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NOVEMBER 26th 1916 AGEAN SEA

CUT TO EXT AGEAN SEA DAY

we pan over the Tropical waters of the Aegean sea We see a ship this is the HMHS Britannic
sister ship to the titanic painted in hospital ship colors then We see A stream of water erupt from her side a column of Fire And we HEAR WOOD Crunching METAL , and CRACKING WOOD the Britannic starts to list to starboard

CUT TO EXT DECK

we see smoke and People Running We HEAR Screaming KLAXON Horns blaring

INT BRITANNIC DAY

We see People crowding the Grand Staircase we FOCUS on a young ensign He is almost pulled back by the Mob of People

CUT TO:

We see an ragged looking man with a revolver rushing through the Crowd he makes his way to the ensign this is Jason Johnson (early thirties

CUT TO

the Britannic sinks lower by the head

CUT TO INT

We see the man grab the Ensign and put the gun to hi head

JOHNSON
take me to D deck or I?ll shoot you

The ensign pulls the man through the Crowd

The man leads him down corridors and down hatches Until we see he Sign saying D Deck the man crawls into the cargo hold the ensign follows him to a vault the ensign eyes him

JOHNSON
Whit by?Whit by? The secret lies with Whit by

the sailor watches the man seal himself in a vault we hear him still ranting

JOHNSON
Whit by the secret lies with Whit by

???..(holow echoing sound Like a sewer pipe)

CUT TO EXT

the stern begins to rise as the list to starboard becomes more severe

CUT TO

the Ensign looks over the Railing And Jumps into the ocean

CUT TO

he is floating in the water watching the Britannic go down

He Sees the Flagstaff go under he swims to it and rips the pennant off
as he bubbles Fill the screen

CUT TO

EXT UNDERWATER DAY

The Britannic rest underwater while the title RAISE THE BRITANNIC rolls up in BOLD

EXT ISLAND OF NOVAYA ZEMLYA DAY SOUTH OF BEDNAYA MOUNTAIN

We SUPER IMPOSE island of Novaya Zemlya JULY 2004

then we SUPER IMPOSE Part 1 The Zeus project

We do several flyovers of the Island,

We see a girl dressed in a winter outfit trudging through the snow this is Haley morgan,15, Works for the national underwater and marine agency. She trudges through the snow and Begins to Dig with a spade .

EXT WASHINTON DC: DAY

A man in a trench coat (late 40?s) walks with a younger girl (late teens) by the front fence of the white house , the older man is Admiral Johnson retired admiral of the US Navy and NUMA , And the Girl is Anna Routousky
Of the national underwater marine agency

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
I know you don?t like it
But the president wont be happy when he hears this

ANNA
He?s just worrying that those scientists
Are going to leak the information to the public

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
He thinks that but we know better
We both work with those people
And their trustworthy

ANNA
Maybe If I can convince him to see our side of the story

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
Our side? .. We practically sent A civilian to A
Island no one has even heard of and we haven?t even heard
From her in two days

ANNA
I?ll win him over to our side of the story

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
We?ll see?

We focus on the admirals face as Anna Walks into the Whitehouse gate (he?s worried

INT OVAL OFFICE

The president swiveled around in his chair with is hands behind his head looking out of the window

The presidential Aide ENTERS THE ROOM

AIDE
?Admiral Johnson and Anna Routousky are here to see you

PRESIDENT
Send them in

The President turns around in the chair as they both ENTER the room and sit down

ANNA
Mister president, we have a reason to believe that there are rare minerals located on the Russian Island of Novaya zemlya we have a reason to believe that it may ?.

The president Interrupts

PRESIDENT
Damn it why does everything we
Find is near there you know the political situation since
Vladimir Putin was kidnapped don?t you Its like the red revolution is happening again !!!

ANNA
Anyways we sent a member of our agency to the Island to investigate an old mine and we haven?t heard from her in two days

PRESIDENT
What you haven?t heard from her
Well hell she might be shot dead by now
What the hell were you guys looking for anyway

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
Synthium

PRESIDENT
What the Hell is Synthium

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
It?s an ore more radioactive than uranium and plutonium
The radiation is so extreme that the mineral has long vanished from the continents and there isn?t very much left

PRESIDENT
That pisses my off even more
Now were looking for an ore no ones ever even heard of
And you come in telling me you lost a team member, your looking for an ore, and I bet you next your going to tell me its on the titanic!

ANNA
Look mister president the Zeus Project is too far
Into reality to quit now we cant forget about it

The President turns around back to the window .

NOVAYA ZEMLYA DAY:

Haley Morgan lays on the ground blood oozing from the bullet scrape on her leg she staggers upward
After dragging herself on the snow. A Russian guard Is holding an AK-47 Haley Runs wincing Painfully
The Sentry FIRES HIS WEAPON and Haley is thrown to the ground by the Force of the bullet
She drags across the snow as the man tries to get a fix on her we HEAR A SEMI AUTOMATIC PISTOL
go off and the man is thrown to the ground .

CUT TO

We see a Pretty Girl Holding a Gun Wearing a Brown Coat This is Jessica ride (late teens) also works for the national underwater marine agency , Jessica Pulls the girl up and begins to take her on a sled ..

CUT TO NAVAL CYCLONIC RESEARCH CENTRE DAY

The room is filled with equipment and some smart looking men these are , Doctor George Kennedy
Who is in his thirties, admiral Clancy who is in his fifties, and Admiral Johnson , Along with CIA
Agent Andy Birkowitz, who is in his late teens .

There is a map with LEDS Glowing around the united states in the room, Doctor Kennedy points to it and begins lecturing the men about the Zeus Project.

KENNEDY
What you see here can revolutionize
The way we fight wars, gentlemen
This is the Zeus project, Each one of these lights
Is a laser beam ,a beam powerful enough to destroy any long range
Nuclear missile miles before it reaches its designated target.

ANDY
Is this project theory or does it really work
Doctor?

KENNEDY
It works, but all we need is a power source, A
Strong nuclear power source that , we?ve found
In a little known ore called Synthium which is several times more powerful than radium

CLANCY
So you see it works

ANDY
I have an announcement to make.

Everyone in the room goes Quiet ,
ANDY
We?ve got the girl we sent to Novaya zemlya
Onboard A research ship receiving care for two gunshot wounds
, the special projects director for NUMA Killed a Russian guard who tried to kill her

KENNEDY
Who is the special projects director for NUMA?

ANDY
Jessica ride me and Her are pretty familiar with each other

KENNEDY
How familiar

ANDY
I cant tell you
but what I can tell you Is that The Iraqi?s
are suspected to Have Weapons of Mass Destruction
which are suspect to be nuclear warheads of at least sixty megatons

KENNEDY
we wont have to worry any longer
since we?re making such warfare obsolete.

