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What I learned doing this assignment is that twists are fun! And diverting the reader’s expectations is an interesting nut to crack.
1. Something planned for doesn’t happen.
✴Maybe when carabinieri offers to meet Skye, he doesn’t show… Skye breaks into the apartment himself (using… skills he saw on a Flik video). Only later does he found out the reason the guy stood him up is that he was injured. (Which means Lorna needs to go there first: slips something in his drink? Maybe she’s got seizure medication, or allergy medication, or insulin, some kind of medication her kids need… and she slips it into the carabiniere’s cappuccino foam. Troppo Italiano.)
2. Lost their resources.
✴When Skye loses his account, he loses his followers—and he also loses his eyes on the ground, since there’s no one left to help him solve the mystery.
3. Someone changes sides.
✴It seemed like Franco was the one fantasizing about killing his mom, but then it’s Vero. Or vice versa—we suspect it’s Vero, but then we get a conversation Franco had with Vero, or one she overhears, and he’s the new prime suspect.
✴Maybe Vero’s bf, the British guy, turns against her.
4. A new problem occurs.
✴The suspension bridge fails—the only way in or out of Montefiori—they’re trapped in the town. Can’t get out.
5. A lie is uncovered.
✴The birth certificate. Dates don’t match.
✴Maybe Skye’s mom discovered he has lied? This is what propels her to come to Italy…
6. New consequences emerge.
✴Skye’s sister gets threatened—how would Lorna find her, though? Maybe she wrote some scathing thought piece about her brother, and Lorna is able to track her down.
✴Carabinieri getting injured.
7. New options emerge.
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8. A mistake returns to haunt them.
✴I’d love to find something here that Skye does in the past, some kind of mistake. Maybe he got an ex pregnant?
9. A trust is violated.
✴One of Lorna’s kids starts talking openly about that night—probably Ollie? He’s like, “No, my mom was awake!” Or whatever. Contradicts her story.
✴Skye finds out Franco lied to him about something.
10. We see an unexpected side of someone.
✴Lorna lets her darker side peek out, not the sweet docile British mum. Maybe in an interaction with some random person where her rage boils over? Or maybe when she’s trying to leave Montefiori and she can’t? (She could get tearful, telling them her son just got stung by a bee and needs medical assistance… or his epidural pen…)
✴OR could be Lorna’s pent-up sexual side when she fucks Franco… and of course she’s felt sick about it ever since…
11. It just got more dangerous.
✴After the carabinieri gets hurt, maybe. Or someone has been in Skye’s room.
✴Someone mails a death certificate to Skye’s parents—mom totally freaks out.
12. Secret identity uncovered.
✴Lorna reveals who she really is—and who Francesca was to her.
✴Vero’s true identity revealed.
✴William’s true identity revealed… lol. So many secret identities@
13. The worst thing possible happens.
✴Skye gets abducted/left to die?
14. The “solution” makes things worse.
✴Skye’s crowdsourcing puts him in more and more danger.
✴Lorna tries to do something to deflect attention—and ends up drawing more of it.
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Lesley’s Twists and Turns
What I learned: This was really a great learning experience. Adding twists and turns to my Thriller map helped me organize my story, add tension, and resolve two plot issues that had me stuck.
OPENING: Sam’s editor at the magazine assigns her to interview Christian Sparrow who caught “life” for killing his wife but was released after the blood expert who investigated his case goes to prison for corrupting evidence in his cases to get convictions.
Mystery 1: Why did Sam catch this assignment?
Mystery 2: Is there friction between Sam & her boss?
Mystery 3: Why has Christian agreed to be interviewed?
Mystery 4: Did Christian murder his wife?
INCITING INCIDENT: Sam meets Christian.
Twist 1:
Direction: Sam expects Christian Sparrow to be thug.
Twist: He’s educated, insightful, sensitive, and very attractive.
Mystery 5: What is Christian’s relationship with Tracy, his attorney?
Twist 2:
Direction: Tracy is the pro-bono attorney responsible for getting Christian’s sentence overturned.
Twist: She was sleeping with him during the trial.
Villain’s Plan 1: Christian knows that Sam comes from wealth. He needs to get her to trust him.
Mystery 6: Is Sam going to write a positive or negative article? How will Christian react?
Twist 4: (NEW)
Direction: Sam is determined to write an objective article.
Twist: Sam is not objective – Her brother went to prison for stealing money from his mother to buy drugs and he was killed while incarcerated.
Life Threatening 2: Christian decides to make Sam his next victim.
Twist 5:
Direction: Sam declines Christian’s invitation to dinner.
Twist: A few days later, she re-invites herself.
Twist 6:
Direction: Sam ‘s attraction to Christian deepens
Twist: Sam gets an anonymous email warning her to stay away from him and panics.
TURNING POINT 1: Sam falls for Christian.
Villain’s plan 2: Christian follows Sam; studies her.
Life-threatening 3: Christian sets Sam up to be seduced.
Mystery 7: Why does Sam trust Christian?
Twist 7:
Direction: Sam stops seeing Christian after the email.
Twist: Christian ‘bumps’ into her at the cinema…
MIDPOINT: Sam betrays Christian.
Life threatening 4: Christian sleeps with Sam’s daughter.
Villain’s plan 3: Christian realizes that Sam has no money but her daughter Kelsey will get her trust fund money when she turns nineteen.
TURNING POINT 2: Christian elopes with Kelsey; no pre-nup.
Mystery 8: Why is Kelsey so angry?
Mystery 9: Is Kelsey really in love with Christian or is she trying to punish her mother?
Twist 8:
Direction: Kelsey, Sam’s hot-mess daughter, can’t stand Christian.
Twist: She ends up sleeping with him.
Life threatening 5: Sam hires Agnes Chinn, a private detective
Life threatening 6: Sam gets another anonymous text
Twist 9:
Direction: Kelsey is about to receive all of the money her grandma Martha’s put in her trust.
Twist: Martha is going to void trust because of Kelsey’s marriage.
Twist 10
Direction: Kelsey loves her grandma
Twist: Kelsey thinks that she’d be better off if Martha was dead.
Life threatening 7: Agnes discovers that Christian may have killed his fiancé who disappeared shortly after she announced that she was pregnant.
Twist 11
Direction: Sam believes that Tracy is sending the emails
Twist: The mother of the missing girl has been sending the warning emails.
Twist 12
Direction: Christian said that the house he was staying in belonged to a friend from college who owed him.
