Also if you identified a fed, you can pile on them the boring work nobody wants to do. Let FBI fund you party activities.

This might make for a really funny mockumentary TV series. I have ideas.

But the key is to keep it all low stakes, because high drama with low stakes is inherently funny. Taylor Swift demanding exact adherence to a complex contract by a concert venue that can seat tens of thousands of fans is just tiring and expected. The local middle-aged Beatles cover band demanding exact adherence to a complex contract by a dive bar owner is ridiculous and funny.

And it would be much easier and cheaper to produce than something high-stakes with action. It also has the bonus of being adaptable to many cultures worldwide if it's kept to a low-stakes local level. Not every western country has the FBI, but every western country has local cops.

The premise: local cops try to infiltrate a Marxist reading group and encourage adventure, but it gets nowhere because (a) the reading group doesn't actually do any activism and is genuinely only there to read theory, and (b) they can spot infiltrators basically instantly because they've had so much experience at it.

There's a series of infiltrating cops who just get bored out of their minds and try to get out of that assigned task because literally all they do is sit around reading and listening to theory. The two big running gags through the series should be about the local police chief. First is their problem with finding volunteers to do such a notoriously boring job that offers no career advancement. The second should be the police chief's growing paranoia that they've accidentally turned their entire staff into Marxists and that their entire staff are being reverse-infiltrated. For the sake of comedy this needs to not actually be what's happening, the comedic focus needs to be on the unwarranted paranoia of petty authorities.

And I have an idea for the big series finale. Throughout the series, have it hinted that the leaders of the reading group are planning something big, something attention-getting, something public. The cop-of-the-day is excited to finally catch some commies in the act of terrorism. The final five minutes of the season finale are the leaders taking the cop into their confidence in a post-reading-group meeting at another location. Talking in hushed tones, moody lighting, the leaders always looking around to make sure no-one is overhearing. Maybe some subtle dramatic music indicating something big is about to occur.

Actually I might get back into creative writing, maybe make this the premise of a novel. I know cops, I know Marxists, I bet I could pull this off.