Hole in the Sky "Pilot"

Title: Hole in the Sky “Pilot”

Written by John Cooney

Logline: A relentless Russian security officer tracks a dangerous fugitive - the lone survivor of a decades-old UFO crash - to Los Angeles, where she finds an unlikely ally in a troubled US Special Forces veteran.

Kapustin Yar, Summer 2018: Wolf, the lone prisoner held in a secret detention facility at the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome in Russia, escapes. Wolf is the subject of Operation Stilet, a Russian military research project designed to develop new technologies based on hardware, organic material, and a surviving crew member (Wolf) recovered from a 1991 UFO crash near the Russian Caspian Sea.

Los Angeles, Summer 2019: Thomas Riordan, a former US Special Forces veteran, graduates from the Los Angeles Police Academy as a new officer. Riordan is the lone survivor of a 2018 combat rescue mission at Sayed Bridge, Afghanistan, during which his unit was wiped out under mysterious circumstances while attempting to rescue downed US soldiers.

Riordan feels honor-bound to solve the mystery underlying his comrades' mysterious deaths. Unbeknownst to Riordan, he and his comrades were unwitting test subjects of Infinite Shield, a US military research program focused on its own source of non-human technology – a UFO recovered in the late 1980s from an Alaskan fishing village.

Los Angeles, Summer 2019: Wolf arrives in Los Angeles, followed shortly thereafter by Russian Air Force Captain Larisa Terchenko, who has pursued Wolf around the globe for the past twelve months while the Russian government holds her parents hostage to ensure her cooperation. Both Wolf and Larisa are equipped with advanced technology developed through Operation Stilet.

Larisa's commanding officer, Colonel Volkov, informs her that Wolf's escape occurred on the same day as, and is connected to, a failed Infinite Shield weapons test conducted at Sayed Bridge. From Volkov, Larisa learns that only one soldier survived Sayed Bridge – Thomas Riordan. Larisa surprises Riordan in his apartment. She tells him she's looking for something, and that he's going to help her find it.

Wolf believes Infinite Shield holds the key to his dream of returning home. He kidnaps and enters the mind of US Air Force Lt. Colonel Endicott, head of Infinite Shield. Endicott learns that Wolf is not what he seems when Wolf abandons his human "host" body and reverts to his natural state: a human-sized insectile creature.