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David Wickenden Engaging Episode Descriptions
What have I learned?
I learned that using the steps helped write the episode summary.
Episode 1:
· Hook/Intrigue: An assassin kills an infamous pedophile being released from prison.
· Major Character Journey: RCMP Janice Williams (34) is recruited for a task force to hunt down the killer Janice doesn’t care about.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Janice is given one week to close an important case.
· Action/Reaction: Intro to priest.
· Cliffhanger: The 2<sup>nd</sup> vigilante killing, this time of crooked Judge.
After they release an infamous pedophile from prison, he is assassinated. RCMP Janice Williams (34) is assigned to a Task Force to hunt down the killer. She wants nothing to do with it as she is in the midst of a hunt for a child killer. She’s given one week to close the case. We are introduced to the priest. The vigilante strikes again, killing a corrupt judge.
Episode 2:
· Hook/Intrigue: Janice and the team are working the St. Chris case that has a suspect sexual assault and kill a child on live web transmission every 90 days.
· Major Character Journey: Janice talks about her past assault with Laura.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Janice is fighting the clock and her own demons.
· Action/Reaction: Vigilante kills a pedophile in NS right out from the police. Janice’s team was waiting on a warrant to arrest this guy.
· Cliffhanger: “It’s like the killer is tapped into our system..
Janice and her team are hunting a killer who kidnaps, assaults and murders children on the web every 90 days. Janice discusses her own past assault with her former psychiatrist and best friend, Laura. She is fighting the clock but needs to find the St. Chris killer before he kills another child. The vigilante kills a pedophile in Nova Scotia that the police were ready to arrest. Janice wonders if someone from her department leaked the information.
Episode 3:
· Hook/Intrigue: Vigilante kills two Jehovah Elders in Winnipeg – one for sexual assault, the other for covering it up.
· Major Character Journey: Janice and team catch a break and identify a suspect.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Superiors want her to drop case and work on Vigilante case. Fights for more time.
· Action/Reaction: Warrants filed, Janice flies to Sudbury to bring in the priest they feel is guilty of sexual assault and murder of children.
· Cliffhanger: Vigilante kills the priest.
In Winnipeg, the vigilante kills two Jehovah Witness Elders; one that molested two sisters and the other who covered it up. Janice and her team make a huge break to identify the suspect in the St. Chris murders. Once warrants are filed, Janice flies to Sudbury, Ontario, expecting to execute the warrant the following morning. During the night, the vigilante kills the priest.
Episode 4:
· Hook/Intrigue: Janice and police find the dead police and the last remaining child alive.
· Major Character Journey: Emotional day dealing with child and parents of dead child.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Investigate the church.
· Action/Reaction: Find the other dead children. PTSD debriefing.
· Cliffhanger: The Vigilante has compromised the police computers.
Janice and the police find the dead priest and deal with the remaining child, who is traumatized. Janice has an emotional day dealing with the child. They investigate the church and find the other dead children. Janice has to deal with one of the dead children’s parents. Laura arrives for PTSD debriefing. Janice has Jamie search all computers within the department as the vigilante has to be tied in.
Episode 5:
· Hook/Intrigue: Janice reports to the task force detailing the information about the vigilante and the number of murders they suspect went unreported. Report of Jehovah killings.
· Major Character Journey: Janice is in full investigative mode.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Finding clues that might identify the vigilante.
· Action/Reaction: review of past deaths of pedophiles. Look for travel documents of people you had flown to all the cities they know there was a killing.
· Cliffhanger: They will use Infamous pedophile as bait to catch vigilante.
Janice reports to the task force detailing the information about the vigilante and the number of murders they suspect went unreported. Report of Jehovah killings. Janice, Kilgour, and Forbes look at past pedophile death files, looking for clues. Decide to investigate travel manifest to cities where deaths occurred. Plan to use a pedophile being released as bait to catch vigilante.
Episode 6:
· Hook/Intrigue: Meet Gilmour – no regrets.
· Major Character Journey: Task Force gets police resources in place.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Judge in Gilmour case is killed while being guarded by police.
· Action/Reaction: Political blowback to task force.
· Cliffhanger: Vigilante sets a fire trap for Gilmour. Gilmour escapes and plans payback.
Gilmour, an ex-soldier with no regrets about raping his stepdaughter. Task Force gets resources ready for vigilante. The Judge in the Gilmour case is killed while being guarded by police. There is political blowback after Judge is killed. When Gilmour escapes the vigilante’s fire trap, he vows payback.
Episode 7:
· Hook/Intrigue: Naked Child found in a snowbank in Northern Quebec First Nations Reserve.
· Major Character Journey: Laura attends to help RCMP officer and town members.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Emotional reaction of some of the players.
· Action/Reaction: Elder tells her own history to Laura.
· Cliffhanger: Elder hints that she thinks Laura might be someone who hunts evil.
A naked child found in snowbank in Northern Quebec First Nations Reserve and the police arrest suspect. Laura arrives for PTSD debriefing of RCMP officer and towns people. An Elder tells her history and hints that she thinks Laura might be someone who hunts evil people.
Episode 8:
· Hook/Intrigue: More killings in U. S. discovered. Jamie’s report finds nothing.
· Major Character Journey: No results and Janice becomes frustrated.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Janice has to get the cooperation of the Air Marshal program to investigate his own people.
· Action/Reaction: Laura and Janice have supper and Laura talks about the northern community.
· Cliffhanger: Laura plans to quit her practice because of her own PTSD.
Janice finds similar killing in the U.S. Jamie’s report on travel manifest yields nothing. Janice meets with the Director of Air Marshals to investigate his own people. Laura and Janice have dinner and talk about the northern community. Laura tells Janice that she is burnt out and plans on leaving her practice.
Episode 9:
· Hook/Intrigue: Jamie accuses Janice of ignoring his report.
· Major Character Journey: Janice has to prove to Jamie that she did not alter his report. It was done online.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Rob and Janice review the original report.
· Action/Reaction: Janice recognizes one name on the list, Susan Dalton, Laura’s dead sister.
· Cliffhanger: Laura is the Vigilante.
Jamie accuses Janice of ignoring his finding in his report. Janice has to prove that the report she read showed nothing. They find that it was altered. Rob and Janice review original report. Janice recognizes one name: Susan Dalton, Laura’s dead sister. Laura is the vigilante.
Episode 10:
· Hook/Intrigue: Janice attends Laura’s apartment and has to follow specific instructions if she wants to meet.
· Major Character Journey: Janice is taken to a farm in Quebec to talk to Laura.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Janice and Kilgour go to Amos, Quebec to guard pedophile from Quebec reservation.
· Action/Reaction: Laura kills child pornographer in Victoria, BC.
· Cliffhanger: APB on Laura.
Janice attends Laura’s apartment and has to follow specific instructions if she wants to meet. Janice is taken to a farm in Quebec so Laura can explain the reason for her crusade. She will not surrender. An APB is issued for Laura. Janice and Kilgour to Amos, Quebec to guard pedophile from Quebec Reserve, but Laura is in Victoria B.C. killing a major child pornographer.
Episode 11:
· Hook/Intrigue: Laura releases financial documents about the corrupt judge.
· Major Character Journey: She travels by train to Montreal to be in place when Quebec pedophile is flown from Amos.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Janice and Kilgour travel with pedophile.
· Action/Reaction: Laura kills the pedophile surrounded by police.
· Cliffhanger: Minister suspends Janice and Kilgour. Janice is kidnapped by Gilmour.
Laura releases financial documents about corrupt judge and calls on Canadian government to strengthen child sex laws. This starts a grassroots protest, by victims and natives. Laura heads east to Montreal via freight car. Janice and Kilgour guard Quebec pedophile. Laura kills the abuser while surrounded by police. The Minister suspends both Janice and Kilgour. Gilmour kidnaps Janice.
Episode 12:
· Hook/Intrigue: Janice is beaten by Gilmour.
· Major Character Journey: Laura must decide whether to escape across border or rescue Janice.
· Major Challenge/Conflict: Laura fights and defeats Gilmour.
