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Innocent. : 

Innocent. By Theo Ferguson

One Page Outline : 

One Page Outline Title: “Innocent” Teaser slogan: Innocence is no longer a virtue.” Format (genre) description: “An action packed espionage thriller” For whom: “Anyone who’s ever got blamed for something they didn’t do” A three line pitch: When ex-SAS soldier Josh Tate is accused of blowing up the houses of parliament escapes death and having his son kidnapped in the process, he will do anything to get his son back and clear his name.

Innocent Synopsis. : 

Innocent Synopsis. An ex Special Air Service operative called Connor Johnston who quit the force after discovering something he thought was wrong and decided to quit there in an explosive argument in which he was arrested and detained there for days. After quitting he told them he would keep the promise of the SAS in which not to tell anybody about what they did. Although knowing that he can’t tell anybody he has been in the SAS, he just tells people he was in the army. To hide his identity, he changed his name to Josh Tate. It has been 4 years since he quit the SAS and he has now found love with a woman and has a 3 year old child. He lives a normal life and is a member of a political activist group and works in an oil rig in his hometown of London. He is at home one day with his son on his day off from work when he hears a big bang which he believes is an earthquake. He looks outside his window and sees lots of smoke and hears the emergency services sirens all going to the same place. It awakes his son and he immediately switches on the television for the news and sees the houses of parliament have been blown up in shock he settles his son down and puts him to bed. After minutes when he is putting his son to bed, he hears his gate bang and three kicks on his door until it bangs open. He runs to his bedroom and hides in the cupboard with his son. After hearing the people trashing up his living room looking for him, he hears people coming up the stairs, after hearing them kick open and trash every room upstairs, they finally get to the door he’s in and after hearing them trash up the room, he then hears silence and realises they have left the room and not checked there. After seconds of thinking he’s free, the cupboard door is ripped off by two men and a gun is pointed at his head. Trying to protect his son, he holds him in his arms tightly although after a few seconds the son is took off him by one of them men and taken downstairs. After trying to get his son back the gun is pointed at his head again and he freezes one of the men in suits are given the order to execute him. As the gun is cocked and one of them men has Josh with his hands behind his back, the cupboard collapses with distracts the man with the gun who is then kicked in the face and Josh goes backwards and through the window and lands on the man who was behind him, killing him. After running and hearing men in the house shouting “He’s escaped”, he runs to the front of the house to try and get his son and sees him being put into a van by several men with guns, after contemplating weather to save his son and hears police sirens getting closer and closer, he realises he has no chance. 1/2

Innocent Synopsis. : 

Innocent Synopsis. He flees just in time and runs into a friend’s house which he is told he is responsible for blowing up the houses of parliament and is currently the most wanted man in the country. When he gets changed into his friend’s clothes, he hears police sirens and his friend saying he’s going to help him, he punches his friend and runs out of the house via the back door. Now having clothes, he walks around town and watches the news in a shop to see what he is suppost to have done and is found out that it is to do with his political activist group which he leaded. He is chased several times when trying to lay low by the men and in a struggle to get the gun off the man, he accidently shoots him in the stomach and runs away. He knows he has been set up and receives a phone call via a phone box which he is told that a lawyer can help him and knows he is innocent but needs a computer hard drive which has the evidence which will get him free. He meets up with the lawyer who shows him evidence to show he didn’t do it, Josh decides he wants to get his son back in the process as he doesn’t trust the government to give them him back after he is found innocent. After finding leads to different people to prove himself innocent he discovers through checking a voicemail that his lawyer is not on his side and is trying to set him up with a different political activist group who is against his to try to catch him and set him up for another crime which happened months before the houses of parliament which their political activist group was responsible for. He ties up the lawyer and asks him for the truth about his son which the lawyer tells him what he knows or he will kill him. With the lawyers information, he tracks down the man responsible for kidnapping his son and after breaking into the building, he puts a gun to his head and discovers that his wife is working against him, in a flashback, it shows how his wife used his fingerprints, got a replica of his clothes he wore that day and got someone to blow it up and left his passport at the scene of the crime. After a grapple with the man who set him up, he has a gun to his sons head and tells him to hand shoot himself in or he will kill him. After Josh puts a gun to his own head, a gunshot is fired and the man falls to the floor and it is discovered that Josh’s wife had shot him in the head. 2/2

Innocent Alternate endings. : 