Twist: The ‘friend from college’ turns out to be his father who is in hospice care (Christian changed his name.) Turns out, a seven-year-old Christian ‘accidentally’ killed his younger brother in a jealous fit.
Life threatening 9: Martha dies under unexplained circumstances before she can change her will.
Life threatening 10: Agnes discovers that Christian may have killed his fiancé who disappeared shortly after she announced that she was pregnant.
Life threatening 11: Kelsey is pregnant.
Mystery 10: Why did Kelsey get pregnant when she knew that Christian didn’t want children.
Twist 13
Direction: Christian said that the house he was staying in belonged to a friend from college who owed him.
Twist: The ‘friend from college’ turns out to be his father. (Christian changed his name when he was 18)
Twist 14
Direction: Agnes meets with Blood spatter expert Justin Lambert who admits that he doctored results on multiple cases.
Twist: Lambert swears that he never doctored evidence in Christian’s case.
Life threatening 12: When Christian finds out that Kelsey is pregnant, he’s enraged and shakes her hard enough to leave marks.
Life threatening 13: Sam realizes that Christian is going to kill Kelsey as soon as he can get away with it.
Life threatening 14: Sam buys a gun.
CLIMAX: Sam confronts Christian. Christian attacks Sam. Kelsey kills him.
Life threatening 15: Sam warns Christian to keep his hands off Kelsey, confronts him with everything she knows, says she’s going to tell the cops everything.
Life threatening 16: Sam draws her gun but Christian lunges at her and the gun is knocked out of her hand.
Twist 15
Direction: Sam & Christian are alone because Kelsey is in class
Twist: Kelsey comes home unexpectedly, picks up Sam’s gun, points it at Christian.
Twist 16
Direction: Christian is cornered; Kelsey has Sam’s gun trained on him. Sam starts to call 911….
Twist: Kelsey shoots Christian in cold blood.
Mystery 11: Why does Kelsey kill Christian when she has a gun trained on him and Sam’s calling 911?
RESOLUTION: Kelsey’s son’s fifth birthday…. Christian is dead, Sam is now editor of the magazine & Kelsey’s son is healthy.
TWIST 17 (NEW)
Direction: All is well that ends well.
Twist: Is the kid a psychopath like his dad?
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What I learned doing this assignment is that twists hugely increase the thriller aspect of each scene, keeping people guessing. Twists can be set up in two ways : starting with a “reality” and finding a way to twist it, or starting with a “twist” to reveal the reality. There are many types of twists and the list provided by Hal is very helpful to create plot twists. By thinking in terms of introducing twists, the plot become more layered, revealing more about the characters and creating new actions to change direction. It was a very useful exercise, thank you.
OPENING:
We meet ANJELICA auditioning as the role of a dancer at a Club.
Twist 1 –This is a fake persona
We meet the hero DAN at the Club. Anjelica tries to seduce him. He rejects her, tells her he is married. To Sadie. Anjelica slips her hand in his pocket and removes a car
Twist 2
Dan is not married to Sadie
Mystery 1 – Why did she take something from Dan?
INCITING INCIDENT:
One of the dancers is stabbed on the street on her way home.
Mystery 2 – Who killed the girl?
Dan returns to his house. A ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign hangs on a bedroom door. He goes into another bedroom
Twist 3 – Alison was not asleep in the room
We meet Alison, Dan’s wife. We meet their daughter. Breakfast as normal. TV reports news of the murder. Dan freezes, no one else notices. He is distracted.
Alison hands Dan his new prescription on his way out. He thanks her.
Mystery 2 – Why did Dan lie about being married to Sadie?
Twist 4 – His prescription is a placebo.
Dan contacts Sadie. He tells her not to talk to the police about their relationship.
Mystery 3- What has Dan to hide? Did he kill the woman? It makes him look guilty
Twist 5 – Dan is trying to protect Alison from being hurt
Alison is launching her book about Family Law. She is asked what is the key to a successful marriage. She says they have a very honest, open relationship – they talk about everything
Twist 6 – This is ever less true than it first appears
TURNING POINT 1:
Dan becomes a suspect for the murder.
Detectives call to Dan’s house. Dan’s secret life is revealed. But he lies about the affair
Twist 6 – His secret life is revealed, but he’s not the only one with a secret life.
Alison becomes Dan’s legal support. She believes in his innocence
Twist 8 – Alison is the danger.
Dan tries to protect Sadie from her ex boyfriend. He used to beat her up. He calls the police to get a restraining order.
Twist 9– the police tell Sadie she’s getting the wrong restraining order.
Twist 10 –He would never hurt Sadie.
Alison prepares a dinner for Dan. She wants to start again. She seduces him in a dirty dancing way. He rejects her, he’s never been what she wanted. He wants a divorce. She pleads, goes quite mad in grief. He’s never seen her like this. Dan leaves, very disturbed.
Dan is losing control. He actions are erratic. He almost kills a pedestrian. He drives to a pier and contemplates suicide
Twist 11- he is not going insane. His medication is not working.
MIDPOINT
There is a second murder. Another dancer from the Club.
Dan calls to Sadie late, very disturbed. He falls apart. Sadie is worried.
Police pound on Sadie’s apartment, looking for Dan. Sadie swears he was with her all night. (she’s lying). They bring them both in for questioning. Sadie sticks to her alibi.
Twist 12 – we know she’s lying to protect Dan. This does not protect her.
The police put a trace on Dan, but he is followed at all times.
Dan is put on suspended leave from work.
Dan is doubting himself. He is getting episodes. To the police, he’s looking like a guilty man,
Twist 11 again – his medication is not working (he doesn’t know this is why he is feeling confused)
Anjeclica calls to Sadie’s apartment.
She stabs Sadie. Anjelica is the murderer
Twist 12- Anjelica is a fake persona.
Angelica texts Dan from Sadie’s phone, telling him she can no longer life for him. He scares her. She never wants to see him again.
Twist 13 – we know this is not from Sadie.
Dan calls Sadie, no answer. He goes beserk. The police are watching him get erratic. He jumps into his car and drives like crazy. They chase after him.
TURNING POINT 2: Major setback. The lowest of the low.
Dan reaches Sadie’s apartment block and enters with a code. The police are behind, but they don’t have the code. Dan races up to the apartment as the police keep buzzing below.
Dan is found over the dead body of Sadie, the woman he loves
Dan is arrested and charged with Sadie’s murder.
