Welcome to Foxport.
"A rose is not just a rose in... Foxport."
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
So far -
It's been an unusual day in Foxport. The morning saw heavy rainfall. There is hardly ever rain in Foxport- at least not for the last forty years anyway!
Nearing nightfall, much has happened to Cameron, Tracy, Carey and Trevor throughout the day:
Just after receiving the news about her boyfriend being engaged to another woman, Tracy's estranged fraternal twin sister, Jackie, mysteriously appears at her front door and later locks her in her own bathroom! Jackie strangely assumes Tracy's identity by putting on her wig and makeup. When Professor Williams comes to the door, Jackie fiends Tracy's persona...
(In the photos: Tracy, on right, twin sister Jackie, on left)
Cameron returns to the tree in Mayberry Park where he discovered Trevor laying unconscious, only to see him missing!
The mysterious man taking photos of people in town is now in the park and he comes to the aid of Trevor who has managed to stumble away from the tree but collapsed again a short distance away in a small roadway leading away from the park. On the way to assist Trevor, the cameraman's camera falls, which causes the film case to open and the film cartridge to pop out. As he reaches out to grab it, the film quickly rolls off away into a sewer grate at the side of the road.
Carey discovers that her stepdaughter Samantha and her aren't the only people in her mansion. After desperately trying to wake Samantha, who has become unconscious after a bomb-like blast came through her living room window, Carey hears a cry from Mark Summers, who was hiding in the basement to surprise Carey back from her vacation the night before. He is calling out now from inside the kitchen, desperately trying to swat out a growing stove top fire. Carey drags the still unconscious Samantha out of the house to safety on the front lawn.
*****
Today -
Tracy manages to get closer to the bathroom door to listen to what her sister is saying to Professor Williams outside in the living room. Tracy realizes as she reaches up to open the door, that the lock is jammed-
Before Professor Williams has a chance to start talking, Jackie interrupts-
"Look, Professor I want to talk to you about something" Jackie gets a twinkle in her eye. "I've been having some problems.. some issues. I'm new here, as you know, and I really need someone to talk to. I've just learned some shocking news and I need someone to talk to. Is there any way that I can start seeing you as a therapy patient?"
"Yes! Yes, of course." he replies with enthusiasm.
Jackie starts to "cry". She hooks him into what she's saying. "I... I.. can't talk to you about this right now- and I was hoping that we could talk tomorrow, today's been a really hard day for me." She says looking down, trailing off...
Professor Williams promptly puts down his glass and makes his way to the front door. Jackie takes a look down the hallway back towards the washroom - Tracy is still in there. Good. Jackie thinks. As they get to the door, Jackie stops Professor Williams:
"I want to thank you for coming. I'll talk to you about it all tomorrow..." Jackie gives him a soft wet kiss on the lips.
Listening from inside her bathroom, Tracy is overwhelmed with shock and she decides not to make a noise- what on earth is my sister doing here and why is she pretending to me?!, Tracy wonders. She is exhausted, and she passes out crouched in the corner behind the bathroom door.
*****
The man with the camera walks over to Trevor and turns him over. He makes sure that no one can see him either. He takes his ball cap off and puts it on. Then Trevor wakes up and says:
"Help... there's someone after me."
"Who?" the cameraman says.
"Not sure." Trevor mumbles.
"Here, come on... let me get you up, and take you home."
Trevor stands up and the two walk over to the cameraman's small red car a short distance away.
In the distance, Cameron can barely see them... He can see Trevor, but he wonders who the man with the camera is.
"Hold on" Cameron says to the young girls. He races over to Trevor and the mystery man.
"Wait! Where are you taking him? Who are you!?" Cameron shouts out after them.
*****
Carey, is outside with Samantha on the front lawn. Samantha is now awake. Carey is looking towards the kitchen window from the driveway.
"What just happened?" Samantha asks.
"I'm not sure, but something came through the window when we were just talking babe- some kind of a blast. There's a fire in the kitchen right now, too! Oh my God... what is happening?! Mark Summers is in there now trying to put it out- I had no idea that he was in the house last night... did you???"
Pause.
Samantha freezes, dead cold. She's been caught-
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
"Chaos, Chaos, Chaos..."
Mayberry Park.As Cameron returns to the scene under the tree where he remembers leaving Trevor, he is concerned when he discovers that Trevor is no longer laying there. The two girls search the area nearby. Nothing.
"I'm sorry girls. I left him right here. I don't know what happened to him!" Cameron says concerned.
The girls look puzzled.
One girl, (the redhead who hiked up her skirt on the way to the park) notices something just under the tree on her way back to where Cameron is. "Oh my God, look at this!" she yells as she walks over to pick it up...
Not far off, the mysterious cameraman notices Trevor collapse on the road leading away from the park just outside the gates. He quickly hurries over but is very cautious to make sure that no one nearby sees him approach. As he does approach he drops his camera causing the casing to pop open. The film rolls away and into the sewage drain. He decides to ignore it and he moves on to assist Trevor who is in really bad shape.
