R E V O ES C O RE G E H

BT01 The Jersey Side

CREDITS
Written by Brennan Taylor Edited by Steve Segedy Jersey Side was Playset of the Month, February 2011.

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THE SCORE
In New York's Shadow
The Jersey Side is about a city on the other side of the river. Jersey City likes to call itself Wall Street West, but there is an air of desperate envy in the town that faces Manhattan across the Hudson. It will never match up. The Jersey Side is about a town too big for its britches, a place where rabbis run organ-legging rings, politicians are massively corrupt, and brokers who cant make it on Wall Street run dodgy deals. Fully urban and bounded by the New Jersey Turnpike on one side and the Hudson River on the other, Jersey City is a cramped microcosm of big city business and big city blight.

MOVIE NIGHT
Holy Rollers, Boiler Room, Dog Day Afternoon, A Stranger Among Us

relationships...
1 FRIENDSHIP
1 Grew up on the same block 2 Mutual outcasts 3 Best friends 4 Extremely unlikely friends 5 Keepers of a dark secret 6 Regulars at the corner bar

2 FAMILY
1 Grandparent and grandchild 2 Siblings from a large family 3 Parent and child 4 Cousins 5 Parent and son- or daughter-in-law 6 Distant relations

3 CRIME
1 Creator of dodgy financial deals and the hustler who sells them 2 Organ-legging mule and fence 3 Crooked politicians 4 Organ thieves 5 Government regulator on the take and shady broker 6 Federal investigator and informant

4 RELIGION
1 Rabbi and his wife 2 Catholic priest and parishioner 3 Rival cantors at the synagogue 4 Young Hasidic Jews 5 Orthodox Jew and an atheist 6 Two from a strict upbringing whove turned away from the faith

5 ROMANCE
1 Married, to each other 2 Friends with benefits 3 One time, drunk, in the mens room of the dance club 4 Unhealthy obsession 5 Passionate lovers 6 Forbidden romance

6 WORK
1 Nurses at City Hospital 2 Rabbi and clerk at the synagogue 3 Doctor and cancer patient 4 Stockbrokers 5 Boss and subordinate 6 Lawyer and client

...On the Jersey Side

NEEDS...
1 TO GET EVEN
1 ... with the guy who ripped you off 2 ... with a neighbor 3 ... with your father 4 ... with the matchmaker for setting you up with your spouse-to-be 5 ... with the son of a bitch who denied your spouse a transplant 6 ... with the whole fucking world

2 TO GET OUT
1 of a huge fucking obligation 2 of this crappy investment 3 ... of a relationship 4 ... of this fleabag apartment 5 ... of your dead-end job 6 of your fathers house with his strict rules

3 TO GET IN
1 ... to the experimental treatment course at City Hospital 2 ... with the guy running the night shift at Essex County Morgue 3 ... to your cousins pants 4 ... to the City Council 5 ... on this hot investment deal before its too late 6 ... to New Jersey City University

4 TO GET IT ON
1 ... with the neighbors spouse 2 ... and prove to your father youre no good 3 ... and make a baby since your spouse isnt up to the job 4 ... with that guy/girl at the dance club 5 ... and have a good time for a change 6 ... and prove youre homosexual

5 TO SCORE BIG
1 ... through selling this crap investment deal 2 ... through stealing organs from the hospital morgue 3 ... and let this sucker take the fall 4 ... through forging a document 5 ... through this campaign donor 6 ... through smuggling this box across the Hudson

6 TO GET THE TRUTH

1 ... about what the City Councilman/woman is up to 2 ... about your diagnosis 3 ... about your mothers mortal remains 4 ... about the rabbi 5 ... about your real parents 6 ... about where all this blood came from

...oN The jersey side

LOCATIONS...
1 JOURNAL SQUARE
1 The New York-bound platform of the PATH train station 2 Inside Loews Jersey Theater 3 Hudson County Courthouse 4 The stockroom of a bodega 5 The Jehovahs Witness Meeting Hall 6 Under the statue of Jackie Robinson

2 GREENVILLE
1 A roach-infested apartment 2 A dive bar 3 Behind the dumpster in a dimly lit alley 4 Greenville Park after sundown 5 The dockyards 6 A bathtub full of ice

3 THE MEADOWLANDS
1 Thigh-deep in the mud of Kearny Marsh 2 An isolated Amtrak switching shack 3 The Pulaski Skyway over the Hackensack River 4 A shallow grave in the tall reeds 5 A trash barge on the Hackensack River 6 The betting office at the Meadowlands Racetrack

4 THE JERSEY TURNPIKE

1 The entrance to the Holland Tunnel 2 Exit 14B toll plaza 3 The parking garage at Secaucus Junction train station 4 The breakdown lane between Exits 15 and 16 5 Southbound out of town 6 Under the Newark Avenue overpass

5 CITY HOSPITAL
1 The morgue 2 A room in the cancer ward 3 The Emergency waiting room 4 In the hall outside Radiology 5 The Hospital Administrators office 6 The hospital gift shop

6 EXCHANGE PLACE
1 A junior executives office in the Goldman Sachs Tower 2 A 15th floor balcony overlooking the Hudson 3 A million dollar townhouse 4 A vast room full of low-walled cubicles 5 The Hasidic synagogue 6 Office of the City Councilman/woman

...oN The jersey side

OBJECTS...
1 UNTOWARD
1 Styrofoam cooler containing melting ice and a human kidney 2 Compromising photograph of someone elses spouse 3 Forged organ donor card 4 Doctors ID badge that doesnt belong to you 5 Massive Norway rat 6 Broken condom

2 TRANSPORTATION
1 The last passenger car in a New Jersey Transit train 2 Beige luxury SUV 3 Water taxi 4 Livery cab 5 Worn-out old Cadillac that needs a new starter 6 City bus

3 WEAPONS
1 Broken liquor bottle 2 Surgical scalpel 3 IV drip with a lethal amount of morphine 4 Fist with a chunky class ring on one finger 5 9mm pistol 6 Switchblade knife

4 INFORMATION
1 Long list of dead peoples names 2 Post-It with the identity of a federal informant 3 Internal memo that names names 4 Napkin with the name of a guy who can hook you up 5 The location of an illegal high stakes poker game 6 Business card with a phone number written on the back

5 VALUABLES
1 Briefcase filled with cash 2 Gold Rolex watch 3 Bundle of 50-dollar bills that reek of formaldehyde 4 Antique rolltop desk 5 Hoard of collectible gold coins 6 Swiss bank account number

6 SENTIMENTAL
1 Photo of a deceased loved one 2 Silver Star of David pendant 3 Bundle of old love letters 4 Childs action figure 5 Wedding ring 6 Your grandmothers pearl necklace

...oN The jersey side

A Jersey city

INSTA-setup
Relationships on the jersey side
For three players

* Friendship: Grew up on the same block * Religion: An Orthodox Jew and an atheist * Crime: Organ-legging mule and fence
For four players, add

* Romance: Once, drunk, in the mens room of the dance club

For five players, add

* Work: Lawyer and client Needs on the jersey side

For three players

* To score big... through stealing organs from the hospital morgue

For four or five players, add

* To get out of a huge fucking obligation LOCATIONS on the jersey side

For three or four players

* Greenville: A dive bar Objects on the jersey side

For three or four players

* Untoward: A doctors ID badge that doesnt belong to you

For five players, add

* Information: A long list of dead peoples names