Haunted Mansion

**Haunted Mansion** is the second merged episode of Total Drama: Resurrection, and the eighteenth overall.

## Plot

The final ten contestants must compete in a murder mystery challenge against an old friend in a series of events that leaves Chris seeing double at the campfire ceremony.

## Script

### Intro - Recap

**Setting: Pahkitew Island, the docks, nighttime**

**Chris**:

Previously on Total Drama: Resurrection…

**Blaineley**:

The teams had finally merged as we narrowed down to the final eleven contestants, and with some spa-riffic persuasion, featured a long foot race across the entire island to determine the first winner of individual immunity and who would be the first to stay in the spa hotel.

**Chris**:

After spying on Alejandro in the confessional, Heather finally got the ammunition she needed and managed to split him up with his firmest ally, Topher, exposing Alejandro’s faux romantic feelings for the little airhead.

**Blaineley**:

With his true intentions thrown out in front of him, it seemed his game had ended after being confronted by most of the remaining contestants.

**Chris**:

The six girls made an alliance spearheaded by Samey that seemed hellbent on throwing the rest of the guys out of the game and working towards the first ever all-female finale, before it extended to another member in Topher joining the girls, targeting Alejandro.

**Blaineley**:

In the heat of the moment of the pressure of the physical challenge, Amy and Scott got a little physical themselves after the twins reaffirmed the strength of their bond when Samey calmed Amy down from a panic attack. I guess Amy just has a thing for grease pigs.

**Chris**:

Speaking of losers reaffirming the strength of their bonds, Courtney and Shawn made the realization that their personalities have rubbed off on each other as she helped him navigate the new feelings and emotions he’s been feeling since Dave’s elimination.

**Blaineley**:

While she was banding together allies to take down Alejandro for some long-overdue revenge, Heather easily managed to recruit Topher to her side with some ego stroking. Convincing him to become a spy for herself and Sadie against her enemies, Topher stumbled upon Samey exposing Heather’s long con plan to Amy and became conflicted with the decision he must now face. Rat out his closest friend or feel Heather’s fiery wrath.

**Chris**:

In the final moments, a surprise bomb drop from Sadie, she came first place in the challenge, securing immunity for herself as well as the ability to cast the sole vote to eliminate one contestant. Amy managed to cross just a split second after Sadie’s surprise, also winning immunity for coming in second place. As an additional reward, the two were able to select an additional contestant to join them in the spa hotel.

**Blaineley**:

After the challenge, Topher had made his choice. Tucking his tail between his legs, he reported back to Heather the news of Samey exposing her to Amy. Breaking the news to Sadie, the two worked out every viable candidate for elimination.

**Chris**:

In the end, due to Heather’s influence, Sadie made the decision to turn on her friend and sent Samey packing, sending a shockwave through the cast that expected Alejandro to go.

**Blaineley**:

Just who did Amy and Sadie choose to join them for the night in the spa hotel?

Will Amy unleash a fury unparalleled in this universe upon Sadie?

**Chris**:

Will Topher be able to sleep at night knowing he helped send his friend home?

Will Heather and Sadie’s reign of terror continue?

**Blaineley**:

Find out the answers to these questions and more today on…

Chris:

TOTAL!

DRAMA!

RESURRECTION!

***The theme song plays.***

### Act One - The Campsite

**Setting: Pahkitew Island, the docks, nighttime**

*The episode picks up immediately after the previous one had just left off. Tears stream down Amy’s face, causing her eyeliner to run down her face in black constellations as she stands, wrapped securely and protectively in Scott’s arms. He holds her tightly with neither of them speaking a word to each other at the moment. The two are then approached by a visibly uncomfortable Courtney, who has changed into her pajamas, indicating that some time had passed between Samey’s elimination and the current moment.*

**Courtney** (*trying to break the ice)*:

Um, hey guys. Amy, I’m really sorry how this played out. There was no reason whatsoever for Sadie to eliminate Samey like that. I know it’s not much of a comfort right now, but if you, like, ever need to talk or anything, I’m here for you.

**Amy** (*with a solemn nod*):

Thanks Courtney, I appreciate it.

**Scott** (*reading the atmosphere*):

I’m gonna go change. Let me know how it goes.

*Giving Amy a kiss on the forehead, he released his arms from around her and wiped her tears away softly with his thumbs. He then walked off towards the cabin to give the two their privacy.*

**Courtney**:

I’m so glad things between you two seem to have been fixed. He cares a great deal about you.

**Amy** (*still not turning to face her*):

Right now, I’m so thankful for him because he’s the only thing keeping me from falling apart.

**Courtney**:

Listen, I never really got to have a bond with a sibling since I never had one, but I’ve had a few bonds get severed and mended before, so I know a bit what you’re going through.

**Amy**:

Yeah, the pain of separation never really ever goes away, does it?

**Courtney** (*reminiscing*):

It never really does. Even when the bonds get rebuilt, the cracks in the pavement are still there. You can’t really escape the past, but you can’t let it get in your way now.

**Amy** (*with a deep breath*):

You talk like Samey. I see why she liked you so much. She said that she saw much of myself in you. She said that we’re more alike than we’d ever understand.

**Courtney**:

I can’t necessarily say that she’s wrong. For what it’s worth, there was something I liked about her even though I didn’t really get the chance to get to know her. She seems so strong and sure of herself, but still managed to show kindness to everyone, including enemies.

**Amy**:

I spent my whole life in her shadow and never got to know just how great she was until I saw it for myself just how strong a woman she really is. From now on, I’m going to go through this game for as long as I can with a new motto. “What would Samey do?” On that front, I do want to thank you.

**Courtney** (*confused*):

Thank me? For what? I didn’t do anything.

**Amy** (*humbled, finally turning to face Courtney*):

Because of your warning, I was able to work out a strategy with Samey that got me immunity. It hasn’t been lost on me that if I lost this challenge, I would have no doubt been the one eliminated by Sadie. It’s because of you that I’m still here.

**Courtney** (*cracking a joke to lighten the mood*):

Honestly, it’s just something that any decent person would do. So basically anyone but Heather.

**Amy** (*finally cracking a small smile*):

Listen, in the spirit of “What would Samey do?,” since I get to pick someone to stay in the spa hotel with me, I’d like it to be you.

**Courtney** (*shocked*):

Me? Really? But what about Scott?

**Amy** (*her smile disappears*):

It’s a really tough decision and I really like Scott, but I owe this to you. I know that it’s going to make him upset, but after you helped me win immunity, it’s the least I can do.

**Courtney** (*earnest*):

Listen, I appreciate the offer, but I didn’t come here with the intention of convincing you to use your special gift on me. If you want to take someone else, it’s fine.

**Amy** (*a playful roll of her eyes*):

God, Courtney. We can get into your self-esteem issues later. Just pack your damn bags and let's go to the spa hotel.

*The two newly made friends began walking to the cabin to pack their belongings to move into the spa hotel for the night as the camera panned to the spa hotel. The camera moves past the door and up a flight of stairs, turning left in a long hallway to the first in a series of doors in the corridor. In this room is a massive bedroom with two king sized beds. Heather and Sadie are unpacking their belongings in the drawers next to their beds. Sadie, wearing a set of pink pajamas jumps into her bed as Heather lifts a glass of red wine, as if a salute.*

**Heather**:

Cheers to not sleeping in those broken down bunk beds for a night.

**Sadie** (*lifting a turkey leg*):

And to the luxuries that come with immunity!

**Heather** (*a bit disgusted*):

You’re eating a turkey leg in bed?

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

Hey, you’re drinking red wine in a bed with white sheets and a comforter.

**Heather** (*conceding*):

So be it.

*The two laugh and clink their glass and turkey leg together in cheers. Heather takes a sip of her wine as Sadie begins gnawing on the turkey leg.*

So we need to talk strategy.

**Sadie** (*her mouth full)*:

So soon?

**Heather** (*gesturing around the room with her wine glass*):

Well do you really want to give all of this up?

**Sadie**:

Well, no.

**Heather**:

Just as I thought. Now that we got rid of Samey, we’ve weakened Amy a considerable amount. If she even participates in this challenge after the level of devastation she is feeling now, it will be a miracle of biblical proportions.

**Sadie** (*feeling remorseful*):

Well I didn’t want to hurt her.

**Heather** (*with a nod*):

You wanted to completely mentally torture her, I understand you loud and clear.

