Day 5 Assignments

[Norene Smiley]

Norene Smiley LESSON 5 – DEPTH OF CHARACTER’S EMOTIONS

What I learned from this assignment: This was one of the most difficult assignments for me, as it required a more complex digging into each character’s motivation and emotional depths. Sometimes I just didn’t know the answers. I will need to keep working on it.

ASSIGNMENT 1 – EMOTIONAL PROFILE – JESSICA JONES

Jessica

A. Hope/Fear: to save people/that she isn’t strong enough
B. Want/Need: wants to atone for Luke’s wife’s death/needs to be safe
C. Base Negative Emotion/Public Mask: guilt/cold, hardened
D. Weaknesses: soft spot for victims
E. Triggers: injustice, male controllers
F. Coping Mechanism: drinking/sex

Trish

A. Hope/Fear: to be successful/fear that she is not strong enough
B. Want/Need: control/safety
C. Base Negative Emotion/Public Mask: insecurity/has her act together
D. Weaknesses: worry for her sister
E. Triggers: aggression
F. Coping Mechanism: obsessive preparation and training

EMOTIONAL PROFILES – SHADOW & BONE

Alina

A. Hope/Fear: life with Mal/being separated from Mal
B. Want/Need: to do her job/to know her place in the world, belong
C. Base Negative Emotion/Public Mask: fear of abandonment/strength and control
D. Weaknesses: fear for Mal, lack of self-worth
E. Triggers: fear
F. Coping Mechanism: using her power in knee-jerk reaction

Mal

A. Hope/Fear: to be powerful/that Alina is out of his reach
B. Want/Need: to keep Alina safe/to
C. Base Negative Emotion/Public Mask: worthless/tough guy
D. Weaknesses: feelings for Alina
E. Triggers: being forced to separate from Alina
F. Coping Mechanism: fighting

ASSIGNMENT 2 – TROUBLE

SCRAP

A. Situational – Hope/Fear: she can overcome curse/of her own power
B. Motivations – Want/Need: to find Ruby and Bardo/home and family
C. Mask – Base Negative Emotion/Public Mask: insecurity, helplessness/obstinate, doesn’t care about anything
D. Weaknesses: the curse, fear of containment,
E. Triggers: authority, loss of independence
F. Coping Mechanism: acting out,

RUBY & BARDO

A. Situational – Hope/Fear: to contain the curse/losing control
B. Motivations – Want/Need: to maintain the status quo/to save mankind
C. Mask – Base Negative Emotion/Public Mask: abandonment/doesn’t need anyone
D. Weaknesses: fondness for Scrap, failure to face reality and change
E. Triggers: aggression against nature
F. Coping Mechanism: avoidance, distraction, shape shifting

AGRIPPA

A. Situational – Hope/Fear: to be the head honcho/to be recognized
B. Motivations – Want/Need: power/to be admired
C. Mask – Base Negative Emotion/Public Mask:
D. Weaknesses: her belief that she is all-powerful/son Nancy/pet
E. Triggers: challenging her authority
F. Coping Mechanism: blaming, threatening

[David]

This was the most fun. Getting one season thread on paper is a great feeling. It helped me find a more definitive arc/direction/conclusion for one of my characters which is all I can ask for sometimes. I could have spent hours correlating this information, instead of by season I am probably going to break it down by character in each season too. But this is the first draft. This is the idea so Producers can get a feel for the vision. It can go in SO SO many directions.

Also, after watching the Queen’s Gambit I was amazed at how the writer organized the material into episodes by using a new character that would add to her life. Making a basic, flowing framework you can work inside for each episode season helps to string along with the ideas.

Episode 1 – First Kind

A UN employee witnesses a UFO in the act of abducting someone in public on the side of the road. She searches for a plausible “Earthly” explanation by asking her old friend in the Air Force (Lukas), a seasoned paranormal investigator (Jacob), and a college professor who investigates abduction reports to look at the information. All of the answers Rebecca uncovers do not reflect her experience. Rebecca starts to look for the person she witnessed getting abducted in order to finally understand the event.

Episode 2 – Second Kind

Paranormal investigator Jacob takes skeptical Rebecca to a reported UFO landing site that left physical trace evidence. They meet the caretaker of the land White Bear who shows them around and tells them about his encounters. USAF Lukas adds more information to his report on Jakob and plans a counterintelligence operation to discredit him. Julianne is told she is not pregnant anymore. Rebecca has her first dream.

Episode 3 – Third Kind

Rebecca and Jacob continue their investigation at the farm and find dozens of people who had paranormal encounters over the past week. Rebecca is still looking for a plausible terrestrial reason and Lukas confronts her that she should stop looking into the case. Julianne is mourning the loss of her unborn baby. White Bear introduces Rebecca and Jacob to the abductee she was searching for.

Episode 4 – Fourth Kind

The increased interest in the Farmland case means Lukas cannot protect Rebecca anymore and he includes her in his case reports. The abductee Elizabeth does not remember her missing time or abduction experience. Jacob calls Julianne to hypnotically regress Elizabeth to find out details of that night. The experience triggers Julianne and Rebecca to have traumatic dreams and memories.

Episode 5 – The Fifth Kind

Lukas continues to fall in love with Rebecca and requests to be taken off this project. Jakob confronts one of the agents who is feeding him secret information. While Julianne wakes up to find the signs of having been abducted and starts to try and recall the night before. Rebecca begins to have problems in her career because of the investigation.

Episode 6 – The Sixth Kind

The Farmland investigation is blown wide open when White Bear is discovered dead along with multiple farm animals. Rebecca gets strange messages that don’t have any meaning to her life. Jacob is physically and mentally attacked by an invisible entity leaving him hospitalized. Lukas gets Rebecca’s husband fired from his job.

Episode 7 – The Seventh Kind

Jacob and Julianne have very unusual sexual encounters and relationships emerge. Lukas finally tells Rebecca of his undying love for her and tries to start an affair.

Episode 8 – Circles

Julianne discovers she is pregnant again. Lukas kidnaps Elizabeth in order to gather information about the aliens and abductions. Rebecca discovers the kidnapping, thinking this is the terrestrial explanation she has been looking for, and confronts Lukas. Lukas is forced to show Rebecca an interrogation video of a transgenic being by the military. Jacob finds out that the material he just self-published is also made up of information by the Government.

[Emmanuel Sullivan]

Emmanuel Sullivan’s Episode Descriptions

What I learned doing this assignment is each episode must be engaging to the reader so that they want to come back for more, so it is important to only include items that will pique interest. Although this assignment was an interesting journey, I had a tough time, it made me think and rethink my framework.

Episode 1:

Mark, a former democrat president, and Andrew, a former republican president, celebrate their foundation’s 1st anniversary in a bipartisan affair at Mark’s home. While the party is in a festive mode, an affair transpires in a spare bedroom. A guest at the event records the affair and blackmails the party involved. Mark enlists his son to squash the tape, but that deal comes with an unusual request, that ultimately must be fulfilled by the former democrat leader of the free world.

Episode 2:

Andrew makes a bold move to fund the foundation’s upcoming payroll. His vice is gambling, and that includes any type, from poker, sports, dogs and horses, to good ol’ slots when he has money to spare. However, he is a former president, and to get in the action, he must go undercover. The risk is huge, but he manages to pull off making the payroll deadline, however, senior management is not happy because now they are forced to fix financial reporting documents, which could lead to legal questions.

Episode 3:

A routine IRS audit turns serious, partly from incomplete financial documents and the other, a questionable interview with Justice, the inexperienced, offspring CFO. Andrew and Mark pull political favors to no avail. Andrew devises a plan to alter the records, but Mark is strongly opposed. The foundation is still under financial pressure and the development team uses unusual methods to raise funds.

Episode 4:

The media camp out at 49:50’s front door demanding answers to the recent leaked IRS audit and current FBI investigation. Andrew directs his son, the CTO, to placate the media coverage. His attempts to quiet the media fail and Andrew devises a plan to mitigate the concerns, but his clever plan backfires when a former employee surfaces with a discrimination lawsuit.

Episode 5:

The foundation’s board calls an emergency meeting with Mark and Andrew and announces they all have resigned. They then call in the foundation’s senior management, the pair’s offspring, to announce an interim CEO to manage the damage. Andrew Jr is selected as interim CEO, but he resigns due to his father’s unrelenting pressure.

Episode 6:

The construction on the foundation’s new facility is behind schedule and Andrew is anxious to speed up the process. Mark, suggest they hire more crew, at a lower rate to save funds, and instructions his son Justice to locate a sizable crew and alter documents. The press learns of the illegal aliens and informs US immigration, who conducts a raid. Justice is charged with tampering with federal documents.

Episode 7:

Molly Brice discovers that Sarah Cason is having an affair with Andrew’s former VP. She uses this information to leverage control over the foundation’s interior design project. Sarah fights back by making a public announcement that she has an open marriage.

Episode 8:

The foundation’s staff morale swings to a new low due to inexperienced senior management. The two former presidents, serving as co-chairman, and with the board’s recommendation, hire a consulting firm to guide their offspring to correct past mismanagement and recommend a future course of action. With the generation alpha’s careers in jeopardy, will they survive or be replaced with an entirely new management team?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by  Emmanuel Sullivan.

[Daniel Melin]

Daniel Melin’s Episode Descriptions

What I learned doing this assignment is that breakthroughs come through at the least expected times. I had been thinking about how to make more effective use of my main characters and how to make my protagonist more active. As I wrote these descriptions, I realized that I had to give a lot of the capabilities and the experience I had assigned to one character to my protagonist, giving him a lot more history and force of will, so that he is a force to be reckoned with in the story.

Episode 1: A werewolf attacks someone in Levi’s hometown of Athens, Minnesota.

· When they go over to the dog’s body, they find that it is actually a teenage boy.

· Hook/Intrigue: A werewolf attacks!

· Main Character journey: Levi will have to admit that there are mysterious forces at work that he needs to defend himself from.

