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ASSIGNMENT 11
What I learned in this assignment is that one can categorize the actions of myriad elements of the story to create MIS by just asking a few questions of your characters and situations. If answered in the negative, adding these elements in in a way that new information is introduced, covered up and revealed at crucial times, is the “on the edge of your seat” experience that thrillers are known for.
1. Make a list of the important reveals that you want the audience to experience.
– Who are the white-faced (painted) people showing up all over the place? <div>
– What or who is “coatlicue”?
– Who is the incarnation of the Goddess Coatlicue?
2. Sequence them to fit into your Thriller Map.
3. With each reveal, make sure the following are in place:
A. What is the reveal? – that the white-faced people are following a new power or cult and Mosko’s actions inadvertently caused them to rise up on their own <div>
B. How did it get covered up? Because the arcane tenets of the cult were lost to antiquity but Mac Grant, and Bella, figured it out.
C. What M.I.S. can be used to create demand to know the truth? It’s a mystery to everyone. Peter has intrigue because of flashback to his grandfather where someone with a white-painted face is featured. Suspense stems from just how far these acolytes will go to protect Mosko – even kill.
A. What is the reveal? – rumors of a statue, hidden for centuries and the search for it when it’s finally found by Bella and Mac in a basement, behind another statue in a hidden compartment
B. How did it get covered up? Powerful people hid it centuries ago, deeming it too powerful to rest in mortal hands.
C. What M.I.S. can be used to create demand to know the truth? Mac’s mysterious past with religion positions him to have the necessary knowledge and access, given other circumstances
D. When you reveal the truth, it must have dramatic impact. – The Goddess Coatlicue statue is revealed at a moment when Bella thinks she’s found her son, Paolo
A. What is the reveal? – that Rosario is the incarnation of the Goddess Coatlicue
B. How did it get covered up? Who would think a little girl would command such power?
C. What M.I.S. can be used to create demand to know the truth? Little clues throughout like when she was stung by a pair of poisonous arachnids and was unharmed, killing Crowley, as well as her actions at the end.
D. When you reveal the truth, it must have dramatic impact. – The Goddess Coatlicue, Rosario, kills Bella at the end as the end game of the resurrection ritual to bring her mother back
7. Post your assignment on the forums.
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6. Answer the question “What I learned is…?”
Working backwards is exactly how I used to setup reveals before. Thinking about the components like this does make it even more easier. Thinking of things as a cover up helps. In my first novel, I mined the same information to provide multiple reveals, just by changing the context of the information.
1. Make a list of the important reveals that you want the audience to experience.
kill switch that shuts down American military tech discovered.
IMF moving to China.
Corella knows about the plane MJ shot down
Indian leader’s nephew killed in border skirmish with China.
True motivation of kill switch was not treason.
Zelda’s partner was really killed by Ivashov and blamed on MJ.
Kombinat base had to be attacked during the war games because they were during their own attacks.
China is building a land bridge to invade Taiwan.
Land bridge constructed by only civilians, can’t just kill to stop it.
2. Sequence them to fit into your Thriller Map.
3. With each reveal, make sure the following are in place:
A. What is the reveal?
B. How did it get covered up?
C. What M.I.S. can be used to create demand to know the truth?
D. When you reveal the truth, it must have dramatic impact.
4. Build any improvements into your Thriller Map.
Teaser: kill switch that shuts down American military tech discovered. (reveal setup in book 1, 1 of 2 hero cover-ups)
Mystery: Was the device Renquist used to shoot down a drone a kill switch?
Villain’s Plan: Renquist is the only one who could pull off a kill switch.
MJ/Renquist Distrust: Renquist is guilty of making American unsafe.
Mystery: Where has Renquist escaped to?
Twist
Direction: The destroyed drone wasn’t a malfunction. It was destroyed by a kill switch.
Twist: MJ’s lie about a drone malfunction has been uncovered, but she can’t reveal what she knows about the kill switch since she was doing something illegal.
Life threatening: Dangerous to deploy American military because kill switch could make vulnerable.
Life threatening: Are the attacks on the White House over?
Mystery: Which of the attackers escaped?
Twist
Direction: MJ still doesn’t feel safe after the attacks.
Twist: The attacker that vowed to kill her was the one that escaped.
MJ/Zelda distrust: Zelda tried to kill MJ and she escaped.
Life threatening: Will Renquist try to kill None or MJ again?