**Sadie**:

Well that’s not-

**Heather**:

Now all we have to do is continue to get immunity so we can stay in the spa hotel for the rest of the time we’re here and rally up a secret alliance to gather up enough votes and fling her out next. Between the two of us and Topher, that’s three votes. Alejandro must be desperate for an ally to get him ahead now, so he’ll join us with no other choice left to make. That’s four. Two more votes and we get the majority to send her home. Any ideas?

**Sadie** (*thinking*):

I don’t think it’s possible. Scott is in love with her, Shawn and Courtney will pick her over you, and Lindsay is close to her, and Tyler follows whatever she does.

**Heather** (*crafting a plan*):

Ah, I’m following you. You’re suggesting that in order to get Amy with a majority vote, we’ll need to create two additional targets to collect votes at the campfire ceremony so the losers will waste votes while we blindside Amy. That’s a great strategy, Sadie.

*The camera cuts to a confessional block.*

**Courtney**:

Honestly, I really didn’t anticipate Amy picking me to join her for the night in the spa hotel. Maybe if I can team with her and Shawn, the three of us being such strong competitors might be able to power through until the end. It took me a minute to find my groove again, but I’m still in this game! I still have a chance! This time, I just need to keep my cool and balance my competitive drive with my social needs. I need to work closely with the people I’ve built relationships with and stay loyal to them this time. I can’t crush my allies like brittle bones in my hand this time. Just keep yourself in check, Courtney. You’ve got this!

**Heather**:

Sadie is like a piano, easy to play even for a novice. Planting my plots into her head like a blossoming rose with sharp thorns and having her take credit for them all the while she’s just my mouthpiece takes a huge target off of my back and puts it onto Martha Dumptruck. What she doesn’t know, however, is that by setting her up to take on Amy completely washes the blood from both of them off of my hands. I get Sadie to get Amy out by taking greater and greater risks to the point of complete exhaustion that she begs for mercy, then I get to show it to her and send her out right after she takes Amy out for me. I have the entire endgame marked down to the letter. Unlike Courtney, I’m not dumb enough to write it down for it to be used against me. In planting the seeds in Sadie’s head to take out Amy, I let it grow and deteriorate her thick mind as I use her to take out Shawn and Courtney as soon as possible first. From there, I use her to take down Lindsay to prevent her from sweeping me in a potential jury vote. Her numbskull boyfriend could prove to be useful to me once she is gone, and I use him to help Sadie take out Amy. From there, I pull the plug on Sadie and take her off my life support. From there, I take Topher to the finale. If it’s a jury vote, I might struggle against him, but once I explain my innocence, as well as his involvement in everybody’s eliminations under Sadie’s commands, I bury him under my game. If it’s a competition, I sweep him easily. As for Alejandro? I’m taking him out now. That little worm is able to easily charm his way into staying even though he is collectively the group target, so he is leaving today!

**Alejandro**:

Make no mistake, I am no fool. I can easily sense that I am the target due to my treatment of Topher. I also have no doubt that Heather is at the head of the table. She is pulling the strings on the marionettes around her and making them move to her whim. In the name of preservation, I must flex my impeccably toned analytical muscles and make carefully precise strategies to remain in this game to collect the two million dollar prize. As the first step to my plan, while she is the love of my life, I must outplay Heather yet again. If I can rally enough minds to listen to my passionate pleas and reveal the truth about what had gone down in Samey’s elimination and just exactly how Heather is involved in it. That should at least swing Amy over to my side.

**Topher**:

I feel really bad that I got Samey eliminated. I thought that the goal was to get information on Amy for the three of us to use against her later and Sadie would take out Alejandro. Heather told me after that there was “a change of plans and they weren’t able to relay it to me in time.” I’m not really sure what that means, but it’s so nice of them to think of telling me game talk! I wonder if there’s a way that I can make it up to Samey without it needing to hurt, but Heather says that Samey’ll forgive me once I help Heather take out Alejandro, which is absolutely great for my game. I’m sort of liking playing a spy, though! I wonder if I could be, like, a double detergent or whatever it’s called. That way it sends everyone else to leap after their own throats while I get to slide by and take the crown for myself!

**Shawn**:

I feel an ominous wind on the horizon. This specific type can mean either one of two things. One: there’s been some sort of disturbance in the force. Whether it be some sort of power shift or the rise of a new regime. Two: something wicked this way comes. This feeling is never wrong and I just know it’s going to come to a head today.

**Blaineley**:

Just wait for the doozy of a challenge we prepared for the contestants tomorrow night!

*The camera cuts to static and the camera fast forwards until the next morning. Inside the spa hotel, Amy and Courtney awake to a large breakfast served in bed. A butler fills large cups of coffee for each of them and then departs. Their room is the exact same as Heather and Sadie’s, however in black instead of white. After finishing their breakfast without a word, Amy rises to her feet and does some stretches as Courtney opened a dresser drawer and pulled out a black instrument case.*

**Amy** (*curious*):

What is that? You play the viola?

**Courtney**:

Close, the violin. I like to practice every so often just to keep my mind active.

**Amy** (*changing from her pajamas to her normal outfit*):

I hope you don’t think this is rude, but I’m gonna head out.

**Courtney** (*teasingly*):

Gonna go and check on Scott, hm?

**Amy** (*playfully fighting*):

And so what if I am?

**Courtney**:

Well if I see any hickeys on your neck, you’re grounded young lady!

*Courtney begins to play her violin as Amy walks out the door and heads down the stairs. The camera then cuts to the outside as Amy walked out of the spa hotel and over to the male’s side of the cabin. Inside, Alejandro, Scott, Shawn, and Tyler are discussing the events from the night before, specifically Alejandro trying to explain how Heather was involved.*

**Alejandro**:

You have no choice but to trust me on this. Nobody knows Heather more than I do.

**Scott**:

Well that part may be true, but what makes you sure she was involved?

**Alejandro**:

I just told you how.

**Shawn**:

And that made no sense. Sure, Samey is good at reading everybody’s gameplay, but she didn’t particularly do anything about what she caught onto, so why exactly would she be on Heather’s radar in the first place? Why should I believe any of this or anything else you say?

**Alejandro**:

Because I’m going to openly tell you this now. She did the exact same thing to you and we plotted for weeks on how to get you eliminated. Hell, Dave was a victim in her pursuit of taking you out since you’re such a threat in this game.

**Shawn** (*trying to hide his anger*):

So you knew about the plan to take me out, sat on it, helped her get Dave out, and for what? Her loyalty? You are far dumber than the genius you pretend to be.

**Alejandro** (*rolling his eyes*):

Yes, yes. I get it.

**Shawn**:

And now that she turned on you, you’re coming to me to save you? After you tried to blindside me? After you blindsided my boyfriend? Do you hear how crazy you sound?

**Tyler** (*confused*):

Wait, if you wanted the dude out, why did you take his bro out instead?

**Alejandro**:

For the same reason. To weaken him. With Dave gone and eventually Courtney, there would be nobody left to team with Shawn and try to save him. Once we realized that we didn’t have the votes to outright send Shawn home, we came up with the plan to get the votes split. With Topher making a bigger target for himself by refusing to compete in the challenge, it made the plan even simpler. Anticipating that Courtney, Dave, and Shawn would vote for Topher, using the idol that you gave me, Tyler, I had passed it to Topher. Seeing as how the Blaineley Bust idols all had an effect on the elimination ceremonies themselves, the only aspect not touched was the votes themselves, so it stood to reason that the last one would either grant a double vote or steal a vote. Scott voting against Dave was a given because they didn’t like each other, so Heather and I tacked our two votes with Scott to make three votes for Dave. As expected, Courtney, Dave, and Shawn voted against Topher. Anticipating a double vote, Topher wasted his on Shawn to ensure that he’d miss out on a tiebreaker challenge so he could beat Dave in a physical challenge after he’d become weaker after passing out. When it was revealed that he would be making a vote become void, he chose Shawn knowing he voted him out. Preventing a tiebreaker at all, we sent Dave home and weakened Shawn’s voting numbers by one.

**Scott** (*impressed*):

Thats’s a solid strategy, but if you already had Topher voting for Shawn, why not just vote with him and send him home anyway?

**Tyler** (*not following at all*):

Yeah, I don’t get it.

