Episode #19
Transcripted by Dennis Dunjinman
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PART TWO
Fade in to a close up of Danny,
looking frightened to the left. Zoom out to show he is still on the ground with
his arms on the ground, four guns are being pointed at
him. Danny shifts his eyes to the right.
Cut to Danny on the ground,
surrounded by the legs of Groovy Dude and a Ghostbreaker,
along with a third gun-holder offscreen. Danny gets up on his elbows with his
hands clenched tight, looking up behind him. He relaxes a little and rolls his
eyes to the right, panning right as Scaredy Cat steps in and growls in front of
him. He rolls his eyes back again.
DANNY: Uh, (blinks, looks to the right) um--
Close up on Danny.
DANNY: --boo?
Close up on Scaredy Cat. He is
looking determined, but leans upwards, meowing in fright, teeth chatting and perspiring.
Cut to another shot. Danny is on the
ground, looking up at Scaredy Cat, worried. Groovy Girl is looking down on him
with a menacing glare, but Groovy Dude and the Male Ghostbreaker
are looking at the cat. Scaredy Cat turns, waving his tail in
the air, and jumps offscreen.
Cut to the African American agent,
holding a bazooka. Zoom out as Scaredy Cat jumps onto him with his paws on the
agent’s face, shivering and perspiring, causing the agent to drop the gun.
Close up on the agent, Scaredy Cat’s
claws are wedged in his cheek and on his head.
AFRICAN
AMERICAN AGENT: Ow! I have a skin breach on Facial Sector 5.
If
you have a skin breach, Dennis highly suggests you clean it and wrap it before
it gets infected.
Cut to Danny, sitting on the ground
next to the legs of Groovy Girl, Groovy Dude and the Male Ghostbreaker.
He rolls his eyes, turns blue as he goes intangible, and phases butt-first
through the concrete.
Cut to the ghost hunters. Male Ghostbreaker and Groovy Dude are looking at Groovy Girl,
who is holding a handgun.
GROOVY
DUDE: Like, (turns to the Male Ghostbreaker) shouldn’t we focus on the Ghost Kid? You
know, (turns back to Groovy Girl)
before Jack Fenton does something stupid and he escapes?
I
guess you weren’t paying attention, Groovy Dude. Danny already escaped under
your nose.
Jack suddenly comes in from the left
holding a bazooka, pushing the three ghost hunters away with the sound of glass
breaking.
JACK: Where
is he? (turns to
the left) Where is he?
Action
Jack quotable 3.
Close up on Groovy Dude, looking all
*sigh*.
GROOVY
DUDE: Like that?
Cut to the Nasty Burger, Jack is
standing, holding the bazooka, with the Groovy gang sitting down on the
concrete on the right, Male Ghostbreaker sitting on
the concrete on the left. The Female Ghostbreaker is
still standing. Danny phases up through the concrete from far away, looking
back at the ghost hunters.
Cut to Jack. He turns sharply to the
left, aiming his bazooka. Pan left to the business end of the bazooka, it glows
green and charges.
Cut to Danny, floating and looking
frightened. He turns blue and intangible, ducking into the ground.
Cut to Jack, aiming. It stops
charging and he puts the gun down, knowing the ghost boy escaped. Pan out to
all the ghost hunters. The ghostbreakers are on the
left, the Guys in White are between them and Jack, and
the Groovy Gang is on the right, all glaring at Jack.
Cut to the Ghostbreakers
to see their glaring faces. Cut to the Guys in White, too. Cut to the Groovy
Gang.
Cut to all the ghost hunters in
their former position. Jack slumps over, turning off the gun and hanging it
vertically, embarrassed and saddened by failure. He walks off.
Fade to FentonWorks. Zoom in.
Fade to the Lab, zooming in. Sam and
Tucker are standing there, looking at Danny, who is looking at the portal.
Cut to the Ecto-Filtrator.
The arrow is waving wildly, the green light is beeping, and it says “Change the
Ecto-Filtrator” in green letters. Danny’s fist comes in from the left and knock on the device. It then
goes back offscreen.
Danny,
that’s not how you change an ecto-filtrator. That’s
how you fix a static television.
Cut to Danny, looking at the filtrator with his arms crossed and looking annoyed, his
body is bathed in green light. Sam approaches.
SAM: Come
on, Danny. You can’t tell me--
Sam rolls her eyes back and lifts
her hand, her other hand on her hip. Danny’s eyes look to her.
SAM: --the
only thing your billionaire arch-enemy is here to do (crosses her arms) is embarrass your Dad.
Danny looks at the control panel
again.
Cut to Tucker, whose shirt is
covered in ectoplasm stains.
TUCKER: (brushing ectoplasm off his sleeve and onto the floor) And
date his mom.
Tucker’s
shirt wasn’t stained in the last scene. The Boo-Yea Tours costume guarded him.
Also, the lab is inexplicably clean.
Cut to Danny with a hand on the
panel, looking back at Sam. the cylindrical tank on the side bubbles. Green
light blinks on him.
DANNY: Yes!
That’s exactly why he’s here.
Tucker walks in next to Sam. Danny
starts to fiddle with the panel.
DANNY: To
make my dad look like a fool.
Cut to the staircase, Jack walks
downstairs happily as Danny continues offscreen. Jack walks toward the camera
to the left.
DANNY: I
mean, did you see the way those ghost hunters were
laughing at him?
Jack stops, looking with sad realization.
He blinks a few times.
Cut to Danny looking down at the filtrator, pointing at it. Tucker and Sam are there,
looking at him.
DANNY: (looking up from the filtrator)
How embarrassing!
Jack walks up behind Tucker and Sam.
Tucker and Sam look up at him with some “uh oh” fear, Danny just looks off to
the side.
DANNY: We’re
all gonna have to live with my dad’s goof-ups--
Danny shrugs, Jack looks upset.
DANNY: --for
the rest of our lives.
Tucker and Sam straighten up, Sam
pretends to clear her throat. Danny suddenly finds realization.
DANNY: He’s
right behind me, isn’t he?
All three look up at Jack.
Cut to Jack.
JACK: Yes, (looks down, disappointed) I’m afraid he
is. (straightens
up) If you need me, I’ll be upstairs, (eyes roll downward) doing something
wrong.
Jack turns around and walks off.
