Moonstone Rescue (Pilot)

Maya Rhodes hasn’t spoken to her dead mother in two years. Not since the cancer. Not since her veterinarian father started putting down healthy animals and drinking alone at 2 p.m. Not since their black cat, Henrietta, began leading her to a farm everyone swears is cursed.

In Oak Bluffs, where rich men own everything and old women remember longer, lives Lupe McGregor. Part Wampanoag, part nobody’s business. The town calls her widow, witch, killer. Maya calls her the only adult who sees animals the way she does: as messengers carrying old grief and older medicine.

This is a ghost story where the living do more damage than the dead. Where 14-year-old girls inherit their great-great-grandmother’s boarding school traumas through dreams. Where love means teaching someone which plants heal... and which ones help you forget. Where a rose-breasted grosbeak at a cemetery means your mother heard you graduate, even if your father says birds are just birds, and dead means dead.

Written by Dominique Mouton.

Starring Vanessa Richardson, Madison Griggs, Rainbow Dickerson, Zeke Alton, Sarah Elmaleh, Angel Harper, Amanda Christine, David Reeves Tordilla, Parker Johnson, Derek Mehn, Felisha Wong, and Sarah Phillips.

This is what happens when the cat you named after your ancestor starts disappearing. You follow her. Even when she leads you to the witch’s house. Especially then.

Executive Producers: Shaan Sharma, Mark Knell, Jack Levy

TABLE READ A Manifest Media production.

Moonstone Rescue mixes the sweep of family history with the wild side of magic realism. Moonstone unpacks the tangled lives of a small-town family... think intergenerational secrets, a talking cat with attitude, and ghosts that are way more than memories.

It’s part coming-of-age, part supernatural mystery, all wrapped in a voice that’s equal parts poetic and unfiltered. The story hits that sweet spot where grief collides with hope, and where love... sometimes messy, sometimes fierce... pulls everyone through.

Funny, brave, and a little bit haunted, Moonstone Rescue is for anyone who believes family legends are true, ancestors have unfinished business, and magic is hiding right under your nose.

Written by:

Dominique Mouton

Cast:

NARRATOR Vanessa Richardson

MAYA RHODES Madison Griggs

ROBERT RHODES Zeke Alton

NORAH RHODES/WOMAN. Sarah Elmaleh

JEAN RHODES Angel Harper

LUPE MCGREGOR Rainbow Dickerson

AXEL GRAYSON Ivar Brogger

JACKIE ANDREWS Amanda Christine

HUGO FUENTES David Reeves Tordilla

MAVERICK GRAYSON Parker Johnson

JOSH ROLLINS Derek Mehn

ZARA Felisha Wong

MRS. SILVA Sarah Phillips

PABLO’S RHINO – ACT THREE

This is it. The rhino’s still dead. Pablo’s still insane. And our three idiots? They’re in way too deep… and now they’re in a musical.

Charlie’s hallucinating. Sam might be in love. Marcus definitely joins a jungle cult. And somehow, everyone’s singing. Yes, even Pablo. Yes, it slaps.

There’s a DEA sting gone sideways. A Colombian jungle rave with ayahuasca and jazz hands. A butt gets shot. A fake rhino gets stolen. And the final scene? Picture Book of Mormon on cocaine—if the choir was armed and one guy’s still pooping in a tree.

It’s sweaty. It’s stupid. It’s glorious.

This is Act Three of Pablo’s Rhino.

And it might just be our masterpiece.

Starring:

• Tim Friedlander as the Narrator
• Jim O'Heir as Charlie Bleeker – the neurotic, reluctant hero
• Darin Toonder as Marcus – the chaos agent with a trust fund and a dream
• Jeff Bergman as Sam – loyal, closeted, and occasionally clairvoyant
• Wayne Lopez as Pablo Escobar – the crime lord-turned-cheesemaker with a soft spot for rhinos
• Andrea Savo as Lucia – a badass Colombian cop who’s more Indiana Jones than law enforcement
• Keylor Leigh as Audrey – Charlie’s sharp-tongued, no-bullshit ex-wife
• Lynette Coll as Maria Chung Escobar – Pablo’s power-tripping wife with a hair-trigger temper
• Dustin Green as Agent Knowles – a DEA cowboy with a chip on his shoulder
• Holden Myers as Agent Martinez – the sidekick who really just wants empanadas

Written by Craig Goodwill & Sam Ruano, Pablo’s Rhino is a tequila-soaked thrill ride full of midlife panic, monkey knife fights, and unexpected heart.

Turn up. Black out. Hit play.