An F.B.I. Agent seeking to reconnect with her lost father discovers a powerful crime fighting tool the government is desperate to control.

NB: This is a revised logline (29Jan21).

SYNOPSIS:

Virtual - "Justice beyond limits"

Virtual is a drama that explores the moral dilemmas of criminal justice in a bureaucratic justice system. It will push the limits of how crime could be dealt without legislative red tape against how crime is dealt with in reality. Virtual is not just a hacker program or super computer used to aid the fight against crime, it is a cybernetic entity existing within the global digital world designed for interaction via a virtual reality interface.

In light of existing crime dramas, Virtual goes beyond the framework of a story line driven by individual character complexity and relationships in the world of criminal justice and introduces a mechanism by which criminal justice can be achieved while bypassing the legal system. This power however comes at a cost on multiple levels to those involved as they work within the system by day and around it in secret by night. The series will immerse viewers in the grey zone of society’s desire to see justice prevail versus politically correct actions and moral obligation.

The essence of the series will be the journey of a strong-willed female lead (KYRA) who is driven by the mystery of her Fathers death and her frustration with the justice system. Unlike existing crime dramas, Virtual extends the playing field beyond the crime fighting heroes versus the criminal world and reaches into the world of corrupt government intervention and the untapped exponential nature of digital crime fighting in the form of a virtual entity capable of accessing every digital device worldwide.

Introduced with an initial one hour pilot feature, Virtual will consist of a 9 to 13 part series consisting of one or more mainline elements per episode including both short term – single episode criminal cases coupled with the long-term story lines of Kyra’s search for her Father and the secret government agency chase down of her operation.

Each episode will involve both Kyra and Virtual as core components of the series along with sideline involvement with several other key characters including Kyras FBI partner THEO and her boss (and Fathers friend), BILL.

Drawn from a creative pool of life like cases, the series will include a mix of standard film format shooting and a futuristic style virtual reality world shot on green screen and/or sets. The two worlds of reality and virtual reality will collide visually and the contrast between chaotic and control tenable. Limited primary settings will include a familiar home city, the FBI office, Kyra’s house/base of operations and Virtual. Secondary settings will vary with each episode and include both local and international locations.

Beginning with an initial investigation into cyber threats to the Mayors office, the story soon escalates from using Virtual in simple case research to the unveiling of a multi-tiered corrupt government system which capacitates a deeper and further reaching theme as time goes by. The ease with which Kyra is able to execute justice using Virtual quickly flames her hunger for more challenging crime fighting, reaching the same heights as her desire to find her father.

By the end of the first season, viewers may have more questions than answers and will most certainly be anticipating Kyra and Virtual taking down more than just low level criminals. Every time Kyra exercises justice using Virtual, there comes the encroaching threat of the secret government agency tracking her down and with that, the threat to her father also grows. Essentially, if she doesn’t use Virtual, justice doesn’t prevail and she won’t find her father. On the contrary, if she does use Virtual, justice is served but she may not find her father before ‘they’ do.

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