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Jack Young’s Episode Descriptions for Season I for “STREAM”
What I learned doing this assignment is that it take practice to write engaging prose that describes episodes.
EPISODE I: “Michael Enters The Stream”
Supernatural events and the Professor convince Michael he must enter a energy Stream. However, he must die to do it
EPISODE II: “The Sorcerer’s Story”
A 15th alchemist/sorcerer opens a doorway to evil that leads to the planet of seals. It brings darkness on the kingdom.
EPISODE III: “An Alien Invasion Fail”
Aliens arrive on the planet of the seals. Disaster follows.
EPISODE IV: “The Ruler of the City of Seals, Cronus, is Born”
The Sorcerer creates the soul-stealing “Stream”. Human souls begin appearing in the Stream.
EPISODE V: “The Professor’s Secrets of Astral Projection”
The Professor teaches a team of college students about Astral projection and shares stories of the Astral realm. He discovers an energy Stream stealing souls.
EPISODE VI: “Am I In Heaven?”
Michael dies and finds himself in what seems like Heaven. He’s plucked out of Heaven and is encased in an artificial skin.
EPISODE VII: “Keeping Michael’s Body Alive at All Costs”
Michael’s wife and team evade police with Michael’s body trying to find a safe haven to store it. Thomas is killed.
EPISODE VIII: “The Professor’s Secret Soul Experiments.”
The Professor succeeds in separating the soul from the body in preparation for his own personal journey to Heaven. Diane finds a note from the Professor that he has left to go to Heaven looking for his wife.
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Eric Humble’s Episode Descriptions
What I learned doing this lesson is: This has really focused me on the through-lines in each of my concepts, and I was surprised to find them both weak. I think, in retrospect, I developed the B and C storylines as more interesting than the main ones. So this lesson really gave me an overview of the problems I have to solve to get these shows where I want them to be, particularly in terms of the main conflicts. I’ll be working on these and updating the documents as soon as I can to try and elevate the stories.
CONCEPT 1:
Episode 1:
Jude is a celebrated cancer researcher, living a life of comfort, until the unthinkable happens: his wife is diagnosed with inoperable cancer. Obsessed by solving the unsolvable, Jude refuses to accept the diagnosis and pushes his genetic research to its limits, Jude discovers the final element to a cure for cancer. It’s embedded in the DNA of a blood sample donated by a woman named Dres.
He tracks her down to obtain a sample big enough to develop a mass quantity of the cure… when a sniper tries to kill her! Jude gives chase, but the sniper gets away, leaving behind a keycard with a strange symbol. Dres also ducks out on him and is lost in the big city…
Returning, he finds his lab destroyed in an “accident” – which has killed the lab assistant who originally discovered the blood sample.
Episode 2:
It turns out that Dres is not only homeless but a con woman who dwells around the seedy underbelly of the city… and Jude has to find her. His search takes him through some dangerous places where he sticks out as a target… and not just by the denizens of these parts. People are following him. He researches the symbol on the sniper’s keycard and uncovers fringe theories on the dark web about a cabal, lurking in the top echelons of power, shaping history.
Back in the comforts of his regular life, Jude can’t shake the feeling he’s being watched…and
discovers they’ve been in his home… and have stolen the last remaining backup drive containing all his research.
Episode 3:
Whoever his pursuers are, they found Dres once – so if Jude can find who they are, he can use them to find her again. He meets with some crazed conspiracy theorists who lead him in the direction of a Big Pharma company, where the CEO Marks has courted him to join the team in the past. Now without a lab, Jude takes Marks up on his offer so that he can infiltrate the cabal.
But Marks stands against everything he works for – he sees medicine as a product to be sold, not a right. Jude finds that he’s boxed in – Marks is suppressing his research… doesn’t want the cure on the market. His solution – get Marks’s job, whatever it takes.
When he gets the chance, he tries using the sniper’s keycard to access to the computer system – only to confront a security question he doesn’t know the answer to… which instantly sets off alarms. He doesn’t get any information… but the assassin definitely has some connection to this company.
Episode 4:
Jude provokes the cabal by casually referencing the symbol in an address at a conference. Is later contacted anonymously – with a request/threat to prove his intentions. He arrives at the meet in a park after dark… where the drive containing all his research is waiting in a package. He’s instructed to destroy it. He must submit himself to the cabal in order to know what they know… so he does as ordered… only to receive no response from the darkness.
He scuttles his research and his reputation takes a huge hit as the conference closes…only for the cabal to nearly crash his plane on the way home as a warning. Stop looking for them and the girl and he’ll be allowed to continue working and maybe someday regain his stature.
He comes home to a message from Dres – as thanks for saving her, a paper stating the answer to the security question he failed at the company’s computer system.
Episode 5:
Jude tries to access the Big Pharma computer system again and gets past the security question – but before he can get any intel, Marks catches him. But before building security can get to him, the cabal assassins swarm in and drag Jude, bound and blindfolded, to a meeting – where the wizened, sinister Cabal Leader interrogates him on why he’s trying to access their group.
As Jude looks around their masked faces, he’s triggered – because they’re just like a faceless masked group that drove his brother to suicide in his youth… whom he was never able to unmask. At the Cabal Leader’s order, he’s marched to an empty field, a gun is placed against his head… when the assassins are knocked unconscious. By Dres! She shuffles him away.
Episode 6:
Dres helps Jude get off-grid. Teaches him her mastery of deceit how to survive from people like this. But he still needs her cooperation to test her blood. After getting him set up with falsified documents, she disappears on him again. He secures passage out of the country…
…but returns home to find his wife, Catherine, unconscious and needing the hospital. He refuses to accept that she has cancer, and hides from her that this is the diagnosis. Then, as he’s dozing in the hospital, a message on his phone from the cabal: a car is waiting for him outside. This is his only chance – “if you get in the car right now, you’re in.”
Episode 7:
Jude will be let into the cabal… if he passes the initiation rite. But the esoteric ceremony is interrupted by an FBI raid! Jude is hauled into a crime scene: Dres’s body is lying on the floor of a seedy bar, shot dead. They know she got him false papers and he was the last to see her alive. Unless he rats on the cabal, he’ll take the rap for her murder. Jude is devastated – he must have led the cabal to her. It’s his fault she died. Still, he chooses to keep silent about the cabal. He’s thrown in jail to await his trial…
…when it’s revealed that it was all fake—a test, which he passed. He’s now a member of the cabal.
Episode 8:
The cabal tracks Dres down and assassinates her for real! Except it isn’t her, it’s her con artist partner. Dres finds the body, is spooked enough to return to Jude. Wants to combine forces to take the cabal down. In return, she’ll let him test her blood and finish developing the cure. But Jude can’t work in the company’s lab until or unless his job is reinstated. He guides Dres to con Marks in order to access the lab. It’s a long game, but once she gets in, he’s got all his research in his head and can walk her through synthesizing the cure for Catherin
Meanwhile, he’s given his first assignment by the cabal—use his expertise to test the DNA on two ancient, fossilized bodies… and use their database to trace the genetic lines and find their ancestors living in the world now. His results are baffling – there have only been three generations between these ancient ones and today—and one of the relatives is Dres… who appears in a photo almost 100 years old.