· Major Challenge/Conflict: Levi will need to get help in order to defend himself from what he thinks is a wild animal.

· Action/Reaction: The wolf attacks suddenly and Levi’s first reaction is to go to someone else for help.

· Cliffhanger: The body of a young boy has been found with the bullet from Miguel’s gun in him.

Levi is making his living as a bartender, but talks to a friend about coming to work for him as a construction worker. When Levi goes home, he hears someone being attacked in the parking lot, and sees that it is a wild dog. Levi runs in to grab his friend Miguel, who pulls a gun and shoots to scare the animal off. When the animal attacks, Miguel shoots the animal and it runs off. The next day, the police say they have found the body of a young boy, and the bullet matches Miguel’s gun.

Episode 2: Levi meets a newcomer at Clarence’s who has just moved into Eddie Halvorson’s old house.

· Hook/Intrigue: Levi meets a newcomer at Clarence’s.

· Main Character journey: Levi meets another person who has an interest in magic.

· Major Challenge/Conflict: Mark wants to know if Tom would be interested in pooling their resources.

· Action/Reaction: Mark asks Levi if he knows where the werewolf came from, and Levi lies, and says no.

· Cliffhanger: Levi goes to Everlasting Summer, and meets with Lizzie, with who he goes on a hunt with her pack of wolves.

Levi goes back to Clarence’s where a newcomer is smoking a cigar. The newcomer introduces himself as Mark, and Mark mentions that he has an interest in magic. Mark and Tom begin talking about the recent death, and Mark says he thinks that it was a werewolf. When Mark asks Tom if he has any idea where the werewolf might have come from, Levi says no. Later that night, Tom goes to Everlasting Summer, a fairy castle, through the mirror in his bedroom. There he greets Lizzie, the Queen of Everlasting Summer, and they go out on a hunt with a pack of wolves as hunting dogs.

Episode 3: Levi tells Mark about Lizzie and about his suspicions concerning Lizzie’s wolves. Levi sneaks into Everlasting Summer without Lizzie knowing.

· Hook/Intrigue: Levi now doesn’t trust Lizzie and gets advice from his new friend.

· Main Character journey: Levi has a crisis of conscience over his mentor’s values. After confiding in a new friend, he decides to start investigating his mentor’s home, looking for something that she may have hidden from him.

· Major Challenge/Conflict: He has to break into his mentor’s home, and see if he can find something without her knowing.

· Action/Reaction: The mentor that Levi thought he could trust seems to be meddling in something dark. Now he has to decide if his loyalties have been misplaced.

· Cliffhanger: Levi discovers a secret library in Everlasting Summer’s dungeons.

With Levi now thinking that his trust in his mentor, Lizzie, is misplaced, he goes to the only person he can trust on matters of magic for advice. Mark tells him to stick his courage to the post and break into Everlasting Summer to see what he can find about what Lizzie is up to. With Mark’s help, Levi makes a doorway into Everlasting Summer and sneaks into the dungeons where he finds a hidden library.

Episode 4: Levi learns that Lizzie and her husband took over Oberon and Titania’s fairy court years ago.

· Hook/Intrigue: Levi is about to learn the history of Lizzie and her husband.

· Main Character journey: Lizzie falls in love with a charismatic magician, and begins to learn magic herself, only to be betrayed by her lover.

· Major Challenge/Conflict: Lizzie tries to keep her husband loyal to her and have a child with him.

· Action/Reaction: When Lizzie loses her child, she decides to get revenge on him no matter what the cost.

· Cliffhanger: Lizzie takes over the court of Titania and Oberon.

Once inside Lizzie’s secret library, Levi learns the shocking history of how she came to rule Everlasting Summer. Lizzie was born 120 years ago in a small village in Southern England. She fell in love with a charismatic young man who was also a talented magician. Soon she began to learn magic too, but the young magician had a wandering eye and soon he left her. By that time, Lizzie had already conceived a child and had been disowned by her father, who was the reverend in their village. Lizzie searched all over for her lover, but was nowhere to be found. By the time her child was about to be born, she was wandering on a road in the dead of winter. The child was born in the middle of the storm, and was lost to the elements. Lizzie barely managed to survive herself, but swore revenge on her thoughtless lover. She studied magic obsessively until finally, she grew so powerful that she sought out the fairy king and queen: Oberon and Titania. She managed to overthrow the king and queen and set herself as the new ruler, naming their magical fortress Everlasting Summer as a permanent refuge against any heartbreak of the degree she had suffered on that desolate road where she had lost her newborn son.

Episode 5: Lizzie lures Miguel’s son Nick away to her pack so she can finally hunt down Mark. An enraged Miguel goes to Levi, who tells him what has happened.

· Hook/Intrigue: Lizzie has now gained a new member for her pack, Miguel’s son Nick.

· Main Character journey: Levi will now have to deal with the damage that his conflict with Lizzie has created for a friend of his.

· Major Challenge/Conflict: Levi has to justify himself to a friend, whose son is now in danger because of the conflict between himself, Lizzie and Louis.

· Action/Reaction: Miguel comes to Levi, furious, and on the verge of beating the hell out of him, and Levi has to defend himself and then tell Miguel the truth about the strange events that have led to Nick’s disappearance.

· Cliffhanger: Levi needs Miguel’s help if he is going to stop Lizzie.

Lizzie has now decided it’s time to flush her prey out, but she needs an addition to her pack. When she kidnaps Nick, the son of Levi’s friend and boss, Miguel, an enraged Miguel goes to Levi, thinking that Levi has convinced Nick to run off. Levi uses magic to defend himself against Miguel, and then tells him the truth about what has happened to Nick, but Miguel can scarcely believe what he is hearing.

Episode 6: Levi has to convince Miguel to help him rescue Nick and the other boys by confronting Lizzie. Miguel and Levi find Oberon’s staff hidden in Louis’s house.

Hook/Intrigue: Levi has to
convince his friend to help him fight Lizzie and rescue his son.
Main Character journey: Levi
goes with his friend to Louis’s house, to find what it is that they need
to finally confront their antagonist.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Levi
needs to convince Miguel to help him and find the talisman that will help
him confront Lizzie.
Action/Reaction: Now that
Miguel knows the truth about what happened to Nick, Levi has to convince
him to help him find a magical talisman.
Cliffhanger: Levi finds Mark’s
house ransacked and signs of claw marks from Lizzie’s wolfpack.

After telling Miguel the truth about what happened to his son, he convinces him to help him confront Lizzie and get Nick back. Before they do so, however, they need to find Oberon’s staff, a powerful talisman that will help them in their fight. Levi goes back to Mark’s house to tell him what has happened and ask for his help finding the staff, but they find his house ransacked and claw marks everywhere.

Episode 7: Levi and Miguel interrogate Robby. They find out that Robby has been working for Lizzie to flush Louis out of hiding.

· Hook/Intrigue: Mark has gone missing from his house, and there are signs of wolves having rampaged through his house.

· Main Character journey: Levi is going to have to discover how it is that his new friend is involved with the greater open loop of the story.

· Major Challenge/Conflict: Levi has to get the truth out of Mark’s fairy familiar, Robby.

· Action/Reaction: Lizzie has taken advantage of Levi’s absence to attack Mark, and now Levi has to forcefully interrogate the only person who might know what has happened.

· Cliffhanger: Mark is actually Louis, Lizzie’s unfaithful lover; Lizzie has flushed him out, and is now hunting him down.

After Levi and Miguel find Mark’s house looted, they catch Robby, Mark’s fairy familiar rooting through Mark’s belongings. Levi uses magic to trap and interrogate him. Robby confesses that he was actually working for Lizzie the whole time. It turns out that Mark is actually Louis, Lizzie’s lover who abandoned her years ago, and against who she has been seeking revenge for so long.

Episode 8: Levi confronts Lizzie and ends her enchantment. Someone new in town buys the Halvorson house.

· Hook/Intrigue: Levi now has the staff of Oberon and is about to face Lizzie.

· Main Character journey: Levi has to take everything that he has learned and face Lizzie for the final time, putting an end to her vendetta.

· Major Challenge/Conflict: Levi has to find a way to put an end to the curse that Lizzie has placed on Louis and the boys who are helping her hunt him down.

· Action/Reaction: Lizzie has gathered her wolves together for the final hunt, and now Levi will have to step in and stop her.

· Cliffhanger: Someone new has bought the Halvorson house.

Levi and Miguel make their way to Everlasting Summer together and track down Lizzie’s hunting party. Levi uses Oberon’s staff to turn the wolves back into young men before they can kill Louis, who is back in the shape of a deer. Levi has Lizzie at his mercy, but realizes that he can’t kill her without continuing the cycle of vengeance that she has started, so he hands the staff over to her, and tells her that she has to be merciful. Lizzie frees Louis and the boys from their curse, which causes Everlasting Summer to evaporate. Weeks later, a stranger has arrived in town and has bought the Halvorson house.

[Renee Brown]

Renee Brown’s Episode Descriptions

What I learned in this lesson is to not be too attached to the form of this first draft. Just get the basics down.

First season episodes – Renee Brown’s Alien Earth

Episode 1: It arrives

A strange planet appears between earth and mars. As humanity spins into chaos, Dauntus uses the distraction to initiate his plan – world domination. Tallas rallies the other pro-human alien factions to prepare for Dauntus’ coup.

Tallas has finally reached Steelman, telling him of Dauntus’ plan when… all communication devices on earth go black. Internet, phones, satellites, radios, Times Square…gone.

Then, the booming voice of Dauntus. The terrifying scowl of his face on everything – “Humans. Continue looking to the sky for your salvation. But now you pray to me.”

Episode 2: The Skyfliers Coup

Defying his father, Anauk gets the world communication links back online and re-cloaks the new planet. Steelman unleashes the alien cover-up propaganda machine to manage the escalating worldwide chaos – It was an elaborate hoax by a genius hacker.

