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David’s Character Emotions
What I learned doing this assignment is the importance/necessity of knowing your characters inside and out: what motivates them, what are they hiding, etc. The more well rounded the character, the better chance of the show’s success.
ASSIGNMENT 1: RIVERDALE
ARCHIE
A. Situational: Hope / Fear. Be a musician/not good enough
B. Motivation: Want / Need. To be with Valerie/Betty
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotions: Everything under control
D. Weaknesses: Gullible
E. Triggers: Mom leaving him and dad; relationships failing
F. Coping Mechanism: confronts dad to fix things
BETTY
A. Situational: Hope / Fear: She gets with Archie; she won’t
B. Motivation: Want / Need: To find murderer/straighten her own life
C. Mask: Base Negative Emotion / Public Mask: insecure/everything’s under control
D. Weaknesses: gullible, prideful
E. Triggers: any wrongdoing, esp with her own family
F. Coping Mechanism: used to stow it away, now lashes out
ASSIGNMENT 2: FALL RUSH
EMILY
HOPE: She can start a sorority, pass her class FEAR: she won’t, let the other girls down
WANT: to get her degree NEEDS: Respect, self-empowerment
PUBLIC MASK: Everything’s under control EMOTION: terrified/scared
WEAKNESS: never finishes anything/hates change
TRIGGERS: Someone being disrepectful to a friend/talking down to her
COPING MECHANISM: Shut down/drink wine/avoid
DR. ANDREWS
HOPE: He can regain the house FEAR: he won’t
WANT: to humiliate Emily NEEDS: forgive, not be so judgemental
PUBLIC MASK: In control of campus EMOTION: Scared of being defeated/belittled
WEAKNESS: prideful
TRIGGERS: Someone taking short cuts
COPING MECHANISM: Humiliate them
LINDSAY
HOPE: She reconnects with mom FEAR: she won’t
WANT: to go her own way NEEDS: reconnect with mom
PUBLIC MASK: Artsy rebel in control EMOTION: Insecure
WEAKNESS: stubborn
TRIGGERS: fake people, conformists
COPING MECHANISM: Shuns them, makes fun of them
ANNA
HOPE: She overcomes shyness FEAR: she won’t
WANT: to be popular NEEDS: be happy with who she is
PUBLIC MASK: Studious student EMOTION: Insecure, socially awkward
WEAKNESS: low self-esteem
TRIGGERS: boys rejecting her, social situations
COPING MECHANISM: cries, feels sorry for herself
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Module 2 Day 5
Tracy El Pueblo Episode Descriptions
What I learned doing this assignment is to keep planning and refining. I have five leads and it will be fun to spend time crafting these better. For this exercise, I’m just following the storyline of the young heroine in El Pueblo. I really like the suggestion to build from cliffhanger to cliffhanger, so need to improve these, too.
Following Antonia’s story line:
Episode 1: A widow woman publicly punished in church for having sex outside of marriage and sent away from El Pueblo. Antonia complains to old priest of this treatment since she has been married and not a virgin. Antonia’s told women must be pure as Christ’s bride for entire life. Antonia conflicted about her position as a marriage commodity. She tells priest she’d rather run away to convent than marry a rich old man. She then rejects a “young” widower 20 years her senior that Grandma picked out. Grandma angry as it’s best offer she’s had in a younger suitor. Antonia runs to her Aunt Gertrudis’s house, where her husband is suffering from a horrible mysterious illness.
Episode 2: Antonia becomes nanny to aunt’s children when her uncle dies. Neither priest nor shaman could save him, which scares the family. Aunt expecting a child soon. Antonia objects to having to run household, but then realizes she is not under Grandma’s eagle eye. She meets girlfriends going to river to fetch water. They encounter a soldier, escape from him. Agree not tell parents as would be locked away until they got married. Antonia hides a knife in her hatband to defend her virginity and unexpected freedom.
Episode 3: Antonia and women forced to grind corn in metates when mill breaks. Only person with skill to fix it was lover of woman sent away – he is in jail at fort hours to the south. Antonia complains she can’t watch children, do farm chores, and pound corn by hand. Grandma agrees she can hire help from the native village nearby. In mourning, Aunt Gertrudis wants to go to church to bless unborn child. This means making the journey on Saturday with the procession of 300 to Mission San Gabriel. Once there, Grandma challenged to a tortilla bake-off by her rival, the cook to the priests. In the crowd, Antonia loses sight of the new servant. She herself slips off with the majordomo’s son since no one is watching over her.
Episode 4: Aunt Gertrudis delivers surprise twins, so Antonia is busy! Grandma announces match for Antonia’s younger cousin (age 15) to suitor Antonia rejected. She will be moving to an immense ranch outside of town. Antonia hates handwork, but vows to embroider a pretty wedding dress with Grandma. Antonia’s new servant secretly helps Indians escape the mission out to the desert tribes, using Antonia’s discarded work dresses.
Episode 5: The wedding day of Antonia’s younger cousin. Traditional wedding activities are celebrated before the marriage, during it, and afterwards. Antonia’s family hosts the wedding luncheon. The servant girl brings in unknown natives to help serve who Antonia has never seen before. Antonia is sad when the buggy leaves with her dearest cousin. But she is glad it’s not her sitting beside the middle-aged man worrying about the wedding night to come.
Episode 6: Father Diego arrives new to El Pueblo. He is warmly welcomed by Antonia’s family, except for Grandma. She is suspicious of a handsome black-robed priest — quite unlike the brown-robed tough Franciscan friars assigned to the province. Grandma informs Father Diego that it has been her petitioning for an assistant priest and proper church building since she arrived at age 19 to build the village from scratch. She wants proper religious instruction for the children. Out of Grandma’s earshot later, Antonia begs the new priest to teach school. She pours out her hopes and dreams. She promises to come to confession at the mission to see him, as she has a lot to confess.
Episode 7: Antonia meets girlfriends early in morning to go for water. They tease her for being smitten by new priest — Antonia encourages them to come to class. Her friend <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:city w:st=”on”>Petra</st1:city></st1:place> says no point now, as a marriage has been arranged. Antonia urges her to fight it, but instead confronted by friends over Antonia’s dismissive attitude toward marriage prospects. Caste and status come between them for first time. After they leave, Antonia observes stirrings at native village Yangna. She sees her servant girl exchanging bundles. The lone soldier comes upon her; she has forgotten her knife. Father Diego is riding into El Pueblo. Antonia escapes possible harm.
Episode 8: When Lucas arrives new to El Pueblo, Antonia immediately goes to check him out at his uncle’s house. She is relieved at his looks, a young man of good breeding. He wears latest fashion from <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:city w:st=”on”>Mexico City</st1:city></st1:place>. He thinks all the small children with Antonia are hers. Oh no, she is not married or being courted. Antonia has organized a lunch and fandango in his honor. She asks if Lucas can dance. Oh, he can’t wait to show these country bumpkins!