Episode 9:
Jude has to locate the descendent of the second ancient body… as the Cabal Leader reveals to him the existence of immortals who have walked among humans since the beginning of time. Jude has his eyes opened to a world beyond science. But the Cabal Leader won’t reveal to him their mission or the reason they’re hunting these immortals, not until he succeeds in his first assignment.
Meanwhile, he uses the assignment to acquire some lightly irradiated materials, part of his plan with Dres to slip them into the cabal’s water at their next meeting so Jude and Dres can bring in the authorities and identify them… but Marks doesn’t trust him as much as the Cabal Leader does, and has his eyes on him. But Jude’s research is hitting close to home as he zeroes in on the target’s history and whereabouts… because the ancient corpse’s ancestor, two hundred years old, is his wife, Catherine.
Episode 10:
Jude discovers the cabal’s secret: they’ve known about the immortals curing cancer for 100 years – and have been systematically exterminating them to keep the business of cancer in the red. He allows Marks to indoctrinate him in order to plant the radioactive materials in the water supply… but finds himself tempted by the wealth Marks offers him. He’s conflicted, must choose whether to follow through and track the cabal for Dres or take their offer and just cure Catherine.
Jude chooses to slip the tracker to the cabal members before the meeting, but must do so without being caught… all the while talking Dres through synthesizing the cure back at the Big Pharma lab. He’s about to slip them the tracker… when Marks stages a mutiny. Kills the Cabal Leader and takes over. And reveals that Jude’s tracking plan won’t work – the cabal is global. This is just the local US Chapter. And Jude is at their mercy.
CONCEPT 2:
Episode 1:
Darren is a by-the-book FBI Agent. Scoleri is a ruthless mob boss. Darren is about to close a years-long investigation by arresting Scoleri dead-to-rights… when he’s ordered to stand down. Because someone has unwittingly entered Scoleri in the race for President of the United States! A newly-minted law prohibits federal investigations into people running for or serving in office, so Scoleri is untouchable… so long as he wins.
Darren’s world is shattered when the law–the thing he abides by no matter what–is the very thing defeating him and shielding Scoleri. Despondent, he quits the FBI. As he mulls revenge, Scoleri divorces himself from the family business and sets up a campaign office – staffed with mob lieutenants. Darren starts a new job–intern at the campaign to re-elect the sitting President. Because his plan doesn’t just involve revealing to the country what Scoleri really is…
…he’s also going to take down the architect of the law protecting him: the current President of the United States!
Episode 2:
Scoleri arrives in DC, ready to show everyone he’s a man to be feared… but at a gala event, he is owned by the DC elite, especially those in the party whose nomination he’s counting on. Scoleri tries to hold his own in conversation but is laughed at and written about… especially by his rival for the nomination; wants to kill the man right there with a knife he swipes from the kitchen, but knows he can’t. The media mock him mercilessly for his performance during first public appearance.
Darren, meanwhile, tries to get the President’s campaign to go after Scoleri for being a gangster… but his boy scout ways are no match for the underhanded backstabbing of politics.
He tries to schmooze and is set up by fellow strategists to be shot down harshly by the campaign chief. So he tails the chief until he finds his weak spot – spies him buying cocaine from a dealer.
Scoleri shows up at a journalist’s party seemingly for another round of humiliation… when he spreads a pile of money on the table and also an AR15. He wants dirt–any and all of it on every last politico in Washington. They either work for him–or they’ll be the subject of a hell of a page one tomorrow morning.
Episode 3:
Armed with dirt from their legion of journalists, Scoleri and Scoleri Jr. blackmail every member of party leadership to support him… using the port city he has owned and depressed as a place to meet and intimidate the party leader. But the party leader isn’t swayed – he can’t threaten or bribe people who are long used to that kind of thing. If he’s going to make it in DC, he’ll have to learn to deal.
Darren finds that the rules and ethics he lives by are tying his hands. So he sets up the other interns to get fired by feeding them disinformation, which launches an embarrassing reaction speech by the POTUS. Because Darren is the only one who stood against it, his job is spared – he’s the last one standing.
Scoleri decides to deal with the party leader… only to learn the waterfront population whom Scoleri himself has long depressed are the ones who will seal Scoleri’s fate. If he can energize these people to vote for him, the party leader will consider giving him the nomination.
Episode 4:
With the task of revitalizing a place he’s held in contempt forever, Scoleri tries to gentrify the waterfront by bringing in investors who are either afraid of him or currying favor. But business as usual won’t work here… the people don’t want to be kicked out, and it’s their votes he’ll need to secure. Scoleri and his bodyguards are robbed by a kid in with a group of hooligans who reminds him of himself… causing him to cancel an offer to start gentrification… and think on a grander humanitarian scale.
Darren goes rogue to get an audience with the President to tell him who Scoleri really is. He uses the rules to his advantage… breaking the rules but not the law. He blunders into an impromptu face-to-face with POTUS and pleads his case. Thinks he’s gotten through to him… until the campaign chief hauls him with the order of firing him.
But Darren reveals the whole awkward meeting was a blind for him to access the campaign funds—he’s transferred millions from POTUS’s fund to prop up the presumptive nominee on the other side… and he did it under the chief’s ID. Uses this as leverage to stay on.
Episode 5:
Scoleri’s rival comes to the waterfront city to intimidate him. Scoleri has grown fond of the kid and his family store—when it comes under siege from lawyers spurred on by his rival, suing to revoke the family business license and deport the father. So Scoleri rounds up the lawyers and takes them out to sea, where he’s going to cut off their arms and dump them overboard in shark-infested water… unless they drop the lawsuits–and head off any that come in from here on out.
Darren is starting to enjoy the power of living outside the rules… when the campaign chief plays dirty to get him ousted by threatening to involve Darren’s powerful Congresswoman wife Rebecca in a scandal. He tries to make peace with the chief, telling him what an opportunity it is to reveal Scoleri… but the chief doesn’t want an enemy in the mob and has better ways to take him down. So Darren, seemingly in a rage, sneaks into the chief’s new house and sledgehammers a wall.
It’s then that Scoleri’s IT guy finds a clue as to who set this whole thing in motion… he can trace the server the original paperwork and announcement were filed under.
Episode 6:
Scoleri and Darren separately chase down a lead as to who set up this presidential run. Scoleri goes full-on mobster only to be confronted by the fact that his brutal nature won’t get him the
presidency, just jail. They both are lured to a server room in an abandoned building outside DC… where they’re in a mexican standoff… until a laptop starts talking to them. It’s a set up to bring the two of them together and end their conflict so that Scoleri can advance.
Darren has gone righteous investigator. Except whoever’s doing this has been watching him and will be exposed for something he did to the chief’s drug dealer… unless he drops this. Enough games. They’re at an impasse, each considering whether to just kill the other…
…when a mass shooting has occurred at the kid’s family’s store on the waterfront – the press is waiting outside when they both emerge, wanting statements from both campaigns… and Darren handles it brilliantly, catching the eye of the Presiden, while Scoleri fumbles, in shock.
Episode 7:
Scoleri is forced to be a leader, not a bully. His instinct is to hunt the killer down and kill him in kind, but that won’t solve his biggest problem of staying relevant in the race. He cuts off his drug supply, making an enemy of his supplier.
