Molly, Darryl, and Geoff Solve it All:

NOTE: Part of this story, and title, is from an episode draft from the planned third season of the show, which was written by staff writer Madison Bateman.

It was morning at the McGee family's house. In Molly's bedroom, Darryl gathers craft supplies (string, markers, etc.) from Molly's craft supply box. His arms full, he turned to Molly...

Darryl: Hey Molly, can I borrow that whiteboard you use when you stay up all night figuring out crazy stuff?

Molly: My mystery board? The one I used to prove unicorns are real?

She pulls her mystery board into frame: On it are drawings of unicorns and a card that reads "World Better Place If Unicorns Are Real". Darryl eyed it...

Darryl: Yep, that's it. All right, I'll be taking this.

Before Darryl could take the whiteboard with him, Molly stopped him...

Molly: (suspiciously) What do you need it for?

Darryl: (nervously) Oh... nothing.

Darryl sticks something on the whiteboard, and hides the board from Molly's view...

Molly: It's not nothing! It's SOMETHING! What is it? Tell me, or I'll tickle you! (holds out a feather)

Darryl: Okay!

Darryl shows Molly what he put on the board: a Surly Sid's Strawberry Soda drawing.

Darryl: I recently gave learned some important stuff about the past. I didn't want to tell you about this right away. But now that you know, you might as well help out.

Molly: Alright, hit me with the facts, Darryl!

Darryl: Here's one of them.

He gestures to the board...

Darryl: Our friend Scratch loved Surly Sid's Strawberry Soda, which was in production from 1909 to 2013.

Molly: 104 years. It had a good run.

Darryl: I also invited Geoff here to help out, too.

Geoff flies in...

Geoff: Hey, chairwoman!

Molly: So, Geoff, what stuff do you like about the past?

Geoff: Something I like from the past was seeing lots of moving vans. Floating around here in Brighton during the 1950's, that decade was where they came into popular use.

Molly: What a time it was for moving vans.

Geoff: Today, in the present, I love watching 'Mystery: Solved.'

Footage of the TV show 'Mystery: Solved':

A detective pulls a mask off an old woman.

Detective: This is no old woman! It's three raccoons in a house coat!

The raccoons hiss and run as the detective turns to camera.

Detective: (continued) That's another... Mystery: Solved.

Back to Molly's bedroom...

Geoff: (sighs) I must say, life is so easy for TV characters!

Molly: You know... The Book of Rare Curses has a TV curse in it...

Geoff: You have that book?!

Molly with a devious look, nods, as she reaches under her bed and pulls out... THE BOOK OF RARE CURSES!

Molly: Before I became chairwoman, I hid it when no one was looking! You guys think I'd let this baby go?

Darryl: Molly, that was very devious. Looks like you've learned something from Scratch.

Geoff: But are you sure you want to do a rare curse for this?

Molly: It's either this ooooor the way that requires actual work.

Darryl: Do the rare curse!

Molly: Geoff, can you bring the ghost portal out?

Geoff: Certainly, chairwoman.

Geoff brings out the ghost portal, and Molly jumped through it, with her ghost form coming out of her body. Darryl walked Shell Molly to her bed. Ghost Molly grabbed the book, and goes into Curse Mode...

Molly: I CURSE US ALL, TO SOLVE THIS MYSTERY! TO TURN REALITY INTO WHAT WE SEE ON TV!

She shrinks back down as a ghostly remote lands in her hand. Molly pointed it at a camera and hits the on button. Ghost Molly, Geoff, and Darryl are watching themselves MST3K style.

Male Voice-Over: Previously on The Ghost and Molly McGee...

Molly: Ooh, look! We're in a show!

Darryl: I hope this is worth it.

Darryl grabbed the remote and hits the 'Skip Recap" button in the corner.

Cut to the theme song...

Molly, Geoff, and Darryl watch as the song plays out in front of them. Molly gets into it. Tapping her fingers at first... Then her body can't resist the infectious rhythm. By the end, she's dancing.

Molly: What! A! BOP!

After the song ends, a title card comes up...

Molly: (reading) 'Old Bake'

Darryl: NOW we're getting somewhere!

The three suddenly disappeared into thin air. An instrumental part of the theme music plays, as the house is shown...

Male Voice-Over: The Ghost and Molly McGee is animated in front of a live studio audience.

Living room, on camera, with Molly floating by the couch...

Molly: Who was that voice?!

A laugh from an unseen audience. Molly looks out at camera.

Molly: And who is laughing?

Darryl bursts in, wrapped in snow gear. The audience claps.

Darryl: Hey, I was filling up a kiddie pool for the penguin I'm hiding in the basement, but then I thought, water? Why not ice? Yada, yada, yada... There's a snowstorm in the kitchen!

There's more canned laughter...

Darryl: Ohhh, we're in a sitcom. We could solve a mystery and have some laughs along the way. Maybe I'll even get a catchphrase!

Molly Sweet baby corn, Darryl. You don't need a catchphrase! I would like to see that penguin, though.

Sharon and Pete enter the front door to applause.

Sharon: Brrr! Why is it so cold in here?

