Total Drama: Game Night

by ZNBT

A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves entangled in a real-life mystery when the shady brother of one of them is seemingly kidnapped by dangerous gangsters. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.

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As 'Quando, Quando, Quando' continues to play in the background as the credits roll by.

'Directed by Jennifer Pertsch & Tom McGillis'

We transition to a door opening and leading down to a basement. We're then shown Valentina going through the door and going the down the steps.

We pan over from the steps to a bulletin board with several key components strewn about the clutter.

'Written by ZNBT'

We zoom in on a paper located at the top of the board which reads, 'Master Plan: Reinstitution of Myself in Game Night by Officer MacArthur Escobar'.

We begin to move across the board, which feature everything MacArthur used in her scheme to reintegrate herself into game night, starting with the blood capsules she used in her fake death scene.

'Produced by Todd Kauffman, p.g.a. and Mark Thornton'

We pan across two notes situated next to the blood capsules which read, 'What are the blood capsules composed of?' and 'Look up side effects of red dye!'. We then land on a letter from 'Frito Lay' sent to MacArthur, which features a highlighted section reading, 'We DO NOT offer 3 for 1 on Tostitos Scoops', with a large 'PROOF!' written in black market and an arrow pointed at the highlighted section.

'Produced by Keith Oliver, p.g.a. and Chad Hicks'

We then proceed to move down where we find an overhead map of the cul-de-sac with a red circle surrounding, 'Emma & Noah's Residence', as well as 'X' situated next to a 'Meet Here' yellow arrow sticky note, which correlates to the meeting point that occurred just before Emma and Noah left for Dave's game night.

'Executive Producers: Jennifer Pertsch, Tom McGillis, George Elliott, and Brian Irving'

We also take note of a couple stick notes, with the first one reading, 'Do not be discouraged by lack of camaraderie shown at mail retrieval times', while the second one features the Mail Schedule, which includes the dates and times MacArthur usually picks up her mail.

We pan down away from the billboard and focus our attention on VHS tapes of several movies including, 'The Green Mile', 'Philadelphia', & 'Braveheart', with a sticky note next to them reading, 'Famous Death Scenes for Inspiration', referencing her fake death scene at the bridge.

'Director of Photography: Alex Ganetakos'

'Production Designer: Clé Bennett'

We then transition to a computer where we see MacArthur setting it up in front of her squad car. We then see her stretching out before attempting to slide across the hood of her car and failing several times over, signifying that it took her a couple of tries to perfect the technique.

"Edited by Terry McGurrin, Brian Froud, and Emilie Claire-Barlow'

We then turn our attention to an 'Ultratech Voice Changer' with the Monster button pressed down on the device and a microphone located above it, showcasing that she was the one who answered the phone. There's also a flashcard located off to the side of the voice changer with the script MacArthur read when she explained the situation to Noah.

'Composers: Brian Pickett and Graeme Cornies'

When then move along a red string which has been connecting the various plot points featured throughout MacArthur's plan and we move alongside it all the way up to the top of a table where we see a clothespin attached to a miniature scale model of the East 4th Street Bridge where the game reached its faux conclusion.

We move across the bridge where we find that there's an expertly detailed model of MacArthur's death scene with miniature figurines and cars from the scene featured in full display.

'Music Supervisors: James Chapple and Dave Kelly'

We maneuver out way through the scene before landing on the figurines of MacArthur's dying persona and Noah's emotional figurine, complete with tears.

'Costume Designer: Stephanie Anne Mills'

'Casting by Christian Potenza, CSA'

We then move through the miniature car window and set our sights upon a tool board, with the various components having been moved aside to showcase the main cast of the whole plan: 'The Players'.

We focus on the first photograph, which is that of a photoshopped image of Noah's driver's license.

'Carter Hayden'

We then pan over to the second photograph, which we discover is an image of Emma's 'Yoga Palace' card.

'Stacey DePass'

We then move down to Geoff's image, which is revealed to be a card reading, 'Harvard University Alumni Association', which he's apparently a member of.

'Dan Petronijevic'

We then move over towards Bridgette's image, which was taken directly from her passport.

'Kristin Fairlie'

We move past that and on to Ryan, where we find his image on his 'Panera Bread' member card.

'Joseph Motiki'

We then focus on the image of Stephanie, which features her posing alongside the man she thought was Jamie Foxx, which MacArthur somehow was able to miraculously acquire.

'Nicki Burke'

We move past that and focus on a portrait of MacArthur and Brody posing between the branches of a tree which holding croquet mallets.

'Evany Rosen'

We then transition down back to the tool board where we focus our attention on an ad for 'Murder We Wrote' with Gwen's photograph situated next to the title.

'Megan Fahlenbock'

We then move on from that image and land upon a printed image of the statistics compiled from the police database concerning 'Chris McLean' with a sticky note with a question mark featured next to his image.

'Christian Potenza'

The image next to it is printed image of the statistics compiled from the police database concerning 'The Spaniard' with a stick note reading, 'Relevance?', signifying that she may've considered him important but decided not to pry into that matter.

'With Alex House'

Finally, we end upon an image of a young Dave taken from his year, circling in red ink with the tagline reading, 'Most Likely to Succeed: David DeSanto'.

'And Daniel DeSanto'

We follow upon red string tied to a gun sitting atop two FBI dossiers of the convicts that MacArthur hired to scare the living daylights out of the players, with sticky notes detailing what their attributes. Duncan's reads, 'Armed Robbery, Good Voice Projection, Good Stage Presence', while Lightning's reads, 'Good Actor, Feared by Other Convicts'.

'A New Line Cinema Presentation'

We then move past a coffee mug with Valentina's photoshopped image plastered on the front and move on to several images of Brody taking with a female at a coffee shoppe, which MacArthur clearly took herself. This is further made clear due to the presence of a stick note reading, 'With whom is Brody having a beverage?!' and an arrow pointed at the female, whose back is facing towards the camera.

'A Teletoon/Fresh TV Production'

We move towards a recipe card for Lamb Shanks w/ Red Wine and Rosemary situated in front of a recipe box that originally belonged to Brody before MacArthur possessed them via mistake.

'In Association with Elliott Animation and Cartoon Network'

We finally end upon a framed portrait of MacArthur and the rest of the group during one of their game nights, which is slightly crooked as it hangs on the wall before being readjusted by MacArthur.

We focus upon MacArthur features as she holds Valentina next to her face, all the while a small smile slowly creeps up, pleased that her master plan came to fruition, and now she's once again a member of the group. Now, and forever.