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INTRODUCTION
A talented Marine following in his father’s footsteps discovers a surprising Vietnam
legacy, sending him searching through family secrets for answers about his parents,
identity and the meaning of heroism; 20 years later a young CIA translator, hell-bent
on revenge after 9/11, discovers a connection to those Marines and begins a new
chapter of the same search. Logline
(Dis)Honorable is serial drama that examines the nature of heroism.
In a structure reminiscent of This is Us, this hard-edged,
intrigue-filled drama simultaneously follows multiple timelines,
each centering on a different generation of the Pyle family:
• the Vietnam war and early 1960s;
• the Iran Hostage crisis and other Middle East events in
1979-1983;
• post-9/11 Iraq/Afghanistan.
In the pilot we discover the primary characters and secrets in each era:
• a smart, competent young Marine whose dreams of
following in his war-hero father’s footsteps are
derailed when he discovers the truth about
Vietnam;
• a language prodigy at Columbia University who is
recruited into the CIA after 9/11 and uncovers ties
to a family he never knew existed;
• Two strong women, each a mother and wife, who
connect the family timelines, characters and
secrets.
(Dis)Honorable targets cable or streaming to allow
authentic military language and action sequences, with
natural breakpoints for five seasons of six episodes each.
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CHARACTERS – SEASON ONE AND TWO
Primary Characters
ELMER “JP” PYLE, JR. – A smart, driven young Marine
who is exactly what the post-Vietnam Marine Corps is
looking for in 1979. He does NOT fit the screw-up
reputation left by his father in Vietnam. JP (Junior
Pyle) is the primary focus of the first two seasons, which
track his life and Marine career through 1983, when his
son is born.
Besides being smart and competent (a rifle expert and martial arts black belt), he
learned Persian from his Iranian stepfather and spending summers in Tehran. These
skills become tremendously valuable when the Iran hostage crisis unfolds shortly
after JP finishes infantry training. He is tapped for a
special intelligence mission on the ground in Iran led
by his father’s Vietnam platoon commander and
nemesis, Ernie Rowan.
JP is not perfect: he has a temper/mean streak that
comes out in the pilot and will complicate matters on
the ground in Iran. His story is a personal coming of
age that mirrors the country’s forced maturity at the
beginning of the jihadist terror movement.
TRIP STEIN – College sophomore Trip is a language prodigy
on scholarship at Columbia University who’s compelled into
action when he loses his girlfriend in the terrorist attacks of
9/11. He tries to join the Marines but is quickly recruited
instead by the CIA, where his language skills make him first
an interpreter then operative in the Middle East. Adopted
young, Trip has no idea that his birth name—Elmer Pyle
III—ties him to a long and varied Marine Corps history.
Trip’s language skills showed
early: at Hebrew School, the Rabbi singled him out for a
special high school program jointly run by Yeshiva and
Columbia Universities.
Trip is second lead in the first two seasons and
becomes the primary protagonist in the three seasons
that follow.
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LOU-ANN PARKER/ANN MAHABADI – Lou-Ann was Pyle Sr.’s wife
and the only character who is central in all three timelines. She
transitions from Lou-Ann Parker to Lou-Ann Pyle when she marries
Pyle Sr, then to Ann Mahabadi when she remarries after Pyle Sr’s
death, drops the “Lou” and takes her new husband’s last name.
She is the keeper of family secrets and often the voice of thematic
perspective.
ERNIE ROWAN – Pyle Sr.’s platoon commander in
Vietnam, who witnessed his actions in combat and spreads the word
of his misdeeds. Rowan stays in the Corps and moves into
intelligence, where he leads an operation in Tehran after the hostages
are taken and comes across JP. Rowan becomes the primary
antagonist in the first season with JP on the ground in Iran and his
character arc over the season helps illuminate and investigate the
“nature of heroism” theme.
KAREN MIDDLEBROOK/PYLE/STEIN –The pilot
introduces Karen only as Trip’s mother, but viewers
know she must also be JP.’s ex-wife. By 2001 she has
remarried college professor Sid Stein and moved to
Westchester County, NY, about 25 miles from NYC.
The first two seasons follow Karen’s role in both
timelines, revealing how her character as Trip’s mother
can be so different from the girlfriend and wife of JP.
