Lesson 8

[Brenda Boddy]

Brenda’s Show Mysteries
What I learned doing this assignment: Creating background for each character gives more material to write with and greater depth to your script.
ASSIGNMENT 1:
The 100.
Tell us about the mysteries from this show.
At the beginning pilot, we don’t know why Clark’s friend would have turned in her dad. We later don’t know why her mom betrayed her dad. The rest of the cast doesn’t know Bellamy shot the commander. The adults don’t know if the kids are dead. We don’t know who is injuring and stalking them ( the grounders).
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ASSIGNMENT 2:
Create two mysteries for your show — one that shows up strong in the Pilot and the other that is revealed over time.
1. Create your Shocking Event Mystery and tell us the WWWWW and H, along with the part withheld.
• A. Shocking Event: Justice reincarnates into the future.
• B. Secret: He’s from 1908.
• C. Investigation: Both his team and the office of paranormal investigations are trying to figure out how and why he is in the future.
• WWWWW and How:
• Who: Justice
• What: Reincarnated
• When: When the real Justice dies.
• Why? We don’t know yet.
• Where: Current day in Texas.
• How: Through a portal and/or parallel deaths?
• Part Withheld: Why? Because of a parallel accident? They are on a parallel\overlapping plane? Tom is a portal/robot from future?
2. Create the Over Time Mystery and tell us the WWWWW and H, along with the part withheld.

• A. Cover up: Hank has killed many men. His sense of right and wrong stems from a different era. As the new ‘Justice’ he has to change his behavior. Justice from modern times was unethical and corrupt. New Justice has to take on the persona of old Justice and still be able to function within his own moral code. (Could a partner or event push him to do more corruption and violate his code of honor?)
• B. Secret: He’s from 1908. New Justice will have to keep his predecessor’s criminal activities between himself and his team to avoid being arrested, all while trying to reinvent and fix the past. His newly inherited daughter is really a great granddaughter of Hank’s. He has the power to heal. He can’t read, because he’s dyslexic, but is educated.
• C. Reveals: Justice reincarnation. His ability to heal. Some of his abilities as a 1908 Texas ranger. He can hunt and track.
• WWWWW and How:
• Who: Justice
• What: Texas Ranger from 1908
• When: When the current Justice dies.
• Where: On a border patrol mission.
• Why? We don’t know why he is here. I’m toying with Tom (from his past) being a robot portal who he reincarnated through. Not sure if this idea works for a fish-out-of-water story showing an old-fashioned cowboy existing in today’s world. Maybe his blood is a match to his new ‘daughter’ in the present who is really a great-great granddaughter.
• How: Strikes his head in a parallel accident to the Texas ranger from 1908.
• Part Withheld: Who is Tom and what part does he play in the reincarnation?

[Brenda Boddy]

Again…the formatting doesn’t stay true when you post. It’s hard to tell what is happening with the assignment.