Hassle in the Hanniger Mine

## Summary

After getting lost in a fog, the Mystery Paw Patrol arrive at Valentine Bluffs, where they meet a ghost in miner equipment haunting an old, abandoned mine.

## Script

(We open at Valentine Bluffs cuts to the Hanniger Mines where a ghost in miner equipment is seen haunting around it and using a telescope)

(Cuts to the Mystery Patroller where the gang are at)

Katie: We sure picked a spooky day to go out Ryder.

Ryder: Well, it didn't start out that way. What could've happened?

Ace: It's very simple. When the barometric pressure dropped and the warm offshore air came in contact with an inland cold front we ran into some unnavigable nubilation.

(Rubble is confused when she says that)

Ryder: You're right, Ace, whatever you said.

Ace: I said, we're lost in a fog.

(Danny pops out)

Danny: You buzzed?

Ace: No, Danny. Go back to sleep.

Danny: Sleep, nothing. I'm fixing me a super Danny sandwich.

(Rubble licks his lips and goes to the back)

Danny: Like, wow, my favorite: A double-triple-decker sardine and marshmallow-fudge sandwich. Open the mouth, between the gums. Look out, stomach. Here it comes.

(About to eat but Rubble eats it leaving only the olive)

Danny: Well, at least you left me the olive.

(About to eat it but Rubble eats it)

Danny: With him around, I can't even get a bite in edgewise.

(They crash)

Katie: Now what happened?

Ryder: Looks like we've crashed.

Danny: Yeah, but, like, where?

Ace: Well, if I'm not mistaken, it looks like we're stuck in Valentine Bluffs.

Danny: I'm sorry I asked.

Ryder: The Hanniger Mine is here. Maybe we can find help there.

(Cuts to them walking to the mines)

Katie: This sure is a creepy place.

Danny: Yeah, a regular gruesome camp.

(Rubble sniffs around and finds a piece of paper and runs to the gang with it in his mouth)

Danny: Like what's with Rubble?

(Rubble screeches to a stop and sand gets on the gang. Rubble wipes off the sand on Ryder, revealing his face)

Ryder: Hey, if you wanna play in the sand, Rubble, leave us out of it, huh?

(Show the map to them)

Ryder: Hey, what's this? It's a torn piece of map.

(Rubble looks at the back)

Rubble: D- A-N-G-E-R. Danger?

(He turns it around. Ryder goes HEY and shows it to him)

Danny: Look, it's like a message.

Ryder: It says, "Danger. Leave Valentine Bluffs."

Ace: It sure looks like someone is trying to scare us out of Valentine Bluffs.

Katie: But who and why?

Ryder: I don't know, but it looks like we found ourselves a mystery and maybe we'll find the answer at that mine. Come on, let's go.

Rubble: Oh, boy.

(They walk off to the mines as the ghost watches them)

Ryder: Well, here it is. The Hanniger Mine.

Danny: Man, what a pad for a scare-in.

Ace: The place looks deserted.

(They see a portrait of a man in mining gear)

Ryder: That's Harry Warden. He worked here for years and killed his workers to survive after a cave-in.

Katie: He must have used this old mine for a hideout.

Ryder: Come on. Let's take a look around.

(They walk off. The ghost watches them)

(They walk through the mine)

Danny: Man. Like plenty spooky.

(Rubble whistles)

Ace: I once read these old mines were loaded with traps.

Katie: Oh, Ace. Don't be silly. That only happens in movies. (falls down)

(Says the last thing as she falls. The trap door closes)

Ace: Katie! Katie!

(Ryder comes back)

Ryder: What happened?

Ace: Katie fell through a trap door!

(Maniacal laughter is heard Danny's hair sticks out like Shaggy's)

Danny: Zoinks!

(Cuts to Rubble)

Rubble: Yikes!

(Cuts to Ace running while holding them all on her as the laughter continues they run into a door and it closes we blackout and fade back to them walking)

Ryder: Come on. We gotta find Katie.

Danny: But what about that noise?

Ace: It was probably just the wind.

