Day 4 Assignments

[Phyllis Strong]

Phyllis’ Episode List Rough Draft

I learned from this assignment that I could leverage on the work I’ve done before and eventually trial & error my way to rough episodes.

Season Beginning: Sasha, an EPA investigator, is fired because the major oil company she was investigating engineered it. Unemployable, she can only pursue her dream of fighting climate change by accepting a job with Duncan, a billionaire environmental activist. Turns out he’s delusional, believing in creatures that have been spawned by a build-up of greenhouse gases. But, if she sticks with him for three years, he promises to fund an environmental foundation for her.

Season Ending/Cliffhanger: Torn over whether to betray Duncan to save him from further harm, Sasha decides to keep tracking. She finds partial remains that could be the creatures Duncan insists are real. She refuses to help Duncan’s sister, Delia, have him committed. Sasha and a recovered Duncan track a creature, but when Duncan shoots it, it doesn’t die. They barely escape with their lives.

Mystery

Question A: Are the creatures real?

Question B: Duncan reveals his beliefs to Sasha after she accepts the job. Also, people are dying mysteriously during climate-change fueled disasters (fire, tornados, fierce storms). What do these monsters look like? Where can you find them? Can you lure them to you? How do you kill one?

Question C: In the first season, the characters must work to discover whether the creatures are real.

Mystery 1 Set Up: Duncan reveals to Sasha, after she’s signed on, that their real mission is to slay the creatures spawned by the build-up of greenhouse gases. She thinks he’s delusional.

Mystery 1 Solved: Sasha finds partial remains that could be a creature. She and Duncan track and encounter a creature—it’s real. Turns out Duncan is not delusional.

Mystery 2: What turned Duncan into the black sheep of his family?

Mystery 3: What is behind Sasha’s flaw of not trusting others?

Lead Characters’ Journeys

Question A: Sasha starts out with her dream of fighting climate change crushed, and her only job offer is to work with Duncan, who is obviously delusional. Duncan starts out as a failure in his search for the creatures spawned by a build-up in greenhouse gases.

Question B: Sasha trusts Duncan enough to give him a second chance and look for evidence of these creatures herself, while Duncan is recovering from injury. Duncan has a witness—he’s not the only one to have seen one of these creatures, but his assumption about how to kill them was wrong.

Sasha Beginning: Skeptical and distrustful, she takes a job with delusional Duncan because he’s promised to fund her environmental foundation after three years of service.

Sasha Ending: She decides to trust Duncan over his sister Delia and in the last scene encounters a real creature along with Duncan.

Duncan Beginning: Impractical and impulsive, Duncan is a failure in his search for the creatures spawned by a build-up of greenhouse gases.

Duncan Ending: Duncan defers to Sasha’s tracking and in the last scene encounters a creature like the one he saw ten years ago. But his assumption about how to kill them is wrong.

Layers

· Sasha wasn’t fired because she made mistakes in the investigation; she was betrayed by her friend-with-benefits in the DOJ.

· Sasha is prolonging the investigation so that she can last long enough to gain Duncan’s funding for her foundation.

· Duncan let his daughter have a Sweet 16 on a private Caribbean Island during hurricane season; disaster struck and she was lost.

· Duncan’s ex-wife is Delia’s Sustainability Chief at the oil company.

· Delia is trying to have Duncan committed so she can become his guardian and stop his environmental activism.

· Delia’s power marriage is falling apart.

· Sasha’s father abandoned the family when she was thirteen.

· Duncan was an entitled playboy who relished his job as the family oil company’s liaison to sports and entertainment.

· Duncan had a breakdown after his daughter died.

· After Duncan is seriously injured and puts innocent bystanders at risk, Sasha agrees to work with Delia to save Duncan from himself.

· Duncan is not delusional—these creatures are real.

Major Story Lines

Main Story Line: Duncan, with Sasha’s help, is trying to track creatures spawned by greenhouse gases so that he can slay them.

Story Line 2: Sasha the skeptic is humoring Duncan so that her job will last for three years and Duncan will fund her foundation.

Story Line 3: Delia is trying to have Duncan committed so she can control his trust fund and shut him down.

Episode 1: Sasha is fired for political reasons and Duncan is the only one who gives her a chance to continue her dream of fighting climate change.

· Sasha is called back from an investigation to be dismissed.

· Her casual boyfriend at the DOJ cut a deal with Delia to have her fired.

· Sasha tries to find another job fighting climate change, but can’t.

· Duncan, impressed that Sasha made his family oil company pay their biggest fine ever, offers her a job—slaying creatures spawned by built-up greenhouse gas emissions.

· Sasha’s crushed that Duncan is delusional, but agrees to stay because Duncan will fund a foundation for her after three years’ time.

Episode 2: On their first foray together, Sasha is dismayed at Duncan’s scatter-shot investigation, and intervenes because she can’t stand sloppy work.

· Duncan has found three bodies that died from being cooked from the inside, even though they don’t have a mark on them.

· He wants a complete rundown on these people so they can trace their recent whereabouts, and track the creature.

· Sasha is skeptical that they didn’t perish in the wildfire they were found in.

· Rather than just waste time with Duncan’s request, Sasha mines Duncan’s contacts for better information.

Episode 3: Sasha suggests slowing down to do a thorough investigation, but Duncan is impatient until Sasha’s methods yield results, at least for him.

· Sasha and Duncan meet with Jupiter Intelligence, a climate change prediction company.

· Sasha has a crisis with her needy mother and we learn her father deserted them when she was thirteen.

· Duncan is impressed with Sasha’s results that match suspicious climate-related deaths to emissions of greenhouse gases.

Episode 4: Sasha and Duncan bond when he helps her get revenge on her ex-boyfriend for conspiring with Delia to get her fired.

· Sasha finds out her ex-boyfriend got a promotion and is buying a condo to celebrate.

· Duncan is served papers by his ex-wife with a court order barring Duncan from visiting his daughter’s gravesite.

· Delia is having trouble with her power marriage.

· Duncan uses a Senate contact to offer Sasha’s ex a legislative job which he loses after he resigns from the DOJ.

Episode 5: Sasha and Duncan try to avoid a nosy news reporter when they discover a prostitute who claims to have seen a creature.

· Sasha’s investigation leads them to a coal town and the appearance of a billionaire environmental activist puts the town on edge.

· A nosy news reporter tries to get to the bottom of Duncan and Sasha’s visit.

· A prostitute claims to have seen a creature and Duncan believes her while Sasha is skeptical of her motives.

· Duncan becomes enamored of the prostitute and, determined to save her, gives her a lot of money.

· Sasha was right, the prostitute was working for the news reporter, who has confirmed Duncan is looking for creatures spawned by greenhouse gases.

Episode 6: Duncan believes the news reporter will help them publicize the circumstantial evidence they have, but he tries to blackmail him instead.

· The news reporter from the previous episode arrives at Duncan’s mansion with a proposition to do an in-depth story.

· Sasha fears that if Duncan’s delusions are revealed, he’ll be disgraced and she’ll lose her job and her future foundation.

· Duncan has been wary of anyone knowing his true mission, but decides that, rather than have this reporter post half-truths, Duncan will give him the full story.

· The reporter tries to blackmail Duncan by threatening to humiliate him in his post.

· Sasha short-circuits the blackmail by having Duncan use contacts to place the story in The National Inquirer, where it will be dismissed.

Episode 7: To trap a creature, Duncan decides to use himself as bait, but Sasha protests when she learns innocent bystanders could be hurt.

· Sasha, using info from Jupiter Intelligence, makes an educated guess about where a creature will appear next.

· Duncan decides to use himself as bait, but the problem is, they can’t warn anyone about the upcoming methane gas leak or it will be prevented.

· Sasha insists they call in the leak as soon as Duncan’s instruments detect it.

· When the leak starts, Duncan chases a creature he spies, but as he nears it, the air heats up and an explosion sends Duncan flying.

