Jack, Rose, Lightoller, Murdoch, Thomas Andrews and Ismay didn't know how they got to the area they were in, but they were there, right there on the set of the game show Jeopardy. When they arrived, the show's producers had filled the Titanic passengers in on how they were to play the game and where they were to stand—although they were still unclear as to what was exactly going on all around them. However, there they were—they were standing behind six booths, three on one side, and three on the other: Jack, Ismay, and Murdoch and Rose, Lightoller and Andrews. As they stood behind the booths, host Alec Trebek hadn't arrived on the set yet, but there was an audience filled with people sitting a few feet away from the set, just silently watching the Titanic passengers. Lightoller looked at the audience with a confused frown.
"I—I still don't understand." Lightoller said as he stared at the stone faced expression audience members. "Why are they all just—watching us?"
Andrews looked at the audience members and shrugged.
"I don't know," Andrews said with a brief, slight frown. "Maybe we're all dreaming this, but if we—if we play along in—this dream with whatever they want us to do, maybe we can wake up from it. It's the only way I know of, of how to get out of this."
Rose sighed and slightly shook her head.
"I don't get how we went from being on the ship to being—HERE," Rose said, "where ever here is."
"Hey they said we'd win money, you think that's true?" Murdoch asked Lightoller, Rose and Andrews, in his British accent.
"We can!" Jack asked with widened eyes as he stared at Murdoch.
"Yes, I believe I heard the same thing." Ismay said almost suspiciously. "Money, for what exactly though?"
Just then Alec Trebek walked on the set and the audience cheered loudly, which made the Titanic passengers all cheer loudly.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you." Alec said with a full smile. "Welcome to Jeopardy, I'm your host Alec Trebek."
Ismay frowned with confusion as he looked at Alec.
"Jeopardy?" Ismay asked. "Jeopardy, are we—are we in Jeopardy?"
Andrews frowned deeply.
"Jeopardy of what?" Andrews asked. "Is there something wrong? Is something wrong with Titanic? Is that why we're here?"
Murdoch looked down and sighed as he briefly closed his eyes.
"Oh blimey, if there's something wrong with Titanic, I think I'd drop dead on the bloody floor right now, mate." Murdoch said in a low whisper.
Immediately the audience started cheering loudly and some were whistling, which caught all the Titanic passengers by surprise and they looked at the audience with confused stares.
"Why are they cheering?" Lightoller asked with his frown.
"This is confusing, I—I'm confused." Rose said with a shake of her head.
Alec scoffed with a smile.
"Jeopardy is the name of the game you're playing, Jonathan." Alec said with a smile and a wink. "And by the way, that's very humorous that you all came dressed as your characters from the film Titanic. That's hilarious."
The audience all laughed loudly, some whistled.
Ismay as well as the other Titanic passengers looked at Alec with an even deeper confused frown.
"Wh—what? Wait, what? Who—who's Jonathan? Who's Jonathan?" Ismay asked.
Alec looked at Ismay like he may have been crazy but then Alec laughed and shook his head.
"Oh you kidder!" Alec said with a laugh, that was also accompanied by a laugh by the audience.
Ismay shook his head and continued to frown with confusion at Alec.
"Ok," Alec said, "now we're playing today for fifty thousand dollars—"
Jack gasped loudly.
"Fifty thousand dollars!" Jack said with complete surprise.
"My GOD!" Andrews said with surprise.
"Fifty thousand for what mate?" Murdoch asked with a brief smile. "What do I have to do to get that?"
The audience cheered again and when they did, Murdoch looked at the audience and frowned and then laughed, shrugged and nodded.
"Well, you just have to answer each question in each category correctly and you win money." Alec said with a brief smile. "Sounds simple, right?"
Rose laughed briefly and nodded.
"Yes, it does, Jack, we can take that and go to Paris!" Rose said with a smile.
"I know, it sounds like fun." Jack said with a laugh.
"Great, so here are your categories," Alec said as he turned slightly behind the booth he was standing at and looked at the small screens beside him. "Food, geography, celebrities, music, the 80s and Titanic."
Lightoller's eyes widened and he slightly smiled.
"Titanic, those questions should be easy, right Mr. Andrews?" Lightoller said, with a laugh from Mr. Andrews and the audience.
"The 80's, I—I don't get it, what's the 80's?" Murdoch asked with a slightly puzzled look.
"Hmm, maybe its got to do with age or—temperature." Ismay said with a single nod, which garnered a laugh from the audience.
Ismay looked at the audience with coldness.
"I don't see how THAT is funny." Ismay snapped as he rolled his eyes at the audience.
"O—K, who wants to start first?" Alec asked. "Let's start with Jonathan Phillips. Jonathan, what category are you going to choose?"
All the Titanic passengers looked at Alec as if to say "who the hell is Jonathan?" Alec raised both his eyebrows and looked at Lightoller with a slight shake of his head.
"Jonathan, are you going to choose a category?" Alec asked.
Lightoller looked at Alec and shook his head.
