Day 9 Assignments

[Randy Hines]

1. Meet antagonist, Mosko: cartel enforcer with a night club. His wife, Irina, gets killed and he know the killers. He and his little girl escape with their lives from the massacre. Meet protagonist: MacKnight Grant – former DEA agent, stripped of his duties, guilt-ridden from some past event, estranged from his late father, obsessing over his late father’s transistor radio (what does it mean to him?) shacked up with Bella Ortiz, former prostitute, mourning her child’s kidnapping.

2.

Mosko and Rosario seek refuge in the church. The church rejects them, specifically Rosario (why?), compels Mosko to seek revenge. What will he do?
Mac investigates a string of new kidnappings that have a ritualistic flavor to them but he’s reluctant to go down the path of religion given his past. Bella compels Mac to use his gifts to rescue an American girl who’s just been kidnapped like the others – to do this in honor of her son, Paolo, who was abducted prior to these events.
Meet another antagonist: Peter Arteaga but we don’t know it yet. He’s a cartel leader who wants to go legit but must tie up loose ends – Mosko is one.
Mosko locks in by abducting Father Guzman and killing him (DIRECTION: MOSKO SETS HIS PLAN IN MOTION/TWIST: MOSKO KILLS THE PRIEST WHO REJECTED HIM)
Mac commits to the investigation. Meets Agent Villarreal. Shows his affinity for understanding ritualistic murder – but who is doing all these killings – Mosko or someone else? Mac visits a mentor, Texas Ranger Joe Crowley who seals the deal on Mac investigating and getting his act together with the DEA and to deal with his anger with his father.

3, 4, 5 and 6 – Second Act

3. (30-45)

Mac has a problem. He and Bella are ambushed at a Mexican warehouse in the desert by (TWIST: AGENT VILLARREAL)Agent Villarreal, who’s working for Peter.
Mosko and Rosario set out to ritualize the resurrection of Irina. Part of the ritual involves poisonous arachnids – Rosario gathers a spider and a scorpion in a jar to accomplish this and is stung repeatedly…but is impervious and simply giggles – why? (DIRECTION: ROSARIO IS JUST AN EMOTIONALLY LOST LITTLE GIRL//TWIST: WE SEE THE FIRST HINTS OF SUPERNATURAL EVIL IN ROSARIO)
Peter addresses Mac and Bella who are now under his control. He shoots Villarreal for disrespecting Bella and explains his intentions to Mac. He also explains his motivation in going legit, telling a story of his grandfather and his legend as a chieftain of his people. He compels Mac to help him “sometimes it is better to dance than fight”. Peter sends Mac and Bella and Eloy out to stop Mosko. They have to find him first.

4. (45-60) Something extraordinary will be tried, stated or implied by character’s actions – it will backfire because of vital knowledge that is unknown to both.

Mosko and Rosario get more violent in their ritualistic murders. Villagers start to take notice of the little girl and quickly take up the mantle of ancient prophecy and rituals and begin following Mosko throughout Mexico, destabilizing the entire region and suddenly fighting back against the cartels.
Mac, Bella and Eloy investigate where one of the priests was killed: at Mosko’s dry cleaners, a legit business front for money laundering. They pick up clues to Mosko’s whereabouts: (DIRECTION: MAC ET AL LOOK FOR CLUES AS TO MOSKO’S WHEREABOUTS//TWIST: MOSKO TELLS THEM WHERE HE IS) he’s left a map, mocking them to follow. Why would Mosko let them know where he is?
Mac, Bella and Eloy investigate a Mexican village that was on Mosko’s map. Here, they find a boy festooned with ritual makeup and now an acolyte of Mosko’s. Bella mistakes the boy for her lost son, Paolo. Mac finds a clue nearby about the ritual – a statue.
Rosario begins to connect with the kidnapped American girl, Nina, effectively perceiving her as an ersatz mother given her similar looks to her own mother.
Crowley, Mac’s mentor, finds them in the Mexican desert, immediately conflicts with Eloy.

