Eli Cates 50 Loglines 3-7-14 The Hound and the Fox Cunning Mickie is in prison for murder.

Abby is his pen pal; a lonely mother and abused wife. When Mickie convinces Abby to visit him, he uses the opportunity for a brazen escape, taking Abby hostage. Abby!s gentle nature and concern for her son make her a compliant prisoner. After making a clean getaway, Mickie has no long term plan. But Abby does. She needs to keep Mickie away from the police long enough for help with her problem: Her violent and abusive husband. Her intended solution involves Mickie!s particular skill set: murder. Love Post Modern An idle Wife feels lonely and unloved. Husband is distant and quiet. Wife creates a dating prole online to feel attractive again, but keeps her identity hidden. Wife meets a rich Stranger online. Interesting and obsessed, but married. Thrilled with the power and the seduction, the Wife convinces the Stranger to kill his wife, so they can be together. When her Husband tries to poison her, with something she recommended online, she realizes the wife is her. She!s not sure if that means love or hate. The Adjuster A hard luck young waitress named Mary receives a visit from a strange lawyer. He informs her that several multi-million dollar life insurances policies have been taken out in her name. Many people will get very rich if she dies. He gives her a thousand dollars and tells her to run. After dodging bullets and seeing her car explode, Mary realizes that running is going to kill her eventually. So she teams up with a Insurance adjuster from the life insurance company named Mitch, a real badass. Together, they hunt the principal on the life insurance policies, a senile old man with connections to her late father, who is the crux of the conspiracy. A bank robber and murderer, he was killed in a shoot out with the cops.

Her late father!s Partner survived however, and used the money to get a start in local Texas politics. Now the Partner is the most powerful politician in Texas, and ready to move on to Washington. The only thing standing in his way is incriminating evidence hidden a long time ago, in a safe deposit box with Mary!s name on it. Zyklon A team of archaeologists uncover an unnished Nazi concentration camp deep in the forests of Poland. This camp is different than others, built with strangely ornate and gothic buildings, including a sinister temple to an unknown god. One ambitious archaeologist theorizes that this camp was the Nazi!s last ditch effort to win World War 2, built specically to perform a diabolically ritual: resurrect Hitler and restore the Third Reich. The project director already knows this, because he!s secretly working with the camp!s original designer, now 104 years old. Both devout Nazi!s, both want to see the ritual completed. But they need an ambitious young archaeologist's help, and a few human sacrices. Foster City Streets An overworked, overstressed, and lonely Social Worker wonders if one of her foster kids might be a serial killer after a string of young girls disappear. Or she wonders if she is falling for the tall, dark, handsome detective. So much so that she starts hoping someone will go missing just so she can talk to him. To hold his hand, she might go even further than that. Cycle A strange mailman obsessively watches the people on his route. Carefully choosing certain victims, the mailman poisons a piece of mail for each, then abducts the victims to a ranch in the middle of nowhere. The victims come to at the ranch, and realize there is no way out. They realized they are kidnapped prisoners, and begin to panic. But slowly they will appreciate the idyllic moments of the simple life. Growing plants, tending to the animals, nding human companionship. Connections missing in their typical lives. After thirty days and nights, the mailman opens the gate, allowing the prisoners to leave. Now free, they don!t want to go back. But they must. It!s part of the cycle. They must nd others.

Afterlife A young woman crashes her car on a remote stretch of highway. She is saved by a mysterious bearded man who stays with her until the cops eventually arrive. The near death experience changes her. She nds spiritual peace, but also a strange obsession to sabotage cars. So others can share her experience. A police detective investigating the accidents is shot and almost killed when he is visited by the bearded man. His obsession becomes shooting someone. To let them nd nd the peace he!s found. Their interweaving tales will ultimately reveal the bearded man!s identity: the Grim Reaper. And he has recruited them. Portrait of a Murder A brash director is looking for an actor to play the lead role in his movie. The part is for a young husband, who!s recently lost his wife to murder. The director believes his potential masterpiece will only be properly served if he can nd an actor who has really suffered the murder of his actual wife. But the potential list of actors is very small. None of them meet with the director!s approval. To move forward with his work, he must nd the actor, then murder the wife himself. After being inappropriately hounded by the director for months, the widowed actor nally relents, believing the role will be cathartic. His performance is so masterful and loved by critics, the actor decides to stop worrying about the similarities between his wife!s murder and the movie!s plot. The Bargain Three childhood friends scrape by a living working in a Pennsylvania coal mine. One of the friends always dreams big. And his current get rich scheme involves nding gold in the jungles of Panama. He talks his pals into pulling up stakes and moving their families down to Central America. They sink all their money into a small mining claim and simple tools. Hardship strikes. The claim produces nothing but clay and broken drill bits. One of the children contacts malaria. The two more reserved friends drown their sorrows with alcohol and prepare to turn on the third, for getting them into this mess.

