Marlow Station

Logline

A night-shift detective inherits a murder book whose victims match a pattern from 1994.

Synopsis

Detective Owen Marlow takes the overnight desk and a cold book nobody will sign. The new body is staged like the third victim in a series that officially ended. He works it with a retired detective who still keeps the original photographs at home.

Comparable titles

Pitch shorthand: Sleeping Dogs meets The Dead Girl

Median budget

$25M

Median worldwide gross

$21M

Median multiple

1.6x

1 of 3 comps report both

Newest comp

2024

Title	Rating	Budget	Gross	Multiple
Sleeping Dogs 2024 Matched on detective, cold case, crime scene Roy Freeman, an ex-homicide detective with a fractured memory, is forced to revisit a case he can't remember. As a man's life hangs in the balance on death row, Freeman must piece together the brutal evidence from a decade-old murder investigation, uncovering a sinister web of buried secrets and betrayals linking to his past. With only instincts to trust, he faces a chilling truth - sometimes, it's best to let sleeping dogs lie.	7.0 673 votes	Not reported	Not reported	Not reported
The Dead Girl 2006 Matched on serial killer, murder victim The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to intersect.	6.0 266 votes	Not reported	$905k	Not reported
Falling Down 1993 Matched on detective, retirement An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.	7.4 4k votes	$25M	$41M	1.6x

Comps average 6.8 across about 2k TMDB votes. Budgets and grosses are TMDB figures and leave out marketing.

Breakdown

No structured draft on file. A breakdown appears once the writer uploads pages or writes them in Tycoon.

Pages on file

The story takes place in a city precinct on the overnight shift, and the rooms the old book still names. The protagonist is Detective Owen Marlow, who inherited a serial case the department closed. The night book has a fourth victim the morning shift has not seen. The pose matches a photograph from 1994, down to the hand.

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Writer

Julian Voss

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