Post by Rook on Mar 29, 2012 6:34:59 GMT -5
I grouped these scene ideas by which season I expect them to show up in. It is by no means exclusive.
Season One
- Some fun and games with anonymity: the Hitman confides in a therapist of his crazy antics. Neither therapist or receptionist has any idea who is after he leaves.
- [Flashback’ scene] Establishes that he’s not actually a very nice guy. He tries to get around a rather strong willed receptionist who won’t let him to his hit’s office. She goes so far as to call security to block him. He says ‘screw the red tape’ shoots them both and kicks down the door and takes out his mark.
- The hitman is at a bar talking to a woman and laments to her how exhausting it is wooing the same girl every night. He boasts about how he knows exactly what to say and exactly what to do. She becomes adamant that he’s not as good as he boasts. Cut to scene of him getting dressed, her sleeping in tussled bed. Without any joy he comments that it works ‘every time.’ This should be one of the ‘descent from paradise’ type scenes that changes the feel of the show from happy go lucky to ‘wow being anonymous must kind of suck.’
- Brannigans’s vision of Hitman’s actions are of the reflection in the Hitman’s glasses (unsual for his visions.)
- Establish that Hitman doesn’t bleed, he dusts and heals almost instantly.
- A scene that establishes Brannigan’s connection to the hitman, namely that Brannigan gets reoccurring dreams that the Hitman will hill him.
- Hitman runs into Riley somehow and something she says sticks with him. Scenes of him at the fridge, doing shopping, performing a hit all while what she says nags at him. Finally remembers the prophecy. Decides to kill her.
- End with Hitman kidnapping Riley.
Season Two
- Riley remembers who Hitman is, which catches him off guard and causes him to re-think killing her.
- Riley is kept drugged in the trunk for a number of cuts until she wakes up in the passenger seat. Hitman lays out his ‘conditional release.’ Riley begins starving herself, believing that Hitman is going to poison or drug her. Hitman gets mad at this.
- Riley is alone in the hotel room. She gets up and tries to open the door, but no matter how much she fiddles, pounds or tries it’s locked. She even tries the windows, to no luck. When Hitman walks in she yells at him for managing to lock a hotel room door from the outside. “Not fair!” He holds up a shopping bag. “You haven’t been eating. The manual says women like chocolate.” Pregnant pause. “That was a joke.” Sets chocolate bars down on table. Ends up eating them later when she doesn’t.
- Boredom in the car montage, tries to turn on radio, looking out window, trying to get comfortable, attempts a game of I Spy, plays the license plate game and punches him, he nearly shoots her.
- Someone approaches the Hitman and asks if they know him, then decides that they don’t. Riley asks if that happens often, he says ‘Quite.” When she asks more questions he says ‘That was my mother’ ‘Really?’ ‘No.’
- Hitman padlocks Riley to chain link fence by her belt loop at some point.
- “Do you ever sleep?” Hitman: “When it’s convenient.”
- Riley feigns car sickness and barricades herself in a rest stop bathroom. She tries to escape through the window, where the Hitman is already waiting for her.
- Hitman brings Riley a cup of coffee and a bagel. She declines, saying she doesn’t like coffee. He tells her she’ll need it. She protests further until he takes the bagel and taps it audibly against the wall. Hooray for crappy motels.
- Riley and Hitman are in the hotel room, Hitman is stretched out on the bed, apparently asleep. His pistol is laying on the night stand. When she gets her nerve up, Riley takes it and tries to shoot him. It clicks and he smiles without opening eyes. She yells “You did that on purpose!” He nods.
- Hitman and Riley are eating at a diner; she sneaks out somehow and seeing her go, calmly finishes his meal. Next scene, she’s hiking down an unpleasantly hot/cold looking highway, unsuccessfully hitchhiking. Hitman rolls up and tries to persuade her to get in the car, she has no interest. He finally points out that he has A/C / Heat and she gets in.
- Again he allows her to escape only she get in bad situation with a group of thugs. He waits until they get ready to hurt/rape her before killing them all. Insert awesome fight scene. While in proximity of the girl his wounds hurt and bleed (finger of blood to eyes, “That’s new.”) Heals as soon as he’s a few steps away from her.
- Notify’s a waiter of her distress. He gets the wrong impression and goes back to his buddy: “Call 911 so I can get laid!” Friend responds “That’s the third weirdest thing you’ve ever said.” Hitman has caught on and asks her why she decided to kill that boy “That wasn’t nice.” etc. etc.
- After all the antics she realizes he’s not planning to kill her and they form an uneasy alliance.
Season Three
- Flashback to the first time Hitman and Fortune Teller meet, when she made him what he is now and bestowed upon him the prophecy.
