Lesson 4

[hilton Garrett]

Hilton Garrett, BWTV Lesson Four

Part 1

Breaking Bad

Previous examples of intrigue

Can Walt and Jesse actually work together?

Can Walt actually kill Krazy 8?

Will Walt release Krazy 8

Will Krazy 8 kill Walt?

Will Skylar figure out what Walt is doing?

Next episode

How will Walt pay for his cancer treatment?

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[Christopher Confer]

Chris Confer’s Intriguing Character Layers

BW Module 1 Lesson 4 Layers of Character Intrigue

What I learned doing this assignment is that…later in the series they get caught breaking the law and have to sell their bars and flee to Brazil. They sell to a main character called Repo-woman who wants to get out of the dangerous car repossession business.

ASSIGNMENT 1:

1. Think about your Example Show. Make a list of the places you’ve already seen Character Intrigue in the previous episodes.

2. Watch the next episode and see how Character Intrigue is being used to create the need to see more episodes.

Breaking Bad

Character Intrigue:

Walt keeping secret that he has Stage 3A lung cancer from his family and Jesse.

Walt keeping secret that he has been cooking meth from his wife, son and brother-in-law.

Walt keeping secret that he stole the chemistry equipment and Hugo gets blamed and arrested for it and loses his job.

Lies to Skyler that he got the check from Elliott…

Since he lied about Elliott and Gretchen giving him a check for chemo, how is he going to pay for it? Will he start cooking again?

Yes, he and Jesse start cooking again. How will that go? How will that evolve? You feel compelled to watch the next scene, the next

episode to find out what happens next. It provokes curiosity.

ASSIGNMENT 2

1. For your Inner Circle characters, fill in any of the Intrigue items that apply.

Lynn and Jack own competing bars on the same cute suburban main street. They left their high paying corporate jobs in order to run their bars. They have a sick competitive nature to see who can make the most money, who can run their business better than their spouse. As the show evolves, there are pretty much no rules for making profit. At some point in the story arc, they both get in trouble with the law and sell their bars and flee the country.

Character Name: Lynn

Role: Owner of 2rue Lies Bar

Hidden agendas: Buys liquor with no tax stamp on it.

Competition: Must make more money than her husband Jack

Conspiracies: With Lynn to make money illegally selling to minors, no tax stamp liquor, failure to pull building permits.

Secrets: Breaks the law to earn more money

Deception: Didn’t tell Jack about no tax stamp liquor.

Wound: Didn’t have food sometimes as a child because her parents struggled financially at times. Didn’t get promoted to VP of Marketing lead to opening her bar.

Secret Identity: In later episodes, they go to Brazil to avoid prosecution.

Character Name: Jack

Role: Owner of Lie to Me Bar

Hidden agendas: Sells to minors

Competition: Must make more money than his wife Lynn

Conspiracies: With Lynn to make money illegally selling to minors, no tax stamp liquor, failure to pull building permits.

Secrets: Breaks the law to earn more money

Deception: Didn’t tell Lynn about selling to minors, building the Avoid DUI hotel across the parking lot.

Wound: Hyper competitive, his dad was always hassling him to do better but it was never enough, he never let Jack cross a finish line.

Secret Identity: In later episodes, they go to Brazil to avoid prosecution.

Character Name: Repo-woman

Role: Buys their bars when they flee to Brazil later in the story in order to get out of the dangerous car repossession business.

Hidden agendas: Mold the bars into her own image despite the agreements she has with Lynn and Jack

Competition: TBD

Conspiracies: TBD

Secrets: She hates the lie detector gimmick that both bars have and wants to put an end to it.

Deception: She promised not to phase out the lie detector gimmick.

Wound: Men used to out compete her in the repo business until she and her employees starting using exo-skeleton suits to be very effective repo-ing cars.

