A New Power (Robinson House)

**A New Power** is the second episode of Robinson House.

**Script**

Scene 1: Boo

*Casey slowly opens the bathroom door. There is an eerie silence. Casey slowly walks in. She stares at the bathroom door; then slowly opens it. The cabinet has Casey and Dan’s toothbrushes, Casey’s skincare products and Dan’s razor. The bathroom seems empty. Casey opens the curtain in front of the bath. Struggling in the bath is the Ghost of the headless body Anne. The body has fallen in the bath and can’t get up.*

**Casey:** Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

*Casey rushes out of the bathroom. she rushes into her new bedroom. She stops abruptly, staring in horror. Chuck, the trouser-less Ghost is sat on Casey’s bed.*

**Chuck:** Hi there! I don’t think we’ve properly introduced ourselves yet. I’m Chuck, and you’re names . . .

*Chuck waits for a reply. He doesn’t get one. Casey has already run screaming out of the bedroom.*

**Casey:** Dan! Dan! They’re back!

**Dan:** *(rushing up the stairs)* What’s the matter?

**Casey:** The Ghosts are back!

*Gillian walks out of a wall behind Dan. Casey’s mouth drops.*

**Gillian** *(smiling sweetly)* Hi, I’m Gillian. Will you be my friend?

Casey: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . .

**Dan:** *(turning around)* Babe, there’s nothing there.

*Bessie and Francis come up the stairs.*

**Bessie:** I do wish that woman would stop screaming.

**Casey:** Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . .

**Bessie:** I SAID STOP SCREAMING!

*Bessie rushes towards the back staircase.*

**Dan:** Babe, wait!

*Dan runs after her.*

**Gillian:** I like her. She’s nice.

**Casey** *(rushing down the back stairs muttering)* Fuck! Fuck fuck fuck!

*As she goes down the stairs, Edgar jumps out of the wall next to her.*

**Edgar:** Boo!

*Casey has another fall. She’s able to grab the banister just in time though. Dan comes down the stairs.*

**Dan:** Babe, why don’t you have a lie-down.

**Casey:** Dan, you”re not leaving me here with the Ghosts. I’m scared!

**Dan:** Babe, I’ll protect us. Look, I need to get more DIY shit done. Why don’t you help me, or watch me.

**Casey:** Ok, but if I see one more Ghost . . .

**Dan:** *(gives Casey a hug)* I think you’re fall has something to do this. You had a concussion. Look, it’s all in you’re head. If you see any more of those Ghosts then just remember what I just said. It’s all in you’re head!

**Casey:** *(nodding)* Thank you! I love you so much.

*The couple make out. Casey doesn’t notice Chuck looking down at them from the top of the stairs.*

**Chuck:** Yeah! Take you’re shirt off.

**Casey:** Ahhhhh . . .

**Dan:** BABE . . .

**Casey:** *(stops screaming)* All in my head. It’s all in my head. It’s all in my fucking head.

**Dan:** Good babe. Whatever you just saw, it’s nothing.

*Chuck looks a little hurt.*

**Casey:** We need to do something with the boiler. I’m frozen.

Scene 2: Back in the Basement

*Dan and Casey go down the stairs to the basement. It’s very dark. Dan feels for the light rod. Soon, the light turns on. Casey soon realises she and her husband aren’t alone. The Battle Ghosts (covered in blood) are asleep on the floor, except for one.*

**Battle Ghost 3:** Wake up! Wake up! The husband and wife are back! Wake up!

*Slowly the other Battle Ghosts wake up and start standing up.*

**Battle Ghost 6:** I wish they’d meddle with Hortense later. I was enjoying my sleep.

**Battle Ghost 7 (Nick):** What a pleasant surprise! That man must be so strong! So powerful!

*The other Battle Ghosts roll their eyes.*

**Casey:** Fu . . . Shit . . . Dan . . .

**Dan:** Whatever it is you think you’ve seen, it’s all in you’re . . .

**Casey:** Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

*Casey runs up the stairs and out of the basement.*

**Dan:** *(runs after her)* Babe . . .

**Battle Ghost 5:** I swear they just saw us.

**Battle Ghost 1:** Not the man, the woman saw us. I’m sure the woman saw us.

**Battle Ghost 2:** But how?

**Battle Ghost 6:** Maybe she’s a Ghost too and hasn’t realises it.

**Battle Ghost 3:** That can’t be right. If she was dead then the man wouldn’t be able to see the woman, and if the man was dead too then he’d have seen us too.

