Half brothers never got along growing up. One became a cop. The other became a criminal with a lot of political favors as owner of the Riverboat Casino. The only thing they have in common lately is Jewel, who uses the cop to try to escape the criminal

SYNOPSIS:

Mick Brousard and Toulouse LeFlur had the same mother, but different Fathers. Their mother died when they were young. Mick became a New Orleans cop like his Father, and Toulouse became a high-class criminal like his, who left him a New Orleans Riverboat Casino and all the political favors.

When Mick learned that his wife, Monique, had an affair, it led to his affair with his female rookie partner, Shauna, who gets killed on a stakeout involving Toulouse.

So, Mick decides to take a vacation from the police force for a while to get his head together. He and Monique separate and he moves to a little apartment above his Grandfather's Raw Oyster Lounge in the Quarter, where he helps shuck oysters.

Then, Toulouse's right hand man, Jimmy Moroni, who was also involved in the stakeout that got Mick's partner killed, stops by the Raw Oyster Lounge to pour salt in an opened wound. Jimmy lets Mick know that his barely legal daughter, Cherie, has been hanging out with her Uncle Toulouse, who offered her a job at the casino.

That's when Mick meets Jewel, the woman that Toulouse rescued on the bayou when she was seventeen, after her parents were killed in a hurricane. Jewel became the main act as an exotic dancer at his riverboat casino. Men can look all they want to, but they can't touch. Jewel has grown tired of Toulouse's sick obsession. She realizes that Mick may be the one man who can help her escape from the prison that Toulouse keeps her in.

Jewel is the only one besides Monique, who knows the truth that Cherie is actually Toulouse's daughter. Toulouse was the man who Monique had an affair with years ago. That's the secret that Mick and Toulouse will learn when the cards fall.

Mick's plan to take his life back, and take down his half-brother, Toulouse, is even harder to do now that their daughter, Cherie knows the truth, too.

NOTE: This was written as a feature movie screenplay, but I think it could be an ongoing series filmed in New Orleans and surrounding areas.

JEWEL OF ORLEANS