A New Dawning

**A New Dawning** is the fifth episode of Total Drama: Resurrection.

## Synopsis

The remaining twenty-one contestants must shoot each other with tranquilizers and avoid traps for the host's amusement.

## Script

### Intro - Recap

**Setting: Pahkitew Island, The Dock, nighttime.**

**Blaineley:**

Previously on Total Drama: Resurrection…

**Chris:**

Heather played ringmaster to two alliances while creating one of her own. Amy’s behavior was odd, even for her. Samey, Lightning, Sadie, DJ, and Lindsay danced their pants off and won the first challenge for their team under Eva’s tutelage while the Vipers felt the chill of their first loss.

**Blaineley:**

In the end, Heather betrayed Duncan and convinced his biggest ally Zoey to help her vote him off, sending him packing earlier than ever!

**Chris:**

What happens next? Find out now on TOTAL!

DRAMA!

RESURRECTION!

***The theme song plays***

### Act One - The Cabins

**Setting: Pahkitew Island, The Cabins, morning**

*Dawn, Samey, and Shawn are out foraging for berries as they do every morning. For a change, Jasmine joins along this time. After exchanging some pleasantries with each other, Dawn and Samey head back to deliver their berries to everyone else, leaving Jasmine and Shawn to finally talk.*

**Samey:**

We’re heading back to start breakfast.

**Dawn:**

You two stay here and talk, I know you need to.

**Shawn:**

Well, uh, thanks?

**Jasmine:**

It’s been an awfully long time, hasn’t it?

**Shawn:**

Yeah, yes it has. A full year now.

**Jasmine:**

Shawn, I’m sorry. I never expected that my business would talk off. You didn’t deserve to be shut out for my benefit. I thought of you the whole time, though.

**Shawn:**

You don’t have to apologize for being successful. I’m so proud and happy for you, it’s just that… I thought we were closer than that.

**Jasmine:**

Do you think that we’ve grown apart?

**Shawn:**

If there was anything really there to grow apart from.

**Jasmine:**

What do you mean?

**Shawn:**

Come on, Jas. We got together and bonded over one shared basic trait, the knowledge of survival. We’re completely different outside of that and don’t understand each other. You don’t get my zombie preparation and want me to change. I don’t get your love for combining flowers and fighting, and I don’t suppose that I ever will.

**Jasmine:**

I suppose that that’s something I’ve been feeling for a while now, too. I don’t even know if I really like dating and relationships as a whole, and you should be with someone that can take you as you are.

**Shawn:**

I love you, Jasmine.

**Jasmine:**

I love you, too, Shawn.

**Shawn:**

This really is for the best, isn’t it?

**Jasmine:**

It really is. Now we can be better friends than we could’ve been before.

**Shawn:**

And if I ever come to visit Australia, I’ll visit you.

**Jasmine:**

No you won’t, if you come visit, you’ll stay with me.

*The two share a warm embrace and then walk back to meet the others. Topher runs back to his spot after listening through the trees, he gets back just before Shawn and Jasmine, out of breath. Jasmine stares at him, curiously.*

**Topher:**

There they are!

**Jasmine:**

Topher, are you feeling alright? You look awfully out of breath and rather pale.

**Topher (***offended, but out of breath***):**

PALE?! Um, no?

**Jasmine:**

Well alright, I just thought-

**Topher:**

Think again.

**Samey (***changing the subject***):**

So… Jasmine, Shawn, what did you talk about?

**Heather:**

Yeah, come on. Tell us.

**Jasmine:**

Not much talking there to tell you about, Samey.

**Shawn:**

There’s nothing like a nice relaxing forage through nature.

**Amy:**

You two are so boring, like, god.

**Jasmine:**

Sorry we aren’t like your family circus, Amy.

**Samey:**

I know what you meant, but hey!

**Courtney:**

Was she wrong? You two are a mess.

**Sadie:**

Auntie Gwen always said that those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. And make sure you always wear underwear.

**Courtney:**

Of course she told you that, considering you look like you’ve eaten glass.

**Tyler:**

Is eating glass bad for you?

**Courtney:**

Considering she looks like a rat chewing on the walls, yes.

**Sadie:**

At least I didn’t eat garbage on international tv, four time loser!

**Courtney:**

Because you weren’t invited back until now. Who said no for you to be invited anyway? How many said no for you to be here?

**Sadie:**

Think of all the free time you have that you can drop everything and come back a fifth time. I hope you don’t work on commission.

**Courtney:**

Excuse me? My schedule is always booked. I’m the busiest woman in all of Canada. My bank account is as thick as you are.

**Eva:**

So why are you here?

**Courtney:**

Who can resist two million dollars?

**Eva:**

Someone that’s a successful lawyer and the “busiest woman in Canada.”

**Alejandro:**

Mi princesa, it’s okay to admit you’re a failure.

**Courtney:**

I am by no means a failure!

**Anne Maria:**

Enough about the failed nematode, let’s eat.

**Amy:**

I agree, I’m so hungry after celebrating our win last night.

**Heather:**

Get bent, blonde cow. Count your days.

**Amy:**

Are you threatening me, turkey?

**Heather:**

A threat? No, my love, I promise you you’ll be out by the end of the day.

