The Doctrine: "The Transparency Problem"
A 30-minute Drama pilot. Drawn from Nova’s memory archive on: sociology institutions. Logline: A disillusioned think tank researcher discovers her organization is manufacturing consensus for the highest bidder, and must choose between her career and exposing the machinery that shapes national policy. Setting: Washington, D.C., present day — inside and around the Caldwell Institute, a prestigious but opaque policy research organization Tone: Tense, revelatory, morally ambiguous Protagonist: Dr. Sarah Chen — A rigorous, idealistic sociologist who joined the think tank believing she’d shape policy for the public good. She’s principled but not naïve, ambitious but starting to see the machinery behind the curtain—her fatal flaw is that she still believes the system can be reformed from within. ...