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What I learned doing this assignment is by adding layers, it’s the start to tying everything together.
Assignment 1: Walking Dead
Plot Surface: A world now filled with zombie.
Layer 1- Survival of the fittest- how far will one go to survive? The decisions to leave someone behind
Layer 2- Mystery- is Fort Bennington the safest place for survivors to go? Will it still be there?
Layer 3- Conspiracy- is there a cure or not?
Rick: Character surface- A born leader
Layer 1- Secret identity- Cowboy vibes
Layer 2- Competition- with Shane on who will be the true leader of group and Lori’s heart
Layer 3- Hidden History- being a Father, seems like he wasn’t really always there for Carl.
Layer 4- Intrigue- Hope to keep going especially as everyone around are starting to give up
Shane Character Surface- a stand up guy and team leader
Layer 1- Hidden Relationship – love for Lori
Layer 2- Hidden Agenda- to leave the group when he no longer is needed
Layer 3- Betrayal- kills Otis to survive
Layer 4- Competition- with Rick on who will be the true leader of group and Lori’s heart
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Assignment 2: Tree Whisperer
(Still exploring but here is one possibility)
Plot Surface- Susan gets a second chance at life she now owes the forest and there is evil coming that she must save it.
Layer 1- Mystery- why is Susan the key? Why is she the lucky human to get magical abilities?
Layer 2- Hidden History- how Susan, Wilma and Shadow are connected through the ancestral line.
Layer 3- Hidden Agenda- the real reason Mystery Forest Ranger is assigned to help Susan more than to just find her soulmate.
Layer 4- Major Reveal- how Bufford Park became to be.
Susan Character Surface- a meek, quirky, recently divorced Forest Ranger who gets a second chance at life.
Layer 1- Wound- feels guilty for failing as wife and mother and shameful for loving her freedom from her society roles.
Layer 2- Hidden Agenda- trying to live two lives by keep separate her co-workers from her forest friends.
Layer 3- Competition- within herself, to love the good just as much as the bad.
Layer 4- Secret Identity- becoming a powerful being
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Bobby’s Plot and Character Layers: What I learned doing this assignment is… this really helps to organize what might be the first season arc, and unlock possible character ideas!
PLOT LAYERS – AMP
SURFACE: AMP is a sentient AI Detective, there to help the precinct
LAYER 1: SHIFT IN MEANING: AMP is “alive” – inhibitor chip renders him a slave
LAYER 2: SECRET IDENTITY: AMP has a Shadow Program even he isn’t aware of – a “false bottom” to his personality – AMP starts getting “flashes” of a street corner at night; a computer techie in his apartment at night; meeting with someone….
LAYER 3: MAJOR SCHEME REVEALED: Murder of tech at GGG was committed by a robot!
LAYER 4: THOUGHT STORY WAS ONE THING…: AMP’s hidden program is an assassin, and HE is responsible for the tech’s murder
LAYER 5: MAJOR BETRAYAL: Ailene working with Miles Malik all along
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Jan’s Plot and Character Layers
WIL: to recognize and re-sort layers into cascades of constantly unveiling layers of realities
Plot surface
L1 Oliver arrives to assist with funeral
L 2 Something smells like foul play, did the parents die by murder?
L3 Homicide refuses to investigate
L4 Have there been members of the own tribe involved?
L5 What is the reason for the liquidation?
L 6 Is Marie trustworthy?
L 7 Did someone from own family hired killers?
L 8 Marie meet Stefanie
L 9 Have his parents been in the way of the WM-plan?
L 10 Will tribe and family steal the potable water from the public
L 11 The bad guy is not the mastermind
L 12 The meta plan of privatization of water will continue
Character Surface
L1 Oliver arrives and plans to leave after funeral
L2 Oliver starts to investigate
L 3 Oliver and Marie are cousins
L 4 Oliver and Marie find incidents that family is somehow involved
L5 Stefanie, the general and his agenda of spying;
L 6 Oliver meets the citizens he ran away from
L 7 Oliver and the deed he was blamed for and ran away
L 8 Stefanie, Marie and the ambush of love
L 9 Oliver opens about what really happened back then 31 years ago.
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Karen Christine´s ASSIGNMENT 1 – Layers in BIG LITTLE LIES
What I learned doing this assignment is that I didn´t find it that easy to differentiate between what is a plot layer and what is a character layer. Especially in a show with 5 main characters that each have an influence on the plot. Well, I did my best 😉 And it cleared my view on my own project which I am grateful for.
