THE CHRONICLES OF BOB

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Bob is a man out of time – he doesn’t age as long as he is caught up in his supernatural mission, to find the strangers selected for him by the High Council and offer the opportunity to fix one mistake they’ve made. Now his 30 year term is coming to an end, and he must find and train the next ‘Bob’ for the next 7 years. As always at the beginning of each episode, he chooses between three candidates. His pick is Ruth Gibbons, a city councilwoman. Gibbons first ran for office to make a difference, but to do that, you have to win, and to win, especially in New York’s super-pricey media market, you need money. Up against a tough challenge from an old time party hack in her first bid for reelection, she finds herself taking a campaign contribution from a powerful local businessman in exchange for arranging a loading zone for him to use as a personal parking space -- what she tells herself is a harmless favor of the sort that are common currency in politics. But once he knows she can be bought, the favors start creeping ever so slowly upward in importance even as she starts to count on his backing, until he asks her to throw a lucrative contract to his nephew the contractor for an upcoming bridge repair. Again, she tells herself everybody does it and it’s no big deal – until the bridge falls down, killing 2 and crippling one of the workers. Investigative journalism turns up evidence suggesting corruption, incompetence or both. When Bob makes her his offer, Ruth has 24 hours to decide if she can live with those deaths on her conscience, or give up her office and the good she’s done with it. While Ruth meets with the survivors and comes to grips with her mistake, Bob goes in search of his apprentice. He finds Molly Davis in a bar in the middle of the day, drinking her lunch and not even pretending to study the page of want ads the bartender gave her or the food he’s brought. Younger than she first looks, she is systematically drinking herself to death. She spills her story – once a teacher, she noticed bruises on one of her students but let his lame cover story slide – and the next time he was abused, he died of it. She lost her job and her teaching certification. Bob offers Molly a different kind of job: all Bobs are chosen because they, like Molly, let someone else be hurt through their inaction and need to make up for it. When she tries to decline it, he informs her that’s not an option. She doesn’t believe him and tries to go home to what’s left of her normal life, only to find that it’s already gone. Her name is off the mailbox, her neighbors don’t recognize her, and everything she owns is missing, even her Labradoodle. Ruth chooses to undo her mistake – not just the bridge, but has Bob (and now the reluctantly resigned Molly) take her back to the very first time she ever took money for a favor and chooses not to. Without the dirty money, Ruth loses that election, but decides to run for Public Advocate next time around – and help root out corruption in government. She meets Bob one final time but doesn’t recognize him. Bob, with Molly in tow, now moves on to the next person on his list. Will the outcome be for the best? Or will the choice backfire?

CAST AND CREW

BOB - Jeff Berry MOLLY - Erin Callahan RUTH - Loree True BILL - Michael Bernstein ROBINSON - Tom McCahn TRACY - Tristan Kerry O'Connor BARTENDER - E.F. Morrill KENNA - Kenna Spickler

Director/Writer - Charlie Spickler Producer - E.F. Morrill Executive Producer - John F. Spiegel Production Manager - Chris Barra Assoc Prod / Writer - Meredith Schwartz Director of Photography - Libby Casinelli Production Designer - Sal Tagliarino Art Director - David Weller Costume Designer - Jeanette Aultz Wardrobe - Megan Dudley Script Super - Kim DeLise Script Super - Cookie Johnson Make up artist - Chiara Fattorusso Make up Ast - Rob Brown Still Photographer - Matthew Flewelling 1st AD - Hanna Edwards Asst. Camera - Margaret Sclafani PA / AC - Jessye Herrell Gaffer - Rob McCormack Electric - Manwel Monsalve Electric /Swing - Nicholas Murray Grip - Gabriela Garcia Grip/Swing - Vincent Poon Sound - Jay Tekus PA Driver Sound - Steven Brennan PA / 2nd AD - Trudy Burke PA - Teresa Eggers PA - Mallory Marra PA - Laang T. Stewart

ART DEPT	BOB and Molly
David Weller AND Sal Tagliarino	Jerry Berry and Erin Callahan