When they nd him, he is nishing a strange deal with a mysterious man dressed in black. He promises their luck has changed. And it does. They strike gold the next day. And miraculously, the child sick with malaria is completely cured. The gold is money beyond their wildest dreams. But before they leave Panama, they will have to pay their side of the bargain, an equally high price. Love with a Bullet An angry loner named Luke obsesses over guns and writes ction about blowing up his high school. This attracts the unexpected attention of Amy, the prettiest girl in school, and they bond over their shared hatred of Washington High. As they become closer, Luke nds his new crush is melting his anger away, as hard as he tries to hold on. Which is hard, because Amy is more and more obsessed about bringing his ctional stories into the real world. Before the big day, Luke discovers Amy!s dark secret: the most popular teacher in school is abusing her. Luke will pre-empt their plans to shoot up the school together with a plan of his own: take revenge on the teacher that did this to her. The Countdown In the future, a space station is built into the crust of a distant moon to observe a lush planet below. Due to a careless test, the coolant system for the on board nuclear reactor fails, leaving the station inevitably doomed within seven days. (The same situation that destroyed Chernobyl.) The crew members become neurotic, stressed beyond their limits by the unending countdown and ooding radiation. Ultimately, when faced with the chance to save the reactor but die from radiation, they instead choose to ee, leaving the station to explode along with the moon, even though this fate will ruin the planet below as well. Their madness prevents them from realizing they are eeing Earth!s moon, whose imminent destruction will end human life as we know it. Dog Days Luther is a loner, wandering the back roads of the America south, trying to escape memories of a dirty war and guilty acts. A beautiful woman named Ivy nds him on the side of the road and picks him up. Luther!s next memory is waking up, covered in blood. So much blood. Ivy!s blood. But Ivy!s body is missing.

Before he can escape, Luther is discovered by Ivy!s daughter Megan. The cops arrive and Luther is thrown in jail. He doesn!t know if he is innocent or guilty, but he knows he is certainly capable. Two weeks later, Ivy reappears, showing scars but otherwise okay. She claims Luther attacked her, but because of the confusion of charges, Luther is granted bail. Luther is tracked down by Megan at the outbound bus stop. Something is wrong with her mother Ivy. She!s different. Together, Luther and Melissa investigate Ivy!s two week disappearance, a trail that involves Ivy!s secret work for the Department of Defense, and ultimately to Ivy!s dead body. The new Ivy is a sophisticated impostor, running a conspiracy involving human trafcking and grisly experimentation at the behest of a ruthless pharmaceutical magnate. Shiva A poor coyote smuggles illegal immigrants across the Mexico/U.S. border to feed his family. One day, he gets an offer from a mysterious America woman. She needs to make ve trips, but is willing to pay a ridiculous sum for his services. The coyote is suspicious of the things she!s bringing with her, but he needs money. Only after she murders fellow immigrants does he tell the authorities. But no one believes a coyote. So he has to cross into America and stop her plan himself: To release chemical weapons across the SW United States in a massive false ag terrorist operation. Love for Murder A professional but guilt ridden killer nally meets the man of her dreams, a soft spoken but gritty photo-journalist. The only problem: he is her next target. Someone important doesn!t want his next story to hit the press. She chooses love and retires, but nds herself bored and uncertain about her coming marriage. When a hit almost claims her and her ance, she must become the killer once again, and save them. But the killing reawakens something in her, and she wonders if she will ever be satised without it. Virus Chasers