ANDY
a way to win a war in which you cant
win ,A nuclear war a war in which civilians are
no different than combatants

Kennedy focuses on Andy as Andy gives him a serious Look< a look that could stop a brave man in his tracks

EXT WASHINGTON AIRPORT DAY:

An ambulance and Limo taxi down the runway at the airport , We see Jessica Ride directing A
Learjet towards her. She backs off as the plane comes to a halt. Kennedy and Admiral Johnson exit the car

We see two EMTS walk past the camera

CUT TO

Jessica stands beside the jet as the two EMTS Load Haley off the plane Behind Her

CUT TO

Admiral Johnson and Kennedy are next to each other talking

KENNEDY
Is That her

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
Yes

KENNEDY
Can you tell Her to hold up a minute
With the EMT?s so I can talk to her

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
You can ask but there?s a chance she?ll say no

Kennedy Approaches Jessica ,she stares At Kennedy as he approaches her

KENNEDY
I?m doctor Kennedy, you may have heard about me
in your involvement with the Zeus project

JESSICA
don?t tell me you want to talk to her

KENNEDY
I do want to talk to her

Jessica shakes her head at Kennedy?s notion

JESSICA
I cant let anyone see her, she needs to get to a hospital
she needs, medical attention.

KENNEDY
she can still talk cant she?

JESSICA
she?s got a hole in her the size of a golf ball
your going to have to wait.

KENNEDY Walks away seeing that his advancements are getting nowhere

EXT AMERICAN IRAQI EMBASSY WASHINGTON DC. NIGHT:

We Focus on the stone exterior of the building , there are two American Cops standing outside
we HEAR cop jargon coming from their radio?s

INT:

Two Arab Men come walking out of an office into a Luxuriously decorated room we MOVE with them when as they walk , one has a file folder under his arm this is Michael Hussein approaching forty one, the other one young and close cut, stubble of a beard.

HEUSEIN
(opening the folder)
What?s this ship?, is it American?

KORESH
yes it?s an American research ship
trying to pose as a whaler.

HEUSEIN
what is this funny shape

KORESH
it?s a helicopter it was captured by our satellite landing on the island for a short time and then leaving, there were also three people , two are now gone and one appears to have not moved since .

HEUSEIN
that means he?s dead

KORESH
The Americans are interested in using laser technology to
build some kind of defense system we don?t know what they are to be used for or what it has to do with this Island

HEUSEIN
what makes you think that this was
connected

KORESH
I?m pretty sure that these events are connected somehow.

INT EMMERSON ELECTRONICS BUILDING DR EORGE EMMERSON?S Office DAY

we see a man facing a window in a spacious luxurious office this is Dr. George Emerson late Fifties
We See the Phone Ring He picks it up we only Hear him talk we only hear mumbled speech from the phone

EMMERON-FROM THE BACK : CU
EMMERSON (broken speech)
yes?.
she is nearly completely
trained???.
Yes the results are perfect
????.I can assure you
Mr. Hussein she?ll be ready
when you need her

We hear a disconnected signal sound we pan to the desk and we pan over the desktop, we see the back of
a watch a gold watch we see a small Iraqi flag Lithographed to the Back Plate We use MUSIC to the effect
we pan to men standing at the door in Jumpsuits holding AK-47?s with the Logo EMERSON INDUSTRIES
embroidered on them

FADE TO BLACK

CUT TO INT WASHINGTON MEAUSEAM OF ART AND SCIENCE DAY

We see there are Party decorations we see men in white shirts and Black ties Offering samples of Fruit to the Guests of the party we see Jessica standing wearing a beautiful dress staring at a cute gill who is talking to Haley Morgan this is Danica (also late teens)

CU DANICA AND HALEY

HALEY
you still like her

DANICA
yeah

HALEY
Anna?s going to Murder you
if she finds out

DANICA
she never will

Danica Walks away from Haley We focus on the appalled look on Haley?s face

CUT TO

Admiral Johnson moves over to Jessica

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
your supposed to be doing the Presentation in five Minutes
I want

JESSICA
I want to talk about the Synthuim I know where it is

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
I don?t want to hear that stupid Britannic Story
every time we mention the Zeus project
you bring it up and that stupid Britannic model
shows up on your desk and that mess all over your office
those Clive Cussler Novels, That Stupid Movie, those
documentaries, that stupid flag this has to stop as of today

JESSICA
but The mine we found on Novaya zemlya contained the body of a sergeant named Jake Rode? there was mining equipment from Colorado, and there was an old news paper

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
so what that doesn?t prove anything but the fact that
someone mined out all the byridium and took it somewhere
it has nothing to do with the Britannic, get it off your Mind
or at least find yourself a Male date this thing with you dating
women is annoying I know your not gay You dated
several guys before you met Anna and before your
little thing with one of your boyfriends

JESSICA
Keep my personal life out of this
And I?ll do your Presentation
and follow the script this time

CUT TO

we see Jessica Making her way to the Podium she stands at the Podium and begins speaking into the MIC

JESSICA
May I have your Attention please

the crowd goes silent and they focus on her

JESSICA
The national underwater and Marine agency has been
operating for twenty six years under the direction of
Clive Cussler who is also a novelist renowned for
his great Adventure and nonfiction Books
I Have to say to Doctor Cussler that he
has discovered some of the greatest
treasures through his underwater adventures
I dedicate this Exhibit to him I present you
with the Lost treasure of the lost
civil war steamship the SS. General Grant

we see people unveil the TREASURE People CLAP and cheer as Jessica leaves the podium

CUT TO Jessica and DANICA are talking

JESSICA
are you still coming over today

DANICA
sure always do when you ask me to

JESSICA
Do you know that Anna
and me are too close for you to mess this up

DANICA
I know because I am also in love with
you

JESSICA
I hope you don?t slip up

DANICA
I never slip up I get my Man or woman and I keep them
no matter what unlike you who will dump me because
I don?t perform as good as I used to Anna Must still be good
to you

Jessica kisses Danica A HANDSOME And thin Business man With glasses and perfect hair
taps Jessica on the shoulder Jessica Turns round this man is Doctor Rolland Emerson (late 30?s of Emerson
electronics Jessica shakes his Hand

EMERSON
Hello I?m doctor Emerson of Emerson electronics
corporation and you must be Jessica I heard a lot about you
lately ,your discovery?s and your looks take my breath away
I?m very interested in you My father George Emerson
is a big admirer of your work
JESSICA
Thanks and I Marvel at yours
Your always finding a way to
advance our electronics
soon our servers will be the size of a Normal computer

EMERSON
I?m working on that as we speak
And I would like to know If you?ll be My
date for dinner tonight

JESSICA
sorry but I?m not interested

Emerson walks away and mingles with the rest of the crowd

DANICA
He was Cute

JESSICA
oh please I don?t date Millionaires

DANICA
I would if I Were eighteen like you
you don?t have any sense Jessica, Anna
doesn?t have a you know and she doesn?t have a
big bank account either and she?s not all that pretty either
unlike me

JESSICA
shut up ok As much as I love you
you?re a little too Smart acting
you think your better than her don?t you

DANICA
no but I know that more guys fall all over me

JESSICA
but all the guys that fall on Anna Always love her
and aren?t looking for a quick thrill unlike you

DANICA
you know nothing about how I get my men
so shut up

Jessica Pours the punch in her cup into Danica ?s cup

DANICA
what did you do that for you better drink it

DANICA
you better be glad I didn?t pour it in your dress

Jessica walks away Danica looks at Jessica as she walks away we see that she?s mad

INT JESSICA?S HOUSE DAY:

Jessica vacuums down a coke in the living room as Danica begins walking around
putting on make-up , This is Danica ,One of Jessica?s friends ,she stops in front of the couch

DANICA
Damn Damn Double Damn, I?ve got another pimple

JESSICA
since when is a pimple a sign of leprosy Danica?