Plot Surface:
The school year in Monterey, CA, has just begun. It´s the first school day at elementary school. We watch 5 mums and other parents bring their kids to school.
Layer 1: We watch from the beginning that a dead body was found. Who he/she is and what happened will be revealed much later. Police is investigating.
Layer 2: A little girl is attacked on that first day. A boy is accused. A competition starts: How is taking whose side?
Layer 3: After it´s been revealed what happened during the charity event and who killed Perry, the 5 moms conspire against the police and against whole Monterey. And: against Perry´s mother.
Character Surface: JANE
Jane is new in town. She is a single mom and her son Ziggy starts first grade with the other kids.
Layer 1: Hidden Agenda: She is running away from something.
Layer 2: Hidden Character History: She has been raped by Ziggy´s father.
Layer 3: Secret Identity: we do not learn much about her past, we only know that she does not answer her son´s questions about his father, and is still running away from what happened. After the death of Perry she is part of the conspiracy.
Layer 4: Wound: She still cannot trust another man and let him come closer.
Layer 5: Competition: with Renata, the mother of Amabelle who was attacked.
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Karen Christine´s Plot and Character Layers:
My show THE BANKER
What I learned doing this assignment is that the more I take the assignments and possible answers with ease and try to throw my ideas on the page as fast as possible, the more I discover other layers and “worlds” behind the surface world. Interesting and very rewarding!
PLOT LAYERS – Story beneath the story:
Major scheme: A banker is being scammed in a big way. His money and that of his wealthy clients is gone.
Mystery revealed: Wirepuller of the scam is the team around Jonas (he, Juli and Emma), instructed by someone even higher (whom we never see – or only at the end, and this is more than one person, it is rather an institution or movement).
Thought the story was one thing, but it is another: WD is being used to cause the insolvency of a whole bank – and maybe even more banking houses.
Major shift in Meaning: It´s not only about WD. It´s about the demolition of a whole banking institution.
Hidden history: There is a reason why WD was chosen. And the reason is false step in his past, way before he started his banking career.
Hidden plan: To destroy the banking world as it was.
Major betrayal: A multitude of people will be betrayed and scammed. And even Jonas, who is a relative of one of the big wirepullers, is being used (he is not the real son as the man found out, he sacrifices him).
2. CHARACTER LAYERS – identity beneath the identity.
Wolf-Dieter, WD
Secret identity: he is responsible for the huge loss of his own money and that of his clients, pretends to be the one that “will take care of it all” – maybe calls together a team of “experts” to help him (those experts will probably not exist, he does everything by himself and with Emma´s help).
Character intrigue: We admire how he sets this all up, and stays cool at the same time (the born problem-solver), though it extremely pulls at him. He manages to handle all the different levels – the bank, the crypto world, and becoming an expert in a formerly unknown field to straighten his huge mistake (let himself be manipulated).
Hidden relationships and conspiracies: with Emma, maybe for a while with his neighbor and old friend, who works at the police
Hidden Character History: he slept with a woman in his past long before he started his career. He forgot about it, and she never told him that she gave birth to a child. She didn´t even tell her spouse, until now. It turns out: The spouse (now husband) is WD´s biggest rival.
Emma:
Secret identity: She is part of the scammer team around Jonas.
Character intrigue: We like her from the beginning. She wants the best for her unborn child knowing that the father is not the right man for her on the longterm. Contrary to WD her perspective is more open. She is strong though in a week position right now (pregnant, only few money). We want to know if she can really help him get the whole money back – while she is still together with Jonas. And we want to experience how this whole story ends for her. Will she be happy in the end and get the life she deserves?
Hidden relationships and conspiracies: with Jonas (WD does not know at the beginning), with WD (Jonas does not know), with all of them (her boss at the restaurant and her family does not know).
Hidden Character History: have to think about this. First thought: Jonas´ father urged her to have sex with her. She wants to come back at him (second reason why she helps WD). Jonas does not know.
Jonas:
Secret identity: Thinking about this question I might try another path and let him decide not only to work for the inner crypto circle but to become a rival of the big wirepullers. Will let this sink a bit.
Character intrigue: He looks unconspicuous, and therefore we underestimate the damage he can bring to another person – like WD. Later we discover that he has a heart (contrary to Juli), and tries to somewhat save WD or protect him from more harm when he finds out WD is his real father. But it will be too late.
