charmed power of four season 3

blinded by the whitelighter

[Scene: Manor. Kitchen. Prue Pandora and Piper are making a potion.]

Piper: One teaspoon of baking powder.

Prue: One teaspoon bat guano. Ooh-hoo. It's starting to bubble.

Pandora: And stink. Couldn't you have made that potion after breakfast?

Prue: No, I'm sorry, but Phoebe has a meeting with that D.A. Investigator, and I didn't want her to go there unarmed.

(Leo walks in.)

Leo: Morning. Whoa, what is that smell?

Prue: That would be the lovely smell of Piper's breakfast.

Piper: Hope you're hungry.

Leo: Uh, starving.

Pandora: Probably 'cause you missed dinner last night.

Leo: Pandora, I already said I was sorry I was late, okay. It's not like I was out carousing with the boys. I was out being a force of good in the universe.

Pandora: A true force of good would have called or at least orbed.

Leo: I couldn't. Not under the circumstances.

Pandora: Which were?

Leo: Work related, which means I can't talk about it. I mean, anything that happens between me and a charge is confidential. You know that.

Pandora: Doesn't mean I have to like it. (Pandora cuts her finger with a knife.) Ow!

Leo: Oh, let me see that.

(Leo heals her finger.)

Pandora: You know, this all for the good of mankind stuff really puts me in an awful position. I have no choice but to be understanding.

Leo: You just have to accept that you're engaged to somebody that works for the CIA.

Pandora: Oh.

(Phoebe walks in.)

Phoebe: Wait, you work for the CIA?

Prue: You know, ever since you became a blonde...

Piper: Do you want something to eat before your meeting with Reece?

Phoebe: Not hungry, too nervous.

(Prue hands Phoebe a vial of potion.)

Prue: Alright, well, this will help you with your nerves. Just a drop in Reece's coffee, and it will out any demon. Reaction will cause his throat to constrict. As he's choking, you run, got it?

Phoebe: Thanks. I hadn't even considered that Reece might be evil.

Prue: Then why are you so nervous?

Phoebe: Uh, because he's probing Cole's disappearance. I'm not exactly looking forward to being grilled about my demon ex, you know?

Prue: Well, as long as you don't blurt out, "I killed Cole," you'll be fine.

Leo: Why don't you practice saying, "As far as I know, Cole is alive and well and could be anywhere." See how it feels.

Phoebe: Okay, uh, "As far as I know, Cole is alive and well and could be anywhere."

Piper: Very believable.

Prue: Yeah, try not to look as guilty as you did just now. You'll give yourself away.

Phoebe: I just can't wait for this investigation to be over.

Pandora: It will soon. It has to. There's nothing to find.