5. (60-75) Eye openers for Mac. Mac will have to change to get things done.

Rosario throws a tantrum in a bodega. Mosko can’t calm her until villagers see her and kneel like she’s the goddess incarnate.
One of the bands of rogue cartels knows Mosko’s location but lies in wait for the perfect time to kill him.
Eloy contacts Peter at headquarters on the sly. He reports that the gringo Crowley is complicating things. Peter advises to shoot Crowley in the head. Peter also informs Eloy that he’s been following his progress by GPS.
A Bigger Village: a town festival ensues. more rogue cartels arrive. Tensions rise. Mac, Bella, Eloy and Crowley approach up a mountainside. Mosko and Rosario enter the town looking for the right kind of sacrifice and the statue that went over the cliff with Bella .
Eloy tries to kill Bella but she kills him first then falls over the side of a cliff.
Rosario picks out a young woman for a sacrifice. Mosko shoots and kills her from a distance, setting off a firefight and riot.
Mac and Crowley descend the mountain and into the fray, momentarily rescuing the American girl, Nina, until Rosario cuts Crowley’s throat. Mac is incapacitated.
Cartel members get the drop on Mosko and hang him from a tree. Acolytes surround him and he comes back to life. Acolytes attack the cartel with machetes.

6. (75-90) A bigger plan. Mac gathers resources and allies are gathered to put plan in action but it seems to backfire and it looks like Mosko will win.

Mac wakes up in the desert and is confronted by human traffickers. He disposes of them, frees the women and reunites with a very much alive Bella who survived the fall off the cliff and still has the statue.
Mosko, Rosario and Nina take shelter in an abandoned gas station where elements of their makeshift family begin to assert (DIRECTION: NINA GETS HOLD OF DRUGS TO COPE//TWIST: MOSKO, ROSARIO AND NINA HAVE FORMED AN ERSATZ FAMILY OF NECESSITY AND CIRCUMSTANCE AS ACOLYTES AND CARTEL SHOOT EACH OTHER). Nina, a drug addict and self-medicating from the trauma, gets hold of some blow. They are attacked by another group of cartel but are beaten back and defeated by yet another wave of acolytes. Rosario addresses them…like a little goddess.
Mac, in emotional distress and under constant threat, takes solace in Bella but almost rapes her. Very similar to how she was raped repeatedly in her life as a former prostitute. Mac realizes what he almost was compelled to do. (DIRECTION: MAC AND BELLA ARE A TEAM, ON THE HUNT//TWIST: MAC BETRAYS BELLA AND THE LOVE THEY SHARE BY NEARLY RAPING HER)

7 and 8

7. Biggest battle:

Peter decides to make his play but is killed in an ambush by Mosko’s acolytes, beheaded with all his men.
Mac reaches Mosko but Mosko only wants to die which enrages Rosario. Mosko begs Mac to kill him but leaves him to find Bella. Nina tells Rosario that her mother is not being resurrected which nearly gets her killed before Bella saves her. Rosario kills her instead as the completion of the ritual.

8. The “new world”

A blood curdling scream. Bella is dead, killed by Rosario who expects her mother to come alive. She doesn’t. Mac is distraught and proceeds to attempt to choke the life out of Rosario. Mosko attempts to intercede but is dropped by two bullets in the brain from Mac’s gun.
Mac releases Rosario and tells Nina to get the hell out to find safety.
Mac relinquishes his talisman, his late father’s transistor radio, and throws it out into the night. Rosario is watching him, sensing Mac losing himself. She smiles up at him…a bloody machete still in her hand. – FADE OUT

[Brandon Clark]

Twists

Direction. Dragon hunt. Blusage and his order are about to kill one.

Twist. The dragon’s not dead. It breathes engulfs Blusage in blue fire.

Direction. His comrades think he’s dead.

Twist. Blusage is unharmed by the fire. In fact it seems to have changed him.

Direction. Blusage thinks this is a divine miracle and expects to be shown favor.

