Scotland's beat used to be London — now the whole world is his playground...
Type:
TV Pilot
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
60pp
Genre:
Drama
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
13+
Synopsis/Details
Pilot - (1st rough copy attached) After being acquitted of the murder of a colleague, former military Pathfinder turned Scotland Yard undercover detective, Jamie Scotland, quits the Metropolitan Police and settles on the Isle of Skye. There he works freelance for a parachute club, Skyedive Scotland, specialising in tutoring Accelerated Free Fall student skydivers. Despite attempts to live a quiet life, Scotland's reputation precedes him and the maverick ex cops investigative skills are much in demand, frequently sought by clients worldwide looking for such a formidable trouble-shooter. When a uniformed London police officer attends the scene of a fatal car crash and finds within the wreck a winning lottery ticket — the key to a £13 million pound fortune — Scotland is employed to trace the suspect who has since resigned from the force and vanished into thin air.

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Submitted: 2021-Jun-07
Last Updated: 2025-Feb-22
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The Writer: James Shearer

Hello all Thank you for visiting my profile. I am a former Scotland Yard Specialist Operations detective. During my career (and in addition to routine murder squads), I served on both the Central Drug Squad and the Regional Crime Squad. Whilst serving on the former, I was part of a team responsible for seizing the (then) largest illicit cocaine hydrochloride consignment to be landed in the UK — a tonne of coke tracked from Venezuela to London utilising a US DEA satellite. I was also the lead detective on a confidential enquiry focusing on the smuggling of cocaine by certain characters from within the Formula One motor racing fraternity. When on the latter squad, one notable success was the… Go to bio
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