Darren gets access to the President, has a chance to make things right by the book… but takes the road of being underhanded instead. He undercuts the President’s confidence in the chief while boosting his own image. Then leaves a vial of cocaine in the White House… the trail pointing toward the chief. But it goes sideways – and he is fired by the chief on orders from POTUS—they have history. POTUS trusts him but doesn’t trust Darren. They figured it’s a set up.
The supplier declares war on Scoleri, drawing scrutiny from the public as to what his business actually is.
Episode 8:
Scoleri has to resort his enemy—the FBI—to clean up the gang war. Scoleri cements his status as man of the people, and wins public support over the nominee, causing the majority leader to order that everyone fall in line behind him.
Darren has to decide how far he’s willing to go… and goes full-on criminal. He calls the police on the chief—where they find a fortune in cocaine hidden inside the wall Darren had sledgehammered up. With the chief out, Darren steps in to take over his job and have the President’s ear.
But the one behind all this is Rebecca – who is really a Russian spy. Her plan: to put a puppet in the White House in the form of Scoleri.
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Madeleine Vessel’s Episode Descriptions
Doing this assignment, I learned that I can create episode descriptions from bullet points that answer the questions: Hook/Intrigue? Main character journey? Major challenge/conflict? Action/Reaction? And Cliffhanger?
This was daunting, but I do have a rough draft of my first season’s episodes. I am amazed.
ORGANIZED EPISODE BULLET POINTS
IMMORTAL MOVEMENT
Season 1: The Lost Hoard
Episode 1: The Russians are Here
Hook/Intrigue: Zhora and his fiancée, Falisa , are gunned down outside Falisa’s house by Russians. Zhora is transported to the hospital. Falisa is headed for the morgue.<div>
<div><div>Main Character journey: Sophie has to face her fear that the Russian attackers are enemies from Zhora’s past.
<u style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Major Challenge/Conflict: Sophie must reconcile herself to the fact that Zhora, who was supposed to be a Russian translator was actually working as an informant for the FBI.
<u style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Action/Reaction: Sophie meets Bill, Zhora’s FBI handler, who knows about her and Zhora living under new identities in witness protection and who promises to be there for her while Zhora is hospitalized.
<u style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Cliffhanger: But after leaving the hospital and entering her flat, Sophie realizes she’s not home alone.
Episode 2: The Russians are Art Thieves
· Hook/Intrigue: Sophie glimpses one of the burglars leaving her home.
· Main Character Journey: Sophie wants to believe that Bill can be trusted.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: When Sophie realizes she’s not alone in her home, she calls Bill, but he doesn’t answer. Can she trust him? Or is she on her own against intruders?
· Action/Reaction: Bill arrives at Sophie’s home as the burglars are getting away. After an inspection of the flat, they conclude that the burglars weren’t FSB, but they might be art thieves. Sophie was cleaning one of Falsa’s valuable paintings, a genuine Ivan Aivazovsky, before the attack.
· Cliffhanger: Bill and Sophie break into Falisa’s house, cordoned off by Police Crime Scene tape. Will they get caught by the police, or will they find out why the Russian attacked Zhora and Falisa?
Episode 3: An Art Thief’s Diary
· Hook/Intrigue: Sophie finds the diary of Kolya Holender from the time of the Bolshevik in Falsa’s self-storage unit that gives clues to the rightful owner of the Ivan Aivazovsky painting she was cleaning for Falisa.
· Main Character Journey: To find the rightful owner of the Aivazovsky painting, Sophie must find out who owned a Russian estate called Moorhen Park during the Bolshevik Revolution.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: To find out who owned Moorhen Park in 1919, Sophie must visit the Russian archives in person, but how can she do that without risking FSB finding out who she is?
· Action/Reaction: Sophie draws a picture of the Russian she confronted in her house.
· Cliffhanger: Inside her car, about to turn on the engine, the Russian hiding in the backseat puts a gun to her head.
Episode 4: An Invitation to Moscow
· Hook/Intrigue: Sophie is kidnapped by the Russian thief who broke into her house. He asks for the Aivazovsky painting as ransom.
· Main Character Journey: Sophie must keep her head until Bill rescues her from the kidnapper.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Sophie is not in the clear because the art thief’s boss is determined to get the painting. He will kill her if he needs to.
· Action/Reaction: Sophie and Bill go to Sophie’s Russian Exhibition reception. There she meets Leonid, the Director of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. He offers her a summer job at the Tretyakov.
· Cliffhanger: Will Sophie risk being discovered by the FSB to find the rightful owner of the Aivazovsky painting.
Episode 5: Sophie’s Bodyguard
· Hook/Intrigue: Sophie goes to Moscow and acquires a tail the moment she lands at Domodedovo Airport.
· Main Character Journey: Sophie must face her fear that FSB is tailing her.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Despite her fear, Sophie visits the Russian Archives and Moorhen Park.
· Action/Reaction: On her way back from visiting Moorhen Park, Sophie has a flat tire.
· Cliffhanger: The tail and offers to help her.
Episode 6: Kolya Holender’s Diary is Stolen
· Hook/Intrigue: Sophie visits Falisa’s mother-in-law, Irina, who turns out to be the daughter of Kolya Holender, the writer of the 1919 diary. She wants the Aivazovsky painting returned.
· Main Character Journey: Sophie has to face her fear of Vitaly Burundukov’s bodyguard, Maxim.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: In order to get back to the hotel, Sophie must ask Maxim for a ride.
· Action/Reaction: Maxim takes Sophie back to the hotel. When she collects her laptop bag from the hotel desk clerk, she suspects it’s been tampered with.
· Cliffhanger: At her hotel room, she finds the door ajar.
Episode 7: Art Thieves Steal Immortal Movement Paintings
· Hook/Intrigue: At the Tretyakov Gallery, Sophie meets Arseny and finds out that he has part of the Immortal Movement Hoard described in the 1919 diary.
· Main Character Journey:
· Major Challenge/Conflict:
· Action/Reaction: At Arseny’s house, while Sophie inspects the Immortal Movement paintings, gunmen come in and kill Arseny and shoot Sophie.
· Cliffhanger: Maxim finds Sophie collapsed at Arseny’s house.
Episode 8: Sophie Finds the Stolen Paintings
· Hook/Intrigue: Thought to have died of gunshot wounds, Sophie secretly returns to the U. S.
· Main Character Journey: Sophie must accept the fact that her best friend, Olivia, has betrayed her by passing stolen Russian paintings through her museum for Vitaly Burundukov.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: To stop Vitaly, Sophie must go to the gallery where he is showing stolen paintings.
· Action/Reaction: Sophie forces Olivia to take her to the gallery, where she finds the Immortal Movement Hoard hanging on the walls. Vitaly tries to kill Sophie before she can talk, but she gets the upper hand and dispatches him.
· Cliffhanger: In Russia, an FSB operative compares Sophie’s photo to that of Yelena and suspects her of being the defector Zhora’s daughter.
