Charmed (TV Series)

Things to Do in Seattle When You're Dead (2019)

Melonie Diaz: Mel Vera

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• Mel Vera : A liability? I have spent the past year trying to be anything but.

  Maggie Vera : I'm sorry, Mel. But sometimes it's okay to be on the "B" team.

  Mel Vera : I am not "B" team. I'm "A" team. A-minus at worst.

  Maggie Vera : Okay.

  Swan : [unlocking the door for them]  Good morning, visionaries. Welcome to SafeSpace Seattle. So how will you change the world today?

  Mel Vera : I won't, Swan, because apparently I'm a useless waste of oxygen.

• Mel Vera : [succesfully brewing a cloaking potion]  Yes! Don't see that on the "B" team.

• Katrina : Looking for anything in particular, or just wanted to borrow my phone again?

  Mel Vera : Oh. I'm just, uh... browsing.

  Katrina : Surprising, since you seemed to be a skeptic last time you came around.

  Mel Vera : Oh, I am. I'm just looking for a gift for a friend.

  Katrina : Great. Will that be cash or charge?

  Mel Vera : I'm sorry?

  Katrina : I saw you taking those herbs.

  Mel Vera : Oh. Of course. I was just... I was gonna pay for it.

  Katrina : I'll ring you up.

  Mel Vera : I was until I realized that I left my wallet in the car.

  Katrina : Look, I know you think I'm some ditzy, dime-store Wiccan...

  Mel Vera : I didn't say that.

  Katrina : You didn't have to. Maybe you believe in this stuff, maybe you don't. But I do have certain powers of perception. I recognize a soul in distress. You obviously need this more than I do. Pay it forward when you can.

  Mel Vera : Thank you.

  Katrina : But if you steal from me again... I'll put a hex on you.

• Maggie Vera : I screwed up, okay? I'm sorry, but Mel, there was almost no one there. At dad's funeral.

  Mel Vera : Because he alienated every single person he met.

  Maggie Vera : He wasn't always there, but... when he was, he... he always made sure to bring us a gift or something.

  [seeing Mel dart her eyes shiftily] 

  Maggie Vera : What was that look?

  Mel Vera : Nothing.

  Maggie Vera : If you want me to grow up, you have to stop protecting me.

  Mel Vera : For your seventh birthday, dad promised to take you to the ballet. You were so excited. It's all you talked about for days. So that night you got dressed, and you did your hair...

  Maggie Vera : Put on my little ballet shoes.

  Mel Vera : And when the time came to pick you up...

  Maggie Vera : He didn't show. Just cried myself to sleep. The next morning, he left me that... that music box, with a note apologizing. It wasn't from him, was it?

  Mel Vera : Mom couldn't bear to see you disappointed. So she told you he got called away on business. And the next morning, I bought you that music box, and left it on your bed with the note. From him.

  Maggie Vera : If you hate him so much, why would you do that for him, Mel?

  Mel Vera : I didn't do it for him, Maggie.

• Mel Vera : [seeing Maggie with her music box]  Are you okay?

  Maggie Vera : Now that I know that you were the one who gave this to me, I... kind of want to keep it. But it's... it's also a piece of the past, part of the lie I told myself, that I need to... let go of.

  Mel Vera : Mags, I didn't mean to make you feel...

  Maggie Vera : No. Part of... growing up is... letting go of what was. And... uh, embracing what is.

  Mel Vera : [seeing Maggie's tablet]  An application? Part-time receptionist at SafeSpace?

  Maggie Vera : We're gonna need constant access to that command center. No more 7:00 a.m. lockouts. So until I get my powers back, this is my way of pulling my weight. Especially now that you're back on the "A" team.

  Mel Vera : I'm a B-plus. A-minus at best. For now. But... in the meantime, at least we have each other.

• Maggie Vera : A heart attack. Dad probably heard what happened. Dying in a fire. Just couldn't handle the stress.

  Mel Vera : You can't blame us.

  Maggie Vera : There's a funeral. Today.

  Mel Vera : Absolutely not. We're not going anywhere. The assassin's out there. It's not safe.

  Maggie Vera : We owe him a proper goodbye.

  Mel Vera : We don't owe him anything. He left us, Maggie. He was a ghost in our lives.

  Maggie Vera : He was the only parent we had left.

  Mel Vera : Have you forgotten? All the missed birthdays, no-show dinners, blown-off holidays?

  Maggie Vera : Okay, maybe he wasn't perfect. I know that. And maybe I'm not his biological daughter. But he's the only father I knew. The one who sang me to sleep. "Duermete Mi Niño." The one who gave me that ballerina music box on my birthday. That is the man I want to say goodbye to.

  Mel Vera : That man, Maggie, was a loser. And when are you gonna grow up and face reality?

  Maggie Vera : If growing up means erasing my past... never.

• Maggie Vera : [finding Mel throwing party trash away]  What are you doing? It's 5:00 a.m.

  Mel Vera : We've got no powers, no money, no Book of Shadows, and a crazed assassin who wants to kill us.

  Maggie Vera : Well, he's too late.

  Mel Vera : What?

  Maggie Vera : We're dead, Mel. I mean, everyone thinks we're dead. That we burned in a house fire. Look.

  [showing Mel her phone] 

  Maggie Vera : Kappa's even holding a vigil for me.

  Mel Vera : [taking the phone and dropping it in a pitcher of beer]  Are you nuts?

  Maggie Vera : What are you doing?

  Mel Vera : Dead girls don't text. They don't call. They don't use social media.

  Maggie Vera : It's not like I'm commenting.

  Mel Vera : No one can know we're alive or where we are, or it's just a matter of time before that assassin tracks us down.

• Mel Vera : [finding the door to the command center locked]  Seriously? Of all the days.

  Maggie Vera : Harry, can't you just orb through the door and let us in?

  Harry Greenwood : Ever since I extracted that poison from Macy, by orbing's been wonky.

  Maggie Vera : Define "wonky".

  [he demonstrates] 

  Maggie Vera : Oh. Yeah, that's wonky.

• Macy Vaughn : We can't just wait around for this place to open. If she's in Colton, it's-it's only a few hours away. We go the old-fashioned way.

  Mel Vera : Road trip. I'm in.

  Harry Greenwood : Well, actually, Mel, perhaps it's best if you and Maggie stay here.

  Mel Vera : What?

  Maggie Vera : Why?

  Harry Greenwood : You have no powers. You're...

  Mel Vera : What, dead weight?

  Harry Greenwood : Defenseless. Macy has some firepower. I can heal her if anything goes wrong. But the command center, that's the safest place for you both right now.

  Maggie Vera : He's right, Mel. We're a liability.

• Mel Vera : Do you know what this is?

  Maggie Vera : A moldy baked potato from the '90s? Make that 1890s.

  Mel Vera : It's Himalayan mandrake root. Unbelievably rare. I think I remember from the Book of Shadows, if you grind it down, it forms the base of a cloaking serum. I bet that fake witch upstairs has some other ingredients in her store. This is fantastic.

  Maggie Vera : [on her computer]  Mel.

  Mel Vera : If we can remember some spells and potions, maybe we can recreate the Book of Shadows...

  Maggie Vera : Mel.

  Mel Vera : What?

  Maggie Vera : Turns out we're not the only ones who are dead. I was looking for our obituary, but I found his. He's dead, Mel. Dad's dead.