The Bridge: Pilot

Los Angeles: Shine America / Bluebush Productions, 2013. Revised Draft script for Season 1 Episode 1 of the 2013-2014 television series. From the archive of crew member Chris Scher.

Loosely based on the 2011-2018 Danish-Swedish crime series "Bron/Broen." Two detectives—one Mexican and one American—must work together to capture a serial killer operating along the Texas-Chihuahua border. In the pilot episode, the body of an anti-immigration judge is discovered on the Bridge of the Americas. The episode originally aired on July 10, 2013, on FX.

Chris Scher has worked in American films from 1994 to the present. She was a propmaker, construction accountant/estimator/buyer, and carpenter on over 20 movies, including "The Last Seduction" (1994), "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "From Dusk Till Dawn" (1994), "The Horse Whisperer (1998), "Joy Ride" (2001), and others. She also performed the same work for prestige television dramas, including "The Bridge" (2014), "Ozark" (2017), and "Yellowstone" (2018).

Self wrappers. Title page present, dated April 2, 2013, with credits for screenwriters Meredith Stiehm and Elwood Reid. 101 leaves, with last page of text numbered 68. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, bound with two gold brads.

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