EPISODE 08
Arc I: The Awakening
Draft
The Gallery
Reign opens her art gallery — her legitimate front and her greatest weapon.
Script
Beat Sheet
Production Notes
**FADE IN:** **INT. PENTHOUSE - NIGHT** Reign, alone, sweeps the penthouse with a professional-grade bug detector. The device beeps. She finds a second bug under the coffee table. A third in a lamp. A fourth, the most sophisticated, in the headboard of her bed. They are all identical. Military-grade. Planted by a professional. She sits down with her laptop and pulls up the security access logs for the penthouse for the past month. She cross-references the timestamps of when each bug was likely planted with the entry records. Her face tightens. There’s only one person whose access overlaps with all four locations. MARCUS (30s), her head of security. Her most trusted bodyguard. The man who has protected her for three years. Her phone buzzes. It’s a notification from her security system. Marcus is standing guard right outside her bedroom door. She picks up a burner phone and sends a text to an unknown number. > **TEXT MESSAGE:** > I know it was you. **INT. PENTHOUSE HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS** Marcus, standing at his post, receives the text. He looks at the screen, and his face, usually a stoic mask, goes completely pale with terror. **SMASH CUT TO BLACK.** **ON SCREEN TEXT: THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.** **END OF EPISODE 8**