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CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE
By Jaye Lowe

GENRE: Drama
LOGLINE:

A newly enlightened and peace-loving government assassin is coerced into one last job to save his politically connected family from federal prosecution for their past “:deniable” sins

SYNOPSIS:

We begin with McCauley Haven whose career as a government spook and a wet work operative was the stuff of legends until

the fateful day when he pointed his fully loaded, well -oiled and cleaned weapon at a target and the most ludicrous series of

events left one man without a hand and one man questioning everything he ever believed.

Like most people McCauley has a father. A father who adopted him and his sister, Eva, under slightly illegal circumstances.

Haven is an African American and Eva is an exotic mixture of faraway races. Their father trained them both to be lethal,

dispensers of death.

This father is Jonah Haven, a lifetime soldier turned PMC running a small group of hitmen off the books for the good ole’ US of

A. Jonah finds himself painted in a corner when political winds shift, and his deniable operations are put under the microscope

by the new administration.

There is one particular operation he doesn’t want uncovered and it goes a little something like this: What if you were locked in

mortal combat with a schoolyard bully who never showed up to the schoolyard? Instead, he installed cling wrap on your toilets

and placed cherry bombs in your locker. Would you keep showing up to the schoolyard flexing your muscles and

shadowboxing in the dark? Eventually, you’d find a bigger cherry bomb and put it in his locker, right? This was the Haven way.

Jonah’s plan was to circumnavigate the State Department and find a cache of misplaced portable nuclear weapons and set

them off in four Iranian cities. A destabilized Middle East means no more bullies hiding under the swing set.

Finding the weapons was a problem that involved other dingy characters. One such character is a ranking official in the Iranian

Government. A canary who if he would sing, would sing a song in a key so terrible that might land Jonah in Guantanamo.

So, Jonah turns to his most reliable asset to make the canary go away.

The reliable asset is his son McCauley Haven, who, as of late, is not so reliable. We run into Haven when returns to DC after

spending a year in the Tibetan mountains mediating. Where he swore off violence in all its many forms. Rather than a squared

away, sharp and duplicitous spy we find Haven a wandering, disillusioned hippie who writes and performs the worst spoken

word poetry to ever exist.

“I need you, son”. These are the words that yank him back into the darkness and deceit of international espionage. Over the

course of the first season Haven is tasked with the job of assassinating the canary, but to do so he must strike during the only

time the bird is not in flight. That time and place is a peace conference in Pakistan mere months away. In order to be invited to

the event Haven must make a promiscuous diplomat fall in love with him. Along the way, Haven and his slightly insane sister,

Eva must avoid government spooks, avoid assassins, hide accidental murders and uncover their father’s nefarious

machinations all to prevent a nuclear detonation that could plunge the world’s most powerful countries into a third world war.

Those who survive will be changed internally by walking close to a line they have spent years avoiding

Nathaniel Baker

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