A Kindness of Strangers

Creators: Sean Gilbert, Brooks Robinson
Age rating: 13 and older
When a grisly murder happens in his jurisdiction, Sheriff Hawthorne joins former FBI Agent Matt Kinney to investigate. As they pursue the killer they find themselves caught up in something much more sinister.
Project collaboration: Closed
Full synopsis
Synopsis: What if the world suddenly ended one night and no one noticed? That’s the question Sheriff Daniel Hawthorne must face when a grisly roadside murder happens in his jurisdiction. The discovery of a young woman’s mutilated body is accompanied by the arrival of Matt Kinney, a former FBI Agent who seems to know more about the case than anyone could guess.

As they pursue the killer they find themselves caught up in something much more sinister. Because there’s more than one killer on the road tonight, and as the storm rolls over the rural Georgia highways more and more of the dark things are drawn out into it.

Tonight brings a close to a cycle of evil so ancient that no one remembers it except in their blood. And the closer they get to the truth the more Hawthorne and Kinney come to understand that if the strangers are drawn together, tomorrow may never come at all.

Latest Work

  • Script 1 - Sean's Original Draft
    10/02/11
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    Creative Notes:
    This is a revision of a script that was originally written in 1999, then adapted into a novel (never published), then back into this version of the script. It runs long, but I'd like to see how it reads to people and get some feedback before revising for length. Plus it's in more of a shooting format with detailed technical notes, which will make it run longer than a standard submission script.
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