Danica stares at Jessica as she starts walking again Jessica gets up and follows her Danica kisses Jessica on the cheek

DANICA
it?s not that its that you never have this problem

JESSICA
don?t you think I have to worry about pimples and
blackheads, I used to get them all the time.

DANICA
well you don?t really care your skin isn?t cracking like porcelain

JESSICA
your seventeen and your going on the next Mrs. America list

DANICA
I better leave before Anna Gets Here she?ll think your cheating on her .

JESSICA
I am cheating on her.

EXT: JESSICA?S HOUSE , FISHING PIER DAY

Jessica and Anna Walk down the Fishing pier together Laughing and Giggling

CUT TO
Anna And Jessica sit on the fishing pier

JESSICA
too bad we don?t fish

ANNA
I?ll pass on that one I don?t like
putting the worm in the hook

JESSICA
its simple really
all you do is stick it in

(Anna looks at Jessica like she?s strange)

ANNA
do what!!?? what did you say?!!

JESSICA
all you do is stick the worm in the hook

ANNA
ok at first I thought you were referring to something less
appetizing

JESSICA
like what

ANNA
I can?t tell

We HEAR the sound of a helicopter flying in the DISTANCE It Gets closer

we get a long-shot of the pier As the helicopter Hovers over

CUT TO : THEIR POV-

The Bottom of the Helicopter is above their heads the chopper backs off as a man hangs a megaphone out of the side this is Jake Hopper (late 30?s)

HOPPER
Jessica? are you Jessica Ride?

Jessica waves at him to confirm that she is who he needs.

HOPPER
I?m supposed to fly you into Washington Admiral Clancy?s orders

JESSICA
who the hell is Admiral Clancy?

HOPPER
you?ll find out when you get there

ANNA
who is that

JESSICA
I?ll tell you later

ANNA
did you tell him to be here

JESSICA
of course I always keep things from you to get you off-guard

Jessica gets up and runs down the dock as the helicopter heads in that direction she enters the House as the Helicopter passes the house Anna follows soon after Jessica comes out of the house holding a file folder as
Anna stops at the porch

EXT NATIONAL ARCHIVES DAY WASHINGTON DC.

INT NATIONAL ARCHIVES DAY:

Jessica walks down a huge row of enormous shelves busting with ,BOXES and FILES Dating from the beginning of the United states and Before.

Jessica Sees what she?s looking for she Pulls out a Folder Labeled Johnson, Jason

she begins reading though the Files as Admiral Clancy rears up behind Her

ADMIRAL CLANCY
Excuse me?..

Jessica turns around to see admiral Clancy

JESSICA
Who are you?

ADMIRAL CLANCY
I?m admiral James Clancy
I was sent by admiral Johnson to see if you need any help

JESSICA
It?s a pleasure to meet you sir but I obviously don?t need any help

ADMIRAL CLANCY
Are you sure

JESSICA
I?m sure I don?t need your help
nor do I need anyone else?s help
So you better get it out of your head
that because I?m a girl I cant figure out things for myself.

Admiral Clancy takes a look at his watch

ADMIRAL CLANCY
I just thought

JESSICA
you thought wrong

Jessica storms out of the room

EXT ADMIRAL JOHNSON?S BACKYARD GARDEN DAY

we start to rise over a row of shrubs

JESSICA (V.O)
Johnson, Jason Johnson,
A renaissance man, He was a Miner
, engineer, an artist, a craftsman, musician
and he was crazy, he was also a genius ..

KENNEDY (V.O)
what does this have to do with the Zeus Project?

JESSICA (V.O)
It?s all connected to him

KENNEDY (V.O)
How

JESSICA (V.O)
Wait a minute

CUT TO

JESSICA, KENNEDY, ADMIRAL JOHNSON and ANNA Are standing in the economicly decorated garden

JESSICA
I?ll get to the Point, Jason Johnson and his men found the Mine
back in 1906, they launched their expedition from the Forsyth mining
company the same year, came across what they were looking for
and they maybe took about five or six tons of the stuff , even back then they thought that it had military capabilitys.

KENNEDY
How does this Sergeant Jake Rode Fit into all this

JESSICA
he was one of Jason Johnson?s Miners

KENNEDY
what happened to Johnson

JESSICA
He was caught by the French he was chased all the way to the English channel
and he fought a running gun battle with another cruiser all the way from Aberdeen to Southampton , and several years later he had the mineral loaded onto a ship and in November 1916 the ship sailed , and never came back and was reported to have sank in the Mediterranean ten miles from the spot she actually sank. , You see he started his jorney on the Hospital ship Britannic

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
so we know its in one place but how do you
think your going to get the aproval of the government
to Finance this operation

EXT CABIN CRUISER POTOMAC RIVER

INT CABIN CRUISER

We see a group of men sitting Down in the stern seat of the vessel these are HOPPER , CIA AGENT ANDY BIRKOWITZ,ADMIRAL CLANCY,SENATOR CHAMBERLAND (late 50,s), BAKER, (late 30?s) THE PRESIDENT, JOHN GUNN (mid 30?s)

Jessica and adiral Johnson sip coffee

PRESIDENT
Are you sure your sources are correct
miss ride

JESSICA
yes , the records clearly show that the byridum ended up being shipped on
the Britannic, I know its gointg to cost a ton of money to salvage the byridium
but it wont break our National defense budget

PRESIDENT
It wont break our budget because the Country is broke
we have no budget we?re on the brink of war and your talking about asking for money to build an oversized laser tag game

JESSICA
its more than a game Mister president
That remark was entirely childish,
theres no way I swould spend money on something
I knew didn?t work I demand you give me permission to go along with this

SENATOR CHAIMBERLAND
look your talking to the president you cant argue with him

JESSICA
He?s a man isn?t? he I know That this project
is a ball breaker but we can do this it?s a matter
of if we have the will to do it

Doctor kennedy rises

KENNEDY
we can make nuclear warfare
almost obsolete with this project sir you cant just shove it down a drain and expect it to fit This Operation will change the entire history of the united states as a peaceful nation this is the greatest defense
system none to man

Admiral clancy leaves the room and begins talking on a phone Jessica looks at him through the Window

Jessica Leaves the room to talk to clancy we see them talking but we cant hear them through the door

EXT CABIN CRUISER MARINA NIGHT

Andy birkowitz searches the marina after everyone but anna and Jessica leaves
Anna turns around and sees him she nods in his direction as Jessica walks off
andy approaches Her and he begins talking to her

ANNA
why didn?t you say anything

ANDY
I had nothing to say
and you weren?t there
were you I didn?t see you

ANNA
I was in the wheelhouse watching television but
I saw some of you talking , and the president didn?t seem to be happy at all

ANDY
He wasn?t for some reason

ANNA
the man didn?t even listen to your thing about offensive weapons

ANDY
The main thing wasn?t the offensive weapons we were talking about
defensive weapons he?s afraid to spend money on something that is so new no one ever thought we could build an invisible laser defense system of this magnitude its as simple as that Me Being a CIA agent I
would be happy to let her do it

ANNA
he wont change his mind
will he?

