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The same setup is continuing from "Day 28. + Chapters"  and "Day 27. + Sequencing" with a little more added on to each scene and sequel. Even though I worked on this for a couple of hours, I wasn't able to get past scene 160. I'll be working on that more soon. The new information is listed in a different font and color.
ACT I
[Opening Sequence]
 Chapter #1
010. SCENE. The doctor watches as her patient, Sylvie, is taken away by a scientist named Thaddeus Jones.
The doctor is standing with her administrator as this happens. She is ordered not follow Thaddeus and Sylvie, but does so anyway to make sure her patient is safe. Sylvie hugs her, and whispers in her ear that everything is going to be okay. This is the first thing the doctor hears Sylvie ever say, in person.
020. SEQUEL. The doctor looks into the patient’s new guardians, the Jones Institute. Asks a favor of her ex-husband.
The doctor pulls waits until her colleagues have gone home before pulling Sylvie's full file out of storage. She scours over every page as she can't shake the feeling something isn't right. Information has been redacted from the file. She struggles inwardly as to whether she should proceed or not. Finally, the doctor breaks down and calls her ex-husband, asking him for a favor.
Rising Action
[Discovery Sequence]
Chapter #2
030. SCENE. A man is waiting for the doctor, in her apartment, when she gets home from work. Scares her. The doctor receives information from ex-husband’s contact. Warned to back off.
The man, who calls himself Crowley, is sitting in the doctor's reading chair when she comes home the day after contacting her ex-husband. She is shocked and scared, but tries to remain calm as Crowley tells her about the Jones Institute while drinking a cup of tea. He gently urges her not to pursue what is happening and let her patient go. She tells him she'll take it under advisement. Crowley just smiles, sets a folder down next to his tea cup, and leaves out the front door.
035. SEQUEL. The doctor reevaluates all of her information on her patient. She vows to get Sylvie back in safe hands.
The doctor reviews the folder with the information she took from storage. There is a pattern of interviews with patients given certain criteria. While they were interviewed, none of them were taken. The turn of events pushes on the doctor's resolve. She promises to find her patient.
Chapter #3
040. SCENE. The doctor follows the leads to the Northwest to find Sylvie. Surprisingly, bumps into her patient in ice cream shop.
Fatimah takes a leave of absence from Meade-Rosenthal. The doctor finds herself in the car, traveling the roads of the United States, following the long list of interviewees that Crowley gave her. She learns a great deal of information, but finds no definitive link to the Jones Institute. The doctor finds herself in the small town of Lyndon, Washington following another lead. Pulling into a parking lot to grab a sandwich, she spots Sylvie with a woman, getting scoop of ice cream.
045. SEQUEL. Discovery that Sylvie is speaking and interacting freely amazes the doctor. Her curiosity is piqued.
The doctor finds herself walking toward Sylvie. Her patient notices her right away and comes over to give her a hug. The personal contact shakes the doctor, but she is grateful to know that Sylvie is okay. The woman with Sylvie is her handler from the Institute, Dipali. She is visibly worried and asks the doctor to escort them back to home base. The doctor, curious, agrees to go along as she doesn't want Sylvie out of her sight.
Complication
[Confrontation Sequence]
Chapter #3
050. SCENE. She is escorted to the Jones Institute. Thaddeus sequesters her and is asked to stay as their “guest“.
The doctor is surprised to follow them out of town into farmland lined with tall, green trees and fertile fields. They park outside an older Victorian house secluded off the beaten path. The doctor follows Sylvie and Dipali into the house where they pass Geoff on the way to his room with a stack of books and Thaddeus is coming down the stairs, straightening his sleeves. He asks the doctor into the library and tell her about their research. Pointedly, he asks her to stay, while cleaning the components of his gun.
055. SEQUEL. The doctor feels the pressure of being held virtual prisoner at the Jones Institute. However, she also sees the possibilities of what she can learn as well. The excitement of latter outweighs the fear of the former, feeding into Thaddeus’s comments earlier. This gives the doctor pause, but doesn’t stop her from continuing.
