…Marked Unit…
A young constable in the Supernatural division of the Met must overcome her scepticism and insecurities to work as part of a team to combat the deadliest evil of London.
6 x 60 supernatural crime drama series. Tonally similar to Penny Dreadful and Luther.
*Series Treatment & Script available on request
London: a muddy village beside a river, repeatedly plundered. It grew - into a capital; into the epicentre of a vast, acquisitive Empire; into a financial centre and magnet for greed - violence and brutality soaked into the fabric of the city.
Joanne Timms is a smart, committed Constable in the Met. Haitian parentage but adopted by a white, Christian, middle class couple in small-town England, her desire to conform battles a compulsion to excel and prove herself.
Her sights are set on the Fraud Squad, CID, but she leaves her charm bracelet at home, the one possession inherited from her real mother, and her world is turned upside when she sees ghosts and the walking dead. She is snapped up by the mysterious DCI Bartlett to join her secretive (and shrinking) team in the supernatural division of the Met; Special Unit.
Jo enters a nightmare world of curses and magic, where legends are real, where firearms contain silver bullets and centuries of accumulated evil lurk on every London corner. Contradicting everything in her practical upbringing, Jo discovers she is a powerful magician and that a very thin veneer is all that separates the normal world from hell – and once this veneer is peeled back, there is no replacing it.
Bartlett, her acerbic mentor, has major problems when she finds Jo. A cabinet reshuffle has the Unit under scrutiny, high mortality rates in her department and a deficit of talented recruits. Each assignment is an agony as she sends her team to the front line, but she is from a family of soldiers and understands the cost of failure - and it outweighs the value of individual life.
Jo’s incredible talent alienates her from the existing members of Special Unit, while Bartlett’s disregard for police procedures contaminates Jo by association – she becomes an outcast in the Met, shattering her dreams.
Jo and Bartlett lock horns but it is impossible to confront death and remain aloof. With each new threat, Bartlett’s respect for Jo grows and her icy façade melts. Jo evolves from an insecure, ballsy outsider to a crucial team member as the series builds to a crescendo where they must all work together to stop London descending into anarchy.
Episode 1: WICCA
A reluctant recruit of the supernatural division of the Met must develop her magical abilities to battle Black Magic.
Horrifically mutilated bodies are turning up and DCI Bartlett will use anything to find the cause, including a bewildered and highly resistant Jo. Bartlett fails to notice Jo is oblivious to her magical abilities as she yanks her from the familiar into the surreal; mutilated bodies, crime scenes redolent of sulphur and streets haunted by malignant ghosts.
The Unit trace the victim to a coven of Wiccans as people vanish, the body count rises, the Green Man appears in the trees and Oxleas Wood comes to life.
Under mounting pressure, Jo’s ignorance is revealed. In denial and, under pressure from her boyfriend Alex to leave the outcast division, she nearly jumps ship – but her conscience makes her finish the job. She discovers a spell to summon Magog, and the team tool-up to fight demons. Jo gets her wish, she is dismissed, but in a decision that affects the rest of her life, she stays and participates in a midnight ritual which requires a sickening, human sacrifice.
Dazed, her reality shattered, Jo’s aspirations for Fraud Squad have vanished; she has been forced to collude in a murder, tying her irrevocably to the outcast division.
6 x 60 supernatural crime drama series. Tonally similar to Penny Dreadful and Luther.
*Series Treatment & Script available on request
London: a muddy village beside a river, repeatedly plundered. It grew - into a capital; into the epicentre of a vast, acquisitive Empire; into a financial centre and magnet for greed - violence and brutality soaked into the fabric of the city.
Joanne Timms is a smart, committed Constable in the Met. Haitian parentage but adopted by a white, Christian, middle class couple in small-town England, her desire to conform battles a compulsion to excel and prove herself.
Her sights are set on the Fraud Squad, CID, but she leaves her charm bracelet at home, the one possession inherited from her real mother, and her world is turned upside when she sees ghosts and the walking dead. She is snapped up by the mysterious DCI Bartlett to join her secretive (and shrinking) team in the supernatural division of the Met; Special Unit.
Jo enters a nightmare world of curses and magic, where legends are real, where firearms contain silver bullets and centuries of accumulated evil lurk on every London corner. Contradicting everything in her practical upbringing, Jo discovers she is a powerful magician and that a very thin veneer is all that separates the normal world from hell – and once this veneer is peeled back, there is no replacing it.
Bartlett, her acerbic mentor, has major problems when she finds Jo. A cabinet reshuffle has the Unit under scrutiny, high mortality rates in her department and a deficit of talented recruits. Each assignment is an agony as she sends her team to the front line, but she is from a family of soldiers and understands the cost of failure - and it outweighs the value of individual life.
Jo’s incredible talent alienates her from the existing members of Special Unit, while Bartlett’s disregard for police procedures contaminates Jo by association – she becomes an outcast in the Met, shattering her dreams.
Jo and Bartlett lock horns but it is impossible to confront death and remain aloof. With each new threat, Bartlett’s respect for Jo grows and her icy façade melts. Jo evolves from an insecure, ballsy outsider to a crucial team member as the series builds to a crescendo where they must all work together to stop London descending into anarchy.
Episode 1: WICCA
A reluctant recruit of the supernatural division of the Met must develop her magical abilities to battle Black Magic.
Horrifically mutilated bodies are turning up and DCI Bartlett will use anything to find the cause, including a bewildered and highly resistant Jo. Bartlett fails to notice Jo is oblivious to her magical abilities as she yanks her from the familiar into the surreal; mutilated bodies, crime scenes redolent of sulphur and streets haunted by malignant ghosts.
The Unit trace the victim to a coven of Wiccans as people vanish, the body count rises, the Green Man appears in the trees and Oxleas Wood comes to life.
Under mounting pressure, Jo’s ignorance is revealed. In denial and, under pressure from her boyfriend Alex to leave the outcast division, she nearly jumps ship – but her conscience makes her finish the job. She discovers a spell to summon Magog, and the team tool-up to fight demons. Jo gets her wish, she is dismissed, but in a decision that affects the rest of her life, she stays and participates in a midnight ritual which requires a sickening, human sacrifice.
Dazed, her reality shattered, Jo’s aspirations for Fraud Squad have vanished; she has been forced to collude in a murder, tying her irrevocably to the outcast division.