ANDY
He will Presidents never know what they want
until we need it the most and now we need it

ANNA
will you do something for me

ANDY
sure as long as its within the law

ANNA
would you see if Jessica is cheating on me with this girl
named danica

ANDY
I wont do it Anna But if you go out to dinner with me tonight I
may arrange something But I doubt she is

ANNA
I wouldn?t go out with you
I know what you and Jessica did a while back
and I want wo wait till I?m older

ANDY
Me and Jessica dated and It went farther than that
but that was a long time ago Anna and you need
a male confidant you don?t need her anymore

ANNA
I don?t like you and you cant make me love you
or sleep with you in that context
so I am going to leave and your going to standing here like a retard

EXT NUMA HEADQUARTERS DAY

Jessica gets out of her car and begins to Enter the Building

INT NUMA HEADQUARTERS JESSIA?S OFFICE DAY:

INT JESSICA?S office We See Newspaper clippings on the wall ,Pictures of her and Anna together
Jessica as a child , DVD?s Pictures from her cameo in Law and Order ,A VHS of Raise the titanic
Clive Cussler novels on a shelf Nautical Artifacts we pan over to her desk and there is a model of
A famous ship and a name plate on her desk we Hear a click and we pan to the door the door opens Jessica Comes in and snatches A paper off her Desk She sits down And goes through her drawer
and finds what she?s looking for A pack of instant coffee she runs out of the office and shuts the door

INT HALLWAY:

Jessica is holding a steaming cup of coffee as she gets closer to the entrance of admiral Johnson?s office.

INT NUMA HEADQUARTERS ADMIRAL JOHNSON?S OFFICE DAY

Jessica stands at the window while doctor Kennedy sits down in the chair at the admirals desk
smoking a cigar

JESSICA
the admirals going to kill you if he catches you in his chair

KENNEDY
even worse when he sees
I ?m smoking one of his cigars

JESSICA
anyways, I wonder how long will it
will take him to say no it never takes long to
say no.

KENNDY
and it never takes long to say yes either

Jessica sees The admiral getting out of a black car across the street

JESSICA
here he comes George
you better snuff it out

Kennedy Hurriedly snuffs out the Cuban Cigar.

INT HALLWAY
Admiral Johnson walks stoically among the people greeting Him he only nods in acknowledgement as he opens the door and ENTERS the Office We ENTER With him

WE pocus on the admiral as he saws nothing for a brief moment a tense moment
Jessica stares at him worriedly

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
were in business

Kennedy smiles along with Jessica the admiral Chuckles

EXT CAPITOL STREET DAY

We Focus on Jessica as she walks down the sidewalk , she stands on the corner waiting for the traffic to die away

CUT TO
Andy stands leaning against a Building He sees her he walks to her as she steps into traffic

ANDY
HEY!!! HEY!! JESSICA

Jessica turns around to see him we see that she is happy to see him

JESSICA
hi

ANDY
sorry I didn?t talk to you
during the meeting

JESSICA
It?s ok It isn?t like
He didn?t change his mind

ANDY
you mean he approved it

JESSICA
He did now, I?m
sidetracking the mission
to the Atlantic to look for byridium deposits

ANDY
Getting off our subject
How are they treating you in there

JESSICA
great in fact my paycheck
will be increased if this project is a success

ANDY
I think I?ll see you I have to talk to the president in an hour
I?ll see you later

JESSICA
bye

Andy watches Jessica walk across the street We FOCUS on him as he smiles and turns away.

EXT UNDERWRATER DAY:

We super impose this onto the screen: PHASE TWO THE BLACK ABYSS NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN 110 MILES FROM ICELAND

We see nothing but water and sand and darkness, suddenly an angel white Torpedo-shaped submersible comes drifing INTO view this is NUMA?s oldest Sub the DEEP QUEST Its LIGHTS SHINE through the Falling Plankton and the endless Blackness

INT DEEP QUEST

Anna routousky stared though the Tiny veiwport there is sweat on her forehead And Her shirt is a Batered
Tube top that has seen better days her shorts are extremely short gym shorts that are frawed at the leg she turns her head so that she will not fog up the veiwport , we HEAR a soft male voice calling this is
Albert baker,

BAKER
check to see if the gieger counter is on

Anna?s hands slide over to a row of knobs and swithces she feels them and finally begins switching them one
by one she pulls her tube top up as she turns towards baker we see another man sitting at the controls
this is Ben wilding (late 20?s ) He is in charge of the subs electrical system

WILDING
want a cup of sediment

Wilding holds a cup of cofee out to her

ANNA
you should have asked me five minutes ago
after my face almost froze to the plexiglass

WILDING
you were trying to kiss the glass
again weren?t you ?

ANNA
no

WILDING
don?t lie you were getting honery for your girlfriend weren?t you

ANNA
shut up

WILDING
the radiation detector hasn?t picked up any byridum concentrations yet

ANNA
of course not , Jessica was hardheaded she thought she could
find some here to avoid raising the Britannic f it wasn?t necessary

WILDING
the bottom is as flat as you are

ANNA
shut up Wilding

WILDING
I ment your stomach

ANNA
I?m under eighteen wilding
I could send the underwater police to come and get you

BAKER
and we?ll get cool and the gang while were at it

Anna gulps the steaming coffee up in a single gulp

ANNA
there is no byridium here
Jessica just wanted to avoid raising the Britannic
she thinks hat this will end up being like that
old movie starring Richard Jordan and David Selby
where they rose the Titanic and the Byzantium
wasn?t even there I?d rather eat the sediment than
to sit here all day freezing half to death

EXT SALVAGE FLEET DAY - HELECOPTER SHOT

We pan over a small fleet of gray navy salvage ships we FOCUS on one and we Travel wowards it

INT SALVAGE SHIP USS. BAINBRIDGE

We see Men Repairing Equipment,guys fumbling with light towers

INT USS BAINBRIDGE CAPTAINS OFFICE

Jessica stands in front of a porthole her arms are folded her back is toward a desk there is a man sitting down this is Captain Bart Mancuso (late fourties) holding a group of papers

MANCUSO
did you know that there was no byridium
where we were looking

JESSICA
uuuhhh

MANCUSO
answer the question , my men have been here for two weeks and havent detected a damn thing if you don?t tell me what you want I will move the operation to where it sapposed to take place

JESSICA
I wanted to avoid that I thought we could find it

MANCUSO
I?m going to move this operation
Before the Hurricane season kicks in
its too cold down twelve thousand feet
to keep men stuffed in submersibles
that could be doing something useful

JESSICA
lets just get the men back to the ship and move the operation

?
MANCUSO
good . I?m putting hopper as the operator of the photographic equipment on the
deep Quest because he?s the best underwater Instrument component man in the entire National underwater marine agency

JESSICA
Ok I?ll move the ships
seince I got the same order from Admiral Johnson this Morning

EXT BAGHDAD NIGHT

We see a Dull olive drab military chopper flying over the sand dunes the chopper lands on the ground
we SEE US ARMY Soldiers crawl out of the chopper They crawl DOWN a Hill with their guns held in front of them they storm across the desert floor to a shoddy looking house and

INT HOUSE

A bunch of terrorists holding weapons are gathered around an unconscious Blondeheaded girl
this is Michelle Sharif (late teens) captured by Iraqi insurgents a few months before ,and held for ransom.