**Alejandro**:

Would either of you really want to face Courtney’s wrath for taking out her only ally? She is the entire force of hell wrapped up into one tall, thin package.

**Amy** (*entering into the room*):

What are you all talking about?

**Shawn**:

Amy, what are you doing here?

**Tyler** (*startled*):

I could’ve been naked, dude!

**Amy**:

I came in here to talk to Scott.

**Scott** (*crossing his arms with a huff*):

What do you want me for? To play me some more?

**Amy** (*bewildered*):

What are you talking about?

**Scott**:

First you hold my hand and hug me, then you ignore me. Then you kiss me and then put the brakes on me and say you’re not capable of loving anybody else. Then you’re mad at me out of nowhere, and then yesterday we kiss again. I sat with you on the docks and held you in my arms and wiped your tears away, and as soon as I leave, you and Courtney go to the fancy sleepin’ place and ain’t say two words. I ain’t no toy.

**Amy** (*walking into the room and moved to sit beside him on his bunk*):

Scott, listen-

**Shawn** (*trying to escape the tension*):

This seems personal, we should all give you some privacy. Let’s go, guys.

**Alejandro**:

Right.

**Amy**:

No, no. It’s fine if you stay. If I say it in front of people, it’ll be clear how genuine I’m being.

**Scott** (*not looking at her*):

Here to dump me once and for all?

**Amy** (*softly grabbing his hands in hers*):

Scott, listen to me. First of all, I can’t dump you since we aren’t together. Second, I think this is what you’re most upset about. I’m crazy about you. It’s killing me that we are here together because of just how much I like you.

**Scott** (*not following*):

Why’s it killing you? You’ve got an idiot worshiping you at every turn and you don’t like me back.

**Amy**:

Scott, please. This has been really hard for me. I just completely rebuilt my relationship with my sister and I met a guy I’m really into. The problem is that I’m competing against him and I don’t want to throw my game away just for a cute redhead.

**Shawn**:

Well why didn’t you just tell him that before?

**Amy** (*hissing*):

You outright denied even liking your boyfriend for weeks, you’re not in any position to question me, Shawn!

**Shawn** (*startled*):

Point taken!

**Scott** (*warming back up to her*):

You mean it? You really do like me?

**Amy** (*sweetly*):

Of course I do. I wouldn’t be telling you this if I didn’t mean it.

**Scott** (*finally facing her, still emotional*):

So I don’t have a shot until the game is over? Will I ever see you again?

**Amy** (*matter-of-factly*):

Without a doubt. As soon as this is over, we’re going on a date.

**Scott** (*with a smile*):

That’s all I needed to know.

**Alejandro** (*clearing his throat*):

Excuse me. I hate to destroy a tender moment, but we need to talk about how to execute this plan. We have to get Heather out.

**Amy** (*nastily*):

And why should anybody trust you? You’re a slithering snake in the grass and are clearly making desperate attempts to stay.

**Alejandro** (*putting his hands up in the air*):

You caught me. I am desperate to stay. My honesty here should prove to you how serious I am about making a plan to get her out and pulling it off.

**Amy**:

Yeah, right. As soon as you talk game here, you’re going to run right over to Heather and tell her everything about what was said. You are so transparent.

**Alejandro**:

You should at least hear me out. Samey would at least do that.

*Upon hearing him use her sister’s name against her, Amy grabbed Alejandro by the collar of his shirt and pulled him down so her face was directly against his.*

**Amy** (*angrily*):

Don’t you ever use my sister against me like that again or I’m going to extract your teeth out one by one and rip your tongue out through your zipper.

**Alejandro**:

Noted. I just happen to know the exact chain of events that led to your sweet sister getting eliminated by Sadie, or should I say Heather, and I thought you’d want to know. Wrong?

**Amy** (*hesitant*):

Alright, speak your mind.

**Alejandro**:

Well it started with Heather exposing me manipulating Topher so I could have an extra vote in my pocket. With her putting me in the line of fire as the main target, it would get me out of the way for her to keep from getting blood on her hands as well as keeping her free to focus on her main plan, to get you eliminated.

**Amy**:

And just how am I supposed to believe this fairy tale?

**Alejandro** (*honestly*):

Because up until recently, I was helping her in trying to take you down. Would someone lying about needing to work with you admit to trying to get you eliminated?

**Amy**:

I suppose not. Continue.

**Alejandro**:

Thank you. Heather has been targeting you for quite a long time, since the first time you won a challenge for your team to be exact. When she saw you and Sadie locking horns, she made it her mission to seduce Sadie into her sticky, vile web of lies and manipulation just to make sure you’d face conflict with your team. When you managed to skate by continuously, it drove her mad. Not wanting to make the move to take strong players like you and Shawn out in case the finale ends with a jury vote, she pushed Sadie into targeting you. With staunch allies like Eva and Lindsay and eventually Samey, it seemed the chance to vote you out would never come… until yesterday’s immunity challenge reward getting to cast the sole vote to evict. When you managed to win second place immunity for yourself, Heather manipulated Sadie into taking out your strongest allies, so that way, all opposition against her would be crushed when she is finally able to get you out. It’s no coincidence that you teamed with Eva and Samey, and now they’ve been eliminated. Heather has been pulling the strings for longer than you realize.

**Amy** (*fiercely*):

So… it seems the next move has been made for us. We need to make sure Heather stays far away from immunity.

**Shawn**:

And when we do, we all come together and vote her out.

**Scott**:

But what do we do if she is immune?

**Alejandro**:

Then we’ll need to take a page from her book and eliminate her strongest ally.

**Courtney** (*entering the room*):

And just who would that be? Sadie? Don’t make me laugh.

**Tyler** (*confused*):

Courtney? How did you get here?

**Courtney**:

I was walking by and I… heard the conversation.

**Amy**:

She’s gullible enough to fall for any of the crap that Heather feeds her, and I hate to admit it, but she has done very well in competitions so far. If she weren’t an airhead and could make any real strategic moves herself, I’d actually be threatened by her.

**Alejandro**:

We have to go with this plan. Amy, Shawn… our games depend on it.

**Shawn** (*reluctantly*):

…Okay, I’m in. To avenge Dave and vanquish evil. If I detect any form of betrayal from you, I’m going to personally bury you myself. Got it?

**Alejandro**:

You have my word.

**Shawn**:

If only that meant anything.

**Courtney**:

I’m in, too. She’s had this karma coming for years and I’m not going to stand by and watch my friends get crushed.

**Scott**:

If it means protecting Amy, I’m in.

**Amy**:

Fine. I guess I’m in. I’m with Shawn. The moment I feel you betrayed me, I’m coming after you.

**Tyler**:

I’ll help too! I’ll see if I can get Lindsay on board, too!

**Amy**:

Speaking of which, where is she?

**Courtney**:

When I was packing my stuff up to move into the spa hotel for the night, her and Topher were doing makeovers on each other. They probably stayed up all night and are passed out now.

**Alejandro**:

So Topher moved into the girls side of the cabin?

**Shawn**:

Can you really blame him?

**Alejandro**:

I just expected him to try and cuddle up to Chris so he could live in luxury while he spends the rest of his time here.

*As the camera fast forwarded again until dusk, the remaining ten contestants were sitting outside of the cabin and spa hotel, enjoying a large bonfire. Each contestant sitting on a lawn chair in a circle around it, roasting hot dogs on sticks and making s’mores. The peaceful time would soon be interrupted, unbeknownst to them.*

**Chef** (*over the loudspeaker*):

Attention final ten victims! The time to relax is over! Report to the beach for your next challenge!

**Topher**:

A challenge now? It’s already dark outside!

**Heather**:

This is going to be some bizarre form of torture, I can tell already.

### Act Two - The Challenge

**Setting: Pahkitew Island, the beach, nighttime**

*The remaining ten contestants reported to the beach as they were instructed to do, and waiting for them was a large dock that led from the cold sand on the ground to a massive mansion sitting on a wooden podium that seemed to float on the ocean water. Chris, Blaineley, and Chef all stood in front of the massive marble steps leading to the entrance to the mansion.*

**Blaineley**:

Greetings, campers! I hope you’re all well rested.

**Courtney**:

It is ten at night. Why are we doing a challenge so late?

**Chris**:

Theming, Courtney! Duh. Nighttime, empty mansion.

**Lindsay**:

It looks, like, reeeeally scary.

**Blaineley**:

Precisely.

