A Cautionary Tale
Logline: A married cop’s fling with a magnetic schoolteacher spirals into obsession, manipulation, and a dangerous triangle with her vengeful ex — forcing him to choose between his badge, his family, and the woman who has him under her spell.
Short Description: Jack is a experienced detective, a man who should know better — but when he meets Margo, a captivating teacher with cuff-marks on her wrists and a past she can’t shake, he’s hooked. Their affair starts as sex and danger, but quickly becomes a psychological tug-of-war. Margo floods Jack’s phone with texts, lures him back with intimacy and chaos, and pits him against her volatile ex-boyfriend Gus, a city cop. What begins as an escape from Jack’s domestic life turns into an addiction he can’t shake — even as the fallout threatens his marriage, his career, and his sanity. Side Chick is an erotic thriller with procedural grit, exploring power, temptation, and what happens when a man who lives by control becomes enslaved by desire.
Writer’s Note: With Side Chick, we wanted to strip away the glamour of an affair and show it for what it really is: a slow-burning fuse that consumes everyone near it. As former criminal analysts and investigators, we’ve seen this story play out in real life — love triangles that turn into police reports, professional lives ruined by passion, and people convinced they can “handle it” until they can’t. The story lives in the quiet moments — cigarette smoke curling in a bar, a phone buzzing at 3 a.m., the choice to go back one more time. This isn’t just about lust, it’s about compulsion, control, and the cost of giving in.