In a Virtual Eden with minimal violent crime, a tenacious cop chases a serial killer who, alarmingly, she sympathises with as her city’s morality comes into question.
6 x 60 returning Sci-fi, Crime Drama series.
6 x 60 returning Sci-fi, Crime Drama series.
The colossal, domed city of Pangea is not Eden, but it’s pretty damn close.
The largest of five mega-cities, technology, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality cleverly combine to disguise the condensed area humanity occupies after the environmental disasters of the 21st Century. Countries peacefully co-exist in zoned territories, with VR facsimiles of architecture; Moscow’s Red Square borders Cairo’s pyramids.
Violent crime is almost non-existent. Corruption and white-collar crime continue apace with technology, but AI, facial recognition and DNA analysis capture all human interactions. Intrusive, but committees manage the pervasive security, ever vigilant against Big Brother. As close to utopia as fractious humanity can achieve, but for those who want more freedom, the Outside is still habitable as acid rain decreases and the land replenishes.
The Pangea Police Department’s Homicide Division is therefore very small. Billions of people under 10 Homicide Units (H-Units) and a pool of generic ‘Beat-Bots’. And four humans. But the AI H-Units arrest, charge and sentence criminals, so DCI Kim Hadlow’s team are ornamental. Like everyone else in Pangea, they work part-time, their role a token to provide labour in a world where people are all-but redundant.
A Virtual Eden…. until a serial killer starts a gruesome killing spree.
A psychopath who leaves no DNA trace and blurs all CCTV footage. After three deaths Kim’s team have nothing, as Pangea starts to panic. Then killer goes after the Mayor but is thwarted – and killed – by her security. Case closed, Kim’s team an abject failure… but a copy-cat has spawned, in fact, a raft of copy-cat killers who continue to terrorise the city.
As the death toll rises, Kim resurrects forgotten policing skills. She goes underground, into the underbelly of her giant city. Following breadcrumb trails, she ascends – to the upper echelons of power, and then to the outside of Pangea, to the rugged world of survivalists. Kim uncovers an Outsider group, targeting the perpetrators of a new environmental apocalypse.
DCI Hadlow must choose between the laws of Pangea and the laws of nature. As the mistakes of previous centuries shadow the future, she must decide between justice and devastation, over chaos and regeneration.
The largest of five mega-cities, technology, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality cleverly combine to disguise the condensed area humanity occupies after the environmental disasters of the 21st Century. Countries peacefully co-exist in zoned territories, with VR facsimiles of architecture; Moscow’s Red Square borders Cairo’s pyramids.
Violent crime is almost non-existent. Corruption and white-collar crime continue apace with technology, but AI, facial recognition and DNA analysis capture all human interactions. Intrusive, but committees manage the pervasive security, ever vigilant against Big Brother. As close to utopia as fractious humanity can achieve, but for those who want more freedom, the Outside is still habitable as acid rain decreases and the land replenishes.
The Pangea Police Department’s Homicide Division is therefore very small. Billions of people under 10 Homicide Units (H-Units) and a pool of generic ‘Beat-Bots’. And four humans. But the AI H-Units arrest, charge and sentence criminals, so DCI Kim Hadlow’s team are ornamental. Like everyone else in Pangea, they work part-time, their role a token to provide labour in a world where people are all-but redundant.
A Virtual Eden…. until a serial killer starts a gruesome killing spree.
A psychopath who leaves no DNA trace and blurs all CCTV footage. After three deaths Kim’s team have nothing, as Pangea starts to panic. Then killer goes after the Mayor but is thwarted – and killed – by her security. Case closed, Kim’s team an abject failure… but a copy-cat has spawned, in fact, a raft of copy-cat killers who continue to terrorise the city.
As the death toll rises, Kim resurrects forgotten policing skills. She goes underground, into the underbelly of her giant city. Following breadcrumb trails, she ascends – to the upper echelons of power, and then to the outside of Pangea, to the rugged world of survivalists. Kim uncovers an Outsider group, targeting the perpetrators of a new environmental apocalypse.
DCI Hadlow must choose between the laws of Pangea and the laws of nature. As the mistakes of previous centuries shadow the future, she must decide between justice and devastation, over chaos and regeneration.
