or future. What did I do? Or what is it that I'm going to do? DOORBELL RINGS PIPER: I'll get that. Hey, stranger. Oh, is that what I am now? Mm-hmm. Playing hooky? Well, they're making me work tonight,... so I've got the afternoon off. Mm, the old 'gotta save the world' excuse again? Uh-huh. I've never had to use it. Uh... You're about to use it. Well, there's just something I have to do. Maybe you could... Now? Uh, Leo? It's OK, um... You go. There's actually something... I have to take care of. Well, we really need to talk about things,... you know, about where we stand. Yeah, we do. Rain check? That's what we do best. I hate when he does that. You didn't ask him what we should do? He had to fly, literally. The pages were doing that flipping thing on their own again. It's a spell to take us to the future. PIPER: Two, actually. One to send us... and one to bring us home,... but apparently, we only get one shot. Once we use it, they disappear. Wait a minute, you guys. We almost died going back to the past. This is not something that you just do. We're talking about your life, Phoebe. And I'm talking about yours, Prue. I'm just saying, I think we should... think this over a little bit. Look, you had that premonition today for a reason. It must mean that we're supposed... to do something about it,... and going to the future might be the only way... to find out what you did to put you on that pyre. How do you know it's something that I did? I mean, it might be a demon... or a warlock that puts me there. Do you really want to wait to find out? OK, pack your bags. We go, try and figure out what happened,... and hopefully come back with enough information to stop it. We're gonna need a date, Phoebe. Uh... February 12, 2009. That's 2 weeks before the date. I saw my premonition. All right, that should give us more than enough time to figure out what put you there. I wonder how I look. Piper, you look great,... but this is hardly the time to` Not now. In the future. When we went back to the '70s, we saw ourselves as kids,... and now we'll be seeing ourselves... walking around 10 years older? All the vanquishing... think of the wear and tear. OK. Hear these words, hear the rhyme,... we send to you this burning sign. Then our future selves we'll find,... In another place and time. Mommy, Mommy, Mommy! TV ON LOW VOLUME Uh... y-y-you,... I think you have the wrong house. Certainly, the wrong mommy. Stop fooling. Eeh. Carpool! Ooh. Oh! Oh. Phoebe. Where's the volume? Huh? ...execution of Phoebe Halliwell coming up in just a moment. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming,... MTV'S Real World 18, on the moon. Mom, I'm gonna be late! Today in Sunnydale, a tornado's... Uh, OK. ...stalked downtown... Uh, TV, shut up. ...during the noontime rush.. Mute. Something. Morning, Piper. You all right? I guess. Yeah, it, uh, with your sister,... it's rough, I know. So, don't worry about your little one. I'll get her from school like you asked,... but, uh, are you sure you want me... to take her to your ex's? Ex? As in husband? As in mine? Yes. Yes, if that is what I told you, then yes. So, you and he are getting along better now? Maybe. Prue? Prue? OK, kiddo. Let's hit the road. WHISPERS: Don't worry, Mommy. I promise I'll do as you ask. I won't use my magic again, ever. PRUE: Hey, hey... hey, people... Hey, enough, people. Stop touching me. Stay. Stay. Stay. Prue, what's going on? I don't know, but I could really get used to it. I mean, check me out. I don't just work at Buckland's, I own it,... and three more... Paris, Tokyo, and London. And you're blonde. Yeah. Strange. Wait. You had time to go to work already? Well, actually, I woke up there,... but it was amazing. I had all these assistants in this huge office,... and I have a chauffeur, and he's so totally hot. Ooh. How'd you do? (LAUGHS) Is that a good thing or...? Well, if you ignore my apparently failed marriage,... the fact that I'm still living in the manor` Wait. You were married? Was. My daughter is on her way... Wait. Stop right there. You have a daughter? Yeah. And, and, and, and... she's, she's beautiful. Of course she is. What's her name? Oh, God. I don't know. But, Prue, she, she has powers,... but for some reason, I told her not to use them. Why would I do that? Well, speaking of why,... Why are we in our future bodies? I mean, I thought that we were just supposed to come here and see them. Well, apparently going to the past isn't the same as going to the future. I just wish that since we are in our future bodies,... we could have some memory of what's happened... in the last 10 years, like how I got