Innocent Alternate endings. Ending One She tells a police officer outside about the people who set Josh up and she is arrested and put in a van. As Josh looks out the window at the police van driving off with his wife, their is a smile on his face as he knows he is finally innocent. He plugs the hard drive into the man’s laptop where he sees the message ‘No Data’, in a panic, he looks out of the window at the van which is driving off and sees it explode. He jumps back and hears the police in the building getting closer and closer, and says ‘I’m still wanted’. Ending Two He walks out of the building with his son and the hard drive and is immediately told to freeze, smiling he kisses his son and says he will see him in a couple of hours and gives him to a woman who looks to be a social worker, he puts his hands in the air and is put into the police car, he sees and hears his wife telling the police officer everything in brief. As he is driven away, he sees the van his wife is in explode and sits there in shock as the screen fades. Hours later show the hard drive being put onto a computer by the head police officers; he looks at it which the audience don’t see. And he says “Just what I thought” and a final shot of the laptop saying “No data” is shown as the credits roll

Episode Guide : 

Episode Guide Episode 1 We find out about Connor Johnson and how he was fired from the SAS in the argument with his boss and 4 years later of how he met a woman after getting involved with his political activists group and ended up having a child with her. It then shows the scene in which men in suits burst into Josh’s house with him and his son inside and when he escapes. And in the final scene of the episode shows when he goes to his friends and he says he’s going to help him and the police turn up at the house.

Episode Guide : 

Episode Guide Episode 2 Josh punches his friend in the face and flees and manages to escape with just seconds of the police catching him. He walks about his home town and notices himself on television and realises he’s been set up. He phones his wife and she says she doesn’t believe him and he’s into his ‘wacky activist group.’ After getting into a chase and a fight in a small side street he struggles to get free from the man in a suit who is chasing him and accidently shoots the man in the stomach.

Episode Guide : 

Episode Guide Episode 3 Josh is now shocked at the dead body and is about to hand himself in although wants to make sure his son is okay. He runs away and gets a phone call from a ringing phone box which tells him he knows he can get him free. Josh meets up with the man and is told about how he can be set free and what he needs. He is led to meet up with some people in a warehouse although is seen on CCTV by one of the men in suits who says “now” and 5 men with guns burst in the room.

Episode Guide : 

Episode Guide Episode 4 A flashback of the man saying “now” and 5 men bursting into the room and they shoot two men. Although they see that it is just two puppets who is dressed like them. Josh meets up with his wife and she tells him he needs to go or she will phone the police on him and its his fault for the houses of parliament blowing up and his fault their son is missing. She tells him to go or she will phone the police herself. The lawyer who is called Steven tells him that he has set up traps for them so they don’t get him and they he should come with him and meets up with another person who then Josh finds he has a gun and after telling him information, he takes it out on Josh and puts it to his head. The man is shot in the head by Steven and they both run and Josh questions him on why he would have a gun on him. The lawyer tells him how much he knows he is in trouble and that they need protection.

Episode Guide : 

Episode Guide Episode 5 Josh and the lawyer go to walk out of the building and are faced with 20 men with guns who just miss Josh with their bullets, he and the lawyer are trapped inside the building. They go along the pipes and onto the roof which they then find a way out which they will be un noticed. They run and are spotted by one of the dogs, and are then chased by the people in suits. Josh gets the lawyers car and drives a way although the lawyer is shot in the arm and taken to aid by Josh. After taking care of him and discovering things about Stevens past. Josh leaves the lawyer there to rest in an old abandoned house which Josh used to go to as a child and Josh walks out of the room and finds a message on the lawyers phone. He goes to tell him about it but he is asleep. Josh listens it and it shows that The Lawyer is trying to set up Josh for something else and he has used his fingerprints which will gain evidence to set him up again.

Episode Guide : 

Episode Guide Episode 6 Josh furiously wakes up the lawyer and tortures him and puts a gun to his head and forces’ him to tell him where his son is and who is behind it. The lawyer tells him little information that he knows and begs for him not to kill him. He reminds Josh that he too has a child and he wasn’t lying about that. He leaves the lawyer where he is and says “I won’t forget about you.” Josh finds a building the lawyer told him about and finds that it is secured by men with guns. After posing as a driver going to pick up someone he gets through the front doors and is noticed by someone who shouts “Its Josh Tate!” he is then revealed and gun shots are fired as he runs into the lift and escapes through the top. Across the street the gun shots are heard and someone phones the police. After almost getting killed by the people in the building he gets a gun off one of them who he has knocked out and he finds a big door which he bursts in and finds a man he knows is the boss and puts a gun to his head and tells him to give him his son. A woman walks in and Josh turns around and sees that its his son and his wife who has a smile on her face. She tells him about her plan and he tells her how much he loves her and that it’s their son. After getting the gun turned on himself by the boss after being blackmailed saying that his son will die, Josh is about to be killed when his wife shoots the boss through the head.