Episode 9: Under the watchful eyes of Father Diego and the old women, Lucas conducts a dance class. Antonia is his partner. The young people want to be better than their friends from <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:city w:st=”on”>San Diego</st1:city></st1:place>, but act terribly. The vaqueros watch from a distance, jealous of the girls throwing themselves at Lucas. They taunt Lucas to come with them on a bear hunt just with lariats. Antonia forces him to go for his honor, but Lucas falls off the spirited horse they give him.
Episode 10: Antonia and townspeople shocked to receive orders from commander at <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:city w:st=”on”>Santa Barbara</st1:city></st1:place> fort to prepare for pirate attack. The warning comes from fur trade ship captain they all knew of. He spent last year at <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:city w:st=”on”>Santa Barbara</st1:city></st1:place> trying to get his ship back after black market goods stolen. Men go through military drills. Women stock provisions. Only military have weapons and ammo. Antonia practices throwing her knife until she can hit a target.
Episode 11: It has been a month since El Pueblo received word that an armed attack was coming from the <st1:place w:st=”on”>Sandwich Islands</st1:place>. They drilled and put together an evacuation plan. But nothing happened, so normal life resumed. Antonia and villagers enjoy fiesta day at mission. Lucas comes back with the vaqueros and a live grizzly. A bear and bull fight held in front of the church. Antonia loves the blood and gore. She is proud of Lucas. The soldiers drag in runaway Indians from the mission, putting them in the stocks for all to see. Father Diego protests. But Christian Indians instruct him it’s for their good, especially on a saint’s day. Antonia sees a strip of cloth from her old dress used as a headband on one man. Servant girl doesn’t return.
Episode 12: Antonia’s former best friend <st1:city w:st=”on”>Petra</st1:city> raped by soldier; <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:city w:st=”on”>Petra</st1:city></st1:place> botched abortion attempt and is ruined. Father Diego prevents girl’s father from killing her, for <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:city w:st=”on”>Petra</st1:city></st1:place> has brought dishonor to their family. Antonia begs to comfort her but denied. The soldier is on the lam, a threat to all females. Young vaqueros want to hunt him down. Lucas acts like he does, too, but would rather give orders. The older men urge young hotheads to set up a protective watch around the village.
END SEASON ONE
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R. Reid Jr. Lesson 5: Engaging Episode Descriptions
What I learned from this homework was all of these episodes that are summarized show any producer how the short will start with a hook, the journey he/she will take/challenges or conflict, the action/reaction and or a cliffhanger that will keep the viewer coming back for each episode. This has been an invaluable exercise/assignment.
• Episode 1: Bruce arriving on Earth/Sigma 2619 as a fish out of water.
• Hook/Intrigue: Bruce is landing literally through a portal and is told he is under a deadline for which he doesn’t care. He is hunting after the scent of something like a hunter. Be ends up getting advice and mentoring from a blind old man who mistakes him for an immigrant when Bruce explains he is an alien. The old man encourages Bruce not to talk about where he is from until he gets his proper papers.
• Main Character journey: From fish out of water to needing help.
• Major Challenge/Conflict: where is the person really behind the bank robberies?
• Action/Reaction: Bruce chases a lead but that bumps him into a girl who he ends up giving advice too.
• Cliffhanger: Bruce realizes while looking for the TECH he is not alone as he notices the back of the neck of the girl he was giving advice to at a local cafe.
• Episode 2: The Mysterious woman has left a trail of victims that have no memory.
• Hook/Intrigue: Bruce slips into the police headquarters disguised as an officer to get the addresses of all the people who robbed the bank.
• Main Character journey: Although he is new on Earth/Sigmas 2619 he must learn customs just like any immigrant.
• Major Challenge/Conflict: Trying to fit in he asks the old man for some advice.
• Action/Reaction: Bruce takes a college course to learn how to socialize.
• Cliffhanger: with no strong clues to go on Bruce takes a seat next in his new class. A girl turns around and introduces herself. And says, didn’t we meet at the bar the other night where you drank gingerale? Bruce says, that was some good Gingerale.
• Episode 3: The Agents on the scene on focused no the person and not the TECH being used.
• Hook/Intrigue:Bruce is checking out one of the victims of the TECH that was “mind swiped” to rob a bank but wakes up when arrested and has no knowledge of who or how anything happened.
• Main Character journey: Bruce learning how special agents operate. He goes undercover as different things to see how the agents work.
• Major Challenge/Conflict: Keeping himself from getting detected.
• Action/Reaction: Bruce trying to see how to infiltrate different agencies.
• Cliffhanger: Finding out one of the Agents is so ambitious that risking a life, including his partner would be part of the “sacrifice” to get ahead.
• Episode 4: Bruce meets the Agents but poses as a no-risk and as an insurance agent.
• Hook/Intrigue: Bruce going undercover as an insurance adjuster while juggling school homework.
• Main Character journey: Doing everything takes it’s toll as Bruce learns how to relax and gets a hit of marijuana.
• Major Challenge/Conflict: Handling marijuana for the first time.
• Action/Reaction: Posing as an insurance adjuster and asking to work together.
• Cliffhanger: One of the agents knows Bruce is lying and wants to get to the truth by any means necessary.
• Episode 5: Agents propose to work with Bruce and help his insurance report.
• Hook/Intrigue: After uncovering Bruce’s agent truth, bring home the reason many people lost their memory or never see a promotion the agents buy his story.
• Main Character journey: Bruce learning how to wheel and deal while studying with the first subject in a community college class.
• Major Challenge/Conflict: Handing in school assignments while saving the world.
• Action/Reaction: Bruce finds a truth that makes everyone happy to work with him.
• Cliffhanger: Agent proposes kidnapping one of the suspects and giving them drugs to find out what they really know.
• Episode 6: Bruce gets close to seeing the Mysterious woman but runs into Snowy, the first
victim.
• Hook/Intrigue: Finally a lead as the Mysterious woman finds Bruce as an insurance work believable.
• Main Character journey: Trust issues of someone who could potentially be a killer.
• Major Challenge/Conflict: Bruce doesn’t know if the Mysterious woman is to be trusted or if she is just a pawn.
• Action/Reaction: Bruce learning to trust and not trust others.
• Cliffhanger: Mystery woman hints that Bruce and the Mystery woman may know each other over coffees as Snowy, his classmate passes them in a cafe, a meeting that the Mystery woman set up to test Bruce’s reaction and see how he feels about someone.
• Episode 7 One of the Agents Bruce over-hears is willing to risk his partner’s life and Bruce to
catch the Mysterious woman.
• Hook/Intrigue: Snowy in the meeting of the mysterious woman thinks she may know her but not sure confirming Bruce’s suspicion that she maybe behind the TECH.
• Main Character journey: going from passive to proactive and dealing with memory flashbacks he can’t understand.
