Thursday, 5 October 2000

Script: The Ghost

Narrator: Ben lay dreaming his house was on fire... suddenly there was a flash, pain, then blackness... Then a face mocking him... Ben woke up covered in sweat for the fourth time this week. The wind howled down the chimney, the rain thundered on the window pane, and something stirred in the garden. Suddenly the sound of breaking glass downstairs caught his attention...

(Ben goes to the top of the stairs)

Ben: Hello? Is anyone down there?

Silence.

Ben: Hello? ... Hello? ...

Silence.

Narrator: Ben froze as something came into view at the bottom of the stairs. Looking around, his dad's baseball bat stood out, propped against the linen basket...

(Ben edges towards it looking downstairs, then lunges for it, grabs it, and takes a lethal pose...)

Man: What are you planning on doing with that?

Ben: I'd kill you in a matter of minutes!

Man: I'd kill you in a matter of seconds!!!

Ben: Oh yeah? Come on then! Bring it!

(Man steps into the light)

Narrator: Horror crept to every corner of Ben's body in that instance, for the man at the bottom of the stairs, was the man who haunted him in his nightmares!!!

Ben: You!

Man: You!

Ben: You... I know you! You're in my dreams... my nightmares!

Man: Your flashbacks...

Ben: My what?!

Man: Your flashbacks. You see, when you were young, your house caught fire, your parents died, and I recovered your body...

Ben: My nightmares... they're not nightmares... they're memories?

Man: Just one thing I didn't mention. When I recovered your body, you weren't breathing!

Ben: You mean, I'm in a dream world, not reality?

Man: No Ben, I mean... this might come as a shock. Maybe we should sit down whilst I explain...

Ben: Ok.

Man: Ben, I am Professor David Arlston, alias Daniel Frost. I have studied the possibilities of LFD - life after death, and to my amazement the bodies genetic code and life existence rate shows that the body may leave the world but the soul will always live on, therefore you are a...

(Professor hesitates.)

Ben: Go on... (urging voice)

Man: Ben, you're a... ghost!

Ben: What!?

Man: I know, I know...

Ben: So basically, when you die, you don't die?

Man: Well, sort of...

Ben: So can I float through walls and stuff?

Man: It is a test to see how much you try....

Ben: Oh? Explain...

Man: You can float through walls if you try hard enough. But Ben, now I've told you, I must do a few... experiments on you to see how you've changed after death. You see, I too Ben, am a ghost. And there must be only one... The prophecy foretold the coming of you, and I must find a way to settle the soul of restless ghosts... so you are now Experiment 01...

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