a daughter? OK, wait a second. If I'm in my future body,... and you are in your future body,... then that means that Phoebe... Oh, TV. Louder, louder. ...back to countdown to execution. We're less than eight hours away now... until the burning of Phoebe Halliwell,... the witch accused of murdering Cal Green six months ago. Eight hours? We were supposed to be here two weeks before! Shh! Let's go there now, live, where Sierra Stone is standing by. Sierra? San Francisco District Attorney Nathanial Pratt,... whose discovery of the witch last August... has made him an early favourite for the Governor's seat,... just came out to make a statement. Let's listen in. This is a reflection... of our citizens' resolve... to ferret out the hidden evil,... to turn fear into fight,... and to band together as one... to cleanse our city... of its greatest threat. Tonight, Phoebe Halliwell... will burn for her crime,... and when she does,... let that be a warning to other witches out there. You're next. Oh, surprise. Here we go, up the stairs, into the attic,... grabbing The Book Of Shadows. Please tell me we're still not gonna be doing this in 10 years. Apparently not. What? The book is gone. It's got to be here. We need it to find the return spell. Prue... Piper, just help me look for it. OK, relax. We'll find it. You don't know that. I mean, what if it's lost. What if we can't find it. Then we're stuck in our future bodies... with no way of getting out of them and no way of saving Phoebe. Ooh. Been working out? Well, I guess that's a little sample what 10 years does to our powers. And to our attic. A key. It's the key to my wall safe at Buckland's. Do you think that means it's there? We've never taken the book out of the house before. Yeah, we haven't, but maybe our future selves have. The question is why? We don't even know what we're like in this time, Prue,... let alone what we think. But if the book is at Buckland's, maybe it'll give us some answers. All right, then we go there first, then to Phoebe to see if she's all right. Sorry about the mess. Mm-hmm. PHOEBE: Hello? Hello? Could somebody please answer me? I really need to talk to someone. OK, how about a snack? Maybe some crackers, peanuts? Something... a tray full of goo? Hey! Wait a minute! ZZZ Don't I even get a phone call? < Shut up, witch. I can't believe you get a limo and a driver,... and I've still got my same old car. You have a husband. Had a husband, you mean. I'm getting divorced, remember? And how do you know you don't have a guy in this time? After all, I have a kid and an ex. You could have several. EXs? No. Kids. We're in the future,... but with no memory of the past 10 years. I don't even know who my ex-husband` Aahh! OK, apparently my power isn't the only one that's grown. You just froze... Everything. What a difference a decade makes. What the hell are you doing?! Leo, I'm so glad you're here. I have so many` Uh, what's wrong? I knew you'd do something stupid like this. Use your magic in public? What's the matter with you, are you insane? - Uh, Leo... - Remember, he thinks we know what's going on. You want to end up like your sister? Huh? We had an agreement. No magic for Melinda's sake. Melinda? Our daughter! What's wrong with you? Our daughter? Wait a second. You're Piper's ex? Ohh! W-wiiiitch! O-OK. What is going on here? Oh, Prue. Help! Wiiiiitch! All right, hurry. We gotta get out of here before they see you. They? The witch hunters. Prue? Piper? MAN: They haven't been to visit you before. Why would they come now? No. They're gonna be as happy to get rid of you as I am. Who are you? I'm sorry. It's been so long since our last visit. Executions are a bitch to plan. Logistics, alerting the media, gathering the kindling. Uh, you know, I've had a lot of time to do some thinking... about... why I'm here. Well, no amount of thinking will change the outcome. Justice will be served for your crime. But it wasn't really a big crime, was it? You are truly evil. What bigger crime is there than taking a man's life? I killed someone? Oh, Phoebe, what is this? An attempt to stay your execution? Plead insanity? It won't work. You have five hours to live. Tick-tock. What? Five hours? But that's not possible. Well, I'm happy to see the seriousness of your crime has finally hit you. You see, you represent everything I abhor. You're a threat. A danger to everything that is good... and pure in our world. You're talking out of fear. Just because you don't understand something, it doesn't make it evil. No. It's you who doesn't understand. You killed a man using your power,... and now you're going to die because of it. I only wish I could burn all of your kind with you! But don't worry. In time I will. This is only the beginning. Leo, listen to me. The two of us, the Prue and Piper that you see before you,... are from the past, from 10 years ago. So we have no idea what is going on. Don't even lie to me. All right, Phoebe is set to die today,... and I only hope that this madness dies with her. All right, these people are in danger because of the witch trials she started. How? How did she start them? You know, I don't know what you hope to accomplish... by pretending not to know. You haven't kissed me like that since... Since this morning... 