The Icove Agenda

The Icove Agenda – A movie based on Nadine Furst’s bestselling book, Deadly Perfection: The Icove Agenda, filmed during Celebrity in Death.

• The cast included:
  • Marlo Durn as Eve
  • Julian Cross as Roarke
  • K.T. Harris as Peabody
  • Matthew Zank as McNab
  • Andrea (Andi) Smythe as Dr. Mira
  • Peabody had a cameo as a bystander, with one line
  • McNab had a cameo with Peabody

• The crew included:
  • Joel Steinburger - Producer
  • Mason Roundtree - Director
  • Preston Stykes - Assistant Director
  • Carmandy - Head Set Designer
  • Valerie Xavier - Publicist

• During vid production, a series of murders was uncovered.
• The vid was nominated for seven Academy Awards: best actress (Durn), best supporting actor (Zank), best director (Roundtree), best adapted screenplay (Nadine), best editing, best sound, and best picture. (Echoes in Death, February 2061)
• The vid won five Academy Awards: to Nadine Furst for “Best Adapted Screenplay,” to Roundtree as “Best Director,” to Durn as “Best Actress,” “Best Cinematography,” and “Best Picture.”

• The premiere in Calculated in Death was attended by:
  • Sterling and Zelda Alexander until Sterling was arrested
  • Dickie Berenski and a date
  • Tyler Biden
  • Ryan and Sheila Feeney
  • Mavis Freestone and Leonardo, Peabody and McNab, all in the same limo as Eve and Roarke
  • Nadine Furst
  • Charlotte and Dennis Mira
  • Candida Mobsley
  • Alva Moonie and Cicily Morgan, who both read the book
  • Robinson Newton, who scored six tickets and read the book and his fiancée, Lissa
  • Thomas Pope and his wife
  • Bradley Whitestone
  • Carter Young-Sachs

Other people who have said they saw it included:

• Philadelphia Jones in Concealed in Death, who recognized Eve and Peabody and knew they were there about murder: “I read the Icove book, of course -- and slipped out just the other night with a friend to see the vid. It’s all very fresh in mind, so when I saw you, I jumped to the worst possible conclusion.”
• Tiffany Brigham Bittmore in Concealed in Death, who also read the book
• Lemont Frester in Concealed in Death, who wasn’t in town for the vid premiere, but enjoyed the book, and watched the vid at a private screening the previous month. “Marvelous! Clones. I’d have sworn it was science fiction, but you actually lived through the entire thing.” (Eve told him “Just another day on the job”)
• Savannah Bocco and her friend, Thea Rossi, recognized Eve and Roarke from the vid; which they saw like “a zillion times”; Savannah’s father, Nick Bocco, was reading the book as he had time, in Obsession in Death
• Ellysa Tesh in Devoted in Death, who asked Eve if she was as good as they made her out to be in the book and vid (she replied “He’ll get my best,” referring to Dorian Kuper)
• Laurel Esty and her roommate, Reb in Brotherhood in Death: “We saw the vid. Julian is so completely iced, and Reb said when we did how he’d do [Eve] in one heart knock”
• Alan and Jenny Markum and Jenny’s father, Liam O’Dell, in Apprentice in Death: after Alan’s death, Jenny told Eve: “We saw the vid. Alan really liked it. You look like you did in the vid. I mean like the actress did.” Liam told Eve and Peabody: “I saw the vid, and read the book as well. That Icove business. You’ll find who took the life of this good young man.”
• Henry Whipple in Apprentice in Death
• Willow Mackie in Apprentice in Death, who reluctantly admitted watching it, saying “Every time I watch it, I root for [Eve] to get blown up in the Icove lab.”
• Missy Lee Durante in Secrets in Death told Eve and Peabody she knew who they were and if the book and vid weren’t bullshit she could trust them; her beau, Marshall Cosner, said, “loved the vid, gotta read the book"
• Natalia Durban Berkle and her daughter, Dru, in Dark in Death
• Loren Able in Leverage in Death
• Jordan Banks referred to the book and vid in Leverage in Death
• Rochelle Pickering in Connections in Death
• Walter Pickering in Connections in Death
• Lisa Killagrew and Eldena Vinn saw the vid at a matinee before Connections in Death and Lisa liked how Eve kicked ass
• Frances Early in Vendetta in Death, who also read the book
• Lance Po and his husband, Westley Schupp, in Vendetta in Death, who were also fans of the book and Eve and Roarke in general
• Mark and Jeannie Horchow, who were delighted to have Eve apprehend the pickpocket who had taken Mark’s wallet while they were in New York for their fifteenth anniversary in Vendetta in Death
• Darla Pettigrew told Eve and Peabody in Vendetta in Death that her grandmother, Eloise Callahan, was “going to be disappointed she missed you. The Icove Agenda was her favorite vid from last year.” Callahan did come down and meet them, and when Eve called Darla that evening, she told Eve she and her grandmother were going to watch the vid again now that they’d met her.
• Araby Clarke in Vendetta in Death, who told Eve and Peabody she saw the vid and has followed them, and Roarke, whenever there was media.
• Lydia Merchant and her roommate, Teela, in Golden in Death; they saw it twice and Tella her roommate told Eve she looked just like Marlo Durn and Peabody was prettier than K.T. Harris
• Jay Duran in Golden in Death, who said the book was marvelous and he saw the vid with his family
• Marshall Cosner claimed to have read the book and seen the vid in Golden in Death, that his family knew the Drs. Icove, or thought they did
• Trent Bilbo in Shadows in Death, who pressed both hands to his mouth as if holding back squeals, when he met Eve and Peabody
• Chadwick Billingsby, who also read the book and thought when Eve asked him about Gwen Huffman in Faithless in Death she (Huffman) must have killed somebody since he recognized Dallas’s name
• Harmony Singer who loved the book and the vid, and was halfway through The Red Horse Legacy in Forgotten in Death and thought it may top it
• Allysa Gray in Forgotten in Death, who had read about Eve’s work as well as liking the book and vid.
• Mike Schotski in Abandoned in Death, who also read the book
• When Jamie Lingstrom met Nadine in Abandoned in Death, he gushed, “Really like your books. The vid topped it out.”
• Ariella’s nanny, Kacie, who recognized Eve and Peabody from the vid, which she said she really liked (she was going to read the book the first chance she got); they were interviewing her employers (Malcomb Furrier and Minerva Novak) in Encore in Death
• Dory, a teller at West End Financial Center in Encore in Death who Recognized Eve from the vid and gave her info on Debra Bernstein without a warrant because she thought Eve was there to investigate clones: “This isn’t just police business. It’s humanity’s business.”
• Carlie Greenleaf in Payback in Death read both books and saw “the first vid” (there was only one)
• Lynn, Cela Spaceck’s receptionist in Payback in Death, had read both books and was a huge fan of Peabody’s smart mouth; she saw the vid and was excited that Nadine was writing a third book
• Moses Rowe in Random in Death saw the vid and read both books
• Donna Fleschner in Passions in Death, who told Eve and Peabody “After I saw the vid, I downloaded the first book -- already read the second -- can’t wait for the vid.”

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