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# Just Business

### Theme
The power of wealth and control

### Title
Just Business

### Character
#### Hero: Mike
Goal: Get his company
Crisis: Life in Danger
Attitude:
Change: Learns to Care

#### Villain: Jim Balonai
Goal: Take ownership of the company
Crisis: Losing control
Attitude:
Health:

## Plot
### Scene 1: [0 0 0 0]→[1 2 1 1], [0 0 3 0]→[0 0 3 0]
Mike is a young man in his twenties, living by himself in modern day USA. He has no ambitions or plans for life, content to drift along from one day to the next. Unknown to Mike, he is actually the heir to the Balonai business empire, given up for adoption as an infant. One day, a young woman named Ashley shows up at his door and tells him they need to talk— his life could depend on it.

Jim Balonai is Mike’s cousin, CEO of the company in his grandmother’s stead. In his forties, he has everything he could want except ownership of the Balonai empire. He wants everything for himself, but has been content to wait his ailing, elderly grandmother out. But then he learns of his long-lost cousin— son of the company’s founder— and his grandmother’s intention to grant him ownership of the Balonai empire instead, a promise she made to her son before he died.

### Scene 2: [1 2 1 1]→[1 0 1 0], [0 0 3 0]→[1 0 4 0]
Ashley tells Mike that she was sent by his grandmother, who has been searching for him for a long time. He is the heir to an expansive business empire, and she wants to meet with him right away. It is important that they go at once, because a very dangerous man wants the company for himself.

Jim realizes he will never be in true control of the company if his grandmother grants ownership to his cousin.

### Scene 3: [1 0 1 0]→[1 3 1 1], [1 0 4 0]→[2 0 4 0]
Jim goes to see his grandmother, Kimberly. He tells her that he knows what she is up to, and she had better forget about Mike or else he will be forced to take action. She tells him that she is disappointed in the man he has become.

Mike and Ashley go to meet his grandmother at her mansion.

### Scene 4: [1 3 1 1]→[1 0 1 1], [2 0 4 0]→[2 0 4 0]
Ashley introduces Mike to his grandmother, Kimberly, before excusing herself to let them talk.

Jim arrives and joins the conversation. He tries to sweet-talk Mike, but Grandmother Kimberly insists he leave. He does so reluctantly, angrily telling her she will regret it. Grandmother Kimberly explains to Mike that he is her grandson, and that his father gave him up for adoption before making it big; unbeknownst to her. She has been searching for him ever since her son died, as his dying wish was to make things right by giving Mike ownership of his company.

### Scene 5: [1 0 1 1]→[0 2 0 0], [2 0 4 0]→[4 0 4 0]
Mike and Ashley talk in another room. He tells her that he doesn’t know how he feels about this— if he even wants the company, or if he would rather things go back to the way they were. A while later, somebody comes to get her— Grandmother Kimberly has died, seemingly of a heart attack. Shocked, Ashley goes to deal with it, leaving Mike alone with his thoughts.

### Scene 6: [0 2 0 0]→[0 0 0 0], [4 0 4 0]→[4 0 4 0]
Jim comes to Mike to talk. As they talk, Jim becomes threatening, and makes it clear that there is no way in which Mike will get the company.

### Scene 7:[0 0 0 0]→[0 0 0 0], [4 0 4 0]→[4 0 4 0]
Mike thinks about what Jim said, putting together the pieces of what has happened, realizing that his grandmother might have actually been murdered. He realizes he can’t go back to his old life now, but can start over instead, somewhere where Jim can’t find him, far away from the Balanoi company. Mike decides to leave before anything bad can happen.

With his grandmother dead, and Mike gone, Jim moves to take full control of the company.

### Scene 8: [0 0 0 0]→[1 0 1 0], [4 0 4 0]→[4 0 4 0]
Mike has gone somewhere new to start over. He lives under a false name and tries to settle in. Still, he wonders if he made the right choice, and is haunted by thoughts of his grandmother and who he left in charge of his family’s company.

Jim takes ownership of the Balanoi company.

### Scene 9: [1 0 1 0]→[1 0 2 0], [4 0 4 0]→[4 0 4 0]
Mike sees Jim on a televised press conference, announcing that the pharmaceutical division will be raising prices across the board in order to boost earnings. Mike realizes he has made a mistake and should not have run like he did, leaving the company in the hands of such an evil man.

Jim asserts himself at the company. He knows Mike is not dead, but he doesn’t think he will be a problem anymore. Nevertheless, he continues to search for him so he can get rid of him permanently.

### Scene 10: [1 0 2 0]→[2 0 3 3], [4 0 4 0]→[4 2 4 0]
Mike contacts Ashley to ask what he should do. She is shocked that he is still alive and tells him her belief that Jim had Grandmother Kimberly murdered. Ashley is still working at the company but feels like her life is in danger as well. Mike tells her to be careful, and that he will be there soon.

### Scene 11: [2 0 3 3]→[2 3 4 4], [4 2 4 0]→[4 3 4 1]
Jim finds out that Mike was in contact with Ashley. Jim decides to take care of the problem once and for all.

### Scene 12: [2 3 4 4]→[3 0 4 4], [4 3 4 1]→[4 4 4 2]
Mike meets Ashley. Ashley has discovered a copy of Grandmother Kimberly’s will that names Mike as the new owner of the company. Jim arrives, and threatens his way into the room. Jim says they can make a deal that works for everyone if they just come with him, but Mike and Ashley refuse. Mike and Ashley flee the room.

### Scene 13: [3 0 4 4]→[3 2 4 4], [4 4 4 2]→[0 4 0 4]
Mike returns to Grandmother Kimberly’s old mansion. Jim has returned there as well. Mike tells him it is over, and that Ashley is telling the police everything. Mike says it will be easier if Jim turns himself in.

### Scene 14: [3 2 4 4]→[4 0 4 4], [0 4 0 4]→[0 4 0 4]
The police arrive with a warrant for Jim’s arrest. As the police arrive in the house, Jim leaves to another room and can be heard shooting himself, committing suicide.

Realizing he is not ready for the responsibilities of running a large company, Mike appoints Ashley as the new CEO of the company.