Screenwriting : Writer by Angelina Carkic

I'm a Canadian living in Australia and write pilots for TV. I've just finished FATTY or alternatively, BLISS, the story of a small town sheriff stuck in the fourth level of grief who spent the last ten years in a stupor and become comfortable in his cocoon of minimal activity. The townsfolk understand him and support him; however when two teenagers charged with murder escape custody, Fatty finds evidence that troubles him. Small cuts he saw ten years before, on his wife’s dead body, are also present on the body of the murdered girl. There are a lot of questions in Fatty’s mind and the more he struggles to sort them the more he starts noticing his lifelong friend state trooper Jones, is acting a little strange. Shown the picture of the little cuts, Jones denies ever having seen them before. Fatty knows he’s lying. Called to assist in the recapture of the escapees, Fatty already shaken by a humiliating fall in the town square, starts to ‘wake up’. He becomes proactive. He moves out of his stupor and becomes proactive to the point of endangering his own job and perhaps his freedom as he’s threatened with prosecution. His actions cause the real murderer to kill twice more placing him as next in his sites. there is a standoff duel fashion. To add further to his miseries, the rather eccentric town council, needing money in the town’s coffers, unanimously pass a resolution to put their tiny police force on horseback and into unique uniforms, with the promise of attracting tourists. The action is successful and Fatty’s fame spreads, especially when he succeeds in exposing the real murderer and gaining release for the teenagers. His fame also helps him win his case and he comes out of it with a commendation. The horse assigned to him is a unique, ornery animal no one has been able to get along with, but Fatty and he bond. -- Two like spirits. On their first encounter, while wearing his ‘new recycled’ uniform with large patches sewn in to alter it to his size, the horse tricks him and throws him. The humiliation of laughing citizens shakes something loose in him and is one of the steps he takes to awaken him from his stupor. Once he’s faced with the fact that due to his grief and his inability to function fully he was ultimately responsible for the deaths that resulted, Fatty attends his wife’s graveside and makes her a promise that he will make her proud of him again. We leave him taking her photo out of a drawer and placing it in place of prominence on his desk, displacing his cherished bronzed football.