Land Eater [Series Bible]

THE REALITY OF CONSPIRACY

Despite signing the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (that prohibits the development and production of such weapons), the United States government has researched numerous “loophole” weapons like a “fart bomb,” a “halitosis bomb,” even a “gay bomb.”

The U.S. government has also experimented on its nonconsenting citizens via partnerships with universities and private companies, like the Quaker Oats Corporation®, to test the effects of Bordetella pertussis bacteria a.k.a. “Whooping Cough;” radioisotopes like Xenon-133 and Phosphorus-32; cantharide secreted from blister beetles; munitions loaded with fleas; and psychoactive substances like cocaine, heroin, and other various pharmaceuticals.

What do these “true conspiracies” have in common? They have advanced the sciences of military and medicine. These industries have been inherently connected throughout history. As they say: “We need new pain to make new cures.” But who are “they”?

Believe it or not: We don’t need to see a thing for it to be true.

the CONSPIRACY of REALITY

Despite the Food and Drug Administration (that protects public health by regulating the safety of products—except for cosmetics), the United States government has researched numerous “loophole” weapons like a “blush bomb,” “mascara gas,” even a “lipstick RPG.”

The U.S. government has also experimented on its nonconsenting citizens via partnerships with universities and private companies, like Belle Cosmetics®, to test the effects of Clostridium botulinum bacteria a.k.a. “botulism;” radium isotopes; apitoxin venom secreted from honey bees; products loaded with snail mucus and pesticides; and carcinogenic substances like Formaldehyde, Red Dye No. 3, arsenic, and other various cosmeceuticals.

What do these “true conspiracies” have in common? They have advanced the sciences of military and medicine. These industries have been inherently connected throughout history. As they say: “We need new pain to make new cures.” But who are “they”?

Believe it or not: We don’t need to see a thing for it to be true.

And, believe it or not, there is plenty of truth we witness but never truly see.

For the most dangerous truths hide in plain sight...

“A product can be a drug, a cosmetic, or a combination of both, but the term ‘cosmeceutical’ has no meaning under the law... ”

THE WORLD ON THE BRINK

What if, in order to advance their interests, the U.S. government partners with a small cosmetics company to develop a “state-of-the-art camouflage paint”—exploiting a loophole in the FDA—that has INTENTIONAL SIDE EFFECTS that cause DEVESTATION to enemies?

What if this cosmetics company, located in an Indiana quarry town at the literal crossroads of America, is a struggling FAMILY BUSINESS with everything to lose?

What if an employee at this company goes to great lengths to leak the horrifying truth of this partnership not for ethical reasons but for PERSONAL REVENGE?

What if the Chief Executive Officer’s brother, the FAMILY BLACK SHEEP, goes to greater lengths to bring down his own family’s company out of OBLIGATION to his estranged and troubled nephew who left him a STRANGE CLUE the day before his SUICIDE?

What if a NONCONSENUAL CLINICAL TRIAL of this “product” leads to an IMPROBABLE CURE?

What if something as benign as makeup could be developed—right under our noses—into a malignant force, like the first COSMECEUTICAL OF MASS DESTRUCTION?

And what if it all goes terribly wrong and ALTERS OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURE FOREVER?

Welcome to LAND EATER: an hour-long limited mystery drama series that explores the threshold of real and plausible conspiracy through the lens of government experimentation; war’s innovative contributions to medicine; the collaborative effort of family dysfunction and ruin; and capitalism’s threat to our fragile ecosystem...

EXPLORING THE BRINK: STORY + STYLE

After Doreen Smerczynski’s miscarriage and an ominous clue from her missing husband, and Memphis Belle’s “relapse” and nephew’s death, the two must set aside their differences to uncover the truth about a top-secret military project at Belle Cosmetics® and its link to their families before Doreen turns to stone from a prototype product, Memphis is framed for his nephew’s “murder,” and the world’s climate is irreparably damaged.