· Action/Reaction: Laura escapes across the St. Lowrance River to States.
· Cliffhanger: Forbes gives evidence that the Minister wanted her dead. She’ll deal for Janice’s and Kilgour’s jobs. Laura heading to Europe to hunt child abusers.
Gilmour beats Janice to lure Laura for payback. Laura rescues Janice before escaping across the border. Laura fights and defeats Gilmour. Laura escapes across the St. Laurence Rive to America. Forbes, Janice, and Kilgour meet with Laura and Forbes gives evidence that the Minister wanted her dead. She’ll deal for Janice’s and Kilgour’s jobs. Laura heading to Europe to hunt child abusers.
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David Thompson’s Episode Descriptions
What I learned with this assignment is to make Google Docs make files local, so I can work while the power is off and no internet! Also, this is really making me flesh out the series, even though I have a full plot from the books I’d written.
Angels of Vengeance
Episode One:
- Hook/Intrigue: Opens with Tisiphone on a target, huge wings, ruthless goddess.
- Main Character journey: Dan sees Megaera, an actual goddess, when he’s not supposed to see her.
- Major Challenge/Conflict: Stand-off in a grocery store, death of man threatening baby.
- Action/Reaction: Determination to help the child, then confusion about seeing the goddess when no one else saw her.
- Cliffhanger: Dan is awakened by cat yowling, sees the specter of Brianna in the bathroom, dead, mutilated, open mouth with a silent scream.
Opens with the Fury Tisiphone chasing down and taking out a murderer, then a police standoff in a grocery store caused by a target who has momentarily escaped from Megaera. Dan takes out the man threatening a child, but then can’t find Megaera. Next we follow Alecto on a mission.
While driving home, Dan spots his niece and two of her friends on their way to a sorority party. Brianna teases her uncle about being old and lonely.
That evening, Dan is awakened by his cat meowing at the bathroom door like crazy. Inside, nothing. Dan is then frightened by the sight of his niece appearing in the bathroom, eyes gouged out, her face twisted in a silent scream. As Dan reacts, specter fades away.
Episode Two:
- Hook/Intrigue: Finding body of Brianna
- Main Character journey: Dan’s niece murdered, meets Gaia, disbelieves her.
- Major Challenge/Conflict: Who killed Brianna and why the misfiguring of her face
- Action/Reaction: Anger at Gaia – thinking she’s the press, anger in general.
- Cliffhanger: Gaia tells Dan the mutilations on the body of Brianna are a message, from a dangerous demon, meant for her.
Opens with the discovery of Brianna’s mutilated corpse, questions about why her face is covered in symbols. When Dan walks to his car after telling his sister, Gaia attempts to talk to him about the girl’s murder. Mistaking her for a reporter, Dan gets angry and yells at her to go away.
Megaera is now obsessed with why Dan spotted her.
Later, Dan is at home, Gaia appears, and tries to tell Dan who she is and who the Furies are, as it all connects to the murder of his niece, and the killer is a man possessed by a dangerous demon.
Episode Three:
- Hook/Intrigue: What are those messages?
- Main Character journey: Dan learns that there are actual goddesses living in his town.
- Major Challenge/Conflict: Dan still cannot believe what he sees while with Megaera.
- Action/Reaction: Disbelief
- Cliffhanger: Brianna in the undertaker’s care
Gaia tells Dan who the Furies are, via flashbacks. Dan cannot believe her. Brianna’s ghost encountered the god Thanatos, currently working as a mortician, and he takes her to meet the Furies. Thanatos sets up Brianna to ask the Furies to help deal with her killer. Meanwhile, we look at the shadowy killer and see that he is possessed by demonic forces.
Episode Four:
- Hook/Intrigue: Kyle Banks appears.
- Main Character journey: Dan learns there is a serial killer in this town.
- Major Challenge/Conflict: He welcomes the FBI’s help, but he’s suspicious of Agent Banks.
- Action/Reaction: Suspicion, reaches out to contact FBI in San Francisco.
- Cliffhanger: Megaera confronts Dan in his house, threatens to kill him unless he explains how he saw her.
Dan and Jones are met by an FBI agent who says he’s tracking a serial killer who’s M.O. matches the murder of Brianna. Dan is suspicious. Upon arriving home, Dan finds Megaera in his house and she’s demanding to know how he could see her. We end with Megaera closing in on Dan, ready to kill him
Episode Five:
- Hook/Intrigue: Brianna meets the Furies
- Main Character journey:
- Major Challenge/Conflict: Dan and his team get closer to the killer.
- Action/Reaction: Dan is anxious
- Cliffhanger: Agent Banks the killer?
Dan and Jones interview Brianna’s roommates, and find out they got a photo of her leaving with the possible killer. Brianna finds out the petition requests are more complex, as they can only take action against someone who’s killed a family member, so Brianna teams with Alecto to find the killer’s first victim. On Alecto’s computer, we see Kyle bank’s photo as Brianna’s killer.
Episode Six:
- Hook/Intrigue: Agent banks revealed as the serial killer.
- Main Character journey: Megaera with Dan at dinner, goes to prove her origins, by taking Dan on a trip through time and space.
- Major Challenge/Conflict: Dan believes he’s been drugged, and Kyle Banks meets with a policewoman in a bar, his next victim?
- Action/Reaction: Dan, still unconvinced, thinks he’s been drugged.
- Cliffhanger: Kyle leaving the bar with the policewoman, who’s been drugged.
We now follow Kyle on his journey stalking a young policewoman, while Dan has dinner with Megaera. She decides to prove to Dan she’s really a goddess, and takes him through time to a temple in Athens, then to Mt. Olympus to meet Zeus. Dan thinks he’s been drugged. Jones is in the bar, and leaves, passing Kyle hidden in the crowd. Then Kyle begins talking to the policewoman, and is last seen leaving the bar with her, she’s obviously been drugged.
Episode Seven:
- Hook/Intrigue: Discovery of second victim, a fellow cop
- Main Character journey: Dan questions department shrink if he’s crazy
- Major Challenge/Conflict: Urgency to find Agent banks before he slips away.
- Action/Reaction: Dan is exasperated by discovering the FBI agent Kyle Banks is possibly the killer.
- Cliffhanger: Gaia meets with Hermes, learns Hades is missing, and civil war is about to break out in the Underworld.
Discovery of the murdered policewoman, Dan insists he be put in charge. The Police Chief relents, and Dan takes charge. After the meeting, Dan meets with the department psychologist, and asks if he’s crazy. On the way out of that meeting, the department’s forensic tech tells Dan the wine bottle is “crazy old”.
Gaia has a late night meeting with Hermes, messenger god, who tells her he can’t locate Hades, and it’s believed Hades is missing. A demon army under Bune is being assembled in Tartarus.
Episode Eight:
- Hook/Intrigue: Cop funeral, vows to find her killer, Kyle Banks alone in a hotel, being forced by a mysterious force to continue killing.
- Main Character journey: Dan finds that Megaera is a compelling companion, but what does she really want?
- Major Challenge/Conflict: Funeral for dead policewoman
- Action/Reaction: Sadness
- Cliffhanger: Brianna discovers Kyle Bank’s first victim was his cousin.
The funeral for the murdered policewoman, the entire force on edge. Brianna locates Kyle Banks’s first victim, his cousin – Bobbie Banks, so if they can find her ghost, the Furies can deal with the killer. Kyle Banks breaks into an abandoned business and begins to get it ready for another victim. It’s now obvious he’s under demonic control as his features twist out of control. All the while, Megaera has set her eyes on Dan, and assures Tisiphone that she’ll wipe his memories of her once she’s “done” with the mortal. Dan arrives home to find that Megaera has set out a huge dinner for him.
Episode Nine:
- Hook/Intrigue: Brianna and Alecto search for Bobbie Banks
- Main Character journey: Dan still not fully convinced of Megaera.
- Major Challenge/Conflict: The hunt for Agent Banks narrows to an old motel
- Action/Reaction: Frustration on Dan’s part.
