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Lesson 5
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Season one Episode one The Puzzle Works Formally known Benjamin Greene
Not in my house!
Benjamin Greene is brutally recruited into the Puzzle Works. On his first deadly mission, he and his crew receive orders from the rogue agency to end the drug pipeline from Afghanistan to Ft. Bragg using any means necessary. Col. Greene and his crew are stopped on the tar mac while trying to leave. They are put back on the plane 24 hours later. The crew find out the the drug world has nestled in closer than they would have preferred.
Episode 2
Not In my house!-continued
Greene is recovering in a Fort Bragg hospital. He wakes up and realizes he was set up. What’s more, he realizes that the leak was from Fort Bragg! He and his crew find out Commanding General, Edwin Mosley, who he served with in Afghanistan is behind the trafficking. It is being done from a warehouse in Fort Bragg and being distributed on the East Coast. The illegal operation suddenly and literally goes up in a blaze of glory!
My brothers keeper
Episode 3
The unit armorer, SPC. Allan Jones who’s family is becomes the target of gang leader from Philly. The local gang boss hatches a plan to kill his little brother and threaten his family to force him to hand over the units M-16 and M-4 gun stock. Col. Greene finds out about it and decides to protect SPC. Jones. The Crew primes the streets of Philly for a gang war the local thugs wish they had never started!
The dead of night!
Episode 4
After the successful rescue attempt of several “Oil workers” the crew is tasked to dispose of their captors once they are no longer of use. Ironically, extraditing the prisoners would give away the true identity of the “Oil Workers”. The crew is forced to take the prisoners out of Venezuela in the dead of night and make sure they are never seen again.
The Patsy
Episode 5
A Special operations soldier is recruited to covertly raid a Taliban village in Afghanistan. After the soldier is arrested, he faces a very public and messy trial. Before the media can find out the full truth, The Crew must make sure the true story never sees the light of day. Col. Greene likes the soldier and decides to help him rather than kill him, because he realizes the soldier did exactly what he would have done and he was ordered to do it.
The Banker.
Episode 6
After the crew delivers $434 Million in cash to Iraq, it comes up missing in the State Department books. Some of the cash was stolen by Iraqi soldiers but the crew is having none of it and is tasked to get that money back and teach them a painful lesson. In the end, the Crew doesn’t exact the justice demanded by the Puzzle Works and walks away from the mission after retrieving the money.
The spy that stayed for dinner.
Episode 7
The Crew takes over a Baccuba Radio and TV station formally under the control of ISIS and hands it over to the Lincoln Group to broadcast Iraqi propaganda. During the takeover, Col. Greene suspects an Al-Quida mole and sets out to uncover him.
We’ve packed your bags for you.
Episode 8
Local gangs in Greens-Borough, NC outside of Fort Bragg are killing American solders and terrorizing neighborhoods. The Pentagon and the locals are tired of it. The local police chief contacts The Crew and asks them to fix it. Col. Greene Initially denies the request but the Puzzle Works green lights the project and the game is afoot.
The entrepreneur
Episode 9
Nothing is as it seems in the drug trade. Early in Season One the crew raided the drug warehouse on Ft. Bragg. They killed the drug crew and decided to go into business for themselves or it would appear that way. The fruits or that labor cannot go unrewarded as Lt. Greene and First Sergeant AKA “The Chaplain” send shock waves up and down the East coast drug world.
Cliffhanger end of Season 1
Payback
Episode 10
A new player in the drug world is not an invited guest and the local bad guys decide to teach The Chaplin and his crew a lesson. In an ambush Lt. Greene and First Sergeant Desmoines are critically wounded. Several of his crew are killed. Agent Stockton is right there and ready to take the entire operation down.
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CJ’s Episode Descriptions:
What I learned doing this assignment: these were much easier for me than the bulletpoints–I think next time I tackle this I might start with this method (particularly the starting with each episodes’ cliffhanger and working backwards) as it seems more intuitive to me, then I can use the bulletpoints to logic-check for plotholes and also add a few B/C story ideas.
EPISODE 1:
When she cracks the chest of a lifeless nun with a gunshot wound, hands holding the nun’s heart, ER doctor Angela Rossi suddenly hears the dead nun ordering her to “save the girl.”
