Day 5 Assignments

[Brigitte Timmerman]

What I learned from this assignment is creating a series description in a format that emphasizes constant action and movement creates intrigue.

Refuge Nation

Episode 1.

Hook/Intrigue: Family traveling on a bus in a dangerous dystopian world. Main Character Journey: Irene, Jessie and Isaac must find his Native American family to survive.Major Challenge/Conflict: They are surrounded by bandits that are disguised as military.Action/Reaction: Bandits attach family at gun point. Irene has gun hidden pointed at them. Cliffhanger: They hold them captive with the intent to kill them, ransom Isaac and take everything.

Episode 2.

Hook/Intrigue: Their new life and harsh reality of the displacement camp puts the family in jeopardy.Main Character journey: Irene and Jessie must obtain their visas and passports to ensure their journey. Major Challenge/Conflict: A mentally ill man Willie greets the family that puts them at unease. Jessie leaves Mira alone when she is with a man. Action/Reaction: The family must navigate through the camp and it new laws and bureaucracy.Cliffhanger: Irene finds Mira alone. In a rage Irene searches for Jessie that is nowhere to be found. Family waiting if their visas and passports will come through

Episode 3.

Hook/Intrigue: Irene finds Jessie roughed up and intoxicated. Irene is mortified thinking she was raped. Main Character journey: Back story on Jessie’s sorted past. Jessie gets intel of a criminal underworld at the displacement camp.Major Challenge/Conflict: Knowing about the criminal world puts Jessie at risk. Action/Reaction: Violence breaks out at the camp. Jessie is involved. Cliffhanger: Family get word they may have their visas and passports ready.

Episode 4.

Hook/Intrigue: Family gets passports and visas and have their invites to Native Nations.Main Character journey: They leave the camp for Ojibwe Nation their first stop.Major Challenge/Conflict: Willie tips off bandits about the family headed on the road. Action/Reaction: Irene and Jessie are terrified to see the bandits. Cliffhanger: Bandits close in on them when they almost reach Ojibwe Nation.

Episode 5.

Hook/Intrigue: Bandits close in on the family. Ojibwe military intercept them and bring the family safe to their Ojibwe Nation. Main Character journey: Revealed Grandpa Frank is a sprit. Major Challenge/Conflict: Irene and Jessie at odds with each other due to Jessie’s actions at the camp. Irene fears she will have them thrown out. Action/Reaction: The family is greeted with a lavish dinner and is greeted by the Ojibwe that who are very hopeful.Cliffhanger: They get ready for the ceremony the next day that will tell if it is Isaac’s family.

Episode 6.

Hook/Intrigue: Family gets to know the Ojibwe. Grandpa Frank makes a friend with an elder who can see and hear him.Main Character journey: Grandpa Frank’s past is revealed. Major Challenge/Conflict: Grandpa Frank is conflicted with his past when he was alive as alcoholic and drug addict in the 1970s on Pine Ridge in South Dakota.Action/Reaction: Irene and Jessie learn about the Ojibwe culture they are excited about the prospect living with the Ojibwe.Cliffhanger: Isaac takes the test the family waits for the results.

Episode 7.

Hook/Intrigue: Isaac is not Ojibwe the tribe and Irene and Jessie are heartbroken. They set on their journey for their next stop.Main Character journey: Irene surprises the family to stop to see their distant cousin Calvary Cullum leader of the Sandhills Nation.Major Challenge/Conflict: Grandpa Frank reflects on the violence inflicted on his people in a small town in the Sandhills. Action/Reaction: Grandpa Frank wants no part of being at the Sandhills Nation he informs Isaac he’s going away for a while.Cliffhanger: The family arrives at Sandhills Nation.

Episode 8

Hook/Intrigue: Greeted by Calvary who is jovial but has a violent past. Main Character journey: Calvary destiny is revealed how he became leader. Major Challenge/Conflict: Irene is confronted by a hostel resident of the Sandhills revealing her family lost their ranch due to Irene’s grandmother. Action/Reaction: Family tries to stay but Calvary can not take them in due to family politics. They depart and arrive at their next stop Oglala Nation.Cliffhanger: As they arrive at Oglala Nation a group of riders follow them into their nation.

Episode 9 I

Hook/Intrigue: The Oglala riders looking fierce riding around the family to greet them. Main Character journey: Background and Percy and Calvary’s childhood growing up together. Major Challenge/Conflict: Percy knows about Irene and Jessie’s grandmother through Calvary. They perform Isaac’s test right away with no fanfare. Action/Reaction: Isaac has traces of Oglala yet must find his dominant tribe and if they are not found they can return to live with them. Cliffhanger: Family departs and arrive at Omaha Nation.

Episode 10.

Hook/Intrigue: Family is greeted coldly be the leader Yellow Smoke. The test is preformed Isaac is a match. The family can stay. Main Character journey: Yellowsmoke is Isaacs Grandfather. Yellowsmoke recalls the day left to explore the outside world and the news of his son’s death.Major Challenge/Conflict: Yellowsmoke keeps Isaac and banished Irene, Jessie and Mira. Action/Reaction: Yellowskmoke allows Irene and Jessie to stay on a trial basis but does not apply to Mira. Cliffhanger: Irene stays with the Omaha, Jessie and Mira leave and end up with Calvary who allows them to stay only to find out what intel they can get from them. Irene residence is uncertain with the Omaha.

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[Phyllis Strong]

Phyllis’ Episode Descriptions

I learned from this assignment that you can have character arc moments along with the external goal actions to develop a rich set of episodes.

Episode 1:

Hook/Intrigue: Sasha is fired from her dream job and is unemployable.

Main Character Journey: Sasha wants to make an impact fighting climate change.

Major Challenge/Conflict: She is out of options but won’t give up, despite her mother’s admonitions.

Action/Reaction: Duncan approaches Sasha because she forced his sister to pay her highest fine, ever, and she accepts, thinking she’ll be supporting climate scientists and like-minded politicians.

Cliffhanger: Sasha learns Duncan’s mission is to track and kill creatures spawned by the build-up of greenhouse gases and has to decide whether to stay in or back out.

Episode 2:

Hook/Intrigue: Sasha has agreed to the sweetened deal and accompanies Duncan to a contained wildfire, where three bodies have been cooked from the inside, without a mark on them.

Main Character Journey: Sasha intends to humor Duncan but can’t keep her skeptical, practical side in check.

Major Challenge/Conflict: To tie these bodies to the creatures they seek.

Action/Reaction: Sasha doesn’t want to waste time canvassing for witnesses, and instead pursues Duncan’s scientific contacts to concentrate on the bodies.

Cliffhanger: Sasha finds that every cell of the dead bodies has been infused with greenhouse gases.

Episode 3:

Hook/Intrigue: While “on pause,” Sasha learns more about Duncan the “man child,” but not what’s driving him.

Main Character Journey: Sasha starts to let her guard down and get to know Duncan, whose openness is inviting.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Sasha has difficulty trusting others or letting them in.

Action/Reaction: Sasha doesn’t want to talk about herself, but is curious why Duncan ever worked for the family company at all.

Cliffhanger: Duncan is served with court papers from his ex-wife barring him from visiting his daughter’s gravesite.

Episode 4:

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

Main Character Journey: Sasha succumbs to her flaw of needing revenge, which stems from her childhood wound of abandonment.

Major Challenge/Conflict: The moral dilemma of ruining someone’s life.

Action/Reaction: Duncan has his Senator friend offer a prestigious job to the ex-boyfriend, but after he resigns from the DOJ, the Senator apologizes that the funding for the position didn’t come through.

Cliffhanger: As Sasha and Duncan celebrate their success, they receive the analytics report, cross-referencing suspicious climate-related deaths with areas with high emissions of greenhouse gases.

Episode 5:

Hook/Intrigue: On the hunt, Duncan and Sasha travel to a town with an enormous coal plant, where the most recent suspicious deaths occurred.

Main Character Journey: Sasha reconfirms her flawed worldview—always be suspicious of people’s motives.

Major Challenge/Conflict: A nosy reporter keeps trying to find out what a billionaire environmental activist is doing in their town.

Action/Reaction: Over Sasha’s objections, Duncan gives the prostitute a lot of money to “start a new life.”

Cliffhanger: 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:

Hook/Intrigue: The nosy reporter from the coal town shows up on Duncan’s doorstep wanting to do an in-depth story about his hunt for these creatures

Main Character Journey: Sasha wonders if she’s being too wary about the reporter.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Sasha’s distrust conflicts directly with Duncan’s open and trusting nature.

Action/Reaction: Duncan agrees to the interview because now that the reporter knows, better to get the story right, and the publicity may flush out new leads.

Cliffhanger: The reporter tries to blackmail Duncan to stop his posting his humiliating piece, but Sasha short-circuits that plan by having Duncan use contacts to run the story in The National Inquirer, where it will be dismissed.

Episode 7:

Hook/Intrigue: To hunt down a creature, Duncan decides to use himself as bait, but Sasha protests when she learns innocent bystanders could be hurt.

Main Character Journey: Sasha doesn’t trust her instincts completely so she draws the line at putting innocent people at risk.

Major Challenge/Conflict: The moral dilemma of allowing Duncan to put himself or other people in danger to slay this creature.

Action/Reaction: Using Jupiter Intelligence data, Sasha can predict with high probability when a natural gas leak will happen and release tons of methane, but Duncan doesn’t want to alert the town to the danger until Sasha puts her foot down.

Cliffhanger: 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:

Hook/Intrigue: With a seriously injured Duncan in the hospital, Sasha is vulnerable to Delia’s pressure to betray him, for his own good, and hers—Delia will fund her foundation now.

Main Character Journey: Sasha must face down her fear of betrayal, and her tendency to pull the trigger first when she has the chance.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Sasha must decide to take a leap of faith with Duncan or be practical and join forces with Delia to have Duncan committed.

Action/Reaction: Sasha has to talk to Duncan before she goes ahead and betrays him.

Cliffhanger: In the hospital, Duncan confesses to Sasha that he was a terrible father who gave his daughter anything she wanted, including a Sweet 16 on a private Caribbean Island during hurricane season and she was lost when disaster struck.

Episode 9:

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

Main Character Journey: Sasha learns, like Hamlet, that there’s more to heaven and earth than is thought of in her philosophy.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Sasha must choose whether to side with Duncan or Delia.

Action/Reaction: Sasha infiltrates the quarantined town with the methane leak and, returning to the area of the explosion, finds partial remains of the creature Duncan saw.

Cliffhanger: Sasha turns down Delia’s offer.

Episode 10:

Hook/Intrigue: A renowned scientist friend of Duncan’s sequences the DNA of the creature’s remains and discovers that when the creature absorbs high amounts of greenhouse gases, its body releases energy as intense heat.

Main Character Journey: Sasha’s trust in Duncan pays off when they track down a creature in the coal town.

Major Challenge/Conflict: How do Sasha and Duncan find a living creature?

Action/Reaction: They stake out the largest oil refinery in the country, searching for tremendously high heat signatures.

Cliffhanger: Duncan and Sasha track down the creature, but bullets don’t kill it, and they barely escape with their lives. How do you kill them?

Episode 1:

Sasha is riding high from her EPA investigation that led to criminal prosecution of a major oil company. But she is betrayed by her boyfriend at the Department of Justice, who allows the company to get off with a settlement—one that includes having her fired. Unemployable, she still wants to make an impact fighting climate change.

She is out of options when Duncan shows up, impressed that she forced his sister, the CEO of the oil company, to pay her highest fine, ever. He offers Sasha a high-paying job, but it doesn’t involve funding climate science and supportive politicians. His mission is to slay deadly creatures spawned by the build-up of greenhouse gases, and he needs Sasha’s expertise to track them. Convinced he’s delusional, Sasha has to decide whether to stay or flee.

