My Brother’s Keeper
Episode #9
Transcripted by Dennis Dunjinman
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Prologue
Fade in to
Fade to the doors of
LANCER:
Lancer falls. He jumps again, this
time with his back in the air and his arms grabbing his feet.
LANCER:
High!
Lancer falls once more. He bounces
onscreen with his fists on his shoulders, bending to put his stomach forward.
LANCER:
Spirit!
Lancer falls again. Smoke and yellow
stars appear as Lancer lets out a grunt of pain. Pan down to the ground. Lancer
is face-down on the ground with a blue trampoline behind him in front of the
steps. Jasmine looks down at him with her arms on her hips.
Cut to Lancer. He looks up.
LANCER: Ah!
Spirit Week! (closes
his eyes) I loooove it so.
Cut to a window of the school with
orange bushes underneath. Lancer stands up, his hands clasped together.
LANCER: The
pomp,--
Zoom out to reveal the trampoline
and Jasmine from the back. Lancer raises his arms out.
LANCER: --the
circumstance,--
Lancer takes a picture from his
pocket and holds it out to Jasmine.
LANCER: --and
mostly--
Cut to the picture. “CASPER HIGH” is written with many sparklers as someone with red pants jumps over it.
LANCER: The
Spirit--
Zoom out to show the whole photo. A
young Lancer with a full head of hair is jumping over the sparklers in a blue
background with a red jacket and a white shirt with a red “C”.
LANCER: --Sparklers!
Cut to Lancer. His arm is out toward
the camera.
LANCER:
Jasmine, did you know I was a (closes his
eyes) cheerleader (looks up at the
school) when I went to school here?
Cut to Jasmine looking at the
photograph in Lancer’s hand.
JASMINE:
Really?
Jasmine takes Lancer’s hand and
pushes it down offscreen.
JASMINE: Weird.
(puts a finger
to her shirt) No clue.
Don’t
think being a male cheerleader is wrong at any time other than the Spirit Week
Powder Puff game, the football match before homecoming where girls play and
boys cheerlead. It’s not a common occurrence, but it’s not wrong.
Cut to Lancer and Jasmine. Jasmine
pulls at the neck of her shirt.
JASMINE:
Look, (looks up and puts out a palm) can
I talk to you for a minute, Mr. Lancer?
Jasmine puts down her hand.
Cut to a purple door. Beneath it
reads “PENELOPE”. A green, impish ghost with red eyes looks
in the window. Zoom out. The door fully reads “Penelope Spectra” and Danny is walking down the hallway with
his hand on his purple backpack strap.
JASMINE: (offscreen) About
my brother, Danny?
Cut to Danny. He walks a few steps until
his ghost sense goes off.
Cut to Danny with the ghost in the
window of the door. Danny bends down to look through the window. The ghost
flies up out of view. Danny looks off to the right, then the
left. He opens the door of the top locker that’s last in the row.
JASMINE: (offscreen) He’s been acting--
Danny bends down and grabs the sides
of the locker.
JASMINE: --*really*
strange lately,--
Danny jumps in the locker and closes
the door. A blast of white light seeps through the cracks. Danny Phantom opens
the door of the locker and looks to the door with his ghostly tail whipping,
turning intangible.
JASMINE:
--like he’s not himself anymore.
Danny swoops through the door.
Cut to inside an office. There is a
desk with a battered, old monitor. There are pictures hanging behind the desk.
The impish green ghost is on the floor with no legs, looking to the left at a
bookshelf. Danny steps onscreen in the foreground and resumes full color. The
ghost turns to look at him.
Cut to the ghost. It snarls, raises
a hand up as is bends down its head, and flies up offscreen.
Cut to Danny. He takes flight as
well.
Cut to a shot of a cabinet desk
under a window. Danny and the ghost land onscreen, facing each other. The ghost
has tiny legs now. Danny attempts to punch the ghost, but the ghost raises a
hand to block. Danny alternates hands, but the ghost blocks
with the other hand.
Cut to Danny with an outstretched
arm. He ducks as the ghost’s arm swings over his. Danny raises a hand behind
his neck.
Cut to the ghost with his arms in a
ready to flee position. He looks down in shock as Danny’s hand slices through
his goopy body. His goopy body reforms back together and he starts growling.
Cut to Danny with his hand out. He
gets ready to take flight. Zoom in.
Cut to Jasmine and Lancer walking
down the hallway with a fat red-haired girl and an Asian kid with a red sweater
by his locker. Jasmine shrugs.
JASMINE:
I’d talk to him, but I’m his older sister,--
Cut to Jasmine and Lancer.
JASMINE: --he’s
just gonna think I’m (puts down her hands)
being bossy.
Cut to Jasmine.
JASMINE:
And if he doesn’t get some help, (turns to the left) if
he doesn’t talk to somebody…
Cut to Danny. His eyes widen as he
grunts, putting his hands on his head and ducking to the right as a red
student’s chair is thrown and crushed on him.
JASMINE: (offscreen) All that--
Danny looks up and charges an energy
blast.
JASMINE: --frustration
I think he’s repressing--
Danny turns to the left.
JASMINE: --could
come out--
Danny sends off the laser, pan left.
JASMINE: --the
wrong way.
Cut to the desk with the computer on
it. There’s a trash can nearby. The ghost swoops from the top-right behind the
trash can that Danny zaps, then over the desk and ducking behind it again as
Danny shoots a desk leg, then up in front of a book case where Danny vaporizes
a spot on the shelf.
Cut to Danny in the room. His hands
are blazing green. The shelf behind him is in disrepair, an open file cabinet
is smoldering green smoke, and another pillar of green smoke billows on the
right. Danny takes flight and lands closer to the camera, crouching down with
his blazing hands, then he stands up.
Cut to the ghost crouching on the
top of a shelf with its hands on the ledge. Danny is looking at him from the
foreground. Smoke billows and some energy blazes. The ghost opens its mouth
full of sharp teeth to roar again, then oozes to the
other end of the ceiling and phases through it. Pan right, Danny turns his
head.
Cut to a stunned Danny in the ruined
office with blazing hands. He arches his eyebrows in petulance as a flash of
light appears and rings pass over him turning him into Danny Fenton with normal
hands. The door on the right opens. Danny turns his head to the right in
surprise. Pan right to show Lancer holding the door open with Jasmine, both
incredulous.
Cut to Danny with a shaken look with
a pillar of smoke billowing from a desk. Rapid zoom out to show Danny in the
room with papers on the floor, the open file cabinet and the smashed desk.
Cut to Jasmine and Lancer. Jasmine
looks to Lancer, lancer lowers his eyelids.
Cut to Danny with the smoke
billowing in the background.
DANNY: (looking at his hands) Good one, Fenton.
Danny closes his eyes and raises his
chin as the smoke stops.
DANNY: You
let him get away (opens his eyes) you
idiot!
More
of an idiot, you are talking to yourself. And it doesn’t help with the
billowing smoke, it makes you seem like you set a fire in the office. Meep!