Mystery: What will MJ do with the broken pieces of her katana?
Act 1: None of the Above recovery from coma
Mystery: Will None ever be himself again?
Mystery: How will Fernando deal with MJ rejecting him?
Mystery: What happened to the economy after Jubilee?
Mystery: What happened when None and MJ got their company back?
Mystery: How will the world react to China becoming #1 economy?
Twist
Direction: It’s a shock to Americans to be the #2 economy
Twist: They switch to ultra-patriotism and seem to be happy (denial).
Mystery: Will the IMF bank really be moved to China? (reveal setup in book 1, impact of economic subplots)
Life threatening: border skirmish between India and China adds more danger.
Act 2: White House reopens after attacks, celebration party
Mystery: Will None be OK for the night without MJ and Shen?
Twist
Direction: None is taken care of by staff, despite MJ and Shen being too busy with White House party.
Twist: He wakes up and runs out of the White House, delirious.
Mystery: What does MaxPlume want to talk to MJ about?
Mystery: What does Corella know about the plane MJ shot down? (reveal setup in book 1, 2 of 2 hero cover ups)
MJ/Corella distrust: Corella is telling her about the plane because she wants something.
Life threatening: Indian leader wants to move up war games, which will put American fleet in danger
Mystery: Can the kill switch be found before the war games?
Mystery: Why is India openly defiant to China after a history of hedging their bets?
Reveal: Indian leader’s nephew killed in border skirmish with China.
Twist
Direction: They had a certain amount of time before the American fleet would be in danger.
Twist: Because of Indian leader there is even less time to find the kill switch.
Act 3: Secret White House meeting with Corella.
Mystery: Why is Corella working for Renquist?
MJ/Corella distrust: Corella is working for Renquist.
MJ/Renquist distrust: Renquist can blackmail MJ.
Twist
Direction: Secret meeting with Corella.
Twist: She’s just a front for contact from Renquist.
Villain’s plan: Renquist reveals his real reason for the kill switch.
MJ/Renquist distrust: His reason for the kill switch is valid, but he still almost killed None and tried to kill her.
Twist
Direction: When Renquist created the kill switch, it was an act of treason.
Twist: The kill switch was really made to disable American weapons that fell into enemy hands.
Mystery: Why does the attack on the Kombinat arctic base have to be on the same day as the exercises?
Mystery: Can Renquist be trusted to keep his end of the bargain?
MJ/Renquist trust: While a hated foe, Renquist can be trusted somewhere while their interests are aligned.
Mystery: Will the Russians detect the attack on their soil?
Act 4: MJ attack on arctic Kombinat base in Russia, while Fernando leads U.S. military during competing Russian/Chinese wargames
MJ/Ivashov distrust: MJ is attacking Ivashov’s Kombinat base.
Life threatening: Will MJ survive the attack and evade capture?
Mystery: Will the war games escalate into a real conflict?
Twist
Direction: Zelda vowed to kill MJ because she killed her partner.
MJ/Renquist distrust: Why didn’t he tell her Zelda would be there
MJ/Zelda distrust: Zelda tried to kill MJ.
Twist: It was actually Ivashov that let her partner bleed out to frame MJ. (reveal setup in book 1)
MJ/Renquist trust: He revealed information that makes Zelda no longer her main target.
MJ/Zelda trust: Zelda now has a common enemy.
Twist 2: Zelda will now spy for MJ against their common foe.
MJ/Zelda trust: Zelda will help MJ.
Twist 3: She might still kill MJ after everything is done.
MJ/Zelda distrust: Zelda might still try to kill MJ, even though they are allies now.
Twist 4: MJ gives Zelda the dagger made from her broken katana despite threats on her life.
MJ/Zelda trust: MJ gives her a dagger made from the katana used to kill her partner, which Zelda wanted to use to kill her partner’s killer.
Reveal: True motivation of kill switch was not treason. (setup in book 1)
Act 5: evading Russian patrol leaving base
Life threatening: Russian patrol would kill or capture MJ.
Mystery: How will MJ’s team avoid detection?
Ending Surprise: MJ dives into ice water to hide heat signature and is trapped under ice
Life threatening: MJ is trapped under ice in a heavy powered armor.
Mystery: Can MJ avoid drowning or her armor cracking under pressure?
Twist
Direction: Jumping in the ice water will help MJ evade detection so she’ll be safer.
Twist: The strong currents trap her under ice, so she is less safe.