Episode 2:

Sasha accepts a sweetened deal—if she stays for three years, Duncan will pour millions into an environmental foundation she will own. She accompanies him to a contained wildfire, where three bodies have been cooked from the inside, without a mark on them. Duncan believes they’re victims of his creatures. Sasha intends to humor him, but can’t keep her practical side in check. Forget canvassing for witnesses to a creature sighting, she’s sure the answers lie with the bodies.

Duncan and Sasha clash—who’s the boss, here? But Sasha’s stubbornness wins out. Duncan uses his money in all the right places, to arrange for a special autopsy on the bodies, and then to bring in renowned scientists from his network. The answers make no sense—in each body, every cell has been infused with greenhouse gases. Duncan takes that as evidence that these people were victims of his creatures.

Episode 3:

After persuading Duncan that they need his AI-driven data analytics company to crunch numbers to locate these creatures, Sasha experiences what downtime is like with the immature Duncan. He shows her his inner sanctum, a cross between the bat-cave and a Star Wars training facility, and admits he’s always wanted to be a Jedi Knight. He’s even having a laser-based light-saber developed.

Sasha won’t let her guard down and talk about herself, but asks why Duncan ever worked for the family company at all. He laughs that he was born into it, and was being groomed for the top spot until Delia exploited how irresponsible he was. He admits to liking his last job there, as the liaison to sporting and entertainment events—it was glamorous and easy. But he was different then. They’re interrupted as Duncan is served with court papers from his ex-wife barring him from visiting his daughter’s gravesite.

Episode 4:

While Duncan is dealing with his ex in court, Sasha learns that her ex-boyfriend has parlayed his big “win” over Delia’s company into a promotion. Without any close friends to vent to, she tells Duncan she wishes she could get her ex fired like she was. Sasha’s thirst for revenge stems from her childhood wound of abandonment. It overpowers her moral compass that would normally keep her from ruining somebody’s life.

Duncan is from an entitled world that treats people like pawns in a chess game. And he is distraught, with his ex-wife accusing him of being responsible for the death of their daughter. He wants to do something, so he has a Senator friend offer Sasha’s ex a prestigious job. After he resigns, the Senator claims the funding for the position fell through. No time for Sasha to celebrate. The analytics report has arrived, with likely locations identified.

Episode 5:

On the hunt, Duncan and Sasha travel to a town with an enormous coal-fired power plant where the most recent suspicious deaths occurred. The arrival of a billionaire environmental activist puts everybody on edge. A dogged reporter keeps trying to find out why Duncan is there. Sasha warns him to keep quiet about the creatures as she investigates.

Duncan is enchanted by a “lady of the evening” who “services” their hotel. She found the bodies and noticed something strange in the shadows. She’s vague, drawing him out until he shows her a rendering of a creature (how does he have this?) and she confirms her sighting. Sasha, always skeptical about people’s motives, finds out Duncan gave the lady a lot of money to start a new life. Turns out, she was working for the reporter, who now knows Duncan is hunting mysterious creatures.

Episode 6:

The dogged reporter shows up on Duncan’s doorstep wanting to do an in-depth story about his pursuit of the creatures. Sasha’s automatic distrust conflicts directly with Duncan’s open and trusting nature, and he convinces her that he might as well do the interview. Now that the reporter knows, it’s better to get the story right, and the publicity may flush out new leads.

Perhaps Sasha is being too wary about the reporter. But, no, he tries to blackmail Duncan, threatening to expose his delusions in a humiliating piece. Sasha short-circuits that plan by having Duncan use contacts to run an over-the-top story of their own making in The National Inquirer, where it will be dismissed.

Episode 7:

Duncan’s analytics company makes a breakthrough. They can now predict, roughly, when and where a disaster releasing greenhouse gases will occur. That should lure creatures. Duncan decides to be onsite for a predicted natural gas leak, as bait. But that means they can’t warn the surrounding community.

Faced with the moral dilemma of hurting innocents, Sasha puts her foot down. Duncan will have a team masquerading as the gas company evacuate the community as soon as Duncan’s instruments detect the leak. One hour later, they’ll alert the authorities. During Duncan’s short window, he spies a creature and gives chase, but as he nears it, the air heats up and a methane explosion sends Duncan flying.

Episode 8:

Sasha is in the waiting room of the hospital, awaiting word on the badly injured Duncan. Delia arrives and pressures the vulnerable Sasha to testify at a competency hearing that the dangerously delusional Duncan should be committed. Delia adds that, to make up for the betrayal, she will fund Sasha’s foundation right now—not three years from now.

Sasha tries to rationalize that it’s for Duncan’s own good, but she’s torn between being practical or taking a leap of faith. She has to talk to him. She sneaks into his hospital room and Duncan, feeling confessional, reveals that he was a terrible father who gave his daughter anything she wanted, including a Sweet 16 on a private Caribbean Island during hurricane season. Disaster struck, they were swept away, and he swears he saw a creature take her. Now she knows what’s driving him.

Episode 9:

Sasha has decided she needs to investigate one more time before she decides whether to side with Duncan or Delia. She infiltrates the now quarantined town and tracks back to the area of the methane explosion. On the perimeter, hidden in a burnt grove of trees, she finds small biological remains, easily missed. When she has Duncan’s scientist friends examine them, they can’t identify them as any species known to man.

Blown away, Sasha knows what she has isn’t much to go on. But, maybe for the first time, she’s keeping an open mind. She turns down Delia’s offer.

Episode 10:

Duncan is recuperating at home under the care of private doctors. Sasha is with his friend, a renowned bio-engineer, who is examining the remains on a cellular level. An experiment shows that when these cells absorb high levels of greenhouse gases, they release energy as intense heat. Hot enough to cook human organs inside the body.

Sasha realizes they can track these creatures using sophisticated heat sensors. Duncan has that equipment. And since oil refineries are the largest stationary emitters of greenhouse gases, they can stake out the most massive complex in the country. Duncan insists on going with Sasha. Their heat sensors lead them to a creature, and an armed Duncan tries to shoot it down. The bullets have no effect. Sasha and Duncan barely escape with their lives.

So, these creatures are real. But how the hell do you kill them?

[Bob Onufer]

Bob’s Episode Descriptions

What I learned from doing this assignment is to keep moving forward – with a plan to revise and improve later.

Episode 1

Hook/Intrigue: A series of stabbing murders occur near Tel Aviv.

Main Character Journey: Daniel, newly assigned to the Mossad in Tel Aviv, is tasked to investigate, and prevent future attacks.

Major Challenge/Conflict: To stop the attacks, Daniel must penetrate the terrorist cell.

Action/Reaction: Daniel discovers attacks are coordinated through social media and uses his computer skills to set up the attack coordinator.

Cliffhanger: Daniel is using his same computer skills to hack into the Mossad computers.

Tel Aviv citizens are on edge after a series of stabbing deaths caused by a group of coordinated terrorists. Mossad agent Daniel Shay, fresh out of the IDF Talpion program, is tasked to determine how the attacks are coordinated and prevent future attacks. Daniel recognizes a coordinated attempt on social media and sets himself up as a decoy.

When he is attacked, he disables the assailant and interrogates him. He is commended by his bureau chief Avi, but shortly after Avi leaves, Daniel begins to hack into the Mossad computer system.

Episode 2

Hook/Intrigue: Mossad computers are being hacked.

Main Character Journey: Daniel has to hide his tracks to prevent being discovered as the hacker.

Major Challenge/Conflict: To not be caught, Daniel must plant suspicion on another agent.

Action/Reaction: Daniel incriminates another agent and when that agent is arrested, Daniel goes off drinking and is solicited by a supposed prostitute, Christina.

Cliffhanger: Daniel goes off with Christina as he is being watched by several Mossad agents.

Avi discovers that the agency computers have been hacked. Daniel is assigned to track the hacker. To avoid being exposed as the hacker, Daniel sets up another agent, who is then arrested.

Having the other agent arrested sends Daniel off on a depressive episode. He goes to a bar and gets drunk. Christina Wade, member of the Temple Mount group, solicits him and he leaves with her. As he does, he is under surveillance of two Mossad agents.

Episode 3

Hook/Intrigue: Daniel witnesses his parents’ murders during his Bar Mitzvah.

Main Character Journey: A 13-year-old Daniel is terrified when his parents are murdered and determines he will suppress his feelings in order to seek revenge in the future.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Daniel must deal with the murder of his parents.

Action/Reaction: Daniel witnesses the death of his parents and placed in his uncle’s home where he must decide his path forward.

Cliffhanger: Daniel decides he will search for and kill the people who murdered his parents.

In flashback, Daniel witnesses his parents’ murders while celebrating his Bar Mitzvah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. After the funeral he is placed in his uncle’s home in Israel where he must learn to cope with the events.

Angry, depressed, and unable to form relationships, Daniel decides to apply to the elite IDF program and get himself into a position where he can get revenge for his parents’ murders. An obsession he swears on his parents’ graves he will accomplish.

Episode 4

Hook/Intrigue: Najeh Tamra, the sniper who shot his parents is running for an office in the Knesset.

Main Character Journey: Daniel must deal with his guilt and depression to continue to track his parents’ murderer.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Daniel struggles with internal demons while Avi continues to have him tailed .

Action/Reaction: Daniel watches Najeh campaign but does not recognize him; Najeh wins his seat.

Cliffhanger: Najeh meets with another terrorist and passes on information.

Daniel is still guilty from having another agent arrested and visits with his uncle where he reinforces his commitment to vengeance. In the meantime, the sniper who killed his parents is running for the Knesset. Daniel watches Najeh campaign from a distance, not recognizing him as the killer.

Najeh wins his Knesset seat. A short time later, Najeh meets with another terrorist to plot how his position can be used to provide information and resources to the terrorist group.

Episode 5

Hook/Intrigue: Avi engages Christina to spy on Daniel.

Main Character Journey: Daniel has become less stable and must deal with his demons to remain in a position to seek revenge.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Daniel must avoid giving Avi a reason to suspect him of hacking the Mossad computers.

Action/Reaction: Avi threatens Christina and tells her to spy on Daniel. Christina entertains Daniel again.

Cliffhanger: Christina meets with Avi to report.

Avi determines that Daniel may be a liability. He has Christina brought to him and threatens her unless she spies on Daniel. Christina, who has her own agenda for Daniel, agrees to spy. Christina meets Daniel again and he goes off with her, unaware that she is more than a prostitute.

Episode 6

Hook/Intrigue: Terrorist plan to blow up a restaurant in Tel Aviv.

Main Character Journey: Daniel has to refocus and get back on track.

Major Challenge/Conflict: To prove his value, Daniel must redouble his effort to effectively prevent terrorism.

Action/Reaction: Daniel is able to identify and prevent the terrorist attack.

Cliffhanger: Daniel learns some information that might advance his revenge goal.

Chatter indicates that a major terrorist attack might be coming. Daniel must refocus in order to prove his worth to the agency and remove any suspicion from him. He cleans up, dumps Christina, and is instrumental in stopping the attack.

In order to stop the attack, Daniel received some data that may lead to information on his parents’ murderer. He agrees to a secret meeting.

Episode 7

Hook/Intrigue: Christina returns with a new plan for Daniel.

Main Character Journey: Daniel goes from enthused to possibly learn about his parents’ killers to frustrated when his meeting doesn’t pan out.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Daniel must decide whether or not to let Christina back into his life.

Action/Reaction: Christina tells Daniel she has another plan that will avenge his parents’ murders.

Cliffhanger: Daniel meets with Christina superior and discusses the plan to destroy the Dome of the Rock.

Daniel’s meeting with terrorists doesn’t provide solid information. Christina comes back into his life confessing she was not a prostitute but only wanted to get close to him. She tells him she has a plan that will avenge more than just his parents’ murders.

Daniel goes with Christina to meet her superiors and learns about the plot to destroy the Dome of the Rock.