Steelman flies to the Skyflier city to manage Dauntus. While there, the Alien UN calls an emergency meeting on the dark side of the moon. Dauntus does not let the delegate ships pass, and Steelman must threaten Dauntus that his supply of ? will be cut off if he does not comply.

Dauntus concedes then shows Steelman the X planet. Steelman tries to get intel on X Planet inhabitants. Dauntus says: you’ll know soon enough.

Episode 3: The propaganda machine meets Suzanne

Suzanne shows her colleagues images she captured of the X Planet. They could not have been hacked. She points out the huge booster ports and claims it is a big ship planet. She is laughed out of the room.

Suzanne goes to big networks with her footage, but they try to debunk her — each according to their political leanings. Steelman is watching Suzanne on TV when a summons comes in from Tallas.

Steelman travels to the underground world to find Anauk and Tallas waiting for him. Tallas is taking Steelman with him to the Alien UN meeting, but Tallas must first disguise Steelman as a longhead – humans are not allowed.

Episode 4: Black Market mission to the new planet

Now disguised as a Longhead, Steelman travels with Tallas and Anauk to the Alien base on the dark side of the moon where the AUN threatens to banish the Skyfliers for Dauntus’ coup. They demand that Dauntus unblocks the X Planet’s communications.

Steelman spots his recently disappeared longhead lover, Spector, in the crowd of delegates. As he tries to make his way to her, the first visuals come on screen from the X Planet. The newcomers are…

Episode 5: Homecoming

Alien UN: Tallas steps forth as the first images of the X planet fill the screens. He stares into the eyes of another Longhead. The ancient Longhead origin planet has arrived.

Steelman finds Spector, pulls her into a side room and yanks off his disguise. Just as their reunion gets steamy, Steelman realizes there is something between them – her belly. Spector is pregnant with Steelman’s child.

On the X Planet, Tallas arrives and meets with the New Longhead Council. He tells them about the fabricated prophecy, that he is still fabricating it, and that, remarkably, X planet just fulfilled one of the false prophecy signposts.

Episode 6: Two murdered mothers

Dauntus and Anauk stand in Skyflier City looking at the X Planet. Dauntus sneers “Your just like your mother” and makes a veiled threat that if Anauk is not careful he will suffer the same fate.

Reeling with the knowledge that his father killed his mother, Anauk flies deep into the ocean trench world of the Deepers to hang out with Saltar. As always, Saltar tries to seduce her way to access the DSOM. But Anauk is here for friendship, not romance.

He hints that his mother was murdered and Saltar reveals that her mother was also murdered. Saltar gets a close look at Anauk’s broken wing and says she can fix it with Deeper Biotech. But this will come at a price.

Episode 7: Academic no more

Suzanne gets a fiery brick through her window with a death threat attached. Suzanne rushes to the door- there is a mob outside. Reporters, protestors, the whole thing.

Suzanne is kidnapped by a group from the mob. These turn out to be black ops and she is disappeared into Steelman’s top-secret world where he educates her about alien earth.

Suzanne doesn’t know if she is being played, mocked, or about to be killed. Steelman ushers her to an elevator. It takes them deep underground. The doors open on a room with a single occupant: Tallas. He asks, “Are you ready to begin?”

Episode 8: Blowing up the moon base

Steelman learns elite humans plan to blow up the alien base on the DSOM. Steelman tries to talk them down, but the plan is made – the Elites fear alien unification.

Steelman rallies Tallas to meet with the Elites. Tallas convinces them that they would not kill the head of the snake but would start a war they cannot win.

The Elites stand down, but reveal they installed a dead man’s switch in the base during construction. They can blow it up at moment’s notice and will if Dauntus pulls another stunt like that. Steelman can’t let that happen. Spector is on that base, with his unborn hybrid child.

Episode 9: The Steelman legacy and the lost beauty

Steelman and Suzanne examine some ancient artifact. Suzanne makes a reference to her father and his helping support. She pries for personal connection with Steelman – asks him about family.

Flashback to 1990’s. Young Steelman happy and in love, escorts his new wife to his father’s doorstep. His father urgently pulls him in for some confidential talk and tells Steelman’s wife to wait on the porch.

His wife wanders through the garden instead, looking at the beautiful rose bushes. Steelman’s father rushes out onto the porch with Steelman and screams for her not to move. Too late. His young bride has stepped into a trap set for another. Both Steelmans watch helplessly as she is blown to bits.

Back to present: Steelman simply tells Suzanne that he and his father are strictly business.

Episode 10: Little orphan Ephyra

Saltar is in her deep-sea farm with her hatchlings playing around her. She is summoned to the Reptilisander council and shown her mother’s corpse. She will take over her mother’s leadership.

Saltar reels and refuses. The council starts killing her hatchlings by sea banishment until she agrees. She watches her youngest through the bio glass as it is torn away by the current. Saltar falls to her knees and complies.

The current carries the baby hatchling to Tallas’ water’s edge cave. His grudge against the Deepers tempts him to leave the thing for dead, but his respect for life wins out and he picks up the little Deeper. The hatchling stares up at him with desperate eyes.

Season Finale Episode 11: Dad’s here, and he brought company

Steelman takes Suzanne to the deep sea trench Deeper city where they are received by Saltar. She gives Suzanne a relic- a half skull with a chunk of ancient tech lodged in it. Saltar tells them if they can find the other half of the skull, they will find the true destroyers of the Starfinder.

Tallas Delivers his newfound hatchling to the oldest Deeper Caves under Antarctica. He names her Ephyra. He hands Ephyra over to the high priest mothers to train her mind in the Longhead traditions.

Anauk makes a deal with Saltar for access to the DSOM base in exchange for repairing his broken wing.

Steelman finds out his father led the plan to destroy the moon base. He confronts his father at Elite Human HQ. But his father has brought company – The leader of the new alien on the block: The Greys.

[Sherri Coffee]

Sherri D. Coffee Module 2 Lesson 5 Episode Descriptions

Episode 1:

Hook/Intrigue: Sam hands a box to the housekeeper and asks her to provide to Grace if anything should happen to him.

Main Character Journey: Grace finally found love later in life but her happiness is short lived when Sam is diagnosed with cancer.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Grace must support Sam while trying to process her own grief and fear of abandonment.

Action/Reaction: When Sam slips into a coma, his estranged son arrives to take over his fathers’ affairs.

Cliffhanger: Sam’s son begins the process of ousting Grace from Sam’s life.

Grace and Sam finally find love late in life but their happiness is cut short when Sam is diagnosed with cancer. When Sam slips into a coma, his estranged son arrives to take over his fathers’ affairs. As Grace tries to process her grief, Carlton the son begins the process of ousting her from Sam’s life.

Episode 2:

Hook/Intrigue: As a successful hedge fund manager, why does Carlton need to gain control of his father’s affairs?

Major Character Journey: When Grace finds out that Carlton has taken steps to oust her from Sam’s life, she launches her own investigation.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Sam completed his will with Grace on his accounts but did not complete the process to have her name placed on their apartment. Carlton pays an attorney to find the loop hole and proceeds to have her evicted.

Action/Reaction: When Grace finds out she is about to be evicted, she panics and pushes her attorney to find out why this is happening.

Cliffhanger: Grace is served eviction papers and she receives a call from her attorney warning her of danger.

Grace does not understand why Carlton, a successful hedge fund manager, wants to oust her from Sam’s life. She launches her own investigation to find out why. When she is served eviction papers, her attorney warns her of danger.

Episode 3:

Hook/Intrigue: What information places Grace in danger?

Main Character Journey: Grace is trying to process her grief as she is moving to another home. She is confused.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Grace cannot say goodbye to Sam before she must vacate their apartment.

Action/Reaction: Carlton also places guards at the hospital to forbid Grace from seeing Sam.

Grace meets her attorney and receives some disturbing information.

Cliffhanger: As Grace arrives at her new home, she narrowly escapes being killed and is saved by the psychic next door who transports her to her past life.

Grace must leave the home she shared with Sam. She tries to visit him but is kept out by the bodyguards that Carlton has hired. A meeting with her attorney reveals the information that places her in danger. She leaves the office with a plan but is disrupted by an attempt on her life. She is saved by the psychic next door who transports her to her past life.

Episode 4:

Hook/Intrigue: Grace wakes up in 1884 at a Brooklyn home with her Mother (the psychic who saved her) married to a dying politician. As a second family, they will receive a meager sum and be forced to find another place to live.

Main Character Journey: Grace is an actress and wonders how she will support them.

Action/Reaction: They find new flat in NYC and manage the limited resources. Grace attends theatre auditions. Her mother tries to find work as a seamstress. They are robbed and lose most of their money. Desperate, Grace considers a man’s proposal may be the only way to survive.

Cliffhanger: Grace catches the eye of Augustin Daly at an audition. Does she get an offer? When will Grace and Sam meet?

Grace and her mother are forced to leave their home in Brooklyn and find a flat in NYC. To support them, Grace tries to audition for the leading Theatre ensemble groups. After being robbed, she is forced to consider a man’s proposal since it may be the only way to survive.

Episode 5:

Hook/Intrigue: Grace is asked to join the Daly ensemble cast but quickly finds out she has a lot to learn.

Main Character Journey: Grace must navigate the challenging society rules and the Daly theatre rules to establish her place in the theatre.

Action/Reaction: Opening night Grace forgets her lines. She is saved by a stage hand. Crowd gives standing ovation asking for her but she is already changing for the next act. She throws on a shawl and stands behind the curtain.

Cliffhanger: As Grace glances upward, Sam is in the proscenium box smiling with approval. How will they reconnect?

Grace gets the attention of Augustin Daly and joins the prestigious theatre group. She turns down the man’s proposal and is met with anger and threats. Opening night she upstages the star and discovers Sam in the audience.

Episode 6:

Hook/Intrigue: What is she supposed to find out?

Main Character Journey: Grace remembers Sam but has significant obstacles to keep them apart.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Courtship in 1884. Sam’s family reputation. Grace lack of money.