**Battle Ghost 7 (Nick):** (hopeful) Is there any chance the man is a Ghost?

**Battle Ghost 5:** I doubt it.

Scene 3: DIY

*Bessie sits on the chair in her bedroom; looking out the window daydreaming. Dan and Casey come in holding hands, Dan has a drill in his other hand.*

**Casey:** Oh fuck! The old woman’s in here.

**Bessie:** How dare you! You . . .

*Casey storms out of the room.*

**Dan:** Casey . . .

**Casey:** Just do DIY and all that, Dan. I’m going for a walk.

**Dan:** *(understanding Casey needs some space and unaware of Bessie’s presence turns on the drill)* Here we go.

*Dan begins drilling in the wall.*

**Bessie:** Stop it! Stop it you stupid oaf!

*Soon, Dan has drilled a large hole in the wall.*

**Bessie:** You stupid, insolent man! You . . .

**Gillian:** Hi Bessie.

**Bessie:** No!

**Gillian:** I like this new hole. Now we can talk to each other all day.

**Bessie:** I don’t want to talk.

**Gillian:** You’re so mean!

*Dan leaves swearing to himself for his mistake.*

**Bessie:** *(chasing after him)* Where do you think you are going you chippy oik!

Scene 4: The Hike

*Casey walks up the hill. She soon enters through some woods. The woods are empty, there are birds singing but that is it. Casey sits by a tree. What a strange and horrific predicament. Strange, but since she had left the house she hadn’t seen a single Ghost. Suddenly, she hears a noise. She looks up. There is an arrow in the tree. An arrow that wasn’t in the tree trunk before. Casey looks baffled. After a few seconds, the arrow disappears into thin air. Casey looks left and sees a man with a bow and arrow in his hand, and another arrow in the middle of his stomach, with a pool of blood flowing down him, but not coming off.*

**Casey:** Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

**Hunter Ghost:** You . . . You can see me?

**Casey:** No . . . No I can’t.

**Hunter Ghost:** You can.

**Casey:** *(talking to herslef)* It’s all in you’re head.

**Hunter Ghost:** How can you see me? I haven’t been seen or heard by anyone except dogs since I died.

*Casey starts walking back to the entrance to the woods.*

**Hunter Ghost:** Wait! Do you know King William? Is he still angry that I went hunting here. I know it was a royal forest but I think everyone is entitled to hunt in forests. Do you think you could talk to him for me? Get me forgiveness from William, as far as I know I’m not in Hell yet.

*Casey keeps walking.*

**Hunter Ghost:** Wait!

*Casey breaks into a run as soon as she realises the Ghost is following her. As soon as she’s out of the forest, she looks back. As soon as the Hunter Ghost reaches the entrance to the forest, he is running in the opposite direction. Clearly, she needs to see a therapist.*

Scene 5: Help!

*As soon as Casey walks through the door, several Ghosts greet her. Francis, Clive, Arthur, Bessie and Gillian.*

**Arthur:** What’s you’re favourite play?

**Francis:** What year is this?

**Bessie:** I demand that . . .

**Casey:** No no no no . . .

**Bessie:** A lady does not mumble.

**Gillian:** Hi, I’m Gillian. Let’s be friends.

*Casey runs up the stairs. She goes to her bedroom and jumps under the duvet trembling. She takes a breath. She feels movement. The headless body of Anne is in bed with her under the duvet!*

**Casey:** *(leaps out of bed and runs out of her bedroom)* Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

**Dan:** Case. Case. What’s the matter.

**Casey:** I need help! I need help! Take me to the Hospital. I’m going mad!

**Dan:** Look, calm down . . .

**Casey:** Now!

**Bessie:** A lady does not shout!

Scene 6: The Hospital.

Casey sits in an office with a man called Doctor Fox. He’s an old man, kind and caring. Casey knows that she can trust him.

**Casey:** And I just keep seeing people at the House. And then there was a guy in some woods who had been shot with an arrow. I only see the people in one place though.

