Which Witch is Which?

## Summary

The Mysteries Patrol gang is searching a swamp for spooks.

## Script

(We open on a zombie rowing in a boat he turns to see something then turns back to rowing cuts to the Mystery Patroller driving cuts to up front where the gang are just driving Danny is mad)

Danny:Some fishing trip this turned out to be. Like not even a nibble!

(Cuts to Ace)

Ace:Well it looks like Rubble isn't giving up yet.

(Cuts to Rubble in the back with a fishing rod and a bucket with water cuts back to the driving)

Ace:Hey Danny what kind of a creepy short cut is Ryder taking?

Danny:Search me. But it's creepy.

(Back to group shot)

Ryder:Well I didn't know it ran through such a spooky swamp.

(Cuts to Katie)

Katie:You mean this is the first time you've ever taken it?

(Cuts to Ryder)

Ryder:Yeah but it's the last time I hope.

(Group shot of them)

Danny:Oh brother, we're lost.

Ace:Maybe not. (Points to something)Look. (Cuts to the zombie on the side of the road)There's someone up ahead.

(Back to the wide shot of them driving)

Katie:Let's ask him how to get out of here.

(They stop by it Danny talks to it smiling)

Danny:Uh excuse me, kind sir, can you show us the main road?

(Zombie groans as it holds up its lantern, Danny is scared now cuts to the zombie)

Danny:(OS)Z-Z-Z-Zoinks! A-A-A-A-A zombie!

(Cuts to Rubble)

Rubble:Zombie?!(Jumps in bucket)Yikes!

(Pokes his head out a little cuts back to scene the van drives away cuts to the zombie groaning we then fade to a general store)

Ryder:I guess this is Swamp's End. (Cuts to them)I don't know where it is. But I'm sure glad we found it.

(Cuts to Katie, Ace, Danny and Rubble)

Rubble:Me too.

Ace:Well I'd like to know more about that zombie.

(Cuts to the buildings)

Katie:(OS)This sure looks like the place where you can find out.

(Fade to inside Rubble is at two pots while a man talks to the gang Rubble hears the man)

Zeke:(OS)Yessire. (We move over to them)As strange as it may seem i've seen the zombie you speak of. (Cuts to a close up)And the old witch that brought him to life. With her voodoo magic.

(Cuts to Rubble)

Rubble:Huh? Voodoo?(Tosses some jellybeans in his mouth and gulps)

(Cuts to Ace)

Ace:You mean there's a witch living in that swamp too?

(Cuts back to Zeke)

Zeke:Yup. She showed up about six months ago. (Flashback happens we see him along with another man and they both carry staff like pitchforks)Me and my partner Zeb, went into the swamp to do some frog hunting. (Cuts to some bushes they poke out from the bushes and see something) We heard a strange noise, and that's when we saw it.

(Cuts to a shack and a weird looking woman with a weird type of maraca and has a vulture or crow's foot she says a chant)

Witch:Smoke of darkness, demon of evil, take the form of the living and come forth from the flame!

(The flame dissolves into the zombie cuts to a close up he groans we fade back to Zeke)

Zeke:And ever since then, no one's ever dared to go into the swamp.

(Back to scene)

Danny:Like wow, no wonder this town is deserted.

(Cuts to Rubble not looking what he's doing as he grabs jumping beans)

Zeke:(OS)Yup, Zeb and me are the only ones left. And he so scared he won't leave his cabin.

(Rubble tosses the jumping beans into his mouth and eats them cuts to Ace and Danny)

Ace:I've never heard of such a thing.

(Rubble is heard hiccuping)

Danny:What's with Rubble?

(Cuts to him pointing and hiccuping cuts to Ace)

Ace:Oh no! Rubble ate some jumping beans by mistake.

(Cuts to Rubble hopping as he hiccups and hops into a barrel and the barrel hops away cuts to Katie and Ace)

Katie:Rubble, look out!

Ace:(Covers her eyes)I can't look.

(A crash is heard as Katie has her eyes shut cuts to Rubble, the barrel is broken Rubble hiccups again for a drawer to close and a can to fall on his head cuts back to Rubble)

Rubble:I'm..(Can falls on his head)Sorry.

(Cuts to scene, Zeke no longer has his hat)

Danny:Wow what a mess.

(Cuts to Ace, she talks to Zeke)

Ace:If we can barrow a broom, we'll gladly clean it up.

(Back to the whole back)

Ryder:And while we do. You and Rubble go down to Zeb's place. (Cuts to a close up of him and Danny) Maybe you can find something about this creepy mystery.

(Danny gulps)

Danny:You've gotta be kidding.

(Cuts to Rubble)

Rubble:Yeah, kidding.

(We fade to Zeb's cabin the guys are at the mail box)

Danny:Well we're out of luck Rubble, this is Zeb Perkins' place and we found it. (Blows)I guess we better go in.(They enter)Hello anybody home?

Rubble:Howdy.

(Cuts to Danny)

Danny:Like no one seems to be here Rub. (Scene slider comes by to the right and we see Danny looking at a cobweb)And by the looks of this pad I don't blame them.

(Eating sounds are heard, he turns to Rubble who was eating something and blows a cobweb on to Danny off the plate, Danny coughs)

Danny:Thanks a lot. (Hears sounds)What's that? (Sees a shadow and gulps)Someone's out there. (Back to him)Go see who it is Rubble.

(Cuts to Rubble)

Rubble:Uh-uh.

