Jack Webb is one of 1% of the world population; He is an “empath.” Empath: A person who experiences the emotion and energy of others as if it were their own.
Jack Webb, 70, is a wildly successful reality TV producer who’s just found out he’s dying a little faster from an inherited disease that should have taken him out years ago. But, since Jack took care of his mind through meditation, kept all people at arm's length for their own good, dying is just well-oiled acceptance now. No, Jack just manifested a latent lifelong IMO (In My Opinion), in a diner, and he must get that “opinion” out to an increasingly distressed world before he himself gets out of it. He just needs a vehicle to drive his worldwide viewers to the streaming campfire, which will then give Jack a platform for his big reveal.
To that end, Jack chooses a white, male, suicidal sports management billionaire, 40, and a Black, female, grounded mother, Florida police sergeant, 35, as his Minivan. Jack’s “reality” crews will secretly rig the homes and cars of these two with mics and cameras. They won’t escape surveillance in a restaurant or at a rancid pond with rotting carousel animals thanks to handheld cameras. A hijacked Body-Cam view will do the job nicely, stalking an active shooter down a school hallway.
Every second of 48 hours will be recorded of these two people and their very human, sometimes violent struggles, will be broadcast worldwide on a single night. To level it up, Jack has loaded his two projects with photos and videos he hacked from his unsuspecting subjects' social media accounts. This is now illegally shot film with character builds and “plausible” childhood flashbacks. Jack will be a commentating guide while these live and living in the 21st century movies are shown to the world; “This is Golden Globe time”!
Jack has also publicized that there’ll be prize money worth billions when a voting contest is held that same night over his guerrilla, true-life stories. When the big night arrives, this is the first thing Jack’s audience sees on their large and small screens: DISCLAIMER: DURING THIS STREAMING BROADCAST, THE SEARCH OPTION ON YOUR COMPUTER AND CELLPHONE WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR KEYWORDS THAT COULD BE RELATED TO THIS PROGRAM.
Wait. How can a businessman, even a billionaire one, control the internet? How can Jack film “plausible” anything and then stream those lies to tunes? We indeed have become lawless recently, lying could be a sport on FS1 with facts the guy who rinses out the catcher’s cup, still: Where are those billions coming from, and is Jack even really dying?
Jack Webb will have his moment on a worldwide stage. He may be technically dead (or not), when millions watch him, he may only be “electronically” alive when they do, but, no matter, Jack is going to show the people of the world his spectacular IMO set to Elvis.


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A very curious tale. I love…
A very curious tale. I love the final monologue - and I wish Jack was a real person.
I must admit I found this…
I must admit I found this really hard to understand and engage with. The characters don't feel real to me and neither does the dialogue. Overall, the pacing is effected by multiple errors in the use of language and I would recommend a complete rewrite to really focus on the storyline and what the writer is trying to communicate.