A disgraced forensic accountant with photographic memory must decode a tattooed countdown to a city-wide attack by breaking out the imprisoned artist who designed the lethal cipher.

SYNOPSIS:

JAXON REED (32), a disgraced forensic accountant with photographic memory, has spent six months tracking an unsolved pattern: three murder victims bearing identical origami bird tattoos. When a suicide bomber destroys City Hall Plaza—killing seventeen—Jaxon recognizes the same tattoo on live television and realizes the murders weren't random. They were tests.

The tattoos are a cipher. Encoded in UV-reactive ink, they contain coordinates, timestamps, and target classifications for a coordinated terror campaign set to climax at midnight. Every attack is a countdown—each bird's folded wings marking completed strikes.

The artist: RAFAEL "INK" MORALES (52), a legendary tattooist imprisoned for gang affiliations, coerced by a criminal syndicate called the Origami Cartel to design the system. His teenage daughter SENNA is held hostage to ensure compliance—and has been tattooed with the final attack coordinates on her own arms.

Jaxon orchestrates a prison riot to extract Ink. Together, they race through the city's underground—decoding tattoos found on corpses and defusing bombs at water treatment plants and transit hubs—while pursued by DETECTIVE MIRA REYES (39), Jaxon's former colleague leading the manhunt.

But Mira isn't hunting them. She's protecting the conspiracy—her brother died in Jaxon's investigation years ago, and the cartel has recruited her as their inside asset. The final bomb's trigger? A biometric lock embedded in the blood-red crane tattooed on Mira's own collarbone.

As midnight approaches, Jaxon must choose: save the city by killing Mira, or find another way to disarm a weapon coded into human flesh.