Project Blue Fish

==Characters==
Nat PetersonShubieSusieBaby BillySadie RechidFred RechidNancy Suzy FishFrankMartha SmithTom SmithMableLennyTina-FranSallyDebbie RechidHaroldIsabelEvelynPilar (cameo)Scooter (cameo)Monroe (cameo)Tommy Rechid (cameo)Small Billy (cameo)Tall Billy (cameo)Tyler (cameo)Sally's Daughter (cameo)
==Transcript ==
(Scene cuts to Nat playing blackjack with Tom, Fred and Frank)
Tom: "I have 17."
Frank: "I have 19."
Fred: "I have 20."
Nat: "I have 21! I win!"
Tom: "Again?" Nat grabs the pile of money in the middle of the table.
Frank: "Nancy's going to kill me when I tell her how much money I lost today." The guys laugh.
(Scene cuts to Shubie walking into Nat's house)
Shubie: "Hey ladies! Sorry I'm late, I just had to go to parent-teacher conferences at the school today."
Sadie: "Ugh, those most be awful. Thank Neptune me and Fred don't have to go to those since Monroe and Tommy have their mother as their teacher."
Martha: "I'm just lucky I won that pass at that school fundraiser last fall that allows me to cut the line and talk to Mable first during parent-teacher conferences. Evelyn put up quite a fight when they were auctioning it off but I knew she didn't stand a chance. Her bank account isn't as big as mine."
Shubie: "Well aren't you lucky. I'm so sad that Nancy probably won't be able to come now though. She was last in the line to talk to Mable."
Martha: "Aw, that's a shame. Maybe I should've let her borrow my pass. Oh, I almost forgot. Here you go!" Martha hands Baby Billy to Shubie.
Shubie: "Thanks so much for watching him while I was gone. You and Tom are going to make great parents someday."
Martha: "Thanks, Tom and I have been thinking about having a baby lately."
 
Shubie: "Oh, that must be so exciting! I remember how excited I was during my first pregnancy." 
Sadie: "Yeah, but it won't be as exciting when you're giving birth." The women laugh.
Shubie: "It's completely worth it though. I would be miserable without Susie and this little guy." Shubie hugs Baby Billy.
Sadie: "Oh, I can't wait to have children with Nat... I mean more children with Fred! I must be tired from a long day of work." Sadie laughs nervously.
Tom(from upstairs): "Dang it! You must be cheating!"
Martha: "Well there goes the money we saved for the baby." The women laugh.
Sadie: "Oh! I brought some cookies from the store!" Sadie pulls out a tray of cookies and offers them to Shubie.
Shubie: "Thanks Sadie! You really shouldn't have." Shubie takes a cookie and bites into it. Sadie offers the tray to Martha.
Martha: "Sorry, but I'm trying to watch my weight this month."
Shubie: "Wow Martha, someone's trying to get that summer body a little early!" The women laugh. Sadie looks at her watch.
Sadie: "I'd better go check if Fred has changed his color yet."
Shubie: "Why would he be changing colors? Is he sick?"
Sadie: "No, but he's going to change his color soon because of this massive heat wave we're getting tomorrow. You know how sometimes Fred isn't green? Well that happens due to temperature changes, and he's definitely going to change color at some point tonight when it starts getting warmer."
Shubie: "Oh. That stinks."
Sadie: "Yeah and now our baby changes color too for the same reasons so it looks like I'll have to deal with this problem forever." Sadie gets up and goes upstairs to check on Fred.
Martha: "Poor Fred. I would hate if I changed color because of the weather. I love being blue, it's why Tom married me."
Shubie: "Tom married you just because you're blue?"
Martha: "Well not just because I'm blue, but it was a big factor. He really liked the fact that when other people saw us with Isabel, they would usually think that I was her mother and not Nancy." Sadie walks downstairs.
Sadie: "Fred hasn't changed color yet, but he's bound to in the next few hours."
Fred: "Oh come on! How does Nat always win?!"
Martha: "Maybe his losing streak will change by then too." The women laugh. Baby Billy yawns. Shubie looks at her watch.
Shubie: "Well, it's getting late. I'd better get Billy to bed."
