James B Brandt

(WGA-W Registration #1359094; Copyright PAu003424563)

 

Logline: : When the toughest cops in LA stumble into a sophisticated and violent smuggling operation they can't handle, they have to rely on help from a street Kid - a kid who is hiding a lot behind ragged and dirty clothes.

 

Backstory:  The US has split into various independent regions. The entire West Coast has turned into the ultimate nanny state, restricting anything that the government feels is unhealthy - like sugared drinks, caffeine, and candy. After the Immigration Wars, which left the fertile regions of California burned out, fresh fruits and vegetables have joined the smugglers staples. The United States is united no longer and North America has become a patchwork of divergent, rival nations struggling to survive. The smugglers see this as an opportunity to take control of the continent, one region at a time.

 

Synopsis: SAM WHITEWATER (30s), a Native American, and KIM KERASOGA (30s), an Asian American, are the two toughest cops on LA's Police Force. It is 2034 and they are tasked with tracking a gang of vicious black market smugglers who are cornering the market on caffeine drinks, smokes, and untaxed fresh vegetables being smuggled into the Republic of California, a nation that covers the Western Seaboard from Baja to Vancouver. They stumble on a robbery that propels them to the head of the gang's hit list to protect the fact that the smugglers have added armored car robbery to their repertoire. Suddenly, Sam and Lee find themselves in the right place to mess with the wrong people.

 

They manage to slug their way out of a trap and are left with more questions than answers. Walking back to headquarters after barely surviving the ambush, leaving their police car - stripped out by a street gang - behind, the two break-up an attack on a street kid cornered by teenage thugs. Making the mistake of being good Samaritans, they quickly become adopted by the streetwise orphan who they are surprised to learn is not a feisty Caucasian girl - an anomaly in the Republic where Asians, Native Americans, and Hispanics have pushed the other races out of the state.

 

Unaware that the crime syndicate has marked them, the pair walks into dire circumstances only to be saved by their newly-adopted, martial arts expert, street kid. After several clashes, the Syndicate succeeds in capturing Sam and Kim and leaves them hanging up like sides of beef. The pair barely escapes death when the Kid infiltrates the enemy headquarters and springs them seconds before the executions arrive.

 

Then she interferes again when the hour is the darkest. In a tense race against the clock, the three expose a newly laid trap designed to wipe out the elite crime fighting elements of the city's SWAT teams and the para-military State Police units sent to a warehouse rigged to explode thus opening the way for a city-wide take-over by the smugglers and their crooked cronies in government.

 

In a final battle between the elements of chaos and order, Sam is injured. But justice prevails. However, there is a dilemma... who will watch after the injured Sam? The Kid takes a stab at being domesticated and accepts the job, staying around to keep the big Indian in spaghetti. Things are settled just long enough for the remnants of the crime syndicate to come bursting in for dinner, ending the film with more fast paced action as the three friends try to beat off their uninvited guests.