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The
artwork is also suitable for use in "Jimmy Watson's Magic
Dinobot."
A proposed network TV serialization, about boy who saves his paper round
money to buy himself a robot for Christmas. Then, when assembled, it
come to life, to become his friend. ARTWORK
- Somewhat better than the huge ants in "Them," but perhaps not as good as
the CGI in Antman. Now a
museum
exhibit in Sussex, England.
The artwork is based on an Australian Bulldog
ant.
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CALL FOR JOHN STORM
THE LABYRINTH DEEPENS
The desolate landscape of white and blue was consumed by a raging blizzard. The horizon was lost in a maelstrom of snow, and only the howling wind and the crunch of snow underfoot remained to mark their existence. But in a tunnel carved deep beneath the ice, the storm was a distant memory.
Inside, the silence was oppressive. The air was frigid but bearable, a damp cold that promised to seep into your bones. The space was claustrophobic, a tight, twisting maze of raw ice walls that shimmered faintly in the limited light. The only illumination came from the headlamps of the team as they moved, their breath pluming in the frigid air.
Suddenly, a team member slipped, his hand flying out and sending his axe clattering to the floor. The sound, in that oppressive silence, was impossibly loud, a metallic shriek that echoed off the frozen walls. The team froze, their bodies instantly rigid with a shared, animal fear. The silence returned, heavier than before, laced with the unspoken knowledge that they had just announced their presence to the world, to anything that might be listening. A low, guttural rumble rippled through the ice. It could have been the ice shifting. Or it could have been something else entirely. No one dared to move.
Their headlamps cut through the gloom, illuminating a small, dark crevice. In it, a cluster of bizarre, ovular forms glistened. They were far too large to be a normal clutch of eggs. Their surfaces were not smooth or hard like a typical dinosaur egg; they were textured, tough, and leathery. They were utterly alien. They almost seemed to pulse with a faint, inner light.
"What are they?" Svetlana whispered, the question hanging in the air.
Dan Hawk, a tech savant who had seen it all, stared in awe. "Holy... fuel
cells."
The teams converged—Carter’s crew, Storm’s crew, the Swedes, and the Chinese. For a single, fleeting moment, the discovery transcended their bitter rivalry. They stood staring, transfixed, a single, unified breath hanging in the air, a testament to a shared sense of wonder and awe.
Then, the moment shattered.
"We found them," Cathy Carter said, her voice hard and authoritative. "The survey was ours. We claim the site."
Lin Po
Chang, his voice calm and menacing, stepped forward. "The Chinese team was on this line for a week. The prestige is ours."
The quiet murmurs of wonder dissolved into sharp arguments. The discovery had become a prize, not a wonder. Hours later, a muffled scream cut through the cold air.
The storm outside was gone. A low, grey light now illuminated the stark white landscape. We found
Bjorn
Atlas, his body half-buried in a snowdrift. His neck was at a horrific angle. There were no tracks, no sign of a struggle. Just an unnerving stillness. The remaining teams stared at each other. The rivalry turned into something else entirely. The squabbling ceased, replaced by a cold, shared terror.
There was a killer among them.
Inside a cramped maintenance bay, the air hummed with the sound of electronics. Cathy Carter and
Sven Johansson were huddled together, the remaining team members gone. Lin Po Chang had been busy.
"This reminds me of Ice Station
Zebra," Carter muttered, her voice low.
Sven let out a sharp, nervous laugh. "Alistair
MacLean?"
Carter shook her head, a grim smile on her face. "No. Worse. More like Bear
Island."
"Yes," Sven said soberly, his eyes wide. "Much more, Cathy. MacLean, again."
A dark shadow detached itself from the far wall. It was Lin Po Chang. He moved with a lethal precision, fast and silent as a ghost. He wrapped a vice-like armlock around Carter's neck, holding her in place. A glint of steel flashed in his hand.
Sven didn't hesitate. He lunged, a desperate, final tackle. He slammed into Chang, shoving them both away from a wounded Carter. The blade flashed, but Sven's sacrifice had given her a chance. Carter scrambled, pushing herself on her hands and knees out of the bay, a trail of blood behind her. She stumbled toward the comms room, every movement an agony. She grabbed the comms mic.
“...This is Carter…” she gasped, her voice wounded and weak. “We've lost them... He got Johansen. He killed them all. Chang... he's gone rogue." She collapsed, the mic slipping from her hand.
Inside the maintenance bay, Chang, his face emotionless, disposed of Sven with a quick, brutal martial arts move. There were no witnesses. Only the echoes of the struggle. Alone now, Chang looked around the bay with a cold, predatory stillness. The stage was set. He had a clean sweep. The "find" was his. All of it.
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BOUND
FOR ENGLAND
Following
the amazing discovery of a clutch of Sectasaur eggs, Lin
Po Chang plots to eliminate the competition
SECTASAUR™
- CHAPTERS (APPROX 5 MINS PER SCENE)
PART
1
CHAPTER
1: US ARKTOS 1838 EXPEDITION -
The ice melts at both poles revealing features on the land not seen for
thousands of years. A converted Frigate, the US Arktos is discovered at the South Pole locked into melting
ice, then freed.
CHAPTER 2: TUNNEL COMPLEX - Discovery of a labyrinth of tunnels beneath the ice, dated by scientists to be
many millions of years old, is leaked to Jill Bird, BBC world service,
via Sky news and Discovery Channel. Supporting John Cleves Symmes theory
of 1818.