Episode 8: Delia offers to fund Sasha’s foundation if Sasha will testify that Duncan is a danger to himself and others and help get him committed.

· A bruised and concussed Duncan is in the hospital.

· Delia comes to visit, notices Sasha in the waiting room, and comments that Sasha must know how dangerous Duncan’s delusional behavior is.

· Delia offers to fund Sasha’s foundation right away if she testifies at a competency hearing that Duncan needs to be committed.

· Delia has a moment with the unconscious Duncan, revealing how close (and competitive) they were growing up.

Episode 9: While Duncan is recovering from injury, Sasha investigates on her own and discovers the partial remains of an unidentifiable creature.

· Sasha is allowed to see Duncan as he recuperates at home, and he tells her about the creature he nearly caught.

· Delia presses Sasha about her offer.

· Sasha does some sleuthing, with the help of Duncan’s contacts, and discovers the partial remains of an unidentifiable creature.

· Sasha turns down Delia’s offer.

Episode 10: Sasha and Duncan track down a creature, but bullets don’t kill it, and they barely escape with their lives.

· A renowned zoologist friend of Duncan’s sequences the DNA of the partial remains and discovers that when the creature absorbs intense amounts of greenhouse gases, its body releases energy as heat.

· Duncan and Sasha return to the coal town and stake out the coal plant, searching for tremendously high heat signatures.

· Duncan reunites with the prostitute, who moved to a nearby city, but heard he was at the coal town again.

· Duncan and Sasha track down the creature, but bullets don’t kill it, and they barely escape with their lives.

· Next task: how do you kill these creatures?

[Brigitte Timmerman]

What I learned from this assignment is outlining episodes must have layers and intrigue with open loops to capture the interest of an audience.

Episode 1. In a dystopian world Irene and the family on the road to find their nephew Isaac’s Native American family to survive. They are attached by bandits and are searching for answers at a displacement camp.

Episode 2. At the displacement camp the family must adhere to adjust to their temporary home. Background on Irene and Jessie’s upbringing. The run across a strange man Willie who tries to help. They apply for visas and wait for their new assignments.

Episode 3. Grandpa Frank consoles Isaac and Mira by talking about his past. Background on Mira’s and parent’s story. Tensions and violence break out in the displacement camp. Jessie gets intel on criminal activity inside and outside the camp. The family gets word they may have invites to Native Nations. Flashback of Jessie’s sorted past.

Episode 4. Family get their visas and passports and assignment to a list of nations that could be Isaac’s tribe. The first is Ojibwe Nation. They leave the camp in for Ojibwe. Willer tips off a criminal to go after the family. Criminals engage just before they arrive at the Ojibwe check point.

Episode 5. Criminals close in on Family. Ojibwe soldiers chases bandits away. Arrive at Ojibwe Nation. Reveals Grandpa Frank is a spirit. Grandpa Frank when he was alive. Celebration before the test. Ojibwe are very hopeful.

Episode 6. The family gets to know the Ojibwe. Grandpa makes a friend with an elder who can see and hear him. He reveals his sorted past in the 1970s and redemption. Isaac takes the test.

Episode 7. Isaac is not Ojibwe. Family and Ojibwe heartbroken. Oglala Nation is there next stop. Irene surprises the family to make a stop on the way to meet their distant Calvary Cullum who’s leader of a militarized ranching community. Grandpa Franks leaves due to bad memories of whites in the 1970s. He witnesses a horrific crime from a local cowboy to a Native American women in Sweat, SD. They arrive at Calvary’s community.

Episode 8 Calvary is jovial to the family but has hidden violent past. Irene finds the locals are hostel because of her grandmother’s past. Calvary’s destiny is revealed from his past when he was a boy. Family departs, heads to Oglala Nation. They are surrounded by Natives running full speed on horseback. They lose them arrive at Oglala and they are greeted by Percy and the horse riders. Grandpa Frank is back. Grandpa Frank recounts his past in 1973 the reappearance of the violent cowboy who is ambushed by a group of Native Women and kills him. Percy escorts Isaac to the test.

Episode 9 Isaac has small amount of Oglala but not enough. Continue their search but will have Oglalas as a backup. Backstory on Percy and Calvary’s friendship from childhood and how they became allies. Calvary’s backstory with trade with Native Nations. Family departs for the Omaha Nation. Arrive at Omaha Nation

Episode 10 Greeted coldly by the leader Yellowsmoke. The test is a match for Omaha for Isaac. Yellowsmoke is his grandfather. Yellwosmoke banished the rest of the family and keeps Isaac. Irene stays with the Omaha Jessie and Mira leave and are accepted into a new community. Calvary invites Jessie and Mira to live with his community as a ploy to get intel.

[Bob Onufer]

Bob’s Episode List Rough Draft

What I learned from doing this assignment is that this will be a multistep process of brainstorming and updating.

Beginning: Intro into the world of mid-east espionage and a particular terrorist problem impacting Israel. Newly assigned intelligence agent Daniel Shay demonstrates his prowess and ability combating the unique threat.

Ending: Daniel has used his position and contacts to try to learn who planned the attack that murdered his parents. As the final domino falls into place, he learns the man he is after is now a member of the Israeli Knesset and is untouchable.

Mystery 1 Setup: Daniel is in search for the terrorist leader who planned the attack that killed his parents. He delayed his thirst for vengeance while he worked for the last fifteen years to get into a position where he can learn the identity of the terrorist leader. He is being told by others (his bureau superiors, Rabbi/therapist) to get over it and move on.

Mystery 1 Solved: Daniel abuses his position (perhaps by torturing captured terrorists, perhaps by breaking into classified files) to find out who planned the attack that killed his parents. It turns out to be a man who has since reinvented himself and is now a successful politician and part of the Israeli Knesset.

Mystery 2: How did Najeh Tamra get into the Knesset, and has he changed his stripes?

Mystery 3: Who is Christina Wade, and why did she latch on to Daniel?

Mystery 4: How is Daniel dealing with the underlying anger, guilt, and PTSD caused by witnessing his parents’ murders when he was thirteen?

Daniel Beginning: A highly competent by-the-book intelligence agent.

Daniel Ending: A rogue agent who is out to seek personal vengeance who is frustrated when the man he is seeking appears to be untouchable.

Layers

· Layer: By-the-book intelligence agent turns out to be working for a personal agenda.

· Layer: Daniel is seeing a Rabbi/therapist and is secretly on anti-depressants.

· Layer: Daniel suffers from PTSD and occasionally has violent episodes.

· Layer: Daniel’s grandfather (who raised him after his parents’ deaths) feeds his vengeance.

· Layer: Daniel cannot form a real relationship and engages prostitutes in secret.

· Layer: Christina Wade introduces herself to Daniel as a sex worker but has an underlying agenda.

· Layer: Christina Wade is suffering from her own self-esteem issues and needs to be successful with Daniel to prove her worth.

· Layer: Avi, Daniel’s bureau chief, is under pressure to stop the latest terrorist incursion.

· Layer: Avi is insecure about his position and believes Daniel may surpass him.

· Layer: Avi seeks information about Daniel that he can use to keep him down (e.g., drug use, prostitutes, alcohol).

· Layer: Najeh Tamra is still a terrorist and is using his position to funnel information and money to foreign governments and bad actors.

· Layer: Avi believes Christina is working for him.

Episode 1: Bagels & Lox – Daniel is assigned to the Tel Aviv bureau of Mossad. He demonstrates his prowess countering a dangerous terrorist threat.

· Daniel meets with his Rabbi/therapist before reporting to his new assignment.

· Avi, the bureau chief, meets Daniel.

· Daniel was assigned over Avi’s objection (Avi knows about Daniel’s background).

· Daniel experiences initial success dealing with a rash of murders outside Tel Aviv.

· Daniel uses his IDF skills to hack into the Mossad computer, but Avi can see the system has been hacked.