Twist. His brethren tie him up, believing he is cursed by an evil spirit.

Direction. Blusage pleads his innocence and is freed.

Twist. Blusage’s temperament changes due to the magic embedded in him from the dragon fire. He begins feuding with his order.

Direction. Blusage gets into a fight with his rival and some bullies.

Twist. Strange wisps of light energy sprout from his arms and he injures them.

Direction. His order tries to purge these abilities from him.

Twist. A league of dark mystics attack the order with demonic minions

Direction. The Chryslans fight back against the demons and the minions

Twist. Blusage turns his back on them.

Direction. Blusage heads off to start a new life.

Twist. A demon attacks him and drags him into the abyss.

Direction. Blusage is a servant of the very mystics who destroyed his order.

Twist. The two he works for are plotting to overthrow their own master.

Direction. The three begin a mission to assassinate the mystic leader.

Twist. The mystic leader was once a member of Blusage’s order.

Direction. The trio defeat the mystic leader.

Twist. The one they thought was leader of the clan was merely a pawn.

[P.G. Sundling]

Build Twists throughout your story.

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

My stories tend to have lots of plot twists, which I’m known for as a writer. The opening has a lot fewer twists than later in the book.

1. Read through your Thriller Map and look for places to build in twists.

2. Use the 14 Types of Twists to brainstorm possible twists. Make sure they have the Current Direction / Twist pattern.

3. Tell us the places you added twists.

The story already had several plot twists

4. Include the new version of your Thriller Map.

Teaser: kill switch that shuts down American military tech discovered.

Mystery: Was the device Renquist used to shoot down a drone a kill switch?

Mystery: Where has Renquist escaped to?

Twist

Direction: The destroyed drone wasn’t a malfunction. It was destroyed by a kill switch.

Twist: MJ’s lie about a drone malfunction has been uncovered, but she can’t reveal what she knows about the kill switch since she was doing something illegal.

Life threatening: Dangerous to deploy American military because kill switch could make vulnerable.

Villain’s Plan: Renquist is the only one who could pull off a kill switch.

Life threatening: Are the attacks on the White House over?

Mystery: Which of the attackers escaped?

Twist

Direction: MJ still doesn’t feel safe after the attacks.

Twist: The attacker that vowed to kill her was the one that escaped.

Life threatening: Will Renquist try to kill None or MJ again?

Mystery: What will MJ do with the broken pieces of her katana?

Act 1: None of the Above recovery from coma

Mystery: Will None ever be himself again?

Mystery: How will Fernando deal with MJ rejecting him?

Mystery: What happened to the economy after Jubilee?

Mystery: What happened when None and MJ got their company back?

Mystery: How will the world react to China becoming #1 economy?

Twist

Direction: It’s a shock to Americans to be the #2 economy

Twist: They switch to ultra-patriotism and seem to be happy (denial).

Mystery: Will the IMF bank really be moved to China?

Life threatening: border skirmish between India and China adds more danger.

Act 2: White House reopens after attacks, celebration party

Mystery: Will None be OK for the night without MJ and Shen?

Twist

Direction: None is taken care of by staff, despite MJ and Shen being too busy with White House party.

Twist: He wakes up and runs out of the White House, delirious.

Mystery: What does MaxPlume want to talk to MJ about?

Mystery: What does Corella know about the plane MJ shot down?

Life threatening: Indian leader wants to move up war games, which will put American fleet in danger

Mystery: Can the kill switch be found before the war games?

Twist

Direction: They had a certain amount of time before the American fleet would be in danger.

Twist: Because of Indian leader there is even less time to find the kill switch.

Act 3: Secret White House meeting with Corella.

Mystery: Why is Corella working for Renquist?

Twist

Direction: Secret meeting with Corella.

Twist: She’s just a front for contact from Renquist.

Villain’s plan: Renquist reveals his real reason for the kill switch.

Twist

Direction: When Renquist created the kill switch, it was an act of treason.

