SYNOPSIS Michelle Ahearn is a TV journalist and she's good at it. She cares about getting the facts right and telling honest, accurate stories that matter. It's the same in her personal life, she's in a loving romantic relationship, and very close with her sister. But she does have a problem, and it's a big one: she's in her fifties in a business that doesn't tolerate aging in women. In fact, she knows that her bosses are planning on letting her go in favor of a newer, shinier model. As they ease her out the door they assign her to the least important stories. Michelle is driving home from yet another routine eleven o'clock live-shot Read more when it happens. Scared by a scraggly homeless man approaching her car, she swerves to avoid him but unintentionally hits him, sending him into the path of a city bus driven by Alice, an African-American woman. The collision kills him. Michelle has a choice to make. She doesn't stay at the scene, she doesn't call the police . . . she crosses the line from a minute before to what will never be the same. Michelle shows up for work the next day and is assigned to cover what her bosses consider to be barely a story about a homeless man killed by a city bus the night before. To everyone's surprise they soon learn that the dead homeless man was Case Stahl and the throwaway story takes off. Five years ago Case was considered the best high school quarterback in the country. Instead of becoming the college and pro star that seemed to be his destiny Case disappeared into the streets, homeless and alone. Michelle now has sole ownership of a story that's just made for TV news and is about to learn that she isn't the only one with a Case Stahl secret. Case, his coaches and teammates knew that he had become addicted to opioids so that he could overcome injuries and keep playing. It worked for the injuries but he couldn't beat the addiction and lost himself to a life on the streets. No longer a football star Case Stahl was just another homeless bum. Michelle keeps her guilty secret while driving the story, connecting with Case's friends, family, and teammates. The series of stories that Michelle tells, chronicling Case's life from storybook athlete to homeless addict is TV gold and is making her a star. She has a choice-listen to her conscience, or succumb to the addiction of ambition. Meanwhile, Alice, the bus driver who ultimately collided with Case, gains nothing but paralyzing PTSD. Choices have a cost. Michelle's boyfriend loves her and despite fighting his suspicions figures out Michelle's role in Case's death. Now he has a choice to make. Michelle and her sister are close, always there for each other. Michelle is overwhelmed by the need to share her terrible secret, but when she does her sister realizes she too has a choice to make between a commitment to justice and family loyalty. What is the meaning of Case's life and death and who has the right to tell that story? What choices will Michelle and those close to her make and what do they gain . . . and lose along the way? Case Closed has all the elements of a powerful contemporary story in which audiences can recognize their own feelings about celebrity, honesty, ambition, how we document our time, and the confrontation with existential choices and their consequences.