Phoebe is spending long nights trying to locate Cole through the internet. Piper is curious when an old school friend says she has seen the girls' father in town. Prue and Phoebe make a mistake and help demons escape from an icy wilderness. Phoebe has a vision of their father and Prue as a child in the same place. When all three sisters agree that they need his help, Phoebe confesses that she has secretly been in touch with their father for some time.
They arrange a meeting at which Prue gives him a frosty reception. He tells his story and it transpires that he saved Prue's life all those years ago. He does it again in the same place in this episode. With a new insight into his apparent desertionof the sisters when they were young, Prue is finally reconciled with her father. He tells the girls that he has been offered a job based in San Francisco and the sisters agree that he should take it.