Episode 1 Script: The Door No one Saw. The Room that shouldn't be there.

Episode 1: The Room that shouldn't be there.

The Door No one Saw

By Grace Antiedu 

It started on a Tuesday.

Six-year-old Maleek had always been quiet -more observant than most kids his age. But that week, he began drawing strange pictures in school. 

Rooms with no windows. Furniture upside down. And in every sketch, a black door with a keyhole bleeding red.

His teacher, Ms. Alvarez, first noticed the change on Wednesday. She held up the drawing with careful fingers -unsettled, but unsure why. “Maleek, what’s this red stuff by the door?”

Maleek didn’t look up. He just whispered, “It’s what leaks out when it’s unlocked.”

That night, Ms. Alvarez called his mother, concerned. But Maleek’s mother only laughed, tired and distracted. “He has an active imagination. Probably something he saw on YouTube.”

By Friday, his drawings covered the classroom wall. Always the same—the black door, the bleeding keyhole. The rooms started filling with shadowy figures, featureless and watching.

One sketch showed Ms. Alvarez herself, standing in front of the black door, her eyes gone, replaced by smudges of charcoal.

“I don’t want to go near it anymore,” Maleek said when she gently asked about the pictures again. “It wants me to open it. I think it’s dreaming through me.”

At night, Maleek stopped sleeping. His mother found him standing in corners, staring at blank walls.

Then came Saturday.

His mother woke to find every mirror in the house turned to face the wall.

And in the hallway, crudely drawn in red marker: “I found the key.”

At first, his mother thought it was imagination until Maleek tugged her hand and said:

“Mummy, there’s a room in the hallway that you never open.”

She laughed, uneasy. “Maleek, there’s no third room.”

But he didn’t laugh with her. He simply looked up, eyes wide and serious.

“There is now.”