A young doctor works at a San Francisco HIV/AIDS clinic, where he is shocked to see his former girlfriend, now deathly ill. The doctor tests himself, and discovers he too is HIV positive. A frightening new contagious disease strikes the San Francisco homeless population. The aficted bleed from every orice, become aggressive, and suffer excruciating pain, before nally succumbing. The disease is so contagious that nearly everyone is aficted, except miraculously the AIDS patients, including the doctor. He realizes that HIV/AIDS provides immunity against this new disease, and must decide whether to willingly infect the lines of desperate people forming outside his door. Fat Cat In the future, food is scarce. Fields are fallow. Livestock is so rare a cow is worth millions. Only the richest can afford it. The rest of the population survives on Syntho, food which looks and tastes like plastic. It causes teeth to weaken and fall out; skin rashes; headaches; etc. This breeds discontent amongst the masses. Led by a young rebrand reporter named Maro, they are ready to revolt. The government has a solution to quell the uprising: a new type of food called Proto. It!s grown in a lab, but it!s a completely organic process. The food tastes better and solves the malnutrition caused by Syntho. Problem solved, but Maro is suspicious. He discovers the source of Proto: reclaimed human excrement. The poor are literally being fed the crap being ushed by the rich. 11:01 Molly is on her honeymoon, which she is going to celebrate by BASE jumping from the Three Gorges Bridge. During the descent, her parachute malfunctions and she slams into the ground below. The next moment, she wakes up in her hotel bed next to her husband. It!s the morning of the jump, she!s still alive, and assumes her previous experience to be a dream. The moment of the jump, her parachute malfunctions again, and her life ends on the same patch of rocky ground. The next moment, she wakes up again, preparing for her jump. This cycle will repeat, until Molly realizes that somehow, she has been given a second chance, and decides she has to cancel the jump.

But while driving home, Molly is killed in a car crash, at the same moment her jump was scheduled. Again, she wakes up in bed, day starting over. No matter what she does, life will nd a way to kill her a 11:01. She will realize this is not a second chance, but a living hell. Cutting Parts Mitch is a macho baseball player losing his career to bum knees. Next he loses his wife to another player and his fortune to alcohol. Blaming his knees, Mitch develops Body Integrity Identity Disorder. He has an obsessive belief that his knees don!t belong on his body and dreams of having his legs amputated. Doctors refuse to help and Mitch sinks to rock bottom, where he meets a pre-op transexual named Lolly with a similar problem. Doctors refuse to remove Lolly"s man parts because he a diagnosed schizophrenic. These two men unexpectedly bond. Together, the head to Mexico, chasing down a rumor of a Doctor willing to cut anything. But is their problem more than their unwanted parts? Double Blind A wife named Jill travels the world as a high power pharmaceutical executive. But that!s a cover for her real identity: CIA interrogator. Part of the cover is her boring lawyer husband, Stanley. The CIA orders Jill to travel to Poland, to a CIA black site. They have just captured a member of the newest terror threat: IRIS. Jill begins her gruesome work of torture and interrogation. But when she removes the prisoner!s hood, she nds her husband Stanley underneath. Stanley also has a secret identity, which he!s used to hack into Jill!s CIA connections and compromised all her work. Jill must hide the security leaks she!s allowed to happen, while at the same time rescuing Stanley. She!s so impressed with his trade craft, she!s nds herself falling in love for reals. Daddy!s Little Girl Amy is an abused mother struggling to raise her three kids. When her husband disappears, she assumes he!s run off with some whore. She never calls the police.

Two weeks later, Amy notices a smell coming from underneath their mobile home. It!s her husband!s corpse. She almost calls the cops, until she realizes her daughter is acting strange. Amy wonders if her daughter could possibly be responsible. She!s barely 14 and barely 100 lbs. How could she kill a grown man? She couldn!t, Amy decides. She cleans up the mess and refuses to ask questions. What she gets is another body, a missing Sheriff!s Deputy, decomposing underneath the upturned kiddie pool. Trauma Eyes Izzy is a cocky young med student. She performs a botched experimental lobotomy on a young homeless kid, turning him into a raving lunatic. Ten years later, Izzy is still traumatized by the experience. She!s become a coroner to avoid as many (living) people as possible. She thinks she!s nally put the past behind her, until the bodies of doctors and nurses start showing up frequently in her morgue; each one dead from brain injury. Around the city, other doctors and nurses become raving mad, also suffering brain injury. Izzy realizes is must be her rst patient, the one with the half carved brain. And that means she!s responsible. Clarity Two stories split together: The rst story follows a pair of scientists. They are among a handful of survivors ghting against a Zombie apocalypse. Together they race to nd a cure before their lab is overrun. The second story follows the same two scientists, Pre-Apocalypse. They are young and brash, as they develop a miracle drug to make human immortality a reality, while falling in love in the process. The intertwine of stories reveals the scientists cure the Zombie Plague, then reveals they are actually the cause. Gas Chamber Love Ronny has an irresistible crush on his beautiful dorm mate. She is out of his league, but he learns she has a strange obsession with serial killers.

