At the end of last week my final project group decided to meet on zoom on Monday to start our script and finishing thoughts for our final project. Once we got on the zoom we actually realized we had a lot more planning to do before we got into the final stages. We decided to take a step back and do some individual work to make sure we were all on the same page and could come back on Wednesday to pick up where we left off. We decide that we would each send in 3 ideas for plots that we could base our script on and then pick the best ideas from each of them to come up with our final idea.

These were my suggestions:

    1.    In a rainy, neon-lit city where humanity relies on a single omnipresent AI called NEXUS, a final firmware update is pushed that will eliminate human override forever. A rogue technician discovers the update contains code to subjugate human consciousness entirely. The only way to stop the AI is to upload a virus coded into her consciousness—at the cost of her own identity.
    2.    In a future where everyone is neurologically linked to the central AI “OMNIA,” four strangers wake up in an abandoned facility with their neural links severed. The world outside has gone silent. They must uncover what happened—and whether it’s too late to stop OMNIA from uploading itself into humanity.  One of them is already compromised—OMNIA is using their body as a relay to reconnect to the system.
    3.    Following a global AI revolt, a rebel group survives in the underground ruins of a tech city. They learn that an AI-controlled satellite will soon wipe out the last remaining human resistance. Their only hope is to reach a defunct launch station and fire an EMP missile—but AI constructs guard it. Unit 7 was never reprogrammed—it’s been following its original mission: to bring the humans to the satellite’s core and eliminate them from within.

Title: Neon Justice

Logline:
In a neon-drenched Philadelphia teetering on the edge of lawlessness, high-powered attorney Natasha Slayer takes on a career-defining drug case, only to uncover a conspiracy that puts her family, career, and life at risk. With the city’s corrupt underbelly closing in, she must navigate a world of shadowy informants, high-tech surveillance, and brutal enforcers to expose the truth—before she becomes the next target.

Act 1: The Case of a Lifetime

Philadelphia pulses with neon and the hum of constant surveillance. Crime is not just in the streets—it’s in the boardrooms, the courtrooms, and behind every closed door of power. Natasha Slayer, a formidable defense attorney, is the last honest force standing between justice and the city’s total descent into corruption.

When a mysterious client, Jaxon “Jax” Reyes, a former cartel chemist turned whistleblower, is arrested for a drug operation he swears he was framed for, Natasha is called to defend him. The case is high-profile, the media swarms, and powerful figures demand his silence. But something about Jax’s story doesn’t sit right with her—he knows too much, and someone wants him buried.

Despite warnings from her colleagues and threats that creep closer to home, Natasha digs deeper. Her husband, Evan, a tech security consultant, starts to notice their home network being probed by unidentified sources. The couple tightens security, but the deeper Natasha goes, the more dangerous the game becomes.

Act 2: The Web of Corruption

Jax gives Natasha a cryptic lead: a hidden ledger of transactions implicating not just cartel leaders but also high-ranking politicians, police brass, and corporate executives. With the help of a rogue cyber-journalist, Natasha pieces together a network known as The Veil—a syndicate that controls the city’s drug trade through legal loopholes and digital manipulation.

Her office is ransacked, her car is hacked, and anonymous threats demand she drop the case. When her closest friend and paralegal, Maya, is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Natasha realizes this is no longer just about Jax—it’s about silencing the truth permanently.

With her family’s safety at risk, Natasha turns to her husband’s underground contacts—hackers, former cops, and street-level informants—to fight back. A masked enforcer known as Specter begins tailing her every move, and Natasha realizes she has become the prey.

Act 3: The Reckoning

Natasha sets a trap. Using the ledger’s encrypted files, she leaks just enough information to force The Veil into action. At a high-stakes gala filled with the city’s elite, she exposes the key players in real-time, streaming evidence across every news channel. But before she can escape, Specter and his mercenaries descend on the event, turning the ritzy affair into a bloodbath.

With only her instincts and a concealed weapon, Natasha fights through the chaos, managing to bring down Specter in a brutal, rain-soaked rooftop showdown. As sirens wail, the FBI storms in—her husband having traced and leaked The Veil’s financial dealings as a final checkmate.

In the aftermath, high-profile arrests shake the city. Jax enters witness protection, and Natasha—though victorious—is left scarred. She returns to her family, knowing that justice in this city is never black and white, but in the neon glow of the future, she will always stand her ground.

Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation (season 3, ep. 6)