- When Brannigan and Hitman first meet the Hitman assumes he’s an enemy and compromises Brannigan, who finds him re-living the vision where he’s killed by Hitman. Riley asks Hitman not to kill him. He tells Brannigan “She saved your life.”
- The Hitman never really brings up his profession, and Riley gets bent about it when Brannigan brings it up.
- Some comment of Riley’s should trigger Hitman to say ‘Or I’ll put you back in the trunk.”
Season Four
- Riley is kidnapped by Nemesis’s cronies. When she initially disappears Hitman responds as if she tried to escape again. While in their care she is abused horribly and is elated to return to Hitman’s care, much to his surprise.
- Scene in restaurant, a guy keeps looking at Hitman and Riley’s table and away again, to other people, then back at their table then away again. Hitman locks Riley in the bathroom when she refuses to go willingly. Said mysterious man meets him in the hallway, they take it outside. Western duel esque scene, dialogue explains that mysterious man was Nemesis’s top assassin before Hitman and he’s here to regain his rightful place in Nemesis’s hierarchy. Gunfight scene. “I would have killed you before now if I could only remember your stupid face.”
- Various scenes of them disassembling the Nemesis’ empire. Involves both respected places, like health clinics and shady places like strip clubs. At least one fight scene must be set to dance / dubstep.
Season Five
- During assault on Nemesis’s lair, Hitman horribly wounds some crony and demands he ‘Stay there.’ When he passes the immobilized man he politely thanks him for waiting.
- The Hitman and Nemesis have to have a long conversation before he finally kills him. Through his cunning and charm the Nemesis has to almost talk him out of it, endear the audience to the point where they are almost reluctant to see the Nemesis go.
- The Sidekick destroys the Nemesis’s computer system with a cunning hacking skills, not realizing Nemesis is dead, and thus ending a tale of comedic relief with a single unneeded achievement.
- Contingent on an ending that involves hitman insomnia and Riley being alive a good final scene would be the Hitman sitting at an outside café looking terribly depressed and confused, sorting through wallet etc. Out of nowhere Riley sits down across from him and introduces herself. Cut to black.
Misc.
-The Hitman carries around a baby name book and seems to be working his way through it, A - Z. This will necessitate trawling the scripts, once the entire story is put together, and making sure each name used is alphabetically after the one used before.
I'll keep this thread updated as discussion and work on these elements proceeds. I'll be removing these tid bits as they are included in completed episodes unless they are elements that need to show up repeatedly. Those will be bolded and asterisked.
Season One
- Some fun and games with anonymity: the Hitman confides in a therapist of his crazy antics. Neither therapist or receptionist has any idea who is after he leaves.
- [Flashback’ scene] Establishes that he’s not actually a very nice guy. He tries to get around a rather strong willed receptionist who won’t let him to his hit’s office. She goes so far as to call security to block him. He says ‘screw the red tape’ shoots them both and kicks down the door and takes out his mark.
- The hitman is at a bar talking to a woman and laments to her how exhausting it is wooing the same girl every night. He boasts about how he knows exactly what to say and exactly what to do. She becomes adamant that he’s not as good as he boasts. Cut to scene of him getting dressed, her sleeping in tussled bed. Without any joy he comments that it works ‘every time.’ This should be one of the ‘descent from paradise’ type scenes that changes the feel of the show from happy go lucky to ‘wow being anonymous must kind of suck.’
- Brannigans’s vision of Hitman’s actions are of the reflection in the Hitman’s glasses (unsual for his visions.)
- Establish that Hitman doesn’t bleed, he dusts and heals almost instantly.
- A scene that establishes Brannigan’s connection to the hitman, namely that Brannigan gets reoccurring dreams that the Hitman will hill him.
- Hitman runs into Riley somehow and something she says sticks with him. Scenes of him at the fridge, doing shopping, performing a hit all while what she says nags at him. Finally remembers the prophecy. Decides to kill her.
- End with Hitman kidnapping Riley.
Season Two
- Riley remembers who Hitman is, which catches him off guard and causes him to re-think killing her.
- Riley is kept drugged in the trunk for a number of cuts until she wakes up in the passenger seat. Hitman lays out his ‘conditional release.’ Riley begins starving herself, believing that Hitman is going to poison or drug her. Hitman gets mad at this.
- Riley is alone in the hotel room. She gets up and tries to open the door, but no matter how much she fiddles, pounds or tries it’s locked. She even tries the windows, to no luck. When Hitman walks in she yells at him for managing to lock a hotel room door from the outside. “Not fair!” He holds up a shopping bag. “You haven’t been eating. The manual says women like chocolate.” Pregnant pause. “That was a joke.” Sets chocolate bars down on table. Ends up eating them later when she doesn’t.