*****
Carey's Mansion.
Mark Summers yells out to Carey.Carey from the living room can hear something but isn't sure what it is. She slowly gets up and makes her way over to the kitchen where to her shock she sees puffs of smoke billowing out of the kitchen.
"Carey- it's Mark. I'm in the kitchen! Get out of the house please. Right now. Get out!"
Carey is confused to hear Mark inside the house because she doesn't know that there is anyone else in the house quickly races back into the living room where she finds Samantha. Carey grabs Samantha and drags her through the room towards the front door.
"Mark, I've got Samantha here honey... I'll get us both outside safely." Carey screams in horror as she turns the handle on the front door to escape the fire.
As she gets outside, Samantha begins breathing again.
"Come on Sam honey..." Carey pleads. "We gonna be fine."
*****
Who are the characters in today's story? Find out now by scrolling down, then clicking "Sept 05" in the "History" section on the right of this screen further down.
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Last Week on "Map of the World"
Carey and Samantha become the victims of a mysterious vandal who hurls a blunt object through Carey's living room window while they discussed Samantha's suspicions of Cameron's cheating on her with another woman. In the aftermath of the blast, Samantha has been left unconscious. Whilst Carey slowly comes to, she is not aware that there has been a fire growing on the stove in her kitchen just before the blast...
While walking through the park, Tracy learns from Cameron himself that he has been seeing Samantha and has been engaged to her for a short while. News to Tracy, as she believed 
Cameron to be with her exclusively. An emotional wreak, she races home alone enraged and destroys her most recent painting which she had planned to give Cameron as a birthday gift. Tracy herself has a secret, but decided not to tell Cameron. It's a secret that can't be kept long.
Then, Tracy receives an urgent call from Trevor's father requesting to pay her a visit. (Trevor is a new friend of Tracy's, working with her at the small art gallery nearby) She is somewhat off-put by his request as she does not know his father all that well. Whilst waiting for him to arrive, Tracy receives a visit from her fraternal twin sister Jackie. Tracy is completely shocked to see Jackie because Tracy's father had told her that she had drown in a boating accident two years earlier when away at boarding school. Although Tracy herself has just staged her own death, with the help of her father and the international news media, she is overwhelmed with shock and collapses in the living room with Jackie by her side... 
In the same park earlier conducting research for his father, Trevor overheard the argument between Cameron and Tracy and decided to move in closer to get a better listen. When he sees Tracy come into his view, he ducks, hoping to remain just an eavesdropper. As he moves to gain cover, Trevor starts to feel a sharp pain in his hand that causes him to yell out loud and blow his own cover. The pain is strong enough to cause Trevor to faint.
Cameron hears the cry of pain in the distance and he makes his way over to the sound to deliver help. Cameron decides to pull his pocket knife for his own protection. As he gets closer, Cameron is shocked to to see Trevor laying unconscious under a tree. Cameron drops the knife and runs to get help. On the way, he meets two young schoolgirls who are willing to assist him in finding help, or so he thinks...While all of this was happening in the park, a mysterious man with a camera has been taking pictures of what has been happening and watching the whole story unfold from atop a high hill some distance away from it all. As Cameron leaves the scene to search for help, the cameraman makes his way over to Trevor to get a photo
of him. However, the cameraman doesn't notice Trevor suddenly come to and start to make his way out of Mayberry Park as he looks around to make sure that he can't be seen. Trevor, still dazed, doesn't notice that he's left his lab samples under the tree in the grass. Not good, as the mysterious cameraman is bound to find the samples....
Who is he and why is he taking pictures? What would he do with the samples if he had them for himself?!
Monday, September 24, 2007
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"Double Trouble"
Jackie attempts to catch Tracy as she collapses, but looses her grip when she's startled by a knock at the front door. Tracy hits her head directly on the ivory marble floor. Crack-
"Hello, Tracy! It's me Professor Williams! Sorry to bug ya like this. It'll only take a minute- I'm really sorry about coming over like this- I know it's getting quite late. I've got to be back for supper soon anyway myself...." He says from outside the door.
Tracy's gargles "Ugh..", and then she lapses out again. Jackie quickly slaps her hand over Tracy's mouth and whispers, "Keep it quiet sis-"
"Coming!" Jackie yells back towards the door.
Jackie drags Tracy along the floor down the hallway, trying to remain quiet as she moves past the front door. She enters the bathroom with lifeless Tracy and puts her into the bathtub and removes Tracy's wig so harshly, she rips out some of Tracy's real hair.
Then, looking crazily serious in the mirror over the sink nearby, Jackie puts on Tracy's wig herself. She then quickly grabs some of Tracy's lipstick off the counter and gently applies some.
Carefully she proceeds to lock the bathroom door from the inside and then walks out to the front door. She takes one last look in the mirror by the door. She smirks to herself thinking This better work!
Jackie slowly opens up the front door.
"Hi, Professor Williams." Jackie says.
