"Two veterans. A dark road. A question the law cannot answer."
During my 20 years of service in the United States Air Force one motto was drilled into me every single day: Integrity First In All We Do. In its simplest form integrity means doing what is right because it is the right thing to do.
MERCY CODE was born from that motto.
It asks three questions that have no easy answers:
Can timing and situation determine what is right?
Should there be consequences for doing the right thing?
And who determines what goes into the Mercy Code?
MERCY CODE is an eight episode limited drama series set in Atlanta, Georgia. A Black Air Force veteran. A white Army veteran. A burning truck on a dark Georgia road. A dying man's final request. A trigger pulled. A murder charge. And twelve strangers asked to decide if mercy is a crime.
This is not a murder mystery. The audience knows what happened by Episode 3. What the series lives in is whether what happened was a crime or an act of grace.
All eight scripts are written, professionally packaged, and federally copyrighted. I am actively seeking a production partner and TV literary manager to bring MERCY CODE to a major streaming platform.
If this story moves you — if these questions keep you up at night the way they keep me up — I would love to connect.
The Wire meets When They See Us with the procedural intensity of Presumed Innocent.