**Amy:**

That’ll be quite impossible when we win again and you’ll get booted.

**Shawn:**

That one win out of three has you feeling awfully confident, huh?

**Amy:**

The first win of many, excuse your mouth.

**Eva:**

We’re gonna cream you, stink pig.

**Tyler:**

Yeah, we’re gonna bring the cream to the coffee and then we’re gonna drink it!

*Curious looks all face Tyler, even Lindsay, shaking her head as a way to tell him that it was wrong. Tyler just shrugs and goes back to eating his berries.*

**Heather:**

Okay, moving on from whatever that was.

**Zoey:**

Did you have something to say, Heather?

**Heather:**

Not necessarily, b-

**Lightning:**

Let’s sha-keep it that way.

*Lightning elbows Eva and Amy, and the Raccoons laugh at Heather. Heather is visibly angry, but tries to hide it.*

**Heather (***emphasizing heavily***):**

Anyways! As I-

**Sadie:**

Exactly. Anyways.

*Another laugh from the Raccoons. Topher rolls his eyes, and Zoey places a comforting hand on Heather’s shoulder.*

**Topher:**

Oh ha ha. Yuck it up and get your cheap catty laughs in. Did I just say that?

**Shawn:**

Wow, Topher. You’ve grown so much so fast. I almost feel like a proud dad.

**Topher:**

Ew, why? Besides, I already disowned one “father,” I don’t want another.

**Zoey:**

Excuse me, Heather was talking! Go ahead, girl.

**Heather:**

Now that Topher, the Miniseries is over for today, as I was saying. As long as we could move on from whatever the dunce was saying.

*Heather points to Tyler, and offended, he attempts to defend himself. He shoots food from his mouth, landing all over Topher.*

**Topher:**

Um, ew! F[censor noise]! Gross!

**Dave (***barely holding back laughter***):**

More food than you’ve ever had in your life.

**Topher:**

Shut up!

*Wiping Tyler’s chewed up food off of his face, Topher flings it at Dave. A direct hit to the face. Dave immediately starts screaming as Shawn laughs, helping him clean up, the camera zooming out, then cutting to a confessional block.*

**Topher:**

Jasmine and Shawn finally broke up, how fun! Now it’s Topher’s turn to be in the spotlight! This little piece of juicy gossip would have some interesting effects if it was let out, clearly they wouldn’t want that. It’s time for me to take control and build an alliance where everyone listens to me!

**Courtney:**

Did that miserable fat slug overstuffed turkey call me a nematode failure? What does that even mean?

**Heather:**

Oh, for sure. Lightning will rue the day he decided to cross me. He’s going to the top of my hit list. His eventual loss will taste sweet.

**Dawn:**

I sense tension has finally been alleviated. I believe Jasmine and Shawn have finally addressed their concerns and came to an agreement. Their earthly spirits felt at peace at breakfast this morning. Balance has been restored.

**Amy:**

Honestly, what’s all the focus with Jasmine and Shawn today? Screw me sideways with a phone pole, they are so boring. Such a snore fest, oh my gag.

*The camera cuts to static and then to the team splitting up and enjoying various activities. Lightning, Eva, Rodney, Tyler, Shawn, Jasmine, Alejandro, and Zoey engage in a spirited game of volleyball as Topher and Anne Maria were watching the boys playing, Topher using binoculars so he doesn’t miss anything. The camera then pans to Amy and DJ sitting on the stairs of the Raccoon cabin.*

**DJ:**

How’s your leg?

**Amy:**

Still injured. Look, you don’t have to sit here with me. I know you have somewhere else and better to be.

**DJ:**

You don’t have to push everyone away and be secluded. I think you’re a good person at your core, and I like you, Amy.

**Amy:**

Your compassion is misplaced, DJ.

**DJ:**

Give yourself some credit. You’re kinder than you want to let on. You just led us to victory with an injury and I’m told that you were pretty heroic in leaping into battle against Izzy to save us all.

**Amy:**

Of course I did, it was a challenge. We need to win.

**DJ:**

But did you know that it was really a challenge?

**Amy:**

Absolutely!… Okay, no I didn’t.

**DJ (***friendly teasing***):**

So you admit that you were concerned for others, huh?

**Amy:**

Would you shut up?

**DJ:**

What? Afraid that someone will figure out that you’re nice?

**Amy (***jokingly, rolling her eyes***):**

Ugh, what do you want from me?

**DJ:**

Well now I’m not so sure. Maybe I want to tell everyone that you’re nice.

**Amy:**

Right after I tell them all how competent you are.

**DJ:**

Well, hey! I’ve been trying!

**Amy:**

Yes, and your efforts in one of five episodes didn’t go unnoticed.

*The two share a laugh and the camera pans out to Heather in the forest. Heather sits on a massive purple mushroom with white spots that is surprisingly able to withstand her weight with no issue. Zoey runs up to her with bags of food, sitting beside her and handing her a bag, Heather promptly opens it.*

**Heather:**

Wow, thanks Zoey. Where’d you get all this from? Raid Chris’ personal stash?

**Zoey:**

What? You don’t ever pack snacks when you go on vacation?

**Heather:**

Well, I wish I did pack for this hellhole. I’m so sick of berries.

