"Set in a futuristic world where humans are controlled by their fascist government, a career criminal gets drawn into a deadly plot when he rescues a upper class woman from the secret police and has to depend on her to survive."

I defy

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Former member Penpusher · 20 pts

It sounds more like the woman is your real protagonist. She does more...

dpg Singularity · 112,231 pts

The logline keeps morphing such that I'm not sure what the kernel of the idea really is. Whatever, I suggest raising the stakes for the man: it's not a matter of just locating his daughter, it's also matter of also saving her life before...?

Bodhi 0 pts

dpg: thx for the notes.

In a Fascist future, a career criminal gets contacted by a swanky woman who needs his skillset to take over power of the government, and offers him the location of his lost daughter if he helps her.

dpg Singularity · 112,231 pts

What's her motive for wanting to take down a system in which she seems to be doing quite well? She's a member of the upper class; what's her skin in the game?

Who's the protagonist: the criminal or the woman?

Bodhi 0 pts

what I?m trying to get to in my logline is that i want this man to become one with the system he hates to take it down, but he is an criminal so he needs a good reason to do so.

changed some more:

"In a Fascist future, a career criminal on the run, gets caught by the secret police and is rescued by an upper class woman who offers him a clean slate if he works for her to topple the system from the inside."

dpg Singularity · 112,231 pts

How would he come into contact with the woman if he's in solitary?

And how can he become "one of them" -- a cop, I presume -- while he's in prison? And they've got his fingerprints, an eye ball scan and whatever futuristic scanning technology there is to properly ID him for the career criminal he is?