Martha: "Aww... Do we have to end this so soon? We need to do this again sometime."
Shubie: "Yeah, but not on the night where there's parent teacher conferences." The women laugh.
Sadie(yells to the guys upstairs): "Come on guys! It's time to go home! Shubie needs to put her baby to bed!" The guys come downstairs.
Shubie: "Bye everyone! I hope you had a great time!" Everyone waves goodbye and leaves.
(Scene cuts to Nat and Shubie sleeping in their bedroom that night) A robber enters Nat's bedroom through a window The robber walks around the room and knocks into a dresser which causes Shubie to wake up.
Shubie: "Nat? Is that you?" Shubie gets up and sees the robber.
Shubie: "Hey, you're not Nat... Aah! A thief!" The robber gets startled and backs away from the bed which causes him to fall out of the window. Shubie grabs a camera off of her dresser and runs over to the window.
Shubie: "Gotcha!" Shubie takes a picture of the robber as he gets up and runs away.
(Scene cuts to two police officers in Nat's house)
Officer: "Well, we searched the house and there doesn't seem to be anything stolen. Do you have any evidence of this happening or who this burglar could be?"
Shubie: "Yes, I have this picture." Shubie shows the officer a picture of a blue blur.
Officer: "Um, do you have any other evidence that could help us solve this case?" Shubie shakes her head. The officer looks at her watch.
Officer: "So you woke us up at two in the morning just to report a robbery where the robber didn't steal anything and the only evidence is a blurry picture and a ladder leading to a window? Wives and their tall tales. You probably just got spooked from a nightmare. I'm going back home. I'll need all the sleep I can get when I have to wake up in three hours and take my kids to school." The police officers leave Nat's house.
Nat: "Well that didn't help at all. I guess they'll never find the robber."
Shubie: "No they won't, but I will."
(Scene cuts to everyone sitting in Nat's house the next day)
Shubie: "Hello. The reason why I called all of you in here today is because someone broke into my house last night." The crowd gasps.
Shubie: "Now, thankfully, the robber wasn't able to steal anything, but I also wasn't able to find out who it was. The only evidence I have is this very blurry picture of something that is blue, which leads me to believe that the person who tried to rob my house is blue or was wearing something that was blue. So if you are blue... (Harold gasps) Are wearing something blue... (Tina-Fran gasps) Or if any part of your body is blue... (Sally gasps) Then you are a suspect in this case."
Mable: "What do you know about solving a crime? You're not a detective! You work at a clothing store!"
Shubie: "It looks like we have our first suspect. (the crowd gasps and Mable rolls her eyes) Mable, what were you doing last night?"
Mable: "Well, last night was parent-teacher conferences at school. Parent-teacher conferences are always awful. Every parent always complains about their kids' grades."
(Scene cuts to a flashback)
Nancy Suzy Fish: "You only gave Isabel an A in history? She deserves an A+!" 
(Flashback ends)
Shubie: "Exactly! You must've hated your conference with me last night so much that you told Lenny to sneak into my house and steal something from me!"
Mabel: "What?! I would never do that! In fact, Lenny never could have done that either because after parent-teacher conferences, Lenny always takes me out to dinner at Fancy!."
Shubie: "Do we have any witnesses of Lenny taking Mable to Fancy!? (Lenny raises his hand) Besides you, Lenny."
Tina-Fran: "I saw them walking into Fancy! while I was driving home from work."
Shubie: "Ok well then I guess the proves that Mable and Lenny didn't do it. But what about you Tina? You're wearing a blue dress, what where you doing last night?" 
(Flashback)
Tina: "Well I was driving home from work, and I saw Lenny and Mable walking into Fancy!. Then later on, I saw Sally going for a late night walk as I was pulling into my driveway."
(Flashback ends)
Shubie: "A-ha! So it was Sally who pretended to be getting some excercise while, in reality, she was walking towards my house so she could break into it!"
Sally: "What?! No, I always go on walks late at night. And anyways, I didn't even walk past your house last night!"
Shubie: "Oh yeah? Where's your proof?"