He puts down his arms and looks down
as Lancer’s large hand comes from the right and grabs him by the shirt and
drags him offscreen. Danny lets out a sound of being pulled away suddenly.
The screen fades to black.
OPENING THEME HERE
(Possible cut to
commercial)
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PART ONE
Title Screen is shown. Depicted is a
tall woman with a pink-red suit and sunglasses smiling a menacing smile,
holding Danny Phantom on puppet strings in one hand and Jasmine in the other on
puppet strings. The caption in the bottom-right reads
“PRESENTED IN PHANTOMATION”®.
Fade in to outside
JASMINE: (offscreen) Is
it always so *cold* in here?
Cut to a thermostat. It reads “COLD” on one side and “COLDER” on
the other. A red arrow points on the cold side, and a hand comes onto the dial
turning it left to the colder side.
WOMAN: (offscreen) Of
course!
Cut to a woman with a devil’s-hair
red hairdo and green eyes with sunglasses, purple earrings, and a coral suit.
Her hand is on the thermostat.
WOMAN: I
find that (a wisp of blue smoke comes
from her mouth) cold temperatures--
The woman takes her hand off the
dial and puts it on her hip.
WOMAN: --keep
the mind (points with two fingers and
winks) icy sharp!
Cut to her office. She is in front
of a bookcase. The walls are cracked and exposed, pictures behind the desk are
crooked, the floor has a large brown stain on it, and there’s a cardboard box
by her desk. Jasmine is sitting in a chair. Danny is standing slumped over and
miserable. Lancer looks in doubt at the woman.
WOMAN: (leaning back to grab a picture on the wall)
And don’t you worry about this (straightens the picture) mess of an
office, either.
The woman bends down to pick up her
chair.
WOMAN: Stuff
happens.
She sits down and clasps her hands.
Lancer turns to her.
WOMAN: No biggee.
Cut to the woman.
WOMAN:
Right, (cocks her head) Jasmine?
Cut to Jasmine. A blue wisp of smoke
comes from her mouth.
JASMINE:
It’s Jazz. (crosses
her arms) My friends call me (another
wisp of blue comes out) Jazz.
Jasmine looks up. Pan to the right
to Danny, eyes closed with his arms crossed.
DANNY: Yeah,
well your brother calls you (opens his
eyes and a blue wisp comes out) fink!
This
isn’t exactly the first-time viewing, so I’m free to ask about retconning Spectra’s ghost sense just like Tucker’s in WYW
and Paulina’s in DD. I’ll also point out that half-ghosts like Danny usually
don’t make it on natural ghost radar, only on ghost hunter radar.
But
for other evidence, in TFBC the characters breathe out mist that doesn’t
resemble the ghost sense at all. So why does Jasmine have a “ghost sense” here?
Cut to Jasmine in the chair with her
hands on her legs.
JASMINE:
Danny, (raises a hand) I’m just
trying to help? (puts
down a hand) Come on, (shrugs) we
used to talk all the time!
Cut to Danny.
DANNY:
Yeah, (looks up to think) when I was
8 (points a finger) and you weren’t a
fink!
Doing
the math, Jasmine would be 10. Generalizing from self, Dennis’s own sister
never really talked to her since then due to an overload of extra-curricular
activities, schoolwork, part-time jobs, or her own circle of friends. Not that
Dennis minds.
Zoom out to reveal Lancer with his
arms crossed looking down at Danny. Danny looks up at him.
LANCER:
That’s more than enough out of you, Fenton.
Cut to Lancer with the woman at her
desk behind him.
LANCER: Get
to class while (looks back) Ms.
Spectra and I decide (looks down again) what
your punishment is.
Cut to Lancer with his hands on his
hips. Danny is standing in front of him, and Jasmine
is in the chair looking at her brother. Danny leans forward with a pursed lip
and two slumped fists at Jasmine, who is thrown back in shock. Pan left to the
door. Lancer turns his head as Danny storms out.
Cut to Jasmine. Lancer slides up to
her from the right looking to the right.
LANCER:
Unlike her brother, (puts an arm around
Jasmine and smiles) Jazz is one of
Cut to Lancer.
LANCER:
She’ll be giving the keynote (closes his
eyes) pep speech at our centennial (opens
his eyes) Spirit-A-Thon--
Cut to Jasmine. She leans forward in
pride.
LANCER: --on
Wednesday.
Cut to Spectra.
SPECTRA: (pumping a fist) Right on!
Spectra spins her chair to motion to her pictures.
SPECTRA: That’s
why I’m here.
Cut to a picture of Spectra with her
arms crossed and smiling looking over a miserable-looking girl with her head on
her hand holding a card reading “CLASS PRESIDENT”.
SPECTRA: To
pump up the pep,--
Pan right to Spectra motioning to
another picture, in this one she pats the head of a brown-haired boy that’s
also miserable and waving a mini-American Flag.
SPECTRA: --one
student at a time!
Pan right to a third image of
Spectra over three teenage cheerleaders with white-and-red pom-poms. All three
are miserable, the curly-haired brown one, the blonde with the white bow, and
the morbid raven-haired one.
It’s
obvious those images give the wrong message. Spectra’s happy,
but no one else is. Not the president, not the kid with the flag, not the
cheerleaders. And they should be the peppiest.
Cut to Jasmine and Lancer. Lancer
has his hands behind his back.
LANCER: Uh,
Jazz (turns to her) Dr. Spectra is a
highly-respected motivational speaker--
Cut to Spectra looking with pride.
Her green eyes pop open.
LANCER: --and
teen therapist.
Cut to Lancer.
LANCER:
She’s agreed to help (looks to the
ceiling with a smile) “pump up the volume” (looks to the left) on that old Casper High spirit this week.
Congrats,
that’s the most “hip” thing you’ve ever said. Without the book, even! Have a
cookie, Lancer.
Cut to Jasmine in the chair with her
hands folded, Lancer looking down at her with pride and Spectra leaning forward
on her desk. Lancer and Jasmine look toward the open door as a short,
gray-haired green-eyed man with a red sweater vest, jacket and a bow tie steps
in toward Spectra carrying an object in hands. He looks toward Lancer and
Jasmine.
SPECTRA:
And this is my assistant, (sits up straight) Bertrand.
Cut to Jasmine. She waves a hand
lightly.
Cut to a bored-looking Bertrand. He snorts
air through his nostril.
Cut to Jasmine. She stops waving,
curls her fingers, and looks down to the left feeling a little blue. She rubs
the back of her neck.
Say,
was that a little foreshadow that may have escaped us? Clearly Jasmine’s not so
happy when Bertrand comes into the equation.
Cut to Spectra with Bertrand holding
the picture reading “CASPER
SPIRIT”.
SPECTRA:
Jazz, we’re gonna have a (winks and leans
on her arm) *super* week.
Spectra stands up with her hands on the desk.
SPECTRA: Wait’ll you see what we have planned for the Spirit-A-Thon.
Spectra brings up her arms in an excited pose.
SPECTRA: Right
after your speech, (leans down to Bertrand,
waving her hand) show her, Bertrand,--
Bertrand holds up the sign as
Spectra peps up again.