"Oh, I'm sorry, are you talking to me?" Lightoller asked. "My name is Officer Lightoller."
Alec looked at Lightoller as if he were nuts.
"What?" Alec asked with a slight laugh. "Um are you feeling—"
Just then, one of the show's female producers, who looked a lot like Miranda Cosgrove, quickly walked over to Alec and whispered something in his ear. Alec looked at the producer with a confused and slightly shocked stare.
"What? But—but that's crazy!" Alec said in almost a low voice, to the producer. "They're not—"
"Still, you have to treat them like they are." The female producer whispered to Alec. "Because they THINK they are—or they're telling people to act like they're them because maybe it's the one hundred year anniversary of Titanic's sinking next Sunday."
Alec gasped and then nodded quickly.
"Ohhh, alright, I see now," Alec said in a low voice.
"Yeah." The female producer said before walking away.
"Um, O—K," Alec said with a slight laugh. "Um—Officer—Lightoller, would you like to um—choose the first category?"
Alec then quickly but briefly laughed. Lightoller looked at the small screens with the categories on the screens and sighed with a shrug.
"Um, Titanic please?" Lightoller said lightly as he looked at Alec and briefly smiled.
Immediately the audience laughed loudly, in which Lightoller immediately looked at the audience with an angry frown.
"WHAT is so funny about that!" Lightoller yelled at the audience, which made the audience laugh more. "Stop laughing! Stop laughing NOW!"
"Why they're a rude group of people." Rose said coldly as she stared at the audience.
Alec looked away to the side and laughed briefly.
"Lightoller, they're probably laughing because you're not answering the right way." Alec said.
Lightoller looked at Alec with a confused stare.
"What do you mean?" Lightoller asked. "How?"
"You're supposed to tell me the category and then for how much you want to spend on that category." Alec replied. "Like say for instance, Titanic for one hundred."
Lightoller nodded with both eyebrows raised and a look of understanding.
"Ohhh, alright." Lightoller said. "Well, Titanic for 1200, please."
The audience immediately started cheering and whistling loudly, in which Lightoller looked at them and frowned again.
"Oh sure, cheer NOW that you've gotten your mocking laughs in!" Lightoller said, in which the audience laughed.
Andrews shook his head with confusion.
"This is all much too weird for me." Andrews said in a low voice.
"Alright, here's the Titanic question for twelve hundred," Alec said, "this Titanic actor went on to play in Revolutionary Road, Inception, and Shutter Island."
Lightoller looked at Alec with confusion, as did the other Titanic passengers.
"I—I'm sorry, I—I don't know who that is." Lightoller said with a brief smile. "I—I didn't know there were any actors on Titanic."
Lightoller looked at Andrews and Ismay and Murdoch with a slight frown.
"There were actors on Titanic?" Lightoller asked.
Ismay laughed briefly and looked at Alec with firmness.
"There ARE no actors on Titanic!" Ismay said with assurance. "I should know, I know of every passenger on the ship."
The audience lightly laughed.
"Um, this was in the MOVIE, Titanic?" Alec said.
Jack frowned and shook his head.
"First of all, what is Revolutionary Road, Inception and Shutter Island?" Jack asked.
"Maybe they're in first class." Rose said lightly.
"Sounds like really names for idiotic street corners to me, mate." Murdoch said, with a laugh from the audience.
Alec looked at the Titanic passengers like they were nuts. Alec then shook his head and looked at Lightoller.
"Jonath—I mean, LIGHTOLLER, what is your answer?"
Lightoller looked at Alec and then looked at Andrews, Murdoch and Ismay with a complete clueless look.
"Um I—I—I don't know." Lightoller said with hesitance.
Suddenly a loud buzzer went off that made Lightoller and Ismay duck down under their booth quickly with slight fear, in which the audience laughed loudly.
"What was that!" Ismay yelled as he stood back up and looked all around him loudly.
"It sounded like it came from back there where the audience is." Jack said.
Alec laughed.
"It's a sound effect of the—ah never mind." Alec said. "Lightoller, the correct answer was Leonardo DiCaprio.
Ismay and Lightoller looked at Alec with confusion.
"Leonardo DiCaprio?" Andrews said with confusion in his tone of voice.
"What is a Leonardo DiCaprio?" Lightoller asked.
"Maybe it's the name of another ship." Murdoch said with a shrug.
"No, I think it's the name of the actor this guy was talking about." Jack said as he pointed at Alec.
"You're right, Leo—I mean, Jack." Alec said, with a loud cheer from the audience. "He was the actor who played Jack in Titanic."
All the Titanic actors looked at Alec with confused and shocked stares.
"WHAT?" Jack said. "What do you mean he portrayed Jack in Titanic! I'M Jack!"
The audience laughed loudly. Alec looked at the Titanic passengers and then at his female producer and laughed briefly.
"Ummmmm—never mind," Alec said, "moving on."
"I think this guy is bloody crazy, mate." Murdoch whispered to Jack and Ismay, in which Jack laughed and shook his head.