Danny: Well that's the first wind I ever heard with a sense of humor.

Ryder: Come on Rubble, put your nose to work.

Rubble: Right. (Sniffs as we fade to a door on a slide)

Katie: Let me out of here! Let me out of here!

(Door opens she slides down the slide and rubs her butt)

Katie: Wow. I wonder how I do get out of this creepy inner sanctum. Well, my intuition tells me... That way.

(She walks off as a hand tries to grab her but misses)

(Fades to Ryder and Ace walking by a skull with books underneath it cuts to Danny and Rubble whistling)

Danny: Stop that whistling. You make me nervous.

(Fades to them at the skull)

Danny: Uh-oh! Like, which way did they go?

Skull: They went thattaway.

Danny: Oh, thanks, man.

Skull: S'awright.

(They gulp and run off they are by a suit of armor)

Danny: Like, wow. A talking skull.

Rubble: Like, wow.

Danny: I'm so scared. I wish I had a ham sandwich to calm my nerves. (One appears in front of him) Well, what do ya know. A ham sandwich. (Lifts bread off) Wouldn't you know, it needs some mustard. (Mustard appears behind him) This has got to be my imagination. Otherwise, I'd be scared stiff.

(Rubble licks his lips the sandwich in on the table in front of the armor)

Danny: (Leans his head on the table) Now, maybe my imagination can, like, cut it in half.

(The axe falls on the sandwich slicing it in half the runs away yelling and comes back for the sandwich the scene slides Katie is behind a corner with a vase)

Katie: Someone's coming. (Danny runs by and WAM she hits him on the head) Danny.

(Danny has stars around his head)

Danny: Oh. Hi Katie.

(Falls down)

Ace: Hey. Danny's found Katie.

Ryder: For once, he used his head.

(Danny groans)

Ryder: You alright?

Danny: Yeah. Just as soon as I have six or seven sandwiches.

(Cuts to Ace)

Ace: He's all right, all right.

(The maniacal laughter is heard cuts to the Miner)

Danny: There goes that crazy wind again.

Katie: Crazy wind nothing. (Cuts back to them Katie points to the Miner) Look.

(We move over to the Miner as he speaks)

Miner: I warn you. Leave Valentine Bluffs and never return. The Miner has spoken.

(Goes away laughing Ryder, Danny and Rubble run after him)

Ryder: Grab that Miner!

(He, Danny and Rubble run to him he stands there laughing they jump at him but go right through him he laughs and goes through the wall cuts to Ryder Danny and Rubble)

Ryder: D-Did you see that?

Rubble: Y-Yeah!

Danny: Like, he went through the wall, nonstop.

(Cuts to the girls)

Ace: There's a very logical explanation for all this.

(Cuts back to Ryder Danny and Rubble)

Danny: Quick tell me.

Ace: (OS) The place is haunted.

Danny: Thanks a lot.

(Cuts to Rubble)

Danny: Why don't we take that Miner man's advice and clear out of this place.

Rubble: Yeah yeah yeah.

Ryder: (OS) No Danny we're not going.

(Rubble face palms himself cuts back to them)

Danny: Like why not?

Ryder: Three good reasons, Danny. First, no miner's gonna scare us away. Second, why does he want us out of here so bad? And third, we're marooned.

Danny: I'll buy that last one.

Katie: (OS) Hey fellas, over here. A clue.(Cuts to her and Ace. Katie holds a ky) Look, I found a key in this old chest. It must belong to the Miner.

Ryder: Hey, there's some writing on it.

(Cuts to the key)

Ryder: It says, "second passage of the old bell."

Katie: Second passage?

Danny: Old bell?

Ryder: There's no old bell in this old mine.

(Rubble goes Hmmmm)

Ace: I've got it. The word "passage"must mean the passage on a book.

Ryder: Then the Old Bell must be the name of a book.

Rubble: That's right. Yeah.

Katie: And the best place to find a book is in the library.

Ryder: Right. Come on.

(They leave the eyes of a statue watches them cuts to the town library)

Ryder: Well, this is the book called the Old Bell. And look, in the second passage, the word "catacombs" is underlined in red.