- Cliffhanger: Cops bust into motel room, missing Banks by minutes.
As the hunt for Agent Banks continues, Alecto and Brianna also hunt for the ghost of Bobbie. She is located in a small cemetery and her energy is assisted by Megaera, at which time she formally asks the Furies to seek vengeance against her killer, Kyle Banks. A tip has the cops rushing to an old motel only to find Agent Banks has left. Agent Banks is last seen on foot, following a beautiful college coed towards a bar in a small town.
Episode Ten:
- Hook/Intrigue: Agent Banks in a bar, approached by Tisiphone, and the entire bar is under her control.
- Main Character journey: Dan is finally giving in and is “with” Megaera.
- Major Challenge/Conflict: Dan is still unconvinced.
- Action/Reaction:
- Cliffhanger: Sorath, unleashed, appears in Dan’s house, to confront Megaera.
While Dan has a date and late evening with Megaera, Tisiphone follows Kyle Banks to a small bar. As the lovely coed enters the bar, she vanishes. Kyle is confused, and goes to the bar, looking for his target. He finds Tisiphone instead. She buys him a drink and he drops like a stone to the floor, drugged.
Kyle wakes up, tied to the chair he was going to use on his next victim. Tisiphone confronts him about the murders, Kyle laughs it off, then dares her to do anything about it. Until it’s obvious Tisiphone won’t be scared off. An eye-for-an-eye, Tisiphone displays the hunting knife Kyle uses for his murders.
Just as she kills Agent Banks, the room shifts and warps, as a huge darkness lifts out of Kyle’s body.
Dan is awakened by his cat screaming in the hallway, and he spots a blackness in the hallway. As Megaera joins Dan, the blackness becomes a huge monster, a demon. Megaera displays her wings as we end the season.
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Moses Quainoo
MODULE 2 – LESSON 5: ENGAGING EPISODE
DESCRIPTIONS“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”
ASSIGNMENT:
1. Check the sequence of episodes you did in Lesson 4 and see if it flows well for you. Feel free to change the sequence in any way that you think might be better as you create the entire season of episode descriptions.
Season 1 – THE DO WELLS
Episode 1 – Ishey completes five years of secondary education at Old Toms.
After a film show, he meets Brader Hu late at night and asks for a job.
Ishey arrives at Trade fair Center to wait for Hu and the job.
Two women, AC and Loveday, come into the Center with their car and park.
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Episode 2 – Ishey
Episode 3 – Ishey
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Episode 6 –
Episode 7 –
Episode 8 –
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Episode 10 –
Episode 11 –
Episode 12 –
Episode 13 –
Season 2 – BLACK GOLD
Episode 1 – Ishey
Episode 2 – Ishey
Episode 3 – Ishey
Episode 4 –
Episode 5 –
Episode 6 –
Episode 7 –
Episode 8 –
Episode 9 –
Episode 10 –
Episode 11 –
Episode 12 –
Episode 13 –
Season 3– MONEY COUNTERS
Episode 1 – Ishey
Episode 2 – Ishey
Episode 3 – Ishey
Episode 4 –
Episode 5 –
Episode 6 –
Episode 7 –
Episode 8 –
Episode 9 –
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Episode 11 –
Episode 12 –
Episode 13 –
Season 4 – LEAVE SURFACE
Episode 1 – Ishey
Episode 2 – Ishey
Episode 3 – Ishey
Episode 4 –
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Episode 7 –
Episode 8 –
Episode 9 –
Episode 10 –
Episode 11 –
Episode 12 –
Episode 13 –
Season 5 – JOYSTICK ROV
Episode 1 – Ishey
Episode 2 – Ishey
Episode 3 – Ishey
Episode 4 –
Episode 5 –
Episode 6 –
Episode 7 –
Episode 8 –
Episode 9 –
Episode 10 –
Episode 11 –
Episode 12 –
Episode 13 –
Season 6 – OLD TOMS
Episode 1 – Apps Advice
Ishey goes grocery shopping.
He meets former classmate Van Pee in the Supermarket.
Van invites Ishey to join Old Toms group and give them eighty pounds. He told Ishey to send the money through him.
Ishey resent the ask for lousy governance and was deeply infuriated.
At home, Ishey talks to his wife about financial difficulties and what Pee asked for.
Ishey changes his mind avoids Pee, and boycotts the group.
Facebook recommends Frank Bibio as a friend to Ishey, and since they are classmates he accepts.
Ishey and Frank switch communication from Facebook to WhatsApp.
Later, Frank sends WhatsApp advice and attachment to Ishey.
What is in the attachment that Ishey needs to see?
Episode 2 – Ishey
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Episode 4 –
Episode 5 –
Episode 6 –
Episode 7 –
Episode 8 –
Episode 9 –
Episode 10 –
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2. For each episode, go through the event bullet points and organize them in this fashion.
Season 1 – THE DO WELLS
Episode 1 – TALENT HUNT
Ishey completes five years of secondary education at Old Toms.
After a film show, he meets Brader Hu late at night and asks for a job.
Ishey arrives at Trade fair Center to wait for Hu and the job.
Two women, AC and Loveday, enter the Center with their car and park.
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Episode 2 – Ishey
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Season 2 – BLACK GOLD
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Season 3– MONEY COUNTERS
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Season 4 – LEAVE SURFACE
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Season 5 – JOYSTICK ROV
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Season 6 – OLD TOMS
Episode 1 – Apps Advice
Ishey goes grocery shopping and meets his former classmate Van Pee in the Supermarket. Van invites Ishey to join their Old Toms group and give them eighty pounds.
Ishey resent the ask for lousy governance, think it is a scam and badly timed with the money, and becomes deeply infuriated.
At home, Ishey talks to his wife about financial difficulties and what Pee asked for. Ishey changes his mind avoids Pee, and boycotts the group.
Facebook recommends Frank Bibio as a friend to Ishey, and he accepts.
Ishey and Frank switch communication from Facebook to WhatsApp. Later, Frank sends WhatsApp advice and attachment to Ishey.
Hook/Intrigue: Old Tom Johnny Banko, a close friend and mentor of Ishey, dies without his knowledge.
Main Character journey:
Ishey wants to attend the funeral o Johnny Banko.
Major Challenge/Conflict:
To pay his last respects to Johnny. The Old Toms group must be unanimous in contributing to the death. Ishey will be the missing puzzle. He must fly six thousand miles distant. Corvid rules apply, and it locks down the world. Major airlines cancel their flights and ground their planes. Need for double jabs and booster vaccinations. His employers are yet to approve urgent holiday applications.
Action/Reaction:
Ishey rescinds avoiding and boycotting the Old toms group. He telephoned Frank Bibio in New York. He tells him he craves to join the group. Frank contacts one member on the group’s podium in West Africa, and Ishey is added to the platform.
Cliffhanger:
But Johnny Banko did not join the Old toms group. The death has lured Ishey into the group.
Episode 2 – Ishey
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3. Write a rough draft of each episode description for your first season.
Season 1 – THE DO WELLS
Episode 1 –Talent Hunt
Description.
Ishey completes his education at Old Toms and is without a job after one week’s search. The next night he meets Brader Hu late at night after the film show at Cameo Cinema and asks for a job.
Ishey tells Hu it never occurred to ask what type of work Hu does. Hu tells Ishey to meet him at The Trade Fair Center at seven am for the job.
Two women on a covert mission come to the Center and park their car inside the yard.
Ishey secures a place on one of the long vehicles that travel to the port city to load flour at the Mills. The job involves loading and offloading fifty pounds of bagged flour.
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Module Two – Lesson 5 – Assignment
Mike – Episode Descriptions
What I learned doing this assignment is the importance of seeing the ‘big picture’ 60 episodes, 5 seasons. The tools in module enable us to stay focused on the selling points, the ‘binge worthy’ aspects of the series by zeroing in on each episode.
