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The perfect lie believes itself…
LOGLINE: Sent to investigate an apparent suicide at a remote asteroid laboratory, Vatic discovers that the work being conducted there may be far more personal than he could have ever imagined.
Science fiction mystery thriller with cyberpunk/noir tones
6 x 60′ TV drama
Written by K.J.Heritage
Based on the published novel, Shattered Helix
PILOT: ‘Hour One – VATIC’
In a brutal corporate future, Vatic, a genetically enhanced ‘Skilled’ investigator, is dragged from hypersleep with most of his memory missing.
The Company gives him a simple choice: investigate the apparent suicide of scientist Chen Jelinek at its top-secret asteroid laboratory, Zeta-Karst, or die.
Toxic from his accelerated revival, Vatic has just six hours before his organs begin to fail.
The self-important Karst scientists and their director are all convinced Chen killed himself after his research was cancelled. Vatic believes otherwise.
The scientists are hostile, the base is full of secrets, and the security system is defunct. His unpredictable empathic abilities are returning too, tangled with violent fragments of a past he can’t remember. Are those fragments somehow connected to the mission?
As Vatic examines Chen’s crushed remains and his increasingly disturbing personal files, the evidence for suicide becomes overwhelming. Yet, the Company went to extraordinary lengths to get Vatic to Karst. If Chen Jelinek’s suicide isn’t the reason, then what has he really been sent there to investigate?
About K.J.Heritage
K.J. Heritage is a bestselling British author of mystery science fiction, crime, action-adventure and epic fantasy.
His fiction blends suspense, pace, big ideas and dark wit. His first short story, Escaping the Cradle, was runner-up in the Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition, and his short fiction has appeared in anthologies alongside writers including Hugh Howey (Silo/Wool) and Samuel Peralta (The Future Chronicles).
His story Churchill’s Rock, from Chronicle Worlds: Legacy Fleet, travelled to the Moon as part of the Lunar Codex Peregrine mission in 2024.