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He doesn't want competition! Thorne’s natural first instinct is to literally kill the competition. But his highly enigmatic supplier, DUETCH, insists they gather intel on the operation in order to formulate a strategic counter-insurgency to avoid potential Cartel blowback. Jake approaches Thorne for a job, not as one of his thugs, but as an entry-level employee at his ritzy Colonial Club. Jake tells Thorne that it’s his dream to own his own nightclub one day and he wants to learn the business. Thorne scoffs and insults him with a typically racist slur. Jake’s reaction is interrupted when MARY THORNE barges in. There is a brief moment of surprised recognition but Mary pretends she doesn’t know him. Later that night she visits Jake’s motel room where she vents her contempt for Thorne and expresses her desire to rekindle a fling she had with Jake. Jake knows she’s trouble. Jake is naturally suspicious when Thorne suddenly makes him owner of his newly “acquired” nightclub, Club Apex. He stands by embarrassed as Thorne and his cold-blooded henchman, MYLES, extort and physically threaten the owner into signing the place over and then laugh about it. In the meantime, Mary has taken it upon herself to spy for Jake. She tells him that she overheard Thorne and Duetch say Club Apex is a trap to lure a man named Sonny. Jake confronts Thorne and as the truth of his task is revealed, so is the fact that he is trapped. Though wary, it is not an unfamiliar world to Jake and he rises to the occasion. Soon, Club Apex is the new hotspot and the larger-than-life Sonny is its newest VIP. The plan to get close to badass Sonny has been launched. While Jake tries to run a business that is centered around spying on Sonny, Thorne is unraveling at the seams, desperate to hold on to his crumbling empire. Jake reaches his boiling point when Thorne traps him into the drug trade as a ploy to get him even closer to Sonny and his operation. Dragged ever deeper into Sonny’s twisted world, Jake attempts to navigate a rogue’s gallery of connivers and killers with Thorne launching cocaine-induced curveballs at every turn. Meanwhile, Jake is smitten by sultry cage dancer, GRACE PROVINCIA, who seems indifferent to his charm. At the same time, Thorne begins to smother Mary and she rebels. When she disappears for two days “to see a concert,” Thorne tries to lay down the law but she knows how to use her wares to play him like a fiddle. Mary discovers Thorne has been tracking her car and during a heated exchange stuns Thorne by announcing she’s moving out. Eventually Jake’s romance with Grace flourishes, no thanks to Mary who seems to show up at the worst possible time as she tries repeatedly and unsuccessfully to get his attention. When she sees Jake and Grace together, she launches her own scheme to have Jake all to herself, but her plan backfires with deadly repercussions. Sonny is robbed of four million dollars and Jake is certain the off-track, out of control Thorne is behind it. Mary reports to Jake that this is true and is scared that Thorne may let him take the fall for it. When Mary sees Jake ushered away in Sonny’s car she’s convinced he’s in danger and that she must help him. All the while, the paranoid and suspicious Thorne can’t find Mary. When he learns that Jake is missing too, he is convinced they ran off together and orders Myles to kill Jake. Meanwhile, in-flight to Mexico, Sonny mentions to Jake he’s looking at a trafficker named Thorne as their primary robbery suspect. Things heat up south of the border when on Sonny’s turf, Jake’s cover is blown and a tension filled game of who’s playing whom ensues. When the game is finally up, Sonny tells Jake that if he recovers the four million and kills Thorne he’ll let Grace go alive. While Jake faces a vicious jeopardy beyond anything he’d even encountered during war, Thorne and Mary ultimately face their own nightmarish destinies of retribution, violence and death. COMMENTS: If NARCOSTATE had already been made, it would be the kind of film that you’d anxiously be waiting for Netflix to deliver, if you hadn’t already had the pleasure of catching it at the neighborhood bijou. It’s a real guy’s type movie, lots of intrigue, action, memorable characters, juicy scenes, situations and moments that keep you continuously entertained—the whole nine yards. Jake is a worthy protagonist, constantly behind the eight ball, always finding himself in untenable situations that keep you wondering if he’ll ever find his way out of the soup as he tries to find his way around waves of the ubiquitous deceit he encounters, as well as rampant ego, and a world of crime that keeps escalating. All this while he’s surrounded by the glamour of uber fast nightlife, sexy proactive women and tasks he can’t seem to circumvent that could explode in his face at any given minute. This script can also be funny at times via the idiosyncratic gaggle of motley characters around him. In the same orbit of other entertaining films in this genre, it will keep folks wonderfully glued to the screen. Will make a kick ass film. TO CONTACT WRITER DIRECTLY
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