• Major Challenge/Conflict: alerting the agents to the whereabouts of the Mystery Woman
• Action/Reaction: alerting the agents about the Mystery Woman.
• Cliffhanger: The Mystery woman’s sudden search of her studio looks like there is a link with Bruce from letters to email exchanges (that she planted for the agents).
• Episode 8 Bruce memory starts coming back as he sees footage of the first crime cause he
gets a glimpse of the Mystery woman and may have figured out how to catch her.
• Hook/Intrigue: Bruce’s memory is coming back in bits and pieces.
• Main Character journey: Dealing with people from agents to the mystery woman to homework assignments to keep his identity secret as a regular person.
• Major Challenge/Conflict: keeping others believing he is human but struggling.
• Action/Reaction: dealing with his memory while trying to uncover the truth.
• Cliffhanger: A strong memory comes back that leads him to a locker and a cafe that may unlock who the Mysterious woman says he is.
• Episode 9 Mysterious woman leaves a message for Bruce telling him he has been here to
Earth/SIGMA 2619 before.
• Hook/Intrigue: the Mysterious woman talks to Bruce while his study partner goes to the bathroom that he must listen to.
• Main Character journey: working with the agents and stopping evidence from pointing to him.
• Major Challenge/Conflict: keeping ahead of the Mysterious woman and not getting found out by the agents.
• Action/Reaction: staying ahead of the Mysterious woman to not get arrested.
• Cliffhanger: Getting arrested on suspicion of treason.
• Episode 10 The Mysterious woman finds Bruce trapped but instead of letting him get caught by the agents by chance, she helps him escapee.
• Hook/Intrigue: Last the agents arrested Bruce while he was with his classmates.
• Main Character journey: knowing how crazy one of the agents and not killing him.
• Major Challenge/Conflict: knowing earth humor when the agents take him outside put in a car and then start laughing.
• Action/Reaction: knowing how to react to getting publicly arrested for a joke but agents that do it for a joke but immediately release him.
• Cliffhanger: Bruce gets trapped with the agents for a night out. the Mysterious woman finds him on the way back from the bathroom. and pulls him aside and tells him her life is in danger by the people he is with right now.
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Jack’s Season 1 episodes
What I learned from this assignment is that I need to plan the entire season with structure as if it were a feature – inciting incident episodes, turning point episodes, all is lost episode and a cliffhanger at the end
SEASON 1 – Title: Ideas are born
EPISODE 1
Intro Kayla the lawyer, trying to save the Everglades, who meets Victoria, the English blue blood at a polo match with Sir George and the Argentinian star Santiago. Santiago introduces Porshe, from Buenos Aires, the granddaughter of Adolf Hitler, to Sir George and asks him to do the legal work to help Santiago sell Hitler’s DNA in America. Kayla and Victoria travel to England to meet Head Druid Professor Matthews and freeze their eggs for future fertilization. The episode ends with the professor introducing an ancient skull of Bran The Blessed he expects to extract DNA from to combine with Victoria’s eggs.
EPISODE 2
Introduction of Billy Osceola, shaman of Ayes Indian tribe and python hunter. At a Save the Everglades protest, Billy is arrested, then let out by sugarcane company lawyer Sir George, because he is physically interested in Kayla. This upsets sugarcane king Adolpho’s wife and she places a voodoo curse on Kayla and Billy O. Kayla happens to be with Sir George when Victoria calls to tell him she wants a child with him. Victoria’s company is hacked with Ransomware. Santiago introduces white supremist Jimmy Gregory to Sir George as the person who will sell the embryos and babies with Hitler’s DNA.
EPISODE 3
Kayla is disrespected by Victoria and Kayla is jealous of her choosing Sir George to be the father of her child. Kayla concocts a plan to get back at the prejudice blue-blood parents of Victoria who will raise her child. Kayla seduces Sir George and obtains his sperm for fertilization of what the audience will think is Kayla’s eggs. Victoria pays a ransom to get her computer files back and tries to keep it quiet. Sir George tells Santiago he will be the father of Victoria’s child and wants to use one of Santiago’s women as surrogate. Santiago tells Porshe he will steal some of Victoria’s eggs to create a blue-blooded baby with his and Hitler’s genes.
EPISODE 4
Kayla travels to England and switches the name tags on Victoria’s and her eggs at Professor Matthews lab. Santiago meets with Victoria because she wants to have him clone a race horse so she can get her money back before the royal family realizes their money is gone. Billy Osceola has bad luck and thinks it’s because of the curse.
EPISODE 5 – Eggs are fertilized – Surrogates chosen. Santiago helps Victoria discover who the hackers are by introducing white supremist Jimmy Gregory to her, who has friends that are hackers. Victoria is able to get the DNA from the triple crown winner to implant into a surrogate horse.
EPISODE 6 – Surrogates are all pregnant. Professor Matthew chooses daughter Bryony. Santiago allows Porshe to be his surrogate. Billy Osceola gets his daughter Windy Moon to carry what he thinks is his and Kayla’s child, but in reality, it is Victoria’s and Sir George’s..
EPISODE 7 All is Lost Episode – All parents-to-be confer with their surrogates to make plans for the raising of the children. Porshe doesn’t want to give up the child to Victoria. Kayla thinks the problems her surrogate for Victoria and Sir George’s child, Windy Moon, is having is because of the voodoo curse. The surrogate horse for the clone of the triple crown winner dies.
EPISODE 8 – Kayla visits Adolpho’s wife and makes peace, settles the lawsuit and the curse is reversed. Complications with her pregnancy plague Windy Moon, surrogate for Kayla, but in reality Victoria and Sir George’s child, and she successfully gives birth to a baby boy, Jack. Porshe, surrogate for Victoria, but biological child of Kayla and Billy Osceola, has a baby girl, Katherine, and agrees to give up the baby to Victoria’s parents. Bryone has a baby girl, Dana, and reconciles with Professor Matthews, who thinks the baby has Victoria’s genes but they are Kayla’s.
SEASON CLIFFHANGER – Victoria discovers her bodyguard Charles is the traitor who has given her passwords to Chinese hackers.
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Janeen’s Episode Descriptions
What I learned doing this assignment is that I needed to follow Hal’s directions for doing this rather than doing it the way I have always done chapter summaries for books. This was much quicker and more efficient.
Episode 1:
Hook: Mike and Mindy’s Accident
Middle: Funeral — Jim thinks one third of the farm should belong to his son; the will is read and the Alaska brothers are appalled; Why was Cara chosen instead of Randi or the brothers? Cliffhanger: Randi is the master manipulator despite her Alzheimer’s
Episode 2
Hook: Randi wants Cara to stay and do all of the things Mindy used to do — we don’t know what “all of the things” are
Middle: Cara leaves her practice in LA and comes permanently to the farm; Cara arrives permanently at the farm and learns about farm income
Cliffhanger: Randi’s Alzheimer’s is revealed to the audience
Episode 3
Hook: Randi offers poor explanations of equipment to Cara;
Middle: Hunter picks up the instruction of Cara on the tractor.
