A tight-knit family plans a heist in order to get out from under the thumb of a psychotic drug dealer taking over their backwater town.
Type:
TV Pilot
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
58pp
Genre:
Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
17+
Synopsis/Details
Married couple Kevin and Ashlyn struggle to make ends meet while paying off her med school loans. Kevin runs a locksmith shop while he tries to get his contractor business off the ground. Ashlyn moonlights at a methadone clinic when she isn’t working at the local hospital. Ashlyn’s brother Bobby is a gambling addict and an all-around bad decision maker. Unable to get out of his own way, he puts down the last of his money on himself to win a bare-knuckle boxing match and loses. Remy is a nurse that works with Ashlyn at the methadone clinic. As the clinic is poorly run, it’s not so difficult for her to steal pills and deliver them to the drug addicted members of a tent city, made up mostly of indigenous people like herself. Bill is the loan sharking, drug dealing psychopath who’s been slowly taking over Bobby’s trailer park. When he catches wind that Bobby - who already owes him thousands of dollars - has wagered on himself to win fight night, he makes Bobby an offer that he can’t refuse. Figure out how to pay me back with interest, or I’ll start cutting your fingers off one by one. Believing he owes Bobby a life-debt, Kevin gets himself and Ashlyn involved in a scheme to heist the methadone clinic and pay Bill back with stolen pills. Things get more complicated when Special Agent Moira Sharp is brought in to assist the local sheriff’s department in the investigation of a grizzly murder. She knows that she probably can’t trust the Sheriff and that the town views her as an outsider, but she’s never come across a case she won’t tackle head-on. And, oh yeah, her step-brother’s a doctor that works at the local methadone clinic. He’s a perv, and an abuser, and he’s destined for an ill-timed clash with Remy and Ashlyn.
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The Writer: Danny Katz

As the son of a book publisher, I’ve long regarded the English language as something of an art form. My pops and I like to trade literature back and forth, blathering on endlessly about whatever we’re reading at the moment. David Simon’s Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and George V. Higgins’ The Friends of Eddie Coyle have had the biggest impact on my literary point of view. As a writer, this has manifested itself in my obsession with procedure, bold dialogue, and societal plight. Go to bio
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