Cut to the staircase. Jack walks up
them. Pan right to Tucker and Sam. Danny walks in from the right, his friends
look at him.
TUCKER:
Nice. (lifts a
hand) You wanna go upstairs and make your *mom* cry?
Cut to Danny.
DANNY:
Great. (lowers
his eyelids) I just managed to do Plasmius’s job
for him.
That’s
the way he likes it. He doesn’t enjoy getting his hands dirty, so he has other,
more expendable people do it all for him, because they are better suited for
the role.
Cut to Danny, Sam and Tucker. Danny
is looking down and depressed, Tucker is just looking at him. Sam puts her
hands on her hips.
SAM: Well
there’s only one thing that’s going--
Danny looks up.
SAM: --to
cheer him up:
Close up on Sam.
SAM:
Catching a ghost.
Cut to Danny, smiling.
DANNY:
Yeah, (points a finger) and not just
any ghost.
His hand curls to a fist as two
rings of white light appear around his shoulders, turning him into Danny
Phantom.
Cut to Danny’s legs. The ring passes
over them and dissipates into the floor, turning them into white boots.
Cut to Danny’s arm. The ring passes
over it, covering it with a white glove.
Close up on Danny smiling. The ring
passes over his face, turning his hair white, eyes green, and wearing a white
collar. Zoom out to reveal Danny Phantom. He lifts his legs and floats.
DANNY:
Public Ghost Enemy #1.
Cut to an aerial shot of the
FentonWorks kitchen. Jack is sitting at the table, elbows on the table, his chin
in his hands.
In
this shot, Jack isn’t doing anything wrong. Unless you count having elbows on
the table, but he isn’t eating a meal, so that doesn’t count.
Cut to Jack.
JACK: (muttering) Danny’s right. (looks forward)
I’m a loser. I couldn’t--
Jack takes his hand out from under
his chin.
JACK: --catch
a ghost if one sprang right up in front of me.
Cut to an aerial shot of Jack at the
table. He puts his hands down as Danny phases his blue, intangible head through
the table.
Cut to Jack in the foreground as
Danny floats up from the table, becomes fully visible, and waves his arms.
DANNY: Booooo!
Cut to Danny, looking to a depressed
Jack. He stops waving his arms. He then gets into a starfish formation and
floats back and forth, waving his arms up and down like a snow angel.
DANNY: Whoo-ooo-ooo!
Cut to Jack, not even remotely
fazed. He looks to the right and places a hand on his chin.
Cut to Danny, surprises and just
floating there with his hands up. He leans forward and puts on a “mean” face,
curling and uncurling his fingers.
DANNY: *Fear
me*!
Danny slumps his arms over, for Jack
remains unfazed.
Cut to Jack. Danny floats in from
the left, waving his hand in front of Jack. Jack just turns his eyes to the
right.
DANNY:
Hello!
Danny stops waving and curls his
fingers into a fist.
Pan right. Danny sneaks behind Jack
with his ghostly tail and is on his right, raising his arms.
DANNY:
Ghost!
Cut to Jack, looking bored with his
chin in his hand. Danny pops in upside down, waving his hand in front of Jack.
DANNY:
Right in front of ya!
Jack puts releases his chin and looks
at Danny, slightly annoyed.
JACK: Aw,
what do you want?
Jack puts down his hand and
straightens up.
JACK: Come
to gawk at the big failure, (buries chin
into both hands) I suppose.
Danny floats up offscreen.
Cut to Danny, popping up into the
screen. He raises his fists with determination.
Cut to Danny, floating in front of
Jack over the table.
DANNY: (pointing at Jack) Just the opposite,--
Danny’s head pops up with
realization. He then looks back down at Jack.
DANNY: --Jack.
Cut to Danny, he raises his
shoulders and looks with glee.
DANNY:
Cool, I just called my dad by his first name.
Danny,
your dad sounds better called by his first name. Same with
Homer Simpson. My dad? I’d rather call him Dad.
His first name isn’t catchy enough.
He then looks with realization, then
goes back into his determined character.
Cut to Danny looking at Jack. Jack
looks up at Danny.
JACK: You
know me?
Cut to Danny, floating above the
table.
DANNY: (shrugs) And
fear you. (puts
his hands forward) That’s why I’ve come to turn myself in--
Danny straightens his legs, puts a fist on his hip and points at Jack.
DANNY: --to
you.
Cut to Danny looking smugly at Jack,
who is looking with total disbelief and annoyance.
JACK: (raising a hand and sweeping it down) Aw,
no thanks, Ghost Kid.
Cut to Jack. He points at himself
with his thumb.
JACK: I’m
tired of getting laughed at!
Jack puts down his hand and looks
down, depressed.
JACK: I
give up.
Cut to Danny, leaning inward. His
eyes roll around.
DANNY: You-you--
(raises his arms and shrugs) you
can’t do that!
Danny looks up in fear.
MADDIE: (offscreen) You’re
darn right--
Danny turns to the left.
MADDIE: --he
can’t!
Cut to a far shot of Jack at the
table and Danny floating over it. A revving is heard as
Maddie’s boot steps into the foreground from the left.
Cut to Maddie, hood-up, with the
Fenton Weasel strapped over her shoulder and in her left hand. The Fenton
Weasel is vibrating and giving off exhaust.
MADDIE: Eat
hot Fenton Weasel,--
Pan right, the Weasel is pointed
toward the camera.
MADDIE: --ghost
scum!
The screen turns blue as air is getting
sucked into the Weasel.
Cut to Danny, facing right but
looking left as a blue mist is sucking at him. He turns and covers his head
with his arms as his foot is being stretched and sucked away, then leans back
as his body in ghostly tail form is being sucked that way. He screams as the
screen pans left and he gets sucked left toward the camera.
Cut to Maddie, holding the Fenton
Weasel. Danny’s ghostly body is sucked inside, his hands struggle to hold onto
it to prevent being sucked inside.
Cut to Danny, looking inside as his
thumbs are trying to keep him out, parts of his face and hair is being sucked
in. He then screams once more as he vanishes inside the weasel with a sucking
sound.
Cut to Danny, crammed in the weasel.
His feet line the back walls, his arm is bent over his
head. His other hand is bent over his knee.