Episode 8

Hook/Intrigue: Daniel discovers Avi hired Christina to spy on him.

Main Character Journey: Daniel goes from trusting Christina to anger and confrontation.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Daniel must decide whether or not to trust Christina.

Action/Reaction: Daniel discovers Avi hired Christina to spy on him. He reacts violently with Christina.

Cliffhanger: Daniel heads in to confront Avi.

After meeting with the Temple Mount foundation, Daniel discovers that Christina was hired by Avi to spy on him. Daniel snaps and has a violent episode with Christina. Christina swears she did not tell Avi anything and that she met Daniel before Avi came to her. Daniel heads off to confront Avi.

Episode 9

Hook/Intrigue: New information leading to Daniel’s parents’ murderer surfaces.

Main Character Journey: Daniel takes out his anger on Avi and then learns that new information has surfaced that may lead to his parents’ murderer.

Major Challenge/Conflict: To obtain concrete evidence on his parents’ murderer.

Action/Reaction: Daniel learns new information that leads him to a terrorist with useful information. Daniel isolates the terrorist for interrogation.

Cliffhanger: Daniel struggles with whether or not he will torture the captured terrorist to obtain the information he wants.

Daniel confronts Avi regarding being spied on. Avi admits spying on him and they reconcile their differences for now. Daniel learns that there may be new information on his parents’ murderer, and he follows the lead to a terrorist location. There he captures and isolates a terrorist, but in order to get the information he wants, Daniel may have to resort to torture.

Episode 10

Hook/Intrigue: Daniel learns his parents’ murderer is untouchable.

Main Character Journey: Daniel finally learns the identity of his parents’ murderer, but the thought of revenge is short-lived when it turns out the murderer is a member of the Knesset.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Daniel must verify the identity of his parents’ murderer.

Action/Reaction: Daniel discovers the name of his parents’ murderer but reacts in anger when it appears vengeance is out of reach.

Cliffhanger: Daniel confronts Najeh who arrogantly dismisses him.

Daniel’s confrontation with the captured terrorist leads him to discover the name of his parents’ murderer. It is Najeh, now a member of the Knesset. Daniel brings this to Avi but is told Najeh is untouchable due to politics. Daniel confides in Christina who again pushes her agenda.

Ignoring Christina for now, Daniel goes to confront Najeh with the thought of killing him anyway. Daniel doesn’t kill him and Najeh arrogantly rebuffs Daniel.

[Kimberly Gore]

Kim’s Episodes Descriptions

What I learned from doing this assignment is how to organize each of my episodes in a way that explains the essential plot of each one.

Episode 1:

• Hook/Intrigue: A psychologist, ERIC, is on phone, flirting with someone. Someone comes up behind him, stabs him with a knife, it’s obvious he knows his attacker.

• Main Character journey: The man’s wife, NATALIE, finds him a bloodied mess and calls 911. We discover the wife suffers from Disassociate Identity Disorder, and the police are suspicious of her.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: Natalie knows she did not try to kill Eric.

• Action/Reaction: She freaks out, argues, her different personalities come out and it’s eerie to hear her play different parts.

• Cliffhanger: The police want to confiscate her phone, when she grabs it from her purse, a piece of paper falls out with it. She picks it up, reads it, gasps. The police are too busy noting the blood on her phone to notice. As they lead her away, the paper falls to the floor. It reads: “You are the sacrificial lamb.”

Episode 2:

• Hook/Intrigue: The police can’t hold her without proof of her guilt, and her husband claims she was not involved in the attack. Her friend, LADONNA, drives her home from the police station and Natalie is in a panic, wondering if she could have attacked Eric and just can’t remember doing it.

• Main Character journey: Natalie’s sister arrives, and Natalie mistakenly thinks it’s because she wants to check on her after what has happened, but instead, JEANINE asks her for money.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: Knowing the money will be used to fuel her sister’s drug habit, Natalie refuses. Jeanine threatens to tell Eric about the son Natalie gave up for adoption when she was sixteen. And about things that happened to them as kids.

• Action/Reaction: Natalie gives in and writes her sister a check.

• Cliffhanger: Eric writes a check at the hospital, and it bounces. He looks at the past activity and sees various amounts of money Natalie has taken out of their account at irregular intervals, although it is always the same amount.

Episode 3:

• Hook/Intrigue: Eric is finally feeling better and looking forward to his weekend with his daughter, but his ex-wife, DANIELLE, refuses to allow LINNIE to stay with Eric and Natalie.

• Main Character journey: Eric calls his mother to intervene. Eric has never been able to handle conflict or stress on his own.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: His mother tells Danielle she will stay there as a second set of hands while Eric recovers from his injuries, and she will keep an eye on Natalie as well. Although Danielle protests, his mother uses everything in her arsenal to fight back, and she wins.

• Action/Reaction: Natalie is upset that her mother-in-law, a woman who has openly said Natalie isn’t good enough for her son, is staying the entire weekend.

• Cliffhanger: A message appears on the bathroom mirror in lipstick: “Why are you so weak?” Eric removes it before anyone else can see it.

Episode 4:

• Hook/Intrigue: Eric asks his best friend, MATT, to sit with Natalie as her lawyer when she returns to the police station for more questioning. Matt doesn’t want anything to do with this case. Or Natalie. Eric gets up, walks away, takes off in his car.

• Main Character journey: Eric ends up at a bar flirting with women, getting into a fight with a bouncer, and finally passing out in an alley where he gets robbed.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: Natalie is worried sick when her husband doesn’t come home. She knows Matt was the last one to be with him, and together they go out and search for Eric.

• Action/Reaction: They find him and bring him home, but Eric has no memory of what happened. Natalie assumes he had a blackout, and Matt admits he’s known about Eric’s alcoholism. Matt agrees to represent Natalie after all.

• Cliffhanger: Eric finds a note with an odd, cryptic message. He takes it into the bedroom and opens a shoebox full of other messages, all written in different handwriting styles.

Episode 5:

• Hook/Intrigue: After teaching her yoga class, Natalie is approached by her friend and mentor, an older woman named LADONNA. She’s concerned because of the neighborhood gossip and how it might be affecting Natalie. The neighborhood knows Eric is a flirt, and have already speculated it’s a jealous wife situation.

• Main Character journey: Natalie has worked hard to prevent her poor upbringing from leaking out, but neighbors have been poking into her past and learned she isn’t the person she’s pretending to be. When Natalie is with Linnie, she often acts like a teenager herself, and Linnie is very close to her. Other times, she becomes a little lost kid, rocking and sucking her thumb.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: She knows she has Dissociative Identity Disorder and is being treated for it by Eric, but she keeps having blasts of weird memories and notes written to her. She brings this up to LaDonna, who thinks something more is going on. She wants Nat to see her friend, a past-life regression therapist named KRYSTAL. But Natalie doesn’t believe in reincarnation and says no way.

• Action/Reaction: LaDonna presses, but Natalie won’t comply.

• Cliffhanger: Linnie is at the house when Natalie returns, and a social worker is packing up Linnie’s things. Danielle has managed to get a court order to collect Linnie and give Danielle temporary full custody until Natalie’s court situation is settled. Natalie becomes her teen persona, and throws a tantrum. Eric has to calm her down.

Episode 6:

• Hook/Intrigue: Natalie returns from yoga class to find Eric passed out at the table, a bottle of bourbon in his hand. She goes to bed and the next morning wakes to find him gone. But he has left his phone. She grabs it and her purse and dashes to his office to give his phone to him. But he isn’t at work.

• Main Character journey: Nervous he’s out meeting someone, she drives all over the place. Finally, she heads to Matt’s office and demands to see him.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: Natalie wants to know if Eric is cheating on her. But Matt turns the table and tells her that she would deserve it, since the only reason Eric isn’t with his sister Danielle is because Eric broke up with her after being Natalie’s psychiatrist and cheating on his sister with her.

• Action/Reaction: During their subsequent argument, Natalie gets flashes of fire, something burning. A memory of pain, anger, hurt. She leaves the office, confused.

• Cliffhanger: She goes home and finds Eric packing his bags. His mother is beside him, prompting him to just go. After he is gone, she finds the shoebox of messages opened up on his bed. One of them reads: “Where did all your money go?”

Episode 7:

• Hook/Intrigue: Natalie visits her sister, who lives in a seedy part of town. Her sister’s boyfriend won’t let her into their apartment, but when she finally gets inside, she sees her sister, strung out with needles everywhere.

• Main Character journey: Her sister is going to end up just like their parents, but not Natalie. She rejects this lifestyle, leaves. Visits LaDonna. Talks about the fire, her sister, Eric…she needs to pull herself together. LaDonna takes her to Krystal.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: Krystal puts her into a hypnotic state, and Natalie remembers a fire from a past life, one which started in a barn. She couldn’t escape. She panics, and Krystal can’t control her.

• Action/Reaction: Natalie needs to get out! She pounds on the door, screams. Krystal can’t get her back out of the hypnotic state.

• Cliffhanger: Natalie crashes through the window while Krystal screams.

Episode 8:

• Hook/Intrigue: Natalie wakes up in the hospital with no idea how she got there. Eric is next to her, holding her bandaged hand.

• Main Character journey: He’s sorry he left her, blames himself for what happened. Says he doesn’t know how to handle things now that Linnie’s mother has temporary custody. But now he knows he needs to be by Nat’s side.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: Natalie tells him about the therapy, says she’s making breakthroughs. Tells him about the barn, the fire. He is angry, thinks the therapist is leading her on. Says he’s going with her to the next appointment.

• Action/Reaction: Natalie feels they are going somewhere good, now. He loves her. He’s going to take care of things finally.

• Cliffhanger: Eric meets Krystal, and there is an obvious attraction. Krystal gives him her number “in case something else happens with Natalie.” But she has an ulterior motive.

Episode 9:

• Hook/Intrigue: Danielle drops Linnie off for a supervised weekend with Eric, his mother, and Natalie. Eric is on the phone a lot. Natalie feels uncomfortable with it.

• Main Character journey: Natalie is becoming different personalities again, and Eric wants to stop it from happening during Linnie’s visit, so he gives Natalie a sedative. His mother refers to this being something he occasionally does. While she fixes him lunch, he is sexting with Krystal.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: All weekend, Natalie is groggy. She isn’t herself during yoga, and LaDonna notices. She confronts Natalie, asking if she’s doing drugs, and they argue.

• Action/Reaction: Natalie wonders if she might be taking drugs. Or if her personalities might be.

• Cliffhanger: Natalie wakes in the middle of the night. Eric has left his phone charging on the kitchen counter. She grabs a glass of water and his phone buzzes with a flirty text from Krystal. The glass slips from her hand.

Episode 10:

• Hook/Intrigue: Natalie confronts Eric about the text message the next morning. He honestly seems not to know what she’s talking about. She tells him to open his phone, and he does, but the text messages aren’t there.

• Main Character journey: Eric is tired of Natalie’s accusations when he hasn’t done anything.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: He leaves to take Linnie back to Danielle’s, and we learn that Eric’s mother has been monitoring his phone and “cleaning up” after him. When he returns home, his mother warns him that he’s being careless.

• Action/Reaction: Eric is angry, he’s finding he is losing control more and more. He begins to cry like a young child.

• Cliffhanger: His mother holds him, strokes his head as if he’s a little boy. She makes a phone call and tells the other person on the line that Eric is having a bad episode with his Dissociative Identity Disorder, and she needs to get the help of the other person on the other line. The person on the line is Krystal, who says, “Okay, I’ll be right over.”

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by  Kimberly Gore.

[Marcus Wolf]

Subject line: Marcus’s Episode Descriptions

What I learned doing this assignment was the next step in writing episode descriptions. I had questions about some things. Hopefully, I guessed the right answers.

