This is an idea for a prank show where you make people think they’ve seen something paranormal/supernatural/that could only happen in a movie. Did you notice that this isn’t a story? So did I, and I am sorry.
Scientist Saves the Alien Girl
A man in a white lab coat is holding a pretty girl in a blanket as they wait for their train. Underneath the blanket the girl is wearing a hospital gown and the man in the white lab coat keeps looking around suspiciously.
Suddenly, a van pulls up and a bunch of people in SWAT gear jump out and surround the scientist and the girl, ordering everyone else at the train station to the ground.
HEAD SOLDIER
Give us the girl, doc! Hand her over and we can forget all about this!
SCIENTIST
You don’t understand! They could teach us so much! They sent her here to help us! She could save the world!
HEAD SOLDIER
She’s just inside your head, doc! You’ve got to push her out!
The scientist then places his body in front of the girl as the soldiers open fire. He falls to the ground, dead. The girl then, huddled up against a corner, begins to speak in a strange tongue. She turns her fierce gaze toward the soldiers who all start to bleed from the nose while babbling the same nonsense. Eventually, they fall to the ground.
The girl then holds her hand over the scientist, and there is a great blinding white light from just down an alley somewhere close by. The scientist coughs and wakes up. He looks at the girl confused, and now she helps him up and the two run away toward the source of the blinding light. The two get to the light and some weird sounds follow from the alley.
One of the soldiers rises on shaky legs and follows them to the alley.
SOLDIER
They’ve disappeared! They’ve goddamn disappeared!
The Super Spy is Outed
In a crowded mall plaza a man is walking with is family. He has a cute daughter who is eating an ice cream cone and a super nice looking wife, who you can tell loves him completely. The two are in line somewhere for something when suddenly a very tough, very big who is walking by stops abruptly.
TOUGH DUDE
Diego Descolgado?
The man with the family pretends he doesn’t hear. The very huge man puts his hand on the nice man’s shoulder and turns him around. The nice man’s glasses tumble to the ground.
TOUGH DUDE
“Diego Descolgado? It IS you!”
The wife and small child look very confused. The wife, who you can tell is scared, tries to interject.
WIFE
My husbands name is John Leydecker…. he sells copy machines…. get your hands off him! Security! Security!
The daughter is crying. Meanwhile the nice man with the family just stops and all emotion drains from his face as he stares up at the tough guy.
TOUGH GUY
I heard you died in Afghanistan.
The tough guy crunches his knuckles while the wife refutes that her husband has ever been to Afghanistan.
TOUGH GUY
After today, you’ll wish you had.
Just in time security pulls up. The tough guy has an awesome, choreographed fight with them and just as he pulls out a gun to kill one of them the nice man suddenly whirls into Kung Fu action, and in a fast-paced battle knocks the tough guy cold with such brutal efficiency you know he was in control of the situation the whole time. He turns around to grab his family, his eyes scannig for security cameras.
WIFE
Oh my God! Who are you? Who are you!?!
DAUGHTER
Daddy! Why did you hurt that man daddy!
DIEGO DESCOLGADO
It’s not safe to be here anymore… I… I love you Eleanore. I’ll see you soon. Go… go the place we first met. I’ll meet you there. I’m sorry for what I was… and… I love you!
Diego Descolgado disappears into the crowd like a shadow while his family stands there are cries in confusion.
Evil Twin
This one involves some leg work for a tailored target.
A man in a diner or a restaurant is eating with his friend (who set him up) when suddenly the regular programming is interrupted by a news report (actually just a cut to a pre-taped report) where they put up the face of the mark on screen and say that this man is a suspected terrorist. He is wanted for stealing government secrets and the murder of ten people at some local military base.
The mark sees this and is confused. Suddenly, the doors to the diner are kicked in and a squad of people rush in, put a black bag over the mark’s head and drag him out into a van. He is then taken to an interrogation room nearby where handcuffed to a chair he is shown a bunch of photo-shopped pictures of himself perpetrating crimes.
The INTERROGATOR will then tell him that he knows the mark is a Russian sleeper spy, and that he’s been so brainwashed he won’t remember it without being debugged. A relative of the mark is brought in, and the Mark asks the relative for help when the relative says that the gig is up and when elbowed in the stomach starts to curse in Russian.
The prank ends when the Mark becomes so confused he admits to the possibility his entire life is a lie.
