How a Black police officer infiltrated a Ku Klax Klan chapter with a Jewish partner who eventually became its leader.

Does this logline break the iron-clad rule that a logline should never give away how a story ends?? Does “…who eventually became its leader” constitute a spoiler?

I would argue that if it does, this is an instance where breaking the iron-clad rule is justified.

The Prime Operative of a logline is to pitch the script, make logline readers want to read it. I submit that this logline fulfills the Prime Operative by pitching not 1, but 3 story hooks. 1] A Black man infiltrated the KKK. 2] With the help of a Jewish partner. 3] And his partner ends up leading the chapter.

It’s a case of the truth being stranger than fiction.

I see the “spoiler” as the 3rd beat topper to the joke the two PO’s played on the KKK.

Melsher:

You raise a good point.? I considered presenting it in the present tense.? I opted to use the past tense to underscore that the script is? based upon events (in the past).? To? say, “This really happened folks – it’s not fiction.”

If it were? a fictional story, then , yes, I would have used the present tense.