Be Careful What You Wish For

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**Be Careful What You Wish For** is the seventh episode of Season 4 of Escape the Night.

## Episode Summary

*A genie has been trapped in a lamp and the YouTubers must find a way to free him to get the next key. They will have to outfox Scheherazade and her many thieves if they want to find their way out of the Arabian exhibit.*

## Plot

They find the lamp and have to sing "Arabia's song" Bretman and Joey argue about searching for a song, and rubbing the lamp. In the end Bretman grabs the lamp and rubs it, a tune plays. Then again, Bretman rubs the lamp again while they all hum the melody. That, surprisingly, works. A note appear saying that they have to find the Genie and free him from the lamp. For the first time our guests gets to go upstairs and at the end of the corridor, they find a altar in which Bretman places the lamp on a symbol, and a secret entrance appears. They crawl through the tunnel and finds a Genie chained up. They quickly find out that they're inside his lamp. He's of course furious that they've entered like all the other Guardians, but when they tell him that they can help, he quickly changes his mind. They of course want his key, but he won't give it to them unless they help him out from the chains that "Scheherazade" has put him in. In order to free him they must find the hammer of Suleiman in the Arabian exhibit. He also throws a wish on-top of the prize. He tells them they have to use the hammer to shatter the ebony horse and so they enter the Arabian exhibit, from the Genie’s lamp. As they get in, there is a lot of women seemingly trying to distract them. They walk down Arabia until they reach a stage and watch a live play, people get stabbed and they get shocked. But because it's a play, they faked it. The Storyteller ,Scheherazade, comes in the middle of the play. They tell her that they need the hammer and she tells them that someone would have to volunteer upstage. Bretman gets up on stage to star in a romantic play. But then, the Belly-dancers rip off their masks and chases them all. As they try to run away, they get captured of course. Scheherazade asks questions. But, a guy by the name of Sinbad rushes in and frees them. They run off and hide in a tent nearby. Joey lets them know about everything and why they're here. Sinbad tells them horse is hidden in the Kebab tent, and in order to get the hammer's placement, they need a ring. So they plan to split up, Alex helps Sinbad distract the bandits (belly-dancers), Nikita and Bretman go off to the Kebab tent, while Joey and Rosanna stay, and has to get the ring.

### Group 1

Rosanna and Joey need to find out how, and where "Ma'Ruf" was killed by using different items laying around the tent. If there's 1 knock, it's wrong, if 2, correct. After five questions one of them must put their own card in the voting. They try multiple items and gets it right by questioning if Ma’Ruf was hung. Then they have to find out where he was killed. They look around for a while... but only find weapons. They ask if Ma’Ruf was killed in bed, wrong. Now one of them have to put their name in the voting pile. Ro, without hesitating does it and they continue looking. Joey finds a book, asks if he was killed in a library. Two knocks, and they've got their ring.

### Group 2

Bretman and Nikita head into the tent and find a note saying that they have to eat a bunch of falafels, but they get spicier and spicier along the way. Nikita plans on eating half as Bretman does too. They fight through it, chugging a bunch of water and swallowing the falafels. Bretman gets through it like a boss, while Nikita stops when there's three left, and leaves it to Bretman. He quickly eats two, but struggles on the third one. He beats through it and they both get the horse.

### Group 3

Alex and Sinbad basically just distract the guards. They both run around trying to get the bandits away. But Alex is caught once. Then gets freed by Sinbad.

As they all meet up in the middle, Sinbad and Ali Baba gets into a fight to the death, ending with both of them dying.. Fatima is devastated. Joey raises the ring to the sky, and there it is, the hammer! But then Scheharazade takes it, right infront of them.. Tells them that, they’d have to vote in two people to complete her story. They discuss and find out Alex is the only one who's went in. But they all vote themselves. Turns out Alex and Bretman is picked. But, wait Joey stands up, and takes Alex's place. In the challenge, there’s a board with four lines, they have to finish it with three items, and the last line will be where the person who dies' name will be written down. So they rush off to find items.

1: "A very poor fisherman cast his net and was very surprised to pull up \_\_\_"

* Joey: The most magical lamp, lost at sea for thousand of years, imprisoned by Poseidon himself.
* Bretman: A big hot pot, handcrafted by the genie himself.

2: "A Genie emerged enranged at being imprisoned, the Fisherman, to no avail, tired to appease the Genie with \_\_\_"

* Joey: With a ram staff. Known to appease many Genie's in history.
* Bretman: Fishes. GMO free.

3. "The Genie tried to kill the fisherman, but he tricked the Genie using \_\_\_"

* Joey: Some sexy rope, he was into some kinky stuff, and the Genie loved to be tied up

* Bretman: This silk hunny. Made by the finest silkworms in China. Handpicked by the emperor himself.

Scheherazade then asks them to vote on who's story was the worst.

* Joey: Nikita
* Bretman: Alex and Rosanna

Alex thinks Bretman's was better, but Joey did save him. This means, Bretman lost. Scheharazade tells Fatima to write down Bretman's name in the story. But she writes down: "Scheherazade" out of revenge for Sinbad's death. The Arabians attack her, killing her, and they grab the hammer, and shatters the Ebony horse! They then run off, on their way out of Arabia. But, Nikita's magic fades away and she returns to Matt and the SAE (Society Against Evil). They run back and free the Genie at last! He breaks free of his chains, and gives them the key. Joey says that he promised a wish. The Genie says yes, but twists it slightly.. He said he'll be willing to revive one of their friends from the dead. Alex & Bretman both think Tana, Rosanna says Colleen. Joey walks up the Genie while he whispers in his ear saying he knows what would be best and the episode ends.

## Characters

* Joey Graceffa
* Rosanna Pansino
* Bretman Rock
* Alex Wassabi
* Nikita Dragun
* Matthew Patrick
* Jael
* Ryu
* The Genie
* The Sorceress
* Scheherazade
* Sinbad
* Fatima
* Ali Baba
* The Thieves
* The Collector

## Trivia

* According to the leaked episode titles on IMBD, this episode was likely originally named "The Genie's Lamp"