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Lois’ Show Empathy/Distress
What I learned doing this assignment is… much of what I’ve already written fits this model.
from Lost:
A. Undeserved misfortune. A cave collapses on Jack
B. External Character conflicts. Will drug-addict Charlie who is in the pain of withdrawal risk his life to rescue Jack? Then, the cave collapses again, trapping them both
C. Plot intruding on life. Kate is about to set a flare to triangulate the French broadcast. Sawyer tells her about the cave-in. She has to trust someone else to set the flare and turn on the signal.
D. Moral dilemmas. Should Locke force Charlie to go through withdrawal?
E. Forced decisions they’d never make. Kate would never quit on a commitment, but she does when Jack is in danger. Finding the French location might help them get rescued. Choosing Jack over potential rescue is huge.
from Skunk-Boy
A. Undeserved misfortune. Meff misses his birthday party because he becomes a skunk
B. External Character conflicts. An owl tries to eat him.
C. Plot intruding on life. His sister Polly discovers his secret identity
D. Moral dilemmas. He lies to his best friend Ramon about where he went and why – he was at the cave visiting his skunk-cousins instead of at his birthday party
E. Forced decisions they’d never make. He gets bought as a skunk and entered into a beauty contest – something he’d never do on his own.
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THIS TAKES EXTRA TIME TO RETYPE INTO THE FORUMS!
Brenda Clarke Empathy/Distress
As I haven’t written much for my concept, this is giving me some great ideas for seasons one and two. So I need to keep working with these exercises in order to develop concepts moving forward.
RIVERDALE #7 In a Lonely Place
A: Underserved Misfortune – Polly being pregnant and placed in a nunnery by her parents.
Veronica’s father being in jail, hence her turning up at her mothers old hometown. Jughead homeless due to his drunk unemployed father.
B: External Character Conflicts: Cheryl/Betty usually at logger heads but both want the baby to be safe, Daughter/Mother Veronica finding out her mum forged her signature and may want to pursue a relationship with Archie’s dad, while she is still married. Archie’s Dad and Jughead’s dad have a bad past, due to stealing from the company, forcing him to get sacked. Betty/parents she wants to know the truth and not sure if they can be trusted.
C: Plot Intruding On Life: Betty keeps trying to find out the truth about the past, now has Jughead as friend, Jughead’s father struggling to keep it together, road blocks for Archie’s performance at school,
D: Moral Dilemmas: Betty upset by telling Polly about death of Jason, she feels guilty for her sister taking it so badly. big picture one is Archie having sex with his teacher, Jughead wants to have his family back together again but not sure if his dad can get his shit in a pile.
E:Forced decisions they’d never make: Betty wants to know the truth about Jason’s murder, Betty’s mum now declares daughters pregnant with Jason’s baby to press/town. Jughead’s Dad probably lit fire to protect his son
My show CONVICTS
Empathy Distress
HARRIET
A: underserved Misfortune: suddenly out of the blue her maid is arrested. Her life is turned upside down without her.
B: External Character conflicts: quarrels with her mother, regarding marriage and the need to find a husband to take care of her in her dotage.
C: Plot intruding On life: She decides to do whatever it takes to find Rosie, takes her frustration out/ bashes a man who was cruel to his horse. perhaps witnessed by child criminal who reports it to the gang. She needs to track the whereabouts of Tilly and is introduced to the criminal elements.
D: Moral Dilemmas: are twofold, her sexual orientation and being involved with a working class person. However, she fights against these constraints as she realises how deeply in love she is with Rosie.
E: Forced decisions they’d never make: Perhaps in order to gain info on the two sisters, she may have to “prove” herself to the criminal element, partake in a crime/scheme, in order to prove she can be trusted.
ELLIOT
A: Undeserved Misfortune: made an escape due to the assistance and quick thinking of Richard. However, Richard was arrested and now Elliot feels guilty/shame.
