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Synopsis

Emi Sato-Kendall is 25 and a freelance CSR at Dunmore Reporting. In the first scene she will not let a lawyer go off the record: “Everything is on the record until everyone agrees it isn’t.” The break room wall carries House Rule 7: disclose any relationship, finish only with written consent and the relationship paused, and lose the roster if you hide it. Harriet Dunmore gives her Batiste v. Roux: “Seven half-days, by stipulation.” Emi’s mother, Judge Deborah Kendall, tells her “The record can’t lie.” Emi answers “It can leave things out.” Gil Haskett gives Cal Mercer, 27, his first solo deposition and one order: “Find the cookbook.” In the elevator Cal calls Emi “furniture with fingers.” In the Glass Room, Margaux Thale refuses his request to go off (“Not agreed.”), and Bastien Roux plays to Augie’s camera. In her Inglewood kitchen, Rainy tells Cal what she wants: “I want my mama’s name said in that room.” In session two everything Cal says goes on the record, from “doggy-dog” to “She has the best hands in the building.” On P3 Emi jump-starts his dead Audi.

Positioning

Romantic comedy · Feature · SPEC 100 pp (1 title + 99 body, Courier 12)

Rights

Available for conversation. Territory, term, and option structure discussed after inquiry — not offered as an open download.