I. Check the sequence of episodes you did in Lesson 4, see if it flows well for you. ———————————————————————————————
II. For each episode, go through the event bullet points and organize them in this fashion.
[1] Hook/Intrigue:
[2] Main Character journey:
[3] Major Challenge/Conflict:
[4] Action/Reaction:
[5] Cliffhanger:
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Season One – Episodes, Acts & Salient Points
Episode 01. The Etchings of Fear
Act 1 – Kidnapped, Caleb argues w/ Andrew & Mashika, | Charles saves Caleb uses Victoria
Act 2 – Caleb awakens, meets Olivia, they talk, Natalie comes in, Olivia leaves the hospital
Act 3 – Caleb leaves w/ Riders | Rick’s w/ Carolyn, | V’s trapped w/ Victor by Annabelle
Act 4 – Riders & Caleb return to crash | Olivia arrives, she talks then Caleb teleports off
Act 5 – Rick & wife fight; she leaves w/ kid | Carolyn wrecks Jeep and kills wife & kid.
Act 6 – Caleb’s in Yellowstone | Olivia sees Victoria’s ghost in Cody | Caleb visits Olivia
[1] Hook/Intrigue: Who is Caleb, how does he do what he does; he is in over his head.
[2] Main Character journey: reluctant to fight, hesitant to move on, he must face his fears.
[3] Major Challenge/Conflict: Abducted by a relative, Caleb is saved by a near fatal crash.
[4] Action/Reaction: Caleb is kidnapped, nearly killed; recovering, he goes after them
[5] Cliffhanger: Caleb is being hunted by Annabelle who is using the ghost of his ex-love
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Episode 02. Epiphany – The Morning After
Teaser – Caleb sleeps w/ Tatania & Chyenne, has nightmare, they save him from dying
Act 1 – Funeral for Rick’s wife & kid | mom & Caleb bond | Olivia & mom meet at home
Act 2 – Olivia w/ Caleb at lake | Rick meets Andrew (in disguise) at a bar. He tricks Rick
Act 3 – Olivia & Caleb make love; she’s killed; Riders rescue Caleb | Mom revives Olivia
Act 4 – Charles & Rick cross over, meet Bill | Shaw arrests Olivia | Caleb rescues Olivia
Act 5 – Caleb relives Olivia’s death, wakes up, she’s w/ him in bed, talk re: Victoria’s death.
Act 6 – Rick talks to white buffalo | Caleb shares feelings w/ Olivia, she’s taken by Mashika.
[1] Hook/Intrigue: Caleb’s double life and strangely likeable but totally dysfunctional family
[2] Main Character journey: Caleb helps his brother, rescues FBI agent, grows as a person
[3] Major Challenge/Conflict: His brother needs him, his duty as a Rider to Crossovers
[4] Action/Reaction: Olivia is arrested, Caleb frees her
[5] Cliffhanger: Caleb’s new love interest is kidnapped; he must find her.
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Ep. 03. Love’s dying Child
Teaser – Victoria spies on Caleb giving out food | tells Lori he’s ‘Sylvan Park Robin Hood’
Act 1 – Rick changes the season | Carolyn saves Rick | FBI raid Natalie’s home, take her art
Act 2 – Olivia whipped by Mashika, |Annabelle rescues her, blows up barn | FBI investigate Act 3 – Caleb & Charles rescue Rick | Natalie’s orgy, Victoria spies on it | Olivia is vodooed
Act 4 – Rick joins Riders | Lori runs into Caleb, he leaves his drawings | Olivia meets coven
Act 5 – Rick dreams of pilgrims | Natalie recalls painting w/ Victoria | FBI has Natalie’s art.
Act 6 – Caleb & Victoria in meadow | Natalie & Victoria talk, re: Caleb, she’s his 1<sup>st</sup> mortal
[1] Hook/Intrigue: Caleb, rich psychic, has a humanitarian side,
[2] Main Character journey: Caleb rescues his brother, then rescues his mom’s art.
[3] Major Challenge/Conflict:
[4] Action/Reaction: FBI raid & take Natalie’s art; she and Caleb steal it back from them.
[5] Cliffhanger: A shot rings out in the meadow, Caleb collapses in the tall grass.
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Episode 04. Watering Hole of the Dead
Teaser – In Caleb’s dream Carolyn shows up, shows Victoria’s death | Lori feels it; they talk
Act 1 – Caleb & mom get her art back | Charles learns Annabelle is a Necro | Charles tries to rescue Olivia, is caught & made a slave on Annabelle farm
Act 2 – Shaw & Bruce meet | Caleb sees Victoria in mirror, punches it, Rick saves him | Jenkins & Rudy tag a crossover | Charles in a field behind a plow horse as a slave
Act 3 – Rudy & Jenkins on stakeout | Caleb fixes Rudy | Rick & Caleb find Victor’s lab.
Act 4 – Richards drugs Caleb | Shaw is mad, art is gone | Caleb w/ Victoria sees his dad die
Act 5 – Annabelle Lee cannot open portal | Victoria saved from a Feeder by Tatania
Act 6 – Caleb teleports drugged to his school | Rudy & Jenkins in DC | Caleb is rescued in parking lot by Cindy, girl who found him in the library semi-conscious.
[1] Hook/Intrigue:
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Episode 05. If Only She Knew
Teaser – Caleb as a boy w/ his dad and Rick: fishing and panning for gold, they plan a hike.
Act 1 – Rick & Jenkins in no-where Nevada, comic-relief scene | Tatania & Cheyene take V. to cave & teach her love | Charles tries to free Olivia, can’t | Caleb w/ Tatania & Cheyenne
Act 2 – Caleb trains Tatania & Cheyenne, they go to an art show; find Victoria! | Caleb relives 1<sup>st</sup> trip with Victoria. to the cabin! Back to present day, the four of them bond!
Act 3 – Caleb w/ V. teleport off as police arrive| At cabin,Victoria learns it is Caleb’s B-day
Act 4 – Caleb w/ Victoria, he tells her about his abilities; they make love in the cabin.
Act 5 – Riders in Wyo, Homeland S. flies in; Riders leave in Mustangs, cars turn into horses
Act 6 – Caleb & V. at a home| Necromancer crashes into swamp, takes on a man’s shape | Caleb shows Victoria his nightmare, it freaks them out.
[1] Hook/Intrigue: Caleb’s training the 2 sisters in Shangra La; they run into Victoria now a family
[2] Main Character journey: Caleb flashes back to his showing Victoria his powers on his b.day
[3] Major Challenge/Conflict: Caleb is now wanted by the law; Victoria’s dad got his way
[4] Action/Reaction: being forced apart by the law; Caleb & Victoria find a way to see each other
[5] Cliffhanger: Caleb’s nightmare is a vision, a foreshadowing of what is to come.
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Episode 06. Handsome boy comes Calling
Teaser – Necro takes human form, seduces and kills a hooker in New Orleans, then flies off.
Act 1 – Caleb & V. on beach, talk; teleport to her tree house | Necro takes on person’s form | Natalie visits Luke’s grave, tells him he has to come back | Caleb at GTs w/ Victoria
Act 2 – Caleb & Victoria 1<sup>st</sup> meeting w/ Natalie | Caleb w/Victoria in GT’s, she kisses him.
Act 3 – Kristin lays 12 necro eggs, they hatch, grow rapidly| Rick & Malakai chased by cops, river kills them | Necromancers now teens |
Act 4 – V. & Lori go to GT’s, Caleb’s gone | Caleb & Charles root out Necros, the Riders & butterflies dispatch all but one Necro who flees. | Caleb meets V’s dad, he hates him Caleb.
Act 5 – Caleb & Charles track Necro | Caleb recalls fight w/ gunslingers & how he got shot.
Act 6 – Tarek helps Caleb w/ bullet wound | Caleb teleports to Victoria’s, leaves her a note.
[1] Hook/Intrigue: Is Caleb going to step up & be a leader or just do it when needed
[2] Main Character journey: Caleb wants to be w/ Victoria; the evil he wants to ignore
[3] Major Challenge/Conflict: Caleb, Charles & the Riders battling 12 Necros
[4] Action/Reaction: everything in Caleb’s past doing w/ Victoria keeps surfacing.