Secret Identity: TBD

Character Name: Sean

Role: Son of Lynn and Jack is 14. Comes into his own a couple seasons in when his parents go on the lamb and flee to Brazil as a speakeasy owner that caters to his high school clientel.

Hidden agenda: runs a speakeasy for his high school friends and his wallet.

Competition: With a friend who sells knives for extra money, almost runs his mouth one night while drinking.

Conspiracies: With his parents to make money selling alcohol illegally.

Secrets: Running illegal bar/speakeasy. Maybe Sean kills Repo-Woman when his parents are on the lamb but decides not to because they get a residual from her for running their former bars.

Deception: Hides in order to not have his illegal bar business revealed.

Wound: Stayed behind when his parents fled to Brazil. Became an emancipated minor

because his parents are criminals.

Secret Identity: Speakeasy owner at 14 years-old.

[CJ Lyons]

Assignment 2: CJ’s Intriguing Character Layers

What I learned doing this assignment was even a “hero” has secrets and hidden motivations that might make them perform unheroic actions or make bad choices

For your Inner Circle characters, fill in any of the Intrigue items that apply:

Character Name: Angela Rossi

Role: main character, ER doctor who discovers new psychic powers stemming from Fatal Insomnia

Hidden agendas: keeping her symptoms secret

Competition: serial killer is hunting the same victims she’s searching for

Conspiracies: she eventually learns her disease is manmade and there are others like her

Secrets: her disease and the powers it gives her

Deception: she hides the others like her, even from the detective she’s falling in love with

Wound: never fit in with her adoptive family, never knew her real parents

Secret Identity: she’ll come to learn that her real family are the ones behind the Fatal Insomnia and the serial killer

[CJ Lyons]

Assignment 1: Mr. Robot’s many layers of intrigue

Character Name: Elliot

Role: security consultant turned hacker vigilante

Hidden agendas: wants to destroy Evil Corps because it killed his father, wants to protect Angela (childhood friend/love interest) because her father was also killed and she’s the only one who’s ever accepted him as he is, wants his father’s love

Competition: Tyrell who runs Evil Corps IT dept, Angela’s worthless boyfriend who is coerced into the hack

Conspiracies: F-society of hackers, Dark Army hackers, cabal behind Evil Corps

Secrets: hides data from boss, secretly gets Angela’s boyfriend in trouble and his neighbor’s drug dealer arrested, spies on everyone around him

Deception: pretends to be just a security consultant, pretends not to have a problem with drugs when not only addict but using to self-medicate for DID

Wound: father abused him as child but also loved his father and is desperate for his father to love him

Secret Identity: Mr. Robot

[Lloyd Shellenberger]

Vision Statement Working hard everyday to become the best Writer I can be and as a result I become the best writer in Hollywood.

What I learned from doing this assignment is …By continuing to layer my characters now I have given them the justification, actions, and reasons they do things, I know my characters better.

Lloyd Shellenberger

Binge Worthy TV] Module 1 Lesson 4: Layers of Character Intrigue

Assignment 1

TV Model Analysis

Title: Breaking Bad

Character Name: Walter White

Role: Protagonist

Hidden agendas: Walter White is a Chemist and teacher who lives an ordinary life. When he is diagnosed with terminal cancer he secretly cooks and distributes Meth to amass a large financial nest egg to leave behind for his wife, son, and unborn child. He needs a RV to use as a meth lab. He recruits a kid named Jesse Pinkman as his assistant knowing he has connections. This is the first step in setting up his criminal enterprise but these unsavory characters will come back to haunt him and his family.

Competition: In the drug world the quality of the Crystal Meth can make or break you. It can make you desirable or irrelevant. Walter’s Meth is the best anyone has ever seen and he instantly becomes a player in a very competitive world. The Meth is pure and clear while most meth has a yellow or dark tint to it. He is instantly recognized as the best cook on the market. Walter must align himself with powerful drug lords for the protection he needs.

Conspiracy: Walter conspires with Jesse to cook the meth, with drug lords to distribute it, and anyone else that helps his criminal enterprise. Walter know he must work with a large cartel that will protect him from other Meth distributers who would try and shut him down. Also, Walter need to raise two million dollars for his cancer treatment and leave behind a financial nest egg for his family.

Secrets: Walter leads a double life by day a mild mannered teacher but when you peel back the layers we see he is drug lord who has amassed great wealth. He also hides his cancer until he must confess his condition to his family. The secrets and lies he tells his family is staggering but with all lies they tend to come undone.

Deception: He must lie and deceive his wife and son and family into believing that nothing is going on. He has a brother in law who is an FBI agent that he must hide all this from. Throughout the whole series Walter’s life becomes a series of deceptions, one greater than the previous lie. He tells his wife Jesse sells him pot in order to hide his meth production with him.

Wound: <font face=”inherit”>Because Walter has lived a marginal life, people around him marginalize and ridicule him. His students don’t understand him and disrespect him. His own brother in law, Hank makes </font>inappropriate<font face=”inherit”> comments as well. His boss at the car wash treats him badly as well. When Walter cooks up the meth that he is famous for he becomes a God. He is brilliant at it. Now the world is showing him the respect he deserves when they are not trying to kill him.</font>

Secret Identity: Walter leads a double life, by day a mild mannered teacher but when you peel back the layers we see he is drug lord who has amassed great wealth.

Character #2 Breaking Bad

Character Name: Jesse Pinkman

Role: Protagonist Meth assistant

Hidden agendas: He is trying to sell and distribute the meth for personal gain as well. He is shunned by his own judgmental family. Payback may be in mind.

Competition: He is trying to prove he is just as worthy and deserving as his younger brother of respect and love from his parents.

Conspiracies: Like Walter he partners with drug lords and distributers to sell his product. He conspires to hide his criminal drug trade.

Secrets: He is also a drug lord and good kid gone astray. Because of the world he lives in he is forced to do things that go against his very nature.

Deception: He must lie to everyone and make them believe he is something he is not.

Wound: His parents have turned their back on him which will fuel much of what he does.

Secret Identity: By day he is a drug user and loser but he also is a a God at cooking Meth as well.

ASSIGNMENT 2

Title: Benjiman Greene

Character Name: Col. Benjiman E. Greene

Role: Protagonist Anti-hero

Hidden agendas:

<font face=”inherit”>A. He is a special operations commander in a dangerous world. He must operate in secrecy and be ready on a moments notice to react to danger. He will protect his son, Lt. Brian Greene at all costs by </font>insulating<font face=”inherit”> him from the FBI and the black suits.</font>

B. There is a lot of black bag money involved and Col Greene wants a piece of it. It is part of his exit strategy. He devises a plan to steal the money and save it for himself and his son.

C. Col. Greene knows facts and information is far more valuable than money in his world and he is documenting everything.

D. Col. Greene’s past is something he doesn’t want his son or others to know. He once was an assassin for the CIA but left that world behind to become a soldier. It would seem that both worlds have combined.

Competition: Col. Greene is still trying to prove to himself, his command, and his son he still has it even though father time has had its way.

Conspiracies:There are agencies and operatives always running behind the scenes, each with different hidden agendas. Col. Greene must be one step ahead of them to protect those around him.

Secrets: For Col. Greene and his crew secrets are their stock and trade. What happens with he and his crew stays between his crew and the Puzzle Works.

Deception:

A. On multiple occasions we believe he has set up his first Sergeant William Desmoine but they are partners in crime.

B. He lies to his son to provide him plausible deniability. He believes his son does not know the true nature of what they do but he is mistaken.

C. He has hidden a nice chunk of money for a rainy day and developed a hidden financial network.

D. From the outside it appears that Col. Greene is a perfect soldier who always executes his duties as ordered but once you scratch beneath the surface you understand he doesn’t trust the Puzzle Works or anyone in it.

E. There are often bodies left in his wake but he has become a master at hiding his involvement.

F. Everything he does is centered around enhancing his exit strategy and completing the mission.

Wound: Since the loss of Col. Greenes wife his son has done his best to be that soul whispering in his ear keeping his humanity intact. Col Greene truly loved her and left the CIA behind for her.

Secret Identity: A a former CIA officer who left the agency for his wife he has hidden his past government involvement from his son. He was a former assassin for the CIA and knows exactly what the Black suits are capable of which is why he works so hard to isolate his son from that side of the job.

Title: Benjiman Greene

Character Name: Lt. Brian Greene

Role: Protagonist/Son

Hidden agendas:

A. He is a special operations soldier under his father’s command. He must operate in secrecy and stealth. Lt. Brian Greene may be the last thing that keeps his father honest and decent and he works hard at it every day.

B. There is a lot of black bag money involved and Col Greene has some of it and Lt. Greene knows it. Lt. Greene has an exit strategy as well but no one knows it.

C. Lt. Greene knows facts and information that his father has never told him but he says nothing and doesn’t let on. He just keeps documenting things.

Competition: Lt. Greene is trying to slow his father down so he must prove himself capable in order for him to trust his command abilities and relieve his father’s burden.

Conspiracies:There are agencies and operatives always running behind the scenes, each with different hidden agendas. Lt. Greene’s loyalty is constantly challenged by players within those agencies but he will not betray his father.

Secrets: Like his father, secrets are his stock and trade. What happens with he and his crew stays between his crew. In Brian’s case the Puzzle Works be damned since he does not like them.

Deception:

A. On multiple occasions we believe he has set up his Father for the FBI but it is just the opposite. He provides false gaffins that the FBI agent will gladly pursue in his desperation to nail Col. Greene.

B. He lies to his father to protect him from his covert actions.

C. Like his father he has hidden a nice chunk of money for a rainy day but his father is unaware of this fact.

D. Lt. Greene is Col. Greenes conscience so this often is in direct conflict with orders from above. As a result, plans are not always work out picture perfect. Once you scratch beneath the surface you understand Lt. Greene doesn’t trust the Puzzle Works or anyone in it. He would rather not associate with them.

E. There are often bodies left in Col Greene’s wake. Lt Greene has the empathy and humanity that his father has lost and this is the most difficult part of his job that he cannot reconcile. He does his best to control his father’s actions.

F. Like his father, everything he does is centered around enhancing his exit strategy and protecting his father.

Wound: Since the loss of his mother Lt. Greene has done his best to be that voice of reason in his father’s ear, keeping his humanity intact. He truly loved his mother and honors her memory.

[Jeremy Cooke]

Jerry’s Intriguing Character Layers

What I learned doing this assignment is that character development is more important for BWT than it is for other types of screenplays.

ASSIGNMENT M1_A#4.2

“Running Towards The Light” s1

Journey: From housewife in backstreet Belfast to the real power in the City.

Darren
Traits: Bully, drunk, genial, lazy
Role in the show: Linda’s husband
Hidden Agenda: He’s going to be the head of the household again
Competition: Who’s boss with Linda
Who’s the husband with Wee Henry.
Conspiracies: With Big Heavy to undermine Linda.
Roaring Cecil to do down Wee Henry.
Secrets: It was Wee Henry that talked Mike into joining the Army.
Deception: That he doesn’t know that Linda and Wee Henry had a fling and Karen was the result.
Wound: He’s regarded as a bit drunk joke
Secret Identity: Linda’s enemy
Subtext: Darren wants to be respected but without the work.