Twist: The kill switch was really made to disable American weapons that fell into enemy hands.

Mystery: Why does the attack on the Kombinat arctic base have to be on the same day as the exercises?

Mystery: Can Renquist be trusted to keep his end of the bargain?

Mystery: Will the Russians detect the attack on their soil?

Act 4: MJ attack on arctic Kombinat base in Russia, while Fernando leads U.S. military during competing Russian/Chinese wargames

Life threatening: Will MJ survive the attack and evade capture?

Mystery: Will the war games escalate into a real conflict?

Twist

Direction: Zelda vowed to kill MJ because she killed her partner.

Twist: It was actually Ivashov that let her partner bleed out to frame MJ.

Twist 2: Zelda will now spy for MJ against their common foe.

Twist 3: She might still kill MJ after everything is done.

Twist 4: MJ gives Zelda the dagger made from her broken katana despite threats on her life.

Act 5: evading Russian patrol leaving base

Life threatening: Russian patrol would kill or capture MJ.

Mystery: How will MJ’s team avoid detection?

Ending Surprise: MJ dives into ice water to hide heat signature and is trapped under ice

Life threatening: MJ is trapped under ice in a heavy powered armor.

Mystery: Can MJ avoid drowning or her armor cracking under pressure?

Twist

Direction: Jumping in the ice water will help MJ evade detection so she’ll be safer.

Twist: The strong currents trap her under ice, so she is less safe.

Book 2/season 1.5, episode 2

Teaser: MJ rescued by SEAL mini-sub

Life threatening: MJ could be killed or captured.

Mystery: Will the Russians detect her sub?

Act 1: MJ submarine chase escaping Russia while war games continue.

Life threatening: MJ being chased.

Mystery: Why are multiple ships running aground in the war games?

Act 2: Ships ran aground in war games because China is building a land bridge to invade Taiwan.

Villian’s plan: China is planning to invade Taiwan using a land bridge.

Twist

Direction: ships running aground seems to multiple cases of incompetence.

Twist: It wasn’t incompetence, but ocean changes, leading to the discovery of the land bridge.

Villian’s plan: Kombinat took over Russian government while Russian military off doing exercises with China.

Twist

Direction: MJ had invaded a Kombinat base while it was lightly defended.

Twist: The base was lightly defended because Kombinat took over Russia and became more powerful.

Act 3: Global panic over Taiwan semiconductor industry

Mystery: What will the world do without the most advanced chips?

Act 4: None of the Above to get brain implant

Life threatening: None could die in surgery.

Mystery: Will None ever be himself again?

Act 5: Organize blockade to stop land bridge

Life threatening: Will the blockade cause a war with China?

Ending Surprise: No Chinese military involved, so how do we stop the land bridge without firing on civilians?

Mystery: Can the land bridge be stopped?

Twist

Direction: The land bridge is backed by the military

Twist: No military personnel are involved, but can’t shoot civilians or become the bad guy.

[Sue Swenson]

Sue Swenson’s Twists and Turns

What I learned is that the plot twists and turns really help to raise the mystery, intrigue and suspense by interrupting the audience’s expectations and keeping their interest. They are kept questioning and guessing which keeps them on the edge as they watch the story unfold.

1A. Opening Image (1): (A)

A Sasquatch-looking beast is viciously attacking a camper and beating him to death. Then he tears off the camper’s jacket and shirt and starts taking bites out of the body.

Mystery 1: What is this creature?

Mystery 2: Who is the camper?

Mystery 3: Are Sasquatch for real?

Mystery 4: Where is the killing of this camper taking place?

2. Theme (5): Is blood thicker than water?

Carla attends her sister’s son’s birthday party. The sister’s husband gives the kid, 11, a Glock. He points it at Carla who freaks.

Life Threatening 1: Are Carla’s mother, sister, brother in-law and nephew a physical danger to her? (The boy’s father jokes that this Glock is for Sasquatch killings.)

Life Threatening 2: Could Carla get shot by her own nephew?