Twist 14 – We know Anjelica killed Sadie.
Dan is arrested. He has one phonecall. He calls his wife Alison.
Dan’s medication is taken from him, for tests. He is promised it will be returned.
Alison meets Dan and tells him to speak to no one unless she’s present.
He watches her being interviewed on TV, relishing in the attention.
Police return his medication
Twist 15– Dan’s medication is just sugarpills. He’s confused.
Detective goes to the Club looking for Anjelica Courcao. Where is she? The phone number is out of order. He goes to the address given. No one there has ever heard of Anjelica. They check video footage going back months. Anjelica Courcao leaves the apt building. Where does she live?
They track down the owner. Sure, she rented the place for 6 months. Paid cash in advance. Upfront, no questions asked.
He calls Det H. They talk. He remembers Sadie talking about Anjelica.
He calls Detective Hanly. He asks Anjelica’s name. In full. Angel Heart. Alison’s favourite movie.
Twist 16– Dan is not working with Det. Hanly
Alison tells Dan she’s applied for bail but he wont get it, unfortunately.
Dan is released on bail., much to the shock of Alison. She hides it. The media are all over the story. He is housebound, with Alison. Police outside.
Detective Hanly calls on Prof Huckleberry. He finds out Alison blackmailed him for Top of the Class Award.
Det. Hanly calls Alison to the station. He asks her about Prof Huckleberry. Alison says he was a pervert. She starts telling Det. Hanly she’s worried for her safety and their daughter. She can no longer represent her husband. She doesn’t want him in their home. She abandons him.
Det. Hanly leaves her alone. He calls Dan. Is there any evidence? Just an audio of learning Portuguese, that’s not enough. He’s running out of time, she’s abandoning the case, Dan will have to leave the home.
Dan asks the detective to send over a package. Hanly sends the female detective out to buy the goods. It is delivered to Dan’s house before Alison returns.
CLIMAX: The ultimate expression of the main conflict.
Dan has one trick up his sleeve. He has told Niamh to go stay with her friend for a few days.
Dan sets Alison up – what would get Alison to attack him. He plays up to her narcissism.
He seduces her, they play a game. A sex game….Dan produces the package. It is Anjelica Courcau’s disguise. He plays up to her narcissism.
CLIMAX: The ultimate expression of the main conflict.
Alison tries to murder Dan
TWIST – Anjelica is revealed to be Alison
RESOLUTION: The end of the journey in an emotionally satisfying way.
Alison is put behind bars, where she will remain for the remainder of her life. She is no longer in control. She can no longer have negative control over their daughter. Dan has lost Sadie but he is resolved to build a better life for himself and Nelly. He no longer feels a failure.
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<div>What I learned doing this assignment is that adding and designing twists are really fun and that a big part of a thriller’s success is that it needs a lot of engaging twists. I learned that I need to do a better job of making my Thriller Map more high level and less scene based.
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OPENING: Lure us into the story and introduce the lead character in action.
Keith, who has a black eye, is out hunting with Jack and Gabe. They come across three boys in the woods. Jack, Gabe and Keith see the boys, but the boys don’t see them.
Heather is home with her mother Barbara, making food for the Harvest celebration.
Twists:
Twist 1:
Direction: The boys are hunting with Jack.
Twist: Then come across the young boys who are later reported to have been murdered.Twist 2:
Direction: Heather is making dinner with her mom. She is having a really nice time.
Twist: Keith comes to the door covered in blood.Twist 3:
Direction: Keith is slinking around the house, thinking he made it safe.
Twist: Keith’s father Joe sees blood on his carpet and is rapidly violent with Keith in front of Heather.INCITING INCIDENT: An event that propels the Hero on the Journey.
Jack is giving a sermon and does a trick with fire that impresses his congregation. He tells the congregation that he’s chosen two boys in particular to take under his wing that year, Gabe and Keith. Their families are beaming. From that point forward we know Keith and Gabe are tied to Jack, whether they like it or not.
Meanwhile Jack’s father The Judge is out having drinks with men in suits at a strip club.
Later Heather tells her parents she’s going to see a friend. She actually goes to buy pot. On her way back (after smoking) her car breaks down. Jack is the first to see her.
Twists:
Twist 4:
Direction: Jack is preaching a sermon and reveals that he’s chosen two boys – Gabe and Keith to take under his wing and mentor that year.
Twist: It is revealed later that Jack has really selected the boys to be his right and left hand to carry out his mysterious, sinister plan with his father, The Judge. Jack gives the boys their robes and masks.Twist 5:
Direction: The Judge is out having drinks and drugs at a strip club with some prestigious looking men.
Twist: When it’s the Judge’s turn to participate in the debauchery, he leaves, coolly smoking a cigar. Later he uses the knowledge of the men’s indiscretions to blackmail them.Twist 6:
Direction: The boys tell their parents they’re going over to the church to work with Jack.
Twist: They end up at The Judge’s compound where they’re trained on a variety of weapons.Twist 7:
Direction: After learning the weapons, Jack has the boys walk into the woods.
Twist: Once deep in the woods, Jack, the only one with a weapon, orders the boys to strip down, dig graves and get into them, where he threatens them and their families.Twist 7.5:
Direction: Heather is high, driving home from her pot dealer’s house.
Twist: Her car breaks down on a back road. She’s vulnerable.Twist 7.75:
Direction: Heather is standing by her broken down car, waiting for someone, hopefully friendly, to drive by.
Twist: Jack comes first and Heather is elated and hops in.
Twist 7.8Direction: On their way back to town, Jack stops at a gas station where he asks Heather to pump the gas while he goes into the store. A couple of guys hit on her while she’s pumping gas.
Twist: When Jack comes out and the boys realize Heather is with Jack they leave, but not without giving her dirty looks behind Jack’s back. Heather is happy Jack has saved her again. Her affection for him is deepening.
Twist 8:
Direction: Jack goes to his father’s house to have a drink.
Twist: The Judge pulls a bottle on the bar and they are transported through a secret compartment to a candle lit area resembling a dungeon. There they read from the Book of Azariah.Twist 9:
Direction: Jack uses his family’s wealth and his position in town to gain entrance to anywhere he wants to go. Everyone is indebted to him and his family, so they let him in. It’s perceived that he cares about people.
Twist: Jack’s access to everyone’s private lives allows him to learn everyone’s secrets and to use them against them to create turmoil and division.TURNING POINT 1: A major twist that locks the hero into the conflict. Point of no return.