**Chris**:

For tonight’s challenge… you will all be staying in this mansion!

**Scott**:

Staying in a mansion? This is the lamest challenge yet.

**Heather**:

Wait, what’s the catch here?

**Blaineley**:

No catch whatsoever. All you have to do is stay in the mansion until morning.

**Chris**:

Avoiding being captured by a mystery guest!

**Heather**:

There it is.

**Amy**:

Quit dancing around it and just tell us the challenge.

**Chris**:

Boy, you all just hate fun, don’t you? For tonight’s challenge, you must stay in the mansion throughout the night and avoid getting captured by the mystery guest. If you succeed in lasting until morning, you will win immunity from elimination. However, if you capture the mystery guest by morning, whoever captures them will win immunity and a stay in the spa hotel.

**Blaineley**:

Just for an extra incentive, the mystery guest is also doing a competition before morning. If they successfully pick all ten of you off by morning, they will return to the competition and compete for the grand prize. In addition to their return to the game, they will not cast the sole vote to eliminate one contestant, they will eliminate two.

**Courtney**:

I hate you people.

**Chris**:

Inside the mansion, only nine rooms are unlocked. The kitchen, dining room, lounge, social hall, ballroom, conservatory, library, private study, and the bumper pool room. Are they near each other? Absolutely not. Are they on different floors and spread out? You bet.

**Blaineley**:

Does anybody have any questions?

*All ten contestants raise their hands.*

**Chris**:

None? Good! Then let’s get a move on! In the mansion you go!

*The ten contestants enter the dark, dusty mansion one by one. Shawn, Scott, Amy, Courtney, Alejandro, Heather, Tyler, Sadie, Lindsay, and then a visibly frightened Topher. After Topher entered the mansion, Chef slammed the door with an evil laugh and locked it behind them.*

**Topher** (*knocking and pulling on the locked door*):

Come on! This is, like, really scary! Let me out!

*It was completely dark in the mansion as the contestants fumbled around in the dark. A pair of eyes appeared on screen in the dark moving around whatever room they were in by the entrance. After the body the pair of eyes were connected to fumbled around a bit, they made an exclamation. A small flame illuminated a moving hand as it found a candle in the dark. Lighting the candle illuminated the room a tad bit more, revealing the hand and eyes to belong to Shawn.*

**Shawn** (*picking up the candle*):

Okay, guys. I found a candle. We need to find our surroundings and see if there are any more around so we can see at all times.

*As Shawn used the candle to light his way further down the eerie mansion, lightning struck from the outside, temporarily illuminating the long hallway they were standing in and revealing a mysterious figure resembling a human at the complete end of the hall. When another lightning strike illuminated the hall again, the figure was gone, causing a series of gasps from the crowd of contestants. Finding a candelabra, Shawn used his candle to light the others. Picking up the five-sticked candelabra, Shawn handed the solo candle over to a pair of tanned hands, revealed to be Courtney as she held it in her grip.*

**Courtney**:

Only a few candles won’t be able to last us all night.

**Topher** (*frightened*):

Well what should we do?

**Amy**:

There’s clearly electric power in this mansion. There’s lights on the walls and fans on the ceilings. We need to find the breaker and reset the power.

**Shawn**:

A wise observation Amy, but the question is where would they put it?

**Courtney**:

Seeing as how they want to scare us, it’s probably where that fake ghost just appeared.

**Shawn**:

Good thinking. Everyone stay here. I’ll go check it out.

**Lindsay**:

Is it, like, a smart idea to go alone? The scary ghost could get you!

**Shawn**:

I’m perfectly capable of defending myself alone, so I’m not worried about some already eliminated loser trying to pick me off.

**Amy** (*correcting him*):

Did you learn nothing from the last time we had a challenge like this? The first one to deviate from the group is the first one captured.

**Shawn**:

And I won it the last time. I got this covered.

**Courtney**:

Well that’s tough because I’m going with you.

**Amy**:

Me, too!

**Shawn**:

Fine, suit yourselves.

*Courtney passes her candle on to a pair of rugged pale white hands, who is revealed to be Scott in the light from the candle’s flame. Shawn, Courtney, and Amy are illuminated from the candelabra held in Shawn’s firm grip as they walk down the long hallway. Along the way, the three of them make some light game talk.*

**Courtney** (*persuasive*):

Y’know Amy, since we seem to be friends now, would you maybe consider teaming up with Shawn and I?

**Amy** (*reading through her*):

Are you asking me to be in an alliance?

**Courtney**:

It sounds that way, but that’s not exactly what’s happening. Shawn and I don’t have an alliance, we’re just friends and we help each other out.

**Amy**:

So you’re pretty much inviting me into an alliance that doesn’t really exist.

**Shawn**:

Yeah, that seems like the gist of it.

**Amy**:

Fine, I’m in.

**Shawn** (*sarcastic*):

Gee, we’re so glad to have your enthusiasm aboard.

**Amy** (*returning his energy*):

Gee, you have a way of making a girl feel welcome.

*The trio reached the end of the long hallway and found a series of electrical switches in the wall. Shawn tries to flip a few of them, but gets an electric shock after getting it wrong.*

**Courtney**:

Shawn! Are you okay?

**Shawn**:

Fine. It’s not the first time I’ve gotten shocked from an electric discharge. In any case, I can’t get the electricity on. I think it might’ve been unplugged.

**Courtney**:

Here, let me try.

*Shawn moves out of the way and Courtney tries to flip a switch. As soon as she touches it, she also gets electrocuted. Her hair stands completely straight up. Amy shoves her aside.*

**Amy**:

Let me do it.

**Shawn**:

What do you know about being an electrician?

**Amy**:

When I lived with mother, I had to learn the complete electrical and wiring system for the whole house because she’d shut off all power in my bedroom if I didn’t do all my chores.

**Courtney**:

That’s a bit extreme for not doing chores, isn’t it? What did you have to do?

**Amy**:

Let’s see. There way take out the garbage, cut the grass, make all the meals, pay the bills, trim the trees, clean the fireplace, sweep and mop the floors, bury the dogs, dust the entire house, clean the gutters, reshingle the roof, tar the driveway-

**Shawn** (*taken aback*):

Bury the dogs?

**Courtney**:

Reshingle the roof?

**Shawn**:

Tar the driveway? Were you a daughter or a slave?

**Courtney**:

No wonder you hate your mother so much. All mine did was make me play soccer when I didn’t want to and make me learn to play six different instruments.

**Shawn**:

With the way you two talk makes me wonder if I missed anything since mine died.

*As the discussion about mothers continued, Amy began to play around with the electrical switches and wires. Unlike Courtney and Shawn before her, she didn’t get shocked at all. With a final flip of a switch, the electricity began to flicker on as the lights surged to life.*

**Lindsay**:

Ooh! I can see the light! Good job Shane!

**Shawn**:

It’s Shawn, Lindsay, and I didn’t do this. It was all Amy.

**Lindsay**:

Oh! Well good job, Tammy!

**Heather** (*with a scoff*):

Amy? Yeah, right. She knows how to be an electrician like I know how to get a lobotomy, strip half naked, and pose for a magazine cover.

**Lindsay**:

Ooh! Did I ever tell you guys that I’m on the newest cover of Reality TV Monthly?

**Heather**:

See what I mean?

**Sadie**:

Ooh! Congratulations! Katie and I get that every month!

**Shawn**:

Okay, now that the power is back on, we need to find the nine rooms we have access to.

**Scott** (*confused*):

And then what?

**Shawn**:

Assess the surroundings and keep tight contact with each other so we don’t get picked off so easily. Let’s see, there’s ten of us, so we need to split up into two groups of five so we can search the second floor and this one. From there, we regroup so we can keep track of where hiding is the most realistic.

**Heather** (*shooting him down*):

That’s all very well, but just how do you suppose we keep contact on a completely separate floor? Should we just yell and alert the hunter to our location?

**Amy** (*annoyed*):

Must you always be so callous?

**Heather**:

His plan doesn’t even make sense. How would we even keep “tight contact,” but still split up?

**Shawn** (*reaching into a pocket in his jacket*):

With a walkie-talkie.

*He thrust one into Heather’s hand as he showed her another in his pocket.*

Now we just need to split up into two groups of five.

*Amy, Courtney, Alejandro, and Scott moved to Shawn’s side, leaving the other group to consist of Heather, Lindsay, Sadie, Topher, and Tyler.*

**Topher** (*counting*):

Well I guess that settles it.