DANNY:
Okay,--
Danny looks toward the out pipe of
the Weasel.
DANNY: --this
wasn’t part of the plan.
Cut to Jack sitting by the table
with his elbow on it, his chin in his hand, looking up and behind him. Maddie
walks in from the left, holding the containment part
of the Weasel toward Jack and the business end in her other hand.
MADDIE:
Jack,--
Cut to Jack. Maddie sticks a hand in
with the containment tank from the left, Jack looks at it.
MADDIE: --you
captured the Ghost Boy!
Jack looks at it, surprised.
JACK: I
did?
Close up on Jack, he smiles.
JACK:
You’re right, I did!
Cut to Jack and Maddie, Maddie
holding the weasel and Jack straightening up.
JACK: Me!
Jack stands up and takes the Fenton Weasel,
spreading his arms with the containment tank on the left and the business end
on the right.
JACK: Jack
Fenton!
Jack walks off, Maddie has her hands
on her hips, happy.
Cut to Maddie. Jack leans in from
the right to her.
JACK: You
are the best wife ever.
He kisses her on the cheek and holds
her with one hand. Zoom out to show Jack turning to the right, hunched over
Maddie, with Maddie leaning near-horizontally with one hand out and one foot in
the air. Jack is still holding the Weasel.
Cut to the containment tank.
DANNY: (in the tank, sound metallically muffled) Augh, gross. (the tank vibrates and rattles) Hello! I’m right here! *Hello*!
Fade to
Cut to a red tandem bike-trolley.
Tucker and Sam are pedaling, with Tucker in the lead, and the ghost hunters are
all in the back. The Groovy Gang has Scaredy Cat on their laps, the Extreme Ghostbreakers are squeezed next to them, and the Guys in
White are in the back. The bike bell rings again.
Cut to Tucker, sweating.
TUCKER: And
if you look to your right,--
Tucker turns to the back and smiles
while panting.
TUCKER: --you’ll
see Casper High, (looks forward and pants
more) whose halls--
Tucker takes another breath and
looks to the back, smiling again.
TUCKER: --have
been haunted.
Pan right to Sam, looking angry and
sweating.
SAM: I know
we told Danny we’d keep these guys busy,--
Sam raises and eyebrow and takes a
breath.
SAM: --but
could we have (closes her eyes tightly)
maybe done it (pops her eyes wide open)
*without* exercise?
What,
Sam? Is there a problem? I thought you were physically fit. You could do a
couple more miles, it’s good for you and Tucker’s
hearts. I just want to know where you rented the trolley.
Since
it’s still Season 1, I’m guessing neither Tucker or
Sam has gotten quite into the shape we see them in Season 2. Well…Sam’s in
shape then, anyway.
Cut to the trolley again. A motor is
head revving as the Fenton Ghost Assault Vehicle drives past, the screen filling
with car exhaust.
Cut to the Fenton Ghost Assault
Vehicle.
Cut to Jack, driving and reading a
sheet of paper that reads “Directions to Reward” on it in blue letters. He
tosses it behind him.
JACK: Jack
Fenton will show them--
Jack puts his free hand on the wheel
and turns it side-to-side.
JACK: --who
the competent ghost hunter is!
Action Jack quotable #4. I’d say Jack is
closely competent here for driving and reading without hitting any pedestrians.
Cut to Jack’s foot. He floors the
gas pedal, the car revs.
Cut to Jack, his lips are vibrating
over his clenched teeth.
Slide transition to an aerial shot
of a dark alley. The Fenton Ghost Assault Vehicle is parked, and Jack is
standing at its mouth, carrying the business end of the Weasel so the tank end
is on the ground.
Cut to Jack.
JACK: Hm.
Jack lifts up a sheet reading
“Directions to Reward”.
JACK: A
funny place to claim a reward.
Jack puts the paper down and walks
forward offscreen.
Cut to an alley. Jack walks through
it, dragging the Weasel.
DANNY: (in the Weasel) Please! *Stop*!
Cut to the tank as it’s dragged along
the litter-covered ground.
DANNY: You
should know (the tank hits a rock and
keeps going) what you’re getting into (the
tank hits another rock) here!
Cut to Jack, looking down at the
tank as he keeps walking.
JACK: I
know exactly what I’m getting into. (turns his head forward) A bigger place
in my son’s heart.
Cut to Danny, crammed in the tank.
He looks disappointed.
DANNY:
Thanks. Now I’m crushed by space--
The screen lifts up as as clanging sound is heard, then goes back down again,
Danny’s eyes open wider.
DANNY: --and
guilt.
What?
That you had yourself captured so your dad would think you’d be prouder of you?
Think about the reward money you can collect on your own bounty, dear. Unless Vlad’s a cheatin’ cheapskate on
that.
DANNY: (looking more determined) Look! (the screen clangs
again) You have to listen to me!
Cut to a side view of Jack dragging
the Weasel.
DANNY: All
of this is a trap!
Cut to Jack.
JACK: Oh, *please*,
ghost! (looks to
the left) Why should I believe you?
Cut to the side view of Jack walking
again. He stops with surprise as a pink, cubical jail cage appears in around
him.
JACK: *Hey*!
Cut to the tank.
DANNY: Does
that answer your question?
Cut to Jack in the foreground,
looking at a wall past the cage in front of him. A small patch of blue light
appears as if a ghost is about to phase through.
Cut to the wall. Vlad
Plasmius phases through in his blue, intangible form,
clapping. He turns to full color.
Cut to Jack.
JACK: You! (glares forward)
The
Cut to Vlad, clapping.
VLAD: Ah,
very good. (puts
his hands on his waist) All the pawns doing exactly what they’re supposed
to.
Cut to an aerial shot of Jack in the
pink, glowing cage and Vlad floating in front of it.
VLAD: (putting out a hand) Leaving you two
trapped (puts both hands out) and
your Fenton Portal unprotected.
Once
again, you only counted for a fraction of the Fentons. After all, Maddie and
Jasmine are still home, and Maddie is a ninth-degree black belt. You’d never
hurt Maddie, would you?
Close up on Vlad.
VLAD: So I
can steal it and make it a (eyes pop open)
Plasmius Portal!
Cut to the Weasel containment tank
within the pink cage.
DANNY: Wait
a minute, you already have a ghost portal!