Is she going insane or is this real? Doesn’t matter—Rossi can’t walk away if a child is in danger. She follows her instincts, angering the homicide detective, Ryder, investigating the nun’s murder when she trespasses on his crime scene.
The missing girl’s father, Devon, shows her a secret way into the tunnels below the city where the girl fled to. But, instead of finding the girl, Rossi discovers a serial killer’s lair.
EPISODE 2:
As Rossi and Devon leave the tunnels while Ryder investigates the crime scene, Rossi goes catatonic and is forced to tell Devon about her symptoms. Devon realizes Rossi’s powers don’t include only talking to almost-dead nuns, but also an ability to sense things beyond normal human perception. He encourages her to use her powers to find Esme and the other missing children.
Meanwhile, Ryder discovers killer’s victims all missing their brains and their bodies show evidence of torture.
After several close calls with drug-dealer traps, Rossi’s powers lead her and Devon to the missing kids, they’re safe but there’s no sign of Esme. Does the killer have her?
EPISODE 3:
Rossi tends to the kids while Devon goes to get help and she realizes they’re suffering from the same symptoms she has only more severe: tremors, seizures, catatonia. Do any of them also have her strange psychic powers? None of them seem to, but Rossi also had no idea she had them until she held the dying nun’s heart in her hand.
Ryder joins Rossi to interview the kids and their families, who all come from the Kingston Tower. They learn the nun hid the children from strangers who came to the Tower wanting to take them—did the strangers have anything to do with the children’s symptoms?
Rossi tries to explore nun’s memories, searching for clues, but is overwhelmed when realizes she has them ALL, not just the memories around the nun’s murder, and she collapses.
Meanwhile, Ryder discovers all the killer’s victims also lived in Kingston Tower where another woman was just abducted, same MO as the killer!
EPISODE 4:
After her collapse, Rossi is forced to tell Louise about her symptoms, including her new psychic powers. Louise admits her for a full evaluation.
Devon and Ryder clash as they both investigate the Tower.
As Rossi waits for answers, she hears the nun’s voice again, and retraces her final day, convincing Ryder to return with her to the tunnels. Together they follow clues gleaned from Rossi’s new powers, entering a part of the tunnel not on any maps, where Rossi leads him to the abducted woman, unconscious but alive.
EPISODE 5: Rossi learns her fate
Ryder insists on answers: how did Rossi know where the woman was? Rossi’s tired of hiding and she’s not sure she can face the truth alone, so she brings Ryder with her to Louise to learn her diagnosis: Fatal Insomnia, an inherited disease that destroys both the body and mind.
Devon’s certain Esme’s mother’s killer was involved with the Kingston Tower gang, confronts their leader, barely escapes alive. He goes to Rossi in the hospital and asks for her help, using her powers.
Rossi has a vision of Esme… does that mean Esme’s dying?
EPISODE 6:
Rossi and Devon follow clues from her vision of Esme and the trail leads not to the Tower but to the Kingston mansion. Devon confesses that old man Kingston is his father, he’d come to the Tower and rape women there, leading Devon’s mother to kill herself after Devon was born—but she left a paternity test proving that he’s an heir to the Kingston fortune if he ever wants to claim his parentage. Meanwhile, Ryder discovers who killed Esme’s mom and the nun and Louise figures out how the children were infected: a new flu vaccine provided by Kingston pharmaceuticals.
Devon and Rossi break into the Kingston mansion only to find the old man bedridden with cancer—he can’t be the killer—but where’s Esme?
EPISODE 7:
When Rossi realizes that she can access memories of patients in a certain type of coma, she decides to try to communicate with the killer’s surviving victim. But she’s unprepared for the trauma of reliving the woman’s brutal attack and torture—or the moral repercussions of forcing the victim to go through that again!
Rossi’s horrified at what she’s done, it goes against everything she stands for, every vow she’s taken as a physician. But as she sorts through the memories, digging past the pain and terror, she discovers that Kingston’s son is the killer!
EPISODE 8:
Realizing the cops are on to him, Kingston holds Esme hostage, demands Rossi’s surrender—she’s the key to his escape plan. Although Rossi doesn’t understand why he needs her, she’s not going to risk Esme. Devon insists on going with her and they meet Kingston on the roof of the Tower.