1999, remember? We were supposed to meet, you had to leave,... I went up to the attic, and this is where I came, the future. And if you don't believe me, at least believe what you feel. Trust that! I remember... that was the day they sent me up to the attic... to open The Book of Shadows, the future spell. Wait, that was you? We just assumed it was Grams. No. It was me. They didn't tell me why. Wait, you don't know what's happened in the last 10 years? Any of it? These people... they're here underground... because they've been accused of practicing witchcraft. They're witches? Some of 'em. Most of them have been falsely accused. But they're safe here... for now. What did Phoebe do? Six months ago, she, uh... killed a man. Cal Greene. The baseball player? This is crazy. I mean, Phoebe would never hurt anyone. She hurt him. Because he murdered someone. Someone Phoebe cared about very much. A dear friend who he brutalised. But a technicality set him free. Phoebe was furious, outraged. And that's when she crossed the line... from protecting the innocent to punishing the guilty. She used her power to kill Greene, got caught,... and her magic exposed by Nathanial Pratt. And this is the result... modern-day witch trials with Pratt at the helm? And Phoebe at the stake. I don't buy it. Her power can't kill. Well, it can now. It's been 10 years. All your powers have grown. We have to get to Phoebe and explain. Uh, you can't. As it stands, you and Prue are safe. Pratt checked you out, and he doesn't suspect that you're witches. To get to Phoebe, you'd have to use your powers. And they'll catch you, then they'll kill you. Leo, she's our sister. We're not gonna let her die. Wait. I'll go. Leo, this is our sister. We have to. No. I'm still your guide. I can orb in and keep you out of danger. Fine. Then we'll go back to Buckland's and get the book... and get the spell to send us home. PRUE: We'll meet you at the manor. Leo, um... we got married? Piper, later. There'll be plenty of time later. Oh, Miss Halliwell. Can you sign the PO for the new comp` London needs to know` People. Give the woman some air! She will meet with all of you after lunch. Thank you. OK. Good news first. The acquisition paperwork was approved and` Yes? I'm with her. It's Piper. My sister. Oh... right. Sorry. Almost forgot you had another one. I mean, other than, uh... That's OK. I forgot your name, too. Anne, Ms Halliwell's personal assistant. Anne. Right. My personal assistant. By the way, Anne, um... do you know if my husband called, by any chance? Husband, good one. Very funny, like you have the time. OK. I just need to get your final OK on the acquisition. Your sister was amazing. I mean, at first the board was a little resistant,... what with the layoffs it would entail,... but Prue pushed it through! I did? I thought that 'to hell with the little people' part... was particularly persuasive. OK, Anne... Sweetie, I really need some private time with my sister, so if you could just, you know. Oh, no problem! Just buzz me. Look at me. All right,... I am booked with work. I'm about to lay off countless people with a flick of my pen,... no man to speak of. Maybe you're just picky. What's happened to me? OK, well, I could dwell on the nightmare my life will become,... but we have work to do. At least some things around here haven't changed. OK, it should be after the demon with the tusks... and before the spell to discourage a lover. Where is it? It was here in 1999. Yeah, and now it's gone, so if the spell can only be used once,... that must mean that our future selves have already used it. Which means... We have no way of getting home. Leo! Oh, thank God. Look, I know what they think I did, and if we just... Shh! They'll hear you. Where's the rest of the cavalry? They're not coming. So, what? You'll grab me... and we'll just orb out or whatever,... and we'll meet them back at the` Phoebe, uh... I'm so sorry. For what? Did something happen to my sisters? Nobody's going to