Pan up and right to Jack, who is
holding the other end of the Weasel.
JACK: (looking down toward the tank) He has a
ghost portal?
Cut to Jack in the pink cage with Vlad
floating in the foreground.
JACK: You
have a ghost portal?
(Cut to Vlad)
VLAD: Of
course I have a portal! (looks off to the side) Well I, (puts a finger on his chin) did.
Vlad turns forward, smiling with his
palm out.
VLAD: It up
and exploded on me. (puts
his hands on his hips) Ah, well, that’s what you get for forgetting to (raises his eyebrows) clean the ecto-filtrator. (shrugs, smiling with his eyes closed) Hmm?
Live and learn.
Close up on Vlad, who opens his
eyes.
VLAD: Or in
your case, (lowers his eyebrows) die
and learn.
Cut to Jack in the cage looking at
Vlad floating. Vlad bends his knees and takes flight, the screen panning up to
follow him.
Cut to the containment tank.
DANNY:
Uh-oh.
Zoom in and fade to FentonWorks.
Cut to a nut on the Fenton Portal. A
wrench with a green aura starts to wrench at it.
Cut to the Fenton Portal. A vulture
on either side is wrenching away at the portal with the wrench in their talons.
Pan upward through the ceiling to the dark kitchen, with light spilling in from
the doorway. Jasmine walks inside.
Cut to Jasmine. She stops abruptly
with confusion. Her eyes shift back and forth. She turns right.
JASMINE:
Mom? (eyes look
to the left) Dad? (turns to the left, completely confused) Danny?
A black-gloved hand from below gags
her and pills her down.
Cut to Maddie, hood-up holding a
hand over her daughter and looking away from her.
MADDIE: (whispering) Quiet! (turns to Jasmine) There are ghosts about!
Pan up. Two vultures fly upward,
flapping their wings.
VULTURE
GHOST #1: Actually,
Jasmine’s and Maddie’s eyes pop wide.
VULTURE
GHOST #1: “Ghosts” is a bit insensitive.
Cut to the Vulture Ghost.
VULTURE
GHOST #1: We prefer the term “Ecto-Americans”!
You
can only be an Ecto-American if you live in
Cut to Jasmine and Maddie popping
onscreen, Jasmine with her mouth gaping open, Maddie with fierce determination.
She takes out a small green pellet between her finger and her thumb.
Cut to the Vultures floating in the
foreground with Jasmine and Maddie in the background. Maddie thrusts upward and
drops the ball with a grunt, causing a huge smokescreen. When it dissipates,
the girls are gone.
Cut to a hallway. Maddie and Jasmine
are running down it, getting closer to the camera. It pans left as they run offscreen.
Cut to Maddie running.
MADDIE:
Come on! (turns
behind her) We have to get to the weapons vault!
Pan right to Jasmine running.
JASMINE: We
have a weapons vault?
Um, duh. You’ve been living in this house how long?
Clearly Danny is the kid who does all the work around here. No wonder your
grades are so high.
Since
Jasmine was/is the least interested in ghost hunting she probably just avoided
learning about her parents’ various inventions/rooms. It’s
possible Maddie and Jack just never told her about it, nor did Jasmine go
seeking to find out what the room was in the first place. Danny only knows
probably because of Jack’s request to fix the handle. Most parents wouldn’t
want their children messing around with weapons, whether they be ghost hunting
or not, of any sort.
Cut to the doorway of the Vault, it
has a circular door with a punch pad next to it. Maddie and Jasmine run up.
Cut to Maddie, typing on the keypad.
She withdraws her finger as the screen flashes “DENIED”.
MADDIE:
Darn that man!
Cut to Jasmine and Maddie looking at
the keypad.
MADDIE:
Your father changed the--
Maddie looks at Jasmine, Jasmine
looks up at her mother.
MADDIE: --password!
They look toward the door.
MADDIE: There’s
no way in!
Two vultures land on each of them,
turning them blue and intangible. Pan out as they duck down.
VULTURE
GHOST #2: Or out!
Jasmine shouts as the vultures phase
them through the door.
Cut to the inside of the Vault.
Jasmine and Maddie slide on the floor on their stomachs. They turn tangible
again when they stop. Maddie and Jasmine turn toward the door.
MADDIE: Ohhhh, *great*.
Cut to a wall of weapons. Maddie
gets up.
MADDIE:
We’re stuck!
Jasmine gets up.
JASMINE:
How can we be stuck?
Close up on Jasmine.
JASMINE:
It’s not like Dad would forget to put a handle on the inside of the door,
right?
Cut to the door, there’s a note
taped on a wheel on it. Maddie and Jasmine are in the foreground. Zoom in on
the note.
JASMINE: (reading aloud) “Note to self: Have
Danny install handle on inside of door,--
Jasmine’s hand takes it. Cut to
Jasmine, reading off it.
JASMINE: --Jack.” (lowers
her eyelids)
Cut to Jack, sitting in the cage and
pouting. Zoom in.
DANNY: You
have to listen to me!
Cut to the tank.
DANNY: We
have to get to your house and *fast*!
Cut to Jack.
JACK: Why?
So you can gloat while I lose my Fenton Portal and the respect of my son in (takes his hands off his chin and puts them
down) one fell swoop?
Cut to Danny in the Weasel, looking
toward the out pipe.
DANNY:
You’re gonna lose more than that if your ghost portal explodes.
Cut to Jack, sitting down with his
hands on his chin.
JACK: It’s not gonna explode. (puts one arm on his knee) I’m sure Danny changed the
ecto-filtrator. (lowers eyebrows) I told him five times.
Cut to the tank.
DANNY: Did
he clean the lab?
Cut to Jack.
JACK: No.
Cut to the tank.
DANNY: Does
he clean his room?
Cut to Jack.
JACK: (rolling eyes and sighing) No.
Yep.
Danny’s room is a sty-hole. That’s why he keeps losing things and it smells
like a cesspit.
Cut to the tank.
DANNY: Ah,
would he, ah, I dunno, forget to install a handle on the inside of a weapons
vault, er, something?
Funny
that Danny acknowledges installing a handle on the inside of a weapons vault.
Is he certified for that sort of work? Not many 14-year-olds know that kind of
mechanics, or possibly welding skills. Danny should have taken welding as an
elective.