Action/Reaction: Sam asks to court Grace and is denied the opportunity. He persists and her mother tests his sincerity.

Cliffhanger: Sam plans to propose but his plans fail.

Sam tries to open up a proper courtship with Grace but he is rejected by her mother. He persistently tries by attending all her performances and providing a carriage for her and her mother to return home safely after the performance. Her mother finally allows a proper courtship but has doubts.

Episode 7:

Hook/Intrigue: Will Sam propose and will she accept?

Main Character journey: Grace wants to marry Sam but she has never been properly introduced to his family leading her to believe that he is not serious.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Sam proposes, she accepts, but then she reads in the paper that he is engaged to another woman?

Action/Reaction: The paper has a story about Sam being engaged to another woman. Grace asks politely and receives a vague explanation. Grace theatre group laughs at the idea that she would marry Sam calling him a stage door johnny. Daly theatre group is traveling to Europe to perform for the first time.

Cliffhanger: Grace and her mother are aboard the ship deck and wait for Sam to see them off but he never comes. She sails to Europe knowing she has been duped.

Grace and Sam have a rocky courtship with several elements against them. The Daly company prepares to travel abroad. Sam does not show up to see Grace leave.

Episode 8:

Hook/Intrigue: Sam has decided that he desperately wants to marry Grace but he cannot convince his family to approve.

Main Character Journey: Grace loves the theatre and immerses herself in her role and the European culture.

Main Challenge/Conflict: Sam cables Grace and she will not reply believing that he is insincere. Sam’s family will not approve of the marriage.

Action/Reaction: Prince of Wales attends performance and invites Grace to dinner. News of the invite reach the American papers. Sam is more determined that ever to set sail for Europe.

Cliffhanger: Sam boards ship for Europe.

Sam tries to cable Grace and she ignores since she believes he is insincere. Sam’s family refuses to provide their blessing on the marriage. Grace catches the eye of the Prince of Wales. Sam boards a ship to Europe to win Grace again.

what I learned is that it will definitely take several edits to produce a BW season!

[Barbara Gilmore]

What I learned was it’s coming together but will not be perfect…

Green Lake

Season 1: Welcome Back

Episode 1 It’s Not Pretty

Jess arrives in town to help Sheriff Moore solve a murder and disappearance case similar in MO to that of her brother’s five years earlier.

· Jess is called to a case. We see that it’s three local people (Steve and Anna are murdered and Luke Smith has disappeared) but we don’t know the perpetrator(s) or the reason why.

· Jess realizes this crime scene has the same MO as her brother’s disappearance five years before.

· Jess is returning to the town where she used to summer vacation with her parents and brother.

· Jess checks into the town’s notoriously haunted bed & breakfast run by Peg and Pat Johnson. Is not afraid to confront ghosts of the past.

· Jess receives an update on the case: Nick Beresford who discovered the bodies is caught on video surveillance tailing Steve, Anna, and Luke. Case closed?

Episode 2 Important Reconnections

Jess reconnects with the town and Sarah.

· Jess interviews Nick Beresford about his involvement in the case.

· Jess begins to look into her brother’s case with the help of Sheriff Moore.

· Jess must confront the past: she hasn’t been back to the town in five years and drops by to see Sarah.

· Jess is pleasantly surprised by Sarah’s warm reception.

· Jess finds out that Sarah had been secretly dating Luke Smith before his disappearance.

Episode 3 The Antisocial Network

Jess’ secret hacking skills uncover a trafficking network that may or may not be connected to the current case and the one five years ago.

· Jess continues to investigate the cases.

· Jess rules out Nick Beresford’s involvement in the murder and disappearance after he confesses that he knew about Sarah’s involvement with Luke and that’s why he was following them but he had no reason to kill anyone and there’s no evidence he did.

· Jess wonders whether Sarah is a serial cheater

· As Jess digs into her brother’s disappearance, she uncovers what looks like a Trafficking website on the Dark Web with Green Lake as its hub.

· Jess decides to stake out a Trail Head being used by the Traffickers as a handoff location.

Episode 4 In The Dark

Jess works to find out who is behind the trafficking network.

· Jess is shocked to see Captain Anderson appear at the Trafficking handoff location.

· Jess looks back at her brother’s case to see whether Captain Anderson was involved.

· Jess uncovers the Sheriff’s and Captain Anderson’s history with her brother’s case.

· Jess can’t decide whether to confront Captain Anderson about his involvement in her brother’s case.

· Jess confronts Captain Anderson who confesses to being on an undercover mission.

Episode 5 Now I Know Why

· Jess checks up on Captain Anderson’s claim to undercover to find out that he’s not.

· Jess uncovers Sheriff Moore’s little black book of actual crime statistics not the reported crime statistics.

· Jess is struggling for breakthroughs in her case and begins to suspect that Captain Anderson and Sheriff Moore are deeply involved in the Trafficking Network.

· Jess asks Sarah out for a drink to catch up on old times and in the hope that Sarah will divulge some of the town’s secrets.

· Jess has another visitor at Pat and Peg’s.

Episode 6 Green versus Black Gold

Sarah clashes with the local oil producers who are pushing back on her green energy initiatives.

· Jess uncovers some interesting information when Jane Smith walks into the Station demanding to know what they are doing to find her son, Luke.

· Jess searches for a connection between Captain Anderson and Dave Smith.

· Jess drops by to ask Sarah what she remembers about the day that Adam disappeared.

· Jess realizes that everyone is a suspect.

· Jess asks Sarah to visit her at Peg and Pat’s for a seance.

Episode 7 A New Chapter

After weeks of tension, Jess and Sarah spend the night together.

Jess and Sarah spend the night together.

· Jess believes she knows who is involved in the recent case but how to prove it.

· Jess enlists the help of Sheriff Moore.

· Jess wonders if Sheriff Moore will turn informant on Captain Anderson and the Traffickers.

· Jess gets a call: another murder different MO – it’s Steve Beresford.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by  Barbara Gilmore.

[Norene Smiley]

NORENE SMILEY MOD 2- LESSON 5: EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS

What I learned doing this assignment: Trying to think of the HOOK for this. I realize most of the previous assignments have been helping me work my way through the story, thinking sideways and looking for new possibilities. Now the Hook, brainstorming the thing that might make it interesting to others, other than me. More work needed, for sure.

EPISODE 1:

Hook: The Keep, steeped in superstition and mystery. Guardian Bardo is about to kill Scrap to defuse and ancient prophesy, but he can’t go through with it. When he rescued her as an infant, he gave her a mechanical heart. Scrap learns she is destined to be instrument that will end of the world.

Main Character Journey: Scrap using skills learned in the Keep. She invents Fidget (part cockroach/part machine) but he is defective. Scrap goes into a snit, revealing she is not in control of herself; signs that she hasn’t been for awhile. She practices self control under Bardo’s tutelage to calm her increasingly unpredictable outbursts, but it is hard. Old issues of resentment and feelings of abandonment rise up. She hears a voice in her head urging her to become her own true self, throw off all the restrictions.

Main Challenge/Conflict: Signs that the wards and charms protecting the Keep are under stress and failing; the whole Keep is uneasy; Scrap in rebellion has neglected to secure the fortifications.

Action/Reaction: Machines attack the Keep; Scrap helps Bardo/protect hide the collection.

Cliffhanger: Scrap causes an explosion which forces the machines back and propels her out of the refuge Keep.

EPISODE 1 DESCRIPTION: The Keep

The Keep, steeped in superstition and mystery. Bardo is about to kill the darkling orphan Scrap to defuse the prophesy, but he can’t go through with it. He expresses his regret that his actions have put an ancient prophesy in motion. When he rescued her as an infant, he gave her a mechanical heart, crossing a line in the uneasy relationship between humans and machines. Scrap learns she is destined to be instrument that will end of the world. She is frustrated and put upon, not feeling too positive about herself. or others.

Scrap using skills learned in the Keep – problem solving, agility, understanding mechanics and elements of the natural world. She experiments, inventing Fidget (part cockroach/part machine) under Bardo’s watchful eye. Something is not right though, Fidget is unreliable. Scrap goes into a snit, revealing she is not in control of herself; signs that she hasn’t been for awhile, impacting her relationship with Bardo. She practices self control under Bardo’s tutelage to calm her increasingly unpredictable outbursts, but it is hard. Old issues of resentment and feelings of abandonment rise up. She hears a voice in her head urging her to become her own true self, throw off all the restrictions.

Signs that the wards and charms protecting the Keep are under stress and failing; the whole Keep is uneasy; Scrap in rebellion has neglected to secure the fortifications. Bardo’s disappointment in her and alarm that Scrap is becoming someone/something that he can no longer control.. She questions her own abilities and pushes back when Bardo attempts to help her.

Machines attack the Keep; Scrap helps Bardo/protect hide the collection. Scrap is overtaken with fear and anger, causing an explosion which forces the machines back and propels her out of the refuge Keep.

EPISODE 2:

Hook: Scrap and Fidget are on the run in the dangerous mechanical city of Tranquil. Machines, the clamour, nothing natural. One wrong step could be fatal. Diving under a on its way to Pleasure Domes, Scrap and Fidget try not to be noticed.

Main Character Journey: Fidgets more and more unreliable. Scrap has to rely on herself. She needs is trying to get back to the Keep but she is dazed and jittery. Escalating mishaps and accidents seem to plague her wherever she goes. What is causing them? The voice in her head is more persistent, driving her to take more chances, cause more discord.

Main Challenge/Conflict: Scrap sees what happens to anomalies n this environment. They are quickly and efficiently dispatched. Scrap has been noticed. Her presence alone has caused a fissure in the smooth surface of Tranquil. She is being hunted by robotic enforcers. What do they want with her?

Action/Reaction: Street waif Toodie tries to steal Fidget from Scrap; Scrap flies into a rage but manages to control it. Toodie offers to lead her to relative safety of the Shades, back alley dwellers.

Cliffhanger: Will Scrap be safe from the night crawlers? Can she trust Toodie and the leader of the Shades, one-eyed Sorry?

