Codeword Danger

Codeword Danger follows the story of **Lucy St James** and her escapades after joining *Helios*, a secret international intelligence agency based in North America. The story also follows her fellow agents, Aiden Messer, Max Baer, and Richard Monty, as they stop evil organisations and save the world from hidden dangers. There is also a paranormal aspect to many of the storylines.

## Season 1

The first few episodes follow Lucy St James, a young woman living in *Strangetown*, a small town in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Lucy lives with her adoptive parents and sister, and works as a mechanic at her father's shop. Lucy feels unloved by her parents, who much prefer her younger sister and their biological daughter, Ruby. During her off hours, Lucy rides her quad bike through the desert collecting gemstones, scrap metal, and other items of interest which she repurposes for fun. While in the desert, she encounters a group of men in black suits killing a scientist in cold blood after speaking about someone named "The Mother". Lucy races back to town on her bike as the men pursue her, and she narrowly manages to escape capture.

After telling her parents about the ordeal and being accused of making excuses for skipping work, Lucy goes to visit Sheriff Mann to report the incident. Mann appears to be in a strange trance-like state, and escorts Lucy to the back of the jail where the men in black are waiting for her. She is handcuffed and thrown into the back of their car and throw a bag over her head. At first, Lucy thinks that she is being taken to the desert to be killed, but then overhears the men discuss how they plan to take her to meet The Mother so she can become "one of them". Although she can't see, Lucy leans back in her seat and kicks her feet in the direction of the driver. She hears the sound of the car being pulled off-road, along with shouting, but continues agressively kicking and headbutting the men in front of her. One of them goes to grab her and accidentally pulls the bag off of her head, allowing Lucy to see just as the car rolls over into a ditch.

Still handcuffed, Lucy climbs out of the car and attempts to make a run for it, but one of the men pursues her and presses her into the ground. He then stands back, pulling a strange device out of his pocket and aiming it directly at Lucy's head. He mutters that the device is untested and he is supposed to bring it back to base, but he will use it on Lucy if he has to. Before he gets the chance to take the shot, a ute runs him over. A handsome man with light brown hair leaps opens the passenger door and shouts at Lucy to get in. She leaps in and they tear off, just as the other agent gets out of the car and begins shooting at them.

As the strange man drives Lucy back into town, he shouts off questions to her to test her sanity. Lucy is puzzled and confused, and the man introduces himself as Aiden Messer, an agent from Helios who is investigating the strange occurances in Strangetown. He reveals that he has been tracking the men in black for days now, and he is trying to locate their secret base, which he believes to be somewhere deep in the desert. Lucy tries to offer him her help but he refuses, and ends up kicking her out of the car in front of her home. He quickly speeds off when Lucy begins asking more questions, and she realises too late that she is still handcuffed.

The following day (after awkwardly getting her father to remove the handcuff with pliers), Lucy heads into town, passing by more seemingly possessed townies on her way. She goes to the Strangetown Archives, where she looks up old maps of the town. Her thoughts are interrupted when she hears shouting from outside, and Lucy discretely tears the map from the book before heading out. She finds Messer confronting Buzz Grunt, a military official who has recently returned to Strangetown and is unhappy to see Helios involved in their town. He denies that there are any strange things happening, and that the cause of the "possessed" civilians is simply due to the hot weather and drugs. Messer begrudgingly leaves after the other townies start shouting at him as well, saying that despite his clothes he is obviously not from Strangetown. Lucy catches up with Messer, who is annoyed to see her. He tries to brush off her help, until Lucy reveals that she knows where their base is. She explains where she saw them kill the scientist the day before, and also the direction they were driving to when they planned to take her to The Mother. However, she won't tell Messer where it is, and will only accompany him there. Although extremely annoyed, Messer agrees to her plan.

That night, Lucy dresses up in all black clothing and drives her quadbike out to Messer's small rented trailer. She enters the house despite Messer telling her not to, as the lock has busted. Messer is getting changed, so Lucy decides to poke around his laptop and finds a debrief which he has emailed to a woman named Max Baer. Messer arrives and slams the laptop shut; he is similarly dressed in all black. They get into Messer's ute after a brief arguement over who gets to drive, and head out into the desert. Lucy directs the way, and they eventually notice the sky becoming stormier as they draw closer to the secret base.

