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PARALYZED Synopsis:
As the interrogation unfolds, two roads that seem unconnected, DT’s missing brother and the six missing young men start to merge into one. As these roads merge, DT’s greatest fear, losing his brother and his greatest hope, redemption for his sister’s death become a reality; a reality that culminates in a horrific tale by the one true serial killer, Marc “Kobey” Eli Slayer. |
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At age 30, handsome, smart, strong-willed, Detective Paul
Tracy -- LA’s best detective -- believes in two things:
good and evil as spelled out by the good Lord. Sadly, this has
created
a
wedge between the scripture-quoting Detective Tracy also known
as DT and
his younger brother Mike Tracy. For Mike Tracy has a secret,
a secret he has kept from his brother for a long time, a secret
that
will soon turn deadly. When Mike misses his Monday night pool
game with DT, DT becomes concerned about his younger brother’s
whereabouts. Prompted by a garbled background voice on his brother’s
voice mail message, he goes to his brother’s apartment
where he receives a mysterious phone call. Terrified by the caller’s
words, he bursts into brother’s empty apartment where he
discovers two leads, a Santa Monica bar and a friend he didn’t
know his brother had. Armed with these two bits of information
and tormented with memories of his older sister’s horrific
death, DT sets out to find his brother.
To make matters worse, DT’s is handed six missing persons
cases and a new partner all in the same day, neither of which DT
wants. Tortured by fears and prejudices, DT is reluctant to take
this case. In a diatribe directed at his surrogate father Papa Joe,
DT’s prejudices are manifested much to Papa Joe’s dismay
and concern. Papa Joe tries to convince DT to realize that his prejudice
is wrong. DT refuses to give in to Papa Joe’s wishes. But he
can’t refuse the Captain’s orders to take the case and
work with fresh, hungry, new rookie, Detective Walter Mitchell, his
new partner, a cocky, puck kid, out to prove himself. For DT, Walter
is nothing more than a hindrance to get rid of. 
After interrogating the Santa Monica Bar owner, DT frustrated with
not having heard from his brother, turns his attention toward his
case and his new partner. Sorting through case information, DT finds
the needle in the haystack, one Czarina Mirani, the friend of one
of the missing persons. After an eye-opening talk with Ms. Mirani,
DT and Walter follow a trail of odd clues; gum, multiples of three
and a make of pool table, which lead them on a journey through LA’s
nightclubs, the last known locations of the six young men who have
been reported missing. All six young men had four things in common,
being born Black, graduating from college, taking lovers of other
races and playing pool. 
After a telling encounter with a high school friend, a foot chase
with a Crystal Meth pushing bartender, a tenuous conversation with
a College football star, DT gets his big brain cooking, which leads
to the arrest of the Santa Monica bar owner and a late night stakeout
of 5 LA clubs which serves up a heaping help of hurt pride to DT.
In the midst of everything, DT and Walter struggle with one another
to find balance and respect as partners. They play the “whose
smarter game,” the confrontational “can you keep up game” and
a “taking you to school” game of pool. Shortly after
their pool game, the sexual and perverse truth about what happened
to those young men grows grimly clear; a truth which leads to a high
speed car chase and lightening fast foot chase, resulting in the
capture and interrogation of three unlikely serial killers, Christian
college students, Marc, Jake and Clare, one of whom holds the key
to DT’s redemption and salvation.