Line #41 Series/BloodOverWater


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2	[[caption-width-right:241:[[SarcasmMode Totally]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial not trying to be]] ''[[Film/{{Scarface 1983}} Scarface]]''. Now comes in 3D.]]
3	''Blood Over Water'' is the brainchild of six TV practicum class students that began life as a drama project.
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5	The plot is essentially this: A mob boss named Clyde Spendelworth moves [[EverytownAmerica into town]], and takes control of the local [[BlandNameProduct Sleet Mountain]] water bottling factory, and [[DevilInPlainSight nobody seems to notice at first]]. Clyde immediately hires [[PsychoForHire George Lawence]] and Kyle Tugrass to be his enforcers at the factory, and blackmails Chris Kennal into working for the conspiracy. Chris is friends with twin brothers Mark and Aaron Stefflin, and Mark works with Chris at the factory. However, Clyde grows over confident when he assumes Mark will be as corruptible as Chris. But Mark isn't interested in Clyde's games, especially when he takes issue with pollution and cleanup fraud. Mark steals a "Confidential" folder, then waits for the perfect opportunity to rat out his employer to the EPA.
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7	Alas, Mark soon goes missing. He alerts his brother Aaron that he intends to go on a fishing trip with him. But when Aaron gets no response, he goes over to Mark's house to investigate. He finds it in ruins. Strange men begin chasing him around, and it grows difficult to tell friend from foe. Chris soon finds that Aaron - and other innocents - are being caught in the web of deceit and murder that Clyde has enacted to keep his cleanup fraud scheme from becoming the town's biggest scandal in years. But as more innocents get entangled and the body count starts piling up, Chris realizes he faces a difficult choice: Will he betray his company, or betray his friends? [[spoiler: [[TakeAThirdOption Or both]]]]? They say Blood is ThickerThanWater...[[{{Tagline}} But by how much]]? Also, [[DoubleMeaningTitle Blood has been shed over water]].
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9	Considerations are being made for a ContinuityReboot / Remake, which would expand on each of the main characters' roles and make the story take place over a longer time period. It would also allow for more characters to be introduced, making the arbitrary designation of "blood" and "water" factions more interesting.
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11	It should not be confused with [[SimilarlyNamedWorks the similarly-named book]] by David and James Livingston, nor [[TheFilmOfTheBook the film based on it]]. More information about the mini-series can be viewed [[http://dozerfleet.wikia.com/wiki/Blood_Over_Water here]]. Information about the upcoming novel remake is [[http://dozerfleet.wikia.com/wiki/Blood_Over_Water_(novel) here]]. A compilation of the five-part mini-series into a single film can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-P4MReSb-s here]]. The blooper reel can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0viZ41r1Ous here]].
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14	!!Tropes in ''Blood Over Water'' include:
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16	* AngstySurvivingTwin: Mark is very business-like and stuffy. And knows how to do everything...except avoid death traps that involve women. Aaron is more of a messy slacker, but seems to have a better sense of self-control with women - and awareness of his environment. But he does seem to trust [[spoiler:Chris]] a little too much. When one twin goes missing, the other goes to ''crazy lengths'' to make sense of it.
17	* BlandNameProduct: Sleet Mountain in the place of Ice Mountain.
18	* [[InterfaceSpoiler Censor-Induced Spoiler]]: The censor screen in one scene, for those who pay attention, gives away that [[spoiler: Chris]] is a villain. Folders on the laptop's screen read such things as "[[spoiler:Mark]] Must Die," "Project: [=DumpScam=]," "Abscond the Money," and "Cancun Beaches."
19	* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: In expansion material, Clyde keeps Ashley alive by having his goons hold her hostage. He does this so that in his spare time, he [[ThePeepingTom can watch]] [[HomePornMovie the videos]] they forced her to make. Otherwise, he would have ordered her killed after her role as a HoneyTrap for Mark..
20	* CleanupCrew: [[spoiler: Chris]] calls for one after [[spoiler: Mark]] is killed.
21	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Clyde.
22	* ConflictingLoyalty: Chris is best friends with Mark and Aaron...but also one of Clyde's most trusted men.
23	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler: Chris]].
24	* DestroyTheEvidence: George and Kyle fail miserably at this, but not for lack of trying.
25	* DontTellMama: In the reboot/remake, this is Ashley's motivation for going along with Clyde's plan to have Mark assassinated. Although to be fair, she doesn't know that the plan is to actually kill him. The miniseries gave no background or motivation for her actions whatsoever, implying she's purely there for greed.
26	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: See WebcomicTime below.
27	* EvenEvilHasStandards: When [[spoiler: Chris]] decides he's had enough killing, he literally walks away from his job. Clyde is beside himself, believing that all his workers would jump at the chance to commit more and ever more murders.