CHAPTER 3: GOLD RUSH - Three expeditions launched by competing concerns, Swedish,
Multinational & Cathy Carter, backed by the
CIA.
The third funded by Chinese, Lin Po
Chang. Land grab for mineral rights and archaeological exclusivity,
prehistoric insect DNA.
CHAPTER 4:
U.N. CALL FOR JOHN STORM - MI6 and the
UN
decide to send in John
Storm and the Elizabeth Swan. Dan Hawk and
Charley Temple
speed from the
Southern Ocean to the Weddell Sea and there to Deception Island, an extinct volcano.
CHAPTER
5: IT'S MURDER ON THE ICE - Several fatal accidents occur in quick succession, then an egg clutch is discovered in a section of a tunnel.
Chang eliminates the remaining opposition. Then nurtures one thawed
egg through a simulated incubation.
CHAPTER 6:
BOUND FOR ENGLAND - The creature is smuggled aboard Ice Patrol survey vessel
'KoolArctic' bound for England, eats two crew members. Second mate on KoolArctic reports the chaos aboard
vessel to the British Admiralty, abandons ship.
CHAPTER
7: BASECAMP - John's team set up camp onshore, locate the excavation site,
using the 'Ark' (a DNA database) Storm finds dead explorers & uncovers disturbing new evidence to support
theory that dinosaurs were not entirely wiped out by a
meteor striking the
earth.
PART
2
CHAPTER
8: WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH - Confirmed, they
lived when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Dinosaurs starve in volcanic/asteroid
winter. Sectasaurs have higher
tolerance to freezing conditions, eat competition, then hibernate.
Suki Hall hypothesis merit worthy, supported scientific community.
CHAPTER 9: WORST FEARS CONFIRMED - From DNA analysis aboard
energy depleted Elizabeth
Swan, Storm estimates species grew to between 3-5 metres, warm blooded with
high tolerance to low temperatures. Team realize danger to humans, alert
MOD
& CIA to the danger.
John made Master
& Commander RN.
CHAPTER 10: -
ATLANTIC EXPRESS - Storm and crew head to England at high
speed, breaking record on hydrofoils. Sectasaur stows away on Atlantic
Express. Meanwhile Chang has landed in
Portsmouth.
CHAPTER 11: HAMPSHIRE - The giant prehistoric animal jumps ship,
feeds on New Forest ponies, gaining attention of Hampshire police, relayed to
MI6 and thence to John Storm.
CHAPTER 12:
BUCKLERS HARD - Storm heads up the Beaulieu River to Bucklers
Hard, following pony corpses toward a wooded area near Worts Gutter (Furzey Lane). Storm
calls military for backup. Chang heads to Buckler's Hard, and Worts
Gutter.
CHAPTER 13:
CAT & MOUSE - Storm and Temple
play cat and mouse with Sectasaur - when the giant insect came up from behind over the brow of a ravine and
knocks Charley nearly unconscious. Storm strikes the creature with an axe,
causing partial shock.
CHAPTER 14: FIRST AID - Charley and John patch creature's wound with antiseptic and bandages. The
giant insect feigns immobility. Understands dialogue between John and Charley is not aggressive or threatening,
and marks these two humans down as allies.
PART
3
CHAPTER 15: SECTASAUR RESCUES JOHN - John panics with axe.
Creature lashed out in reflex throwing John over a ledge. John at the mercy
of creature.
The huge insect puts itself at risk to pull John up to safety. Meanwhile government troops,
Territorial Army reservists are closing in.
CHAPTER 16: PUZZLING SITUATION - John dusts himself, while magnificent insect
cleans itself. John offers hand palm up to the creature. The animal
studies with both feelers, tickling him. John's heart pounding, at risk
of amputation, enjoying leap of faith. It understands and responds to
voice communication.
CHAPTER 17: ALL FRIENDS - Charley joins from bracken and saw the interaction between John and the insect.
She proffers her hand, the prehistoric insect smelled her all over with its antennae. Charley giggled at the
friendly touch. Temple shot in arm by troops, insect in head. Chang witnesses interchange.
CHAPTER 18: HOSTILE FIRE - Troops fire wounding animal. John & Charley both
leap in front of insect yelling to stop firing, but Charley is shot in the arm and
screams. The giant insect moves to protect them both from the gunfire,
taking more hits and another to the head. It collapsed, feelers limp.
Dead. Gone.
CHAPTER 19: ATTACK SUBSIDES - John and Charley shout as loud as they
can,
stopping firing. They reach insect. They raised its feelers, Charley and
John take one each, and the trio embraced for a minute, its antennae
were limp - there was no reviving it - tears, anger - it was gone. J&C
in shock for a moment.
CHAPTER
20: NO REMORSE - John & Charley anger welling up inside, tears
gave way to action. A rhinoceros soldier
is delighted at kill. "Yes," cried the soldier. "Yes," said John,
punching the trigger happy fool out. Up to that point other military thought they had saved
their lives. Chang is devastated at loss.
CHAPTER 21:
EPILOGUE & DEBRIEFING - John files a report with
the United
Nations and MI6, advising of a great loss to science.
Keep watching brief for any repeats, finds, missing links, etc. Watching
brief with increased security, military conflicts. Further investigations needed. Chang vows to return to Antarctica.
Charley
temple and John Storm - comfort the wounded Sectasaur
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