ROUGH DRAFTS OF EPISODES
Episode 1: The Russians Are Here
Zhora and Falisa are gunned down by two Russian men in front of Falisa’s house. Zhora is transported to a hospital and Falisa to a morgue. At the hospital, Sophie learns that Zhora is not really a Russian translator. He’s actually an organized Russian crime informant for FBI Agent Bill Hillman. Bill knows that Zhora and Sophie are in witness protection and promises to protect them.
Arriving home from the hospital, Sophie finds she’s not alone in her apartment. She calls Bill, but he doesn’t answer. She realizes she can’t depend on anyone but herself.
Episode 2: The Russians are Art Thieves
Sophie comes face-to-face with one of the intruders. Bill arrives at Sophie’s apartment as the intruders are getting away. A search of the apartment convinces Bill the intruders are not FSB and Sophie that the intruders are art thieves after Falisa’s paintings, an Ivan Aivazovsky original, which is still in Sophie’s possession.
To verify the Russians are art thieves, Bill and Sophie got to Falisa’s house and investigate. All the while, they fear being discovered by the police, who still have the house cordoned off by crime scene tape.
Episode 3: An Art Thief’s Diary
Reading the diary, Sophie finds out that the Aivazovsky she has in her office was stolen from a Russian estate called Moorhen Park in 1919. She tries to obtain the original owner’s name online, but it’s not available to her unless she goes to the Russian Archives in person.
Sophie draws a picture of her house intruder shortly before he kidnaps her asking for the Aivazovsky painting as ransom.
Episode 4: An Art Thief’s Confession
As a kidnap victim, Sophie manages to keep her head until Bill comes to the rescue. He apprehends the art thief and obtains a confession from him, which suggests he’s a small fry in the scheme of things. Someone much more dangerous than he is pulling the strings.
Sophie and Bill go to a reception to kick off the Exhibition of Russian paintings Sophie has been working on. He thinks the art thief may be there, either as a donor or as someone looking for the missing Aivazovsky painting.
While at the reception, Sophie meets Leonid, the Director of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. On Vitaly Burundukov’s recommendation , he offers her a summer job at the Tretyakov. If she accepts the job, she will be breaking the rules of witness protection and putting her at risk of being discovered by FSB.
Episode 5: Sophie’s Bodyguard
Sophie goes to Moscow and acquires a tail the moment she lands at Domodedovo Airport. Is he FSB? One of the art thieves? She doesn’t know.
In Moscow, Sophie visits the Russian Archives and finds out the name of the owner of Moorhen Park in 1919. She visits Moorhen Park. On her way back to the hotel, she gets a flat tire. The tail, Maxim, stops to help her. When she confronts him about his following her, he tells her he is paid by Vitaly Burundukov to keep her safe.
Episode 6: Kolya Holender’s Diary is Stolen
Sophie visits Falisa’s mother-in-law, Irina, who turns out to be the daughter of Kolya Holender, the writer of the 1919 diary. She wants the Aivazovsky returned to her.
When the taxi doesn’t come outside Irina’s hotel, Sophie is forced to ask Maxim for a ride back to the hotel. At the hotel’s front desk, Sophie picks up her laptop bag and finds out that someone has tampered with it. Then she finds her hotel room ajar. Someone has broken in.
Bill examines her laptop and discovers that someone has accessed the digital version of Kolya Holender’s diary.
Episode 7: The Immortal Movement Paintings Come to Light
At work at the Tretyakov Gallery, Sophie meets Arseny who asks her to come to his home and authenticate and appraise his paintings. She goes and realizes that his collection is part of the Immortal Movement Collection as described in the 1919 diary.
While she is in Arseny’s home, gunmen break in, kill Arseny, shoot Sophie, and steal the Immortal Movement Collection. Maxim finds her bleeding and unconscious body and calls for an ambulance.
Episode 8: Sophie Finds the Immortal Movement Collection
Thought to have dies of her gunshot wounds, Sophie secretly returns to the U. S. There she discovers that her best friend Olivia has been aiding Vitaly Burundukov to smuggle stolen paintings from Russia into the U. S. She forces Olivia to tell her where they are.
At the gallery where Vitaly Burundukov’s smuggle paintings are on display, Sophie finds the Immortal Movement Collection on the walls. Vitaly tries to kill Sophie before she can talk, but she gets the upper hand and dispatches him.
Meanwhile, an FSB operative compares Sophie’s photograph to that of Sophie’s estranged mother, Yelena, and finds a striking resemblance.
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Cathryn Atkinson’s Episode Descriptions for RUN ANGELITA
What I learned doing this assignment is that this is really helping the flow of the season and that excites me as a writer. A wonderful skill. It is also tiring.
I can also see where I am being a bit repetitive and will fix this going forward. I also want 12 episodes.Episode 1:
Latina teen Angelita Alves witnesses the kidnapping of her brother Luis and the shooting of her grandmother by a cartel gang. She heads to America to find her estranged mother, with a medallion Luis gave her for her birthday.
Arrested at the US border, Angelita is sent to a Texas detention center for child migrants. She escapes during a riot and takes a high school student, Chance, hostage. She forces him to drive her to safety. Growing sympathetic to her plight, he takes her to Veronica, a journalist and retired marine.
Enrique – the cartel hitman Angelita thinks killed her family – arrives in Texas with orders to kill her and retrieve the medallion.
Episode 2:
FLASHBACK: Luis trains Angelita at shooting, noticing Enrique watching. Luis takes her home. Later, he locks Angelita inside the panic room as their front door is being bashed in by Enrique, and Daria. Daria shoots Nana when she walks in on them. They drag Luis away.
PRESENT: Not trusting Veronica, Angelita holds back on her story.
Chance’s father Tremblay him, accusing him of helping “the effing migrant bitch” escape. Chance and Angelita leave for LA to find her mother. She steals Veronica’s gun.
Enrique goes to the detention center, learns Angelita escaped, and kills the two boys who attacked her.
Veronica is ordered to publish her story online by her editor.
Tremblay shows up at Veronica’s. They argue, he threatens her and leaves. Enrique is sent the link to it and is on Angelita’s trail.
Episode 3:
FLASHBACK: A freaked out Luis drops Angelita home after shooting practice. Puzzled by his behaviour, she makes pupusas with Nana, talk about him, her upcoming birthday, and her dream of medical school. Nana goes out.
PRESENT: Angelita catches Chance taking medication for his cancer treatment. Angelita and Chance go to a fair and get into a fight with racist locals.
Veronica phones them and says the story is published; Angelita hangs up. Angelita and Chance argue.
Enrique turns up at Veronica’s, tries her door. Locked. She calls out to him, thinking it is Tremblay again. He shoots through the door, and she shoots back, nicking his face.
Another message tells him the teens are going to LA. He hits the highway.
Episode 4:
FLASHBACK: San Salvador – Luis, working for Moneda, has been siphoning money for his boss. He decides to take some for himself.
PRESENT: After Chance and Angelita kick racist butt she tells him more. He tells about his illness and his mother, who died of cancer.
In San Salvador, Moneda meets with cartel boss Aguila, who had a forensic audit done and has called in Moneda about missing money. Moneda blames Luis, who is dead, but tells Aguila they are after his sister.