Other Important Characters
ELMER PYLE, SR. – Viewers experience the patriarch as mostly a static character
whose reputation is apparently more important than the man. The first season
reveals much of Pyle Sr’s story and establishes the
multiple points of situational irony it initiates. The
second season capitalizes on that irony and relates it to
the theme.
CHIP BOLEN – Bolen was in Vietnam with Pyle Sr and
provides the military connection with JP as the senior
enlisted man at Jr’s infantry training school in 1979.
Bolen is the revealer of secrets (the complement to Ann Mahabadi) who provides JP
with critical information related to the 1960s timeline. In later seasons, he serves a
similar role with Trip. He inhabits all three timelines like Ann but is a more
peripheral character.
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MARIA TREVINO – A college student whose relationship with Trip is
abruptly terminated when he goes undercover after CIA training at
Quantico. The parallel stories continue as Trip leaves far more
behind than an ex-girlfriend.
JOE MAHABADI – Ann’s second husband and JP’s stepfather, Joe
provides a critical plot link to 1980s Iran, where his parents still
reside. His character often illuminates thematic points through
conversations with Ann and JP.
EMILY PYLE – A young girl who grows up never knowing her father
or her family connection to the Pyles. She’s a central character
season three and secondary protagonist in seasons four and five.
DARIUS HAMID – JP’s karate instructor in Tehran who becomes important
(physically and thematically) once JP hits the ground in Iran.
JERRY WALKER – A CIA operative who participates in both the 60s and 80s timelines
in the first two seasons.
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THE CENTRAL PLOT QUESTIONS
The pilot launches several questions that form the series engine (and arc) for the first
three seasons:
• What really happened in Vietnam?
• Who was Billy and is he JP’s father? What did Lou-Ann’s airmail letter say?
• Will Rowan blame JP for the sins of his father?
• How could Trip not know his father and grandfather were Marines? What
happened to JP that Trip does not know who he is?
• What happened between Karen and Ann, and how could Karen go from Marine
wife to anti-military mother?
These questions provide a fantastic fabric of situational irony: as viewers become
aware of the answers, they completely recast entire plotlines in a new light. And
situational irony often becomes dramatic irony since viewers learn significant
information before the characters, highlighting the importance (or folly) of the
character’s course of action before it is taken.
The questions and irony don’t end with the pilot. The first season finale, for example,
introduces a plot twist in Trip’s timeline that forms the genesis of seasons four and
five: he impregnates a woman before leaving for the Middle East without knowing it.
Like her ancestors, Emily Pyle grows up on a parallel path of trying to find a father
she never knew while living under a legacy he created, and in doing so discovers her
own Pyle identity and personal meaning of heroism.
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A LANDSCAPE OF LAYERS: STORY, STRUCTURE AND TONE
(Dis)Honorable is a show where layers of story, structure and tone are intentionally
designed to convey richness and authenticity to the audience.
Story Layers
Series episodes feel rich and complex, offering
more story than appears on the surface.
Parallel narratives use events of one generation
to foreshadow or reveal those in another; layers
of situational irony are built on layers of secrets.
Example: JP dreams of being a Marine like his
father, but finds he’s been striving to follow in the footsteps of a screw up. Later he
finds his father was the opposite of the screw up legacy: a combat hero who sacrificed
his life to save another Marine, which in turn saved his entire platoon. But the entire
arc occurs against a backdrop of critical information JP doesn’t know: Pyle Sr may
not have been his father at all.
Structural Layers
(Dis)Honorable uses structure as story, interweaving multiple timelines to heighten
the plot’s intrigue and irony, thus making the show feel richer.
Each protagonist is pursuing their own life, but
viewers see parallel struggles despite the 20-year time
difference because the stories are told simultaneously.
Through unique circumstances, each father has no
relationship to his child but leaves behind a legacy
that impacts their entire life.
Example: JP’s character victory in the pilot comes
when he decides his Marine Corps identity is not
dependent upon his father’s shameful legacy. But other elements—the teaser, the
airmail letter, the “two guys” who witnessed Pyle Sr’s death—tell viewers that Pyle
Sr’s impact is far from over in JP’s story.