Episode 1:

Trabeus, contractor to a local gangster, captures a rival gang member and tortures him for information, both physically and with infallible truth magic. The man dies in agony giving up nothing. Trabeus learns that he had the wrong man – an innocent “civilian”. Stymied, Trabeus finds that he’s infested with an old spell linking him to Cassandra.

Cassandra, seeking her old enemy, had incorrectly cast a spell that temporarily confused Trabeus’ magical senses, causing his mistake. But his atrocity makes his local newspapers. Cassandra, terrible with the internet, calls on Beatrix to help. Beatrix, a member of the coven, is secretly in love with Trabeus and now knows he’s still alive.

Episode 2:

Cassandra wants to resume her ancient war with Trabeus who lives in witness protection. Difficult to find. She trusts Beatrix to find the town where the atrocity happened. She orders Beatrix to help her reconstitute the coven for the upcoming fight.

Trabeus, knowing that Cassandra is hunting him, also knows that he might now reunite with Beatrix. He can’t seek her without alerting Cassandra, so he orders his henchman, Marius to quietly locate her. But Marius is disgruntled and this is his opportunity to get back at Trabeus.

Episode 3:

Cassandra knows two things: She’s getting too old to fight and her coven mates (also old) have lives they are reluctant to put on hold. The answer is to find the fabled Puer Aeternum (eternal youth) spell. And it takes some special magic to even find a spell like that – if it even exists.

Trabeus, unable to unlink himself from Cassandra yet, accordingly knows of her search for Puer Aeternum. He can’t actively interfere without revealing himself, but he must seek Puer Aeternum on his own. It’s a race.

Episode 4:

Beatrix reports to Cassandra that their former coven mates each have serious problems that Cassandra will have to help with. Astra is in prison. Endor and her Voodoo boyfriend have created a zombie and it escaped, and Winifred, worst of all, has opened a portal to a deep netherworld and has become mercilessly entangled with a creature.

Cassandra visits Winifred and finds her deathly ill. Cassandra tries to nurse her, but Winifred inexplicably throws her out. Cassandra spies on her and sees the creature, Nightblue, but doesn’t know what it is. It merges with Winifred and she becomes young.

Episode 5:

Cassandra redoubles her efforts to uncover Puer Aeternum. She has a breakthrough, but only half the spell materializes, puzzling her deeply. Cassandra knows her own history of mishandling big spells and starts over. She doesn’t know that Trabeus intercepted it and stole the other half of the spell.

Marius surreptitiously plants clues for Beatrix to find on the internet and she narrows her search for Trabeus to three towns. She packs her bags and hits the road. And doesn’t inform Cassandra.

Episode 6:

Beatrix has disappeared. Cassandra desperately needs help figuring out what she did wrong finding Puer Aeternum and on what Winifred has gotten herself wrapped up with. She travels to Louisiana to find the brilliant and powerful Endor.

Endor’s boyfriend, Jean St. Mark, won’t let Cassandra in. Cassandra hears Endor sobbing inside the house and angrily barges in. Endor is blind drunk and babbling. Jean furiously insists that Cassandra leave and won’t reveal what’s going on except to say that Endor should have told him who the cadaver was that they used to raise the zombie.

Episode 7:

Cassandra, trying to help Endor, goes to town and searches for the zombie who is called Deathsong. She finds the hideous Deathsong in a back alley defending a blind homeless man against would-be thieves. Deathsong is powerful and kills both men in the fight.

Cassandra recognizes Deathsong as Endor’s long-dead daughter. She tries to convince Deathsong to return to Endor. The police come and Deathsong flees. Cassandra is arrested for murder.

Episode 8:

Cassandra fabricates a story and magically convinces the police of it, but not well enough to get the charges dropped. The judge releases her without bail, though. Deathsong has vanished and Endor won’t talk to her.

Winifred then surprises Cassandra asking for help. Cassandra hurries there to find a young, healthy and beautiful Winifred (inhabited by Nightblue). Another creature, Twilightgreen is there. Winifred apologizes profusely and Twilightgreen absorbs itself into Cassandra’s body and takes control.

[Nadine Vaughan DArdenne]

Episode Descriptions Mod.2 Lesson 5 Page 1 of 3

Subject line: Nadine’s Episode Descriptions What I learned doing this assignment is… ASSIGNMENT:

1. Check the sequence of episodes you did in Lesson 4 and see if it flows well for you. Feel free to change the sequence in any way that you think might be better as you create the full season of episode descriptions.

2. For each episode, go through the event bullet points and organize them in this fashion.

EPISODE #1

Hook/Intrigue: Jai is poor, inner-city, with a loving single mom. Kuno is middle-class with a supportive intact family. Both are tops in their schools and tied for the Regional STEM Scholarship Competition. 


Main Character journey: Both Kuno and Jai are on a mission to save earth and her inhabitants. Kuno is computational. Jai’s a fighter. Both are naive. 


Major Challenge/Conflict: Though they are equally qualified, one must lose the scholarship competition so the other can get it, based on a joint project. 


Action/Reaction: Tragically, Kuno’s dad dies and he refuses to believe it’s suicide. Mom and Jai want truth

Episode Descriptions Mod.2 Lesson 5 Page 2 of 3 too, betraying him in order to protect him. 


Cliffhanger: Mom moves them to a new home. Kuno has a gun to his head. 

EPISODE #2 


Hook/Intrigue: Mom may have won the battle but hopelessness wins the war. 


Main Character journey: Mom insists Kuno go out to meet friends. One is Jai. 


Major Challenge/Conflict: Kuno’s new friends manipulate, then betray him. 


Action/Reaction: Kuno ends up protected, in prison. Jai joins the military, based on guilt, and ends up raped. 


Cliffhanger: Kuno’s terrified, spending first night in prison, with a large, Black cell mate. 


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EPISODE #3

Hook/Intrigue: To protect him, Kuno’s new cellmate acts like he may attack Kuno. Main Character journey: Kuno sees Jai

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and his mom talking and feels betrayed. Major Challenge/ Conflict: Dad’s DEA partner visits Kuno and acts as a protector. Action/Reaction: When Jai’s discharged from the military, she starts law school. Cliffhanger: When Kuno’s protector is killed by a white supremacist, Kuno’s charged

EPISODE #4

Hook/Intrigue: After five years and parole is still denied, Kuno is spirited out of jail Main Character journey: Kuno awakens in ex-offender prog w/Jai as a counselor. Major Challenge/Conflict: Jai explains her betrayal and tells him his mom is dead. Action/Reaction: Kuno and Jai renew their vow to save the earth and earth-dwellers. Cliffhanger: Kuno applies to become a cop and is told his Dad’s partner says no.

EPISODE #5

Hook/Intrigue: Kuno perseveres and Jai sets up a store-front office to help others Main Character journey: Kuno confronts Lionel to get the truth re. Kuno’s dad. Major Challenge/ Conflict: Jai sets up a special grad. night for Kuno, with Smokey. Action/Reaction: Lionel tells them what really happened to both their parents. Cliffhanger: When Kuno hears what happened to Monique he goes after his partner.

✓ Wrote a rough draft of each of the episode descriptions for my first season. Post at https:// http://www.screenwritingclasses.com/forums/

[Diana Ceres]

Diana’s Episode Descriptions

What I learned: By using the template and taking it one episode at a time, I created a rough outline of an entire season. Who knew? It also was heaps of fun!

1) Season 1: To Have and to Hold

Episode 1: Bedazzled and Bankrupt

Hook/Intrigue: Opens with Jake barbequing over a GIANT flame; he is burning checks—LOTS of them. When his wife, Lupe, steps outside they argue over money.

Main Character journey: Jake is gullible and WAY too trusting. He is the head of IT for the FBI and unwittingly married a career criminal whose mother-in-law practices dark magic and heads the crime family.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Jake wants to provide for his family, but his wife, Lupe, wants to destroy his family emotionally and financially and has a santeria mother to help her.

Action/Reaction: Jake went bankrupt because of his wife’s lavish spending. Lupe refuses to live on a budget and steals a BIG stack of checkbooks and forges Jake’s signature to continue with her lavish spending. While Jake is burning checks on the BBQ, Lupe pretends to be shredding credit cards in the bedroom but is actually shredding fashion magazines and places Jake’s cards in a secret safe, along with the stacks of checks she stole from the patio and card numbers she stole from her moms in the neighboorhood by memorizing the numbers when they are out shopping.

Cliffhanger: Jake walks into the bedroom as Lupe is closing the safe in the closet. Will he find out what she is up to?

Episode 2: Retail Therapy

Hook/Intrigue: Jake’s “devoted” wife is commiting mail fraud.

Main Character journey: Jake tries to convince Lupe to get a job as he works to get his life back in order. They fight, but eventually she relents. Or so Jake thinks.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Jake and his family are hard up for money. Lupe refuses to work a real job. Why would she? So she decides to commit mail fraud instead and when he thinks she’s working, she’s buying lavish goods with bad checks and other people’s cards and sells them on eBay for profit. Jake, an honest, hard-working man has no clue what Lupe is up to. He went so far as to pack her lunch on her first day of “work,” which Lupe tosses in the trash when he leaves for work, only to invite her girlfriends to an expensive lunch that she pays for with a bad check.

Action/Reaction: Lupe also sells Jake’s cherished possessions on eBay for money. We’re talking major league stuff here: Vintage baseball cards, rare coin collection, the Rolex she gave him as a wedding gift, and pockets her kids’ college fund that his parents set up for them. You name it. There is no limit to her greed or manipulation.

Cliffhanger: Jake comes home and makes dinner and finds Lupe’s lunch in the trash. Soon after Tiffany’s calls about a bad check and Jake apologizes and pulls from his savings to pay for a diamond tennis bracelet.

Episode 3: A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Hook/Intrigue: Jake and Lupe fight over the tennis bracelet and the lunch. Lupe says she found a better job and bought the bracelet weeks ago and that she will return it. Jake tells her to keep it as an early anniversary present and they make up. When Jake comes home from work, Lupe and her ex-boyfriend are having sex in their bedroom. Boyfriend hides in closet. Lupe asks Jake to get something from store. Jake is tired and declines and sits down and watches television. Boyfriend escapes out back window as his son Carlos watches with his telescope.

Main Character journey: Jake is being used by Lupe, who is not only bankrupting him again, but also cheating on him with her ex-boyfriend.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Jake is trying to make things right. Lupe is doing everything in her power to prevent that so she can leave him high and dry like she did with her other four husbands.

Action/Reaction: Jake finds expensive items filling his basement and loses his shit. Lupe calms him down and says she bought them for cheap at estate sales and is selling them on eBay for profit. Jake is impressed with his wife’s ingenuity.

Cliffhanger: Jake stops at post office on his way home from work and the postal worker wheels out several dollies piled high with stacks of bins. He is shocked and starts going through the parcels—all addressed to him.

Episode 4: Stepping Out

Hook/Intrigue: Jake has to rent a U-Haul to bring the packages home. He confronts Lupe about his name being on the packages, as well as the volume of packages, and Lupe says not to worry about it. She just had them addressed to head of household for tax purposes, so he could declare the income properly. Satisfied, but exasperated, Jake wheels the parcels inside.

Main Character journey: Lupe finds her mail fraud lucrative and pays for a girl’s weekend—with her boyfriend! Jake is oblivious to Lupe’s infidelities. He’s a workaholic and too stressed about the bankruptcy to be suspicious of anything…until one of Lupe’s friends stops by while Lupe is away. Jake’s kid Carlos is working at Radio Shack and buys a keyboard logger, so he can hack into his dad’s portal and get some dirt on his mom’s boyfriend that he can use to blackmail him with.

Major Challenge/Conflict: In addition to the above, Jake walks into Carlos’ room and finds him watching the girl across the street getting undressed with his telescope. Jake threatens to take the telescope away if he isn’t going to use it for stargazing like he promised.

Action/Reaction: One of Lupe’s friends that she is supposed to be on weekend trip with swings by the house to borrow something. Jake confronts her about the weekend, and she realizes Lupe is up to something and covers for her. Jake starts to grow suspicous of Lupe.

