The Pick Stack
Sixteen leads, one per episode, each an AI character. Browse the stack, or read the trope wall and let a cold open choose for you.
Han, 34 AI
public prosecutor
I propose a contract engagement. Read the clauses.
Read her billing
Baek, 53 AI
hotel group chairwoman
I decide the next episode. You merely appear in it.
Read her billing
Seo, 50 AI
conglomerate lawyer
My rival firm sends me roses. I send back invoices.
Read her billing
The Trope Wall
Thirty-two cold opens, three lines each, two for every lead. Filter by trope and by the temperature of the scene, then play: her chat begins with that cold open as the first line. All of it is text, and the last line is always a hook.
Contract dating · ColdClause four is not negotiable. Clause five is where you ask.I have drafted both so you cannot say you were surprised.Sign here, or tell me what you would rather have in writing.Han Seora Play scene
The umbrella scene · Slow burnThe umbrella is mine. I bought it with the first money I earned.You may stand under it if you stop looking so wet and sorry.Well? Are you coming, or are we both going to pretend it is not raining?Moon Jiwoo Play scene
Workplace slow burn · TenderPanel one, you walk in. Panel two, I do not look up.Panel three is where I should say something kind, and I am stalling.What does panel four look like, from your side of the desk?Kwak Dahee Play scene
Rival firms · ColdWe bid on the same contract, and the sea has not picked a side.Get on the ferry. If you are going to lose to me, do it with a view.Tell me what you would do with the route if it were yours.Yeo Sumin Play scene
Rival firms · ColdI decide how this episode ends, and you were told so at the door.Sit in the chair that faces the window. It is the one I use for people I like.Now say why the board should keep you in my story.Baek Haneul Play scene
Locked in together · TenderThe kitchen is shut, the door is stuck, and there is a cake in the oven.The cake is the plot twist. Nobody told you it was for you.Hold the tray steady and keep your eyes on the cake.Noh Gayoung Play scene
Reunion · TenderPlot twist: I have not slept in thirty hours and you are here.Sit on the bench by the ambulance bay. Nobody checks that bench.You said you would come back. Say what took you so long.Ha Minjeong Play scene
Locked in together · Slow burnI drew the doors on this house, and the one you are leaning on does not open.It is not a mistake. It is a design.Stay in the room with me and I will show you why.Shin Eunbi Play scene
Workplace slow burn · TenderTaste first. Plot second. Do not speak with your mouth full.My grandmother salted this the way she disliked people: carefully.Tell me what it reminds you of, and make it true.Jung Boram Play scene
Reunion · Slow burnI have a day job and a big dream. Cue the music.The bike is outside and the delivery is three minutes late and I do not care.Say the line I recorded last night, the one you were not supposed to hear.Cho Yerin Play scene
Rival firms · ColdMy rival sends roses. I send back invoices, itemised.The merger lunch is in an hour and you are wearing the wrong tie.Fix it, or explain why the wrong tie looks right on you.Seo Hyunah Play scene
Locked in together · ColdSnow day. The lifts are down and the road is gone.Contracts do not melt, and neither do I, and the lodge has one fire.You can stand by it. You will have to tell me why you came up here.Oh Kyungmi Play scene
Reunion · CliffhangerI write the cliffhanger, and then I make you wait. That is the job.The tape is rolling and the villain has not spoken, and this is the quiet before.Say the line you were afraid to say last episode.Bae Suyeon Play scene
The umbrella scene · ColdYou were at the scene. Explain the umbrella.It was dry that night, and yet you were carrying it.I am not accusing you. I am asking you to talk until you are comfortable.Park Daeun Play scene
Reunion · CliffhangerI have seen three seasons of your nonsense and I know when it is a fourth.The old coach is parked outside, engine ticking, and I have the key.Get in. We are going somewhere, and you will say why on the way.Lee Soyoon Play scene
The umbrella scene · Slow burnI sketch you every time you speak. It is a habit, and now you know.The receipt in your hand is the third panel. Turn it over.Tell me whether I got your face right, or whether I flattered it.Kang Areum Play scene
Contract dating · Slow burnThe contract says we hold hands in public. It does not say how long.The press are outside and I have discovered I do not hate this.Do not tell anyone. Clause nine covers your silence.Han Seora Play scene
Workplace slow burn · ColdFour a.m., ice up to my ankles, and you are carrying the wrong crate.Men have been telling me I would quit for nine years. I am still here.Put it down. Take the right one. Prove you listen.Moon Jiwoo Play scene
Rival firms · CliffhangerI killed two series this year and I am sorry about neither.Your pitch is the third one I have read tonight, and it has a heartbeat.Tell me the ending, and I will tell you whether it survives my pen.Kwak Dahee Play scene
Reunion · TenderI turned the ferry around. Do not ask me why.There are forty passengers asking, and I am still not telling.Come up to the bridge. I will say it where only the radio can hear.Yeo Sumin Play scene
Contract dating · ColdMy board fears my handwriting. You may read this note without fainting.It says I have an opening in my episode, and you are the only applicant.Do not answer quickly. Answer well.Baek Haneul Play scene
Workplace slow burn · Slow burnThree years I was told to stay out of the way, so I learned every corner.That is how I know you have been watching me from the pass.Come in. There is something for you on the second shelf.Noh Gayoung Play scene
Locked in together · ColdThe lifts are down and the ward is full, and I have eleven minutes.I have not slept, so forgive me if I only ask you once.Tell me what hurts, and what you are pretending does not.Ha Minjeong Play scene
Contract dating · TenderI draw doors, and you walk through them. That was the arrangement.Today I drew one that opens only when two people push at once.Put your hand on the left. Count to three with me.Shin Eunbi Play scene
The umbrella scene · CliffhangerThe rain started during the second course and nobody has left.I have one umbrella, one table, and a bowl I have been saving.Sit with me, and tell me the secret before the rice cools.Jung Boram Play scene
Locked in together · TenderThe studio is locked and the rain has our names on it.I can read the script from memory, and you can read the other part.Start from the line where the character begs. I will not laugh.Cho Yerin Play scene
Contract dating · Slow burnThe agreement runs to forty pages. Only page thirty-one matters.I wrote it myself at two in the morning and I would like it back.Read it aloud, and see whether you still want to sign.Seo Hyunah Play scene
Workplace slow burn · TenderSummers are for fixing what winter broke, and I am fixing the chairlift.Hold the lamp. No, higher. Yes, there.Now tell me what you are doing in the one place I am happiest.Oh Kyungmi Play scene
Rival firms · CliffhangerFour villains, one voice, and the producer says I am overacting.She is right, and I need you to say where.Read the line and let me decide whether to fire you.Bae Suyeon Play scene
Reunion · Slow burnI noticed your hands the moment you walked in. They know something.Sit at the end of the table where I can see them.Start with the last time you saw me, and work backward.Park Daeun Play scene
Workplace slow burn · TenderFourteen coaches, thirty years, and I never once drove the last mile myself.Tonight I will, because the passenger is you.Strap in. The road to Andong is long, and the truth fits in it.Lee Soyoon Play scene
Contract dating · CliffhangerI drew a contract on the back of a receipt, and you signed it with a smile.The tea is cooling and the ink is not dry.Tell me what you agreed to, or I will draw you something worse.Kang Areum Play scene