Tonal Layers
A unique tone for each timeline contributes authenticity to the historical period but
also illuminates that period’s social complexity.
The early 1960s, in historical context, seems simple and uncomplicated. 1979
through 1983 is more complex: the Vietnam legacy, massive social upheaval of the
late 60s and early 70s, and the economic desolation of the Carter years. By 2001
complexity is exponential: an always-connected world of email and cell phones, 24-
hour news cycles, and the personal and national realization that American’s security
was much more tenuous than believed.
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Example: The 1960s timeline tone should enhance the impression of history—a past
that cannot be changed by the current characters—and simplicity, like the original
Pyle. It could be black-and-white, washed out or a low-quality, film-reel look
mimicking early Vietnam war footage.
The tone for JP’s timeline should still feel slightly off for today’s viewers—slightly
washed or possibly just lit differently than Trip’s, with different costume and music.
Military scenes feel desert rather than jungle. There’s more of a contrast between
civilian and military than in the 60s.
The early 2000s tone is similar to today, but the devices and costumes are different.
Computers, flip phones and covert CIA operatives instead of military.
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PLOT NOTES – SEASONS ONE AND TWO
(Dis)Honorable is serial drama whose pilot lays the foundation for a complex tale with
intricate plotting. The notes below will allow writers to deliver on that promise while
building new stories for season three and beyond.
Season One – JP
• JP and nine other Marines are tapped for an intelligence mission on the ground in
Tehran to prepare for hostage rescue. Rowan, as mission leader, becomes aware
of JP and begins making trouble for him during training. JP’s instructors say he
is tailor-made for covert ops role and push Rowan
into accepting him.
• JP reads his father’s record book and finds the
cause of death was listed as a “grenade explosion at
extremely close range causing massive blast trauma
to the torso and vital organs.”
• JP trains for his Iran mission with CIA courses in
Persian, covert urban operations, Tehran geography and covert radio
transmission. JP meets Jerry Walker, senior CIA operative on Iran mission who
was also in Vietnam for Starlite (who was also in Rowan’s office in pilot). Walker
says he knew Pyle Sr., gives JP the name of the Navy Corpsman who was with
Rowan’s platoon in Nam, says he’s still alive. JP writes to Corpsman and asks
about his dad. Later episode, Corpsman writes back and says he will only meet in
person but JP leaves for Iran.
• Boyle talks to the two Vietnam witnesses from the silver star hearing. Flashbacks
reveal they did not see Pyle’s actual death but saw Carino’s actions that led to his
award of the Silver Star. They say the order of events was: Pyle dives toward
Carino, Rowan goes down from bullet, Carino charges and subdues machine gun
nest, Carino goes down from bullet.
• JP and the others are inserted into Tehran as independent operatives, each with
overlapping missions. JP goes to see Joe’s parents, asks to stay with them. They
are terrified of him being there and convince him he cannot stay. JP goes to see
Hamid (his Persian karate instructor), who after initial objections takes him in.
• Action scenes throughout episodes: JP
makes rounds through Tehran, reports
back; avoids detection; spots and avoids or
eliminates tail; observes students around
embassy. (Tie in if possible to Argo and On
Wings of Eagles story lines with JP as
covert operative?)
• JP is a forward observer for the helicopter
rescue mission but helos never arrive.
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Afterward, he reports in activity on ground
around the areas terrorists are held. He is
noticed by militants, who come after him. He
hides with Hamid and gets away but the
militants capture, torture and ultimately kill
Hamid for his ties to JP now and through the
years. Hamid does not give up JP, reinforcing
the show theme of heroism as sacrifice.
• Rowan continues as JP’s antagonist and Walker begins to suspect that Rowan’s
intentions for JP are dangerous.
• After leaving Hamid, JP is on the run without his primary radio. He has a backup
radio but does not know the frequencies. There are a series of pre-arranged meet-
up points for exfil but JP misses all of them but the last. He’s on the run for a
couple of months, outside of Tehran headed toward the Turkish border.
• Rowan investigates more about JP as the season proceeds in an apparent attempt
to make things worse for him. Multiple scenes show Rowan doing mysterious
investigations related to JP, including talking to Bolen.