[5] Cliffhanger: Will Caleb be OK, will his wound heal, will he live?
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Episode 07. Into the sweet by and by
Teaser – Caleb visits his dad’s grave, Leondra shows up, takes him to meet Mandy, her sister
Act 1 – Caleb teleports into V’s room, leaves a note | Necro in graveyard crosses over| Caleb kills the Necro; he is stung in the leg & infected by the Necro
Act 2 – Caleb & Bill talk w/ Council of Elders | Annabelle lee goes to ranch as a Necro, kills cattle looking for Caleb | Corinna & Feeders leave Shangra La for good, settle in Wyoming
Act 3 – Feeders kill everyone in town, save one man | Compound in Montana, Leondra w/ Mandy & Caleb | Corinna w/ Gwen teaches her how to feed w/out hurting their victim
Act 4 – Riders fight Necros & win| Rudy w/ Jenkins crop dusting graveyards| Rudy recalls quitting Daphne and Homeland Security & giving her the finger.
Act 5 – Jenkins w/ Rudy. Rudy recalls Gwen; he’s smitten.| Charles & Natalie w/ energy collectors showing it to investors.
Act 6 – Caleb at a window, recalls a woman in Walgreens he saved from suicide.
[1] Hook/Intrigue: Caleb kills the Necro, is poisoned in the process, turns evil,
[2] Main Character journey: Caleb can no longer ignore evil as it is now inside his body
[3] Major Challenge/Conflict: Caleb must excise the evil or be consumed by it. V. saves him.
[4] Action/Reaction: Caleb survives the evil, is now on-board with fighting the Necros.
[5] Cliffhanger: Caleb’s powers drain him, can kill him if he’s not careful.
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Episode 08. Bolt from the Blue
Teaser – Caleb & V take shower, make love, Caleb leaves when her dad knocks on the door.
Act 1 – Caleb reliving his past, comes out of it; he’s at the window | Rudy returns to Linda’s room, hurt; Necro got the plane. |Corinna in guise as Wyatt’s mayor meets w/ other Necros in guise; Jesse is spying on them| Daphne learns the truth from Frank Ross about “crossovers”
Act 2 – Violet w/ Johnny Lee; both killed by a Necro | Caleb riding with Victoria, recalls 1<sup>st</sup> time he got in her car to sign forms, they talked about loss & Rachael’s death.
Act 3 – Caleb & V. go skinny dipping, hide from her dad, Caleb heals her ankle | Rudy at bar on the hunt, recalls Linda’s death, | runs into Gwen in disguise, leaves w/ her
Act 4 – Rudy has sex, Gwen reveals herself, drugs him. | Caleb at school dance; rufied by Tiffany then groped and fondled.
Act 5 – Caleb is rescued by Lori. In her car, they share a psychic fantasy, sexual in nature.
Act 6 – Rudy wakes up in slaughterhouse, meets Jesse. | Series of shots showing Necros here on earth.
[1] Hook/Intrigue:
[2] Main Character journey:
[3] Major Challenge/Conflict:
[4] Action/Reaction:
[5] Cliffhanger:
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Episode 09. Holding Hands with Death
Teaser – Caleb visits Sherry, he’s infected! He almost rapes her, leaves before he does.
Act 1 – Corinna, as Stewart, kills the Governor, takes his form. | Rick w/ crossovers & Riders fend off Wolves, escape through a crack in rock | Victoria & Lori go to school talking re: Caleb and being drugged | Rick closes the crevasse, kills the wolves, meets his daughter & wife | Jesse & Rudy at his cabin, Jesse shows Rudy video he took of killing a Necro.
Act 2 – Caleb at the falls, recalls Victoria. He’s infected w/ Necro poison. | Council of Elders meet | Warehouse full of communing Necros | Caleb gets a tattoo,
Act 3 – Feeders at state capital, Rudy & Jesse 1000 yards off ready to shoot. Gwen senses Rudy & escapes. | Caleb at the cave, bath water burns him; poisoned, he teleports off | At Atlantis, Charles meets w/ Buttner & Selene re: dispersion panels & risk of the citizens becoming addicts to the spray.
Act 4 – V. goes to cabin, saves Caleb from Necro poison | Rudy tracks the van, kills a Necro; Gwen comes out, Rudy escapes | Jesse in church, visited by Apostle Paul who advises him to stay close to Rudy| Lori & V. drive around bonding
Act 5 – Girl’s night out: V & Lori, get jumped in café parking lot after dinner by 2 thugs.
Act 6 – Caleb senses trouble, teleport to cafe, stops time. Wrecks the thugs, Lori & Victoria do not see a thing. Caleb puts them in V’s car, then restarts time…V smells his cologne
[1] Hook/Intrigue:
[2] Main Character journey:
[3] Major Challenge/Conflict:
[4] Action/Reaction:
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Episode 10. Vanities of Man
Teaser – Caleb learns from Cindy he got her pregnant; they’re Necro, twins. He leaves her
Act 1 – Victoria goes to Caleb’s, makes love | Annabelle sends Olivia to sex Caleb | Caleb discovers the pocket watch’s magic | Olivia questions Sherry, then goes & seduces Richard.
Act 2 – Caleb dreams of Olivia seducing & killing him. He teleports off | Daphne raids the vegan’s Montana compound, no one’s there | Annabelle at her home, visits Riwyee, they agree on Alexis being the key | Alexis at her dad’s coffee shop, agents watching the place.
Act 3 – Jenkins w/ wife freaking out over botched mission. | Charles, 7 yr old boy, we see Riwyee curse him | Jenkins in hot-tub w/ wife who is a Feeder| Earlier, we see Gwen taking Tammy over in bath tub, killing her and assuming her form.
Act 4 – Feeder kills Jenkins | Bruce in Miami tries to sell the portal idea to drug-dealer | Alexis gets msg Jenkins is dead, breaks the news to the group. Rudy reminisces openly
Act 5 – Caleb teleports naked into café break room, steals clothes | starts working | Bruce & Rudy talk re: technology of Alexis. Rudy will steal it, it’ll cost Bruce $2million | Back at café, Caleb plays guitar for them: heals hurts, erases pain, heals memories.
Act 6 –Caleb recalls playing at a City park, giving away too much. V finds him fried in his bedroom | Back to café, Caleb senses the assassin. He stops time, leaves assassin a note, takes her wallet and leaves… Caleb is being hunted by a professional assassin.
[1] Hook/Intrigue:
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Syd’s Episode Descriptions
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What I learned doing this assignment is a method to punch up episode descriptions.
ASSIGNMENT:
Check the sequence of episodes you did in Lesson 4 and see if it flows well for you. Feel free to change the sequence in any way that you think might be better as you create the full season of episode descriptions.
Epi 1 — Beginning of the season: Who does she think she is? Low-born woman, Charita, attempts to create her own wealth, exploiting her connection to the queen. The infant prince is kidnapped.
Epi 2 — Found and Lost. The child is found safe, but relationships are broken. Charita is framed as a kidnapper.
Epi 3 — The kidnapping was a decoy for theft — confidential documents and crown jewels.
Epi 4 — Veer scrambles to understand the security breech, while an invisible force frames Charita. King Abzar is assassinated.
Epi 5 — Return of the King — Rajendra re-emerges with a force behind him and assumes the throne. He arrests and condemns Veer, while Charita scurries the Queen and infant Prince into hiding.
Epi 6 — Rajendra seeks to solidify his reign. He condemns Veer and closes in on the Queen and the infant.
Epi 7 — Veer is freed by unexpected rescuers and a small army of fighting men follow him into the wilderness. The Queen, infant Prince and Charita slip out of the city with the help of a controversial contact.
Epi 8 — End of season: Charita makes a deal with the Amir to be his spy in exchange for protection of the queen and prince. The queen believes the Amir made the deal under false pretenses/ Vanhi has her own allies in Mughal court, but Charita has her own agenda.