Cliffhanger: Hunter and Gabe talk about Mike and his dad. Hearing them, Jim flies into a rage, gets physical and Hunter protects Gabe from their dad’s fury.
Episode 4
Hook: Cara saves the dog’s life via an intentional medicine diagnosis
Middle: Cara pays bills for the dairy and hog operation and consults the tax accountant. The farm’s income is tenuous, at best.
Cliffhanger: Randi, afraid what Cara might do if she finds out about Randi’s Alzheimer’s, hesitates to ask her to use intentional medicine on her even though Mindy said it might slow her condition’s progress.
Episode 5
Hook: Cara gets a quick tour of the dairy and wonders why most of the workers are Latino.
Middle: Her accountant tells her the hog operation’s income will barely cover the new manager’s salary since that was Mike’s primary job. A contractor is pumping liquid manure into the oil from the dairy’s slurry pits. Curious, she asks Hunter to explain.
Cliffhanger: Jim dresses down Hunter for not working at home and Cara flirts with Jim to diffuse the situation. Randi looks on and is very concerned.
Episode 6
Hook: Randi poorly instructs Cara on the tractor’s GPS and other controls while planting corn.
Middle: Cara finds that Randi’s account of how Mike and Molly got together differs from what Mike told her when they first met in college. Cara learns about the windmills that they work around in the field and their role in the farm’s income stream, energy generation and climate change mitigation.
Cliffhanger: Randi recalls that Mike broke up with Molly because he had met Cara, his soulmate at college. He hadn’t yet met Mindy.
Episode 7
Hook: Cara is appalled when herbicide spraying is done just after planting.
Middle: Hunter explains no-till agriculture, government programs for farmers and carbon sequestration. She makes sure they are enrolled in several programs to get more money for the farm. Contrary to what she told Mindy was unethical, Cara uses Silva mind control to lower the price of seed.
Cliffhanger: Randi notes Cara’s bittersweet tale of how she introduced the twins’ parents to each other in college. Cara has been in love with him all these years.
Episode 8
Hook: Randi loses her keys in the shop for the third time in one day. Hunter finds them in her purse where she always keeps them.
Middle: Jim berates Hunter, calling him a bastard and Hunter recalls all of the times that word was used by Jim when he was angry at Molly. He also remembers Jim typing furiously on the computer before the police came to say Molly had been in a wreck. Cara recalls saying she was sure that Jim was Hunter’s father, not Mike.
Cliffhanger: Randi gets a letter saying her Alaska sons will be home in the fall to help with harvest and take over the farm. Later, in tears, she searches online for a Power of Attorney form.
Episode 9
Hook: Cara considers opening a practice locally, flirts with Jim in the grocery store and Hunter watches from the end of the aisle.
Middle: Randi can’t remember the names of ingredients in her family birthday cake recipe and describes them instead. Hunter asks Jim if he plans to marry Cara, but he says he’ll only marry to get more land, but plans to have fun with Cara since she seems willing. An argument and fight ensue and, for the first time, Hunter is able to stop his dad’s physical abuse. Gabe peeks at them in fear.
Cliffhanger: Cara considers the difference between versions of the story of Molly and Jim getting together after Mike broke up with her. Mike thought the impending baby would settle Jim down and that he had always wanted Molly’s land.
Episode 10
Hook: The 11 year old twins take over from Randi on the small tractor and mounted mowers. Randi cries as she head to the house.
Middle: When a neighbor man dies, Cara and Randi ask the widow to rent her land to them next spring. Randi knows Jim has also asked and mentions Hunter’s bruises as a reason she might want to rent to Randi. Cara weighs her options and decides to use mind control to get the widow to rent to Randi.
Cliffhanger: Jim remembers how pleased Mike was when he congratulated he and Molly on Hunter’s birth years ago. Mike was a little too happy and Jim grows enraged. Then he fantasizes about making love to Cara and flirts with her at the mailboxes the next day.
Episode 11
Hook: Cara has a problem with her car and uses Silva techniques to diagnose it. The mechanic speculates that it’s something more expensive, but she insists she’s right. She is.
Middle: Cara finds that the EQIP paperwork she got in the mail is for government programs related to climate change mitigation that may net the farm additional money. She investigates. Mike and Mindy want Molly to leave Jim, but the land is hers and she is trapped because their income isn’t enough for her to hire someone to do Mike’s farm work.
Cliffhanger: Hearing about Cara’s Silva success with her car, Randi signs up for intentional medicine classes online, but during the first lesson, she can’t focus or understand it. She gives up in tears.
Episode 12
Hook: Randi asks Cara to work her magic on her after supper because she’s feeling a bit under the weather and has been having a few senior moments.
Middle: Mindy found a file of divorce papers Molly had filled out before her death on Gabe’s computer. Cara tells her best friend in LA about their investigation of Molly’s death and then their death at the same railroad crossing. She is considering leaving for her own safety.
Cliffhanger: Randi overhears Cara’s call. When Cara uses NMT to diagnose Randi, she gets perplexing results.
Episode 13
Hook: Cara is signing papers at the lawyer and he recalls that Mike and Mindy changed their executor and the twins’ guardianship to her just two months before they died.
Middle: Just a week before they died, Mindy told Cara about her premonition of death and Mike’s promise to his dad to keep the farm for his twins and not let his Alaska brothers get it. Jim gets drunk and relives his final fight with Molly, chasing her in his pickup as she drove away and the horror of her crash into the train. Then his decision to write the suicide note although he didn’t notice Hunter watching him do it.
Cliffhanger: A replay of Mike and Mindy’s New Year’s Eve crash now explains how they thought Jim caused Molly’s accident but we know it wasn’t sabotaged brakes; Cara contemplates the NMT results for Randi and the estate paperwork’s executor and guardian designations.
EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS
Episode 1: Every Ending is a New Beginning
Mike and Mindy leave for a fun New Years Eve party, have no brakes as they reach a railroad crossing with a train and just before crashing into the train to their death, they look at each other with and say, “Molly!” Cara, Mindy’s best friend, attends the funeral in charge of Mindy’s 11 year old boy/girl twins and Mike’s mother, Randi. Later, the will is read and Mike’s two brothers in Alaska via Zoom are appalled that Cara is chosen as the executor of Mike and Mindy’s share of the $60M farm and the twins’ guardian.
Jim, their farm neighbor, grumbles to himself that his son, Hunter, should have had one third of the estate. Later, Cara asks Randi why she wasn’t named the executor. Randi replies that this is what Mike and Mindy wanted.
Episode 2 Leaving LA
Randi plies Cara to stay and do all of the things Mindy used to do and she agrees, although she doesn’t yet know what that means.
Six weeks later, Cara leaves her intentional medicine practice in LA and comes permanently to the farm; She consults with the lawyer and learns how small the farm income is compared to the assets. Late at night, Randi contemplates her Alzheimer’s diagnosis dated just two weeks before the accident.
