I've realised that - we've not picked a writer yet, so I've put the CR writers in as a placeholder, and we need to come up with a way to dispatch Hildebrand since otherwise he just vanishes - unless that's the person who Bond throws from the train in Germany.
I do think CT submitted a car (the Maserati?) choice a few pages back but didn't put it on the proforma because we realised there was no logical room for a car to be used properly - unless it was just window dressing.
LONDON, ENGLAND
Eric Wright (Stephen Moyer), an MI6 desk officer, is being stalked through the streets of a city. We don't immediately realise where we are - but it becomes clear we're in London. Wright can't see his pursuer, as she is hidden in the darkness, with only a silhouette that is visible. She stalks him for several minutes, as Wright ducks into several establishments trying to lose her. Eventually he is cornered in an abandoned square when she catches up to him, shooting him in the leg. He's left immobilized, allowing the woman corner him. When she's revealed to the audience, we see that it is Quinn. She holds a gun on him, explaining that he has outlived his use. "You promised you wouldn't shoot me if I helped you." "You're correct," she says, lowering the gun. "I promised not to shoot you. Unfortunately for you, he didn't make that promise." A shot rings out, and Wright falls to the ground. Quinn turns to walk away, joining a figure in the darkness that we see only as a silhouette ...
CB.n PRESENTS
DANIEL CRAIG
as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007
in
CBN MEMBERS'
THE HILDEBRAND RARITY
Inna Korobkina
Kerry Condon
Giancarlo Esposito
Melanie Laurent
Jason David Frank
Jeany Spark
Wolf Kahler
John Meyer
Tyler Mane
Jeffrey Wright
Emily Blunt
Jesper Christensen
Yvonne Strahovski
Max Minghella
with Rutger Hauer
and Timothy Dalton as M
"The Hildebrand Rarity" sung by Depeche Mode
"The Hildebrand Rarity" composed by Depeche Mode and Elliot Goldenthal
Soundtrack by Elliot Goldenthal
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Written by Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
Felix Leiter and the CIA are monitoring the apartment of the deceased Quantum agent Marcus (a brief remark lets us know that they know that he was killed in the Grenadines), hoping that, though slim odds, Marcus will have left something in his apartment of great value to Quantum; lo and behold, an "agent" slipping something out of a safe and into his pocket is revealed, at the last second, to be a fake; upon being stopped outside of the apartment door, he shoots his pursuers and barrels out through the hallway window.
Felix, fed up with his cramped quarters, the bureaucratic slowdowns, and the seeming incompetence of his fellow agents, rips off his headphones and runs out of the ramshackle surveillance house (located conveniently near the apartment complex) after the henchman -- and we now see that Felix is running on a pair of Cheetah running legs, giving him a leg up on the pursuee. (Felix footage would be made up of a trained Cheetah legs runner, seen only from behind, close shots of Jeffrey Wright from the legs up, and wide shots painstakingly synchronized of both Wright and the runner, digitally spliced together.)
After a pursuit across busy streets, footpaths, and through the Cathedral De Se and up the breakdown lane of a highway, the henchman is finally cornered near a ledge halfway up an overpass -- and traffic below is fast. The goon takes his last few shots at Leiter, who ducks and slides across to the henchman, bumping into his ankles with the Cheetah legs. The henchman, now off balance, drops his gun and careens over the side, but Felix, supporting himself with one elbow, reaches up with his legs and scissors them between the goon, keeping him pinned, upside down, to the ledge.
Slowly, painstakingly, with his other arm, Felix reaches into the operative's inside coat pocket to fish out what he stole from Marcus's apartment, but the goon thinks fast -- as Leiter pulls it out, the henchman pulls Felix's gun from its holster, but it's too late; Leiter has the goods. With his other arm, Felix unstraps the Cheetah legs from his thighs, sending them -- and the trapped goon -- down into the busy traffic below.
Felix hauls himself up as best he can and looks over the ledge, wincing at the sight of his gorgeous Cheetah legs smashed to bits within the pulpy remains of the Quantum henchman, then looks at what he's retrieved from the dead man's pocket. We don't see what he has clearly, but shock sweeps across Leiter's face; he quickly pulls out his walkie-talkie and radios his superiors, saying that the Quantum man is dead, but they've got a new, and more dangerous, lead.
"Dangerous to who, Leiter?"
"To everyone!"
Reverse shot of Leiter's trembling hand, as sirens wail in the background, and we finally see his morbid prize: A Ministry of Defense identity card, registered to one Dr. Emeric Hildebrand.
Meanwhile ...
