In any successful society truth is buried deep…
A Modern Western
On the night of 24th October 1871, the worst lynching in US history took place. The newly-created LAPD numbered six officers, three of which were the cause of the violence.
Los Angeles: polarised, drug-infested, with the highest murder rate in America. Unemployment, inflation, homelessness running rampant with radicalised violence simmering… the year is 1871!
MOOD
A cursed bastard of a town on the point of its well-deserved extinction. So what changed its destiny? This is the foundation-story of the City of Angels; and why it was probably the Devil’s finest work…
A true story not told before, with an unnerving relevance to the present.
MAIN CHARACTERS
A tangled web of incredibly vivid characters, with powerful, visceral motivations.
Emil Harris (30)
Main protagonist. Driven by an immigrant’s zeal to make something better of his new land. Emil Harris takes on corruption and murder regardless of the consequences. We see the raw, vengeful birth pangs of Los Angeles through Emil’s eyes...
Emil Harris
Founding officer, LAPD
Thomas J. Cuddy (54)
Thomas has spent years growing fat by skimming the profits of every gangster and douche bag in the city. After the anti-Chinese Massacre in 1871, which causes a furor all over the Union, the men of capital in Los Angeles decide that it’s time to appoint a clean and honest Sheriff. Cuddy laughs at them. The LAPD is rotten through and through, and they know it...
Thomas J. Cuddy
Sheriff, LAPD
Miriam Greene (36)
Main protagonist. Though a simple clerical worker in the Mayor’s Office, Miriam Greene comes from a wealthy Jewish family in Los Angeles. She feeds Emil Harris crucial information on the Chinese underworld in Los Angeles, and helps him dig down to the city’s buried bones. He's amazed by her ability to see through hypocrisy and bullshit. Their professional relationship quickly turns into a passionate affair...
Miriam Greene
Wife of Emil Harris & Court interpreter
John Strother Griffith (64)
John Strother Griffith is an engine of commerce in Los Angeles, someone whose finger is in every back-room deal, who’ll stop at nothing for wealth and power. He epitomizes all that is corrupt, murderous, and self-serving. And yet he is a passionate believer in the future of the city...
John Strother Griffith
Land speculator
Biddy Mason (52)
Once a slave, Biddy is a rare case of a successful black entrepreneur. She’s invested her earnings into her elementary school for black children or her evangelical church in Los Angeles. Biddy plays an important role in the conversion of Philip Alexander Bell. While not a political woman, her voice has weight in the city, and her presence is a thorn in the side of the deplorables...
Biddy Mason
Freed Slave, Entrepreneur
Andrew Jackson “AJ” King (56)
A toxic man with a toxic family, AJ King went to fight for the Confederates in the Civil War and on two occasions he took a bullet for them. His friend John Strother Griffith got him the job as the D.A. in Los Angeles, where his main focus now is on punishing the poor and keeping the fat cats free – while running his own vigilante militia group with ties to the Ku Klux Klan...
Andrew Jackson “AJ” King
Corrupt D.A
Selina King (43)
Selina King was married off to AJ King when she was little more than an orphaned child, and she’s waited over thirty years for a chance to kill him. Recognizing a glimmer of opportunity in his illegal political activities in Los Angeles, she coolly embarks on a lethal career as an informant for US Army Counter-Intelligence...
Selina King
Informant
Philip Alexander Bell (45)
A tireless, selfless abolitionist and influential black publisher, but with one overarching flaw. Alexander finds himself strangely on the side of the racists in terms of the Chinese immigrants. His journey in our story is his gradual recognition of equal rights for all Americans...
Philip Alexander Bell
Abolitionist, Publisher
Sam Yuen (35)
A big Tong leader in Los Angeles, and a bridge between the small Chinese immigrant community and the outlying Wild West. Sam’s main driver is survival: straddling a perilous line between doing what’s right, keeping the peace, protecting his charges, and the drive to accumulate wealth. Secretly, Sam recruits Miriam Greene to speak for him and his community when Los Angeles puts its rioters on trial...
Sam Yuen
Tong leader
TEAM
John Smallcombe is a creative producer with 50-years experience in feature film production. John began his career...
John Smallcombe
Producer
Henning Koch has written a number of feature-length screenplays including Nicholson Unborn...
Henning Koch
Writer
Kate is a Senior Lecturer in Film Production and Screenwriting at the University of the Arts, London....
Kate Iles
Script Consultant
Kevin Waite is an assistant professor of history at Durham University in the UK. His first book, West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire (2021...
Kevin Waite
Historian
Paul R. Spitzzeri is the director at the Workman and Temple Family Homestead
Museum, where he has worked since 1988...
Paul Spitzzeri
Historian
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