EPISODE 2 DESCRIPTION: CITY OF TRANQUIL

Bang! Scrap and Fidget almost get swept up in a street cleaning omnibus. They are on the run in the dangerous Outside world of the mechanical city of Tranquil. It couldn’t be more different than The Keep. Machines busily at work, the clamour, the perfection of a glaring blue sky, and not an iota of anything natural in the whole urban landscape. One wrong step could be fatal. Diving under a caterpillar-like commuter train loaded humans revelling on their way to Pleasure Domes, Scrap and Fidget have to navigate countless obstacles and relentless machines, trying not to be noticed.

Fidget’s workings are flashing on and off, making him unreliable as a navigational tool. Scrap has to compensate and rely on herself. She needs to concentrate on how to get back to the Keep but this noisy alien world has left her dazed and jittery. If that isn’t enough, escalating mishaps and accidents seem to plague her wherever she goes. What is causing them? Is it the curse? The voice in her head is more persistent, driving her to take more chances, cause more discord.

Scrap sees what happens to anomalies n this environment. They are quickly and efficiently dispatched. It soon becomes obvious that Scrap has been noticed. Her presence alone has caused a fissure in the smooth surface of Tranquil. She is being hunted by robotic enforcers. What do they want with her?

A street waif Toodie tries to steal Fidget from Scrap; Scrap flies into a rage but manages to control it. Toodie offers to lead her to relative safety of the Shades, back alley dwellers.

Will Scrap be safe from the night crawlers? Can she trust Toodie and the leader of the Shades, one-eyed Sorry?

EPISODE 3:

Hook: Warned by Fidget, Scrap narrowly avoids the collapse of a bridge. Disruptions everywhere. Enforcers are on to Scrap’s location.

Main Character Journey: Scrap joins the Shades, stealing and foraging.

Main Challenge/Conflict: Scrap is perceived to be bad luck and a danger to the Shades security by some.

Action/Reaction: Machines invade the warren, to hunt and destroy, not capture. Shades are forced further underground. Scrap saves Toodie.

Cliffhanger: Scrap and Toodie trying to blend in with a crowd of dazed humans, watching an animatronic puppet show. Children in the crowd are taken away by clown-like robots. Fidget sounds the alarm before Scrap and Toodie are nearly scooped up.

EPSIODE 3 DESCRIPTION: THE SHADES

Warned by Fidget, Scrap narrowly avoids the collapse of a bridge. The mounting number of disruptions everywhere Scrap goes are alerting the enforcers to her location. Using her agility and ability to problem solve, Scrap joins the Shades as they move unnoticed like rats through the city, stealing and foraging. Sometimes she thinks she sees Bardo but it must be just wishful thinking.

Scrap is perceived to be bad luck and a danger to the Shades security by some. The hostility amps up and alerts the patrolling machines. Machines invade the warren with little regard for life and limb. They are on a mission to hunt and destroy, not capture. Surviving Shades to are forced further underground. Scrap saves Toodie from the sweep only moments before the alley is sealed and disinfected with poison.

Scrap and Toodie the hide inside an amusement park, trying to blend in with a crowd of dazed humans, watching an animatronic puppet show. Children in the crowd are systematically lured away by clown-like robots without their parents noticing. Fidget sounds the alarm before Scrap and Toodie are nearly scooped up.

EPISODE 4:

Hook: Children are disappearing throughout the city, No one cares. There are rumours that they have been taken to the Institute for Child Protection. Advertisements promote the benefits of the Institute and Agrippa Chafe, the matron, is hailed as a saviour. Parents give up their offspring to the Institute’s care.

Main Character Journey: Scrap wonders if the Institute would be the home she has always wanted. Hoodie and Fidget are leery and convince her otherwise. They watch the Institute, noticing children go in and never come out. Only a gang of toughs, seem to have the freedom to roam beyond the Institute’s gates.

Main Challenge/Conflict: The leader of the gang, Nancy, is mean and vindictive, making life miserable. Scrap does not get involved to help those he is bullying, to avoid him taking notice of her. The voice tells her to mind her own business.

Action/Reaction: But when she sees him abusing a small gang member, she has to step in and confront him, making Scrap a target for his cruelty.

Cliffhanger: Toodie disappears without a trace. What happened to her?

EPISODE 4 DESCRIPTION: WHERE HAVE ALL THE CHILDREN GONE?

Children are disappearing throughout the city and no one seems to care. There are rumours that they have been taken to the Institute for Child Protection. Advertisements promote the benefits of the Institute and how much better the city will run if families are relieved of raising their own children. The Institute is touted as warm, welcoming, lots of wonderful toys and food. It looks like a wonderland. And Agrippa Chafe, the adored and motherly matron, is hailed as a saviour. Parents seem convinced and routinely deliver their offspring to the Institute’s care.

Scrap wonders if the Institute would be the home she has always yearned for but her natural survival instincts soon dissuade her. Hoodie and Fidget are leery and convince her that something smells rotten. They keep an eye on the comings and goings from the Institute. They notice how many children go in and none ever come out. Only a gang of toughs, seem to have the freedom to roam beyond the Institute’s gates.

The leader of the gang, Nancy, is mean and vindictive, bullying others, intimidating humans and machines and making life miserable. At first Scrap does not intercede to help the others to avoid him taking notice of her. The voice tells her to mind her own business. But when she sees him abusing a small gang member, she has to step in and confront him, making Scrap a target for his cruelty.

Toodie disappears without a trace. What happened to her?

EPISODE 5:

Hook: Scrap is terrified that something bad has happened to Toodie and is filled with anxiety. She has to find her.

Main Character Journey: Scrap and Fidget learn more about the machines and the controlled, rigid culture of Tranquil. They long for natural things and Bardo. The persistent voice in Scrap’s head is driving her crazy.

Main Challenge/Conflict: Nancy’s vendetta against Scrap increases until she retaliates channeling her power, scaring him off.

Action/Reaction: Scrap witnesses children being unearthed by machines and puts herself in jeopardy to save them. She causes a distraction enabling the children to be whisked away by the Shades.

Cliffhanger: Scrap and Fidget are chased through the night streets, only avoiding capture by jumping aboard a supply trolley headed inside a Pleasure Dome.

EPISODE 5 DESCRIPTION: The Mechanized City

The voice tells Scrap to forget Toodie. But Scrap is terrified that something bad has happened and is filled with anxiety. She has to find her.

In their search, Scrap and Fidget learn more about the workings of the machines and the culture of Tranquil, where everything, even the climate is controlled and rigid precision is expected, otherwise someone/something will pay. It is foreign to them and they long for natural things and Bardo, who’s calm guidance looks better and better the longer they are away from the Keep. The persistent voice in Scrap’s head is driving her crazy. Would it be easier to just let it take over? No, she resolves to find Toodie if it is the last thing she does.

Nancy’s vendetta against Scrap increases until she retaliates channeling her power, scaring him off, and giving him a weapon to use against her. Scrap now has the clown machines from the Institute searching for her.

Scrap witnesses a nest of back alley children being unearthed by machines and puts herself in jeopardy to save them. She causes a distraction enabling the children to be whisked away by the Shades.

Scrap and Fidget are chased through the night streets only avoiding capture by jumping aboard a supply trolley headed inside a Pleasure Dome.

EPISODE 6:

Hook: Scrap slowly comes awake. She is in a fog from the powerful mesmerizer, Juice, used to keep humans happy. They find themselves inside a Pleasure Dome.

Main Character Journey: Scrap is treated like a toy by humans who live in a constant state of delirious pleasure. Scrap feels distain for beings that are willing to be pacified and pampered, with no control other themselves.

Main Challenge/Conflict: Scrap discovers the ugly truth about the Pleasure Domes. They are farms for babies. But no one listens to her, everyone willing to be herded by recreation facilitators.

Action/Reaction: Fidget and Scrap intercept orders that point to a plan to cull the human population in the Dome. A fully machine-controlled city looks to be unavoidable. They have to get out of there and leave the humans behind.

Cliffhanger: A small group of resistance fighters infiltrate the Dome to save humans. Scrap is extracted by Bardo and invited to join the resistance, planning to depose the rule by machines.

EPISODE 6 DESCRIPTION: THE PLEASURE DOME

Scrap slowly comes awake. She is in a fog. Fidget has been valiantly trying to rouse her. The trolley was stocked with the powerful mesmerizer, Juice. Crawling out from the depot, they find themselves inside a Pleasure Dome.

When discovered, Scrap is treated like a toy by humans who live in a constant state of delirious pleasure. Nothing is real in the Pleasure Dome, where nature, animals and plants are illusions. Scrap feels distain for beings that are willing to be pacified and pampered, with no control other themselves. It reinforces Scrap’s desire to be independent and find her own true self.

Scrap discovers the ugly truth about the Pleasure Domes. They are farms. What are they farming? Babies. When Scrap tries to tell the humans what the machines intend, no one listens to her. Even when the tension within her builds and cracks start to appear in the dome, the humans carry on, willing to be herded by recreation facilitators.

Nature vs machines. Fidget and Scrap intercept orders that point to a plan to cull the human population in the Dome. How can they stop it? Who will even pay attention?A fully machine-controlled city looks to be unavoidable. They have to get out of there and leave the humans behind.

A small group of resistance fighters infiltrate the Dome to save humans. Scrap is extracted by Bardo and invited to join the resistance, planning to depose the rule by machines.

EPISODE 7:

Hook: Scrap and Fidget are part of the underground resistance. Scrap finds herself abandoned to save herself as the other resistance fighters leave her open to capture. She barely escapes.

Main Character Journey: Scrap does not know who to trust and realizes she can only really rely on herself. Despite Bardo’s support. the resistance fighters are uneasy around her.

Main Challenge/Conflict: The battle between machines and the resistance is coming to a head. Central Control now under high alert. Scrap is the #1 enemy of the state. Scrap’s presence puts the resistance movement in danger.

