THE END OF THE TUNNEL

Two long-estranged adult sons (feckless BRIAN and staid ALEX) come together to deliver their dying father, curmudgeon PROFESSOR HUMPHREY, his last wish, to see the ruins of Machu Picchu together in Peru. With some difficulty, Brian and Alex manage to get their weakened dad to the site only to discover that Humphrey has arranged some kind of reunion with PEOPLE from his life as a young man. Brian and Alex are delivered two shocks- first, they're introduced to their real biological mother SHERRILL and then told that Humphrey's old team of HISTORIANS and ARCHEOLOGISTS has uncovered a clue that may unlock the secret of treasure that's been hidden for hundreds of years... and that Brian and Alex are the only "youngsters" they can trust to seek it out for them.

"You will understand when you see the light."

THE ILLUSION OF CONTROL

Preternaturally cocky JACKSON FINCH believes that everything happens for a reason... and that reason is him. Even after strong-willed KATE LLEWELYN falls in love with Jackson, she can't get over the fact that he believes he is in control of his life down to the smallest details, and tries to convince him that he is just far luckier than most. Kate's worldview is turned upside down when Jackson not only proves that he is in control, he gives her the power to do the same to her life for one day. Has Kate's new love mastered some kind of personal quantum mechanics, is he a charlatan of the highest order, or is he ... magic? And does she love him because she wants to.. or because she has to?

"Luck is in the eye of the beholder."

STEADY COMPANY

Well-heeled couple BAYLEN and VERA SMITHSON were high school sweethearts, married at 19 and happily married for at least the first decade. To get through their first prolonged rough patch, each of them began keeping "steady company" with a lover (Baylen with Southern Belle MISSY and Vera with earnest young lawyer ADAM), an arrangement that allowed their marriage to flourish once again. When Vera accidentally introduces Missy to Adam and they begin seeing each other and hinting that the affairs may be coming to a close, Baylen and Vera join forces to break up the new couple and re-energize the arrangement that they've become accustomed to.

"Four people in four couples... for better or for worse?"

YOUR NUMBER IS UP

It's time to have fun with pop culture's recent obsession with numerology. Arizona high school math teacher TREY CINQUE notices unusual patterns in his STUDENTS' pop quizzes, and when he feeds them into his computer he receives a chilling equation: 35 + 36 = 0. It hits him like a ton of bricks- his name means "three five" and he's 35 years old... but when he turns 36 in one week... he will die! He starts seeing "three five" everywhere, from speed limit signs to rolls of film, and embarks on a quest that leads him to INFINITY JONES, the world's foremost psychic numerologist, who informs Trey that he is "x" in an equation that the most secretive, left brain doomsday cult in history–THE EMPTY SET–has been trying to solve for 2035 years.

"Who will carry the One?"

GROUND RULE DOUBLE

Born-in-the-Bronx JIMMY ALONZO practically grew up in the Yankees dugout- from his years as a bat boy to his job as a clubhouse attendant- and was seen as a good luck charm by many STAR PLAYERS and even by GEORGE STEINBRENNER. But when the organization cleaned house before opening their new stadium, they not only swept Jimmy aside but they placed the blame of a steroids scandal squarely (and unfairly) at his feet. Enlisting the help of two bitter EX-WIVES of top players cheated out of alimony by Yankees LAWYERS and a highly-placed (and waaay too pennant-obsessed) RED SOX FAN at the Yankees bank, Jimmy uses his intimate knowledge of the club's day-to-day operation to scheme his revenge: stealing an entire week's worth of the Yankee's $210 million payroll during the playoffs.

This summer, the diamond's gonna get rough."