**Doctor Fox:** I see. Very interesting.

**Casey:** You must think I’m crazy. I probably am. Ever since that accident I told you about I haven’t been the same.

**Doctor Fox:** I agree. The accident is definitely the cause.

**Casey:** Few. So I’m not mentally ill or anything,

**Doctor Fox:** No. I think that since you came to be in such a near-death experience yourself and maybe nearly becoming a Ghost yourself, you can now see Ghosts.

**Casey:** Huh?

**Doctor Fox:** Look, can you see me?

**Casey:** Yeah, of course. I’m not blind, though that does seem like an advantage to my problems right now.

**Doctor Fox:** You can see and hear me, and I’m dead.

**Casey:** What do you mean?

**Doctor Fox:** My name isn’t Doctor Fox. I’m Doctor Wood. I died of a Heart Attack here in 2001 when I was working. It was quick. So quick my colleagues couldn’t save me. I know. Actually, seeing as I can speak to a living person now, what do you say you try and contact my wife Sheila. She and I never said goodbye. Maybe you could get us back in contact with . . .

**Real Doctor Fox:** *(opens door and shut it)* Sorry to keep you waiting. What seems to be the problem?

*Doctor Woods gets out of the chair and stands next to Doctor Fox. Casey screams.*

Scene 7: The Car Journey

**Dan:** I’m just saying maybe you could have spoke to the Doctor.

**Casey:** Dan, there’s nothing she could have done. I doubt there’s medication to stop me from seeing Ghosts.

**Dan:** So you really think there are Ghosts?

**Casey:** They’re everywhere.

*Casey looks out the window nervously. Going down the street is the Ghost of a boy covered in blood. Slowly, Casey waves. The boy looks surprised, but waves back.*

**Casey:** There’s a little boy covered in blood down there . . .

**Dan:** You’re starting to scare me a bit.

*They turn a corner. Suddenly, Casey sees a woman crossing the road. She has headphones on and she’s listening to music from an iPod.*

**Casey:** Oh my God!

*The car goes straight through her.*

**Casey:** Stop the car! Stop the car!

**Dan:** *(stops)* Why?

**Casey:** We ran someone over!

*Casey runs out of the car. The woman has continued walking across the road. She isn’t hurt. She isn’t even startled. The woman finally crosses the road and is on the other side, but just as she walks onto the street she disappears into thin air. Casey turns around and the woman has started walking across the road from the other side. She continues to listen to her music, ignoring Casey. Cars behind them start honking their horns.*

**Casey:** They’re everywhere!

Scene 8: Bad news

*The car pulls up in the driveway.*

**Casey:** We ain’t living here. We can live wherever, we can go back to the flat. We can go live with you’re parents if you want. Their house is modern right? Like built only a few years ago. Nobody died there, except for the cat. I can live with the Ghost of a Cat. Wherever you want as long as it has no history . . .

**Dan:** Babe . . .

**Casey:** You wanted to go back to the flat. You hate this place and I hate it too. Shit WiFi. Shit rooms. I should have never considered staying here even before the accident. We can still go back to the flat . . .

**Dan:** Babe, don’t get angry but . . .

**Casey:** What?

**Dan:** Ok, so I spoke with, like, the loans guys and they were quite nice, but they said that with the payment penalties but . . .

**Casey:** Dan . . .

**Dan:** Basically they said that cuz we put all our savings to work on the hotel . . .

**Casey:** Yeah . . .

**Dan:** Basically ditching this place would mean we’d be totally bankrupt.

**Casey:** But didn’t you know that that would happen before you invested everything . . .

**Dan:** No, I had no idea.

**Casey:** Didn’t it say in, like, the contacts. Didn’t you read them?

**Dan:** I mean, it was really long. It’s like when you download an app. I mean, who reads the terms and conditions?

**Casey:** Dan . . . You complete twat!

**Dan:** I mean, don’t start blaming me . . .

**Casey:** Dan, I am going to blame you! Because of you I’m stuck here!

**Dan:** But . . . Yeah that’s fair.

**Gillian:** *(sticking her head through the window)* Does that mean you’re staying here forever?

**Casey:** Oh God.

*All the Ghosts join Gillian outside. They start yelling.*

**Casey:** Right, that’s it! *(Storms out of the car)* Fine, I see you! I fucking see you and you’re dead faces! I see you, bitch *(points to Bessie)* I see you, cunt *(points to Chuck)* I see all of you! Now what do you want?!

