In a world where two parallel cities coexist through controlled dimensional crossings, a grieving father hunts those responsible for his daughter’s death—only to discover her double alive on the other side and a conspiracy buried beneath both worlds.
Type:
TV Pilot
Status:
For sale
Page Count:
80pp
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Budget:
Independent
Age Rating:
17+
Synopsis/Details

In a world where two parallel cities—Prime and Drift—exist side by side across dimensional corridors, daily life has adapted to the impossible. Goods pass between worlds through humming blue membranes, commuters cross realities as casually as taking a train, and the infrastructure linking both cities has become so ordinary that no one questions it anymore.

For Evan Calder, a meticulous civil engineer and widowed father, that world shatters in an instant.

While driving through Prime on a rainy night with his eleven-year-old daughter, Mara, their car is struck by an illegally transported vehicle that violently rematerializes mid-intersection during a failed dimensional breach. The crash kills Mara instantly. The smugglers responsible die moments later, and the transit authority quickly closes the case as a tragic accident caused by illegal rigging.

But Evan cannot accept the official explanation.

Consumed by grief and convinced that the crash was not an isolated incident, he begins tracing the illegal supply chain behind the phase rig responsible for his daughter’s death. His search leads him beyond Prime and into Drift, the darker, older mirror city on the other side of the dimensional divide—a place of iron catwalks, neon-lit brick streets, industrial markets, and shadow economies that thrive beneath official oversight.

There, while following the trail of illicit transit components, Evan sees something impossible:

A young girl leaving a school in Drift who looks exactly like Mara.

Same face. Same age. Same mannerisms.

Shaken to his core, Evan becomes torn between two obsessions: uncovering the conspiracy behind the illegal transit network and understanding how this girl—Nara—can exist. What begins as a quest for justice slowly evolves into something more dangerous and deeply personal as Evan starts monitoring her routine, visiting her neighborhood, and returning repeatedly to the orphanage where she lives.

As he digs deeper into the Drift underworld, Evan discovers the crash may be connected to a far larger conspiracy hidden beneath the cities’ shared infrastructure—one involving illegal phase technology, black-market transit systems, and powerful figures who have been watching him since the moment he began asking questions.

When Nara confronts him directly, Evan is forced into an uneasy connection with the girl, who immediately senses that he is a man carrying profound loss. Their growing bond becomes the emotional center of the story, complicating Evan’s mission and blurring the line between grief, obsession, and hope.

The pilot culminates in a chilling revelation: a mysterious man in Drift has been monitoring both Evan and Nara from afar. He is Rylan Calder—Evan’s counterpart from the parallel city, physically identical to him—and he appears to know far more about the dimensional breach, the illegal supply chain, and the connection between Mara and Nara than anyone else.

The series unfolds as a prestige sci-fi thriller and emotional mystery, following Evan as he navigates two worlds in search of the truth behind his daughter’s death, while uncovering a conspiracy that threatens the fragile boundary separating both realities.

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The Writer: Jeremy Johnson

Jeremy Johnson is a licensed addiction counselor and builder of ideas—someone who lives at the intersection of psychology, creativity, and transformation. Based in Ohio, his work focuses on helping people move beyond survival and into flourishing by redesigning recovery through the lens of positive psychology and the PERMA model. He integrates clinical practice with big-picture thinking, developing recovery systems, therapy groups, and tools that emphasize identity, meaning, and forward momentum rather than pathology. His research explores how well-being itself can become a powerful foundation for sustained recovery. Outside of his clinical work, Jeremy is a creator at heart—writing stories… Go to bio
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