Ronny changes his major to forensic science. He hopes that if he becomes a serial killer, he might have a chance with his crush after all. He just has to get over being squeamish, and his fear of blood. The Blackmail Club Jess leads a club of high school girls dedicated to blackmail. They ensnare teachers and parents with pictures of compromising situations. The money ows in.... Until the new principal shuts down their operation, threatening to send them to jail. Jess tries to seduce him, to compromise him. But the principal is not interested. He!s interested in something much worse. Murder is the only thing that turns him on, and Jess is his new target. So many people want her dead, it!s an easy frame. A Spire to Windward Mary is a young psychiatrist working in a mental ward. Allen is an incorrigible mental patient, mired in the delusion that he!s spent most of his life kidnapped by Aliens. Mary believes the delusion is a defense mechanism, a ction invented to protect Allen from traumatic childhood memories; something to which Mary can relate. They bond over shared stories of loneliness, similar except Mary!s are from backwoods Louisiana. Allen!s are from a UFO, ying past Alpha Centauri. A heavy smoker, Mary is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Not knowing what else to do, she continues working, trying to hide her condition, her friendship with Allen providing comfort. But Allen says he can do more. He can cure her. He just needs to be let out, so he can access a radio telescope and contact his Alien friends. Raging Gun Walter is a lonely single father raising a teenage daughter in Sacramento. When a drug overdose leaves her in a coma, Walter snaps and turns vigilante, using skills learned in the army. His justice is swift and gruesome. His target is anyone who deals drugs. Liz is the detective assigned to the case. She!s a lonely single mother raising a troubled and addicted teenage son. She!s poised to arrest Walter, until she sees the positive effect he!s having on the cleaning up the city!s drug problem.

When her son goes clean rather than risk the wraith of the unknown Vigilante, something she!s tried and failed herself for years, Detective Liz wonders if Walter might have the right approach after all. Rapture Nick and Jane are longterm sweethearts. Marriage is the next step, but their extreme religious differences make it difcult. Nick is a devout Catholic, Jane is an atheist. This difference comes to a head when a red star appears in the night sky, and people around the globe begin to vanish into thin air. Extreme weather causes ooding and famine. Outbreaks of bird u and ebola kill large numbers of people. Nick declares it the Rapture, proof of his beliefs. He and Jane are the next to vanish. They reappear in Heaven, with the rest of the vanished. Everyone looks young, healthy, and happy. Every need is fullled. But clues will to reveal to Jane that this Heaven is only a facade. The truth is: Aliens are taking over the earth, while they are stuck inside an Alien prison ship. Kids World Max and Katie are two former child prodigies. They meet in a mental asylum for disturbed teenagers. Each will be the rst friend either of them has ever had. Together, they decide it!s the adults that are in wrong for keeping them locked up. With the help of their ward mates, Max and Katie put the adults on secret trail. The verdict is guilty. Punishment: poison the staff with the same medicine they like to dish out. But they are not going to stop there. Now free, Max and Katie decide every adult is guilty. They have plenty of evidence. And plenty of supporters. My Guardian A drug dealer overdoses and dies. But modern medicine resurrects him 10 minutes later. Ten minutes after that, he walks out of the Emergency Room, looking for his next x. Outside, he nds a beautiful woman crying. She is his Guardian Angel, but she!s been red. Her only chance to redeem herself: keep him alive for the next 30 days. But she will have to do it as a mortal.

