Episodes
in Development
See what's in the works! Read about the episodes in development for The Vault, inspired by the unpublished stories of Stan Lee and his passion for the hero within all of us. Each episode presents the audience with teen characters - uniquely gifted yet flawed - who, in the face of danger, rise to the challenge.
We all have a superpower. Do you or someone you know have a unique skill that could help you rise to a challenge? Tell us about it! We’re always looking for the heroes among us.
01
Smoke & Mirrors
Smoke & Mirrors follows sixteen-year-old Alexandra “Alex” Vale, daughter of U.S. Ambassador Claire Vale. Alex has spent her life mastering sleight-of-hand magic illusion as a way to impose control over a chaotic world; her skills are so refined she's now a viral sensation. When she boards the Pacific Dominion Express, a high-speed train carrying foreign envoys to a secret peace summit, her talents are put to the ultimate test as a radical engineer, Grant Mercer, hijacks the train and plots to turn it into a moving bomb bound for Washington, D.C. Separated from her mother and trapped among the passengers, Alex must rely on her near-superhuman dexterity, misdirection, and quick thinking to outwit the hijackers, stall their plan, and ultimately prevent a catastrophe set to ignite a massive global conflict.
02
Signal Lost
When a satellite plummets from orbit and crashes in the California Sierras not far from a small town situated in the foothills, three teens are the first to find the wreckage: high school seniors Eli Cummings and his two best friends, Meg and Curtis. Eli, however, is no ordinary teen — he’s a self-taught radio frequency hacker who spends nights modifying old ham radios and decoding signals. Suddenly, his hobby becomes the key to the most dangerous discovery of his life: that the downed satellite is connected to a plan to bring the USA to its knees – shutting down power grids and cutting off all communication channels. With every government specialist hamstrung, only Eli can shut down the satellite, save the lives of everyone in danger from the downed grid, and maybe even get a chance with the girl of his dreams along the way.
03
ECHO VALLEY
Lena, a quiet, half-blind seventeen-year-old, has always been an outsider. Mocked for the strange clicking sounds she uses to navigate, she’s learned to “see” through echolocation — a skill no one else understands. But when a freak storm downs a plane carrying Lena and her fellow band members, survival after the crash becomes a brutal fight against nature itself. As panic spreads and the group fractures, Lena becomes their unlikely leader. While others falter, she listens and maps the world through sound: rain striking rock, echoes off distant cliffs, the subtle shifts of the forest around them. What once made her different becomes their only advantage. With danger closing in and hope fading, Lena must guide them through terrain no one else can read — transforming from overlooked outcast to the one person standing between survival and being lost forever.
04
Code of Silence
Seventeen-year-old Noah Reyes is always in trouble. He's a reckless but brilliant self-taught guru of security systems, and can't help but mis-use his skills. But one day when he goes to the courthouse for yet another hearing, he arrives just as a gang storms the building to free their leader on trial. The attackers take hostages and demand ransom, forcing police into a standoff. Noah avoids capture, but ends up trapped inside the courthouse. Leaning into all his skills, Noah moves through maintenance corridors, using his knowledge of surveillance and infrastructure to secretly aid authorities, disrupt the gang’s plan, and block their escape. Risking his own safety to help others, Noah wages a high-stakes battle of control, knowing he's the only one who can stop the takeover from within
05
VERTICAL RESCUE
When an earthquake collapses Colorado's Shadow Ridge Research Site , trapping scientists deep underground, seventeen-year-old Kai Mercer can't stop following the saga on social media. Kai is an expert cartographer and fearless rock climber, and knows the rugged Colorado terrain better than anyone; he has spent years mapping its cliffs and hidden cave systems. Kai sees that rescue teams struggle with unstable tunnels and failing oxygen, and he knows they're approaching the scientists from the wrong direction, but when he reaches out, he's dismissed as just a kid. With time running out, he takes matters into his own hands—navigating dangerous, unmapped routes and scaling terrain no one else can reach. As the rescue effort stalls after another collapse, Kai becomes the only person capable of reaching the survivors, though the mountain might offer a bigger challenge than even he can handle.
