JM08 FLYOVER

CREDITS

Written by Jason Morningstar

Edited by Steve Segedy

Flyover was Playset of the Month, May 2010.

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“When you play, play hard.” - Theodore Roosevelt

THE SCORE

The Buckle ON THE BIBLE BELT

Flyover is all about Middle America - hard-working agribusiness pro-fessionals, construction contractors, Mexican drug mules and the peo-ple who love them. It’s the God-and-country heartland, where high school football is the best bet for a Friday night date and everybody knows everybody.

With corn and soybean fields stretching for miles in every direction, the endless sky punctuated only by enormous grain elevators, things can get a little squirrelly.

MOVIE NIGHT

A Simple Plan, Fargo, A History of Violence.

relationships...

1 FRIENDSHIP

1 Grew up on neighboring farms

2 Mutual outcasts

3 Best friends

4 Extremely unlikely friends

5 Keepers of a dark secret

6 Church friends (social enemies)

2 FAMILY

1 You think you’re kin, but you aren’t

2 Siblings

3 Parent and child

4 Cousins

5 Parent and son or daughter-in-law

6 You don’t think you’re kin, but you are

3 crime

1 Cooking the books on a building contract

2 Farm machinery thief and fence

3 Arsonist and arson-obsessed vigilante

4 Methamphetamine entrepreneurs

5 Marijuana importer and dealer

6 Farm subsidy fraud perpetrator and government official

...in FLYOVER COUNTRY

4 OUT AND ABOUT

1 Athletes (touring bicyclists, runners, rec league team sports)

2 Church folk (youth group, outreach, lay minister, secretary)

3 Civil Air Patrol members

4 Centro de la Justicia Social volunteers

5 Town part-time staff

6 Police officer and paid informant

5 romance

1 Married, to each other

2 High school sweethearts who parted ways

3 This one time, drunk, in a soybean field

4 Unhealthy obsession

5 Passionate lovers

6 Weird romance

6 work

1 Part-time farm hands

2 Construction, out at the county airport

3 Wealthy farmer and OSHA inspector

4 Commuters with jobs in town

5 Salesman and customer

6 Professional and client (doctor, lawyer, banker, dealer, dentist)

NEEDS...

1 TO GET EVEN

1 ... with the guy who humiliated you

2 ... with a neighbor

3 ... with a cop

4 ... with the whole county, which brought you to this point

5 ... with the scum who are dealing drugs in your town

6 ... with that bitch Marcie Lowell

2 TO GET OUT

1 … of a huge fucking obligation

2 … of paying taxes on 500 acres of rotting soybeans

3 ... of a relationship

4 ... of a deal out at the airport that’s gone sour

5 ... of your ill-chosen words to the cartel representative

6 … of this county, to escape family and tradition

3 TO GET IN

1 ... good with your rich, sick uncle

2 ... shape, so you can impress Marcie Lowell

3 ... the door at Centro de la Justicia Social, for a meal and a cot

4 ... bed with the cops, by dropping a dime on someone

5 ... deep with the serious guys in the Escalade up from Juárez

6 ... trouble like you used to, with your buddies, back in the day

4 TO GET IT ON

1 ... with the incomparable Marcie Lowell

2 ... and prove you are finally free

3 ... because the alternative is real bad

4 ... with a freaky Mexican

5 ... to seal the deal

6 ... and make a baby, for real this time

5 TO GET RICH

1 ... through building a runway out of shit materials

2 ... through selling a baby

3 ... through harvesting another farmer’s crop

4 ... through forging a document

5 ... through stealing farm machinery

6 ... through shorting a drug dealer

6 TO GET THE TRUTH

1 ... about Centro de la Justicia Social’s agenda

2 ... about the dirty contract for the new runway

3 ... about Marcie Lowell

4 ... about the weird guy who is harassing your mom

5 ... about your real parents

6 ... about what goes on behind the grain elevators some nights

...in FLYOVER COUNTRY

LOCATIONS...