SPECTRA: --we’ll
set off--
Cut to the picture. It reads “CASPER SPIRIT” in dominoes with the R and T going off. Spectra’s hand points under it.
SPECTRA: --this
domino chain that says
Cut to Spectra. She stand up and curls her fingers, waving her arms wildly.
SPECTRA:
The dominoes represent how (thrusts out
her arms) each person’s spirit affects (moves
her hands to the right) the next person they (curls her fingers in glee) touch!
Spectra waves down her arm while
making the surfer sign.
SPECTRA: Slammin’, (points in
both directions) huh?
Cut to Jasmine, confused.
JASMINE: If
by “slammin’” you mean (holds out a finger) weird, (points)
then yes.
Cut to Lancer.
LANCER:
And, the Spirit Sparklers go off afterwards, (closes his arms together) right?
Cut to Spectra sitting at her desk.
SPECTRA:
Oh, (reaches behind her desk) you bet
they will.
Zoom out to Lancer and Jasmine in
the foreground. Spectra jumps on her desk holding up
sparkling sparklers.
SPECTRA: After
all, what’s Spirit Week without (crosses
her arms over) Spirit--
Spectra stands up with one leg up, looking over at Lancer and Jasmine.
SPECTRA: --Sparklers?
Cut to Jasmine with her chin resting
on her fist. Lancer is in the background.
JASMINE:
You know, you’re a little over-peppy.
Jasmine lowers her eyelids and looks
to the left.
JASMINE: But,
(looks forward and points) my brother
might benefit from talking to you.
Jasmine curls her fist under her
chin.
JASMINE: But
he’s so mad right now, (puts out a palm) he’d
*never* listen to me.
Over-peppy? And you didn’t think that when you were
working in much, much later episodes like Secret Weapons, Forever Phantom and Frightmare; now were you? No wonder Danny thinks you are an
annoying older sister.
Pan up to Lancer, arms crossed.
LANCER:
Yes, well.
Close-up on Lancer. Zoom in.
LANCER:
He’ll listen to me.
Fade into a miserable, irked Danny
with his cheeks in his hands.
Cut to Danny sitting in a green
chair outside Penelope Spectra’s office, with a sign overhead reading “HAPPY CHAIR!” in purple letters. The door opens. Danny looks to the left curiously as
Paulina walks out with her arms crossed with her hands curled around them,
looking down as Spectra follows her. Paulina turns to her holding one of her
arms.
PAULINA:
So, you’re saying my popularity is, like, completely dependent--
Cut to Paulina.
PAULINA: --on
my beauty?
Cut to Spectra.
SPECTRA:
I’m not saying it’s fair, sweetie. (looks up and raises a palm) but if you feel you need
something, like,--
She looks up and forward, curling
her fingers a little.
SPECTRA: --a
lot of make-up, (puts down her hand and
leans forward) I say, go for it!
Cut to Paulina, looking insecure
with Spectra leaning over her. Danny looks at them from the chair.
SPECTRA:
You’re the only--
Spectra puts a hand on her waist and
points at Paulina with another, winking.
SPECTRA: --“you”
you’ve got!
Spectra turns to Danny, straightening her arm and curling her fingers into fists.
SPECTRA:
Danny!
Close-up on Spectra.
SPECTRA:
Come on in!
Cut to the insecure Paulina with her
arm in her hand. Spectra looks at Danny in the chair
with his hands on his legs. Spectra walks into her
office. Danny follows her, slouching. The door slams shut. Paulina turns around
and walks off.
Cut to inside Spectra’s office. It’s
completely fixed. Spectra is at her desk with her
hands folded, Danny is in the chair with his hands crossed in a “cold”
position.
DANNY: I
can’t believe my stupid sister--
Blue wisps come from his mouth as he
speaks, zoom in on him slowly.
DANNY: --convinced
Lancer to make this my punishment.
It
is a punishment. Dennis hates social workers as much as you do, Danny, more
because Dennis has Aspberger’s, a condition that
didn’t make her any bit disabled but somehow made her strange enough to be a
repeat problem child in elementary school. Now it’s protected by law to make
sure I’m okay. Did she tell you how much she never enjoyed meetings and usually
came into one hoping to leave as soon as possible and get back to what she was
doing?
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: And
can we (looks up to the left, a blue wisp
comes out) please turn up the heat (eyes
shift right) in here?
Danny looks to the blue wisp coming
from his mouth.
DANNY: I
can see my own breath!
That’s
unnaturally cold. Most room thermostats only go as low as 50, but you need it
around 30 degrees to create the misty effect. Otherwise it make
be carbon monoxide or some other chemical in the smog you are breathing.
Cut to Spectra.
SPECTRA:
Wow, (looks to the side) you do
complain a lot. (perks
up) Well, your sister did say you could be a bit of a baby.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: (blue wisp coming out) *What*?!
Cut to Spectra.
SPECTRA:
Sweetie, (lays out her hands) it’s
not you fault she thinks you’re a--
Close-up on Spectra.
SPECTRA: --*lo-ser*.
At
this point, I feel like smacking her for putting words in Jasmine’s mouth.
Truthfully; as much as I hate social workers, they usually at least try to
help. Even if they help the wrong problem that doesn’t need
to be fixed; or if they add more problems. This doesn’t even show remote
possibility of “help”.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY:
Wait!
Danny blinks and arches his eyebrows.
DANNY: Jazz
called me a loser, too!?
No.
Read Spectra’s text carefully. She puts words in Jasmine’s brain. Strangely,
Dennis’s sister constantly calls her a loser. TO HER FACE.
It’s why Dennis doesn’t care anymore.
Cut to Spectra.
SPECTRA: Hey,
(puts her hands up in a push-back pose) those
are her issues.
Cut to Danny in the chair with his
hands on his knees. Spectra walks in with her hands on
her chest.
SPECTRA:
I’m not saying you’re a loser,--
Spectra turns to look down at Danny from behind him.
SPECTRA: --Danny.
(perks up) I
think you’re a--
Spectra slaps her hands on Danny’s shoulders, who jumps in surprise.
SPECTRA: --*great*
kid.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: Then
why do I feel so (he hunches his
shoulders) miserable?
If
you were listening, you could hear a sapping sound when Spectra touches Danny.
Pan up to Spectra.
SPECTRA:
You know what (puts a finger to her eye) I
think? (rolls
out her finger) You might be a mess--
Cut to Danny looking up at Spectra.
She walks around and crouches down to Danny, curling her hand into a fist.
SPECTRA: --but
“mess” is just the beginning of--
Spectra puts a hand on Danny’s
shoulder, he looks up blankly.
SPECTRA: --“message”!
Spectra removes her hand, Danny leans forward, fed up with it.
SPECTRA: Now
go out there and be a (points a finger at
Danny) better you!
Spectra is all happy and peppy while Danny gets up and walks off.
Cut to the open doorway to Penelope
Spectra’s office. Danny walks with his back hunched and arms hanging right into
a wall, then lifts his head and hair back and walks
out the door without bothering to correct his posture. The door closes.