• In the two months JP goes missing, he is suspected as dead. Rowan flies to
Oklahoma to notify JP’s parents that he’s missing, which is unusual—why would
he do that on a covert mission? When Ann answers the door, he says “Hello
Annie” and she says, “Billy?” They beat around the bush, viewers don’t see the
entire conversation and Rowan ultimately leaves mad. Afterward he flies to
Tehran, and Walker, who doesn’t know where he went and is worried he is
somehow after JP, also heads to Iran.
• Finale:
o JP goes to final exfil point, after which he will
have to try to make the Turkish border alone. At
exfil point, he meets Rowan—JP knows he hated
his father and is worried—but Rowan has come
to get him out.
o JP’s Iranian tail finally catches up with him, JP
and Rowan end up in fight with Iranians; they are successful but Rowan is
shot saving JP.
o They head for Turkish border in a vehicle, Rowan laying in the back. During
the ride, Rowan tells JP he knew his dad, blamed him for something that
wasn’t his fault. JP asks “Vietnam?” and Rowan says no, Vietnam was Pyle
Sr’s fault but Rowan put him on point that day when he shouldn’t have—he
always held a grudge against Pyle Sr because “Lou-Ann chose him.” Then
Rowan passes out.
o Walker catches up with JP/Rowan before Turkish border. Final scene, JP is
elsewhere, Rowan comes to, Walker asks Rowan if he told JP the truth about
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“his father,” Rowan dies before he answers (heroism = sacrifice; redemption by
Rowan saving JP’s life), but the fingers on Rowan’s right hand twitch.
Season One – Trip
• Trip gets very limited back story on JP from Vance:
o JP was in classified Marine Corps intelligence unit operating in the Middle East
in conjunction with the CIA.
o He was in Iran in 1980: advance cover team for the hostage rescue attempt.
Rescue turned out to be a disaster but JP was seen as golden boy after that for
his escape from Iran.
o Back in the early 80s, the Middle East was like the wild west; JP’s language
skills, swarthy looks and connections (both CIA and local) allowed him to travel
freely across the region. He was highly independent and had very little
supervision. He also had an
extremely good network of local
Iranian contacts that were never
documented.
o He was assigned to follow Kaveh
Bahar, one of the Iranian leaders
when hostages were taken and
later a critical source of terrorist
financing in the Middle East.
o He was in Lebanon in October
1983, three days before the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.
o Only two people in the world were known by the CIA to have personal
connections to both Iran hostages and Beirut bombing: Kaveh Bahar and JP.
Both disappeared after the barracks bombing.
o Some people believe Bahar turned JP and they both received new looks,
identities after Beirut.
• Trip is accepted as an operative and during training in Camp Peary (Virginia), Trip
begins a relationship with Maria Trevino, a college student at American University.
But Trip maintains a cover, tells her his name is Elmer Pyle.
• Trip’s operative training parallel’s JP’s covert operations training: geography,
radio and signals, evasion and detection.
• During training, after flashback of pilot finale scene where silhouette is watching
Trip and Vance, silhouette is revealed to be Walker,
who is retired but used connections to have
conversation with Trip.
o He tells Trip he knows his father did not turn
but can’t prove it.
o It’s worse than Vance let on: some CIA
contractors reported there was a kill order on JP back
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in the day. It was a long time ago but if JP actually was found, he might be
killed.
o There are people still in CIA who will definitely hold it against Trip if it gets out
that he is JP’s son. Walker used connections to get birth name expunged from
his records but he should never use it.
o Trip looks through cell phone at Maria’s contact, says to
contact card, “I’m sorry, if I hadn’t tried to be clever with
you, maybe we could see each other again.” Since he
gave Elmer Pyle as cover name, he takes out the sim card
and throws it away, gets a new sim card—burns the bridge with Maria.
• Trip goes back to NY one weekend, ends up confronting Karen about JP. She’s
shocked that he knows anything about him, she had always told him he
disappeared and they divorced. She tells him the story:
o She and JP were fighting a lot because he was gone all the time, wouldn’t tell
her about work. She was pregnant with Trip and wanted him to quit Marines,
he wouldn’t, said it was important. What could be so important for a
translator?
o It all came to a head when he left a week before Trip was born. Marines said
he was officially missing but he never came back and she filed for divorce three
years later to marry Sid. Sid adopted Trip and they changed his name, she
didn’t want to think about JP or the Marines any more.
o She tells him about phone calls from Ann
Mahabadi. He’s surprised at the name, she
tells him about Ann’s remarriage to Joe.