B: External Character Conflicts: quarrels with father re marriage, producing an heir to keep family line in tact. Sister doesn’t understand his moods or his attitudes
C: Plot intruding on Life: inaction/fear limit hem early on but he turns a corner, he wants to find his lover. Accidental meeting with Harriet, which develops into common ground.
D: Moral Dilemmas: his wealth/aristocratic background and association with a sailor together with his sexuality, both boundaries are crossed, which bears heavily on him. He needs to keep this secret from his father. He eventually opens up to his sister.
E: Forced decisions they’d never make: He gives up his family estate & inheritance in order to sail to Australia to re-unite with his lover. He also schemes a fake marriage with Harriet in order to give them a better chance of a new life in Australia.
ROSIE
A:Underserved Misfortune: her sister Tilly one afternoon steels clothing from a gent and as they run down the street are arrested. Rosie was in possession of stolen goods (hat) she too is convicted.
B: External Character conflicts: quarrels with Tilly for getting her into this mess (she misses Harriet and her life). She is afraid that Mrs Wright (Harriet’s mother) will find out about their secret and sack her.
C: Plot intruding on Life: Rosie sent to prison to wait for transportation, conditions are rough, life on board ship is even worse.
D: Moral Dilemmas: Rosie comfortable with her sexuality, however it does worry her that Harriet may only be using her as some sort of play thing and that perhaps she is not worthy of her love.
E: Forced decisions they’d never make: on ship Tilly becomes seriously ill (STD) and has been protecting Rosie from sexual advances from the sailors on board – taking care of them instead. Rosie is forced to have sex with a young crew member, who was harassed/bullied into losing his virginity by other members of the crew. Rosie gets pregnant and arrives in poor condition in Australia.
RICHARD
A:Underserved Misfortune: raid on the Molly house, he helps Elliot escape but he is arrested.
B: External Character Conflicts: he puts up a butch front with his mates, but secretly homosexual so more internal struggles.
C: Plot intruding on Life: he is sent to a hulk to await transportation to Australia, gets into a fight and is knifed by his attacker.
D: Moral Dilemmas: Perhaps he could write a letter to Elliot to say “forget him and get on with his life”. However, he signs off with his undying love.
E: Forced decisions they’d never make: due to severe storm whilst on ship he is called upon to take the helm. He refuses at first then when under threats of “the cat o’ nine tails” he goes up on deck and steers the ship safely through the storm. Becomes a hero to not only the crew but all the passengers and convicts on board as well. He too accepts a fake marriage with Rosie.
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Lesson 7
What I learned: Doing this exercise made me more aware of ongoing themes throughout a show. Even though individual episodes can be very dramatic, it seems that the big picture themes are what drive the show and make the characters compelling.
ASSIGNMENT 1:
1. Watch the next episode of your Example Show and focus on the Empathy/Distress that shows up in this episode and throughout the season so far.
2. Notice the difference between Big Picture Empathy/Distress and detail-oriented Empathy/Distress. Big Picture will have an impact across multiple episodes.
Scandal:
Empathy/Distress Olivia:
Undeserved Misfortune: BIG: The man she loves is married and President (so he either gets to be “normal” with her or “great” as a leader) EPISODE: Quinn is at the scene of a murder and Olivia has to remove the crime evidence (meaning the police won’t find the real killer) to protect her
External Character conflicts: BIG: With Cyrus (he was her mentor but he’s willing to destroy people to protect the president); EPISODE: With David (they like each other but have to cross each other to do their jobs)
Plot Intruding on Life: BIG: Someone has a tape of Olivia and the President; EPISODE: Olivia has protected Quinn through anonymity but now has to figure out how to defend her from her old life
Moral Dilemmas: BIG: The President needs her but he’s married; she can’t be with him and she can’t be without him; EPISODE: How to protect Quinn without letting the killer (Billy) get away
Forced Decisions They’d Never Make: BIG: To stay away from the President; EPISODE: To clean the murder scene
Deadline: 24 hours
ASSIGNMENT 2:
1. Make a list of BIG PICTURE difficult situations and decisions your characters could make because of the main conflict of this series.