The doctor remains calm as Thaddeus presents the terms of her visit. Fatimah agrees to the terms as long as she can have regular therapy sessions with Sylvie and is kept in the loop at all time in terms of her care.
ACT II
[Hypothesis Sequence]
Chapter #4
060. SCENE. Therapy sessions starts between the doctor and Sylvie. She hears about “Tuesday” for the first time.
The doctor settles into her room and prepares notes for her first talk therapy session with Sylvie. They choose a place where Sylvie feels safest, the kitchen. At the dining table, the doctor walks through Sylvie's experience leaving Meade-Rosenthal and how her stay with at the Jones Institute has been. Sylvie talks freely and mentions that she was scared, but "Tuesday" was there to help her through the fear. They talk about "Tuesday", where Sylvie reveals that this entity has been with her for a while, before going off to bug Geoff.
065. SEQUEL. The doctor takes time to ruminate over new information from Sylvie. Makes an informal diagnosis of delusional schizophrenia.
The doctor takes time to go over her notes, making notations about the possibility that Sylvie has delusional schizophrenia or has created a defense mechanism, like an imaginary friend, to help deal with difficult situations. The doctor makes sure to lock her notes away where Thaddeus or the others have no access to them.
070. SCENE. Thaddeus pushes the doctor to answer his probing questions about Tuesday. He lets her into the crux of the research done at the Jones Institute.
As the doctor is coming out of her room, Thaddeus greets her and asks her to come take a cup of tea with him in the library. He asks her if she plays chess. While she does, she tells him that she hasn't played in quite some time. They begin a game. Thaddeus asks questions about how the first session went. The doctor is immediately alert. Thaddeus explains why they selected Sylvie, believing she is the key to understanding the scientific basis for Ancient Greek pantheon system.
075. SEQUEL. The doctor gives him only vague details and a theory. She is skeptical of what the Jones Institute is doing.
The doctor takes in Thaddeus's revelation with a grain of salt. She gives him a vague idea of what she is discovered while talking with Sylvie, leaving out parts that she considers vital to helping her patient. While she asks more about their research, she begins to realize she is losing the game. Before Thaddeus can deflect more, Dipali calls them both in for dinner.
Falling Action
[Communing Sequence]
Chapter #5
080. SCENE. The doctor is invited to learn how to make dinner from Dipali and gets to know the team.
The doctor slowly is absorbed into the pattern of how the Jones Institute cluster works. She has sessions with Sylvie every other day. When she is not with her, she is doing research on who and what the Institute is through the library. Purposely, the doctor is keeping herself from the others. However, Dipali offers to teach her how to make a long-used family dish. The doctor forms a bond with Dipali and finds her defenses coming down.
085. SEQUEL. The doctor speculates on the cluster’s mental health to deal with doubt.
As she gets to know the others, the doctor questions if each of them is in sound health. Fatimah notes the obsessiveness of Geoff's research, of Thaddeus's brusk behavior with others as he order them around, of Dipali's protectiveness, and Sylvie's relaxed nature around them. She understands that there is an element of speculative science involved in their research, but she wonders how speculative it truly goes.
Chapter #6
090. SCENE. Tuesday approaches the doctor in her room.
The night Dipali teaches her how to make dinner, the doctor retires to her room to go over the day's notes. She falls asleep at her desk only to find Sylvie sitting on her bed when she suddenly wakes. Sylvie's demeanor, however, is drastically different than her usual girlish behavior. She sits with more confidence and wears a slight sneer on her face. The doctor asks if anything is wrong, but realizes she isn't dealing with her normal patient as Sylvie responds with a voice in a deeper pitch. She calls herself "Tuesday" and asks what the doctor's intentions are. Tuesday tells her that she gotten in way over her head and should back out now as she can protect Sylvie by herself. When the doctor asks her who she is, Tuesday tells her that she is something older than time. Tuesday tells her to get some sleep before leaving the doctor with her thoughts.
