Logliner
Posted: 2020-03-02T23:06:16+10:00 In:

After undergoing an experiment for which a victim?s memory is implanted to him, a serial killer sentenced to death has 24 hours before he suffers irreversible brain damage to find another serial killer and obtain his pardon.

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    1. Uberwriter

      You’ll need to provide solid grounds to make us root for him, because otherwise, as a serial killer, he deserves what’s coming to him

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    2. Samurai

      I agree with variable. ?Who cares? ?Let him fry! LOL. Also:

      • Why only 24 hours? ?Realistically he wouldn’t be able to achieve that.
      • What links the two serial killers? ?Is this a Hannibal Lecter scenario? ?Do they have the same MO?
      • If this is an experiment, would they immediately set him an objective? ?Wouldn’t they run tests and establish protocols? ?I’d remove the ‘experiment’ element – A death row serial killer has the memories of another killer’s victim (or victims?) implanted…
      • Do you need the ‘irreversible brain damage’ element? ?If a pardon is his reward, then failure means he’ll be killed anyway. ?Two threats of the same thing.

      Regards
      Trix

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    3. Logliner

      I’m intrigued. I thought of Escape from New York. 🙂

      I wondered why you needed a serial killer to do this job? He has the victim’s memories, but his other skills seem to be: killing. Wouldn’t you be better off using an FBI profiler or an ex-cop or a private eye? Someone skilled in tracking killers. That might also address the first comment, above, about deserving what’s coming to him.

      I know Escape from New York used the idea of ‘you get a pardon’ AND ‘you get to live once we neutralise this deadly thing we’ve implanted in your neck’ — and it worked. But I did wonder whether the threat of death itself was enough. Like: ‘find the killer and we’ll let you live’ doesn’t need to also come with a pardon. Which makes it even easier to use one of the jobs I listed in the paragraph above. Just a thought!

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