**Shawn**:

My group will take this floor. Lindsay, your group will take the second floor.

**Lindsay** (*giving him a salute*):

Aye, aye, captain! Detective Lindsay, Her Hotness is on the case!

**Shawn**:

I can always count on you. Alright, let’s break!

*The camera cuts to a view of Lindsay leading her team on the left of the screen and Shawn leading his team on the right as they both try to open a door. After they both manage to get it open, a puff of dust covers both groups of five as the ten contestants gasp at the rooms they see. Lindsay’s group finds the bumper pool room and Shawn’s group finds the private study. The camera focuses solely on Lindsay’s group as she inexplicably wears a cap and carries a magnifying glass like Sherlock Holmes as she looks for clues.*

**Heather**:

What are you doing?

**Lindsay**:

I’m looking for clues, duh!

**Topher**:

That’s, like, a really good idea.

**Sadie**:

Yeah, maybe we can find something to help us get out of here.

**Heather**:

This isn’t a murder mystery! It’s a survival challenge!

**Topher** (*confused*):

So?

**Heather**:

So they’re going to pick us off one by one until there’s nobody left.

**Tyler** (*with a yawn*):

This is boring. Let’s play pool!

**Heather**:

We can’t play bumper pool!

**Tyler** (*deflated*):

Aw!

**Topher**:

I’ll play with you, Tyler!

**Tyler** (*happy again*):

Yay!

**Topher** (*flirty*):

I just, like, don’t know how to play, so you’ll have to show me.

**Tyler** (*clueless*):

Hell yeah, dude! Prepare yourself!

**Heather**:

I’m in hell.

*As Tyler began to teach Topher how to play bumper pool, pressing his body against a blushing Topher’s, the door slammed shut behind the group of five in the room and the power went out. There was a loud clattering sound right before Topher let out a loud yelp in pain.*

**Sadie**:

What was that?

**Heather**:

It sounded like-

*The power came back on to reveal Topher’s body lying on the bumper pool table. The pool cue impaled through his chest with the pool balls spelling out “1/10” next to his body on the table. Topher’s blood is splattered all over the table and some on Tyler’s face and body.*

**Lindsay** (*frightened*):

TOPHER!

**Tyler** (*horrified*):

What just happened?!

*The camera cuts to Shawn’s group of five in the private study. Courtney is looking at a wall of five suits of armor wielding axes mounted to an otherwise empty wall.*

**Courtney**:

What do you think Chris needs this stuff for?

**Amy** (*jokingly*):

Do you think the challenge at the final five will be all of us just beating and messily butchering each other for his amusement and nothing else?

**Alejandro** (*serious*):

That’s probably a better guess than you realize.

**Scott**:

So what are we supposed to do? Just sit around and get picked off? How are we supposed to actually do this challenge?

**Shawn**:

I’m sure that they’re waiting to get us to break from the group so we’ll be easy to pick off. As long as we all stick together, it’s less likely that something will happen because of the number advantage. If we all stick together and make it through the night, we each win immunity. Then when we get to the elimination ceremony, the five of us and swing some votes from the other group, we can finally get rid of the plague that is Heather.

*Scott picks up a book off of the large desk in the middle of the room.*

**Scott** (*trying to read the title*):

“Lay fan tome day lap era.” What is this?

**Amy** (*taking the book from his hands*):

“Le Fantome de l’Opera.” It’s the Phantom of the Opera.

**Scott**:

Oh. What’s that?

**Alejandro**:

It’s a novel from, I believe, 1910. It’s about a man with a birth defect on his face that falls in love with a pretty, young singer.

**Scott** (*gesturing to Amy*):

Sounds romantic.

**Amy**:

Yeah, but then it’s revealed that he’s been manipulating her for years because of his affection for her and tries to turn her into a star, killing everyone that stands in his and her path.

**Scott**:

So it’s a romance slash horror slash drama?

**Courtney**:

He then kidnaps her, and once she escapes, stalks her. When he realizes that she is in love with another man, he traps him in a torture chamber and tries to drown him.

**Scott**:

This is a really twisted for one of them books.

**Amy**:

But then he reveals that because of his birth defect, his family had abandoned him and the two begin to feel sympathy for each other and he says that he’s a dog ready to die for her. Letting the love of his life go, he stops eating and dies in his depression.

**Scott**:

And this book is popular?

**Courtney**:

And how.

**Alejandro**:

It’s been adapted several times. Most famously as a musical.

**Amy**:

I love this book. So romantic and thrilling, but heartbreaking and tragic.

**Scott**:

You really like it, hm?

**Shawn**:

Wait! You find The Phantom of the Opera just sitting out on the desk in the middle of a challenge where we’re being picked off one by one?

**Scott**:

Yeah! I did!

*As Shawn moves closer to Scott and Amy to see the book, the lights cut out and a voice is heard in the darkness.*

**Sadie** (*over the walkie-talkie, frantic*):

Shawn! Come in Shawn! Shawn! Are you there? Topher is dead!

**Shawn** (*answering back*):

Stay where you are and don’t move. I think we’re in for a long-

*With a loud crash and the sound of glass shattering close by, Shawn dropped his walkie-talkie in the darkness, ending contact with the other group. As the lights slowly came back on, Scott was revealed to have been crushed to death by a chandelier that fell from the ceiling with broken glass surrounding his body on the floor. A mournful Amy dropped to her knees and held his lifeless hand. By his head, “2/10” is written in his blood.*

**Courtney** (*panicked*):

Oh my god!

**Amy** (*wildly crying*):

This is too much! My sister and my boyfriend… two days apart!

**Alejandro**:

How is this legal?

**Shawn** (*somber*):

He was a great guy in the short time that I’ve known him. For his sake, we need to find the killer and get through this all together.

*Shawn picks up his walkie-talkie and begins speaking over it to the other group as Amy is lifted to her feet by Alejandro and Courtney. The camera fades to black and then returns as the entire group, now consisting of eight, are standing in a large room filled with golden columns as they stand around a large golden table. They have found the social hall.*

**Sadie**:

I can’t believe they’re just outright killing us!

**Courtney**:

I’m working out a lawsuit right now!

**Amy** (*visibly shaken and distraught*):

One moment telling Scott how much I loved a book… the next, he’s crushed to death by a chandelier and he’s gone…

**Shawn**:

Wait, the book. The Phantom of the Opera. That’s what this challenge is.

**Heather**:

So you’re telling me that they based a challenge off of a book? You really expect me to believe that Chris or Blaineley are actually able to read, let alone a book as complex as that?

**Courtney**:

It can’t be a coincidence. We talk about the book, and then suddenly someone is crushed to death by a chandelier dropping from the ceiling?

**Lindsay** (*confused*):

What’s a chandelier?

**Tyler**:

But wait. Why Topher and Scott?

**Shawn**:

That I do question. Wouldn’t they want to pick off the strongest players on both sides?

**Alejandro** (*realizing*):

Because Topher and Scott are the warning shots. The two weakest of both groups getting killed off is what is supposed to put us on edge. It’s a taste of things to come.

**Shawn**:

As much as I hate to say it, I think we’re going to have to split up to cover more ground to track down our killer. There’s eight of us left and it’s really unlikely that they’ll strike again in the bumper pool room or the study. That leaves this room, the conservatory, the kitchen, the library, the ballroom, the dining room, and the lounge. Seven rooms and eight people. Two of us are going to have to go as a pair and the rest of us will have to brave this alone for now.

**Courtney**:

May god have mercy on us all.

**Alejandro**:

I’ll go with Amy. After last night’s events and today’s tragedy, I don’t want to leave her alone.

**Heather**:

Going to try to sucker her into your dying plight?

**Shawn**:

Alright. Bad news is that I only have the two walkie-talkies for us to communicate, so I’ll hold onto mine and Alejandro, you take the other. After we check these rooms, we all need to meet back here. Alejandro, when we secure our rooms, we’ll need to gather up the survivors and escort them back since we’re less likely to be hunted in groups.

*Alejandro gives Shawn a nod and Lindsay hands him the other walkie-talkie. He then leaves the room after picking up Amy and carrying her to try and find an unlocked door. One by one, the remaining six contestants leave the social hall in different directions to find the rooms. The camera cuts to static and then to a brief confessional block.*

**Chris**:

I just want to make it clear. None of the contestants have actually died yet. The hunter is just using mannequins we had made of each of the bodies, sorry, contestants and replacing the real contestant with the lifeless mannequin. Although, think of the ratings if we DID kill them off.