Episode 3 Getting Started
Randi offers poor explanations of farm equipment as she instructs Cara on its operation. Later, Hunter instructs Cara on the tractor.
Hunter and Gabe talk about how great Mike and his dad were to them. Hearing them, Jim flies into a rage, gets physical and Hunter protects Gabe from their dad’s fury.
Episode 4 Life Saving
Cara saves the family dog’s life via an intentional medicine diagnosis. She pays bills for the dairy and hog operations and consults the tax accountant. The farm’s income is low and even that is tenuous, at best.
Afraid what Cara might do if she finds out about Randi’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, hesitates to ask Cara to use intentional medicine on her even though Mindy said it might slow her condition’s progress.
Episode 5 Cows and Shit
Cara gets a quick tour of the 3500 cow dairy and wonders why most of the workers are Latino. Her accountant tells her the hog operation was Mike’s primary job and its income will barely cover the new manager’s salary.
A contractor is pumping liquid manure into the soil from the dairy’s slurry pits. Curious, she asks Hunter to explain. Jim dresses down Hunter for not working at home and Cara flirts with Jim to diffuse the situation. Randi sees the flirtation and is distressed.
Episode 6 Three Loves
Randi poorly instructs Cara on the $500K tractor’s GPS and other controls while planting corn.
Cara finds that Randi’s account of how Mike and Molly got together differs from what Mike had told her when they first met in college.
While planting crops, Cara learns about the windmills that they work around in the fields and their role in the farm’s income stream, energy generation, and climate change mitigation. Randi recalls that Mike broke up with Molly because he had met Cara, his soulmate, at college, six months before he met Mindy.
Episode 7 Ethics be Damned
Cara is appalled when she sees herbicide sprayed on the fields just after planting. Hunter explains no-till agriculture, government programs for farmers, and carbon sequestration. Cara makes sure they are enrolled in several of the programs he mentioned to get more money for the farm. Cara uses Silva mind control to lower the price of seed even though she accused Mindy of being unethical in previous years when Mindy did the same thing.
Randi hears Cara’s bittersweet tale of how she introduced the twins’ parents to each other in college. She realizes Cara was in love with Mike all these years.
Episode 8 Losing It
Randi loses her keys in the shop for the third time in one day. Hunter finds them in her purse where she always keeps them. Jim accosts and berates Hunter, calling him a bastard and Hunter recalls all of the times that word was used by Jim when he was angry at Molly. He also remembers Jim typing furiously on the computer before the police came to say that Molly had died in a wreck.
Cara recalls Mindy saying she was sure that Jim was Hunter’s father, not Mike. Randi gets a letter from her Alaska sons. They will be home in the fall to help with harvest and take over the farm. Later, in tears, she searches online for a Power of Attorney form.
Episode 9 Romance Flourishes
Cara considers opening an intentional medicine practice locally and flirts with Jim in the grocery store. Hunter watches the flirtation from the end of the aisle. Randi stumbles on cake ingredients and describes them instead. Hunter asks Jim if he might marry Cara, but he’ll only marry to get more land. He plans to have fun with Cara since she seems willing. A fight ensues and, for the first time, Hunter is able to stop his dad’s physical abuse. Gabe peeks at them in fear.
Cara considers the difference between Randi and Jim’s versions of tJim and Molly’s courtship after Mike broke up with Molly. Mike said Jim wanted Molly’s land more than Molly, but that the impending baby would settle Jim down.
Episode 10 Endings and Beginnings
The 11-year-old twins take over ditch mowing from Randi when she’s clumsy with the small tractor and mounted mowers. Randi cries as she head to the house. When a neighbor man dies, Cara and Randi ask the widow to rent her land to them next spring. Randi knows Jim has also asked and mentions Hunter’s bruises as a reason the widow might not want to rent to Jim. Cara weighs her options and decides to use mind control to get the widow to rent to Randi.
Jim remembers how pleased Mike was when he congratulated Jim and Molly on Hunter’s birth years ago. Mike was a little too happy and Jim grows enraged. Then he fantasizes about making love to Cara and flirts with her at the mailboxes the next day.
Episode 11 Getting Help
Cara has a problem with her car and uses Silva techniques to diagnose it. The mechanic speculates that it’s something more expensive, but she insists she’s right. She is. Cara finds that the EQIP paperwork she got in the mail is for government programs related to climate change mitigation that may net the farm additional money. She investigates.
Six months before her death, Mike and Mindy want Molly to leave Jim, but the land is hers and she is trapped because the farm’s income isn’t enough to pay someone to do Jim’s work. Hearing about Cara’s Silva success with her car, Randi signs up for intentional medicine classes online, but during the first lesson, she can’t focus or understand it. She gives up in tears.
Episode 12 Fear and Confusion
Randi asks Cara to work her magic on her after supper because she’s feeling a bit under the weather and has been having a few senior moments. A month before she died, Mindy had found divorce papers on Gabe’s computer that Molly had filled out before her death. Cara tells her best friend in LA about Mike and Mindy’s investigation of Molly’s death and then their death at the same railroad crossing. She is considering leaving for her own safety. Randi overhears Cara’s call.
Cara uses NMT to diagnose Randi and gets perplexing results.
Episode 13 Figuring It Out
Cara’s lawyer recalls that Mike and Mindy changed their executor and the twins’ guardianship to Cara just two months before they died. Only a week before they died, Mindy told Cara about her premonition of death and Mike’s promise to his dad to keep the farm for his twins and not let his Alaska brothers get it. Jim gets drunk and relives his final fight with Molly, chasing her in his pickup as she drove away. He relives the horror of her crash into the train and his decision to write the suicide note to avoid being blamed for her death. He didn’t notice Hunter watching him type the note.
A replay of Mike and Mindy’s New Year’s Eve crash from episode 1 explains how they thought Jim caused Molly’s accident with sabotaged brakes even though that’s not what happened. Who sabotaged their brakes? Cara juxtaposes her NMT diagnosis of Randi and her designation as the twins’ guardian and the executor.
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Jean’s Episode Descriptions
What I learned doing this assignment is although I was worried about how I was going to create the eight episodes for my show. But following the steps, one at a time, helped me to come up with ideas. They may be rough, but it gives me a starting point that I can improve later.
2. For each episode, go through the event bullet points.
Episode 1: Sharra takes up the offer to join Vault Agency.
Hook/Intrigue: Tanner saves Ben Franklin and then, vanishes. Faolan, a gentleman from the 1800s, pulls out a Vault uniform from his bedroom armor.
Main Character journey: Sharra has to face leaving everything behind to feel safe. A future Faolan comes out of hiding to investigate Sharra’s attacks, both present and future, risking exposure.
Major Challenge/Conflict: To escape her crooked boss, Sharra must escape NYC and takes the position offered by Vault Agency. Tanner and Lazarus must get Sharra to agree to join Vault Agency
Action/Reaction: Sharra signs the contract and is mugged, fears for her life, and takes the Vault recruit position to escape her old boss.