Abigail:
A.
Undeserved misfortune. She was not elected herself but had to work through
her husband
B.
External Character conflicts. With the old white guys in power for putting
their ambitions in front of governing the country
C.
Plot intruding on life. Wali shows up and is very smart and doesn’t
discount them as suspects
D.
Moral dilemmas. She’s killing men she’s known for decades.
E.
Forced decisions they’d never make. Since the men refuse to put country
before themselves and are locked into office, the only way to get them out
is to kill them.Wali:
A.
Undeserved misfortune. She’s a Muslim woman working with men who discount
her and even sabotage her.
B.
External Character conflicts. With her Captain and her partner (and most
of the men on the force)
C.
Plot intruding on life. She wants to get promoted but if she pursues this
case, she’ll be in trouble
D.
Moral dilemmas. She actually agrees that getting rid of the old white guys
in power is a good thing but she’s the law.
E.
Forced decisions they’d never make. To go against her boss’s orders to
pursue the case.Rose:
A.
Undeserved misfortune. She was born at a time when Black women were openly
snubbed in DC society
B.
External Character conflicts. With her friends over whether they should
kill or not; With the law when they come after her friends
C.
Plot intruding on life. She wants to be a righteous church lady, but
D.
Moral dilemmas. She knows that the old white guys need to be offed to get
the country on track but she believes in Thou Shalt Not Kill
E.
Forced decisions they’d never make. To join her friends when they get into
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SU Bingeworthy Lesson 7
Griff’s Empathy/Distress
What I learned from doing this assignment: CHARACTER IS PLOT
Assignment 1:
Stranger Things
Empathy/Distress for:
Nancy: Undeserved misfortune: Feels responsible for Barb’s disappearance. Trying to navigate a relationship with Steve. Also concerned about what happened to Will. Distress: lying to parents.
Eleven: Undeserved misfortune: She was imprisoned, abused in the Hawkins institute. Distress: Remaining hidden from “Papa” and the other scientists at Hawkins.
Mike: Undeserved misfortune: Will disappears, disrupting the inner circle of friends. Distress: sneaking around to find Will, lying to parents.
Hopper: Undeserved misfortune: His daughter’s death. Distress: his investigation is stonewalled and he is threatened by shadowy forces.
Joyce: Undeserved misfortune: Will’s disappearance, bad divorce from Lonnie. Distress: Convinced Will is not dead, just lost.
Jonathan: Undeserved misfortune: Father abandoned the family. Will disappears. Distress: he is a social outlier. His estranged father tries to come have a presence in his life.
Assignment 2
THE LAST STRAW
Empathy/Distress for:
Stephanie:
A. Undeserved misfortune: She is a struggling single mother.
B. External Character Conflicts: Her boys are driving her nuts and school counselors are getting in her business.
C. Plot intruding on Life: No time to develop the writing career she is qualified to have.
D. Moral Dilemma: Parenting conflicts with Stephanie’s work life.
E. Forced Decisions: Taking off on a road trip.
Randy:
A. Undeserved misfortune: He is small for his age.
B. External Character Conflicts: Randy is overlooked for athletic opportunities by his peers.
C. Plot Intruding on Life: Constant friction with mother and younger brother.
D. Moral Dilemma: Support his struggling mother or report her for neglect.
E. Forced Decisions: Tells his counselor that Stephanie is not a good mother.
Todd:
A. Undeserved misfortune: Absence of father since early childhood.
B. External Character Conflicts: Todd can’t get bullying brother Randy to leave him alone.
C. Plot Intruding on Life: Stephanie disappears.
D. Moral Dilemma: Todd blames Stephanie for his father’s absence.
E. Forced decision: To shake off adult supervision and go looking for Stephanie.
Brad:
