ASD-13 (Feature)

Logline:

A brilliant and successful scientist for the CDC lives her worse nightmare as she exposes her beloved to an experimental flesh-eating virus and puts the entire population at risk.

ASD-13 Teaser Summary

Fiah Desmoir is a gorgeous genius recruited by the CDC at an extremely young age. She’s of French descent and very close to her parents as she’s thankful for them allowing and helping her move to the states and pursue a science degree. She’s at the top of her career winning the Breakthrough award for her groundbreaking Symptom Masking Serum that allows medical care providers more time to cure illnesses and provide patients comfort.

After receiving her award and entering the crowd, she is celebrated by many including her family and friends, but also her mentor, Dr. Kirbar; as well as a science journalist and her love interest, Dean. She is swept away by both of these men by being too trusting and falling too hard. She believes Dr. Kirbar has been the main supporter of her career success. However, behind Fiah’s back and underground he has his own agenda involving her expertise in flesh-eating viruses. From the day of her recruitment, he has manipulated her into researching and experimenting with these illnesses - making her think she’s helping him develop a cure. But, Dr. Kirbar, wants nothing more than his own fame and fortune at the hands and lives of others.

The highlight is Fiah falling madly in love with Dean McCain, a science journalist new in town from Alaska. He’s a well-dressed tall, dark, and handsome man with a shy smile. Their romance is almost instantaneous as they exchange flirty remarks at her award ceremony and after he charms her into an intimate interview. They fall hard and fast as they’re love blossoms from shared interests and passion-fueled lust.

Fiah is blinded by Dr. Kirbar’s support for too long and is now distracted by her new amore to think clearly. Alone in her home-built laboratory, she has succeeded in developing an incurable flesh-eating illness - never to be exposed or discussed outside of her and Dr. Kirbar as they’re learning to cure the incurable, at least she thought. Her labs and results are impressive, she’s not only a scientist but an inventor - a visionary. Her created systems surprise her and she breaks her own number one rule by bringing Dean down into the lab. She shows off her expensive equipment and shares her progress and success with him, and then he disappears. He stumbles into the wrong room and fumbles with the wrong experiment - he is exposed to her illness ASD-13. With the flesh eating virus invented to be incurable her worst nightmare happens: it's exposed to the public.

What will Fiah do? Will she use her expertise to save Dean or the population? She must choose.

To follow Fiah and Dean on their wild journey, check back for excerpts from the script, editing notes and ideas during rewrites, and more.

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