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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 861105" data-attributes="member: 3649">NYPD 2069from <a href="http://www.filmjerk.com/nuke/article351.html" target="_blank">This Link</a> Steven Bochco, the creator/producer behind the cop genre-defining "Hill Street Blues" and "NYPD Blue," will bring "NYPD 2069" to Fox for the 2003-2004 season. The story focuses on New York City Detective Alex Franco, who is investigating the murder of a millionaire named Harlan Kroger’s wife in the year 2003. Det. Franco quickly deduces that the husband is the murderer, but before he can make his case he is run down in the street by a speeding van. The last thing he sees is Kroger turn and walk away from the scene. The detective’s distraught wife is told that her husband is a vegetable and makes the decision to remove him from life-support. However, he keeps breathing on his own. The doctor tells her that there is a secret government project that cryogenically freezes fallen members of the NYPD and FDNY and that he could be brought back to life in about ten years due to advances in nano-technology. Sixty-six years later, Alex Franco awakens with a new prosthetic arm and the stunning realization that his wife is dead and that his son is a 77 year-old vegetable (due to a viral outbreak that killed 300,000 in the year 2039 that was most likely terrorism). More incredulously, his murderer is now 99 years old, but with the benefits of money and scientific advancements has the mind and body of a 50 year-old man. He is given a new identity as Alex Bohlander and is assigned to his old precinct, where he will work alongside his grandson Paul Franco. What follows is the classic fish-out-of-water story. Detective Franco must adjust to a world he knows little about without giving away his secret (the secret government project was a failure, with him as the one unknown and illegal success, and was terminated). New York City is now devoid of vehicles, except for government use. Despite the population of New York being 15 million, it looks like the streets are abandoned. Most of the city has been segregated into rich gated areas (“Chelsea Gardens”) with their own private police force. Very few people ever venture outside. The skies are filled with buildings much taller than the standard skyscraper and there are holographic billboards and “police drones” floating around monitoring the citizens’ every move. Police work has changed dramatically and Bohlander, as he is now known, must adjust accordingly. Weapons are now mostly laser and microwave technology, although he is allowed to carry a nine-millimeter pistol. Police all wear the latest technology. The glasses that they wear can show all pertinent information on any suspect, give on the spot and instant lie detector tests, and allow a judge to render real-time decisions. A suspect can be found guilty and terminated right in the field. Bohlander tracks the man responsible for his predicament, Kroger, to a restaurant where he observes him living lavishly. After talking his way past a bodyguard, he comes close to both revealing who he is and killing the man. Knowing that such actions would have his new life revoked, he slips away. Then Bohlander along with his new partners, including his grandson Paul, track the case of a child who was kidnapped from the nanny of a wealthy family. The ensuing chase and gunfight leaves his grandson dead. The pilot ends with Bohlander volunteering to break the news to Paul’s wife and son. While at their apartment, the young boy seems oddly drawn to Alex. He finds an old photo of him from 2003 and is bewildered.</blockquote>

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