ATLANTIS STORY MAP & OPERATION HOMEPAGE

BLUE SHIELD - CH.17

Atlantis has been the subject of countless films, as has Nazi gold and oil polluting our oceans, but never have all these elements come together under one roof as a submarine movie. Aiming for a screenplay 90-110 pages max.

<<<< CHAPTER 16 - TREASURE TROVE

PATRICIA LEOPARD REPORTS POTENTIAL ATLANTIS FIND TO BLUE SHIELD

The satellite uplink crackled faintly as Patricia Leopard adjusted the receiver aboard the Elizabeth Swann, its polished stainless fittings gleaming beneath the dockside floodlights of London’s twilight. She took a breath and keyed the transmission.

“Blue Shield switchboard, Newcastle. How may I direct your call?”

“Yes, hello. This is Patricia Leopard. I’d like to speak with Dr Roberta Treadstone, please. It’s regarding an urgent archaeological concern.”

A pause. A brief click. Then a voice, clipped and purposeful.

“Treadstone.”

“Roberta! Patricia here. Aboard the Swann. We just docked—thought I’d call before the media sniff us out.”

“Well, well. If it isn’t Cleopatra herself. How’s life with the treasure hunters?”

“John’s thriving. Just stumbled on another trove—gold again.”

"Not again."

"Yes, he seems to have a nose for it. Well, we also found a sunken city. We think."

“Seriously? That man could sniff bullion through bedrock. I’m almost afraid to ask what else you’ve uncovered.”

Patricia leaned closer to the mic, lowering her voice a fraction. “We think... a city. Sunken. Intact.”

That drew a full silence from the other end.

“In the Med?”

“No, Atlantic.”

“…not the North African coast, by any chance?”

Patricia hesitated. “Location’s classified for now, Roberta. We’ve already had… complications. John’s endured his fair share of ‘governmental enthusiasm.’”

“Ah.” Treadstone’s voice lost its edge. “So they tried to break him again.”

Patricia nodded grimly. “Waterboarding. Psychological isolation. They want his data—his memory... which is eidetic, unfortunately.”

"And some." Hal voiced, reading John's mind telepathically.

Another silence, heavy with unsaid things.

Then Roberta managed, “Well, remind John that some of us still cheer for him on the outside; we all envy his good times." What’s the twist this time?”

John jumped in. “One of our crew thinks she’s found the Atlantis of Plato’s texts. She’s... qualified.”

“She?”

“Dr Cleopatra Selene Leopard. Time-displaced. And—incidentally—your deputy for antiquities in the Africa-Egypt regions, remember?”

Treadstone let out a short, astonished breath. “You’re serious.”

“Would you entertain a confidential site survey under Blue Shield’s authority? If authenticated, we’d nominate the city for UNESCO world heritage protection. John’s agreed to assist.”

A muffled snort. “He has, has he?”

"I did? Oh, of course I will, Dan too. And why not row Hal in while we're about it!

"That's settled then," said Roberta. John went to speak, but thought better of it. Dan and Hal were speechless.

John’s voice came faintly from the background. “Well, I suppose Dan and Hal will want their names in stone tablets too.”

“I’ll confer with Professor Daccord,” Roberta replied. “But if it’s what you suspect, Patricia—we’ll make sure the history books are rewritten.”

“You always were the keeper of lost truths, Roberta.”

“And you,” the scientist answered, her tone light but loaded with implication, “are the harbinger of beautiful trouble.”

CHAPTER 18 - GOLDEN OFFER >>>>

Cleopatra (Patricia Leopard) alerts Blue Shield, Newcastle University, to potential find of Atlantis, acting as the Swann's onboard antiquities expert, being a time traveler herself. The location is withheld for security reasons, and to prevent a media scrum. She suggests survey and UNESCO world heritage site inclusion, should the site be deemed important.

PROPOSED STORY MAP BY CHAPTER (90-110 pages) - ORDER CAN BE CHANGED: DRAFT SCREENPLAY

ACT 1.

CHAPTER 1.   PROTESTS - Peaceful North Sea oil pollution protestors are framed and imprisoned, by a corrupt judicial system. 