rescue you. Heh heh. Good. In fact, if that is some kind of white-lighter humour,... let me be the first to tell you,... you are not a very funny race of people. You know, I... I wish you remembered what you've done. It'd make this so much easier. Your future self used witchcraft for vengeance, Phoebe. Pratt is using that as a platform. Why does everyone think that I killed someone? I wouldn't. I mean, I... I couldn't! What did I do,... premonition the man to death? My power is passive. Not in the future. It... it's grown. It's changed. As have you. Which means, unfortunately,... you have to suffer the consequences. No. I don't believe it. Then believe what you see. Oh, my God... what have I done? Leo? Help me! Wanna tell me again exactly how screwed we are? PRUE: Pretty screwed. Thanks. Wonder what's taking Leo so long. You know... some of these pages are marked. The top corners are turned down,... and all of them are new spells. Such as? Like here's a spell to create a door... one to induce slumber,... a glamour, to change one's appearance... Some of them have these little baggies attached. Those must be potions of some kind. What about these? I mean, there's... OK, one to create money,... uh, to bend someone's will,... to erase a memory... a binding spell. Binding? What are all these marked for? This must've been our future selves'... Plan. Here's a prison map. We were gonna use all of these... to break Phoebe out. But something is bothering me. I mean, clearly, some of these spells... are for personal gain. Which would break the most basic of Wiccan rules. We wouldn't do that. We wouldn't. But maybe in 10 years, our future selves would. For Phoebe. Perfect timing. We found the book, but we can't... Where's Phoebe? Where is she? She's in prison, where she belongs. Leo, you were supposed to bring her back here. No. I said I'd go to her. And I did. To explain to her why she has to pay for her crime. You're our guide. You're supposed to protect us,... and you're just gonna let her die? You're signing her death warrant. I'm trying to protect the greater good. I mean, if Phoebe lives... if you use your magic to save her,... then the persecutions will continue... and our daughter will grow into a world... where her power is punishable by death. Do you want that? Of course not. Then it has to end with Phoebe. She has to die. Like hell. Prue, relax. We've seen... what your new powers can do when you're angry. He's gonna stay frozen, right? If he knows what's good for him, he'll stay frozen. All right, let's get these spells. CROWD APPLAUDS Now... some people... say this is a victory for me,... but I say it is a victory for us all. APPLAUSE For today,... a blight on everything that is good in our world... will be extinguished! CHEERING Tonight,... the witch... will burn! Piper, if you're gonna do this, you better hurry. Besides, Phoebe has less than an hour. Can't do it, can you? No. Our grandmother did it to us... for protection. You don't have to bind her powers, Piper. We agreed that I'd take care of her, and I will. I promise. I know you will. So, we were together. Does that mean you clipped your wings for me? No. You wouldn't let me. We, uh... tried to make it work... with our powers. But it didn't, and then this all happened, and... Were we happy? Just for a little while, were we happy? Very. Are you gonna try and stop us? I can't do that. Then I hope you understand... why I have to do what I'm doing. Yeah. What are we gonna do? What we always do. Talk about it later. What is it? What's wrong? I have no one to say goodbye to. No life. They didn't even know who you were at the office,... my own sister. If we die tonight my tombstone will read: 'Here lies Prue. She worked hard.' We're not gonna die. We're gonna find our way back to the present,... and we'll create a new future. What if we can't? What if we can never get home? According to Phoebe's premonition, we fail. Our future selves fail. We've still got a shot. You're right. Let's go get Phoebe. So far, so good. Don't people normally break out of prison? Nothing about this is normal. To create a door. OK... But where? No place like here. OK. 