To Carrie:
Your start of the story begins with a detective. The detective has been called by a client to go undercover at a private ball. Their job: Find the murder attempting to poison the drinks tonight. (Extra points if the murder and detective somehow become friends or fall in love at the end.)
Scene One
Narrator: "It was a dark and stormy night while Max, the butler, called the detective to come and solve a case. During the time before this call something terrible happened! Someone was poisoned!"
(Meanwhile as the phone rings)
Max: "Pick up, pick up, finally, thank you."
(Detective sighs slowly)
Detective: "You're welcome. Now how may I help you?"
Max: "While a crime was committed here and someone was poisoned and the victim was found dead early this morning. They took him to the hospital and found he was poisoned."
(Blackout, change of scene to hospital. Beeping machines in hospital sound)
Doctor: "Let's do an autopsy to find out the cause of his death."
Nurse: "Here we go. Just found it, rat poison."
Narrator: "The detective is then notified and begins a search at the mansion. They started off at the scene of the crime."
(While detective and max say "no luck" in unicene the chef comes out from the kitchen)
Detective & Max: "No luck"
Chef: "What's going on?"
Max: "Someone was poisoned and died last night."
(Lights start flickering and blackout next scene)
Scene Two
Narrator: