Lesson 6

[Claudia OBrien]

Subject Line: Claudia’s Reveals!

My vision: To become the best screenwriter I can be, and to find success in the industry.

What I learned from this assignment is that not all reveals need to be huge plot twists. Revealing things about the key characters at different points in the story will keep the viewer engaged.

Question 1: What will you reveal? (a) Question 2: when will the reveal show up in the story? (b) Question 3: What setups need to be in place to have each reveal work? (c) Question 4: Where in the story do those setups belong?

1. Ann put herself through nursing school by cleaning office buildings at night.

a. Act 1

b. Ann keeps their living quarters spotless, somehow, in the middle of a war zone. And she does it so quickly.

c. Act 1.

2. Grace always wanted to be a doctor, but her parents believed women weren’t smart enough to be doctors.

a. Act 2

b. She has a hidden anger that occasionally shows through (especially later in the screenplay). She is both deferential to and frustrated by gender-related appearances and expectations.

c. Act 2

3. Rachel’s parents fled the Russian pogroms.

a. Act 1

b. Rachel takes issue with Booker’s characterization of Russian Communism treating all people equally.

c. Act 1

4. Ann is a closet lesbian and in love with Grace.

a. Act 3

b. (1) She never dates; (2) She can’t help but show her feelings – especially when no one is looking.

c. Acts 1, 2 and 3.

5. Grace was the smartest one in her family, but her parents discounted her abilities and favored her brothers.

a. Act 3

b. (1) She second-guesses herself and defers to others even when she knows better; (2) she is insecure and anxious to please others – especially those in positions of authority.

c. Acts 1 and 2.

6. Grace’s oldest brother is a deserter.

a. Act 4

b. (1) Her family impresses on her “not to disappoint” them; (2) she claims to have 5 siblings when she really has 6; (3) she says he died at D-Day; (4) she covertly searches each new town looking for him.

c. (1) Act 1; (2) Act 1; (3) Act 2; (4) Acts 2, 3 and 4.

7. Booker’s father was lynched for being “friendly” with a white woman.

a. Act 4

b. (1) Booker wants nothing to do with Whites; (2) Booker resists falling in love with Grace; (3) Booker refuses to be with Grace even though he loves her.

c. (1) Act 1; (2) Acts 1, 2 & 3; (3) Act 3.

8. Ann’s family disowned her when they found out she was a lesbian – except for her kid sister Margie.

a. Act 4

b. She pointedly refuses to say anything about her family, ever. Except for her sister Margie, whom she clearly adores.

c. Acts 1, 2 and 3.

9. Ann serves in the Army even though she is financially secure and doesn’t need to work –notwithstanding the fact that she had to put herself through nursing school and nurses don’t get paid much.

a. Act 4

b. She lives frugally and doesn’t act or dress like she has money. But occasionally, she buys something nice for the injured men in her care. (And maybe for Grace or for Booker too.)

c. Acts 1, 2 and 3.

4. Build all of those into your outline, making sure there are setups for each reveal and that you have reveals in every Act.

Act 1: Grace goes to war, the weight of her family’s expectations on her shoulders. [NB: Throughout Act 1, Grace is extremely worried about appearances and highly deferential to those with higher ranks.]

Grace PJ 1: Grace dutifully and submissively receives the
blessing of her newly-ordained brother and her father as she reports for
duty as an Army nurse – along with an admonition not to “disappoint them.” <div>

Deeper Layer: Grace’s older brother went AWOL after D-Day. The
family has disowned him but Grace hopes to find him.

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Ann AJ 1: Grace meets Ann. [Grace walks in as Ann reviews a patient chart. Ann
is talking angrily to herself about all the errors Dr. Grey made and what
really needs to be done – while quoting Dickens and referring to the
doctor by a disparaging Dickens-based nickname. Ann then edits the chart
so that, in her view it is correct. She pushes back the curtain and her
angry mood is immediately gone, replaced by compassion and competence as
she treats the injured serviceman – while Grace watches in amazement.] [Ann
wears a necklace chain with a locket and a key on it. Grace says she is
the oldest of six children. Ann says she has only a kid sister, Margie.]