NEAR BEYAPAZARI, TURKEY
Bond breaks into what, at first, appears to be an abandoned and half-ruined fort in the middle of nowhere - it is revealed that it is actually the heart of a drug operation, kind of like the concealed poppy fields in 'Live And Let Die'. But when Bond reaches the gardens, he discovers only acres of rhododendrons. He takes a sample of the flower - but is discovered. And must escape from the facility before being caught - eventually finding his way to an underground garage. Surveying his option of vehicle for escape - a half dozen delivery trucks, a couple of jeeps and a single off-road quad bike. Bond selects the quad bike after taking a covert snap of the logo on the side of the delivery trucks. He flees, pursued by gun-toting thugs - the ruined fort exploding in the background - and takes the chase off-road, the thugs are hampered but the off-road quad bike gives Bond the advantage and he guns the vehicle towards the edge of a cliff - sending it flying over the edge.
However, Bond uses the momentum to grab onto the edge of the open cargo door of a Chinook that was hovering out of sight - hauling himself into the back of the helicopter, he unslings his backpack and makes his way to the cockpit where a handsome, fresh faced youth is sitting in the pilots seat.
Meet Geoffrey Hastings, 0011. Bond pulls a bottle out of his backpack - it's full of a clear liquid: Raki - and presents it to Hastings. "A graduation present, 0011".
MI6 HEADQUARTERS
Bond arrives at headquarters in an Aston Martin One-77 - hands the sample of the rhododendron flower and the blurred photographs of the logo on the delivery trucks to Moneypenny and steps in to see M. Felix is also present. Felix explains the events in Sao Paulo - including the discovery of the MOD ID card belonging to Hildebrand. M, in turn, explains that Eric Wright was found murdered in Mitre Square. The two events, at first, appear to be unconnected - but, Hildebrand was presumed dead in a plane crash one month earlier and Wright was the MI6 officer responsible for planning Hildebrand's travel itinerary. The two events must be connected.
Furthermore, M reveals that CCTV in the vicinity of Mitre Square picked up a woman in the area at the time of the murder. Bond recognises the woman as Quinn. M explains that they managed to trace her to Heathrow Airport and, from there, to St. Petersburg in Russia. Bond is suspicious - 'It's a trap'. M and Felix agree.
Bond leaves - and prepares to head to St. Petersburg. Moneypenny informs him that the flower sample is a rhodeodendron flower and that the partial logo on the blurred photograph appears to belong to a honey supplier. MI6 believe that Bond has destroyed the nerve centre of a grayanotoxin production facility - the case, it seems, is closed.
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
Bond works with field operative, Aoife Daly, to keep an eye on Quinn - and, as part of their investigation, they discover Mr White too. M agrees that this MUST just be a bigger part of the trap but Bond points out that it's too good to resist and requests that M sends him some back-up - which arrives in the form of Geoffrey Hastings, 0011 (who takes a shine to Aoife), and Mary Goodnight, 008. The trio of agents - with logistical support from Aoife - set about luring Mr White into the open and eliminating him.
As part of the mission - 0011 must masquerade as a hotel porter to break into Mr White's hotel room, search for any information and return that information to Aoife. He discovers an iPad in the room, but is discovered by Mr. Roberts. The pair fight in the close quarters of the hotel room - decimating it. But Hastings overcomes Mr. Roberts by wrapping the curtains round his neck and throttling him to death - Hastings' David overcoming Mr Roberts' Goliath. Hastings returns to the safehouse - but, upen returning to the safehouse, he finds that Aoife has been stabbed and her tongue cut out. As 0011 rushes to save Aoife - she tries to warn him of something but because she has had her tongue cut out, he can't understand her. Unseen to 0011 - a bomb has been connected to the phone and as he picks up to call for help, the bomb detonates, shredding the safehouse to rubble.
Simultaneous to this, Bond is pursuing Mr White through the Scarlet Sails - with 008 providing cover fire. However, whilst 008 provides cover fire to Bond, Quinn is providing cover fire for Mr White and her gunfire rips Goodnight's shoulder apart forcing Goodnight to retreat. Bond comes under fire from Quantum snipers - and is forced to break off his pursuit of Mr White in order to stop himself from being shot, taking up pursuit of Quinn instead.
Bond and Quinn end up fighting atop a hovercraft that is negotiating it way around ships and galleons out in the water (around here) during the eight of the celebrations - middle of the night, fireworks; everything. Bond and Quinn's fight ends with the two of them falling from the hovercraft; Bond is able to swim away, but Quinn is pulled under - presumed dead.
Bond is able to resume his pursuit of Mr White, the chase taking them through the star shaped Peter and Paul Fortress - and ending on the top of a building overlooking a glass roofed art gallery. "You should have killed me when you had the chance," says Mr White. "Yes, I should've. Fortunately, I don't make the same mistake twice -" Bond shoots Mr White, who falls off the building, through the glass ceiling of the art gallery and ending up impailed on a spear wielded by a statue.