28	* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Clyde is unable to understand why anyone would turn down an offer to work for him.
29	* TheFaceless: Clyde. The one time in the 2009 videos that he is seen, at the very end of Part 5, only his right arm and the back of part of his head are visible...as he's talking on a cell phone.
30	* GetRichQuickScheme: Clyde's cleanup fraud, the motivation behind nearly everything else that follows.
31	* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Aaron slips into and out of Sleet Mountain undetected by everyone except Chris. And then reveals to Chris that Kyle and George told him everything. Inside the enemy's factory. Where there's likely to be a lot of hidden cameras and microphones.
32	* HeKnowsTooMuch: The entire plot hinges on this trope being a prime motivation for its villains.
33	* HilariousOuttakes: Only some of them were published.
34	* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Quoted verbatim by Chris in one scene.
35	* IHaveAFamily: Played perfectly straight by Monica when she's begging for mercy. George's response to both her and Aaron:
36	-->"Your time...is up!"
37	* InLoveWithTheMark: Literally. In the novelization, Ashley considers running away with Mark rather than simply sleeping with him and then stealing the folder back while he's asleep. However, she is unable to defect in time before [[spoiler: Chris]] ambushes her and Mark both.
38	* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Kyle and George explain the entire plot to Aaron. They think he's Mark so it's understandable. However, [[FridgeLogic one has to wonder]] about the fact that Chris [[PoorCommunicationKills never bothered to explain to them]] that Mark had a twin brother. One would also think that they'd check his pockets and ID, which would have tipped them off just as much as his ignorance that he wasn't Mark. For this one scene, George and Kyle were required to carry an IdiotBall.
39	* KirkSummation: The second time Aaron is captured, he delivers one of these to the villains who are bent on killing him. It [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath works on]] [[spoiler: Chris]]. On the others? [[ShutUpKirk Not so much]].
40	** One of them attempts a BreakingSpeech but it fails miserably, only making the bad guy look like a DirtyCoward rather than doing anything to phase the hero's resolve.
41	* LargeHam: Kyle and George, one with NoIndoorVoice and the other with a tendency to [[ChewingTheScenery chew scenery]] with [[{{Narm}} narmy]] death threats. The actor warned others several times that he's primarily a ''[[ManOfAThousandVoices cartoon]]'' [[ManOfAThousandVoices actor]], not a live action one.
42	* MoodLighting: The Dozerfleet edits use a ''lot'' of it to ''help tell the story'', especially in the form of ColorWash.
43	* NarratingTheObvious: Chris does this in Part 5.
44	* PeerPressureMakesYouEvil
45	* PlethoraOfMistakes: See [[YMMV/BloodOverWater Idiot Plot]].
46	* PoliceAreUseless: Unless you are able to provide them with the location of a dead body and the smoking gun. But then, they only seem to be useful insofar as to name suspects. Never to actually apprehend the suspects.
47	* PsychoPartyMember: George Lawence. While other Sleet Mountain employees are willing to commit murder to cover up the cleanup fraud scandal, their motivations [[OnlyInItForTheMoney are about money]] and about [[DirtyCoward staying out of trouble]]. George is the only one who appears to be in it purely ForTheEvulz.
48	* StageNames: Cassie, who plays Monica Shelly, is credited as "Cassie Tilne" on [=DozerfleetWiki=] and as "Cassie T." in the video, due to her being uncomfortable with using her real last name.
49	* TeamKiller: Happens in Part 4.
50	* ThickerThanWater: A central part of the plot. Chris was "treated like family" by Aaron and Mark, and has to decide if he's more loyal to them or to his greedy boss Clyde.
51	* TroubleEntendre: This lovely exchange between Kyle and George in a flashback in Part 5 reveals that while Kyle thinks George is [[IDidWhatIHadToDo rationalizing their intentions]] of covering up [[spoiler: Mark's murder]], what George really means is that he's [[ButForMeItWasTuesday done this sort of thing too often for any one instance to matter]].
52	-->'''Kyle''': "Man, I don't know about this..."
53	-->'''George''': "Relax! It'll all be over soon. We're gonna get paid for this; and ''we won't ever have to think about it again!''"
54	* UnwittingPawn: The proposed reboot/remake depicts Ashley Phillips this way, whereas in the miniseries shows her to be just as greedy as everyone else at Sleet Mountain.
55	* ViewersAreGeniuses: And don't need all the back-and-forth time skips explained.
56	* YouMeddlingKids: When Aaron tries to talk the Sleet Mountain goons out of killing him and Monica, they blame his "snooping around" for forcing their hand...except of course for George, who would've probably killed them for some other reason anyway.
57	* WhatIsGoingOn: Asked by Aaron several times, implying he is a lousy reader. Otherwise, he would've been able to deduce ''something'' for all the time he spent studying the "Confidential" folder paperwork.

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