Six-hour international thriller
Marigold
He chooses the victim. Then he chooses who will take the fall.
Created by Marc Scott Zicree and Elaine Zicree
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He chooses the victim. Then he chooses who will take the fall.
Etienne Marigold is an aristocratic patron of the arts, effortlessly charming and protected by wealth, reputation and borders. He is also a serial killer who treats murder as curation. In each European city he selects not only a victim, but a vulnerable working-class person whose life he can reshape into the perfect frame.
Marisol Marais is a queer working-class performance artist imprisoned for the murder of her girlfriend Josephine. She knows she was set up, but innocence is not enough when the evidence, press and legal machinery all point in one direction. Her escape turns a personal fight for survival into an international investigation.
Across Paris, Amsterdam, Florence, Oslo, Madrid and Gruyere, Marisol frees João Galamba, Manny Piletti and Tawfiiq Ali Mahdi, others whose lives Etienne destroyed with the same method. Interpol investigator Sengul 'Sheng' Turguk follows the pattern from inside the system. Together, strangers with different languages, skills and histories become a found family capable of seeing the structure behind the crimes.
A pursuit across Europe
A survivor turns the hunt into a reckoning.
Framed for a crime she did not commit, Marisol searches for the other people whose lives Etienne has destroyed.
Marisol and Etienne race through the museum · PrevisualizationThemes
The questions driving the story
Theme
Privilege as camouflage
Etienne's wealth does more than protect him. It makes institutions reinterpret evidence in his favor.
Theme
Art, authorship and control
Each episode links crime to a city and an art form, asking who gets to shape the story the public believes.
Theme
The framed become investigators
People dismissed as suspects combine the knowledge no official agency thought worth hearing.
Theme
Justice without a clean ending
Nineteen people can be exonerated while a wealthy killer still finds a way to vanish.
Characters
The people at the heart of the story
Marisol Marais
A working-class performance artist framed for the murder of the woman she loves and forced to become her own investigator.
Etienne Marigold
An aristocratic art patron and serial killer who constructs crimes as elegantly as exhibitions.
Sengul 'Sheng' Turguk
An Interpol investigator whose pursuit of evidence brings her into uneasy alliance with the people the system convicted.
João Galamba
One of Etienne's framed survivors, carrying skills and knowledge the emerging team needs.
Manny Piletti
A wrongly accused man whose release expands Marisol's fight beyond her own innocence.
Tawfiiq Ali Mahdi
Another target of Etienne's method and a vital member of the improvised international team.
Josephine
Marisol's murdered partner, whose life and art remain more important than the narrative Etienne built around her death.
Previsualization
Scenes from the story
Explore key moments from the story in these previsualization images. Select an image to enlarge it.
Creative team
Writers, producers and artists
Marc Scott Zicree
Founder, writer, director and producer
Attached to: Marigold
A five-decade genre storyteller, author and filmmaker who has written and produced for landmark science-fiction series while building independent worlds with audiences.
Elaine Zicree
Founder, writer, director and producer
Attached to: Marigold
A filmmaker, writer, producer and actor coach who co-leads Space Command Studios and The Table, and is directing the feature When the Voiceless Roar.
Attached performers
The actors bringing the story to life
Christina Moses
Actor
Attached to: Marigold
A dramatic actor whose television work combines emotional depth, strength and vivid character presence.
Production readiness
Built to move forward
The six-hour story arc and illustrated episode precis map the full pursuit across Europe, the framed ensemble and the morally unsettled ending. Scripts are in active development.
