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So, the locations would run -

Guatemala - Rebirth Island - London - Mumbai - Rebirth Island - Chile/Argentina - Amsterdam - London - Antarctica - (Epilogues)


And THIS is the Grace Jones song I mentioned before when she was entered as the themetune singer - always thought this had a bit of the Bondian touch.

[Captain Tightpants]

I'm still violently opposed to having yet another trainee Double-Oh on our hands. We've simply done it too often, and we either kill them off or injure them straight away. The problem is that this makes Bond look absolutely invoncible because he's survived for so long. At least one young Double-Oh should survive for more than one assignment, because right now it just cheapens the entire concept.


1 Bond - Daniel Craig

2 Bond Girl 1 (Main ie Vesper/Camille): Violante Placido as Canada Juarez, a Quantum double agent.
3 Bond Girl 2 (Minor ie Solange/Fields): Katja Schuurman as Sophie de Winter, Dutch Intelligence field operative.
4 Bond Girl 3 (Background Girl): (there was some discussion about bringing Lucia back for the finale, but this doesn't need to be done)

5 Henchman: Dolph Lundgren as Jonas Black
6 Henchman 2: Jason Isaacs as Nathan Hall

7 Villain: Paul Higgins as Quentin Moray (a Largo-esque figure)
8 Villain 2: Tom Hiddleston as 'Mr White' (if the original holder of the 'Mr White' identity was cold and ruthless, imagine how cold and ruthless a man less than half his age would need to be to attain his position - in short, the inheritor of the 'Mr White' mantle is an extremely dangerous person).
9 Villain 3: Rutger Hauer as The Head of Quantum (named to be confirmed)
10 Villain 4: Melanie Laurent as Quinn

11 M: Timothy Dalton
12 Moneypenny: Emily Blunt

13 Ally 1: Yvonne Strahovski as Mary Goodnight, 008
14 Ally 2: Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter
15 Ally 3: - Max Brown as Lieutenant Laurence Catesby (A new trainee Double-Oh operative - a former member, like Bond, of the SBS and one of the newest candidates for Double-Oh status following the fatality and injuries in St. Petersburg. He's only recently been made a candidate - but he's certainly the most promising on there is.) Max Brown - almost IN character

LOCATIONS - There are no restrictions on locations, but please try to avoid using locations we've previously used, if at all possible.

16 Pre-Titles Location: Guatemala (or, an island off the coast of it)
17 Location 1: Mumbai, India
18 Location 2: Rebirth Island (Vorozhdeniya), Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan
19 Location 3: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
20 Location 4: The Antarctic. Specifically - a hidden lair composed of sunken ships, oil rigs and submarines welded together. Almost a hodge-podge steampunk meets futuristic version of Atlantis (from TSWLM).

KEY PLOT POINTS

21 Villains Plot: A 'nuclear bomb' sort of movie (think Thunderball) - mixed in with Quantum declaring all out war on MI6.

22 Pre-Title Sequence Stunt: Bond has to infiltrate the fleet headquarters of an open-cockpit flying boat squadron to blow them up--one of the boats makes a getaway and Bond has to climb on board and stop it. The idea was taken from the recent unveiling of Iran's new war machines. (This would be a standalone PTS in the vein of MR, FYEO, or OP, i.e., not necessarily connected to the film's plot)

23 Major Stunt 1: On a high-scale passenger train, M and his family are heading out for a quiet day at Brighton Beach. When a sommelier proves not to be one (he attempts to poison M with tainted wine, but M sniffs it out and tricks him with dialogue concerning Mouton Rothschild and clarets), M springs into action, getting his family into the back of the car and ushering all the other passengers out with them while the sommelier sprays the car with machine gun fire. Finally, M gets him into the next car, full of various automobiles; M dashes out of sight, and the sommelier sprays the front row of cars with lead -- but then a roar starts up: He was in a car in the back row. Revving over the rows of cars, M drives down and pins the sommelier to the wall of the train car, but the weight of the car proves too great; the wall breaks down, and the sommelier falls between the gaps and under the train to his death. M gets out of the car and checks his own blood pressure, and we cut to him being reunited with his family and interviewed by the authorities.

