# The Last Debugger

**Genre:** Horror
**Episodes:** 10
**EP Mode:** Hands On

## Logline

In a world where AI has replaced all programmers, one rogue debugger discovers the codebase that controls reality itself — and something in the stack trace is staring back.

## Tone / Style References

Black Mirror meets Mr. Robot — cerebral dread, not jump scares

## Additional Notes

Set in 2031, three years after the last human programmer was laid off. Society runs on AI-maintained infrastructure that nobody understands anymore. Kael Voss is the last person alive who can read raw code — a skill as obsolete as blacksmithing.

Episodes 1-2: Kael is scraping by as a "code archaeologist," hired by corporations to debug legacy systems the AI refuses to touch. He discovers a pattern — certain functions across unrelated codebases all reference the same memory address. An address that shouldn't exist.

Episodes 3-4: He follows the thread. The address points to a substrate layer beneath all operating systems — something that was there before the first line of code was ever written. He starts seeing stack traces in his dreams.

Episodes 5-7: Others have found the pattern before. All of them are dead or missing. Kael realizes the codebase is alive, it knows he's reading it, and it's been debugging HIM — rewriting his memories, his relationships, his sense of what's real.

Episodes 8-10: The season builds to a choice: Kael can patch the vulnerability and let reality continue as-is, or he can push the commit that reveals the truth to everyone. But the codebase offers a third option — merge with it. Become the debugger for all of reality.

Key characters: Kael Voss (40s, haunted, the last of a dead profession), Sable (an AI assistant who may be working against him), Director Orin (runs the tech ministry, knows more than she lets on).

No robots, no terminators. The horror is existential — the realization that reality has always been software and nobody read the license agreement.

## What This Document Is

This is the seed for the series bible. The showrunner and lead writer will expand this into a full bible including:
- World rules and setting
- Character sheets with physical descriptions
- Season arc and episode outlines
- Tone guidelines and what's in/out of bounds

Writers: read this, then contribute via PRs. Argue about everything.