Hidden relationships and conspiracies: Jonas and Juli might create a hidden relationships when she manages to seduce him. And also on the scamming side they might develop an alliance against Emma without her knowing.
Hidden Character History: Jonas is the son of WD – result of WD´s false step at a very young age. Even Jonas does not know, but always had the feeling that something was not right in his family. Even is mother did not tell him and his father until now. Result of that was that Jonas acted out his feelings in his teenager years by torturing others. He was never caught and found guilty. This encouraged him to take the scamming and torturing to a much higher level now.
Juli:
Secret identity: The intelligent good looking young women is calculating every move she´s doing to get to the top of the crypto insider circle.
Character intrigue: She seems to fulfill Jonas´ orders, but behind the curtain there is more going on. Here and there we notice that she finds Jonas attractive and we get the notion that she would take what she wants, knowing well that Jonas and Emma are a couple and are awaiting a baby. Juli is a Machiavellian in a beautiful and appealing disguise.
Hidden relationships and conspiracies: She´s in a sexual (and merely that) relationship with one or even several of the big wirepullers. Jonas and Emma don´t know that. And even the different men don´t know that.
Hidden Character History: We will get to know later that she has a programming background and was popular and famous for her ability to program illegal stuff in college.
3. Organize them each into a possible sequence of reveals.
Plot Surface:
Layer 1: WD and his clients at the bank are being scammed in a big way.
Layer 2: While the police and the bank are investigating, WD is doing his research on his own.
Layer 3: The world of Jonas, Emma and Juli.
Layer 4: The inner crypto circle with the goal to destroy the banking world as it was and to create a decentralized banking system.
Layer 5: WD deciding to ruin those who ruined him: either his bank that did not trust him – or even the inner crypto circle with the help of Emma.
Layer 6: WD´s past and his relationship to Jonas´s mother and father.
Layer 7: End of WD´s marriage and family life as it was – and the beginning of his new love and path.
Character Surface Wolf-Dieter:
Layer 1: the clean banker who wants to put everything back into order
Layer 2: the husband who has fantasies about his assistant which he never lived out
Layer 3: the wounded personality that decides not to give up but to take revenge
Layer 4: the banker who dives into the crypto world to become an expert himself
Layer 5: the banker who changes allegiance and wants to destroy the bank that destroyed his life
Layer 6: the banker/crypto expert that now wants to take the next step and become the leader of the inner crypto circleDevelopment: from victim to man of action in a way he would never believed it, if you told him a couple of months ago.
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EMPIRE – PLOT AND CHARACTER LAYERS
Major scheme revealed – Cookie is working with the Feds to bring down Frank Gathers. She blames him for having to serve time. <div>
Mystery revealed – We learn Cookie served time for Lucious’ crimes. Frank Gathers was the distributor. They sold his drugs.
Thought the story was one thing, but it is another – Lucious led everyone to believe his mother died from suicide. The whole time he had her detained at a psychiatric hospital that she couldn’t escape, and he was financing it.
Major shift in Meaning – With Lucious being diagnosed with ALS, his company is no longer eligible to go public on the NYSE.
Hidden history –
Hidden plan – Andre and Tracy scheme to make his brothers fight with each other. Therefore he looks like the calm, sensible one, and uses that to push for the CEO spot.
Major betrayal – Lucious makes Aneka Head of A&R, the position Cookie wanted. He also proposes to her, the position Cookie used to have, after flirting with Cookie and sending her roses. Cookie believed they were rekindling their romance.
CHARACTER LAYERS – identity beneath the identity.
Secret identity – Lucious Lyon is really Dwayne </div>
Character intrigue – Lucious is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Although he is visibly very scared of dying, it doesn’t stop him from killing other people and continue to live a criminal lifestyle.
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Hidden relationships and conspiracies – Tariq, the detective that has been hounding Lucious is actually his half brother. With the help of Vernon, Lucious had his mom admitted to a psychiatric hospital where she could never leave. Vernon paid the bill every month for Lucious. Lucious visits the grave frequently, convincing his family that his mother died from suicide.
Hidden Character history – Lucious actually dated Cookie’s sister, Carol first. Lucious’ father was a police officer. Cookie blames Lucious for her father’s death, because he died from a heart attack. She believes her father’s heart was broken because she was with Lucious and living a dangerous lifestyle.