Bertrand is there with his arms crossed.
Such
a short meeting; so little was accomplished. I’d be suspicious of this if I was
there, usually they like to hold me there as long as they can and also try to
pry as much as they can.
Cut to Spectra leaning on the desk
looking in a compact with Bertrand in the foreground. She opens the compact and
her head glows green.
SPECTRA:
Marvelous.
Cut to Spectra’s reflection in the
compact. She’s glowing green and a few wrinkles are visible, but the glow
clears and she smiles, completely wrinkle-free.
Cut to Bertrand.
BERTRAND: Why
are you wasting your time on a messed-up kid when we’ve got a big (puts his hands on his hips) to-do
planned for Wednesday?
Cut to Spectra looking to Bertrand
with the compact in hand. Bertrand is in the foreground.
SPECTRA:
Yeah but, Wednesday’s still a couple of days away.
Cut to Spectra. She leans her head
back and giggles evilly.
SPECTRA: (putting a hand on her hairdo) Teen
misery is the nectar that keeps me looking (claps
her compact shut and clenches a fist) fabulous.
Spectra puts her hands on he hips
and look behind her shoulder.
SPECTRA: And
that Fenton kid is like a walking--
Close-up on Spectra.
SPECTRA: --spa
treatment.
First
time I heard this line, I thought she would take the misery of others and use
it for herself, leaving others with happy thoughts, rather than breed misery to
use. Sort of like a reverse-dementor, feeding off
misery and leaving the good parts, not breeding misery to feed off of.
Another thing, take note. She says Wednesday’s
a couple days away. It’s probably still Monday.
Cut to Bertrand with Spectra from
the back in the foreground. Bertrand begins to glow and turn all green. He
melts into a puddle and then into the imp Danny was fighting earlier.
Cut to Bertrand.
BERTRAND: (putting a finger to his cheek) Hm. (puts out his finger) Then
maybe I should--
Bertrand curls his finger back and
narrows his eyes.
BERTRAND:
--up the ante.
Cut to Bertrand. He bends down as a
bug’s head with segmented eyes, antennae, a proboscis
from his vertical mandibles and two legs sprout. Two wings slowly form from the
goo, and then whip out. He bends forward, the goo on the floor becoming the
abdomen, thrusting it out so he looks like a large, green hornet. The wings
buzz as he hovers above the ground.
Cut to a school bell. It rings.
Cut to a hallway. There are kids
chattering, with a jock, a girl with blonde pigtails, and an Asian in one
corner, along with a red-haired kid with his hand in his locker. Tucker, Sam
and Danny walk down the hall. Tucker and Danny are holding their backpack
straps, Danny is miserable and irate.
TUCKER:
Dude, you okay?
Cut to Sam and Danny. Sam looks at
Danny as they walk.
DANNY: I’m
fine. I can’t believe my sister told that shrink I’m (head pops up) a loser!
Cut to Sam, looking incredulous.
SAM: Are
you *sure* Jazz said that? That doesn’t sound like Jazz to me.
Sam’s
deductive skills are commendable, for she realizes Jasmine didn’t say that. Ms.
Spectra has the gift of fabrication.
Cut to Danny, Tucker and Sam walking
down the corridor. They all stop in their tracks when Jasmine’s foot steps into
the foreground.
JASMINE:
Hey you guys.
Cut to Jasmine.
JASMINE:
What doesn’t sound like (shrugs) Jazz
to you?
Cut to Danny, Tucker and Sam. Danny
is holding his strap. Danny arches his eyebrows, Tucker and Sam look at him
strange.
Close-up on Jasmine.
JASMINE: Still
mad?
Cut to Danny with a finger on his
chin.
DANNY: (sarcastic) Wow. (points out his finger) You *are* the
smart one.
Danny leans forward with an irked
look.
Cut to Danny, Tucker and Sam on one
side. Jasmine walks in from the left, bending over with her hands out.
JASMINE:
Danny, I know you’re angry, but I’m (straightens
up) worried about you.
Cut to Jasmine.
JASMINE:
Ever since the (leans her arms forward) accident--
I
like how Jasmine mentions the accident. It means that the Fentons have a clue
that something nasty went down in the lab, but they don’t know whether that
caused any damage in Danny at all. Jasmine is very concerned about that.
Cut to Danny, Sam and Tucker with
Jasmine on the other side.
DANNY:
Jazz,--
Jasmine straightens up.
DANNY: --I
know you think you’re helping,--
Danny puts out his arms, Jasmine
puts her hands on her hips in a cursory glance.
DANNY: --and
I’m sure when I’m older, I’ll appreciate it--
Close-up on Danny.
DANNY: But
right now,--
Danny closes his eyes and leans his
head back.
DANNY: --I
don’t.
Cut to Jasmine looking at a defiant
Danny in the foreground. Jasmine’s hands are on her hips, Danny pops his eyes
open.
JASMINE:
You have to talk to somebody, Danny. (lifts a palm) You barely have any friends.
Cut to Tucker and Sam. They arch their eyebrows.
Cut to Danny, Tucker and Sam with
Jasmine on the other side, she straightens her arm far out.
JASMINE:
Besides these two.
Jasmine leans forward and puts her
hands on her hips.
JASMINE: And
you have absolutely no extra-curricular activities.
Cut to Tucker and Sam.
TUCKER: (whispering) Unless
you count the ghosts.
Sam looks at him, Tucker looks up.
SAM: (whispering) Shut
it.
Danny
has Tucker and Sam as his two best friends, but ironically we’ve never seen
Jasmine with a friend circle. The closest was the person she was calling in MI,
because the girls in TUE were too fed up with her to be her friends. Also,
ghosts aren’t extra-curriculars. Those are extra-boo-riculars.
Still,
in relation to Dennis, she has barely any friends (her friends aren’t as close
as Tucker and Sam), and she only has extra-boo-riculars
too, transcribing Danny, completely unlike her sister, who has a large circle
of friends and is on the Debate and Forensics teams. Meep!
Cut to Jasmine from the back. Danny
is in front of her, Tucker and Sam just witness in the background, Sam looking
irked.
DANNY: (cringing) Well,--
Danny leans toward Jasmine and
throws out his arms.
DANNY: --maybe
this is me now, huh?
Danny turns aside and crosses his
arms.
DANNY: Not
everybody’s pumped up full of spirit all the time, you know?
Cut to Danny. He gasps has his ghost
sense goes off.
DANNY: (looking down) Ghost sense?
Danny wraps his arms around himself
and shivers as his eyes dart around.
DANNY: I
don’t see anything…
Zoom out. Jasmine puts a hand on
Danny.
JASMINE:
Danny? You’re shivering.
Cut to a far shot. Jasmine is on
Danny, Danny is shivering. Tucker and Sam are standing by as witnesses. A kid
with red hair and a large, red shirt watches. Danny runs out of Jasmine’s arms
down the hallway. Everyone looks shocked and turns to him.
DANNY:
Leave me *alone*!
Dennis
herself has a shivering problem, sometimes she just gets cold for a few minutes
without warning. It’s why she always wears two shirts, a flannel shirt, and a
hooded sweater, just in case.