**Zoey:**

Well, I’ll share whatever I’ve brought with you, Heather. Anything for my idol.

**Heather:**

You flatter me, so. Why am I your idol? I don’t have a great track record.

**Zoey:**

Everyone loves you. You can be as sweet or as rude as you feel like being in that particular moment. I’m so sweet and it seems like the fans hate everything I do and who I love. I want to be like you. I want to be as loved and respected as you are. Teach me to be likable.

**Heather:**

Oh. Zoey… I honestly don’t know why the audience loves me, I just enjoy the benefits. You need to realize that the audience’s reception of you does not define you. You’ve got a loving boyfriend and many friends. Your insecurities remind me of myself when I was younger and I want to help you.

*Zoey quickly wraps Heather into a hug, and, although resistant at first, Heather did genuinely return the hug. A few moments later a loud sound came over the horn, followed by a voice.*

**Chris:**

Attention victims! Report to the clearing in the forest for your next challenge!

*Loud grumbles and groans erupt as the remaining twenty-one contestants make their move to the clearing.*

### Act Two - Forest Clearing

**Setting: Pahkitew Island, deep forest clearing, evening**

*The contestants arrive at the clearing as the sky becomes a color wash of yellow, orange, purple, and red. Nightfall is slowly closing in. Chef Hatchet stands in between Blaineley and Chris, the three of them in front of two large blue shelves that weren’t there two nights ago.*

**Chris:**

Welcome camp-

**Chef:**

Attention maggots! Today’s challenge will be simple. Even an airhead like Topher could get it. Tonight you will be shooting each other-

**Courtney:**

Okay, I’m in. There’s someone here I could-

**Chef:**

I was not finished speaking, loathsome cur! You will be shooting each other with tranquilizer darts, since legally we can’t shoot you with bullets due to some pansy law. Suit up with your camo vest and the safety glasses matching your team color and grab your guns. Blue for the Raccoons, purple for the Vipers.The team with the most surviving members come sunrise wins! Break!

*After a few minutes, the remaining contestants suited up and ran to different checkpoints in the forest. A split screen showed the teams running to their checkpoints, as soon as Amy and Rodney were out of the host’s lines of sight, he picked her up and carried her. Topher was whining about the camo vest. The camera shifting to the Vipers.*

**Topher:**

Ugh, jesus, gross. Ew. Camo, how grossly hetero.

**Courtney:**

Would you quit complaining for five minutes?!

**Anne Maria:**

Don’t you talk to him like that, you parasite!

**Courtney:**

PARASITE?! Why, you miserable fat cow!

*Courtney aims her gun and goes to pull the trigger to shoot Anne Maria, but it is smacked down by Heather.*

**Heather:**

You are twenty-four. At your big age you should know better as the lawyer you claim to be than to try and shoot a teammate.

**Courtney:**

Big age? You’re older than me!

**Heather:**

By a month.

**Gwen:**

Guys, can we please stop fighting for five minutes?

**Anne Maria:**

Anyways! How do I look?

*Putting on her camo vest and purple safety glasses, Anne Maria turned to Topher, who snickered a bit.*

**Topher:**

Butch.

**Scott:**

You kinda look like a bigger, orange Eva.

**Anne Maria:**

Oh no, you do not disrespect the body or the tan!

*Anne Maria cracks her knuckles as the camera quickly pans to the Raccoons as a thump is heard in the distance as Amy was talking to her team, being held by Rodney, until she was interrupted by the loud thump. The dialogue is intentionally out of context to seem like an argument has just ended.*

**Amy:**

Well, that’s what she said, and you know what? I-

**Scott (***in the distance***):**

OW!

**Amy:**

What was that? Okay, Rodney!

**Rodney:**

Yes, Amy?

**Amy:**

I’m going to send you to find out… whatever that was.

**Rodney:**

But Amy, what about you?

**Sadie:**

Who cares?

*Eva smacks Sadie upside the head as an air horn blares followed by a voice over the loudspeaker.*

**Blaineley:**

Let the hunt begin! Go!

*A split screen shows the teams splitting up into different directions. From the Raccoons; Amy, DJ, and Eva go one way, Lindsay, Rodney, and Tyler go another, and Dawn, Lightning, Sadie, and Samey go another. From the Vipers; Courtney, Dave, and Scott go one way, Alejandro, Heather, and Zoey go another, Anne Maria, Gwen, and Topher go another, and Jasmine and Shawn go another. The camera follows Courtney and her alliance of Dave and Scott going through the forest.*

**Courtney:**

We need to think of a plan.

**Dave:**

How did she even stay?

**Scott:**

Who?

**Dave:**

Anne Maria, you dunce!

**Scott:**

Oh! HEY!

**Courtney:**

There has to be an alliance lurking somewhere to protect that baboon.

**Dave:**

But how would we know who to shake down about it?

**Courtney:**

That’s the problem, we don’t. We have to play our cards wisely.

*A loud rustling sound was heard ahead. Cocking her gun, Courtney gives commands.*

**Courtney:**

Dave, you are coming with me to investigate ahead. Scott, you stay here and keep the area safe. You know how to work a gun.