At a diner/gas station, Chance orders food as Enrique eats nearby and is threatened by Moneda on his phone. He watches Chance leave and sees Angelita. He pursues. Enrique rams their car, both spin to a stop. He tells Angelita they need to talk. She drives in reverse as Chance shoots at him. Enrique’s out of gas.
The teens find Veronica. Angelita attacks her and runs off. She stumbles over the corpse of a migrant who died in the desert. Angelita drops the medallion; it bounced off a rock and a secret compartment opens.
Episode 5:
FLASHBACK: Luis talks to Angelita about dangers when she was 12. She guesses he is with the cartel. Angelita meets Enrique “for the first time” and doesn’t like him. She agrees to let Luis train her, and she gets better over time. At 16, they have a “nonsense” song they sing as they work out.
PRESENT: Angelita drops the medallion; it bounced off a rock and opens. There are etched codes on the side.
Angelita stops in her tracks, remembers the “nonsense” rap that she and Luis would do. He tells her it is to learn poetry. The etched codes are the rap!
FLASHBACK: Angelita’s escape from San Salvador. Through Mexico to Texas.
PRESENT: Angelita returns to Veronica and Chance because she needs to get to her mother in Los Angeles.
Episode 6:
FLASHBACK: San Salvador – Luis tracks down Angelita and her best friend Freya at a mall and gives her a birthday present, the medallion. He and Angelita go to shooting practice.
PRESENT: Veronica and Chance look for Angelita. They find her quickly. Angelita takes them to the corpse of the migrant.
Veronica apologizes, and surprises her with saying she has found an address and phone for Angelita’s mother.
Angelita and her mother talk on the phone. Emotional.
Angelita studies the etched codes but does not tell the Americans what happened.
As they arrive in Los Angeles, Angelita calls her friend Freya back home to tell her about her mother. Freya calls Enrique.
Episode 7:
FLASHBACK: US Border Services – Angelita finds out from the authorities she is being incarcerated and likely sent back to Mexico, despite being an unaccompanied minor.
PRESENT: Angelita sneaks away from Veronica and Chance, using instructions her mother gave her while on the phone. Before she goes into her mother’s apartment, she puts the medallion under a flowerpot.
Freaked out, Veronica and Chance think of going to the FBI or border services as they look for her.
The woman pretending to be Angelita’s “mother” is Enrique’s deputy Daria. What happened to her mother? Daria takes Angelita hostage. Angelita knocks Daria out after Daria tries to kill her, retrieves the medallion, and escapes.
Episode 8:
FLASHBACK: Angelita in the youth detention center. Noticing Tremblay watching her, she gives him the finger.
PRESENT: Angelita eats as Chance and Veronica tell her it is time to bring in Tremblay and US authorities. They are in over her heads.
Angelita is distraught that her mother is still missing. She agrees to meet with the authorities and after Chance calls, Tremblay promises her protection and help finding her mother.
They go to meet him outside the city at night, when Enrique arrives and takes Chance hostage. Angelita and Veronica watch them from a hill.
Then three anti-migrant vigilantes take Enrique and Chance hostage. Veronica makes Angelita hide while she negotiates.
She gets Chance released, and they meet Angelita at the car. As they drive away, they nearly hit fourth armed vigilante with three migrants they have taken captive. One young woman has been raped by him. Angelita kills him.
They call the police on the vigilantes and Enrique, and take the migrants to a refuge.
Enrique kills the three vigilantes and hears the police coming. He prepares for a shootout when Tremblay arrives, they are collaborators, and they drive away in Tremblay’s car.
Episode 9
DAWN: Angelita, Veronica and Chance pull into a small town and decide to have breakfast before going to the local police station. But they see Tremblay and Enrique together, going to the same diner. They hurry away
Chance is hit with pain. The story of his cancer treatment comes out. He was due in hospital to begin chemotherapy. They argue about dropping him off at a hospital.
Angelita decides to tell them about the money and to get him private treatment. With that in mind, Veronica makes the first payment for treatment. It costs almost everything she has.
Tremblay sees Chance in treatment but takes Angelita to Enrique. Enrique tells him they are now done, but Tremblay insists on taking her to Moneda as ordered. Enrique kills him.
Angelita learns that Enrique is her oldest brother, kicked out of the family. Enrique offers to take care of her. To use the money to help them get a new life, as paid hitmen in America.
Angelita tells him she is going to give the money away. She shoots him in the leg but won’t kill him when she has the chance. She escapes.
Episode 10
Angelita calls Daria and says she wants to talk to her about her family, she doesn’t know how dangerous she is. Daria calls Moneda, who tells Enrique she is now in charge. Daria tells Angelita it will cost her, if she wants the info. Angelita says she has no money and Daria laughs and tells her it is half a billion, just as Enrique turns up. Angelita kills Daria
Enrique is arrested, has no prior convictions, and is repatriated to El Salvador. Moneda is on the charter plane that brings him back. They come to an agreement.
Back in El Salvador Moneda and his team regroup, and he fears that his boss Aguila will find out he lifted the money. At that point, Aguila only blames Luis, and he thinks it’s for less.
Veronica gets fired from her small paper. Angelita tells Chance and Veronica that she has money, won’t say how much, and that they can come with her, but she is going to give it away.
Angelita (VO) remembers her dead Nana, as Moneda opens a locked door for Enrique, who sees that inside is Nana, who survived being shot and is Moneda’s prisoner. She is also Enrique’s grandmother.
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Module 2, Lesson 5 Work
Subject line: Quinn’s Episode Descriptions
What I learned doing this assignment is that this gets easier with practice, as promised. I was slow at first! I also see that there a places where I need to have even more clarity about my layers to elevate intrigue and engagement.
Episode 1: Nightvision
Hook/Intrigue: You and I see beautiful women, Blythe sees monsters – a power she doesn’t understand – and driven by revenge, kills them.
Main Character journey: Tortured by fragmented memories of the death of her lover, Blythe stalks, seduces and murders a beautiful human woman in an underground Boston after hours club
Mystery: Only she can see this creature hiding among the human herd. And in her memories of her lover’s death, he was stalked and trapped by a pack of the “sisterhood.”
Major Challenge/Conflict: Confused, distracted by PTSD. Risk of getting caught or killed by night citizens or her prey.
Action/Reaction: In a bathroom stall, in seduction and tease, Blythe detects hints this woman knows her, remembers her – and could be playing her in order to kill her. Blythe considers abandoning this kill, but her target attacks her, revealing that the sisterhood has declared that Blythe must die. Shocked and reeling from the pain of seeing her lover in her memory, Blythe kills ruthlessly, “For Ian.”
Cliffhanger: Stealing the woman’s phone, Blythe traces past travel to an eerie abandoned farm outside the city. Here she will hunt other sister creatures…. But she finds an adolescent girl, so scared she can hardly speak, who begs Blythe to take her home “before the broken aunties come back…”
Episode 2: Broken Aunties
Hook/Intrigue: Certain that she’s discovered an infestation of hidden creatures, Blythe convinces the girl, Bea, to wait in her car, safe. “But who will keep you safe?” Bea taunts, locked inside, dangling Blythe’s stolen car keys.
Main Character journey: The girl possesses a power to manipulate Broken Aunties, animated corpses who “come back,” erupting from cold earth to attack Blythe before she can break into her car.
