Here's the pilot for my new show, From the Abyss. This is pretty much a sneak peek, other episodes won't be up for a while. Well, I don't know... we'll see. But, here's Pilot.
From the Abyss
S1E1 (1)- Pilot: I didn't know where I was, or who I was. I had no idea what exactly was happening. My face was looking down at the ground, and I was covered in a peculiar pink goo. I looked up to see nothing but clouds. I was very far down, and I decided that it would be easy for me to merely jump up.
The strange boy had just jumped up very high, all the way up from the bottom of a very deep abyss. He was naked, wearing no clothes at all. One thing visible it that he has a belly button, something that fish do not have, period. He is walking the streets of the city of WaterFalls, where police see him, and ask "Who are you?" repeatedly, a question he can't answer. He can't understand the man, or communicate with him, and he has no idea who he is.
This man seemed hostile. I did not think he was fond of me. He grabbed me by the wrists, and put me into the back of his car. A mother was walking with her young daughter, and quickly covered her daughter's eyes at the sight of me. Was I hated? I didn't know, all I knew was that these metal things he was putting on my wrist really hurt.
The boy was taken to a juvenile detention center. They have a therapist come to see him, since he has an obvious case of amnesia. We are then taken to the therapist, Jaimie's, home. We see a teenage girl in her bed, with a boy next to her.
Jaimie, her mother, is calling her saying "April, come on down. Henry went to work with your father, so we can have a nice breakfast together." When her daughter does not answer, Jaimie starts walking up the stairs.
"Hide!" April says. Jeff ducks and hides at the side of the bed, and when Jaimie's hand turns the doorknob, the phone rings, and she goes to pick it up. April and Jeff laugh in relief, and April throws Jeff's shoes out the window with a laugh as he finishes getting his pants and shirt on. Meanwhile on the phone, Jaimie is called into work, so she makes sure that April is okay, and that she is going to work.
At the juvenile detention center, the boy is in the cafeteria, watching the other children eat. One particular boy looks angry at him.
This boy glared at me. I felt a strange feeling in my belly. I was not afraid of this boy, but he reminded me of something ready to strike. I had no reason to fear him, yet I had no idea what he was capable of.
"Like what ya see?" the angry boy said. "Get that boy over there to stop eyeballin' me," he says to the cafeteria monitor.
"Leave him alone," the monitor says. "He can't understand a word coming out of your mouth."
After lunch, everyone is taken outside. Right away, the angry boy throws a punch at the strange boy. The strange boy blocks the angry boy's fist, looking very confused.
This boy wanted to hurt me. But why? I had done nothing to hurt him.
Then, the cafeteria monitor came back outside. He took the angry boy inside to his room. Later that day, Jaimie comes by to see the boy. She tells him to draw a picture. He grabs a crayon, and starts drawing dots, jabbing the paper with the crayon. It looks more like a very detailed photograph when the boy is finished. It is the clouds. Later that night, Jaimie goes home with some strange thoughts in her head. She then decides she would like to bring the strange boy home, so she tells her family.
"So, one of your mental patients is going to come to live with us?" her son, Henry says. "I don't see that ending well."
"He is not a mental patient," Jaimie says. "He's just a confused boy who needs a home, and the juvenile detention center is not the place for him."
Despite her family objecting to it at first, they realize that Jaimie is determined, and the next day, she brings the boy home. Jaimie tells April to watch him when she goes out to the store one day, and Jaimie doesn't. The boy hears an amazing noise coming from the next house. It is an amazing song coming from a piano. He walks into the house, making no noise.
This noise was something unfamiliar, but welcome. It soothed me. I wanted to communicate, to say "Thank you."
When the boy tried to communicate, a moaning noise came out of his mouth. Then, the girl screams. Her mother runs in, and the boy runs out of the house and flees to his home's bathroom, laying in the bathtub. Henry then runs into the bathroom and pulls his pants down, and then he sees the boy, and screams. He yells "MOM!" and runs out of the bathroom, pants at his knees. His mother runs up, asking what's the matter.
"Your patient was laying in the bathtub! And I was, going in there, and, I was going to..." Henry began.
"Going to what?" Jaimie asked.
"Uh... nothing," Henry says hastily. "But what was this kid doing in the bathtub?"
"I don't know, your sister should have been watching him," Jaimie says, looking suspicious.
"Well, there's the problem, you let April watch him," Henry said. He goes back to the bathroom, then turns around for a second, and he looks at the boy and says: "Perv."
We fast forward to that night, at the dinner table.
I was thirsty. But, I did not know how to request a drink. I relied on a phrase I heard the angry boy use at the juvenile detention center.
"Yo!" the boy says. "Juice me! What, are ya all takin' stupid pills 'round here? JUICE!"
"Uh... did he just talk?" April says.
"Ten minutes ago he couldn't talk at all..." Henry says.
Jaimie pours him some juice. And, Ron, her husband, puts some food on his plate, as if showing approval for him. Then, April puts some on. Then, Henry does.
Suddenly, I felt welcome here. I felt like I had a home. I felt like these people were my family. I no longer felt hated, only loved.
"So, this kid's gonna need a name," Henry said.
Ron says, "He reminds me of my old friend Noah, we'll call him that."
"Noah," Jaimie nods. "Noah..."
I liked this name. So, I looked at Jaimie. She smiled in approval.
"Perfect," April says. "His name is Noah."
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I'd love reviews. TONS of work went into this. If you can't tell, this goes on an hour long. If it's not funny, then it shouldn't be, it's a drama, that sometimes has comedy sprinkled in. 