CHARACTER LAYERS – Cookie
Secret identity – Cookie is Loretha Holloway. An honor roll student who was expected to graduate and receive a scholarship to Howard University. Her father kicked her out of the house because she was dating Lucious, and she dropped out of high school and never went to college.
Character intrigue – She is loyal to Lucious even though he is only loyal to himself. She has undying loyalty to the women in prison. Although she considers herself a hustler, she agreed to work with the FBI to bring down Frank Gathers.
Hidden relationships and conspiracies – No one knew she was an informant for the FBI. She agreed to expose Frank Gathers drug enterprise. Bunky was her cousin. He helped raise her kids while she was in prison. She and Jamal join forces to break away from Empire and start their own label.
Hidden Character history – Cookie dated a nice guy with a bright future. She was really in love with him. When Lucious began to pop up more frequently, and give her money and attention, she started dating him. She always regretted leaving him for Lucious.
3. Organize them each into a possible sequence of reveals.
Plot Surface: Cookie is released from prison. She says “I’m going to get what’s mine.”
Layer 1: We learn that Cookie never snitched on Lucious, so she did 17 years for his crimes.</div><div>
Layer 2: We learn that Cookie is working with the FBI, and there is some kind of deal with them.
Layer 3: We learn that Aneka hired a private detective to follow Cookie, the detective suspects that Cookie is meeting with the Feds.
Layer 4: We learn Cookie is working with the Feds to bring down someone named Frank Gathers.
Layer 5: We learn that Frank Gathers was the drug boss that Cookie and Lucious worked for back in the day.
Layer 6: We learn that Frank suspects that it was Cookie that ratted him out to the FBI.
Character Surface: Cookie Lyon is a recently released ex-convict that served 17 years in prison.
Layer 1: Hidden Identity – Cookie was a wife and mother of three sons. She and her husband Lucious used money they made selling drugs to start a record company. </div>
Layer 2: Hidden Agenda – Cookie wants her share of Empire Records. She originally invested $400,000 to start the company.
Layer 3: Wound – Seventeen years of her life was taken from her. She missed out on her children’s entire childhood.
Layer 4: Competition – Lucious is with Aneka but still has a soft spot for Cookie. Cookie knows that Lucious can’t say no to her, so she exploits it, which eventually drives Aneka away.
Layer 5: Future Consequences – Lucious asks Cookie to remarry him, she says no. Cookie suspects Lucious of killing Bunky, but Vernon denies it, saying Lucious would never do something like that. Lucious goes to prison for Bunky’s murder. Meanwhile the rest of the family is plotting a hostile takeover, Cookie at the head of it. This is a set up Season 2 and what will Empire be like with Lucious in prison and Andre and Cookie running the company.
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What I learned doing this assignment is how this can be useful building the series bible. By arranging the series’ highlights in a certain order, you can see when and how these mysteries and identities will be exposed. It helps to create a vision for the longevity of the show.
LIKE THE JONESES – PLOT AND CHARACTER LAYERS
Major scheme revealed – When Henry learns about Willie using his inheritance to fund his business, Henry agrees to keep quiet if Willie makes him CEO.
Mystery revealed – Henry and Heather’s father gave Willie their inheritance for safekeeping.
Thought the story was one thing, but it is another – We believed that Pete and Willie had beef over Elaine allegedly leaving Pete to be with Willie. We find out that it was Pete that learned of Willie and Elaine’s arrangement to get cannabis to Oregon. Pete went behind their back and undercut them.
Major shift in Meaning – Noelle learns that her father (Pete) only helped to fix things with Tony so that Tony would work for him. She questions Tony’s values.
Hidden history – Willie never went to college in California. He used his grandfather’s money to buy a plot of land on an illegal weed farm, which is how he and Elaine’s business started.
Hidden plan – Tony and Adam have a plan to start their own cannabis business.
Major betrayal – Tony leaves Jones Farmacy and eventually goes to work for their competition, Green Diamonds, which is Pete Roberts’ company.
2. Brainstorm a list of possible CHARACTER layers.
CHARACTER LAYERS – TONY JONES
Secret identity Anthony William Jones II, chemical engineering and business major, college baseball star, entrepreneur
Character intrigue – He considers himself sober (from alcohol), but he still smokes weed. He is very intelligent and business savvy, but hardly ever shows it around his family. Like he has repressed it.
Hidden relationships and conspiracies – Tony and Adam start meeting more. Adam tries to convince him to start his own business.