Cut to Jack. His eyes pop with
realization.
Cut to the pink cage. Jack stands
up.
JACK: Great
gobs of ghost goo, (puts his hands on his
head) that portal’s gonna *blow*!
Cut to Jack inside the cage with the
weasel on the ground.
JACK: Ghost
kid,--
Jack picks up the Weasel nozzle and
blows Danny out head-first.
JACK: --you
gotta help me save my family. (puts his arms down) If you do,--
Close up on Jack.
JACK: --I’ll
set you free.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: Uh…
you just did.
Cut to Jack. He slaps his face with
his palm. D’oh!
Cut to Danny, smiling.
DANNY: Good
thing my dad’s a lousy negotiator. (looks down with heroic bravado) Jack,--
(raises arms in glee) --man that’s
cool, heh-- (returns
to bravado) You’ve got a deal.
Cut to Danny from the back, looking
at Jack. He turns intangibly blue, then dives into the
ground with his ghost tail. He reappears behind Jack.
Cut to Danny smiling behind Jack. He
grabs Jack’s shoulders, turning Jack blue as well.
JACK: My
tummy feels funny.
Cut to an aerial shot of the cage.
Danny flies up out of it with his father in tow, flying over a building offscreen.
Fade to the top of a hill. Tucker
and Sam are sweating like crazy as they pedal up the hill in short bursts. The
bike bell rings when the trolley full of ghost hunters stops.
Cut to a sweating, panting Tucker
popping into the screen.
TUCKER: And
if you look (pants and points a finger) over
here,--
Tucker takes another deep breath and
turns to the back.
TUCKER: --you’ll
see the top of-- (breathes in again)
Cut to the trolley. Tucker is in
front pointing, Sam is behind him looking at the
hunters. The Guys in white are looking from the front, the Ghostbreakers
are standing on the top, and Scaredy Cat is looking out the back window.
TUCKER: --this
ridiculously--
Zoom out to show the hill and a
large residential zone.
TUCKER: --big
hill.
Those
of you who are Tucker fans are probably sobbing for Tucker about now and want
to cuddle and comfort him. We’ll award Tucker and Sam some character credit,
despite not playing too much in the overall plot, being able to do a lot of offscreen
work so the plot could go forward.
Tucker and Sam turn forward as Jack
flies overhead, with Danny holding him up.
JACK: Happy
place, happy place, *happy plaaaaace*!
Tucker, Sam and the ghost hunters
all turn to the back as Jack flies offscreen.
Cut to inside the trolley. The
Groovy Gang is beside the Guys in White, with the Caucasian Agent’s hands on
the edge. Scaredy Cat peeks in from the back.
CAUCASIAN
AGENT: It’s Jack Fenton, and the ghost kid!
Pan up to see the Ghostbreakers. They take out a pair of scooters and undo
them, stepping on them as the jets ignite, allowing them to blast off and up in
a cartoony fashion.
Cut to a purple action background.
The Ghostbreakers fly up on their scooters, the first
trick has the female lying on her back and the male with his feet over his
head. The second trick has the female hanging feet-over-head on her handlebars
and the male stretching his feet on both sides off the scooter. The third trick
has the female doing a Superman flight while hanging on with one hand on the
scooter, and the male is lounging on his scooter. They then go back to normal
positions, zooming downward offscreen.
Now,
weren’t those moves EXTREEEEME? The way I typed it isn’t. Meep!
Cut to a hill. The Ghostbreakers land and rolls down it on a path toward the
neighborhood leading to the city, Jack Fenton flies overhead.
Close up on the Caucasian Agent.
CAUCASIAN
AGENT: That’s our collar.
Cut to the African-American Agent.
AFRICAN
AMERICAN AGENT: (raising an arm) And these are my cuffs!
He plucks a white cufflink off his
sleeve and looks at it, a small white square with in antenna with a green ball
on it. The antenna extends several segments, panning up to show the Groovy
Gang, and twirls around with blade segments sprouting and turning into a buzz
saw.
Cut to the Groovy Gang looking at
the African-American Agent with the buzzsaw. He
brings it down to the metal bar connecting the trolley and
the bike, sawing through.
Cut to the trolley. The ghost
hunters and the pedaling kids look at the saw cutting through. When the agent
lifts it, Tucker and Sam scream as the trolley and the bike rolls quickly off the
hill in separate directions.
Note
that in that last paragraph I had typed “pedaling kids”. Coincidentally rhymes
with “meddling kids”.
Cut to the hill. Tucker and Sam
brace themselves and scream as they roll super-fast down the steep slope.
Cut to the Ghostbreakers
in their jet scooters going downhill. The trolley car full of the rest of the
ghost hunters accelerate, rolling past them. They all scream.
Cut to the Guys in White in the
trolley. The Groovy Gang and Scaredy Cat pop out. The Caucasian agent reaches
into his suit and takes out a small, flat blue square. He chucks it in the air.
Cut to the blue chip. It sparkles.
Cut to Danny flying Jack. The chip
lands under Danny’s chest, Jack looks down and Danny braces himself. He begins
to glow blue all over and starts slacking the weight, falling earthbound.
Cut to the ground. Danny falls into
it and Jack slides on his butt, making a dirt trench. When he stops, he looks
down and jumps to the side. Danny’s hands are seen in the ground in their
“holding Jack” position, with some pink smoke coming from it.
Cut to Danny’s hands. Jack’s own
gloved hand grabs one of them and pulls Danny out like a radish.
We
got your fresh-picked Danny Phantoms here! 49 cents a pound! Estimating that
Danny is about 130 pounds, I’d say that’s about 65 dollars a Danny Phantom.
Well, it’s worth it.
Cut to Danny, pouting at Jack, who
is holding him up. Jack releases his grip and Danny lands on the ground again.
Cut to Jack and Danny. Danny is seen
from the back, Jack is looking up in fear. Danny turns around and gasps.
Cut to a speeding trolley of ghost
hunters. They all scream and screech as they try to stop. When the trolley
stops, it tips over, and the ghost hunters all jump out at the last second.
Cut to Danny and Jack, both panic.
Cut to the Ghostbreakers
on their jet powered scooters. Scene rotates.
