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Module 2 – Lesson 4: Generating Episode Ideas
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Brenda Boddy – Episode list rough draft
What I learned: Again, I had several ideas come to me. I am excited to learn the process of putting a season together. I know there are big gaps but I am starting to see a journey.
THE CHEAT SHEET
1. Beginning JUSTICE REINCARNATES INTO THE FUTURE. HE DISCOVERS HE DID NOT REINCARNATE, BUT HAS AN AI CHIP IN HIS HEAD.…………………………………………………………………….Season End/Cliffhanger
2. Season 1 Mystery Set up…TOM WAS IN THE PAST AND NOW SHOWS UP IN THE FUTURE. WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO DO WITH JUSITCE’S REINCARNATION? HOW DID JUSTICE GET TO THE FUTURE AND WHY? HOW DOES HE GET BACK? WE FIND OUT THERE WAS NO PAST, BUT HE HAS A CHIP IN HIS HEAD.………………………………..………………Season 1 Mystery Solved
3. Journey begins…JUSTICE REINCARNATES, EVENTUALLY FINDS OUT HE IS A TEST DUMMY FOR AI, AND THEN MOVES INTO THE FUTURE WITH THAT NEW KNOWLEDGE. AT THE END OF SEASON TWO WE FIND OUT THE CHIP MALFUNCTIONED, AND WE DON’T KNOW WHAT JUSTICE IS…………………………………………………….Journey peaks, but continues.
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SAMANTHA IS TRYING TO POISON HER FATHER.
KENZIE IS TRYING TO ESCAPE JUSTICE.
INTERNAL AFFAIRS IS INVESTIGATING JUSTICE.
PARANORMAL EVENTS IS INVESTIGATING JUSTICE
TOM WAS IN JUSTICE’S PAST AND SHOWS UP IN THE FUTURE ALSO.
JEWEL IS WORKING UNDERCOVER FOR INTERNAL AFFAIRS.
JEWEL WAS IN CUERVO’S SEX RING AND IS SEARCHING THE LEADER OUT FOR REVENGE.
JEWEL IS A SERIAL KILLER, KILLING PIMPS AT NIGHT.
MILEY STALKS MEN.
MILEY LOST ALL HER FAMILY WITHIN SIX MONTHS, CREATING A NEEDY MENTALITY.
MILEY HELPED HEER MOTHER WITH ASSISTED SUICIDE AND HAS GUILT.
MASON WAS BULLIED AS A KID. MASON’S FATHER WANTED HIM TO GO INTO HIS LAW PRACTICE, BUT HE WANTED TO EMPOWER HIMSELF.
MASON IS EXERCISE OBSESSIVE TO KEEP OFF THE WEIGHT THAT PLAGUED HIM AND CREATED THE BULLYING.
JUSTICE IS DYSLEXIC. JUSTICE’S FATHER WAS EDUCATED. HE WAS DISAPPOINTED IN HIM AND EMBARRASED. JUSTICE WENT WEST AND EVENTUALLY BECAME A LAWMAN.
JUSTICE HAD A FOUR-YEAR-OLD SON LEFT IN THE PAST. HE WAS WIDOWED.
RACHEL IS A PARANORMAL RESEARCHER.
RACHEL TRIES TO TEST JUSTICE. HE REFUSES.
RACHEL GAINS JUSTICE’S TRUST.
RACHEL TESTS JUSTICE AND FINDS THE CHIP.5. Make a list of the Major Story Lines.
STORY LINE ONE: Justice reincarnates into the future, learns how to function as an agent, angers the Mexican Cartel who want revenge, and is the target of his current family who are trying to kill him. He ends his season journey by finding our he has a chip in his head.
STORY LINE TWO: Jewel is working undercover for Internal Affairs to prove Justice’s corruption. She’s a kick ass BORTAC agent by day, but on her own she is searching for Cuervo who trafficked her as a young girl. She wants revenge. And in the meantime, she is protecting the girls on the streets by killing the pimps working them. She ends the season covering for Justice with Internal Affairs and being vindicated with Cuervo’s death.
STORYLINE THREE: Miley begins the season stalking her current boyfriend. She is desperately seeking love and family, a product of losing her entire family within a six-month period. While her brothers were taken by accident, she helped her mother with assisted suicide. This has left her lonely and guilty. She transfers her adoration from her boyfriend to Justice, resorting often to bulimia and binging when he doesn’t return her adoration. This process angers and causes jealousy with Mason who finds out her secrets and still wants to be with her.