The first Ritual we see, with Keith and Gabe offering sacrifices to Jack, taking drugs and alcohol and consummating the ritual with their entanglement with Laura.
When Jack mentions including Keith’s sister Heather and not caring what Keith’s parent’s reaction would be, Keith realizes his family is in real danger.
Twists:
Twist 10:
Direction: Gabe and Keith see Laura at a grocery store and briefly talk to her. They are out of their league, but they’re trying.
Twist: At the ritual that night, after Jack has given them mushrooms, alcohol and weed, Laura appears and levitates while the boys feel like they’re falling. Jack stops it and Laura allows Gabe, Keith and the others to ravish her.Twist 11:
Direction: Heather has a crush on Jack.
Twist: Jack tells Keith he wants Heather for the Ritual. Keith refuses, putting an unknowing Heather and her family into harm’s way.Twist 12:
Direction: Keith is stalking and breathing up Jack’s accusers.
Twist: Keith is actually being stalked by Gabe.Twist 13:
Direction: There are murders taking place in the rural areas of Black Maple.
Twist: It is Gabe and/or Keith committing the murders.Twist 14:
Direction: Keith is terrified that his secrets will get out.
Twist: Jack, who is controlling Keith and causing him all of his problems, tells Keith as long as he’s loyal to him and his family, he has nothing to worry about. Twisting the blade further into Keith’s psychology.Twist 15:
Direction: Keith’s father Joe is forcing him to spend time with Jack and The Judge. He spends time with Gabe and Laura as well, by proxy.
Twist: Keith is losing his grip on reality and it’s starting to show in his changing behavior.Twist 16:
Direction: Barbara and Heather are trying to solve the mystery of who the serial killer is and if it is Keith.
Twist: It has to be Keith, Gabe, Jack or all three. Heather and Barbara are leaning towards Keith, because he’s acting the craziest – Jack and Gabe act normal.Twist 17:
Direction: Jack continues to use Laura, who he thinks is a loyal pawn.
Twist: Laura wants Jack and The Judge dead so she can control the town.Twist 18:
Direction: Barbara, The Sheriff, and the Deacon are all suspicious of Jack and The judge.
Twist: They don’t have any real evidence, and even if they did, they’re too scared to do anything about it.Twist 19:
Direction: It seems like the rituals are just sex and drug fests.
Twist: Jack has the boys slaughter animals and drink the blood, to further the ritual.Twist 20:
Direction: Jack is explaining the purpose of the Angel of Fire ritual to Gabe and Keith.
Twist: They don’t know if he’s being serious or messing with them. They’re afraid to find out.MIDPOINT: A major revelation. The opposition is 10 times worse than thought.
While following Jack, Keith and Gabe see Jack meeting with The Judge and members of The Company. There are planes, drugs, guns and money. Keith and Gabe realize Jack’s family is 1,000 times more formidable than they had realized. How they respond to that information may be different though…
Meanwhile, there is a boy accusing Jack of all kinds of horrific things. Jack must deal with the accuser.
Twist 30:
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Twist 21:
Direction: Keith and Gabe follow Jack to see what he’s up to.
Twist: They see Jack meeting with The Judge and members of The Company. There are planes, and large caches of drugs, guns and money.Twist 22:
Direction: A local boy accuses Jack of sex abuse and horrific crimes.
Twist: Jack is let off and the boy is targeted by Jack’s “Group”Twist 23:
Direction: Keith tries to talk to the Sheriff about the murders but is stumbling over his words. He’s scared of what’s happening, but he’s more scared of Jack and The Judge.
Twist: Instead of helping Keith, the Sheriff now thinks Keith is responsible for the murders and watches him closer.Twist 24:
Direction: Gabe tells Jack that they know about their involvement with The Company.
Twist: Jack has Gabe follow and anonymously deliver a message threatening Keith, to keep him quiet.Twist 25:
Direction: Keith is having family dinner with Joe, Heather, Barbara and their extended family.
Twist: We see a scene with Jack intercut with the dinner scene where Jack is telling Keith to betray his family over something that will humiliate them.Twist 26:
Direction: The Company puts up front companies in and around Black Maple.
Twist: The Company is really using Black Maple as a depot for running billions of dollars of guns, drugs and money.Twist 27:
Direction: The Judge is widely considered the most powerful and honorable man in Black Maple. He’s a staple of the town.
Twist: The Judge is really a pawn in The Company’s scheme, and he secretly harbors resentment about his role in their plan.Twist 29:
Direction: When Jack is accused, he could go down for some of the dark stuff he’s done.
Twist: The Judge gets the case file against Jack and gives it to him. Jack shows it off to The Group. Then instructs The Group to stalk and attack his accusers.TURNING POINT 2: Major setback. The lowest of the low.
The Sheriff is killed. After having been seen in an altercation with him earlier that night, Keith is accused of the crime and must go on the run. He seeks help from his mother and sister, but they are scared of him and ask him to turn himself in. When he tells them what’s been going on with Jack, they think he has lost his mind and is a homicidal maniac. Realizing his family won’t help, Keith turns for protection to the only father figure he knows – Jack. Keith doesn’t realize it, but he has fallen completely into Jack’s trap and now there is no way out.
Twists:
Twist 30:
Direction: We think the Sheriff is putting together the pieces of the conspiracy.
Twist: The Sheriff is killed.Twist 31:
Direction: Keith and the Sheriff have an altercation in a public space.
Twist: Keith is the prime suspect for the Sheriff’s murder, although it’s unclear whether or not he did it.Twist 32:
Direction:Keith goes home to get help from his mother and sister. He tells them what’s happened.
Twist: When Keith tells them the truth about everything that’s happened, they think he has lost his mind and get away from him and call the cops.<div>
Twist 33:
Direction: Keith goes to get help from the only father figure he knows – Jack.
Twist: Keith has finally fallen fully into Jack’s plan. There’s no way out now.</div><div>
Twist 34:
Direction: Jack tells Keith he needs to make a phone call to secure his safety.
Twist: Jack actually calls The Judge and tells him he has Keith safe. The Judge then puts out the A.P.B for Keith for the murders.</div><div>
Twist 35:
Direction: Keith is in danger from the entire town, who thinks he’s a murderer.
Twist: It is Gabe who finally turns on Keith, at Jack’s direction.</div><div>
Twist 36:
Direction: Scared and directionless, Barbara tells Deacon what Keith told her.
