Beat Sheet For Call Me Kat Spec

Cold Open

Kat is slumped over the bar at The Middle C sound asleep snoring like a drunken sailor.
Randi, Max, Sheila, and Gideon gently shake her and jab at how awfully tired she is.
Carter tries to wake Kat up with his progressively louder and more irritated coughing.
Kat finally startles awake when Carter accidentally dings a shot glass quietly.
Carter asks why Kat is sleeping at his business and messing up his work flow.
Kat tells Carter about the mess from puppy yoga class customers. Took all night to clean.
Carter seems to lack sympathy for Kat’s problems as he continues to wipe down glasses.
Kat complains to Carter about how hard her café is to run and that he wouldn’t get it.
Carter looks incredulously at her and bets Kat she couldn’t survive a day running his bar.
Kat takes that bet and raises the stakes to whoever caves first cleans the other’s toilets.

Kat is happily shaking margaritas and sliding drinks across the bar, but drops everything.
Max is playing old-timey piano music along with Kat’s bar mixing shenanigans.
Gideon comes to the bar and starts mixing random drinks. He thinks he’s switching, too.
Kat explains the switch is just her. Thinking more, she sends Gideon on a sabotage quest.
Gideon objects, but Kat explains how cutthroat this competition with Carter is.
Gideon feels wrong about messing with Carter, but Kat tempts him with an Ikea visit.

Randi and Carter are pounding back espresso shots laughing and having a good time.
Sheila comes into the cafe asking Carter what his plan is to sabotage Kat.
Carter is confused, but Sheila clarifies Kat fights dirty and wants to put her in her place.
Seeing Gideon make a weird beeline to the kitchen, Randi suggests Sheila sabotage.
Carter starts to protest this, but Sheila interrupts him with an ominous “Say no more.”

Kat starts giving away free booze to a few requests since she’s too awkward to say no.
Kat is soon swamped with drinks. The bar fills up with Sheila’s retirement home friends.
Kat answers the ringing bar phone to a health inspector announcing a surprise visit today.
Max comes to help Kat and sees drunken elders and granny belly shots happening.
Kat frantically explains the problem and Max reassures her that they will sort it all out.
Kat points out everything unsanitary, like a large sweaty shirtless old man playing piano.

Randi tries to make a latte for a customer, but sees that she is out of espresso beans.
Randi goes to the kitchen to check the stock, but sees stacks of unrecognizable pastry.
Gideon declares that he made his Amish friendship bread with all of the espresso beans.
Gideon then spills the beans and confesses to sabotaging and his overwhelming guilt.
Randi is frustrated with Gideon, but he soon realizes that his last loaf of bread is burning.
Gideon grabs the fire extinguisher, but messes up the kitchen and foams Randi.
Carter walks in to ask for Randi’s help with making latte art and is shocked at the scene.
Randi explains they can’t make latte art because they have no espresso beans for lattes.
Randi then tells Carter about the sabotage. Carter kicks Gideon out to find more beans.
Randi offers a makeshift coffee solution. Carter asks if it will work. Randi says nope.

Kat is furiously scrubbing the bar clean. She finds moldy scones in all the wrong places.
Max makes drinks and ushers the old out making sure they don’t bother other patrons.
Kat is fielding conversations from some drunk elders trying not to snap from the stress.
Gideon comes in at the worst time to ask Kat where he can find espresso beans.
Kat is busy and tells Gideon the beans are sold at Corks and Orcs instead of beside them.
Gideon heads out excited that orcs exist yet apprehensive about facing one himself.
Max gets an important call from his agent and tells Kat he has to step out for a bit.
One of Sheila’s drunk friends accidentally slings a cold french fry right into Kat’s eye.

Carter is frantically pressing five different French Presses. Randi is making drip coffee.
Carter is snapping at all of the customers. Some influencers are displeased by his work.
Carter keeps trying to manage Randi, but she retaliates by pointing out his mistakes.
All of the served cafe customers are loudly complaining about their watered down coffee.
Cats are all around the kitchen hissing at the dogs who came from a puppy yoga class.
Carter starts having mild allergic reactions to all of the animals and spilling everything.
Gideon returns all dressed up as Gandalf the White with Potter’s glasses and a light saber.
Carter asks Gideon for the beans, but he was distracted by Corks and Orcs and forgot.
Randi lashes out at Gideon about the espresso beans. Gideon runs to the kitchen upset.
More tension mounts as Carter snaps at Randi that they could have used Gideon’s help.
Carter convinces Randi to have a heart to heart with Gideon, who offers a fix to the mess.

Max comes back and sees Kat in distress. He tells her to have a seat and to let him help.
Kat sits down and spills about all the pain points – unruly drunks; lost payment; no cats.
Max sympathizes with Kat and says that’s a reason why he’s pursuing his singing career.
Kat announces how there’s no way she’ll be able to satisfy the young health inspector.
Sheila hears this and is flattered by the “young” compliment. She decides to tell the truth.
Cut to Sheila making a call and putting on a fake voice pretending to be the inspector.
Kat deadpans to the camera, gives up, and goes to ring the Last Call bell way too early.

Gideon fixes the watered down coffees turning them into his famous Amish coffee soup.
The coffee soup and friendship bread are offered discounted and both are well received.
Kat, Max, and Sheila return to the cafe. Kat tells Carter she closed the bar and folds.
Carter is pleased to have won, but also launches into an apology about how hard it was.

Kat, Max, Randi, and Gideon are all at a bar table playing Jumanji. Sheila comments.
Kat watches in awe for a bit while Carter does his work, not daring to complain.
Carter flatly reminds Kat about the toilets. Kat shrugs, smiles, and waves to the camera.