TNT has given a pilot order to the supernatural drama Breed.

Deadline reports that the project, from author John Scott Shepherd (Life Or Something Like It), director Scott Winant (Fargo) and producer Nicky Weinstock, centers on a string of brutal murders in the Pacific Northwest possibly committed by a mysterious race of creatures.

A gifted if unstable detective named Cooper Wells undertakes the case, but when he uncovers the barbaric nature of the perpetrators, he turns to a female assassin to help track them.

Shepherd, Weinstock and Winant will executive produce, with Winant directing.