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UNDER THE RADAR (SERIES)
By Lawrence Bucher

GENRE: Crime, Drama
LOGLINE:

Miles Bentley, a veteran bounty hunter with an unprecedented 100% success rate on felony-flee contracts, finds himself in deep water when gun toting thugs ambush his fugitive transport van in route to Long Beach, freeing Issam Hadded, a nd leaving Daniel McMullen on the hook for the single largest bond he's ever written. Can Miles find Issam before Daniel is court-ordered to surrender $2MM - or will Issam disappear behind a cloud of clues that point to an inside job?

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SYNOPSIS:

The show is a Long Beach-based dramatic, bounty hunter police-type procedural focusing on fugitives LA County deals with every day - including one Issam Hadded (Said Faraj) - the ex-founder of California's largest communication company, ALPHA-COMM. It begins with veteran bounty hunter Miles Bentley (Kiyano La'Vin) and partner Rusty Conner (David ‘Shark’ Fralick) arriving at McMullen Bail Bonds with Rusty stepping out of the vehicle, eye swollen, and giving Miles the middle finger before walking off. The unprecedented events which occurred only hours earlier, which Miles now has to share with Bail bondsman Daniel McMullen (John Wesley), are filled with potential career-ending complications. Not only did Miles lose fugitive Issam Hadded after Daniel took a chance in writing the single largest bond his office had ever written, a third bounty hunter, Billy Rosewood, was shot by Miles' gun.

Miles expands on the event in painstaking blow-by-blow detail. He is confused, his job on the line, Daniel is on the hook for a 2MM bond, and the clock is ticking before Daniel is court-ordered to pay Issam's bond in full. Suspicions run amuck, and fingers are pointed, as both Miles and Daniel wrestle feverishly with who informed the hijackers of Issam's whereabouts, as only an inside job would have allowed anyone to get the drop on these three bounty hunters and their undisclosed whereabouts. No-one is surprised when Miles points a finger towards bounty hunter Rusty Conner - an ex cop who was forced to quit the LAPD after being accused of selling confiscated goods to pawn shops. Rusty turned to bounty hunting after resigning, as it allowed him to continue to utilize his formal and tactical training. However, there is another problem. While Daniel needs someone with Rusty's expertise to work alongside Miles on such a large man-hunt, Miles doesn't trust Rusty, so he warned Rusty that if anything was to happen between a “Route 66” pit-stop and the safe arrival of Issam in Long Beach, they were gonna have a “meeting of the minds” - one which left Rusty with a busted face.

With so much in question, including who can be trusted to assist him in Issam's apprehension, Miles brings to Daniel's attention his long-time friend and ex-partner, Michael Becker (Series Regular. Not Yet Cast).Michael is an early 40s ex-bounty hunter, who faced early retirement due to an emotional breakdown after shooting and killing an armed teenager in order to save his own life, a life which he now struggles to find anything left of. Daniel nearly has a myocardial infarction at the mere mention of Michael’s name, and responds accordingly with some very unfriendly comments which don't set too well with Miles. Miles keeps his cool, but warns Daniel to never EVER speak badly of Michael. Silence blankets the room until Daniel apologizes, and the two finally agree that liking Michael or not, Miles needs someone he can trust. But this situation would prove to be no quick-fix for Miles.

As Miles is leaving Daniel's office to pay Michael a visit, he runs into Daniel's second-in-line bounty hunting duo, Ryker Savage (Vic Stagliano) and Gunner Walker (Lawrence Bucher). Things quickly escalate between the three as nasty pot-shots are taken towards one another, causing a hot headed knee-jerk reaction by Gunner, who comes damned near shooting Miles in the face if not for the quick reflexes of Ryker, who deflects the shot. Ryker calms Gunner down and sends him away, but not before Ryker has a few choice words with Miles, warning him that one day Miles is gonna screw up big time, and that he and Gunner are gonna be there to see it, and may very well be the ones who save his ass.

Miles walks off shaking his head, and is completely dumbfounded by a world which, in a blink of an eye, has turned its back on him. A bounty hunter with an unquestionable record and his whole future lies in the balance. Who can Miles trust? Even if he's able to talk his friend and ex bounty hunting partner Michael Becker into going with him on such a large man hunt, is Michael in the right state of mind for such an undertaking? And, if this was an inside job, did Rusty have anything to do with it?

... Daniel, Ryker and Gunner think not.

UNDER THE RADAR (SERIES)

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