Of
course, while she doesn’t shout often, she does break down the hallway running
when she wants to be left alone. Or maybe a fast-walk.
She may duck into a bathroom where some kids cannot follow.
Cut to Jasmine. She straightens her
back with a hand out.
JASMINE:
It’s worse than I thought.
Zoom out. A short, blonde-haired kid
grabs Jasmine’s arm and points behind him. Jasmine turns around suddenly.
KID: A
freakishly large hornet!
He lets go of Jasmine and screams at
the top of his lungs. He turns to the lockers, opens a top one and jumps inside
as Jasmine watches. It closes it with a lot of effort but his leg with a black
high-top is locked outside. Jasmine opens her eyes as the kid’s leg shakes.
KID: OW! My
leg!
Close-up on Jasmine, the background is
already darkened. She gasps.
Cut to Jasmine from the back looking
down the hallway. A boy with a long neck and long blonde hair with a tall boy
with a red hat and shirt are by the end, holding books. A large, green hornet
that Bertrand became buzzes into the shot from around the corner. The boys drop
their books and cover their heads as the run in the direction the hornet came.
Screaming is heard. The hornet turns its head to Jasmine.
Cut to Bertrand. As he hovers, his
face slowly turns to the camera in fade-into motions.
Cut to a front-view of Jasmine. She
shrieks loudly as the background zooms out, but the camera zooms in on her.
Cut to Jasmine. She screams and
leans backwards as the bug that’s twice her size closes in on her.
Cut to Jasmine in the black arms of
the bug with the little green hairs. The bug’s mandibles are dripping
ectoplasm. Jasmine turns her cheek to the bug and braces herself. The bug’s
long, black tongue licks up and down and around her face in a wave-like motion.
Close-up on Jasmine with the tongue
around her face. She opens her eyes.
Cut to the ceiling. Danny Phantom
swoops in from the right with his ghostly tail cascading and his fists out in
front. He tumbles in the air, changing to a falling position with his fists
above him and his legs in front. The background changes to a dark-turquoise
action background. Danny turns intangible.
Cut to Jasmine in the arms and
tongue of the bug.
DANNY: (offscreen) Back off,--
The bug and Jasmine turn to the
left, slime drips from the bug’s mouth.
DANNY: --ghost
bug!
Pan right. An intangible Danny kicks
the bug with his leg from the right and phases through the wall. Jasmine turns
to the wall.
Cut to a row of lockers. Jasmine
walks in from the left.
JASMINE:
Ghost bug? (puts
down her arms) Wait a minute, (raises
a hand to point) that was a ghost?
Close-up to Jasmine.
JASMINE:
That was two ghosts?!
Cut to outside the school. The bug
followed by a blue, intangible Danny phase out from the wall, Danny in the air
and the bug landing on it’s back, bouncing off the ground offscreen and kicking
up some dust.
Cut to a bespectacled boy reading
under an orange tree. He looks up in fear as the bug flies up the tree stinger-first.
Cut to the building. Danny flies up.
DANNY:
Somebody call (resumes color) for an--
Close-up on Danny.
DANNY: --exterminator?
The
way he says that reminds me of IC. Of course, this may be the first time Danny
faces off with a bug, but his other bug face-off in DD was also orchestrated by
Spectra and Bertrand. Meep!
Cut to Danny floating the foreground
with a fist up, looking at the tree with the boy underneath and the bug on it,
buzzing his wings. Danny is in focus, but he gets blurred as the bug tree gets into
focus.
BERTRAND:
My, you are clever, aren’t you?
Cut to the bug with his
green-dripping mandibles.
BERTRAND:
Swat this, (chitin eyelids narrow over
his black eyes) big boy!
The bug flies offscreen.
Cut to a turquoise action background.
The bug flies in from the right and points its stinger in front of it as its
wings buzz.
Cut to Danny floating while the
bug’s stinger is in the foreground. Zoom in on Danny as the stinger closes in.
Cut to a side-view of Danny. He
braces himself by putting his hands on his head and yelping out as the bug
passes in front of him, the stinger ripping a tear in the suit’s sleeve.
Cut to Danny floating over the
ground as the bug flies away. Danny yells out in pain with his leg outstretched
and the other bent, leaning to the right and clutching his wound, turning
slowly to the ground until he falls and lands on his head and side.
If
you notice, this means Danny was unable to keep his balance or stay airborne.
Close up on Danny.
DANNY: I
should’ve gone intangible! (opens his eyes and looks up) *Idiot*! (looks down to
himself) I’m not getting better at this, I’m getting worse!
Danny’s eyes pop open as he looks
up.
Cut to a shot of the building from
the bottom. The bug is descending quickly with his wings buzzing and his
stinger out. Pan down as the bug goes offscreen.
Cut to Danny on the ground. He turns
and raises his arms to produce a green energy dome. The bug lands and cries out
as it is smashed on the dome. Then it flies up and out. Danny stops his shield.
Cut to the mesh fence. Danny gets
up, appearing to be holding something behind and below him.
DANNY: All
right, pal!
Danny shells the Fenton Thermos in
front of him, the business end glows as it charges up.
DANNY: Time
for you to--!
Close-up on Danny. His eyes pop open with realization.
Cut to the building and the fence
and grounds around it. There’s nothing there. Pan up-left to the top of the
building. The clock reads 1:00. Pan down-left to more of the
school, but there’s no signs of life.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY:
Gone.
Cut to a farther shot of Danny
holding the thermos. He sighs.
DANNY:
Great.
Danny switches off the thermos, it
stops glowing and powers down. Danny puts the thermos down with his arms at his
sides.
DANNY: Another
bad guy gets away.
Danny flies up slowly with his
ghostly tail, dejected.
Cut to outside a window. Jasmine
walks up and looks through it with a palm on the glass, looking intently. Zoom
out. Danny flies up, back to the school.
DANNY:
Maybe Jazz was right. Maybe I *am* a loser.
Danny flies up offscreen with his
ghostly tail.
Cut to inside the room. Jasmine is
seen from the back looking out the window. Danny is holding the thermos with
his back to her, his ghostly tail floating him out of the shot. Zoom in on Jasmine
as she turns around.
JASMINE: A
ghost? (perks up)
Wait ‘til I tell Danny!
Fade to FentonWorks.
JASMINE: (offscreen) What
do you mean you didn’t see a ghost?
Fade to the kitchen table. Jasmine
is at one end seen from the back with her hands clasped, Danny is at the other
with his palms perpendicular to the table. Zoom in.
DANNY: It
didn’t look like a ghost to me. (shrugs) It just looked like a big bug.
Danny folds his hands on the table
with some antagonism.
DANNY: So I
ran.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: Like a (closes
his eyes and purses his lips for emphasis) lo- (looks down normally) -ser.
(Cut to Jasmine with
her hands clasped on the table)
JASMNIE: I was right. You’re not going to listen to me, (lowers her eyelids) are you?
Cut to Danny. He’s resting
his chin on his fist and another fist on the table.
DANNY: Nope!