Cliffhanger: Sharra meets Lazarus in an empty warehouse where he takes her hand and they vanish.
Episode 2: Sharra learns the true nature of the job
Hook/Intrigue: Sharra and Lazarus reappear in a futuristic training facility. The pylons react to her presence. It’s weird.
Main Character journey: Sharra goes from ignorant, untrained, to aware and ready for her first mission into the past led by Tanner.
Major Challenge/Conflict: For Sharra – to keep with the program and not screw up. Uncharted territory. For Faolan – to stay under the agency’s radar while trying to get close to Sharra and whoever is following her.
Action/Reaction: Sharra does everything: medical exam including electromagnetic mapping, physical training, and Vault lesson programs but Sharra knows something is off and snoops for clues, getting into trouble in the simulator and with Tanner.
Cliffhanger: Sharra’s mission is to London 1825 and she is going to ‘fix’ time. Vault agents time travel!
Episode 3: Sharra’s first mission.
Hook/Intrigue: London 1825 mission is a disaster.
Main Character journey: Sharra shows them all and herself that she can do the job. Faolan meets Sharra for the first time and starts his investigation at this point.
Major Challenge/Conflict: With Tanner wounded and unconscious, Sharra must do the mission on her own and find Lazarus to get them back to the Vault or fail her first test.
Action/Reaction: Sharra takes charge, using a man from the century who happens to be Faolan, a Vault agent in hiding, while Lazarus is stopped from getting to Sharra because his future self is there gathering intel.
Cliffhanger: Sharra feels the rush of adrenalin and is ready to take the next step. Lazarus shifts her to the main Vault where Sharra, seeing the nine huge electrical pylons for the first time, realizes Vault Agency is something not entirely real.
Episode 4: Sharra’s assimilation.
Hook/Intrigue: Sharra has an odd experience with the particle cloud that sits around the pylons. It’s otherworldly.
Main Character journey: Sharra has to become a full agent with the ability to shift through time
Major Challenge/Conflict: To stop her parents’ death by changing her past, Sharra breaks Vault rules. To stop a paradox, Tanner must keep Sharra in check.
Action/Reaction: Sharra secretly sabotages her assimilation with the help of her Vault connection, causing an adverse reaction, both internally and to Lazarus and Tanner. She tests out her ability to shift, her first stop – her childhood home and her live mother.
Cliffhanger: Faolan is blamed for the sabotage and the search is on for him. Tanner stops Sharra from interacting with her mother.
Episode 5: A mission of hope.
Hook/Intrigue: A death and a funeral is déjà vu for Sharra.
Main Character journey: Sharra to work through her past trauma
Major Challenge/Conflict: Sharra’s first alone mission hits close to home when she had to help her target through the death and funeral of her husband.
Action/Reaction: Sharra tries to go back and stop the death, but can’t and realizes she must complete her original mission.
Cliffhanger: The rogue agent is there and gets Sharra in a stranglehold. Tanner saves her but loses the rogue agent and he gets away.
Episode 6: A crossover and convergence of timelines.
Hook/Intrigue: Sharra sneaks back in her timeline and interacts with her family, including her younger self.
Main Character journey: Sharra must face her traumatic childhood and the moral consequences of tampering with her timeline
Major Challenge/Conflict: To try and stop her parents’ death.
Action/Reaction: Sharra gets close to her younger self and feeds her information about the event but it backfires and causes trouble between young Sharra and Grayson.
Cliffhanger: Tanner stops Sharra, taking her to his own timeline to his mother and sister’s gravestones, to what he can’t change.
Episode 7: A ripple is felt.
Hook/Intrigue: A ripple in time has multiple agents stuck in a timeline on dangerous missions.
Main Character journey: Sharra has to face the consequences of tampering with her timeline.
Major Challenge/Conflict: To fix the ripple, Sharra must go back to when she had interfered in her family’s life and repair the damage.
Action/Reaction: Now complicated by her former visit, Sharra struggles to fix the damage until Faolan appears and after revealing he’s an agent too, Sharra reluctantly agrees to his help.
Cliffhanger: They fix the ripple but Grayson witnesses them shifting out and he realizes who she is – a future Sharra.
Episode 8: The team catches the rogue agent.
Hook/Intrigue: The Vault team goes on the offense.
Main Character journey: Sharra has to confront the rogue agent.
Major Challenge/Conflict: to trap him and put an end to her and the Vault’s troubles.
Action/Reaction: The team devises a trap with Sharra as the bait, setting a mission in Portsmouth in 1857.
Cliffhanger: Sharra survives but is left with a piece of the Vault inside her brain. J.D. isn’t the end of her troubles. There’s a puppet master and he’s furious.
3. Write a rough draft of each of the episode descriptions for your first
season.Episode 1:
Tanner Holmes, with a strange metal tattoo behind his left ear, saves a young Ben Franklin and then vanishes. He shows up again, watching Sharra Lane in 1996. Sharra’s crooked boss is after blood ever since she turned in evidence of fraud. So, when Lazarus Maitland invites her to join Vault Agency which means leaving NYC, she considers it. However, her physical reaction to the logo on the business card, (the same design as Tanner’s tattoo), and the odd interview make her rethink her options. Tanner wants Lazarus not to hire her, but Lazarus has a note from his future self that Sharra will save them all.
A mugging gone bad and Sharra gets stabbed, which makes her change her mind. Especially when she is miraculously healed with Tanner’s help. Still stranger is the man from 1825, a former Vault agent, who appears out of thin air and investigates the man behind the mugging. Sharra is ignorant of the true nature of Vault Agency, and it’s only at the final moment when she’s alone with Lazarus and they both vanish that she becomes aware.
Episode 2:
Sharra and Lazarus reappear in a futuristic training facility. The pylons made out of the same metal as the logo reacts to her presence. It’s weird. Tanner, her Vault Trainer, puts Sharra through the wringer trying to get her to Vault Agency standards. But Sharra knows something is off and snoops for clues, getting into trouble in the simulator and with Tanner. Faolan shifts between his time in 1825 and Sharra’s, searching for the culprit behind Sharra’s attack, keeping his movements hidden from Lazarus.
Sharra gets her first mission assignment as a courier in London. Not to London of now, but to 1825. She’s going to ‘fix’ time! Vault agents are time travelers!
Episode 3:
London 1825 mission is a disaster. With Tanner wounded and unconscious, Sharra must do the mission on her own and find Lazarus to get them back to the Vault or be stuck in that timeline. She and a past Faolan meet for the first time. It’s not a coincidence. He helps her all the while trying to convince her to choose a different path. Meanwhile, Lazarus is stopped from getting to Sharra because his future self is there gathering intel on the rogue agent who was behind the original mugging, leading him into the underbelly of London.