095. SEQUEL. The conversation between Tuesday and the doctor leaves Fatimah with speculative thoughts.
The doctor is floored by what she has heard. She must consider that her original diagnosis might not be a manifestation of delusional schizophrenia but Dissociative Identity Disorder. For a moment she allows herself to consider that Tuesday is telling the truth, but completely dismisses it a moment later. Still, the thought stays with her.
[Accident Sequence]
Chapter #7
100. SCENE. The team travels to meet a contact to tell them about who else is after Tuesday. The car is hit by two other cars and the team suffers some injuries.
The next morning the doctor is told by Thaddeus that he has a lead on who else might be after Sylvie. He tells Sylvie that she must come along, which the doctor objects to. Thaddeus states that it is not a negotiation. The doctor demands, then, to go with them. The five of them get into the Jones Institute's SUV and travel south toward Seattle. While pulling into a town off the freeway, the SUV is blindsided by two other large cars coming from the front and side of the car, flipping the SUV end over end twice. Everyone is able to escape out of the windows.
105.SEQUEL. The doctor looks over everyone’s injuries to deal with her own panic. She urges them to go to the hospital, by each of them refuses. Sylvie/Tuesday has some lacerations, but they heal before the doctor’s eyes. She blames the sight on a head injury.
The doctor is dizzy from the crash, but she goes to work to make sure everyone is alright.Geoff suffers a a couple broken fingers, Thaddeus a few broken ribs, Dipali has a concussion. She notices the long cuts on Sylvie's arms, but they begin to heal right before her eyes as if nothing happened. Sirens can be heard in the background. She strongly suggests they wait for the ambulance. Thaddeus refuses as they can't deal with police right now. They leave the SUV and head over to a rest stop to clean up.
110. SCENE. Everyone speculates about why this happened. Thaddeus explains his theory on who is operating against them. The doctor hears Geoff’s theory for the first time.
At the rest stop, mostly abandoned, the team speculates over what happened. Thaddeus, after calling in backup, explains that he has seen this kind of attack before. He tells them about an associate he once studied with who was a bit of his rival. She was never allowed admittance in to the Jones Institute because of some controversial research she had participated in. Geoff makes a remark about how this falls into a study of Da Vinci (something he does often) but the doctor takes notice and asks him to explain. She stores the information in the back of her mind as their new ride comes to pick them up.
Chapter #8
115. SEQUEL. The group speculates on the sequence of events. They piece together a plan, and Thaddeus takes the next course of action.
The cluster continues to speculate when they arrive back at home base. They come to form a plan about bringing the action to the antagonist's doorstep. To bring it into action, Thaddeus makes a phone call. The doctor remarks that he makes a lot of those, which Dipali replies that she has no idea.
ACT III
[Revelations Sequence]
Chapter #9
120. SCENE. The doctor and Thaddeus travel to a mental hospital to meet with a patient for information. She receives a phone call about her ex-husband in the hospital. He is cryptic in his answers before killing himself. This shakes the doctor.
Thaddeus gets a lead to a patient being held in the state's mental hospital. His name is Ian Addams, and he has been in the mental ward for several years. He is considered violent and dangerous, keeping him in isolation. The doctor uses her credentials to get them in. The patient is not quite lucid. When Ian speaks, he speaks solely to the doctor. He tells her he once had something inside him, something powerful, but the woman with the pale hair ripped it out of him. He tells her to be award of the Door Keeper, referring to Thaddeus, as he is not all that he appears to be. Before the doctor can ask more, Ian abruptly throws himself against the interview wall, smashing his head against the tile. He does this twice, killing him, before the doctor can stop him. Everything is thrown into chaos.
Some time later, the doctor and Thaddeus are able to leave. The event has shaken the doctor's foundation. Ian's blood still coats her clothes. As they go back to the car, the doctor receives a phone call telling her that her ex-husband is in the hospital. The caller, who refers to itself as Anonymous, tells her he was placed there by the Jones Institute. That, in order to keep him safe, she needs to give it information on what the cluster will do next. Before she can ask questions, the caller hangs up.