Over ten episodes, Doreen and Memphis will unravel the conspiracy at Belle Cosmetics®. But with every answer, more will come into question...

What sets Land Eater apart from the current canon of speculative, dystopian shows is its particular attention to “the brink”—the story sits at the threshold of the “before” and “after” to demonstrate how events in plain sight could trigger a global collapse.

The brink is achieved by blending true conspiracy, historical record, and our present (politically, socially, economically, and culturally) to hypothesize a strange-yet-plausible apocalyptic scenario. For example, Land Eater will operate within the “perfect storm” of personal vanity and social media culture; nationalistic politics driven by threats to global democracy via overseas conflicts and domestic fears such as recession-inducing inflation.

Tonally, the show is Black Mirror [Netflix] meets The X-Files [Fox], with the narrative mystery and suspense handled like LOST [ABC]. However, unlike LOST, the story’s mysteries and ending will be cohesive, coherent, surprising, earned, and explained.

Land Eater will be cinematic art like that of Hiro Murai [Atlanta, FX; Station 11, HBO], Lee Sung Jin [Beef, Netflix] and Damon Lindelof [The Leftovers and Watchmen, HBO]. It will utilize surreal visual metaphors, such as the alpacas murdered by a leaked inky-black prototype cosmetic— also a reference to the 1968 Dugway Sheep Incident. The show’s design, like the title sequence, could utilize visual motifs, like Beef and The Leftovers, such as an image of the alpaca massacre (“the alpacalypse”) that replicates a tragic Renaissance painting.

BIG

BROTHER

+ BIG BEAUTY + BIG PHARMA

“Land Eater” is the code name for the novel C-Agent: a camouflage face paint with intentional lethal side effects. It’s a secret weapon designed to end endless wars, defend democracy globally, and advance the U.S. agenda—a.k.a. it’s about power and greed.

The C-Agent was developed in Haynes National Laboratory adjacent to the campus of Belle® Cosmetics in Bedford, Indiana—an economically-depressed quarry town looking to be revived with industries in the federal and private sectors.

Publicly, the government has contracted Belle Cosmetics® to create new camouflages.

Privately, these “camouflages” have been engineered with bodily and topographical side effects: imagine frog legs salted; milk’s instantaneous curdling; a banana ripening to mush in mere seconds; or a time-lapse of acres of withering crops...

In short, it’s the one-two punch of VX nerve gas and Agent Orange.

Why would a cosmetics company agree to such a top-secret, horrific project? Because it’s a last resort to keep the family business afloat—a.k.a. it’s about power and greed.

But the ingenuities of war that taketh can also giveth—the byproduct of the C-Agent will lead to a compound that regenerates brain matter and restores memory: i.e. a cure for dementia. For Doreen and Memphis, this innovation will culminate with a literal, painful reminder of their connected past: the thawing and resuscitation of one man, Jeffery Glade...

We forget sometimes that memory is a form of pain, too.

When the CMD falls into the wrong hands, much like the mass-extinction of the dinosaurs, the subsequent mass-erosion will have a catastrophic domino effect on the food chain...

THE FIGURES

MEMPHIS BELLE: BLACK SHEEP + POSTHUMOUS UNCLE FIGURE

The estranged brother of Belle Cosmetic’s® CEO, Memphis Belle works on the company’s literal bottom-rung: the loading dock. He also moonlights for the Depart ment of Transportation to support his pregnant wife. All his life, he’s tried to outrun his wild past and prove his goodness to his family—a goal that feels insurmountable the night his estranged nephew, JR, shows up and asks why he burned down the local church as a teenager. When Memphis learns, the next day, that JR has died by suicide, things instantly don’t add up. If Memphis cannot be a good uncle to a troubled nephew, how can he ever be a good father? So, Memphis looks into JR’s death, facing mysterious federal agents who’ll use Memphis’s past and sobriety against him and his family that, turns out, is worse. He’ll get in so deep that the only way out will be to prove his innocence to his wife, his parents, Doreen, even him self. But what Memphis doesn’t know is that he and his “tough love” father share a truth—a once youthful recklessness that culminated in two tragic accidents, thirty years apart, involving the same person: Jeffrey Glade...