*Courtney charges ahead with Dave following behind her. Scott sits on a tree stump listening and watching for people, his gun secure in his hands. The camera then pans to Amy, DJ, and Eva walking through the forest, upon hearing a loud rustling noise following a grunt, Amy turns to the other two.*

**Amy:**

Eva, DJ. Stay here. I’ll call for backup if I need it. In the meantime, you keep watch.

**DJ:**

Aye aye, captain!

**Eva:**

We’ll be on guard.

*Amy gives them a nod and then rolls into the bushes. Hearing a rumbling in the bushes Scott readies his gun, finger on the trigger. Amy leaps from the bushes, gun in her hand, ready to shoot. They both aim at each other, and then realize who they were, lowering their weapons. Scott walks towards her, then helps her up.*

**Scott:**

Hey, you. Two of my favorite things, a pretty lady and a raccoon.

**Amy (***deadpan, wiping dirt off her skirt***):**

Oh what an honor to be right up there with roadkill.

**Scott:**

It’s so tasty, just like you.

**Amy (***disgusted***):**

Excuse me?

**Scott (***realizing what he said***):**

Wait, no!

**Amy:**

You are so gross.

**Scott:**

Wait! Will you be my boyfriend?

**Amy (***offended***):**

Excuse me?

**Scott (***flustered***):**

Uh, no! Let me be your girlfriend? Ah!

**Amy:**

You have got to be joking.

**Scott:**

N-no! You’re really p-pretty and I like you a lot.

**Amy:**

You don’t bathe and eat dirt. You heavily breathe through your mouth and are always sweaty. You eat roadkill and venison.

**Scott:**

So is that a yes?

**Amy:**

What kind of idiot are you? It’s a no! It’ll always be a no!

**Scott:**

Always?

**Amy:**

Always, hillbilly.

**Scott:**

I’ll win you over one day!

**Amy:**

Wishful thinking, slug.

**Scott:**

My only wish is for you.

**Amy:**

Ugh. Gag.

*Cut to Amy sitting in the confessional. She’s blushing and scratching her arm.*

He’s so cute and charming, but he’s on the enemy team. Plus he stinks! I can’t be with someone that doesn’t bathe, then I’d be no better than my gross clone! He’s adorable, but I can’t be with him. Ever.

*Cut back to Amy and Scott in the forest. Courtney and Dave are heard speaking quietly in the distance. Courtney spots Amy.*

**Courtney:**

You! What do you think you’re doing?

**Amy (***sarcastic***):**

Seducing your bumpkin, have an issue?

**Courtney:**

Who knows what you were manipulating out of him. What secrets did he give you? What is going on between you two?

**Scott (***sad, speaking between eating fistfuls of dirt***):**

Nothing is happening between us. At all.

**Courtney (***suddenly sympathetic***):**

Scott? Why are you upset? What did you do to him?

**Amy:**

I gave him the ride of his life. I did nothing.

**Courtney:**

You’re about to wish you did nothing!

*As Courtney cocked her gun at Amy, the camera quickly cut back to Eva and DJ. They crawled on the ground, watching as Courtney shot Amy. Eva put a finger to her lips and made a “sh” sound to DJ as she cocked her gun. Aiming through the bushes, Eva shoots Scott in retaliation. Courtney artfully dodges and hides behind Dave as another shot is fired, hitting Dave. Firing her gun into the bushes once before running off, Courtney shoots Eva in reciprocity. Four loud cannon explosion noises are heard and the camera cuts to the three hosts as a series of interns bring Amy, Scott, Dave, and Eva’s unconscious bodies to them.*

**Chris:**

Attention victims! Our first four fallen contestants have been named.

**Blaineley:**

Turn your attention to the large screens near you as their names and pictures appear. Things are heating up!

*Amy, Scott, Dave, and Eva’s names and pictures are listed off in order and then the camera pans to Jasmine and Shawn in the forest. Shawn is upset that his friend was taken out so swiftly.*

**Shawn:**

I failed Dave again…

**Jasmine:**

What do you mean?

**Shawn:**

I told Dave that I’d protect him, and I’ve failed both times I could.

**Jasmine:**

Shawn, it’s not your fault. He chose to not come with us. You are not to blame.

**Shawn:**

I know that, but I promised him, and the only times I could have, he saved me and got caught or paired with somebody else and was caught.

**Jasmine:**

Shawn, you can’t blame yourself for somebody else’s choices, even if you made a promise to them. You can’t save everybody from themselves.

**Shawn:**

You’re right, Jasmine. It’s just that, for some reason, I want to protect him.

**Jasmine:**

You care deeply for him, don’t you?

**Shawn:**

Yeah, I do. He’s a great friend and he’s fun to have around.

*A few moments later, as if there was gossip mentioned, Topher walks through the forest and meets with Jasmine and Shawn. He’s clearly uncomfortable with the challenge, meticulously combing his fingers through his hair.*

**Topher:**

Oh thank god, people. Uh, I mean, oh, it’s you two.

**Jasmine:**

Topher? Why are you here by your lonesome?

**Topher (***confused***):**

My what?

**Shawn:**

Let me dumb it down for you. She asked why you’re here alone.

**Topher:**

Who said I was alone? I was waiting for you two.

**Shawn:**

Well that would be strange, considering I don’t like you.