Deeper Layer: Ann is a closet lesbian who was disowned for her
sexual orientation.

Grace PJ 2: Grace meets Dr. Samuel Grey, her commanding
officer, and fellow nurse Rachel Schneider. She is shocked when Ann
questions him about the Officer’s Club issue. (Women officers pay dues but
aren’t allowed in the Club without a male escort.) His response shows him
to be both racist and sexist – but Grace remains very deferential.

Ann AJ 2: Grace and Rachel will be sharing a room with Ann. It
is spotless. Ann put herself through nursing school by cleaning offices at
night – but refuses to say why her parents wouldn’t help her.

Inciting Incident: Grace meets Booker, a Tuskegee airman. She
is immediately drawn to him – and also notices how others treat him.

Ann AJ 3: Ann notices the attraction and is jealous, but
pretends not to care.

Booker PJ 1: Booker is attracted to
Grace but rejects any idea of a relationship. [Talking with a fellow
Tuskegee airman, Keith Washington, as they are getting their aircraft
ready to fly a mission.]

Ann is impressed with Grace’s knowledge and skill
in diagnosis and treatment.

Grace PJ 3: Grace and Booker continue to run into each other.
She can’t help flirting; he tries hard to stay aloof.

Ann AJ 4: Ann and Booker interaction – at loggerheads. Ann is
aggressive. Booker is polite and aloof but subtly makes clear that he
doesn’t like her either.

Rachel balks at treating an injured Russian soldier.

Ann brings a first edition Dickens novel to the soldier she was
treating when we first met her.

Grace PJ 4: Dr. Grey provides a surprising diagnosis and course
of treatment. Grace had a different diagnosis that would necessitate a
different course of treatment. But she second-guesses herself even though
Ann agrees with her assessment. [NB: The patient is a Tuskegee airman.]

Turning Point 1: Against Ann’s strong urging, Grace follows Dr.
Grey’s directions and her patient dies because of the incorrect treatment.

Act 2: Grace’s interests diverge from her family’s but she tries to remain obedient. [NB: Grace is somewhat less concerned about appearances in the beginning of Act 2 – but reverts back to being highly deferential after receiving her parents’ letter. In the first part of Act 2, she seeks out Booker. But in the second half, she avoids him.]

Grace PJ 5: After the patient dies, a devastated Grace
second-guesses her own actions – but not Dr. Grey’s. Says her parents were
right; she isn’t smart enough to be a doctor. </div><div>

Ann, frustrated and angry, lays the blame squarely on Dr. Grey
(even though she thinks Grace shouldn’t have followed Dr. Grey’s
directions). She gives Grace a beautiful silk scarf. Says that every time
Grace wears it, she needs to remember that she was right – and Dr. Grey
was wrong.

Grace PJ 6: Grace and Booker scene. She is sincere. He is
polite and aloof – but ultimately can’t help but spit out that Dr. Grey
could care less whether Tuskegee airmen live or die.

Grace PJ 7: Grace writes to her parents about her feelings for Booker.

Grace PJ 8: Grace starts listening more to Ann and questioning
those in authority. She admits that she always wanted to be a doctor but didn’t
pursue it because her parents were opposed and didn’t think she was smart
enough. Grace, Ann and Rachel go together to the Officer’s Club – without
a male escort. They are removed.

Grace PJ 9: Dr. Grey sends Grace, Ann and Rachel to an Army
psychiatrist for their attempt to enter the Officer’s Club. Grace is mortified
– and terrified that her family will find out. Rachel is stoic. Ann is
angry, copes by cleaning their room until it gleams.

Booker PJ 2: Booker performs
heroically and saves the life of another pilot in a dogfight – but when
they get back to base, that pilot has claimed the credit.

Ann AJ 4: Ann tries to undermine
Booker in Grace’s eyes. [Maybe claims he wrongly tried to take credit for
winning the dogfight?]

Grace PJ 10: Her parents respond forbidding her from any kind
of relationship with “a man like that.” Between the psychiatrist, Ann
undermining Booker and the message from her parents, Grace reverts to deference
and obedience. In an effort to forget Booker, Grace starts dating a White
soldier, Liam Connelly. [They go to the Officer’s Club.]

Grace PJ 11: Grace, Ann and Rachel meet a new
nurse, Susan. Grace slips and says she has six siblings. Ann notices.
Grace again shows impressive knowledge and skill.

Grace PJ 12: Grace, Ann and Rachel run into
Booker and Keith. Grace tries to be standoffish and aloof; Ann is hostile.
Rachel hits it off with Booker and Keith immediately, can’t understand
Grace’s or Ann’s behavior.

Booker PJ 3: Rachel befriends
Booker, talks about the plight of the Jews under the Nazis – and he opens
up about being Black under Jim Crow. He talks favorably about the Russians
and Communism treating everyone equally. She reacts with scorn.

Grace PJ 13: Grace wanders around the new town,
discreetly trying to find someone.

Grace PJ 14: Ann calls Grace out on her six siblings. [Asks why
her brother isn’t in the war. He’s a newly ordained priest. Ann asks,
isn’t it usually the second son who becomes a priest? Yes, usually.] Grace
says her older brother Patrick was killed at D-Day.

Turning Point 2: Grace gets pregnant – and discovers Liam with Susan.
Devastated, and feeling that she has no options, Grace tries to commit
suicide.

Booker PJ 4: Booker finds Grace before she can kill herself and
stops her. Brings her to Ann, who springs into fierce and dedicated nurse
mode.

Act 3: Grace starts to rebel. [NB: In Act 3, then even more in Act 4, Grace cares less and less what others think of her.]

Grace PJ 15: Grace chooses the least bad among the alternatives
– and asks Ann to give her an abortion. Ann does so, and does her best to
make Grace feel okay about the choice. </div><div>

Grace PJ 16: Ann, Rachel and Booker try to help Grace recover
from her feelings of despair. Grace starts to get angry at the way things
are. She was the smartest one in her family but her parents never noticed
because they were always focused on her brothers.

Grace PJ 17: Grace thanks Booker for saving her. Apologizes for
being aloof and rude. He can’t help but warm towards her.

Ann AJ 5: Ann convinces Grace to get subversive.
They pilfer medical supplies so that the wounded Black soldiers can be
treated medically as well as the White soldiers. Ann buys warm socks for
the Black soldiers.

Booker PJ 5: Booker sees what Grace is doing –
with Ann’s leadership. He develops a grudging respect for Ann (and an even
stronger connection towards Grace).
[Ann and Booker scene.]

Grace PJ 18: Grace convinces Ann and Rachel to go
to the Officer’s Club again. Ann is surprised – but thrilled. They are
ejected again. [Sent to a psychiatrist again?]

Grace PJ 19: Grace gets bolder about going around
each new town, looking for someone. [Montage?]

Grace PJ 20: She gets back to base just before
curfew – runs into Booker, who wonders why she is out so late and where
she has been.

Grace PJ 21: As
recovery rates in their ward soar, Dr. Grey tries to undermine them. Grace
is furious – but can’t quite find her voice when taking directly to him. Ann
steps in and supports Grace.

Booker PJ 6: Booker realizes he is in love with
Grace. But refuses to do anything about it. [Booker and Keith scene.]

Ann AJ 6: Ann tells Grace
that nobody has the right to dictate who you love
– but Grace thinks she’s talking about Grace’s love for Booker, not Ann’s
love for her. [Ann’s monologue.]
Turning Point 3: Grace confesses her love to Booker, but he
rejects her. [She is shocked; she thought the feelings were mutual.] Ann,
comforting Grace, finally confesses her love – and Grace rejects her,
appalled.

Act 4: Climax and Resolution

45. Booker PJ 7: Booker is devastated at rejecting Grace but believes he has done the right thing. Reveals that his father was lynched for being too friendly with a White woman. Rachel and Keith convince Booker not to give up on his life – and to try to win back Grace.

46. Ann AJ 7: Ann, devastated by Grace’s rejection, throws herself back into her work.

47. Grace PJ 22: Grace finds her older brother. He suffered from PTSD and a TBI at the D-Day invasion and deserted. He was nursed back to health by an Algerian woman in the French Resistance, whom he loves. He begs her not to tell their parents he is alive. She realizes no one controls who they love – and understands that Ann is in the same position as she is.

48. Ann AJ 8: Grace finds Ann and apologies. Tells her about her disowned brother. Ann confesses that she was disowned by her family – everyone except her kid sister Margie – when they discovered she was a lesbian.

49. Ann AJ 9 and Grace PJ 22A: Officer’s Club resolution. Over Capt. Grey’s objections, women officers no longer have to pay Officer’s Club dues – although they still can’t go in without an escort.

50. Booker PJ 8: Booker gets in dogfight protecting a bomber – and is left behind by those pilots. He crashes – and everything goes black.

51. Grace PJ 23: Booker is missing. She is frantic. She goes to her brother, asks him to find Booker.

52. Booker PJ 9: Patrick uses his connections with the French Resistance to locate Booker. Patrick realizes that Booker will not survive unless he gets him to a hospital. So Patrick brings Booker to Grace at the Army forward hospital.

53. Booker PJ 10: Booker wakes in the forward hospital, where he is being treated by Grace.

Grace PJ 24: Grace will try to save Booker, no matter what,
even if they can never be together.
Climax: the Germans mount a counterattack and the forward
hospital is under siege. Everyone is ordered to leave, with as many
patients as they can take. Grace refuses to leave Booker, who is too
injured to move. Patrick shows up to help.
Ann AJ 10: Ann realizes she loves
Grace enough to want her to be happy. Ann and Patrick sacrifice themselves
to give Grace and Booker a chance at life and love. Ann gives Grace a
letter and the chain around her neck – with the locket and the key – and
whispers her final requests (that Grace go to medical school; and that she
deliver the letter and contents of the safe deposit box to her kid sister
Margie).
Resolution: Patrick’s and Ann’s heroism saves Grace and Booker.
Booker admits his love for Grace and agrees that they should try to find a
place where they can be together.
Grace PJ 25; Booker PJ 11: Grace and Booker use the key to
remove papers from a safe deposit box. They discover that Ann had saved
enough money not to need to work – but she had joined the Army anyway. Grace
decides to go to medical school.
Grace PJ 26; Booker PJ 12: At a small but neatly kept house,
they meet Ann’s sister Margie – and give her a letter, the deed to the
house and enough money to raise her kids, from the safe deposit box.
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[Will Jennings]

Subject Line: Will’s Reveals!

My Vision: I will write movies that are extremely funny and entertaining and bring a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment to a world starving for true enjoyment.

What I learned from doing this assignment is how to surprise and endear your audience with setups and reveals.

Question 1: What will you reveal?

For Gwendolyn:

Reveal: Gwendolyn’s true mission as an otherworldly entity sent to help Earth.

Subtext: She is not just a regular teen but a powerful being with a mission to promote kindness and empathy among Earth’s youth.

For Abigail:

Reveal: Abigail’s true mission as an otherworldly entity sent to help Earth.

Subtext: She may seem zany and impulsive, but she has a purpose to inspire people to enjoy their situations and get along with each other.

For Brandi:

Reveal: Brandi’s connection to a crime family and the extent of her influence.

Subtext: Her ruthless behavior stems from her upbringing and desire to gain respect, but she may have doubts about her actions.

Question 2: When will the reveal show up in the story?

For Gwendolyn and Abigail:

Reveal Timing: The reveal of their true mission should occur in Act 3 when they take a trip back to Fairyland to formulate a new plan. This revelation can be a turning point as they share their identities and discuss their purpose.

For Brandi:

Reveal Timing: The reveal of Brandi’s connection to the crime family should come as a major twist in the midpoint turning point of Act 2 when the girls find out about it. This revelation adds complexity to her character and the overall conflict.

Question 3: What setups need to be in place to have each reveal work?

For Gwendolyn and Abigail:

Setup: Throughout Acts 1 and 2, drop subtle hints about their unique abilities, such as their ability to bring muses and fairies from Fairyland. Show moments where their actions seem out of the ordinary or unexplainable.

For Brandi:

Setup: Foreshadow Brandi’s family background and her influence over the cool kids in Act 1. Hint at her manipulative behavior and her desire for absolute respect and control.

Question 4: Where in the story do those setups belong?

For Gwendolyn and Abigail:

Setup Placement: Hints about their true nature and abilities should be scattered throughout Act 1 and Act 2. These hints can be subtle moments of wonder or magic that go unexplained until the reveal in Act 3.

For Brandi:

Setup Placement: Foreshadow Brandi’s family background and her dominance over the cool kids in Act 1. Show instances of her manipulating others and establishing her as a formidable antagonist. The setup should culminate in the revelation in Act 2.

[Mahee Sanapareddy]

Mahee’s Reveals

My Vision – I want to be a great writer who is well-respected and recognized in the industry, with successful books published and blockbuster movies produced. I want to create a successful movie franchise that audiences all over the world will love, rave about, look forward to, and continue to enjoy many years from now.

What I learned from doing this assignment is discovering cool reveals.

Genre: Science Fiction Thriller

Title: Realm: Gates of Wrath

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Setup / Reveal: 1

Question 1: What will you reveal? Professor Campbell’s assassin is not who we think it is.

Question 2: When will the reveal show up in the story? At the end of Act 1, In Act 2, In Act 3.

Question 3: What setups need to be in place to have each reveal work? Conflicts between Professor Campbell and Reverend DuVernay. Sean’s nightmare. Trevon’s determination to find answers from his father’s research. The cryptic message scribbled on the bedroom wall. Trevon’s and Sean’s interdimensional journey to the alien world.

Question 4: Where in the story do those setups belong? In Act 1, Act 2, and early on in Act 3.

Setup / Reveal: 2

Question 1: What will you reveal? The black race quite possibly has its roots in the cosmos.

Question 2: When will the reveal show up in the story? At the beginning of Act 4.

Question 3: What setups need to be in place to have each reveal work? Professor Campbell’s research work on the African Dogon tribe. His research analysis, notes, findings, artifact collections, etc.

Question 4: Where in the story do those setups belong? In Act 1, Act 2, and Act 3.

Setup / Reveal: 3

Question 1: What will you reveal? Reverend DuVernay is a two-faced politician with a flamboyant side and a dark side.

Question 2: When will the reveal show up in the story? In Act 1, In Act 2.

Question 3: What setups need to be in place to have each reveal work? Reverend DuVernay shows his charming personality to the public and media. But when in private his actions display his disturbed personality.

Question 4: Where in the story do those setups belong? In Act 1, and in Act 2.

Setup / Reveal: 4

Question 1: What will you reveal? Trevon actually loves his father.

Question 2: When will the reveal show up in the story? At the end of Act 1, In Act 2, In Act 3, In Act 4.

Question 3: What setups need to be in place to have each reveal work? Trevon is greatly influenced by Reverend DuVernay. Trevon doesn’t come to his father’s aid during a spat with DuVernay. Trevon drives his father home but turns a deaf ear to his advice. Trevon spends more time spreading DuVernay’s agenda than his father’s. Trevon’s deepest emotions pour out when his father is murdered. Trevon Embarks on a dangerous mission to find his father’s assassin. Trevon takes up and fulfills his father’s ambitions.

Question 4: Where in the story do those setups belong? In Act 1, Act 2, Act 3, and in Act 4.

Setup / Reveal: 5

Question 1: What will you reveal? Sean is a seasoned interdimensional traveler.

Question 2: When will the reveal show up in the story? This is a known fact even before the story begins. But in this story we reveal In Act 2.

Question 3: What setups need to be in place to have each reveal work? Sean wakes up from a strange cryptic nightmare. He rescues Trevon from the mobsters. He comes to know that Professor Campbell left clues for his son before his murder. He helps Trevon connect the pieces of the puzzle. He suggests the need for an interdimensional mission to find the extraterrestrial assassin. He’s the only one who can help Trevon with it.

Question 4: Where in the story do those setups belong? In Act 1 and Act 2.

Setup / Reveal: 6

Question 1: What will you reveal? 1ONTAE is a powerful and ruthless alien warlord.

Question 2: When will the reveal show up in the story? At the beginning of Act 1, In Act 4.

Question 3: What setups need to be in place to have each reveal work? The opening scene. FALLAG and the rebellion is imprisoned in underground caverns. He sends his army of extraterrestrial assassins to different habitable planets in the universe and wreak havoc among the civilizations.

Question 4: Where in the story do those setups belong? In Act 1, and early on in Act 4.

Setup / Reveal: 7

Question 1: What will you reveal? The interdimensional mission was pre-planned.

Question 2: When will the reveal show up in the story? In Act 4.

Question 3: What setups need to be in place to have each reveal work? The setup shows up in several actions Trevon takes in Act 2, Act 3, and early in Act 4.

Question 4: Where in the story do those setups belong? Act 2, Act 3, and early in Act 4.

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ACT 1: In a wide-open field, a large, shiny, and spectacular extraterrestrial spaceship descends slowly and lands on the turf.

DuVernay AJ 1 (Setup 6): Reverend DuVernay, a greatly admired black leader, eagerly awaits along with several politicians and world leaders as 1ONTAE, an alien warlord, an extraterrestrial pharaoh, and an absolute giant of a human being, emerges out of the spaceship. Wearing a body armor made out of an other-worldly alloy and a large bird-of-prey helmet with thick hanging chains, he is here to spread chaos, corruption, hatred, and violence. As he stands with authority, everyone kneels, rises, and kisses his hand. DuVernay does his part as well. But his followers and supporters are oblivious to this periodic ritual.

DuVernay AJ 2 (Setup 3): As he gets back into his car, one of his men mentions about a case of police brutality against a black man.

Deeper Layer: It’s a perfect opportunity for Reverend DuVernay to feed off of the emotions of people while gaining popularity and support.

DuVernay AJ 3 (Setup 3): Outside a building in Manhattan, DuVernay gives a stirring public speech. He riles up the audience, instigating the youngsters to do whatever it takes to fight for justice.

Trevon PJ 1 (Setup 4): Trevon looks up to Reverend DuVernay in awe, inspired by his philosophies, his command, his power, and his charismatic personality.

DuVernay AJ 4 (Reveal 3): Inside his home, DuVernay watches with a gleam in his eyes as a man is tortured. When a young woman approaches him for help to save her arrested brother, he makes an indecent proposal to her, something she cannot refuse.

Deeper Layer: DuVernay’s clean image and flamboyant personality is only put on display in public. In private, his true disturbed personality surfaces.

DuVernay AJ 5 (Setup 1 / Setup 2): DuVernay learns of the meteoric rise of his archrival, Professor Cedric Campbell, and his peaceful philosophies and decides to silence him. Professor Campbell, a prominent black historian, proposes from his extensive research that the black race had extraterrestrial origins and have been suppressed for thousands of years from achieving their full potential due to corruption, conflict, and crooked leaders.

Deeper Layer: DuVernay considers Professor Campbell as a political threat who could influence his supporters and followers and end up undermining his power and position.

Trevon PJ 2 (Setup 1 / Setup 4): Trevon and a gang of violent mobsters barge into a conference hall of historians and go on a destroying spree. In that process he and his father, Professor Campbell, lock eyes with each other, surprised to find themselves on opposite sides of the melee.

Trevon PJ 3 (Setup 1 / Setup 4): Reverend DuVernay, sitting in the audience, lets out a sinister laugh and applauds the mobsters. Trevon looks deadpan as his father and DuVernay go at each other.

INCITING INCIDENT (Setup 1): Professor Campbell threatens to expose DuVernay’s corrupt practices and evil agenda and thwart his chances in the upcoming elections.