DOREEN MAHOLLAND SMERCZYNSKI: BEREAVED MOTHER TURNED STONE FIGURE

A Belle® customer service rep, Doreen Maholland Smerczynski tested a prototype Botox with her husband Clint for extra income. Then her husband disappeared with a drug addiction—or so Doreen thinks. What she mistook for addiction was the onset of the prototype’s side effect: a kind of “fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive” that turns tissue into limestone and marble. After her miscarriage of two stone twins and an “accidental leak” of another prototype that kills a farm of alpacas, things instantly don’t add up to Doreen. As Doreen seeks the truth about Clint’s disappear ance and these questionable clinical trials, and their connection to a top-secret mili tary project, she slowly turns to stone, degrading and becoming increasingly fragile. Time is running out for her, and for everyone. To find the truth about what happened to Clint and her still-birthed twins, and to avenge them, all before she crumbles like an ancient Grecian statue, she must forgive Memphis for what he did to her pseu do-father and grandmother’s friend: Jeffrey Glade...

BABS MAHOLLAND: A FIGURE IN ANOTHER CLINICAL TRIAL

A minor character, Babs Maholland is part of a university clinical trial on the brain and a prototype dementia drug. Through the study, Babs will reveal recalled regrets and fears and wishes for her late daughter, dead from cancer; her granddaugh ter Doreen; her late husband; and her true love: the late Jeffrey Glade. But as her dementia progresses, so do the hallucinations—and she’ll start to see Jeffrey Glade around the clinic. But what if this isn’t a hallucination? What Babs doesn’t know: her trial is part of the C-Agent development at Haynes National Laboratory and Belle Cosmetics®. Her trial will lead to a groundbreaking pharmaceutical discovery that could restore Babs’s fleeting memories and a reconnection with her lost love—that is, if Babs gets the trial drug and not the placebo...

WHO IS JEFFERY GLADE?

Jeffrey Glade was the schizophrenic high school janitor whose body was donated to science and frozen in 1990. Thanks to medical advancements, Glade begins to thaw and undergo procedures during the story, ready to return in the final episode, released back into a strange world some 50 years after his death and a decade after the fallout of the CMD, where he’ll encounter places and people from his past:

was a part of a group of kids who teased and tormented Glade in school. However, guilted by this, in repentance, Memphis offers to help Glade achieve his goal of becoming a firefighter. He set a small fire at the church that Glade planned to put out before the fire department arrived. But the plan backfired to say the least: Memphis went to Juvy for arson and Glade died of complications from the fire…

was raised by her grandmother, Babs. Glade was her neighbor and pseudo-father figure. She blames Memphis for Glade’s death—a tension that permeates into their adult present. Because of both Glade’s schizophrenia and her mother’s fatal illness, Doreen is triggered by Babs’s mental decline and enters her grandmother into a clinical trial on a new memory/dementia drug—and it just so happens that Babs’s clinic is where Glade is being thawed and tested on, too...

was Glade’s childhood crush. Think of them as shy star-crossed lovers who never shared more than one awkward high school kiss. Only once did Babs share her true feelings to Glade, which he can’t fully remember, having been barely conscious and amidst a schizophrenic episode after the church fire. When Glade returns from the dead, he’ll confess his true feelings for Babs as his memories reboot, but Babs will have forgotten everything by then, succumb to dementia—or, almost…

PILOT SYNOPSIS: “FALL OUT”

One year before the global environmental crisis that threatens civilization, an “accidental leak” of a prototype “mascara” downwind of Belle Cosmetics® and Haynes National Laboratory results in the horrific death of a herd of alpacas on an Amish farm.