2. For each episode, go through the event bullet points and organize them in this fashion.
Epi 1
Hook/Intrigue: A low-born girl tries to become independent (financially) in principality inside the Mughal Kingdom, circa 1565.
Main Character journey: Charita, a low-born girl, leverages her relationship with the queen to make her own decisions about life and love, when her plans are abruptly interrupted by the kidnapping of the queen’s infant son.
Major Challenge/Conflict: No one believes a young woman can become independent in the Mughal Empire, and some think it’s scandalous. Charita faces and uphill battle.
Action/Reaction: Charita’s every attempt at entrepreneurship is met with laughter and objection, the queen resists her relationship to Jagger. Each failure strengthens her resolve to succeed, until…
Cliffhanger: … the Queen Vanhi’s infant son is kidnapped!
Epi 2
Hook/Intrigue: Man-hunt for child and his kidnappers.
Main Character journey: Charita realizes that her desire for independence is an uphill journey, now she’s understanding that she has a specific and hidden enemy.
Major Challenge/Conflict: General Veer and Palace Fort security are legendary — this had to be an inside job.
Action/Reaction: This is the only circumstance that would cause Charita to put her plans on hold — she follows a clue no one else seems to recognize.
Cliffhanger: The clue leads Charita back to her own room, where she finds Anala, guards and the crown prince, safe.
Epi 3
Hook/Intrigue: Who’s the real kidnapper?
Main Character journey: Charita wanted to be taken seriously as an entrepreneur, now she taken seriously as suspect by the king’s powerful cousin Anala.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Anala has Gen. Veer watching Charita, while Charita tries to launch her own investigation.
Action/Reaction: She’s been set up, Charita has to find out who did it. She instigates her own investigation
Cliffhanger: The kidnapping was a decoy. While Veer’s resources were engaged in finding the prince, confidential docs and precious jewels were stolen from the royal treasury. Anala finds certain jewels in Charita’s possession. Framed twice!
Epi 4
Hook/Intrigue: What’s the end-game of these machinations? Who’s behind it? Who on the inside accomplice?
Main Character journey: Charita’s investigative skills emerge — Charita finds out from local prostitute Damyanti that Rajendra knows all the secret passes in the Palace Fort. Veer is astounded.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Anala demands that Charita be incarcerated. The king refuses. Because his rock-solid security is failing, some whisper he must be involved, even as he scrambles to understand the security breech.
Action/Reaction: Charita must uncover the plot before the Queen or Prince are harmed. In her investigation, she discovers Veer’s secret.
Cliffhanger: King Abzar is assassinated.
Epi 5
Hook/Intrigue: Who killed the king? Shocked and grieved, General Veer puts his most trusted Royal Guard around the Queen and Crown Prince. Charita doesn’t trust them.
Main Character journey: With the queen practically prisoner, Charita’s on her own — but she won’t abandon them.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Almost magically from within the Palace, exiled Rajendra and his Strong Men, return apparently with all Gen Veer’s security secrets. The queen and prince are in danger.
Action/Reaction: Armed with knowledge she got from Damyanti, Charita hurriedly pulls the queen and prince into hiding.
Cliffhanger: Stripping Veer of his title, Rajendra imprisons Veer as a traitor, accusing him of Abzar’s assassination. The queen and her son are in hiding, but trapped inside the Palace Fort.
Epi 6
Hook/Intrigue: Veer is condemned to death. What will happen to the queen and her son? Will Rajendra’s men find them first?
Main Character journey: Charita fears for her love — Jagger, a soldier. He wants to flee with her, but she refuses — she will help the queen. They part, each fearing for the others’ life.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Charita learned much from Damyanti about the Palace Fort’s inner workings — but apparently Rajendra’s men know a lot, too. How will she smuggle them out? Once out, how does she get them to safety?
Action/Reaction: The jewels that Charita was falsely accused of stealing before, she steals them now — to buy the queen and her son passage to safety. She takes them, in disguise, to the Damyanti, the prostitute in the seedy part of town.
Cliffhanger: Veer’s loyal men try to arrange a jailbreak — they are killed in front of his eyes. Rajendra closes in on Vanhi’s hiding place — but she is gone.
Epi 7
Hook/Intrigue: Where others failed — Anala and Damyanti succeed in breaking Veer out of jail. He flees to the wilderness where he amasses an army — or is it a band of thieves.
Main Character journey: Charita moves in the very direction, the queen did not want her to go — though it’s only a disguise. Dressed as tawaif, she bargains with Mughals for passage to Lucknow for her and “her family.”
Major Challenge/Conflict: Charita has to get the queen, the prince and herself out of the City to safety while Rajendra is on a massive manhunt.
Action/Reaction: Though Veer now has an army, Charita is not convinced she can trust him, so she makes another plan.
Cliffhanger: Charita makes the deal for passage with the Mughals, Bhadrabahu shows up — Vanhi and he have history, both good and bad. What has Charita gotten them into?
Epi 8
Hook/Intrigue: Charita’s plan to restore the infant prince to the throne with Vanhi as Queen Regent. To her surprise the Queen is in agreement. The prince will always have a target on his back. At least if he has the throne, he will have the power to defend himself.
Main Character journey: Charita takes enough risks and succeeds in getting them to Lucknow. She’s emboldened to make a dangerous deal with the Mughal Amir.
Major Challenge/Conflict: The queen tells Charita that she has her own allies in Mughal court, but Charita makes a deal to spy for the Empire in exchange for help (and gold). Charita has her own agenda.
Action/Reaction:
Cliffhanger: Charita tries to position herself to help the infant prince regain his throne. She’s going back to Golden City.
3. Write a rough draft of each of the episode descriptions for your first season.
Epi 1 — Who does She Think She is?
Charita, a low-born, orphaned artist, who mysteriously received an education, tries to to create her own path in life — a daunting task for a female in Golden City, principality inside the Mughal Kingdom, circa 1565. But Charita tries to leverage the favor she has with Queen Vanhi become financially independent — just one prerequisite for a woman to have autonomy. No one believes a young woman can become independent in this Empire, and some think it’s scandalous. Charita’s every attempt at entrepreneurship is met with laughter and objection. To make matter’s worse, the queen’s vision for the Charita’s success involves an advantageous marriage. Here too, Charita wants to make her own decision, having fallen for Jagger. He’s brave and honorable young man, but as a musician turned soldier, he’s not the queen’s first choice. In fact, he doesn’t make her list. Charita faces and uphill battle, but each failure strengthens her resolve to succeed, until —the Queen Vanhi’s infant son is kidnapped!
Epi 2 — Found and Lost
Golden City descends into chaos as General Veer launches an all-out man-hunt for the infant crown prince and his kidnappers. The general and palace fort security are legendary — how did they get in? How did they slaughter his guards. This had to be an inside job. Paranoia breeds surprising accusations. The King blames Veer. Anala, the king’s cousin and trusted ally, suspects the queen herself. This audacious attack on the royal family forces Charita to put her plans on hold as she follows a clue no one else seems to recognize. The tip leads Charita back to her own room, where Anala and her guards have discovered the crown prince, safe, but hidden in her quarters. Anala orders her imprisonment. Charita realizes that she faces a specific threat and hidden enemy hiding in the castle walls.
Epi 3 — The Decoy
The king releases Charita from the dungeon almost immediately as Queen Vanhi attests to her innocence. But who’s the real kidnapper? Only recently, no one took Charita’s actions seriously — but now she’s a serious suspect in a crime against the royal family. Anala steps over a long-term grudge against Veer to urge him to have Charita watched. She also wants him to privately look into the queen’s communications. Veer believes she’s paranoid, but acquiesces. To protect the infant prince — whom she loves — Charita must find the real kidnappers, but she’s being followed. She launches her own investigation to find out who’s setting her up. Suddenly, the king discovers confidential documents— outlining political and trade agreements — missing. Simultaneously, General Veer discovers more guards slain, security documents and the queen’s precious jewels are stolen. The kidnapping and manhunt were a diversion for theft. Anala has Charita’s quarters searched — finding the queen’s gems.!