A. Undeserved misfortune: Daughter’s mother died of a drug overdose.
B. External Character Conflict: Bumps heads with Stephanie about parenting her boys.
C. Plot Intruding into Life: Stephanie and Marcey both go missing.
D. Moral Dilemma: How tough to be with daughter Marcey?
E. Forced decision: Goes after Marcey when she goes missing.
Marcey:
A. Undeserved misfortune: Mother died of drug overdose when she was ten.
B. External Character Conflict: Stephanie tries to get into her business.
C. Plot Intruding into Life: She is being stalked by someone investigating her “desert activities.”
D. Moral Dilemma: having to lie to her father (Brad) all the time by putting on a false Party Girl persona.
E. Forced Decision: Has to keep going to the desert to carry out her “mission.”
Randy and Todd:
A. Collective undeserved misfortune: Their mother disappears.
B. External Character Conflict: Foster care system steps in to take over their lives after Stephanie disappears.
C. Plot intruding into Life: they are thwarted in their efforts to participate in finding Stephanie by layers of bureaucratic officialdom.
D. Moral Dilemma: They are expected to cooperate with the authorities.
E. Forced Decision: They evade authorities and take off on their own to find Stephanie.
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Assignment 1
Big Picture Empathy/Distress in “The Americans”
• A. Undeserved misfortune.
⁃ Elizabeth got raped by a Russian training officer (ep 1)
⁃ Elizabeth has suffered when raised in a tough country by her mom only.
• B. External Character conflicts.
⁃ Philip thinks Russia is over reacting
⁃ Elizabeth blames him for having wanted to defect.
⁃ They will always disagree about Russians and Americans way of seeing things. He is less biased than she is.
• C. Plot intruding on life.
⁃ They were having some sort of honeymoon rebirth and the president of US gets shot, which puts them both in an emergency situation where they might have to go guerrilla underground and where they are back into their respective opposite attitude.
• D. Moral dilemmas.
⁃ Elizabeth kills a security guy who was about to have them inspected by police. Which means she has to kill innocent people on regular basis.
⁃ It is clear that they are spies before they are husband and wife. It is done by Philip saying “if Moscow finds out that we sat on the Haig intelligence, we’re finished” and Elizabeth replying “I won’t say anything if you don’t”. Which means it is not obvious that she wouldn’t and that there might be some case where she would report things whitout his knowledge.
• E. Forced decisions they’d never make.
⁃ This is hard to have, since they are already capable of taking extreme decisions like killing in cold blood.Assignment 2
Empathy/Distress situations that could occur in LIMBO
Concept: An old woman has a car accident trying to take her suicidal grand daughter to ER. She ends up in Limbo (the parallel world of an intensive care unit) where people who are going through a Near Death Experience can gather and socialise and where she has the body of her teens. There, she falls for a guy half her age, who thinks she is in her teens. Will she allow herself to live this ultimate love story? And if so, will she have time to enjoy it before she is unplugged from the machine that keeps her alive?
• A. Undeserved misfortune.
⁃ Jaqueline is badly injured trying to save her grand-daughter’s life.
⁃ Jaqueline’s Grand-Daughter has a leg cut off, so she can survive. Then a second leg. Her legs are continuously chopped off again and again, up to the waist. Then her arms too. (This does happen in real life)
⁃ B. External Character conflicts.
⁃ Should I give Jaqueline an enemy in Limbo, as well as an enemy in the intensive care unit? What kind of conflict?
⁃ In intensive care unit: Maybe use the Student as enemy. Jaqueline saw him fondle her grand-daughter’s breasts. She hates him for that and tells him so. This makes the Student dread she might wake up and tell (he knows no one would believe her (she was in a coma) but still it wouldn’t look good on him).
⁃ In Limbo: It could be her grand-daughter: she hates Jaqueline for hindering her suicide, then for taking her identity to seduce the Rocker.
• C. Plot intruding on life.
⁃ Doctors decide to unplug Jaqueline, just when she’s had her first kiss with Rocker.
⁃ Jaqueline’s grand daughter arriving in Limbo, which will disclose her real age and identity.
• D. Moral dilemmas.