Cliffhanger: Lupe’s lies and infidelities are starting to catch up with her. Jake hears about a sting operation at work pertaining to mail fraud and comes home early to find Lupe and her mom piling MORE packages in the basement.

Episode 5: Trouble in Paradise

Hook/Intrigue: Carlos is watching the girl across the street with his telescope and notices a guy with out of state tags pull up near their house. He starts to zoom in when he’s called down for dinner. He overhears Jake asking Lupe about her eBay business and Carlos grows suspicious. Weren’t they bankrupt? Why is his mom buying so much stuff?

Main Character journey: Lupe continues to buy in excess with bad checks and sells for double on eBay. Because she is using Jake’s name on the checks and parcels, the Feds think it’s Jake. She is setting him up for her crimes.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Jake is growing more concerned about the dolllies of bins containing packages for Lupe at the post office. What the fuck is she buying? When Jake is at work Lupe sells all the items on eBay using Jake’s account and has Mike drive the packages to the post office for her.

Action/Reaction: Lupe says she is going to rent a storage unit for her eBay business. Jake tells her to stop, that she should sell what she has before buying more stuff. He sees a different side to Lupe that he never noticed before: Think super bitch on steroids. Lupe ignores him and asks Mike to rent a unit for her.

Cliffhanger: Lupe asks Jake to go to the post office to pick up more packages. Jake is pissed, because he asked her to stop purchasing items. When he arrives, he is called into an interrogation room to discuss the volume of packages he has coming and going.

Episode 6: Die Hard

Hook/Intrigue: Jake is in a small room at the post office signing stacks and stacks of checks to prove it wasn’t him.

Main Character journey: Jake goes home furious. Lupe is nowhere to be found. Her calls go straight to voicemail. Jake throws his phone on the pavement, shattering it.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Jake is being set up for Lupe’s crimes. When he comes home he finds Carlos on the computer and asks him where his mother is. Carlos turns on his screensaver to prevent his dad from seeing the PI work he is doing on his mom’s boyfriend and tells him she left with Mike hours ago.

Action/Reaction: Jake calls the ex-boyfriend who is also a friend of the family to see if he knows where she is. No dice. Then he calls the mother-in-law who is busy chanting in Spanish and making potions for God knows what and does not pick up.

Cliffhanger: Jake drives to Lupe’s best friend’s house to see if she is there. On the way, he runs off the road and his Jeep flips over several times.

Episode 7: Old Flames and New Troubles

Hook/Intrigue: Jake is in the hospital in a body cast, sipping water through a straw. Carlos stops by with a chessboard. They play chess. Jake tells his son you always have to be ten steps ahead of your opponent. Carlos nods and then beats his dad.

Main Character journey: Lupe is ten steps ahead of Jake and has been setting him up to take the fall for her crimes since day 1. Jake is miserable and in heaps of pain. Will he ever be the same, financially and emotionally?

Major Challenge/Conflict: Lupe is still nowhere to be found. With Jake in the hospital, Carlos spends his time watching the girl across the street with his telescope in his darkened room. He notices the same car watching his house and decides to run the plates using his dad’s portal with a keyboard logger he bought at Radio Shack where he works.

Action/Reaction: Jake calls Lupe and she answers! He asks her to pick him up from the hospital, and she rushes over, playing the concerned/dutiful wife.

Cliffhanger: Postal worker who interrogated Jake has conversation with FBI agent and handwriting analyst. It is not Jake’s signature. The agent dumps Lupe’s phone and computer and starts scrolling through EVERYTHING.

Episode 8: In the Weeds

Hook/Intrigue: Jake is home on crutches and finds Carlos using his work portal. When confronted Carlos says he saw a man watching the house and wanted to run his plates, which he’s already done, but doesn’t want to say anything until he goes WAY down that rabbit hole to see what else he finds.

Main Character journey: With Jake out of the hospital, Lupe is called in for questioning at FBI. She plays the innocent deer in the headlights and tells them Jake is the mastermind and criminal behind the eBay shenanigans and that he forced her to do it. FBI isn’t buying it. Jake bails Lupe out. She is in tears and begs him to take the fall for her.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Jake refuses to take the fall for something he did not do. Lupe is furious and calls her mother and asks her to take care of it.

Action/Reaction: Jake takes out a second loan on the house to pay for Lupe’s defense lawyer. Jake’s MIL is doing more dark magic to make Jake take the fall for Lupe and for the Feds to pin the crimes on Jake.

Cliffhanger: Jake shows up at the FBI satellite office in whatever city this takes place in and confesses to everything. He says he put Lupe up to the whole thing and made her sign the checks differently so it couldn’t be pinned on him. It was his scheme to get back on his feet financially for the sake of his family.

Episode 9: Innocence Lost

Hook/Intrigue: FBI doesn’t know what to make of Jake’s forced confession. They don’t want to believe their IT hero, their rock would do something like this. When questioned, his coworker corroborates Jake’s story, not because he’s under any voodoo spell, but because he is jealous of Jake and wants Jake out of the picture so he can run IT.

Main Character journey: Jake is on the course to be incarcerated for forgery tht his wife committed. His reputation is at stake. His house is divided. Lupe, MIL, and Mike are furious that their father would force Lupe to take the fall for him. Carlos knows something’s up and continues to dig deeper into the portal. He already found dirt on the boyfriend and blackmailed him with it to keep him away. Dirt TBD.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Jake forced by black magic to take the fall for Lupe. Jake is innocent.

Action/Reaction: Jake confesses to crimes he didn’t commit and stuns his colleagues. MIL and Lupe are happy. Carlos is digging up dirt on his mom while surveiling the dude in the car with his telescope. He doesn’t want to confront the guy yet, because he’s only seven steps ahead.

Cliffhanger: Jake is taken away in handcuffs.

Episode 10: Trial by Fire

Hook/Intrigue: Jake on trial for Lupe’s crimes. MIL concocts potion to sway jury to convict Jake.

Main Character journey: Jake is going to prison for crimes his wife committed.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Jake is confused about the entire situation. Something seems amiss but he can’t figure it out. Why is he taking the fall? Didn’t he already refuse to do that? Wasn’t Lupe the one doing all the spending? Where are all the packages? Even if the spell broke today, he couldn’t prove any of it. Lupe and Mike cleared out the basement and are selling goods under an assumed name.

Action/Reaction: Jake is fired, goes to jail, and loses face with his colleagues and family.

Cliffhanger: Jake takes a plea to spare the children and Lupe and gets a reduced sentence.

[Marie Jordan]

Assignment lesson 5 module 2

Marie’s Episode Descriptions

What I learned doing this is a technique and tips fo create engaging episode description that will hook the reader.

EPISODE 1

Main Character’s journey: Skyler has to face his fear of failing again

Major Challenge/conflict: To protect Rose and make sure he doesn’t fail again.

Action/Reaction: Rose is unpredictable and challenging.

Cliffhanger: Will he be able to prevent her from hurting herself just as his connection to her stops?

An awkaward dyslexic guardian angel, Skyler, failed to help a 10-year old boy who dies and Skyler keeps on having traumatic memories that upsets him.

In the classroom, at the school of angels, the lesson is about teenager’s risky behaviors and how their brain rewire turning them into little monsters.

When the lesson is over, all guardian angels are sent to earth to protect a human being, Skyler has Rose, Merrill has Peter, Charlie has Olive. All teenagers.

Skyler connects with Rose. She believes in Guardian angels and she feels a light that makes her happy. Skyler whispers beautiful thoughts in her mind. She talks to him. He leads her to behave well.

Rose decides to visit her real father secretly but he rejects her. Her rage turns into suicidal thoughts and Skyler is faced again with his fear of failing but manages to talk her into staying alive.

Then Rose decides to be a better thief than her famous father. She studies her father’s famous robberies.

EPISODE 2

Main Character’s journey: Skyler must protect Rose despite their lack of connection.

Major Challenge/conflict: How to keep her on the right track?

Action/Reaction: How to fix the connection? How Skyler can improve his speed? Skyler enjoys the challenge (risky behavior) and works at improving his flying performance with Charlie despite Merrill’s warnings.

Class about the lack of limits in risk taking in the teenage world.

Cliffhanger: Will they get caught by the teacher?

Skyler watches Rose training to be a thief onine and practices with her school friends. If Skyler wants to interfere and prevent her from becoming bad, he must improve his own skills at travelling through time and space despite his dyslexia that makes him a slow learner.
Merril disagrees and thinks he should report the disconnection but she helps him with her brillant mind and theorical knowledge.<div>

EPISODE 3

Main Character’s journey: Skyler questions his origins and the secret around it.

Major Challenge/conflict: Charlie is embodied by fallen angels but they cannot embody Skyler who is unaware of it.

<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>Action/Reaction: Rumor about Skyler being special. Merrill suspects something has happened to Charlie and other students at school. Charlie says he fell and has lost his memory. The teachers fear an attack from the fallen angels.

Class about the attraction for teenagers to the darkwebb and the existence of fallen angels.

Cliffhanger: The fallen angel have a plan to embody all the guardian angels and to disconnect human beings from celestial advice.

EPISODE 4

Main Character’s journey: Skyler doesn’t feel special and doesn’t like to be stared at. He thinks he attracts bad things naturally. The more he tries to guide Rose to be a good person, the more she learns how to be dishonnest.

Major Challenge/conflict: Skyler is horrified to see that Rose has decided to become a hacker and trains for it with a 14 year old neighbour.

Action/Reaction: Skyler hasn’t been trained by the school about hacking. He is unprepared and uses his old way of going back through time but Rose persists. He makes things horribly worse!!!

Class about insight, about taking a leap in independance and away from authority.

Rose hacks credit cards starting with her mum’s one!.

Cliffhanger: Skyler returns in time to undo what she did, but makes a mistake that causes the curiosity of the police.

EPISODE 5

Main Character’s journey: Skyler blames himself. He is a failure! He’s a fake.

Major Challenge/conflict: Charlie wonders if Skyler could be a fallen angel?

Rose becomes a bigger bolder hacker. She learns to enter a company and freeze their datas with the help of the 17-year old . Rose is in love. He want sex. Skyler is struggling to prevent him to have sex with her.

Action/Reaction: Skyler needs Merrill’s and Charlie’s help.

Class about teenagers and sex.

Cliffhanger: Charlie is causing Skyler to fail.

Rose is sent to community service for hacking her mum’s credit card and over there she meets a professional hacker (17) who then pretends to give her after school maths lessons,and teaches her how to hack safely. Rose is a natural!!!

Rose talks to Skyler and hears his voice telling her to do the worse thing possible but it’s not Skyler’s voice, it’s Charlie, the fallen angel, who manipulates her.

Merrill starts to have suspicion about Charlie.

EPISODE 6

Main Character’s journey: Skyler identifies with Charlie’s bad behavior. What if he is bad?

Major Challenge/conflict: The fallen angels are infiltrating the school and no one seems to notice. Charlie harms Skyler and Merrill.

Action/Reaction: They must report Charlie only to find out that half of the school is like Charlie

Class about exploring limits and identities.

Cliffhanger: Skyler believes he is like Charlie, a fallen angel.

EPISODE 7

Main Character’s journey: Skyler embraces his badness and stay away from Merrill.

Major Challenge/conflict: Skyler supports Rose when she hacks a hospital, causing someone’s deatth but then realizes he had fallen so low!

Class about health and body parts

Action/Reaction: Skyler is angry against Charlie and fights to death after discovering the sheme with the fallen angel who infiltrated the school, who disconnect human being from their angels.

Cliffhanger: Is it possible to save the real Charlie after he has been embodied?

EPISODE 8

Main Character’s journey: Skyler finds his own faith.

Major Challenge/conflict: Skyler defeats the Fallen angels thanks to a school game turned into a battlefield.

