Detective London is a paraplegic homicide cop whose dislike for the media is matched only by the fame that television has brought to forensic science now more commonly known as Crime Scene Investigators. Because London takes every opportunity to express these feelings he has turned from a Public Relation's dream as a returning police officer to the department to a nightmare that has the Mayor and Chief of Police conspiring to get rid of London during this election year.
London's beliefs are that it takes hard core street investigating, interrogating and gut feelings, not high tech toys to solve today's crimes. Hard knocks and old school make sure London expresses his feelings without regard of others. This attitude often conflicts with London's previous partners and is somewhat the case with his latest partner, Detective Richmond, a young, sharp, clean-cut and idealistic cop new to homicide. Detective Richmond quickly accepts London and learns rather than fights with London.
Detective London, whose first name is a mystery to everyone but his parents and no one even knows who they are, has real demons that simply don't care what his name is and haunts London with nightmares of the drunk driver that struck his car killing his beautiful wife and young daughter, leaving him paralyzed and alive if you call this living. Often London does not consider this living and has contemplated and even attempted suicide only to be thwarted, or saved depending on your perspective, by his job where he does have self worth and believes is where he can make a difference in this unjust world.
All runs according to London's Time until an old friend, Marci Waters returns to town. The two of them went through and graduated from the Police Academy together but Marci moved to the northeast only after a few months on the police force. There she continued her career in law enforcement even though it was put on hold while she graduated the university with a medical degree. Now Marci is top in crime scene investigations and actually is in town to accept the position of head of the forensics department. London soon re-evaluates forensic science as he is growing closer to Marci both professionally and personally as the two begin a romantic relationship.
Meanwhile, London, Detective Richmond and Marci work together to solve the recent murders that may or may not be linked to the same killer. The only thing the victims have in common is their profession. They were entertainment reporters in television and newspaper. After good investigating by London, and evidence collecting and processing of the crime scenes, all signs point to David Clayton, a business executive who was once a film studio executive. Clayton was fired and has returned home to Dallas in order to run several businesses including a non-profit corporation he claims is to promote fair and ethical media coverage in the film industry. In fact it is a vehicle for Clayton to blackmail, threaten and control the media reporters to say what he wants them to say about certain films, actors, directors, even studios. Clayton already has some success in blackmailing studios and plans to widen his enterprise to include the entire film industry. In his attempt to control the entertainment news media, some reporters have been strongly dealt with for not cooperating, and as a message of how serious he is to the rest of the reporters some have even been killed. One of them by his own hands, but even though she was a television entertainment reporter, that was not a planned killing like the rest and ocurred while he was at her apartment trying to further a personal relationship she was not interested in pursuing.
Now even London and Richmond's hard investigating with chasing legitimate and gut check leads, interrogating suspects and the best intentions, along with the high tech help from Marci and her forensic team there still isn't enough hard evidence to arrest or even bring in Clayton for questioning. Will the team quit? If not how are they going to prove what they know in their professional minds and personal hearts? Will Clayton continue to kill in his attempt to hold the entire film industry hostage?
There is only one way to see the explosive end to this intriquing crime drama! Read the script! Or wait for it to be produced and coming to a theatre near you! |
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