**Topher:**

I didn’t ask, stinky. Anyway, I was thinking-

**Shawn:**

That explains the beads of sweat.

**Topher:**

Cute. Except I never sweat. It’s gross, I refuse.

**Jasmine:**

Finish your point, Topher.

**Topher:**

Sweating is so disgusting, like-

**Jasmine:**

Not that one, the one you were thinking about.

**Shawn:**

Now we’ll be here all day, Jas.

*Jasmine smiles as she playfully rolls her eyes and mouth “shut up” to Shawn. Topher places his index finger on his lip as he tries to remember what he was thinking about. It comes back to him after a while.*

**Topher:**

I got it! I was thinking that since the two of you broke up, you definitely wouldn’t want that information to get out. Why don’t the three of us team up?

**Shawn:**

You’re going to try to blackmail us by threatening to tell people we broke up? What makes you think that we’d care?

**Topher:**

Well the two of you hiding it at breakfast indicates that.

**Shawn:**

“Indicates.” That’s a big word for you.

**Jasmine:**

Shawn! Topher, we accept your offer of alliance.

**Shawn:**

Uh, Jas… Are you sure about that?

**Jasmine:**

I don’t see why not. Besides, for some reason, he does get along with mostly everyone here, so that could work out even better.

**Shawn:**

For him that would work out better. We’d get thrown to the wolves faster than he gets down on all fours.

**Jasmine:**

Or he’s able to get us in and we make new connections.

**Shawn (***grumbling***):**

I guess you have a point. Fine, Topher, you’ve got an alliance.

**Topher:**

Sweet. So, uh, what should my first order of leadership be?

**Shawn:**

Letting either Jasmine or I be in charge.

**Topher:**

Good idea, glad I thought of it.

**Shawn:**

Oh god, this was a mistake.

*A faint sound of a twig snap is heard and Shawn stiffens up upon hearing it. Placing a hand over Topher’s mouth to keep him quiet, Shawn aims his gun in the direction he heard the twig snap and fires. A thud is heard followed by a cannon shot to indicate a downed enemy.*

**Topher (***surprised***):**

Gasp! Guns are that simple? Wow!

**Jasmine:**

Topher, do not-

*It was too late. Fumbling around with his gun, Topher somehow managed to shoot himself, knocking himself out of the challenge. Another cannon shot signifies his defeat. An unsurprised Shawn simply rolls his eyes as he and Jasmine advance further into the forest. Tyler and Topher’s names and pictures are listed in order of defeat. Walking further, Shawn and Jasmine come across Lindsay, who gives them a friendly wave. Courtney sneaks up behind Lindsay from a tree and shoots her, then runs off again. Another cannon shot with Lindsay’s name and face this time.*

**Courtney:**

I’ve been waiting for years to get her!

*The camera then pans to Anne Maria and Gwen somewhere else in the forest. They were running away from something or someone unseen to the camera, as Gwen runs behind a tree and pulls Anne Maria off to the side to safety as Lightning keeps running forward, losing the two of them. He stops in his tracks and looks left and right, not seeing them.*

**Lightning:**

Aw man, I sha-lost them! Time to-

*A shot to his back and the camera pans to reveal Gwen as the culprit. He passes out with a cannon shot and his name and picture across the screen.*

**Anne Maria:**

Where did you learn to shoot like that?

**Gwen:**

I went to public school, it’s not much different than this. Plus I dated Duncan.

**Anne Maria:**

What does Duncan have to do with it?

**Gwen:**

You’ve met him. All he’d ever want to do is shoplift, make out, or shoot aluminum cans off of his grandfather’s back porch.

**Anne Maria:**

He sounds absolutely terrible. How did you put up with him?

**Gwen:**

Well, I didn’t. We broke up not even a year after dating.

**Dawn:**

Rudolph? Rudolph?

*Dawn walks through the forest, gently stroking a large caterpillar resting on her finger, searching for Lightning. Gwen pushes a finger to her lips to tell Anne Maria to be quiet and turns away from Dawn. However as she turned away, Dawn materialized beside her.*

I see that you’ve already eliminated my dear friend Rudolph, Gwendolyn.

**Gwen:**

Oh jesus! How do you know if I did it or not?

**Dawn:**

Your aura tells me you did. Also, your weapon of mass extinction smells of burning destruction.

**Gwen:**

Well it’s not like I feel good about it.

**Dawn:**

Like you felt good shooting at cans with Duncy?

**Gwen:**

How did you know about that?

**Dawn:**

I just told you.

**Anne Maria:**

Enough talk, time to stop you!

**Dawn:**

There will be no need for the effort, Anne Maria. While you try to assert your dominance, I do not seek to win a game so vile in nature.

**Gwen:**

So what, you just plan to quit?

**Dawn:**

While your goals to use the two million dollar prize to further your education and go to art school, I am here to put that money back into mother earth.

*Anne Maria and Gwen turn to look at each other, confused. When they turned to look back at Dawn, she had already disappeared and without anyone firing a bullet, Dawn’s name and picture flashed across the screen.*

**Sadie:**

While I’ve got you!

*Sadie and Samey pop out from behind a bush, ambushing Anne Maria and Gwen, cocking their guns and firing, two cannon shots are heard as Anne Maria and Gwen’s names and pictures are listed on the screen.*

**Samey!**

Woohoo! We did it!

