Lesson 10

[David Wickenden]

David Wickenden Beat Sheet

What I learned from this assignment?

It’s great to see the entire thing spread out in the beat sheet. From the previous lessons, it was very easy to put this together.

· A Story = Killing child abusers.

· B Story = Laura and Janice’s friendship.

· C Story = The priest.

Teaser

INT. COURTROOM – DAY

The judge reads his verdict in a child abuse case and acquits the defendant. The defense is all happy. The prosecution is upset, and it devastates the family of the young teen.

INT. HOME – DAY

Mother asks her daughter to run up and tell her sister that supper is ready. The girl races up the stairs and enters a bedroom. She finds her sister hanging in the closet. She tries unsuccessfully to save her sister, screaming for help.

Act 1

EXT. Sky – Day

A group of soldiers have jumped from an airplane. On landing, they assault a building. The lead soldier, a woman, works alongside her teammates, shooting targets throughout the building and rescue two victims. It is a training exercise.

INT. Classroom – Later

The female solider turns out to be Laura Amour, a PTSD psychiatrist. She talks about the signs to watch out for and how to get assistance. When asked why she goes through the training, she tells the group that to understand what the soldiers go through; she needs to understand their job.

EXT. Street – Day

A young girl waits on a street corner. A van slides in front of her and a man grabs the girl and throws her into the van. The vehicle takes off.

INT. VAN – Same Time

The young girl turns out to be a police officer, and a fight ensues. She kills the hell out of the guy and then puts a gun against the driver’s head. Other police surround the vehicle. The police officer is Janice Williams.

Act 2

INT. APARTMENT – EVENING

Janice unlocks her apartment door and draws her gun. She searches her home with the gun drawn. Only when clear does she relax. Even while she cooks, the gun is always nearby. When she brings her supper to the living room where her computer is set up, she brings the gun.

INT. Apartment – Later

With her food half eaten, Janice surfs the web. She gets a notice. Moving to the notice, she finds a video of a young boy, Ryan, (12) moving in a dark cell. A voice explains that the child has 90 days to live.

INT. OFFICE – DAY

Janice gathers the other team members, and they talk about Ryan’s case. His picture is on the whiteboards. Go over details. Brainstorm and assign follow-up.

INT. Apartment – Evening

Janice and Laura are friends having dinner. Speak about Ryan. Laura talks about Janice’s past and how she needs to take time for herself. Laura gets a call that one of her patients, another cop, has committed suicide.

Act 3

INT. Funeral – Day

Funeral procession at the church. We find out more details on what the cop was working on. As the family leaves, the wife stops and accuses Laura of not doing enough to save her husband. Slaps Laura.

INT. Storage locker.

Laura enters a unit. It is lined with weapons. She begins loading bullets into a clip, tears falling down her cheeks.

EXT. Church Picnic – DAY

A church fundraising picnic is on. A priest meets a new family that has moved into the neighborhood. He becomes interested in the youngest child, a little girl and takes her picture. When he goes into the church, he puts her picture above a monitor that shows a young boy in a holding cell. The boy is Ryan.

Act 4

INT. JAIL – DAY

An inmate speaks with his lawyer. Death threat and possible new charges on the way. Lawyer has negotiated a flight to the airport rather than risk his safety. We see a digital recorder under the desk in the visitor’s room.

EXT. – AIRPORT – Afternoon

As the helicopter drops off the ex-con and his lawyer, he is assassinated. Laura puts down the rifle and leaves.

INT – POLICE HQ – Later

Janice is with her boss and trying to explain that she is working on a time sensitive case and cannot be taken off of it for a new assignment.

Act 5.

INT. Storage Locker – night

Laura has a number of photographs and files on a table. The ex-con’s photo is on the wall, with a red ‘x’ crossed over it. She lifts one file as the phone rings. It’s Janice calling to cancel dinner plans because she has one week to close her case because of the new assignment. She has been tagged to hunt down the vigilante. Laura is shocked.