Looking down, the professor says, "Hi Tracy, I'm really sorry to have done this- it's just that there's something weird that's come up unexpectedly and I wanted to share things with you. It's about my son Trevor who I understand gets along quite well with you. I hope you don't mind me calling like this. I request that Trevor give me his friends' phone numbers! Call me crazy that's just the way I like to operate my home."
"OK, sure. Come on in." Jackie says as she ushers the bumbling professor into the living room. She glances down the hall towards the bathroom. The coast is clear.
"Have a seat. Can I get you something to drink?" Jackie says walking away as Professor Williams takes a seat.
"Oh, sure, anything to take the cool off of this killer headache I've got! I think global warming is to blame for the weird weather that we've been having over here in this part of the world. Did you notice the rain today? Foxport hasn't had heavy rain like we've had today in over forty years...!" he mumbles.
"Can you tell me what's going on Professor?" Jackie says as she walks back out into the living room with a small glass on scotch on ice. She sits down next to the professor on the sofa.
"Oh, just John please, thanks. Yes. Well, it's about-" the professor finally looks up and quickly notices a framed picture of Tracy and Jackie on the table behind the sofa, next to Jackie's head.
Jackie notices his eyes diverted and looks around and panics. She grabs the photo and looks at it, shielding it from his eyes..
Quickly covering, she says: "What? I look good there don't I? That's what everyone always says... It's because that's when I was happiest. That's my sister. She died two years ago... I'm moving on. It's taken a while. She was wonderful. Life." Jackie confirms.
Professor Williams takes a large sip of his beverage and smiles at her with empathy.
Inside the bathroom, Tracy lays out in the bathtub unable to get up. She can't seem to speak either, but she can hear every lying word that her sister speaks down her own hallway!
*****
At Carey's mansion:
The fire in the kitchen has engulfed the entire room. Billows of smoke start to seep through the swinging door's seams.
Mark Summers who is just waking up comes up from the basement to see the fire in the kitchen. His plan was to surprise Carey in the morning, by hiding in the basement. Some surprise, he thinks. He does not have any idea what's happening in Carey's living room.
Mark yells for Carey, as he frantically swats the fire to try and quell the flames.
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Trevor, still not completely alert, makes is way out of Mayberry Park and notices John Saunders across the road. Trevor makes to call out to him, but he collapses in the middle of the street. Whatever it was that caused Trevor to pass out in pain the first time, has now come back.
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Coming up Tomorrow...
Cameron meets a mysterious Foxport resident.
As Trevor gets sicker, he and his father butt heads on the risky science experiment.
Professor Williams takes on a new patient.
Friday, September 21, 2007
The trouble growing at Carey Waters' mansion gets worse.
The scene in the living room is a disaster....
Carey lets the phone ring out. She realises she can't get up in the state that she's in. Whoever it is, is going to have to wait, she decides. My stepdaughter is dead!- the gravity of that possibility hits Carey like a ton of bricks.
Inside the kitchen...
The small fire is rapidly growing . The pot's handle melts off and falls to the floor, catching fire with the mat in front of the stove.
Inside the living room...
"Wake up! Sam!" Carey shakes Sam. Desperate to have her stepdaughter wake up after the blast came through her front window. Surely it wasn't gunfire. No one is allowed to own a gun in Foxport.... except Mark. Mark Summers.
Carey begins to wonder why the young man who is supposed to be protecting the community would be firing something through her front window? Carey is worried. Worried for one other reason as well: Mark Summers is also her secret lover.
Samantha begins coughing rapidly. "Ca..rey."
"Hang on sweety. Don't worry O.K. Don't worry. I'm here." Carey cries out.
Samantha passes out completely.
*****
Tracy is shocked to see Jackie standing in front of her when she opens the front door.
"What are you doing here?" Tracy says.
"Look Tracy, this will only take a second." Jackie says barging past Tracy and entering the condo. "I know that you're probably wondering what I'm doing here. Your sister who is supposed to be dead. Well, as you can see, I'm not dead."
Tracy isn't sure what to think. She locks the door and follows her sister into the condo.
"I need to talk to you. I've read about all the press coverage that Dad has been giving the media, and the rest of the world about your... death. I want you to know that there are some people out there who know the truth. Tracy if you're not careful, someone out there, in the real world, is going to find you, and find out where Foxport really is."
Tracy panics. What is her fraternal twin sister who died years ago doing standing in front of her in... Foxport!?
Tracy looses her breath and faints.
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Coming up next week!
Someone is forcibly locked in a closet.
Professor Williams' experiments are called into question.
The Waters mansion fire worsens.
A deceitful person becomes the confidante to someone in desperation.
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...
It is a strange morning in Foxport. The sky is grey with a heavy rainfall. There is hardly ever rain in Foxport...
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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.
*****
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...
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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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Backstory
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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...
But, Tracy Cinte is not dead! We, the audience, learn that she has really moved to the secret hideaway for the rich and famous: Foxport.
Her powerful father and the media have plotted and staged her death...
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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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Our Main Characters
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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?
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