Life Threatening 3: What kind of family gives an 11 year old kid a gun for his birthday, and it’s not a hunting rifle?

Mystery 5: Is Carla’s family a safe family to associate with?

Mystery 6: What’s wrong with this family?

Twist: A trust is violated when Carla’s nephew is allowed to point a Glock at her in front of his parents and grandmother, even though it’s unloaded.

3. Set-up (1-10):

Scene: Carla is chastising her sister, Jenny, about the Glock. Jenny tells her to mind her own business. Tense conversation on the phone with Carla’s separated husband who tells her this is just one more example of why he doesn’t want anything to do with her family. She hangs up on him.

Mystery 7: Why is Carla codependent with an obviously dangerous family of origin?

Mystery 8: What power does Carla’s family have over her?

Life Threatening 4: If Carla’s husband abandons her, who is she going to turn to for protection?

Carla is sleeping alone and has a violent nightmare. She wakes up terrified and calls her husband who is impatient with her.

Twist: A trust is violated when Carla’s husband gets impatient with her regarding her terror about her nightmare and isn’t supportive of her.

Mystery 7: What is this nightmare about?

Mystery 8: Does this nightmare harbor something that’s precognitive that could happen to Carla?

Twist: A new problem occurs when Carla starts having nightmares.

Scene where Carla is providing a hypnotherapy session to a patient who’s having nightmares.

Mystery 9: Do the patient’s nightmares have anything to do with her nightmares?

Mystery 10: What’s going on in her life that she’s having nightmares?

Life Threatening 5: Are any of her nightmares or the patient’s nightmares a threat to Carla or her patient?

Twist: Not only is Carla having nightmares, but so is her patient.

TV NEWS ANNOUNCEMENTS. This is the fourth killing of people in remote areas of AZ involving a Big Foot type creature.

Mystery 9: Are these creatures for real?

Life Threatening 6: Who will get killed next?

Life Threatening 7: What are the authorities doing about it?

Mystery 10: Is Carla going to get pulled into these killings?

Twist: It just got more dangerous.

4. Catalyst (12):

Carla’s supervisor in the hypnotherapy department assigns a troubled patient to her from the psych ward of the hospital because they can’t afford to keep Carla on light duty given staff shortages.

Twist: A new problem occurs when Carla is assigned a troubled patient who also has nightmares. This ups the stress and danger for Carla.

Carla has returned from a leave of absence as a result of the trauma she’s been through. She unfortunately witnessed a former patient kill himself in front of her.

Twist: It turns out both Carla and the patient are having the same nightmares.

She’s opposed to working with this guy because she’s just come back from a LOA due to her own trauma regarding PTSD.

But she gets talked into doing it because she’s the most skilled at hypnotherapy. This sick patient keeps complaining of these nightmares.

Mystery 11: What’s the danger to Carla from working with this sick patient?

Twist: This patient has a history of violence which makes things more dangerous for Carla.

Mystery 12: Will Carla’s own mental health be threatened by working with a sick patient who’s been traumatized?

Twist: Things get even more dangerous for Carla when the patient is released from the hospital.

Mystery 13: What will Carla learn from working with this patient?

Life Threatening 8: What kind of danger could Carla be facing from working with this new patient?

Life Threatening 9: Is Carla prepared to protect herself in the event that things go south with this patient?

5. Debate (12-25):

A hiker is found along the side of a dirt road. This is in a remote area of northern Arizona or NM. He’s delirious, probably from heat exhaustion and lack of water. He claims to have witnessed a murder but has been wandering for hours. He escapes, but he witnesses the camper getting killed.

Twist: A new problem occurs when a hiker is found along the side of a dirt road and claims that he witnessed a Sasquatch type creature murder a camper.

Carla addresses whether to take this assignment because she’s already working with one highly troubled patient and still feels vulnerable from the trauma regarding the suicide of a previous patient.

Also, she’s having marital problems and her husband has just moved out. She’s feeling vulnerable and traumatized.

