Lesson 8

[Robert Smith]

ROBERT R. SMITH’s THRILLER PLOT

WHAT I LEARNED IS…?

The ease with which following the MIS method a plot can be created.

GENRE: HORROR THRILLER

TITLE: THE GOLEM IN GANGLAND

OPENING: In Heaven, the souls of Rabbi Solomon Levitsky and his companion Lou Tasca are called on a time-travel mission back to 1939 to save the life and soul of Rabbi Solomon’s gangster uncle, Max, because he is keeping a ‘blood antiquity’ from Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, the chief of Murder Incorporated, in New York.

INCITING INCIDENT: Uncle Max has returned from the Middle East with a clary statue which is a “blood antiquity” he obtained from Arab terrorists which turns out to be a genuine golem, a Frankenstein-like mass of clay with the capability of horrible destruction. Lepke wants to seize the golem in order to consolidate his deadly grip on the city of New York, but Max will not part with his prize.

TURNING POINT: Max drives away from Lepke’s hideaway in a truck that holds the crated golem. Lepke deoloys the ruthless hitman Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, to chase down Max, kill him, and seize the golem. A harrowing chase by Reles follows through the street canyons of Manhattan ending in a crash that Max, Reles, and the golem survive.

MIDPOINT: Rabbi Solomon and Lou Tasca, at last catch up to Max. Rabbi Solomon conceals the fact that he is Max’s nephew visiting from decades in the future. They settle down for lunch in what they believe is a safe haven, Rose’s Midnight Candy Store. In a drive-by tommy gun shooting, Reles chops and shatters the candy store, but Max, R. Solomon, and Lou survive.

SECOND TURNING POINT: Ivan Rostov of the NYPD intervenes announces that Reles crashed his car, surrendered to the NYPD and promises to “turn canary and sing,” meaning, snitch on Lepke and Murder Incorporated. R. Solomon encourages Max to do the same. He does, which means that Rabbi Solomon has successfully saved his Uncle Max’s life and soul but his work is not done as the golem he harbors will grow to destroy Max..

CLIMAX: While under protective police custody at the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island before his big day in court, Abe Reles is visited in his fifth floor room by the vengeful golem who climbs up the side of the hotel to Reles fifth floor room and hurls Reles to his death.

Detective Rostov says, “The canary could sing but couldn’t fly.”

RESOLUTION: Rabbi Solomon by an ancient ritual deactivates the golem and leaves Max safely in police custody and ready to return to a devout Jewish life Mission accomplished.