Line #35 Recap/CharmedS6E7SoulSurvivor


1	!Soul Survivor
2	->'''Paige discovers her new boss has sold his soul to the demon, Zahn. Despite her sister's pleas, Paige makes a sacrifice to save her boss.'''
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4	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6x07_paigeinnocent.jpg]]
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6	Paige's new temporary job is as an assistant to a lawyer named Larry Henderson. After saying that she has done everything he's asked her to do, he gives her an envelope with money as a way to say "thank you". She is working late, and just after she leaves, two demons appear in his office. Paige hears the attack and vanquishes one, but the other kills Larry and flames away. Afterwards, Paige realizes that Larry knew what was going to happen. Piper is feeding Wyatt, when Phoebe announces that her paper has hired Spencer Ricks, whom, in House Call, Phoebe had turned into a turkey, to promote his hiring. Piper tells Phoebe about the problem with dating because of Wyatt. Paige suddenly walks by the kitchen, ignoring Phoebe and Piper. Phoebe catches up to her and she explains to them about what happened with Larry. She wonders how he knew, because he was finalizing his will, and making donations. Piper reassures Paige that if she was meant to save Larry, she would've.
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8	Leo, apparently following Chris, finds a time portal and then Chris comes through it. Leo asks Chris what he's using it for, and Chris refuses to answer. Leo shoves Chris through the portal and they find themselves on a rocky slope. Chris says he can't control the portal. They are confronted by a dinosaur. They cannot orb, because magic won't be around until there are people to use it. Larry's widow, talking to Paige, notes that about five years earlier their fortune had changed sharply for the better. Larry, according to her, had said that he could just sense what was going to happen. Richard and Paige cross paths. Phoebe finds Ricks in her office, and on her chair with his feet on her desk. After Ricks complains about the letters Phoebe get from "whiny chicks", Phoebe throws a potion at him, turning him into a turkey again. She throws another potion to turn him back.
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10	Piper has decided to let all her dates meet Wyatt immediately, so the ones who don't want children can leave early. Two are quite taken with Wyatt until he performs magic.
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12	Richard Montana now lives alone; his family, no longer united by the feud, has moved away. Paige tells Richard that she believes that she was put into Larry's life for a reason, not to just see him die. Larry's soul is at auction in the underworld when Paige and Richard summon him. Larry says he has to go back or his wife will suffer the wrath of the demon Zahn. He says he made a deal with Zahn, gaining prosperity in return for his soul, but he realizes he was getting rich off of other people's pain and freak accidents, and tried to make amends.
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14	After Paige discovers this, she ignores Piper and Phoebe's plea to not get involved then proceeds to sell her soul to Zahn in order to free Larry's. Chris has been creating time portals to get back to the future. He tells Leo that he is trying to see if he has saved Wyatt from a demon. Phoebe and Piper are talking on the phone about what Paige is doing. Before Phoebe walks out of her office, Ricks walks in and shows her a column that he can respond to. Annoyed, Phoebe throws a potion at him, turning him into a pig.
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16	Zahn appears in the attic and claims Larry's soul. He tells Paige that he has been trading souls for powers and that Larry's soul would burn for eternity if Zahn is vanquished. Paige notes that Zahn has his contracts locked up somewhere (Larry had told her this) and proposes to destroy them. Piper and Phoebe want Paige to let Larry go.
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18	Chris finds the time portal and he and Leo go through it, just ahead of the dinosaur. They find themselves surrounded by Confederate soldiers. Piper and Phoebe cast a spell to summon Zahn, just as he is again about to auction Larry's soul, but Paige summons him in the same moment and he winds up before Paige. Paige is willing to sign a Faustian bargain, offering her soul in Larry's place. Zahn sends Larry to Heaven and then Paige collapses as Zahn claims her soul. Paige sees where Zahn keeps his contracts locked up.
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20	Richard goes to the manor and tells Piper and Phoebe what Paige has done. Wyatt tries to scare him away with magic, revealing to Piper what Wyatt has been chasing away her dates. As Zahn is auctioning Paige's soul, they use a spell to come to her. Piper blasts the vault and the contracts burn. With her contract destroyed, Paige's soul reunites with her body. Phoebe and Piper throw potions and vanquish Zahn.
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22	Leo and Chris meet Phoebe and Piper at P3. They do not tell how they escaped the Confederate soldiers, but their time-travelling adventure seems to have brought them a bit closer together.
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25	!! Tropes:
26	* BatmanGambit: With Phoebe and Piper both feeling there's nothing that can be done about Larry or the other souls, Paige makes her own bargain with Zahn to get him off the hook. After Richard explains the situation, Phoebe and Piper head to the auction and settle all this with brute force. Once back in her body, Paige says she knew making the bargain would get her sisters to show up in force no matter how irritated they would be about all this.
27	* BigSisterInstinct: As Paige predicted, Phoebe and Piper show up in force to save her from the auction.
28	* TheBusCameBack: Phoebe has to deal with [[Recap/CharmedS5E13HouseCall Spencer Ricks again]], and he's still as misogynistic as ever.
29	* CrazyPrepared: Zahn is aware he could easily be vanquished by someone like Paige, which is why his contracts include the kind of contingency that would result in Larry burning for all eternity. Someone destroying the contracts first, however, was not something he was prepared for.
30	* CuttingTheKnot: The contracts about the souls end up being destroyed, which apparently renders them void.
31	* DealWithTheDevil: Larry made one a few years before the episode. The demon now comes collecting.
32	* {{Determinator}}: Paige. She refuses to even consider letting Larry be lost, even when her sisters disagree.
33	* FireForgedFriends: Well, Leo and Chris aren't friends at the end of the episode, but they seem to at least be much friendlier.
34	* FriendshipMoment: Again, not exactly friends, but with Leo depressed over Piper dating, Chris offers to buy him a drink.
35	* ItsALongStory: When asked where he and Chris have been the entire episode, Leo says this. Chris opts for a vague comment about getting lost and finding their way home.
36	* KidsPlayMatchBreaker: Wyatt isn't happy that his mother is trying to date and keeps scaring off guys by creating Orbs in his eyes.
37	* KirksRock: The time portal dumps Leo and Chris here during the time of the dinosaurs.
38	* LiteralMetaphor: Phoebe turns Spencer into a pig.
39	* LittleNo: Zahn right before he gets vanquished.
40	* NoodleIncident: How Leo and Chris escaped the Confederate soldiers, and came back to the present.
41	* PreMortemOneLiner: When Phoebe and Piper arrive at the auction, a Grimlock increases his bid.
42	-->'''Piper:''' Sold to the dead Grimlock. ''[boom]''
43	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
44	** Wyatt creating Orbs in his eyes prompts Piper's dates to beat their feet.
45	** After Piper and Phoebe each take out a demon at the auction, the other attendees immediately head for the exits.
46	* SlaveMarket: Larry's soul ends up at a demonic slave market run by Zahn.

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