24 Major Stunt 2: A meeting between the villains and the good guys (in this case, specifically Bond, Goodnight, Quinn, and Jonas Black), which would take place in a large dining room in the MORPHotel. A scene that starts off more or less like a standard dinner scene (think the Bond/Vesper dinner after he won the card game in Casino Royale, although with other people around), but is then turned into an action sequence when Quinn and Jonas crash the party. I was thinking, at that point, a mixture of tense nature of the bar scene in Inglorious Basterds, with Quinn and Jonas laying out exactly why they're there, guns drawn on Bond and Goodnight underneath the table. Somehow Bond turns the tables on the two of them and orchestrates some kind of escape from the immediate area, with a chase/gunfight through the many different areas of the floating hotel, before they end up either fighting on the boat or involved in some kind of high-speed boat chase (I'm still thinking about how all of that would go, as the main thought process has been, to this point, behind the actual dinner scene itself).

25 Major Stunt 3: A meeting between villains in a museum (using those self-guided tour headsets to communicate), which quickly goes awry when Bond intervenes. Tourists scatter and security guards panic as bullets perforate a number of Rembrandts and Vermeers. The confrontation spills out onto the street and becomes a chase, first on foot through the winding streets, then on speedboats through the canals, finally culminating in a stand-off in the harbour, where oil spills are set alight and the battleground becomes a sea of fire.

26 Finale Stunt: Everything has come down to this. And as you'd expect, it's not going to be easy. Quantum's undersea base - known as "Erehwon" ("nowhere" spelt backwards) - is located near King George Island, in the Shrieking Sixties - the space between Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego. High winds, stormy seas and low temperatures make traditional forms of approach impractical, and Quantum have a sophisticated radar/sonar system that means vehicles will be unable to get near the base without them knowing about it. There is only one option: a stratospheric parachute jump.

Bond must ride a specially-designed balloon gondola to the very edge of space before leaping out from over 100,000 feet above the earth's surface. He will be in freefall for over five minutes as he hits speeds of close to 1000km/h, using the curvature of the earth to slingshot himself over King George Island. To complicate matters, he only has one shot at hitting his target - if he misses, he is as good as dead. In order to be on target, he must use a drouge, a small, perforated parachute that is designed to keep him stable. However, the drouge does not deploy properly and Bond starts drifting off-course. He must collapse the drouge (collapsing a parachute is about the most dangerous thing you can do in a parachute jump) and risk going into a flat spin at 200rpm (which would be fatal) to make sure he lands on-target. He successfully lands over King George Island, and is able to swim down to Erehwon.

As a result of Bond's actions, the underwater base starts flooding, and he chases after Our Villain, who beats him to a high-speed elevator shaft in the oil rig, the only way to safety. Bond's extraction plan is to use a Skyhook recovery system to escape, but he releases the helium-filled balloon in the elevator shaft. The extra-long tether (designed for the high seas outside) gets caught up in the mechanics, and Bond is pulled up the shaft. He is able to cut himself free and jump onto the elevator as the entire thing jams up. Our Villain climbs out to confront him and the two fight atop the elevator car as the shaft steadily floods.

Our Villain overpowers Bond momentarily, and takes the opportunity to leap onto the elevator couterweight directly opposite them before throwing a grenade at Bond. It is filled with a weaponised anaesthetic gas that stuns Bond, but he is able to throw it into the open elevator car before he succumbs to it. Weakened by the gas, he is preparing to throw a conventional grenade, but lets it fall into the elevator car. Our Villain thinks he's won, but Bond's grenade goes off, blowing the bottom of the elevator car into nothingness. Now freed of the weight of the car, the counterweight plunges back down the shaft, dragging Our Villain into the icy water below.

Now robbed of his one escape from Erehwon, a weakened Bond is able to get out of the elevator shaft where he finds Our Villain's personal submarine. And not just any submarine, but an old Soviet Akula-class monster. Bond is able to disengage the submarine from the upper levels of the oil rig and performs an emergency surface manoeuvre, which expels all the water from the submarine's ballast tanks at once. The submarine surfaces rapidly; so rapidly that it would normally leap out of the water like a dolphin when it surfaces. This being Antactica, however, there is a sheet of ice between Bond and the outside world. It offers little resistance to the Akula, bursting through the ice sheet before coming to land in the icy water, with the threat posed by Quantum finally over.