Linda, 38 yo
Traits: Kind, honest, out for revenge, ruthless
Role in the show: The little person beating her so-called betters
Hidden Agenda: She’s going to stamp out the crooks, the paramilitaries, the rotten heart of the city and clean it up.
Competition: All her life Darren has treated her as a doormat – now she’ll show him who’s the better man.
Conspiracies: With Roaring Cecil and Wee Henry to undermine Big Heavy
Secrets: Darren is impotent.
Deception: That she’s doing all this in the name of the Lord.
Wound: An angry ambitious war lord who will use any method to get her way
Secret Identity: An angry ambitious war lord who will use any method to get her way
Subtext: Linda is tired of being a punchbag.

Wee Henry, 35 yo
Traits: Dishonest, self-centred, clever, cynical
Role in the show: Linda’s lover, maybe, but also her guide to the brown envelopes, the back-door deals that grease the city.
Hidden Agenda: At the start it’s to get inside her pants, but then it becomes using her to make a fortune.
Competition: Big Heavy has treated Wee Henry like shite all his life. Now he’ll use Linda to pull him down, to ruin him.
Conspiracies: With Linda to undermine Big Heavy.
With Big Heavy to defeat Linda.
Secrets:He is Karen’s dad.
Deception: He allows Darren to think he’s his best friend
Wound: Bullied & belittled all his life.
Secret Identity: Utterly amoral.
He only shagged Linda because Darren beat him at cards.
Subtext: If he could only get a chance he’d show them.

[hilton Garrett]

Hilton Garrett, Intriguing Character Layers

Lesson 4, Part 2 Layers of Intrigue

What I learned: To see more deeply into my characters, and to anticipate issues and conflicts that will arise in future episodes as a result of these layers of intrigue

Character Name Will Calhoun

Role Newspaper reporter, protagonist

Hidden Agendas To take down Byron Rountree, to undermine Vinnie

Competition With Bruce Wingate, TV reporter; with Vinnie

Conspiracies With Millie, Bruce and Mary Grace to take down Rountree

Secrets He has an illegitimate child with a past lover

Deception Did not tell Becca he would not have children

Wound Lost his parents when he was 12 years old

Secret Identity Pulitzer Prize winner

Character Name Becca Calhoun

Role Will’s wife

Hidden Agenda To get pregnant with or without Will’s agreement

Wound Not having children

Secret Identity Mother of three children

Character Name Candar Martaan

Role Tells Will the truth about his parents’ death, supports Will

Conspiracies With Will to flush out Rountree

Secrets He killed the leader of the lynching party

Deception Appears to be an elegant, cultured worldly man

Wound His father was lynched

Secret Identity He is actually Crider Martin, son of a murdered man

[Mary Guinane]

What I learned doing this assignment is…playing with the layers is opening up new story lines that need time to percolate and unfold instead of figuring them out completely now.

ASSIGNMENT 1:

1. Example Show – Character Intrigue

Archie & teacher keeping secret that they were at the river when shot fired

Betty had hidden agenda to have romantic relationship with Archie instead of best friend

Cheryl is competing to maintain control at Riverdale HS.

Jughead brings up the fact that he and Archie were supposed to be on road trip on 4^th of July and wants the truth.

Cheryl conspires that whoever shot Jason was someone they all know.

2. Character Intrigue used to create the need to see more episodes.

From episode 1 to 2 you want to know:

· what the autopsy reveals

· if Archie will tell sheriff they heard the gunshot

· If/when Archie tells Jughead why road trip canceled, how will Jughead react

· Will betty and Archie’s friendship be ruined when he doesn’t love her the same way

· What will be revealed about the circumstances around Jason’s death

ASSIGNMENT 2

Character Name:

Role: Lizzy new to Palm Springs

Hidden agendas: her witness protection contact doesn’t know that her BFF from high school vacations in Palm Springs and she plans to connect with him when he does which is against the rules.

Competition:

Conspiracies:

Secrets: in witness protection program

Deception:

Wound: being in the witness protection program doesn’t make her completely innocent of wrong doing for whatever the crime was that was committed

Secret Identity: She has whole former life and needs to keep & let go of different parts of that to fit in and start over.

