SUNSET'S HEAT Episode 1: Inherently Dangerous

SUNSET'S HEAT Episode 1: Inherently Dangerous

Television (One-hour) · Sci-fi · 60 pages
Status: Spec
In a kleptocratic privatized future, a convicted cop must offer herself as a mail-order bride to infiltrate lucrative alien DNA mining rackets on Mars where women are few, far between, and worth their weight in mold.
Written by Brian Murphy
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Brian Murphy
S Lake Tahoe, CA
From Sunset Boulevard to Off-Broadway, Brian Murphy has enlightened students, cracked-up audiences and honed his skills in over 10,000 hours of teaching, writing, and performing with the likes of The Groundlings, M.I.C.E., and The L.A. Connection, as well as teaching at CSUN, Chico State, and Lake Tahoe Community College.

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In Sunset's Heat, Earth is overcrowded and polluted, and Mars is a penal colony. Our protagonist, Sunset Blake, is a disgraced vice cop who finds herself caught in a corporate conspiracy involving a priceless alien mold that holds a few secrets of its own. Sunset is sentenced to a mining colony on Phobos, but is offered a deal: go to New Brisbane, a lawless city on Mars as a mail order bride, and retrieve a sample of the elusive "living mold" in exchange for her freedom. She accepts the mission, despite the dangers, betrayals, the who know what that awaits her. On her journey, Sunset encounters a colorful cast of characters, including Nono O’Toole, a rebellious assassin with her own agenda (kill Sunset for one thing), and Harker, an ambitious agent from the OWNED organization, who thinks he owns Sunset, but nobody owns Sunset. Nobody.