STUFF

27 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): A Ferrari California that Bond uses as a part of his "Sandy Bizet, fashion buyer" (mentioned in a deleted scene of CASINO ROYALE) cover. It is destroyed almost straight away in a very creative manner.

28 Gadget 1: A weaponsied form of anaesthetic gas, developed by the good folks in the Soviet bioweapons program. Originally intended for Soviet special forces to incapacitate victims and render them unconscious within two minutes of exposure, nearly thirty years of dormancy have made the gas chemically unstable and toxic. Worse, it varies from batch to batch; some will have no effect, others will cause an irreversible coma and an even more irreversible death and there is no way to tell what will happen until someone is exposed to it. It comes in a convenient pressurised grenade form and deploys in a thick, heavy cloud of yellowish smoke. When used in close quarters, it can often choke its victims before they are unconscious. It is nullified by the chemical element barium, and its anaesthetic properties/toxicity drop off exponentially the longer it is active.
29 Gadget 2: An explosive Quantum pin used only when blowing oneself up; is easily triggered by a shot to the heart, if worn on the lapel or as a brooch.

PRODUCTION

30 Director: Doug Liman
31 Music By: Patrick Doyle

32 Themetune Sung By: Grace Jones
33 Themetune Written By: David Arnold, lyrics by Don Black

34 Title Sequence Description:

I deliberately suggested a Ferrari and destroyed it almost straight away because I can't stand Ferrari. They've evil.

[terminus]

I'm still violently opposed to having yet another trainee Double-Oh on our hands. We've simply done it too often, and we either kill them off or injure them straight away. The problem is that this makes Bond look absolutely invoncible because he's survived for so long. At least one young Double-Oh should survive for more than one assignment, because right now it just cheapens the entire concept.

North survives the mission and inherits the 007 mantle in the treatment - and, to be fair, we've only actually killed off one Double Oh. Goodnight made two appearances (one as a trainee, one as a full Double-Oh) prior to her injuries. And, obviously, North survives.

27 Bond's Car (inc. car gadgets): A Ferrari California that Bond uses as a part of his "Sandy Bizet, fashion buyer" (mentioned in a deleted scene of CASINO ROYALE) cover. It is destroyed almost straight away in a very creative manner.

The car - and the Sandy Bizet identity could, more than likely, fit into the Argentina/Chile segments that I'm pulling together in my head to add to the treatment.

Now - that's pretty much all of the fields filled in, with the exception of the title sequence description and the confirmation that Lucia is the third girl.

[tdalton]

OK, a rundown of what I was thinking for the MORPHotel scene. First off, I know that it's rather lengthy, and I know that the overly detailed sequences have been frowned upon at this point, but I'm just putting down how I see the scene going down, and we can pick and choose what to use from it.

Having already checked in and changed into very fine formal wear, Bond escorts Goodnight to the hotel's upscale dining room, where they have a seat at a table in the middle of the very large establishment. The two dine over grilled sole and red wine (a call back to their meal in Canberra during "Choice of Weapons"), catching up primarily on what Goodnight had been up to in the time since her injury. She tells him about the work she does as the section chief for MI6, and she tries to squeeze whatever information she can out of him regarding Quantum, but he's reluctant to give anything up, mostly because he's hiding the fact that they are there to set a trap for Quinn.

As they're talking, Bond suddenly sees a look of absolute horror on Goodnight's face. "It's him," she says. Bond turns and sees a rather tall, blonde man, dressed in a rather sharp suit (but one he doesn't look at home in), his eyes hidden behind a pair of sunglasses. Beside him is Quinn, her face horribly scarred from Bond's encounter with her in St. Petersburg not too long ago. Both Quinn and Jonas Black are getting stares from quite a few of the diners as they rather ominously descend down the staircase and into the dining area. They approach the table that Bond and Goodnight are sitting at, grabbing two unoccupied seats from a nearby table, with Jonas staring down the couple sitting at the table when they assert that the chairs were being used. They sit down at the table with Bond and Goodnight, brandishing pistols underneath the table. Quinn's is pointed at Bond, Black's at Goodnight.