Danny gives a smug
smile.
Danny, that’s acting in spite. She’s clearly
trying to make an effort here, but I can understand if you don’t want to be
talked to. Meep!
Cut to Danny from the
back with his chin on his hand and his smug smile. Jasmine is on the far end
with her hands clasped looking businesslike.
JASMINE: Well you don’t leave me any choice.
Jasmine raises a hand
to her mouth and lifts her head up to shout. Danny straightens up in sudden
nervousness.
JASMINE: Mom! Dad! Can I talk to you about Danny?
Jasmine clasps her
hands on the table again, this time she’s the smug one.
DANNY: What? Jazz!
Danny looks over his
shoulder, putting his arm on the back of the chair.
DANNY: No!
Cut to the doorway.
Maddie and Jack slide into the shot, Maddie with her hood up and shoulders bent
in a ready stance, Jack holding a device in his hands like he’s aiming it.
MADDIE: Is there something wrong with Danny?
Yes.
JACK: Is there a ghost involved?
Yes. Very yes.
Cut to Danny leaning
in his chair. Maddie leans in to meet his face.
MADDIE: Is there anything you want to talk about?
No.
Zoom out. Jack leans
in next to Maddie looking over his shoulder and holding the device in one hand,
a fist in the other. Maddie stands up straight, Danny looks at Jack’s device.
JACK: That involves ghosts?
Definitely not.
Cut to Danny. He looks
up.
DANNY: I- I- (perks up
with a smile) Actually, yes!
Cut to Jack and
Maddie. Jack looks serious, Maddie looks concerned
DANNY: (offscreen) Jazz
thinks she saw a ghost today.
Jack and Maddie raise
their eyebrows in surprise.
Cut to Danny, smiling.
Pan right to an anxious Jasmine as Danny looks to her over his shoulder,
smugly.
DANNY: Tell ‘em, Jazz.
Cut to the table.
Jasmine is at one end with her arms hanging, and Jack is on the other end with
the device in both arms up and ready. Danny smiles at his parents, with Maddie
beside him.
MADDIE: *What*?!
Maddie vaults over
Danny, causing him to bend down and turn with some annoyance to his mother as
she lands with her shoulders hanging. Jasmine looks up at her.
MADDIE: Why didn’t you tell us?!
Did Maddie just vault over Danny? This was the
early days when some of DP’s original cartoony elements were still around, no
matter how complex or serious the plot.
Cut to Jack holding
the device over and behind his head at the ready.
JACK: It would’ve been a good chance to try out the--
Jack looks up to the
device in his hands.
JACK: --portable Fenton--
Cut to the device, It sparkles once.
JACK: --Ghost Peeler.
Cut to the table. Jack
is looking up at the device with pride as Danny and Jasmine look blankly in the
chairs, and Maddie looks blankly with her hands
hanging lax.
JACK: (turning to his
family) It peels ghosts apart--
Jack thrusts the
device in both hands high above the table, everyone looks up expressionlessly.
JACK: --atom by atom!
First time the expression is used, and it’s
used “atom by atom”, not “molecule by molecule”. Meep!
Cut to the Peeler in
Jack’s hands. It’s gray, with two green lights in the front and a headlight
that’s green up top. It has two red buttons on the side and one in the back.
Jack holds up a thumb and presses the button on the back. Two long cords of
metal run out of the two green lights in front of the device to the left offscreen.
Cut to Jack’s foot. It
gets shelled in stainless white armor with bolts on the ankle and knee.
Cut to Jack arms outstretched.
They get armor-plated from right-to-left, panning right to his armor-covered hands
in metal cylinder-things.
Cut to Jack’s head,
smiling proudly. His arms get covered, his shoulder with a shoulder plate, his
head in a helmet with a window and a nodule over the ear, the forehead of the
helmet reading “Fenton
Peeler”. The glass window slides down
over the breach in the helmet. Zoom out to show Jack in full armor with his
fists cuffed by cylinders, one holding the original device and one with a laser
device on top of it, cords reach from the hands to the back of the suit. His
chest has two green reflectors, his shoulder has a plate. Jack soon waves his
arms and bends back as he loses his balance, then
leans his gut forward nervously as he slips.
Cut to Danny, Maddie
and Jasmine at the table. Maddie is standing, Danny and Jasmine are sitting.
Jack crashes belly-first on the table, crushing it to pieces and face-planting
on the ground, grunting in pain. Danny turns his head up and looks down, Maddie
looks forward, Jasmine rolls her eyes downward as the debris flies and the dust
clouds rise. Glass is heard shattering. Danny stands up and turns to his
mother, smiling.
DANNY: Well,--
Maddie and Jasmine
turn to him as he turns to the left and walks away.
DANNY: --enjoy your chat!
Cut to Jasmine. She
groans miserably.
It’s Tuesday. Spectra’s plans are just one
more day away.
Fade to an aerial shot
of
Cut to Tucker and Sam,
both wide-eyed.
JASMINE: (offscreen) Don’t you think he’s been acting--
Tucker and Sam
exchange glances.
JASMINE: --weird?
Cut to Jasmine with
her arm on the strap of her pink tote bag. Tucker and Sam look at her from the
foreground.
JASMINE: I mean, haven’t you noticed how gloomy and negative
(turns to Tucker) he’s been lately?
Cut to Jasmine from
the back with her hand on her pink purse strap, Tucker and Sam look at her with
their backs to the lockers, Sam looking annoyed.
TUCKER: Uh, (lifts a
curled finger) Jazz?
Tucker puts the hand
on his chest and Sam puts a hand on her hip as an African-American student with
a black up-do shaped by his topless visor walks past without a care with his
backpack, in the foreground.
TUCKER: We’re
Danny’s friends. (puts
his hand out) That means we keep his secrets (arches one eyebrow and points to Jasmine) *from* you.
Tucker puts down his
hand as Jasmine turns and looks down at her purse.
Cut to Tucker,
suspicious. Jasmine holds a bill with the number 20 on it to bribe him. Tucker puts
his fingers on it and smiles as Jasmine takes away her hand.
TUCKER: Although…
Sam reaches in and
takes the 20, swiping it away from Tucker.
Cut to Jasmine with
her hand on the strap looking at a bemused Tucker holding his hand up and Sam
holding the bill.
SAM: We’ve all got our--
Sam smiles and holds
out the bill, giving it back to Jasmine. Tucker looks down at the cash.
SAM: --problems, Jazz.
Jasmine takes the bill
as Sam puts her hands out, Tucker looks blankly.
SAM: I know you’re worried--
Quick pan right to a drinking fountain with a fire alarm near it. Danny walks up to it with a sour expression and looks at it, bending
down to take a drink
SAM: --but Danny’s okay.
Cut to Danny,
drinking. Above him, a ghost’s green palm phases through the wall.
SAM: (offscreen) He
keeps some things to himself,--
The ghost takes
Danny’s backpack straps and hooks it on the fire alarm handle.
SAM: --but it’s not like he’s doing--
The ghost’s arm phases
back through the wall. Danny gets up.
SAM: --anything criminal.
