Black Vector Season One

BLACK VECTOR

Season One: Discovery

PROLOGUE

FADE IN:

A windowless room somewhere in Langley, Virginia. The hum of servers fills the silence. Emergency lights cast everything in amber.

AARON BLAKE (34) sits alone at a terminal, fingers frozen above the keyboard. On the screen: a single encrypted file labeled BV-001.

He doesn't open it. He just stares.

Behind him, the door opens. DEPUTY DIRECTOR MICHAEL TRENT (58) enters, his reflection ghosting across the screen.

"Still here, Blake?"

Aaron doesn't turn. "I ran the decryption protocol on the Hartley file."

"And?"

"It looped back on itself. Twelve times." Aaron finally spins the chair around. "That's not a glitch. That's a funnel. Someone built a pathway into the analysis stream and they're feeding it data from the outside."

Trent's expression doesn't change. "What kind of data?"

"Financial surveillance. Movement tracking. Intercepts." Aaron pauses. "And something I can't classify. It keeps rewriting its own metadata."

"Find anything useful?"

"Found this." Aaron gestures to the screen. "Whoever built it doesn't just have access. They built the system we're analyzing it on."

The room feels smaller suddenly. Trent steps closer, standing over Aaron's shoulder.

"Then we should probably find out who."MORE CHAPTERS TO COME.