Transhuman in port Teague

---Intro to characters and setting

--Childhood bully scene

-Manic plays hero

-Earns nickname

--Bowling make-up scene

-Nick apologizes, gives word about competition vs collaboration

--Manic and Posie on the bus

-Exposition about Manic's accomplishments and job interview with the R&D dept

-Exposition about the R&D dept. and E.J.'s interest

--Dock party

-Intoduction to Lefty

-Her and Manic flirt with her feet in water

-Lefty vies for Manic to be an inside man in the R&D dept

-She reveals her findings on the lizard man of Bellville possibly being linked to Port Teague through the separate Bellville office also leased by E.J. 

-Posie wants to live saintly

-Melvin has complex aura vision followed by epileptic seizure  

---Plot elements and inciting incident

--Intro and tour of labs & of General Szupo, Mallory, and fellow scientist Luke

--Discussions about transhuman projects and theory

--Manic begins drafting nanotech plans

--Coffee date; Manic strings Lefty along about inside intell, as an excuse to meet up more

--Posie and Melvin discuss epilepsy and new anti-convulsants

--Melvin injects his nanobots into himself

--Reacts to and adjusts to surprise side effects/dons sunglasses, gloves and headphones

--Lefty finds lizardmen/ Manic and Posie tag along and save the day

--Manic reveals his nano tech superpowers to Posie and Lefty, and they agree to be a crime solving/fighting team

---Fun and games

--The three use Manic's new powers to hunt and capture lizard people in Bellville

--They create superhero costume/helmet designed to counteract overstimulation

--Lefty keeps getting into trouble to get her stories

--Posie helping/secretly bringing detained lizard people back to the lighthouse

--Posie goes back out alone to help the needy and people effected by the attacks

--Melvin becomes irritated Posie is spending so much time with Manic, continues experiencing epileptic hallucinations

--Manic improves on nanobots/ investigates shady operations in R&D dept, drafts and begins work on project to upload human consciousness into digital format

---Escalation

--Manic agrees to help Melvin sneak into the dept. to see where his brother supposedly is

--Melvin meets E.J. and demons in a shadowed room; talk about Gilgamesh and the flood

--Manic is meanwhile investigating and unintentionally frees something that breaks out of dept. and escapes

--Lefty catches wind, and her and Posie head straight into danger

--Manic and Mallory race to the rescue

--Revealed they cloned an ancient biblical giant

--Mallory doesn't want it killed, Manic admonishes her

--Manic fights the giant, wins

--Manic fights with Lefty about putting herself in harms way, loses

--Manic, frustrated, returns to work, improves nanobots again; cannot overcome hurtle in uploading human consciousness without frying the physical brain

---Enemies close in

--Melvin meets with Mallory, empathizes with her being afraid; Mallory shirks his help

--Lefty attempts to interview Mallory, breaks a window, gets shoved into the river

--Mallory doubles down on fixing E.J.; Szupo offers to take care of Lefty

--E.J. receives text to rope Lefty into private meeting in Bellville with Szupo; ignores it

--Manic meets with Lefty, figures out she's a sociopath, offers her interview with Szupo

--Melvin gives up jealousy, and instructs Posie to tell Manic about Sok

--Posie brings Manic to lighthouse; she and Melvin show him Sok and the lizard people

--Revealed that lizard people are transformed humans; Sok is doing her best to repair their psychologies and cognitions enough to communicate

--Melvin catches him up on E.J. and the demons

--Manic learns from lizard people that many of them used to be journalists, wanting to investigate the R&D dept.

--Manic rushes off to dept.

---Darkest hour

--Manic returns to dept.; combs through records and confirms that lizard people are failed transhuman project weaponized against nosey reporters

--Manic debates rescuing Lefty; has one-sided conversation with God

--Manic realizes he can't get to Bellville in time to save Lefty

--Manic uploads his consciousness, frying his physical brain

--Posie receives text from Manic; her and Melvin begin the drive to Bellville

---Climax/ save the day

--Szupo and Lefty meet in private ground floor office

--Lefty closes in on shady projects

--Szupo tells all, and reveals that the doors are locked, and the drink is spiked

--Lefty begins to decohere

--Szupo opens up case of injections, several types he grabbed the whole case in a hurry; including the lizard man injection, and Manic's nano bots

--An unmanned car drives through the wall, knocking the case to the floor spilling the needles/ Lefty attempts to escape through the hole with floppy limbs

--Szupo grabs needle from the floor, catches her

--She fights back, but gets stabbed, and goes limp

--Szupo, frightened of attention, begins to grab up the injections and escape through the back

--Lefty grabs a needle and sticks him with it, to his horror, and she escapes through the wall

--Lefty experiences side effects of nanobots, feels overwhelmed, texts Posie the address

--She pulls the car out, carries Szupo (already turning into a lizard man) out the back and over a few blocks into an ally

--Texts Posie updated directions

---Aftermath settlings

--At the lighthouse, Posie, Melvin, Sok and Lefty recap the events and department cover up

--Lefty grapples with new powers and new emotions and speculates on the human condition

--Posie follows up with her recent experience in trying to live more saint-like

--Nobody's seen Manic

--Mallory shows up to reveal Manic's body was found dead in the lab, and have uneasy conversation about E.J. and the transhuman projects

--Posie and Melvin go to Church

--Lefty returns to her hotel room, and gets long text from Manic

--She begins to cry and talk to her phone guessing at what he had done

--The phone replies

--She laughs through the tears, and asks Manic if he's still human, and he doesn't know

--She tells him she's bringing him to Posie's Church, and they exit the hotel room