⁃ To live the love story she never had (with someone half her real age) in limbo, Jaqueline hides her real age and pretends to be her own grand-daughter (they look the same) Her grand-daughter is also in a coma, but not (yet) in Limbo.
⁃ Jaqueline puts pressure on intensive care staff members so she doesn’t get unplugged. (Still have to figure out how on earth she can do that…)
⁃ Jaqueline is tempted to get her grand daughter unplugged, so she won’t reveal her real age and identity to anyone in Limbo.
⁃ Jaqueline’s family is put in a tough spot: should they allow the staff to bring her grand daughter back (knowing that she wanted to die in the first place, and that now she will have to adapt to living without arms and legs) or let nature take her away?
• E. Forced decisions they’d never make.
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What I learned doing this assignment: Once again I found that this is a simple yet effective way to add elements to your characters that not only adds to their rich complexity, but also draws the audience ever closer them.
BIG PICTURE DIFFICULT SITUATIONS
INVASION – APPLE +
“ANEESHA MALIK”
A. Undeserved misfortune: Catching Husband having an affair, Alien invasion.
B. External Character conflicts: Resents husband.
C. Plot intruding on life: Suddenly on the run with family, Her medical training suddenly in demand.
D. Moral dilemmas: Choosing her children’s lives over her husband’s.
E. Forced decisions they’d never make: Leaving her husband to die.
“THE EMM TRIANGLE”
“SHING”
A. Undeserved misfortune: Parents killed (murdered).
B. External Character conflicts: Colonel Lamb, Her Chinese archeological colleagues (secret MSS agents).
C. Plot intruding on life: Childhood alien abduction, Suddenly thrust into accelerated OWSA training, New job.
D. Moral dilemmas: Should she reveal what she’s discovered?
E. Forced de decisions they’d never make: Deliberately mislead her superiors, destroy evidence, commit an act of sabotage.
JonCCC
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Lisa’s Show Empathy/ Distress
What I learned doing this assignment is that I can really dig deeper to make a more powerful and moving story that people can connect to more. It just keeps getting better.
ASSIGNMENT 1:
Vampire Diaries:
Damon turns Vicky into a vampire out of boredom. It makes her go through a struggle from her transition and her unquenchable thirst for blood. Stefan and Damon keep her away from people so she doen’t hurt anyone, but Jeremy and Mattie are really worried about her.
Vicky is in a lot of pain. She doesn’t want to be a vampire. She kills a human.
Vicky tries to kill Elaina and gets killed by Stefan. It makes Jeremy very sad. Elaina is sad for him.
Elaina wants to forget Stefan, because it hurts to know that he’s a vampire, but she doesn’t want to lose the way she feels about him.
Assignment 2
A. Undeserved misfortune: Jane getting turned into a vampire. Her mom sick with cancer
B. External Character conflicts: Lucy tries to sabotage Marc, Ammo trying to turn jane to an omnivore, Heather doing dumb shit and Jane has to help her get out of, Doloris loses her trust in Jane
C. Plot intruding on life: Jane doesn’t want to be a vampire. Jane needs to take care of her mom while juggling school
D. Moral dilemmas: Jane doesn’t like hurting others or using other beings for her own gain.
E. Forced decisions they’d never make: Jane would never kill or harm anyone and never drink blood of any other being unless it was between life and death.
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Kathleen’s Show Emphathy/Distress
What I learned doing this assignment is that there is a lot going on within characters which makes them act as they do.
The Young Pope
A. Undeserved misfortune- Pope Pius XIII/Lenny was put into an orphanage by his parents.
B. External Character Conflicts – The fact that his parents gave him up has bothered him and that is causing him to make bad decisions and acting arrogant.
C. Plot intruding on life – He is now Pope and is bitter and making bad decisions for the Catholic Church.
D. Moral Dilemmas – He is making decisions on his own and not consulting with other leaders in the Catholic Church which is making them mad. He is doing things on his own.