Book 2/season 1.5, episode 2
Teaser: MJ rescued by SEAL mini-sub
Life threatening: MJ could be killed or captured.
Mystery: Will the Russians detect her sub?
Act 1: MJ submarine chase escaping Russia while war games continue.
Life threatening: MJ being chased.
Mystery: Why are multiple ships running aground in the war games?
Act 2: Ships ran aground in war games because China is building a land bridge to invade Taiwan.
Villian’s plan: China is planning to invade Taiwan using a land bridge.
MJ/Chinese President Liu Yong distrust: China is planning to attack Taiwan.
Twist
Direction: ships running aground seems to multiple cases of incompetence.
Twist: It wasn’t incompetence, but ocean changes, leading to the discovery of the land bridge. (Reveal, which will have more layers of reveal over course of book)
Villian’s plan: Kombinat took over Russian government while Russian military off doing exercises with China.
MJ/Ivashov distrust: Ivashov will now be more powerful, and MJ has no idea what he’ll do with that power.
Twist
Direction: MJ had invaded a Kombinat base while it was lightly defended.
Twist: The base was lightly defended because Kombinat took over Russia. While MJ invaded Kombinat, Kombinat was invading elsewhere. (reveal why attack had to be during war games.)
Act 3: Global panic over Taiwan semiconductor industry
Mystery: What will the world do without the most advanced chips?
Act 4: None of the Above to get brain implant
Life threatening: None could die in surgery.
Mystery: Will None ever be himself again?
Act 5: Organize blockade to stop land bridge
Life threatening: Will the blockade cause a war with China?
Ending Surprise: No Chinese military involved, so how do we stop the land bridge without firing on civilians?
Mystery: Can the land bridge be stopped?
Twist
Direction: The land bridge is backed by the military
Twist: No military personnel are involved, but can’t shoot civilians or become the bad guy. (reveal)
5. Tell us about the reveals you built into your Thriller Map.
These reveals were setup in the previous novel:
kill switch that shuts down American military tech discovered. (MJ already saw a kill switch in action when she illegally tried to kill Renquist on American soil)
IMF moving to China. (impact of economic story of book 1)
Corella knows about the plane MJ shot down. (Renquist manipulated MJ into shooting down the plane with American conspirators and she’s on the hook for it.)
True motivation of kill switch was not treason. (MJ assumed it was treason, but Renquist, while ruthless, is a patriot.)
Zelda’s partner was really killed by Ivashov and blamed on MJ(It didn’t add up and now MJ knows why.)
These reveals are in the start of book 2:
Indian leader’s nephew kill in border skirmish with China. (It’s why India is openly defiant to China.)
Kombinat base had to be attacked during the war games because they were during their own attacks. (part of Kombinat’s plan B after MJ stopped plan A in book 1.)
China is building a land bridge to invade Taiwan. (The obvious main conflict of book 2, which will turn out to be a distraction by the Chinese AI.)
Land bridge constructed by only civilians, can’t just kill to stop it. (U.S. military might can’t easily stop this threat.)
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Sue Swenson’s Dramatic Reveals
What I learned is that this is a lot of hard work and detail. However, I developed some insights and ideas for expanding the story, adding new suspense elements and heightening the intrigue. The process actually helps to build out the story, and I saw this for myself. So the time, labor and frustration were all worth it.
1. Make a list of the important reveals that you want the audience to experience.
2. Sequence them to fit into your Thriller Map.
3. With each reveal, make sure the following are in place:
A. What is the reveal?
B. How did it get covered up?
C. What M.I.S. can be used to create demand to know the
truth?
D. When you reveal the truth, it must have dramatic
impact.4. Build any improvements into your Thriller Map.
5. Tell us about the reveals you built into your Thriller Map.
1A. Opening Image (1): (A)
A Sasquatch-looking beast is viciously attacking a camper and beating him to death. Then he tears off the camper’s jacket and shirt and starts taking bites out of the body.
Mystery 1: What is this creature?
Mystery 2: Who is the camper?
Mystery 3: Are Sasquatch for real?
Mystery 4: Where is the killing of this camper taking place?
Trust: Carla is welcomed back to work after a long leave of absence. Carla is grateful to have a mentor, Dr. Schneider, who believes in her and encourages her to come back to work after her leave of absence.
Trust: Richard, her supervisor, welcomes her back to work. Initially he seems positive and enthusiastic to have her back and to share the workload.