Episode 2: Hacker – Avis tries to obtain dirt on Daniel in order to keep him in line.

· Avi assigns Daniel the task of determining who the hacker is due to his background in the IDF Talpion program.

· Daniel tries to mask his hacking activities.

· Avi becomes suspicious and assigns a tail to Daniel.

· The tails report back to Avi that Daniel went to a hotel bar where he got drunk and picked up a hooker.

· Najeh Tamra is giving a speach on the television screen.

· Christina Wade is at the prostitute.

Episode 3: Representative Najeh – Najeh Tamra wins a seat in the Knesset.

· Daniel has a PTSD event and meets with his Rabbi/therapist.

· Najeh Tamra holds a rally in Tel Aviv for his Knesset campaign.

· Daniel visits his grandfather to regroup.

· Najeh Tamra wins his Knesset seat.

Episode 4: Bar Mitzvah – Fifteen years ago, Daniel’s parents are murdered. He goes to live with his grandparents who instill revenge in him.

· Avi is reviewing Daniel’s history on the computer.

· In flashback, Daniel, 13, prepares to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem

· A younger Najeh Tamra (about 32), with sniper rifle, positions himself across from the Western Wall.

· Daniel’s parents walk with him as part of the celebration.

· Shots ring out and Daniel’s parents are among the people hit.

· After the funeral in the States, Daniel’s grandparents take him back with them to a rural area of Israel.

· Daniel is morose and can’t make connections. His grandparents get a dog to help him heal.

· Daniel excels in school and enters the IDF elite program.

· Avi shuts down the computer.

Episode 5: Duplicity – Avi hires Christina to solicit Daniel.

· Daniel has another PTSD episode.

· Avi concludes that Daniel is a liability.

· Avi meets with Christina Wade threatens to arrest her for prostitution, and engages her to continue to sleep with Daniel and report back to him.

· Christina solicits Daniel and he goes off with her again.

Episode 6: Redemption – Daniel thwarts another terrorist plot.

· Christina avoids reporting on Daniel to Avi, she has her own agenda.

· Daniel meets with his Rabbi/therapist.

· Daniel dumps Christina.

· Daniel refocuses on his Mossad tasks.

· Daniel is instrumental in stopping a terrorist attack.

Episode 7: Manipulation – Christina begins to plant ideas in Daniel’s mind.

· Christina resurfaces in Daniel’s life with a dog just like he had when he was 13.

· Daniel confers with his Rabbi/therapist and then takes Christina back.

· Christina brings Daniel to meet her superior in the Temple Mount project.

· Najeh Tamra pushes his agenda in the Knesset and on social media. The agenda includes his ideas for the future of the Temple Mount.

Episode 8: Confrontation – Daniel confronts Avi.

· Daniel learns that Avi hired Christina to spy on him and has an explosive reaction.

· Christina denies reporting anything to Avi.

· Daniel confronts Avi, and Avi agrees to stop spying on him.

· Daniel focuses on finding the person who killed his parents.

Episode 9: Nothing Personal – Daniel abuses captured terrorist.

· Daniel’s research leads him to a cell which may have been involved with the attack that killed his parents.

· Avi tells Daniel this cell is not to be his focus.

· Daniel goes undercover and penetrates the cell.

· Daniel identifies a terrorist who may have knowledge and isolates him in a deserted area.

· Daniel breaks protocol and tortures the captured terrorist.

Episode 10: Untouchable – Daniel learns the identity of his parents’ murderer.

· Information obtained from torturing the terrorist leads Daniel in the right direction.

· Avi finds out about the torture and suspends Daniel.

· Daniel meets with his Rabbi/therapist.

· Daniel confides in Christina.

· Daniel ignores Avi and follows the lead presented by the tortured terrorist.

· Daniel learns the perpetrator was Najeh Tamra.

· Avi tells Daniel that Najeh is untouchable.

Daniel’s dilemma: How will he avenge his parents’ murders when the man responsible is protected.

[Nadine Vaughan DArdenne]

Subject line: Nadine’s Episode List Rough Draft

What I learned doing this assignment is how many possibilities open up with each layer.

Title: THE BURDEN OF HOPE
Writer: NADINE VAUGHAN

Beginning:
Sparks fly when two brilliant HS students are told to use their school’s resources to break a tie for a scholarship, especially when one school is inner-city, poor and the other is upscale. Wisely, they work together, until the latter returns home to find that his beloved father committed suicide.

Season End:
Kuno and Jai both feel traumatized and betrayed, but again they’re told they must work together, now for their freedom. Kuno storms out, leaving Jai vulnerable and alone.

Cliffhanger:
When Kuno bursts into Jai’s room, weapon in hand, he’s startled to see a man run out. In a split second, he knows she’s a victim too. Darting after the attacker, he returns to find the only woman he’s ever cared about, bleeding out, on the floor. END.

Episodes with one sentence explanations:

EPISODE 1: Kuno and Jai meet. Sparks fly. Then he discovers his dad just died.

EPISODE 2: Jai goes after Kuno at his dad’s funeral, acting out mentally and physically. EPISODE 3: Kuno’s mom conspires with Jai to have him imprisoned “for his protection”. EPISODE 4: Kuno’s only 16 and terrified, especially with a large cellmate leering at him. EPISODE 5: Jai and Kuno’s mom, are banished from his sight but someone protects him.

EPISODE 6: Feeling crushed, Jai joins the military as penance. She’s brutally assaulted.

EPISODE 7: An unknown ‘angel’ helps Jai get discharged from the military & into college. EPISODE 8: Some years later, a different unknown helps Kuno get exonerated & freed.

EPISODE 9: Kuno’s sent to ex-offender program. Jai’s his counselor. He reacts furiously. EPISODE 10: Kuno wants to kill her but when someone else tries to, he saves her.

MYSTERY Setup and How Solved:

The big mystery is: What happened to Kuno’s dad? And why? Was it his mom?
By the end, Kuno discovers his mother was only trying to protect him by lying to him about his dad (an undercover DEA agent). She believed the Cartel shot dad and might go after Kuno next. But in prison, they had old friends. So Kuno was protected there until his protector was killed. Then Kuno was exonerated and sent to an ex-offender program

JOURNEY:
Kuno & Jai begin with a passion for each other and for what they hoped to achieve in life. It peaked when Kuno’s protector was killed, he was beaten almost to death, then sent to be counseled by Jai, the one who betrayed him. In the ex-offender program, ultimately he and Jai learned to trust, love, and hope all over again.

LAYERS:

LAYER: Kuno’s father was investigating a dirty cop, for DEA, when he was killed & covered up.

LAYER – Monique was 12 when raped by the Cartel boss. Her baby, Jai was given to Charlotte. LAYER – Monique always feared her rapist would come back to claim ‘his’ child.

LAYER – Charlotte agreed to carry Monique’s baby, Kuno, since the rape left her unable to.

LAYER – Monique allowed her husband, Kuno’s father, to artificially inseminate Charlotte.

LAYER: Kuno and Jai didn’t know ea. other, as 3rd cousins. Lionel’s the granddad for both. LAYER: Kuno’s protector in prison was Lionel’s former lover. They met in Black Panther Party

[Kimberly Gore]

Kim’s Episode List Rough Draft

What I learned doing this assignment is…how I needed to end the season, which I hadn’t planned out until now.

What is the Beginning of the season and the End of the season? Beginning is mystery surrounding who tried to kill Eric. Ending is discovering who it was and why.

What possible cliffhanger could be in that last scene of the season, thus demanding that we watch the next season? Learning that Eric has the same issue with past lives as Natalie does, and that he’s been hiding it all this time.

What is the mystery? Why did Natalie’s other personality try to kill Eric?

How could the mystery be set up? What parts will be left out that must be solved? What does Eric have to do with Natalie’s past? What happened that ruined the trajectory of their fate?

