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Pilot Episode Structure Plan

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Plan act breaks and hooks for a series opener.

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Plan the pilot for my series. Premise: [PREMISE]. Format (half-hour, hour, streaming): [FORMAT]. Main characters: [CHARACTERS]. Series-long question: [SERIES_QUESTION].

Outline the pilot by acts with the teaser, act breaks and final image. For each act give the A story, B story, and the character introduced, and show how the premise and world are established through action. List the questions that the pilot raises for the audience and what it answers. Provide a table of the first five episodes with a one-line springboard each to prove the series can sustain. Check for overloading exposition and suggest cuts. Add a note on what to make clear in the first three pages.

Add a section on the cold open options and a list of ten questions to test the pilot's strength, including whether the lead is active and whether the world offers repeatable conflict. Include a one-page series bible outline with sections for premise, characters, tone, and sample episodes, and a note on avoiding setting up too many mysteries.

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Teaser: A tow truck takes the van the family lives in.
Act 1: Introduce Jo (driver), her brother Lee, and the debt. A is-story: get the van back by Friday. B-story: Lee hides a job offer.
Act 2: A pawn shop deal fails; they sleep at the depot.
Act 3: Plan to buy the van with a stolen prize; guilt.
Act 4: They return the prize and pay half; the van is still gone.
Final image: Jo hands Lee the keys to a different truck.
Questions raised: who is the buyer? Episode 2-5 springboards: the depot's owner; a rival driver; the job offer; the van's secret.

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