A terminally-ill former FBI agent teams up with an Atlanta detective, vowing to spend her final days profiling a serial killer who eluded them both 21 years ago and poses his young victims as if to look alive, killing them without leaving any clear cause of death.

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**I have also adapted DeadAlive for TV and would be happy to provide a complete Pilot script and series bible, if requested.

When twelve-year-old Debbie Rhodes is abducted from outside her home in rural Georgia, Melanie Fuller, an FBI agent from the behavioral science unit, is called upon to find the girl and her captor. But the kidnapper, nor the girl are ever found.

Twenty-one years later Fuller is dying of cancer and, having seen the worst humanity has to offer, she is content with her fate. But when Kurt Ressler, the rookie first responder back in 1988 and now a seasoned detective, knocks on her door to tell her “there’s been another one”, she reluctantly agrees to write a profile on the perpetrator.

But with little evidence to go on, Fuller and Ressler are forced to wait for him to strike again in the hope that more insight can be gained from a fresh crime scene. They do not have to wait very long and conflict arises when Fuller’s priority is finding the man that eluded her, while Ressler is committed to rescuing the latest victim.

After the girl is found dead with her face painted in makeup and posed to look alive the case takes an even darker. And when new evidence suggests the killer is burying his victims alive, Fuller then vows to spend what little remains of her own life hunting him down. It is all she now lives for.

The investigation leads to a known convict, but their hopes soon die when they find out their main suspect died in prison. No longer able to cope with the grim realities of pursuing a child murderer, Ressler quits, forcing Fuller, whose time is also running out, to work alone when another girl is taken and has only 24 hours left to live.

When a dangerous schizophrenic confesses to kidnapping the most recent girl and threatens to kill her, Fuller’s insistence that the killer personally knew the first victim taken in 1988 goes ignored by local law enforcement.

The man takes his own life, leaving Fuller and the police with no clue as to the victim’s location. But Fuller remains convinced the real culprit is still at large. Worse still, she is only a civilian. She steals an FBI badge and follows her instincts to where it all started; to Debbie Rhodes and the sweet little boy next door with a crush on Debbie; Billy.

Fuller must now solve the mystery of where Billy keeps his victims as they run out of air and discovers that he owns a Spring Water company. The kind with wells. The kind of wells you could bury a little girl in.

But just as she is about to share her discovery with the Sheriff, she collapses, close to death herself.

Fuller continues to fight to save the life of the missing school girl even from her hospital bed, and likely, her deathbed. She convinces Ressler to return, illustrating that his own struggles with the grim case is precisely what makes him human.

Ressler makes the choice to return to life as a cop and arrives at the well in time to kill Billy before he kills the girl. He then makes it to Fuller’s bedside just in time to let her know that her dying moments were not in vain; by saving the girl she also saved herself.