Sally: "Well, uh, after Tina past me, I walked towards Frank and Nancy's house. Nancy had just gotten home from parent teacher conferences." 
(Flashback)
Frank: "Hey, how were parent-teacher conferences?"
Nancy: "Horrible! Mable wouldn't budge on that A Isabel got in history. How is Isabel ever going to get into Whale when they see that she got an A in history?! She needs to get all A+'s if she's going to get in."
Frank: "Nancy, you're such a great mother. No other woman would fight so hard to make sure that their kid has the best grades so they can have the best future. I'm sure you were the prettiest mother there by far too." Nancy blushes.
Nancy: "You're just saying that. I'm sure you'll make a great and handsome parent too someday."
Frank: "Would I ever lie to you, Nancy?"
Nancy: "Oh, who says it has to be someday? Why can't it be now? Do you want to go for a drive?"
Frank: "Would I!" Frank and Nancy jump into their boat. Frank turns on the boat.
(Scene cuts to Sally still standing in front of their garage)
Nancy(from inside the garage): "Oh, Frank! You are such a great driver!"
(Flashback ends and everyone gasps) Nancy's face turns red with embarrassment.
Nancy: "What?! You heard that?"
Sally: "I didn't want them to know I had eavesdropped on their conversation so I went back home and decided that I would just go on a longer walk the next night."
Shubie: "Ok, so it looks like you couldn't have done it. But that doesn't mean that Frank couldn't have though! Maybe you two saw Sally and pretended to be acting all romantic when really you were just waiting for her to leave so you could plan on how to break into my house!"
Nancy: "What?! Why would we do that? Anyway, after the little incident in our garage, we had something to eat and I remembered that tomorrow was trash day." 
(Flashback)
Nancy: "Could you take out the trash, dear? Tomorrow's trash day."
Frank: "Sure thing, honey." Frank picks up a trash bag and walks outside. Frank throws out the trash and noticed Harold leaning out of his window.
Frank: "Hey, what's Harold doing? And why is he holding a pair of binoculars?"
(Flashback ends)
Frank: "While I was taking out the trash, I spotted Harold watching Evelyn cooking dinner from his window through a pair of binoculars." The crowd gasps.
Evelyn: "You were doing what?!"
Harold: "No! I was, uh, clam watching last night! Yeah! It's one of my hobbies!"
Evelyn: "You better be telling the truth you little..."
Shubie: "Hold it, Evelyn. That may prove that Frank couldn't have done it, but it doesn't prove that another blue fish, Isabel, didn't."
Nancy: "What?! Why in Neptune's name would my daughter do that?"
Shubie: "I don't know, but does she have an alibi during the time the robbery took place?"
Debbie: "Yeah, I was paid to babysit her while Mr. and Mrs. Fishbowl were at parent-teacher conferences. She went to bed way before this robbery happened."
Shubie: "Ok, so the Fishbowls couldn't have done it. Then that brings us to Harold. Would you like to explain what happened?" 
(Flashback)
Harold: "Ok, so I was, uh, clam watching last night. Learning about clams is one of my favorite hobbies, you know, since I'm a scientist. Anyway, I didn't notice Frank taking out the trash, but I did see Martha sneaking out of her house later that night. I didn't want Martha to see me and think that I was looking at my pretty neighbor down the street, so I turned off the light in my room and went to bed." (Flashback ends)
Shubie: "So it was Martha who broke into my house! Wow, out of all the blue fish in this room, you were the last person I would've predicted."
Martha: "But I didn't do it, Shubie! I swear!"
Shubie: "Oh really? Then what were you doing outside so late at night then?"
Martha: "I don't have to tell you anything!"
Shubie: "Oh, well then I guess you'd rather talk to the police?" Shubie pulls out her phone.
Martha: "Alright! I admit it! I was sneaking out to the cake store! I'm so sorry, Tom! I know I've been trying to go on a diet, but that chocolate cake looked too delicious. I couldn't take it anymore! I sneaked out of my house late last night and bought it."
Shubie: "Did anyone witness Martha do this?"
Mable: "I did. When Lenny and I were driving home from Fancy!, I saw Martha walking back to her house carrying a box of chocolate cake."
