NOTE: Originally, Dr. Scott had a song here, but it has been deleted for pace. This scene is fun as it ends up using similarities from the original film...
PREVIOUSLY: Brad and Janet, stuck inside the Frank N Furter castle once again (this time on the planet Trasexual after being "zapped" up there), are resting in their separate bedrooms. However, Dr. Scott, has just been "zapped" up to the castle as well...
Dr. Scott found himself confused for a second.
His wheelchair fit tightly into the glass tube in the control room, as
he stared at several guards (both genders) who were staring right back
at him. He could not explain what had just happened. One moment
he was teaching science in his class, and the next moment he was inside
a large glass tube, open in the front, inside some large room...a control
room, it seemed.
Dr. Scott noticed the guard's attire and realized
at once where he was. Transexual. How he got there was irrelevant.
Why he is there, he assumed, will be explained momentarily. In the
meantime, he felt no need to panic. He quietly rolled his wheelchair
out into the main floor area, and mumbled hello to the guards, trying to
keep a nervous smile on his face.
One male guard approached him and said, "The Queen
will be here momentarily." Then the guard joined the other guards
in their tasks: they were pressing buttons, running tests, he assumed.
They were making changes in the control panel. They were...upgrading?
The guards resumed talking as though Dr.
Scott were not in the room. Dr. Scott listened to the conversations
carefully, studying every detail. Someone said something about not
having seen a few guards in a couple of hours and wanted to know if he
should put out an alert. "No, not yet" was the response from another
guard. Another conversation detailed a party that was supposed to happen
in about an hour or so, as well as the execution of Riff Raff and Magenta.
Then Dr. Scott heard a guard warn another guard, "No, don't touch that!"
Dr. Scott looked over to that direction and saw
a glass box with a red button on the inside. One guard had almost
opened the box.
"That button," explained the warning guard, "is
an explosive device installed in the castle. It was to be used on
earth should Frank N Furter and his crew ever have any problems.
There's enough explosive in this one press of a button to destroy an entire
planet."
Good Heavens, Dr. Scott thought to himself,
That's
a bomb.
At that moment, a fairly beautiful woman, royalty,
entered the room. "Dr. Scott," she said, "My name is Queen Andoria.
Welcome to Transexual."
Over the next fifteen minutes, the Queen explained
the events that had happened thus far to Dr. Scott. Afterwards,
he assured her that he had no idea how to bring Dr. Furter back to life.
This only angered the Queen. In an angry fit,
she told him that if he, Brad or Janet did not put their heads together
and figure out the solution, that Riff Raff and Magenta's life will
not be the only lives executed that night.
Dear God, Dr. Scott thought, moments after
the Queen left the room, We've got to escape...and quickly!
Dr. Scott wheeled out of the control, venturing
into the castle's main floor. "First things first, I need to find
Brad and Janet..."
Fifteen minutes later, Dr. Scott had found Brad alone
in his room, lying awake in bed. Brad was surprised to see Dr. Scott
in the same situation he and Janet were in, but even more surprised to
find out about their forthcoming doom.
"Dr. Scott," Brad said, "I've got to warn Janet.
We've got to get out of here. Perhaps we can leave the castle and
hide in the city?"
Dr. Scott thought about this, and shook his head,
"No, we would easily be spotted. We don't exactly fit in with our
earthly attire and all. Eventually, we would be found and then definitely
would be executed."
"But Dr. Scott!"
"It's alright, Brad. I think I have a plan..."
Janet lay in her bed, staring at the pink interior
of her bedroom. She could not sleep. She found herself restless,
thinking about the last information she had been given: the Queen wanted
Brad and her to do a small "Pre show" before the execution tonight. What
would she do? She asked herself, They said I should just sing
a song about love...about how I feel about Brad. About commitment.
They said I should open my heart and reveal my inner feelings. How
can I do this when I've never been completely honest about my feelings
to Brad or myself? How can I sing about such things without revealing
that my love of Frank N. Furter lingers in my life even as I love Brad?
How will Brad react?
Suddenly, a knock came to the bedroom door.
"Who is it?" Janet asked, sitting up, holding the
sheet against her bosom, "Who's there?"
The door creaked open, and a silhouette of Brad
entered, whispering, "It's only me, Janet."
