KILLING FOG: Historical Screenplay
London, December 1952. The Great Smog kills thousands. A Ministry of Health analyst has the verified body count. Her government has ordered silence, citing the election. She has three days, a classified file, and a journalist whose motives she cannot fully trust. A political thriller built from a real environmental catastrophe that was officially dismissed as weather.
When the Great Smog of London kills four thousand people in five days, junior Ministry of Health official Edith Cross receives a verified mortality analysis that contradicts the government position. Her minister instructs her to falsify the data before the election. Working alone through procedural channels, Cross routes the evidence to a Parliamentary committee. Her mother dies in a hospital that has run out of oxygen. Cross presents the mortality tables to the Parliamentary Health Committee using a procedural mechanism never before invoked. An official inquiry is announced. The Clean Air Act passes four years later.
- Genre: Historical
- 106 pages
- Language: EN
- Format: feature screenplay, instant PDF download
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