Kingston hasn’t just infected the children with Fatal Insomnia, he’s also been experimenting on the women he kidnapped, developing a new mind control drug for a foreign Cabal that saved his father’s company from bankruptcy. The Cabal wants both Esme, one of the few children who developed psychic powers, and Rossi.
He turns his gun on Devon but Ryder, who followed Rossi, tackles Kingston and is shot. Devon escapes with Esme while Rossi tries to save Ryder. Kingston grabs her, aiming a kill shot at Ryder, but she stabs Kingston with Ryder’s knife.
As Kingston dies, she steals his memories, revealing that the woman behind the Cabal and the manmade Fatal Insomnia is Rossi’s own mother!
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BRIAN BULL – Episode Descriptions
“What I learned from doing this assignment is…
I really need to continue developing my story.ASSIGNMENT
For each episode, go through the event bullet points and organize them in this fashion.
Hook/Intrigue:
Main Character journey:
Major Challenge/Conflict:
Action/Reaction:
Cliffhanger:
EPISODE 1
Hook/Intrigue: Zelda “sees” Jezebel in a psychic reading and freaks outMain Character journey: Zelda tries to give the crystal ball to Jim for safe keepings
Major Challenge/Conflict: Zelda has a heart attack, drops the crystal ball and it splits in two.
Action/Reaction: Jim creates a pair of “psychic” glasses from the crystal ball enabling him to see the future.
Cliffhanger: Jezebel is looking for Zelda and Jim “sees” Jezebel at the hospital standing over Zelda with a Day-glow syringe!
EPISODE 2
Hook/Intrigue: Jim is visiting his mom, JoAnn, and “sees” her being molested by a man.Main Character journey: Jim is compelled to protect JoAnn from this man and he must stop Jezebel from killing Zelda
Major Challenge/Conflict: Jim has to decide between the two.
Action/Reaction: Jim makes mom promise not to venture out
Cliffhanger: Jim meets a woman named Gloria at the hospital, “sees” Gloria and him getting married!
EPISODE 3
Hook/Intrigue: Jim confronts the “man” he saw in his “vision” regarding JoAnn.Main Character journey: Jim tries to get closer to Gloria but she’s not having it
Major Challenge/Conflict: Jim finds out the “man” is JoAnn’s younger boyfriend.
Action/Reaction: Gloria is friendly to Jim and they go to see Zelda, Jim doesn’t like Howard, wants them to end relationship
Cliffhanger: Jezebel is there just like in Jim’s vision!
EPISODE 4
Hook/Intrigue: Zelda goes into a comaMain Character journey: Jim tries to get closer to Gloria
Major Challenge/Conflict: Jim doesn’t know what to do with Zelda and the crystal ball, Jim doesn’t know Zelda is Gloria’s older sister.
Action/Reaction: Gloria wants to help Jim with Zelda as much as possible.
Cliffhanger: Jim “sees” Gloria moving into Zelda’s shop next door to his!
EPISODE 5
Hook/Intrigue: Jim “sees” his mom skydiving!Main Character journey: Jim and Gloria become closer but just “friends”, Jim must stop his mom from skydiving.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Jim and JoAnn argue, Jim wants to be more than just “friends” with Gloria
Action/Reaction: Gloria confides in Jim regarding Jezebel, Jim follows JoAnn to the mall where she and Howard indoor skydive
Cliffhanger: Zelda comes out of her coma
EPISODE 6
Hook/Intrigue: Jezebel reads the Tarot cards “Death” for JimMain Character journey: Jim gets Zelda to mentor him
Major Challenge/Conflict: Zelda wants to know the crystal ball is safe
Action/Reaction: Jim doesn’t know how to tell Zelda about the crystal ball
Cliffhanger: Jezebel tells Gloria her plot to kill Jim
EPISODE 7
Hook/Intrigue:Main Character journey: Jim plots to kill Jezebel making it look like an accident
Major Challenge/Conflict: Jim considers using Gloria as the “bait” in his plan
Action/Reaction:
Cliffhanger: Jezebel kills Zelda
EPISODE 8
Hook/Intrigue:Main Character journey:
Major Challenge/Conflict: Jezebel vs. Jim
Action/Reaction: Gloria moves into Zelda’s psychic shop just like Jim’s vision
Cliffhanger: Jezebel dies but not according to plan
2. Write a rough draft of each of the episode descriptions for your first season.
EPISODE 1
Zelda, a psychic, is giving a reading when Jezebel, appears in the reading. Zelda panics feeling the need to “hide” the crystal ball.
