PAID IN LEAD: Thriller Screenplay

A classical Los Angeles noir built on a modern psychological reveal. Ex LAPD homicide detective Jack Morrison, now sixty two, runs a one man PI shop and takes a case from a beautiful client looking for her missing husband. As he investigates he discovers the husband is already dead, the wife is a femme fatale executing a two year plan, and the blood on his own cuff is already dry. What follows is not a whodunit but a whether to accept, as Jack confronts a diagnosis he has been avoiding and pieces together a truth he cannot remember authoring. Noir classical on the surface, psychological erosion underneath. Comparables: Memento, The Long Goodbye, Insomnia, Shutter Island.

Jack Morrison, sixty two, ex LAPD homicide turned private eye, takes a missing husband case that reopens a 2008 file he thought was closed. What he finds two days later is a body in a pool house, the dry blood of a killing he cannot remember committing, and a notebook full of warnings written in his own handwriting.

• Genre: Thriller
• 98 pages
• Language: EN
• Format: feature screenplay, instant PDF download
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