## Season 2

The season kicks off one and a half years after the first season. Lucy is now a fully-fledged member of Helios, and has cemented herself as a part of the team, and Messer's trusty partner. In this season, we see more of Lucy and Messer's unrequited relationship, along with the blooming romance between Monty and Oliver. We also explore the tense power battle between Messer and Director Winter Greene, and her secret affair with Luke.

The story begins by following Lucy and Messer as they pose as a rich married couple to expose an underground black market. Later, Lucy and Messer help Monty to uncover the case of a hit-and-run on a council member's daughter, which later reveals a dark cult residing in the city. There are a few one-off storylines thrown in, until the major seasonal story comes with a Charity Ball held by Mayor Jefferson, specifically held to spite Winter, and reveals that someone has been killing off council members one-by-one.

At the end of the season, Lucy and Messer finally get together.

## Season 3

The season starts soon after Season 2, with Messer and Lucy finally together and learning how to be a couple. We get many storylines of "fluff", including Lucy and Messer moving in together when things in her apartment keep breaking too frequently. The cental conflict of the season is the vapid in-fighting between Messer and Winter, which in turn causes strain on his relationship with Lucy. At the end of the season, Lucy and Messer break up as they are unable to co-exist with the major differences in their personalities, namely Messer's anger issues and Lucy's immaturety. Messer then has a massive fight with Winter, leading him to quit Helios and seek out his own way with ExoGen, a splinter group that seeks the destruction of Helios.

## Season 4

Still reeling from her break-up with Messer and his sudden departure from Helios, Lucy tries to pick up the pieces and continue her job as a spy. We see her complete more missions, along with Monty and Oliver's wedding, and Max and Austin's break-up as he must be kept in the dark about her spy life.

The major mission follows Lucy as she infiltrates a new facility called the Tranquility Hotel and Casino, which only serves the rich and filters the air with a drug that makes you lustful and greedy. While there, Lucy runs into Messer and they rekindle the sexual side of their relationship while helping each other to uncover the mystery. At the end, Messer allows Lucy to take the data with her instead, as a gesture to show that he still cares. However, fearful that Lucy might turn to help Messer and ExoGen, Winter uses two agents to break into Lucy's apartment and kill her dog Hedgecliffe, framing it as an attack by Messer in an attempt to steal the data back. This fuels Lucy's hatred for Messer and she begins actively helping Winter to find him in revenge.

Messer is eventually caught, but while interrogating him, Lucy discovers that Messer never killed Hedgecliffe and that it was all a set up. Lucy then has a fight with Winter, resulting in her getting stabbed in the shoulder and concussed, and Winter reveals that she has been secretly working alongside Jefferson, and that their public feud has been a pose to convince Helios that she was innocent. Winter and Jefferson then set off bombs throughout the Helios Headquarters, killing many agents and staff in the process. Lucy manages to free a badly beaten Messer and kills Jefferson. While trying to escape, Messer is shot in the back by Luke, and then fatally shoots Luke in the head in order to prevent him from executing Lucy.

## Season 5

The season opens up by following Lucy, Messer, Oliver and Monty as they try to escape Helios and find ExoGen. Meanwhile, Max has been completely brainwashed by Winter and is actively hunting her former friends, convinced they were secret villains all along after watching them kill Luke. After finding ExoGen, the story then takes a slower approach as it sees Messer become an amputee and his struggles to regain walking ability, and the halt on his and Lucy's rekindled romance as a result of this.

The story reaches its climax when Lucy and Messer come head-to-head with Winter and Max. They win by eventually killing Winter and revealing her crimes to the world, in turn completely destroying Helios and allowing ExoGen to take its place and pick up the pieces.

## Characters

* Lucy St James
* Aiden Messer
* Richard Monty
* Max Baer
* Oliver Burton
* Luke Milkae