[David Thompson]

David Thompson’s Beat Sheet

What I learned doing this assignment is

Angels of Vengeance

Concept: Mythological beings exist in our modern world.

Inciting Incident: Murder of a cop’s niece puts him into this strange world while he tries to find the killer.

A: Investigation into the murders

B: Furies and their missions

C: Dan and Megaera

TEASER (COLD OPEN)

EXT. DESERT HIGHWAY

Desert chase – TISIPHONE, on her evil black motorcycle chases races after FALLOWS, a huge biker guy. He misses a curve and crashes into the cacti. TISIPHONE displays black wings, then dispatches FALLOWS

ACT 1:

EXT/INT. GROCERY STORE

Tense standoff. SIMMONS, a geeky older store manager has a TODDLER in his lap, holding a knife to its throat. DAN LANAHAN is a cop, a Lt. He is trying to defuse the situation. With him is JONES, his partner. In the midst of this is MEGAERA, furious anger directed at SIMMONS.

INT. CAR PARKING LOT

FLASHBACK – Megaera appears to Simmons, tries to control him – he escapes into the store with a knife.

INT. GROCERY STORE

Dan takes advantage of Simmon’s being focused on Megaera, he creeps up and shoots the man, and grabs the baby. Dan tells Megaera to stay nearby, she was interfering with a hostage situation, and he needs to get her statement. She replies by starting to tell him to “F— off” as she dissolves away. In the aftermath, Dan asks Jones about the blonde woman. No one else saw her.

EXT. GARDEN

GAIA is tending to her garden. Sticking plain sticks into the ground, the sticks erupt with leaves and begin growing. Tisiphone appears, she says that DELINFA sends a message. Cryptic warning about Hades.

Megaera appears, they discuss Megaera’s concern about the mortal seeing her, and losing control of the situation. Tisiphone says it’s concerning, Megaera might be slipping up, a soft spot for mortals. Megaera asks about Alecto.

EXT. CITY STREET – DAY

ALECTO parks her maroon motorcycle. She walks up to two young men of Hispanic origins. Thinking she’s a cop, one young man bolts, and runs as it’s obvious Alecto is wanting him.

EXT. ALLEY – DAY

Alecto appears out of air, and carefully inspects a fingernail. With a single, fast motion, she lifts a trash can lid and holds it out of the alley. The young hispanic kid SLAMS into the lid, falling. He is dragged into the alley. When he wakes up, Alecto has him frozen, he can’t move. Alecto explains why she is there, then dispatches the kid with a single blow of her sword. A young girl has appeared, as a ghost. Alecto sits the girl on her motorcycle, and they ride away into a tunnel of light.

INT. POLICE STATION

Dan discusses stand-off with the Chief. Chief reminds Dan about just desk duty after a shooting. Dan shrugs off the suggestion to talk to the department counselor.

INT. DAN’S OFFICE

Dan looks over the report from Jones, why no mention of the woman Dan saw? Because Jones did not see her.

ACT 2:

INT. ALECTO’S ROOM

Megaera asks Alecto to look up the cop who interrupted her assignment. Using a trans-dimensional computer, Alecto quickly locates Dan in the databases.

Alecto reminds Megaera of an encounter with a mortal ages ago, she warns Megaera that relationships with mortals never end up good… at least for the mortal.

EXT. SUBURBAN STREET – NIGHT

Dan, driving home, spots his niece walking on the sidewalk. He continues on.

INT. PARTY HOUSE

Brianna and her two friends at the party. Brianna “live blogging” the party.

EXT. DESERT – NIGHT

Megaera and Alecto interrupt a truck driver as he’s sneaking across the border. There’s a brief fight, then the truck driver is dispatched by Alecto’s sword. Opening the back, the truck is filled with scared children.

EXT. DAN’S HOUSE – NIGHT

Dan arrives, loaded down with files and some take-away bags.

