My Spooky Advert

Three well-known people are bringing supplies from a GIV, Ghost Intercept Vehicle , into an old Victorian house. Scene begins with three well-known ghost chasers, Man1, Man2, and Woman1. They are working together bringing supplies, including the refreshing drinkable product. The three follow a large electrical cable that is bringing power from the Ghost Intercept Vehicle up the front porch steps and into the house. Man1 is soon looking at the equipment detectors and some cans of refreshing drinkable product. 

Man1 is excited as he reads the instrument and the narrow print-out on paper that has a wiggly line. Something about the wiggly line is exciting to him. Man1 says, "There is definitely some activity over there," while motioning with his hand past a staircase and down a short hall in-between two rooms.

Man1 grabs a can of refreshing drinkable product with his other hand while Man2 and Woman1, laden with equipment, go searching around in the old Victorian mansion which is actually a little too old for comfort. The floor creaks and pops as the two separate and search the two rooms at the end of the short hallway. The floor suddenly gives way beneath Man 2 and he slides down the resulting incline plane to the floor below. Bonk, ouch!

As Man2 regains consciousness, he sees Woman1 nearby and hears her voice urging him to get up. She doesn't touch him or help him to get up. She asks, " I am afraid to touch you, is anything broken?" "Can you stand up?" "Try to get up."

Man2 gets up from the floor slowly (ouch) and looks at himself in the mirror. He says, "I don't know yet". We hear footsteps coming downstairs from the floor above. Down the stairs and into the room comes Woman1, that is to say another Woman1.

'Another' Woman1 walks over to MAN2 and says, "You look awful, are you sure that you should be standing up?"'

'Another' Woman1 can be seen as a reflection in the mirror as well. She touches Man2 on the shoulder. Just then she notices that Woman1 is already in the room! Gasp! We can see the image of the distraught 'Another' Woman1 (who just came down the steps) and her distraught reflection in the mirror, Man2, and a Woman1. There are three images of two Women1 and only one image of Man2 since he has moved away from the mirror a little bit.

The radio crackles with the voice of Man1, "Hey fellas there is something really big going on downstairs where you are!"

Man2 touches 'Another' Woman1 on the upper arm and gives her a little shove. She moves back a little, as does her reflection in the mirror.

Man2 touches Woman1 on the upper arm and gives her a little shove. His arm goes into her body up to his wrist! He can't see his hand. He says, to another Woman1, "Are you seeing this, too?". 'Another' Woman1 nods her head, as does her reflection in the mirror. Man1 pulls his hand back and it's OK. No harm done. Woman1 looks mildly concerned, as if the situation is annoying though still under control.

Man2 looks back at Woman1 and says, "You aren't real!". He swipes his hand through her again, only to follow though too far and strike 'Another' Woman1. He yells at Woman1, "You aren't real!" but Woman1 merely looks at him and shakes her head a little as if to say, Calm down. Man2 is shaking and has turned red. He looks at 'Another' Woman1 who has gone pale, then he looks in the mirror and realizes that he can't see the reflection of Woman1. He says, "You have no reflection…" but when he turns to talk to her he sees an empty room where she had been standing. Then he is suddenly alone with 'Another' Woman1 and her reflection in the mirror.

The radio crackles with the voice of Man1, "That's okay, it's gone now!".

Man2: "Humph!"

Woman 2: "It is gone!"

Woman2 runs upstairs with Man2 hobbling along behind her. When they arrive upstairs they are hot, thirsty, and exhausted. The stair steps are creaking, groaning, and falling down with a crash! Man2 and Woman1 barely make it off the stairs before those top steps fall down into the basement.

Man1 is already chugging a can of the refreshing drinkable product. He is holding the paper graph that is still coming out of a detector machine. The graph is a wavy line with a big spike in the middle. Man1 says, "You have got to take a look at these readings!" Something about the wiggly line is exciting to him.

Woman1 ignores the detector machine and goes over to the refreshing drinkable product. She hands one to Man2. Man2 holds the cold can of product against a bruise on his head. As Woman1 shifts her gaze past Man1 and the detector machine, she can see a cloud of dust rising from the self-demolished stairsteps. Something flies up out of the basement, perhaps a large moth or a furry bat. Then it flies away, free at last, out the front door and past the GIV. Ghost Intercept Vehicle. There isn't much noise from the GIV because the GIV is a hybrid vehicle running in electric mode.

There is still some noise inside the house since it seems to be collapsing little by little around the ghost chaser team. The team is safe for the moment, but each little pop (wood breaking noises) or roar (hundred years old rusty nails) is accompanied by a small puff of dust. Woman1 drinks some of the refreshing drinkable product and says the pat phrase. Man2 is dry and cannot say the pat phrase until Woman1 allows Man2 to drink out of her can of refreshing drinkable product, as he holds his can of refreshing drinkable product against his head. Man2 manages to say the pat phrase. Behind him, a large beam swings down from upstairs.