Present Day – Monday MorningRaines Webster's case file was two hundred and thirty pages.Emma had read it over the weekend. She read it in stages in order to understand the case and how it can be worked.Pinnacle Entertainment Group had taken Raines's original screenplay, the one she had developed over three years and pitched to them under a confidentiality agreement, rewritten it with a different title and a different surface with the same ideas, and put it into production without her name anywhere on it. The film was currently in post-production. It was scheduled for release in eight months.The ideas were unmistakably hers. Emma could see it even without knowing Raines's work. The story itself while good, shows that its originality is lacking.There are minor inconsistencies between the characters to suggest tampering.It was a good case. Genuinely strong.Emma came into the office Monday with the file marked and tabbed and a preliminary strategy already forming, the way strategies
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