SECOND DROWNING — Mystery Screenplay

A retired homicide detective hired by an insurance company to investigate a suspicious drowning finds the dead man officially died eleven years earlier. Following the paper trail leads to his own employer and a confrontation with a mistake from his own past he has spent a decade burying.

RAY OKEKE, 58, a methodical retired detective now working insurance claims, is assigned to investigate the drowning of Thomas Voss. A fingerprint discrepancy leads him to discover Voss had faked his death in 2013, and that the institutional machinery that erased him was run by his current employer, Martin Leff. When Leff confronts Ray with evidence of a 2009 evidence suppression that sent an innocent man to prison, Ray must choose between self-protection and exposure. He chooses exposure, all of it, including himself.

• Genre: Mystery
• 106 pages
• Language: EN
• Format: feature screenplay, instant PDF download
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