Original subtitles

[Silas] No, I'm telling you, you got the wrong guy.

You got the wrong guy!

I didn't bust out the amulet to get revenge on the Russos.

They busted me out! I'm innocent!

Of this.

In that case, let's get you out of here.

-Really? -No!

This is the island prison of Wizcatraz.

Nobody leaves.

Yeah. That's what you think.

I broke out of here before and I'll do it again.

You haven't built a cell that can hold Silas Evilini!

[laughing maniacally]

Actually, we have.

Sorry, what's that now?

Take his stuff.

Let's go, Evilini.

No, no, no.

You're making a big mistake. Russos!

It worked. Silas walked us right into Wizcatraz.

Yeah, but should we feel bad? I mean, he is innocent.

Of this. The man stuck me in a tube and tried to steal my powers.

Good point. Good point. Let's do this.

Okay, all we have to do is find my dad and bust him out of here

so he can help us open the rift and save my mom.

-Great. What's your plan? -I don't know.

-Where are they keeping him? -I don't know.

How are you going to find him?

I don't know.

Are you telling me you snuck in here without a plan?

Justin, I'm impulsive and reactionary. It's part of my charm.

Is it?

I got an idea.

[Billie] See? Who needs a plan? [grunts]

Here's an idea.

Why don't I wear the suit and you hide in the crate?

Good plan.

[♪ theme song playing]

[singing] ♪ Everything is not what it seems ♪

♪ When you can have what you want by the simplest of means ♪

♪ Be careful not to mess with the balance of things ♪

♪ Because everything is not what it seems ♪

[whispering] ♪ You could run into trouble if you go to extremes because ♪

[singing] ♪ Everything is not what it seems ♪

♪ Yes, please ♪

♪ What it seems ♪

Every prison has a record room.

We find that, we can find where they're hiding your dad.

How do you know so much about prisons?

Well, I am the principal of a prison.

-You mean a middle school? -What did I say?

-[guard] Hey! -Get down.

[guard] Why aren't you at your post?

Uh...

Because I'm taking this crate full of bones to the records room.

[thuds, electrical buzzing]

Why?

Uh...

I didn't ask why.

Good man.

Wish I had ten more like you.

Records room's right down that way.

So Justin and Billie broke into

the most dangerous prison in the Wizard world,

and you're just telling me this now?

I didn't want you to yell.

I don't yell!

Hey, Mrs. Russo. Heard you yelling.

I guess Roman told you about Mr. Russo and Billie sneaking out to Wizcatraz.

Winter knew before me?

Guys, I was in the lair, and I heard a bunch of beeping,

and I thought it was a smoke detector.

But then I remembered I took all the batteries out of those

so I could practice fire spells without anybody knowing--

You took all the batteries out of the smoke detectors?

That, you're not gonna yell about?

Mom yells at you?

Milo, focus. What is this about the beeping?

Right. The beeping is coming from this thing,

which says, "Alex Russo located."

-[Giada gasps] -[Milo] This is good, right?

Ah! It worked! I gotta tell Justin.

Huh.

This is creating a trans-dimensional bridge straight to Alex.

I bet it wouldn't be hard to turn it into--

A two-way communicator.

Then we could let Aunt Alex know

we're trying to bring her back.

No, no, no, no, no. This machine is the only thing connecting us to Alex.

Do not touch it.

-No-- -I said, don't touch it!

And for the record, that is yelling.

I'm gonna get a message to your dad.

-Come on, Milo. -What do you need me for?

You're gonna replace all the batteries in the smoke detectors.

Yeah, that's probably a good idea.

You know, it would only take--

A small adjustment to the plasma amplifier. And we could--

Boost the positronic delta wave by at least a kilojoule.

Maybe a kilojoule and a half!

I think when my mom sees the results, she'll agree that we were right to...

We're not doing the sentence finishing thing anymore?

I'm just gonna jump right in.

Good call!

Ah. [chuckles] Okay.

[groans softly]

All right, you keep watch. I'm going in.

-[electricity buzzing] -[groans]

-It shocked me. -Let me try.

-[electricity buzzing] -Ow! It shocked me, too.

-What did you think was gonna happen? -I don't know. Something else.

Okay, we can open this door.

