What if you could see dead people...
And they were all a bunch of assholes.

That's the tagline for this week's Short I'll Never Shoot, which is actually the opening pages of a script that I could never get a handle on. "The Lost Angels" is a kind of satirical cop show that would kind of make fun of the modern day cop drama, much like Sledgehammer! mocked the crime dramas of the 80's. It wouldn't be as spoof heavy as Naked Gun's predecessor Police Squad but I think it's about time for a legit cop comedy (copedy?)

Anyway, the show followed Monroe, a young detective who can see ghosts and has battled to make it up the ranks (and have a normal life) in spite of the dead people constantly messing with her. Her real partner is a kind of spoof of David Caruso's C.S.I. Miami character but she actually gets help from Chen, Jim Teddy's old partner who was killed in the line of duty but promised Teddy's father that he would always look out for Jim. The last major recurring character is Bernie, a mysterious ghost who, for reasons unknown, has a bone to pick with Monroe and tries to make her life miserable any chance he gets.

The pages here actually aren't the opening pages of the script; they're the backstory of Monroe - how she got her powers, how they've influenced her life, and how she ended up as a cop.

I think it's a pretty good first page and I like the opening as a whole but I could never get it to come together as a script. If you want to read the rest of Monroe's backstory (7 pages total), click continue reading and enjoy.
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