Cut to the Ghostbreakers
about to crash into the tipped-over trolley. They crash with a large, smoky
impact. When the smoke dissipates, it shows both Ghostbreakers,
smiling and with dazed haloes, with red and yellow stars. Soon, theyu disappear. Zoom out to show the whole trolley. The
Male Ghostbreaker’s leg moves as they both jump out
through their holes, raising their arms high and bending their knees in the
air.
GHOSTBREAKERS:
Awesome!
They land safely. The female steps
aside and turns to the male, who reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small
flour-sack object. He tosses it into the air, then
kicks it to the female, she turns and kicks it back. She bends down as the male
knocks it on his kneepad, causing it to fly offscreen. The male lands as the female takes a super-high leap.
Cut to the air. The sack is sailing
through the air. The girl leaps up and turns to kick it with her roller blade.
The sack, shown to have a green, ghost-like smiling face, sails away.
Cut to a purple action background.
The sack, supercharged with ghost energy, comes on screen.
Cut to Danny. Jack runs onscreen and
pushes him behind him. Jack braces himself.
JACK: Look
out for that hackey--!
Jack suddenly looks with
realization.
Cut to the sack. It flies toward the
camera. The screen fills up with green goo oozing everywhere, with the purple
onomatopoeia word “SPLAT!”
Cut to Jack, still braced, annoyed,
and dripping with green goo.
JACK: --Sack.
Danny pops out from behind Jack.
Jack looks to him.
JACK: Just
so you know, I don’t enjoy helping you.
Cut to a farther shot of Danny and
Jack. Danny jumps out from behind Jack and turns to him, annoyed and with hands
on his hips.
DANNY: Then
don’t! (tenses) I
can take care of these (outstretches his
arm and points) idiots!
Cut to Danny. He pulls Jack to him
by the collar, looks up at him, and points behind himself.
DANNY: Go
save our family! (stumbles)
Ah—I-I mean yours!
Danny perspires as Jack looks at him
funny.
DANNY: Your
family. (looks
to the audience) Not mine.
Cut to a farther shot of Danny and
the ectoplasm-coated Jack. Danny puts his pointing hand on his waist and
releases Jack. Pan right. Danny looks with seriousness at
Jack, who it to the right and offscreen.
Cut to Danny. He hunches down a
little with a smug expression, then turns to the left and takes flight.
Cut to Scaredy Cat. Zoom out a
little as Danny pops into the scene.
DANNY: Boo.
Scaredy Cat begins to shiver and
perspire.
Cut to a farther shot of Scaredy Cat
and Danny floating horizontally. The cat jumps up wildly and panics, looking at
Danny. Danny is floating in midair in a lying-on-stomach daydream pose. Scaredy
Cat then reaches off to the left and runs in mid-air, disappearing offscreen
with a puff of smoke.
Cut to all six ghost hunters. They
all look super-scared. They all jump back and scream as Scaredy Cat decks them
all and causes them to bounce.
Cut to a field. The ghost hunters
land on top of each other, with Scaredy Cat on the Groovy Gang, on the Ghostbreakers, on the Guys in White. They are all dazed
with yellow and red stars.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: Oh
man, (floats back a little with his
ghostly tail) this is just too easy.
Danny flies offscreen.
Cut to the Nasty Burger.
Cut to the dumpster of the Nasty Burger.
Danny floats onto the scene, carrying all the ghost hunters in a pile over his
head.
I’m
sure Danny’s ghost powers allow for super-strength. I just wonder how much. He
might be able to carry six ghost hunters and their pet white tiger, but can he
carry a vehicle, too?
Cut to Danny with all the ghost
hunters overhead. He tosses them down. They all scream.
Cut to the dumpster. All the ghost
hunters land inside it.
That’s
the second time this episode that someone got dumped into a dumpster. It’s probably
a running gag, one of these days we’ll have to count how many times that
happened.
Cut to Danny, floating just above
the dumpster. He flies to the lid and slams it closed. Then he lands safely.
Cut to Danny next to the dumpster,
proud of his work. Pan right as Danny hunches down to inexplicably pick up a
small, brown, stray dog. The dog pants and yips.
Looks like the local dog catcher hasn’t been doing his job
lately. He’s fired.
DANNY: Get
the kitty!
Danny opens the lid and puts the dog
inside.
DANNY: Get
him!
Danny closes the lid and holds it
down, smiling as the cat meows in panic. The lid vibrates.
MALE
GHOSTBREAKER: (in the dumpster) This reeks--
Danny holds down his head, eyes shut.
MALE
GHOSTBREAKER: --to the extreme!
When the lid stops vibrating, Danny
turns to the right in a battle pose.
DANNY: Now,
to stop Plasmius!
He takes off flying.
Cut to a street lined with houses.
Danny flies onscreen from the bottoms and turns to the left, panning left as he
disappears into the night.
Fade and zoom in to FentonWorks.
Fade and zoom in on the lab. Vlad is seen from the back, floating there. The
three vultures are by the portal, one of them is trying to take a bolt from the
portal.
Cut to the vulture. He is on the
portal, pulling as hard as he can to get the bolt out. When it’s finally out of
the hole, it weighs him down, causing him to crash to the floor.
Cut to the lab. Vlad walks onscreen.
VLAD: I
don’t suppose you could move any faster?
Cut to the lab. The vulture pops
onscreen.
VULTURE
GHOST #2: We’re 2000 and 8 years old. (raises his wings, they look like green flames) Be happy
we’re moving at all.
2008?
There are ghosts much older than that in the Ghost Zone.
Cut to Vlad, floating. The Fenton Fisher line hooks itself around him,
having him bound. Vlad is surprised.
VLAD: What
the--?
Zoom out to reveal Jack holding the
Fenton Fisher. Vlad turns to him.
Cut to Vlad.
VLAD: Oh,
you’ve got to be kidding me. (raises his arms a little) I get to waste you in your own
home? (laughs) This
is the greatest day (resumes position) of
my life.
Vlad glows green with ghostly
energy. The screen turns teal as Vlad breaks out of the Fenton Fisher line with
a triumphant “Ha!” The background resumes normality.
VLAD: (pointing offscreen and looking the other
way) Get him.
You
know Vlad, it’s not wasting if you have your minions
do the work for you.
Cut to the three vultures. They fly
to the right and offscreen.
Cut to the lab. Danny’s invisible
head pokes through the wall intangibly.