Without a Guardian Angel to protect him, the world is a dangerous place for a drug dealer/addict. Fortunately, a beautiful woman doesn!t need to be an Angel to have mysterious powers. The Straight Man Willy is a careful burglar. He stakes out the property long beforehand, waiting for the perfect moment. Right now he has his eye on a beautiful Victorian. Loaded with riches. Easy access through the old garage door. Willy makes his move. But the house isn!t empty. He nds a woman being attacked; she!s begging for help. Willy grabs a re poker and strikes. One... Two... Three... The attacker falls to the oor, dead. The woman cries, thanking Willy for saving her life. Then she hands him a $5000 brick from her purse and tells him to run. Because Willy just killed a very powerful man. This time, Willy is too slow, and the police get there rst. Willy is caught--red handed. After he is arrested, the woman changes her tune, refuting Willy!s claim of self defense. Willy escapes from jail, knowing he is the only one who can get to the bottom of this mess. If they catch him, he!s going down for murder. Drowner Michael!s wife just left him. But their marriage was broken the day their daughter Julia went missing. Now he spends his time haunting the Internet, searching for anything about his daughter. He spends the last of his money of private investigators. But the searches are always fruitless, until today. Michael nds a trace of Julia in the Pacic Northwest, supposedly involved in a cult lead by a strange man named Alyzar. Michael nds Alyzar, but not his daughter. Alyzar explains that Julia had undergone their most sacred ritual, and the non-initiated are forbidden from seeing her. Under Alyzar!s sway, Michael is convinced to partake in the nal ritual himself. Alyzar will hold him underwater until he drowns. He will then be brought back and allowed to see his daughter. Public Relations A handsome young drug kingpin named Robbie decides to retire while he still has a choice. He nds the Hollywood nightlife suits him much better. Until pictures of his gory crimes splash across the tabloids. Soon, everyone everyone hates him. He!s a social pariah.

Livia is the town!s best P.R. shark. She doesn!t think Robbie!s image can be changed. He gives her an unlimited budget and challenges her to try. Soon, Robbie is feeding the homeless, building women!s shelters, providing scholarships. Everything. Robbie is so popular he!s thinking about running for mayor. He wants to do real good. But no drug dealer is going to rule Los Angeles. A special police squad is formed specically to take Robbie down, by any means necessary. Early Release Lenny is a brain surgeon who is unjustly imprisoned for murder. In his cell, Lenny lays awake, night after night, listening to the sounds of the prison jungle. He is the only one to notice that some of the prisoners are being taken out at midnight, then brought back before morning. Soon, a long list of prisoners is on the early release program. All are participants in the midnight eld trips. Lenny wonders if he can join. Until they take his cell mate. When the cell mate returns, he is different. More compliant. There are tiny bruises around his eyes. Lenny recognizes them as a sign of arthroscopic brain surgery, a technique perfected by Lenny himself, and his partner. A device to control behavior has been inserted into the prisoners! brains. But prisoners are just the test phase. Phase two will have them inserted into anyone who is arrested. World War Y A small time band of college terrorists spend their time vandalizing statues and monuments to famous women. They call themselves the Left Hand. They hate women. Opposing them is a group of women who hate men just as much: Eve Rising. Whenever the Left Hand strikes, Eve Rising strikes in revenge. The two groups, typically non-violent, come to blows when they confront each other in front of an exhibit featuring images of Cleopatra. One man is killed, and one woman. The non-violence is over. Eventually, hoping to stop the escalating violence and avoid the police, the leaders of both groups come together. The rebrand Jacob, and the seductively manipulative Bethany. While trying to underhand each other, both fall head over heals. But love is something their groups will not accept.

