Here is the possible ten episode plot layout for K2 Investigations. From this plot layout came the ideas for the mock-up of the first page that has been created.
Episode One – Introduction of the K2 Investigations and characters. The first case will jump into K2 Investigations most current case and will introduce the characters Kassandra Kinkade and Xochitl Eva Mateo. The case will reveal pieces of the main characters back story, but will mainly be about their organization, what they do and how they work to solve crimes related to LGBT issues and clientele.
Episode Two – This episode will dig deeper into the character and back story of Xochitl Eva Mateo. It will reveal the reasons of how she first meets Kassandra Kinkade and her starting K2 Investigations. It is these reasons, the search for her parents killers, that fuels her work with the agency. It is also because of her parents that Xochitl feels the need to help others through the private investigations company, she wants to live up to her memories of them.
Episode Three – This episode will cover the back story of Kassandra Kinkade through a case that hits closer to home more then she would like, when Theus Alastor, is held by homeland security for being a terrorist. Her mentor may not only have been made by their previous boss, but she now has to deal with the U.S. government and corruption. If she does not get Theus released and back underground it would mean that both of them would be killed by Acario Panagakos.
Episode Four – In this episode, K2 Investigations current case deals with a government agency and their discrimination against a masculine lesbian employee. K2 is hired by the employee’s lawyer to help get evidence of the discrimination against the employee while on the job. This case will start to reveal information that about Xochitl’s Father and his work. This will episode will start to change Xochitl’s feelings about her parents and the work they did.
Episode Five – Kassandra Kinkade disappears in this episode and for the first time Xochitl works with Theus Alastor to help find her. Xochitl, who thought she knew her friend well, learns more of K2′s history then she’d even known before. By the end of the episode, when Theus and Xochitl uncover her whereabouts, Xochitl is not longer sure if she can trust K2.
Episode Six – It’s PRIDE and K2 Investigations is celebrating by having to solve a disappearance case after a festive Pride party on the upper east side at Xochitl’s penthouse turns sour. In this episode, it will be the first time that Xochitl becomes aware that her feelings for K2 have changed. K2, however has become even more distant and detached than is normal even for a character with Aspergers.
Episode Seven – In this episode, Detective Foster has had enough of K2′s meddling in his cases. He starts to dig up information about the agency and its owners, one of which he has meet, Xochitl and the other he has never meet before Kassandra. This episode will be light and fun, it will give readers a chance to see Xochitl and Kassandra working together after the rocky relationship from previous episodes because of their common enemy, Detective Foster.
Episode Eight – Ties between Acario Panagakos and the pharmaceutical company that Xochitl’s Father worked for become apparent. The irony of the Xochitl and Kassandra seems less ironic as Xochitl starts to suspect that Theus and possibly Kassandra have something to do with her parents death. She turns for Detective Foster for help.
Episode Nine – The conspiracy thickens when K2 Investigations is seized by Homeland security and all employees are taken into custody except for K2 who was able to secure herself in their panic room. She goes undiscovered as the rest of the agency is taken over. She has to spend days secured in the panic room, till finally she caves in and destroys Alchemis, the AI she’s built, to escape.
Episode Ten – It all comes together and ends. Xochitl learns of her Father’s research and why he and her Mother were killed for his discovery. She learns that it was not K2 and Theus who murdered her parents. It was the pharmaceutical company, but K2 and Theus were sent by Acario Panagakos to protect his investment in the pharmaceutical company. Xochitl learns in the end, that Theus and K2 set out to protect her and escape from Acario Panagakos.
This is only one possible direction for the story and as I get further along in the writing, it may change as I get to know and understand my characters better.