STORYLINE FOUR: Rachel works for the Office of Paranormal Research and is following Justice’s activities. She gains his trust and eventually is allowed to test him, where she discovers an AI chip in his head.
OUTLINING PROCESS
Episode 1: THE AWAKENING: A crooked BORTAC agent changes radically when A moral Texas ranger, from 1908, reincarnates into his body.
No one believes him.
Discover’s his predecessor is crooked.
Tries to right wrongs/makes a mess.
Audience reveal: Miley is stalking men.
He realizes Tom, from his past is also in his future.
Audience reveal: Paranormal events is following him.
Audience reveal: Jewel is working for Internal Affairs.
HIS DAUGHTER POISONS HIM.
Episode 2: REPERCUSSIONS: Justice’s new ability to heal comes in handy when his wife shoots him but creates problems when the Office of Paranormal Investigations wants to begin testing on him.
He finds new technology frustrating.
Justice reveal: He’s dyslexic.
He works with his team to stop smugglers from moving firearms.
His wife is planning an escape.
Paranormal Events wants to examine him.
REVEAL: JEWEL KILLS A PIMP TO PROTECT ONE OF HIS GIRLS.
HIS WIFE SHOOTS HIM.
Episode 3: Justice and his team stop a shipment of women and arrest the son of the cartel boss.
Jewel audience reveal: Wall of investigation of Cuervo.
Miley audience reveal: She is turning her infatuation toward Justice.
Mason audience reveal: He was bullied as child.
Justice’s wife and daughter leave town.
KENZIE AND SAMANTHA ARE KIDNAPPED.
Episode 4: Justice and his team attempt to rescue the girls.
Samantha manages to get away into the desert.
Justice and team go after her.
Old-fashioned shoot-out where Justice rescues Samantha.
KENZIE CALLS AND JUSITCE IS TOLD TO MEET WITHIN THE HOUR OR SHE WILL DIE.
Episode 5: Justice meets with the cartel who have set up a trap.
Justice follows instructions and sets himself up to meet.
He has a fight with the cartel at the river.
Mason reveal: He turns Justice into Internal Affairs out of jealousy.
Tom mentor’s Justice.
KENZIE IS SOLD ON THE BLACK MARKET.
Episode 6: The Team goes on an interagency mission and rescues Justice’s wife but the cartel blows up Justice’s house severely injuring Kenzie anyway.
The team uses new-age technology to find the location where Kenzie is held.
In an interagency mission with the Mexican gov, the team goes after Kenzie.
In a volley of fighting the team rescues Kenzie, killing the son of the cartel.
THE CARTEL BLOWS UP JUSTICE’S HOUSE
Episode 7: The unit is called to defend a high-stakes hostage situation, which is a smoke screen for a heist to gain money elsewhere.
Justice determines he needs to stop Cuervo before his family dies.
Paranormal Events feel like they have found a force field where Justice reincarnated.
Miley reveals her interest when pushing Kenzie to divorce Justice.
Jewel’s covers for Justice at Internal Affairs and joins forces with him to find Cuervo.
JEWEL IS CAPTURED BY CUERVO.
Episode 8: Justice goes off grid after Cuervo and is captured and tortured himself.
Justice crosses into Mexico.
He fights his way into Cuervo’s lair and captures Louisa, thinking he has the cartel leader’s wife.
Miley reveal: She lost her entire family within 6 months.
Louisa is the cartel leader and turns tables on Justice.
JUSTICE IS TORTURED.
Episode 9: Justice manages to turn table on his captors and kills Cuervo, bringing Internal Affairs crashing down on him.
Jewel reveal: She was part of Cuervo’s sex trafficking and is there for revenge.
Justice kills Cuervo and gets Jewel out.
Internal affairs arrests Justice.
A SHADOWY GOVT AGENCY SETS JUSTICE FREE.
PARANORMAL EVENTS GRABS HIM AND BEGINS TESTING.
Episode 10: Justice discovers Tom is behind his release and part of a conspiracy.
Tom rescues Justice.
Justice realizes Tom isn’t being square with him.
He and Jewel break into Tom’s residence and find evidence that Tom is part of a conspiracy.
Miley reveal: She helped her mom with assisted suicide.
TOM CATCHES THEM IN THE ACT.
Episode 11:
Justice finds out he did not reincarnate and that an AI chip was put in his head.
Tom holds Justice and Jewel hostage, calling in others.
Justice is part of a secret program to create better law enforcement for the future.
The ‘others’ want to kill Justice and Jewel to keep the conspiracy secret.
JUSTICE LEARNS HE DID NOT REINCARNATE BUT HAS AN AI CHIP IN HIS HEAD.
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