When a struggling actor is mistaken for a real cop during a pharmaceutical heist and taken hostage on live camera, he must improvise the performance of his life to save a family—while millions watch his every move.

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Genre: Action Thriller

Logline: When a struggling actor working as a film extra is mistaken for a real cop

during a pharmaceutical heist, he must use his untested acting skills to save hostages—

while 40 million people watch online.

ACT ONE

MORRIS RIVERS (28), a laid-off steel mill worker from Pennsylvania, drives his beat-up

Ford F150 truck to Los Angeles chasing his dream of becoming an actor. For three

years, he's worked double shifts at the mill while training in acting, stunt driving, and

fight choreography. On his first day as a film extra, he's dressed as a police officer on a

San Fernando Boulevard set when chaos erupts.

RICO ISAAC (30s), along with accomplices DANTE and LEON, has just robbed Merit

Pharmaceutical, stealing not narcotics, but EpiPens. During their getaway, they crash

into the film set. In the confusion, they mistake Morris for a real cop and kidnap him,

fleeing in the actual police cruiser Morris was using for the film shoot—a cruiser

equipped with hidden body cameras that broadcast everything live.

ACT TWO

Rico takes Morris and his crew to a nearby suburban home, where they hold trauma

nurse SARAH (35) and her two young children, EMMA (8) and MARCUS (6), hostage.

Captain TORRES watches via the belt cameras, recognizing a political opportunity as

#OfficerMarshal trends worldwide with 40 million viewers.

Morris uses his Stanislavski acting training: emotional substitution, character building,

improvisation, to convince the criminals he's a real cop named Officer Marshal, while

secretly forming an alliance with Sarah. Rico, the intelligent leader, is driven by grief

over his eight-year-old daughter Maya's death from anaphylactic shock. She had an

expired EpiPen at school because Rico couldn't afford the $750 price tag for a new two-

pack that costs only $1 to manufacture.

As tensions rise, Morris has Emma fake an asthma attack to cause a distraction. Morris

fights back, using hairspray as a weapon and Sarah's precise medical knowledge (she

strikes Dante's Vagus nerve), they disable two of the captors.

ACT THREEEPILOGUE

Six months later, Morris has become a successful actor, getting an agent, and being

offered a three-picture deal. Morris struggles with the ethics of profiting from the

tragedy, but his mother reminds him he went to Hollywood to be an actor—this is just

how it happened.

Captain Torres faces career consequences for the botched raid. Merit Pharmaceutical

announces a 40% price reduction on EpiPens (still over $400), claiming they were

already working on affordability programs, though the announcement comes

suspiciously after the viral incident.

Morris returns to set. This time as the lead actor in a film about his own story. Sarah

consults on the film. The cycle is complete: the extra became the star, but the cost was

real trauma, real burns, and a man dying.

Themes: The performance of identity, pharmaceutical greed vs. access to life-saving

medication, media exploitation of trauma, the cost of the American Dream, and ordinary

people thrust into extraordinary circumstances.

Tone: High-octane action thriller with emotional depth and social commentary—Die

Hard meets The Truman Show with the pharmaceutical critique of The Constant

Gardener.