After the turn into Act 3, the story of Mayor Russell Napolitano and the Wilshire subway suddenly begins to make sense. Even with the mayor on live television running from the cops O.J. Simpson style. And with the head of Los Angeles' biggest quasi-religious cult openly framing the mayor for murder. And with His Honor's love interest now behind it all. Thanks to Marvin Wolf, last week's winning writer, and David Klein, this week's winner and a group publisher at Crain's Communications, for bringing some creative clarity to the LA Observed Script Project.

“I couldn’t believe you got to page 80 without the mayor having a girlfriend,” David said after submitting the pages that would utterly and completely prevent Napolitano’s erstwhile friend Celeste from ever fulfilling that role. “The last act of the story’s got to be about the hero getting the girl, losing the girl, saving the girl -- something! Haven’t you guys ever seen a movie before?”

Hmm, well, we tried. The mayor had something interesting going with Celeste before she admitted arranging her own kidnapping in order to bilk him out of a million bucks.

In the new pages, David reveals it was Celeste, working with sybaritic super-car inventor Sydney Pizer, who masterminded her husband Larry’s murder and manipulated cult leader Duvane into pinning everything on Napolitano.

More at producer Eric Estrin's Script Notes blog. Here are the bios of all the writers selected so far — and the cool t-shirt they win. We're getting close to the end, so send your submissions to Eric by the end of the weekend.

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