Action/Reaction: Scrap is asked to join a suicide mission. She will be a sitting duck while the others attack Control Central.

Cliffhanger: Toodie reappears to scout for the resistance. How did she escape the fate of the other children in the Institute?

EPISODE 7 DESCRIPTION: ONE DISASTER AFTER ANOTHER

Scrap and Fidget are part of the underground resistance, scouting weaknesses in the machine’s regime. Again Scrap finds herself abandoned to save herself as the other resistance fighters leave her open to capture on the latest mission. She barely escapes.

Scrap does not know who to trust and realizes she can only really rely on herself. She is disillusioned and angry. She feels like an outsider. Despite Bardo’s support. the resistance fighters are uneasy around her.

The battle between machines and the resistance is coming to a head, with the machines looking to be victorious. Central Control now under high alert. Scrap is the #1 enemy of the state. Some feel that Scrap’s presence puts the resistance movement in danger.

In a last attempt to change the direction of the fight, Scrap is asked to join a suicide mission. She will be used as a decoy to concentrate the machines’ focus, while the other fighters attack Control Central. Her increasingly negative energy activates more and more destruction and more resentment.

In the middle of the mission, Toodie reappears to scout for the resistance. Where has she been? Scrap thought she was dead. How did she escape the fate of the other children in the Institute?

EPISODE 8:

Hook: Scrap is a liability and infighting in the resistance ranks make her position there untenable

Main Character Journey: Scrap not only has to avoid the machines and enemies in the resistance, she increasingly has to keep the power that is seething within her under wraps. It seems impossible.

Main Challenge/Conflict: After a blow up with Bardo, she leaves the resistance. Toodie insists on going with her.

Action/Reaction: Scrap and Toodie are again easy prey for Nancy and his roaming gang. Scrap and Toodie are faster and wilier and it looks like they will get away.

Cliffhanger: They are corralled into a dead end alley where Agrippa and her henchmen are waiting. Just when all is lost, the street opens up and hands snatch the children into the underbelly of the city, Turbine.

EPISODE 8 DESCRIPTION: ON THE RUN

After the assault on Central Control fails, Scrap is considered a liability and infighting in the resistance ranks make her position there untenable. She not only has to avoid the machines and enemies in the resistance, she increasingly has to keep the power that is seething within her under wraps. It seems impossible.

After a disagreement with Bardo, she leaves the resistance. Toodie insists on going with her. With no fixed plans, Scrap and Toodie are again easy prey for Nancy and his roaming gang of bullies terrorizing the streets. But Scrap and Toodie are faster and wilier, using the rooftops and skyways to allude them.

It looks like they will get away, until they forced to street level and come to a dead end on the construction site of the Museum of Fabrication where Agrippa and her henchmen are waiting. Just when all is lost, the ground opens up and hands snatch the children into the underbelly of the city, Turbine.

[Molly Gagnon]

Module 2 lesson 5

Molly McNeal/ Carrington Manor

What I learned during this assignment is that the outline really helps shape the episode so that it can be clearly communicated to other people. The vision begins to come together.

Rough Draft for Episodes

Episode 1

Shot of skeleton key on Gwenn’s key chain as she bends over and the keys fall out of her scrubs. Shot of black and white cameras filming FBI as they run through the halls of the skilled nursing facility.

One year prior Gwenn is getting orientated to the facility as she finds the building falling apart and the patients run down. The messages from the company are that everything is fine! This is the best possible care anyone can get!

Gwenn meets her coworkers who are quirky and interesting. Her boss is hard to read, is she straight or gay? Her mother is demented and clearly she is there to help her. Gwenn goes to help her coworker off the clock and is chased out of the building by a dog? Will she return to this awful work place?

Episode 2

Gwenn sees her first patient who appears dead. Gwenn realizes that rehabbing these patients is going to be harder than it looks, and it looks bad. She is faced with fraudulently billing medicare and medicaid in order to keep up with her work load, she is a people pleaser and desperate for money. She begins to justify her actions.

She asks her boss for advice who tells her if she doesn’t bill the minutes assigned they will replace her. She begins to justify her actions and fraudulently bill. Her mother calls her to come over and help, she is demented and Gwenn wants to take over her care. She says she will sign over the Power of Attorney, but instead gives her the will of her house cat. Gwenn answers a phone call later, it is an emergency, she must return to her mothers.

Episode 3

Gwenn is at her mothers house speaking to Adult Protective Services, they seem perplexed that this smart woman left her burner on and set down a book that caught the stove on fire! Gwenn let’s them know technically she can’t do anything she does not have the POA, but thanks for letting her know.

Gwenn returns to work and gets called into Terry’s office. She is offered a full time position at Carrington Manor. Gwenn, hopeless and desperate, accepts the job. Terry begins to sexually harras Gwenn in that uncomfortable, but you must be a lesbian way. While seeing a patient Gwenn overhears Dr Roger Rogers talking dirty to a nurse who is breathing heavily. Gwenn leaves uncomfortably, leaves to pick up her keys, they have a strange skeleton key on the key ring, she asks Terry what it is she doesn’t know so she puts the key in her bosses desk. Gwenn looks up to see a security camera following her.

Episode 4

Gwenn again confronts Terry about her schedule being too heavy, and she confesses she feels uncomfortable billing illegally. Terry tells her straight up either find a way to make it work or walk. And by the way you have a really nice ass to see walk away. Gwenn feels pressure from her co worker Abbigail who appears to be doing everything perfect but is miserable. She makes several attempts to make her happy, and in doing so, Gwenn becomes more unhappy.

Gwenn gets another call from APS, the ambulance was there because her mother is cut from head to toe, she attempted to bathe her cat. Gwenn goes to talk to her mother who doesn’t even remember she moved to Portland. Again they talk about the POA, her mother says she will look for it. Gwenn gets a call from Terry, she has continuing education to do, it is paid, but there is a bunch she hasn’t finished. Gwenn is perplexed and returns to work to find out.

Episode 5

Gwenn comes into work and gets fired. Apparently she did too much continuing education and the company claims she is taking advantage of them. She is shocked! She goes to Roger the Dr for comfort. She returns home with all of her stuff to find a certified letter stating she has been fired for completing too much continuing education work at a per diem status. ANGRY Gwenn loses it and bitches out Karly the HR rep since surely their math is wrong she is full time.

Gwenn cries and wants a new job but can’t find one.

Episode 6

Gwenn gets rehired, but written up for being too out of control with HR and her boss. She points out her paycheck has not even been correct since she started work 4 months ago. They promise to look into it but she is not allowed to behave like that anymore. Gwenn agrees she was out of hand and signs a promissory note to handle things more professionally. She leaves and sees a patient get dropped, because that is professional.

Gwenn gets a call from her mom she found the POA. She will get it notarized and right over to her. Gwenn shows up to pick it up and her mother is drunk with the notary her signature is not legible and neither of them remember who or why they are there. Gwenn leaves her mother hoping she again burns down her house.

Episode 7

Gwenn sees her failing patients and feels sorry for herself and the patients. She makes a vow to do the very best she can no matter what! Her first patient takes half the day and she ends up leaving him in a wheelchair with his own feces as she attempts to find a nurse. As Gwenn longs for a patient that can actually work with her she finally gets what she has asked for! She is assigned a patient Lyle with a working mind and muscles. She is reinspired to be the greatest therapist ever!

Terry confesses her confusing relationship to Terry, and Abigail makes Gwenn’s job harder as she feels like she is under the microscope with her coworker. Gwenn notices her coworker Earl having bizarre behavior with the patients. Gwenn finds a door with a lock that goes to a skeleton key.

Episode 8

Gwenn gets her key from Terry’s desk and puts it back on the key ring. She finds it goes to an underground corridor under the building to an exit in the back. She also notices another door and unlocks it to find the room where all the security cameras footage is on screens. But no one is actually in the room watching the footage. Although it looks like it’s being recorded.

Gwenn goes to get her patient Lyle and they go do a home visit with him to look and see what he may need for equipment when he gets home. She confidently feels like a real therapist again!

Episode 9

Gwenn is working with Lyle and gathering the supplies she needs to send him home with. She hears strange beating of feet like running down the hall and ignores it. She grabs her reacher and plastic urinal to give to the patient when she hears, “Everyone stand with your hands up! This is the FBI and you are under arrest! ” She is panicked and flashes back to smoking marijaunna with a patient outside, they make it clear they are there for Lyle.

Gwenn talks the FBI into letting her patient go to his room to collect some items he will need for jail. The FBI looks outside to see a patient in a wheelchair who looks like Lyle go down the street. They take off after him. Scene shows Gwenn grabbing the skeleton key, pulling her car around to the secret exit and giving the facility a middle finger and driving off with another passenger. Season ending…….. Cliff hanger!

[Joseph Eastburn]

Again, I never thought I could finish these, but the processes carried me through. Very excited!

JOE’S 13 40-Minute Episodes:

Episode 1: Henry gets involved online with a sexy young Dutch woman.

Hook/Intrigue: Henry
gets a friend request from a pretty, scantily clad Dutch girl.
Main
Character journey: We see Henry
talking to neighbors, and one mentions that he saved a kid’s life when she
got a cramp, panicked and looked like she was drowning.
Major
Challenge/Conflict: Henry is sitting
across from his wife, who asks him what’s wrong, why he’s sweating.
Action/Reaction:
Henry puts down
his phone, and reads the NY Times; he finishes the news story and peeks at
the Dutch girl’s profile photos. She is stunning.
Cliffhanger: He
looks at her gorgeous body and his finger moved between the “delete” button
the “accept’ button for her friend request.

Episode 2: Henry starts texting her gift card codes that he buys with money from his wife’s and his joint saving’s accounts.