The Last Recess Melissa just graduated with her teaching credential. Now she is Turner Elementary!s newest teacher. Most rookies start out as substitutes, but Mrs. Sanders died very unexpectedly and the school needed an immediate replacement. Teaching is a challenge but Melissa is a natural with the kids. Except for a peculiarly formal boy named Thomas. Melissa knows something about the boy is different. Maybe he is being abused? Thomas is different because he is not a little boy. He!s 11 on the outside, but his brain was made conscious in a lab 35 years ago. A brain in a tank was trained to be a ruthless killer, then transplanted into a little boy. Next year, Thomas will move on to Junior High. Attending the same school as the President!s youngest daughter. Thomas!s mission will be to kidnap, and potential kill her. But rst Thomas has to make it through fth grade. He!s having trouble acting like a kid, and it!s making people suspicious. Especially Melissa, who!s starting to think Mrs. Sanders death might not have been an accident. The Peace First Massacre It!s 2015, and the U.S. has invaded North Korea, forcing the government to reinstitute the draft. Protest movements break out across the country. Janus is a charismatic philosophy major at Kensington State. His calm demeanor and eloquence have thrust him to the head of Peace First, the college!s protest movement. Karina is his girlfriend. She sees Janus!s unlimited potential, where he does not. Peace First gains followers, but has little real impact. Karina starts believing that Janus!s dedication to non-violence is a mistake. At a massive gathering scheduled for Memorial Day, Karina will change the policy. She hires an ex-Russian sniper named Vlad. During the protest, he res on the police from a hidden spot, implicating the protestors. The police re back, killing 24 unarmed students. With no evidence of the sniper, the dead students are seen as martyrs. Masses rush to join Peace First, giving it real power on the national stage, enough power to stop the war. But Janus will discover what Karina has done, and be forced to decide what peace is really worth. Sea Wars

Captain Emily Archer is the rst woman given command of a Nuclear Attack Submarine by the U.S. Navy, the USS Seawolf. Her shakedown mission: investigate a malfunctioning sonar array at the bottom of the Vostok Sea. While the sub is traveling through the Pacic deep, the earth is attacked by Aliens, crippling the government. When Captain Archer eventually discovers the situation, First Ofcer Edwards will demand a retreat, under threat of mutiny. But Captain Archer will continue her mission, realizing that the damaged sonar array is hiding the Alien mothership. Destroying it will end the invasion in one stroke, but she will have to evade the Russians and the Chinese just to get there. The Diablo Valley Disaster 1971 - Three mile island. The worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history. A level 5 containment breach. In response, Congress bans construction of new nuclear facilities. 2015 - Diablo Valley. Dr. Marcus is an eminent nuclear physicist with powerful friends. He has successfully lobbied for the repeal of the nuclear power ban, and prepares to open the rst such new facility in the U.S. in forty years. Nadia is an engineer working to ignite the uranium fuel rods in the core. She is the rst to notice a problem. Strange radiation is streaming through the lead shielding of the experimental reactor core. It!s causing strange behavioral problems amongst the engineering teams. Lt. Paulson is in charge of the National Guard platoon protecting the plant. Nadia insists he implement evacuation procedures, but Dr. Marcus proclaims everything is under control. Three people, from three different levels of command, with three different motives, will watch the disaster unfold. Dr. Marcus will cover it up, Nadia will be the rst witness the horror rsthand, and Lt. Paulson will be stuck in the middle. Chernobyl was a Level 7 nuclear disaster. This will be something completely different. The victims are not dying, they!re changing. Excision Dr. Conroy is head of the Advanced Genomic Research Laboratory. They have mapped the human genome, and are now preparing to clone an extinct animal, the wooly mammoth, for the rst time. In the midst of the project, Conroy wakes up severely mentally disturbed. A psychiatrist diagnoses acute onset Schizophrenia, and Conroy is conned to a mental hospital.

Conroy will sort through his delusions, and realize the source of his mental disturbance is a brain operating on the same wavelength as his own. One of his colleagues has secretly cloned Conroy. The clone and the original share the same thoughts, which manifests as severe emotional disturbance. Conroy will have to nd his clone, and destroy it. In the process, he will realize he is only a test subject, and clones for several powerful individuals, including the President, are being prepared for roll out. The Hades Event Maxwell is the head of the government!s top secret biological and chemical weapons program. In the middle of the night, Max is rushed to a secret meeting in the Oval Ofce. Three large asteroids have impacted the earth. The areas are remote and the initial damage is minimal. The real disaster is the dust kicked into the atmosphere. Without proper sunlight, plants and trees across the globe are dying. The CIA chief predicts the global oxygen supply will be depleted in less than thirty days. Deaths from suffocation will begin soon. Max is given a simple order, develop a pathogen to reduce human population, in the most humane way possible, before everyone is dead. Maxwell understands the impossible situation, and gets to work. His partner Allison is having a harder time with her moral qualms. She suspects the government!s motives are sinister. The Tallahassee Two Step Michael is a professional thief. But his last job went south. He and his girlfriend Amber were forced to split or face arrest. She took the diamonds, and Michael took to the road, leading the cops away. Now Amber is missing, along with the diamonds. To sustain himself, Michael must pull off another score. His target: a small time bank outside Tallahassee. An easy job. Until word of the plan leaks to the local sheriff. During the robbery, Michael is surrounded, setting up a hostage situation. But Michael is crafty and charismatic. He knows many of the hostages are farm owners who have suffered at the hands of the bank. Michael will recruit the hostages to his own side, against the corrupt Sheriff. But one of the deputies is Michael!s lost love Amber. She has her own reason to be concerned about the bank job, namely $50 million in diamonds stored in safe deposit box under a

