A female officer finds a mutilated body along an abandoned stretch of highway, uncovering a bloody trail of death stretching from Texas to Arkansas, but without departmental support, she must rely on a rogue federal agent to help her catch this serial murderer.

SYNOPSIS:

Tone:

The Killing meets The House that Jack Built, or what if Ari Aster directed an episode of Law and Order.

Setting:

Cherokee County, Oklahoma - 1999

Our story is based on the FBI's "Highway Serial Killings Initiative,” following a string of bloodshed of over 500 murders, stretching from Texas to Arkansas along Interstate 40.

Samantha Hart (30s), a lieutenant in the Sequoyah County Sheriff's office, discovers the mutilated body of another female victim on the side of an old county road. She's been piecing together a string of murders from Texas to Arkansas along Interstate 40, and this is another disturbing story to add to her files. As most of these women are prostitutes, she's been observing the trade at the local truck stop to see what clues she might unearth.

Heather Hean (20s), a prostitute who works the lot at the local Old 64 Truck Stop, has been the center of Samantha's attention this past month. Heather falls upon a bit of luck when she discovers a duffle bag full of methamphetamine stuffed in a bathroom toilet. She spirits the bag away to her girlfriend, hoping the two of them can sell the drugs and get free of their current desperate situation.

Unfortunately for her, it was left there by Moses Blackrock (50s), a Native American FBI agent paying off bad debts by selling dope. After making his drop, he was expecting a quick return back to the home station in Tulsa, but with a missing bag of meth and a threatening dealer on his ass, he'll have to stay a bit longer.

Finally, we have our killer, the Driver, a shadow that is not fully revealed in the Pilot episode. We witness his methods of brutality and malice, his spirit of grandiosity, and his urge to purify the world from hiding behind falsity.

This episode and the subsequent season are set up as a precursor to the larger true-crime narrative connecting multiple serial killers using the interstate trucking system for the hunting and killing of women. These four main characters are caught in a doomsday tale of death on The Devil's Road.

THE DEVIL'S ROAD