give ya $10 on blonde for it .
i'll give it to ya for free if it takes off give me $20 and a t-shirt!
this is the best thing you're ever gonna read in your life!!!.....................................
It was a story of an American mid/late - 30s gulf war vet who was requisitioned by the government for specialised training in domestic special operations.(dont worry, this isnt the A-Team) subsequent to his tour in Iraq A proficient soldier "Damien" was a decorated hero during the gulf war for his fortitude and efficiency, keen to further his incontrovertible dedication to his country, Damien is inserted into a program of individual training for the protection of the U.S.A(basically he's trained as a government assassin,this is all his back story and i see this being referenced in the series quite a bit where applicable) but is not the crux of the story........... Our Leading guy(working name "Damien") becomes a family man and is as dedicated to his wife and children as he is to his country, his only vice, his only downfall is his propensity for the odd drink, which furthers and is established before we get to our where the script kicks off as having developed into a problem(albeit a controlable one).
He is sent on missions for the U.S government, sometimes deep cover, sometimes as a sharp shooter, his proficiency as a soldier translating perfectly into this requisite diversity for evolving to whatever the job requires(again this is not the series but his background story) but i see flash backs being needed to explain how our hero came to his present stage which we'll get to if we had taken off.....
Tragedy strikes our hero with the untimely death of his his youngest son(i'm yet to develop exactly how this happends but am leaning towards it being related with his work and furthermore having it become part of the story towards the end of the series not that it fucking matters now) this precipitates the breakdown of his marriage as they struggle to cope with this tragic loss and as Damien immerses himself more and more into drink his wife leaves him and it's now closing in on where our story begins................
One of the missions that our hero had in his earlier days was to kill a pre-eminent business man in LA but he was elusive and suspicious so our hero integrated himself into the world of the LA homeless community, camped in an alleyway opposite his target's office block he spent two weeks as a homeless guy tracking the movements of his target but so by doing familiarising himself with the LA homeless scene, the one part of which during that particular mission he really immersed himself in was the drinking and although he was at that point yet to know the loss and desperation that had caused these guys to be in their current position recognised as a soldier that solitude and despair, it was an ethos in which he came to find solace in upon the break up of his marriage and thats where our story picks up, 2 years after his sons death and the breakdown of his marriage our hero has placed himself in this verry community, a place where he knew he could revel in the two most important things in his life, anger and alcohol. the one place where he could find solace. the LA homeless community!
So this is what our story is about and this is where it picks up, the story of the alcoholic homeless assassin! yes he is still requisitioned by the government to to jobs!!! his contact in the government was one of his superiors in the gulf war and they have a deep friendship, despite his demise and descent into the world of the desperate and forgotten his contact still has faith and belief in him but more importantly knows that the only thing keeping him going and not descending irrevocably into the world of the hopeless is his omnipresent allegiance the the USA, once a solder always a solder and when called upon he is still able to get the job done but this is where our story picks up, the jobs he does now are low level and basic yet he continues, though now with an alcoholic ineptitude, more often than not getting the job done, yet making more and more mistakes making more an interesting and new type of hero, an inept and drunk assassin only being kept alive by his inherent development as a soldier and an old friend in government covert operation administration doing whatever he can to keep alive the old Damien knowing that he would lose himself completely in the world of the homeless alcoholic, he covers up for him a lot when he messes up and they have confrontations but he knows to keep his friend alive and everything that was Damien during the war and the subsequent jobs he did with unquestionable brilliance, he must keep him in the employ of the U.S governement, he himself has to lie to his supiriors about the state and well being of damien, telling them he is in deep cover and having to devolop more complexed excuses for the degenerate failings on missions of his long time friend...........
Each week a new story, a new assignment that our hero messes up with a further ineptitude, his contact in the government gets in touch with him via a locker at the train station which our hero used to visit daily but now drunkenly manages to pass once a week or sometimes, sometimes missing assignments, sometimes not taking them, but when he does he gives 100%, although he lives as a homeless and is an alcoholic when the time comes for him to do a job he recieves the file, puts in place an empty can on the locker(or some sort of similar signal) and then returns to a small one bedroom appartment that he's got across town, he only ever uses it to get sober and for jobs, he has a wealth of money from his work so its not even the money for which he continues, however much he tries to drink himself to death he cant drown the soldier in him and this is where he goes to get sober and clean for a couple of days before taking up a mission. consider this though, he has the severe DT'S, is in alcohol withdrawall and this nearly always impacts upon the mission and his ability to do his job corecctly, sometimes he fails with the mission but this 8 part series wouldve chronicaled the different ways an ex pre-eminent soldier and assassin now a shadow of himself messess up each assingment yet i see a lot of the time aportioned on his journey in the world of the homeless alcoholic, the people he meets the circles he travels in and the life they all lead as the bums of society and how polarised this is in comparrison to when the call of duty comes, also revisiting as i suggested ealier his back story and how his once cover of being an alcoholic homeless guy in LA has now become the reality of his life and he can no longer find the line between where the cover from those years ago when he positioned himself as a homeless alcoholic for a mission ends and his purposfull re-intergration into this world to drink himself to death begins! there are so many ideas ive got for each mission and each week and how the story and he develops, i have written a pilot episode though let me explain i'm not a trained writer so it's not exactly in script form but is detailed and entertaining so it can be refined later.
it's fucked now, you take over kev!
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