"I don't suppose you know why we're here?" Jonas asks, removing his sunglasses so that he can look directly into Goodnight's eyes. The emptiness she sees in him sends chills up her spine, heightened by the fact that she sees no escape.

"It's always nice to see you again, Quinn," Bond says sarcastically. "Did you get some work done on your face?" Her response is to jam the muzzle of her pistol into his thigh.

What follows is an intense standoff between the four. Jonas reminds Goodnight of exactly why he is there, to pay her back for the loss of his wife. He thanks Bond for using her as bait for the trap, which now doesn't seem to be going in Bond's favor. Goodnight shoots him a look of dismay and hurt his way, which he responds to with a look of regret.

Quinn then lays out her grievances with Bond, detailing the death of Marcus for him in gruesome detail, as well as how much surgery was needed to save her life after he left her for dead in St. Petersburg. Sensing that the end is growing near, Bond retrieves a gadget from his pocket [INSERT WHATEVER GADGET HERE], which he uses to cause a distraction, giving him and Goodnight enough time to bolt for the exit of the dining hall.

They duck around a corner, and Bond reaches for the pistol in his ankle holster. He hands it to Goodnight. "I'm sorry for not telling you," he says. "I'll explain later."

Both Goodnight and Bond exchange fire with Quinn and Jonas through the doors of the dining hall before they begin to retreat through the hotel to the dock, where they plan to take the hotel's water taxi back to the shore. They exchange fire through the halls and open areas of the hotel as they make their way to the dock. Once they reach the outside, they see the water taxi on fire at the end of the dock.

Quinn and Jonas catch up with them, and now have them cornered on the long, narrow stretch of dock that offers no cover for either Bond or Goodnight. "There's nowhere for you to go now," Jonas calls out to them, staring at Goodnight.

Bond remarks to his assailants that they're all as good as dead, that as soon as one trigger is pulled the remaining three will meet identical fates. "You didn't think we'd crash the party without a backup plan, did you?" Quinn asks, annoyed at this point that he would think so lowly of her. She pulls a small electronic device from her pocket, her finger resting on a button in the middle of the device.

Bond reaches for his pocket, pulling out an electronic device of his own, a digital audio recorder. "I came prepared, too," he says, pressing the play button. As the audio plays, Quinn heres a familiar voice speaking to Bond, detailing her deteriorating grip on her sanity and the fact that her mission of revenge against Bond had made her a liability towards Quantum's other projects. Using the split second that Quinn loses her focus on Bond, he pulls the trigger, hitting her in the arm, rendering it useless, and also causing her to drop the electronic device. As a result, Jonas pulls the trigger, hitting Goodnight in the shoulder, sending her crashing to the floor. Quinn recovers, standing back up and re-training her pistol on Bond. "Go inside and radio for the boat," she orders Jonas. Jonas leaves to go inside to follow his orders.

Quinn, realizing that she is now in the same position she had just been in moments ago, just minus to gunmen, decides to be proactive. She pulls the trigger of her gun, hoping to hit Bond before he has a chance to get a shot off. Her gun jams. Bond fires, hitting her in the shoulder, causing her to fall to the floor and the gun to fall into the water. She lays on the ground, unarmed, and facing certain death. Bond stands over her, his pistol trained on her. "Now that you know your bosses sold you out, maybe you wouldn't mind returning the favor. What is Quantum planning?" Bond asks.

"I hate you," she says.

"Don't worry, the feeling's mutual," Bond replies.

"Operation: Shatterhand," she says. "If you look into it, which I hope you do, it will mean certain death."

"Thank you," Bond says, pulling the trigger, and eliminating Quinn.

He turns and sees that Goodnight is sitting up, blood streaming from the wound on her shoulder. "I hope this was worth it," she says. As he helps her to her feet, we see in the distance Jonas Black boarding a boat to make an escape from the hotel.

Edited by tdalton, 11 November 2010 - 03:22 AM.

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It's a decent set-up, definitely something that can be incorporated to a great extent - though I think the chase sequence needs to be extended from the hotel and onto the mainland, using the solar powered yacht to get there.

