'Emergence'

By Peter Devonald

(TV series, seven episodes, 45 mins each)

A potential serial killer contacts the female police leader of a special ops unit. The message is short and simple - 'At Twelve tonight the first of many dies'.

The first episode is a desperate search for who sent the note. It's an impossible task - how do you find someone BEFORE they commit a crime? Killers are arrested. Anyone connected to special ops is questioned. Every lead is followed… But time is running out.

EMERGENCE uses the narrative technique of 24 - but in a new and different way. Every episode is 24 hours - until the final part is in real time.

The series explores not only this super-narrative - but also the Emergence of a strange dark force within the female police leader. Very strange things are happening; her mother isn't her mother; when she looks in the mirror, she sees darkness; she intuitively knows things she couldn't possibly know... The 'serial killer' is somehow linked to her. But the reality is even more shocking.

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PILOT EPISODE
Francis and Haynes give chase to a unknown assailant. They appear to lose him, but Francis intuitively knows that he has gone into the sewers. She tracks him down. He tells her that she's not who she thinks she is, then goes for her gun. Francis shoots and the man dies. But his gun has mysteriously vanished.

Drinking herself into a stupor, Francis is approached by Cain. He chats her up, but she isn't interested. She goes home to sleep, but suffers weird dreams. She wake when someone puts a note underneath her door. The note is short and simple - 'At Twelve tonight the first of many dies'.

The day is a desperate search for who sent the note.

It's an impossible task - how do you find someone BEFORE they commit a crime?

Killers are arrested. Anyone connected to special ops is questioned. Every lead is followed… But time is running out.

Time ticks.

One hour to go.

Francis desperately arrests a murderer who has recently been released. She desperately checks the clock.

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