E. Forced Decisions they’d never make – The fact that Lenny is Pope Pius XIII and in charge of the Catholic Church, the Leaders have to go along with his decisions whether they like them or not.
MY SHOW
A. Undeserved misfortune – Julie is put in a position to spy for the Pope acting as a Teacher at a school.
B. External Character Conflicts – She was raised in a Catholic School and doesn’t believe in abusing children. She stands up to Sister Margaret.
C. Plot intruding on life – Julie likes working as a Teacher and just wants to be liked and just teach. They fact that she has to report back to the Pope about the school bothers her.
D. Moral Dilemmas – Julie is against Child Abuse and Sister Margaret believes in discipline which is child abuse.
E. Forced decisions they’d never make – Julie needs to get people fired.
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Frank’s Show Empathy/Distress
What I learned doing this assignment is…
I learned that it’s important TO NOT BE PRECIOUS WITH MY MAIN CHARACTERS! While I wouldn’t want to make any real people I know suffer and cry and go through the wringer and even die, it’s okay to put my fictional characters into those situations because it betters the overall story… and honors the expectations of my audience who are generously donating their time and attention to engage with my narrative.
I also learned from watching Jessica Jones that the writers use Empathy/Distress to make a character who is as cantankerous, petty, selfish, & self-destructive as Jessica Jones a likeable protagonist. How they do this is by putting her into really uncomfortable and even dangerous situations where only someone who has her irascible nature could possibly survive and overcome. In many ways, Jessica Jones would be the villain of any other show. She is hyper-aggressive, and often does things that are the exact opposite of what we’d expect from a “likeable” protagonist or hero. In fact, in this episode, there’s a great moment where NYPD officer and former special ops soldier Will Simpson says out loud that she’s no hero. “I’ve seen real heroes and you’re not even close.” LOL! So true. Yet the reason we, the audience, follow Jessica Jones on her journey as the protagonist is because the writers expertly put her into situations where only someone like her could hope to win the day.
Assignment 1:
JESSICA JONES s01e05 – “AKA The Sandwich Saved Me”
1.) EXTERNAL CONFLICT: Jessica Jones is confronted by her supervisor at her last job 18 months ago about taking diet soda home from work. She responds by exposing the supervisor’s company embezzlement. She also immediately embarrasses a misogynistic guy who insults her friend at a bar.
2.) Big picture UNDESERVED MISFORTUNE: the PTSD that Jessica Jones faces any time she sees Killgrave while investigating him, like the moment in the park when she tails her mind-controlled neighbor Malcolm to a secret meeting between him and Killgrave. This is a recurring problem for Jessica Jones that hampers her judgment and effectiveness at catching the villain.
3.) Big picture UNDESERVED MISFORTUNE: the continuing torment Hope goes through as she languishes in prison, surrounded by hostile inmates, for a crime that Hope did not intentionally commit.
4.) Big picture MORAL DILEMMA: Jessica Jones needs to capture Killgrave alive so that he can serve as material evidence for Hope’s acquittal. But she also really, really wants to kill him for all the suffering he’s caused her and the people she cares about.
5.) EXTERNAL CONFLICT: the audience is made to feel empathy for both Will Simpson and Jessica Jones as they are forced to work together to bring down their common enemy Killgrave – even though Will and Jessica don’t trust each other.
6.) UNDESERVED MISFORTUNE: Malcolm nearly OD’s because of Killgrave’s continuing exploitation.
7.) FORCED DECISIONS THEY’D NEVER MAKE: Hope demands cash from Jessica Jones in order to appease the malicious inmates she is serving time with.
8.) PLOT INTRUDING ON LIFE: In a flashback, we see that Jessica Jones, adrift in her life without a strong purpose, saves a little girl’s life by stopping a car from hitting her as the girl is crossing the street. The girl thanks her. Later, we see that Jessica Jones also saved Malcolm’s life when he was getting beaten up by thugs who wanted his wallet. They make the decision to kill him when she intervenes. She saves his life and he remembers that later on. These two moments have us feeling empathy for brittle Jessica, but we immediately also feel distress when Killgrave shows up moments after Jessica stops the thugs from killing Malcolm. We realize we are witnessing the moment when Killgrave first encountered Jessica and began to control her mind with his powers.