Character Name:

Role: Sean, long-time Palm Springs resident and connected in the town

Hidden agendas:

Competition: he wants to be alpha male in the HOW social circle and competing with Geoff

Conspiracies:

Secrets:

Deception: He secretly investigates Lizzy and starts to unravel her “starting over” story

Wound: Family didn’t accept him as homosexual

Secret Identity: Claims that his family was welcoming when he came out, but that they’re all dead now. Instead, he has a family who disowned him, but he made a cover story to combat the shame he felt over family not accepting him.

[Brian Bull]

BRIAN BULL – Intriguing Character Layers

“What I learned from doing this assignment is…
I learned that I need to dig deeper into my characters and find those characteristics below the surface – this will be an ongoing assignment for me because I know there is a lot more there and I need to find it if I want my show to be Binge Worthy.

ASSIGNMENT 1

RIVERDALE

1. Make a list of the places you’ve already seen Character Intrigue in the previous episodes.

MAIN CHARACTER
Archie Andrews

Role In The Show: A High School sophomore dealing with various issues teenagers may face whiling attending school.

Unique Purpose / Expertise: Archie is pursuing his music and will do whatever he has to to make it better.

Intrigue: What is secret beneath the surface? Makes bad decisions from time-to-time. Goes against the grain. A good kid that will do the wrong thing to get what he wants. Dates a teacher, gets into fights, breaks curfew by sneaking out when grounded, will lie to the police to protect someone else (Miss Grundy/teacher)

2. Watch the next episode and see how Character Intrigue is being used to create the need to see more episodes.

HIDDEN AGENDAS: Betty is going to investigate Miss Grundy and find out the truth about who she is for Archie’s sake. Veronica is going to confront her mother regarding her dealings with the Southside Serpents, a biker gang, in town. Archie wants to remain close to Miss Grundy for private musical lessons.

COMPETITION: The thee girls, Betty, Veronica and Cheryl are always in competition with each other.

CONSPIRACY: Hermione Lodge and the Mayor of Riverdale are in cahoots regarding the Twi-Light Drive-In – Hermione gets to buy the Drive-In at a reduced price and the Mayor gets a Campaign Donation.

SECRETS: Betty has a crush on Archie. Archie is dating Miss Grundy, the music teacher. Jughead was living at the Twi-Light Drive-In and now that it’s sold he will have to move somewhere else – but where??? Jughead’s dad is one of those Southside Serpents that helped drive down the price of the Drive-In. Hermione Lodge paid the Southside Serpents to drive the price of the Drive-In.

DECEPTION:

WOUND: Betty’s sister, Polly, is in the mental institution.

ASSIGNMENT 2

FORESIGHT

JIM BROWN

Role: Lonely optometrist pursuing the girl of his dreams

Hidden Agenda: Will do whatever it takes to win Gloria and marry her.

Competition: Wants to win the heart of Gloria.

Conspiracies: Drags Delores into his schemes to prevent his mother from doing things that he thinks he “sees” and also asks for Delores’ help when scheming to win Gloria’s heart.

Secrets: He has a pair of psychic glasses which enables him to sees people’s future.

Deception: Willing to tell people things they want to hear in order to get his way, especially when it comes to his mother.

Wound: Father mysteriously died in a work related incident after being told by a psychic to move to California for Golden Opportunity.

Secret Identity: Jim has become a psychic with the psychic glasses.

DELORES

Role: Lucent Optical’s Office Manager

Hidden Agenda: Wants to run the office her way.

Competition:

Conspiracies:

Secrets: She is in love with the Amazon Guy and keeps buying things online so he stops by.

Deception: She comes from wealth but wants others to believe she’s living on a shoestring.

Wound: Was once married to a guy who wanted her money.

