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REACTOR LEAK - S.12

<<<< SCENE 11 - US SENATE, UK & EU DEBATE

REACTOR EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN SCRAMBLE - RED LINE DANGEROUS RADIATION LEVELS

INT. HMS NEPTUNE - REACTOR COMPARTMENT - NIGHT

Deep beneath the Atlantic’s rolling skin.

A KLANG of metal. A sudden FLICKER on the reactor display.

Then, the piercing SHRIEK of a klaxon—a banshee’s cry across the bulkheads—followed by pulsing red lights slicing through the gloom of the control room.

An automated VOICE booms, echoing through the confined space:

AUTOMATED VOICE
REACTOR CORE: THERMAL BREACH DETECTED. PRIMARY COOLANT FAILURE. AUTOMATIC SCRAMBLE INITIATED.

The deep, powerful PROPULSION HUM DIES with a hollowed groan. An absolute silence follows, sharp as a held breath.

REDAN SIMDO (30s) blinks at the overhead alert, eyes wide with dawning horror. ZERA MASKEN (20s) is already moving, her fingers flying across a console.

ZERA
(A choked breath)
Oh hell no. This isn’t heat stress—this is structural. Fault line in the reactor housing!

BO DALLAS (20s) curses, his face paling.

BO DALLAS
You’re saying it’s cracked?!

ZERA
(Snapping, furious)
I’m saying we’ve been set up with junk! MOD contracts. BAE shortcuts. Bolt heads glued to pass inspection—that sort of junk!

MAX MOHUNE (20s) runs a hand through his hair, disbelief in his eyes.

MAX MOHUNE
Procurement fraud. Of course.

ZINZI DIANA (20s)
(Muttering, bitter)
Typical. They build a floating coffin and stick us in it. And now they want it quiet.

Redan grabs the mic, his voice a raw command.

REDAN
Blow tanks! Surface—NOW! Everyone to decom protocol!

The Neptune BUCKS UPWARD violently as emergency ballast release engages. The ship surges for daylight, BELCHING STEAM like a wounded leviathan, the groan of protesting steel tearing through the water.

EXT. ELIZABETH SWANN - UPPER DECK - CONTINUOUS

JOHN STORM (40s) stands with DAN HAWK (20s) on the upper deck, wind cutting sharp across the bow. They watch the boiling sea.

DAN
(Shouting over the wind, pointing)
There! Conning tower breaking surface—ten o’clock!

Through the mist, Neptune surges up in a plume of black spray, her vast hull glistening. Even crippled, it looks formidable. But the way it LISTS tells another, terrifying story.

JOHN
Hal, bring us alongside. Standard standoff, starboard.

HAL (V.O.)
Aye, Captain. Adjusting course.

The Swann matches the sub’s pace, a silent, tense ballet on the choppy waves.

CLANG! The hatch on Neptune’s conning tower swings open. Redan Simdo appears, climbing the ladder, a radiation mask already on, his shoulders tense with suppressed panic.

John cups his hands around his mouth, shouting across the water.

JOHN
Ahoy! You’ve got a meltdown on your hands! We picked up the radiation signature an hour ago!

Redan shouts back, his voice ragged, relief and terror warring in his eyes.

REDAN
More than a signature! The reactor shut itself down! Radiation alarms from deck to keel! It’s real!

JOHN
Then get your people off that sub! Whatever’s leaking is going to cook you!

Redan lets out a short, grim laugh, a sound of desperate acceptance.

REDAN
(Shouting)
Name’s Red! And yeah—we believe you now!

JOHN
We’ll handle evac! One at a time! Clean rinse on our aft platform! No heroics!

EXT. NORTH ATLANTIC - CONTINUOUS

John looks out at the Neptune. His gaze shifts, a new concern hardening his features. The sub has surfaced dangerously close to the U-boat wreck from the previous chapter.

Dan leans over his shoulder, following John’s gaze.

DAN
We’re way too close to that wreck. You think it’s stable?

John doesn’t answer right away. He stares at the floating hulk of the Neptune—radioactive, leaching, politically explosive.

JOHN
We’re not in open water anymore. We’re in open history.

SCENE 13 - RESCUE TOW >>>>

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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