Lesson 10

[Brenda Boddy]

Brenda Boddy’s Plot and Character Layers
What I learned: All these assignments are tough. I’m slowly coming up with new ideas but sometimes my work feels like it’s very inferior. I feel like I’ve got ideas strung across multiple pages of assignments. My biggest push is just to trust the process. I can see that the resulting season will be so much better when I’m done.
Plot Layers
Layer 1: A Texas ranger reincarnates into the future into the body of a BORTAC agent. What actions will he do that aren’t common law tactics?
Layer 2: The predecessor was corrupt. What will pop up in investigations?
Layer 3: CONSPIRACY. Jewel is working for internal affairs and investigating Justice.
Layer 4: Justice’s new ‘daughter’ is actually his blood ‘granddaughter’.
Layer 5: HIDDEN AGENDA. Mason takes an interest in Kenzie and betrays Justice to be with her.
Layer 6: MYSTERY. Tom is seen in the past and again in the present working for the Center for Paranormal Events. What does he have to do with the reincarnation? Will Justice make it back to the past?

Character Layers:
JEWEL: A BORTAC agent who works with her team as an agent.
Layer 2: She also works undercover with internal affairs to find a mole.
Layer 3: She’s using the agency to search for Cuervo who is behind sex trafficking rings.
Layer 4: She was a child in Cuervo’s ring.
Layer 6: She’s killing the members of the ring.

MILEY: A BORAC agent who works with her team as an agent.
Layer 2: She’s deals with emotions by overeating and then being bulimic.
Layer 3: She is bulimic and emotional when she feels needy and rejected.
Layer 4: She clings to relationships so hard that the intended love pushes her away.
Layer 5: She is so desperate for love because both her siblings and her mom died within a six-month period.
Layer 6: When her mom was dying of cancer, she assisted with her suicide and feels guilty.

MASON: A BORTAC agent who works with his team as an agent.
Layer 2: He’s desperate to prove himself and also to have friends.
Layer 3: He chose to go into law enforcement, against his dad’s wishes.
Layer 4: He works out obsessively and looks for any opportunity to climb the ladder.
Layer 5. He’s been bullied and teased all his life due to being overweight and nerdy.
Layer 6: His father bullied him, expecting him to become a lawyer like himself.

JUSTICE: A BORTAC agent.
Layer 2: He has reincarnated from 1908 where he was a Texas ranger.
Layer 3: He can heal.
Layer 4: His predecessor was corrupt.
Layer 5: This is the SECOND time he’s reincarnated down his family line.
Layer 6: WOUND. His wife cheated on him and his son was not really his.
Layer 7: COMPETITION. Mason is after his current inherited wife. Jewel is working with Internal Affairs to take him down. Miley is stalking him.