'When you find your path is blocked,... all you have to do is knock.' Freeze! Good idea. All right, um,... her cell should be up those stairs. Come on. She'll be guarded, are we ready for this? Do we have a choice? We're too late. SHACKLES JANGLE (INHALES DEEPLY) I love the smell of burnt witch in the morning. At least I'm paying for my crime. They'll come a day when you'll have to pay for yours, too. Remorseless to the end, huh? Let today be a lesson to all those.... who would seek to defy human nature... with their way of life. Let today serve notice... that black magic will not be tolerated... in our society. And let today be remembered... as the day we burned the witch. Piper, freeze them. > Prue, Piper. Come on, we're getting you out of here. No, wait. You can't. Prue, I'm serious. What are you talking about? You guys have to leave. I deserve to be here... or...my future self does. But you killed a killer, don't be ridiculous. And this is Pratt's personal crusade. This isn't about us, it is about him. Wherever we go, he will follow us. He will hunt us. He will hunt our families. If anybody should be punished, it should be him. Prue, what are you doing? Saving the future good witches... and our future. Prue, wait! Don't. Don't become a murderer, too. It has to end with me. Phoebe, he was evil. He deserved what you... The wrong thing done for the right reason... is still the wrong thing. Our job is to protect the innocent,... not punish the guilty. And... I crossed that line,... and I know that. And now you guys have to know that, too. We are not leaving here without you. Prue, we were sent here for a reason. Maybe not to stop this like what we thought,... but maybe to understand why this has to happen. Why you have to let this happen. I don't want to die... but I don't want you to die because of me. I love you. (CRIES) Oh, God. Prue. What are we doing here? Phoebe? Hey, you don't think she was... I mean, we saw... I know, I know. Oh, please, God, don't let it be true. Phoebe! Oh, we thought that we'd lost you. You did. I was burning. And I could, uh,... I could feel the flames on my skin. And then I... I was here. I don't know what happened. It's OK. You're safe now. You're home. Yeah, home, but when? And Cal Greene tied a record by smashing... his sixth grand slam of the year today. I think that's the baseball player. That's what triggered my premonition. We're back where we started. The day we cast the spell. Why? Maybe because it worked. Maybe we were sent into the future... to find out what Phoebe did. Maybe we came back to stop it from happening. But we didn't cast a spell to come back. We didn't even have one. Maybe they sent us back. But who and why today? If we were sent back to keep the future from happening,... shouldn't we have been sent back to the day... Phoebe killed Cal Greene instead? Not again. This guy still hasn't learned his lesson. Apparently, neither have we. I think this is why we were sent back here... to this moment in time. This is where it all started. The first time we used our magic for revenge. But... it's a little thing. It's harmless. Yeah, but once you break the small rules,... it's just a matter of time... before the big ones are next. A very smart girl once told me that... we were supposed to protect the innocent,... not punish the guilty. I haven't told you yet. Now maybe you won't have to. Pratt. Do you think we should follow? No. Our little act of revenge might have been... what sent Pratt on his path to seek his own. Which might have led him... to start the future witch trials. Hopefully now he won't. I still think we should keep an eye on him, just in case. Absolutely. Hey, what's up? Not work. There is no way... I'm going to the office tonight. I'm going out with you guys. We all have a lot of changes to make... if want to avoid ending up where we just came from. Ah, the future wasn't all bad. You were like Miss Fortune 500... and I had a beautiful little girl. What?! Details later. You know, we can still make... the good things happen, Piper. We just have to make the right choices. So maybe Leo and I will end up together. Wait, you and Leo? DOORBELL RINGS Speak of the angel. I'll get that. Hey, stranger. I would have settled for a nice hello. Didn't anybody ever tell you not to settle? It's a good lesson. I've been learning a lot of them lately. So I've heard. Look, honestly, I didn't know that... you were gonna be sent to the future. I don't even know what happened when you got there. All I was told is that apparently you had something to learn. So that's why you're here? No, that's why you're here. You three were given a glimpse of your future... to learn a valuable lesson. And I'm glad you learned it, too,... because I know they wouldn't have brought you back if you hadn't. Speaking of which, they're making me work tonight. So, I can't really... This is always gonna be a problem for us, isn't it? I'm willing to work on it. Good. Don't ever forget you said that. Captioned by the National Captioning Institute --www.ncicap.org-- Captions were made with the support of NZ On Air.