Mystery: Facing the child puppeting the attacking creatures, Blythe confronts disturbing denied feelings of her youthful attraction to Ian when she was just a little older than this girl. He groomed her. Controlled her. Manipulated her.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Blythe must put the Aunties down. Can she kill a child?
Action/Reaction: Blythe detects that the girl favors one corpse puppet, auto starts her car with her phone, driving it remotely toward the favorite. Bea screams, “Mama!” The car pulps Mama’s corpse.
Cliffhanger: Insane with grief, Bea attempts to control as she controlled the creatures. Blythe struggles to resist.
Episode 3: Burn For Love
Hook/Intrigue: Rage at having her car stolen and her body manipulated, Blythe snaps Beas neck, freeing herself and the last remaining Aunties. What now? (MORE)
Main Character journey: Heading into Boston forces Blythe to remember days with lover Ian, Remembered love with Ian seems idyllic at first…
Mystery: But we perceive clues that the days of their affair took place in a world that looks like Boston a century ago, how?
Major Challenge/Conflict: Memories now disturb, given that Blythe is now is convinced Ian manipulated her, groomed her, possibly even others. And her flashback turns tragic, as creatures trap Ian and burn his estate.
Action/Reaction: When her car is stolen for the second time in one night, Blythe murders the human thieves brutally by incinerating them in her car…
Cliffhanger: …and is spied by an old enemy, Alice James, creature-hunter shaman.
Episode 4: Dyre Beastes
Hook/Intrigue: Back in Beacon Hill, Blythe hunts twin sisters, the Dyre Beastes, sirens who lure victims to follow them into alleys and dark corners of the colonial streets with eerie songs. (MORE?)
Main Character journey: what else can I discover about this?
Mystery: Blythe feels like she has met them before – or so it seems in half-missing, fragmented memory. Also, as Blythe stalks the beasts, Alice James stalks her. (MORE? Clues about Ian’s death, something the beasts know that Blythe does not?)
Major Challenge/Conflict: Sensing something wrong (Alice James) Blythe is distracted and almost overpowered by the beasts.
Action/Reaction: Alice James has to intercede, seemingly coming to Blythe’s rescue. They obviously have history.
Cliffhanger: The weird sisters terminated, Blythe enrolls Alice James in her war.
(Note for rewrite: Alice James will be revealed in this episode to be competitor creature killer / former mentee and in the next episode to be Blythe’s former lover)
Episode 5: Slaughterhouse
Hook/Intrigue: Slaughterhouse, a Combat Zone urban legend armed with sharp spines that extrude from her skin, passes as a beloved club performer in one of the last underground clubs left in the once infamous neighborhood.
Main Character journey: Alice James has stalked Slaughterhouse, using her sensitivity to trace her; Blythe and Alice James make a good hunting team, eluding and distracting human interference and tracing their victim in tandem. (If it looks like they have done this before, they have.)
Mystery: Alice James and Blythe have moments where they seem intimate, more than just mentor and protégé. Also, clues about Ian’s death?
Major Challenge/Conflict: We see how Alice James was mentored by Blythe as they work together to take down their prey.
Action/Reaction: But Slaughterhouse’s fans are cultish, and they interfere in the fight. It’s a mess and AJ is loathe to hurt human bystanders. (Blythe no qualms.)
Cliffhanger: Slaughterhouse dead, Blythe wishes she still had a car. Alice James takes her to her home in a cab and invites her to share her bed. “You don’t think I’m over you, do you?”
Episode 6: Mindworm
Hook/Intrigue: Teasing glimpses of Harpy – a creature who has huge black wings and talons — and Mindworm – a woman no bigger than a child who looks impossible old and resembles a human worm, with tiny vestigial arms and legs. Harpy wants to attack their enemies now… but Mindworm urges caution – “allow me to exhaust them first, I don’t want anything to happen to you, my love.”
Main Character journey: Waking up together the next evening, Alice James is amorous – she missed Blythe – but Blythe is guarded and cold and won’t acknowledge any feeling.
Mystery: abruptly, Blythe returns the affection, acknowledging she has needed this. Out of character. Shocks both women. Shocked at herself, Blythe pulls away – what is happening to her?
Major Challenge/Conflict: Ambush! Mindworm torments Blythe from a distance, stirring up her fear or abandonment and loss of control/weakness.
Action/Reaction: Once this distracts AJ and Blythe, Harpy carries Mindworm to safety, then attacks; Blythe struggles to control herself and is wounded.
Cliffhanger: Harpy flies into the sky with Alice James, prepared to drop her into the bay from a deadly height while Blythe is still hallucinating about Ian manipulating her, mentally unable to fight. Alice James stabs Harpy and Alice James falls into the bay!
Episode 7: Betrayed
Hook/Intrigue: Witness creatures conspiring to attack – they await a signal from the “witch woman.” (AJ)
Main Character journey: Blythe dives into the bay to save an unconscious Alice James, how will she save her and get away before they are caught by police or killed by creatures?
Mystery: “You are too late. I already did it…” Alice James moans, recovering. What did she do? Who were those creatures in the beginning?
Major Challenge/Conflict: Blythe ultimately slays the Harpy, forcing the Mindworm to feel the pain of the death of her love. Law enforcement approach by land and water, causing Blythe and AJ to hide in colonial tunnels under the streets of Beacon Hill. (Ian showed her these – his escape route; there is continued touching on him because it has to make sense when Blythe discovers he is alive in the end of the next episode.)
Action/Reaction: the pack of creatures from the hook scene attack Blythe in her hiding place.
Cliffhanger: Overpowered by the creatures, Blythe is kidnapped. Blythe suspects Alice James when the creatures allow her to leave alive.
Episode 8: To the End of the Night
Hook/Intrigue: Alice James betrayed Blythe, she is surrounded by creatures who want to fulfill that “declaration of death” (Ep 5)
Main Character journey: The terrible answer to one of the mysteries that has tormented Blythe will rip the floor out from under Blythe’s feet – and will she survive the cruel end the sisters plan for her?
Mystery: Why has Blythe been obsessed with Ian?
Major Challenge/Conflict: In the fight of her existence, Blythe kills the sisters who would kill her…
Action/Reaction: …but can she survive what she learns from them?
Cliffhanger: Ian is alive, the creatures never killed him; he hid from Blythe and continued his experiments, while manipulating creatures against Blythe. Truth flips Blythe’s world upside down and she’s enraged resolved to have her revenge on creatures, Alice James and Ian!
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Eloise Healey’s Episode Descriptions
What I learned doing this assignment is to look for the ACTION component from my lead character – and if there isn’t one, to create one! Keep the lead character the active protagonist, don’t give good story to supporting characters.
EPISODE 1
A convict woman grovels in front of a derisive British soldier, egged on by the outraged female matron of the Female Factory. This is Ellen and it’s the first and last time we’ll ever see her bow and scrape to anyone. She soon has her ticket-of-leave to work for a farmer but hears about people who’ve made the crossing to the mainland to start illegal colonies of their own. She decides to do the same – except her colony will be for women only. But the money needed is impossible and so Ellen must commit the same crime she was transported for – theft. Eventually the women make it to the wilderness of the mainland, but into their camp comes an escaped, male prisoner seeking refuge.