Trevon PJ 4 (Setup 1 / Setup 4): Trevon drives his father home upon his request. Gets an earful from him but disagrees with his ideas and stubbornly refuses to listen to him.

Deeper Layer: Trevon senses that his father put his life in peril by going after a high-profile politician like Reverend DuVernay.

Trevon PJ 5 (Setup 4)/ DuVernay AJ 6: Trevon has fallen out of DuVernay’s favor.

Deeper Layer: DuVernay comes to know that Trevon is the son of his archrival and excludes him from all his gatherings because he can’t be trusted anymore.

Sean PJ 1 (Setup 1 / Setup 2 / Setup 5): Sean wakes up from a nightmare, sweating profusely, his eyes filled with terror. He had just gone through an interdimensional information download and this time it’s about him and Trevon – on an extraterrestrial mission in an alien world. His mind had also seen a cryptic message and he struggles to make sense of it. He desperately tries to reach out to Trevon.

Trevon PJ 6 (Setup 1 / Setup 4): Professor Campbell discredits DuVernay in the eyes of the public.

DuVernay AJ 7 (Setup 1): DuVernay gathers his mob and plans a secret attack on Professor Campbell without Trevon’s knowledge.

TURNING POINT 1 (Setup 1): Professor Campbell is brutally murdered in his own home.

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ACT 2: Trevon’s worst fears have come true. His mind and heart are now in a conflict.

Trevon PJ 7 (Setup 1 / Reveal 4): Trevon is crestfallen. He misses his father a lot. Suspects DuVernay’s hand in his father’s murder. But he must somehow find out.

DuVernay AJ 8 (Setup 1): DuVernay extols Professor Campbell in public, but berates him in private.

Trevon PJ 8: Trevon notices the two-faced personality of DuVernay.

DEEPER LAYER REVEAL: Trevon goes with his intuition as he comes to a realization. DuVernay turned out to be the crooked two-faced politician exactly like his father had stated all along.

DuVernay AJ 9 (Setup 1): DuVernay slams Trevon’s actions in the public media labeling them as the product of a deranged mind.

Trevon PJ 9 (Setup 7): Trevon reaches out to his mob friends for information on DuVernay. They agree to help him.

Deeper Layer: Trevon doesn’t realize that they all have been compromised and are actually working for DuVernay.

DuVernay AJ 10: DuVernay organizes his mob of supporters and plans to kill Trevon as he has become a thorn in his flesh.

TURNING POINT 2 (Setup 5): Sean comes to Trevon’s rescue and helps him escape the attempt on his life. Trevon and Sean go into hiding.

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ACT 3: Trevon is a wounded lion.

Trevon PJ 10 (Setup 1 / Setup 7): Determined to find answers, Trevon and Sean sneak into Professor Campbell’s house in the darkness of the night, wading through the endless yellow tape.

Sean PJ 2 (Setup 1 / Setup 5): Their focus falls on a cryptic message scribbled on the bedroom wall. Sean’s face drains of color as it’s the same message he saw in his nightmare.

Trevon PJ 11 (Setup 1 / Setup 2 / Setup 7): Trevon opens the drawers and closets, pores over his father’s copious notes, research papers, and studies. Comes to know it wasn’t DuVernay’s men that killed his father. It was a homeless man present in the house on the night of the murder.

Deeper Layer: This is another twist. His father somehow foresaw his death and has left him a puzzling clue.

Sean PJ 3 (Setup 1 / Setup 5): Sean mentions the weird nightmare to Trevon saying he saw the cryptic message in his nightmare. He suggests a possible link between the assassin’s origin and the alien world.

Trevon PJ 12 (Reveal 1 / Setup 2 / Setup 7): Trevon doesn’t believe him at first. But when he finds the missing piece of the puzzle in his father’s research work – a reference to a certain Planet X in the Sirius star system, he changes his mind.

Sean PJ 4 (Setup 5): Sean suggests that the assassin possibly came all the way from the alien world with a single purpose – kill Professor Campbell.

