Paper Girls S1E1
Episode 1: "Growing Pains"
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night and sees a purple flash and a door swinging open. She freaks out and calls...someone for help. She inches closer and closer to the door...
Change of scenery where a young girl wakes up to her alarm clock at the stroke of 4:26 AM on November 1, 1988 to start her job as a, you guessed it a PAPER GIRL. She grabs the stack of papers that got delivered to her house and gets to work and rubber bands all the newspapers. As do the rest of the paper girls whom are all clearly from different backgrounds. 🎵 "Age of Consent" by New Order🎵
The first girl who wakes up is named Erin well as soon as she is set to take off, her mother comes in the kitchen to where her daughter is at. She assures her mother that she will be fine for being her first job. And away she goes! 🎵"Work It (Soulwax Remix" by Marie Davidson🎵
Erin starts with her newspaper runs when she accidentally is on the wrong street and deals with a disgruntled neighbor. A fellow paper girl comes to her rescue to deescalate the situation. Her name is Tiffany. They chat for a bit and then another girl named Mac comes riding by and says that she spotted neighborhood punks bullying another fellow paper girl and needs their help.
They take a pause by a field. KJ thanks Mac and even though they are aware of each other they are not BFFs or anything. Mac seems to hold some hostility towards KJ because she comes from a wealthy family while herself? Basically a crack house.
Before Mac dips, they ultimately decides to stick together so one will not be alone and jumped again.
Four of them ride together at least for a while and have some lighthearted chit chat about what they last were for Halloween, if they even celebrated it at all.
As they are riding, unidentified bullies end up ambushing Erin and took her walkie. They assume it's the bullies from earlier so they are out for blood and try to chase them down.
Mac leads them to a particular house that is known for hooligans to go party at. It's a unoccupied house that is currently being built off in the distance. All 4 of them run inside and eventually run into 2 silhouettes finicking with something.
They ambush the dudes and realize it's not exactly the bullies that were tormenting KJ but grown ass men. They don't say much of anything but GTFO out of that house. Things glitch and storms are abrewin' so they go outside to see a kind of a weird sight...
Mac's house is nearby so the girls take refuge in her house only to find no one even there, not even her dad. Tiffany is noticing some weird gibberish on her walkie talkie that KJ says sounds Russian.
Everyone is totally freaking out on what the heck is going on. Erin wants to head home like NOW because her mom is heavily dependent on her and if an invasion were to occur...that would totally suck. They all say it is a bad idea and say they should all at least stick together for the time being. With a little bit more fuss along the way, Erin eventually folds.
So all the paper girls are sitting on Mac's kitchen floor with more chit chat about random topics when all of a sudden they hear a roar outside along with some purple flashes. They head to the front room. Mac heads to the back to retrieve her gun for protection. In the midst of all the commotion of the rest of the girls trying to tell her otherwise, she ends up accidentally discharges the gun and Erin gets hit in the chest.
When she comes to, they are all in a car with Tiffany driving, barely anyway. KJ is in the back with Erin. The car gets intercepted with these people in silver. The car then comes to a stop. The 2 mysterious men from earlier open the car door and remove Erin from the car. They take her to a pod thingy. One of them inject something into Erin.
They all get out of the pod and not much can be said. They urge the girls to get back in the pod but of course everyone is continuing said freak out. People in silver begin shooting so all the girls run for cover while the 2 guys are having that shootout with them.
One of them falls by Tiffany's feet and hands her a black device and urges them to flee for their lives.
All four of them, even Erin who seems to make a remarkable recovery after a purple butterfly floated around her. Some time goes by and the shooting has seemingly stopped. A man in silver hops out from the pushes and asks them if they are from the "undergrouund". Naturally they don't know what he is talking about but he does have a gun pointed at them. KJ in her fight or flight instinct ravagely swings at him and he goes down. They all take off running.
Run, run, run to Erin's house. And...they come to this disturbing realization that they just time skipped 31 years into the future. How do they know this? Because they come face to face with an adult version of Erin!!! 🎵"Hazy Shade of Winter" by The Bangles🎵
Episode 2 is next.