That same morning, MEMPHIS BELLE receives a strange, unlisted shipment on Belle Cosmetics’s® loading docks that contains a pesticide. He takes this information up the corporate ladder where the form with his signature is scanned and emailed to another department for confirmation... Memphis learns the ingredient is often used in toothpastes.

In the parking lot, DOREEN SMYRCZINSKI—four months pregnant—walks by Memphis’s truck. He hides as she keys his truck. Inside Belle®, Doreen feels increasingly sick. She notices a strange patch of rough skin on her forehead. In HR, she thinks she hears the voice of Clint—her coworker and missing “addict” husband—coming from an unlabeled tube in the company’s old Lamson pneumatic transit system. One of her HR papers gets sucked into this pipe, unknowingly... She sneaks into her husband’s file and discovers it’s empty except for a folded yellow note. But she’s unable to read it because her department—Customer Relations—gets wind of the alpaca incident and her painful cramps become very concerning...

Memphis learns his estranged nephew, JR, is in town, home from war. He has an awkward conversation with JR who seems haunted by PTSD and something else... His nephew presses Memphis on why, as a teenager, he burned the local church. They pass a dead animal on the side of the road: an alpaca spotted with some black substance. They discard the animal at the dump and Memphis gets the substance on his hands...

Doreen goes to the doctor. She is examined by a new doctor—Doctor Gilbert—and is told her doctor is on vacation. Dr. Gilbert asks about a clinical trial for a new Botox she and Clint tested last year. This doctor tells her everything is fine, but he’s lying...

After the dump, Memphis drops JR off at the bus station and realizes that he and his nephew accidentally switched backpacks and that JR’s is full of beer... At the gas station, Memphis looks drunk, sweaty, ill—perhaps he’s fallen off the wagon?

Doreen, at the same gas station, calls the police on Memphis for drunk driving. She sees a Belle® van leave with Clint’s Garfield bobblehead on the dashboard. She decides to follow the van down a dark dirt road leading to the alpaca farm...

“Police” pull Memphis over and find a backpack full of empty beers. They interrogate him and ask the whereabouts of JR. Memphis is delirious. The “officers” notice the black substance on Memphis’s hands and call for Dr. Gilbert as Memphis collapses.

At the farm, Doreen witnesses the dead alpacas—a horrific sight that sends her into labor where she stillbirths two stone babies. She crashes her car. In the hospital, not fully remembering the night before, her doctor—who was never on vacation—explains her rare miscarriage that justifies her babies’ complete disappearance. She reads the yellow note in Clint’s handwriting: DO NOT TRUST DR. GILBERT. ONLY PINEAULT. UNDER FOOTE.

In the hospital bed beside her, separated by a dividing curtain, Memphis wakes “hungover.” His wife sits there, furious. He can’t quite remember last night either but tells her he didn’t drink even if he’s not certain. She tells him that JR has been found dead...

ACT I THE WORLD, WE THINK, THAT WAS

Memphis and Doreen are increasingly and strategically isolated by conspiratorial forces: Memphis from his family, freedom, and sobriety; Doreen from her husband, late-children, and grandmother. This will force them together, escalating personal tensions as they independently discover clues, often hidden in plain sight, that they’ll learn are connected...

Episode 101: “Fall Out”

Memphis pursues an odd shipment to Belle®, encounters his estranged nephew and an infected alpaca, then possibly falls off the wagon. Doreen pursues an ominous note from her missing husband, encounters a strange doctor, and miscarries two stone babies that disappear. JR is found dead.

Episode 102: “Aftermath”

Memphis attends JR’s funeral and learns the curious cause of death: a spoon. He pokes around his nephew’s death and becomes a suspect in his murder and loses the trust of his wife due to his “relapse.” Doreen struggles with the loss of her twins. She seeks “Pineault” and “Foote” and pokes around about the alpaca accident and is fired. Her transformation to stone begins to mimic Clint’s final days before he vanished. She takes Babs to her clinical trial on memory/dementia.