The soldiers Bust in With AK-47?s And the Men drag the girl away behind a stack of crates

One of the Terrorists starts to shooting and causes a voley of gunfire the terrorist drop like flies as the
bullets hit them they hide behind things as the BULLETS, RICOCHET off of meatal objects
the terrorist are finnaly killed by the soldiers they move in on the girl the frames become jittery
they cover the girls face we Use MUSIC to the effect

FADE TO BLACK

we fade to
CUT TI INT NEWS STUDIO

We see a Slim Older News caster sitting ad a desk with the words CNN on the Front

NEWS CASTER
Today In Iraq The US Military Rescued Michelle sharif
the half Arab daughter of the Shell Oil tycoon Omar Sharif
who was captured by the Al- Queda Terror network
three weeks Ago In Baghdad., This Is tom Brokaw
With CNN News, Washington?..
INT IRAQI EMBASSY NIGHT

We see Heusein talking with a Man This is defense Minister Tariq Saddat (early 50?s)

HEUSEIN
the Americans are building a defence system code named the Zeus Project
it is a mid air nuclear weopon interception device powered by an invisible laser beam of unknown streingth

SADDAT
Its feasible but such a powerful device would need a strong power source
, and you say that this lies in the hold of the Britannic

HEUSEIN
It is in the hold of the Britannic all of our military documents
say this

SADDAT
what about the American girl
the Americans rescued from our soldiers
has the doctor programmed her properly

HEUSEIN
yes she has been programmed correctly Dr George. Emerson will be making
his way to the Airport to intercept her and breif her on her mission.

SADDAT
what do we do with the Bodies?

HEUSEIN
alert their families and send our condolences

Doctor George Emerson Comes In . he looks at Saddat and speaks

EMERSON
Gentlemen She?s
in perfect condition she?s responding to
the treatments and drugs as planned

INT WASHINGTON AIRPORT DAY

We see Michelle walking through the expansive lobby holdiing a carry-on bag
she walks by a payphone the payphone rings she picks it up and listens for a while and she hangs it back onto the receiver and begins walking acroos the Lobby to the MENS restroom and walks in

INT BATHROOM

Michelle walks down till she reaches the last stall and opens it we see a man in his late 50?s this is Doctor George Emerson an american scientist Working secretly with the Iraqi government to modify human behavior

The doctor signals her to sit and she sits on the toilet He opens up his doctor s bag and he pulls out a Tube
this it a flashlight he shines the light into ther eye and then he pulls out a needle and begins to inject a drug into her arm

EMERSON
The objective of your Mission is to
retreive confedentail documents, and schematics
from the computers using a compact storage
device and personal notebook which I Have provided you
now pick up the case on the floor.

Michelle picks p case on the floor and slips it into her handbag

FADE TO BLACK

INT LOBBY WASHINGTON AIRPORT DAY

Michelle walks out of the lobby of the airport building and onto the outsice and begins walking

EXT NUMA HEADQUARTERS

We see the NUMA Building

I
NT NUMA HEADQHARTERS _BOARDROOM -DAY

Jessica sits waiting in the boardroom Anna walks behind her and lays a folder in front of her

JESSICA
what?s this

ANNA
your autorization

JESSICA
authorization for what

ANNA
to sign Michelle sharif onto the agency employee list

JESSICA
what the girl who was kidnapped in Iraq the
daughter of Oil Billionaire Omar sharif , the same girl
that Andy tried to rescue but he was wounded in the gunfight

ANNA
I said??..

JESSICA
I know what you said but do you think that this is a good Idea
I mean couldn?t she have been corrupted by the terrorists to took her hostage , what if the whole terrorist thing was a setup I mean she
would make a great agent she?s half arab and she doesn?t look like it so
she?d blend right on in with everybody else with no suspicion

ANNA
maybe she?s not a spy maybe
I can get to know hwe and then We?ll Find out

Anna leaves the Boardroom

INT: Caffeteria Day

Michelle sits down by Herself in the NUMA Caffeeria Andy birkrowitz is in line at the counter He is paying
for his food Jessica taps andy on the shoulder

ANDY
Hi Jessica

JESSICA
Could you keep tabs on someone for me

ANDY
maybe But anna asked me to do the same thing to you
she thinks your cheating on her with a girl named Danica
are you cheating on her

JESSICA
why

ANDY
just answer me Are you
I wont tell her

JESSICA
yes I am cheating on her

ANDY
ok now lets go talk to our new friend over there

JESSICA
Do you like anna?

ANDY
why

JESSICA
she told me you harassed her
trying to coerce her into a date

ANDY
I did ask her out
but I failed

JESSICA
wait until she?s about eighteen and she?ll accept it

Andy and Jessica sit down with Michelle

MICHELLE
hi

JESSICA
hi

MICHELLE
what is it usually like around here

JESSICA
Its Pretty cool being here
? as many things we find on our expeditions

Andy begins wolfing don his sandwich

MICHELLE
does he normally eat like that?

JESSICA
no that?s only when he needs to be somewhere
in a certain amount of time

ANDY
you wouldn?t mind having the last bit of my sandwich would you

JESSICA
I?ll take it

Jessica Eats the last bit of his sandwich as he begins to leave

MICHELLE
where is he going

JESSICA
to his other job ..

CUT TO EXT NUMA SHIP DAY -AGEAN SEA

We pan over a white research ship this is he Benthetic Adventurer

EXT REASEARCH SHIP DECK DAY:

We see various crewmen working on various pieces of Eqipment we hear HEAVY MEATAL music bein played softly through loudspeakers as the workers do their jobs , Michelle steps out onto the deck to see what is going on

Wilding comes cown from one of the rigs asnd talks to her

WILDING
I see you finally came down to see what we do here on the poop deck , is it anything like you Imagined

We HEAR Jake Hopper calling from somewhere we pan up to a submerisible bing lifted by a crane
this sub is the Experimental submersible deep adventurer 1

HOPPER
come up here and help me fix the Manipulator
on this thing theres seawater in the electronics

Wilding looks back at michelle

MICHELLE
I guess I caught you at a bad moment

WILDING
I?m sorry

A man in sunglasses puts his arm around michelle and takes her in the corner and talks to her
tis is none other than baker he?s an freelancer for the Iraqi government.

BAKER
you downloaded anything yet

MICHELLE
no not yet

BAKER
when we get back on shore you know what to do
download the scemactics and don?t get caught

MICHELLE
what?s your assignment ?

