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Sample Outline 1) Inside A House

1) Erik visits his sister Kate and borrows her father's old boat to go sailing alone for the weekend. 2) Erik's apartment is broken into and he decides to take the boat out into the stormy sea. 3) The next day, the wreckage of Erik's boat is found with his clothes but not his body, leaving his disappearance a mystery.

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Sample Outline 1) Inside A House

1) Erik visits his sister Kate and borrows her father's old boat to go sailing alone for the weekend. 2) Erik's apartment is broken into and he decides to take the boat out into the stormy sea. 3) The next day, the wreckage of Erik's boat is found with his clothes but not his body, leaving his disappearance a mystery.

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SAMPLE OUTLINE

1) Inside a house

a) A photo of a loving family. In background, we can hear the sound of a children's party in
progress.
b) Into the party steps Seamus, a tall, good-looking man in his mid-thirties.
c) The family makes a fuss of him. The kids sit on his lap and kiss him. He is a popular and familiar
guy.
d) The father of the family takes Seamus to one side.
e) A little later, one of the little kids looks out of the window and watches as her father is
shot by Seamus.
f) Seamus walks off

2) Seattle city center


a) The tall buildings framed against the mountain backdrops twinkle underneath the
canopy of a serene dusk. Underneath and underscoring all this, we hear the strains of
Bruckner's 2nd Symphony.
b) We start to drop slowly, till eventually a large hall comes into view, filling frame.

3) Seattle symphony hall


a) The conductor cuts his baton through the air as he guides the Seattle Symphony
through a thumping allegro section.
b) Pushing past various musicians, we finally land on a beautiful woman cellist in her late
twenties. This is Kate Gerard.
c) As the music builds to crescendo, she looks up and sees a familiar face in the
audience. It's a young man of similar age to Kate. She smiles at him.
d) Outside, Kate, cello case in hand, runs down the steps of the concert hall and flies into
the arms of the young man. They hug and kiss.
e) She asks him when he got in.
f) He tells her he's been back just over a week.
g) She playfully starts to beat up on him. This is Erik, her brother.

4) Apartment Block
a) Kate is walking a few paces behind Erik as he walks down the corridor toward the door
of his apartment.
b) Balancing an enormous pizza box and a bottle of wine, Erik opens the door to his
sparsely-furnished apartment.
c) He kneels down, his eyes coming into line with a fine cotton thread stretched out across the
doorway about knee height; the thread being hooked around a small tack. Seeing that it is
still intact, he quickly unwinds the cotton and lets it fall to the floor.
d) A beat later, he steps aside to let Kate step through the door with her cello in tow.
e) Inside the room she comments on how sparsely furnished the place is.
f) He tells her he’s only been back a few days.
g) She asks him what new job is he up to now.
h) He lifts up a huge envelope and tells her it's a travel book that he has been working on
for some time. Kate is impressed.
i) He tells her that it is finished and that he has a publisher here in town interested in
buying it — which is the reason for him coming back.
j) She seems pleased for him.
k) He tells her that it should have been mailed today.

5) Erik’s Car
a) Driving Kate home, Erik asks her if she still has "dad's old tub”-- her father’s boat. He
asks her if he could use it on the weekend.
b) She laughs. "What's all the big interest in sailing again?" "The last time he went sailing
was when we were kids."
c) Erik tells her he has changed his mind. That he's been stuck in a car - land locked - and that he
just wants some time to himself.
d) Erik tells her that if it's okay with her, he'll come over sometime over the weekend and
pick up the keys to the boat.
e) She tells him that it’s no problem, gets out of the car and watches him drive off.

6) Erik’s Apartment
a) Erik opens the door to his apartment.
b) He stands for a moment in the doorway and again kneels to check the cotton alarm
system. But this time the cotton has been broken.
c) He stiffens and fingers the limp cotton between his fingers.
d) He enters the apartment and surveys the room. Nothing looks as if it's been disturbed.
e) He calls Kate, who is awakened from her sleep by the call.
f) Erik tells her he's coming over right now for the keys to the boat.
g) She sleepily agrees and tells him to come over and collect them.

7) Johnson Quayside
a) Erik gets into a small sloop. From his demeanor, he is no great yachtsman.
b) On the horizon the clouds look thick as we push in close to the boat, so close we can
make out its name, The Mary May.

8) Harbor Patrol hut


a) The next day a young harbor patrolman - feet up on the table - is watching TV.
b) Distracted by the buzz of the phone. He picks it up and answers it.

9) Out at Sea
a) Somewhere out at sea, we see a couple in a boat. They look concerned.
b) Surrounding their boat is the wreckage of another boat - the nameplate, The Mary May
can be seen floating.

10) Police Station


a) Kate stands listening to a detective inside a police station.
b) Her young daughter blithely stares out at her tearful mother, crying silently behind an
office divide.
c) The detective tells Kate that they found the boat somewhere off Paquaw Island, but not
Erik’s body.
d) He tells her some of his clothes where found and that's how they managed to contact
her.
e) The detective tells her that his body may already have been washed out to sea with the
strong morning current, but they're going to keep searching.
f) He asks her whether or not her brother was depressed, implying he might have wanted
to take his own life.
g) She tells him Erik seemed full of life the last time she saw him.
h) The detective continues and asks why would a guy want to take out a boat that he
could barely handle into an obvious on coming storm.
i) This sets her mind racing.

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