**Francis:** We all want you out of this house.

**Casey:** Right, well that’s a shame for you and me also because thanks is to my brain-dead git of a husband we’re stuck here!

**Dan:** Who are you talking to?

**Casey** *(ignoring her husband)* Why don’t you leave?

**Clive:** We can’t.

**Chuck:** Trust me, we’ve tried. You just stay where you die. Every time we try walking out the front gate everything goes dark for a second, then we’re back in front of the gate.

**Casey:** Right, so you lot can’t leave and I can’t leave. So what will it take for you to leave me alone?

**Francis:** I want silence. I don’t want all the noise you and you’re fine looking husband are making.

**Casey:** It’s gonna be silent at nighttime.

**Dan:** Wait, what?

**Casey:** Their will be some noise from my bedroom but you won’t be able to hear it from you”re room if you go to a room far from mine.

**Francis:** That’s not good enough.

**Clive:** You’re ages away from her room. You won’t hear a sound.

**Francis:** Alright then.

**Casey:** What about you? What do you want?

**Bessie:** I want the hole in my bedroom to be fixed. And there’s some photographs and a portrait of my husband around the house. I want them gone. Burn the photographs and throw the portrait away.

**Casey:** Done.

**Casey:** What about you?

**Chuck:** Kill yourself and get with me?

**Casey:** No, fuck off.

**Dan:** I’m not saying it is, but I’m looking on google and there’s some stuff about mental health . . .

**Casey:** What do you want?

**Clive:** I just wanted to say hello.

**Casey:** *(bewildered)* Hello . . .

**Clive:** Hello, how are . . .

**Casey:** You, what do you want?

**Jane:** I . . . I don’t want anything really.

**Casey:** Right. And you?

**Arthur:** Nothing, really. Maybe listen to some of my plays?

**Casey:** I’ll think about it. What about you?

**Edgar:** I don’t really want anything either.

**Casey:** So . . .

**Gillian:** I want to be friends.

Scene 9: Fixing the boiler

**Casey:** Turn the right hand dial round.

**Dan:** Ok.

**Casey:** Press the ignition.

**Dan:** Ok.

*The boiler starts working.*

**Dan:** How did you know all that?

**Casey:** The ghosts told me. There’s no way I’d have known all that shit without being told by the ghosts.

**Dan:** Ok . . . I guess I believe you . . .

**Casey:** Good.

**Dan:** Thanks I guess.

**Battle Ghosts (all):** You’re welcome.

**Casey:** They say thanks.

**Dan:** They? You mean there’s two of them?

**Casey:** Yep.

Scene 10: A New Life With The Dead

*The TV booms loudly as Francis, Clive, Edgar and Anne’s head watch a documentary about WW1.*

**Gillian:** When’s our sleepover, again?

**Casey:** August.

**Gillian:** And what month is it now?

**Casey:** October.

**Gillian:** So it’s happening soon.

**Casey:** Sure.

*Dan walks in with some photographs taken in black and white.*

**Dan:** Are these what you want?

**Bessie:** Four of them are fine. One of them is of when I hosted a garden party. That one has my husband in it, but lots of prominent people as well. Keep that one in the frame. You can cross my husband’s face out. He’s the one with the wrinkly, ugly old face and the beard. The rest are also of my husband and you can burn them.

**Casey:** Those are the right ones.

**Dan:** What should I do with them.

**Casey:** Burn every photo in the fire except the one with the big group.

**Dan:** Burn them?

**Casey:** Throw them in the fire.

**Dan:** Ok. *(Throws them in the fire)* Shall I put the group photo back?

**Casey:** Yeah. Did you get rid of the portrait on the wall above the stairs.

**Dan:** Yeah. And I filled the hole in the wall.

**Casey:** Good.

**Bessie:** Thank you.

Scene 11: A shock for Bessie

*Bessie walks into her bedroom. The hole has been filled. She gasps. The portrait of her adulterous husband has filled the hold.*

**Bessie:** Casey!