THE CHOSEN TWO

While crashing at his buddy RICHARD GERE's house in L.A., the 14th DALAI LAMA has a powerful vision that the 15th Dalai Lama will be an American, and writes his vision down on a scroll that Richard is to keep secret and is only to be opened after the Lama's death. When the 14th Dalai Lama dies, Richard's scroll is denounced as a fake by the TIBETANS, who proceed to seek the 15th Llama in Asia. Richard, with the help of a beautiful, iconoclastic Tibetan acolyte named MINH, follows the clues of the scroll to a house in the Valley where serene 12-year-old ELIJAH lives with his 30-year-old slacker stepbrother VINCE. Richard administers the "test of the relics" to Elijah, who passes, but Minh cautions that Vince also must be tested and- amazingly- he too passes the arcane test. Thus, Richard Gere, Minh, Elijah and Vince must set out on a spiritual quest/road trip to determine the true identity of the next Dalai Llama... and maybe learn a little about enlightening themselves too.

"Ummm... we were told there would be only one?"

THE GAY BEST FRIEND

It's time to play with the conventions of the Romantic Comedy... and tell the tale of how clumsy, sweet, librarian-with-glasses-but-secretly-smoking-hot LAUREN KRONER finally found love in the big city... as seen through the eyes of her fabulous (but equally as star-crossed in love) gay best friend LAURENT BONZI. Lauren's galpals CINDY and KATE always joke that Lauren and Laurent are so alike that "only a 't' separates them," while Laurent's club-happy friends ROY and DONALD wish he spent more time out with them than cleaning up the emotional messes of his hag. Things get really complicated when Lauren asks Laurent's help getting"the one"- gorgeous investment banker ERIC- to fall in love with her, and Laurent realizes that he and Eric had a weekend fling last summer.

"Always the bride's-hag, never the groom."

RANDY

JACKSON GREENWOOD's life is falling apart because of all the sex. Forget about keeping a GIRLFRIEND, he can barely hold a job because of his constant, pathological preoccupation with finding and bedding his next CONQUEST. When Jackson picks up occupational therapist EILEEN SNOW and the two have sex that even one as sexually jaded as he considers mindblowing, he agrees to allow Eileen to help him find a line of work that will both keep him employed and help him curb his addiction to sex. As their work continues, Jackson finds himself bothered by the fact that Eileen continues to see other men while they're together, and the value of fidelity dawns on him even as women from his past life like JACKIE tug at him to give up his attempts to change and return to his freewheeling carnal ways.

"Is love hotter than sex?"

THE CRYSTAL BALL

High schoolers GENNA ACKERMAN and MATT DIAZ have been dating a while now, and to keep things spicy they've been getting in more and more trouble... but just for kicks. In a seedy part of downtown, they pull a stunt on an old FORTUNE TELLER where Matt causes a commotion while Genna grabs her crystal ball and takes it out in her purse. In Genna's basement with their CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, they're amazed when the crystal ball shows them images from their future... a series of images that climax with Matt killing Genna. They try and laugh it off, but the next day when the first images in the series begin to come true Matt and Genna freak out and return to the Fortune Teller's to confess their theft... only to discover that the Fortune Teller was murdered moments after they stole her crystal ball.

"When you look into the future, the future can look back."

THE TRAVELING PRO

Statuesque redhead JAMIE CLAY rolls into the sleepy seaside South Carolina city of Beaufort and does what she always does- challenges the best male COUNTRY CLUB PLAYERS to play tennis for money, and then beats the silly grin off of their faces. Thus established, she typically earns money giving lessons and such, sleeping with the best-looking LOCALS- gals or gents- and then plans her route to the next town. This time, her routine is interrupted by crusty, bad-kneed former tour player ALBERTO SUAREZ, who sees a special talent in Jamie that he's sure he recognizes. As Alberto falls in love with her, and Jaime keeps him at arm's length while making more of a stir in the TENNIS COMMUNITY with her outrageous shotmaking and high-stakes bets than she'd like, Alberto begins to think that Jamie is actually the former Russian pre-teen blonde prodigy ALEKSANDRA ZIN who was everybody's favorite to rise to number one in the world before Russian gangster BEZEROV fell in love with her and "made her disappear."

"She'll beat you at Love."

