Logline:
A famous talk show host discovers he’s the son—and twin brother—of a notorious IRA operative, and becomes the unwitting centerpiece of a plot to weaponize his media platform and ignite a global crisis.
Synopsis:
WOLF TRAP opens in 1972 Belfast, where IRA soldier Jeremiah Wolf orchestrates a bombing that inadvertently kills his own son, shattering his family and setting in motion decades of buried truth and consequence. Thirty years later in New York City, Danny Waters—a charismatic, apolitical talk show host—lives unaware of his origins. His life intersects with Kelly Ferrara, a CIA operative assigned to monitor him after a provocative on-air moment draws intelligence scrutiny. What begins as surveillance becomes personal, as Kelly develops feelings for Danny while quietly managing the risks surrounding him.
The situation detonates when Danny receives anonymous evidence revealing his true lineage: his father was IRA leader Jeremiah Wolf, his brother Matthew died in the bombing, and—most destabilizing—he has a living twin, Joseph Wolf, now an active IRA operative orchestrating maneuvers in New York.
Joseph has arrived with a strategic objective—not to carry out a traditional attack, but to weaponize Danny’s media platform. By exposing historical truths and manipulating public sentiment, Joseph aims to shift global perception of the Irish struggle. At the same time, British intelligence (MI6) moves aggressively to neutralize Joseph and suppress whatever evidence he carries, while the CIA begins to suspect Danny himself may be complicit.
Caught between intelligence agencies, his own bloodline, and a truth he never asked for, Danny becomes the focal point of a geopolitical chess match. Kelly is forced into an impossible position: follow orders to turn Danny over—or go rogue to keep him alive and uncover what Joseph is really planning.
As Joseph evades assassination attempts and Danny is thrust into a live, unscripted reckoning with his identity, the story accelerates toward a collision of ideology, family, and media power. The ultimate question becomes not just who controls the narrative—but whether truth, once revealed, can be contained at all.
WOLF TRAP is a high-tension thriller about legacy, manipulation, and the dangerous intersection of personal identity and global politics—where the battlefield is no longer just physical, but psychological and public.