Chapter #10
130. SEQUEL. The team argues with the doctor over the event of meeting the mental patient. The doctor loses her temper.
When they arrive back to home base, the doctor is on her last thread of sanity. Thaddeus relates the events of the afternoon, and the coldness of his demeanor makes the doctor lose her cool. She yells at them, specifically Thaddeus, for not sharing their knowledge. If they hold answers, they could have helped Ian before her killed himself. She accuses them of using others in order to get ahead and not caring about human beings. Everyone is stunned into silence. The doctor leaves, unable to stay in their presence.
135. SCENE. She goes to her room and knocks over Sylvie’s picture. The doctor finds a pattern.
The doctor is frustrated when she reaches her room. Upset that she lost her composure, she sweeps her papers off the desk in a fit of rage. All of Sylvie's charcoal pictures are scattered onto the ground. Contrite, the doctor bends down to pick up the papers and notices a certain pattern in the drawings. She pieces them all together in the pattern that forms in her head. Soon her floor is covered in the larger picture.
140. SEQUEL. The doctor confronts Tuesday with her hypothesis. Finds out she is mostly right. The doctor leaves the institute for time to herself. Call home to check on ex-husband.
The doctor waits until late in the evening, when everyone is sleeping, before she leaves her room and enters Sylvie's. Calmly, as not to scare Sylvie, she asks to speak to Tuesday. Sylvie complies and Tuesday supposedly appears. The doctor asks her if the pattern she found is true and what is happening is real. Tuesday confirms, asking the doctor what took her so long to figure it out. The doctor leaves, disturbed, and drives into town to make a phone call to her administrator to see if her ex-husband is fairing better.
[Ritual Sequence]
Chapter #11
145. SCENE. The doctor returns to find the group gathered in ritual. She realizes they are trying to ritually separate Sylvie and Tuesday, placing Sylvie into a book. The doctor tries to stop them, however, they complete the ritual. It is unsuccessful.
The doctor doesn't make it back to the Institute until the early morning, bringing donuts. The groups is gathered in the library, chanting. She steps in to find Sylvie inside a circle on the ground. She realizes that the cluster is trying to separate Sylvie and Tuesday as the picture depicted. She tries to interrupt the ritual, but she is too later. However, the ritual separation is unsuccessful as Tuesday still occupies Sylvie's body.
147. SEQUEL. The doctor looks over Sylvie as she recovers from the ritual. Dipali, Geoff, and Thaddeus try to explain the separation is for the safety of all. The doctor remains unresponsive. She forms a plan.
The doctor demands that she talk to Sylvie in person. Sylvie is slightly frightened and the doctor escorts her to bed. Thaddeus tries to speak to the doctor after she puts her patient to bed, but the doctor refuses to talk. She doesn't do this in anger but in a clinical manner that worries each of them. While Dipali and Geoff apologize for not telling her about what they decided to do, Thaddeus does not. The doctor sees this as another sign that Thaddeus doesn't care about who he uses as long as the bottom line is filled. Alone, watching over Sylvie, the doctor begins to form a plan to get Sylvie out.
Chapter #12
150. SCENE. The doctor drugs Sylvie and the others during breakfast. She takes her patient away to a hotel. The team, ultimately, catches up with them.
The doctor wakes early to begin making breakfast. Dipali rises first as she is in charge of cooking. She sees this as a way for the doctor to apologize, and enjoys the morning off. The others soon follow and enjoys a hardy meal. Soon they pass out onto their plates. The doctor had placed a heavy dose of sedative in their drink as well as their eggs to make sure they slept. Hurriedly, she takes Sylvie and places her patient into her rental car, driving to a hotel just outside of Canada. The doctor takes the time to contemplate all she has been through for the past couple of weeks, trying to piece together what is real and what is not. After a few hours in the hotel waiting for the sedative to wear off, the doctor comes to a decision just as the team arrives at her door.