Epi 4 — Sands Through a Fist
What’s the end-game of these machinations? Who’s behind it? Who’s the inside accomplice? Anala demands that Charita be incarcerated. The king refuses. Because his rock-solid security is failing, some whisper that General Veer must be involved, even as he scrambles to understand the security breech. Charita’s investigative skills emerge. She finds out from local prostitute Damyanti that Rajendra, the exiled prince, knows all the secret passes in the Palace Fort. Charita brings her to Veer with the information. Veer is astounded. He rushes into the secret pass, discovering men — not his — inside. He kills them quickly and runs to find King Abzar. Charita chases after him. The bust into the king’s private quarters just in time to watch mercenaries murder him. Veer goes on a rampage killing the men. Charita runs to find the queen.
Epi 5 — Return of a King
Who killed the king? Shocked and grieved, General Veer puts his most trusted Royal Guard around the Queen and Crown Prince. Charita, having extracted one more secret out of Damyanti — one of Veer’s secrets — doesn’t trust him. Charita finds Jagger, who warns her to leave the palace fort and lay low. He tells her to trust Veer. Almost magically from within the palace walls, exiled Rajendra and his Strong Men return, apparently with all Gen Veer’s security secrets and a few of their own. Veer and his loyal soldiers fight them. Anala tries to intervene telling Veer to acknowledge Raj as the new king. Veer stays on the offensive until Rajendra puts a knife at Anala’s throat. Veer yields. He’s arrested and imprisoned as a traitor. Armed with knowledge she got from Damyanti, Charita hurriedly pulls the queen and prince into hiding. Raj accuses Veer of Abzar’s assassination. He sends men to look for the queen and her son who are hiding, trapped inside the palace walls.
Epi 6 — A Prayer for the Condemned
Veer is condemned to death. Rajendra’s men are closing in on the queen and her son, while others are flushing out the Royal Guardsmen who are still loyal to Veer. Charita fears for her love — Jagger, still part of the guard. He wants to flee with her, but she refuses — she will help the queen. They part, each fearing for each others’ life. Raj tells Anala he will not harm the queen or her son, they just need to acknowledge him as king. Charita learned much from Damyanti about the palace fort’s secret passages — but apparently Rajendra’s men know them, too. She narrowly avoids getting caught inside the wall, but by jumping out into a room, she’s never been in — full of gold and treasure. The jewels that Charita was falsely accused of stealing before, she steals them now, slipping back into the passage. Veer’s loyal men try to arrange a jailbreak — they are killed in front of his eyes.
Rajendra closes in on Vanhi in her hiding place. Rajendra’s men force open the panel — she’s gone. Charita takes the queen, disguised as a foreigner, to a seedy part of town, to Damyanti’s house.
Epi 7 — Unexpected Alliances
Where others failed, Anala and Damyanti succeed in breaking Veer out of jail. The queen knows that Veer will go into the wilderness and find allies. She wants to join him, but Charita refuses to allow it. She knows something about Veer that changes the game. Instead, dressed as tawaif, she returns to the palace fort and bargains with Mughals for passage to Lucknow for her and “her family.” Meanwhile, Veer begs Anala to come with him, but she insists her cover has not been broken. She returns to Rajendra. When word gets out that Veer escaped, many Golden City soldiers go AWOL running to the wilderness to join him. Veer amasses an army — or is it a band of thieves? Charita armed with money and jewels, makes the deal for discrete transportation with the Mughals. At the rendez vous location — Bhadrabahu shows up. Vanhi and he have history, both good and bad. What has Charita gotten them into?
Epi 8 — The Invisible Hand
Once in Lucknow, Charita believes she’ll have to convince the queen to restore the infant prince to the throne with Vanhi as Queen Regent. To her surprise the Vanhi agrees with her. The prince will always have a target on his back. At least if he has the throne, she will have the power to defend him. The queen sends word to Veer, without Charita’s knowledge, that they survived and are in Lucknow — a Mughal city where she has allies, including the controversial Bhadrabahu. From all outward appearances, he’s a opium-smoking playboy in the Mughal court and a disgrace to his family. Secretly, Bhad controls an Empire-wide (and profitable) spy ring. As Charita’s risk-taking succeeds in getting them to Lucknow, she’s emboldened to make a dangerous deal with the Mughal Amir. She agrees to spy for the Empire in exchange for the infant prince’s protection (and for gold). Vanhi objects, but Charita has her own agenda. So does the Amir. Charita tries to position herself to help the infant prince, Vanhi, Jagger and herself. She’s going back to Golden City.
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Wayne’s Episode Descriptions
What I learned doing this assignment is a very efficient and effective process for creating and ensuring intriguing and effective episodes throughout the first season with open loops and new unique characters as materials for future seasons.
For each episode, go through the event bullet points and organize them in this fashion.
Ep-1: My Strange New World
Hook/Intrigue: Astronaut Michael Barrington is stranded 6.2-lightyears from Earth.
Main Character journey: Mike, a family-oriented man, loses all hope of ever returning.
Major Challenge/Conflict: A meteor hits a transfer valve leaking all fuel, making return impossible.
Action/Reaction: Mike has no choice but to crash land in an isolated place on this strange planet.
Cliffhanger: A humanoid woman, Desae, sees the ship streak overhead and heads to the crash site.Ep-2: Desae of Romal
Hook/Intrigue: Desae saves the alien, Mike, and brings his unconscious body to her home.
Main Character journey: Desae’s instincts are to trust the alien and save him.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Mike is seriously injured needing Desae’s care, but they have no common language.
Action/Reaction: Mike and Desae quickly overcome their fears of one another despite unusual language, finding they share in humanoid nature. Nome, Desae’s 2-year-old learns to trust and care for Mike as well.
Cliffhanger: Amixmu, a Security Force Leader at the crash site looks for the alien, then begins to follow Desae’s tractor tracks.Ep-3: Making Enemies
Hook/Intrigue: As Amixmu comes near, Desae is outside.
Main Character journey: Mike has been healing but emotionally becoming depressed.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Amixmu leaves after he’s deceived by Desae, and Nome has hidden Mike.
Action/Reaction: Mike wants to leave because he doesn’t want to endanger Desae and Nome.
Cliffhanger: When Mike feels up to it, he asks Desae to take him to the crash site to retrieve the ship’s AI computer nicknamed HAL. When they get there, the ship is gone.Ep-4: The Empty Crash:
Hook/Intrigue: Mike becomes physically depressed, and Desae takes him back home.
Main Character journey: Desae and Nome help Mike get over his depression.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Mike can’t stay and endanger the family but can’t survive w/o them.
Action/Reaction: Mike fights his depression. Finding his cell phone in his space suit leg so he shows Desae & Nome pictures and video of his family.
Cliffhanger: Yardas, Desae’s eccentric best friend drops in unannounced.Ep-5: Making Friends
Hook/Intrigue: Yardas freaks out, having been told the alien is an invader.
Main Character journey: Mike feels he’s causing too much trouble and vows to leave ASAP.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Desae, Nome, Yardas insist he must stay but contemplate telling Yardas’ stoic husband, Ben, or not.
Action/Reaction: Once home, Yardas tells her husband all about it.
Cliffhanger: When Amixmu visits Yardas home, we see that he and Ben are old friends.Ep-6: Compare & Contrast
Hook/Intrigue: Are Desae and Mike falling in love or just extremely curious of each other?
Main Character journey: Mike and Desae’s relationship helps Mike adjust immensely.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Mike draws closer to Desae and Nome, who looks to him as a father.
Action/Reaction: Mike wants to turn himself in to authorities, but Desae forbids it, knowing how they will treat him.
Cliffhanger: Mike encounters Ben.Ep-7: Nome the Teacher
Hook/Intrigue: Ben seems to understand and accept Mike all to easily.
Main Character journey: Mike begins to accept his new reality & “home.”
Major Challenge/Conflict: Should Mike trust Ben or not? Should Mike stay with Desae?
Action/Reaction: As Mike settles in, he learns much about Romal from Nome to include that Desae thinks Logard (God) sent Mike to her.
