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Written by: Sheryl J. Anderson |
Anson Williams |
Gregory Scott Cummins (Vornak) Joseph Reitman (Tarkin) Ian Buchanan (Raynor) |
Featured Music
Stevie Nicks: Planets of the Universe (from the album Trouble In Shangri-La)
San Francisco by night "scene-setter" after opening credits.
Full Storyline
Cole is back in Phoebe's life and he's considering giving up his powers for her. As they're walking down the street a crazy man starts to yell about the Brotherhood of the Thorn. A demon materializes and drags the man into an alley. Phoebe runs after them and is too late to save the man, but kills the demon. Cole tells her that she just killed his brother.
Cole reveals that he is part of a sacred demon Brotherhood and that there must be something really big going on. He decides, despite Phoebe's pleas, to go undercover to find out what. He learns that the Brotherhood plans to take over a communication company, but the owner of the company is having second thoughts. The Brotherhood decides to kill the owner, Pirelli, and assume his identity allowing the merger to happen.
Cole and the Charmed Ones come up with a plan to save the owner meanwhile still convincing the Brotherhood that Cole is evil. The plan works but the Brotherhood are suspicious when Pirelli's body cannot be found. They confront Cole and he confesses that Pirelli is still alive, but claims thate he's trying to double-cross the Charmed Ones and says he'll lead the Brotherhood to Pirelli. They invade the manor and Cole takes Pirelli away. Prue and Phoebe are now convinced that Cole really is working for the Brotherhood. What they don't know is that Cole is hiding Pirelli from the Brotherhood. They create a potion made out of the old Cole/Belthazor flesh, thinking that because the Brotherhood is biologically linked, they can vanquish them using this potion.
When the Charmed Ones go to where the merger is taking place they find Cole waiting for them. He says he is still on their side and that Pirelli is safe. Phoebe realizes that it is not really Cole and throws the potion at him. He turns into Vornak and is vanquished. He had been trying to find out for sure whose side Cole was on and to trick Phoebe and the others into revealing Pirelli's whereabouts. The real Cole arrives to tell them that he had to appear to double-cross them in order for his plan to work. Unfotunately for him, the Brotherhood is listening in. He says he has to return to the Brotherhood so as not to blow his cover, but promises Phoebe that he'll make it to her graduation party. When he gets to the Brotherhood, their boss Raynor appears and knocks Cole unconscious. He doesn't make it to Phoebe's party which is spolied by her anxiety over him.
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