Sample Episode: “The Call”

SCENE 1: Text on screen: 1992

Stylized shots of the rural south.

An abstract composition of a residential house. BMX styled bikes lay outside on the front lawn. Inside the house a young scoundrelly man hands a teenage boy a sandwich bag filled with marijuana joints. The teenager rides his BMX bicycle through the southern landscape.

SCENE 2: Text on screen: Present Day

A man in silhouette working on an old BMX bicycle frame in a garage.

TESTIMONIAL SC 2 

The show’s protagonist, Kelley Moss, is introduced, talking about how he likes to fix up old BMX bikes for kids.. INSERTS of bicycle parts, Kelley wheeling an old bicycle into his garage… etc.

He then shifts into a high level story about him being a former cannabis distributor throughout the past three decades.

SUPPLEMENTAL FOOTAGE SC 2

Intercut images of old photos and video (re-enactments) of Kelley from the 1990’s.  

TESTIMONIAL SC 2A

Kelley has now transitioned into a legit member of the regulated cannabis industry. It is also revealed that despite the progress of cannabis becoming mainstream, many of those who help built this industry are being left out of the economic opportunities. 

SUPPLEMENTAL FOOTAGE SC 2A

Kelley on a computer, attending to his cannabis business. Stylized images of his cannabis products. Scenes of modern-day cannabis growing facilities, dispensaries and various over the counter products.

SCENE 3: DINER

Kelley drives through the center of a southern town. He speaks about the community and the ethics of the underground cannabis industry. How this was more of an agrarian culture and less a criminal enterprise.

Kelley arrives at a local diner. Inside he gregariously interacts with his fellow patrons. Over breakfast his mobile phone rings, and he takes the call outside. He is clearly excited by the nature of the phone call.

TESTIMONIAL SC 3

Kelley refers to the recent phone call and loosely describes his relationship with an unnamed iconic musician, and that this musician is on the “Mt Rushmore” of cannabis culture. They want for him to deliver a special cannabis batch while on tour out west. He speaks to the fact that he will have to go to his best source. Someone who can provide the level of quality product expected for this mission. Someone, who like himself, was once part of the underground.

SCENE 4: GROWING FACILITY

Various stylized shots of cannabis plants in an indoor growing facility. 

Kelley meets with an old colleague and underground Grower. They walk and talk among the many plants, discussing options and what can be harvested in time for the delivery.

TESTIMONIAL SC 4

Kelley and The Grower individually speaking about underground cannabis growing. Specifically, to what is was like during the 90’s in contrast to present day. 

SUPPLEMENTAL FOOTAGE SC 4

Footage of cannabis plants and The Grower tending to them. Additional shots of both past and present day underground growing facilities.

SCENE 5: KELLEY’S BASEMENT

Kelley begins preparing for his trip. He weighs, breaks up and packs the cannabis into travel ready bags. 

TESTIMONIAL SC 5

Kelley notes that this won’t be a simple drive and drop. Rendezvousing with a band on tour is akin to hitting a moving target, there are many variables. Therefore, he will need to revisit some of the tried and true methods of smuggling this haul in plain sight. And in order to do so, he will also need to enlist the expertise of another former member of the underground. 

SCENE 8: GARAGE

Kelley wiping down the finished bicycle from the opening scene.

SCENE 7: TOWN PARK

Kelley rides the bike from the previous scene while carrying a skateboard. From a distance we see him speaking with a parent and their young kid. Kelley shakes hands with the parent as the kid starts riding the bike. He says his goodbyes then rides his skateboard off through the park.

TESTIMONIAL SC 7

Kelley talks again about community. We learn that in his spare time he fixes up and gives away old bikes for free.

SCENE 8: PARKED CAR

Kelley sits in his car speaking to a former colleague on a mobile phone. The conversation is a mixture of laughter and an exchange of memories. He ends the call and drives off…

TO BE CONTINUED…