Take Care of the Caretaker

## Summary

They gang take a wrong turn and end up on a haunted road where they discover an abandon mansion haunted by the ghost of its former caretaker

## Script

(We open on nighttime up on a hill where inside a man resembling Miner Forty Niner from Scooby-Doo is see walking we then fade to the Clue Machine driving down a deserted road)

Scraggy:(OS)Like are we there yet Frank?

Frank:(OS)I told you Scraggy. Soon.

Scraggy:(OS)But you said that an hour ago man.

(Cuts to the gang)

Veronica:Just think. A whole week without trouble. Nothing to worry about, no monsters, ghosts or gloomy mansions.

Dally:And hopefully we won't get a flat tire.

(It happens we cut to outside the van where it slows down)

Veronica:You were saying?

Scraggy:Huh? Why are we stopping?

Frank:Bad news gang. It looks like we got a flat tire.

Veronica:Hey maybe we can head into that cabin over there.

(They go over to the house and then enter and they call out)

Dally:Hello? Anyone home?

Scraggy:Just the spoons. Let's go!

Ruffy-Ruff:I'm with you Scraggy!

Frank:(OS)Wait a minute kids. (Cuts to him) I smell a mystery. Let's split up. The girls and me'll go upstairs to look for clues.

(They do so and Scraggy and Ruffy are left behind downstairs alone)

Scraggy:Like let's go find the kitchen.

Ruffy-Ruff:Yeah kitchen.

(Cuts to the Caretaker)

Caretaker:Perfect. They've fallen right into my trap.

(Cuts to the gang looking for clues in a bedroom)

Dally:Gee guys I wish we had a clue to a clue.

Veronica:Jinkies! I found one!

Frank:What is it?

Veronica:It's a pice of paper to somebody named Jake O'Connor. It says that he'll receive a lot of money if the house gets candied. And here's a picture of him.

(It's of a young white male with black hair)

Frank:We've got a clue.

(The gang walk back downstairs as the Caretaker watches them from behind the door we cut to the kitchen where the guys are making snacks as the gang come down)

Scraggy:Like this place is sure creepy.

Ruffy-Ruff:Yeah creeeeepy.

(Mr Cane, a middle aged bald man with brownish gray hair on the back and sides comes and is hunched over, he wears a light blue shirt, white tie, brown shoes and dark gray pants and carries a cane in his right hand using it to stay up)

Mr. Cane:What are you kids doing here?

Dally:Would you believe we broke down?

(We fade to black and back onto the outside of the house as thunder goes off we fade to inside the kitchen where they are talking to Mr. Cane)

Frank:And that's how we got here Mr. Cane.

Scraggy:Boy are we glad you didn't turn out to be any creepy man.

Ruffy-Ruff:Yeah. Not considering you *are* a creepy man.

Mr. Cane:Well you kids shouldn't be here.

Veronica:What do you mean Mr. Cane?

Mr. Cane:I've lived here my whole life. Ever since I married my wife. And I think that she may be calling me though the dead from beyond the grave.

Scraggy and Ruffy:(Look at each other)From the grave?

(They whimper and Mr. Cane explains)

Dally:But how sir?

Mr. Cane:You see she's been dead for three years and I think she's been calling me from the grave like the episode of The Twilight Zone and so I've had such little staff. This young man named Jake O'Connor wants the house for the money. And the ghost of a man known as the Caretaker has been haunting my home for weeks. He is sort of like the Miner Forty Niner from Scooby-Doo.

Frank:We've been wondering about this Jake O'Connor.

Mr. Cane:He's a receptionist at an agency.

Dally:There's something strange about this whole thing.

Frank:(To Dally)You're right. (To Mr. Cane)If you don't mind sir we'd like to take a look around.

(We fade to the Caretaker tied to a chair with the police arriving)

Veronica:Now to see who the Caretaker really is.

(Pulls off the mask revealing)

Gang:Jake O'Connor?!

(Scraggy spots something)

Scraggy:Like wait.

(Talks about a scratch on the side of his neck and pulls it off and it is revealed to be a mask and the real culprit is really)

Gang:Mr. Cane?!

Policeman:Mr. Cane? That's Slim Shady, the notorious bank robber in the country.

Dally:But what's he doing here?

Policeman:He hid the bank loot here.

Veronica:I've got it. So he used all his scary tricks to keep people away while he searched for it.