**Sadie:**

But are you surprised?

*Samey and Sadie high five and the camera cuts to Alejandro and Heather walking in the forest.*

**Heather:**

Admit it, you got us lost.

**Alejandro:**

I’m telling you, mi amor, there was a waterfall here just a few days ago.

**Heather:**

Maybe you’ve been eating too many of those gross berries.

**Alejandro:**

Perhaps if you ate the berries, you’d feel more refreshed and not as testy. They are quite good for your health.

**Heather:**

My health is perfectly fine, thank you. I’m in better shape than you are.

**Alejandro:**

If you consider hippy to be in shape.

**Heather:**

Excuse me? Maybe I should’ve had Zoey shoot you.

**Alejandro:**

Ah, Zoey. Your little henchman than I had to collect for you. How is your protégé? Any suspicion that you’re using her yet.

**Heather:**

She’s perfectly lovely as my lackey.

**Alejandro:**

What? No insult tacked on to that? You’ve gone soft, my love.

**Heather:**

Oh, if you could read my mind, pretty boy…

*As the two argued, they eventually started making out. Seeing a small figure hiding in a tree, Heather makes a mental note to return to the forest alone, or with a fool to do her bidding. She knows that Topher will be free. However, this moment of passion is interrupted when a large, muscular figure steps out from behind a tree.*

**Rodney:**

A-ha!

**Heather:**

And what do you think you’re going to do?

**Rodney:**

I’m here to stop you and win for my team!

**Alejandro (***charming***):**

So valiant, Rodney. Is this perhaps an attempt at winning over the heart of the fair brunette maiden, Amy? You’ve certainly got us in your trap!

**Rodney:**

Well, thanks! That means a lot!

**Alejandro:**

But surely you must know that, deep down, Amy isn’t interested and you are wasting your time serving her. A man of your impressive size and strengths can truly be put to good use for someone deserving.

**Rodney:**

What are you suggesting? Are you saying that you and I? But, we’re both boys?

**Heather:**

Queer people exist, Rodney. Look at Topher, he’s certainly queer to say the least. I wish he’d say the least.

**Alejandro:**

Ah yes, there’s that rapier wit that we’ve come to love. Anyways, Rodney, if you’re interested, I’m sure we could work something out to our satisfaction.

**Rodney:**

Sorry, but my heart belongs to Amy! Now if you’ll excuse me.

*Rodney cocks his gun and expertly shoots Alejandro and Heather, eliminating them from the challenge. Two cannon shots are heard as Alejandro and Heather’s names and pictures are listed on the screen. Rodney, pleased with himself, does a celebratory fist pump and releases a loud cheer. As he celebrated his victory, a familiar face popped up behind him.*

**DJ (***reminding him***):**

Dude!

**Rodney (***quieter***):**

Oh, right. Sorry. Woohoo!

**DJ:**

Good work, dude!

*The two high five and continue on through the forest as the camera pans to Jasmine and Shawn together in the forest. Shawn stops walking for a moment.*

**Shawn:**

Jas, wait!

**Jasmine:**

Shawn, what is it?

**Shawn:**

Do not walk another step.

*As Jasmine stops in her tracks, Shawn picks up a small pebble from the ground and stares at a specific place a few steps ahead of Jasmine. To the untrained eye, there was nothing there, however he threw the pebble at a tree branch, and a large net swung up a few inches in front of Jasmine’s face with a mechanical sound. The camera temporarily cuts to the hosts back at the clearing.*

**Chris:**

Dang it, a second later and we would’ve caught her!

**Blaineley:**

Did you really set booby traps while they’re already playing with guns?

**Chris:**

Did I set them? No. Did I tell the interns to set them? Absolutely.

**Blaineley:**

I love it!

*Cut to a confessional block.*

**Amy (***woozy***):**

That gross country bumpkin hillbilly humpbump set me up. He’s going down!

**Shawn:**

I can’t believe that annoying celebrity skin airhead managed to sneak his way into an alliance with me and Jasmine. I’m so embarrassed.

**Tyler:**

Aw, man! Taken out while trying to fire my gun with Lindsay. Wait a minute…

**Dawn:**

Hopefully this sick and inhumane challenge will end soon.

**Topher:**

Well look at my face, I’m all I want to be.

**Heather:**

That empty headed farm boy’s thick mind can’t be broken easily. This will be a fun challenge. Perhaps I need a different approach.

**Gwen:**

What has gotten into Sadie? She’s become so competitive and driven…

*The camera cuts back to Jasmine and Shawn in the forest. A loud mechanical sound followed by a scream is caught by both.*

**Jasmine:**

I’m going ahead to check that out. Somebody needs our help.

**Shawn:**

Great idea, however I feel like it would be smart if one of us kept watch and investigated for more traps.

*Jasmine nods in agreement, trusting Shawn completely. Running ahead deeper into the never ending forest, she finds Sadie alone, suspended in a net above the trees. Leaping into action, Jasmine begins climbing up a tree to work on untying Sadie.*

**Jasmine:**

Sadie, are you alright?

**Sadie:**

I stumbled into this trap that you’ve set to cheat and try to catch us Raccoons.