**Topher**:

This challenge was really fun for me! I got to use my makeup skills not only to look so incredibly hot that Tyler was pressing up against me, but I also got to show how I’m so versatile as a makeup artist that I used prosthetics and fake blood to fake my death instead of using that mannequin. I’m, like, really talented.

**Scott** (*wiping fake blood off his face*):

Sure, it sucks to be out of the running to win immunity, but I did get clues on how to really impress Amy as long as I read that book. Plus, Chef is letting us watch the challenge in the editing room, and hearing Amy saying that I’m her girlfriend was heaven! I mean boyfriend!

*The camera then cut back to static and then to Sadie alone as she enters the lounge. The room looked rather empty. All that was inside was yet another suit of armor carrying an axe at the far end of the room, a purple couch that clashed with the brown walls, a glass coffee table in front of the couch, and a television set that was stuck on a loop of some old news report that was fading back and forth between the static.*

**Man on TV**:

Crime and violence… facade… killer escaped… corruption…

**Sadie**:

God, they went all out at making this challenge as creepy as possible. This setting, apparently killing us off… This is a new low even for them.

*As she rolled her eyes while she wiped dust off the coffee table, she sat down on the couch. Picking up a remote control from on the coffee table, she pressed a button. Behind her, a wall opened up revealing a large array of medieval weapons. Confused at nothing happening on the tv, she pressed another button and the television begin to crackle as the screen turned to static completely. She sat the remote down on the coffee table.*

**Man on TV**:

Killer escaped… corruption… crime and violence… facade…

**Sadie**:

There’s no way they’re actually killing us off.

*At that moment, the lights cut out. With a loud sound of glass smashing, the lights returned and Sadie’s “body” had smashed through the coffee table with blood spelling out “3/10” next to her head as the tv kept repeating the same phrase of crime and violence. The doorknob rattles and then the door opens as Heather enters the room. She sees Sadie’s lifeless body smashed through the glass coffee table, simply shrugged, then shut the door. The camera then cut to Amy and Alejandro opening a door and entering into the room it contained. Inside waiting for them was a great hall filled with a long table with golden plates, knives, forks, and spoons resting on black cloth napkins at every place setting. They found the dining room. Pulling one of the golden chairs out, Alejandro helped Amy sit down and then seated himself at the chair across from her.*

**Alejandro**:

You’ve had a most taxing week, una escarlata. First you lose your sister that your heart spent numerous years calling for to be reconciled, and now you watch your boyfriend get killed right in front of you. I do not envy you, but I do pity you.

**Amy** (*still shaken, but not trusting*):

I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve all of this, but just save your breath. I know your tongue could open a wine bottle. Using my sorrow to your advantage is sick.

**Alejandro** (*with a sincere smile*):

From the bottom of my corazón rugoso, I do not wish to toy with you in this moment. Our goal is survival, and that’s what we must do. You have my word.

**Amy**:

Your word means nothing.

**Alejandro**:

Then I will put my reputation on it. All of my college degrees. Everything. I am not playing a game with you at this moment. With how Heather cruelly used Sadie in order to split you and Samey up once and for all, and how you just witnessed Scott’s agonizing death, you have been through too much in this competition. The fact that you are still here speaks volumes to your drive, tenacity, and resilience. You have truly redeemed yourself.

**Amy**:

Maybe you’re not such a bad guy after all.

*The camera cuts to a confessional block.*

**Alejandro**:

In charming Amy by laying everything out on the line, my tongue has gained her ear. With a whisper, she has become my pawn on the chessboard, and I will use her to make the final advance against Heather. I have no doubt that this challenge is a farce. The show is not able to kill us off, so as much as I keep Amy in duress about Scott’s “death” by pretending to grieve with her, I am not concerned about this challenge at all. Clearly Amy is a favorite of both Chris and Blaineley, so I play to gain her trust and keep myself safe as she gets ahead. I do not need to win this competition. I can safely throw it to her, allow her to get the win for herself, and with the seeds I have planted in both her and Shawn, I have no doubt that Heather will be voted out tonight. She believes she has outplayed me again, but I will get the last laugh when I get the two million dollar prize, then reveal that I orchestrated her elimination.

**Heather**:

I have no doubt in my mind that this challenge is just an elaborate ruse to get us to overreact and persecute each other. Of course nobody died. Seeing Sadie getting taken out of the challenge was honestly a bit of a relief to me because it is hard enough to play up the dramatics with these other losers without that airhorn honking in my ear. However, I know it will be suspicious if I do not act up and pretend to be concerned for the death of my beloved “friend.” Time to take a page out of Topher’s book and really ham up this overreaction.

**Sadie**:

I was really trying to talk myself into believing they weren’t killing us off, but it was just soooo scary! But it turns out that they actually weren’t! I feel like such a silly goose!

*The camera cuts to static and then back to Alejandro and Amy in the dining room. Alejandro softly wipes a tear away from Amy’s face as Samey had done before. Just then, the lights go out. In the dark, Alejandro protectively moves to protect Amy as there is a clattering sound of metal scraping together.*

**Alejandro** (*valiantly*):

You will have to get through me if you want to get to her!

*As the lights slowly flickered back to life, Alejandro’s body lay on the table with a wine glass smashed over his head, and shrimp fork impaled in his eye, a salad fork in his throat, and a butter knife impaled in his chest. Beside his head was “4/10” written in blood. Amy, once it was bright enough for her to see the scene in front of her, released a scream. Finding the walkie-talkie Alejandro had been carrying on the floor, Amy picked it up as the door burst open. Heather enters the room in a panicked frenzy.*

**Heather** (*panicked*):

Sadie! Oh my god! Why god? WHY?! My dear friend! How am I supposed to go on without you?

**Amy** (*into the walkie-talkie*):

Shawn! Come in, Shawn!

**Shawn** (*over the walkie-talkie*):

I’m here, Amy. What is it?

**Amy**:

Heather said that Sadie has died and Alejandro just died in front of me trying to defend me.

**Shawn**:

Stay where you are. I’m going to come find you.

*The camera cut to Lindsay alone in a room completely made of glass and surrounded by vibrant green plants, blooming flowers in multiple colors, and butterflies. Lindsay happily smiles as a butterfly lands on her left index finger, then flies away. She then spots a large plant in the back of the room. Intrigued, she walks closer to it.*

**Lindsay** (*intrigued*):

Aw, hi little guy! What are you doing hiding in the back all by yourself? Why not come out and join the rest of your friends?

*She then spots a small white wooden sign next to the plant that says “feed me.” The plant, an impossibly large venus fly trap, had leaves and vines hanging down around the sign, which Lindsay took to mean the plant was hungry.*

Oh, you’re hungry, aren’t you, little guy? Here let's find some plant food for you so you can grow up all big and strong!

*Looking around, she found a pouch full of pink liquid plant food. Opening it, she poured it into the mouth of the plant, and it snapped shut from the touch.*

Eat up!

*The plant wrapped her arms in its vines and pulled her closer, unbeknownst to Lindsay. It then lifted her up as the camera panned away as Lindsay began to scream. On the wall, blood splatters to spell out “6/10.” The camera then cuts to Amy, Courtney, Heather, and Shawn in the social hall. Tyler is nowhere to be seen. The four are discussing strategy.*

**Shawn**:

We have all been blind. The answer was staring at us right in the face.

**Courtney**:

This could be the chance to ensnare our clever friend.

**Heather**:

Well go on, I’m listening.

**Shawn**:

We’ll play Chris’ game. We do the challenge, but we hold the ace.

**Courtney**:

We make certain the doors are barred and we’re there.

**Shawn**:

We make certain we’re armed.

**Courtney and Shawn:**

The curtain falls. Their reign will end.

**Amy** (*distraught*):

If this doesn’t stop, I’ll go mad! God, it scares me. I can’t go through this ordeal by fire.

**Shawn**:

Yet while he lives, he will hunt us until we’re dead.

**Amy**:

Twisted every way, what answer can I give? Am I to risk my life to win the chance to live? Do I become prey, do I have any choice? I know I can’t refuse, and yet, I wish I could.