What it the ultimate solution that the characters must work to discover? Why Natalie’s personalities are trying to talk to her and what are they trying to say.

Where does the Lead Character journey begin and end for this season? Natalie works to understand why she can’t control the things she says and does while her husband struggles with the situation she has placed them in regarding his daughter.

Where might this character go in future seasons? How could that influence this season’s journey? She will be desperate to understand why one of her personalities doesn’t trust Eric and doesn’t want him in their lives.

What layers have you already discovered in your BW Framework? List written.

Story Lines

Episode 1:

Eric is attacked and Natalie discovers him. She rushes him to the hospital.

Clues point to her as the attacker.

We learn that Natalie has Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Episode 2:

Natalie’s sister shows up, high and angry, demanding money, threatening to spill Natalie’s secrets to Eric, including that Nat gave up her newborn son for adoption as a teenager.

Eric looks at his bank accounts after and notices money withdrawn at irregular intervals.

Episode 3:

Eric’s ex-wife, Danielle, doesn’t trust that Natalie should be near Eric’s daughter.

Even though Eric and Nat proclaim Nat’s innocence, Danielle is ready to take Eric to court for sole custody.

Natalie receives a cryptic message on her bathroom mirror.

Episode 4:

Eric asks his friend, Matt, to defend Natalie in her trial. Matt doesn’t want to do so, but Eric is his best friend, so he agrees.

Eric finds notes all around the house that Natalie must be writing to herself, but they make no sense to him.

Episode 5:

Natalie’s friend, LaDonna, notices Natalie’s concern that she might be indicted for a crime she never committed.

Natalie confides in her about the messages she’s receiving and glimpses into some life she never had, and LaDonna offers to have her meet her friend, a past life regression therapist.

Natalie thinks this is silly, but then a social worker comes to take Linnie out of their home, and Natalie freaks out (one of her past lives is a child that plays with Linnie).

Episode 6:

Eric becomes estranged, unable to deal with Natalie.

His mother tries to talk him into leaving Natalie.

Matt comes to Eric, explaining he can’t find a way to defend Natalie because he doesn’t want to protect the person that harmed his best friend.

Eric struggles to deal with this and leaves Natalie.

Episode 7:

Abandoned, Natalie tries to turn to her sister, who is too strung out to help.

She turns to LaDonna, who convinces her to call the therapist she recommended.

She meets with Krystal, who puts her under hypnosis. Natalie has a past life trauma come through and panics, tries to break down the door, and soars through Krystal’s window, cutting herself up in the process.

Episode 8:

Eric visits Nat in the hospital, blames himself for what happened because he wasn’t there for her.

Hints at knowing he wasn’t there for before, a long time ago, but Natalie doesn’t understand what he means.

He insists on going to her next therapy session where sparks fly with Krystal.

Episode 9:

Linnie comes over with Eric’s mother for supervised visitation.

Eric is very guarded with Natalie. He slips Natalie pills, which puts her to sleep during the visit. His mother approves.

While his mother fixes them lunch, he texts Krystal, and it’s sexual in nature.

Later, while he says bye to Linnie, Natalie wakes and sees a flirty message from Krystal come through Eric’s phone.

Episode 10:

Natalie confronts Eric, who honestly doesn’t seem to know what she’s talking about.

When she goes back to his phone to show him, the texts are not there. She wonders if she’s losing her mind. (Eric’s mother has deleted the conversation.)

Eric is confused, but his mother talks to him.

And then we learn that he is dealing with past life issues, too, which have been confused with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

He finds another note in the house and it reads, “Natalie must die.”

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[H.G. MIDDLEMASS]

What I learned doing this assignment is…Because I already know how my season begins and ends I can figure-out the mysteries, layers and cliffhangers and then I can build the episodes to get from point A to point B.

Episode 1.1 – Panic Button:

Episode 1.2 – The Best Candidate:

Episode 1.3 – Satish

Episode 1.4 – Verna

Episode 1.5 – Jake

Episode 1.6 – Gretchen

Episode 1.7 – Fabio

Episode 1.8 – Ira

Episode 1.9 – Special Services:

Episode 1.10 – Killer Job:

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[Marcus Wolf]

Lesson 4

Subject line: Marcus’s Episode List Rough Draft

Season Beginning: With no meaningful purpose in the modern world, the coven has split up. Each pursues her private quest, be it dark arts, voodoo, or crime. Cassandra seeks long-gone enemy Trabeus and casts a poorly done spell on him.

Season Ending: Working apart, each witch has created a disaster that she can’t clean up on her own. Trabeus locates part of a powerful dark spell that Cassandra desperately wants and holds it hostage. Cassandra must get the coven back together.

Mystery 1 Set Up: Trabeus, using infallible magic, locates a rival gang member who he’s been ordered to interrogate. But he finds, tortures and kills an innocent man.

Mystery 1 Solved: Cassandra, trying to find Trabeus, cast a spell that interfered with Trabeus’ magic. The resulting crime made headlines that Cassandra uses to find him.

Mystery 2: What is the real reason for Cassandra’s obsessive hatred of Trabeus? Trabeus wants to save the world.

Mystery 3: Winifred has brought the creature Nightblue into our world. Using Nightblue is addictive. How dangerous is it?

Cassandra seeks both Trabeus and a fabled ancient spell to restore youth. She creates a magical connection to Trabeus but can’t find his location. That magical connection goes both ways and allows Trabeus to find part of the spell and keep it from Cassandra.

Layer 1: Trabeus is a kindly old man who everyone in the neighborhood knows and loves. No one knows he’s in witness protection.

Layer 2: He is secretly a contractor to a local gang.

Layer 3: He has infiltrated this gang to stop their activities and protect his neighborhood.

Layer 4: Trabeus commits an atrocity. Devastated and puzzled, he blames the gang leader for his mistake.

Layer 5: Trabeus discovers Cassandra is to blame.

Layer 6: Beatrix, a member of the coven, is secretly in love with Trabeus and has secretly undermined Cassandra’s efforts against Trabeus for years.

Layer 7: Endor is ashamed of her creation of and treatment of Deathsong (a zombie) and doesn’t want Cassandra to find out. She betrays Cassandra and seeks help from Trabeus.

Main Story Line – Trabeus’ life of crime and Cassandra’s obsession with finding him.

Story line 2 – Endor and Jean St. Mark raise Endor’s daughter from the dead.

Story Line 3 – Winifred opens a portal to a dangerous underworld and unleashes a creature from it.

Story Line 4 – Astra, working with a mysterious associate, is thrown in prison protecting the associate. There she starts a new coven.

Story Line 5 – Stewart, a surf bum, barely hides his horrific PTSD and can’t find a way out.

Story Line 6 – Beatrix, who’s abandoned magic for physics, learns that her secret lover Trabeus is still alive and goes in search of him.

Episode 1: Trabeus commits an atrocity, caused by Cassandra. Endor wants a zombie.

· Cassandra casts an incorrectly done spell on Trabeus who then, under orders from his mob boss, mistakenly tortures and murders an innocent person.

· Trabeus, in witness protection, is popular in his neighborhood. He secretly contracts for gangsters.

· As an added benefit, Trabeus’ new identity hides him from Cassandra.

· Endor lives with Jean St. Mark, a Voodoo Priest, and wants to learn how to raise a zombie. He resists strenuously, it’s dangerous magic.

· Stewart is the local surf shop burnout. His PTSD is destroying him. He doesn’t love his girlfriend, won’t let her help him, so she leaves him.

Episode 2: Winifred has an unnatural relationship with Nightblue. Cassandra works to reunite the coven to fight Trabeus.

· Jean St. Mark is in love, as well as vain about his powers, and Endor is relentless. He believes that if he can convert her to Voodoo, she will stop her sacrilegious magical practices.

· Stewart spends days in a drunken stupor. His apprentice in the shop rips him off.

