Empiricism | Short Story By Cecilia Okugo

Empiricism

(Currently being formatted as a screen play/ script)

A science researcher gets the drags when yet another executive takes credit for her idea. Does she take her life back or does she falls back into the shadows.?

Jane a hard working science researcher is on the brink of dynamic discovery called the SPR solution that helps repair brain functions and motor skills. Dan an eager yet unloyal 

exec takes credit for Jane's entire research.

Dan finds himself locked in when he is unable to produce proper research for the SPR solution. Jane finds ways around the board and Dan to release the solution before Dan gets final approval.

Jane and Jessie conduct their own investigation on Dan who is still insisting that the ideas originally came from himself. Jane works long hours to finish and market the SPR solution. 

GSK promises Jane a higher bonus than her company Turner Science Systems once proper research is finalized. Dan and Turner release their version of the solution days after Jane and are unsuccessful.

Jane never regains credit for her original work in the eyes of Tuner but is successful on the GSK release. Jessie finds out more than she bargains about Dan. Flying by the seat of his pants he releases yet another one of his team members ideas and is busted by Jessie.

Jessie reports all information to the corporate office of Turner Science Systems as hard evidence. Dan corners Jessie on tapping his phone he was able to hunt down info on who broke the news on yet another stolen idea.

Many suspect that Dan was a fraud. Turner went on to do a background check on Dan and found that he had a habit of stealing ideas of his co-workers in the past at another company and fired him. Dan later tried to say that ideas were stolen from him and tried to sue when Jane was able to share more of her work and became successful.

Jane's success got to Dan because she was never to come out his shadows. Dan resisted arrest of harassment and stolen property. Jessie later joins Jane to developer their own science research and investigation company.