A teacher turned macabre investigator deals with a missing mother, a shocked child, and something that lives down the plughole.
Type:
TV Pilot
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
26pp
Genre:
Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
17+
Based On:
My audio script.
Synopsis/Details
In this half-hour series, a fired teacher decides to set up shop as an investigator of odd and unusual problems. In this pilot, her client comes home to find his wife missing, their child naked and in shock in the tub, and something deadly living in their house's drains. The creature, they surmise, is something that got into the home's septic tank when it was last pumped, and has grown into a murderous thing to survive in its bacteria-laden home. They are able to coax it out of the tank with some raw hamburger. It is tall, strong, and quick. Their plan to easily and reluctantly kill it falls apart until Milly is able to run the thing through with a pitchfork from the garden shed. NOTE: This series is being produced for audio. I have written five other scripts. 2019: Moondance International Film Festival winner. 2025: Quarter-finalist in the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards (Season 9).
All Accolades & Coverage

2019: Moondance International Film Festival Best TV Pilot category winner.

2025: Quarter-finalist in the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards (Season 9).

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The Writer: Mike Murphy

Mike, a four-time Parsec Awards finalist, has had over 150 audio plays produced in the U.S. and overseas. He’s won a dozen Moondance International Film Festival Awards (winner, finalist, and semi-finalist) in their TV pilot, audio play, short screenplay, and short story categories. A more complete list of awards is presented below by year. In 2025, his TV pilot script Milly Foster, Macabre Investigator was a quarter-finalist in the Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards (Season 9), Solutions, Inc. (another TV pilot script) was a quarter-finalist in the Creative Screenwriting Pilot Screenplay Competition, short screenplay The Price of Friendship was a semi-finalist in the Filmmatic Short… Go to bio
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