Stephen Jager

Splitting Adam Stephen Jager

A conscientious family man instantly 'resurrects' every time he dies, leaving behind dead replicas of himself, unaware that someone close to him, is trying to kill him. Adam is an atom-scientist that's just invented the atom-laser. He is also a very meek and attentive family man who adores his rather eccentric tween daughter. Yet for all his efforts to impress his family, it's not reciprocal. Mainly because his wife, deep down, hates his guts. Then one day, in one of those activities designed to 'impress', Adam sky-dives. His parachute doesn't open and he dies. BUT almost immediately his body resurrects itself, leaving on the ground, a dead replica of himself. Adam tries to expose this phenomenon but loses his body. When he dies a second time, the evidence presumes that he could be a target of industrial espionage because of his invention. He decides to turn his home into a fortress. As Adam continues to die through seemingly innocuous accidents around the house and even on their annual family holiday, it leaves him with more bodies to hide and move around as not to alarm his family. After no more than nine deaths Adam is finally coming to realize who his assassin is.