S.A.N.E. plot outline.

[D.T.Roberts]

For most of her life, Janet Freeman has suffered at the hands of people who were supposed to protect her. Now, as a sexual assault nurse examiner, she does her part to make her city and the world, for that matter, a safer place. But when a rapist commits a series of brutal assaults, Janet uses her position to exact her own form of justice.
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Janet Freeman is a 34 year old ER nurse who has a history of sexual abuse as a child, at the hands of her father. She is now in a relationship with a man whom she thought she loved, but has become abusive. Having been raised to believe she deserves it, the ever passive Janet tolerates the abuse.

Janet is trying to cope with the aftermath of her childhood by seeing Dr. Elizabeth Reynolds, a forensic psychiatrist and former FBI profiler, now in private practice. Through analysis of a recurring dream, Janet is slowly learning about herself. She doesn’t have to be the world’s doormat.

Her abusive fiancée Michael, is a service coordinator at a luxury car dealership where the District Attorney is investigating a security breach after confidential financial information is stolen by a hacker, presumably for identity theft.

Meanwhile, series of rapes begins. The victims all have something in common. They are either wives of very influential men or successful women in their own right.
Liz (Dr. Reynolds) begins seeing a new man who has appeared in her life.

As Janet performs forensic examinations on the victims she finds no physical evidence what-so-ever. This is alarming because four years earlier, a series of similar rapes resulted in the death of one victim. The case remains unsolved.

Police enlist the services of Dr. Reynolds (Liz) to develop a profile on the unidentified rapist.

As the abuse from Micheal escalates, Janet begins to see signs that may point to him as the rapist, even if it is only in her mind. Since there has been no evidence found on the rape victims, Janet decides to help the investigation along by planting Michaels semen into evidence kits of future victims.

Investigators discover that the names of the rape victims are also on the list of financial files stolen from the dealership. The cases are connected. Now, with a dealership full of potential suspects, police obtain DNA samples from all male employees of the dealership.

While police are waiting for DNA results, Liz completes the criminal profile.

Janet, now fearing she will be caught planting evidence, must direct investigators toward another man who she feels fits the profile, a doctor she works with.

Police interview the doctor who confesses to the rapes from four years ago but denies involvement in the current crimes.

With the doctor now in custody, police learn that the DNA from the victims matches an employee of the dealership, Michael.

Michael is arrested. During the interrogation Michael tries to escape. Making it to an interior hallway, he knocks a uniformed officer to the ground and takes his gun. Michael is shot and killed by officers.

Liz sees the story on the news and is devastated. We learn that the new love was Michael.
Liz knows for a fact the Michael was not the rapist. She now knows Janet was setting him up.

CLIMAX……

Resolution ….

And, THE END

[Louise Curtis]

I just wrote the following in reply to "Book of Shadows": be careful with writing about rape - first because you're a man, and you're writing about female rape (what would you know about such a personal thing?) and second because rape is too easy an excuse to explain a woman turning evil. It's become a cliche - and a very offensive one to a lot of good, happy women who have experienced sexual assault themselves.

You're not a man, so that helps - but you want to be very smart and serious about your research, and about acknowledging that rape doesn't end a woman's life/ability to make her own decisions about who she is.

For most of her life, Janet Freeman has suffered at the hands of people who were supposed to protect her. Now, as a sexual assault nurse examiner, she does her part to make her city and the world, for that matter, a safer place. But when a rapist commits a series of brutal assaults, Janet uses her position to exact her own form of justice.
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Janet Freeman is a 34 year old ER nurse who has a history of sexual abuse as a child, at the hands of her father. She is now in a relationship with a man whom she thought she loved, but has become abusive. Having been raised to believe she deserves it, the ever passive Janet tolerates the abuse.

Janet is trying to cope with the aftermath of her childhood by seeing Dr. Elizabeth Reynolds, a forensic psychiatrist and former FBI profiler, now in private practice. Through analysis of a recurring dream, Janet is slowly learning about herself. She doesn’t have to be the world’s doormat.

From now on, refer to the doctor as Dr. Reynolds - you don't need to keep introducing her.

Her abusive fiancée Michael, is a service coordinator at a luxury car dealership where the District Attorney is investigating a security breach after confidential financial information is stolen by a hacker, presumably for identity theft.

Meanwhile, a series of rapes begins. The victims all have something in common. They are either wives of very influential men or successful women in their own right.
Liz (Dr. Reynolds) begins seeing a new man who has appeared in her life.

As Janet performs forensic examinations on the victims she finds no physical evidence what-so-ever. This is alarming because four years earlier, a series of similar rapes resulted in the death of one victim. The case remains unsolved.

Rephrase "physical evidence". It implies that the women's bodies are unmarked (in which case it wouldn't be rape - rape leaves clear evidence of trauma). I think you mean to say there is no DNA or whatever from the rapist.

Police enlist the services of Dr. Reynolds (Liz) to develop a profile on the unidentified rapist.

As the abuse from Micheal escalates, Janet begins to see signs that may point to him as the rapist, even if it is only in her mind. Since there has been no evidence found on the rape victims, Janet decides to help the investigation along by planting Michael's semen into evidence kits of future victims.

We need a REALLY good reason to not hate Janet right now - tampering with evidence is likely to result in the real rapist going free. I think she needs to be absolutely convinced that it's him - for example, she catches him in a serious of suspicious lies about where he was (which works, since he's cheating on her).

Investigators discover that the names of the rape victims are also on the list of financial files stolen from the dealership. The cases are connected. Now, with a dealership full of potential suspects, police obtain DNA samples from all male employees of the dealership.

While police are waiting for DNA results, Liz completes the criminal profile.

You don't need this paragraph.

Janet, now fearing she will be caught planting evidence, must direct investigators toward another man who she feels fits the profile, a doctor she works with.

Now she's framing a second person??? Protecting her illegal activities will probably cause the wrong person to be convicted, and thus more women to be raped and possibly killed. You need a REALLY good reason here.

Police interview the doctor who confesses to the rapes from four years ago but denies involvement in the current crimes.

With the doctor now in custody, police learn that the DNA from the victims matches an employee of the dealership, Michael.

Michael is arrested. During the interrogation Michael tries to escape. Making it to an interior hallway, he knocks a uniformed officer to the ground and takes his gun. Michael is shot and killed by officers.

why does michael try to escape? That's just dumb. Give him some kind of motivation, please.

Liz sees the story on the news and is devastated. We learn that the new love was Michael.
Liz knows for a fact the Michael was not the rapist. She now knows Janet was setting him up.

And....then what? Does Janet go to jail for planting evidence? Or does Liz understand her actions and forgive her? We need to know the ending within the synopsis. And cut the next few lines - the climax is michael's death.

CLIMAX……

Resolution ….

And, THE END

Hope that's useful.