Here's my show. Apologies for the length, I got a little carried away.
Lead: Sam Axe
Love Interest: CJ Cregg
Funny Person: David Addison, Jr.
Best Friend: Cordell Walker (Texas Ranger)
Badass: Sydney Bristow
Mentor: Thomas Magnum
Wildcard: Buffy Summers (the Slayer)
Primary Antagonist: Skeletor
Secondary Antagonist: Wo Fat
Theme Song: "Hair of the Dog," Nazareth
Working Title: Magnum Force (until Clint Eastwood's lawyers force a name change to A.X.E. vs. Evil)
Premise:
With a new, Republican presidential administration, CJ Cregg has left the White House. Still interested in politics, she establishes residency in Hawaii in time to run for, and win, the Governorship.
Her term is immediately plagued by a spike in crime, nearly all of which is either indirectly financed or perpetrated by rising crime lord Wo Fat, who controls all drug and black market trade that passes through Hawaii, thanks to his extensive network of contacts within the criminal syndicates on the Chinese, Japanese, and U.S. mainlands. Local police are either ineffectual, spread too thin, or on the take from Wo Fat, who remains elusive.
Stymied, Governor Cregg reaches out to one of Hawaii's most respected private citizens, Thomas Magnum, as a special consultant to find new--and perhaps unorthodox--ways to combat Wo Fat's influence. Retired from active duty, Magnum uses his significant expertise and wealth (having inherited the Robin's Nest and the surrounding estate from the now deceased Robin Masters) to assemble a team of crime-fighters for Governor Cregg.
Looking to make a fresh start on his own, Magnum's old friend and fellow ex-Navy Seal Sam Axe jumps at the chance to trade Miami sunshine and mojitos for Hawaiian sunshine and pina coladas. (Sam is unaware that old flame and ex-wife CJ will serve as his eventual boss, a prospect that causes no small consternation for Axe throughout Season One.) On a brief stopover in L.A., Axe reconnects with drinking buddy David Addison, whose own prospects to run a private detective agency have hit a recent rough patch. After some coaxing, and many beers, Addison decides to partner up with Axe in Hawaii. Meanwhile, Magnum also reaches out to Texas lawman Cordell Walker, whose crime-fighting efforts in the Lone Star State have not gone unnoticed.
During Season One, Axe, Addison, and Walker, thanks in no small part to Magnum's resources and expertise, manage to help citizens find justice--or retribution--for crimes suffered: extortioners, kidnappers, thieves and other criminals are all brought to heel (in some cases, literally). But Wo Fat always remains just out of reach.
During this time, Wo Fat's tastes for material wealth extend to objects of antiquity procured via his black market contacts. His most recent acquisition, a gift from the Japanese yakuza, is the Maka pokani (the Eye of Darkness), an oblong piece of highly burnished volcanic obsidian. The earliest inhabitants of Hawaii believed the Maka pokani could imbue its owner with the power to see and even influence events and people across great distances.
Soon thereafter (midway through Season One), a rare astrological event triggers the opening of a portal in time and space that allows Skeletor, from his lair on Eternia, to communicate with Wo Fat through the Maka pokani. Skeletor insinuates himself into the consciousness of Wo Fat, manipulating him to seek out other ancient artefacts in order to gain additional power, some of which Wo Fat transfers onto his henchmen, transforming them into bestial parodies of humanity called xenomorphs. Skeletor's endgame is to use the combined powers of these ancient artefacts to travel physically through the portal and subjugate Earth.
Magnum and his team soon discover that the once-petty criminals plaguing the islands have now been replaced by the much more sinister threat posed by Skeletor/Wo Fat and his xenomorphs. Governor Cregg reaches out to those of her old contacts that are still placed within the federal government to identify additional help against this rising threat.
That help arrives in the form of former CIA member Sydney Bristow, no stranger to fighting megalomaniacs bent on acquiring objects of occult power. Coinciding with Sydney's arrival, Buffy Summers shows up at the Robin's Nest not knowing exactly why she's there--only that there is evil for the Slayer to fight once more.
Magnum and his team of wise-cracking ass-kickers are the only salvation against a growing tide of evil that threatens to enslave Earth. Will Wo Fat be stopped? Can Skeletor's insidious presence be banished back to Eternia? Will Sam and CJ rekindle old memories of love? How many one-liners can we fit into a 60-minute primetime slot? Tune in and find out.
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