Trevon PJ 13 (Setup 7): Trevon realizes he must find the assassin’s purpose. To do that he needs to find a way to inter-dimensionally travel to Planet X searching for the assassin. Asks Sean for help.

Sean PJ 5 (Reveal 5): Sean is the only one who has the expertise of inter-dimensional travel. But he refuses to cooperate citing the dangers, complications, and time constraints involved.

Deeper Layer: Sean remembers a prophecy that is destined to doom him and fears the mission will make the prophecy come true.

Trevon PJ 14 (Setup 7): Trevon reminds Sean he had helped him in the past and saved his life. Sean rethinks his decision and reluctantly agrees.

Trevon PJ 15 (Setup 2 / Setup 7) / Sean PJ 6: Trevon and Sean saddle up in the machine designed and developed by Dr. Sklar, an ex-military doctor and a practicing hypnotherapist. With the help of an AI constructed program, Trevon and Sean embark on an interdimensional voyage to an alien world on Planet X. They only have forty-eight Earth hours to complete the voyage and return.

TURNING POINT 3 (Reveal 6): The alien world is being run by the crooked regime of the evil warlord 1ONTAE who has been sending his trusted assassins all over the universe to unleash chaos, corruption, violence, and hatred.

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ACT 4 (Setup 2): Trevon is shocked to encounter TALIYA and FALLAG, the extraterrestrial super-human alter-egos of himself and his father Cedric, in the alien world. They have been on the opposite sides of an age-old war. FALLAG and his rebellion have been imprisoned in underground caverns on the dark side of the planet and FALLAG’s son TALIYA has been fighting for the evil warlord 1ONTAE on the bright side.

Trevon PJ 16 (Setup 2 / Setup 7): Trevon comes to a realization this is a parallel world and his entire life is being mirrored here.

Deeper Layer: He has to be cautious as the decisions he takes here will have a direct impact on him in his own world.

Trevon PJ 17 (Setup 2 / Reveal 7): Trevon comes to know that his interdimensional voyage has been actually pre-planned and he was intentionally brought here on a mission. He must fight 1ONTAE’s men and pass through the “Gates Of Wrath”. He must lure the evil genius TALIYA away from 1ONTAE’s forces, and help the rebellion win the war. And he’s on a race against time.

Sean PJ 7: Sean begins to get worried. The sight of the alien landscape has triggered memories of his nightmare and has confirmed that the prophecy of doom will certainly become a reality.

Trevon PJ 18 (Reveal 2): Trevon is shocked to find the ultimate truth hidden behind the “Gates Of Wrath”. He successfully entices TALIYA to join the rebellion. There’s hope for the rebellion now.

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Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict/Alien World: A fierce and bloody revolution ensues. TALIYA, FALLAG, and the rebellion defeat the evil warlord 1ONTAE and chase him and his forces out of the world. The rebellion sees the light of day after years of darkness.

Resolution/Alien World: Trevon helps TALIYA install his father FALLAG as the emperor and himself as the protector of the alien world. Peace is restored. FALLAG gives Trevon a message of peace and a long-lost truth he must take back with him and spread it among the people. Trevon promises, realizing that was his father’s ambition as well.

Trevon PJ 19 / Sean PJ 8: As seconds trickle down, Trevon and Sean embark on their return journey to Earth.

Sean PJ 9: Sean’s return journey doesn’t end well. He loses his way and gets trapped in a distant forbidden world.

Deeper Layer: One cannot change or avoid a foretold prophecy. One can only embrace it.

Trevon PJ 20: Trevon returns to his earthly world, a completely changed person.

Deeper Layer: He has a new mission. He must fight for a greater purpose.

Climax/Ultimate expression of the conflict/Earthly World: He runs against Reverend DuVernay in the elections. Exposes DuVernay’s dark side to the media and public.

Trevon PJ 21 / DuVernay AJ 11: DuVernay loses his power and his support. Gets defeated by Trevon in the elections.

Resolution/Earthly World: Trevon fulfills his father’s ambition and the promise he made to FALLAG. He spreads the message of peace and the long-lost truth among the people.