Reveal: The “Sasquatch” is actually a deranged man dressed as a bigfoot on a killing spree.
Reveal: Carla was on a long leave of absence because she witnessed her patient violently kill himself and she has PTSD.
2. Theme (5): Is blood thicker than water?
Carla attends her sister’s son’s birthday party. The sister’s husband gives the kid, 11, a Glock. He points it at Carla who freaks.
Trust: Simon, her husband, expresses sincere, realistic concerns about how her family is raising her nephew and dangers that the nephew and the rest of the family are exposing themselves to with the gift of a Glock to a kid. There is a verbal confrontation between Simon and her family.
Reveal: Carla’s sister’s boyfriend is actually a drug dealer who carries.
Life Threatening 1: Are Carla’s mother, sister, brother in-law and nephew a physical danger to her? (The boy’s father jokes that this Glock is for Sasquatch killings.)
Life Threatening 2: Could Carla get shot by her own nephew?
Life Threatening 3: What kind of family gives an 11 year old kid a gun for his birthday, and it’s not a hunting rifle?
Mystery 5: Is Carla’s family a safe family to associate with?
Mystery 6: What’s wrong with this family?
Twist: A trust is violated when Carla’s nephew is allowed to point a Glock at her in front of his parents and grandmother, even though it’s unloaded.
3. Set-up (1-10):
Scene: Carla is chastising her sister, Jenny, about the Glock. Jenny tells her to mind her own business. Tense conversation on the phone with Carla’s separated husband who tells her this is just one more example of why he doesn’t want anything to do with her family. She hangs up on him.
Mystery 7: Why is Carla codependent with an obviously dangerous family of origin?
Mystery 8: What power does Carla’s family have over her?
Life Threatening 4: If Carla’s husband abandons her, who is she going to turn to for protection?
Reveal: Carla shares a family tragedy with her mother and sister because when her father died of cancer, he made her promise to take care of her vulnerable, troubled mother and sister.
Carla is sleeping alone and has a violent nightmare. She wakes up terrified and calls her husband who is impatient with her.
Trust: Simon always takes her calls, regardless of the time of day or night.
Twist: A trust is violated when Carla’s husband gets impatient with her regarding her terror about her nightmare and isn’t supportive of her.
Distrust: Simon demonstrates anger and irresponsible behavior with her when he breaks a lamp when he’s mad at her
Mystery 7: What is this nightmare about?
Mystery 8: Does this nightmare harbor something that’s precognitive that could happen to Carla?
Twist: A new problem occurs when Carla starts having nightmares.
Reveal: Carla is having the same nightmare as her patient.
Reveal: The nightmare is precognitive. It’s something sh’e going to experience. Possibly her patient as well.
Scene where Carla is providing a hypnotherapy session to a patient who’s having nightmares.
Trust: Dr. Schneider encourages Richard to be hard on Carla so Dr. Schneider can play good cop with Richard and have Richard play bad cop. Every time Richard is hard on her or judgmental, Dr. Schneider takes her part. But it’s really Dr. Schneider who is the devious one.
Reveal: Dr. Schneider is politically connected to the Sasquatch killer’s father.
Mystery 9: Do the patient’s nightmares have anything to do with her nightmares?
Mystery 10: What’s going on in her life that she’s having nightmares?
Life Threatening 5: Are any of her nightmares or the patient’s nightmares a threat to Carla or her patient?
Twist: Not only is Carla having nightmares, but so is her patient.
Distrust: Richard micromanages her, finds fault with her work and is concerned about her anxiety level. He expresses doubts that maybe she came back to work too soon.
Trust: Dr. Schneider takes her part after Richard confronts her at the big staff meeting.
TV NEWS ANNOUNCEMENTS. This is the fourth killing of people in remote areas of AZ involving a Big Foot type creature.
Mystery 9: Are these creatures for real?
Life Threatening 6: Who will get killed next?
Life Threatening 7: What are the authorities doing about it?
Mystery 10: Is Carla going to get pulled into these killings?
Twist: It just got more dangerous.
4. Catalyst (12):
Carla’s supervisor in the hypnotherapy department assigns a troubled patient to her from the psych ward of the hospital because they can’t afford to keep Carla on light duty given staff shortages.
Twist: A new problem occurs when Carla is assigned a troubled patient who also has nightmares. This ups the stress and danger for Carla.
