“The Impotent ” (working title)

Horror/Thriller

A man who is losing his wife because of ED turns to murder to save his marriage.

Characters:

Protagonist: Travis Parker (working name)

Antagonist: Detective Yin

Other Players:

Travis’s wife
The Wife’s Friend
The Doctor
The Street Dealer
Two Police Officers
There Other Victims

Storyline

Act 1

Travis cannot get an erection and it is causing problems in his love life. In order for him to save his marriage he seeks treatment. When they fails to obtain the drugs he tries to buy them off the black market. During one illegal transaction Travis kills a dealer.

Act 2

He discovers that the killing worked better than the drugs. He goes home and makes love to his wife. He sees that this is starting to save his marriage. After considerable inner debate he resolves to kill again. His marriage seems to be saved when one day Travis finds his wife asking questions about where he’s been when he said he was at work and was found to have not been there. He discovers her snooping around his home office. Soon the police start asking questions about some of the murders he’s been committing. Travis starts to suspect that his wife might find out his murder spree. He starts reading her e-mail, and listening in on the phone when she’s talking to friends. He starts to suspect that she will go to the police. Travis finds a number on his wife’s cell phone to Detective Yin that implicates her in telling the police about her suspicions. Two peace officers come to arrest Travis. He kills them and escapes.

Act 3

The wife is notified of the police killings and goes into hiding. Travis goes to one of her wife’s friends and tortures her to get his wife’s whereabouts. He comes to kill her at her hideout. He manages to some people who where there to protect her, but fails to get to his wife before Detective Yin gets one non-fatal shot off on Travis. The Detective is waiting for backup when Travis explains to his wife that he’d done all of it for her. She reveals she did not turn him in. The wife then realizes that she cannot allow her husband to be sent to prison or worse be put to death. The wife kills Detective Yin and the two flee together.

Epilogue

Travis and his wife have moved to New York under a new identity. In the final scene Travis and his wife are depicted picking up a young girl and killing her together.

Joe’s first major conflict

I’ve decided what Joe’s first major conflict will be. It will deal with his a series of events that lead the Patrick’s (Joe’s father) death. Joe has a part time job working at his father’s law firm. There is a case the Patrick lost some years ago. His client went to prison for 12 years. When he is released he starts to befriend Joe unknowing to his father. Joe has his first prophetic vision of the book when he sees his father being gunned down in the law firm. He tries to make himself fit in with man before he tries to take his revenge. Joe protects his father by talking the man down with the use of his powers. Before the first act climax Joe meets Detective Livingston because he is concerned for Joe’s safety Joe talks the man down from killing his father with the detective in the room. Mitch witnesses Joe’s abilities and understand his overwhelming capacity for justice that his new gift has. However just a few minutes later Patrick is gunned down by a drive by shooting. Detective Livingston is put in a coma, Joe escape with nearly a scratch.

Unknown to the reader at this point is that the drive by was called on by the antagonist, Daniel Sullivan. Daniel Sullivan has gifts much stronger than Joe’s and uses it cloud Joe’s mind from the truth. Daniel ordered the hit because he had a vision the Patrick would get in the way of his political ambitions. Mitch will later wake fro him coma to help Joe in the Third act.When he wake Mitch has abilities as well. It is set up to be a showdown of the minds.