When an obstinate ex-Army Ranger, reeling from the hijacking of the transplant heart destined for her son, forms her own vigilante team of medics to procure him a heart, she sets them all on a dangerous path against the organ cartel.
Obsessed with getting her son a transplant heart, Maggie, a cynical former Army Ranger and single mother, rallies her team of skilled veterans and goes rogue in the organ procurement business, becoming a robin-hood of sorts for those in need of organs. Her path crosses with Reid, another vet trying to put his life back together after jail and PTSD. Reid works for the organ cartel that Maggie has sworn to destroy, but the two become unlikely partners in their quest to save their families. Season One takes us through their dance, tackling the adventures and obstacles to procuring and delivering organs without getting caught. They help each other in their goals while treading the tense line of mutual interests. It’s not clear whether they can trust each other. Along the way, they face tough choices about how far they are willing to go to get what they want. The PILOT sets up the world, the relationship between Maggie and her son, and the team that Maggies has assembled. We see how they operate to procure organs and how tough it is. We also follow Reid as he repairs his relationship with his daughter and struggles to pay his debts. Maggie and Reid's s paths cross as they fight over the transplant heart they both need to save their respective children.
Jen Schwerin is an award-winning writer/director based in DC. Her most recent short film, UNSPOKEN CODE, won Best Narrative Short Film at the Toronto Female Eye Film Fest, Beijing Int'l Film Fest, and California Int'l Film Fest, and screened at festivals around the world. In Beijing for 24 + years, (and another 8 years in remote Asia), she created the first MTV content from China and founded her production company, Tadaa! Media, to make branded entertainment in Mandarin and English. Through her adventurous life, from walking solo across Tibet, negotiating complex situations in local and expat cultures, raising 3 kids in China, witnessing revolution and repression, she's forged a nuanced geo-political, multi-cultural, and distinctly personal perspective. It makes her ask the questions - "who gets to make the rules, and what kinds of knowing are valid?" Now focused on writing screenplays for features and series, she explores these questions in all her scripts in the pipeline. Her work, while character driven, tends to gravitate towards thriller, action and sci-fi drama with a touch of female outrage, and she's leaning into it. Jen's background living in a totalitarian state, and trained in the mystical arts from an early age informs and inspires her current series - UNSPOKEN CODE - a psychological near-future thriller about the connection between emotion and intelligence. In her spare time, Jen guides students into their somatic wisdom and creativity through a transformative movement/dance practice that she teaches.