Jim Brown, an Optometrist whose store is next door is dropping off Zelda’s new glasses. Zelda tries to give Jim the crystal ball for safe keepings but suffers a heart attack in the process dropping the crystal ball. The crystal ball splits in two. Zelda goes to the hospital.
The crystal ball is irreparable. Jim is intrigued by its clarity and decides to make a pair of glasses from the crystal ball.
Upon completion of the glasses Jim discovers he can to “see” the future when he looks in the mirror.
Jezebel stops by Jim’s shop looking for Zelda. Jim puts the glasses on and “sees” Jezebel standing over Zelda at the hospital with a Day-Glow syringe in her hand!!!
EPISODE 2
Jim is visiting his mom, JoAnn at the Assisted Living Facility. He puts on the glasses and “sees” JoAnn being molested by a younger man!
Jim must find this man and stop him. Jim also must go to the hospital and check on Zelda’s safety because Jezebel is lurking around. Jim make JoAnn promise not to leave her apartment until he gets back.
At the hospital, Jim meets an attractive woman named Gloria. Through the glasses Jim “sees” the two of them getting married!
EPISODE 3
On Jim’s way to visit JoAnn Jim confronts the “man” he saw in his vision!
Jim and Gloria spend more time together but Gloria is more intrigued with Zelda and her psychic abilities than she is with Jim.
Jim learns that the “man” is actually JoAnn’s boyfriend and he makes her feel “alive” and she wants to pursue a “love-of-life” lifestyle. This worries Jim to no end. jim confronts Howard and threatens him if anything happens to JoAnn.
Jim and Gloria go to see Zelda at the hospital and Jezebel is there dressed as a nurse, day-glow syringe in hand just like Jim’s vision!
EPISODE 4
Jim and Gloria are having coffee and Jim looks at Gloria through the glasses and “sees” the two of them on the Santa Monica pier with fireworks in the background.
They visit Zelda at the hospital. Zelda is in a coma but she’s alive.
Jim tries to get closer to Gloria but she just wants to know more about Zelda.
Jim and Gloria are on the Santa Monica pier with fireworks in the background just like Jim’s vision. Jim goes in for the kiss but Gloria just wants to be “friends. As they part ways Jim “sees” Gloria moving boxes into Zelda’s psychic shop.
Gloria goes back to her Fortune Teller trailer and Jezebel is there!!! She asks, Do you think he knows where the crystal ball is?”
EPISODE 5
Jim “sees’ JoAnn skydiving!!!
Jim insists on JoAnn to stop seeing Howard; he is BAD for her and she may get hurt in more ways than one! JoAnn disagrees; Howard makes her feels young again.
Jim and Gloria continue being “friends” and Gloria confides in Jim that her sister is trouble, makes her uneasy about many things.
Jim follows JoAnn to the airport where he confronts her and Howard thinking they are there to skydive but they are there picking up Howard’s nephew and niece.
JoAnn, Howard and the kids go to the mall where they all do the indoor skydiving.
Jim and Gloria are at the hospital – Zelda comes out f her coma!
EPISODE 6
Jezebel is in the trailer reading Tarot cards. The “FOOL” card is on the table and then she turns over the “DEATH” card!
Jim and Zelda are talking at the hospital. Zelda wants to know if the crystal ball is safe. Jim assures her it is.
Jezebel tells Gloria she believe Jim knows the whereabouts of the crystal ball and she is willing to torture kill him to get the information to attain it!
EPISODE 7
Jim “sees” Jezebel plotting to kill him and he must strike before she does.
Jezebel kills Zelda.
EPISODE 8Jim kills Jezebel but it is an “accident” and Jezebels own doing.
Gloria moves into Zelda’s psychic shop just like Jim’s vision.
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