RAISING HOPE (PILOT) BY GREG GARCIA - OUTLINE

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​RAISING HOPE (PILOT) BY GREG GARCIA - OUTLINE

- Jimmy wakes up in the back of his van. Meets Sabrina. She won’t give him her name. 
- Burt fires Jimmy from pool cleaning. Even though he and Mike were also both there drinking last night too. 
- Jimmy goes home. We meet mom Virginia and Maw Maw.
- Montage of Jimmy doing pretty much nothing at home. 
- Family dinner. Learn Burt is Jimmy’s dad. Get expo about other family members. Jimmy says he’ll go get his mom’s ice cream if he can have his job back.
- Jimmy meets Lucy. They have sex.
- Next morning: Jimmy learns Lucy is a wanted killer.
- 6 months later: he visits her in prison. Learns he’s gonna be a dad.
- ACT OUT: Jimmy, holding his baby, watches Lucy get the chair. 

ACT TWO
- The chair didn’t work. Girl still alive. Jimmy takes baby home. 
- Family tries to talk Jimmy out of keeping baby. He says he’s keeping it. 
- Jimmy runs into Sabrina, girl from cold open. She’s skeptical about his shopping cart baby. 
- Mom Virginia gets a call while cleaning a house .she’s gotta go for some reason. 
- Virginia picks up Jimmy. They install a car seat. We get an insight into how Jimmy was raised…not with car seats. 
- Jimmy drops baby in pool. Saves it. Gets protective over it. 
- Jimmy changes the diaper. Throws up but gets it done. 
- Jimmy tires to get the baby to sleep. it won’t stop crying. Everyone is mad at him. 
- Burt and Virginia sing the baby to sleep and let Jimmy go sleep too. 
- We see teenage Burt and Virginia singing the same song to baby Jimmy. 
- Parents try to convince him to give it away one more time. Jimmy reveals he wants to be looked at different. Looked at the way the baby looks at him. They decide to name the baby Hope.