Twist: The Deacon, in a creepy way, says Keith is obviously disturbed and the best thing for Barbara to do would be for her to turn him in and pray for him.</div><div>
</div>CLIMAX: The ultimate expression of the main conflict.
The Climax of the movie is the shocking murder of Keith’s mother, father and sister and Laura at the order of Jack and by Keith’s friend Gabe. This takes place within the Ritual for when Jack is finally able to transform into the Angel of Fire. The ultimate climax of the movie is when Jack does the ritual and it works – he levitates off the ground, fully on fire and sprouting giant wings.
Twist 37:
Direction: Jack tells Keith and Gabe they’re going to take Keith somewhere safe. He blindfolds them.
Twist: They pull up to Keith’s family’s home. Jack puts a gun in Keith’s hands and tells him the only way he can be safe now is if he “kills the problem”.Twist 38:
Direction: Keith goes into the house to kill his family.
Twist: His family is hysterical, and Keith can’t bring himself to do it.<div>
Twist 39:
Direction: When Keith can’t do it, for a second things seem like they’re be ok.
Twist: Jack and Gabe come in and the vibe changes.</div><div>
Twist 40:
Direction: Barbara and Heather think Jack and Gabe are there to rescue them from Keith.
Twist: Jack orders Gabe to subdue them and tie them up.</div><div>
Twist 41:
Direction: After Gabe’s done tying them up, Keith’s father walks in. As Keith is holding the gun, his dad lunges for him.
Twist: After not killing anyone for the entire movie, a lifetime of abuse flashes before Keith’s eyes and he kills his abusive father.</div><div>
Twist 42:
Direction: Barbara and Heather are brought to the ritual. We (and they) don’t know what Jack has in store for them.
Twist: At the Ritual’s climax, after Jack has toyed with them psychologically for awhile, Gabe kills Barbara and Heather at Jack’s command.</div><div>
Twist 43:
Direction: When Heather is killed, she becomes the 13th soul, fulfilling the quota. The boys light Jack on fire.
Twist: Jack levitates off the ground, catching fire as he rises up. When he is 30 feet off the ground he sprouts giant dark angel wings. The Ritual actually works. He is clearly the Angel of Fire now.</div><div>
</div>RESOLUTION: The end of the journey in an emotionally satisfying way.
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Twist 44:
Direction: We don’t know if Jack is dead or alive.
Twist: Keith, sitting in prison is visited by Jack, who looks no worse for the wear. Jack shows him a small burn mark where the fire entered his body and soul. He tells Keith he must stay in prison for the rest of his life. Jack’s eyes flash fire.<div>
Twist 45:
Direction: Jack and Gabe are talking. It appears Jack is being friendly and mentoring to Gabe.
Twist: Jack is actually whispering that Gabe needs to kill himself, to complete the plan.</div><div>
Twist 46:
Direction: Jack meets with his father and The Company men.
Twist: In a turn of events, Jack is able to control them all, through his new powers.</div><div>
Twist 47:
Direction: Gabe loses his mind and is taken, by order of The Judge, to the mental asylum where The Judge’s daughter has been.
Twist: Gabe escapes.</div><div>
Twist 48:
Direction: Gabe makes it to the top of the asylum. We think he’s made it out.
Twist: Gabe kills himself by crossing his arms and falling backwards from the top of the asylum into the myst. The Angel of Fire hangs over the asylum.IN BETWEEN CREDITS
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Direction: Jack is packing things into boxes. We don’t know whose things.
Twist: Jack is back on the road, listening to music and enjoying the breeze.</div><div>
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Direction: Jack is preaching at a new, bigger church.
Twist: On the delivery of a powerful line, Jack looks at a boy and Jack’s eyes flash fire. It’s the last image of the movie.</div><div>
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Subject: Pat’s Twist and Turns
What I learned doing this assignment is: Twists and turns keep the audience engaged.
1. Mystery: Two young boys bicycling on a dirt road through the woods come upon three bodies in a dump area.
They are so scared they run home to tell their parents.
2. INCITING INCIDENT: TERRY, brother of one of the victims, having a drink in a bar. Gets the news “His brothers are missing.”
3. The detectives interview the main suspect – John George. He is belligerent with the detective.
Why is he belligerent with police?
Does he have something to hide?
Twist 1: He thinks they’re there because he’s shot to many deer for the year.
4 Neighbors around the area give John George a bad name.
What do the neighbors know?
Direction: The villain has convinced neighbors that John George is a bad guy.
Twist 2: In reality he’s not a Teddy bear, but he’s not a killer.
5.Mystery Mr. Favors offers food to the searchers.to appear to be a nice guy.
Direction: Appears to be a nice guy.
Twist 3: He’s no nice guy.
6.Mystery: Detective finds blood in John George’s truck and calls Terry to tell him things aren’t good.
Direction: Appears to be blood from victims.
Twist 4: Blood is from a deer.
TURNING POINT 1
7. Terry, brother, realizes that he must find his brothers’ killer.
8.Intrigue Terry gets angry with one of John George’s sons.
9.Mystery That night, the son ends up dead in his car.10. Life Threatening: John George angry about his son comes to look for Terry.
Direction: Because of the fight, he thinks Terry has knocked off his son.
Twist 5: Terry had nothing to do with the killing of his son.
11.Suspense: Detective finds out John George has served time in prison.
12. Life threatening: Terry gets a call from someone. The caller. tells him if he doesn’t get off the case, he’ll be killed.
Direction: Terry believes it to be John George.
Twist 6: It’s really Mr. Favors the killer.
13. Life threatening:
Terry talks with John George on the street. A fight breaks out.Who was the caller?
MIDPOINT.
14. VILLAIN’S PLAN: John George is shot and almost killed.
Why would someone shoot John George?
15. Mystery: The detective and Terry are run off the road by a black sedan.
Who was in the car that run them off road?
Who ran them off the road?
Direction: They think it’s John George.
Twist 7: It’s really Mr. Favors.
TURNING POINT 2:
16.Suspense: Terry gets a tip that the ATVS may be in Mr. Favors storage shed and is almost killed when he comes across Favors near there.
Who called in the tip?
Direction: Terry thinks it one of John George’s sons.
Twist 8: It’s Mrs. Favors? She feared being in the middle of this. Wants to clear herself. She used a muffle rag so they couldn’t tell if she was male or female. (A trust is violated)
17.CLIMAX: The ATVS were found in the storage shed. Mr. Favors was arrested.