Ace: And if my knowledge of history is correct, we should find catacombs in the basement.

(Cuts to the basement)

Ryder: Well this is the place.

(Opens it)

Ryder: Okay, Rubble. Go in and take a look around. We'll keep watch out here.

Rubble: You're kidding.

Ryder: No, I'm not kidding.

(Rubble whimpers and stuff)

Katie: There he goes again with his fake wounded routine.

Ace: What a ham.

(He then lies down)

Ryder: Would you do it for a Rubble Snack?

Rubble: Uh-uh.

Ryder: How about two?

Rubble: (opens his eyes) Three?

Ryder: Okay, three.

(Whimpers in happy Ryder tosses three snacks to him)

Rubble: (Salutes) Rubble-Doo!

(Runs in and finds a magician hat and messes with the wand and pulls out a rabbit and puts it back in looks in it nothing is there and messes with the wand again and flowers pop out and squirts water at him he looks at camera and shrugs shoulders and whistles for the gang)

Katie: (As the gang walk in) Rubble says it's okay.

(They find magic stuff)

Danny: Man, look at all that crazy magic stuff. A saw-them-in-two box, disappearing cabinets, levitating tables. Gosh.

Katie: But what's all this magic stuff doing here.

Ace: I think I'm beginning to figure it out.

(Pounding is heard)

Ryder: Shh. Somebody's coming. Quick. Into the closet. Hurry!

(They run into the closet)

Ryder: Whoever it was must have gone away.

(The Miner is heard laughing)

Katie: Look. The Miner.

Miner: I warned you to leave Valentine Bluffs. Now you will pay!

Danny: I'll pay! I'll pay! (Pulls out two coins) How about four bits?

Ryder: He doesn't mean that kind of pay. Let's get out of here!

(They run out breaking the door down Danny runs into a disappearing cabinet Ace goes in the other one the Miner goes into Danny's and Ace comes out Danny's while the Miner comes out the other the door opens, revealing Rubble. Danny can be heard and Rubble gulps cuts to Danny in a box being sawed)

Danny: Unh. (Cuts to him in a box being sawed) Help! Help!

(Cuts to Ace)

Ace: Danny!

Danny: Help!

Ace: Danny!

(She closes her eyes the legs go off)

Ace: Hey, this is just a dummy head.

(Cuts to the box with the legs Danny pops up)

Danny: Someone mention me?

(Cuts to Ryder, Katie and Rubble running)

Ryder: Hey look.

Katie: A magic carpet.

(They are on it)

Ryder: I hope this trick works. Ali, go oop.

(They fly off Rubble runs after them)

Rubble: Wait for me!

(Grabs a piece of the carpet with his mouth causing them to crash he runs into a room while Ryder and Katie lay on the floor he bangs on the door whimpering the door opens Ryder and Katie are there they look scared the door closes Rubble is confused)

Rubble: Huh?

(Hears cackling and turns to see the Miner and runs in place and runs off breaking the door down leaving the carpet)

Ryder: Well, we've lost him.

Danny: Groovy.

Ryder: Now we got to catch him.

Danny: Not groovy.

Katie: Well, if we're ever gonna solve this mystery. But how?

Ryder: Simple, and with just a few things. That suit of armor and crossbow, that cannonball and old spring.

Danny: I gotta hand it to you, Ryder. You really know how to build a better mousetrap.

Ryder: Or in this case, a better ghost trap.

Danny: But what good is it? We can't catch a ghost.

Ryder: I have a hunch that we can catch this one, right, Ace?

Ace: Check, but first we'll have to find him and lure him here.

Katie: But how do we find the Miner?

Ryder: We don't. Rubble does.

Rubble: Rubble does?

Ryder: Right. With your super-sleuth nose, you'll be able to sniff him out.

(Rubble pretends to be sick saying about a cold in his nose)

Rubble: Achoo!

Katie: Well, look at him.

Rubble: Achoo! Achoo! My nose. Cold in my nose.

Ryder: Now, cut it out. You don't have a cold in your nose.