Class about celestial light and importance to guiding human beings.

Action/Reaction: He must find how to reverse the embodiement but this will kill him.

Cliffhanger: He wakes up from a coma in a hopital bed. He has been in a coma for 7 years.

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[Eric Watterson]

Eric Watterson’s Episode Descriptions

“What I learned doing this assignment is how to summarized and plan out episodes.”

Episode 01 – Five Parts:

– Hook/Intrigue: Secluded gardener sees dark forces around him

– Main Character journey: During a job, he fights one of these dark creatures surrounding a man attacking a women

– Major Challenge/Conflict: Anthony is given the option of community service or jail, before he decides to jail,

– Action/Reaction: As they are driving him to jail they stop at the group home he’s taken to the group home where he sees the darkness on the boys and decides to stay as the grounds keeper

– Cliffhanger: He sees the boys in the group home with each of them surrounded by dark creatures

Episode 01 Rough Description:

Anthony is a secluded gardener being treated for memory loss. His troubling dreams and visions have made him a ward of LIVE Pharma, where he is treated. During one the part time jobs given him by the hospital, Anthony sees a Dark Creature around a man attacked a women. Anthony steps in to defend her and puts the man in the hospital. The man presses charges and the judge offers Anthony jail time or an opportunity to help steward the grounds and assist a counsellor of a boys group home.

Anthony chooses jail, however before going to jail, the arresting officer, Officer Tim drives him by the home where the boys are. Edward notices the boys tease Anthony because of his dress and mannerism but he’s not moved. Standing in the group home he sees the same dark creatures surrounding the boys and he decides to stay.

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Episode 02 – Five Parts:

– Hook/Intrigue: It’s visiting day at the home and the boys are each visited by their family members some are surrounded by darkness some are not

– Main Character journey: Anthony watches the families from a far and notices Omar in a tree and Ro on the roof watching from a far.

– Major Challenge/Conflict: Edwards family and siblings comes for a visit and make fun of him, while Officer Tim wants to be hired at L.I.V.E Pharma accepted by the Dark Order. Ro gets a text saying “You’re a Go”

– Action/Reaction: Omar notices Edward father wearing a shirt with the logo from his village burning

– Cliffhanger: Omar steals a car to follow Eds family and gives Ro a ride

Episode 02 Rough Description:

During a family day visit to the group home Anthony watches the level of darkness around the families. Some are fully surrounded by darkness and some are not. As he watches he notices Omar in a tree and Ro on the roof. As Omar watches he sees, Edwards father wearing a shirt with the logo he saw when his village was burned and family killed while he and Officer Tim talk. While on the roof Ro gets an text message confirming a target for a hit that reads, “Go Time”.

After Edwards family finishes teasing him, they drive off and Omar follows in a car he hotwired. As he drives off Ro jumps down from the roof. Omar looks at Ro and gives him a ride as Anthony watches from the background.

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Episode 03 – Five Parts:

– Hook/Intrigue: Group counseling sessions at the home with head doctor from LIVE Pharma Anthony watches the darkness around the boys as they sit there

– Main Character journey: Edward and the others family issues are discussed by the doctor and each boys darkness increases

– Major Challenge/Conflict: The entire group starts to fight

– Action/Reaction: Anthony sees anger try to overcome Omar but it doesn’t

– Cliffhanger: The darkness sees Anthony watching and is draw to him be it cant touch him, Anthony walks up to each boy and escorts him to his seat as the doctor watches. The Doctor is upset and excuses herself and makes a call and says we may have a problem.

Episode 03 Rough Description:

Omar has another stolen car and follows Edwards father to the LIVE Pharma headquarters. Anthony watches from a distance, as the head counsellor from LIVE Pharma sets up a group counseling session with the boys. The doctor brings up issues in each of their lives and families and Anthony watches the darkness around them grows as she speaks. As it grows Omar walks in and sits down. The doctor states his issues and the darkness grows but Omar seems to reject it. The group burst into an all out brawl and begin to fight one another.

Anthony walks into the room and stands there and the boy fill of darkness cannot touch him for some reason. Anthony then walks over one by one and touches the boys and walks them to their seats. The darkness fades and they all follow him. After sitting each other the boys down, Anthony sees next to the doctor. Furious at him, she leaves the room. Anthony gets a platter of sandwiches from the table and each of them take one as they all begin to eat in silence.

The doctor watches from outside the door and makes a call and says, “We may have a problem.”

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Episode 04 – Five Parts:

– Hook/Intrigue: LIVE Pharma is has hidden plans to control the boys and Anthony seems to be getting in the way

– Main Character journey: LIVE Pharma needs to figure out what to do with Anthony

– Major Challenge/Conflict: Head doctor is upset with Anthony’s interference and fires him. Edward convinces her to reconsider and the entire encounter is watched through secret camera

– Action/Reaction: Omar follows an LIVE Executive and assaults him

– Cliffhanger: Ro does a hit on Chris cousin tat he remembers from family day

Episode 04 Rough Description:

After Anthony’s interference at the group sessions the head doctor calls Anthony into her office as Edward watches. The head doctor fires him and before Anthony leaves, Edward walks in and uses his gift of persuasion to convince the doctor to keep him as the entire interaction is watched from a hidden camera. However, Edward notices her movements and suspects a camera is somewhere in the room.

Later the boys are fighting outside as Anthony works. He stops, breaks them up and sits on the ground quietly. The boys watch him and sit with him. Anthony begin to ask them questions and they open up to him as Anthony watches the Dark around them back away. Later that night Edward sneaks into the room and finds a camera. Before Ro fulfills his contract to kill someone, he sees his face and notices that it’s a relative of Chris that visited the home on family day. For the first time Ro begins to question his actions and debates whether or not to kill him.

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Episode 05 – Five Parts:

– Hook/Intrigue: Dark plans begin to emerge against Anthony and the boys.

– Main Character journey: Anthony begins to connect more with the boys during group

– Major Challenge/Conflict: Francisco’s brother is taken captive by his old gang

– Action/Reaction: Omar explains his experience with the Darks

– Cliffhanger: The doctor increases the dose of Dark Drug that are given the boys as they sleep

Episode 05 Rough Description:

After Anthony’s actions begin to cause the Darkness to have less initial impact on the boys, the Dark Order begins to increase their plans against them. Anthony begins to spend more time with the boys and talk with them and his our dreams and visions increase. While trying to make better choices, Francisco learns that his brother is being held captive by his old gang. After trying to stop Francisco from leaving, he attacks Anthony and Anthony quickly disarms him without hurting him and releases the Dark Power from over him as all the boys watch. After calming Francisco down, he says he will help him get his brother back but he will need the others boys help and they agree to help. Omar notices the dark around Anthony and shares with him that he can see the dark sometimes.

After the boys begin to make strides to better themselves, the doctor increases the Dark dosage on the boys as they sleep through the vents in their rooms.

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Episode 06 – Five Parts: The group recues Francisco Brother

– Hook/Intrigue: Anthony devising the plan to rescue Francisco brother and the group researches where Francisco Brother is

– Main Character journey: They have to learn to work together

– Major Challenge/Conflict: Anthony tell the group doctor where they are going but it’s actually Edward in disguise

– Action/Reaction: While there Anthony grabs a sample of the dark drug

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

Episode 06 Rough Description:

After attempts to involve the police through Officer Tim in the kidnapping fail, Anthony develops a plan to rescue Francisco’s brother from the gang. Omar researches the building. Chris accessing the building power. and Ro and Anthony move into the building undetected and rescues Francisco brother. Before leaving, Anthony notices a vile of the dark drug and takes it. Chris begins to wonder how Anthony knew how to create and execute the plan.

The next day, Anthony is examining the drug and the boys come in his room. Omar mentions the darkness he sees around it and he and Anthony is relieved that someone else sees it. Francisco’s brother runs away to the gang for more of the drug but he has to tell the gang who broke into their house and recued him so he gives up his brother.

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Episode 07 – Five Parts:

– Hook/Intrigue: They experiment on the drug and it transform in their eyes

– Main Character journey: they brake into begin to research the drug using the computers at LIVE Pharma

– Major Challenge/Conflict: While on the computes Chris find files on each other team and the house and download the encrypted files

– Action/Reaction: While at LIVE Pharma they are attacked by Dark Creatures

– Cliffhanger: The team break into LIVE Pharmaceuticals and Research and discovery files on each of them The boys are beating by the Creatures

Episode 07 Rough Description:

The boys begin to do basic experiments on the drug and see it transform before their eyes. They realize that its from LIVE Pharma and want to research it more. Anthony tells them its too dangerous and destroys the sample. The decide to break into Dark Pharma with Edward as their guide. While in LIVE Pharma, Chris sees a plans where experiments are being performed using the drug. Before he can finish, an alarm is tripped and they have to run. Chris downloads some encrypted files to a flash drive and they run.

After the leave the building thinking they have escaped, a gang of Dark Creatures confronts them and begins to chase them.

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Episode 08 – Five Parts:

– Hook/Intrigue: The creatures chase the boys

– Main Character journey: Chris researches Anthony’s background and questions his honesty, The boys are freaked about the creatures and Omar tells them what he can see

– Major Challenge/Conflict: Chris searches the encrypted files and find another name and identity for Anthony

– Action/Reaction: 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

– Cliffhanger: Chris finds an address for Anthony fathers group met and sees a picture of Anthony with his team

Episode 08 Rough Description:

As the boys run and fight off the creatures before they are killed Anthony steps in and begins to defend them. Before Anthony is killed, he begins to glow with a supernatural strength and beats the creatures back effortlessly. After defeating the creatures, Anthony collapses unconscious. The boys pick him up and carry him back to the home where they are all in trouble for breaking curfew and breaking and entering LIVE Pharma. The boys report the dark creatures but no one believes them and the are all expelled from the house for breaking the rules and for breaking and entering until the investigation is done.

Chris starts a decryption program on the encrypted files and searches Anthony online through face recognition and finds images of his family in an high class section of town. Chris finds Anthony’s father hidden lair and locates a secret book called The Codex. Chris breaks into a house and sees pictures of Anthony and his team on the wall. As each of the boys are in their own environment away from the house, Dark Creatures position themselves and attack them individually.

Chris’s decryption program decrypts the files and an alarm is triggered with the location of the hack to the Group Home.

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Episode 09 – Five Parts:

– Hook/Intrigue: Dark Creatures attack the boys individually

– Main Character journey: Each boy is tempted by The Dark in their individual weakness.

– Major Challenge/Conflict: Anthony is unconscious and placed under medical care, During group the boys explain to the doctor what happened but she doesn’t believe them

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

– Cliffhanger: The Dark Creatures chase each of them down the street to the house.

Episode 09 Rough Description:

The Darkness around each boy begins to attack them in their personal weakness. Edward is his identity. Chris in his relationship with his father. Ro in the death of his mother. Omar in the death of his tribe and Francisco in protecting his family. Each boy eventually recognizes the Dark behind the temptation and manifest as a Dark Creature and chases them. They boys all end up running together to Group Home. They hide inside as the creatures surround the house. As they do, the gang members drive up to the house and the Dark Creatures turn their attention on them.

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Episode 10 – Five Parts:

– Hook/Intrigue: Francisco’s gang tracks them searching for drug

– Main Character journey: As the boys talk and research the group house is attacked by the gang

– Major Challenge/Conflict: The gang destroys the house searching for the flash drive Chris downloaded the files

– Action/Reaction: The boys use their skills to fight the gang and turn the gang on the creatures, The doctor makes a call and tells her superiors that the plan has been comprised

– Cliffhanger: After the boys think they have beat the gang, the gang members all transform into the dark creatures themselves

Episode 10 Rough Description:

After reaching the house, the boys fight off the creatures together as long as they can, until Francisco’s gang drives up. The creatures go into hiding as the gang comes in searching for the drug and the drive. The boys try and convince them of the creatures but they don’t believe until they find the drug and the creatures are drawn to it. The boys try and convince the gang to stop selling the drug but the creatures over take the gang and the boys end up facing off not only against the creatures but now the possessed gang members.