INT. PARTY HOUSE

A handsome stranger has cornered Brianna. She seems to be attracted to the guy, even if he’s older. He gives her a cup, encourages her to have a real grown up drink, not thin beer.

INT DAN’S HOUSE

An evening in the life of Dan. Take-out Chinese for him and his cat. TV is on, news about a small earthquake, then the hostage situation at the grocery store.

INT. PARTY HOUSE

Brianna is feeling the effects of the drugged drink. She stumbles, and the stranger helps her walk outside. Her friends make jokes about how Brianna usually vomits on guys.

EXT. PARTY HOUSE

Brianna is sick on the lawn, and the stranger helps her up.

INT PARTY HOUSE

Her friend gets a cell phone photo of Brianna being sick.

EXT PARTY HOUSE

The stranger leads Brianna away. She tries to fight it, but the drug is making her unable to fight or get away. No one else notices.

INT DAN’S BEDROOM

Dan is asleep. His slumper is interrupted by the sound of his cat growling and hissing. Awake, Dan rushes out into

INT HALLWAY

The act is by the bathroom door, making a fuss. Dan goes to open the door and

INT BATHROOM

Nothing amiss in the bathroom. Dan fusses at the cat and goes to splash water on his face. As he stands up and looks at himself in the mirror, we see a figure by the bathtub. Dan turns and reacts – the figure is a specter of Brianna, mouth open in a silent scream.

ACT 3:

EXT. JOGGING TRAIL

If it’s not overly cliche, a jogger is running though the area. Spots some fabric flapping in a breeze, and when she/he picks it up, eyes go wide, grabs and fumbles at a cell phone.

INT DAN’S DINING ROOM

Dan is bleary-eyed at the table. He is talking to his cat when the landline rings. As he walks to get it, his cell goes off. He answers the cell. It’s bad news. He rushes out.

EXT. PARK AND JOGGING TRAIL

Crime scene. Brianna was found tied to a tree. Cops swarm the area. Jones meets Dan, see if he’s okay to look at the scene. He confirms the body is his niece. Jones reminds Dan that he’s on desk duty, and since it is his niece, he shouldn’t be leading the investigation. He asks to be the one to inform his sister.

EXT. SISTER’S HOUSE

Dan exits the house and walks to his car. A woman is leaning against it, waiting for him, the woman is a younger-looking GAIA. Dan thinks she’s a reporter, and tells her to shove off. He unlocks his car and turns to say something else, and the woman is gone.

INT. FUNERAL HOME

Junior, a tall man, ageless, is setting up a tray. He rolls the tray next to a BODY, still in the BODY BAG.

He frowns and stops to light a cigar. He talks to himself. Then he blows smoke over the body and the faint outline of Brianna is seen. She coughs, then asks if he can see her. He tells her he is actually an immortal, and he can usually see spirits, but hers is quite weak. He is concerned about the marks on her face, carved into her spirit as well as her body. He explains why she is stuck, but knows some people who might be able to help.

EXT. THE UNDERWORLD – BLACK PALACE

An enormous hulk of black stone. A tall man, BUNE, dressed in a green tunic, marches to a door, but is stopped by a guard. Words exchanged as the guard did not challenge Bune.

INT. BLACK PALACE – HALLWAY

Bune tells the guard inside to send the guard outside to the pits, feed him to the dragons.

INT. BLACK THRONE ROOM

Bune enters the huge, black room and sees a figure on the throne. MELINOE is reclining on the throne. Bune is met by a coyote demon, who tells him the “Boss” will be returning shortly. Only one more kill, then he can return. Bune must get ready.

ACT 4:

INT. CONFERENCE ROOM

Cops attending a meeting – updates on the investigation. Other cops are sympathetic. KELSEY, a fellow cop, is really worried, and suggests she drop by and help Dan if he needs it. KELSEY is obviously crushing on the Lieutenant.

Talk that this murder was similar to another in another state a week ago. Talk about it being a roaming serial killer.