Danny: But, uh, how do we know the Miner will chase Rubble? He's a dog.

Ryder:Don't worry we'll soon fix that.

(They dress him up)

Ryder: Come on, Rubble. Be brave. Just think of Rin Din Din.

(Rubble whimpers)

Ryder: Lassie.

(Rubble whimpers)

Ryder: John Wayne.

Rubble: John Wayne? John Wayne?

Ryder: Sure, Rubble.

Rubble: Rubble-Doo!

(Goes off to find him)

Ace: Like I said before. What a ham.

(Goes around calling for the Miner)

Rubble: Miner, Miner. Miner? (Looks in a vase) Miner? (Puts it down and walks away the Miner pops out he walks over to a picture of the Miner and opens it revealing the Miner)

Rubble: Miner? (Closes it and takes a double take) Huh? (Pulls it up again and sees nothing the Miner is heard laughing)

(They stare each other down and act like western outlaws in a gun fight Rubble makes faces at him)

Miner: You cannot escape me.

(Runs after him)

Rubble: Rubble Doo.

(The Miner acts like he lost him but Rubble gets his attention and sticks his tongue out jumping up and down the Miner comes after him)

Ryder: Get ready. Here they come.

(He and Danny have the rope stretched out)

Ryder: Jump, Rubble.

(Rubble doesn't see it and slides onto a rug)

Ace: Oh, no. Rubble tripped into our trap!

(The armor happens the chimney pump happens the hose happens the canon ball and archery bow happens the armor holds Rubble he gets caught by the bucket and the chandler falls down and Rubble goes up cuts to the Miner staring the gang down)

Miner: Now you will not escape me.

(Rubble falls down onto the Miner who lays on the floor the gang cheer)

Katie: We caught the Miner!

Ace: Thanks to Rubble-Doo!

(Rubble is touched)

Rubble: Aww.

(A policeman of the Valentine Bluffs Police Department arrives to arrest the crook)

Policeman: And so, when the fog lifted, we spotted your vehicle and decided to investigate. But who is that?

Ryder: This? This is the end of the mystery.

(He unmasks it to be Grummer)

Policeman: Well, well, if it isn't our old friend, Grummer the Great, an ex-magician that's wanted in six states.

Katie: But what is he doing in Valentine Bluffs?

Policeman: He must have heard the legend of Harry Warden's treasure. Everybody's after it.

(Rubble goes away)

Ace: I get it. Then, he used all the scary magic tricks to keep people away from the town, while he searched for it.

Ryder: And when he saw us crash, he wrote a threatening message trying to scare us away.

Policeman: Well, his scaring days are over. The Great Grummer is going to do a final disappearing act courtesy of the local jail.

Ryder: There's one more thing. We figured out all those floating tricks. Watch!

(Cuts to Danny floating in mid air)

Danny: Look. No hands.

(Cuts to Ace operating a pulley)

Ace: See? Wires.

(Cuts to Ryder and Grummer)

Ryder: But how did you walk right through a solid wall?

Grummer: One of my best acts. Let me give one last performance. Hold this rope.

(Cuts to him at a mirror)

Grummer: It was merely an illusion done with trick mirrors and a special projector.

(Hologram starts)

Grummer: I could cast my image anywhere I wanted and by stepping away from the mirror, it appears that I walk through walls.

(Cuts to Ace)

Ace: I must admit, Mr. Grummer. You're a good magician, but a bad miner.

(Cuts to Ryder Katie and Danny)

Danny: Man, I wonder if, like, there really is a treasure.

(Rubble barks)

Ryder: Hey! That's Rubble barking. Come on!

(Cuts to Rubble barking and digging we pull out to see the gang and policeman and Grummer watching)

Ryder: Look. Rubble found something.

Katie: Maybe it's the treasure.

(Cuts to Rubble and a gopher pops out gibbering and digs its hole back and goes back in the gang laughs cuts to Rubble)

Rubble: Well, Rubble-dee-Doo.

(Blackout ending the story)

## Trivia

* This story is based on *Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!* episode, Hassle in the Castle.