Reveal: Carla has returned from a leave of absence as a result of the trauma she’s been through. She unfortunately witnessed a former patient kill himself in front of her.
Twist: It turns out both Carla and the patient are both having the same nightmares.
Reveal: Carla is susceptible to nightmares because a former patient killed himself in front of her.
Reveal: (re: sick patient’s history) Carla reads his med. Records and complains to Richard that this pt. has a history of violence and she doesn’t want to work with him. Dr. Schneider reassures her that he’s heavily medicated.
She’s opposed to working with this guy because she’s just come back from a LOA due to her own trauma regarding PTSD.
Trust: Richard expresses concern that Carla could be in danger. He expresses this to Dr. Schneider who adamantly disagrees with him.
But Dr. Schneider talks her into doing it because she’s the most skilled at hypnotherapy. This sick patient keeps complaining of these nightmares.
Distrust: Dr. Schneider encourages Carla to work with the sick patient even though he knows she’s fragile, and over her protests.
Reveal: Carla will learn from working with this patient that both her nightmares and the patient’s nightmares are linked and hold clues to the unsolved murders.
Reveal: There is a note on Carla’s desk blaming her for the fact that it’s her fault that her former patient, Mr. Jones, killed himself. She calls her husband who asks her who would leave such a cruel note.
Mystery 11: What’s the danger to Carla from working with this sick patient?
Twist: This patient has a history of violence which makes things more dangerous for Carla.
Mystery 12: Will Carla’s own mental health be threatened by working with a sick patient who’s been traumatized?
Twist: Things get even more dangerous for Carla when the patient is released from the hospital.
Mystery 13: What will Carla learn from working with this patient?
A group of Sasquatch hunters go out to hunt the Sasquatch. They don’t find the Sasquatch, but they find another mutilated body.
Reveal: ID of the body reveals it to be someone connected to the department.
Life Threatening 8: What kind of danger could Carla be facing from working with this new patient?
Life Threatening 9: Is Carla prepared to protect herself in the event that things go south with this patient?
5. Debate (12-25):
A hiker is found along the side of a dirt road. This is in a remote area of northern Arizona or NM. He’s delirious, probably from heat exhaustion and lack of water. He claims to have witnessed a murder but has been wandering for hours. He escapes, but he witnesses the camper getting killed.
Twist: A new problem occurs when a hiker is found along the side of a dirt road and claims that he witnessed a Sasquatch type creature murder a camper.
Carla addresses whether to take this assignment because she’s already working with one highly troubled patient and still feels vulnerable from the trauma regarding the suicide of a previous patient.
Distrust: Simon moves out and declares that he can’t take it anymore regarding his toxic relationship with Carla’s family that she can’t seem to break with.
Also, she’s having marital problems and her husband has just moved out. She’s feeling vulnerable and traumatized.
Twist: A new problem occurs when Carla’s husband moves out after an argument.
She then discusses whether to take on a second highly disturbed patient with her boss who tells her that they need her to step up and take this assignment because she’s the only hypnotherapist on staff at this point. She grudgingly agrees to step up to the plate.
Reveal: The hiker admits that he’s been having nightmares.
Reveal: Carla’s husband has been doing some investigation and learns that her sister’s boyfriend has been jailed for shooting a firearm while at a party while he was intoxicated. He received a suspended sentence and a fine and community service. He warns Carla that she needs to stay away from her family because he’s unstable and doesn’t like her. Please move away and watch your back. I know you promised your father but you can only do so much.
Reveal: Carla is afraid to sleep because she’s afraid of having nightmares.
While awake, Carla hears yelling and the sound of a gunshot next door at her mom’s and sister’s house. Carla calls 911 and report a possible crime. She cautiously goes to her sister’s house to investigate. There was obviously and argument but nothing seems disturbed, nobody injured. The cops arrive and the sister, mother and boyfriend deny her claims. Her mom tells the cops that Carla is still recovering from a breakdown and she is fragile and imagines things.
Mystery 14: What could possibly go wrong?
Mystery 15: Who is this guy and is he trustworthy?
Villain’s Plan 1: Will the Sasquatch killer continue to kill?
Villain’s Plan 2: If so, could she be a target?
Life Threatening 10: How is Carla going to be able to cope with this life threatening situation given her emotional vulnerability?
6. Break into Two (25): Revised.
Twist: A new problem occurs when a traumatized child is found who claims her mother disappeared in a remote area of Arizona. The little girl claims to have heard her mother scream, then the little girl ran away.