Twist: A new problem occurs when Carla’s husband moves out after a fight.

She then discusses whether to take on a second highly disturbed patient with her boss who tells her that they need her to step up and take this assignment because she’s the only hypnotherapist on staff at this point. She grudgingly agrees to step up to the plate.

Mystery 14: What could possibly go wrong?

Mystery 15: Who is this guy and is he trustworthy?

Villain’s Plan 1: Will the Sasquatch killer continue to kill?

Villain’s Plan 2: If so, could she be a target?

Life Threatening 10: How is Carla going to be able to cope with this life threatening situation given her emotional vulnerability?

6. Break into Two (25): Revised.

Twist: A new problem occurs when a traumatized child is found who claims her mother disappeared in a remote area of Arizona. The little girl claims to have heard her mother scream, then the little girl ran away.

Carla is called into her boss’s office and informed about the missing mother and traumatized child. He gives her an ultimatum, either take these assignments or he’s going to replace her. She agrees to take yet another assignment.

Mystery 15: Are these patients’ situations connected? If so, how?

Life Threatening 11: Will working on all of these assignments increase Carla’s danger?

Villain’s Plan 3: Was the mother murdered, and if so, was it by the same killer?

Mystery 16: Will Carla get to the bottom of these mysteries before somebody else gets killed?

Life Threatening 11: Will anybody else be killed?

7. B Story (30):

Dream Group attendance – the dream group is Carla’s B story. She’s known these people for years. They are her real family. She goes to them for love, support, acceptance, belonging and peace.

Twist: New options emerge when Carla meets with her dream group. They take an interest in her nightmares and are supportive when they work to help her interpret them.

Mystery 17: Will the members of the dream group help Carla to successfully solve these crimes and dangers?

Life Threatening 12: Will Carla continue to be safe in this dream group.

Life Threatening 13: Could there be a villain’s co-conspirator connected to the group in some way that would endanger Carla?

8. Fun and Games (30-55):

a. The remote viewing process in practice.

b. Tracking the dead body.

c. Finding clues and evidence through dream interpretation and remote viewing.

d. The dream group interpreting the clues to find the body.

e. The kid and Carla become a risk because Carla is starting to access information on the killing.

f. The kid witnessed the killing.

g. The kid knows something that the Villains are aware she knows and they want to silence her.

h. The kid and Carla are in danger.

i. They’re on the run.

Mystery 18: Will Carla find out who the Villains are before they can hurt her and the girl?

Life Threatening 14: How can Carla and the girl stay safe?

Life Threatening 15: Will Carla and the dream group identify the Villain or villains before anybody else gets killed?

Villains’ Plan 4: What will the bad guys do to get to Carla and the girl?

Life Threatening 16: Who can Carla trust to protect her and the girl?

Twist: New options emerge when a clue is unearthed through the dream group.

Twist: A secret location is uncovered through the efforts of the remote viewing group.

Twist: A secret identity is revealed when the hiker’s identify is discovered through hypnotherapy with him.

9. Midpoint (55):

Carla starts conducting hypnotherapy on the little girl to help her recall memories of the trauma in the woods.

Twist: A trust is violated when the missing woman’s husband demands that Carla be taken off their daughter’s case. He feels that Carla is unstable, unreliable and ineffective and is dangerous as a consequence. He threatens a lawsuit if Carla isn’t removed from this case.

Twist: The child refuses to go with Daddy because she said he beats Mommy. He backs off pushing Carla to get off the case.

Mystery 19: Who’s going to solve this case if Carla is removed from working with the hiker and girl?

Life Threatening 17: What’s going to happen to Carla if she’s removed from the case?

10. Bad Guys Close In (55-75):

Twist: A lie is uncovered when Carla discovers that fake FBI agents acquired information from her that they use against her.

Twist: It just got more dangerous when other bodies are discovered or other people disappear and Carla finds herself in more danger.