dead man!s name. Money she has promised to split with the Sheriff if she can get it out, because now is the perfect chance. Parasite Matt is a smart young Boston doctor, doing research at a pharmaceutical company. Allison is his ance, a lawyer. She is normally utterly professional and organized, but she begins to change as the wedding date approaches, becoming sensuous, absent minded, and childlike. Her strangest new compulsion is a desire to see the Pacic Ocean. A desire that is slowly becoming overwhelming. Matt notices the rats in his lab also share an obsessive need to go west. He realizes he has infected his wife with a parasite. Now she is infecting others. Matt tries to prevent her from leaving. But Allison is more sure about this then she!s ever been about anything. She!s found her mission. She!s at peace. And she!s gaining followers. She!s also knows the law and Matt can do little to stop her. They reach the Pacic. Led by Allison, the hordes of infected throw themselves into the ocean in a mass drowning. But the drowned are not dead. Underwater, they are changing. In nine months, these new humans will suddenly emerge from the ocean, with the goal of infecting every human on earth. The Deputy Sheriff Maxwell is brand new to his post in the small town of Truth and Consequences, Arizona. A gang of outlaws set up shop outside of town. They are protecting the American end of a secret tunnel crossing under the border to Mexico and controlled by a ruthless cartel. When Maxwell attempts to intervene, two deputies are assassinated and Maxwell!s pregnant wife is put into a coma. The Sheriff is looking for a particular sort of justice so he heads to the supermax prison located in his jurisdiction. Vincent is the prison!s most dangerous inmate. He!s currently waging a one man war against the Mexican Maa, the group controlling the prison, so his interests neatly coincide with the Sheriff!s. Sheriff Maxwell will take custody of Vincent, and make him a Deputy, and allow him to weave a path of destruction. Stopping him will be harder. The Jack of Hearts

Mick is a detective in the Las Vegas Police Department. He gambles his life savings on a spin of the roulette wheel, and wins. He uses the money to buy his new wife Amy the house of her dreams. Happily ever after, until Amy is stricken with a rare disease which destroys her heart valves. She needs a heart transplant, or she will die. But Amy has a very rare blood type. Finding a suitable donor in time will be next to impossible. Mick does not like the odds, so he nds he own solution, starting with a surgeon in debt to the mob. Mick can clear the debt, in exchange for an off the books surgery. The hardest part will be nding a heart with the same rare blood type. Mick starts with the criminal blood records in the statewide database. He nds the ex-con with the heart his wife needs, and he extracts it. Amy is fully cured by the transplant. In fact, she is stronger then ever. But her personality is changing to match the brutal ex-con whose heart she carries. Oceans The Medusa is a small shing trawler out of Hawaii, led by the brash young Captain Evert. His rst mate is Sam, a disgraced doctor with a pregnant wife and no where else to turn for work. Out at sea, Evert!s foolhardy actions lead the boat into hurricane, and the Medusa is shipwrecked on a desert island. The boat!s electronics and engines are totally destroyed, and the crew is stranded. When no rescue arrives, they realize they must fend for themselves. After casualties, the crew learn to survive on the island, embracing a more primitive way of life, while Sam comes up with an audacious plan to turn Medusa into a sailboat. A working sail is nally built, and the surviving crew return to sea triumphant. The journey home on the sailboat Medusa is treacherous. She runs into another hurricane. But thanks to Evert!s self sacrice, Medusa survives, and eventually nds her way home. Medusa pulls into port, and Sam can see his wife standing on the pier, crying, staring out at the ocean. She is mourning his death. Sam rushes to embrace her. But his arms go right through her, because he is a ghost, along with his crew. The Midnight Patrol