Carla is called into her boss’s office and informed about the missing mother and traumatized child. He gives her an ultimatum, either take these assignments or he’s going to replace her. She agrees to take yet another assignment.
Trust: To assuage her protests, Dr. Schneider takes her out for a meal and introduces her to the dangerous Sasquatch killer’s family.
Distrust: But what he’s really doing is exposing her to the dangerous family of the Sasquatch killer so they can all find out what she knows and they learn that she’s getting close to finding out who the Sasquatch killer is.
Reveal: Dr Schneider is friends with the killer’s family because he was once the killer’s therapist.
Twist: Dr. Schneider was the killer’s therapist and experimented on him with an unorthodox technique/treatment that went haywire in the boy’s brain leading to violence and murder.
Mystery 15: Are these patients’ situations connected? If so, how?
Life Threatening 11: Will working on all of these assignments increase Carla’s danger?
Villain’s Plan 3: Was the mother murdered, and if so, was it by the same killer?
Mystery 16: Will Carla get to the bottom of these mysteries before somebody else gets killed?
Life Threatening 11: Will anybody else be killed?
7. B Story (30):
Dream Group attendance – the dream group is Carla’s B story. She’s known these people for years. They are her real family. She goes to them for love, support, acceptance, belonging and peace.
Reveal: Carla’s dreams and her patient’s dreams are connected.
Twist: New options emerge when Carla meets with her dream group. They take an interest in her nightmares and are supportive when they work to help her interpret them.
Reveal: The group interprets new dreams that serve as a warning for Carla and her patient.
Mystery 17: Will the members of the dream group help Carla to successfully solve these crimes and dangers?
Life Threatening 12: Will Carla continue to be safe in this dream group.
Life Threatening 13: Could there be a villain’s co-conspirator connected to the group in some way that would endanger Carla?
8. Fun and Games (30-55):
a. The remote viewing process in practice.
b. Tracking the dead body.
c. Finding clues and evidence through dream interpretation and remote viewing.
d. The dream group interpreting the clues to find the body.
e. The kid and Carla become a risk because Carla is starting to access information on the killing.
f. The kid knows something that the Villains are aware she knows and they want to silence her.
g. The kid and Carla are in danger.
h. They’re on the run.
Distrust: Simon tells her she’s got a lot of problems, and she needs therapy and to go get help.
Distrust: Simon’s petty and takes some of her stuff out of their house.
Reveal: The cops find the dazed hiker’s friend’s body through the group’s remote viewing.
Reveal: The remote viewers find the child’s mother’s jacket.
Reveal: The child saw the man under the Sasquatch costume when he thought no one was around. He spotted the child who ran away and he couldn’t catch her.
Reveal: The dream group realizes that the kid can recognize the killer and he knows what she looks like too.
Reveal: The hiker’s memories and identity are revealed through Carla’s hypnotherapy treatment of the hiker.
Reveal: The child refuses to go with her daddy when she reveals that he used to beat mommy. The authorities agree to let her stay with Carla.
Mystery 18: Will Carla find out who the Villains are before they can hurt her and the girl?
Life Threatening 14: How can Carla and the girl stay safe?
Life Threatening 15: Will Carla and the dream group identify the Villain or villains before anybody else gets killed?
Villains’ Plan 4: What will the bad guys do to get to Carla and the girl?
Life Threatening 16: Who can Carla trust to protect her and the girl?
Twist: New options emerge when a clue is unearthed through the dream group.
Twist: A secret location is uncovered through the efforts of the remote viewing group.
Twist: A secret identity is revealed when the hiker’s identify is discovered through hypnotherapy with him.
9. Midpoint (55):
Carla starts conducting hypnotherapy on the little girl to help her recall memories of the trauma in the woods.
Twist: A trust is violated when the missing woman’s husband demands that Carla be taken off their daughter’s case. He feels that Carla is unstable, unreliable and ineffective and is dangerous as a consequence. He threatens a lawsuit if Carla isn’t removed from this case.
Twist: The child refuses to go with Daddy because she said he beats Mommy. He backs off pushing Carla to get off the case.
Mystery 19: Who’s going to solve this case if Carla is removed from working with the hiker and girl?
Life Threatening 17: What’s going to happen to Carla if she’s removed from the case?