Danny is on his way,
and his backpack strap pulls the fire alarm, causing the alarms to ring as Danny’s
eyes pop open in shock.
Dennis questions why there are straps on the
BACK of Danny’s backpack when they should be on the side facing his back, the
ones with his shoulders’ support. Meep!
Cut to Jasmine from
the back with Tucker and Sam looking at her. Jasmine turns around with a hand
across her body, Tucker and Sam’s eyes pop open in shock. All three look up.
Cut to the emergency
sprinkler on the ceiling. It rains out a torrent of water.
Fade to
Cut to a crowd of
irked students with wet hair by a puddle of water. From left-to-right, a
student with cargo pants and a medallion, a brown-haired girl holding a blue
book over her short green dress, an Asian with a red book, earrings and
sandals, a tall blonde boy with glasses, a tall red-haired girl with glasses is
over he shoulder of an irked firefighter with an axe is standing by a growling
Dalmatian, drooling at the mouth. In front is a red-haired boy in a letter
jacket.
Pan left to Jasmine,
irked with dripping wet hair, with Sam’s wet hair drooping over her face and
Tucker wringing out his beret. Danny is in front to droopy hair, shrugging with
Mr. Lancer looking down at him, his arms crossed.
DANNY: A month’s detention?!
Close-up on Danny.
DANNY: But I didn’t do anything!
Danny, falsely pulling a fire alarm is a
crime, maybe a federal offense or a felony. You could get fined or go to
Juvenile Hall.
Of course, I’m pretty mad at Lancer too, from
certain personal experience. See, I was the kid with a long track record of
being crazy and doing things that were weird that got me in trouble and made
fun of often (You people just don’t understand my way of thinking, and I was too shy to reveal why. Danny’s in a
very similar situation, people don’t understand that he has ghost powers, which
causes him to drop beakers, his pants, throwing mud pies, get bad grades, break
mirrors and such). Because of this, my neck was constantly breathed down and I
was the one that was blamed first when problems arose, and was once in 5th
grade suspended two days and was pending prevention from attending a
school-sponsored event that I was rehearsing for several months for. I’m still
saying I was wrongfully accused, and ironically, I was never caught for any bad
things I really did (which was only an occasional sneaking into the school’s
freezer and taking a chocolate pudding tube once a week, but it was the only
way I managed to survive that year). Yes, I confess. Glad to have that off my
chest.
Cut to Jasmine, Sam
and Tucker with Danny looking at Lancer. Spectra slides in from the right with
her hands on Lancer’s arm, looking up to him over his shoulder. Danny looks up
at her
SPECTRA: Hey, Mr. Lancer, it was an accident.
Cut to Danny with his
wet, droopy hair. He leans back with discomfort as Spectra leans in to him, pointing
a finger.
SPECTRA: But we’re gonna take that accident and make it an--
Spectra points her finger to Danny and looks up
with her eyes closed with glee.
SPECTRA: --“acci-don’t!”
Close-up on Spectra.
SPECTRA: And learn from it so it (opens her eyes and looks to the left) never happens again.
Close-up on Danny. He blinks.
DANNY: But--!
Cut to Lancer.
LANCER: No buts.
Lancer blinks and
arches an eyebrow.
LANCER: You could learn a little bit about (closes his eyes and lowers them) school
spirit--
Cut to Danny with wet
hair next to Spectra looking up with humble pride, her hands on her hips.
LANCER: --from Ms. Spectra--
Danny looks up at her
uneasily, Spectra looks down at him with a creepy, plotting smile.
LANCER: --here.
Close-up on Lancer.
LANCER: When I was in school, I got the--
Lancer arches his
eyebrows, then closes his eyes and smiles.
LANCER: --same advice.
Cut to Danny and Spectra standing over a puddle, Spectra with her hands
on her hips, both looking at Lancer in disbelief. Lancer smiles and bends down with his arms out at his sides
LANCER: And look how I--
Lancer does a blithe
leap in the air with his hands and head up, his legs looking like they are in a
gallop.
LANCER: --turned
out.
Cut to Spectra and
Danny looking down. They exchange confused glances.
Fade to a close-up of
a miserable-looking Danny wearing a giant top-hat.
DANNY: And this is supposed to help me *how*?
Zoom out to reveal
Danny standing up with a top hat 2/3 his height on his head with a red band
around the rim. He has a red sash over his shirt that reads “SPIRIT”. He also has a giant diaper on with a giant safety clip, no pants, and
tube socks with two red stripes with no shoes. Spectra is next to him, eyes
closed and chin up with pride, hand on her hip and other in the air showing off.
Despite the abusive look, Dennis thinks Danny
would be cold with no pants on. Even weather people in Nick movies preferred
wearing pants than wearing costumes for failed rating-boosters.
SPECTRA: We’re going to help you overcome your fear of being
called a baby.
Spectra puts her hand on her hip and looks down
at Danny with a smile. Danny sits in Spectra’s chair next to him, his hands on
his knees.
DANNY: I’m not afraid of being called a baby!
Close-up on Danny.
DANNY: (confessing
uneasily) I’m afraid of being called a (looks
up) loser.
Dennis is not afraid of being called anything
anymore. Due to constant verbal attacks from her peers, she has adapted to
becoming selectively deaf, drifting off into her own world and filtering out
all the snide comments she doesn’t want to hear. This helps her due to her Aspberger’s Syndrome, but it may not help a neurotypical like Danny.
Close-up on Spectra.
SPECTRA: Ah, (closes
her eyes and looks up) and therein lies the (looks back down again) problem.
Cut to Danny with the
top hat, looking up. Spectra leans in from the
foreground.
SPECTRA: You care too much what other people think.
In high school, who doesn’t? You have to fit
in and make sure you aren’t too goofy or stupid, even if you wish to be a
non-conformist.
Cut to Spectra with
her hands on her hips looking down at Danny in the seat. The doorway is behind
her.
DASH: (offscreen) Where’d you want us--
Spectra turns to face
the door on the other side of Danny with her arms crossed as Dash and two other
boys in letter jackets come in with boxes, one a trim African-American with a
white banner on his arm and the other a stocky kid with wild black hair
sprouting from his visor.
DASH: --to put these banners up, Ms.--
Cut to the three jocks.
They all look in surprise.
DASH: Hey, guys!
Dash looks back to his
friends, the boy with the visor smiles.
DASH: Check it out!
Dash looks forward,
making fun of Danny.
DASH: (baby talk tone)
It’s the Casper High Spirit baby!
They all laugh uproariously.
Cut to Danny, who
leans down his eyelids in depression.
DANNY: Of course.
Danny hangs his head
in shame. Spectra puts her hand on his shoulder, pan up to Spectra with her
eyes closed, pale skin and hair, and wrinkles. She looks down at Danny, and
then her head glows and resumes its natural vitality.
Fade to Elmer’s
Pharmacy. A row of shopping carts are by a long wheelchair ramp in the parking
lot. There are a couple outdoor tables with umbrellas, but no one sits at them.
A couple kids are outside. Zoom in.
