Witness Protection: Hawai’i
WGA Reg# 1091067 Effective Date 9/30/05 Exp.Date 9/30/10.
SCRIPT TREATMENT for WITNESS PROTECTION:
HAWAII
The pilot and series could be produced on a moderate budget. No special effects required.
There are no elaborate sets or high-tech features.
Interior sets would be easy to find locally
or simple and inexpensive to construct.
Exterior scenes could be shot on the streets and natural
areas of the Hawaiian Islands.
LOGLINE
Attractive, thirty something, covert
FBI caretaker of the Federal Witness (Fed Wits) Protection Program struggles to resolve the crimes, lost loves, domestic problems,
runaways, frustrations and isolations of the Fed Wits on the Big Island of Hawaii; sometimes with violence; sometimes with compassion.
His past as both an East Coast Organized Crime undercover FBI operative and a Navy Seal in the First Gulf War has made him cold and
disillusioned; his resolutions of the Fed Wits problems help him resolve his own personal issues.
The show is "Law and Order" done by an "Undercover" "Magnum, P. I." who is "Lost" in the apparent paradise of the Hawaiian Islands.
SETTING AND CONCEPT
This story
takes on a two part format; the new Fed Wit Situation is presented in the first third or half of the episode. The remaining time,
the Resolution, is spent with Harold fixing things, making things right again. The Situations will be diverse; from white collar crimes
and murder, to domestic problems with Fed Wit couples, to teenage run-a-ways, to drugs and terrorism. The action occurs mainly on
the Big Island of Hawaii but can spill over to any of the Hawaiian Islands.
The Harold solution and Resolution of the Situation
happens in the present. The Fed Wit’s Situations can be past or present.
A former Navy Seal in the First Gulf War, Harold joined the
Federal Bureau of Investigation upon leaving military service. After ten years as an FBI undercover field agent Harold has now become
the covert caretaker of the Federal Witness Protection Program based in the state of Hawaii based on the Big Island. Harold is not
his real name. His real name is never revealed. Previously, Harold worked as an undercover field operative on the Eastern Sea board.
He is in Hawaii for protection also; his last undercover assignment went very wrong.
Harold has the ability to mimic other people’s
actions and voices. It made him a good undercover operative. He thus takes on various disguises to maintain his covert status when
resolving the Fed Wit Situations.