BAKER
cripple the operation

MICHELLE
how

BAKER
I cant tell you
but you?ll know when you hear of it

Baker walks away and he goes into the manin part of the ship he shuts the door partially behind him

Michelle walks back onto the deck she see?s anna snding on a platform above the sea
looking at the greek shoreline

MICHELLE
nice view

anna looks DOWN at michelle

ANNA
I know

MICHELLE
you look nice

ANNA
You think I look nice I?ve been underneath a submersible for half an hour and I?ve been talking to men covered in grease and you think I look nice

MICHELLE
sure I do , you look great all the time

ANNA
ok if you really think so I guess I look good

We pan over the deck as Admiral Johnson walks out onto the deck like a millionare sporting sunglasses and a cigar and a panama hat

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
Wilding ! Wilding

Wilding turns away from the submersible

WILDING
sir

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
when will that sub be ready to join in with the deep quest?

WILDING
we?re almost done we should be ready in about twenty Minutes

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
Okay

EXT UNDERWATER DAY

the water is A beautiful cruelean the Deep quest , danced slowly wtith the current with the wreckage of the sunken Britannic Underneath it

INT Deep quest

HOPPER
life support timer is on

WILDING
good we?ll have about seven hours of air downb here

Jessica turns away from the view ports

JESSICA
hopefully we wont be down here that long

WILDING
we wont
we?re just surveying the damage to the hull so we can be able to weld the plates on when they are cut to size

EXT Deep adventurer

The sub shines its light on the Impact crack on the side of the Britannic?s hull we see the sub make several passes at the damage

INT SUB

JESSICA
looks like were going to have to work to patch up the old girl

WILDING
not as much as it will take to path you up when you get picked up by those damn Iraqi?s

HOPPER
shut up jim no Iraqi?s gonna get to close to me
I?ll put a foot in their ass

JESSICA
amen brother

EXT salvage ships day

we pan over the salvage ships we focus on one ship in particular this is the USS Bainbridge

INT USS Bainbridge Submersible hangar Day

We see massive gray steel plates being suspended on a pully system over a pit them plates are lowered into the water one by one

the crew check to see if the plates are handled properly as they are dipped into the ocean they are realeased when half of their surface is underwater

CUT TO

We see a helicopter beginning to fly over the salvage ships
we see there is another ship as the chipper fly?s over this is the Iraqi cruiser the Al-Tirkrit

Underwater The plates fall like like paper around the wreck of the Britannic as the sub s arrive to pick threm up the subs begin to get in position and begin lifting the plates we SEE them beginning to weld the plates to the Hull

EXT: DEEP ADVENTURER

the deep adventurer slides INTO view the submersible is sleek and resembles a small Russian Alfa class
attack submarine with its gleaming yellow paint

INT DEEP ADVENTURER

we see a group of men grouped around a control panel we see a man sitting in the captains Chair this is
Lieutenant Ron Carter

CARTER
I?m bringing her down now
to inspect your work

EXT SUB

The sub lowers alongside the hull of the Britannic

INT SUB

CREW MAN
looks great from here

CARTER
Yeah looks excellent you
underwater welders know how to patch something up

CREW MAN
yeah

EXT SUB

We se the Deep Quest float by the Deep adventurer

INT DEEP QUEST

Jessica, Wilding , doctor Kennedy and Baker sit near the veiwports

KENNEDY
there are no gaps
that I see

BAKER
good that means we wont have to use the scrap steel

KENNEDY
we?ll need a little paint wont we
I mean wouldn?t painting the patch make it look nice and pretty for the press?

JESSICA
yeah I?ll see if we can do that

KENNEDY
good

EXT SUBS

The Deep Adventurer is underneath the deep Quest

INT DEEP Adventurer

we see the crew doing what they?re usually supposed to do flicking switches and reading gauges
Lieutenant carter is crouched by the control panel

CU :

a Joint between two pipes leading to the pressure hull begin to leak

CUT TO EXT SUB

a bunch of bubbles roar out of the submersible as it settles

INT DEEP ADVENTURER

The crew in the submersible are oblivious to the Leak

CU

Lieutenant carter is leaning lazily in his chair as we see the leak in the background we hear someone yell

CREW MAN
lieutenant

we see the man put is finger to the leak carter turns around

CARTER
Jesus

CREW MAN
we?re sinking

EXT SUB

The submersible Begins sinking closer to the bottom

INT SUB

Lieutenant carter begins talking on the radiophone

LEUTENENT CARTER
this is the Deep adventurer we have
AN EMERGENCY

JESSICA (V.0)
this sis deep quest what is your status

CARTER
we?re flooding

JESSICA (V.O)
I read you
can you surface

CARTER
No

CUT TO EXT

The deep adventure sinks hit?s the bottom and IMPLODES

INT DEEP QUEST

Jessica and the crew stare at the fallings fragments of the sub

KENNEDY
Jesus

WILDING
I don?t understand that sub was designed to withstand a depth of fifteen thousand feet and we?re only at three hundred and twelve feet

JESSICA
we?ve got sabotage

WILDING
sabotage, most likely not maybe it was just a freak accident

JESSICA
Accident?

WILDING
yes an accident unpredictable event that could have been avoided due to preparation or closer inspection

INT US NAVAL TESTING BASIN DAY:

We pan over the catwalks that bridge the tank the green water underneath is still as can be

INT TANK

we see a Ghost white Britannic Model being Bounced around in the tank we see a submersible model being dropped to the bottom it bounces off the bottom of the tank

INT OBSERVATION ROOM

Jessica is standing in front of a television monitor she looks angry she The Instruments and Machines in the background Crackle and hum and beep she turns around when she HEARS the Door open and close KENNEDY, ANNA ADMIRAL JOHNSON AND BAKER Are standing there, Jessica folds her arms

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
I?m sorry for the complication ?.

JESSICA
Your sorry for the complication
I have four men dead already
and you guys are playing with models and
charts

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
I?m trying to say that the pressure inside the sub
was higher than normal is all I?m saying it could have been an accidental over pressurization
which lead to a hull failure

JESSICA
I know what happened someone over pressurized
the hull intentionally it was sabotage

ANNA
It wasn?t Sabotage it was an accident
an unpredictable event

Jessica steps up to Anna

JESSICA
you know this wasn?t an accident
don?t you this can never happen

BAKER
don?t assume until you know for a fact what happened

Jessica storms out of he office Anna chases her

KENNEDY
Damn it

EXT Washington DC Day PARK

We see Andy crouched in the bushes with a microphone receiver and a telescope

CUT TO
we see two men talking to each other we don?t hear what theyre saying then we do

MAN 1
tomorrow we?ll have our agent start her first assignment
she?s gotten aquainted with the national underwater marine agency
staff so it wont be so hard for her to start this mission

MAN 2
excellent I hope that she gets us the schematics
and the information from the department of defence

And is still in the bushes as the man leave he puts the eqipment in his breifcase and goes on about his business he keeps on walking he looks back at the men as they walk away we use MUSIC to the Effect

INT JESSICA?s OFFICE NUMA HEADQUARTERS DAY

Jessica is stiing at her desk with a photo album in her lap these are pictures of her with danica
and things from her past thinks that she should forget and never forget

The door opens and Danica comes in looking prettier than we?ve seen her

JESSICA
hey

DANICA
sorry I?m late

JESSICA
I don?t care weather your late or not
I?ve been waiting for this all day

Jessica puts the scrap book down and Danica moves closer to the desk Jessica gets up and walks to her

CUT TO

Jessica pulls Danica close and puts her hand on her shoulder and kisses her softly
they kiss again only thin a little more forcefully Danica backs away Jessica pulls her close again and kisses her ears softly

DANICA
I cant

JESSICA
it?s ok just let it go

Jessica kisses danica on the lips forcefully they both do the same Jessica begins to pull open Danica?s collar

CUT TO

We see Jessica and anna from the shouldr up ,Bare shoulders kissing danica leans her head back as Jessica
kisses her underneath her neck we see bare arms Danica a is stroking Jessica?s shoulder we

JESSICA
was that ok

DANICA
IT was perfect
if you could say that

the door in the office opens and it s Haley morgan

HALEY
Jessica?