Detectives leave with assignments.

INT. OFFICE

Dan talks to Sandra, the coroner, who also acts as the department’s counselor. Dan is not interested. Hints of a past with Sandra.

EXT. UNDERWORLD

A huge dragon streaks across the red sky. A huge army is encamped across the red landscape.

It lands, and shakes, turning into Bune. Bune goes into a tent.

INT. TENT

Bune meets with various generals. Most are in NAZI uniforms. Bune tells them to expect their leader shortly.

INT. FURIES HOUSE

Thanatos shows up with Brianna. Alecto and Tisiphone talk to the girl. Megaera passes through and stops to look at the girl. The marks still etched into her face. Gaia is examining the marks and then asks Megaera to heal the scars. Blue light, girl is healed.

INT. DAN’S HOUSE

Dan arrives home with more take-out bags. He’s surprised to find Gaia in his house, holding his cat. Gaia tries to talk to Dan about his niece. He’s angry, and tries to be nice, but wants her out of his house. Gaia explains the Furies are her daughters.

When he turns to show her the door, Gaia has disappeared. In between him saying “Bull” and the rest of the statement.

ACT 5:

INT. MOTEL ROOM

Shadows. We don’t see the figure in the chair. Just darkness. It’s like he’s talking to someone, but we only see shadows. The voices argue. Another death is needed.

INT. TENT – UNDERWORLD

Continues from earlier. Bune is mapping out what to expect when the “Master” returns.

EXT. DAN’S HOUSE

Dan balances files with food bags. He enters…

INT. DAN’S HOUSE

Dan sits the stuff on the table, then sweeps the table to make room. He calls out for his cat.

Instead of the cat, Megaera enters the room, ready to confront Dan. Dan pulls his weapon. Megaera is unfazed, and sweeps him aside as she goes for the food. She is hungry. One bag is for the cat. Megaera explains the cat has been fed, and she begins to scarf the beef lo mein. Dan demands to know what she is doing in his house.

Megaera asks him how he can see what he’s not supposed to see. He wants her out, but shakes his head and sits to eat.

It’s not what she’d planned. She wants to kill him, but instead is attracted.

EXT. STREET

The killer is in a car, watching the entrance to a bar. He watches as Kelsey enters the bar. Gloved hands handle a vial of liquid.

The killer exits the car and shuts the door.

[Moses Quainoo]

Moses Quainoo

MOD 3 – LESSON 10: CREATE A BEAT
SHEET

“What I learned doing this assignment is…?”

ASSIGNMENT

1. Tell us your Show Concept and Inciting Incident.

SHOW CONCEPT:

BRADER HEW, a flour loader who handles his extended family, enters The Do-Wells annual BOXER contest for what he has and be hired.

INCITING INCIDENT:

BRADER HEW connects with another job seeker and shows his BOXER abilities when he fights to keep the sixth spot, captured on camera. He enters The Do-Wells Annual BOXER contest and must win the six million dollars to get hired.

2. List your A, B, and C Stories.

A Story

BRADER HEW is a flour loader who goes to the Center on weekdays to look for work. The Do-Wells want to replace three master spies who died on a mission.

The Founder orders LOVEDAY, helped by AC, to scout at the Center for talents to hire secretly. The two women witness the fight and capture the event on their riding hat cameras and later approach HEW coldly to join their Club.

B Story

AC tells LOVEDAY she plans to retire when her term as PRESIDENT ends and find a man to marry and raise children. When they arrive at the center and capture the fight on camera, LOVEDAY declares she has found the man of her dreams and will issue her orders.

C Story

ISHEY GARFUNK story

3. Present your current Beat Sheet with no dialogue.

TEASER

INT – THEATRE -NIGHT

A Ballerina comes onto the stage. Performs.

INT –

INT –

ACT 1

EXT – FAMILY HOUSE – HEDGE FENCING – before SUNRISE

BRADER HEW is returning to the family house.

