ATLANTIS STORY MAP & OPERATION HOMEPAGE

U-BOAT 986 - S.10

<<<< SCENE 9 - CHANGE OF COURSE

HIGH SPEED NORTH ATLANTIC CHASE HUGGING COAST OF NORTH AFRICA, MOROCCO

INT. HMS NEPTUNE - COMMAND DECK - NIGHT

The HMS NEPTUNE hugs the African continental shelf like a shark shadow—silent, swift, and hard to trace beneath the thermal layers off Morocco’s coast.

REDAN SIMDO (30s) stands at the sonar console, arms folded, eyes narrowed at the trailing swirl of sediment. They've skirted past Gibraltar, but Redan made a call.

REDAN
(To himself, a grim murmur)
Too narrow. Too historical.

He recalls something, his brow furrowed.

REDAN
Sixty U-boats went into Wadj Ur during the war. None came back.

He knows the statistics. A one-way ticket. And with a possibly leaking reactor, enclosed waters and unpredictable currents are a death sentence.

They track south instead—shadowing the jagged outline of the Atlas Mountains. Casablanca slips off their starboard flank like a ghost. They veer toward the Saharan coast and the dusky mirage of Puerto del Carmen.

Redan hasn’t fully bought Storm’s radiation warning, but a part of him—the survivor, honed by deserts, riots, and double-crosses—senses the man isn’t lying.

Still, the crew grumbles.

BO DALLAS (20s)
(Flicking switches, agitated)
Why’s it just this Storm bloke chasing us? Feels wrong.

ZINZI DIANA (20s)
(Eyes narrowed, suspicious)
If we were leaking—wouldn’t half the world’s navies be up our tail?

ZERA MASKEN (20s)
(Quietly, a chilling realization)
They don’t know. Only one ship’s fast enough to notice.

Redan listens, his internal conflict mirrored in his crew's rising unease.

INT. ELIZABETH SWANN - BRIDGE - CONTINUOUS

DAN HAWK (20s) squints at the tracking plot.

DAN
They’ve changed course again. Now they're dancing too close to the coast. Shallower waters ahead.

JOHN STORM (40s) leans over the rail, eyes scanning the digital bathymetric overlay, a grim frown on his face.

JOHN
Hal, what do we know about the seabed near here?

HAL (A.I. Voice)
Very little, Captain. Cartography sparse. Topography inconsistent. Potential for wreckage fields, volcanic ridges, and sudden shoals. We are, in short, surfing in the dark.

John’s jaw tightens.

JOHN
So we have... nothing.

HAL
Nothing useful, Skip. Except I am, of course, mapping the unknown as we proceed—per millisecond.

JOHN
(Muttering, half to himself)
Keep swinging the lead.

The Swann ZIGZAGS through waters no sane merchant vessel would touch, dancing through sonar shadows and thermal ghosts.

Then comes the PING. Sharp. Distinct.

Hal’s voice cuts in like a scalpel.

HAL
Captain. Side-scan sonar returning high-magnetism anomaly. Subsurface. Unusual profile.

Dan's fingers fly across the console, his eyes wide.

DAN
It’s too small to be Neptune.

HAL
And... oddly familiar. Curved hull. Pressure-resistant rivets. Conning tower intact but deformed. Length suggests approximately 67 meters. Markings... faint.

JOHN
Let’s see it.

The image sharpens on screen. John's breath catches.

JOHN
(A low, pained whisper)
Oh no. Not again. Not another historic wreck. This is becoming a habit.

Dan whistles, low and reverent.

DAN
Holy fuel cells, Skip. That’s a bloody U-Boat. World War Two, no question. Can we stop and take a look? I mean—imagine what’s down there. Codebooks. Enigma machines. Skeletons.

JOHN
(Dryly)
Yes, Dan. And gold, that’s what I’m afraid of.

HAL
Mark it?

John gives a sharp nod.

JOHN
Plot it. Secure the scan. We’ll come back. History doesn’t bleed into the present... unless you let it.

The Swann surges forward once more, leaving the slumbering corpse of U-986 behind—another ghost in the shallows.

Ahead, Neptune cuts deeper into the blue. Time is running out.

SCENE 11 - SENATE, UK & EU DEBATE >>>>

PROPOSED SCRIPT ORDER (90-110 pages) - V1.0 DRAFT SCREENPLAY

ACT 1.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ACT 2.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ACT 3.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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