**Courtney**:

Amy, don’t think that we don’t care. Every hope and every prayer rests on us now.

**Shawn**:

So it is to be war between us? This time, the disaster will be yours!

*The camera fades to black. When the screen returns, the four are now in a large empty room with Courtney holding a violin and a visibly shaken Amy in a white dressing gown standing on the stage with Shawn and Heather hiding underneath the tablecloths draped off the rounded tables. They have found the ballroom and are trying to catch the killer. There is a thumping sound coming from the vent above them, startling Amy further.*

**Amy**:

He’s here! The phantom of the opera!

**Shawn** (*whispering from hiding*):

It’s time. Now!

*To lure out their prey, Courtney began playing the violin as Amy sang in a powerful soprano voice.*

**Amy** (*singing hesitantly*):

In sleep he sang to me, in dreams he came. That voice which calls to me and speaks my name. And do I dream again? For now I find the phantom of the opera is there… inside my mind.

**Courtney**:

You’re doing great, Amy. Big finish.

*Courtney’s violin playing grew louder as Amy released a series of ever-heightening vocal note runs finishing with a powerful E6 note. As Amy and Courtney reached their musical climax, Tyler’s body was dropped from the vent in the ceiling with a noose tied around his neck and “5/10” written on his cheek in blood. Seeing Tyler’s body hanging from the ceiling, the already weak Amy released a blood-curdling scream and fell over, passed out. Courtney dropped the violin and rushed to Amy’s side to check on her as a mystery figure from behind grabbed it and smashed her over the head with it, effectively knocking her out. The lights then cut out and, once returned, Amy and Courtney’s bodied had been bisected with a large axe Courtney noticed earlier in the study. Their blood was used to write “8/10” between them.*

**Shawn**:

Now!

*Charging from underneath the tables they were hiding under, Heather and Shawn rushed to attack the mystery figure. Fighting two on one, they had the upper hand against the enemy, however, when the figure lifted the axe, he started to gain momentum on the duo. Shawn, spotting a rig holding up Tyler’s body from the noose to the vent in the ceiling, almost immediately created a new idea to stop the hunting predator. He charged his full bodyweight into the mystery figure’s back, causing him to accidentally strike Heather over the head with the hilt of the weapon and knock her unconscious.*

**Heather**:

Shawn? What are you-

**Shawn**:

I have to do what I must to save us!

*As the killer was distracted as they rose to his feet, Shawn untied the noose from Tyler’s neck, causing his lifeless body to drop down with a loud thud. Pulling the rope from the vent, he quickly tied it into a lasso. Charging into the killer, Shawn knocked him back to the ground and swiftly tied his arms and legs with the lasso behind his back.*

**Mystery Figure** (*struggling*):

Can you loosen the rope up a bit, dude? It’s a challenge, gosh!

*At that moment, the door to the ballroom opened with Chris entering first, followed by Blaineley, then Chef. Behind them, the contestants entered in the order of their kill count, minus Heather, alive and well. Topher, followed by Scott, then Sadie, then Alejandro, then Tyler, then Lindsay, then Courtney, then Amy, who is still quite visibly shaken.*

**Blaineley**:

Congratulations, Shawn! You are the sole winner of immunity!

**Heather** (*coming to, rising from the floor*):

Wait, what?! I survived, too!

**Chris**:

While that is true, you were knocked unconscious.

**Heather**:

So?

**Chef**:

So Shawn was the last one standing, as well as the only one to participate in the attempt in subduing the killer.

**Chris**:

And by the way…

*Chef picked the mystery figure up off the floor for Chris to rip the hood off the costume, revealing a head of fiery red hair in a bob cut, a thick pair of glasses, and scraggly red facial hair. The mystery guest killer is HAROLD.*

**Blaineley**:

Welcome back Harold!

**Chris**:

Shawn! For winning the challenge, not only have you won a night’s stay for you and a guest of your choice in the spa hotel, you have won full immunity from this elimination.

**Blaineley**:

Speaking of which, it’s time for you all to cast your votes!

### Act Three - The Cabins

**Setting: Pahkitew Island, inside the cabin, nighttime.**

*The camera cuts to the inside of the cabin as Alejandro, Amy, Scott, and Shawn are having a discussion. Amy, shaking from the traumatic experience she just endured, is wrapped in a blanket and Scott defensively has his arms wrapped around her as she rests her head on his shoulder. Shawn is backing a bag to prepare for the spa hotel, including Dave’s stuffed bear.*

**Shawn**:

Look, Amy. I feel bad that I won the challenge using you and Courtney as pawns even though both of you agreed to it. I’d like to invite both of you to come with me, but since I can’t, I’m inviting you. Sure, the deaths were fake, but you didn’t know that and saw two deaths happen right in front of you, plus the fake dummy of Tyler getting dropped right in front of you, on top of just losing your sister. It’s only right that I invite you.

**Amy** (*shaken*):

Y-yeah… okay. T-thanks.

**Alejandro**:

I have to say, Amy, for all this challenge put you through, still being able to make it so close to the end is very impressive.

**Amy**:

Thanks… and thank you for helping me. And sacrificing yourself.

**Alejandro**:

It was my pleasure. Now, are we all in agreement of what has to happen tonight?

*The other three nod as Alejandro gave the implication.*

### Act Four - The Campfire Ceremony

**Setting: Pahkitew Island, the campsite, nighttime**

*The camera then cuts to the remaining ten contestants sit on the tree stumps of the campsite. Shawn wraps a bandage over Courtney’s head and checks her for a concussion due to the hit over her head with her violin, which she still had in her possession, broken in her lap. Chef then emerged with the serving tray full of marshmallows. He drops it on the podium and leaves to fetch the boat of losers as Chris stands at the podium.*

**Chris**:

Wasn’t today fun? That was by far my favorite challenge!

**Amy**:

I hate you.

**Courtney**:

My lawyers will be in touch.

**Blaineley**:

Loosen up! You’re all alive, aren’t you?

**Chris**:

For now. Anyway, let’s get on with the results. The votes have been tallied.

**Blaineley**:

Topher! Scott! The two of you were the first to get eliminated from the challenge from both respective sides. Do you think you deserve to stay after proving astronomically incapable of defending yourselves?

**Chris**:

Heather! You certainly spent this challenge overreacting, but there was hardly any action from you in the challenge until the very end, where you got knocked out. After showcasing your laziness to your remaining peers, do you think they have a right to vote you out?

**Heather**:

Hm, I suppose they do, but they’ll truly know misery if that’s the case.

**Blaineley**:

Alejandro! You sacrificed yourself to keep Amy around in the game, despite her being dead weight. Do you think your apparent commitment to your allies will put a target onto your back?

**Alejandro**:

Why would it?

**Blaineley**:

Silence! It’s time to reveal the results.

**Chris**:

Shawn! For winning the challenge, you have won the golden marshmallow of immunity. You cannot be voted off.

**Heather**:

We know how immunity works, just get on with it!

**Chris**:

Okay, okay! Jeez! Pushy! As for the rest of you… eight marshmallows. Nine people.

**Blaineley**:

When your name is called, you may collect your marshmallow.

**Chris**:

Amy!

Courtney!

Sadie!

Lindsay!

Scott!

And Tyler!

**Blaineley**:

That leaves Alejandro, Heather, and Topher.

**Chris**:

Two marshmallows, three people. All ten votes are here between the three of you.

**Blaineley**:

In a vote of six to three to one…

**Chris**:

Heather! You have been eliminated. Please pack your bags and exit down the dock of shame immediately.

**Amy**:

Yes!

**Heather** (*calmly, not even rising to her feet*):

No.

**Blaineley** (*confused*):

No? This really isn’t a choice you have to make.

**Heather**:

Oh, no. I know that. I just mean that I am not leaving. I have this!

*At that moment, to everybody’s surprise, Heather reached into her back pocket and pulled out the McLean Immunity Idol.*

**Alejandro**:

Not so fast!

*To more shock and surprise from everyone, but Scott, who nonchalantly whistles, Alejandro reaches into his own pocket and reveals another McLean Immunity Idol. Topher, confused, raises his hand.*

**Topher**:

Does this mean I’m eliminated?

**Blaineley**:

Two immunity idols? I thought we only had one?

**Chris**:

We do. Alejandro! Heather! Present both of your immunity idols to me!

*Both of them looked at each other smugly as Chris inspected their identical idols.*

**Blaineley**:

What is the verdict?