Hook/Intrigue:
Her name is
Romee; she begins texting him lovey-dovey words and sexy photos, tells him
she has affection for him and sounds sincere; she asks him for money; she
needs medication for her period.
Main
Character journey: Henry responds
that he’s sorry but he can’t send her any money; he wishes her well, but
if that’s what she wants, she should look elsewhere.
Major Challenge/Conflict: Henry
can’t help looking at her photos again and again.
Action/Reaction:
Henry’s son,
Stuart, walks in, catches his father looking at a sexy young woman; Henry
makes light of it. He puts his phone away to charge; walks by the phone,
staring at it, but resists. It looks like he’s overcome his need to look
at her.
Cliffhanger:
Henry goes to the
bank, withdraws the cash, goes to a store, purchases a gift card, and
texts her the code; she rewards him with another photo—he looks down and
opens his mouth.

Episode 3: Romee tells Henry she loves him; Henry is beside himself; they exchange their first sexy chat; she texts lovey-dovey phrases in Dutch.

Hook/Intrigue:
Romee tells him
she loves him and asks him a sexy question.
Main
Character journey: Henry gets
involved with a sexy chat where they discuss having sex, and describing it
in words.
Major
Challenge/Conflict: Norah, his daughter
comes in, and he’s embarrassed when she asks what he’s doing; seems a
little ashamed, a little alarmed, comically flustered.
Action/Reaction:
His daughter
picks up his phone and asks what he’s so engrossed with; he gets very
upset, says it’s private; she’s surprised by his reaction.
Cliffhanger:
Henry looks at
the words “I love you” from Romee and tells her to tell him this in Dutch;
Henry looks down at his phone and slowly reads words in Dutch; he put the
words into Google translator, and seems surprised by the translation, even
blushes.

Episode 4: Romee asks for an Apple watch; he sends it to her and she says her mother took it, demands another; when he finally sends another $200, he asks to see the watch on her wrist in a photo; the one she sends has been digitally inserted, he’s sure.

Hook/Intrigue:
Romee asks Henry
for an Apple watch.
Main
Character journey: Henry sends her a
$200 gift card for the watch, and she texts him a photo of it, draped
across an ottoman with a portion of her naked thigh in the photo.
Major
Challenge/Conflict: The next day he
texts, asking how she’s enjoying the watch, and she says her mother took
it; she demands another one.
Action/Reaction:
Henry is angry
and asks in exasperation why her mother would take her watch; doesn’t she
have her own watch? This goes on for several days.
Cliffhanger:
Finally, Henry
send her another $200 for another Apple watch; when he asks to see a photo
of her wearing the watch, she texts him a photo where clearly.. and we see
a close-up of Henry face, the watch has been digitally inserted! It’s not
real. An image that captures Henry’s doubt that SHE may not be real.

Episode 5: He asks Romee to do an actual on-camera sext but she tells him her parents installed CCTV in her bedroom; this makes no sense.

Hook/Intrigue:
Henry asks Romee
to have some actual on-camera sex with him since he’s send her all this
money, he might as well get something out of it.
Main
Character journey: Romee tells him
her parents installed CCTV in her bedroom to prevent her from fooling
around like that.
Major
Challenge/Conflict: Henry absolutely
doesn’t believe this story. CCTV that they have installed all over Britain
on Masterpiece? Does she expect him to fall for that?
Action/Reaction:
He’s angry.
Another crazy piece of information that doesn’t add up.
Cliffhanger:
Henry puts his
phone in the medicine cabinet and starts to bring himself to orgasm
looking at her; his daughter bangs on the door, asks, “How much longer are
you going to be?” Henry says I’ll be right out. His son now bangs on the
door, says, he’s got to go. Henry says he’ll be right out. He’s just about
to climax, when there’s a big bang on the door, and it’s his wife, Char,
saying his name, “Henry, what are you doing in there?”

Episode 6: The gift cards are stolen; she needs more money; she asks him to send it through Bitcoin; Henry racing around, trying to send her money.

Hook/Intrigue:
The gift cards
are “stolen” or so she claims; he’ll have to send her money through
bitcoin.
Main
Character journey: He refuses, then
he goes to a bitcoin machine and can’t figure it out, purchases a paper
wallet, but he can’t transfer it to her. When he finally does, she claims
she never got it.
Major
Challenge/Conflict: He gores an gets
more money, send it through bitcoin, realizes they take 24%; he’s
outraged, says he’s through sending money.
Action/Reaction:
She begs. A day
goes by, she begs more. He’s so annoyed. She’s still begging.
Cliffhanger:
He’s standing
before a bank teller; her name is “Sayanora.” He asks if she’s ever seen
the movie; she says no, can I help you, sir? He tries to withdraw money
from Secondary account #3. She says, he doesn’t have access to that, only
his wife. He’s hesitating. She asks if he’s spent the money he already
took out earlier. He comes up with a lame excuse; she asks if he’s going
to make a withdrawal. He hesitates… is sweating…

Episode 7: Realizes that Bitcoin takes a crazy percentage; Henry is horrified; all of these scenes are comic.

Hook/Intrigue:
Henry send money
through bitcoin, finds it takes 24% service charge.
Main
Character journey: Henry texts Romee
complaining about the Bitcoin percentage; she says she likes it because
she gets her money fast.
Major
Challenge/Conflict: She keeps asking
for more money.
Action/Reaction:
Henry tells her
to call her mother; refuses to send any more money.
Cliffhanger:
Henry end up in
front of Sayanora again at the bank. He’s just standing there is a daze.
She asks him, “Would you like to make a withdrawal?” He nods, but doesn’t
anything, just stares blankly.

Episode 8: Romee says she’s coming to Vegas to visit a girlfriend, (and see him so they can have sex in person) asks him to pay for the rest of the airline ticket; he does.

Hook/Intrigue:
Henry thinks he’s
going to meet her in person and have sex.
Main
Character journey: His sexual
fantasy is about to become reality.
Major
Challenge/Conflict: But how can he
get the money to support this trip?
Action/Reaction:
He takes more money
from his and Char’s savings’ accounts and feels alternately excited and
let down.
Cliffhanger:
Once again, he’s
standing in line at the bank, but instead of Sayanora, he’s relieved that
it’s another teller. He takes judicious amount from several accounts,
hoping Char won’t notice. As the other teller is counting out his cash, Sayanora
appears by her shoulder, says it’s her break time, offers to take over the
transaction. She does. Henry feels caught; Sayanora looks at like him like
she “caught” him.

Episode 9: She sends him a photo of her airline ticket from Amsterdam to McCarran airport in Las Vegas; Henry can’t figure out why it’s in black and white; more suspicions.

Hook/Intrigue:
The airline
ticket that he helped pay for looks fake.
Main
Character journey: He texts her,
asking why, and she says she made it B&W so it would be sharper and he
would be able to see it.
Major
Challenge/Conflict: He wonders if
this is all a ruse to get money out of him—if she’s really NOT coming to
the States.
Action/Reaction:
Refuses to send
any more money, tells her to have to friend in Vegas help her financially.
Cliffhanger:
He’s passionately
kissing Sayanora at her teller station; a customer comes to her window and
they’re both flustered and embarrassed. Henry wakes from his reverie with
a different teller yelling “Next!” Henry steps forward to the bank window.
Through his peripheral vision, he can see Sayanora staring at him, almost as
if he’s angry he’s with another teller. He tries to wave at her; she pretends
she doesn’t see him.

Episode 10: She checks into the Luxor; needs money; Henry tries to borrow money from his AA sponsor; is roundly dressed down.

Hook/Intrigue:
She checks into
the Luxor! Surprise, she needs more money.
Main
Character journey: Henry
unconditionally refuses to send Romee any more money.
Major
Challenge/Conflict: Char is at the
breakfast table the next day asking (half to herself) “I thought we had more
money in savings.” Henry pretends he doesn’t hear her.
Action/Reaction:
Henry asks his AA
sponsor to lend him $1000. His sponsor says no, and suggests Henry think what
will happen next. Says some disparaging things about her perhaps
being a man, or having a man with her who is in the on the grift.
Cliffhanger:
Henry standing at
Sayanora’s teller window. She’s crisply counting out money on her counter;
she looks at Henry, rises out of her chair and places her wide-open lips
on the thick plexiglass between them. She leaves her wide-open lips there,
waiting for him. He rises up on tip-toe and places his lips on hers on the
other side of the plexiglass. Henry comes out of his fantasy. Sayanora
counting money, looks up and see Henry kissing the plexiglass, stares at
him like he’s crazy. Henry realizes he’s been dreaming, returns to a
neutral position. She points, says, “Sign.” He does, leaves.

Episode 11: Henry goes through paroxysms trying to arrange a motel room using cash from his wife’s and his savings accounts; when she’s finally coming, he cancels; he can’t go through with it.

Hook/Intrigue:
Henry trying to
make a reservation in cash a motel nearby.
Main
Character journey: While he’s making
the reservation, the hotelier says, “Why don’t you just pay tomorrow? I’ll
save it for you.” Henry decides to just pay for the room, (it’s around
July 4^th, so motels are booked?) So, he’ll have it.
Major
Challenge/Conflict: He’s convinced
she’s not only not coming but isn’t even in the U.S., knows he’s been
taken; quietly angry.
Action/Reaction: The next morning, thinking about her
getting on a bus from Vegas, picking her up at the bus station, going back
to the room and having hot sex; he can’t go through with it. He texts her
not to come, but can’t send the text.
Cliffhanger:
His finger hovers
over the arrow to send the text, but he can’t push it.

Episode 12: His sponsor says he has to block her; he does; She shows up on his street (haunting image); he somehow gets a motel room, says he’s going to get up to come have sex in the middle of the night; oversleeps. She’s mad.

