[Scene: Manor. Phoebe's standing outside the bathroom door.]
Phoebe: Prue, you can't do this, Piper's gonna be crushed.
(Piper walks in.)
Piper: I'm gonna be crushed?
(Prue comes out of the bathroom wearing only a towel.)
Prue: The surprise party is off.
Piper: What party?
Phoebe: She's onto us. The restaurant called while we were out.
Piper: Oh. Is that why you were so upset earlier?
Prue: Let's just say it hasn't been a great day.
Phoebe: Does it have anything to do with why Andy's been calling all night?
(Mark walks in.)
Mark: Piper, where'd you say today's paper was?
Prue: Hey, I'm practically naked here.
(Mark looks away.)
Mark: Oops, sorry.
Phoebe: What's the drunk from the hotel doing here?
Mark: My name's Mark and I'm not a drunk.
Piper: He's a ghost.
Prue: Excuse me, a what?
Piper A ghost. He was murdered and he obviously needs our help. Why else would we be able to see him?
(Phoebe covers Prue with her coat.)
Phoebe: Well, he can see us, that's for sure.
Prue: Hey!
Mark: (mumbles) Of all the days to be a dead man.
Phoebe: You sure this guys really a ghost?
(Piper throws a cup at Mark and it passes right through him.)
Piper: Positive.
[Time lapse. Prue, Piper and Phoebe are in the kitchen.]
Phoebe: So how do we know that the guy doesn't really belong in hell?
Piper: Because we can see him. He's one of the innocent we have to protect.
Prue: Protect from what? He's dead.
Piper: All we have to do is get Mark's family to give him a proper burial and then he can move on to wherever it is he moves onto.
Prue: Okay, so call the police and let them know where the body is.
Piper: I already did. I just wanna give them a little time to notify Mark's mum before I go talk to her.
Phoebe: Talk to her? And tell her what? That you're a witch in touch with the ghost of her dead son?
Piper: No, I'm just gonna try and get her to have a funeral as soon as possible before Yama gets Mark's spirit.
(The phone rings and Phoebe answers it.)
Phoebe: Hello? Oh, hi, I can't really talk right now. It's important? Okay, I'll be at the hotel in a little while. Bye. (She hangs up.) That was my new boss calling. I gotta run.
(She leaves.)
Prue: Um, okay, so, so when you called the police you didn't talk to Andy, did you?
Piper: No, it was anonymous. Why, did you decide to not go away with him?
Prue: Actually, I decided to go and till I went to tell him and found him having dinner with his ex-wife.
Piper: His what?
Prue: Yeah, I mean, you would think he would've remembered to reveal that little fact before we jumped in the sack.
Piper: Well, what did he say? Why didn't he tell you?
Prue: I don't know, I didn't really hang around long enough to ask.
(Mark pokes his head through the door.)
Mark: How's it going in there? (Prue and Piper jump.) Sorry.
Prue: Don't these guys knock?
[Scene: Hotel. Phoebe and Frankie are there.]
Frankie: Look, the guy's staying in the grand suite. He could be a sultan, I'm not sure, anyway, that's why I called. Make this bozo's night, read his future, tell him something good and he'll extend his stay, guaranteed.
Phoebe: Look, like I said, I don't always know what my psychic switch is gonna be in the up position.
Frankie: I have the most confidence in you, Phoebe, I don't know how you do it. Keep it up and you'll always have work here.
(A man sitting at a table finishes his drink and walks off without his wallet. Phoebe sees and calls out to him.)
Phoebe: Uh, excuse me, sir, you forgot you're...
(She picks up the wallet and has a premonition. In the premonition, the man walks out of a building and down some stairs. He walks onto the road and drops his suitcase. He bends down to pick it up and a car heads straight for him. The car hits him. The premonition ends.)
Frankie: Are you okay? What's the matter?
Phoebe: Nothing, I, uh, nothing.
-continued-
[Scene: Manor. Living room. Mark is there trying to turn on the TV but his finger passes straight through the button. Piper walks in carrying some blankets.]
Mark: It's still new to me. I keep forgetting I'm... Are those for me?
Piper: Yeah, uh, stupid question... do ghosts sleep?
Mark: I don't even get cold anymore.
Piper: Sorry.
Mark: It's okay, it's the thought that counts. I guess it's finally sinking in, what's really happened, what I've lost. Sucking down a bucket of oysters at the wharf, playing pickup ball with friends, coming home and hearing my mother's voice on the machine nagging me 'cause I haven't married a nice Chinese girl.
Piper: Your mum means a lot to you, huh?
Mark: She's a great friend... was. (Mark sits on the couch.) It was just me and her after my father died. Taught me everything I know. Especially how to cook. My mum was a great cook.
Piper: My Grams taught me how to cook. Actually, I loved it so much I became a chef.
Mark: Really? Ever make a Pecan duck?
Piper: No, you?
Mark: Piece of cake. Mum told me I could've been a great chef if I hadn't sold out to the Molecular Biology program at Stanford.
Piper: So you can make a Pecan duck and clone DNA?
Mark: The duck's harder.
(They laugh.)
Piper: Well, I can talk about food all night long.
Mark: Yeah? Well, I can talk about it forever.
(They laugh again.)
End of part 5
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Dead man dating
FantasíaS1E4 Prue, piper and Phoebe have to help the spirit of a man named Mark, who was murdered by a wanted thug Tony wong. They have to find his body and Bury it properly before Yama comes and takes his soul to hell.
