In The Big Ring: Opening Scene

Episode One: The Gang's All Here

FADE IN:

EXT. Portland, Oregon Waterfront Park - MORNING

Early morning in Portland. The waterfront Park multi-use path is teeming with bikers, joggers, and people out for a morning with the kids. Clothing suggests a moderately warm morning and the beginning of what will probably be a beautiful day.

A young woman (Lydia Watts) wearing a bright green t-shirt and brother capri pants weaves expertly through the traffic on a blue single speed bicycle. She is smiling.

SOUND: Classical music is playing softly in the background

LYDIA

VO: This is Portland, Oregon. It's probably the best place in the entire world. Of course, most people don't really agree with that sentiment. They'll tell you it's New York, Paris, or maybe even Seattle. I'm going to tell you right now, though, that they're wrong.

Scene flashes to Vacation photographs of the woman on the bike in New York, Paris, and Seattle as she says those cities before coming back to Portland's bustling waterfront Park.

LYDIA

VO: Sure, it rains kind of a lot here, but you get used to it. Portland's that kind of place that you visit and then just never leave. That's how my housemate got here. And of course, nothing is ever as wonderful as Portland at the end of the summer. Like now! If you have a bike and an unfettered schedule, then you have the makings of the time of your life!

Lydia suddenly flips over the handlebars of her bike as the rear wheel locks up. Scene pauses with her in the air.

LYDIA

VO: Only trouble is, I don't really have a bike. At least, not one I can trust.