EXT – FAMILY HOUSE – COMPOUND – SUNRISE

HEW finds a Final Warning sticker on the main house. He goes to read the notice.

INT – FAMILY HOUSE – DETACHED BATHROOM – SUNRISE

HEW is taking his bath. His mother barges into the compound to say Grandmother’s malaria is worsening.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – SUNRISE

HEW is going to the Center nearby to look for work.

ACT 2

EXT – CENTER BACK CAR PARK – FOREST – SUNRISE

Two female RIDERS hitch their horses in the forest after the car park. They walk across the park to the pedestrian back gates and enter.

INT – CENTER BACK GATE – COOP PORTAKABIN OFFICES – SUNRISE

The RIDERS walk into a large gathering of men.

EXT – CENTER FRONT CAR PARK – SUNRISE

INT – CENTER BACK GATE – COOP PORTAKABIN OFFICES

INT –

ACT 3

INT

INT

INT

INT

INT

ACT 4

INT

INT

INT

INT

ACT 5

INT

INT

INT

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[Moses Quainoo]

3. Present your current Beat Sheet with no dialogue.

TEASER

INT – THEATRE -NIGHT

A Ballerina comes onto the stage. Performs.

ACT 1

EXT – FAMILY HOUSE – DAY.

BRADER HEW enters his family house to see how the extended family is doing and finds a Final Warning sticker. He goes to read the notice.

EXT – DETACHED BATHROOM – DAY

HEW is third in the queue to the bathroom. His aunty asks for his and his grandmother’s share of the tax. He promises to pay when he returns from the center.

INT – FAMILY HOUSE COMPOUND – DAY

His mother barges into the compound to say Grandmothers malaria is worsening.

EXT – PRIMARY STREET – DAY

HEW is going to the Center nearby to look for work.

ACT 2

EXT – FOREST – DAY

Two female RIDERS fasten their horses to a short tree in the forest behind the Center’s back car park.

EXT – CENTER’S BACK CAR PARK – DAY

The RIDERS walk across the back car park and enter the Pedestrian gates.

INT- PEDESTRIAN GATES – DAY

The RIDERS emerge into the yard and meet a crowd of men in the street. A-signboard on the left side Kerbing proclaims Loaders for Hire at the Coop.

INT-CENTER’S FRONT CAR PARK – DAY

HEW meets ISHEY GARFUNK in the vast car park in front of the Center. He tells ISHEY he is a flour loader. They enter the Pedestrian gates at the main entrance.

EXT – STREET-DAY

HEW and ISHEY join the gathering.

EXT – COOP PORTAKABIN OFFICES – DAY

The RIDERS walk through the gathering. AC suggests they stroll to the Foreign Exchange shop on the first floor of the Administrative block.

EXT – COOP PORTAKABIN (1) OFFICES – DAY

The MANAGER emerges from his Portakabin into the street. A referee’s whistle dangles around his neck. EXT – CENTER STREET – DAY

HEW and ISHEY arrive at the Coop Flour Distribution Offices.

EXT – CENTER STREET – DAY

The MANAGER addresses the JOB SEEKERS and points to the ten LENGTHY VEHICLES sleeping two hundred yards away.

EXT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

The RIDERS are on the first floor of the block. Their backs lean on the railing and the VEHICLES asleep below.

EXT – CENTER STREET – DAY

HEW, ISHEY and the JOB SEEKERS are alert and watch for the whistle to go.

EXT – PORTAKABIN OFFICE (2) – DAY

The SUPERVISOR blows his whistle.

EXT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

AC and LOVEDAY hear the whistle’s shrill and turn around to see.

EXT – CENTER STREET- DAY

HEW, ISHEY and the JOB SEEKERS sprint towards the VEHICLES.

INT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

The job seeker boots another in his path to get an advantage. AC and LOVEDAY see the cheat among the runners.

