Major Project: Development

I have started writing the script for the first episode "The Curse".

Major Project: Episode plots

1) Curse

Claire is 24 year old woman who has spent most of her life going in and out of psychiatric wards since her parents committed her when she was 6 years old. She can see and speak with the dead. No-one believed her as a child and as an adult she tries to block them out using medication. This is until Louisa, a powerful Psychic, is murdered and her only hope for her killer being brought to justice lies in Claire’s hands. The two of them make a deal, that if Claire can expose her killer Louisa will do all she can to remove her gift. Reluctant at first, it is Louisa’s pure determination and faith in Claire that she finally starts to except the gift she has been given.

2) Knock Knock

The flat below Claire’s has been empty for a few years, but now it has a new resident, Casey. She is a smart, young, head-strong woman. Claire takes it upon herself to welcome Casey to the building but once in her flat she soon realizes that Casey doesn’t live alone, something evil resides there. Claire tries to help Casey but all her warnings seem to fall on deaf, that is until Casey comes face to face with her spiritual tormentor, who is not only torturing her but another ghost, Danny. Claire has also started dreaming of a handsome stranger, but she can’t quite grasp who he is to her.

3) Hide and Clap

A group of teenagers are mucking around in the local park one night when they come across a mysterious little girl in a yellow dress, the next day only one of the teenagers are found. DS Morgan must work out what happened to the others but seems to keep coming up short; this is when Claire offers her services to the police in finding out who the little girl is and what it is that she wants. Claire’s role in the investigation becomes ever more key when both her and DS Morgan become the girls next targets.

4) Reflections

People are turning up dead all over the city; nothing seems to connect them except in the way they die, lying in front of a mirror with their eyes burst and their neck broken. DS Morgan is struggling to find any evidence and calls upon the services of his new friend and Psychic Claire. She soon realizes that these recent deaths connect to a murder some twenty years ago and that it is this spirit jumping from mirror to mirror that is committing these atrocious crimes. But is this spirit really jumping or is it being summoned, and is there a way to stop it?  

5) Reality

Claire has finally decided to try and go it alone and to stop seeing her psychiatrist, with the help of her new friends Casey, Danny and DS Morgan. But once she has made this break she loses control of her gift. She keeps time jumping, finding herself back in time as a teenager in hospital and into the future married and working for the Police alongside DS Morgan on a series of homicides that connect back to her time in hospital. Claire’s knowledge of these murders makes her a prime suspect and it’s up to her friends to help prove her innocence.  

6) Gift

It seems everyone has started to except that Claire is truly gifted but now her parents are coming to visit. DS Morgan has another tricky murder to solve and this time he must do it without Claire’s help. She must convince her parents that she is finally free of these so-called “ghosts” but now the spirits seem to need her help more than ever. Claire also finds out who this handsome is that she has been dreaming about.

Major Project: Slight development

Beyond The Veil

6 episodes made for ITV2 – target audience of 15-30 year olds.

Drama/thriller

Set in present day Canterbury. A young woman called Claire was born with the ability to see dead people. After years of psychotherapy she finally thinks she has found a way to block out the curse of these voices and spirits that is, until fellow Medium Louisa enters the afterlife and has to rely on Claire to find and expose her killer. It is this escapade with Louisa that opens Claire’s eyes to all that she can do with this gift.

Characters:

Claire – Psychic
Dr. Mallard – Psychiatrist
DS. Morgan – Detective Sergeant Claire assists
Casey – Claire’s haunted friend from the flat below
Danny – Ghost #YOLO