9.) PLOT INTRUDING ON LIFE: Jessica Jones, Will Simpson, and Trish Walker enact a plan to capture Killgrave alive and contain him somewhere where he can’t use his powers, but the plan fails because they don’t realize until it’s too late that he has a tracking device on his person. Bodyguards show up and neutralize the three long enough to rescue their client and get Killgrave to safety. The plan has failed and they are all in a worse position now than before because Killgrave is onto them.
10.) FORCED DECISION: Killgrave calls Jessica Jones the next morning and offers her a deal. If she will continue doing the job that Malcolm was doing for him (taking pictures of Jessica Jones), Killgrave will no longer mind-control Malcolm into being a heroin addict. Jessica would never willingly take pictures of herself for Killgrave’s lascivious appetite, but she must now do so in order to save her friend Malcolm, who has demonstrated that he really wants to get on the road to sobriety.
Assignment 2:
Season 1 of the Three Worlds:
1.) EXTERNAL CONFLICT: The Hak-Jordan family realize the authorities are onto them and Sung and Barbara rush to activate the portal machine. FORCED DECISION: They put their children in first, intending to follow them into another dimension, when an agent fires a rocket-propelled grenade into the device causing an explosion that destroys the machine and injures Sung and Barbara. No trace of the children remains and they are presumed dead. UNDESERVED MISFORTUNATE: A devastated Sung and Barbara are taken into custody as Torquemada oversees the op.
2.) But the audience sees that Marjorie and Henry are flying through a wormhole, screaming in terror. PLOT INTRUDING ON LIFE: They get separated inside the distorted space-time and Marjorie loses sight of her younger brother.
3.) Marjorie wakes up from her nightmare. Her step-brother asks her what’s wrong and she says she had a strange dream. UNDESERVED MISFORTUNE: It becomes clear that Marjorie was adopted by this family a year ago and no one, including her, knows where she came from.
4.) Henry wakes up from his nightmare. He is camping somewhere in the wilderness and his father (who is not Sung) asks him about the disturbing dream. UNDESERVED MISFORTUNE: It’s made clear that Henry was also adopted by this family a year ago and no one, including him, knows where he came from.
5.) EXTERNAL CHARACTER CONFLICTS: Marjorie and Henry, in their respective worlds, deal with bullying at school.
6.) EXTERNAL CHARACTER CONFLICT: Teenage Marjorie discovers her first love is a player and he’s been cheating on her. She finally breaks things off with him.
7.) PLOT INTRUDING ON LIFE: adult Marjorie learns that her ex-lover is now one of the leaders of an anti-democracy conspiracy that is trying to take power. DILEMMA: She feels compelled to stop them but that would mean violating her ethics as a journalist.
8.) PLOT INTRUDING ON LIFE: adult Henry is part of an elite military unit sent to Mars to secure the site of an abandoned underground alien city. EXTERNAL CHARACTER CONFLICT: he must fight the British armed forces to prevent them from capturing it. DILEMMA: he must work together with a member of the enemy forces to escape from a deadly trap in the alien city, or die.
9.) FORCED DECISION: Marjorie must kill her ex-lover to prevent greater bloodshed and suffering.
10.) DILEMMA: Henry discovers a portal that could take him back home, but it would mean betraying his oaths to his adopted people.
11.) PLOT INTRUDING ON LIFE: Torquemada is driven to succeed at all costs and he is okay with using violence to get what he wants, yet he is forced to keep the existence of his disabled daughter a secret from the authorities so that she won’t be executed.
12.) UNDESERVED MISFORTUNE: Sung and Barbara are sentenced to a life term in prison.
13.) PLOT INTRUDING ON LIFE: They discover their children are alive, but can only be with them in their dreams.
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