Pete: Did Darryl make me an ice cream cake for my birthday? I thought everyone forgot! I thought everyone forgot! But you're throwing me a surprise party! My family DOES love me!

Pete tearfully hugs Sharon and Molly, who share a panicked look.

Molly/Sharon/Darryl: Uh... birthday? / Surprise party? / Ice cream?

Darryl: (perks up) Okay, maaaaybe we could just stay for the ice cream...

Then... Geoff slides Kramer-esque into the room! The audience applauds wildly.

Geoff: Hey everybody! It's G-E-O-F-F!

The goes absolutely wild with laughter and applause. Geoff bows, soaking it all in.

Darryl: Alright, let's see what other kind of reality TV there is.

Darryl holds the remote and hits the Channel button. A brief hit of static then...

At Brighton Middle School, on a blacktop playground in the daytime, in a CSI-type procedural. Molly is in a lab coat and Darryl wears sunglasses, which he greatly approves of...

Darryl: This is more like it. We're detectives and scientists!

Molly: What better way to hunt for clues?

On the ground, they found a chalk outline in the shape of Geoff. Darryl whips his sunglasses off like Horatio Caine...

Darryl: Looks like we have something here. (then) Start baggin' and taggin', sister.

Molly gets to work collecting evidence. Close up as Molly: - swabs for residual evidence- dusts for prints- bags and tags a fiber in an evidence bag.

Darryl: (off-screen) Got something over here!

Molly joins Darryl, and they both look down at a puddle of red liquid.

Darryl: Is that... blood?

Molly slapped on rubber gloves. and goes to take a sample.

Molly: Only one way to find out...

She uses a pipette to drop a single droplet into a long, overly complicated looping titration setup.

Molly: Whoever you were thought they left no trace. But they couldn't outsmart me, a forensic scientist slash hacker slash FBI agent, who despite being bombarded with darkness and death every day, remains admirably positive.

Geoff suddenly flew in...

Geoff: What's happening?!

Darryl: We're finding out if this red stuff is really blood.

A computer screen reads 'Sample Enchancing'.

Molly: Right. Computer: enhance. Enhance. Enhance! It's...

Molly deflates as the screen reads "barbeque sauce."

Molly: (continues) ...barbeque sauce.

Geoff dipped his finger in the sample and tasted it.

Geoff: Mmm! And the good stuff, not generic store brand.

Molly: Let me run the trace evidence through a mainframe compiled binary software analysis.

Molly starts typing furiously on a keyboard.

Darryl: You're just saying words.

The screen says "SOLVING MYSTERY... 70%... 80%... 90%...

Geoff: It's coming through in the clutch!

Molly: Here it comes!

Screen says "95%... 96%..."

Molly and Darryl watch with anticipation. Then Darryl smiles.

Darryl: Looks like this'll be another mystery down the tubes. The test tubes.

Darryl whips off his sunglasses again, but with such force that they fly out of his hands and hit the remote...

Darryl: (sees what happened, and gasps) No no no no no!

The channel changes.

Cut to a game show set that looks similar to the Final Puzzle from Wheel of Fortune.

Darryl: No! We were about to solve the mystery!

Then the lights on the set flash...

Game Show Announcer: It's time to play-

Studio: (with Geoff joining in) Solve! It! All!

Darryl: Okay, that'll work too.

Molly dances onto stage as the game show host, holding a very thin, old-style microphone.

Molly: (HOST VOICE) Guess the puzzle on the board and you'll win a fabulous prize!

Darryl: Oooh! A dirt bike? An all-expenses paid trip to Hawaii? $10 million dollars?!

Molly: No, Darryl. Solving this mystery.

Darryl: Oh... okay.

A clock begins to tick down.

Molly: (HOST VOICE) Start guessing letters!

Darryl: Uh, ok. R!

A buzzer sounds, and a pie hits Darryl in the face.

Darryl: What?!

Molly: (HOST VOICE) Did I forget to mention that if you get a letter wrong, you get a pie in the face? My bad.

Darryl took his hand, got some of the cream from the pie, then licked it, and make a disgusted face...

Darryl: It's not even real whipped cream! It's shaving cream!

Molly: (HOST VOICE) Time is running out! Better guess some letters!

A flustered Darryl gets hit with pie after pie after pie...

Darryl: Q! No, that's dumb! X! That's worse! Why am I panicking?! M!

A bell dings, and the letter M comes up on the board.

Darryl: I got one?! I got one! Okay, uhhh, Y? K? V? Come on, NOTHING?! That's like, all the letters!

Studio Audience/Geoff: Five! Four! Three! Two! One!

A buzzer sounds as the clock runs out. A hole opens in the floor, and Scratch falls through it...

Darryl: Waaaaaaah! (from the hole) What IS this game?!

Molly turns to the camera. In a window over her shoulder, a video on Darryl's fall was re-playing from different angles in slow motion.