We just need to take a moment,

-devise a plan... -[Billie] Out of my way!

...and figure out the best way... Oh!

Billie! Whoa!

She'll never survive that!

Man, that's deep.

I know! Billie?

You're alive!

-What were you thinking? -I wasn't, which is why it worked.

All right, let's just find your dad's file and figure out what cell he's in.

Okay.

Well, this is the A's, which means Penwulf would be...

Ugh. Up there.

Of course. It's Wizcatraz. Even the records room is trying to kill you.

You stay here and keep watch. I'm gonna go find your dad's file.

-What if I-- -No.

-But then I could-- -No!

-So I'll just stay here? -No!

Wait. Yes. You do that. Stay here.

How am I supposed to help free my dad

if I'm standing here doing nothing?

[keys jingling]

That guy's got keys to the whole place.

Who's Justin kidding? He knows I'm gonna do something.

Oh, the J's. This is gonna take forever.

I know. I'll just levitate myself up there.

Yeah.

[exhales] Levitatus me-us!

That wasn't the spell that I cast.

Let's try this again.

Levitatus me--

Okay, there is no way that I cast a spell wrong twice.

[gasps]

Billie! There's a spell scrambler!

Any time you cast a spell, it'll go wrong,

so don't use any magic!

Bridge the distance with great ease,

bring to me that ring of keys.

Something about this feels weird.

Ah. I'm stuck to this guy's back. That's what it is.

What is going on with my magic?

My spell went wrong, cut me some slack.

Get me off this big guy's back.

Oil? Why?

-[grunts] -Oh, no, we're going down!

[thuds]

At least I got the keys.

Hope the guards didn't hear that ruckus.

Heard that ruckus, huh?

I just have to re-attenuate the gamma modulator,

then I can reverse the polarity

and stabilize the interdimensional connection to Alex.

But that'll take forever.

Oh. I know. I'll cast a dimension stabilization spell.

Roman, we don't need magic.

-This is a tech problem. -That I can fix with magic.

-Let's just use tech. -Or we can use magic.

-Tech. -Magic!

-I'll show you. -Not if I show you first.

Energizing the Tesla coil.

Across space and time and vast dimensions...

Devating the coulon emitter.

...boost and strengthen this emotional connection.

And engage!

[both] I did it!

[crackles]

[both] You did it.

[electricity crackling]

I reversed the polarity,

and then your stupid spell reversed my reversed polarity.

Are you telling me we ran this thing on regular polarity?

No wonder it blew up.

[smoke detector beeping]

[Giada] Milo, why is the smoke detector going off?

[Milo] Because you made me put the batteries back in!

We gotta get this out of here before my mom sees it.

Oh, wow. I am way up here.

It is a good thing I'm not afraid of heights. [laughs]

[whimpers] No, I am afraid of heights.

I've just never been up this high.

Okay, okay, focus.

[breathes deeply] Let's do this.

All right.

Pencat, Pendog, Penwulf!

Damien Penwulf.

Damien Penwulf. Cell 140.

We found him!

-The hard part is over! [laughs] -[alarm blaring]

Oh, no! [screams]

[man over PA system] Attention, Wizcatraz.

We've captured an unauthorized teenage wizard.

Be advised, she has a smart mouth and a bad attitude.

The hard part is never over.

-[head guard] Take her away. -No, wait. I'm innocent.

Yeah, that's why we're throwing you out of Wizcatraz.

Throw me out? No, no, you can't.

I have to stay. Because I'm... I'm... I'm guilty of so much stuff.

[head guard] Kid, you don't belong here. Let's go.

[guard 2] Hold on.

We can't just throw her out. She's a troublemaker.

I am. I am so much trouble.

So you know what? Uh... Uh...

Just throw me in a cell.

Maybe go on your lunch break and leave me unsupervised for a little bit. Yeah.

Yeah, you'd like that,

so you could break back out with these!

Hey, you stole my keys.

That I stole off that other guy.

[head guard] Lock her up!

[guard 2] No, we're not locking her up. This one's going to the pit.

The pit? No.

Throw me out! Throw me out! Please!

Why won't this text to your father go through?

You think it's because he's in the wizard world?