As Bond looks down on the body of Mr White, we cut to the banks of the river as Quinn hauls herself onto a dock protruding into the river, her face hideously scarred from the fight with Bond ...
The following day - M and Bond walk through the ruins of the safehouse. M explains that Goodnight has been medevaced back to London but 0011 and Aoife are lost causes - something which the iPad that 0011 found in Mr White's hotel room narrowly escaped. Although it has been heavily damaged in the explosion, technicians have been able to find a connection between Emeric Hildebrand's abduction and the highest echelons of power in Nambola. This assignment, says M, will require a great deal of tact and diplomacy - 'God help us all'.
GUSTAFFSBERG, NAMBOLA
Bond arrives as part of the delegation to do with the space tourism program - part of the celebrations include a performance of 'Swan Lake' on a specially constructed stage with the space shuttle as a backdrop. Bond watches the performance - entranced by one of the dancers - and keeps an eye on President Henrik Saphotho, the Nambolan leader. Later, with the help of another delegation member, Vera, he meets Saphotho - who has taken a shine to the ballet dancer that Bond noticed during the performance, Yelena. Bond tries to make contact with Sephotho - but his approach is continually halted by the President's omnipresent bodyguard, Mesquito.
Yelena is invited to spend the night at Saphotho's palace and, after seducing her in his luxurious bedroom and undressing her by a bubbling jacuzzi discovers her 'chernobyl necklace'. Disgusted at her imperfection, he brutally abuses her. Bond has been keeping the palace under observation - and approaches Yelena to plant a bug on the palace's computer system. Over lunch at a local restaraunt, she agrees - and this leads Bond to a mine (preferably a lead mine) where Emeric Hildebrand is conducting his research. Bond helps Hildebrand to escape - but Hildebrand turns out to be a willing abductee and betrays Bond (and Yelena, by default) to Saphotho.
Bond escapes Saphotho and rescues Yelena - but doesn't initially realise she has been poisoned with grayanotoxin. He realises (due to familiarity with the toxin due to Turkey) and must break into a clinic to save her. He saves her - and leaves her in the hand of medics as he rushes to - the space tourism launch site where the inaugral civilian launch is set to take place. Included on the guest list on the shuttle is - President Henrik Sephotho. Stealing Vera's ID card, Bond hot wires an antique sportscar - a stunning Maserati Mistral - and guns it towards the launch tower - but Sephotho's right hand man, Mesquito, manages to intercept Bond before he reaches the shuttle - and the launch countdown begins. Bond gets the upper hand in the fight, throws Mesquito from the launch gantry as the five minute countdown begins. Bond escapes the fury of the rockets exhaust - but Mesquito isn't so lucky and becomes a crispy critter as the shuttle takes off.
Unable to stop Sephotho - he must instead stop Sephotho's plot.
SOMEWHERE IN GERMANY
Saphotho and Quantum are planning to use Hildebrand's formulae to turn the gold in the German stockpile into lead - sending the German economy plummeting. At the same time, they will turn Nambola's stockpile of lead into gold - sending the countries wealth skyrocketing overnight. A noble goal, but one that will do more harm than it will do good. Needless to say, Bond stops the use of the formulae in the following sequence:
The Deutche Bundesbanke plan to move it's bullion to three temporary back-up locations whilst they overhaul the bullion storage facility in Berlin - a third will travel by air, a third will travel by rail and a third will travel by autobahn. Quantum plan to launch a multi-pronged stealth attack on the three - grounding the plane at a remote airfield , stopping the train and preventing the road convoy from proceeding further. Bond must work with NATO forces to intercept and prevent the theft of the bullion - taking part in one of the preventative actions himself.
NATO soldiers replace the crew on the airplane - and gun down the Quantum thugs at the remote airstrip. A bridge over the autobahn explodes, blocking the road - but NATO snipers have been loaded into the trucks providing security for the convoy and they take out the thugs there. Bond provides security for the train convoy - and ends up throwing a thug from the train as it passes over a snowy mountain valley: "He was just a fall guy".
The gold bullion, in turn, was never on any of the three convoys - as Bond managed to inform the authorities about Sephotho's plan before the transfer began. Bond has turned the trap on Quantum themselves.
THE UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
M watches from a viewing platform as soldiers enter the main hall of the United Nations and place President Sephotho under arrest, charging him with a terrorist act - planning to destabilise the world economies. Sephotho is led out of the building in handcuffs, but is shot by a sniper just as he is being shoved into the back of a police car.
Locations: TBC
We meet the Head of Quantum - who declares all out war on the worlds intelligence communities, beginning with MI6 and with Bond. Bond reunites with a recovered Yelena - but the boat they are on is seen to blow up. It appears as if Quantum have made their first move.
JAMES BOND
WILL RETURN IN
'SHATTERHAND'
