Two sleazy disgraceful cops become unlikely heroes in their last-ditch effort to save their jobs and the damaged reputation of their department by vowing to take down a powerful drug and sex trafficking operation they?re steady customers of.
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Two sleazy disgraceful cops become unlikely heroes in their last-ditch effort to save their jobs and the damaged reputation of their department by vowing to take down a powerful drug and sex trafficking operation they?re steady customers of.
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An original ?issue remains; ?why should an audience care? ?Why should they want them to succeed?
Given the negative image of the police in the USA, what can you say about them that would give an audience a reason to be on their side, to root for them? ?They deserve to be fired — heck, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail for the violations of the law, abuse of authority. ?They are ?outlaws, scoundrels.
What is their implied character arc?
Or do wish to portray them as rogues who by pulling off some 3rd Act heroics are able to get away with their abuses, don’t have to fess up to their misdeeds, don’t have pay for their crimes?
What dramatic theme are you exploring with these rogue cops, anyway?
You need an inciting incident that is connected to their goal, it’s not backstory rather the opening image or start of this story. Whatever you chose to put in the story it would best serve your cause to make the events connect via a cause and effect relationship.
They did something in the opening image (their normal world) the council decides to shut them down (inciting incident) they must take down the biggest criminals in town (goal).
If the inciting incident is, ‘they become heroes’, Then that event should lead to the main problem/goal of the story.
Agreed with DPG, even if it happened once or twice in real life the idea of shutting down an entire police department raises credibility issues. It would be enough to put them as individuals at risk instead of the whole department, no need to blow away the whole lot of law enforcers.
What was the specific event that put them in this predicament? As in, what is their inciting incident? I get that they’ve been bad cops for many years, but what was the tipping point, the straw that broke the proverbial back?
Say what? ?They’re thinking of shutting down a police department?
Fire miscreant officers — yes. ?Reorganize the department — yes.??But it’s not logical nor credible that a city would abolish, would even think about abolishing, the entire department because of bad press created by a few officers. ?Love it or hate it, ?a city must have a police department.
If they are already disgraced then why would the audience want to root for these guys? After they infiltrate the operation, what next, what are they to overcome and what if they don’t?