THE DAY After Disclosure - PITCH DECK

Opening

• Sam, an androgynous journalist, sprints along the Potomac River and diffuses a violent situation using her psychic abilities, though she denies them afterward.
• She arrives 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.
• At a grave site, she has a flashback of her father’s mysterious disappearance, with a hidden UFO hovering nearby.
• 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 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.
• She grows suspicious of covert operations and pursues leads on missing government whistleblowers.

Plan in Action

• Mercer’s weaponized drones are tested, injuring a technician, and Sam uncovers Mercer’s dangerous experiments.
• After a car chase with Mercer’s MIB agents, Sam returns home to find her house ransacked and her dog injured.
• Sarah Kane drugs and seduces Sam, deepening the web of manipulation.

Midpoint Turning Point

• Sam meets with Cooper, who reveals classified details about her father’s work on extraterrestrial technology.
• Mercer’s men attempt to kill them, and Sarah watches as a whistleblower is executed.
• 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.
• 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 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 alien ship, Sam reunites with her father, now an AI-human hybrid.
• The extraterrestrials 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 aliens.
• Meanwhile, Mercer launches drone attacks, escalating global tensions toward nuclear war.

Resolution

• The aliens intervene, disabling nuclear weapons worldwide and exposing the cover-up.
• Sam returns to Earth near a nuclear facility, using her heightened psychic powers to sabotage Mercer’s final attack.
• Mercer perishes as his own technology turns against him.

New Ways:

• Behaviors: Collaborative and open, embracing partnerships with Cooper, Sarah, and others to achieve her goals.
• Emotions: Resilient and compassionate, accepting her hybrid child and the aliens as symbols of hope and unity.
• Thinking Patterns: Views her psychic abilities as gifts that can save humanity and pave the way for a brighter future.

Final Image:

• Sam, Cooper, and her hybrid child, Nova, stand together, 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.