Twist: A trust is violated when an acquaintance of Carla’s is hired by the Villain to befriend Carla to stay informed of her progress.

Twist: It just got more dangerous when someone infiltrates the remote viewing group to create chaos, divide the members and find out what they’ve learned.

The plant infiltrates the group and quietly sabotages the team. The plant encourages fear and distrust in the remote viewing group and they temporarily lose their solidarity and unity and become ineffective. Maybe they have a fight. The group’s cohesiveness is attacked.

Mystery 20: Who’s behind the divisiveness of the remote viewing group?

Mystery 21: Why did the group scapegoat Carla?

Life Threatening 18: Who can Carla trust anymore?

Villains’ Plan 5: Why is the Villain trying to get Carla kicked off this case?

Villains’ Plan 6: How did the Villain or villains find out about the remote viewing group?

11. All is Lost (75):

Twist: A new problem occurs when the little girl runs away and Carla gets blamed for it.

Carla feels personally responsible for finding the little girl and keeping her safe.

Twist: It just got more dangerous when Carla’s house is ransacked.

Twist: New information comes to light when Carla learns that the child didn’t run away. Instead, she was kidnapped. Now they really need remote viewing to solve this crisis.

Twist: We see an unexpected side of someone when Carla learns that the girl’s father actually kidnapped the child.

Mystery 20: How is Carla going to use the remote viewing group to find not only the hiker, but also the child?

Villain’s Plan 5: To kidnap the child from her father.

Life Threatening 18: How is Carla going to save the child from being kidnapped from her father?

12. Dark Night of the Soul (75-85):

Twist: Carla has lost her resources when she gets fired from her hypnotherapy job.

Because of the drama and threats to the town’s clinic, she’s fired and walked to the door with her shoebox.

Carla, really discouraged, meets with the dream group to get help. They encourage her to try something else.

Carla convinces the father of the little girl that she has his best interests and that of his family at heart and persuades him to let her work one more time with the girl privately.

Twist: Someone changes sides when the father finally realizes that he needs to ally himself with Carla to protect his daughter.

Twist: We see an unexpected side of someone when Carla and the father team up to push forward.

Mystery 21: How are Carla and the father going to be able to solve this mystery together?

Life Threatening 19: How can Carla and the father stay safe long enough to see the Villain or villains behind bars?

Villain’s Plan 6: To isolate Carla, get her to a remote location and kill her.

13. Break into Three (85):

Twist: New options emerge when Carla uses a technique on the little girl that results in an idea to solve the mystery. The world of synthesis is at hand.

Mystery 22: Will the technique work?

Life Threatening 20: How can Carla, the little girl and her father stay safe?

14. Finale (85-110):

It’s the battle.

Twist: New options emerge when Carla is finally able to piece together some clues that give her enough information to know how to trap this kid.

Carla teams up with the girl’s father find the location identified by the remote viewing group.

Twist: It just got more dangerous when Carla and the girl’s father arrive at a remote location where they find the remains of the camper’s body.

Twist: New options emerge when they also find the child’s mother who is being imprisoned in a makeshift cage.

Twist: It just got even more dangerous when they face the Sasquatch killer directly.

Twist: Secret identify uncovered when a battle ensues. Carla pulls out the Glock that she borrowed from her nephew, and kills a man dressed as a Sasquatch.

Mystery 23: How is Carla going to out-battle the Villain or villains and survive?

Mystery 24: Will the father be willing and able to help Carla?

Mystery 25: If so, how?

Mystery 26: Who else will step forward and team up with Carla to defeat the Villain or villains?

Mystery 27: Why did the killer dress up as a Sasquatch and kill people who were in the wilderness?

Mystery 28: Did the killer’s family know all along that this was happening?

Mystery 29: If so, why didn’t they intervene and stop the kid from killing?

Mystery 30: Do they find the missing mother?

15. Final Image (110):

Carla and her husband turn on a scifi horror movie that’s about a Sasquatch terrorizing a community. They laugh at the coincidence and immediately change the station because enough is enough.