· Winfred, lonely and ancient, dabbles in dark magic and opens a portal to The Deep. Nightblue comes through. Nightblue can enter Winifred’s ancient body and restore her youth and strength, but exerts control over her. With Nightblue, she does unsavory things. Nightblue, becomes an addiction.

· Cassandra wants to resume her ancient war with Trabeus who she believes wants to enslave the world. Cassandra must re-form her old coven. But they have problems of their own and no serious problem with Trabeus.

· Beatrix works in a physics lab and wants nothing more to do with magic. Cassandra won’t leave her alone about it. Beatrix agrees to help Cassandra re-form the coven for old times’ sake.

· Trabeus misses Beatrix with whom he had a secret affair years ago and renewed war will give him a way to be with her again.

Episode 3: Endor terrifies her new zombie. Cassandra seeks an ancient dark spell.

· The cadaver Endor supplies to Jean St. Mark was Endor’s daughter. The hideous zombie is called Deathsong. Deathsong recognizes Endor. Endor is horrified and frightens Deathsong, who runs away.

· Stewart returns to work and breaks defective boards his apprentice made. They fight, Stewart beats him senseless, then partially heals him with magic.

· Astra, a happy-go-lucky spirit, commits a crime with an “associate” who throws her under the bus, landing Astra in prison.

· Marius, Trabeus’ henchman, grows unhappy. Trabeus takes him for granted.

· Secretly, Beatrix hopes to reunite with her old clandestine lover, Trabeus, while protecting him from the coven.

· Cassandra needs to overcome her age problems and entice her coven, so she seeks the fabled Puer Aeternum (eternal youth) spell.

Episode 4: Endor must save Deathsong from the world. Stewart tries therapy. Astra starts her own coven.

· Endor is devastated with guilt. Jean St. Mark is furious with Endor. A zombie cannot be on her own. Endor goes in search of Deathsong.

· Nightblue wants more and more. Winifred learns just how dangerous Nightblue is. Every time it leaves Winifred, she is weaker and sicker.

· Astra receives a call from her associate, vows to escape and plots revenge.

· Embittered, Astra begins to organize her own coven behind bars.

· Cassandra, who does not have a good handle on the magic that binds her to Trabeus, cannot find his exact location.

· Stewart goes to a therapist. During the session, Stewart hallucinates and messes up the office with magic.

· Trabeus works to free himself of the spell Cassandra put on him long ago that restricts him. Marius must do things the spell prevents Trabeus from doing.

Episode 5: Cassandra and Winifred reunite. Beatrix gets closer to finding Trabeus.

· Deathsong discovers her powers. She feels no pain and is inhumanly strong. She helps a blind homeless man. They work together to survive on the street.

· Astra must prove to potential coven members that she is magical.

· Beatrix, uses the internet to track Trabeus’ atrocity, finds a number of possibilities of who and where he might be.

· Cassandra visits Winifred and sees that she is sick. Cassandra tries to nurse her, but Winifred inexplicably throws her out. Cassandra spies on her and sees Nightblue but doesn’t know what it is.

· Cassandra calls Endor and tells her that Trabeus has returned. Endor will come, but must tie up some loose ends.

Episode 6: Cassandra and Beatrix need to know what Nightblue is doing to Winifred. Astra’s new coven turns bad.

· Cassandra tries to find out what she saw at Winifred’s and gets Beatrix to help.

· Returning one night from getting food, Deathsong finds her friend has been robbed and murdered. She hunts the murderers.

· Three of Astra’s new coven immediately start using what she teaches them for violence and intimidation. One is loyal to Astra.

· Cassandra visits Astra in prison. Astra wants nothing to do with her and her obsession with Trabeus.

Episode 7: Winifred’s problem with the Deep intensifies. Deathsong is arrested for murder.

· Cassandra incorrectly casts the spell needed to find Puer Aeternum and only gets part of it.

· Twilightgreen follows Nightblue into this world and is jealous of Nightblue’s activities. Twilightgreen inhabits the body of one of Winifred/Nightblue’s lovers who quickly dies.

· Twilightgreen is angry and threatens to kill Winifred if she doesn’t find a suitable host.

· Deathsong kills the murderers with her bare hands and is caught by the police. They immediately put her in the hospital under arrest.

· Endor finds Deathsong just as she is arrested but can’t do anything about it.

· Marius suffers and begs Trabeus to free him. Trabeus refuses.

Episode 8: Cassandra tries desperately to pull the witches back together and re-form the coven.

· Ashamed about Deathsong, Endor can’t let Cassandra know, so she decides to seek help from Trabeus, the most powerful sorcerer she knows.

· Winfred asks Cassandra to help her and when Cassandra arrives, Twilightgreen is waiting. Beatrix is nowhere to be found.

· Trabeus kills the evil mob boss, who is immediately replaced by someone worse.

· Astra must destroy her new coven and start over. Easier said than done.

· Trabeus, now in magical contact with Cassandra, easily finds the missing part of Puer Aeternum. Now he has a bargaining chip.

· Beatrix figures out where Trabeus lives and goes in search of him. Marius senses her presence in town and plots to intercept her.

· Stewart’s Aunt Endor contacts him with a possibility: replace Astra in her coven.

[Marie Jordan]

Assignment lesson 4 Module 2

Marie’s episod list rough draft

What I learned doing this assignment is that following the process of this lesson and having to answer questions is a great guide but I first tried to stretch the first season into 5 seasons and I got lost, so I came back to my first plan.

Beginning of the season: Intro this amazing world of angels, and the school for Guardian Angels. Each of the Guardian angels can travel through space and time all at once. They each have a human to protect and train at school where they are given mentoring. Skyler is different. There is a mystery around him. He has traumatic memories of earth of his previous mission: he failed to save a boy. Other angels don’t have memories.

Season Ending (cliffhanger). Skyler defeats the fallen angels who had invaded the school of angels sacrificing his own life only to wake up from coma in an hospital bed on earth. He is the boy whose traumatic memories had been haunting him.

1/ SEASON 1 – Mystery set up:

Is Skyler a fallen angel? Is he part of a bigger plan to invade the world of angels and deprive human beings from celestial protection?

Mystery solved: He is a human being between life and death. He had to redeem himself to be able to live again.

Question A: What is the mystery?

Who is Skyler? Why is Skyler « different » from the other guardian angels? Is he a fallen angel? Why is he seen by the archangel as the chosen?

Question B: how could the mystery be set up?

We have to doubt from episode1 to episod 8.

What parts will be left out that must be solved?

– What’s the secret behind his traumatic memories?

– Why does he lie to his mentor?

– How can he be the chosen when dyslexic and a runner?

– Is he a fallen angel as he seems to convince himself, finding pleasure in doing bad things or is he just a teenager with the brain rewiring?

– Why Charlie behave differently after coming back from the ramparts?

– Why is Charlie challenging him to break the rules?

– How come the angels are all embodied by the fallen angels at the ramparts and not him?

– Why did he lie to his mentor about failing to keep Rose on the right track? (because we think he is scared to fail and be sent away on the remparts for eternity ?

– Why does he wants Merrill to keep the secret that Charlie is a fallen angel infiltrated into the school

– Why does he have such a good relationship with Charlie despite knowing he is a fallen angel?

– How come he came back from the remparts normal when Charlie has been embodied. Merrill becomes suspicious of him.

Question C: What is the ultimate solution that the characters must work to discover.

Skyler, when he was a boy on earth was part of a scheme that killed innocent people but was unaware of the consequences of his actions and so he ended his life before become an angel and redeeming himself.

LAYERS

Layer: Skyler failed to prevent the death of the boy in his previous mission and its traumatic memories haunt him.

Layer: Rose is not a quiet student; she is a hacker.

Layer: The good Skyler uses forbidden magic secretly to save Rose, rather than risking to fail again

Layer: Charlie, the good friend is embodied by a fallen angel and challenges Skyler.