EXT – LENGHTY VEHICLE 8 – DAY

ISHEY gets a head start, leaps onto Vehicle 8, and occupies the fourth spot.

EXT – LENGHTY VEHICLE 8 – DAY

HEW joins the intense race and hops onto Vehicle 8. HEW connects with an aspirant for the sixth spot. The others expose the aspirant as unfair.

EXT – LENGHTY VEHICLE 8 – DAY

HEW’S competitor strikes first. HEW is an expert Boxer. He fights the opponent to keep the spot, and both men show rare fighting skills.

INT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

The two RIDERS capture the fight on cameras built into the crest of each riding hat.

EXT – LENGHTY VEHICLE 8 – DAY

INT – CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE BLOCK – DAY

ACT 3

EXT – PORT CITY – DAY

VEHICLE 8 is eighteen miles away from thr capital and at the Port city.

EXT – FLOUR MILL – DAY

VEHICLE 8 reverses into the loading bay.

INT – VEHICLE 8 – DAY

HEW, ISHEY, and the boarding team fill the trailer.

EXT – VEHICLE 8 – DAY

VEHICLE 8 travels around neighboring towns and cities and dealing out the bags for payment.

INT – PRESS CONFERENCE – DAY

AC announces THE DO-WELLS Annual Contests will come up in December. The BOXER tournament takes up the last three days. Members must enter and win this event before joining the organization as Master Spies. The prize is six million dollars.

INT – TECHNICAL ROOM – DAY

AC approves one technical innovation to this year’s Arena.

EXT – CENTER’s CAR PARK – NIGHT

HEW jumps down from the back of VEHICLE 8. ISHEY and two others disembark.

EXT – CAR BONNET – NIGHT

LOVEDAY sits on a car bonnet near them and reaches up to recover her drone.

EXT – CENTER’s CAR PARK – NIGHT

VEHICLE 8 moves to sleep inside the Center’s yard. HEW bids ISHEY bye and is walking to GIFFARD ROAD. LOVEDAY follows him.

EXT – MAJOR ROAD – NIGHT

HEW crosses the road. LOVEDAY calls out to him.

EXT – ROAD SHOULDER – NIGHT

LOVEDAY tells HEW she wants to engage him. HEW must enroll with their Club and win the six million dollar BOXER contest, which comes up in December, before training as a spy.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

HEW will need more time for clubs and mingling.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

LOVEDAY says she built a weak profile of him and will snatch his daily meal unless HEW agrees.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

He wants her to prove something.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

LOVEDAY gives HEW a choice between starvation, six million dollars, and a job.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

HEW demands LOVEDAY to prove who she is or nothing.

EXT – PRIMARY ROAD – NIGHT

She says HEW decided his grandmother and relatives starve.

ACT 4

EXT – COCONUT TREE – DAY

In the morning, the JOB SEEKERS talk of rumors that western creditors influence the country to dip.

EXT – VEHICLE 3 – DAY

The Coop MANAGER regulates each vehicle’s daily trips to the loading bay.

INT- PRODUCTION UNIT – DAY

A Production supervisor tells HEW the Mill is running short of wheat.

INT

INT

ACT 5

EXT – CARPENTER’S WORKBENCH- DAY

HEW and Ishey need a job at the Center.

EXT – COOP PORTAKABIN OFFICES – DAY

The Coop closes offices.

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by  Moses Quainoo.

[Moses Quainoo]

2. List your A, B, and C Stories.

A Story

BRADER HEW is a flour loader who handles his extended family. He goes to the Center on weekdays to look for work.

The Do-Wells lost three master spies on missions in Algeria, Yemen and want them replaced. For punishment, FRANK order LOVEDAY to scout at the Center for talents to hire secretly.

HEW connects with another JOB SEEKER for the sixth spot on top a lengthy VEHICLE and fight to keep the place. LOVEDAY and AC, capture the event on their riding hat cameras.

Later LOVEDAY approach HEW to join their Club, win the BOXER/MARTIAL ARTS contest and get hired.

