A thrilling detective play written by Surya Das, Class 5, Epic Public School, featuring Jekyll Anderson, a sharp-witted investigator, and his brother Jerry, as they unravel the eerie mystery of a haunted hospital room.
Characters
Mr Jekyll Anderson – Detective
Mrs Riya Balan – Assistant doctor background voice
Mr Jerry Anderson – Assistant detective as well Jekyll’s little brother
Uncle Brian – Background voice
Jekyll Anderson is a detective. He received a mysterious case about a hospital room. In the year of 1989, he started investigating the case by taking the information from the hospital named ‘Good Life’.
Scene 1
(Mr Jekyll Anderson is sitting by the fireplace after dinner, when he is gets an unexpected visit from his brother cum assistant Mr Jerry Anderson)
Jekyll Anderson: Jerry, what brings you here? Is it anything about the Good Life case?
Jerry Anderson: (looking worried) Mrs Balan has shut herself in a hospital room and I’m afraid, (stammering) I’m afraid for about a week now Sir and I can bear it no more.
Jekyll Anderson: I see, there is something seriously wrong in the hospital; (trying to calm down) tell me what it is?
Jerry Anderson: I think there’s been foul play Sir, and some people are talking about the girl who died at midnight. They say that the girl is still alive and lives in the clock tower of the hospital.
Jekyll Anderson: (Surprised) foul play! Huh! So why are we waiting, let’s go.
Scene 2
(Mr Anderson follows Jerry and they hop into the car for going to the hospital. Jerry tries to put on the ignition but fails.)
Jekyll Anderson: Jerry! What happened?
Jerry Anderson: Sorry sir, I forgot to refill the petrol in the car.
Jekyll Anderson: Ah great, now we have to go all the way to the hospital walking.
Jerry Anderson: Oh No, Sir, I will not walk at midnight through the Moonlit Streets. Just beside the road there is a graveyard where that girl was buried.
Jekyll Anderson: What nonsense, yes I agree that there is graveyard there somewhere, but why are so worried and scared about it?
Jerry Anderson: (Worried and reluctant) Okay Sir, let’s go.
(And they started to walk towards the moonlit streets. As they walked for a while a tree fell right in front of them on the road and they saw a shadow was behind them.
Jerry Anderson: (Shouting) Brother behind you!
(Mr Anderson looks back shocked, but finds that it was just a black cat was purring)
Jekyll Anderson: Come on silly, it is just a cat.
Jerry Anderson: Ah I was so shocked, let’s go sir.
(Mr Anderson and Jerry starts to walk again. A light appears from a distance approaching the)
Jerry Anderson: Is it a car? Perhaps we can take lift from him or her.
Jekyll Anderson: Don’t be impatient, let us first check if it is vehicle or just another animal.
(Jerry Anderson’s phone rings)
Jerry Anderson: Hello, who is speaking?
Voice from the mobile: Hello Jerry, this is your uncle I am organising a celebrant in the moonlit street’s church and I am expecting you and Jekyll to join.
Jerry Anderson: But why uncle? We are investigating a very serious case now.
Voice from the mobile: Okay, bye hahaha! (Laughter sound)
Jekyll Anderson: Who had called Jerry?
Jerry Anderson: It was our uncle Brian who called.
Jekyll Anderson: Huh! Our uncle, don’t you remember he passed away when we are kids perhaps when we were in our 5th standard.
Jerry Anderson: (Shocked) I forgot about that incident. Then who was the one calling?
(Both the bothers were worried that. Meanwhile the light cames closer and closer).
Jekyll Anderson: Thank God It is a truck …Ahhhhh!
(The truck ran over the brothers killing them instantly)
Scene 3
(Alarm ringing, Mr Anderson sleeping on the bed, wakes up at the sound)
Jekyll Anderson: Oh! It was a nightmare.
The end