**Chris**:

I see… this is most interesting. These statues are identical.

**Topher** (*trying to get clarity for himself*):

Am I going home?

**Blaineley**:

So Topher is the one eliminated?

**Chris**:

However! One of them has one subtle flaw, meaning it is a forgery!

**Alejandro and Heather** (*shocked*):

What?!

**Chris**:

Topher!

**Topher** (*confused*):

Yeah?

**Chris**:

You may collect your marshmallow.

**Blaineley**:

So who is going home?

**Chris**:

Heather…

**Blaineley**:

Well that settles that!

**Amy**:

Thank god!

**Courtney**:

Evil has been defeated.

**Chris**:

Yours is the idol that is authentic. Alejandro! You have presented to me a forgery! Whoever made this replica for you is great in woodworking, however there is a scrape in the iris of my eye in yours that does not occur in the authentic version. You have been eliminated!

**Alejandro** (*flabbergasted*):

What?! You! You! You! You!

**Heather** (*giving him a smirk*):

You flew too close to the sun, Icarus. Don’t try to play with the best. You won’t win.

**Alejandro**:

How did you know? How could you POSSIBLY know?!

**Heather**:

Let’s just say that some of your new allies aren’t the best at keeping secrets.

**Alejandro**:

You did all of this… JUST to punish me for All-Stars?

**Heather**:

That’s right!

**Alejandro**:

That was so many years ago!

**Heather**:

But it’s still fresh in my memory.

**Chris**:

Alejandro! Buddy! It’s time to let it go and pack up all your garbage, bro! But first-

**Blaineley**:

Let’s see how the votes played out!

*Chris pressed a button on the podium and the screen behind him and Blaineley flared to life. Alejandro voted for Heather. Amy voted for Heather. Courtney voted for Topher. Heather voted for Alejandro. Lindsay voted for Heather. Sadie voted for Alejandro. Scott voted for Heather. Shawn voted for Heather. Topher voted for Alejandro. Tyler voted for Heather. Three votes for Alejandro. One vote for Topher. Six voided votes for Heather.*

**Shawn**:

This is bull!

**Chris**:

But a fake idol in play is genius…

**Blaineley**:

What are you thinking?

**Chris**:

I’ve made a decision! From now on, the immunity idol will be re-hidden and allowed to be used once more!

**Courtney**:

What’s the catch here?

**Chris**:

However, the forgery will also be hidden somewhere on the island. One with power. One without. Stay on your toes, because now there’s a twist to die for!

**Alejandro** (*bitterly*):

Glad my misfortune can influence you!

**Chris**:

I’m glad, too!

**Alejandro** (*with a growl*):

Let’s just get this over with.

*The camera cuts to Alejandro walking down the dock of shame with his luggage. There is nobody there to greet him like there was Samey. Only Heather stood there for him, with a smug look on her face. He looks visibly displeased to see her.*

**Heather**:

Now we’re even.

**Alejandro**:

You’re despicable.

**Heather**:

And you wouldn’t have it any other way.

*Alejandro sat his luggage down on the boat of losers and then grabbed Heather. With a dip, the two share a wild, passionate kiss before he decides to break them up.*

**Alejandro**:

See you at home, mi amor. You’ll be coming next.

**Heather**:

I can make peace with that.

*Alejandro boarded the boat of losers and then Chef drove it away. The camera cuts to Blaineley and Chris alone at the campsite.*

**Blaineley**:

Well there you have it! A surprise end to one of the greatest competitors this show has ever seen!

**Chris**:

A shocking twist with a fake immunity idol sent Alejandro home after his campaign to get Heather eliminated. Never play a player, dude!

**Blaineley**:

Will Amy be able to recover from her new trauma?

**Chris**:

Will Topher still be a sucker to Heather’s lizard tongue?

**Blaineley**:

Will Heather continue her reign of terror by targeting Shawn or Courtney next?

**Chris**:

Will Tyler be able to step up and finally do something noteworthy?

**Blaineley**:

Find out the answers to these questions and more next time on…

**Chris**:

TOTAL!

DRAMA!

RESURRECTION!

***The camera fades to black.***

## Trivia

* This episode's title is a reference to the classic Disney World ride The Haunted Mansion.
* This episode is an homage to The Phantom of the Opera, and features many references to it, as well as the book outright being present in Chris' study.
	+ Scott finds the book sitting on the desk in the study, and Amy professes her love for it while she, Alejandro, and Courtney explain it to Scott.
	+ Scott's death is a reference to the iconic scene in which the Phantom sends the chandelier of the opera house crashing down from the ceiling and kills a patron.
	+ Tyler's death is nearly identical to the scene of the Phantom killing Buquet with his lasso and hanging him from the ceiling.
	+ The killer is directly based on the Phantom.
	+ Shawn and Amy loosely play the roles of Raoul and Christine, complete with Amy wearing the iconic white dressing gown and singing pieces of the song The Phantom of the Opera.
	+ Shawn, Courtney, Amy, and Heather nearly word for word speak the "Notes/Twisted Every Way" scene before the climax of the challenge.
* Like Samey in the previous episode, characters caress Amy's face a few times in this episode.
	+ Exactly like Samey in the previous episode, Scott wipes tears from her face.
	+ Alejandro would later do it to Amy for the same purpose in the dining room right before his death scene.
* Twice in this episode, Scott wraps Amy protectively in his arms. Once at the beginning and once in the end.
* Alejandro implies that he is afraid of Courtney, specifically her wrath, in this episode.
* Courtney's ability to play the violin is brought up twice this episode. She also states that she can play six instruments as well as that she was forced to play soccer as a child by her mother.
* Amy reveals that the dogs she and Samey had as children died and that their mother made her bury them in a list of other "chores" she was forced to do.
* Amy also reveals that she has a firm understanding of electricity due to her mother's abuse.
* Lindsay, as "Detective Lindsay, Her Hotness" dresses as Sherlock Holmes, looking for clues in the bumper pool room.
* In this episode, Amy and Courtney begin to bond over the loss of Samey and rebuilding relationships, and later, familial trauma.
* With Shawn selecting Amy to take to the spa hotel for the night, she is the first contestant to stay more than one time consecutively.
* This episode begins to show conflict between Heather and Sadie as Sadie shows remorse for turning on Samey and causing the beginning of Amy's breakdown and Heather shows no concern for Sadie after witnessing her lifeless body.
* Topher's proficiency in makeup artistry is referenced again in this episode as he opts to not use his the mannequin made for him and instead uses prosthetics on his own body to give the appearance of a grisly death.
* Following the events of the previous episode, Topher begins to attempt to flirt with Tyler, who remains oblivious to his advances.
* Despite being eliminated previously, Dave and Samey serve as driving forces this episode with multiple mentions from Alejandro, Amy, Courtney, and Shawn.
* Despite telling Scott a few moments beforehand that they aren't together and that their first date will be after the season concludes, Amy refers to Scott as her boyfriend when she is sent into hysterics believing that he had been killed. Scott reveals that he was watching and found the sentiment sweet.
* Despite Heather believing that she has his loyalty, Topher reveals in a confessional that he plans to become a double agent against her.
* The killer is revealed to be Harold after Shawn had captured him and gets unmasked by Chris.
* Despite the challenge largely being based on The Phantom of the Opera, two other popular musicals are referenced in this episode.
	+ Heathers: Heather refers to Sadie as Martha Dumptruck, and Sadie's death is a direct reference to Heather Chandler's.
	+ Little Shop of Horrors: The venus fly trap spotted by Lindsay in the conservatory is a direct reference to Audrey II, the sign stating "Feed Me" is a reference to the song "Feed Me, Seymour" as well as Lindsay's death scene being inspired by Audrey's.
* Heather references Courtney's fatal mistake of making a chart of how she planned for the end of the season to go in *All-Stars* in a confessional.
* This episode is meant to be an inversion of *No One Egg-spects the Spanish Inquisition* in *Total Drama All-Stars*, starting with Heather finding the immunity idol multiple episodes ago, having Scott make an identical duplicate copy, passing the copy to Alejandro, and then Heather uses the immunity idol against Alejandro, ultimately sending him home. She then outright states that they are now even from him doing it to her in *All-Stars*.
* Despite Courtney being in on the plan to eliminate Heather, she ultimately chooses to cast a vote to eliminate Topher instead for unknown reasons.