B Story

AC has no man in her life in a long time. When FRANK ordered AC to help LOVEDAY scout at the Center, tells LOVEDAY she plans to retire when her term as PRESIDENT ends.

She will switch her attention to looking for a humble man to marry and raise kids. LOVEDAY wishes her luck, adding that she will become the bridesmaid; AC has always wanted her to be. LOVEDAY and AC embrace, happy.

HEW loves attractive women, and the two coming up to them meet the taste.When the women walk past HEW and ISHEY, HEW and LOVEDAY catch one another’s eye. AC laughs at her love-struck coworker / best friend and pulls her away.

Now AC must work with creditors to push the country
out of Capital Markets so they cannot import wheat

C Story

ISHEY

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by  Moses Quainoo.

[Wayne Petitto]

Wayne’s Beat Sheet

What I learned doing this assignment is that I love this process! It is a very logical algorithm that brings out integrated creativity, enabling non-linear storytelling, and very intriguing ways to present it.

ASTRONOMICAL ATTRACTION

Show Concept and Inciting Incident:
When a meteor strike strands a human astronaut, a profound love story is born of a relationship where similarities in humanoid nature struggle against cultural differences between two beings born 6.2-light-years apart.

List of A, B, and C Stories:
A: Survival and evasion of an astronaut stranded on an extraordinary distant planet.
B: A love story driven by similarities, differences, and extraordinary mutual marvel.
C: Dealing with the constant threat of capture by a government, hostile to the “alien invader.”

Current Beat Sheet, no dialogue:
Teaser:
INT. Single seat spaceship blasting off
– Mike is on a 13-year mission to explore Earth’s nearest inhabitable planet 6.2-lightyears away.
INT. A strange meeting place on a planet they call “Romal.”
A humanoid Security Force team raids a secret religious gathering, leaving a pale magenta woman, Desae, crying over a lifeless male.

Act 1:
Montage:
EXT. Landing strip
Mike returns to Earth. Greeters include his mother, sister, and her beautiful best friend.
INT. Wedding chapel
He marries the friend.
INT. Baby’s room
They put the twin children in a crib watch over them lovingly.
End Montage
INT. Spaceship
Mike is awakened from suspended animation and his dream by the ships onboard AI computer, informing him they are nearing the planet.
EXT. Farm on Romal
Desae is farming alone, returns home to check on her 3-year-old son, Nome.
TP: She returns to farming.

Act 2:
INT. Spaceship
Fuel transfer valve, struck by meteor, forces crash landing and no possible return to Earth.
Onboard AI (nicknamed HAL) calculates landing zone with greatest chance of survival.
EXT. Farm on Romal
TP: Tired, frustrated, Desae looks up to Logard (God), sees Mike’s ship descending, rushes to the crash site.

Midpoint:
EXT. Crash site
The onboard AI, HAL, assesses Desae, opens the hatch for her.
TP: Desae carries Mike’s unconscious body to her tractor to bring him home.

Act 3:
EXT. Crash site
Amixmu, stern Security Force leader (from raid scene) views the crash site & the empty seat.
TP: Amixmu personally begins to follow tracts toward Desae’s farm.

Act 4:
INT. Desae’s small farmhouse
Desae dresses a puncture wound in Mike’s side.
3-year-old, Nome, stands by, overwhelmed in curiosity.
Desae tells Nome, she heard Logard’s voice tell her to “love Mike.”
EXT. Wilderness
Amixmu is having a hard time following the dusted over tracks as it gets dark.
A wild animal stalks him from behind, he hears it, kills it.
Amixmu closes himself into his vehicle, making himself comfortable for the night.
TP: Desae tells Nome, Logard (God) sent the alien because he needs her, and she needs him.

Act 5:
INT. Desae’s small farmhouse (LOCK IN)
Mike opens his eyes to see Desae’s pale magenta unearthly face looking back.