Thursday, September 20, 2007

"Blast from the Past!"


Moments before the "bullets" enter through Carey's living room, a small fire starts to blaze from a silver pot on the stove in the kitchen. Carey has forgotten to turn the stove off...

Inside the living room, is another scene. Dirt and dust hang over the room. The sun has finally come out again. A soft golden glow, lights up everything in the room.


RING! The telephone starts to ring-

Carey, laying flat on the floor, wakes up, hears the ring and looks up at Samantha sitting lifeless on the sofa. Carey turns to the window and sees the damage. As she looks closer, she realizes: Those aren't bullet holes...


But, if the aren't bullet holes, what are they?


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Cameron heads out onto the main road to find help for the suspiciously unconscious Trevor. He feels lucky when he runs into two young girls, one a redhead, the other a short-haired brunette, decked out in school uniforms. He sees them stop talking, and then wink at him as he approaches. He isn't in the mood. Someone is hurt, Cameron thinks. He stops them as they come closer-

"I need your help" Cameron states.

OK, the girls reply.

"Follow me this way", Cameron instructs.

As the girls hustle to keep pace, Ally, the redhead, looks behind and then quickly hikes up her skirt.

Apparently, she has something else on her mind...


*****


Back in the park, the mysterious cameraman walks closer to where he saw Trevor laying unconsious moments before Cameron left. He moves in closer to take another photograph... But-




Off in the distance, still under the tree, Trevor suddenly comes to.


Where am I?, he thinks.


He gets up slowly stumbling away. However, he does not notice that he has left the test samples he has taken sitting open on the grass under the tree.


A large red ant crawls onto the petrie dish...


*****


Tracy looks at the damage that she caused to her painting in her fit of rage over learning about Cameron's relationship with Samantha.

"Wheeeee!"Tracy runs to the whistling kettle. She prepares the cup of tea and tries and relax. Then, the telephone rings...
"Hello?" Tracy says-- answering the telephone.

"Hi Tracy? It's me Professor Williams, Trevor's father."

"Hello. Yes. How are you?"

He says, "I'm fine." He reconsiders, "No actually I was wondering... Do you have some time?"


"Sure. What is it? Are you OK?"


"Yes. Look I need to talk to you. I'll be over there in 5 minutes."


"Fine. Sure." Tracy says before hanging up the phone.


What on earth could he want? Tracy pauses for a moment. That's strange!


Just as she is about to sit down with a book to kill the time for Professor Williams to show up, there's a startlingly knock at the door-

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Who could that be? Tracy questions herself, and then she moves over to the door to open it-


"Jackie?!" Tracy says... Tracy's sister is at the door.
Only trouble is, Tracy's sister has been "dead" for two years.


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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

"All the Colours of the Rainbow"


It can't be true!

Tracy slams her bedroom door shut. All the pain she feels bursts out in a scream that even she can't describe. She runs over to the corner of the room. She stops in front of her most recent painting. She stares at it long and hard...

Suddenly, in a crazy outburst, she takes the pair of scissors off the windowsill and slashes holes into it repeatedly. Her face is soaking wet with tears. Oil paints go flying all over the floor - splashing red, green, gold, blue, purple and silver. A rainbow of colour stains the white shag carpet. She falls to her knees and begins crying really hard.

Could this really me happening to me? Tracy thinks.

Tracy screams: "Nooooooooo!". She falls down completely now falling into some of the paint.


*****

Now in the living room, Samantha continues to tell Carey (her stepmother) her suspicions of Cameron.

"Carey, I don't know what to think! I'm just so sure of it. I know that Cameron is cheating."

Carey hesitantly responds. "I don't know. I know, and I said that things might not be too easy for you getting engaged. I only said that because I too was engaged to a boy I really liked and -"

BANG! BANG! several rounds of gunfire come through the front window-

"Oh my God!" Carey screams.


*****


Back in the park, Trevor is now down on the ground, completely passed out from the pain.

Cameron approaches from around the tree with his hand extended holding a knife. He's surprised to see.... Trevor? laying there. That's Tracy's co-worker... he remembers.

Cameron quickly drops the knife.

As Cameron looks over Trevor to see what's wrong, he is confused because Trevor looks nothing like the guy who he has seen in photographs that Tracy has shown him. His face looks normal, but his skin looks very unusual.

Cameron runs to get help.

A bead of white foam bubbles to the surface of Trevor's lip. His eyes are rolling into the back of his head!

Tuesday, September 18, 2007


"Bridge over Troubled Water"







The rain in Foxport has completely calmed down. For now..


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Peacefully collecting lab samples of tree bark alone on a secluded grassy knoll, Trevor, fantasizes about kissing Tracy again...


He snaps out of his trance and is brought back to reality by sounds of two people arguing coming from under the Peace Bridge nearby. Trevor tries to stay quiet as he moves in closer trying to get a better listen... but, who is that?... it sounds like... Tracy?! ... Trevor thinks.