Sharra completes her first mission and feels the rush. Everybody is back safe. Faolan stays behind. Sharra is ready to officially join. Lazarus shifts Sharra to the main Vault complex where she encounters the massive vault chamber with nine huge electrical pylons and realizes Vault Agency is something not entirely real.
Episode 4:
Sharra has an odd experience with the particle cloud that sits around the pylons. It’s otherworldly. To become a full agent with the ability to shift through time, Sharra has the agrylium metal infused into her brain, but the machine malfunctions, and she gets infused on both sides of her brain. A side effect – any with agrylium, she can hear their thoughts if pointed at her. The paranoid agents are out for blood and a pose spirit forms. The finger points to Faolan and the search is on for him.
Sharra tests out her ability to shift, her first stop – her childhood home and her live mother. Sharra wants to break the rules and interact with her mother but Tanner stops her just in time.
Episode 5:
Sharra’s first solo mission hits close to home when she had to help her target through the death and funeral of her late husband. It hits too close to her heart. Sharra shifts a few days back to stop the death but her attempt is futile, and she realizes she must complete her original mission. The rogue agent is there and gets Sharra in a stranglehold. Tanner saves her but loses the rogue agent. Tanner realizes it’s not Faolan.
Episode 6:
The last mission screws with Sharra’s head. She sneaks back to her timeline and interacts with her family. It’s the week before the accident that kills her parents. Sharra gets close to her younger self and feeds her information about the event but it backfires and causes trouble between young Sharra and Grayson. Faolan, who has been following Sharra, finally meets up with Lazarus. They mend old disputes to work together to keep tabs on Sharra’s movements. Faolan reveals the rogue agent is J.D. Dash.
Lazarus sends Tanner to stop Sharra, and he gets there just in time to stop her from revealing herself to her family. He takes Sharra to his own timeline to his mother and sister’s gravestones, to what he can’t change.
Episode 7:
A ripple in time has multiple agents stuck in timelines on dangerous missions. Sharra has to face the consequences of tampering with her timeline. To fix the ripple, Sharra must go back to when she had interfered in her family’s life and repair the damage. Now complicated by her former visit, Sharra struggles to fix the damage until Faolan appears. After revealing he’s an agent too, Sharra reluctantly agrees to his help. Together, they fix the ripple, freeing the stuck agents from harrowing situations, but Grayson witnesses them shifting out and he realizes who she is – a future Sharra.
Episode 8:
The Vault team goes on the offense after J.D. Dash. With the help of the Committee, Sharra devises a plan to trap the real rogue agent, using herself as the bait. The team set up in Portsmouth in 1857 and wait for Sharra’s arrival. Now, a full-fledged agent, Sharra has come full circle, faces her fear to meet Dash head-on and put an end to her and the Vault’s troubles. Sharra completes the mission to discover that the shipmaster is Dash. His plan is to destroy all the Lazarus has worked to create, including the Vault.
Sharra risks her life and forces Dash back to the Vault. Their fight takes them into the particle cloud while the rest of the team stands by helpless. Sharra survives but is left with pieces of the particle cloud inside her brain. Dash is killed by the pylons, but it isn’t the end of Sharra’s troubles. There’s a puppet master and he’s furious.
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What I learnt from this assignment is to keep checking that there is a hook, conflict and cliffhanger for each episode. Now getting excited by episode 9, I realise I don’t have enough in the pilot episode and may need to re think this.
working title ‘stroke’
EPISODE ONE
Zoe gets Nadine an audition.
Possible opening with a film scene than we pan out to a glam party. Elizabeth arrives at a Hollywood party. She is afraid, looks upset. At the party we meet Camille and the head of the studio (Winston Churchill type man). Elizabeth also over hears Leo talking about his new baby, how she wakes every two hours. Men are sharing cigars with him, congratulating him.
She confides in an actor /agent friend that she wants out. She tells her friend that a journalist (SAM) wants to talk to he, he’s heard rumours. I can’t do this anymore. Elizabeth leaves the party and goes to the friends house. She sees a sinister car pulling up. She rings her sister (Zoe’s aunty) and says please come get me and mentions the word ‘Charli’ before the line is cut. We see her escape the house and now running for her life.
Nadine is going on audition after audition. Zoe is doing well, always happy and has a photography exhibition (* this exhibition will introduce a lot of characters and set up – Zoe’s sister, Nadine, their friends, a phone call from Zoe’s dad). When Zoe’s sister turns up she makes a snide remark on seeing flowers and a card from their ‘mum’. Nadine is happy for Zoe but she is struggling, trying to hold down a couple of jobs and finds out her dad is sick again. Zoe feels bad for her friend . Nadine knows that Zoe doesn’t like to talk about her family. Zoe gives Nadine a contact at a studio. It’s a friend of a friend. He owes me a favour. Nadine turns up to do the audition. She fails miserably – from being exhausted, stressed, nervous. She runs out crying. But then pulls her act together and goes back, insisting that they can all spare her one more minute out of their lives. She is angry. She rants to them that she’s exhausted, broke and her dad is unwell and she wants to go home and tell her dad that she gave it her best shot because her dad may not be around next year. She is an emotional wreck. We meet Nadine’s brother – he’s a nice guy helping the dad out. But has a dodgy old school friend that’s supplying drugs to the dad (to help with the pain).
Alex corbyn, handsome young up and coming politician, is on a yacht with model girlfriend, Kelly and a bunch of celebrity friends. We see that Alex’s parents used to be famous actors – there are photos around the yacht. The girls on the boat are impressed. We cut from this water scene, waves lapping at the boat to waves lapping on the beach and Elizabeth is lying dead on the beach.EPISODE TWO
Nadine gets the role and meets Leo.
Young reporter, Kate is sent to a crime scene. A girl has washed up on the beach. We see it is Elizabeth. She meets fellow journalist SAM. He tells her to back off, he knew Elizabeth. This is his story. She doesn’t like being told what to do. Sam takes off and within a second screeching tyre brakes and he is hit by a car. It’s shocking. The van drives off. He’s dying and says a mumbled clue.
Nadine gets called back to the studio. She is shocked. She didn’t get the part she wanted but she has got a role. She meets Leo (she mentions it to Zoe and she smiles) and an old famous screen actress, Camille. Nadine and Zoe celebrate. Zoe’s life seems so charmed then we see her…
At a therapist’s office. The therapist asks her when she is going to start telling the truth.
Alex comes home to see his parents. And informs his dad that the camera’s aren’t working. Where’s Fred, security guard?EPISODE THREE
Nadine is having a bad time on the film set. She meets Leo.
Kate goes to his newspaper while everyone is grieving she goes through his desk. She can’t find anything. Finds boyfriend Joe They break in to sam’s house ….and find it ransacked. But find info hidden in the clue he gave.