Casting. : 

Casting.

Josh TatePlayed by Neil McDermott : 

Josh TatePlayed by Neil McDermott Connor Johnston is a former SAS soldier who quit the army after discovering a secret and getting into an explosive argument with his boss, was arrested and sent back to the United Kingdom after promising to keep the happenings of the SAS secret. Soon after he joined a political activist group and was very angry about politics, especially after what he learnt in the SAS. It was there he met Pam, who he fell in love with and married. Soon later, they had a child, James. I have chosen actor Neil McDermott for this part in my show as he is a young attractive upcoming actor who has recently worked on British soap opera Eastenders as Ryan Malloy. I believe he would get the attention of the female audience for his looks and also the male audience as on the show Eastenders, he plays a ‘Bad boy’ character which is similar to the character he plays on Innocent.

Pam TatePlayed by Alison King : 

Pam TatePlayed by Alison King Pam Tate, formally known as Pam Burns is an office worker and wife of John Tate and mother of James Tate. She is very busy and works a lot although seems like a happy person and becomes very emotional when husband Josh is accused of blowing up the houses of parliament and doesn't believe him. Although this being her cover, Her real name is Samantha Miller, she was assigned on a mission to spy on Josh Tate and act like she is in love with him. Throughout the 4 years, she is framing him, for example getting his finger prints, hair and other DNA which could be used to frame him. She is doing this for profit and is described as being ‘just in it for the money’ In the end, she finally realises she is in love with him and shoots her father who is the boss in the head. I have chosen actor Alison King for this role as she has had experience in the British soap opera Coronation Street playing Carla Connor who on there acts like what is described as a ‘bitch’ as when she does something bad, she looks as if she doesn’t care. Although when her Husband and brother Liam died in the soap, she was very emotional. These who things are very similar to the way she acts in my TV show. As she is a attractive woman, I believe that this will bring in the male viewers.

Steven TrumpPlayed by John Simm : 

Steven TrumpPlayed by John Simm Steven Trump is a lawyer who is the only person who believes that Josh Tate is innocent and finds evidence which prove he is, he tells Josh that the one thing he needs to prove his innocence is a hard drive which has everything on it that proves that he is not the person responsible and he was set up. Although helping him, Josh later finds out that Steven is working for another group who is setting Josh up for a different crime because as Josh is framed for blowing up the houses of parliament, he will be likely be responsible for another crime. I have chosen actor John Simm to play this character as I believe that he would suit it very well. He is a very well known actor who has been in TV shows such as Doctor Who and My Life on Mars and described as ‘A sexy killer’ in it, which I believe will bring in the female audience and also I believe that his wide fan base will bring in viewers to watch this.

JonesPlayed by Roger Kennedy : 

JonesPlayed by Roger Kennedy Jones is an assassinator who works for the company who are trying to kill Josh Tate. He is one of the men we see frequently throughout and becomes somebody who is a ‘love to hate’ character as the audience would always want to get rid of him and kill him, yet love his ‘bad boy’ type of character. He wears a suit and sunglasses and seems to have no remorse for his killings as he sees it as just a job. Very little is known about this character as he seems to be very dark and mysterious. I have chosen actor Roger Kennedy for this part as I believe he has the ‘bad boy’ look about him. He is an unknown actor who has been in films such as ‘24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE’ as just a doorman although he has had experience and he has also completed a 1 year acting course. I believe that him being on this TV show will make him very well known and very popular in TV show villians.

Mr MillerPlayed by Lawrence Press : 

Mr MillerPlayed by Lawrence Press Grant Miller (Known as Mr. Miller) isn’t seen very much and seems very mysterious. He is the leader of the company, and the person responsible for setting up Josh Tate. We are told that he is the step father of Josh and father of Pam Tate (Real name Samantha Miller). He wears a suit and seems very calm although his mind is very dangerous as when he gives orders to do something, he doesn’t look angry as if what he just said was a simple task. He describes Josh as a very smart man and just a fall guy. We are not properly told the reason for him blowing up the houses of parliament apart from that he wants to be in power. I have chosen Lawrence Press for this role as he is an unknown actor and therefore people do not know much about him or what he is like. He has only done ‘various extra work’ up until now. Just like Roger Kennedy, I believe that this actor would become very popular as he is mysterious and this could be the start of his career.