Lurking in the Dark

Georgia Whitlock & Keyshawna Bailey

Lock & Key Studios

Script

Storyline: Rosalie is a teenage girl wakes up to an empty home, she finds this unusual and instinctively thinks something is wrong. She starts to

become even more paranoid when the news reveals a mysterious religious

organisation abducting people. she then wakes up at a strange building

after refusing to answer the phone after she is called by an unknown

number. This is where her adventure begins. She wonders around the building

meeting different trapped souls, she eventually learns information on how

to find her missing parents; however this leads her into a dangerous trap

of whether everything she’s experienced was a dream of reality.

Rosalie: Shannon Beldam (now Georgia Whitlock) Child’s Soul 1: Irma Coffey Wiseman’s Soul: Oliver Bray Demon: Dan Hopkins

Act 1, Scene 1 -

[This scene begins in Rosalie’s bedroom at sunrise, and progresses to the

living room, then back to her room one last time .]

Rosalie: [wakes up and turns off alarm, wonders downstairs]

Mum . . . Dad?

TV in background: Another person has been abducted last night around 9 o’clock. There were no witnesses, but the police are certain that this

case is linked to the abductions from the previous weeks. Conspiracies

have arisen that these abductions are linked to a building in

Gloucestershire.

[Rosalie goes back to her room to get changed and gather supplies, an

unknown number calls and she declines it, as she’s walking down the

stairs to head through the door, she receives a text saying: You should

have answered. Scene goes dark.]

Act 1, Scene 2 -

[This scene begins with Rosalie outside of the entrance of a building

lying on the floor, she progresses through the doors of the building

entering different rooms and meeting different sinister characters,

eventually leading to a dark room.]

Rosalie: [Wanders around the building until finding a room with missing posters, she then says in fury and confusion.]

Is this some sick joke? . . . Hello?

[Rosalie then follows the the sinister noise calling for her coming from

outside the room, leads her to another room where a very pale, doll like

person is, this is a child’s soul.]

Rosalie: Uhm . . . Hello there? [As Rosalie steps closer the door slams shut, she turns to look door and the ghastly figure (child’s soul)

disappears out the door.]

[Rosalie follows the child’s soul, into another room where there is no

sign of the child’s soul.]

Act 2, Scene 2 -

[The Wiseman’s soul is standing in the middle of the room, still and

silent.]

Rosalie: who are you?

Wiseman: That doesn’t matter, don’t you want to know where your parents are?

Rosalie: [Excitedly says] My parents tell me where they are!

Wiseman: It’s not that easy, to find your parents you must first solve this riddle. Imagine you are in a completely dark room. In order to

reach your parents you must first figure out why this room is dark,

something lays among this darkness with you, it will follow. Once you

find the light, you will also find your parents, one other thing -

Rosalie: [Interrupts] Wait, how do I find this room?

[Rosalie looks down, then up to see the Wiseman gone.]

Act 3, Scene 2 -

[Rosalie continues to wonder, looking for clues, she stumbles upon a

crushed family photo outside a dark looking door, she attempts to open

the door but finds that it is locked; as she begins to walk away the

door opens to nothing but darkness. Rosalie enters, the door slams shut.

We see nothing but darkness, and then we hear the Demon laugh, And the

scene cuts.]

Scene 3

[Rosalie wakes up back in her room panicked and heavily breathing, she

starts to think this was all a dream, so she gets out of bed to complete

her daily schedule. As brushing her teeth, she spots the Demon that

followed her from the darkness and the scene cuts.]

End.