Molly: (HOST VOICE) Ooooh, heartbreak. I'd like to thank our sponsors, (shudders, then sighs) Bizmart - Where savings are their business - and Big Dina's Dirt Bike Emporium. See you next time on-

Geoff made a hole appeared above Molly while she was taking. Darryl came out from the hole that appeared above Molly, landed on top of her, then grabbed the remote and changed the channel. Cut to an empty music venue stage, where Molly, Darryl, and Geoff landed in...

Darryl: (to Molly) Couldn't you have warned me about the trap door?

Molly: Don't hate the player, Darryl. Hate the game.

Darryl: Whatever. This episode won't last forever, and we need to find about this mystery before-!

A booming sound happens. Stage Pyrotechnics go off, startling Molly, Darryl, and Geoff.

Out of the smoke, came the K-Pop band Atomic Pink, dancing in formation.

Molly: What better time to do a montage! A channel surfing montage!

Montage:

Molly pressed a button on the remote, and she, Darryl, and Geoff go through types of TV shows. First, a Chibi version: Chibi Molly, Darryl, and Geoff bounce around Molly's Chibi room, opening drawers, cabinets, looking under stuffed animals, etc. for clues. They think they found one! But that's just a clue for Libby's Murder Mystery Birthday Party. Darryl pressed a button on the remote. Next, a crime drama interrogation: Darryl plays bad cop, getting in the face of the prep, who was Geoff, but in a leather jacket...

Darryl: WHO WAS I? TELL ME! I KNOW YOU KNOW!

Molly pulled him away. Geoff pressed a button on the remote. Then, a medical show: Molly and Darryl (dressed in scrubs) stand above a patient (Geoff) open on the operating table. Molly holds up a pair of forceps, wondering what to do. Darryl changes the channel. Next: a dating show: They see Grandma Nin as The Bachelorette, where the eligible seniors receive flowers. But not Elbert.

Darryl: Wait, what are we supposed to be doing here?

Atomic Pink: Who cares? It's just fun!

Geoff pressed a button on the remote. Next, an anime show: Molly and Geoff have such chiseled features! And have discovered a here to unknown super-power! When Molly and Geoff combine with the power of friendship (a la the fusion dance from Dragon Ball Z), they form the ultimate weapon: Ghost Friend M! They unleash a blast of power similar to a spirit ball from DBZ, but heart-shaped and rainbow-fied! Darryl, in a Goku-like attire, is watching...

Darryl: Okay, anime is great, but this isn't helping us solve the mystery. There's Got to be some kind of show that will help us!

Molly and Geoff soon landed down in front of Darryl.

Montage ends.

Molly: I think there's one more show that will help us.

Molly changed the channel. This show is an sci-fi/horror show. Molly., Darryl, and Geoff are at an alien landscape at night. A Glorgaxan alien hunts them with a futuristic laser blaster. They all cower behind a rock outcropping.

Molly: That Glorgaxan will be on us any second!

Geoff starts to panic. Darryl looks worried.

Geoff: We're going to be laser-blasted by an alien and for what?! We've found NOTHING!

Molly rallies like an army general. Some real Saving Private Ryan-like stuff.

Molly: We can't give up, soldiers! There's always a point in every episode where it seems like all hope is lost! But that's just when things change for the better!

Then... PEW! PEW! The Glorgaxan blasts a hole with his laser right in front of them!

Darryl: Okay, but can things get better faster?!

Darryl scrabbles for the remote, hitting the Power button just before a laser blast hits him. The alien landscape dissolves to reveal they're actually in... the backyard of the McGee house at night. Molly is still a wraith...

Ghost Molly: Aw. I liked that outfit. Future clothes are comfy while not skimping on style. Speaking of which, I better get back to my own self.

Ghost Molly flew inside the house, while Darryl and Geoff waited. 10 seconds later, Molly, back in her own body, came out the back door to rejoin Darryl and Geoff in the backyard. She Darryl, and Geoff then see a new hole in the backyard...

Darryl: Hey there's something in that hole!

Geoff: Some kind of... macguffin!

They look into the new hole and find a time capsule made from a lunchbox, labeled "Hidden Treasure." Darryl pulled it out. Molly brushed off dirt to reveal 'Williams' in kid handwriting.

Geoff: 'William?'

Molly: I think it says 'Williams.' See that S right there?

Geoff: But is it Williams, plural, like a last name? Or is that an apostrophe, and it's William's, possessive? Like "William's lunch, keep your grubby mitts off?!" (chuckles)

Molly: Let's open it and find out!

Darryl opens the lunchbox to find a treasure trove of kid paraphernalia: FACT CARDS about foreign countries, hand drawn tickets to space, a faded Polaroid, travel brochures, etc.

Molly, Darryl, and Geoff looked wowed...

Darryl: What is all this stuff?

Geoff: This might be from someone who lived here before you.

Molly: We can scour through these and we could eventually find who this 'Williams' person is.

Darryl: So, did we solve a mystery?

Molly: Yes, but it looks like we have a new one.

Darryl: So, in TV, it seems like a 'To Be Continued' situation.

Geoff: Yep, we've got ourselves another mystery.

Molly, Geoff, and Darryl (who's holding the lunchbox) went back into the house. It looks like, they will eventually find out the person whose surname is Williams. But that's another mystery.