PARADIGM SHIFT - PITCH DECK

Opening

• Samantha "Sam" Cross is a journalist and USAF veteran, sprints along the Potomac River, and diffuses a violent situation using her psychic abilities.
• At a grave site, she has a flashback of her father’s mysterious disappearance, with a hidden UFO hovering nearby.
• She arrives with her newfound dog at her newspaper’s office, where the newsroom is abuzz with rising global tensions.

Inciting Incident

• Sam is assigned a mundane story on government spending involving a dangerous cultist defense contractor, Victor Mercer.
• Sarah Kane, a secretive CIA officer, invites her to an exclusive party, teasing access to deeper truths.

Turning Point 1

• At Mercer’s lavish party, Sam spars with him, meeting USAF Major Glenn Cooper, who hints at classified UFO programs.
• While driving home, Sam has a chilling encounter with a UFO, triggering memories of alien abduction and her father’s classified work.
• The journey for truth begins.

New Plan

• Sam decides to pursue the story aggressively, investigating Mercer’s aerospace plant with Cooper’s help.
• Mercer’s weaponized drones are tested, injuring a technician, and Sam uncovers Mercer’s dangerous experiments.
• She grows suspicious of covert operations and pursues leads on missing government whistleblowers.

Plan in Action

• After a car chase through Georgetown with Mercer’s MIB agents, Sam returns home to find her house ransacked and her dog injured.
• Sarah Kane brings secret files to  Sam, then drugs and seduces her, deepening the web of manipulation.

Midpoint Turning Point

• Sam meets with Cooper, who reveals classified details about her father’s work on extraterrestrial technology.
• Sam and Cooper are invited to listen to a whistleblower with information about her father and aliens. Then, the whistleblower is executed by Mercer's goons.
• Sam realizes she is part of a much bigger conspiracy—one where she may be a pawn.

Rethink Everything

• After a failed attempt to expose the truth through political allies, Sam and Cooper are ambushed and forced to flee Washington, DC.
• At her family’s secluded Chesapeake Bay home, Sam questions her motives and fears she has been manipulated by forces beyond her control.
• Cooper confesses his love for Sam and his connection to her father’s past.

New Plan

• With no other options, Sam and Cooper plan to use her psychic abilities to directly engage with the extraterrestrials.
• Their goal is no longer just exposure—it’s about survival and diplomacy.

Turning Point: Huge Failure / Major Shift

• Mercer’s men capture Sam and Cooper, taking them to a secret black site for interrogation.
• Sam taps into her abilities to resist, injuring Mercer, when suddenly, an alien spacecraft appears overhead, disrupting everything.
• She is abducted, disappearing from Earth.

Climax / Ultimate Expression of the Conflict

• Aboard the entity's ship, Sam reunites with her father, now an AI-human hybrid tells her the truth of his disappearance 15 years earlier.
• The entities reveal their long-standing involvement in human affairs and the hidden potential of psychic evolution.
• Sam finally embraces her abilities, seeing them as a bridge between humans and the entities.
• Meanwhile, Mercer launches drone attacks, escalating global tensions toward nuclear war with his goal to wage war with the entities he sees as demonic.

Resolution

• Sam returns to Earth near a nuclear facility, is rescued by Cooper, then, with her heightened psychic powers to sabotage Mercer’s final attack, but he perishes as his own technology turns against him.
• Once in the hospital, she discovers she is pregnant with a hybrid human-alien child.
• Views her psychic abilities as gifts that can save humanity and pave the way for a brighter future.
• The entities intervene, allowing motherships and multiple craft to be seen, disabling all nuclear weapons worldwide, and exposing Mercer's cosmic war plan.
• Resilient and compassionate, she accepts her hybrid child and the aliens as symbols of hope and unity.

Final Image:

• Sam, Cooper, and her hybrid child, Nova, with Cooper stand together at her bayside home, embracing the unknown future of human-alien relations. Sam has transformed from a lone truth-seeker into a leader guiding humanity toward a new destiny.