Layer: Merrill helps Skyler with his dyslexia secretly

Layer: When Merrill investigates Charlie, Skyler keeps secret from her as he thinks he is a fallen angel like Charlie.

Layer: Skyler enjoys being bad with Charlie.

Layer: There is a prediction about Skyler and the archangel is watching him with a special attention.

Layer: Skyler couldn’t be embodied. He is not a fallen angel.

Layer: Half of the school has been embodied.

Layer: The school game is a battlefield between guardian angels and fallen angels.

Layer: Charlie loves Skyler and sacrifices his life for him

Layer: – Skyler has the power to reverse the embodiments and save his school friends including the real Charlie who become again a Guardian angel.

but this will kill him.

Layer: Skyler is dead!

Layer: Skyler wakes up on a hospital bed. He is the boy who committed suicide and haunted him with traumatic memories. He never died but stayed in coma for 6 years!

Where this character goes in future seasons?

– Skyler (16) wants to find Rose in real life.

– Skyler will pair with Rose to become the world best Ethical Hackers in the Cyber war and they will be protected by Merrill and Charlie, their Guardian angels.

MAIN STORY LINE :

Skyler the guardian angel must protect Rose despite his lack of connection with her.

STORY LINE 1:

Skyler at school is challenged by the Fallen angels.

STORY LINE 2:

Skyler is challenged by his own devil nature and the mystery of his origin.

OUTLINING PROCESS

Episod 1:

After a guardian angel cannot stop a 10-year old boy from taking his life, he is assigned to protect a teen hacker, Rose (13), a new mission he must not fail.

Episod 2:

Skyler’s best friend Charlie is unfairly punished and sent to the ramparts but when he returns, he is different and Skyler questions his bad influence over him as Charlie makes him break the rules. Skyler’s connection to Rose stops. He has to use his ability to travel through time and space to protect her.

Episod 3:

Despite a warning from his friend Merrill, Skyler gets caught using magic spells and sent to the ramparts but when he returns, he senses some students look at him oddly. Skyler questions his difference and his origin and why he seems to make Rose’s situation much worse like he did with the boy previously.

Charlie is caught while interfering in Skyler’s connection to Rose but lies and says he was there to help.

Episod 4:

The school suspects an attack from the Fallen angels. Merrill suspects Charlie to be a fallen angel and Skyler takes part of her investigation but while doing so, is convinced he is a fallen angel too. His mission on earth turns to disaster: Rose becomes a Cyber criminal.

Episod 5:

The school atmosphere is tenser as more suspicion arises. Skyler protects Charlie even after being hurt by him and Merrill upset removes her support.

More and more students are punished and protest of their innocence.

More and more students look oddly at Skyler.

Skyler and Charlie fight in a school competition and Charlie tries to cut Skyler’s wings.

Rose’s hacking takes a larger influence and Skyler cannot prevent her from becoming the target of a rival Cyber Lord.

Episod 6:

Skyler cannot fly because he has been hurt by Charlie and he is removed from his mission with Rose by the archangel. Charlie offers to replace Skyler. Merrill and Skyler try to stop him from interfering on Rose’s actions.

Skyler must use Merrill’s help to avoid Rose to be killed. He confesses his doubt about his identity but she reveals that there is a prediction about him, that he is a chosen and will help the world of angels. He cannot be bad. He must believe in himself.

Episod 7:

Skyler discovers that Charlie is a fallen angel,

With Merrill, they investigate the school ground and discover how guardian angels were manipulated so they would break the rules and be sent to punishement at the ramparts and once there, were embodied by the fallen angels, and their souls locked away. But Slyler is special, they couldn’t embody him. Skyler is now convinced he is the chosen

Episod 8:

Skyler defeats the fallen angels and reverses the embodiement so the guardian angels souls can reunify with their bodies. Skyler finds the real Charlie, his friend but reversing the process of embodiement kills him, we believe although he wakes up as the 17-year boy who had tried to die when he was 10 but was in a coma on a hospital bed for 7 years.

[Eric Watterson]

Eric Watterson’s Episode List Rough Draft

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?” and put it at the top of your work.

Use the Cheat Sheet above to do Step 1 – 5, answering the questions.

THE CHEAT SHEET

1. Beginning………………….Season End/Cliffhanger

Question A: What is the Beginning of the season and the End of the season?

Anthony is a secluded gardener with amnesia ends up placed as caretaker over a boys group home. He is about to reject the assignment and is about to go to jail for assault until he sees the darkness surrounding the boys and changes his mind.

Question B: What possible cliffhanger could be in that last scene of the season, thus demanding that we watch the next season?

Anthony figures out that they boys are being experimented on, regains his memory and remembers that his team was killed and his father were killed but he was left alive.

2. Season 1 Mystery Set up………………….Season 1 Mystery Solved

Question A: What is the mystery?

1 – what are the creatures

2 – who is Anthony

3 – what is the strange dark force that surround them

4 – why were these boys chosen

Question B: How could the mystery be set up? What parts will be left out that must be solved?

1 – The creatures are seen in Anthony’s nightmares and in person, but he doesn’t know why.

2 – Anthony sees glimpses of people and events that he doesn’t recognize

3 – He also, later we reveal that the creatures killed Anthony’s CENTRY team but left him alive

Question C: What it the ultimate solution that the characters must work to discover?

1 – Why does the darkness follow the boys

2 – Why were the boys chosen for the home

3 – what are Anthony’s hidden abilities

3. Journey begins………………….Journey peaks, but continues.

Question A: Where does the Lead Character journey begin and end for this season?

Begins with him accepting community service with boys; ends with him remembering who he is as a CENTRY Soldier

Question B: Think about where this character goes in future seasons. That might give you an idea also.

4. ……Anthony’s amnesia….…His memory wiped………boys setup to join group home………Forced into experiments………Each boys gift is wanted………Anthony has hidden abilities………the boys have hidden abilities……Anthony sees the dark creatures…..The Dark Order is orchestrating the bad in the boys life…..the Dark Drug is behind the creatures…..Edwards family is connected to the Dark Order……..Edwards family troubles…….

Question A: What layers have you already discovered in your BW Framework?

Question B: Are there any other layers that you could think of?

5. Make a list of the Major Story Lines.

Question A: What main characters have story lines that affect everyone else?

Ro has hurt or killed friends and family members of group home brothers

Edwards family is part of the Dark Order

Officer Tim wants to be accepted by the Dark Order

The Dark Order Burned Omars Village

Francisco works for the first group distributing the drug to the community

Francisco brother is kidnapped by the gang

Anthony’s memory was wiped because of what he found out about the Dark Orders plans

The Dark creatures that killed Anthony’s team couldn’t kill him

Anthony doesn’t turn Chris in for stealing

Anthony recognizes that Omar can see The Dark Creatures

Anthony begins to teach the boys to control their anger

Anthony sees angry try to overcome Omar but it doesn’t

Chris and BrayBray struggle with their gang connection – Chris wants to leave Bray wants to stay

The CENTRY Medallion has unknown origins and supernatural powers

Question B: What are the most important story lines of this show?

It is important to know that you don’t need all of these answered perfectly. If you have 60% of the questions answered, you can create an amazing show.