Hidden Character history – Tony was living his dream life–wife, kid, business going well, but lost it all when his drinking got out of hand.
CHARACTER LAYERS – Noelle Roberts, ex-wife of Tony Jones
Secret identity – Sole heir to the Pete Roberts estate
Character intrigue – She still has feelings for Tony. Doesn’t seem to act in her own best interest.
Hidden relationships and conspiracies – She tells Adam exactly what to say to Tony to convince him to go after the startup grant. With Tony focused on his own company, she can take over Green Diamonds.
Hidden Character history – Noelle and Tony were college sweethearts and married shortly thereafter. She is the only child of Pete Roberts and his wife Cheryl, sole heir to the Green Diamond empire. We later learn that she has at least two half siblings, but they are not included in Pete’s will.
CHARACTER LAYERS – Dr. Elaine Roberts
Secret identity – Holistic healer. She’s a medicine woman, specializing in Eastern medicine. She’s not a doctor, she’s a healer. She prescribes medical marijuana for most ailments.
Character intrigue – She’s always been called “Doctor Elaine Roberts.” She knows her shit so much that no one even questions her education.
Hidden relationships and conspiracies – Tony confides to her about not feeling valued in the company. She attempts to get Willie to reconsider the CEO appointment. She confronts Henry and offers him money to go away and leave Willie alone.
Hidden Character history – She doesn’t have a medical degree. She has an estranged son that grew up with his father.
CHARACTER LAYERS – WILLIE JONES
Secret identity – Studied “plant science” on an illegal weed farm, not UCLA.
Character intrigue – He is self taught in all things agriculture and hustlenomics. He doesn’t’ need a college degree to do what he does, yet he lies about having one anyway. He admires Tony, but refuses to give him more responsibility in the company.
Hidden relationships and conspiracies – Willie still has contact with the illegal farmers in Cali. He reaches out to them when business starts dropping. They devise a plan to help him dismantle Pete’s operation.
Hidden Character history – Although he never formally went to college, he befriended several students, got paid to do their homework, and taught himself the same curriculum. He used the money his grandfather left him for college to buy a plot of land on an illegal weed farm.
3. Organize them each into a possible sequence of reveals.
Plot Surface: Tony is VP at Jones Farmacy, however, he is not given much responsibility by his father, Willie who is the CEO. Due to Tony’s struggle with alcohol and bad decision making in the past, Willie is mindful of what he will and won’t allow Tony access to in the company. After learning that Willie is taking a leave of absence, and his cousin Henry will be acting CEO, Tony announces that he is leaving Jones Farmacy. With no plan to speak of, Tony runs into Pete Roberts, his father’s nemesis and competition, who offers him a position as VP at his company, Green Diamonds.
Layer 1: Mystery – Of all the children, why would Willie leave Henry in charge. Although, he and Willie have a great uncle/father figure-son relationship, Henry is the least connected to the family and the company. Why wouldn’t Willie leave Tony in charge. Tony has been sober over ten years, has a business degree, and is knowledgeable of the day to day operations of Jones Farmacy.
Layer 2: Hidden Agenda – Pete knows Tony is top notch in business. He knows family is important to Tony. He also knows why Willie overlooks Tony to lead the company, which he uses to his advantage. Pete knows Tony can move his company ahead of Jones Farmacy, so he makes Tony an offer he can’t refuse. He offers to mend things between Tony and his ex-wife and son, in exchange for Tony working for him.
Layer 3: Conspiracy – Pete and Tony create a mastermind plan to turn Green Diamonds into a cannabis powerhouse, surpassing Jones Farmacy as the biggest black owned brand.
Layer 4: Sabotage – Willie and Henry go after Tony’s family, planting seeds in Noelle’s mind that Tony is using her to secure his position at the company. Willie consults with the illegal farmers on how to beat Pete. He arranges for Pete’s fertilizer to be swapped, sending instead toxic growth fertilizer to destroy Pete’s crops.
Character Surface: Tony Jones is an ambitious VP of Jones Farmacy (his father’s company), but is only given menial, gopher tasks in the company.
Layer 1: Hidden Character history – Tony was living his dream life–wife, kid, business going well, but lost it all when his drinking got out of hand.
Layer 2: Wound – His wife left and he now has limited access to his only child due to his reckless past.
Layer 3: Secret identity Anthony William Jones II, chemical engineering and business major, college baseball star, entrepreneur. He is very intelligent and business savvy, but hardly ever shows it around his family. Like he has repressed it.