THE COPYCAT

(Artwork by Peter Kavelin)

Remember that dorky kid in school who used to wear the same clothes as you, liked the same music as you, and basically tried to glom on to your life as some kind of Bizarro twin? Now imagine that he moves into the house across the street from you ten years later. Newly married DAN JEFFERSON has to explain to his wife LENA that their new neighbor STAN isn't his long lost twin, he's just been perfecting Dan's look, speech patterns and style of dress for... god knows how long. When Stan lands a job in Dan's office and gets engaged to a Lena lookalike named GEENA, Dan decides to turn the tables and start imitating everything Stan does... creating a "double-mirror" effect that, unfortunately for Dan (and EVERYONE in Dan's life), seems to be exactly what Stan has been hoping for.

"Imitation is the sincerest form of insanity."

SPACE FUNK

Human BOHANNON BOUGGY has finally turned 21 and been released from the only life he's ever known- indentured servitude to the alien ARGLOTIANS on the distant planet Fluxir. Rather than try to hitch a ride back to Earth on a space freighter as most humans do, Bohannon sets his sights on playing a gig on Discon, the ultimate party planet in the center of the universe. FUNKATEERS from planets near and far gravitate to Bohannon and his otherworldly skills on the space bass, but when a monolithic force known as THE EQUALIZERS threaten to take control of Discon and shut down the best dance party the galaxy has ever seen, Bohannon and his crew have to take action and become space funk commandos.

"In a galaxy this big, it's really hard to get your band noticed."

QWERTY

(Artwork by infamous New York artist and designer Reed Seifer)

Meek and squeaky-clean twentysomething STUART EZZELL is happy at his job in the PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT at a big publishing company, even though he usually does semi-mindless grunt computer work. When his computer dies the morning a big presentation is due, he runs down to the basement and plugs in an ancient war-horse computer to get the job done... and is more than a little surprised when the computer talks to him and gives him helpful hints as he works. Naturally Stuart doesn't tell anyone what's occurred, but he continues to seek out "QWERTY's" help and actually becomes friends with him as they "collaborate" on work and on Stuart's dream career of becoming a novelist. When his BOSS's cute assistant MARY discovers an increasingly eccentric Stuart talking aloud to Qwerty and tells Stuart that pages from the book he's been writing are in the voice of a WRITER who died in the office years ago, Stuart must decide whether to continue on being productive- and quite possibly insane and/or possessed- or to turn Qwerty off forever.

"Side by side on my keyboard... oh Lord."

AIRBALL

It's time to satirize procedural crime dramas... and inspirational sports movies, together. Last season, once-promising high school basketball player FREDDY ZANZIBAR's life fell apart when the career 99% free throw shooter stepped to the line to shoot two free throws in the state championship and shot not one but two airballs to lose the game. Since then his prom queen girlfriend ALICIA BURNS has broken up with him and downtrodden Freddy's been greeted with the chant of "Aiiirrballll" everywhere he goes in basketball-crazed Bird, Indiana. With nothing else to do, CAPTAIN SARGENT and the LOCAL POLICE FORCE launch an investigation of the game (including "planting" young-looking rookie FLOYD GUNNER as a student to work closely with the A-V CLUB MEMBERS who've been breaking down tape of the big game looking for clues to a conspiracy) to solve the mystery before the TEAM–and pine-riding "Airball" himself–embark on another run for the championship.

"In Bird, Indiana, choking is a crime."

A PIECE OF MY MIND

(Artwork by Phony Artist)

A team of privately-funded NEUROSCIENTISTS and PARAPSYCHOLOGISTS studying psychic phenomena's connection to the brain make an exciting breakthrough when their iconoclastic leader DR. KLEIN inserts a tiny piece of his own brain into the brain of his young lover ELIZABETH and finds he is able to see through her eyes and experience her thoughts when they are standing within a few feet of each other. Klein's protege PHILLIP ACKERMAN, at first ecstatic about the possibilities of treating the mentally ill, is forced to take action... with both body and mind... when the project is suddenly taken away from the team by their benefactor ALEXIS VAN DERETZ and, one by one, the SUBJECTS and members of the team commit gruesome murders within the SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY that even they cannot explain.

"I think you will."