Secret Identity: She’s the heir of a multi-millionaire

GLORIA

Role: Psychic who Jim falls in love with

Hidden Agenda: Wants to get her hands on the crystal ball not knowing Jim used it to make the glasses from.

Competition: She is in competition with her sister, Jezebel, who also wants the crystal ball for herself.

Conspiracies: Gloria and Jezebel are conspiring to find the crystal ball their oldest sister, Zelda, had before she gave it to Jim for safe keepings.

Secrets: She likes Jim. She despises her sister Jezebel.

Deception: Has no interest in Jim. She wouldn’t kill her sister to acquire the crystal ball.

Wound: Jezebel has never been nice to her.

Secret Identity: She knows some Black Magic.

JEZEBEL

Role: She is looking for the crystal ball her sister, Zelda, had acquired from their mother in Romania when she died.

Hidden Agenda: She will kill anybody that gets in her way of acquiring the crystal ball including her sister and of course Jim.

Competition: Doesn’t realize it but she is in competition with her sister, Gloria, who also wants he crystal ball.

Conspiracies: Jezebel and Gloria are conspiring to find the crystal ball their oldest sister, Zelda, had before she gave it to Jim for safe keepings.

Secrets:

Deception: She wants Jim to believe that she and Zelda are on good terms but Jim knows differently because of the glasses.

Wound: Her mother didn’t leave her the crystal ball when she died.

Secret Identity: She knows some Black Magic as well.

[John Duvall]

John Duvall’s Intriguing Character Layers

Lesson 4: Layers of Character Intrigue

“What I learned doing this assignment is” to look for my characters’ potentials for greater intrigue, especially by looking deeper into their core wounds and hidden desires and ambitions.

ASSIGNMENT 1:

1. Think about your Example Show. Make a list of the places you’ve already seen Character Intrigue in the previous episodes.

1. Why is Offred/June being pursued by police?

2. How does Offred decide with whom to share her secrets?

3. Why does she participate so willingly in the brutal beating of the rapist?

4. Why does Serena Joy participate in Commander Fred’s having sex with Offred (and why does he seem to be enjoying it)

5. Offred tries to shade her real feelings when replying to direct question

6. What has happened to Ofglen when another woman appears in her place?

7. What’s going on when Commander invites Offred to play Scrabble?

8. What will come of her interest in Nick?

2. Watch the next episode and see how Character Intrigue is being used to create the need to see more episodes.

1. How will Offred plan her escape?

2. Offred makes up excuses for being found in the closet.

3. How will Offred respond to the Doctor’s sexual come-on?

4. Why does Offred join Moira in assaulting Aunt Elizabeth? (And what’s going on with the continuity here? Was this scene just a fantasy?)

5. Offred plays another Scrabble game with Commander – to what end? 6. Does she ask about Latin to find out who her predecessor was? She evades his question about where she heard it. Then she insinuates herself into his desire for intimacy.

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ASSIGNMENT 2

1. For your Inner Circle characters, fill in any of the Intrigue items that apply.

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Character Name: Carolyn
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Role: Head of Woolf household

Hidden agendas: Persuade Jacob not to leave

Competition: Husband Jacob’s work

Conspiracies:

Secrets: Hides her Jewish
identity

Deception: Hides her drinking
problem

Wound: Suppression of
personal ambition

Character Name: Maxine (Max) Walker

Role: Woolf family
maid

Hidden agendas: Get husband Lou back to work at
Ford

Competition: For young Joanie Woolf’s affections

Conspiracies:
Secrets: Aspiring blues singer

Deception: Pretends to be happy as
a maid

Wound: Grew up with
southern violence/racism

Character Name: Rose Combs

Role: Farm wife
displaced to Detroit

Hidden agendas: To find work she can be proud of

Competition: Trainer at Ford plant

Conspiracies:

Secrets: Her racism; Attraction
to Ford supervisor

Deception: Hides her religious
fundamentalism

Wound: Southern sexism,
loss of roots

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