Nothing is what it seems - No-one as they first appear - and a New England island community is in crisis. Police here have never had to work a homicide or the abduction of a child. Now they have both and temporary Police Chief, Aurora Zane is teamed with a one-armed FBI Agent to track down the killer before he strikes again.

SYNOPSIS:

HOPE FALLS

SYNOPSIS

“You put your kids to bed at night… and think they’re safe.

Imagine, waking-up one morning and they're gone?”

Hope is like another world. An imaginary island located just off the coast of New Hampshire, just one hundred minutes from Boston. Incredibly rich in natural beauty, it could be the setting for one of those “Vacation in New England” TV commercials.

It’s an old-fashioned place in a friendly, genteel way. “It’s paradise here… beautiful! There’s hardly any crime. Islander's doors are left unlocked. My mom wouldn’t even know where her keys are… but everybody’s a bit jumpy now.”

Little Regan Fraser is missing.

Regan suffers from somnambulism or noctambulism: that’s sleepwalking to you and me - a phenomenon of combined sleep and wakefulness.

Regan's Mom and Dad are separated. She's vacationing with her grandparents in Hope Falls when she disappears. Was she sleepwalking or has she been abducted? Time to call in the police.

Aurora Zane (second generation, probationary Chief of Police) is still fresh to her job. I say Chief of Police: Aurora heads-up a team of four. They spend the majority of their working lives handing out tickets for traffic violations and dealing with the odd cat stuck up a tree, but her job is everything to her, even to the detriment of her marriage, which is in serious trouble.

The police and islanders set out to hunt for Regan and a child’s body is quickly discovered in the woods. Dead from natural causes or could it be murder?

Muslim war refugees have recently been settled on the island by the U.S. Government and most of the islanders don't like it one bit. Led by Aurora’s indelicate boss, the bigoted Mayor, many immediately accuse the refugees of murder. Someone’s called the FBI.

LB Daltry, FBI Special Agent: a good guy with the worst job, which makes him hard, efficient, and some might say, just a little bit rude, takes over the case.

The clock is ticking. Time is of the essence. The first twenty-four hours are crucial. The decisions they make now could make or break this case.

Other suspects start to appear besides the Muslims: a youthful ‘would-be’ white supremacist; Regan’s Mom’s new beau, a U.S. Army Ranger. There will be others.

Daltry discovers that Hope is not necessarily the idyllic island community that it paints itself in the travel brochures.

Aurora and Daltry make dangerous enemies, and perform the single greatest-ever whitewater raft chase in TV history.

Aurora’s journey is from rookie chief to hero. Daltry’s is from jaded investigator to newborn teacher.

The killer and abductor can run, but can’t hide and Zane and Daltry will not stop until they catch the perpetrator of the heinous crime...!

We plant the seed in the pilot and watch it grow. At the end, when the dust settles, people lie dead, an island community is in tatters...but HEY… there's always Hope!

HOPE FALLS