Episode 103: “Blood from Stone”

Memphis attends AA meetings after admitting to his wife he’s being framed for JR’s death—further straining their marriage and her faith in his sobriety. He tries to speak with Doreen as part of his 12 Steps and it goes terrible. He pursues the truth about JR to prove to himself, his wife, and the police his innocence, and recalls a clue from the night he met with JR. Doreen attends grief counseling. She learns she’s turning to stone, proving that Clint was not an addict and was, perhaps, kidnapped. She avoids Dr. Gilbert who realizes Doreen is suspicious of him. She learns the origin of “Foote” at a local museum and, there, finds another clue from Clint. During her clinical trial, Babs thinks she sees a young Jeffrey Glade in the clinic.

ACT THE WORLD THAT

Memphis and Doreen now realize at Belle Cosmetics® and Haynes won’t understand the full picture es and combine their disparate clues. to expose the conspiracy to save much as possible and, they realize,

Episode 104: “Free Radicals”

Memphis finds a clue in the pinball the first episode and tries to solve the house and he’s chased by unknown Doreen starts a cosmetic ingredient mits aggressive protests akin to who “Pineault” is and what “Under finds Doreen and attempts to kidnap tries to find Jeffrey Glade at the trial.

Episode 105: “Pinball Wizard”

Memphis plays pinball all over town JR scattered and solves the code learns what JR discovered overseas. threaten Memphis’s wife and unborn a choice. Doreen hides out from clues and locates “Pineault,” a former for Jeffrey Glade and is confronted threatens Babs in order to get to choice. The clues lead Memphis where stone testers, including Clint,

Episode 106: “A Grapefruit Spoon”

Doreen and Memphis struggle to behind them, both on the lamb from trust each other? “Pineault” explains what likely happened to JR and Clint. Lab was built over Belle’s® old “Foote” test products—and it is now the likely government project. Doreen learns nected to Babs’s memory trial. Babs “Pineault” and Memphis are captured.

Episode 107: “Under Foote”

Doreen begins to erode and crumble. almost gives in to drinking but abstains. phis, needing him and his clues to finally reconcile. They devise a plan threats and infiltrate Haynes Lab. on” has been hijacked overseas happened to the alpacas. “Pineault” Jeffrey Glade but they’ve forgotten

ACT II THAT ACTUALLY IS

realize something bigger is going on Haynes National Laboratory. But they until they resolve their differencclues. Once reconciled, they plan save their families, themselves as realize, the world.

pinball machine his nephew broke in solve it. His wife throws him out of unknown forces but he escapes. ingredient awareness group that comPETA. She continues to seek “Under Foote” means. Dr. Gilbert kidnap her but she escapes. Babs trial.

town to find the puzzle pieces code hidden within them and then overseas. The unknown forces unborn child, pushing him to make Dr. Gilbert. She follows Clint’s former Belle® tester. Babs looks confronted by Dr. Gilbert. Dr. Gilbert Doreen, pushing her to make a and Doreen to a flooded quarry Clint, resurface.

Spoon”

to co-exist and put their pasts from unknown forces. Can they explains to Memphis and Doreen Clint. They discover that Haynes “Foote” clinic where he used to likely location of the top-secret learns that Dr. Gilbert may be conBabs takes a turn for the worse. captured.

crumble. Memphis is tortured and abstains. Doreen rescues Memto uncover the full truth. They plan to eliminate their hounding Lab. News breaks that a “weapwhose effects resemble what “Pineault” is killed. Babs finally finds forgotten each other.

ACT III

THE WORLD THAT COULD BE

Memphis and Doreen find personal resolutions and reveal the conspiracy but it’s too late—what they reveal is not tests of a weapon but an antidote for a weapon already made and lost to the wrong hands. They seek reconciliations with family before what they believe is the apocalypse...