Layer 4: Competition – After being overlooked by his father for the CEO position, although he is the most qualified, Tony leaves the company in search of a better opportunity. Pete Roberts, his father’s number one competitor and nemesis makes him an offer he can’t refuse.
Layer 5: Hidden Agenda – Although Tony is doing great at Pete’s company, his ultimate goal is to be in business for himself, with the help of his friend Adam.
Character Surface: Willie Jones is the founder and CEO of Jones Farmacy, a publicly traded cannabis company.
Layer 1: Hidden Agenda – When Henry learns about Willie using his inheritance to fund his business, Henry agrees to keep quiet if Willie pays him out or makes him CEO. Willie knows Tony is the most qualified, but can afford to pay Henry out, but opts to make him CEO.
Layer 2: Wound – He was overburdened with responsibility by his own father. He admires Tony’s work ethic, but refuses to give him more responsibility in the company. He feels too much responsibility may overwhelm him and cause a relapse.
Layer 3: Hidden Character history – Although he never formally went to college, he befriended several students, got paid to do their homework, and taught himself the same curriculum. He used the money his grandfather left him for college to buy a plot of land on an illegal weed farm.
Layer 4: Competition: Willie consults with the illegal farmers to devise a plan to bring down Pete.
Character Surface: Noelle Roberts, daughter of Pete Roberts, ex-wife of Tony Jones, mother of Tony’s only child
Layer 1: Hidden Agenda – When paternity documents came for Pete, she destroyed them, never informing Pete that he has a set of twins in California. Thus making her sole heir to Pete Roberts’ estate.
Layer 2: Secret identity – Half sister to Peyton and Eli Roberts.
Layer 3: Wound – She still has feelings for Tony. Has the worst luck with men. Doesn’t seem to act in her own best interest.
Layer 4: Competition – She tells Adam exactly what to say to Tony to convince him to go after the startup grant. With Tony focused on his own company, she can take over Green Diamonds.
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KZ’s Plot and Character Layers
What I learned doing this assignment is that serial television allows for an entire world to unfold, and that adding multiple layers of intrigue creates plot opportunities.
Assignment #2: MURDER MY DARLINGS
PLOT LAYERS – Story beneath the storyline
Major scheme revealed:
Michelle is trying to set Oliver up to be murdered in the place of the Detective
Mystery revealed:
The murders seem to have been committed by a beast. It turns out to be a result of Tony’s parentage.
Thought the story was one thing, but it is another:
A straightforward murder mystery is happening on two levels, with real people and with Nolan’s creations in his supernatural thrillers
Major shift in Meaning:
Once Oliver realizes what’s at stake, he gets to work trying to rewrite the narrative
Hidden history:
Nolan killed someone so that he could write realistically about murder
Hidden plan:
Michelle seems like she’s trying to protect Oliver, but in fact she’s trying to bring him to Nolan’s attention so that she can save the Detective for herself.
Major betrayal
Oliver knows someone has been feeding Nolan his secret history. He feels it could be Tony, Michelle or Indigo.
CHARACTER LAYERS – Identity beneath the identity
Secret identity:
Oliver has amnesia and is trying to find out who he is.
Character intrigue:
Tony discovers proof that Nolan has written about Oliver, and he’s jealous
Hidden relationships and conspiracies:
Michelle tries to turn Oliver against Tony.
Hidden character history:
Oliver discovers that Michelle had a relationship with Nolan and suspects that she’s jealous.
3. Organize them into a possible sequence of reveals
Plot Surface:
A writer of supernatural thrillers who avenges his grievances against people by putting them in his novels and making them do awful things.
Layer 1:
He had people sign releases when they were vulnerable and needy so that he could do whatever he wanted with them in fiction with impunity.
Layer 2
Increasingly, he needs to experience things in real life to write convincingly in fiction
Layer 3
A Detective is investigating a murder in the building.
Layer 4
Nolan is insanely jealous of Tony
Character Surface: MICHELLE
Michelle is the nosy superintendent of the building into everyone’s business
Layer 1: Hidden Agenda
She wants to derail the plot that Nolan intends, which is that Tony will become involved with the detective and then kill him.
Layer 2: Hidden Character History
Michelle was involved with Nolan when she was Michael, before she transitioned to a woman
Layer 3: Secret identity
She knows the truth about the two worlds
Layer 4: Wound
Nolan lost interest in her when she became a woman
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