Then- dead silence. Trevor can hear the small waterfall nearby grow louder loudly drowning out the silence...

Down below, the echo of Tracy's voice is now clearly heard at the opening of the bridge tunnel-

Cameron, now turned around, is frozen. He doesn't know what to say... he is speechless.

"What?..." followed by a long emotional pause. "You're seeing Samantha?", Tracy demands from him. A tear falls off her cheek.

Cameron wants to look up and say something, but he can't. Tracy looks away and takes a step backwards. She runs out from under the bridge. Cameron races after her, but stops short as he nears the opening- it's begun to rain again.

The spying Trevor ducks out of Tracy's view and flips up his hood.

"Wait, please", Cameron calls angrily. "If I don't tell her by tomorrow, we can call off everything Tracy! Tracy! Just wait! Tracy, please." Cameron whimpers.

It's too late... Tracy's now a mere spec far off in the distance...

Trevor, still hidden, is trying to make sense of what is happening. He turns around: What just happened?. Off in the distance, over Trevor's back, is Cameron, still looking off towards Tracy.

Way, way, off in the distance, up high, the-mysterious-man-with-the camera appears again- unnoticed. He is behind a bush on a hill near the park gate. He snaps another shot of everyone: Cameron, Tracy and Trevor. Then his camera runs out of film and the auto rewind starts buzzing...

Trevor begins to feel something weird on his hand. An unusually sharp itching pain. He scratches it away- but then it sharply returns-

"Argggh!" Trevor screeches in pain. What on earth is that?! Trevor starts wondering what could that be? That sharp pain again! He clutches his hand near tears-

Cameron glances around toward the noise.

Trevor tucks in closer behind a tree.

Cameron swears he hears something so he begins to make his way closer to it.

Trevor, feels an increase of pain as he puts his hand over his mouth to silence himself- he can't let anyone know that he's there! Trevor is too much in pain to hear the Cameron approaching from behind!

The mysterious camera man, reloads his camera, and takes another shot of the 'new' scene: this time a shot of Cameron approaching Trevor from behind. From this angle, it looks like there is something sharp and shiny in Cameron's hand. Is that a knife?

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Monday, September 17, 2007

"Weird Science"


It is a strange morning in Foxport. The sky is grey with a heavy rainfall. There is hardly ever rain in Foxport...

*****

When Trevor wakes up hearing the rain hit his bedroom window, he is shocked to see his father, Professor John Williams standing out of breath at his bedside. "Dad." Trevor says, weirded out...
"Trevor, I'm so sorry to have woken you like this, but there's something you urgently need to know."
Trevor says, "OK, sure. That is it?". John motions for Trevor to move over, and Trevor slides up to sit resting his back on the headboard. John whispers, "OK, I have got an experiment I'd like your help with.... I have discovered what I think top scientists from all over the world have been working on solving for centuries... Just now, right now, downstairs in the basement!"
Trevor sighs. He is sure his father was making some kind of mistake. "OK. So...." Trevor sighs again, playing along-- thinking it could help him figure out what the real reason his father has come to see him is.
"I'll need to take some DNA samples from you to bring back with me to the lab." As Trevor's jaw drops in shock, his father is quick to respond. John quickly takes a cotton swab stick from his shirt pocket and takes a swipe off Trevor's tongue before he races out of the room. As John is heading down the hallway, he yells back towards the room. "It will take three months to examine the details Trevor, but once we are done, I should have figured out what caused Beethoven's deafness. I'll need you to take a fast detox diet for the next week, starting right now. Sorry, this is really important stuff and it can't be missed out on!"
Trevor bangs his head against the headboard three times and painfully shuts his eyes, but a crack of thunder jolts them back open.


*****

In the Waters' Mansion kitchen, Carey is washing dishes. Samantha is perched on a bar stool leaning on the counter. "You really shocked me Sam yesterday. I understand you were crying hysterically, but I thought there was a stranger in my house." Carey says jokingly. "OK, so tell me what's going on."
Samantha is visibly distraught and highly emotional. Holding back the tears, Samantha finally says, "I think that... I think that Cameron might be seeing someone else".

Carey turns around and looks at Samantha in disbelief.

*****
One hour later...
*****
Tracy and Cameron are under the bridge in Mayberry Park.

"What a minute, you're engaged to someone? Who is it?" Tracy impatiently asks Cameron.
Cameron turns around.

"Who is it?! Tell me!" Tracy says, furiously.

"Samantha."

"What?!" Tracy says in terror.

Coming up Tomorrow:
- A confrontation becomes an ultimatum.
- Trevor finds out the tests his father is running might be dangerous.

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The world is captivated.

Tracy Cinte, popular magazine cover model and the beautiful daughter of a high profile international businessman, has gone missing from a posh Brazilian hotel resort suite following her glamorous beachfront wedding. Security camera footage from the hotel lobby, suggests that she may have been kidnapped...

