36 Floors Up:
How to Fool Grandma?
Season: Season 2 of 36 Floors
Genre: Family Spy Comedy
Target Audience: Ages 8–12
Format: 4 × 30-minute episodes
Status: Pilot script and synopsis completed; fully developed as a book.
Series Logline
Twenty-year-old skyscraper super-courier Willy Adams dreams of becoming a superspy. To make that dream come true, he must not only survive floor after floor of scheming employees playing spy games of their own, but also learn to fix the messes he creates along the way.
Season 2 Logline
Super-courier Willy Adams is closer than ever to making his dream come true. All he has to do is steal Ben Dodger’s secret plan for Grandma, and she’ll make Willy an official superspy of her empire. There’s just one problem: getting into Ben Dodger’s office is virtually impossible—even when you’re disguised as a courier.
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Synopsis
36 Floors Up: How to Fool Grandma?
Synopsis
This is a story about how even the smallest mistake can stand between you and your biggest dream.
Ben Dodger hasn’t given up on becoming ruler of the empire. This time, he is secretly writing a plan called How to Fool Grandma. Grandma suspects what he is up to and gives Willy Adams a new assignment: the super-courier must steal Ben’s secret documents. Only after passing this test will Grandma make Willy an official superspy of the empire.
But getting into Ben Dodger’s office is nearly impossible.
Willy’s cover is simple: posing as a courier, he must deliver a breakfast from Grandma as a peace offering. Ben suspects that Grandma is plotting to steal his secret plan, but he agrees to play along. The stakes are high: if Willy fails to deliver the breakfast before coffee break, Grandma will leave the entire inheritance to Ben.
Willy’s problems begin the moment he steps inside Ben Dodger’s skyscraper. Once again, he runs into the criminals. He is surrounded by security guards led by his strange old acquaintance Hugh. And once again, his delivery rival—the Delivery Guy—manages to outsmart him.
Everyone around Willy seems to be a spy.
Everyone except Willy, who is still trying to become one.
Then Willy discovers a secret spy school run by Charlie, Ben’s elderly secretary. Taking advantage of Willy’s desperate ambition to become a superspy, Charlie lures him to his side and convinces him to spy on the Dodgers. Willy agrees—but only so he can learn more about the spy school and the secret ventilation system connecting all the skyscrapers.
Willy remains loyal to Grandma and intends to bring everything he discovers back to her.
But when he crosses paths with the Delivery Guy again, Willy refuses to be beaten by his rival. The competition costs him precious time, and he misses the coffee-break deadline without completing Grandma’s assignment.
Even a final showdown with Charlie and his new assistant Hugh can’t save him. Charlie and Hugh manage to get their hands on the papers from Ben Dodger’s office.
Just when Willy’s mission seems lost, a mysterious Woman in a Red Dress steps in. She turns out to be Grandma’s special agent. Disguised as a doctor, she gets into Ben’s office and treats him after a piranha attack—in a way that makes finishing his secret plan impossible.
Ben Dodger hasn’t won.
Grandma hasn’t lost.
And the story isn’t over—neither is Willy Adams’s journey to becoming a superspy.