10. Bad Guys Close In (55-75):
Reveal: The killer’s family has sent over two thugs posing as FBI agents to find out what Carla knows and to have her report any new findings to them.
Twist: It just got more dangerous when other bodies are discovered or other people disappear and Carla finds herself in more danger.
Life Threatening 18: Who can Carla trust anymore?
Villains’ Plan 5: Why is the Villain trying to get Carla kicked off this case?
11. All is Lost (75):
Twist: It just got more dangerous when Carla’s house is ransacked.
Twist: New information comes to light when Carla learns that the child didn’t run away. Instead, she was kidnapped. Now they really need remote viewing to solve this crisis.
Mystery 20: How is Carla going to use the remote viewing group to find not only the hiker, but also the child?
Villain’s Plan 5: To kidnap the child to get info from her.
Life Threatening 18: How is Carla going to rescue the child?
12. Dark Night of the Soul (75-85):
Reveal: Carla’s brother-in-law was the one who ransacked her house looking for the Glock that the boy hid in her purse.
Reveal: Richard calls Carla and warns her that her patient has escaped the hospital and he’s disappeared. The police are looking for him. Be on the lookout.
Twist: Carla has lost her resources when she gets fired from her hypnotherapy job.
Because of the drama and threats to the town’s clinic, she’s fired and walked to the door with her shoebox.
Distrust: Richard fires Carla. She sees him as her adversary over this.
Trust: Richard is actually trying to protect her because he believes her patient is dangerous to her.
Carla, really discouraged, meets with the dream group to get help. They encourage her to pay close attention to her dreams.
Twist: Someone changes sides when the father finally realizes that he needs to ally himself with Carla to find his daughter.
Twist: We see an unexpected side of someone when Carla and the father team up to push forward.
Mystery 21: How are Carla and the father going to be able to solve this mystery together?
Life Threatening 19: How can Carla and the father stay safe long enough to see the Villain or villains behind bars?
Villain’s Plan 6: To isolate Carla, get her to a remote location and kill her.
13. Break into Three (85):
The world of synthesis is at hand.
Mystery 22: Will the technique work?
Life Threatening 20: Will Carla and the little girl’s father find the little girl safe?
Trust: Simon calls her and says he’s worried about her and thinks she should get off the case she’s working on because he knows she’s in danger.
Reveal: Carla remembers a detail from one of her dreams that may be a clue to where the girl is. The girl’s father shares a dream he had and they analyze the two dreams and figure out where the girl is. This gives them a clue to where to search for the girl.
14. Finale (85-110):
It’s the battle.
Distrust: Dr. Schneider promises her that she’ll be safe, but in the end, he sets a trap for Carla which results in her having to fight for her life against the Sasquatch killer.
Carla, with the girl’s father, find the location of the girl. They rescue her.
Trust: Simon ends up helping to save Carla during the finale.
Twist: Carla gets a call from Dr. Schneider who tells her he’s got a tip on the location of the camper’s body and suggests she meet him there.
Twist: It just got more dangerous when Carla and Simon arrive at a remote location where they find the remains of the camper’s body and Dr. Schneider.
Reveal: Dr. Schneider has revealed himself to be a villain.
Reveal: Carla’s husband has actually loved her all along and they reconcile.
Twist: New options emerge when they also find the child’s mother who is being imprisoned in a makeshift cage.
Twist: It just got even more dangerous when they face the Sasquatch killer directly.
Twist: Secret identify uncovered when a battle ensues. Carla pulls out the Glock that she found in her purse and kills a man dressed as a Sasquatch.
Mystery 23: How is Carla going to out-battle the Villain or villains and survive?
Mystery 24 If so, how?
Mystery 25: Who else will step forward and team up with Carla to defeat the Villain or villains?
Mystery 26: Why did the killer dress up as a Sasquatch and kill people who were in the wilderness?
Mystery 27: Did the killer’s family know all along that this was happening?
Mystery 28: If so, why didn’t they intervene and stop the kid from killing?
Reveal: The cops arrive and arrest Carla’s sister’s boyfriend on charges of breaking and entering and possession of a stolen gun. He also has outstanding warrants for assault.
Reveal: Carla and Simon decide to distance themselves from her family and relocate to another city where Simon has been offered a new job.
15. Final Image (110):
Carla and Simon have reunited. They turn on a scifi horror movie that’s about a Sasquatch terrorizing a community. They laugh at the coincidence and immediately change the station because enough is enough.
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