• Finale:
o Trip, scheduled to leave soon for Afghanistan,
goes to see Ann and Joe in Oklahoma City.
Much older Ann looks out the door and has
immediate flash that it’s JP, calls for Joe, then realizes it can’t be. She opens
the door and says, “You must be Trip. God you look like your father.”
o They talk and Ann says she knows there are rumors that JP did something
wrong but she knows it can’t be true, especially given what happened with
Elmer Sr. Trip doesn’t know what she means, so she tells the story of Elmer
being responsible for getting his platoon killed. “JP spent his whole career in
the Marines trying to find out what really happened in Vietnam and trying to
make up for his father’s legacy. He would never bring shame to the Pyle
name.” Trip promises to let them know if he ever finds any more out about JP.
o As he’s leaving, Joe walks out with Trip and says there’s something Ann
doesn’t know: his parents in Iran told him a different story about JP that puts
everything in a different light.
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o At American University, Maria takes a self-pregnancy
test: positive. She’s shown calling Trip’s cell, disconnected.
She calls where he works (his cover organization) but
there’s no Elmer Pyle. The nurse at university infirmary
confirms she’s pregnant, asks if she wants the number for a good clinic, she
says she’s Catholic and “would never do that.”
Season Two – JP
• JP and Walker bury Rowan, make it out to Turkey. Walker tells him Rowan didn’t
actually see his dad die and had grudge against him—JP really needs to talk to
Corpsman, who knows entire story. Walker says he’s not sure why Rowan had it
in for Pyle Sr. JP says Rowan told him he had it out for Pyle Sr because “Lou-Ann
chose him.” So Walker knows Rowan didn’t tell JP that he might have been his
father.
• JP returns to US and goes into military intelligence. Action
scenes of him training, spending time on ground in middle
east, primarily supporting Iraq in the Iran/Iraq war.
• JP begins following Bahar in Iran and tracks him across the
middle east. Beginning 1982 he repeatedly tracks him into
Lebanon.
• JP looks over his father’s records again, suspects that his
father refused to marry Lou-Ann when she got pregnant.
• Much of JP’s story is his meeting, courting and marrying
Karen Middlebrook. She gets pregnant in January 1983, first month after
marriage. As pregnancy proceeds, she tells him she increasingly has a sense of
foreboding, he needs to get out of the Marines.
• Third to last show, JP confronts his mother before going off to Middle East:
o Tells her he met Rowan and Rowan said Pyle Sr was responsible for Vietnam
but Rowan had “put him in a bad spot,” also Rowan apologized about
something else, said he blamed Sr for something that wasn’t his fault—any
idea what it was?
o Asks why his dad wouldn’t marry her when she got pregnant, Ann asks how he
knew, thinking Rowan told him but he says he got
Sr’s records and it showed date of marriage (the page
she had torn out and thrown away in the pilot). She
said like Rowan, JP had it wrong—she was the one
to blame, she didn’t tell Sr about the pregnancy.
They can talk more about it when he returns. While
JP is not looking, she slips the airmail letter with
hearts into his gear.
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• Second to last show:
o JP finally meets with Corpsman at a restaurant and finds
out story about his dad, told in flashbacks: Pyle Sr was crawling
toward Carino when an enemy grenade lands next to Carino.
Wounded Carino can’t get away from it and Pyle Sr dives on it,
killing himself to save Carino. Carino goes into rage, charges
enemy, is killed but gives squad time to regroup, attack and
overcome. Sr didn’t kill nine, he saved the other 35 (heroism =
sacrifice). JP takes notes on the back of a flyer pulled down from the
restaurant bulletin board.
o Karen is pregnant, baby is coming soon. They argue about a name, he wants
Elmer III, she doesn’t. She accuses him of “loving the Corps more than your
wife,” he leaves mad.