"Tell me about it," Jack said.
"Um Vict—I mean, Mr. Andrews, which category would you like to choose?" Alec asked.
Andrews looked at the categories and briefly smiled.
"Hmm, I'll take a risk and choose, music." Andrews said, to which the audience cheered and whistled loudly.
Andrews looked at the audience and smiled and nodded happily.
"Thank you, thank you very much." Andrews said politely with a smile.
"Um, aren't you forgetting, Mr. Andrews." Alec said.
Andrews laughed briefly.
"Oh right, can I have music for 2000, please?" Andrews said politely.
"Alright, here's music for 2000." Alec said.
Immediately a photo popped up of Lady Gaga in fake blood, with heavy, black mascara and wearing an all black box shaped dress. Andrews, Ismay, Murdoch and Lightoller all gasped loudly, to which the audience laughed heartily.
"My GOD, she looks FRIGHTENING!" Andrews said as he looked at the photo with horror.
"WHAT in blood hell IS that!" Murdoch said with a horrified look.
"She—she's indeed very scary and—and is that blood!" Lightoller asked with a sour faced expression.
"Jesus, I thought Ruth was awful looking." Jack said in a low voice.
"Why is she dressed like that?" Rose asked with a slightly shocked look. "Is—is she dressed that way for Halloween maybe?"
The audience laughed loudly.
"No, I'm afraid, that's just regular attire for her." Alec said with a brief smile and a laugh from the audience.
"That's hideous attire for a woman, if you ask me." Ismay said with a shake of his head and a sour expression, as the audience laughed.
"Well, alright, here's the question of sorts." Alec said. "This pop singer is the writer of such songs, Born This Way, Edge of Glory and Paparazzi."
Andrews frowned with confusion.
"What is Paparazzi?" Andrews asked as the audience immediately went "aww" in disappointment.
Andrews looked at the audience with confusion.
"What? What did I say wrong?" Andrews asked.
"I'm sorry, the answer is Lady Gaga." Alec said.
Jack's eyes widened as he looked at Alec.
"LADY GAGA?" Jack asked
"Her name is LADY GAGA," Ismay said with a scoff and a roll of his eyes. "What a ridiculous name."
"Well, she LOOKS quite ridiculous, so I can understand the name." Rose said with laughter from the audience.
"The picture is gone from sight and yet she STILL has scared my mind." Lightoller said with laughter from the audience.
"That picture would scare ANYONE, mate." Murdoch said with a shake of his head.
"Alright, right now, no one has scored anything on the leader board," Alec said. "Murdoch, we'll go to you, pick your category and price."
Murdoch sighed as he stared at the screen.
"Um, I'll take Titanic for 1600, guy." Murdoch said.
A picture of the REAL Thomas Andrews popped up on the screen and Murdoch looked at it with a slight smile.
"Wow, he kinda looks like you, Mr. Andrews." Murdoch said with a laugh as he looked at Andrews.
Andrews stared at the photo and slightly scoffed and smiled.
"Perhaps." Andrews said with a smile.
"Well, here's the question." Alec said. "This ship builder, built the R.M.S. Titanic, in which it took three years to build."
Murdoch frowned and then shook his head.
"Mr. Andrews did that, but that's not him." Murdoch said lightly.
"Well of course, that's not him." Ismay said with a brief laugh. "Mr. Andrews is standing right over there."
"Maybe this man has put up the wrong picture." Andrews said.
"Well it DOES slightly look like Mr. Andrews." Jack said.
Rose nods and shrugs.
"Well, I'd have to say, I prefer THIS Mr. Andrews that I'm standing next to, compared to the one in this picture." Rose said as she briefly hugged Andrews and the audience "awed".
"Is your answer, Mr. Andrews?" Alec asked.
Murdoch looked at Andrews and then looked at Alec with a brief and slightly nervous laugh.
"Well—yes, the man who built the ship was Thomas Andrews," Murdoch said, "but, that man in the picture is not—"
"Great, right answer!" Alec interrupted, "you score sixteen hundred dollars!"
The audience cheers loudly and Murdoch looks at Alec like he totally doesn't get what just happened.
"What—but—how?" Murdoch asked.
"Yes, I would like to know how too?" Andrews said with a bit of an attitude. "After all THAT man in that photo is NOT Me! He's NOT Thomas Andrews! I AM!"
"This is becoming absolutely ridiculous and I—I for one—am CONFUSED!" Ismay snapped angrily with the audience cheering loudly.
"It wouldn't be the first time for you, guy." Murdoch said under his breath with a brief laugh.
"Look, I demand answers and I demand answers now!" Andrews snapped. "First of all, WHERE are we? How did we get here? And who is this man who's posing as me in that photo and who is a Leonardo DiCaprio or Gaga Lady!"
The audience laughs loudly.
"Its Lady GAGA, Mr. Andrews," Alec said, "and we'll answer all of your questions—after this commercial break and these ads from our sponsors."
TO BE CONTINUED…..