18. RESOLUTION: Terry’s family got some closure. John George was released from the hospital. Got and apology from Terry and police.
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THRILLER ASSIGNMENT DAY 9
Alfred’s Twists and Turns
What I learned doing this assignment is:
This is more valuable than I thought it would be. It pin-points places to plan twisting the script to keep the audience confused without “confusing them.”
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.
TYPES OF PLOT TWISTS
You want to use this list to brainstorm possible plot twists. Obviously, this isn’t about representing all the different kind of plot twists, but rather discovering the ones that work for you.
**1. Something planned for doesn’t happen.
2. Lost their resources.
**3. Someone changes sides.
**4. A new problem occurs.
**5. A lie is uncovered.
6. New consequences emerge.
**7. New options emerge.
8. A mistake returns to haunt them.
9. A trust is violated.
**10. We see an unexpected side of someone.
**11. It just got more dangerous.
12. Secret identity uncovered.
13. The worst thing possible happens.
14. The “solution” makes things worse.
**twist used
3. Tell us the places you added twists.
Include the new version of your Thriller Map.
THRILLER MAP
ACT 1 – STEP 1 — STATUS QUO.
OPENING/CALL TO ADVENTURE: (STATUS QUO/HERO RELUCTANT)
Life threatening 1 — Mutilated dead bodies in a mountainous wilderness
TWIST 1
v Direction: Spencer is going fishing.
v Twist: Russell has other plans, won’t reconsider or find someone else.
Life threatening 2 — Russell, despite Spencer’s objections, sets off to assess the rumors
TWIST 2
v Direction: Russell thinks he is more qualified than he is.
v Twist: Spencer immediately begins noticing more things that Russell
Intrigue – Because of Aliens, mystical creatures? The true believers are scared
Mystery 1 – who or what thing or things did this?
TWIST 3
v Direction: Russell is ready to accept Aliens
v Twist: Spencer
Mystery 2 – Why the mutilations?
Mystery 3 – The bodies are mutilated, but they show overt signs of weapons
TWIST 4
v Direction: Russell is promoting the idea of wild animals… or Aliens
v Twist: Spencer looks for wounds, like gun shots, but is unsuccessful… begins to consider Russel’s POV, even though not completely convinced.
Villain’s plan 1 — To try and influence everyone into believing it’s wild animals.
INCITING INCIDENT/DRIVER: (HERO MUST FIND AN ANSWER/SOLUTION)
Life threatening – Spencer is raising questions
TWIST 5
v Direction: Spencer is beginning to suspect the lodge owner
v Twist: She has an iron-clad proof she could not have done it
Life threatening – Spencer’s life may be on the line if he doesn’t quit.
TWIST 6
v Direction: Russell orders Spencer to cease and desist.
v Twist: Spencer can’t let the mystery alone. He covertly continues.
Mystery 4 — Why is Russell being so adamant? Why did he go to all the trouble to get Spencer go with him if he now wants him to quit?
Mystery 5 – With the bodies turned over to the coroner, why is Spencer instructed to abandon the investigation.
TWIST 7
v Direction: The idea peddled to the corner is that wild animals attacked the hikers
v Twist: The corner says it looks like they were bombed.
ACT 1 –STEP 2
Mysteries begin to evolve:
6 The coroner: The coroner’s assessment is dubious about the cause of death and Russel’s theory.
TWIST 8
v Direction: The coroner is thinking they were bombed, but
v Twist: He doesn’t see how that could be. Surely someone would have heard it.
7 The fenced off area: Spencer begins to think it’s odd.
TWIST 9
v Direction: Spencer is biologically savvy enough to question why that area is fenced.
v Twist: He discovers that Russell requestioned the wire
8 The lodge owner: Spencer begins to question her mental state.
9 The lodge owner’s dogs: They are huge and definitely not people friendly.
TWIST 10
v Direction:
v Twist:
10 The earthquake: Its epicenter was approximately in the fenced-off area.
TWIST 11
v Direction: The dogs are huge, growling and baring their teeth.
v Twist: The lodge oner, takes Spencer to the dogs, speaks to the dogs, they become as docile as kittens.
11 The pack stations: The one closest to the possible crime scene is near the lodge.
TWIST 12
v Direction: The lodge owner states that her nearby pack station is the only on in the area near the mutilations.
v Twist: Spencer discovers another pack station, but on the other side of the mountain.
Villain’s plan 2 – To try and keep Spencer quiet – get Spencer to quit asking questions that might expose him
TWIST 13
v Direction: Russell discovers that Spencer is still asking questions.
v Twist: However, Spencer, without revealing all his evidence, tells Russell he suspects the loge owner’s huge dogs on the loose.
TURNING POINT 1 – Spencer begins suspects the lodge owner’s dogs and a coverup
Life threatening – Will she try to quiet Spencer if/when she suspects “he knows.”
Mystery –What is going on in Russel’s head? He seemed to champion the wild animals idea.
Villain’s plan – to milk Spencer’s belief that it was the lodge owner and her dogs.
TWIST 14
v Direction: Russell is pleased with Spencer viewpoint shift, but pays the lodge woman a visit, on the quiet.
v Twist: The lodge owner becomes angry and wry of Spencer.
ACT 2 – STEP 3
ETC
MIDPOINT TWIST: (THE EYE OPENER) – Spencer now begins to suspect Russell
ACT 3 – STEP 5
TURNING POINT 2: (THE BATTLE SEEMS LOST) – (THE ANTAGONIST/VILLAIN APPEARS TO HAVE VANQUISHED THE HERO)
Life threatening – literally takes on a new meaning as Spencer struggles to stay alive.
Mystery – Will Spencer make it?
Villain’s plan – to kill Spencer and default to putting the suspicion back on the lodge owner.
ACT 4 – STEP 7
CRISIS: PROTAGONIST (HERO) AND ANTAGONIST (VILLAIN) MEET FACE TO FACE)
Life threatening – This has literally become a life and death battle.
Mystery – Who will survive?
Villain’s plan – To stay alive by vanquishing Spencer.
ACT 4 – STEP 8
CLIMAX: (FINAL CONFLICT –ONE MUST EMERGE A WINNER)
RESOLUTION-/-DENOUMENT: (NEW STATUS QUO)
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Mary Emmick’s Twists and Turns
What I learned doing this assignment is in order to keep the audience from being too comfortable, build in twists that keep them engaged. Set a direction, then shift to another direction.