No. It's because Dad gets our cell service through Pricecow.

We can't text west of the Mississippi.

Who do you know west of the Mississippi?

Nobody. But what if I go to college in Florida?

Oh, honey, you're not going to college.

In Florida. I meant in Florida.

Where's your father's machine?

Ugh. Roman!

[electrical buzzing]

Roman Laritate Russo, get in here.

I know what to do. Just follow my lead.

I'm so sorry, Mommy!

You told me not to, but I broke the machine.

Please don't be mad at your number-one boy.

Yeah, I'm not doing that.

I can't believe you two destroyed

the only connection we had to Alex

just so you could play scientist.

No, I was not playing scientist.

I was playing wizard. She was playing scientist.

Stop talking.

-[Milo] Mom! -Ugh!

The fridge is haunted!

What are you talking about?

I opened it up to get a pudding.

Then I heard your voice in my head saying,

"Milo, you can't eat pudding all the time."

But then I thought to myself, "Why does she buy so much pudding

if she doesn't want me eating it all the time?"

Milo, focus. What is this about the fridge being haunted?

Right. Check it out.

Whoa! Milo's right.

That is a lot of pudding.

I don't get it. It was glowing and there was smoke, like...

-[electrical buzzing] -...that.

-Is that normal? -You need to do more dishes.

-I told ya. -What was that?

"It's me, Alex."

-[gasps] -This is incredible.

I know! Our microwave and our aunt have the same name.

No. Aunt Alex is communicating with us

through the display on our microwave.

Shorting out the machine must've sent the connection

into the electrical wiring. Do you know what this means?

We're gonna pretend like this is what we meant to do

-the whole time? -You're darn right we are.

Alex, where are you?

[gasps] Ooh. "I'm beyond the rift.

It's super..."

That's nice.

-"...scary." -That's bad.

Don't worry, Alex. We'll find a way to bring you back.

I'm gonna go to the lair and get every book I can.

And I'm gonna stay right here and eat every cup of pudding in that fridge.

How's that gonna help bring Alex back?

I mean, it can't hurt, right?

No, you can't throw me in the pit.

I only broke in here to free my dad to help me save my mom.

Please, you have to let me fix this.

-It's my fault she's gone. -What?

It's not your fault.

Of course it is. And now I've dragged my family

into fixing a problem I caused.

But that's what family does.

We'll always have your back, Billie.

Oh. I mean, I'll always have your back too, prison guard.

Prison guard? Oh. Right.

Oh. Justin! [chuckles]

Billie, we are Russos.

Cleaning up each other's messes is literally what we do.

-So you're not mad at me for sneaking off? -I didn't love it.

I know I charged in without a plan,

but that is how I got the keys, so it worked.

Until that dumb guard took 'em.

So I guess it didn't work.

[gasps] Wait. You're the dumb guard, so it did work.

Your thing only worked because my thing worked.

So you admit my thing worked.

All that matters is that we found Damien.

He's in Cell 140.

Let's go get your dad.

You coming?

I'm gonna see my dad.

Not if we don't get going, so let's get going.

The last time I saw him, I was five.

He doesn't know me.

I mean, what if I'm not who he's expecting?

What if he doesn't, um...

What if he doesn't like me?

Billie.

Hey, he's gonna love you.

How do you know?

Because... Because no one can do anything but love you.

Billie, you are smart and stubborn,

and gifted, and impulsive, and brave, and...

and frustrating. Sometimes you just wanna... [grunts]

-You know? So... -[both laughing]

And Billie, you are wonderful.

And loving you is literally the only thing I've been able to do

from the second you walked into my life.

Your dad is about to get the greatest gift on earth.

He's getting his little girl back.

Justin, I--

I know.

I know. Me, too.

All right. Let's go.

Somebody knocked you out and stole your uniform? Who?

Run!

We're trapped!

You gotta go get your dad.

I'm not leaving without you.

-Don't worry about me. -What are you gonna do?

I'm gonna charge in there without a plan.

Works for you.

Okay, go. I'll meet you in

-Silas' cell. Go. -Okay.

You know, any spell you do in here is just gonna backfire.

Oh.

I'm counting on it.

Right in the magic spell!

Giant hands.

I can work with this.

Come get some.

