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SCREENPLAYS: FEATURES & SERIES

Monk writes for the screen the same way he writes for the page: faith colliding with the real world, questions that don't resolve cleanly, characters carrying weight they didn't ask for.  Seven scripts, at various stages. 

SILENT WITNESS

What if the most advanced surveillance system on earth captured someone who shouldn't exist? Facial recognition finds the same man in 1981, at the assassination attempts on the Pope and Reagan, and in surveillance footage today. But he hasn't aged a day. When two analysts are sent to find him, the drone tracking him stops taking orders.


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GOD'S COUNTRY

A woman walks out of the Alaskan wilderness. No coat. No shelter. No explanation. Miracles follow. Then they stop. A dying coal town divides — not over whether she's real, but over whether any of it ever was. GOD'S COUNTRY asks who owns the wilderness, and what happens when the Owner sends someone to check on it.


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DEDICATION

A high school football star turns down every college scholarship to stay home, and lets his town call it failure. They don't know his mother is dying, or that each night he carries her to the kitchen table for wine and poetry.  They also dont know what he's planning while he cares for her.  What if the greatest victory isn't the one everyone expects?


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THE DEALER

A Nevada blackjack dealer is haunted by Vietnam. He saved eleven passengers from a burning plane. He planned the deaths of thousands. A friend keeps showing up with a six-pack. Steve always says no. Some people take a lifetime to say yes.


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THE SEARCHER SERIES

One woman. Three stolen relics. Jax, ex-Marine Special Forces, haunted by a mission she can't outrun, tracks a Rembrandt through Boston, a 5,000-year-old figurine from Iraq to London, and a sacred relic across Mexican cartel country to Santa Fe. With each hunt, the hunter becomes the hunted.

SEARCHER ONE: PERMISSION GRANTED

What if hunting a stolen masterpiece was the only way to calm the storm inside you? In Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galilee, stolen from the Gardner in 1990 and never recovered, Jax sees her own unit frozen in the moment a mission went wrong. When Professor Kingsfield pulls her into the hunt, she finds the FBI already watching. Is she the asset, or the bait?


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SEARCHER TWO: LIONESSES

A dying smuggler staggers into Jax's clinic with a 5,000-year-old figurine. She traces it from the ruins of Mosul and the destroyed tomb of Jonah to London's black markets, where the treasures ISIS looted are quietly sold to the highest bidder. To reach the buyer, she becomes the bait.


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SEARCHER THREE: HIGHER CALLING

Jax is summoned by Professor Kingsfield to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Something has been taken from the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, and three men on horseback have been moving it north for months, through cartel territory, across the border, into high desert where roads don't go. She's sent to track them. What she finds is a man protecting it with his life, a cartel that wants it destroyed, and a comet no one can explain tracking them all.


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