Tough Beat Movie Screenplay Script Author:James Russell CAROL BLAKE (25) joins the Dept. of Corrections, endures boot camp, and is assigned to Wormwood Penitentiary. Designed for the most notorious convicts, Carol is thrown to the sharks. She's rudely awakened by the hostile working conditions and squeezed into the line of fire. Sophisticated convicts devise cunning setups, so well schemed, the be... more »st-of-the-best custody officers are compromised; blackmailed to mule drugs, weapons, uniform for escape, and successfully leveraging male and female employees for sexual favors. Carol grows teeth to survive, but the convicts relentlessly set her up behind the scene. Witnessing her fellow officers' careers destroyed, Carol believes the cons devised a means to compromise staff, though management refuses to listen as they themselves are silent conspirators. Pressurizing management, Carol wins a teaching assignment to educate officers and staff to the deadly games convicts play. Retaliation strikes! Convicts spring levers exposing Carol for serious rule violations and she's escorted off the premises. Russ and other officers are shanked by convicts as the trap closes. All is hopelessly lost. "Tough Beat" is based on true psychological techniques inmates use to manipulate staff. "Tough Beat" ranked 6th place of 13,000 entries in Writer's Digest Screenplay Contest and a quarter-finalist in the Writer's Network screenplay contest. The script may be available for production.« less