Shubie: "Ok, well then it looks like all of you are innocent. You can all go home now. I guess I'll never find out who did it." Everyone begins to leave Nat's house.
Sadie: "Thank Neptune this is over! I'm so glad my husband went to work today instead of watching a wannabe detective try to solve some stupid case! What does Nat see in you?" Sadie closes the door.
Shubie: "Oh, it was so stupid of me to think that I could solve this case!" Shubie smacks herself in the face.
Nat: "Don't be so hard on yourself, Shubie. At least you tried your best to solve the mystery. Most people wouldn't have cared as much or would've given up at this point. Don't listen to Sadie. What you tried to do was a great thing, not just for yourself, but for the entire street. If you had solved the crime, then it would stop this thief from breaking into to other people's houses." 
Shubie: "Thanks, Nat. I know I can always count on you to cheer me up. Wait a minute... Don't listen to Sadie... That's it! Nat, what did Sadie say right before she left?"
Nat: "What does Nat see in you?" 
Shubie: "No, no. Before that."
Nat: "Thank Neptune Fred went to work instead of listening to you?"
Shubie: "I know who did this! It was Fred!"
Nat: "What? How do you know it was him? Plus, Fred's green and I thought the fish who broke into our house was blue."
Shubie: "But sometimes Fred turns blue due to the weather! Yesterday Sadie said that he was probably going to change color today because of the heat wave that's coming to Bikini Bottom. Why didn't I think of this before? Fred was mad that you had beaten him so badly in blackjack last night that he decided to sneak into our house and take the money back."
(Scene cuts to Shubie knocking on the front door of Sadie's house the next day.) Fred opens the door.
Fred: "Hello?"
Shubie: "You were the one who broke into my house a few days ago!"
Fred: "What?! No I wasn't!"
Shubie: "Oh really? Then how do you explain this?" Shubie holds up the photo of the blurry, blue image.
Fred: "That picture could be of anything!"
Shubie: "Yeah, but you're the only blue person who was complaining all night that you couldn't beat Nat in blackjack. So to save yourself from embarrassment, you decided to sneak into my house later that night and take back the money that you lost fair and square."
Fred: "You have no proof of this happening! Who's going to believe you?"
Shubie: "I don't know, but we could always try to see if the police will." Shubie pulls out her phone and begins to dial 911.
Fred: "No! Stop! Don't call the police!"
Shubie: "Then admit that you were the one who broke into my house!"
Fred: "Ok, ok! You're right! It was me! I was so embarrassed that I lost all of my money to Nat that I decided to try to get it back by sneaking into your house and stealing it! I'm sorry! Please don't take me to jail! I'm not a criminal!" Shubie closes her phone.
Shubie: "That's all I needed to hear."
Fred: "So you're not going to call the police?"
Shubie: "I won't if you apologize to me and my family in front of the entire neighborhood."
Fred: "What?! I'm not doing that!" Shubie takes out her phone again.
Fred: "Alright, alright! I'll do it."
(Scene cuts to Fred talking to everyone in Nat's house)
Fred: "I was the one who broke into Nat and Shubie's house a few nights ago. I broke into their house to try and take back the money Nat rightfully won from me earlier that night when we were playing blackjack. I never should have thought that that was a good idea, and I am really sorry for all of the trouble that Nat, Shubie and their kids had to go through in the few days since then. I hope that you all can forgive me." The audience claps.
Martha: "Wow. I guess Shubie was right after all."
Nancy: "Yeah. Even though she accused my whole family of being thieves, I can't help but admire her determination to catch the person who broke into her house and bring him to justice."
Nat: "Wow Shubie, it looks like everyone's back on your side! I can't believe you actually solved this case!"
Shubie: "Yeah well, I never would have if you weren't such a great and encouraging husband."
Nat: "Oh, it's not like I had any other options!" Nat and Shubie laugh. Nat and Shubie start to kiss, but stop when they notice everyone looking at them strangely.
Shubie: "Hey, why don't we spend the money you won from Fred on a little romantic weekend getaway?"
Nat: "Yeah, let's do that."
(Scene ends)
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