• Finale:
o JP goes to Lebanon after Bahar is spotted there. He discovers there is an
imminent attack of multiple vehicles, goes undercover to stop it. As attack
launches, he takes out most of the vehicles and kills Bahar, but he is shot and
one truck makes it through, blows up the Marine barracks (the bombing
actually happened, 243 dead). Militants are shown collecting Bahar’s body.
o That same day (Oct. 23, 1983), Karen goes into labor, Trip is born.
o JP’s body is not found and he is officially listed as missing, not dead. Days
later Karen sees a Marine officer outside her room, knows something happened
to JP. She names the baby Elmer and tells him that’s as close to his dad as he
will ever get.
o A young boy find’s JP’s “go bag” in a trash heap.
He keeps it and later opens it, finds the airmail
letter with hearts and the flyer with notes.
Season Two– Trip
• Joe’s conversation with Trip:
o In the mid-80s, he went to Turkey to visit his parents, who still lived in Iran.
He had a feeling he was being followed.
o His parents told him the story of Darius Hamid (JP’s karate instructor in
Tehran), who the Iranians say was a traitor but by now the parents know the
real story about how he died for hiding JP.
o They told him “a man who was a friend of Hamid had given them JP’s “old
karate gi that JP left the last time he went to Hamid’s dojo.” Joe realizes it’s
code: they have something that belongs to JP that might be dangerous.
Worried that he’s being watched, he tells them to hold onto it and he’ll get it
later. His parents told him they would put it in “the hiding place.”
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o During the meeting, a man watches and is listening to their conversation.
o Joe believes he has been under surveillance since that meeting. He hears
clicking on the phone, he gets mail that took a week to get delivered from short
distance away, his office at the University has definitely been searched.
o He’s never told Ann about any of this because
he’s never been 100% sure.
o Joe’s parents have since died but he knows
where “the hiding place” was.
• Trip goes to Afghanistan and works with others
there on the ground to improve his skills. He works
as a “spotter” around mosques, trying to identify
known Taliban targets.
• Trip takes intensive martial arts training with a CIA
specialist early in, and is seen practicing throughout, the season.
• Maria has the baby, names her Emily Pyle, lists Elmer Pyle as the father.
• Trip gets the news he’s going into Iraq as part of an advance team. He’s shown in
intensive Arabic and Kurdish classes to polish up his skills.
• Trip goes to Iraq and makes contact with Kurdish anti-Hussein elements. They
run some ops.
• Trip makes contact with an Iranian national who works for CIA. Asks him to
check into getting him in and out of country for a quick, one-day op.
• Trip contacts Walker, asks for favor: he wants to go into Iran to retrieve a package
that has something to do with JP, doesn’t want people to know about it. Walker
contacts “a friend” who agrees to take him, but tells Trip to be careful because it’s
a private operation with no CIA support. Separately, two unknown people then
have conversation, one says, “your hunch was right—the Stein kid is trying to go
into Iran. Like father like son?” Other: “I always said genetics trumped
environment.”
• Finale
o “Elmer Pyle” listed as the father on a
new birth certificate generates an alert
on an unknown person’s computer.
o Trip goes into Iran to retrieve the
package from the “hiding place” Joe
told him about. He finds a waterproof
bag containing the airmail letter with
hearts and JP’s notes on the flyer from
talking to the Corpsman. As he
pockets the information, two unknown
men who appear to be assailants
appear.
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SET LOCATIONS
While there is plenty of action, (Dis)Honorable is primarily a character story so its
physical world is relatively limited.
Primary Locations
Military Bases
A significant number of scenes in the series take place on
military bases, including boot camp, infantry school, and
desert combat/covert operations training.
Urban Middle Eastern City
Tehran plays a central role in the first season and locations
in other middle eastern cities, including Beirut and Baghdad,
are used in later seasons.
A location agreement with a large military base (such as Camp Pendleton or MCB
Twenty-Nine Palms) could probably serve nearly all these location needs. Stock
footage or a few location shoots of MCB Quantico would also be required.
Minor Locations
New York City and Westchester
Trip’s recruitment and training in the pilot are primarily in the New York City and
surrounding area, and he occasionally revisits. A few location shots are required but
many shots could probably use stock NYC footage to convey location.
A variety of other exterior shots are required to set locational context in story areas
such as Washington DC, Oklahoma City and Beirut.