EPISODE 2
Ellen’s stance of “no men allowed” is challenged when many of the other women wish the escaped prisoner James to stay. Ellen refuses, banishing him, which causes ripples of discontent, fuelled by Ann’s desire to lead the colony herself. Realising this, Ellen decides to humiliate Ann in order to keep control, but in doing so she makes a lifelong enemy.
EPISODE 3
The lack of privacy in the camp reveals Ruth as a trans woman, giving Ellen a moral dilemma. Understanding Ruth is more woman than man, Ellen ignores calls from the others to throw her out of the camp. An altercation with Indigenous inhabitants sparks fear among the women but Ellen refuses to move on, insisting they all stand their ground. A fight ensues, and an Indigenous man is injured. Realising the only way to peace is through retribution, Ellen allows one of the women to be speared in retaliation.
EPISODE 4
With the colony in mutiny over Ellen’s cold-hearted and rational leadership, Ann stages a coup and takes control, making Ellen her prisoner. But Ann is even less compassionate than Ellen as a leader, playing favourites and increasing the divides in the camp. Realising her stoicism has brought her undone, Ellen confess her tragic past to Mary, and we finally learn why she wants to be free of men. While Ellen begs Mary to let her go, James is revealed as a spy for the British army.
EPISODE 5
James did not escape, instead he’s buying his freedom by working for the soldiers to locate illegal camps like Ellen’s. Unaware of this, Ellen works against her instincts to be as headstrong and controlling as the men she reviles, making an effort to be compassionate and thoughtful, in the hope it will earn her freedom. Her effort works and the other women release and reinstate her as leader. True to her word, Ellen does not remove Ann’s freedom or banish her. But when Ellen discovers James is a spy, she kills him.
EPISODE 6
Ellen tries to hide James’ body. When Mary panics that she can’t find her lover, Ellen claims he ran away. With soldiers close by, Ellen orders everyone to hide but Mary goes searching for James and witnesses the soldiers discover his dead body. Chaos ensures: Ellen takes her own community hostage to protect it from discovery; the camp turns on each other in desperation; Mary risks her life to alert the soldiers for help. Ellen’s lost control of everything – her dream, her peace, her friends – there’s only two things left, her freedom and her life. And she can’t keep both.
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George Petersen – EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS
What I learned doing this assignment is how truly challenging it is to summarize a season of episodes.
Episode 1
Hook/Intrigue: Kate applies for the detective job, marriage counselor, I’m a chameleon. A what? (Fish out of water) (loss of husband, undeserved suffering)
Main Character journey: Kate changes from failed actress to professional spy
Major Challenge/Conflict: Kate tells Pinkerton that Ferrandini is the leader of the plot. Imagine Pinkerton’s surprise when Kate tells him that his barber, the one he pumps information from as he gets his beard trimmed, is the ringleader. Is everything he knows misinformation?
Action/Reaction: Ferrandini wants to know what Pinkerton’s intentions are with Kate. Pinkerton plays the part of the spurned lover. Pinkerton: Promise me you’ll take good care of her. Ferrandini makes an investment with Pinkerton
Cliffhanger: Eight ballots are drawn, instead of one
Episode 1: THE RED BALLOT
Kate Warne — young, beautiful, and recently widowed — needs a job. Acting suited her. They called her a chameleon, as she could melt into her roles, undergo a metamorphosis of sorts. She loved acting and all that came with it, but now, with her husband gone, she needed to pay the bills, be self-sufficient, an independent woman. She was before her time. She answers an ad in the classifieds. Alan Pinkerton quickly informs her that he has no need for additional secretarial help, but she corrects him: she is applying for the detective job. At first, Pinkerton thinks she is a little nuts, as there has never been a woman detective before. But she convinces him that a woman can go places a man could never go, discover secrets that would never be revealed to a man. Despite the risks (if she were harmed at the tender age of twenty-eight, it could ruin his reputation) he hires her, and so begins the saga of the first woman detective.
Pinkerton puts Kate on the team of detectives going to Baltimore to investigate a rumor that Southern sympathizers are planning to burn the rail bridges around the city in order to prevent Yankee troops from passing through on their way to Washington. Imagine Pinkerton’s surprise when she tells him that Cypriano Ferrandini, his barber, the one he pumps information from as he gets his beard trimmed, is the ringleader of a plot to assassinate President Lincoln. Is everything Pinkerton knows misinformation?
Kate helps Pinkerton get initiated into the Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC,) a secret society devoted to the expansion of slavery, where he learns that its leader, Ferrandini, has organized a secret drawing: the Knight who draws the red ballot will be the one who will have the privilege of assassinating President Lincoln. His identity will never be revealed to anyone, even fellow Knights, and a sloop will be waiting to whisk him away once the deed is accomplished. But, in an apparent effort to ensure success, Pinkerton learns that Ferrandini has surreptitiously planted eight red ballots instead of one. The “winners” of the drawing: Mack of the Bloody Eights, Whit of the Plug Uglies, Clyde of the Blood Tubs, Jude of the Rip Raps, Gage of the American Rattlers, Rhett of the Black Snakes and Miles and Jack of the KGC.
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Episode 2
Hook/Intrigue: A bomb on the tracks. Who did this and why?
Main Character journey: Pinkerton preps Kate for being a spy with Ferrandini as the target
Major Challenge/Conflict: Ferrandini counsels the gang members and the KGC on respect for the winner of the drawing. He alone will chose the method of execution. Gunshot or hanging or knifing or bombing of rail bridges.
Action/Reaction: A nervous Kate goes on a date with Ferrandini
Cliffhanger: Will her acting talents enable her to discover some details about the assassination plot? Or will she slip up and be hung naked on Pratt Street?
Episode 2: A CITY IN CHAOS
The Presidential Train taking Lincoln from Springfield to Washington pulls to a stop in the middle of nowhere. That odd thing spotted on the tracks by the engineer turns out to be a makeshift bomb, set to go off when the train passes overhead. Who would do this and why? And why does Lincoln shrug it off?
Pinkerton preps Kate for being a Union spy with the ferocious Confederate Captain Ferrandini as the target.
Ferrandini counsels the gang members and the KGC on respect for the winner of the drawing. He alone will chose the method of assassination: gunshot or hanging or knifing or the bombing of rail bridges.
A nervous Kate spends the afternoon with Ferrandini, testing her theories about the advantages of being a woman detective for the first time. Will her acting talents enable her to discover some details about the assassination plot? Or will she slip up and be hung naked on Pratt Street?
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Episode 3
Hook/Intrigue: The gangs revolt against Ferrandini’s organization; they want it to be every man for himself.
Main Character journey: Kate takes on Ferrandini as a mark
Major Challenge/Conflict: Time is running out. Kate needs to get serious about getting Ferrandini to trust her
Action/Reaction: Will Kate be able to get Ferrandini to reveal the details of the plot?
Cliffhanger: If Lincoln doesn’t show up for his inaugural address, the South will be embolden. The Union could split right there.
Episode 3: THE GANGS OF BALTIMORE
At a clandestine meeting, rival gang members rebel against Ferrandini’s strong-arm tactics. They don’t want to be restricted. They all want to be part of Lincoln’s assassination. Ferrandini, a military man, pulls out all the stops to suppress mutiny. It’s not lost on Ferrandini that he as head of the rebellion in Baltimore must suppress the rebel gang leaders if the assassination plot is to succeed.