Nadine starts on the film but is disrespected by the director and crew. She feels alone. Camille takes her under her wing and sets her up with her agent. A child actor has a melt down. Camille orders to send for the magician to do his tricks. Nadine meets Leo. Leo does the magic trick for the boy. He takes nay on a tour. They bond over their love of all old Hollywood movies/memorabilia. He is impressed with how much she knows. Everyone loves Leo. He’s excited, down to earth. He zips around ‘IBIS studio in the golf buggy.
Nadine goes home to her dad and pretends she’s having a great time filming. He’s so proud of her. She puts on a good acting job for him.
Kate and boyfriend do a death knock on the family of the girl. They mention the word she said and that they hadn’t heard from her in months. Ever since she worked for that studio she changed and became withdrawn. That night Kate and Joe go to pub and see cop. Kate gets info out of cop. Kate and Joe get drunk and sleep together.
Zoe’s dating various men. Zoe talks about her mother to her therapist and mentions she has been offered an exhibition in London but she’s afraid.Alex has his big birthday bash. We meet his sister and her husband. The parents give a beautiful moving speech about how proud they are of his son. Alex schmoozes with political figures and celebrities. But at the party his parents disrespect his girlfriend. George pulls Alex aside and talks to him about his wanting to run for office. George insists that the model girlfriend has to go. Georgie likes her but she’s not wife material. Alex needs to find a decent woman that the public will respect.
After the party, Alex and girlfriend fight. She feels abandoned, he didn’t stick up for her at the party. Is he cheating on her? He insists he isn’t. But we see him going back to his place and pulling out a secret phone. He reads text messages from someone wishing him happy birthday and sending kisses and love hearts. He rings this mystery person and tells them he loves her too and can’t wait to see her (this is Nadine he is speaking with). And also maybe says something secretive….to hook us in.
EPISODE FOUR
Nadine and Leo sleep together.
Zoe knows London is an opportunity to see her mother. She talks to her sister. She’s hesitant, nervous but books her tickets.
Nadine and Leo hang out, they sleep together after Champagne. She feels ashamed. She confides in her brother, David, who tells her to watch out because this man is powerful and a lot older.
Newspapers are saying disturbed young actress has killed herself. Kate’s editor tells her to drop it. Kate and Joe snoop around the studio. They meet someone that might talk..then suddenly that person (security guard) doesn’t work there anymore. Kate and Joe still bicker and fight about how their relationship ended. But as they become more excited by the case they become closer. They find the film that Elizabeth was in and Kate becomes obsessed with re watching it. She realises there’s something odd about it….light bulb moment. She calls Joe over – makes him watch the scene…I think Elizabeth was pregnant!Alex meets the political team that will help him. They want to help him with his public image – it has to change if he’s to be taken seriously. He is told his girlfriend is going to be a problem.
EPISODE FIVE
Zoe goes to London.
Kate and Joe are falling in love but there is some sort of a threat as they continue to investigate.
Zoe, terrified, gets on a plane to London. Her sister is the go between. Zoe is successful with her photography exhibition and someone important notices her. But her main focus is on trying to get hold of her mum. Zoe also rings Nadine to apologise for not remembering her birthday she has to tell her something when she gets back. Nadine also has something she needs to talk to Zoe about. Zoe is introduced to James by her sister. He is a welcome distraction from her fear.
Nadine is disappointed that her friend misses her birthday…but then turns up to the studio to find Leo has re-created a scene from her favourite movie as a surprise. She is blown away.Alex dumps girlfriend. He tries to do it in a nice way. He feels bad but he has to think of his career. She calls him weak and tells him his father is pulling his strings. Grow some balls. They fight.
EPISODE SIX
Zoe’s mum agrees to meet with her. Nadine discovers she’s pregnant.
Zoe and James have a whirlwind romance around Europe. He is shooting there. They become closer, talk about their own abandonment issues. They feel they are soul mates and talk about marriage but want to elope. James tells Zoe in 6 months once he’s finished he will propose to her. He also tells Zoe she is braver than he is. Zoe knows she will be disappointed in herself if she does’t reach out to her mum. She does and her mum who agrees to meet with her. Zoe waits for her mother but she never shows…instead Zoe’s sister gives her an envelope with a cheque/ box of baby stuff in it.
Alex gets into his political campaign. He is busy, meeting people. But alone he has time to reflect. He contacts Kelly.
Nadine’s costume is not fitting. Her dad is getting sicker. She thinks she is unwell because of the stress. Camille organises for her to go to a doctor. At the end of the episode she discovers she is pregnant – four months. Nadine is shattered.
Joe calls Kate get over here now, found out something. She arrives to find he has fallen from his balcony.EPISODE SEVEN
Zoe tells Nadine who she is.
Zoe comes back alone to LA, devastated. She needs Nadine more than ever. She can’t get hold of James, finally he calls her but they connection is bad.
Zoe and Nadine meet up. Zoe confesses that she has a different surname. She tells her about her time in London, her mother. Then her father. She explains that he is her whole world, she wouldn’t survive without him. She is rambling….talking about how her friendship with Nadine is just as important. And how proud she is of Nadine. It wasn’t just her connection, she knows Nadine is talented. Nadine tells her to spit it out, what is she talking about. And then the bombshell…my dad is Leo Langdon. Head of the studio.
Kate tells her editor that Joe didn’t kill himself. She is told to be quiet. She won’t. She is sacked. She sees pub cop and he tells her to meet him, he has info. She finds the engagement ring that he said he would never give her and he was planning to marry her.Alex meets up with Kelly, he declares his love for her. She was right. He has missed her. Later, Alex gets a threatening letter/package.
EPISODE EIGHT
Leo reassures Nadine he will take care of the baby.
Nadine tells Leo she is pregnant and Zoe is her friend. He is shocked to learn they have a friendship (Zoe went through another contact to get Nadine the job). Leo is worried that Zoe will find out. He tells Nadine he will take care of everything…he reassures her. And she agrees, she doesn’t want a baby and she’s desperate for the new role he has promised her.
James turns up and proposes. They decide they are different from their parents and will make it the biggest wedding ever. James meets Leo. Leo likes him and is happy for his daughter…..he’s happy all round now. (He’s got everything lined up).
Zoe tells Nadine her happy news and wants Nadine to be her maid of honour. She surprises Nadine by bringing her to lunch with all the bridesmaids. Zoe is so happy and in love. Nadine has to put on an act. She agrees to be the maid of honour.Alex is working hard, feeling good and he’s made a stand that he cares about Kelly. Kelly does something dodgy. She’s working under c
Kate goes and finds the cop. It’s a different cop and he grabs her and she is hooded.
EPISODE NINE
Nadine goes missing.
Nadine finds something in Leo’s office and becomes fearful. She rings her brother and says she’s in trouble.
Zoe tries to find Nadine but she’s missing…..maybe she leaves a note apologising but she can’t do it?
Kate is hooded, driven somewhere but escapes and runs for her life.George suggests Alex needs a break and to all go sailing somewhere. We end with either bomb explodes
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