JESSICA
its not what you think

HALEY
it is what I think
your with her again aren?t you

JESSICA
Don?t tell anna about me and her

Jessica holds danica close

haley morgan storms out of the office not before throwing an envelope on the floor

EXT RESTERAUNT DAY

Anna is sitting down with andy

ANDY
I thought you didn?t like me much

ANNA
your not that bad of a guy
it?s that you dated friend and you went a little too far to fast
and I don?t want to happen to me

ANDY
I didn?t want to go fast she did

ANNA
I cant do this

ANDY
you can After I tell you something
, II recently visited the Agency and my director said there was
an enemy agent in your agency And she?s supposed to have started
taking some confedential files to the Iraqi government

ANNA
Michelle

ANDY
yes but don?t tell anyone else, We also have found that she has been brainwashed by the head of global com medical electronics company doctor Rolland Emerson

ANNA
I noticed there was something in her eyes that was kind of creepy but I thought It was just me

INT NUMA HEADQUARTERS JESSICA?S OFFICE

We see Michelle downloading files onto a personal hard drive
And then she begins copy files from file folders on a photocopier

EXT iffice

Jessica walks b her office

INT office
Michelle begins to Hack into the department the defense?s network and begins downloading encrypted files

EXT office

we see Jessica walking up the hallway again she passes the door

INT OFFICE

we see the downloading message on the screen it has completed

INT OFFICE

Michelle puts all her stuff into a black bag and leaves the office

EXT STREET DAY

Michelle walks the streets we see Koresh standing on the corner
Michelle gives him the documents and the hard rive

KORESH
are they on there?

MICHELLE
yes theyre on there

KORESH
your going to help bring down America?s most ambitious project
with this one little device

MICHELLE
will I have to see the doctor again

KORESH
tomorrow

Koresh walks off we SEE Michelle?s eyes they are unseeing fixed on koresh

we focus on Andy?s face as Michelle walks off

INT ADMIRAL JOHNSON?s office Day

admiral clancy and admiral Johnson are talking in the office

CLANCY
can we leak some of the information to the Iraqi?s
so maybe we can gain leverage on each of our sides

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
I cant risk that if you sent it to them
they?ll end up building one and we don?t want that
we don?t want Iraq to have this kind of weopon

CLANCY
if we just give out bits and pieces
we?ll be fine

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
I don?t like the Idea of it and that?s final

CLANCY
lets talk this over

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
I don?t want to I don?t want to hear it
I want you to get out of my office
now admiral not five minutes from now right now

CLANCY
we have to do this to ease down the tension

ADMIRAL JOHSON
get out now

INT NUMA HEADQUARTERS DAY

EXT NUMA HEADQUARTERS NIGHT

we see party banners

one banner reads SECOND ANNEVERSERRY OF SERVICE
JESSICA RIDE

Anna is sitting at the bar all alone wearing a geogious dress We see michelle at the other side of the room

POV.

Michelle watches anna tun around to see her michelle runs up to her

OVER THE SHOULDER ;MICHELLE

MICHELLE
what?s wrong

ANNA
he didn?t show up

MICHELLE
I thout you didn?t like him

ANNA
I do like him as a feind

MICHELLE
that?s what Jessica said about Danica

ANNA
she?s back with her?

MICHELLE
of course Haley saw them in the office together
close, together

ANNA
what should I do

MICHELLE
find someone else

ANNA
I cant

MICHELLE
sure you can your attractive a lot of guys
would love to date you and you?ll be just
as good off as if you were dating a girl
which is weird for someone who is not gay

ANNA
of course I?m not gay we just clicked when we met that?s all

Michelle glaces at her watch and then back at Anna

MICHELLE
I see that you two click pretty easy but you need a change you?re a virgin
for gods sake you?ve never been with a guy

ANNA
I?ve dated guys before I met her but the relationships never got far

MICHELLE
be brave and find someone elese

ANNA
unless I date haley morgan

MICHELLE
eeeww

CUT TO

Jessica talks with Danica on the dance floor

DANICA
I love you

JESSICA
I love you too,Danica

DANICA
do you think I?m better than Anna

JESSICA
a little but I havent been with you in such a long time
you make me want to release every time I see you

DANICA
I guess Anna?s getting old
to you

JESSICA
no but I like the feeling when your with me

Jessica kisses Danica and they begin to slow dance to the Music

We see Anna Staring at them in the background

CUT TO BAR

ANNA
they look great together

MICHELLE
I know but she should be with you
not her yor there for her Anna
and you need to tell her

ANNA
I will tell her

MICHELLE
I?ll be back
I?ve got to go to the restroom

Michelle Leaves the Bar and bypasses the dance floor and goes into the elevator instead
we pan to see Andy watching her

INT HALLWAY NIGHT

Michelle walks down the empty corridor

CUT TO : Darkened office Night

Michelle removes a flash drive from her purse and begins to copy files onto the flash drive From the computer

CUT TO

Anna walks by Jessica?s office

CU TO
Michelle crawls across he office floor holding a group of papers

CUT TO

Anna walks into the bathroom

CUT TO

Michelle begins to copy the PAPERS

CUT TO

Anna walks down the hall

CUT TO

Michelle puts the papers and the flash drive into a tube and slides it into a leather case , she slings the strap across her shoulder and opens the door as Anna comes by

ANNA
what?s in the case

Michelle says nothing ,but she pulls a gun from her purse And she runs Anna peruses her
and pulls out a cell phone and she begins dialing the number for the CIA

EXT PENNSLYVANIA AVE. NIGHT
Anna chases Michelle down the sidewalk and into the street still holding the cell phone . Michelle runs into the grass Anna Jumps on Her Michelle Gets back up and fires into the air and falls down again she gets up holding the gun. A bunch of Men in black suits with Guns spring from nowhere when FLOODLIGHTS suddenly POP on

CIA AGENTS
FREEZE

Andy steps away from a black SUV he holsters his gun and rips the gun out of Michelle?s hand and throws it away he pulls out a needle and jabs it into Michelle?s thigh Michelle collapses

ANDY
Looks like good intelligence pays off

The CIA AGENTS rush in and pick Michelle up and put her into the Black SUV.

ANNA
you can say that again

ANDY
you don?t look too good

ANNA
I?m worried about what?s going to happen to her

ANDY
nothing too bad I presume

CUT TO INT JESSICA?S office Day

Jessica sits facing the window as ANDY ENTERS the ROOM

ANDY
I?m sorry Jessica
I cant help it that Michelle was a spy

JESSICA
leave me alone

ANDY
talk to me
no one is to blame but the guy who brainwashed her don?t blame me

JESSICA
I?ll blame whoever I want to blame

ANDY
you do that but don?t blame me .