Shortly after, police confirm that they are dealing with a violent kidnapping after articles of clothing that Tracy was wearing have been found in a trail leading away from the hotel crime scene. Unexpectedly, the apparent kidnappers release two short video clips to a local news station. The videos show Tracy in a dark basement, seated in a chair, bound and gaged, horrified and seemingly unaware that she's being videotaped or who her captors are. Four hours later, investigators post a $12,000,000 cash reward from an anonymous source, to anyone with information leading to the return of the now named "Billion Dollar Bride".

Two weeks pass. Nothing.

Then, an international press conference is called to announce an update on the case. At the conference, George, Tracy's father, tearfully steps forward to reveal the intense search has proved unsuccessful and has officially been called off. The kidnapping, he suspects, might be connected to someone in the business world who has decided to exact revenge on him. He states that he has lost all hope of his daughter ever being found and thanks the public for their compassion and out pours of support...

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Story Preview:

"Who's There?"

Very early morning. Trevor stands in his bathroom mirror, daydreaming... Tracy and himself are having dinner in a busy, chaotic New York-style rooftop restaurant overlooking the skyline. Tracy is suggestively reading from a book-

"Trevor?"

Trevor snaps out of it. When he opens his eyes, he is with-

Tracy, eating brunch at Dunlee's place. Then suddenly, Tracy receives a phone call from her father, George, who informs her in detail the press coverage following his speech to the media about the "kidnapping". He says that everything played out "without a hitch", and that no one at the meeting asked a question that he was not able to answer readily. Still on the phone, Tracy candidly tells her father that although she really enjoys her new life in Foxport, and is glad he has suggested her moving there as the only real way that she was ever going to live a normal life, she's not at all that keen on lying to the entire world. George empathizes with her and he promises that things will change over time. As she hangs up, apologizing to Trevor for the interruption, a mysterious young man across the street in a clothing store window snaps a B & W photo of Tracy from behind a ghost white partially dressed mannequin. Obviously unaware that she and Trevor are both being watched, Tracy playfully kisses Trevor-- just as the mystery photographer snaps another photo...

Later on, Carey arrives back from her 6 month vacation in Guadeloupe, not surprised to find her house empty; she had given the couple visiting prior notice of her return. After heading upstairs to the bedroom with her luggage, she is surprised when on her way back downstairs she hears what sound like soft whimpering noises coming from behind the door of her stepdaughter Samantha's old bedroom- but Samantha is away on business in Holland... Could it be Jason? No, Jason would have phoned and Carey wasn't expecting anyone.... Who else was in the house?! She began to panic...

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"Tracy Cinte" - Our classic "outsider", 'the female captain of the ship', and lustfully innocent and exotic newcomer. In an Archie comic, she could easily be a quieter version of Veronica. In reality, Tracy is a strict Evangelical Christian and is also the world famous "Billion Dollar Bride", real world African princess, and heir to a financial fortune.





"Trevor Williams" - Our younger, fresh-faced, teen dream. Born and raised in "the place with no face" (aka Foxport), Trevor has always had privileges that few of world's wealthy can claim. Trevor Williams is, on the surface, your simple hormone-driven single 21 year old-- but don't let that fool you! Trevor is also smarter than someone his age, which unfortunately, often leads him into situations and places that he should not be. When we meet Trevor, he's researching with his father and working at the small Map of the World Art Gallery in the town square and desperately looking for a date. He strikes up a friendship with the new gallery's new curator, Tracy, and soon develops an unshakable fantasy in his mind of him and Tracy together. When reality and his fantasies for her collide, we soon see a dark side to Trevor's personality.



"Cameron Cassaro" - Cocky, cool, confident. Cameron is a woman's romance novel version fantasy of an Egyptian prince. He is also from a long line of Egyptian royalty, which makes him, technically, a prince. When we meet Cameron, he has arrived in Foxport only a few short months looking to find a paradise more exotic than his home in Cairo. Tall, strong, rugged, physical and piercing, to say that "love" was not something that he had in mind when he met Tracy Cinte would be an impossibility. They are a perfect fit. But, after all, he was already engaged to another woman Samantha Lumari-- Foxport's homegrown version of a princess! He'll do anything not to break the news, the engagement, or the heart of either woman... or more importantly... his own. How long will Cameron go on hiding his nasty and taboo love life? Will someone get hurt in the process?







"Carey Waters" - Born in Foxport, the quiet Carey is one of the few residents left in town who was actually born in the majestic gated utopia. Windowed for only a few years, to her surprise, Carey finds love in the sexy and much younger Mark Summers, a blue collar type town security patrol and an exotic dancer with a shady past who is currently investigating a series of missing paintings from the art gallery in town that Carey partly owns. Is it Carey's love that he's after or something else of hers he sees as more interesting?