His mother’s suspicious death forces a Manhattan doctor to confront his political ambivalence when he discovers the government’s using him as a tool in its scheme to control healthcare costs by euthanizing the elderly and infirm.

SYNOPSIS:

A cross between The Firm and Person of Interest, with a touch of Coma, Kill Switch is a commercially exciting project with a limited cast and limited locations.

Kill Switch is a political drama about a well-liked, but self-absorbed and politically ambivalent software designer, Dr. Noah Holden Miller, who discovers an international government conspiracy to control medical care costs by euthanizing the elderly and infirm.

Noah developed a program to track medical records of everyone in the world for MedTech, the company that controls the system. He was told the purpose of the program is to locate organ transplant matches, provide DNA ID’s in mass casualties, and stem epidemics like Ebola and COVID

Noah and his mother, Maggie, are so close that Noah bought the brownstone across the street when he and his now ex-wife married.

Desperate for grandchildren, Maggie sets Noah up with Natalie, a beautiful hedge fund manager with a sketchy past. Noah falls hard for Natalie and it looks like they are a great match.

Unbeknownst to Noah, Natalie is the daughter of Richard Cromwell, the CEO of MedTech, and Cromwell’s mission for Natalie is to get Noah onto MedTech’s side of the conspiracy.

Maggie, a youthful 65, falls while out running. With no obvious injury, Noah is stunned when Maggie dies days later. Though grief-stricken, at Maggie’s memorial service, Noah suddenly becomes aware of the number of lifelong friends and neighbors who are missing.

The clock begins to tick when Noah and his best friend and co-worker, Aaron, discover that a computer error placed Maggie into a coma and that MedTech is a front for a coalition of government organizations looking for a solution to the financial burden of an aging population that just doesn’t die.

Through a search of his mother’s medical records, Noah and Aaron discover a “kill switch” is being implanted in every citizen worldwide.Monitoring has been conducted for years via web cams and computerized medical records.

A person’s health is monitored by a centralized computer system. The decision to trigger the kill switch is based on predetermined criteria: length of illness or infirmity, age, cost of medical care, and chances of recovery. Once a determination that the maximum financial threshold is met, a computer triggers the kill switch. Due to age or infirmity, the cause of death is presumed to be natural.

Noah’s college girlfriend, Juliette, always a socially conscious ideologue, reappears in his life to try and warn Noah of the danger he is in and introduce him to the son he doesn’t know he has.

Noah can’t be persuaded by Juliette that Natalie is part of the conspiracy because he believes Natalie when she tells him she’s pregnant. However, Noah is convinced of the conspiracy and accepts Juliette’s help to turn the information they have over to the FBI, along with help from Noah’s son, Holden.

On his way out of MedTech with additional evidence, Noah is caught by Gunther Handel who convinces the police that Noah is stealing private, government property and Noah is thrown in jail.

Before Noah can join Juliette and Holden at the FBI, he goes home to change after the night in jail. Natalie is waiting for Noah, her bags packed and ready to move out on him.

When confronted, Natalie and Noah quarrel. She admits she had hoped they could work things out, but he’s too naive. She admits that she’s part of the conspiracy and that his mother’s death was a computer error.

Natalie won’t let Noah expose the conspiracy when she answers his question as to whether or not the computers can be overridden to kill on command.

Natalie flips a switch and Noah dies. However, Natalie doesn’t know about Juliette and Holden and the fact that they have all of the records of the conspiracy.