CHAPTER 2.   PREDATOR - On release the Terramentals & smuggler Jorges Dicaprio, complete a mini-sub capable of sinking submarines.

CHAPTER 3.   PHOENIX - Terramentals locate & hijack HMS Neptune in Irish Sea, Cumbria, using the Predator mini-sub - knocking out the crew.

CHAPTER 4.   BRITISH PETROLEUM - Terramentals warn North Sea rig operators to stop. Claymore rig is torpedoed, Royal Navy respond.

CHAPTER 5.   BBC WORLD SERVICE - Jill Bird reports Terramentals rig attacks, world shocked at pollution cover up. Charley Temple investigates.

CHAPTER 6.   UNEP SOS - The UNEP ask John Storm to survey North Sea for oil pollution. Elizabeth Swann detects HMS Neptune radiation leaks.

CHAPTER 7.   RADIATION ALERT - John & Dan twig radiation from HMS Neptune possible serious reactor damage. Must warn Terramentals.

ACT 2.

CHAPTER 8.   STEALTH MODE - Storm spots Astute sub, Swann in stealth mode, detected as John warns extremists of sub radiation leakage.

CHAPTER 9.   CHANGE OF COURSE - Terramentals change course, heading for the Straits of Gibraltar. Not believing radiation warning.

CHAPTER 10. U-BOAT 986 - Evading Swann, HMS Neptune navigates off transport lanes. Swann picks up magnetic signature of U-Boat 986.

CHAPTER 11. SENATE, UK & EU DEBATE - Sub hijacking & rig destruction, alarm bells around world. Deepwater Horizon shivers down spines.

CHAPTER 12. REACTOR LEAK - Terramentals realise John telling truth, as radiation rector damage detection system HMS Neptune triggers.

CHAPTER 13. RESCUE TOW - John rescues Terramentals. MI6 order Neptune sinking. MOD knew reactor dangerous, want evidence gone.

CHAPTER 14. LISBON PORT - Terramentals & Storm, shut Neptune's reactor. Tow, stricken submarine to Lisbon, prevent MI6 sinking evidence.

ACT 3.

CHAPTER 15. ROV ATLANTIS - Swann returns U-Boat stealth mode at night, to avoid tracking. Surveys site, discovers Atlantis & Nazi gold.

CHAPTER 16. TREASURE TROVE - John reveals gold find & threatened. US Linc Truman support. PM, Ed Thomas, & Sealord, royal support.

CHAPTER 17. BLUE SHIELD - Cleopatra alerts Blue Shield, Newcastle University, potential Atlantis find, suggests UNESCO world heritage site.

CHAPTER 18. GOLDEN OFFER - Claimants reward John U-Boat gold find. Agrees 1% cover costs 9% to Blue Shield surveys. UNESCO grateful.

CHAPTER 19. GREEN MOBILITY - Galvanized to action UK hit green H2 button, John gets grants low income families, Jill Bird, news item.

CHAPTER 20. IMO IS GO - The International Maritime Org green H2 & methanol, certification. USA in. China India stay with coal, gas & oil.

CHAPTER 21. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL - John & George amnesty, pirate caselaw & video proof set up. Harry & Johnson charged treason.

Disillusioned eco activists are imprisoned by the British, for peacefully protesting in London about unrealistically low fines for oil spills in the North Sea, demonstrating strictly in accordance with their Article 9 and 10 Human Rights. They are targeted by fossil fuel industry fraudsters, who bribe police officials and court judges to secure a conviction, with the backing of corrupt ministers of state who have undeclared personal investments in oil drilling companies: Amoco, BP, Shell, Total. That sets in motion a train of events, where, having been framed, the ever more determined environmentalists build a mini-sub, fast enough and especially equipped, to sink or capture Astute, Aukus and US Seawolf class submarines. Having captured HMS Neptune, the Terramentals torpedo a BP owned rig, also destroying two others (Shell), with the looming threat to target all 150 plus, operating in the North Sea. The oil producers are temporarily forced to shut down production, as a result of the significant media coverage and public outrage on realization of the pollution. The UN asks John Storm to provide a geodata survey on the environmental damage. 

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