Mystery Zone

***Mystery Zone*** is the first episode of the first season of *Scooby-Doo! Mystery Force.*

## Premise

Mystery Inc has parted ways for 2 years, as Karl is seeing a lot of trouble since Mystery started to rise and an unknown villain plans to bring it all together. Karl plans something to get them.

## Synopsis

A lot of monsters are attacking a lot of cities and people with their scary masks as a lot of people are stealing items from ships and scaring people with their fear. In the building HQ, Russell sees a lot of monsters crawling around to scare everyone as he fears the worst at Knotts Company. Levi and his PA, Sandra Florence overwhelmingly see him. Sees a lot of police trying to stop as they are just too fast and very smart. Russell tries other ideas as he wants Mystery Inc as the PA recalls about the split up 2 years ago. Skeleton Freaks with masks are attacked, other than Coolsville.

Russell has doubts about their place as the CEO as he becomes a leader with his product, tech, and a lot of stuff that shaped Coolsville. Skeleton Freak warns the city as he makes a speech about his rampage of minions and will use everything to attack in his way to cause chaos. Skeleton Freak warns the city and many other threats to get out of his way, as he will use it to get what he wants and destroy and collect.

Russell finds Skeleton Freak annoying, as a monster running and roaming everywhere to attack people and steal which is concerning. He speaks to himself as he wants to stop them now. Fred Jones interrupted him as he is working in the company with Russell. He is busy combining with tech in the testing room as he uses the nets and the items that can trap monsters. Russell was down as Fred uses the incident as he sees the picture of Mystery Inc as he remembers each other splinting up for 2 years. Russell warns that many monsters and Mysterious are starting to involve. Russell wants to help him as the monsters are everywhere around the world, as Fred sees Russell gone as he left with him angry.

Russell goes alone to get food as he talks to Fred about the Mystery Machine getting a new makeover with duplicates as he wants to solve mysteries with him as he doesn’t want to do it alone. It turned out a Gorilla monster is, attacking Russell as he tried to hurt him Russell tries to fight back and fought off the monster. Russell throws something at him but the Gorilla got away Fred appears as he continues to work on traps inside of the testing room Russell had enough of Fred and he decided to know about Fred and his team's past to solve mysteries.

Russell knows about Mystery Inc’s past as he remembers teaming up to solve a mystery and remembers. He knows a lot about Fred’s past in leading mysteries in America and the world with Mystery Inc and clues. It got Fred’s attention as he talks about the skills that Mystery Inc have to capture them with ideas and engagement. He had a long talk about solving mysteries, as they go to so many places to help others and stop criminals from stealing, taking over, or something dangerous. Karl back Fred to accept Mystery Inc with the detail and more. Fred agrees and decided to open Mystery Inc again.

Fred and Russell track the Gorilla in the lighthouse in Coolsville as he terrorized more people in the lighthouse as they run. Fred wants Russell to go there as bait but he is dismissed as he wants to play along to capture the Gorilla man. Russell goes there by himself as Fred goes behind him inside the lighthouse as he goes to find him as they go up to the top as it turned it is a dead end as Gorilla Man ambushed Russell as he runs away fast for Fred to trap him in the nets with gadgets.

They unmasked the Gorilla man as it turned out to be “Verona Dempsey”. Fred remembers her from the lighthouse in Wisconsin. She announced that she was released from prison by Skeleton Freak to spread the word that Mystery Inc is no more and gone forever. Fred knows that Mystery Inc was gone for 2 years and never came back. She was arrested as she said "Jinkers" and laughed about them being outnumbered by two, causing Fred to change his mind about bringing Mystery Inc back together is turning to be true. Russell added upgrades and many new additions to the Mystery Machine.

Fred is really happy to drive the Mystery Machine again, as he vows to find Shaggy, Velma, Scooby, and Daphne to stop Skeleton Freak from creating more chaos and taking over the world.

## Characters

**Main characters:**

* Mystery Incorporated ***(Mentioned)***
* Scooby-Doo ***(Mentioned)***
* Shaggy Rogers ***(Mentioned)***
* Fred Jones ***(First Appearance)***
* Daphne Blake ***(Mentioned)***
* Velma Dinkley ***(mentioned)***

**Supporting characters:**

* Russell Jenkins ***(first appearance)***
* Sandra Florence ***(First Appearance)***
* PA ***(first appearance)***

**Villains:**

* Skeleton Freak (Marshall Hill) ***(first appearance)***
* Skeleton Freak's Minions ***(first appearance)***
* Gorilla Claw ***(first appearance)***
* Verona Dempsey ***(first appearance)***

**Other characters:**

* Knotts Company Members ***(first appearance)***
* Coolsville Cilivians ***(first appearance)***
* Coolsville Police ***(first appearance)***

## Locations

* Coolsville
	+ Coolsville Police Department
	+ Knotts Company
	+ Chinese Resturant
	+ Coolsville Art Exhibit
	+ Coolsville Lighthouse

## Objects

* Cereal
* Scooby Snack ***(mentioned)***
* Storage keys
* Flashlight (mentioned)
* Nets
* Harpoon Gun

## Cast

 Me (Beast Force 141)
 Tony Hale | Skeleton Freak
 Dee Bradley Baker | Skeleton Freak's Minions #1
Gorilla Claw
 Fred Tatasciore | Skeleton Freak's Minions #2
 Kari Wahlgren | Coolsville Cilivians #2
Knotts Company Members #3

## Notes/trivia

* Mystery Warfare is not a continuation of *Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and Mystery Incorporated* It is a complete reboot of the series.
* The episode was originally aired as a sneak peek on April 5th, 2021; it officially aired on April 23rd, 2021.
* In standard continuity, Gang doesn't know when they will split up when it's over. In this series, they are disabled for 2 years because of Fred.
* There is a reference to Knotts Company (Don Knotts) and looks just like Elvis Presley.
* Russell is the leader of the Knotts Company,
* Daphne, Velma, Scooby, and Shaggy mentioned as they split up for 2 years.
* Verona Dempsey has the same appearance in What's New Scooby-Doo and the same voice actress, Grey Griffin.

### Miscellaneous

* "Hold The Phone" count: 1

### Cultural references

* Buffy The Vampire poster in Russell's wall, as he is a fan of the show, himself
* The scene where Fred and Russell enter the restaurant. There was a poster of Elvis Presley.

## In other languages

 **Italian** | Mistero della zona
 **French** | Zone mystère
 **Portuguese** | Zona Misteriosa