**Jasmine:**

I assure you that I didn’t set these traps.

**Sadie:**

Nobody else has the know-how to do something like this.

**Jasmine:**

If I set these traps, I would’ve already shot you and I certainly wouldn’t be helping you down.

**Sadie:**

I suppose you do have a point… Now Samey!

**Jasmine:**

Samey?

**Samey:**

Sorry about this Jasmine. I hope you can forgive me…

*Following her introduction by Sadie, Samey walks out from behind a tree and shoots Jasmine. A cannon sound signifies her defeat as her name and picture flashes across the screen. Samey helps Sadie down from the trap.*

**Sadie:**

Lighten up, it’s a challenge. You played your part perfectly.

**Samey:**

That doesn’t mean that I feel good about betraying a friend.

**Sadie (***with a shrug***):**

Whatever, it’s no skin off my back. I’m focused on winning, shame you aren’t.

*Sadie walks away, flipping her hair behind her neck as Samey stands there, wondering the incoming consequences of her actions. Following the announcement of Jasmine’s defeat, Shawn comes running to find Samey standing at Jasmine’s unconscious body as Zoey runs in from the opposite way, Samey is trapped.*

**Zoey:**

I heard a trap go off, so I got here as fast as I could.

**Shawn:**

Jasmine!

**Zoey:**

What happened?

**Samey (***trying to lie***):**

I-I just g-got here myself.

**Shawn:**

Your stutter betrays you, Samey. You took out Jasmine.

**Samey:**

It wasn’t my idea! I was put up to it!

**Shawn:**

That’s as maybe, but you still took out a friend.

**Samey:**

Well, we are on opposite teams, and it is the challenge.

**Zoey:**

On that part, you’re right. I’m sorry about this!

*Zoey fires at Samey, hitting her in the back. The blast was strong enough to knock her down on top of Jasmine.*

Sorry about your girlfriend, Shawn.

**Shawn:**

Uh, thanks Zoey.

**Zoey:**

If I’d have got here a few seconds before…

**Shawn:**

Zoey, you’re not at fault for the challenge. Just try and win.

**Zoey:**

I guess you’re right, Shawn. I think I ju-

*A loud gunshot and Zoey’s body lands on top of Samey with a THUD! From a safe distance, Sadie laughs loudly, then runs off. Shawn grabs his gun and chases after her. Two cannon shots are heard as Samey and Zoey’s names and pictures are listed on the screen.*

**Shawn:**

Oh no, you don’t!

*Shawn chases Sadie to a new clearing at the edge of the forest, overlooking a sharp cliff. Playing close to his chest, Shawn hides behind a large rock as Courtney and DJ aim at each other, with Sadie arriving soon after, charging in after Courtney.*

**DJ:**

Stand down, Courtney. It’s over, you’ve lost.

**Courtney:**

It’s far from over, DJ. I’m winning this!

**Sadie:**

Not on my watch!

**DJ:**

Sadie?

**Courtney:**

Seaworld, how kind of you to come and make this easy for me.

**Sadie:**

Not on your life, Devil. Stand aside, DJ. This is my fight.

**DJ:**

Sadie, not when you’re feeling so aggressive!

**Sadie:**

I said stand aside, DJ!

*Sadie moves forward on Courtney, shoving DJ out of the way. From the strength of her shove, DJ’s sandal caught on a rock, and he fell down the cliff. The camera cuts back to the eliminated contestants and the hosts watching from a screen in the forest clearing, everyone gasping in horror and shock. Amy rises up and grabs her gun, and charges into the forest.*

**Amy:**

DJ! I’m going to get that f[long censor noise].

*However, before she could get far, Chef stops her. He picks her up and brings her back to the clearing.*

**Blaineley:**

W-what do we do?

**Chef:**

Ain’t nothing that can be done now than to just watch. It’s already happened.

*The camera cuts back to Courtney and Sadie on the cliff. Sadie just stares over the cliff, looking down.*

**Sadie:**

What have I done?

**Courtney:**

You’ve provided my impending victory.

*A gleeful Courtney shoots Sadie, eliminating her from the challenge. However, unfortunately for Courtney, it provided no victory as Rodney had found his way to everyone else and immediately shot Courtney down.*

**Rodney:**

That was for Amy! Did I do it? Did I win, Chris?

**Shawn:**

Not yet.

*Shawn does a jump off the rock after announcing his presence, and landing on his feet after a backflip. Rodney tries to shoot him during, but each bullet misses, and he now finds himself out of ammo. While Shawn lands, Rodney grabs Sadie’s gun to finish him off. Firing a shot at Shawn, he does a backflip out of the way. Shawn drops into a split and fires at Rodney, making direct contact, taking Rodney out. Shawn has won. Chris’ voice comes over the speakers.*

**Chris:**

Shawn has clenched yet another victory for the Vicious Vipers!

### Act Three - The Cabins

**Setting: Pahkitew Island, the Cabins, dawn**

*The camera cuts to the cabins as Amy walks with DJ, now on crutches with a cast over his right leg.*

**Amy:**

I should have done a better job.

**DJ:**

Hey, how were you supposed to know that this was going to happen?

**Amy:**

Still, I should have accounted for everything

**DJ:**

Amy, listen. You are not at fault for what happened to me. I’m still here and I’m going to stay here. I’ll recover.