1. List out your structure using whatever structure you are comfortable with.
Opening – Car wash explodes after Katie has driven out of it.
Direction: Someone places a bomb on the bottom of Katie’s car in the carwash.
Twist: The bomb that was attached clumsily to the bottom of the car falls off in the carwash. After Katie drives away the carwash explodes. She is safe.
Life Threatening: Is someone trying to kill her?
Mystery: Who is it and why is she a target?
Inciting Incident – Katie’s friend Natasha from the Morluvian Immigrant Assistance Center (MIAC) disappears. Katie sets out to find her.
Life Threatening: Katie realizes that she and her friend Natasha are targets.
Mystery: Before Natasha’s disappearance, she told Katie that her brother Antony Petrov was imprisoned in a Tajerkistani prison by Tajerkistani President Igor Stepanov.
Villain’s Plan: The villains consist of a ruthless cabal of billionaire individuals: Igor Stepanov, President of Tajerkistan who is threatened by Antony Petrov, social disrupter and critic of Stepanov; Igor’s advisors, Stan and Sergei; Aaron Stench, Oil company magnate and new owner of social media company…his goal: to control all social media and shut down the free press and the internet; Gordon Grimes, owner of FACT NEWS, an international news conglomerate that deals in propaganda which promotes the ultra-wealthy class and whose goal is control all television broadcasting worldwide; Morluvian woman, Olga Novikov, the new manager of Morluvian Immigrant Assistance Center, an operative who works for Igor Stepanov; her assistant, Victor Ivanova.
Turning Point I – Jack Green (Katie’s husband) who works in security as a software engineer at UnisoftNW is working one night at home trying to fight off the attacks of hackers on the system when their power and internet goes down.
Life Threatening 1: Their power and internet go down.
Life Threatening 2: They grab their granddaughter who they are babysitting and drive to his company and a car chase ensues.
Life Threatening 3: Someone breaks into the Green’s house that night when they are gone. They rifle through their computer and make a mess of the office. They see the pirated Disney Dumbo video as well as a few other old VHS tapes and take them.
Life Threatening 4: Later that week police show up and press charges for pirating VHS movies. They are fined for 8 pirated VHS tapes at $500 a pop it comes to $4,000.
Direction: Katie and Jack were informed on by the intruders that they had pirated old VHS children’s video tapes.
Twist: They are fined for 8 pirated VHS tapes for total of $4,000…humorous twist
Mystery: Who is targeting them?
Villain’s Plan: Igor Stepanov, Aaron Stench, Gordon Grimes and the rest of the cabal are coordinating to take down UnisoftNW in the final course of action to control the internet as well as all social media, press, and television worldwide in order to control the world. Their goal: a kleptocracy.
Midpoint – Katie and Natasha are at an outdoor café, and a car races towards them at high speed. Someone is trying to kill them both.
Life Threatening: A car is attempting to kill them.
Mystery: Who is doing this to them? What do these people want?
Villain’s Plan: Because Natasha is in communication with the Morluvian resistance, the cabal fear she is a threat to their power. Katie’s husband Jack is fending off threats to take down the internet and run it deviously for the cabal’s selfish and devious ends.
Turning Point II – At hair salon, her regular stylist Sue has been replaced by a COVID masked woman who is definitely NOT SUE!
Life Threatening: The stylist attempts to stab Katie in the back of the neck with a pair of sharp scissors. Katie sees her pick up the scissors in the mirror.
Direction: Hairstylist is about to stab Katie.
Twist: Katie quickly swivels around in her chair and kicks the stylist to the ground and flees. First she pours a solution of hair gel on her assailant’s face and head blinding the stylist for the time being. A car chase ensues and Katie drives away safely when a large group of political protesters who support the Justice Party cross the street when the light turns red halting the assailant’s car.
Mystery: Who is this?
Villain’s Plan: If Katie is killed, they can stop her support of her husband Jack and her friend Natasha.
Climax – At garden tour of Lake Washington mansion, the gardener whisks Katie away into his car; he informs her that someone is trying to kill her.
Life Threatening: Someone tries to assassinate Katie.
Mystery: Who is the gardener who whisks her away in his car?
Villain’s Plan: The cabal sends an assassin to the garden to kill Katie.
Direction: Katie is on a tour of a Lake Washington mansion garden that was coordinated by new garden club member Allison Hanover.
Twist: The gardener is actually CIA who is protecting her from being assassinated. Allison Hanover is actually working for Aaron Stench and Aaron Stench is the owner of the home.
Resolution – Disaster is averted.
Life Threatening: At the Morluvian charity luncheon Katie sees in the mirror Olga Novikov switching her beverage glass on the table with Natasha’s glass. Katie has Natasha district Olga and Katie switches glasses. Olga later drinks the beverage and passes out, later dying in an ambulance.
Direction: Olga was going to poison Natasha with poison in her drink.
Twist: Katie sees this and deftly switches glasses so that Olga poisons herself by drinking it.
Mystery: Why is Olga doing this? Is she trying to kill Natasha?
Villain’s Plan 1: With Olga out of the picture, Natasha and Katie learn from Katherine Volodko, an undercover CIA spy posing as the insufferable Morluvian immigrant, how to break into Olga’s computer and access the passcode of the cabal that is set to take over the world.
Direction: Olga is the manager of the Morluvian Immigrant Assistance center and Katherine Volodkoa, is an annoying immigrant that spends time at the center and causes trouble. Natasha and Katie suspect that Katherine may be working to harm them.
Twist: Olga is actually an operative working for President Igor Stepanov and plans to kill Natasha and Katie. Katherine Volodko is a CIA spy trying to help them.
Villain’s Plan 2: They expose this diabolical plan to take over the world to the president, the press, and the world.
Villain’s Plan 3: Natasha’s brother escapes from the Tajerkistani prison and leads an uprising that overthrows the corrupt government lead by President Igor Stepanov. Others in the cabal are exposed as criminals: Aaron Stench’s takeover of the social media company goes to pot and he is bankrupt. He is indicted for hacking into UnisoftNW and multiple corruption charges. Gordon Grime’s international television empire falls to the lowest ratings ever and everyone considers Gordan and his media empire a laughingstock. In the next election the Justice Party wins and democracy and freedom survive. President Igor Stepanov is taken out and Tajerkistan no longer wages war against Morluvia. Antony Petrov becomes an important advisor to the president of Morluvia.