Episode 108: “Here Nor There”

JR’s military mission overseas and death are revealed from JR’s POV as Memphis infiltrates Haynes Laboratory and reveals that the “Foote” Clinic is no longer testing a weapon—and hasn’t for years—but instead an antidote. It’s revealed that Clint was working for Nicholas, Memphis’s brother. Doreen’s stone twins are in the “Foote” Clinic, too. Memphis is arrested for trespassing and Doreen perishes, completely marble, by falling apart.

Episode 109: “Trials”

Doreen and Memphis are exonerated. Memphis reconciles with his wife and she gives birth. Memphis attends Doreen’s funeral with Babs and they reminisce about Jeffrey Glade, though Babs’s dementia is worse. He takes Babs to her trial where he learns she’s receiving a placebo. Memphis thinks he sees Glade and attends an AA meeting. The overseas weapon causes a global disaster. Memphis learns that his father also knew Jeffrey Glade. Memphis reconciles with his brother for the first time in a decade before he’s tried for his crimes.

CODA

THE WORLD THAT CANNOT BE AGAIN

Episode 110: “The Liver”

Jeffrey Glade is unfrozen and revived throughout the season— his brain damage is reversed as a result of the research from Babs’s memory trial and byproduct of the C-Agent. We follow Glade around town in a plausible future in the wake of the environmental crisis. His memories “reboot” and he pieces together the truth of the Belle family and how they impacted his life: from father to both sons. He comes into contact with Memphis and his wife and ten-year-old son, the “statue” of Doreen, and Babs who he confesses his love for. But Babs doesn’t remember him—not completely—having succumb to dementia, or almost... Out of anger, Glade sets fire to the abandoned Belle Cosmetics® tower and re-donates his body to science to save Babs.

The “UNLIMITED” SERIES: FRANCHISE POTENTIAL

While Land Eater can stand alone as a limited series, there is potential for expansion.

The show can follow an anthological format similar to Black Mirror [Netflix], leveraging Land Eater’s story engine of “stranger than fiction,” where proven historical conspiracies and improbable oddities are plausibly reimagined in our modern world:

“False Flag” season

The U.S. government has planned and committed faked incidents like Operation Northwoods, the Gulf of Tonkin, and WMDs in Iraq to justify its agenda. What if they leveraged data collection, surveillance, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create targeted propaganda ads to create a new enemy inside its borders to advance said agenda? What if AI innovations led to a new niche of pornography involving everyone? What if it spurred a second Civil War?

“Test Dummy” season

Project Sunshine examined the effects of nuclear fallout via the theft of ~1,500 children’s cadavers. What if, instead of bodies, the government stole STEM Cells and embryos from fertility clinics in order to cultivate “living test dummies” for various uses? What if one of these individuals planned an elaborate escape? What if they tested on illegal immigrants due to their lack of documentation? What if body autonomy was hypothetical and contingent?

“Reefer Madness” season

During Prohibition, the government pushed manufacturers to poison their alcohol to discourage bootleggers from making moonshine, causing 10,000+ deaths. Project MKUltra attempted to develop a “truth serum” to flush out Communist spies. The Stargate Project investigated the possibility of psychic abilities as part of the Space Race. What if the federal legalization of recreational cannabis was done to tap into the psychic mind to find foreign and domestic terrorists hiding in plain sight? What if it led to a new form of population control?

“Gaydar” season

In the 1950s, out of sheer homophobia, the Canadian government developed a machine that attempted to determine sexual orientation. In 2017, two Stanford University researchers claimed that a computer program can detect sexual orientation via facial recognition. What if such software was installed in our smart phones? Why would the government want this data in the first place? What if this data was hacked and leaked, essentially outing someone who kept their sexuality private and someone else who had yet to discover their sexuality?

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5. “Is It a Cosmetic, a Drug, or Both? (Or Is It Soap?),” via https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetics-laws-regulations/it-cosmetic-drug-or-both-or-it-soap

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IMAGE CREDITS

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