12 Episodes:

Episode 01: Anthony is arrested for assaulting a man during a gardening job

– Anthony’s dreams keep him away

– He sees the dark from his dream over the man, it sees him and attacks and Anthony beats the man, he later sees that the man was abusing his wife

– Anthony is given the option of community service or jail, before he decides to jail,

– Anthony is taken to the group home where he sees the darkness on the boys and decides to stay as the grounds keeper

Episode 02: visiting day at the home

– Officer Tim wants to be hired at L.I.V.E Pharma accepted by the Dark Order

– Edwards family and siblings comes for a visit and make fun of him

– Ro sneaks out and goes on a hit

– Families visit and some are surrounded by darkness others aren’t

– Omar notices Edward father wearing a shirt with the logo from his village burning

Episode 03: Group counseling sessions at the home with head doctor from LIVE Pharma

– Anthony watches the darkness around the boys as they sit there

– The boys are seated in a group setting

– Edward discusses his family issues

– The group starts a group fight

– The darkness sees Anthony watching and is draw to him be cont touch him

– Anthony sees anger try to overcome Omar but it doesn’t

Episode 04: Omar follows an LIVE Executive he assaulted

– Anthony comes into the lunchroom as the boys yell and argue with each other

– Anthony screams “Enough” at the darkness and it leaves the boys

– Anthony serves them food and they sit and eat in silence

– The head doctor gets upset at Anthony and tries to fire him

– The boys hear it and Edward convinces the doctor to not fire him

– The entire encounter is watched through secret camera

– Omar sneaks out and follows the LIVE Executive, Edwards father

Episode 05: Francisco’s brother is taken captive by his old gang

– Omar breaks into LIVE Pharma but is rescued by Edward sent there by Anthony

– Anthony begins to connect more with the boys during group

– The doctor begins to up the dose of Dark Drug

– Omar explains his experience with the Darks

– Francisco’s brother is taken captive by the gang

Episode 09: The group recues Francisco Brother

– The group researches where Francisco Brother is

– Anthony tell the group doctor where they are going but it’s actually Edward in disguise

– Anthony devising the plan to rescue Francisco brother

– While there Anthony grabs a sample of the dark drug

– After saving Francisco’s brother, he calls the gang and asks can he come back for more of the Dark Drug

Episode 06: The team break into LIVE Pharmaceuticals and Research and discovery files on each of them

– The boys sees Anthony staring at the dark drug. They experiment on it and it transform in their eyes

– they begin to research the drug using the computers at LIVE Pharma

– While on the computes Chris find files on each other team and the house and download the encrypted files

– While at LIVE Pharma they are attacked by Dark Creatures

– The boys are beating by the Creatures but saved by Anthony’s skills

Episode 07: Francisco’s gang tracks them searching for drug

– As the boys talk and research the drug the house is attacked by the gang

– The boys fight off the gang by following Anthony’s lead

– The gang destroys the house searching for the flash drive Chris downloaded the files to

– They fight them off but Chris has a backup in the cloud

– As the boys beat the gang, they all transform into the dark creatures and begin to beat them up

Episode 08: Chris researches Anthony’s background and questions his honesty

– Anthony begins to glow and beats back all the Dark Creatures and then collapses

– The boys are freaked about the creatures and Omar tells them what he can see

– Chris searches the encrypted files and find another name and identity for Anthony

– Chris finds an address for Anthony fathers group met

Episode 10: Dark Creatures attack the boys individually

– Anthony is unconscious and placed under medical care

– During group the boys explain to the doctor what happened but she doesn’t believe them

– She gives them all a free day away from the home and each of them are attacked by Dark Creatures and run back to the house

– Chris finds Anthony’s father hidden lair and locates a secret book called The Codex

– The doctor makes a call and tells her superiors that the plan has been comprised

Episode 11: Dark creatures attack the house and Anthony’s powers begin to show

– The doctor tells them that they are being released from their records tomorrow and moved to different group homes

– Dark creatures attack the homes to kill them all

– Anthony wakes up and begins to battle and give each of the boys part of his strength

– The head creature transform into the doctor and tells Anthony to surrender or it will kill the boys

– It takes Anthony captive and tells the boys it will see them later, before his is taken Chris slips his phone into Anthony pocket

Episode 12: During a torture by Dark Creatures Anthony regains his memory and has a complete change of personality

– The boys track Anthony by Chris phone and steal and car to find him

– Anthony is locked in a cell where Anthony remembers that he and his team found a secret base and were attacked by the creatures after freeing test subjects

– Anthony learns that he’s being setup to fail

– As he is electrocuted the electricity releases Anthony’s hidden memories and the boys rescue him

– As Anthony gets up with his new memories he makes a quick work of the Dark

– Chris gives Anthony his fathers Centry Codex

[David Thome]

Dave’s Season 1 episodes for Blank Slate

What I learned: Everything from all the Module 1 lessons is coming together while also spawning new ideas.

Episodes:

1 The Experiment goes bad; Joshua wakes up in a different reality.

2 Joshua asks Salva about The Experiment and encounters The Two Agents; his car blows up.

3 Joshua switches realities twice, learns that Salva has a dark history and is vindictive.

4 The Chinese Agent warns Joshua about the American Agent; the American Agent visits Henna.

5 At home Henna’s personalities swing wildly as Joshua switches realities; daughter may be a link between realities.

6 Joshua learns that The Experiment has not been performed in all realities; the Agents are for or against him in various realities. At the end, the American Agent shoot at him.

7 The Agent shot at Joshua just to warn him; daughter’s inter-reality awareness comes to light; the mysterious Third Agent is watching her when Joshua sees him or her for the first time.

8 Joshua
tries to interfere when he thinks Henna’s moving on too quickly—and ends up finding out
that he’ll need to work with Salva if he wants to get back to the BL.L.

9 In
a new reality, Joshua wakes up in bed with Salva—but after following up on
information she gives him, he finds out that Salva’s the one who’s been trying
to kill him—when she pulls out a gun and aims it at him at the end of the
episode.

[Anne James]

Anne James

Module 2 – Lesson 4 – Episode List (Rough Draft)

What I learned…this feels more like “done” work than “good” work at this point. But I got a lot down on the page here. It’s a start.

Beginning: Vestal Virgin Head Priestess, Livia’s pregnancy and miscarriage throws the House of Vesta into high stakes chaos. Silvius, Pontifex Maximus, mysteriously waves a trial and has her immediately put to death. Nerilla, a third in line slacker with a series of botched blessings on her record, is unexpectedly appointed Head Priestess.

Season End/Cliffhanger – Julia Domna, widowed Empress and mother to Caracalla and Geta, attempts to broker a peace between the now co-emperors. In front of Nerilla and Julia, Caracalla has Geta killed. He dies in his mother’s arms. Caracalla declares it was Nerilla’s blessing and her influence with the gods that ensured his father’s demise and his destiny to be emperor.

Season 1

Mystery – Does Nerilla actually possess magical powers and a connection to the gods? Or does she always need some outside help?

Solved – She has never believed her role as a Vestal automatically instilled her with the gifts of mysticism. But now the stakes are life and death. She begins “faking” blessings, adding new levels of theatrics. Laurus helps her. The blessings work. (Season 1); Julia Domna passes off state secrets that lend credibility to Nerilla’s mystic predictions (Season 2); Nerilla brokers peace with a conquered nearby tribe (Season 4)

Mystery – Who impregnated Livia? Who is she protecting?

Solved – Childhood friend, a widower and farmer (Season 4)

Mystery – Which Vestal broke the vow of secrecy and leaked word of Livia’s miscarriage?

Solved – Laurus confesses it was she. (Season 5)

Mystery – Why did Silvius wave a trial?

Solved – Pressured by Emperor Severus and high-ranking Senator father to demonstrate leadership, regain favor of the gods and purge House of Vesta of this scandal immediately. (Season 1)

Mystery – Why Nerilla as Head Priestess? Severa, a popular favorite with the citizens, is second in line?

Solved – Severa is not a virgin. Was raped by Silvius’s father. (Season 4)

Mystery – Why is Nerilla privately so shattered by Livia’s death?

Solved – She and Livia had a romantic relationship. Livia was her lifeline. (Season 1); Laurus, under pressure, exposes this “incestuous” relationship to devastating results (Season 5)

Journey begins: Nerilla is a slacker of a Vestal, restless. Worthless at blessings. Thinks she’s a complete fraud. Politically disinterested. Leaves the fame and glory to Livia and Severa.