160. SEQUEL. The doctor decides to believe and goes with the team back to the Jones Institute.
The team is surprisingly understanding when they arrive at the door. The fact they don't tie the doctor up when the enter the room, she is grateful for. There is definitely tension between each member, however, they do their best to deal with the situation at hand. The doctor takes a leap of faith and follows them back to home base. She gives them a piece of information about the antagonist, one she hopes will make a difference in the end.
Climax
[Battle Sequence]
Chapter #13
170. SCENE. There is a final showdown. Sylvie sacrifices herself to save Tuesday. Thaddeus places her in her favorite book. Tuesday takes full custody of body.
The team is playing a game of chess when the antagonist and her mercenaries arrive. Tuesday is waiting in the guise of Sylvie close to the doctor. The antagonist enters, demands the possession of Sylvie in trade for their lives, revealing that she has been in contact with the doctor for a while. Thaddeus tells the antagonist that she can kill all of them, there is no way that she will have control of the entity she is looking for. A fight ensues, the mercenaries concentrating on Tuesday to break her down, using a secret weapon to weaken her strength. Sylvie, sensing that Tuesday is weakening, takes over her body and pushing the entity to the back seat. Sylvie takes the final blow. The antagonist tells her men to stop as they are killing the thing the came for. The doctor is ordered to stop the bleeding. During the frenzy Dipali is able to get into striking distance of the antagonist and is able to make the final strike before being brought down. Thaddeus performs the separation ritual once more, using the weapon that hinder Tuesday, to make the separation complete. The doctor is able to say goodbye before Sylvie is placed in her new resting place - a first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. When Sylvie opens her eyes again, it is Tuesday who awakens and she isn't pleased.
Chapter #14
180. SEQUEL. The doctor says her goodbyes and leaves. She goes back to work, and tries to live a normal life.
The aftermath of the fight is tedious. The wounds inflicted on Dipali are too severe not to be treated in a hospital. She is there for several days, watched over by another Jones agent (probably Julio, who I dropped earlier) to makes sure no one comes after her. Tuesday remains absent from the others. As old as she is, the entity doesn't know how to mourn her friend. The doctor says for a couple more weeks, taking time to say goodbye to Dipali and Geoff, before going back to Maryland. Thaddeus doesn't say anything to the doctor until the moment she is about to step into her rental car. In his own awkward, arrogant way he asks her not to leave the team. Gracefully, she declines. He gives her a card with his direct line just in case she changes her mind.
The first thing the doctor does when she arrives is check in on her ex-husband. Then, with hesitant motions, she attempts to get back to her life.
Resolution
[Aftermath Sequence]
Chapter #15
190. SCENE. The doctor comes home one night to find Tuesday and the rest of the group (sans Thaddeus) inside her apartment. The entity asks if she wants a job.
It has been several weeks since the doctor left the Jones Institute and the death of Sylvie. At the doctor's request, her administrator commissions a cherry tree to be planted in the gardens in honor of her former patient. Getting back to her life is difficult for the doctor. She has seen too much to see things as "normal". For her part, the doctor tries to dissect everything and put them into rational categories. She even courts the idea that she had a mental breakdown. Coming home one evening, the doctor finds Tuesday sitting in her reading chair much like Crowley had in the beginning. Dipali comes out of the kitchen with tea while Geoff is looking through her book collection. The doctor asks what she is doing there. Tuesday informs her that things aren't the same since she left, and if she would like a permanent job as a Jones.
195. SEQUEL. The doctor accepts.
The doctor contemplates this for a moment. Everything she rationalized crumbles at the sight of the team. For a moment she can't tell what is real and what is not. Finally, looking into the faces of her new-found friends, the doctor accepts. She believes whether the supernatural is real or delusional, the only way she will be able to go on is to continue down the path set before her. Tuesday gives her an awkward hug, welcoming her to the "real" world.
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