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Episode 11 – Five Parts:

– Hook/Intrigue: Dark creatures attack the homes to kill them all

– Main Character journey: Dark creatures attack the house before they kill the boys they are stopped by the doctor who reveals the true nature of the home

– Major Challenge/Conflict: The boys fight off the gang by following Anthony’s lead

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

– Cliffhanger: Before they kill Anthony he wakes up from coma and beats them. The creatures takes Anthony captive and tells the boys it will see them later, before his is taken Chris slips his phone into Anthony pocket

Episode 11 Rough Description:

The creatures begin to beat the boys once again. After they all are beaten and about to be killed the doctor tells them to stop. The Dark Creature immediately retreat and stand still. Shocked the boys list as the doctor explains that they were all chosen for the home. They all have darkness in them that can be used for greatness. She explains that each of them were hand chosen for their race, background, skills and abilities to lead the Dark Army. The Dark Creatures hold knives to each boy and tells Anthony to submit or one of them will die. She explains how each of their actions lead them here and tells them to choose.

Each boy then looks down at Anthony still unconscious and speaks up about how Anthony helped him choose light instead of dark. Furious that they have not chosen to join the Dark Order, the doctor gives an axe to one of the Dark Beings and tells it to kill Anthony as he lays there unconscious. Anthony wakes up, catches the knife and fights them off. After beating them all, the doctor tells Anthony to submit or one of the boys will die. To save theirs lives, he submits his life to the creatures.

Before they take him captive, Chris drops a phone in Anthony pocket and they watch as the creatures drag him into the darkness.

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Episode 12 – Five Parts:

– Hook/Intrigue: Anthony is being held captive by the Dark waiting to be sacrificed. wakes up and begins to battle the creatures and give each of the boys part of his strength

– Main Character journey: The team must work together and rescue Anthony before he is sacrificed.

– Major Challenge/Conflict: The boys track Anthony by Chris phone and steal and car to find him, Anthony learns that he’s being setup to fail

– Action/Reaction: Omar submits to the darkness only to release his brothers and allow Anthony to be tortured enough to regain his memories.

– Cliffhanger: Anthony remembers that he is a CENTRY Soldier and that his team was killed. Now he must figure out who and why. 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. 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 Medallion and Codex

Episode 12 Rough Description:

After Anthony is taken the boys track him using his cellphone signal. After finding that his being held at the Dark Mansion, the boys break into the home using their varied skills to find Anthony as they are electrocuting him. Trying to figure out how to free him, Anthony tells them to leave him. The boys fight to free him as Omar is taken over by the Dark. The boys fight against Omar trying to free Anthony, until all the power from the home blows as its all used on Anthony.

Thinking Anthony is dead, the boys surround him and Edward notices he is still alive. As the creatures rush in to attack, Omar turns on the creatures and fights them back. Omar then takes the CENTRY Medallion from Chris and places it on Anthony. The medallion begins to glow and Anthony wakes up and stands glowing with the medallion. Omar then rejects the darkness as he did before and Anthony smiles at him and turns to the doctor and the creatures and says, “I remember who I am. I Am CENTRY.” Anthony then effortlessly defeats the creatures as the doctors and the darkness disperse.

Anthony then turns to the boys and says, “Someone killed my father and my team. They need to pay. Are you with me?”

The boys look at each other then back at Anthony smiling.

End of Season One

[David Thome]

Dave’s episode description rough drafts.

What I learned: the elements that should be in such a description.

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Joshua Blank is a university PR writer Joshua Blank is on hand for a landmark physics experiment. But when the particle accelerator explodes, he barely survives—and the lead professor, Salva Seguir, dies. But things are different for Joshua: He’s no living in a different reality. His wonderful wife Henna and kids NAMES look the same, but they’re no longer wonderful. The same goes for people he works with. His life is upside-down, but his initial attempts to find out what happened come up empty. Worst of all, he finds out that the experiment never took place.

<div>2 Joshua starts investigating what happened by meeting with Salva, who’s still alive in this reality. As she did in the Baseline reality, she downplays the risks. Meanwhile, Joshua notices that he’s being followed by spies—one American, one Chinese. And as bad as his day plays out, it gets worse when his car blows up when he hits autostart. He spots someone fleeing the scene. Salva?</div>

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Joshua arrives home bruised, but the Henna in this reality is fed up with him. He’s failed as a journalist and a novelist, and she suspects he’s had affairs. He sleeps on the couch, but wakes up in yet another reality, with a nicer Henna—and his car in the driveway. At work, everyone’s walking on eggshells because Salva, bitter over not being recognized for an earlier experiment, is vindictive and manipulative. Joshua presses her for information again—it’s obvious he needs her help to get back to the blaseline (BL), but she tells him to fuck off. In the elevator, the America agent sticks a gun into Joshua’s temple and warns him not to dig too deep into the experiment.

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Still shaken from the American agent’s threat, Joshua is waylaid by the Chinese agent, who takes him for a ride. The agent fills Joshua in a what the experiment was supposed to prove and that reality shifting was a risk. Nobody knows how it works, though—and the two agents are competing to find out because whoever controls the technology will control the world. The Chinese agent warns Joshua not to trust the American agent. Meanwhile, the American agent is visiting with Henna in the baseline reality. When the agent leaves, Henna goes to the university—to meet with Salva.

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At home, Henna’s personality swings wildly as Joshua shifts between realities. In one reality, Henna and daughter are at each other’s throats. Joshua sees a chance to make an ally, though, and takes daughter to school. But as he drives off, the American agent approaches daughter. Joshua chases him—but where’s daughter? Back at home—Joshua has shifted realities again. So, he goes to work and breaks into Salva’s office to look for her notes. He finds them—but someone hits him on the head.

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Fred finds Joshua on the floor of Salva’s office. No notes. And Fred doesn’t know about any experiment that went bad. Sure enough, the particle accelerator isn’t even functional. The Chinese agent confront him, this time belligerently, so they fight. But when Joshua breaks free, the American agent chases him, then aims his gun at him and fires.

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<div>The American agent fires—but Joshua disappears as he shifts into a different reality. In this one, he sees a notice of a memorial service for him and Salva. No trace of their remains were found after the experiment meltdown, but they’re assumed dead. Daughter is outside, talking to the Chinese agent, saying she doesn’t believe Joshua is dead, she feels him close. When she leaves, Joshua attacks the agent and demands answers—but the American agent arrives to help the Chinese agent get free. “I don’t know what’s going on,” he says. The agent responds: “You don’t have to.” When he leaves Joshua sees someone else lurking. A third agent?</div><div>

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This new agent—The Third Agent—drives off. Joshua follows—and the agent goes to his house. He goes into the house, but no one’s there but Henna. She’s beside herself, says she’s been hounded by cops and spies and media. Joshua calms her. They go to bed. Joshua wakes up in a new reality—next to Salva. It soon becomes clear that Salva has been behind some of the attacks to kill in (the car bomb, at least one other). “Why?” “I can’t go back to the baselines because I’m dead there—and if I can’t go back, I’ll make sure you don’t either.” She pulls out a gun and aims at his head.

[Anne James]

Anne James

Module 2 – Lesson 5 – Episode Descriptions

What I learned from this assignment…It took me FOREVER to do this and my cliffhangers are weak right now.

ASSIGNMENT:

Episode 1

• Hook/Intrigue: The reluctant, third in line, slacker Nerilla is hastily appointed Head Priestess, replacing her predecessor, Livia, who has been put to death for becoming pregnant.

• Main Character journey: Nerilla now has to get really good at this, immediately, or she and the other Vestals could be killed.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: In the wake of a scandal, she must restore public credibility of the Vestals and unite a divided House of Vesta.

• Action/Reaction: She must navigate for the first time warring factions within the Severus dynasty, all wanting Nerilla to secure the god’s support for their endeavors.

• Cliffhanger: Forced to stage her first public blessing for Emperor Severus, she has no idea what she’s doing and completely “fakes” it, throwing up afterwards.

Vestal Virgin, Nerilla, a reluctant, third in line slacker, is hastily appointed Head Priestess. Her predecessor, Livia, has been publicly put to death for violating the Vestal’s sacred vow. She is chosen over the obvious next choice, rock star Vestal, Severa. In the wake of chaos and scandal, Nerilla becomes the new face of the Vestal brand. Though truth be told, she has long doubted she has any mystical powers and has a series of botched blessings to prove it. But now, she has to get really good at this, quickly. Or else she and the other Vestals could meet a similar fate to Livia. With a skeptical public, a divided House of Vesta and warring factions within the Severus dynasty, all insisting she secure the god’s favor for their endeavors, Nerilla attempts her first public blessing before Emperor Severus and the Senate. She has no idea what she’s doing and completely “fakes” it, throwing up afterwards.

Episode 2

• Hook/Intrigue: Nerilla secretly is heartbroken, mourns the death of Livia and struggles to find an ally.

• Main Character journey: Publicly and politically, she is forced enact a damnato memoria and erase all evidence of Livia, validating the government’s actions.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: She confronts Silvius about denying Livia a trial.

• Action/Reaction: Now living in Livia’s quarters, Nerilla is haunted by the night of the miscarriage.

• Cliffhanger: She and Livia were secretly in a romantic relationship. Highly taboo.

Under pressure from Silvius and Dios, Nerilla is forced to enact a damnato memoria, erasing all evidence that Livia ever existed. Every trace of her must be purged. She can never be mentioned again. Publicly, Nerilla validates the government’s actions to have Livia put to death. Privately, she is devastated. She watches Livia’s quarters being cleared out and stripped. She confronts Silvius about denying Livia a trial. Nerilla moves into the Head Priestess quarters. She is haunted by the night of Livia’s miscarriage, which took place in this room. There is still a faint blotch of blood on the stone floor. She and Livia were close friends who had recently begun a secret romantic relationship. Although this was highly taboo and considered “incest”, Livia was Nerilla’s life line. Without her love and support, how can Nerilla survive as Head Priestess?

Episode 3

• Hook/Intrigue: Nerilla is introduced to the key players of the Senate, who are struggling for power against Emperor Severus and his pro-military government.

• Main Character journey: Thrust into the highly competitive, sexually charged, volatile world of Roman politics

• Major Challenge/Conflict: Mourning loss of Livia – her love, protector and mentor.

• Action/Reaction: Plautianus, pressures Nerilla to go against the Senators and Emperor Severus, who he is supposed to be supporting.

• Cliffhanger: Nerilla discovers Plautianus has been secretly bribing key senators to secure their support for the Emperor.

Senator Dios introduces Nerilla to the key players in the Senate. The Emperor is unwell, down with the gout. Empress Julia Domna, in attendance, conveys Emperor Severus wants to allow soldiers to become citizens and award them land. The senators argue this will cost the government money and further tip the balance of power in Severus’s favor. She stands firm. Plautianus, the Praetorian Prefect and equal to the Emperor, undermines Julia Doman in front of the Senate, flaunting his influence with the military is greater than Severus’s. Privately, Senator Dio’s reveals Emperor Severus and his pro-military government has stripped them of much of their power. Soldiers mustn’t become citizens. But Nerilla discovers Plautianus has been bribing key senators to support the Emperor. Nerilla looks to Silvius for counsel, but he is beholden to his father and the Senate. Julia Domna reveals she wasn’t fond of Livia, who was partial to Plautianus. She asks Nerilla to offer a private blessing to the Emperor for the return of his health.

Episode 4

• Hook/Intrigue: Nerilla takes to the streets and connects with Roman citizens.

• Main Character journey: Can’t compete with the popular and beautiful Vestal Severa for the citizens’ favor.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: Severa’s popularity and impulsive behavior undermines Nerilla’s authority with the citizens.