"Oh Brad, my darling, come in, come in." She
pulled back the sheets and offered Brad to join her bed. And why
shouldn't she? After all, it was their honeymoon.
Brad crawled into bed with her and hugged her for
comfort, and said, "It's alright, Janet. Everything's gonna be alright."
Janet, realizing that Brad was allowing his protective
side show again, caressed his hair, and said, "Oh, Brad. You're so
strong and protective..."
Strong and protective? Janet thought, running
her fingers through his hair, Why does that sound familiar? As
a matter of fact, this entire scenario seems familiar -- like a deja vu...
Suddenly Janet remembered why there was this
familiarity, and in a panic, she grabbed some of Brad's hair and yanked
real hard!
"Ow!" Brad yelled, jumping off of her, and massaging
his sensitive scalp, "Why did you do that?"
Janet realized that the man in her bed was, indeed,
her husband. "I'm sorry, Brad, darling. I thought you were...
I mean, when you-- oh, never mind. I'm really very sorry."
Oh my poor husband, she thought, I thought
you were Frank. I mean, it seemed just like before, when Frank crawled
into her bed and pretended to be Brad...
Much to Janet's surprise, Brad responded,
"It's alright, Janet. I understand completely."
"What's wrong?" Janet asked him, seeing an unusual
expression of his face. She tried to define his expression as a cross
between worry and excited at the same time. The look was very odd
-- one that she had never seen from Brad before.
Brad answered, "There's been a change of plans.
Dr. Scott is here."
Janet gasped, "Dr. Scott? But--"
Brad interrupted her, "Yes, it's true. The
Queen brought him here for the same reason as us. But don't worry,
Janet. I've talked to him. He has a plan."
Janet sat up, and said, "An escape plan?"
"Yes. And it's not all that complicated, so
listen carefully..."
Brad proceed to whisper to Janet the escape plan
that Dr. Scott had told him minutes before. He chose to whisper it
quietly into her ear just in case they were being watched from the monitor.
The ways of Transylvanian voyeurism were not unfamiliar to him or Janet.
Dr. Scott sat in his wheel chair inside the castle's
control room, watching as the only guard in the room left. Dr. Scott
had told the guard that his assistance was required in the ballroom where
Transylvanians were setting up for the party. At first the guard
refused to go, declaring his loyalty to the Queen's request to guard the
room. Then Dr. Scott added that it was the Queen herself that wanted
the guard to help in the ballroom. Hesitantly, the guard gave in
and left Dr. Scott alone in the control room.
Dr. Scott waited a few seconds after the guard had
left and then looked carefully at the control panels. He mumbled
to himself, "Okay, there isn't much time. Let's see how difficult
these controls are."
Dr. Scott studied each and every panel over the
next few minutes. He was amazed at how similar they were to earth's
control panels for spaceships. He noticed that the fuel gauge was
on empty so there was no way they would escape by flying the castle back
to earth.
That's when he noticed the control panel which controlled
the transport tubes...
When the guard left the control room, he headed towards
the double doors that contained the ballroom. However, as he passed
the elevator shaft, he heard an unusual noise, coming from within the elevator
shaft. He stopped and remained quiet. Suddenly the sound echoed
down the shaft again, seemingly coming from up above, perhaps as far as
the top floor.
The guard stepped inside the elevator and took it
up to the lab. Inside the lab, he stepped out and observed the room
carefully. Something was odd. Something seemed wrong.
Something was "different."
He looked ahead of him and saw the three
caskets standing in front of the tank. Each casket was draped with
a colored sheet, black, red, and gold. Behind the caskets, the tank
was draped as well, with a white sheet.
A white sheet?!!! the guard thought,
I
was here just an hour ago. There was no sheet covering the tank.
He walked around the caskets and stepped
up to the covered tank. He grabbed the white sheet and pulled it
back to look inside the tank to see what it was hiding.
"Oh my god!" he said, seeing the tank's contents.
BAMMMM!!!!!
The guard was knocked unconscious by an unknown
assailant who struck his skull with a heavy barbell. He fell to the
ground and lay motionless...
IN CHAPTER 13: The party begins, and Brad and Janet perform their pre show. Afterwards, the Transylvanians dance the Time Warp again as they anticipate the floor show: Riff Raff and Magenta's execution.