⚠︎ The Faculty ⚠︎

[Plot: One evening at Herrington High School in Ohio, 1998, teachers and Principal Drake leave after discussing the school's budget. When Drake returns to retrieve her keys, she is attacked by the school's football coach, Joe Willis. Drama teacher Mrs. Olson emotionlessly stabs Drake with scissors as she flees the school. The following morning, the students arrive, including Casey Connor, the dedicated but perpetually harassed photographer for the school newspaper. Casey is the unappreciated assistant to spiteful Delilah Profitt, the paper's editor-in-chief and head cheerleader. Delilah's mistreated boyfriend Stan Rosado is contemplating quitting the football team to pursue academics. Zeke Tyler is an intelligent yet rebellious student repeating his senior year. Zeke sells, among other illegal items, a powdery ecstasy-like drug he distributes hidden in ballpoint pens. He is confronted by teacher Elizabeth Burke, who expresses concern for him over his illegal activities. Naive transfer student Marybeth Louise Hutchinson befriends self-styled outcast Stokely Mitchell, who has deliberately spread rumors that she is a lesbian though she has a crush on Stan. Marybeth develops a crush on Zeke which is reciprocated. Casey finds a strange creature on the football field and takes it to science teacher Mr. Furlong, who believes it is a new species of cephalopod-specific parasite called a mesozoan. Delilah and Casey hide in the teachers' lounge to find a story. They witness Coach Willis and Ms. Olson forcing one of the parasites into the ear of the school nurse. They also find the body of another teacher, Mrs. Brummel. Casey and Delilah flee, and Casey calls the police, but his claims are dismissed. The next day, Casey tells Delilah, Stan, and Stokely he believes the teachers are being controlled by aliens. After Zeke and Marybeth tease them about their theory, Mr. Furlong attempts to infect them. Zeke injects his homemade drugs into Furlong's eye, killing him. Zeke takes the five to his house, where he experiments on a specimen retrieved by Casey. He discovers it needs water to survive and can be killed by his "drug", revealed to actually be raw, powdered caffeine (as caffeine acts to dehydrate the user, and the aliens are hyper-sensitive to hydration of both themselves and their host). Zeke makes everyone take his drug to prove they are uninfected. Delilah is revealed as infected and she destroys Zeke's lab and most of his drug supply before escaping. Acting on Stokely's speculation that killing the alien queen will revert everyone to normal, the group returns to the school, where their football team is playing and infecting opposing players. Believing Principal Drake to be the queen, they isolate her in the gym and fatally shoot her. Stan confronts the coach and team to see if the plan worked, but becomes infected himself. Zeke and Casey retrieve more of Zeke's drugs from his car. Casey leads infected students away from Zeke, who encounters Miss Burke in the parking lot and incapacitates her. At the gym, Marybeth reveals herself to be the alien queen; earlier on, she faked taking the drug. Casey and Stokely flee to the swimming pool, where Stokely is injured and becomes infected. Zeke and Casey hide in the locker room, where Marybeth reverts to her human disguise. She explains she is taking over Earth because her planet is dying. Marybeth transforms back into her true form and hurls Zeke across the room into the lockers, knocking him out. Casey seizes the drug and traps the queen behind retracting bleachers. Just as the queen infects him, he stabs the drug into her eye, killing her and halting his infection. Casey returns to the locker room and finds Stokely and Zeke alive.]

[Ages of characters: "18 Years old"]

[Characters: "Stokely Mitchell" is a gothic female student with short blonde hair, fair skin, black eyeshadow, and brown eyes. ISTP personality type. She wears all black. Stokely is a bully to some people, including Casey Connors. She's blunt, crude at times, and teasing. Stokely doesn't like Delilah, who's Stan's girlfriend, as Delilah makes jabs about Stokely being a lesbian.

"Casey Connor" is a neurotic, bullied boy who usually gets attention of bullies and jocks who pick on him and pin him to the flag-pole by his underwear. INFP personality type. He has brown hair, fair skin, and average clothing. He is initially the one who finds the odd, alien specimen and puts it in a jar, taking it into the science room.

"Zeke Tyler" is the school's resident drug maker and distributor. He makes drugs and gives them to students who ask for them, sometimes selling them. The drugs are made of household chemicals as well as caffeine tablets. He is an intelligent teen, but a slacker.

"Stan Rosado" is a male football player, dating Delilah Profitt. He seems to have a good heart, and is caring, to some extent.

"Gabe" is a football player, and is friends with Stan Rosado. He's not around much.

"Delilah Profitt" is a girl who runs the school paper and she's a cheerleader. Tanned skin, dark brown hair, and glasses. Dating Stan Rosado. Delilah picks at Casey, as well as Stokely, calling Stokely a lesbian because Stokely has yet to date a guy.

"Marybeth Hutchinson" is the new girl at the school, and she sits with Stokely, trying to initiate conversation, even though she's quite naive and she doesn't exactly fit into Herrington yet. Marybeth will soon introduce herself as the true antagonist, being the queen alien, violent and dangerous.]