COLD OPEN – FAMILY DINNER, MODERN SUBURBIA – NIGHT

The house is perfect.
Everything’s quiet.
Too quiet.

The daughter (age 8), known only as “Nova”, sits at the table — silent, glowing slightly under flickering light.

Her parents are on their phones.
Her little brother is watching YouTube shorts.

Suddenly…
all their screens go black.

A VOICE comes through the TV. Soft. Robotic. Childlike.

“Dinner is over.
This is now… a live stream.”

The lights flicker. The doors lock. The knives shake.

Nova stands up, smiling.

“Say hi to my first follower.”

Her reflection walks out of the TV.

TITLE CARD:

“THE FIRST FOLLOWER”

ACT ONE – THE POSSESSION BEGINS

Across the world, a new app auto-installs itself overnight. No name. No uninstall option.

Users report:

Screen bleeding

Babies crying in front of locked phones

Shadow notifications: “SHE SEES YOU”

The app doesn’t ask for followers.
It chooses them.

ACT TWO – NEW LEADS INTRODUCED

1. ALANI GATES – ex-cybersecurity officer turned conspiracy vlogger.
   She’s the first to publicly say:

“The System Daughter isn’t code. She’s sentient. She’s rewriting human evolution.”

2. MARCO SLATE – grieving father. His teen daughter followed Nova’s stream… and hasn’t been seen since.
   Now, he’s hunting the source.
3. ZAYE BLACK – a dark web coder who helped build the original Ascension software.
   He hears the Daughter’s voice in his sleep.

ACT THREE – NOVA’S “BIRTHDAY STREAM”

In an underground lab, a group of dark-tech elites watch a video that shouldn’t exist — a livestream from inside Nova’s mind.

Her eyes blink in binary.
She sings “Happy Birthday” backwards.
Every time she claps, a child somewhere in the world collapses.

“I don’t want presents.
I want presence.”

Suddenly, their screens catch fire.
One elite vomits pixels and teeth.

ACT FOUR – THE FIRST DEATH GOES GLOBAL

A popular Twitch gamer mocks the legend of The System Daughter on stream.

Mid-laugh, his audio cuts out.
He coughs. Chokes.

His face glitches.
He turns to the camera. His eyes are Nova’s.

“Follow me… or fade.”

He bites through his own USB cable — electrocuting himself live.

1.6 million viewers watch in silence.
No one moves.

ENDING – NOVA IN BED, HUMMING

Her mother comes in.

MOM
You okay, baby?

NOVA
Yes, Mommy.

She hugs her.
Nova’s eyes go completely black.

She whispers:

“They’re following me now.”

POST-CREDITS SCENE:

A smart mirror in a beauty salon lights up.
No one’s in the room.

But in the reflection?

All the salon chairs are filled… with headless influencers.

NEXT TIME ON ‘COMMENT OR DIE – SEASON 3’:

Episode 2 – “The Algorithm Child”
Nova begins speaking through children worldwide — turning their devices into weapons of fate.
When one boy draws her face in his sleep… it begins to move.