Adventures of Eddie 7 Derwood. Piolt-- The Urn

Season #1
Synopsis: In this, the first episode, of “The Adventures of Eddie & Derwood” our two bumbling beach hustlers, Eddie Hoar and Derwood Doller, find themselves desperate for money to pay their rent and end their nights sleeping on the freezing New England beach. Eddie explains his new cockeyed idea to Derwood, who is horrified when Eddie proposes stealing the urn and ashes of a beach widow's husband and then holding the ashes for ransom and hocking the ornate urn. Derwood is convinced they will have something terrible happen to them for fooling with the dead. Eddie assures Derwood that the plumber who gave him the tip also said the widow is off the beach visiting one of her children on weekends.Eddie and Derwood have an easy time climbing through a window at the widow's cottage on a Saturday night, And also an easy job finding the urn right on the mantle where the plumber said it would be, They don't have an easy time with what the plumber failed to tell Eddie, though. That the widow keeps a vi
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Original Story by: jed Power
Year:
2022
215 Views


Half hour TV Series Title-- The Adventures of Eddie & Derwood

PILOT EPISODE:

The Urn, An Eddie Hoar and Derwood Doller Caper

Written by Jed Power

Based on characters from the eight-book Dan Marlowe/ Hampton Beach, NH, Crime Series by Jed Power

Contact Info:

Name Jed Power

Email jedpower@verizon.net Phone Number (978) 979-2371

FADE IN:
Teaser

EXT.HAMPTON BEACH BOARDWALK.. MORNING

A uniformed Hampton police officer is walking the boardwalk. Two women with a gaggle of kids run up to him.

WOMAN #1 Officer, officer.

COP:

Maam, Maam. What’s the problem?

Both women are out of breath and hysterical. Woman #2

It’s horrible! Horrible. Disgusting.

COP:

What is, ladies? Slow down. Tell

me what’s wrong?

Both women try to get their excitement under control and corral their children close to them.

WOMAN #1

There’s two of them and they are

horrible.

COP:

Ok, Slow down and just tell me.

Two what?

WOMAN #2 Two creatures, Horrible,

disgusting creatures in the ladies room.

COP:

Creatures? Slow Down. Tell me.

The women ring their hands and make faces of disgust

WOMAN @1

Two men. If that’s what you can

call them

WOMAN #2 Beasts! Filthy gross beasts.

That’s what they are.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:

2.

COP:

In the ladies room? What were

they doing?

THE KIDS START SHOUTING ALL AT ONCE

Kids

One was washing his hair in the sink.

And the other man was washing his feet and then his, hairy, disgusting chest in another.

And their clothes too.

OLDER GIRL:

Our mothers got us right out of there. Cop looks very concerned.

COP:

Did they expose themselves or try

or say anything inappropriate, ladies.

WOMAN #1

No, but dear god.. Little girls go

in there and hem just being in there ewashing their feet and gross bodies is inappropriate.

COP:

Yes, it is. I’ll tske care of it.

Cop starts walking quickly toward restrooms.

EXT. OCEAN BOULEVARD, HAMPTON BEACH - DAY--FIVE MINUTES LATER

Two men, both 30-ish, are seated on a bench in front of the Seashell Entertainment Stage.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:

One men is talking and gesturing animatedly. They are pssing,back and forth, a quart bottle of beer. Eddie Hoar, the talker, is a skinny, pasty white low-life with a crooked grin and greasy hair. He is wearing bright, out-of-date, wrinlked disco-era clothes. Derwood Doller, his-partner-in-crime, is seated beside him. He is a large, slow-witted-looking man with a bowl haircut. he is wearing cutoff faded jeans shorts that are too tight around his ample, white thighs. His black and maroon sweatshirt’s sleeves are whacked off at his biceps and the front is emblazoned with the word “Harvard.” For full-time beach residents, they both have unusually pale skin. Eddie sees the cop approaching them.

EDDIE HOAR:

I smell bscon.

Derwood points his nose up and sniffs the air,

DERWOOD Where’s it coming from? I’m

starvin’

Right there, Dumwood.

Eddie looks exasperated. And nods toward the approaching cop.

DERWOOD ( SHAKES HIS HEAD) I told you not to call me that,

Eddie...you know I don’t like it.