[pats back]

This is it.

[lock clicks]

[powering down]

Billie?

Is that really you?

Hi, Dad.

[♪ upbeat music playing]

I can't believe it.

I know. I should have knocked, but I had the keys--

I have missed you so much, Billie Bug.

I miss hearing you call me that.

I'm so sorry that I had to leave you.

It was the only way that I could keep you safe.

[alarm blaring]

Dad, we should talk about this later.

No, I've waited ten years for this hug.

I'm getting my hug.

Dad, we gotta go. Mom's in trouble.

Alex? What happened?

Well, let's just say, I met Grandpa, and it did not go great.

-I'll explain on the way. -Wait, Billie, wait.

We are in lockdown. There's guards everywhere.

Who cares? I'll just blast them.

You can't use magic here.

They have a spell scrambler in this place.

Spell scrambler. That explains so much.

Come on. Let's get out of here.

I've been through this whole book.

The only way to get Aunt Alex back is by opening the rift.

But we aren't powerful enough to do that.

I wish Billie was here.

Don't tell her I said that.

What if we could get Alex back without opening the rift?

Wait, I just said we can't.

"Be quiet, Winter..."

Thank you, Alex.

-"...is talking." -Thank you, Alex.

Actually, it's classic quantum entanglement.

Are you thinking hidden variables theory?

I'm more of a many-worlds interpretation man myself.

What? I did Neil DeGrasse Tyson MasterClass.

As I was saying,

particles in a quantum state can be connected across a great distance.

Maybe Alex and Justin's emotional bond links them the same way.

If that's true, we could theoretically use

a powerful binding spell to bring them together.

[gasps] "That's just crazy..."

-Hey! -"...enough to work."

Okay, next microwave we get needs to have a bigger screen.

Wait, do you really think that could work?

"I'll talk Roman through it."

Uh, okay. But what if I mess this up?

"You won't..."

Thanks, Aunt Alex.

"...ever see me again."

Okay, great. So no pressure.

All right, fellas, it's slappy hour.

[grunts]

[laughs]

Need a hand? Here's two.

Ah!

[laughs]

And now it's time for my greatest hit.

[grunting] Ah!

Is that all you got? I was just getting started...

[shuddering violently]

Ow! That was not fun.

Let's do this.

With Justin set on Alex finding,

bring together with magic binding...

You think it's funny slapping people with those things?

Honestly? Yeah, a little bit.

See how funny it is when you're stuck in here.

What... [stammering]

-[man laughing] -What?

Well, well, well.

Justin Russo.

Oh, boy, do I have some things to say to you.

And I wrote them all down in a letter

that I'm gonna read to you right now.

Wait. So, Alex jumped through a rift

-to save the entire world? -[chuckles]

Man, she is so much cooler than I am.

Don't feel bad. I think she's cooler than everyone.

How are we gonna get past those guards?

I have an idea.

Hey, tell me about your life.

What? Now?

Yes. It's been ten years. Catch me up.

How's it been living with Justin?

It's, uh...

It's been great.

Well, actually, not at first.

Day one, I conjured a Floogie and sent Roman to the Nowhere Zone.

Justin must have hated that.

Oh, he did.

Then I got eaten by Pumpkin Belly,

threw a house party, turned Roman into a baby,

and... Wow, I really am a handful.

Yeah, doesn't surprise me one bit.

I'm sorry. How is this gonna help us get past the guards?

Ah! Like this.

Hey! You guys looking for us?

[thuds]

Not gonna lie, Dad, you are pretty cool yourself.

[Roman] Across the rift,

let their affection be the source of this connection.

Now cast!

Did it work?

I said the spell just like Aunt Alex told me.

I think I just saved the day.

Uh, Roman.

[Roman] "Cast this spell in the right direction"?

Dang it! There was more to the spell!

Well, I'm sure it's fine.

I mean, it's gotta be fine.

-Right? -[electricity crackling]

[Silas speaking indistinctly]

-Justin? -I found it hurtful that...

Billie? Thank goodness you're okay.

I... Oh.

-Oh, no. -What's happening?

He's gone.

Where am I?

[echoing] Hello?

-[rustling] -Who's there?

Whoever you are, you better stay back!