Hook/Intrigue:
His sponsor says
he has to block her. He finds the text from last night, and sends it. In
response, she seems disappointed, say she wanted “his cock inside her.” He
goes onto explain that he doesn’t want to lose his marriage, his family, his
kids, his home, etc.
Main
Character journey: He seems sad
throughout the day. In the afternoon, he looks out the window and sees Romee
standing quietly across the street with an overnight bag on the ground,
just looking at his house. It’s haunting. He frantically looks around to
see if his wife or kids see this, grabs his wallet, rushes outside, motions
for her to follow him, fast-walks around the corner, so his family won’t
see. She seems chastened, but a little hurt that he won’t kiss her. They
walk, and walk, and come around another way to the main drag without being
seen, and arrive at a motel. Romee stands behind the coke machine. He
tries to pay with cash, but the clerk asks for a credit card. He finally
convinces her he doesn’t have any, gets the key gives it to her and whispers
that he’ll come by tonight.
Major
Challenge/Conflict: Long, overwrought
sequence where he wakes himself up in the middle of the night, gets
dressed, sneaks out of the house, walks around the main drag, passes
unseen into the motel parking lot, knocks on the door, but there’s no
answer. He texts her and she texts a sexy pic of her in sexy underwear,
says she waiting. He knocks. There’s still no answer. He texts her and
asks her if she switched rooms; she says no. He texts and asks her to just
open her motel room door. Long pause. He’s breathlessly waiting
Action/Reaction:
Across the
parking lot, in the dark, he hears a door open. He rushes across the
parking lot, scares some older man going to ice machine half to death.
Cliffhanger:
Henry standing at
the front desk asking about the cash deposit he put down on a room today.
Did they move the room he paid for? The clerk says they don’t accept cash.
He gets angry and says he paid, and has a receipt, and starts looking
through his pockets, but realizes he has no pockets. The clerk leans over
and see Henry standing in pocketless pajamas. “Sir, do you realize you’re
in your pajamas?” Henry says, “Of course. Wearing these is perfectly
acceptable these days.” He walks back, sneaks into his house sits in the
living room. Looks at his phone, can’t find the sexy pic. Has he
hallucinated this whole thing?

Episode 13: Char finds the texts; asks him to come into her office and looks down at her computer; Henry does; on his face… (cliffhanger).

Hook/Intrigue:
Henry asleep in
the living room chair, wakes with a start and there is Char sitting across
from him on the couch. She holding his phone.
Main
Character journey: She holds it up,
shows him the texts, and sexy photos and reads aloud one of their sex
chats, looking hurt and furious, her voice shaking.
Major
Challenge/Conflict: Henry wakes up with
a start, no Char, and can’t find his phone. He calls his wife’s name, walks
around the house, walks outside in the yard, finally comes back in, finds
her alone, looking small and frail sitting along on a couch in the office.
Action/Reaction:
She’s holding his
phone in her hand. She asks him to come over and sit down next to her so
she can show him something…
Cliffhanger:
Henry sits down
next to her and she swipes his phone and holds up the screen, we hold on
Henry’s face… (Season 1 CLIFFHANGER).

[Cooper James]

What I learned doing this assignment is to keep building no matter what. Add, add, add, using all of your previous work. You’ll make discoveries and find answers along the way. If not now, then later, but keep building.

Ep. 1

Hook/Intrigue: Simone, out on her morning run through the mountains, hears a mysterious woman’s voice warning her of the danger that lies ahead and that she must be strong.

Main Character journey: Simone discovers that King, her father is trying to sell Edgemont behind her back and must stop him.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Simone must spring into action against the developers to run them off and prevent the sale.

Action/Reaction: Simone and her son Remy interrupt King’s meeting with the developers with guns drawn.

Cliffhanger: The developers draw guns, but when backup in the form of several homeless kids living at Edgemont arrive, the developers back down, but threaten Simone by telling her they will be back with more firepower.

Ep. 2

Hook/Intrigue: King makes a deal with his grandson, Roman, to support him for a run as Senator if he can help him sell Edgemont.

Main Character journey: Roman must somehow get his mother, Simone, to agree to sell Edgemont.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Simone tells Roman she isn’t selling Edgemont and she is against Roman running for Senator.

Action/Reaction: Roman agrees to join forces with King to gain power.

Cliffhanger: King tells Roman his plan to trick his mother into selling Edgemont.

Ep. 3

Hook/Intrigue: Remy returns with Johnny, a disconnect from Region 26.

Main Character journey: Simone tries to figure out what Johnny knows about Region 26 and if he’s a danger to her.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Simone and Remy disagree about going into Region 26 rescuing disconnects.

Action/Reaction: Senator Green announces that it’s time to shut down more disconnects from escaping into Region 9.

Cliffhanger: Region 26 will mount an attack on Region 9.

Ep. 4

Hook/Intrigue: Senator Green makes a re-election campaign promise to take down Region 9 once and for all.

Main Character journey: Simone must come to terms that her ex-lover and partner, Senator Green, is going to try to kill her.

Major Challenge/Conflict: King tries to convince Simone that she can’t win against Region 26 and that they should sell Edgemont.

Action/Reaction: Simone and Remy must recruit and start training more kids to defend Edgemont.

Cliffhanger: The developers return with more firepower ready to attack.

Ep. 5

Hook/Intrigue: Simone takes her run through the mountains and the mysterious voice gives her advice on how to battle the developers.

Main Character journey: Simone must trust the voice and allow it to lead her to victory.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Simone must convince Remy to buy into her new plan to defeat the developers.

Action/Reaction: Simone goes into the mountains and causes a rock slide that kills most of the developers.

Cliffhanger: Simone spots Region 29’s military heading up the mountain.

Ep. 6

Hook/Intrigue: Mrs. Conner helps Roman scheme to gain power through her boyfriend, King.

Main Character journey: Roman must decide if he is going to side with Mrs. Conners to betray King.

Major Challenger/Conflict: Roman is afraid to step into a role of power and has no one go-to for advice.

Action/Reaction: Mrs. Conners seduces Roman, they have sex and he agrees to go along with her scheme for power.

Cliffhanger: But Mrs. Conners calls an unknown accomplice to inform them the plan is a go.

Ep. 7

Hook/Intrigue: Remy goes into Region 26 to rescue his girlfriend and gets captured.

Main Character journey:

Major Challenge/Conflict: Simone is conflicted about telling Senator Green her secret… that Remy might be his son.

Action/Reaction: Without any way to contact Senator Green, Simone risks her life when she disappears into Region 26 to rescue her son, Remy.

Cliffhanger: Simone rescues Remy and convinces her that now is the time to go after Senator Green – at the last second, Simone is unable to kill Senator Green, letting him escape.

Ep. 8

Hook.Intrigue: Simone returns to Region 9 and sends Remy back to Edgemont to wait for her return from the mountains where she listens to the mysterious voice.

Main Character journey: Simone realizes that she still has feelings for Senator Green but only one of them can win this battle.

Major Challenge/Conflict: Simone returns to Edgemont to find Region 26’s military forces moving in to launch their attack.

Action/Reaction: Against Simone’s wishes, Remy unleashes the Region 9 forces they have trained for this battle.

Cliffhanger: Outnumbered, with defeat in sight, what did Simone learn in the mountains that can save Edgemont and many lives?

[Donna Stockwell]

What I learned doing this assignment is to separate the layers first then intertwine with character reactions.

Episode 1: Introduce the normal life of this extended family – digging up grave to hold mother, next day introduce traditional family, and reference to Jasper’s night. Conflict between Patrice and Ben about absence and house jobs not done.
Hook/Intrigue: Ben deals with overbearing wife and similar female boss
Main Character journey: Ben works hard but gets frustrated at home
Major Challenge/Conflict: Ben needs to be in control
Action/Reaction: Ben lashes out at a woman (his boss) who reminds him of his wife’s attitude, finds similar female on way home
Cliffhanger: Jasper comes home dirty and early in the morning
Episode 2: Patrice leaves for girl’s get together, the loneliness angers Ben, who picks up hitchhiker on way home and starts his vision to control women. Jasper still holds mother every night.
Hook/Intrigue: what does Ben do with the body
Main Character journey: Ben feels empowered when he rapes and kills
Major Challenge/Conflict: as soon as he gets home or go to work, he feels the need to rape and kill
Action/Reaction: he finds another female to rape and kill
Cliffhanger: Ben poses as his brother to bury the body in same grave as mother… now there are 3 bodies, Jasper questions
Episode 3: Controlling women is out of control.. uses Ben to dig graves. Jasper refuses to bury Ben’s mistake until he holds mother. Celeste starts to date Luc and brings him home to meet the family
Hook/Intrigue: Ben getting jealous that wife is not paying attention to him but paying attention to daughter’s boyfriend
Main Character journey: Ben feels the need to control his wife, and needs to find mother so that Jasper does not spill the beans
Major Challenge/Conflict: does Ben take his wife, or keep on his newfound pattern
Action/Reaction: Ben rapes and kills an unknown woman
Cliffhanger: is the woman his wife? Where does he bury her?
Episode 4: Patrice notices makeup missing, accuses Jasper, Ben allows mixup, and continues even further. Patrice asks Luc to start doing jobs around the house, and spending more time with him.
Hook/Intrigue: Ben starts putting Jasper into fire when Patrice accuses Jasper of stealing
Main Character journey: Patrice accuses Ben’s brother of stealing, which causes more of a rift, but gives Ben more reasons to lie
Major Challenge/Conflict: how does Ben keep Jasper’s loyalty if he disrespects him by allowing the Patrice’s accusation & lies
Action/Reaction: Ben starts to lie more to redirect his actions and entire more women
Cliffhanger: what will happen when Ben finds out Patrice kissed Luc
Episode 5: Patrice gets friendly with Luc, and tries to show Celeste how to take control of the relationship.

Episode 6: Celeste finds Patrice with Luc, and creates more distance between the two women and closer relationship between Celeste and her father. Will Celeste discover her father’s secret?

Episode 7: Grave-robbers steal mother. Jasper out of control, and jeopardizes Ben’s extracurricular affairs. Will Jasper disclose Ben’s secret?

Episode 8: Mother is found, and Ben resumes his extracurricular controlling life. Luc and Patrice take a weekend together.
Episode 9: Patrice finds Ben has been stealing her makeup and follows him.

Episode 10: Patrice and Luc plan their future. Ben notices Luc is not completing projects around the house.