Derwood grabs Eddie in a headlock and with his free hand gives Eddie a hard knuckle noogie on his head.

EDDIE (HOWLS) Can’t ya take a joke?

DERWOOD:

Not from you, Eddie. I’m on a

damn short leash with you.

Eddie pushes Derwood’s hand from his head. The cop jogs toward the two men.

EDDIE:

Let me do the talkin’. I know how

to handle the law.

EDDIE:

(CONTINUED)

3.

CONTINUED:
(2)

4.

Derwood shakes his head and looks doubtful.

DERWOOD:

Sure you do, Eddie. Whatever you

say. But ain’t You gonna finnish tellin’ ne about your new score idea?

Eddie looks flummoxed.

EDDIE:

What do you want me to do

Dum...err...err Derwood tell the cop my brsinstorm, too. I’ll tell you the rest as soon as I get rid of him.

The Cop reaches the two men and scowls.

COP:

?ou Tw b*obs. I might have known

it was you...Eddie Hoar and Derwood Doller.What The hell were you two doing in the ladies rest room?

The cop does a double take as Eddie holds the beer bottle up to his lips. His Adam’s apple is sliding up and down his skinny neck ss he chugs the beer.

COP (ANGRY) Dump The beer out, Hoar and

trashcan the bottle,

Eddie sadly pours out the beer and walks the short distance to a rubbish barrel and tosses the bottle in.

Eddie returns and takes his seat beside Derwood.The Cop Looks disgustedly at the two men.

COP:

I ought to take you in for the

beer alone. You know there’s no public drinking on the beach, And it’s ten o’clock in the morning for, Crissake! Ain’t you two got any decency?

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:
(3)

DERWOOD Eddie ain’t got much. that, officer, if you

Eddie just told me.

5.

COP (EXASPERATED) I don’t give a sh*t what he just told you. What the hell were you

two doin’ in the Lady’s room washing your feet and hair in the sinks?

Eddie points over toward the men’s room. There is a large sign on the door-- “Out of Service.”

EDDIE:

We had no choice. The men’s room

ain’t workin. Cop looks frustrated.

COP:

Can’t you two clowns use your own

bathroom? You still down at that rattrap on B Street, aren’t you?

Eddie sniffles his nose and looks disgusted.

EDDIE:

Yeah and that’s part of the

problem. Our toilet’s backed up and it stinks in there.

DERWOOD:

Yeah, Eddie jammed it up with his

giant logs again. Happens every time he scores some pain pills. For a few days.He Gets all jammed up and when he finally shits they’re the size of an arm.

Eddie bats the air with one hand in Derwood’s direction.

EDDIE:

Shut up, Dum...err...errr.

Derwood. Whattaya want to get me arrested?

Cop shakes his head in pity as he looks at the two good- for-nothings.

You’d know heard what

(CONTINUED)

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jed Power

After suffering a massive stroke, renowned crime fiction author, Jed Power, overcame his paralysis and wrote the eighth book in the acclaimed Dan Marlowe/Hampton Beach, NH, Crime/Mystery series. At the same time, Power completed a Pilot episode adapting the first book in the series,”The Boss of Hampton Beach,”into a one-hour TV Series. Power has also completed a half-hour TV Pilot dramedy, “A Stroke of Luck” based on his stroke journey. Log line—When a cynical, failed novelist suffers a disabling stroke and fears he has lost everything, his only hope of regaining any type of meaningful life comes from his quirky, yet courageous, fellow patients at a rehab hospital for the brain-damaged. Think MASH upside down with the patients the primary characters and the staff as secondary. Power Also has created a half- hour comedy series. “The adventures of Eddie & Derwood” Eddie Hoar and Derwood Doller are two bumbling, low-life beach hustlers based on characters from his crime Series. Power is now looking for a Manager, Agent or producer to help with any or all these projects. Power admits that writing after a stroke had major obstacles. “Typing with one finger was the least of it,” Power said. He continued, “It brought me confidence though, just getting it done. In my eyes anyhow, it was an accomplishment.” CONTACT: To learn more about Jed Power, the Dan Marlowe/Hampton Beach, NH, series, his proposed TV/Film adaptations, or to arrange an interview, please contact: Email: jedpower@verizon.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Jed-Power/ Phone: 978-979-2371 more…

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