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UNEP
POLLUTION SURVEY - S.6
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BBC WORLD SERVICE SCENE 5
NORTH
SEA CONSIDERED A HIGH POLLUTION RISK TO WILDLIFE
INT. ELIZABETH SWANN - BRIDGE - DAY
The ELIZABETH SWANN glides gracefully eastward over the Bay of
Biscay. Solar wings unfurled, hydrogen
fuel cells whispering beneath polished carbon strakes. Golden light filters through high clouds, bathing the deck. A sense of an interlude ending.
On the bridge, HAL'S VOICE (A.I., crisp, neutral) cuts through the air.
HAL
Incoming transmission. Encrypted frequency. Source: Newcastle University, relayed via UNEP,
Paris. Priority designation—Urgent Humanitarian.
JOHN STORM (40s, attentive, focused) leans over from the navigation table, raising an eyebrow.
JOHN
Let’s have it, Hal.
A chime pulses through the main console. A familiar voice, soft-edged with Northern warmth, filters through.
ROBERTA TREADSTONE (V.O.)
Roberta Treadstone calling the Elizabeth
Swann. Come in, Swann. Over.
DAN HAWK
(20s, easygoing, but sharp) grins across the control bay, swiveling in his chair.
DAN
She’s got a good radio voice.
CLEOPATRA (20s, observant, a hint of mischief), seated nearby with a cup of mint tea, smirks but says nothing. She catches the mix of nostalgia and mischief in John’s expression.
John straightens, touches the comms button.
JOHN
Swann to Dr. Treadstone. How are you, Roberta? Over.
A pause, then a sigh.
ROBERTA TREADSTONE (V.O.)
Desperately in need of your services again, John.
John flushes slightly, catching Cleopatra’s arching brow. He holds up a hand to her, palm out, a silent 'easy now.' Cleopatra’s narrowed eyes dance, amused but mockingly suspicious.
JOHN
(Casual tone)
I’d hazard a guess. Would it involve an increasingly unstable body of water to our northeast... and a somewhat misplaced nuclear submarine? Over.
ROBERTA TREADSTONE (V.O.)
Spot on as usual. Professor Daccord wanted to make this official, but he knows how
UNEP works—layers of diplomacy. So I’m jumping the stack. The
North
Sea, John. It’s bleeding. And the Arctic gyres are hungry.
Behind John, Dan mutters.
DAN
Oil and currents—never a good cocktail.
John nods slowly.
JOHN
You’ll want the full suite? Deep-structure sonar sweeps, ROV mapping, radiation sampling?
ROBERTA TREADSTONE
(V.O.)
The full Monty, yes. And fast.
JOHN
We’re rounding the Pillars of Hercules now. Give us thirty hours. We’ll swing north through the Channel and begin our descent into the basin. Tell
Jacques I’ll send him the first grid lines before we reach Dogger Bank.
ROBERTA TREADSTONE (V.O.)
You’re a star, John. And Trish is a lucky woman.
The mic clicks off. Cleopatra folds her arms, her mock glare sharp enough to cut steel.
CLEOPATRA
Oh, am I now?
John grins and reaches for her hand.
JOHN
Luckier than you know.
Dan coughs pointedly.
DAN
Get a room, lovebirds.
HAL
Preferably one I don’t have to navigate around.
The mood lifts briefly with banter, but a quiet unease settles among the crew. They all know what the news networks don’t yet dare say aloud: the North Sea is in chemical collapse. The Terramentals’ dramatic warning was prescient, not theatrical.
EXT. ENGLISH CHANNEL - NIGHT
The Swann glides silently past the mouth of the English
Channel. Her lights are dimmed, hull cloaked in counter-illumination, a ghost in the dark.
INT. ELIZABETH SWANN - BRIDGE - NIGHT
On sonar, Hal marks the unmistakable blip of a Royal Navy Astute-class sub—HMS NEPTUNE—sliding westward under minimal power.
HAL
Skipper, we’ve just passed the Neptune. No acoustic challenge. They're running passive. I’m also detecting trace levels of radioactive contamination—gamma signatures just above normal background.
John narrows his eyes at the screen. The wake path trails away toward the Atlantic, slow and heavy like a wounded whale.
JOHN
Direction?
HAL
Bearing northwest toward the continental shelf. Coastal drift suggests possible ingress toward Great Yarmouth. But…
Hal hesitates.
JOHN
But currents are scrambled.
HAL
Exactly. Counterwinds off Dogger Bank. Anything oil-based is dispersing erratically. Makes analysis... cloudy.
John folds his arms, a familiar resolve hardening his expression.
JOHN
We’ll untangle the currents. We’ve done worse.
He turns to Cleopatra.
JOHN
Wake the mapping suite. We start grid scans at dawn.
She nods without hesitation.
CLEOPATRA
Rigs first?
JOHN
And rigs last. No one else seems interested in accountability—but we’ll make the seabed speak.
(The Elizabeth Swann has a distinguished record with UNEP and
Blue
Shield, with its incredibly detailed data sets from surveying underwater cities like
Alexandria and
Port
Royal.)
The stage is set for a vital mission into a poisoned sea.
SCENE
7 - RADIATION ALERT >>>>
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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