Amber is a rookie cop working her rst graveyard beat for the Detroit Police Department. Matt is her formidable, veteran partner. He has heroic tough guy status amongst the DPD, and Amber idolizes him. While responding to a typical crackhead freakout call, Amber lets down her guard and the crazed junkie attacks Matt, biting him on the arm. Matt is forced to shoot and kill. Matt begins to change, developing hyper acute senses at the ability to feel human presence through walls. He!s the most effective cop on police force. But Matt starts to become sick, unable to keep down food and conned to his bed. The doctors nd nothing wrong, but Matt is developing an overwhelming craving for blood. Amber has a connection at a blood bank. She steels a supply and learns how to inject a transfusion into Matt!s arm. Slowly she nurses him back to health, falling in love in the process. But Matt!s craving is getting worse. Amber nds him drinking the blood supply, and obsessing over drinking from a warm human, like her. Amber loves Matt, but the only way they can be together is if she infects herself. Flashlight Nick and Katie are urban explorers. They discover a secret laboratory buried deep under Manhattan. It is lled with old reels of 8mm lm contained handheld footage of a secret government program from the fties. Operation Flashlight. After the Los Alamos nuclear tests in the 1940s, a strange boy was born in nearby Albuquerque. He is the rst human to demonstrate scientically veried telepathic abilities. But he discovers other powers as well. Super strength, imperviousness to injury--a literal super human. Nick and Katie watch the lms in order, and it becomes obvious problems arise as the boy gets older. He can be seen talking to himself, and showing erratic bursts of emotion. Then the lm abruptly ends. There is a vault in the center of the lab. After Nick and Katie nally manage to open it, they nd a solid lead and granite sarcophagus inside. The boy was sealed within long ago, to grow into a man inside the box, waiting for someone to nd him. Stealing Gravity

Elliot is a brilliant young college physics major with a gambling problem. Now he can!t pay his tuition and his ruthless bookie Marty is after him. To solve his problem, Elliot invents a machine able to make small changes to the the effect of gravity in a localized area. He installs it under the basketball court. By strategically turning his machine off and on, Elliot can affect the outcome of the basketball games. Elliot!s bets on his college basketball team, and they are always winners (at home.) Marty is suspicious, so is the NCAA competition committee. But so is Elliot!s girlfriend, a fellow physics major. Her tests reveal the orbit of the moon is changing. If the gravitational anomalies continue, a global catastrophe will result. Ozarkia Four students of an American Evangelical College are sent deep into the Appalachian Wilderness, a land of strange rituals and customs, to spread the word of God. But the students are shunned, led by a strange minister and his congregation, and run out of town. The students believe this is a test from God, and secretly return. Using a handheld camera, the students secretly document the practices of this strange church, including a funeral, during which the minister raises a dead body back to life, creating something like a zombie. The students are split on whether this is a religious miracle, or an abomination. They will have to decide soon, because one of their brethren is dying, and the rest will have to decide whether she should be resurrected. The Compliance Factor Five astronauts are sent to explore Saturn!s icy moon Europa. The journey is fteen years, one way, so the crew are put into cryo-sleep for the extend of the trip. As the spaceship approaches Europa, an ice volcano on the surface erupts, slingingshotting the ship back towards earth. Fifteen years later, 30 years total, the crew will nally awake from cryo-sleep and nd themselves back home, their trip a failure. But the earth is different. The world IQ has dropped precipitously, and now the smartest humans have the mental capacity of a normal ten year old. Most people work do menial labor, mostly digging mines for an unknown purpose. The government provides food and shelter. Cheep, fake, and processed, designed to appeal to kids, like evert aspect of society.

The astronauts will discover a contaminate in the water supply. A contaminate originally from Europa. Their trip has brought something back, and they have been asleep a lot longer than 30 years. Secret alien overseers are forcing humans to search for something deep in the earth!s crust, something lost a long time ago. Sometime to allow the aliens to reclaim the earth for themselves.