TEN OF SWORDS

No-nonsense literary agent MARLO BANKS and three close friends (ALEXIS, JILLIAN and EMMA) drive to Sedona, AZ, known for its red sandstone formations and so-called "energy vortexes," for a girls spa weekend. The girls encourage Marlo to loosen up and take advantage of some of the town's "New Age" attractions, so Marlo relents and has her Tarot cards read by handsome ELLIOT CRUMBY. Marlo is surprised by flashes of a former life and danger in her future when Elliot shows her dominant card "Ten of Swords," but the girls all think she's jerking their chain and flirting with Elliot. Has Marlo been made a sucker by Sedona's New Age HUCKSTERS, or has she tapped into something mystical... and terrifying about her own life that calls her inexorably to perform an ancient ritual and climb the Red Rocks to discover her secret... and her fate?

"Tears will fall. Trouble will come."

SNAFU

Even-keeled EDGAR HENNESSEY's life has been smooth sailing, but not by accident. He has studied, worked, and loved metronomically, and made thousands of contingency plans great and small to ensure that his life will not be buffeted by any storm. Unfortunately for Edgar, nothing could have prepared him for LULU, the 22-year-old shuck-and-jiver who shows up claiming to be 40-year-old Edgar's daughter, the product of a freshman tryst. As Edgar denies the possibility of this, a strange thing occurs- his wife ANNA and teenaged children BONNIE and CALVIN take the appearance of Lulu in stride- they have been shaped by Edgar's meticulousness more than he realized- while Edgar's carefully constructed facade begins to crumble when Lulu pushes buttons in him that he didn't know existed. Edgar begins to lose his grip on reality as the true nature of Lulu's appearance in his life unfolds.

"Want to make Lulu laugh? Tell her your plans."

THE NECKTIE PARTY

1845: Texas is on the brink of becoming the 28th state. Crooked-as-a-rattlesnake landowner THOMAS HAYCOX knows his lawless days are soon coming to a close, and sets out to finish his murderin' before Texas joins the Union. He knows that the only two men to ever "know" his hot-blooded bride-to-be LOUISE APPLEBY in the Biblical sense are the outlaw FRANK MEEK and the Apache GILA, two former best friends who nearly killed each other over Louise just last year. Haycox figures the only way he can marry Louise as a virgin is to kill Frank and Gila first, so he sends his MEN out to capture 'em and bring 'em both back to the Ranch so they can be hanged at a formal "necktie party" the night before the wedding.

"You're cordially invited to a hangin'... weddin' to follow."

THE SLASHES

A tightly-knit group of FRIENDS who moved out to Los Angeles together from a Midwest college in their early 20s are now on the cusp of 30, and are holding themselves to their collective promise to leave L.A. if they haven't found measurable success in their chosen field by the time they hit 30. JEANIE (actress-slash-waitress), STEFAN (musician-slash-landscaper), LAURA (writer-slash-assistant) and MICHAEL (producer-slash-messenger) redouble their efforts in their 29th year- some even compromising their morals in a last-ditch effort to get ahead- but their chase is complicated by the reappearance in their lives of a much-changed and eager-to-share-war-stories PEARL, the fifth friend who moved West with them, found immediate success as a model/actress and dropped them all as friends when she moved to Europe.

"Are you a dreamer/artist or a peon/fool?"

KEEP YOUR PANTS ON

Feckless ALEX WIELAND is a teenage Lothario who quite deviously lures young VIRGINS to his bed with his glistening promise ring. When Alex's MOTHER remarries STEVENSON, a wealthy Southern fundamentalist who also happens to be the father of one of Alex's 16-year-old CONQUESTS, Alex is given an ultimatum by his new stepfather: no sex until marriage or he will forever be cut off from the riches that await him. This proposition is made even more difficult when Alex is forced to accompany the new family, including Stevenson's three gorgeously ripe DAUGHTERS, to work on building a new church and school on a tiny island in the South Pacific for an entire summer where the LOCAL GIRLS... and BOYS have progressive ideas about swimwear and how far things go on a first date.

"Will all work and no sex make Alex a dull boy?"