DANNY: Dad!
Danny phases fully through the wall
and assumes a battle pose.
DANNY: I
better--
Danny is interrupted as he floats to
the side, avoiding Jack who steps onscreen with a green-glowing
Jack-O-Nine-Tails. Zoom out as Jack thrusts the weapon behind him, and whips it
forward.
Well,
this weapon isn’t quite the Jack-O-Nine-Tails, provided Jack’s face isn’t on it
and it only has three ends. Meep!
Cut to a vulture flying onscreen and
stopping with a vulture call. He screams as the three ends of the device impact
him, causing him to disappear with a flash of light.
Freeze frame. A vulture is being hit by the ropes in a purple background. Zoom out
and rotate to show Jack whipping it from the bottom.
Freeze Frame. A vulture is being strangled by the ropes on a turquoise background.
Zoom out and rotate to reveal Jack, jumping the the
air and grasping the device with two hands.
Freeze Frame. A vulture is shown bound by ropes with mouth gaping wide upon a purple
background. Zoom out to reveal Jack with a serious gaze holding the weapon in
the foreground.
Cut to the lab. Jack pops up
onscreen with the device. The ropes retract into it. Jack blows over the top of
it.
Cut to the wall of the lab. Danny’s
invisible face pops onscreen.
DANNY: *Whoa*!
Cut to Danny floating invisibly
while Jack assumes a fighting stance.
JACK:
Nobody’s wasting Jack Fenton while his family’s in danger.
He runs to the left and offscreen. Danny
floats off where Jack was.
Cut to Jack from the back, running.
Pan left to the Fenton Portal. Jack stops abruptly as Vlad floats down onscreen
in front of him, crossing his arms and raising his nose.
VLAD: Oh
please, fool.
Vlad leans his chest toward Jack and
puts his hands on his hips.
VLAD: Your
family’s in danger--
Jack steps back, Vlad points.
VLAD: --every
time you pick up a *butter knife*.
Cut to Vlad.
VLAD: It’s
time--
Vlad puts his hands and straightens
out one of his gloves.
VLAD: --someone
put you out of their misery.
Cut to Jack and Vlad, retaining
poses. Vlad does a punch-sweep at Jack, knocking him back, causing the screen
to pan right. Jack screams.
Cut to Jack, landing in front of a
counter full of beakers and flasks. There are two metal
gloves on it. All the beakers and flasks scatter and shatter, but the gloves
fall on Jack as he puts his hand on his head. He looks at the gloves.
Cut to Jack, getting up.
JACK: I
might be a goof, I might mess up, but when my family’s at stake--
Zoom out to a teal background to
reveal Jack holding up and wearing the gloves.
JACK: --the
gloves are off!
He looks up with realization and
shifts his eyes side-to-side He turns his hands and looks at them as the
background changes to the lab.
JACK: Well,
technically they’re on, but (points) you get the point.
Jack
may have not used the Ghost Gloves often, and in the episode they were
introduced (SI) Tucker was the one to use them, but Dennis likes to think that
those are his weapon-of-choice, with Maddie having the double lightsaber (MI) and Jasmine with the Peeler (MBK and TUE).
Cut to Vlad floating in front of the
portal. He flies closer to the camera to the right, the screen becoming teal as
he does.
Cut to Jack. His gloves start to
glow green and he gets ready to land a punch.
Close up on Vlad. He gasps.
Freeze Frame. Jack is seen on a pink background. Zoom out and rotate to reveal he is
in the air and lands a blow on Vlad.
Freeze Frame. Jack is seen looking down on his green-glowing gloves on blue. Zoom out
and rotate to reveal Jack jumping on Vlad and bashing him over the head.
Freeze Frame. Jack is holding his gloves up on purple. Zoom out and rotate to reveal
him uppercutting Vlad.
Cut to Danny, invisible with feet on
the floor.
DANNY:
Whoa, he’s all over this! (clenches his fists) Which means--
With a flash of light, two rings transform
him into Danny Fenton.
DANNY: --it’s
time to do my chores!
Danny runs offscreen.
Cut to Danny running past a
green-stain coated wall. The counter has a box with a half-eaten pizza, spilled
soda cans, a plate with some old ice cream on it, and a paper cup with a straw.
Vlad screams offscreen as Jack rushes by and wipes him on the counter. The
counter sparkles.
DANNY: (popping onscreen) Well,
the table’s clear.
If
that’s your definition of clear, then what’s on the floor? Besides, I wonder if
Vlad will be upset about the invisible purple soda stains on his suit
Cut to a rack of test tubes and a
couple beakers, full of goo and some spilled. Vlad is thrummed head-fist onto
the table.
DANNY: (offscreen) Beakers are taken care of…
Zoom out to reveal Jack holding Vlad
down. On the counter beside him are a number of smashed beakers and wall
stains.
You
know, “taken care of” is a lissome phrase. Sure, you can “take care of” them by
putting them away, or you can “take care of” them by smashing them.
Jack raises Vlad and throws him offscreen.
Cut to Vlad, being thrown back. Pan
left as he lands back-first on the wall, grunting in pain. He lands on his
knees with his hands glowing pink, raising them to create one pink beam.
Cut to Jack. He reaches offscreen to
the left and holds out an overflowing trash can. The pink beam disintegrates
it, can and all. Jack releases his grip. He then starts clapping the pink dust
off his hands.
Close up on Danny.
That’s
not quite taking it out, but it’ll do. What if ghosts fried trash more often?
DANNY: Aaand the trash has been taken out.
Zoom out to reveal the portal behind
Danny.
DANNY: Which
means I have (turns to the portal) plenty
of time for--
Danny runs toward the blinking ecto-filtrator.
Cut to the portal. Danny runs
onscreen and starts to fiddle with the controls. He is bathed in green light.
Cut to Danny, a green light blinks
on his face. An intercom is visible behind him.
INTERCOM:
Ghost Portal to explode--
Danny turns to it, panicking.
INTERCOM:
--in 30.
Danny turns away from it, still
panicking.
INTERCOM: 29.
28. 27. 26.
After 29, cut to Danny rushing to
the filtrator, turning the red knob, pressing buttons
on the green keypad, the green cylinder falls off and into Danny’s hands as smoke
comes out of the machine. Danny sweats liberally.