Direction: The cabal expects to take over the world.
Twist: By their sheer ego mania and stupidity Aaron Stench, Gordon Grimes, President Igor Stepanov and the cabal ruin any success they may have obtained and they destroy themselves.
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Budinscak’s Twists and Turns – Day 9
What I learned Doing This Assignment:
o Great way to keep the audience and the reader engaged
o Some of the twists happen naturally.
o Two ways to do it – start with a direction and add a twist, or start with the twist and create a direction that goes the opposite to it.
1. Read 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
Twist 1
Direction – Commander arrives anonymously
Twist – 2 different drones mirror the helicopter’s flight
Twist 2
Direction – Vicki drives down a quiet highway
Twist – a UFO flies near emitting a light that momentarily blinds Vicki
Twist 3
Direction – the UFO flies over a herd of grazing deer
Twist – the deer flee into the road causing Vicki to lose control of her vehicle
Twist 4
Direction – The UFO looks like a saucer
Twist – it’s a drone outfitted to look like a flying saucer
Twist 5
Direction – Vicki walks down highway, cell phone dead
Twist – chased by wolves
Twist 6
Direction – Vicki scurries up a tree for cover
Twist – wolves run by her to a small bush
Twist 7
Direction – the wolves are hunting
Twist – the wolves circle and protect exotic kittens
Twist 8
Direction – Vicki needs to go it alone, no added weight
Twist – she grabs the 2 kittens and brings them on the journey.
Twist 9
Direction – the Commander introduces himself to the operation
Twist – shoots the old ops manager to set the tone
Twist 10
Direction – Vicki evades human pursuers, stops to catch her breath
Twist – robotic animals pounce from around the corner
Twist 11
Direction – Vicki and a camper emerge from the mineshaft
Twist – the camper is shot dead.
Twist 12
Direction – Vicki is shot dead
Twist – the aliens reveal themselves and save Vicki’s lives
Twist 13
Direction – Vicki comes back to life
Twist – there are 2 Vicki’s – body and spirit
3. Tell us the places you added the twists.
Twists are reflected in the Thriller Map below
4. Include the new version of your Thriller Map
OPENING: Lure us into the story and introduces the lead character in action.
A bruised, exhausted Vicki collapses at the feet of a robotic animal.
Mystery #1 – Are aliens real?
– What’s the source of UFO sightings?
– Sightings have occurred the past few weeks
– Videos on the internet
Villain’s Plan #1 – Ensure the project operates in anonymity.
Twist 1
INCITING INCIDENT: An event that propels the Hero on the Journey.
Was that a UFO? Driving home, Vicki crashes her jeep interacting with a flying object.
Mystery #2 – Flashing Lights in the sky
Twist 2
LT #1 – Vicki momentarily blinded by light/lazar from flying object.
LT #2 – Spooked deer flee into the road, Vicki crashes jeep avoiding.
Twist 3
Mystery #3 – Systems affected
– Cell phone doesn’t work
– Car computer systems malfunction
Twist 4, 5
LT #3 – Vicki chased by wolves.
Mystery # 4 – Aberrant animal behavior
– Unnatural sounds
Villain’s Plan – #2 – Shut the project down and make it disappear in 24 hours.
Twist 6, 7
Villain’s Plan #3 – Dispose of all unwanted equipment.
– Moved to area of deepest shaft
– Explosive device wired.
Twist 8
TURNING POINT 1: A major twist that locks the hero into the conflict. Point of no return.
Vicki watches a drone fly into an abandoned mine shaft – and follows.
Mystery #5 – Who is piloting the drone?’
– Who/what is in the abandoned mine?
LT #4 – Vicki climbs down a rotted ladder, it breaks and she’s barely able to hang on.
Mystery #6 – Who are these men?
– Why are they chasing Vicki?
– Why are they firing at her?
Twist 9
LT #5 – Vicki evades an armed security team pursuing her.
Twist 10
Mystery #7 – The Commander – who is this pesky intruder?
– Who is she?
– Who sent her?
– Why is she here?
– Is this the one who escaped detection/security?
Villain Plan #4 – Assess all witnesses
– Captured campers
– Disgruntled employees
– Forest Ranger
MIDPOINT: A major revelation. The opposition is 10 times worse than thought.
Vicki finds prisoners – people and animals in cages.
Mystery #8 – Why are there prisoners?
– Why are these people (campers) locked up?
– Why are animals in cages?
Mystery #9 – Who/what would do this and why?
LT #6 – Shocked to find prisoners. Vicki can only free one before her pursuers. They escape.
LT #7 – The pursuers fire and the camper is killed/wounded.
Twist 11
LT #8 – Fleeing down a tunnel, Vicki can’t quite make the leap and tumbles down a hole and is hurt.
LT #9 – A bruised, exhausted Vicki collapses at the feet of a robotic animal.
Mystery #9 – Who is responsible for this operation?
– Vicki meets the man in charge, the Commander.
LT #10 – Vicki is brutally interrogated by the Commander.
LT #11 – A sympathetic techie allows Vicki to escape. The Commander shoots the techie on the spot.
Villain Plan #5 – Dispose all witnesses
TURNING POINT 2: Major setback. The lowest of the low.
Vicki’s is shot and seriously wounded.
LT #12 – LT frees the rest of the campers under fire.
LT #13 – Vicki releases all the caged animals.
Mystery #10 – What is it about the exotic cat?
LT #14 – As security approaches, Vicki wraps herself around the exotic cat to protect – and Vicki’s shot.
Villain Plan #6 – Time to wrap it up and make it disappear.
Twist 12
CLIMAX: The ultimate expression of the main conflict.
Aliens are real! The new iteration Vicki makes the Commander disappear.
Twist 13
LT #15 – The alien restores Vicki’s life with a few modifications.
Mystery #11 – What makes Vicki different?
– Will there be differences?
– Will they be easy to decipher?
Mystery #12 – What will this iteration of Vicki do to the Commander?
– Vicki approves aliens taking the Commander and the rest of his team with them – make them disappear.
RESOLUTION: The end of the journey in an emotionally satisfying way.
The escaped campers tell a story of Forest Ranger Vicki.
Mystery #13 – What happened to Vicki?
– Her life was restored – her flesh as well as her spirit. She is one ‘person’, but easily exists as two separate ‘people’/entities.
– Her physical self has been altered – aged, wiser yet with a younger walk.
– Known as the animal’s friend who’s always watching.
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