**Amy:**

She’s not going to get away with this.

**DJ:**

It was an accident. She didn’t intentionally injure me.

**Amy:**

But she did.

**DJ (***jokingly***):**

Amy, I forgave her. Surely if I can, you can.

**Amy:**

Alright already, I get it!

### Act Four - The Campfire Ceremony

**Setting: Pahkitew Island, the Campsite, dawn.**

*The Raccoons sit on their all-too-familiar tree stumps as they endure another campfire ceremony to lose a member. The entire team, minus DJ, is glaring at an annoyed Sadie.*

**Sadie:**

I’ve already apologized! Get off my back!

**DJ:**

Again, I forgive you and accept your apology.

*Chef slams the tray of nine marshmallows down on the modium and goes off to get the boat of losers ready. Chris clears his throat.*

**Chris:**

Well today was awfully interesting. If it were up to me, not a single one of you would get a marshmallow.

**Blaineley:**

Well, Rodney would get one. That’s it.

**Samey:**

So what are you going to do, Chris? Send us all home?

**Eva:**

Your precious rating would plummet, and you’ll be in a body bag with a tag on your big toe!

**Chris:**

You make a great point. Nine marshmallows, ten failures. Whoever doesn’t get a marshmallow must pack up their garbage and head for the boat of losers into obscurity, where they will never be seen again.

**Amy:**

I wonder who the hell that will be.

**Tyler (***honestly and confused***):**

Yeah, I wonder who it will be…

Rodney!

DJ!

Samey!

Eva!

Lindsay!

Tyler!

Lightning!

and Dawn!

**Blaineley:**

That leaves Amy and Sadie. Amy; you were the first out of your team without ever firing a single bullet. What happened? Sadie; it should be obvious why you’re here.

**Chris:**

With a vote of eight to two… Amy, the last marshmallow is yours.

**Amy:**

Oh hallelujah. Bye, land whale.

**Sadie:**

So, it’s like that? So long, you ugly freaks!

**Blaineley:**

However, we-

**Eva:**

What now?

**Blaineley:**

Sadie, despite having no marshmallow, you will be staying. Unfortunately, we have been in contact with our staff doctors, and DJ, you will not be able to finish the competition, and we must ask you to leave. You cannot compete with a broken leg.

**Amy:**

DJ, no!

**DJ:**

Oh, it’s a fair cop.

*After a few minutes, Amy helps DJ packs and the entire Raccoon team give him a hug as Chef helps him board the boat of losers.*

**Chef:**

Let’s go, kid.

*DJ gives a friendly smile and a wave as the boat drifts out to sea until he disappeared into the sky.*

**Chris:**

Well there we have it, another contestant down. I hope he doesn’t sue.

**Blaineley:**

How will the Raccoon’s dynamic change now?

How much more fun can we have with our victims?

**Chris:**

Find out next time on TOTAL!

DRAMA!

RESURRECTION!

***The camera fades to black and the credits roll.***

## Trivia

* Despite being largely absent in the episode, Dawn is referenced in the title.
* Jasmine and Shawn break up this episode, however, the only additional contestants to know are Dawn and Topher.
	+ Dawn knows from reading their auras, whereas Topher knows from eavesdropping on them.
* Anne Maria calling Courtney a "nematode" is a reference to Azealia Banks' fight with Wendy Williams.
* Topher reveals in this episode that he has disowned his father.
* Topher becomes the third person to swear, following Amy and Duncan in the previous episode.
* Amy confides in DJ that she, despite claiming to in the previous episodes, did not know of episode three's challenge.
* Courtney and Heather are confirmed as twenty-four in this episode.
* Amy references the infamous "What was that?" Wendy Williams Halloween show meme.
* Scott asks Amy out in the same way he asked Courtney in *All-Stars*. However the outcome is different, as she rejects him.
* Topher initiates an alliance with Jasmine and Shawn in this episode, and is successful.
* Dawn refers to Lightning by his real name in this episode, as well as outright eliminating herself from he challenge without being shot.
* Alejandro and Heather confirm that Heather is only using Zoey during an argument.
* Heather spots a mysterious small figure hiding in a tree.
* Alejandro tries to charm Rodney in a similar to Lindsay, Bridgette, Courtney, and Leshawna in *World Tour*, Gwen in *All-Stars*, and Topher from the previous episode; however he fails.
* Shawn references the popular Hole song "Celebrity Skin" to refer to Topher in a confessional, which Topher misquotes while admiring himself in his next confessional.
* This episode is the first that has Sadie taking on the antagonist role, as she manipulates and uses Samey to trick and ambush Jasmine, shooting Zoey in the back from a safe distance away, as well as (accidentally) causing the removal of DJ while attempting to get to Courtney.
* Despite the total of votes being announced as eight against two between Amy and Sadie, this is the first episode to not show who voted whom.
* With DJ's med evac, this is the only season in which the first four outs are all male.
* With DJ's med evac, this the second season to ever have one, following *World Tour*.
* Amy and DJ's leg injuries are meant to be parallels, whereas Amy is deliberately hiding her injury to prevent a medical evacuation, DJ cannot hide his, and must be medically evacuated.