(Back to Danny who pulls a coin out)

Danny:Ok we'll like flip a coin. Heads I win, tails you lose.

(Cuts to Rubble who thinks about it and says)

Rubble:Ok.

(Cuts to Danny who flips it and says)

Danny:Tails, you lose.

(Cuts to Rubble whining cuts to outside where he peers out and sees a shadow and gets scared he sees it's only a chipmunk Rubble sighs, he then goes up to it, it chitters he laughs and says)

Rubble:It's only a little chipmunk. (Gives it a nut) Here.

(Chipmunk thanks him by chittering something that sounds like "Thank you", Rubble goes away laughing saying)

Rubble: A chipmunk!

(Laughs as he enters the cabin, the zombie slams the door cuts to inside)

Danny:Hey Rubble I think I found Zeb. (Picks up a voodoo doll)Only I think the witch found him first.

(We blackout and fade back to the Mystery Patroller speeding)

Ace:This isn't Zeb Danny.

Danny:I thought he shrunk.

Ace:No it's a voodoo doll that looks like him.

Katie:Then what happened to Zeb?

Ryder:I don't know, but I'll bet that witch had something to do with it.

Ace:I wonder what she and that zombie are up to.

Ryder:Well there's only one place to find the answer.

Danny:Like in the phone book I hope.

Ryder:No Danny in the swamp.

(Danny and Rubble gulp about this)

Danny:I had to ask.

(We fade to the boat belonging to the zombie and witch who are in the boat, the witch is moving her eyes around while the zombie is rowing and this time not looking back, the gang spot them)

Ace:Look. There's the witch and her creepy crony.

Ryder:Come on let's follow them.

(They row out to follow them with Ryder and Danny paddling)

Ryder:Quietly now.

(Through the boat's Point Of View it goes through the weeds and they are nowhere to be seen cuts back to the gang)

Ace:They're gone!

Katie:Vanished!

Ryder:Yeah, but we're on the right trail. Look.

(Cuts to a tree with a warning on top of each other carved saying BEWARE OF THE WITCH)

Ace:(OS)Beware of the Witch. (Reads another sign with a skull on it pointing the other direction reading GO BACK) Go back.

(A sign by an alligator reads "ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK")

Danny:(OS)Enter at you own risk.

(Cuts to Rubble)

Rubble:Risk? Oh boy.

(We fade to the gang's boat parked on the other side we then move over to the gang at the witch's shack, we move in closer and cuts to inside they are all crowded at the door in the entrance)

Ace:Well the trail led us to the Witch's shack.

(We pan through the place as Ryder talks and we see a table with a skull and candles on it one is lit and there is a chair at the table and on it is a cloth)

Ryder:Yeah but no witch. But plenty of witch is where.

(Cuts to them in front of voodoo dolls of them)

Danny:Like look. Here's some more of those crazy voodoo dolls.

(Cuts up close)

Katie:(OS)And they look just like us.

Ryder:(OS)She's trying to scare us off.

(Cuts to Ace)

Ace:Well it won't work. That voodoo stuff is just a bunch of phony baloney.

(Cuts to Rubble with a Danny doll and a needle)

Rubble:Hmmm. I'll do it.

(Jabs the needle in the rear end and cuts to Danny beside Ryder and Danny feels the pain)

Danny:YOW! I'v been voodooed!

Ryder:Hold it Danny. (Removes a fork)All you did was back into this fork.

(Cuts to Rubble laughing and we all hear the witch cackling causing Rubble to swallow cuts to the door and we still here her and with a poof she appears in smoke)

Witch:So you dared to enter the swamp in spite of my warning signs.

(Cuts to the gang Katie has stepped forward)

Katie:You shouldn't believe everything you read.

Witch:(OS)No my pretty? (Cuts to her)I think you meddlers should be taught a lesson in witchcraft. Smoke of evil make her vanish.

(Cuts to Katie and in smoke she disappears and when it clears she's not there)

Ryder:(OS)Katie!

(Cuts to the witch cackling and disappears in a puff of smoke herself cuts to the gang Rubble is in Danny's arms)

Danny:Poor Katie. Gone forever in a puff of smoke.

(Cuts up close to Rubble crying cuts to Ryder)

Ryder:Yeah all that's left are her footprints on that rug.

Ace:(OS)Wait a minute. (Cuts to the rug)There's something funny about those footprints. (Cuts back to them this time Rubble is out of Danny's arms)Look at the way the slide back to the edge of the rug.

Ryder:That can only mean one thing.

(Cuts to Danny)

Danny:Like she had big feet?

(Back to the gang)

Ace:No silly. She sled down through a trapdoor in the floor.

(We fade to the celling of the floor and Ryder pulls a rope and the trapdoor comes down and springs back up)

Ryder:(OS)So that's how it works.

(Cuts to them)

Danny:Yeah but then what happened to Katie?

Ryder:I don't know.

(Cuts to Rubble who finds a clue)

Rubble:Danny, footprints.

Danny:Footprints? Look what Rubble found.

Ace:I wonder where they go.

Ryder:Let's follow them maybe they can lead us to the answer come on.

(Walks off we fade to them walking while Rubble sniff the trial he stops cuts to the gang)

Danny:Zowie.

Ace:Look at that.

(Cuts to them seeing a riverboat)

Ryder:It's an old daeragit riverboat.

Ace:And those footprints lead right to it.

Rubble:(Points to something)Look, look.

## Trivia

* This story has the same name of the thirteenth episode of *Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!*.