Module 2 – Lesson 6: Opening Summary That Sells the Season

[Brenda Boddy]

Brenda Boddy – Show Summary
What I learned: The techniques we are being shown are exactly what I was wanting to learn and struggling with. I feel like my pilot has taken on new levels.
ORGANIZE:
Character we must watch Justice Baird and how he deals with his reincarnation into the future.
Major Empathy/Distress for character: He left his 4-year-old behind, and the body he is in was a corrupt BORTAC agent.
Concludes with an Extreme Dramatic Question: Why is there a chip in his head.

Set-up: Character’s normal situation: Justice is a corrupt, abusive man.
Twist/Hook: He dies and a moral, Texas ranger takes his place.
Real situation: Empathy/distress: He left a child behind. The Mexican cartel thinks he is working with them. Internal Affairs is investigating him. The Office of Paranormal Investigations wants to run tests on him. His boss looks exactly like someone in his own era and several members of his BORTAC team are operating under their own agenda. His abused family are plotting against hm.
Twist/Hook: He does what any law-abiding ranger would do…takes a deep breath and tackles the corruption he finds from his own century old standards inciting the cartel to go after him.
Impossible to solve conflict or mystery: He can heal, he doesn’t know how to get back home, and he doesn’t know why he’s here.
Final hook into the series – Extreme Dramatic Question: If he didn’t reincarnate…what is he?

BORTAC agent, Justice Baird, is living a life of luxury, paid for with corruption and abuse, while hidden behind the shield of his uniform. Until he dies.
Meet the new Justice Baird, a Texas ranger from 1908 who reincarnates into his body. This Justice Baird is moral and old-fashioned and has no clue how to operate as a partner in a BORTAC unit. And while he’s desperate to get back to his four-year-old kid, his hands are immediately full up with Internal Affairs investigating him, the Office of Paranormal Events wanting to run tests on him, his abused bi-racial family plotting against him, and the Mexican cartel treating him like a partner in their corruption.
Justice reacts to this new life like any century-old, red-blooded lawman who smokes and drink too much – he tackles the cartel head on, trying to right the wrongs of his predecessor. And while Justice discovers an ability to heal, he manages to incite a vendetta that threatens to take out his inherited family.
Justice needs to figure out his new reality quickly. Such as why he’s in the future and why his boss looks like someone from his past? And more importantly, what the hell does he have to do to get home?