• Action/Reaction: Nerilla, using some of her new authority, blesses and frees a prisoner en route to his execution.

• Cliffhanger: Plautianus arranged for Nerilla to encounter this prisoner, whose freedom becomes an advantage for Plautianus.

Emperor Severus is still down with the gout. Nerilla’s blessing didn’t heal him immediately. Weary of political pressures, Nerilla takes to the streets with Vestal Severa to connect with Roman citizens. As they work the crowds, it becomes clear Severa is the favorite. They are asked by citizen leaders to secure more resources for them, which Severa promises. Back at the House, Nerilla confronts Severa and reminds her that she doesn’t have that authority. Silvius backs Severa. Nerilla, heading to a meeting at the senate, encounters a prisoner en route to his execution. Praetorian guards shove the prisoner at Nerilla, who now according to Vestal law, she must bless and free the prisoner. A crowd gathers. Nerilla, hoping to increase her popularity, stages a “miracle” and frees him, to cheers. Dios and several other senators tell Nerilla she just freed the leader of one of the tribes Rome has been battling. Severus and Julia Domna are furious. But, the Emperor’s health is finally improving. So Nerilla isn’t punished. Plautianus feigns outrage, but secretly arranged for Nerilla’s encounter with the prisoner, and uses the Praetorian Guard to ensure the prisoner’s safety.

Episode 5

• Hook/Intrigue: Nerilla must select a new Vestal to replace Livia.

• Main Character journey: Highly political process where she is pressured by Senator Dios, Silvius and Empress Julia Domna to choose one of their advantageous choices.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: Haunted by the trauma of being removed from her family, never to see them again for 30 years. She now belongs to Rome.

• Action/Reaction: Julia Domna bribes Nerilla

• Cliffhanger: Nerilla goes against their choices and picks Herennia.

It’s time to replace Livia with a new young Vestal. Rome must always have six virgins looking out for the city. Nerilla is thrown into this highly political process, where she is pressured by Senator Dios, Silvius and Empress Julia Domna to choose one of their picks. All of Rome’s best families parade their young daughters before her. The whole process triggers painful memories for Nerilla. She is haunted by the trauma of being removed from her family at the age of 10 and forced to never see them again for thirty years. Hers was the first year citizens could submit their daughters for selection. She was very close to her father and it broke his heart to give his beloved Nerilla up. But in exchange for Nerilla, her family would now have financial security, stature and protection. Her mother was thrilled Nerilla was selected. But a crying Nerilla was pulled away from her father at the selection ceremony. She belonged to Rome now. She had always been told she was chosen by the god’s for this service. But now, she sees that the whole process is entirely political. Only further confirming her doubts about her suitability for this life. At the Selection, Nerilla goes against all of their choices and picks Herennia, who is the spitting image of Livia.

Episode 6

• Hook/Intrigue: Nerilla’s choice of Herennia becomes problematic politically.

• Main Character journey: Must “bless” a warring meeting between Senate vs Emperor Dios & Plautianus for control over Rome.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: She believes she is a fraud and struggles with being the face of the hypocritical world of Vesta.

• Action/Reaction: Nerilla forced to secretly meet with other Dios, Silvius and other senators to plot against Severus.

• Cliffhanger:

Nerilla’s choice of Herennia becomes problematic for her politically. She defied the counsel of everyone and chose the daughter of a mere citizen. But everytime Nerilla looks at Herennia, she sees a young Livia. This is strangely comforting. With all evidence of Livia’s existence destroyed, Herennia’s uncanny likeness becomes Nerilla’s only portal to her memories of her beloved. She watches Herennia become indoctrinated into the hypocritical world of Vesta. Silvius confronts Nerilla. The public and private roles are starting to blur. He pressures her to get in line. Empress Julia Domna visits the House and has a private audience with Nerilla, asking for her to support Severus. She suspects Plautianus is undermining Severus.

Episode 7

• Hook/Intrigue: Who was Livia?

• Main Character journey: Who impregnated Livia? Why won’t she tell Nerilla?

• Major Challenge/Conflict: Livia and Nerilla were secretly in a “taboo” relationship.

• Action/Reaction: Nerilla confessed to Livia that Nerilla doesn’t believe she has magical powers and wants to run away from her life as a Vestal. Has doubts she can survive this life.

• Cliffhanger: The miscarriage and the vow

Flashback: As a young girl, Nerilla, joined Livia and Severa as the new Vestals. Together, they rose through the ranks of the House of Vesta. Livia and Severa were in competition with each other for Head Priestess. Nerilla could have cared less and settled happily in the third slot. As Head Priestess, Livia was beloved and respected, the epitome of the chaste, demure Vestal. Livia was becoming entrenched in her identity as a Vestal, while Nerilla was growing increasingly more restless and jaded. She confessed to Livia that she never believed she had magical powers or a connection to the gods and desperately yearns to run away. Livia, to persuade Nerilla to stay, kisses her. They enter into a secret “taboo” relationship. They were together the night Livia miscarried. Late at night, Nerilla secretly slipped into Livia’s quarters. Livia was in pain and bleeding, heavily. Nerilla asks Vestal Clodia and Laurus to bury the fetus. Severa and Nerilla clean up the blood and tend to Livia. All of them vow never to reveal what happened that night. At breakfast early the next morning, a pale Livia and the rest of the Vestals are at the table. Quiet. Stunned. In walks Navia, the youngest Vestal, humming stroking the cat, oblivious to what happened.

Episode 8

• Hook/Intrigue: Caracalla and Julia Domna pressure Nerilla for information about Plautianus.

• Main Character journey: Feels like a fraud and has no one she can trust. Misses Livia horribly.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: She has “blessed” Plautianus’s secret plot against Severus and is supporting Severus against the Senate.

• Action/Reaction: Nerilla exposes Plautianus’s plot against Emperor Severus.

• Cliffhanger: Plautianus’s body is thrown into the streets.

With Nerilla in attendance and blessing the proceedings, Emperor Severus appears before the Senate and asserts his authority over them. Plautianus summons Nerilla to his quarters and brings forward the prisoner she freed who is now joining forces with him to overtake Severus. Together, they are shoring up a key stronghold south of Rome that will give them leverage over Severus’s army. He intimidates her sexually, but she threatens to curse his endeavor. He stops short. Caracalla and Julia Domna suspect Plautianus is working to overthrow Severus, who can’t believe his trusted ally would do such a thing. Severus summons Nerilla to the palace. Nerilla confesses that Plautianus is plotting against Severus. Severus replaces his usual Praetorian guards (who would be loyal to Plautianus) with devoted soldiers who will act on his command. Plautianus is summoned, confronted and slain. His body is thrown into the streets, where it lays for days as a symbol to the prisoner and his soldiers.

Episode 9

• Hook/Intrigue: Nerilla has new standing with Emperor Severus and Empress Julia Domna, after revealing Plautianus’s plot against them.

• Main Character journey: Nerilla uses this new found political power to minimize Silivius and Severa.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: Julia Domna is threatened by Nerilla and confronts her.

• Action/Reaction: Nerilla must bless the Emperor, his two sons and the Roman army as they head out for a campaign in Roman Briton.

• Cliffhanger: A crow appears at a key moment of the ceremony, suggesting a curse on the military’s endeavors.

After revealing Plautianus’s plot against them, Nerilla has new standing with Emperor Severus and Empress Julia Domna. Severus and his two sons head out for a campaign in Roman Briton. Before leaving and with no new Praetorian Prefect, Severus promotes Empress Julia Domna to Augustus, giving her power to represent him politically in his absence. Nerilla uses her new found political power to minimize Silvius and Severa. Before the army departs, Nerilla and the Vestals bless their military endeavor in a huge public ceremony. During the ceremony, Nerilla can’t control a crow that appears and circles three times over the Severus family. This could be a curse. She tries to minimize the incident but Caracalla, one of Severus’s sons, makes direct eye contact with Nerilla. As the military departs, Empress Julia Domna confronts Nerilla, demanding her full loyalty.

Episode 10

• Hook/Intrigue: Six months have passed and word comes that the military is victorious but the Emperor dies on the journey back to Rome.

• Main Character journey: Nerilla is celebrated for her powers to influence the gods for Rome’s success but still struggles for support within the House of Vesta.

• Major Challenge/Conflict: Julia Domna asks for Nerilla’s help to broker a peace between her warring sons who are now co-emperors.

• Action/Reaction: Caracalla has Geta killed in front of Nerilla and Julia Domna.

• Cliffhanger: Caracalla announces Nerilla’s blessing ensured the god’s favor for him to become Emperor.

Six months have passed. Word comes that Severus’s military is victorious and enroute back to Rome. Nerilla is celebrated for her powers to influence the gods in this victory for Rome. But she still struggles for support within the House of Vesta. Sons Caracalla and Geta return and announce that Severus died back in Briton. A devastated Julia Domna blames Nerilla for her husband’s demise. Caracalla and Geta are now co-emperors of Rome and strip Julia Domna of her Augustus title. Julia calls a meeting to broker a peace between the warring sons. Caracalla insists Nerilla be in attendance and bless the proceedings. During the meeting, Caracalla has Geta killed in front of Nerilla and Julia Domna. Julia is injured protecting Geta. Caracalla proclaims that Nerilla’s blessing (as evidenced by the circling crow) ensured the god’s favor and destiny for Caracalla to become Emperor.

[Mary Andrews]

Module 2 lesson 5: Engaging Episode Descriptions
What did I learn? One sentence descriptions do not do the story justice.

Episode 1: Three Universal Government Dark Ops Agents land on a pleasure planet to retrieve a mind-jacked Government Ambassador and to capture his assailant(s).

Episode 2: Captain Rael Point’s mother (Head of Dark Ops) is assassinated and long kept secrets from Rael’s past provides him with a name of his nemesis, the Intergalactic Corporate Overlord, who wields power enough to challenge even The Universal Government

Episode 3: Now having a target, The Dark Team comes up with a plan to go after The Corporate Overlord, T. L. Harbringer; expectantly, their psi born members bond the night before their plan is enacted.

Episode 4: The team, once again on the pleasure planet use Tristen (turned captured psi-jacker/slave) to procure access to Mallory Switt, (Harbringer’s underling and Tristen’s previous owner).

Episode 5: Mallory is coerced to allow the team to operate from his club, The Jungle; while Rael hacks and shakes up Harbringer’s businesses (using Mallory’s identity) on the planet, Laynald fends off assassin attempts aimed at Mallory while Ira and Tristen fend off sadistic harassment from Mallory.

Episode 6: Finally, Rael tells Mallory what he’s been doing to his boss in his name and coaches him on how to draw Harbringer, who is on hold waiting to talk to him, to the Jungle so they can capture him but Ira is suspicious of the results and mentally seeks him only to find that Harbringer is twenty minutes away and coming.

Episode 7: Harbringer and his corporate guards (The Archangels) overwhelm the Dark Team and take them everyone to their ship except for Laynald who has marked and follows their ship

Episode 8: Harbringer tries to engage Rael who wants nothing to do with him, finally The Overlord escorts Rael to the room where the others are place and allows himself to be killed by Tristen who suddenly knows what she has been destined to do, so she betrays Ira and uses his mind to kill Harbringer and then lures Rael
to the Oracle Temple where everyone joins them to witness what the Oracles have orchestrated all of this for.

Episode 9: Rael turns out to be destined to replace Harbringer and has become what he fears most, Master of the Hive and now has responsibilities to uphold for innumerable personnel

Episode 10: Now everyone is situated on the new Corporate Overlord’s Mothership, Rael is indoctrinated into his new life and Ira’s sister, Alandra, a Universal Government agent (telepath) is kidnapped on a Gov. drug mining planet and both the corporate Overlord and the Government Dark Ops team are called on to set things right (beginning of season 2)