Fade to inside. Kwan
is getting a mint-chip ice cream cone from the buck-toothed man at the
ice-cream counter. Valerie is by him, looking down at her mint-chip ice cream
cone, not wishing to eat it. Kwan licks his cone.
VALERIE: I don’t know, Ms. Spectra says I worry *way* too
much--
Kwan stops licking and
looks at Valerie.
VALERIE: --about material possessions.
She starts licking her
cone.
KWAN: At least you’ll have them!
Valerie and Kwan walk to the right past Danny, Tucker and Sam at the
table.
KWAN: Spectra says I’m gonna grow
old, broke and alone.
Valerie is still voiced by Grey DeLisle in this one, not by Cree Summer like the next
episode. Of course, in the next episode, she does care a little too much if she
forces Kwan to chase Danny for her for accidentally ruining her shirt.
They leave. Danny is
sitting at the table with his elbow holding up his chin in his hand. Tucker has
a strawberry cone, and he is looking at Sam, who is licking her cubic tofu cone
with green sauce and a cherry.
TUCKER: (leaning to
Danny) Man! It was brutal making you wear that--
Sam stops licking, then resumes.
TUCKER: --stupid baby suit.
Cut to Tucker.
TUCKER: I could hardly watch!
Tucker turns to the
right to fish for something.
TUCKER: But I did (thrusts
his hand left, smiling) get some good--
Cut to Tucker’s PDA.
There’s an image of Danny in the baby suit, looking down at himself
while three kids on the side laugh at him, one with a missing tooth, a girl
pointing and laughing, and a kid in a green shirt laughing.
TUCKER: --digital pics.
Cut to Danny looking
down at Tucker’s PDA.
DANNY: Hey! (looks to Tucker) Whose side are you on, anyway?!
Cut to Sam holding her
tofu cone.
SAM: Danny, come on, (lifts
a hand to shrug) you know he’s kidding.
Cut to the trio. Sam
is seen from the back putting her arm down. Tucker is looking at Danny holding
his pink cone. Danny buries his face in the table surrounded by his arms
DANNY: Yeah…I know…
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: I don’t get it!
He lifts his head from
the table and looks down at his arms.
DANNY: Why am I so depressed and (arches his eyebrows) angry all the time?
Danny closes his eyes, then sits up straight.
DANNY: That shrink was supposed to be helping me! Ever since
I started talking to her, (looks more
depressed) I’ve been feeling worse.
Cut to Danny, Sam and
Tucker at the table. Tucker has his cone and Sam has her tofu cone. Jasmine
walks up from the left, everyone turns to look at her,
especially Danny, who gets mad at her presence.
JASMINE: Hey Danny. How’s it going?
Cut to Danny, looking
to the left.
DANNY: (irritated) Like
you care. (puts
his chin on his curled hand) Just go away, Jazz.
Danny’s ghost sense
goes off. He puts his hand away from his chin.
DANNY: Oh no.
Close-up on Danny from the back. He turns around.
Cut to Danny looking
fro the table while the rest of the screen is blurred. Pan up to blur Danny as
the rest comes into focus, Paulina is sitting with her legs crossed on a stool
looking into a compact and powdering her face. A woman with curly red hair,
glasses, earrings and a pink apron looks at her with scorn.
Cut to Paulina looking
at the compact with the lady.
PAULINA: If my skin’s perfect, I’ll be perfect.
Paulina stops applying
the powder and looks up to the lady. The lady looks in shock as Paulina shoos
her.
PAULINA: Do you mind?! You’re like (shrugs and looks up) the second old woman to hover over me today,--
Paulina looks to the
lady and closes her eyes.
PAULINA: --and I’m so not in the--
Paulina opens her eyes
and closes her compact a little.
PAULINA: --mood.
Paulina resumes
application, powdering faster as the woman leaves to the right, looking at
Paulina with more scorn.
Cut to the floor by
where Paulina is sitting. Bertrand in his blob form phases through the floor,
panning up to look over Paulina. He becomes more opaque and growls with a
toothy smile.
Close-up on Danny. He looks to the left.
DANNY: Gotta keep Jazz busy.
Cut to the table.
Danny is getting up from his seat, Tucker is smiling with his cone and Sam is
licking hers. Jasmine looks confused as Danny fakes-berates his friends.
DANNY: Yeah, well if you’re gonna take (points to Jasmine) her side, then you
hang with her too!
Danny grabs Jasmine
and puts her in his chair.
DANNY: Here, take my seat!
Close-up to Danny.
DANNY: You’ve already taken--
Danny covers his forehead
with his arm melodramatically.
DANNY: --my friends!
When DP was new and Dennis’s sister was
absentmindedly watching, she laughed out loud at this. While Dennis’s sister
doesn’t like the show, she finds nothing wrong with it. Meep!
Danny removes his arm
and makes a wide-eyed confused face.
Cut to a farther shot
of Danny. He takes off running to the left.
Cut to the back of the
store. A red-afro-ed nerdy kid is reading a magazine.
A fat boy in a red hoodie and has long brown hair has
his finger to his chin to make a choice. A girl with glasses is standing in the
back. Danny runs through the door that has an “EMPLOYEES ONLY” sign up top.
Cut to Jasmine, who
gets up from the chair.
JASMINE: Danny! *Wait*!
She runs after him.
Cut to Tucker and Sam
with their cones and blank expressions. Tucker looks to Sam as Sam looks to
Tucker with seriousness.
SAM: Come on!
Sam and Tucker take
off to the left in a puff of smoke, Sam’s tofu cone is left behind and
spinning.
Cut to the back of the
store into the alley. There’s a blue sign above the door reading “EXIT”. There are pipes coming from the wall, a grate on the wall, and trash
bags in the foreground. Jasmine runs up to the door and takes the handle,
looking up at the sign.
JASMINE: He went this way.
Cut to the other side
of the door. Jasmine peeks behind it
JASMINE: (shifting her
eyes) I’m sure I can head him off.
Close up on Jasmine.
She looks wide-eyed.
Cut to Danny in the
alley with Jasmine peeking behind the door. Danny looks right then left in a
spot check. With a flash of light, a ring appears and passes over his body.
Cut to his legs. The
ring passes over and turns them into white boots.
Cut to his fist. The
ring passes over and makes it a white glove.
Cut to another fist.
The ring passes and makes it another white glove.
Cut to Danny on the
pavement in a red action background. The shot rotates and zooms in on his face
as the rings pass over him, turning him into Danny Phantom. It stops on a
close-up front view, zooming out to reveal his whole body. Paper blows back in
the wind.
Close-up on Jasmine. Zoom in as she gasps.
Cut to an aerial shot
of Danny. Zoom out to see the whole alley with all the litter and Jasmine
standing in the doorway. Danny takes fight with his ghostly tail and his arms
at his sides, swooping up offscreen. Tucker and Sam run in from the other
corner of the alley, Tucker with his strawberry cone. Both look up.
Cut to Jasmine,
shocked. Zoom in and rotate.
JASMINE: *Danny*?!
Fade to black.
-Cut to commercial-
END OF PART ONE.
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