Show Idea: The Angel's Fall

For some odd reason I have been watching a bit more TV than I normally do, and for some reason, I have had 3 different ideas rolling around in my head, and for some odd reason I have the desire to share one.

Now, I say this would need to be a TV show of some sort because I don't think it would work as a book, or a videogame. And even going past that, I don't think this would even be possible with real actors and actresses, so with that, it would probably be a animated show you would only find on Spike or Adult Swim... and going even FURTHER than that, chances are an animated show that isn't a cartoon comedy wouldn't be touched by most American companies, so chances are it would most likely be an anime.

So, the basic premise of the story is, like many of my shitty attempts at fiction, involving the concept of supersoldiers, but really exploring into what could "realistically" (word used loosely) make a super soldier so different in comparison to a normal person in a context that tries to take itself seriously.

In short, "feel" of the show is something between the Keven Kostner film The Bodyguard, the Manchurian Candidate, and The Matrix.

So here's the premise:

The show would be named either "The Angel's Fall" or "Nephilim"

The first episode begins briefly during the Gulf War where the audience meets a soldier, (Lets just call him a Marine and use an arbitrary name like Henry Black) who is fighting against the IRA. Henry is in a convoy that is ambushed and after his Humvee is flipped, he tries to fight, but it wounded and then executed and left.

After that, scene would flash to Henry's funeral Stateside, where we learn that Henry is the son of a US Senator stands over his son's coffin and vows, "Never Again."

Now, this fast forwards to Whatever near future date the show would take place, in a city where there is a very high population density, but a lot of sparse or abandoned areas, like London, Tokyo, Seoul, or Los Angeles. The newly introduced protagonist is a research student, male or female, who was working as a lab tech and assistant to their professor, who is studying means to grow human organs/ reduce recovery times in surgery.

The tech, (lets just name them Alex) works with this prof who has failing health, and to nobody's surprise, is informed one day that said prof had passed one night. Alex attends the funeral and is approached by the Senator who reveals himself to be the benefactor funding the research they were doing and tasks Alex to retrieve all of the information regarding the project so it can be continued by other individuals.

They are to be escorted to the lab by one of the Senator's aides and a person who he describes as a "beneficiary" of the research that they had been doing. Unbeknownst to Alex, this "beneficiary" is Henry Black, who is mysteriously alive, but has a pseudonym.

While uploading all of the information to a server, Alex comes across a top secret and encrypted file codenamed: Project Nephilim. When they try to access it, an alarm is tripped and all hell breaks loose. By the end of this immediate ordeal, the two are framed as terrorist, the lab work they were trying to upload is thought to be a bioagent, they are labeled enemies of the state, and put out on every APB in the area.

Henry and Alex attempt to lie low, and the senator contacts them, saying that he is trying to help, but needs the information encrypted on the file to prove that the work done at the lab was not any sort of harmful bioagent. So the two of them are on their own as Alex acts as the brains and the translator to unlock the secrets within the file, and Henry is the badass bodyguard who does almost all of the wetwork... and is surprisingly good at what he does. From security and police forces, gangs, and the military, Henry destroys all of them.

Through one way or another, Henry reveals that the reason why he is so willing go to such lengths to complete this mission is because he was wounded in war and through the things locked away in that project, was given a second chance at life.

Alex does some sleuthing at the same time, and finds some inconsistencies in his story, but the real revelation is after they finally open the project files and learns that Project Nephilim was actually research into human cloning, Alex's work in particular was involving increasing the longevity of artificially made flesh. Alex's protector in particular was one of the first test subjects. The name of the Project, Nephilim describes the unholy children of angels and human women.

The test subjects are not only just clones of humans, but they also genetically and physically modified all of the Nephilim to have increased muscle strength, quicker reaction times, increased senses, and even things like subdermal armor to protect vital areas. But at this stage they need to take samples from subjects who showed bravery as well as a subservience to their authorities, hence why Henry was used.

Back to the plot, we learn that the Prof had been killed because he was attempting to use to project to save his failing health, and the Senator funded the project as a means to privatize and disband the military. Finally, the final revelation was that the branding of Alex as a terrorist and the entire ordeal was a set up in order to test to see how a single Nephilim would operate against regular security forces .

Now, to be honest, I don't know how the story would end, probably after this realization more Nephilim would be deployed to kill Alex and detain or eliminate henry or a Nephilim who was bred to be an intelligent commander finds a way to take over the operation and kills the Senator and tries to use the information to become a superior race.

But, in the end, Alex manages to find a way to prove their innocence, the project is shut down, and it Henry goes missing to find the family of his source person and may or may not kill himself in the end.

So, that's the story, but while I think the story is a bit unique, one thing that I would stress that would be interesting about this series is, as I stated before, what would make the Nephilim characters so much better fighters than normal people or supersoldiers. Part of thisis mainly the ability for Henry to take in and predict aggressors in his surroundings so that he can properly avoid and eliminate threats before he could even get shot. But at the same time he carries heavy bodyarmor underneath his clothes that, since his muscles are so much stronger, means that taking some shots aren't even an issue because the bullet can't penetrate and the shock is absorbed to the point that there would be no damage to him.

Another thing that would need to be addressed is that it always would seem that henry has the right weapon for the situation every time, meaning that his primary weapon would be something along the lines of a SCAR-H, which he can modify to fit whichever situation he thinks he would need to address, be it a sniper variant, a rifle, high explosive grenades, or a short barrel variant.

Anyway, that's the story, so maybe now that I wrote it down I'll stop thinking about it.