After spending a long evening alone with Ferrandini, Kate learns that he prefers the assassination to happen in a carriage transporting Lincoln from the northbound train station to the southbound train station. Here, the President will be most vulnerable as it has been arranged that no police force will be present at the moment of transfer. Kate finds herself conflicted: she finds herself both repelled and attracted to Ferrandini at the same time.
Kate and Pinkerton struggle to form a plan to convince the Presidential Party not to pass through Baltimore. But they know the plan will be rejected. If Lincoln doesn’t show up for his inaugural address, the South will be embolden. The Union could split right there.
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Episode 4
Hook/Intrigue: At a meeting with the gangs, Ferrandini expands the assassination plot to include burning the bridges outside Baltimore to prevent Union troops from entering the city.
Main Character journey: Kate is in over her head and she knows it
Major Challenge/Conflict: Kate needs to go deeper and find out what Ferrandini knows about the assassination plot
Action/Reaction: As Ferrandini’s fondness for Kate grows, a date is set for her initiation into the wives club of the KGC, but, on her insistence, it will be the day after the assassination, thereby making for a double celebration
Cliffhanger:Kate tells Pinkerton she has told Ferrandini that she will join the Wives of the KGC. Pinkerton explodes, concerned for her safety
Episode 4: GOING DEEPER
At a meeting with the gangs, Ferrandini concedes to expanding the assassination plot to include burning the rail bridges outside Baltimore to prevent Union troops from entering the city, an expected Yankee response to the planned assassination.
With time running out, Kate searches in vain for credible evidence that will sway the Presidential Party and Lincoln himself. She knows what’s going to happen. The question is: how can she convince skeptical Presidential Aids of the reality that simmers in Baltimore: an uncontrollable, wild energy that pervades the city and pushes it inexorably toward the irrational.
As Ferrandini’s fondness for Kate grows, a date is set for her initiation into the Wives Club of the KGC, but, on her insistence, it will be the day after the assassination, thereby making for a double celebration
Kate tells Pinkerton she has told Ferrandini that she intends to join the Wives Club of the KGC. Pinkerton explodes, concerned for her safety. He points out the window at a straw dummy in a top hat burning in effigy down the street. One false move and she could end up like this.
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Episode 5
Hook/Intrigue: Where’s Kate?! Kate doesn’t show up for the KGC wives’ club initiation
Main Character journey: Kate struggles with the idea of burning Ferrandini
Major Challenge/Conflict: Pinkerton informs Kate that the success of all their efforts comes down to whether or not she will be able to make contact with the Presidential Party in New York
Action/Reaction: Kate goes to New York City to see Judd, Lincoln’s trusted friend and advisor
Cliffhanger: Will Kate be successful in convincing Judd to warn Lincoln and get him to change plans for traveling through Baltimore? Or is the President doomed?
Episode 5: WHERE’S KATE?
When Kate doesn’t show up for the KGC wives’ club initiation, Ferrandini is alarmed and crushed. What’s happening? Something must be up. Ferrandini assembles his military team to go find out what’s going on.
Though Kate struggles with the idea of burning Ferrandini, Pinkerton has impressed upon her that the success of all their efforts comes down to whether or not she will be able to make contact with the Presidential Party in New York. She must go and forget Ferrandini.
Kate goes to New York City to see Judd, the member of the Presidential Party who is Lincoln’s most trusted friend and advisor. If she can convince him, he will convince Lincoln. Only problem is: she has no conclusive evidence.
Will Kate be successful in convincing Judd to warn Lincoln and get him to change plans for traveling through Baltimore? Or will she be viewed as a typical hysterical female. If so, the President is surely doomed?
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Episode 6
Hook/Intrigue: Will Lincoln’s friend and bodyguard, Ward H. Lamon, sabotage all efforts to create an impenetrable veil of secrecy around the President?
Main Character journey: Kate finds her assertive side; she won’t back down
Major Challenge/Conflict: Will Pinkerton ever be able to convince Lincoln to change plans and get on the train?
Action/Reaction: Under a crushing deadline, Kate makes arrangements for the train trip through Baltimore
Cliffhanger: Leaving Harrisburg abruptly. Will Lincoln get through Baltimore in one piece?
Episode 6: LEAVING HARRISBURG
Will Lincoln’s friend and bodyguard, Ward H. Lamon, sabotage all efforts to create an impenetrable veil of secrecy around the President?
Going crazy in Philadelphia, Kate finds her assertive side; she won’t back down in putting together the details of the plan.
But back in Harrisburg, will Pinkerton ever be able to convince Lincoln to change plans and get on the train in time?
Under a crushing deadline, Kate completes the arrangements for the train trip through Baltimore.
Discovering corroborating evidence, Lincoln finally agrees to leaving Harrisburg abruptly. But will he escape Mary’s wrath when she wakes up to find him gone?
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Episode 7
Hook/Intrigue: Explosives are tied to the wooden beams of a railroad bridge entering Baltimore
Main Character journey: Kate becomes a professional spy. She outsmarts the KGC. Her weapons are her wit and beauty.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Kate’s job is to keep Lincoln safe as he passes through rebel territory
Action/Reaction: Lincoln accepts Kate’s plan to disguise him as her “sick” brother.
Cliffhanger: As the horses pull the train car through the streets of Baltimore, will Lincoln make it through Baltimore alive?
Episode 7: UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS
Getting ready for the Presidential train, explosives are tied to the wooden beams of a rail bridge entering Baltimore.
Kate grows as a professional spy. She outsmarts the KGC on the train, using only her weapons of wit and beauty, never letting up on her job of keeping Lincoln safe as he passes through smoldering rebel territory.
Lincoln has finally accepted Kate’s plan to disguise him as her “sick” brother. As the horses pull the train car through the dark streets of Baltimore, will Lincoln make it through Baltimore alive?
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Episode 8
Hook/Intrigue: Upon hearing the news of Lincoln’s safe arrival in Washington, Baltimore becomes a powder keg of raw emotion
Main Character journey: Kate goes back to Baltimore to find Ferrandini, only to discover that he is married with two children
Major Challenge/Conflict: Upon hearing the news that Union soldiers are due to pass through Baltimore on a train, the mob takes to the streets and erupts in violence
Action/Reaction: The mob sets out to burn the bridges that lead into Baltimore
Cliffhanger: Will the Baltimore mob invade Washington and destroy the Capital?
Episode 8: WILL THEY ATTACK THE CAPITAL?
Upon hearing the news of Lincoln’s safe arrival in Washington, Baltimore becomes a powder keg of raw emotion.
Feeling bad, Kate goes back to Baltimore to find Ferrandini and explain herself, only to discover that he is married with two children.
Upon hearing the news that Union soldiers are due to pass through Baltimore on a train, the mob takes to the streets and erupts in violence, then sets out to burn the bridges.
With Washington the most vulnerable it has ever been since war with the British, Mary asks Lincoln the obvious question: Will the Baltimore mob go crazy and invade Washington and — and destroy the Capital?
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