Journey peaks, but continues: Nerilla blesses the military endeavors of Emperor Severus and his sons. Severus brokers peace. But dies. Caracalla and Geta return to Rome, competing against each other as co-emperors. Julia Domna gathers her sons to get them to cooperate. Nerilla is present, offers counsel and blesses the meeting. Caracalla has Geta killed. Caracalla is convinced Nerilla summoned the gods to support his emperorship. She personally will bless all of his endeavors to ensure his success.

Layer—Nerilla must publicly denounce Livia and erase all memory of her. Privately, she is devastated, heartbroken and vengeful.

Layer—Nerilla, never popular within the House of Vesta, must now battle Severa for support of the other women.

Layer–Deformed Silvius, the new Head of the House of Vestal, appointed to this position because the Senate believes no woman would be tempted by him.

Layer—Severa, has done everything right, but she can never be Head Priestess. She was raped by Silvius’s father.

Layer – Silvius protects Severa, but also keeps her silenced.

Layer – With the deaths of her husband and son, Julia Domna’s position in the Empire is vulnerable. She must find new ways to stay relevant.

Layer—Caracalla, disinterested in actual governing, asks his mother to handle the emperor’s top-secret paperwork.

Layer—Julia Domna has connections and expertise but suddenly no power or standing. Nerilla has position and influence, but no experience. They need each other.

Layer—Senator Dios, a historian and senator, controls and spins the public narrative of the inner workings Rome’s political landscape.

Make a list of the Major Story Lines.

Nerilla appointed new Head Priestess and struggles to learn this new job.

Nerilla discovers who Livia truly was.

Laurus aligns with the Praetorian Guard.

Severa and Silvius privately undermine Nerilla. Publicly support her.

Nerilla and Julia Domna become reluctant allies.

Episodes:

Episode 1 –

Livia is buried alive for breaking the vow of celibacy

All Vestals and political elite attend her burial

Silvius appoints a bewildered Nerilla as the new Head Priestess

Furious Severa is passed over for Head Priestess

House of Vesta is divided—who leaked word of Livia’s miscarriage?

Nerilla secretly visits Livia’s grave and can hear she is still alive

Flashback – night Livia miscarried and Vestals vow to keep secret.

Nerilla is summoned Emperor Severus and Empress Julia Domna.

Plautianus pays a visit to the House of Vesta

Laurus and Clodia tend to the Vesta flame

Nerilla publicly celebrated at the new Head Priestess in an elaborate ceremony.

She performs her first public blessing and throws up afterwards.

Episode 2 – Nerilla struggles to find an ally

Nerilla must enact a damnato memoria, erasing all evidence Livia existed.

Clearing out Livia’s quarters, Nerilla discovers a clue to Livia’s pregnancy

Nerilla moves into Livia’s quarters, sleeps in her bed.

Memories of the night of her miscarriage & vow

Vestals attend event at the Colosseum with Emperor & Empress

Confronts Silvius about denying Livia a trial.

Secretly visits her family home and watches them through the window

Episode 3 – Welcome to the Senate

Nerilla is introduced to Senator Dios & is briefed

Emperor Severus and Empress Julia Domna present Nerilla to the Senate

Nerilla notices Julia Domna’s interaction with the Senate

Nerilla is privately approached by Plautianus and wants her blessing and support for an endeavor.

Emperor Severus wants her blessing for a contradictory endeavor.

Silvius catches Nerilla with one of Livia’s personal effects. Allows her to keep it.

Episode 4—Nerilla hits the streets

Severa holds a public event for the Roman people and is celebrated.

Severa confronts Nerilla and flaunts her popularity with the people

Nerilla meets with citizen leaders wanting her support for lower taxes

Nerilla meets a prisoner on his way to an execution and frees him.

Vestals visit an orphanage. Nerilla feels strongly connected to one of the children.

Emperor Severus reprimands her for using her powers to free that prisoner.

Nerilla is asked to bless gladiators prior to games. Meets female gladiators. They become human to her, even though they are slaves.

Attends Colosseum event where many of those gladiators are killed.

Laurus and Clodia tend the flame

Episode 5 – The search for a new Vestal

Senate announces search for a new Vestal

Silvius and Vestals hold meetings with worthy families with daughters.

Silvius takes bribes from certain families.

Senator Dios campaigns for the daughter of a prominent family

Nerilla has painful flashbacks to when she was selected and taken from her family.

Plautianus continues to pressure Nerilla for blessings and support for his endeavors. She reluctantly “fakes” a blessing for Plautianus.

Confesses to Laurus that she “faked” the Plautianus blessing.

Empress Julia Domna attends public selection of new vestal.

Plautianus interrupts conversation with Nerilla and Julia Domna.

Nerilla is pressured by Silvius and Dios to pick one of their choices.

As Head Priestess, Nerilla, goes against their choices, and picks Herennia.

Episode 6 – Senate vs military

Ceremony blessing Herennia as a Vestal

Dios confronts Nerilla about her choice for Herennia. Is problematic politically.

Nerilla attends a senate hearing where Plautianus and the Emperor threaten to overthrow the senate. Pitting the military against the senate.

Emperor wants to give rights to soldiers, allow to become citizens. Given them land.

Senators push back. Would give military too much power and standing.

Emperor and Plautianus summon Silvius and Nerilla. Pressure them to side with military and secure the god’s support.

Silvius’s father, Dios and other senators meet with Silvius and Nerilla secretly to plot against Severus.

Herennia begins her apprenticeship under Laurus and Clodia

Episode 7 – Livia

Early days of their lives as Vestals. Livia and Severa were a couple of years older than Nerilla. She was the last to arrive.

The three of them were very close. Supported and protected each other.

Young adult Livia’s ceremony to be Head Priestess. Nerilla watching Livia like a duck to water rise in the ranks and leave the rest of them behind.

Conversation with Livia about her doubts in her powers and connection to the gods. Their relationship is deepening, starting to exclude Severa.

Their first moments of tender intimacy. Starting to become something more.

Flashback—Night of Livia’s miscarriage. See Nerilla sneaking into Livia’s quarters and into her bed. Slips into sleep. Wakes up to Livia standing, bent over in pain, panting. Then there is blood. So much blood.

Continue with miscarriage. What happened that night. The burial. The vow. Dawn. Breakfast.

Episode 8 –

Julia Domna and son, Caracalla, confront Nerilla, wanting know if Plautianus is working against the Emperor.

Silvius pushes back against Julia and Caracalla, supporting the senators’ position. Nerilla accidently reveals a key element from a recent conversation with Plautianus. Julia Domna and Caracalla become concerned.

Nerilla feeling very much alone and not sure who to trust.

Plautianus pressures Nerilla to side with his venture against the Emperor and secure the god’s blessing. Which she “fakes”.

Silvius confronts Nerilla and wants to know about Plautianus.

Nerilla exposes Plautianus to Severus

Severus has Plautianus killed and body thrown into the streets

Episode 9 –

Growing tensions in Roman Briton force Severus back out on campaign. Takes his two sons.

Nerilla blesses Severus’s military campaign in a large public ceremony.

During ceremony, there is an accidental exchange between Nerilla and Caracalla.

Military heads out on campaign.

With Emperor away, Julia Domna appears before the Senate in her husband’s place.

Nerilla and Julia Domna have a confrontation

Senate takes advantage of a leaderless Praetorian Guard.

Laurus discovers her younger brother is a member of the Praetorian Guard.

Episode 10 –

6 months have passed

Macrinus is the new controversial Pratorium Prefect

Julia Domna now wielding influence over Senate

Nerilla and Severa in a battle for alliances in the House

Word comes military has secured borders in Roman Briton

Nerilla is celebrated for her role in the victory

Word comes Emperor has died – Caracalla & Geta declared co-emperors

Warring sons arrive back in Rome

Julia Domna arranges a meeting with sons to broker truce. Nerilla is asked to bless the meeting. Dios is present.

Caracalla kills Geta and becomes Emperor, pronouncing Nerilla’s blessings secured gods’ endorsement, citing moment in the blessing.