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Troubled Waters

Aakash Shah 2015A8PS392P, Avani Sharma 2017B2A10718P, Kirti Sharma
2017ABPS0310P, Srujana Niranjan 2017A7PS0013P and Vedant Parwal 2017A4PS0390P

CHARACTERS

Martha: An old lady in her late sixties, with deep-set eyes.

Captain Richard: A bearded man, with eagle eyes, in his early fifties.

Dr. Anthony: A dark man, with oblong-framed spectacles, in his late thirties.

Mario: A stout, bald man in his mid-forties.

John: A young, charismatic fellow from an engineering background.

SETTING
The time is 3:00 AM. The roughly 20x20ft room curves inwards on the front side of a Mega
Yacht. The only illumination is provided by the lights on the floor and over the controls. The
door to the control room is located in the middle of the rear wall and it is the only way in and
out. The wall on the front-side has a huge window from which the moonlit sea can be seen.
On either side of it, there are switches. There are L-shaped seats on both the corners between
the walls on the side and the rear end of the room. A circular table having a diameter of 3 ft.
is placed right in front of the seats.

BEGIN.

(The captain brings everyone into his cabin)
(Everyone enters the cabin in a frenzy, the cook walks in and stands towards the right near the
seat, followed by the doctor who makes himself comfortable on the seat towards the left, the
captain holds the hands of the terrified lady and brings her in, the engineer walks in the last
glancing the control panel)

(Captain tries to calm the lady down, and he makes her sit on the sofa on the right-hand side.)

Captain: Calm down y’all.

(panic-filled murmurs)

John: What happened? Why are we all gathered here?
Captain: One of our guests was murdered in his room. There was a knife in his back, he must
have bled out in no time.

Dr. Anthony: (Unwrapping the knife) I’m no expert but it looked like he was killed just a
couple of hours back.

Martha: (hysterically chanting) God please help us.

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