DANNY: The
new filtrator.
Close up on a perspiring Danny.
DANNY:
Where’s the new filtrator?!
Cut to Danny, sweating and holding
the old cylinder. Jack’s glove comes in from the right holding the new one.
DANNY: Uh--I
probably should’ve done this (puts down
his hands meekly) any of the five times that you told me to.
You
WERE attempting to do it earlier with Tucker and Sam, but you clearly didn’t
know how. You should have asked for help instead of shirking.
Cut to Danny and Jack.
JACK: I’m
sort of glad you didn’t.
Danny takes Jack’s and gives Jack
his own.
Cut to Vlad, flying up onscreen. He
bends backwards and flies forward, yelling a battle cry.
Cut to Jack. He turns right, lifts
up the canister and takes a breath, blowing out a wave of green ectoplasm.
Cut to Vlad flying as the green wave
comes for him. He screams as he is flung offscreen.
Cut to the ceiling of the lab. Vlad
floats back, covering his eyes with his gook-coated arm. He rubs his eyes with
his clean black gloves. Jack’s glove reaches in and grabs Vlad by the chest,
pulling him down.
Cut to Jack. He pulls Vlad to him.
Then he turns and pulls a lever on the counter beside him. It dings.
Pan left to Danny holding the
canister by the filtrator. He turns as the portal’s
doors open.
Cut to Vlad, scarred and disheveled,
in Jack hand.
VLAD: It’s
not possible. You’re an idiot! AN *IDIOT*!
Cut to Danny by the portal. Jack
walks onscreen with Vlad.
JACK: Maybe
so,--
Cut to Jack. He pulls Vlad toward
him.
JACK: --but
I’m the idiot who beat you.
Cut to Jack holding Vlad in one
hand, the other glove glowing green. He sweeps Vlad up and lands a blow on him
as he falls. Vlad is knocked back, screaming in pain.
Cut to the lab. Vlad flies back into
the portal. Danny, holding the canister, turns to the portal as Vlad floats
through it. The portal doors slam shut.
Cut to Danny, turning right.
DANNY: That
was *awesome*!
Cut to Danny holding the canister.
Jack walks up.
JACK:
Aren’t you forgetting something? *Again*?
A bell dings. Danny and Jack look
up.
INTERCOM:
Ghost Portal to explode--
Jack and Danny panic as Danny lifts
up the canister.
Cut to Jack and Danny, stumbling as
the canister switches hands.
INTERCOM: --in
5.
Danny catches it.
INTERCOM:
--4.
Jack and Danny smile.
Right
about here is when Danny changes the filtrator, and
the scene changes to the simulation.
Cut to FentonWorks. With a flash of
white light, the screen becomes a giant mushroom cloud. Zoom out to reveal the
whole thing on a laptop on the table in the kitchen.
Cut to Jack and Danny at the table.
On the table are two paper cups with straws, a bowl of popcorn, and the laptop
with the Fenton “F” logo on the back.
JACK: Ah,
you see? (raises
a palm) That’s exactly what would happen if you don’t change the ecto-filtrator (leans back)
every six months.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: Why
do you even have this simulation on your (raises
a palm) laptop?
Pan left to Jack.
JACK: So I
never forget to tell you why it’s important to change the ecto-filtrator.
Cut to Jack and Danny at the table.
DANNY: I
won’t.
Danny and Jack get up. Danny points
up at Jack.
DANNY: And
you shouldn’t forget this.
Danny knocks his elbow into Jack.
DANNY: I’m
really proud of you, Dad.
Danny raises his arms out.
DANNY: I
can’t believe you beat that ghost back into the Ghost Zone.
Danny puts down his arms, Jack puts
his gigantic hand over Danny’s shoulders.
JACK: Aw,
thanks Danny.
They walk off to the left and the
screen pans as they walk. Jack points a finger up.
JACK: So,
from here on in--
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: (pointing up a finger) I’ll remember my
chores--
Cut to Jack.
JACK: --and
I’ll remember that my actions have consequences to others.
Cut to Jack and Danny walking.
JACK:
Especially my family.
Jack and Danny walk past the door to
the weapons vault. Yellow effort signs are shown as Maddie and Jasmine shout
and pound on the door.
MADDIE: (in the vault) Jack! *Let us out*!
JASMINE: (simultaneously) Dad! Dad! Jack!
Short pause.
JASMINE:
Man that’s cool.
You
can see that his action of changing the password (and passing the buck of
installing the handle to Danny) has caused some bad consequences to his family.
Ironic, isn’t it?
Fade to the Ghost Zone. Pan right to
a Ghost Portal. Vlad, dirty and disheveled, is knocked hands-first through it,
and it disappears quickly, disallowing him passage back.
I
wonder how Vlad gets back home. And why the Fenton Portal doors aren’t present?
And of course, why is he knocked hands-first when he fell through head-first on
his back?
Cut to Vlad.
VLAD: Unbelievable.
Jack Fenton beat me. (sticks
his chest up) Me!
The glass case of the Skeleton Key
floats up to his back. Vlad turns to it and takes it in his hands.
VLAD: And
yet here I am.
Cut to Vlad and the case. Skulls are
on each vertex, and the green key with the skull on it is on the purple, tasseled
pillow.
VLAD:
Holding the key I’ve been searching for. (puts the case down) Oh, Jack Fenton, even in success,
you *fail*!
A roaring is heard and a shadow
envelops Vlad, who looks with sudden realization. He turns right.
Cut to Vlad from the back holding
the case. In front of him is the tail and chest of the red Behemoth. Pan up to
reveal it and it’s four arms ready, smiling at its prey.
Cut to Vlad, dwarfed by the Behemoth.
The Behemoth shrieks, bends down and eats him whole, getting up to swallow him.
VLAD: (in the Behemoth) Oh, *BUTTER BISCUITS*!
Am
I one of the few who still knows that Vlad still has the key? I’m sure he’ll pass
eventually, but he’ll emerge with the key in him possession.
Amazing
we don’t see the key again until RS. Kudos to DP staff for bringing back
elements of Vlad’s elaborate chess game each time he appears.
Iris out. Cut to the end screen. Fade to black.
-End Title Card Screen-
END PART TWO
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END THE MILLION
DOLLAR GHOST
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