INT CIA HEADQUARTERS CIA DIRECTOR?S OFFICE

Jessica is speaking with the director

CIA DIRECTOR
we found appalling levels of mind altering drugs in her system mostly
Amphetamine?s

JESSICA
so her mind was altered
but she seems so normal

CIA DIRECTOR
of course they programmed her to do
certain things but be herself

JESSICA
can you deprogram her

CIA DIRECTOR
not until we fry the chip we found
in her brain

JESSICA
what about the drugs

CIA DIRECTOR
that?s going to take time

JESSICA
what?s going to happen to her when the conspirators
are dead?

CIA DIRECTOR
she goes home and if you do this for me you?ll get her back early

JESSICA
what

CIA DIRECTOR
eliminate Doctor Emerson

EXT EMERSON ELECTRONIC?S BUILING DAY

we focus on the Huge building

INT BUILDING DAY

Anna and Jessica run through the corridors holding guns
Men in JUMPSUITS Start chasing them they start shooting at them Anna shoots one in the leg and he falls we see them run with the guns into another corridor they repeat this process of killing off men in jumpsuits as the men start shooting at them

Doctor George Emerson And Hussein Are Talking in the Office

HEUSEIN
I see the Americans found out
they?ve Abducted and deprogrammed our agent

EMERSON
Abducted , you?re the one that abducted her
it wasn?t worth it she was too young and Naive
for these tasks

HEUSEIN
she was an agent
not our citizen but a way to bring down this project

EMERSON
you have no use for it tell your government that
you don?t even have the Technology to
Even start a project of your own .

Dr. Emerson?s son comes in

ROLLAND EMERSON
what are you guys talking about
what project are you two talking about I can her you two guys bickering about
agents in the hallway and I want to know what you guys are talking about and if it j jeopardizes US security I need to knot I?ve reads all you documents dad I know what your doing
and I don?t like it

EMERSON
get out I don?t want to hear your mouth get out

CUT TO we see Anna and Jessica with Guns in the hallway

Anna and Jessica storm into the office

JESSICA
Don?t Move

EMMERSON
I wont but Mr. Hussein Will

Hussein gets up and plows into the girls sending them flying as he storms out with Emerson Emerson?s son Helps the girls up when they leave

EMERSON
Are you ok

JESSICA
sure

ANNA
who?s this

EMERSON
I?ll tell you two Later Just go and stop them

CU TO EXT BUILDING ROOF

A HELECOPTER is on the Roof Hussein and Emerson are running towards the copter

HEUSSIEN
hurry before they come

Ann and Jessica Along with Rolland come running out of the building onto the Helipad
Hussein shoots at them and they scatter like roaches Rolland goes back inside the building
a man with a gun gets out of the chopper

Jessica runs toward the man and they begin fighting
Anna Runs toward the chopper and Hops in And punches Emerson in the Jaw Emerson smacks her
Anna takes it like a Man and tries to pull him out of the seat as the choppers rotors start to spin

CUT TO

Anna And the guy are still fighting the knocks him down ad runs to the chopper to save Anna

Jessica Approaches the chopper to get Anna She Grabs Anna But Emerson Hold

All work and No Play makes Jack a dull boy

 
Posted : 13/02/2006 6:48 am
(@rjschwarz)
Posts: 1814
Noble Member
 

You might get more response if you found a way to get it to display in proper format. It's difficult to read things that don't display right, especially when they are this long. I would suggest posting a file somewhere for folks to read offline.

I didn't finish, don't have the time, but I have three comments right away. (1) You don't provide any location information beyond the heading. It helps the reader (and the production in general) if you provide details of each room instead of just INT - BAR. (2) The girl is 15 and works for a government agency? Seems a bit young. (3) "Britannic sinks lower by the head". Since the head on a ship is the bathroom this makes no sense. I think you mean the bow.

The start is a grabber though, no doubt about that.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

RJSchwarz

 
Posted : 13/02/2006 1:58 pm
 amir
(@amir)
Posts: 26
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quote:


Originally posted by Raymond Leggs

the older man is Admiral Johnson retired admiral of the US Navy and NUMA


How do we know he's a retired admiral?

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

 
Posted : 13/02/2006 5:43 pm
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Posts: 2951
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I know a lot of new screenwriters think format isn't as important as content. But if you want a serious critique of you script the first thing you should do is present it in proper format.

Sluglines or Scene Headers.

Written in capitals and containing three pieces of information: (1) Where; (2) Exactly where, and (3) when. (2) and (3) are separated by a space, a dash, followed by another space.

(1) can be INT. (interior) or EXT. (exterior); (2) is a short identification of the place; and (3) can be either DAY or NIGHT.

For example:

INT. DENISE?S PLACE - DAY

You can use more than one subject.

For example:

EXT. DENISE?S PLACE - TERRACE - DAY

or:

EXT. DENISE?S PLACE/TERRACE - DAY

You need a new slugline each time you change the place, and/or change the time.

Action, or Description

The screenplay?s visual elements, where we show what is taking place on the screen. Character descriptions, what they are doing, the places, and everything the audience will need to assimilate visually. And nothing else!

Try to create the experience of watching each scene, using only the information available to the movie-goer, in the order that he or she will be presented with it.

Show. Don't tell.

No need to write "we see" or "we hear". For example, the reader knows that "we" will see the smoke and people running if you write

quote:


EXT. BRITANNIC/DECK - DAY
Smoke and the scream of Klaxon horns fill the air. People run in panic.


and that we will see the ragged man if you write:

quote:


INT. D-DECK CORRIDOR - DAY
The ragged looking man put a gun to the head of Ensign Johnson


Don't tell us things we cannot know. As amir pointed out.

One of the reasons it's a bad idea to capitalize sounds is because so many new screenwriters do it wrong. You write "we HEAR WOOD Crunching METAL". If you feel it's essential to capitalize sounds the "WOOD" and "METAL" aren't the sounds. "crunching" is.

But just don't do it - even if you've seen it in other scripts.

Don't "direct" the movie in your script. Your job as the writer is to tell the story, NOT to set up shots.

One final note: I'm sure you think that proper spelling, grammar and punctuation isn't really important on a message boards - after all, you'll fix all that before you show it to an agent or producer - but it makes reading your script difficult. If you want us (your fellow writers) to take the time to critique and offer advice and opinions, you could take the time to present it to us spell checked and with proper punctuation.

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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

 
Posted : 13/02/2006 6:17 pm
(@rocket-attack)
Posts: 27
Eminent Member
 

I can tell you're kind of a young writer arent you? You know why I can tell? It's not the way you structure your story, it's the fact that you have a 17-19 year old CIA agent and a 17-19 year old underwater marine technician. 17-19 year olds are usually finishing high school, not training to become a CIA agent. Look into the specifics of your story a little further.

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This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
? Clint Eastwood

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This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
? Clint Eastwood

 
Posted : 17/02/2006 5:56 pm
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