1 EAST BRANCH ROAD

1 Community Health Clinic

2 Crandall’s Seed Cleaner Service

3 The Windmill Diner

4 Parts Plus

5 Centro de la Justicia Social

6 Clipper Bank and Trust

2 WEST BRANCH ROAD

1 The old ConAgra grain elevator

2 Victory Electrical Cooperative

3 Farmer’s Tool and Equipment

4 West Branch IGA grocery

5 The brand-new Progress Ethanol plant

6 Shab’s Bar

3 SUCKER CREEK

1 The drainage ditch “party cave”

2 An abandoned farmstead, dishes still on the table

3 The dog-fighting ring at the end of a long dirt road

4 Deer-hunting swamp

5 The swimming hole

6 A shallow grave in a neglected sunflower field

4 COUNTY ROAD SIXTEEN

1 The fireworks stand at the Jaguar Road intersection

2 The Olsen place, 700 acres in corn

3 Roads and the skeletons of houses; a sign saying “Starfield Acres”

4 E.A. Hutchinson High School

5 A split-level ranch with twenty cars parked in the front yard

6 The Byrd place, foreclosed, crops tended by neighbors

5 GATEWAY COUNTY AIRPORT

1 Freight hangar and FAA/TSA offices

2 Terminal building and airport offices

3 Control tower above the terminal

4 Maintenance hangar and power plant overhaul facility

5 Construction trailer at the end of Runway Two

6 Fire Department garage at the end of Runway One

6 THE LOWELL FARM

1 A chicken coop, converted into a studio apartment

2 The tractor garage and tool shed

3 A one hundred acre cornfield

4 The six bedroom house with swimming pool

5 The trailers out back where the migrant workers live

6 A garbage dump leaking chemicals into Sucker Creek

...in FLYOVER COUNTRY

OBJECTS...

1 JUICY

1 An insulated organ transport bag

2 A love letter written in broken Spanish

3 Printouts of an Internet conversation

4 Crime scene photographs

5 A newspaper story from twenty years ago

6 Weird chemical apparatus tucked away in a barn

2 TRANSPORTATION

1 Tricked out late model SUV

2 Big block pickup with a lift kit

3 Ford Taurus with government plates

4 Farm-All tractor with a hay wagon

5 Broken down old corn truck

6 Mexican tour bus

3 WEAPONS

1 Cattle prod

2 .22 hunting rifle

3 A jar of home-canned peaches laced with Atrazine

4 Antique sled cutter blade

5 100 gallon tank of anhydrous ammonia

6 Chinese-made AKM assault rifle

4 TRAUMATIC

1 Rabid raccoon

2 Unforeseen prosthetic limb

3 Blazing crop fire

4 Unopened legal notice

5 150 mile-per-hour category F-2 tornado

6 Pieces of a car’s brake system in a trash can

5 VALUABLES

1 A wedding ring with a big fucking rock

2 Brand new John Deere 9870 STS combine with corn row header

3 Pickup truck loaded with drugs

4 55,000 bushels of soybeans

5 ATM card with the PIN number written on the back

6 Impounded cargo at gateway County Airport

6 SENTIMENTAL

1 Note from father to son

2 Antique grandfather clock with a hidden compartment

3 Adoption certificate

4 Live hand grenade brought back from Vietnam

5 Child’s treasure map

6 Family Bible

...in FLYOVER COUNTRY

A FLYOVER COUNTRY

INSTA-setup

Relationships in FLYOVER COUNTRY

For three players…

*Romance: High school sweethearts who parted ways

*Crime: Marijuana importer and dealer

*Friendship: Mutual outcasts

For four players, add…

*Work: Wealthy farmer and OSHA inspector

For five players, add…

*Out and About: Police officer and paid informant

Needs in FLYOVER COUNTRY

For three players…

*To get in deep with the serious guys in the Escalade up from Juárez

For four or five players, add…

*To get even with the guy who humiliated you

OBJECTS in FLYOVER COUNTRY

For three or four players…

* Juicy: A love letter written in broken Spanish

For five players, add…

*Traumatic: Blazing crop fire

LOCATIONS in FLYOVER COUNTRY

For three, four or five players…

*County Road Sixteen: The fireworks stand at the Jaguar Road intersection