- Boredom in the car montage, tries to turn on radio, looking out window, trying to get comfortable, attempts a game of I Spy, plays the license plate game and punches him, he nearly shoots her.
- Someone approaches the Hitman and asks if they know him, then decides that they don’t. Riley asks if that happens often, he says ‘Quite.” When she asks more questions he says ‘That was my mother’ ‘Really?’ ‘No.’
- Hitman padlocks Riley to chain link fence by her belt loop at some point.
- “Do you ever sleep?” Hitman: “When it’s convenient.”
- Riley feigns car sickness and barricades herself in a rest stop bathroom. She tries to escape through the window, where the Hitman is already waiting for her.
- Hitman brings Riley a cup of coffee and a bagel. She declines, saying she doesn’t like coffee. He tells her she’ll need it. She protests further until he takes the bagel and taps it audibly against the wall. Hooray for crappy motels.
- Riley and Hitman are in the hotel room, Hitman is stretched out on the bed, apparently asleep. His pistol is laying on the night stand. When she gets her nerve up, Riley takes it and tries to shoot him. It clicks and he smiles without opening eyes. She yells “You did that on purpose!” He nods.
- Hitman and Riley are eating at a diner; she sneaks out somehow and seeing her go, calmly finishes his meal. Next scene, she’s hiking down an unpleasantly hot/cold looking highway, unsuccessfully hitchhiking. Hitman rolls up and tries to persuade her to get in the car, she has no interest. He finally points out that he has A/C / Heat and she gets in.
- Again he allows her to escape only she get in bad situation with a group of thugs. He waits until they get ready to hurt/rape her before killing them all. Insert awesome fight scene. While in proximity of the girl his wounds hurt and bleed (finger of blood to eyes, “That’s new.”) Heals as soon as he’s a few steps away from her.
- Notify’s a waiter of her distress. He gets the wrong impression and goes back to his buddy: “Call 911 so I can get laid!” Friend responds “That’s the third weirdest thing you’ve ever said.” Hitman has caught on and asks her why she decided to kill that boy “That wasn’t nice.” etc. etc.
- After all the antics she realizes he’s not planning to kill her and they form an uneasy alliance.
Season Three
- Flashback to the first time Hitman and Fortune Teller meet, when she made him what he is now and bestowed upon him the prophecy.
- When Brannigan and Hitman first meet the Hitman assumes he’s an enemy and compromises Brannigan, who finds him re-living the vision where he’s killed by Hitman. Riley asks Hitman not to kill him. He tells Brannigan “She saved your life.”
- The Hitman never really brings up his profession, and Riley gets bent about it when Brannigan brings it up.
- Some comment of Riley’s should trigger Hitman to say ‘Or I’ll put you back in the trunk.”
Season Four
- Riley is kidnapped by Nemesis’s cronies. When she initially disappears Hitman responds as if she tried to escape again. While in their care she is abused horribly and is elated to return to Hitman’s care, much to his surprise.
- Scene in restaurant, a guy keeps looking at Hitman and Riley’s table and away again, to other people, then back at their table then away again. Hitman locks Riley in the bathroom when she refuses to go willingly. Said mysterious man meets him in the hallway, they take it outside. Western duel esque scene, dialogue explains that mysterious man was Nemesis’s top assassin before Hitman and he’s here to regain his rightful place in Nemesis’s hierarchy. Gunfight scene. “I would have killed you before now if I could only remember your stupid face.”
- Various scenes of them disassembling the Nemesis’ empire. Involves both respected places, like health clinics and shady places like strip clubs. At least one fight scene must be set to dance / dubstep.
Season Five
- During assault on Nemesis’s lair, Hitman horribly wounds some crony and demands he ‘Stay there.’ When he passes the immobilized man he politely thanks him for waiting.
- The Hitman and Nemesis have to have a long conversation before he finally kills him. Through his cunning and charm the Nemesis has to almost talk him out of it, endear the audience to the point where they are almost reluctant to see the Nemesis go.
- The Sidekick destroys the Nemesis’s computer system with a cunning hacking skills, not realizing Nemesis is dead, and thus ending a tale of comedic relief with a single unneeded achievement.
- Contingent on an ending that involves hitman insomnia and Riley being alive a good final scene would be the Hitman sitting at an outside café looking terribly depressed and confused, sorting through wallet etc. Out of nowhere Riley sits down across from him and introduces herself. Cut to black.
Misc.
-The Hitman carries around a baby name book and seems to be working his way through it, A - Z. This will necessitate trawling the scripts, once the entire story is put together, and making sure each name used is alphabetically after the one used before.
I'll keep this thread updated as discussion and work on these elements proceeds. I'll be removing these tid bits as they are included in completed episodes unless they are elements that need to show up repeatedly. Those will be bolded and asterisked.