Rumpelstiltskin Pilot Ideas

After much debate and deep thinking, my group and I decided to stick with the Grimm Brother's Folk Tale of "Rumpelstiltskin" as it has a very interesting storyline and characters that can be subverted quite creatively. After Day One, these were my ideas:

Anna: 

• is a phoney. pretends to know something that the King doesn’t and he uses her in advantage of that
• it actually a detective
• could pretend she has “the Kings” money

King:

• a criminal

An anonymous person was supposed to meet with The Criminal in a secret town spot. Anna happened to be walking around late at night (or she could be a cop) and follows the anonymous person, suspiciously. The criminal mistakens anna for the person he is meeting with and talks to anna as if she was the person that he was expecting. Anna cannot see his face in the dim.

*2 body guards grab anna from around the corner* 

The Criminal says, with his back to her “I’m here, you idiot. You’re 28 minutes late. What did I tell you about being prompt. We could get caught here.”

Anna is speechless unknowing what is happening, so she goes along with it, knowing that she has gotten herself into trouble

The Criminal reminds her that she is yet again late in giving her payment

The Criminal locks her up in their own ‘jail’ and another person in another jail cell (rumpelstiltskin) is the person that helps her from across the hall being unseen and telling her how to survive and what to say to the criminal