Cliffhanger: When Mike mentions God (Logard) to Desae, she forbids him to speak of God again.Ep-8: Inventors and Innovations
Hook/Intrigue: Mike learns that Romal is officially atheistic except for illegal secret meetings.
Main Character journey: Mike & Desae share great faith in God/Logard.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Desae tells of how her betrothed was killed when Security Forces raided a secret meeting before she even knew she was carrying Nome.
Action/Reaction: Mike convinces Desae that they should raise Nome to believe with the understanding that it is forbidden by the government.
Cliffhanger: Later on, out of the blue, Ben asks Mike if there is Logard on Earth.Ep-9: ET Phone Home
Hook/Intrigue: Mike learns Romal’s “trigital” tech and base 8 math, and feels a great need for HAL.
Main Character journey: Mike has accepted and functions well in this small circle of confidants.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Mike’s existence troubles all of Romal that thinks he is a scout for an alien invasion to take the planet.
Action/Reaction: Mike attempts to communicate with the authorities which backfires.
Cliffhanger: Ben is caught peaking in the back window.Ep-10: Apprehending Appreciation
Hook/Intrigue: Be has been looking out for and helping Desae all along.
Main Character journey: Mike does not know how to read Romalians yet.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Mike is suspicious (and jealous) why Ben is so interested in Desae.
Action/Reaction: Eventually Mike lets Ben help plan the heist of HAL his ship’s computer AI.
Cliffhanger: At home, Ben confesses to Yardas that he was once a Security Force member.Ep-11: The Heist Plan
Hook/Intrigue: Mike dresses as a Romali elderly and is taken by Desae and Yardas in an ambulator to the “Alien Invasion Museum” to case the place to get HAL.
Main Character journey: Mike is helpless, depending on Desae and Yardas to get in and secretly remove HAL from the spaceship display.
Major Challenge/Conflict:
Action/Reaction: Mike must remain quiet as Yardas & Desae encounter curious spectators and staff who ask a lot of questions and tell them horrifying stories of alien encounters along the way.
Cliffhanger: Hal has been removed from the ship.Ep-12: “HAL May I Help You?”
Hook/Intrigue: They find a staff member who tells them the computer is being analysed by Romal’s top computer scientist in the Lab behind the Museum.
Main Character journey: Discussing all they know, Yardas and Desae realize Ben had was the infiltrator for the Security Force that raided the secret meeting 3 years earlier.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Mike, Desae, nor Yardas know what to do about Ben.
Action/Reaction: They pray that Ben is not setting them up and execute their new plan to enter the Lab after hours.
Cliffhanger: They are cornered by the scientist working late.Write a rough draft of each of the episode descriptions for your first season.
Ep-1: “My Strange New World”
Astronaut Michael Barrington, on a 13-year mission to explore Earth’s nearest inhabitable neighbor, 6.2-light-years away, becomes stranded there when his fuel transfer valve is struck by a meteor. Crashlanding on a desolate area, his ship is seen by a Humanoid woman, Desae, farming nearby. She heads for the crash site.Ep-2: Desae of Romal
Alone at the crash site, Desae manages to free Mike from the ship and takes his unconscious body home to care for him. When Mike comes to, they quickly gain each other’s trust, as does her 2-year-old son, Nome. Nome helps by miming out words as Mike learns their language. When Mike asks to be “taken to her leader,” she informs him he will be incarcerated and treated horribly. We see a Security Force leader at the crash site looking for the alien and begins to follow Desae’s tractor tracks.Ep-3: Making Enemies
Desae delays Amixmu outside while Nome helps hide Mike inside. She tells Amixmu that the alien was gone when she got there. After searching, finding nothing, Amixmu leaves, and Desae finds Mike’s injury has opened severely from having to hide. She cuts a patch of her own outer skin to patch Mike’s bleeding wound. When better in a few days, Mike decides to evade in the wilderness rather than endanger Desae & Nome. She insists he stay because of the dangers out there. He asks her to take him to the crash site to retrieve his onboard AI computer nicknamed HAL. The ship is gone!Ep-4: The Empty Crash:
Mike begins to sarcoma to great depression with no good choice between endangering Desae’s family, or unlikely survival alone, or being captured and tortured. Finding his cell phone in his space suit leg pocket, he shares some pictures of his mom, sister, and friends with Desae and Nome. Desae realizes how depressed Mike has become, consoles him, especially when the cellphone battery dies. As Desae and Nome draw close on either side of Mike, Desae’s eccentric neighbor and best friend, Yardas, drops in unexpected.Ep-5: Making Friends
Yardas freaks out because the news talks of an alien scout came ahead of an invasion. Mike uses his fledgling words to help, as Desae attempts to calm her, but Nome demonstrates with a hug that Mike is a good being. Yards debates as to tell her stoic husband, Ben. Meanwhile, Amixmu stops by to visit his old friend, Ben.Ep-6: Compare & Contrast
Are Mike and Desae falling in love or just extremely interested in each other’s cultures and shared humanoid feelings? As they lean, they also have rudimentary misgivings and grand resolutions. Mike becomes very handy around the farm. He wants to communicate with authorities to assure them he is not an invader. But Desae forbids it, knowing they will not trust his words. Mike and Desae go to visit Yardas and Ben.Ep-7: Nome the Teacher
Ben much too quickly and easily accepts Mike. This helps Mike feel welcome on Romal but it makes Desae very suspicious. Back home Nome teaches Mike all he can about Romal while Desae works the field. Nome even tells Mike how Desae believes Mike was sent to her by Logard (God). When Mike brings up the subject of God (Logard), she forbids him from talking about Logard at all.Ep-8: Inventors and Innovations
Mike leans that belief in Logard is forbidden on Romal and that her betrothed was killed when a Security Force led by Amixmu raided their secret meeting before she even knew she was pregnant with Nome. Mike convinces Desae that they should teach Nome about God but include that he must keep it secret because the authorities outlawed the belief. When they visit Yardas, Ben asks Mike if they have Logard on earth.Ep-9: ET Phone Home
Mike learns about Romal’s “trigital” technology and many other things about this unique planet. He learns that they have built an “Alien Invader Museum” containing his ship. Most knowledgeable Romalians speculate that the alien at large is a scout for an immanent invasion. Thus, Romal has resurrected a military and is manufacturing weapons of war, long ago unnecessary since “the unity.” When Mike tries to communicate with the authorities, it only backfires, escalating efforts and panic. They catch Ben peeking through the back window.Ep-10: Apprehending Appreciation
Ben explains that he’s been looking out for and helping Desae since the raid that killed her betrothed. He even gave her a small part of his land for her to farm. Then Ben helps them plan the heist of HAL from the Alien Invasion Museum. He seems to have too much understanding of their security systems, causing suspicion. Back home, when he confesses to Yardas that he was once a member of the Security Force, she tells him not to tell Desae.Ep-11: The Heist Plan
Mike sits in an ambulator as an elderly covered with a blanket and low hat, as Desae and Yardas push him to the Museum. They meet interesting people who have all kinds of fictitious stories about the alien as well as staff persons giving tours. When they get to the ship, the onboard computer, HAL has been removed! They cause some suspicion when they try to ask about it, having to explain that Yardas is a technician, curious about the open space in the ships console, etc.. A manager tells them it is being analyzed by Romal’s top computer expert in the Lab in the back of the Museum.Ep-12: “HAL May I Help You?”
They find a quiet place to replan. Mike and Desae will hide while Yardas takes the empty ambulator out as if someone was still in it. After closing, Desae and Mike can retrieve HAL and only trip alarms upon leaving, when Yardas will have her vehicle ready to whisk them away before security can arrive. However, just as they locate HAL, the late working computer expert traps them in the lab and is about to sound the alarm, when Mike speaks to him in Romali trying to explain. Temporarily stymied, the scientist explains how he’d tried everything he could to get the computer to respond, but to no avail. When he then turns back to sound the alarm, HAL speaks in perfect Romali, “Major Barrington, is there something I can say to help?”
(Continued next season.)
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