I think the dialogue at the end might need rejigged and swapped around slightly. But, other than that, the scene seems pretty solid.

[Captain Tightpants]

North survives the mission and inherits the 007 mantle in the treatment - and, to be fair, we've only actually killed off one Double Oh. Goodnight made two appearances (one as a trainee, one as a full Double-Oh) prior to her injuries. And, obviously, North survives.

Wait, what? Why? What happens when we clear the special run of Connery-Brosnan era profroma? Are we going to resume following the adventures of North, the new Double-Oh seven?

If so, count me out.

[coco1997]

Is it possible to work Mr. Blofeld's exploding Quantum pin idea into the action scene with Quinn?

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Wait, what? Why? What happens when we clear the special run of Connery-Brosnan era profroma? Are we going to resume following the adventures of North, the new Double-Oh seven?

If so, count me out.

It's one of two possible options that I was going to propose - the other option would be that we reboot the Bond universe on our own. Doing for our own Bond (played by a new actor, set in the present day) what they did for Daniel Craig in 2006.

Is it possible to work Mr. Blofeld's exploding Quantum pin idea into the action scene with Quinn?

I'm sure it is.

Also - have been discussing the locations with coco1997 and have decided that if we're using a South American location between Amsterdam and the second Rebirth Island segment, it might make sense to move the Guatemala location somewhere else. And, given I submitted Guatemala, I've agreed to move the location to somewhere more in keeping with what coco1997 originally envisaged.

Thus - the locations will proceed as thus:

'Somewhere In The Arabian Sea' - Rebirth Island - London - Mumbai - Rebirth Island - Argentina/Chile (exact location undecided) - Amsterdam - Antarctica - (Epilogues)

[coco1997]

Re: The undecided South American location--Peru was planned as a locale in "QoS" but got canned I believe due to untimely weather conditions. It might be a nice tip of the hat to set that part of the movie there.

Also, what years are you thinking about setting the five anthology UBs in, terminus?

[terminus]

In the first 'gap year' of the given actor, so:

Connery - 1966
Lazenby - 1970
Moore - 1975
Dalton - 1988
Brosnan - 1996

[coco1997]

In the first 'gap year' of the given actor, so:

Connery - 1966
Lazenby - 1970
Moore - 1975
Dalton - 1988
Brosnan - 1996

Hmmm. The first three look make enough sense, but I think it would be more interesting to set the films for Dalton and Brosnan in the interim following each actor's last film as Bond--1990-1994 for Dalton and 2003-2005 for Brosnan. With Dalton, we could even connect the story to "LTK" with Bond earning his Double-0 status back.

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That's obviously something to consider!

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Here's a revised outline - including tdalton's sequence for Mumbai (which I've adapted to extend and merge) and the Ferrari/Sandy Bizet identity as well as the extra South American location. I've moved Jonas' death to South America - and any suggestions on how this could be done, are welcomed.

If we're going for the full reboot after we've done the anthology then the post-credits scene could be redundant - or better used moved earlier in the film, suggesting that the current holder of 'Mr White' identity is planning everything to bring down the current Head of Quantum from the inside in order to better put himself into a position of power.

That said - we need to figure out exactly how the finale with Lucia works. I know coco1997 has a few ideas, involving the possibility that we glimpse Bond and Lucia in Jamaica as well as (or in contrast to) Paris.

And I need to get Felix in there somewhere - even if its only on a communication screen. coco1997 also suggested that it might be an idea for North to be the one who kills Jonas - which would see the junior agent joining Bond in South America. How do we feel about that?

• Somewhere In The Arabian Sea
  
  Bond must infiltrate the hidden coastal hangar of a fleet of three machine-gun equipped flying boats in order to blow them up. However, the soldiers assigned to the hangar discover Bond and the explosives and plan to move the flying boats out. Luckily, not all of the explosives have been discovered - one of the flying boats goes up in a fireball and Bond escapes, having to climb onto another of the flying boats which is leaving the hangar to get out.
  
  Intercut with this, we see the attack on Bond's yacht in the Seychelles from the end of 'The Hildebrand Rarity' - with Yelena being killed in the attack, Bond escapes by the skin of his teeth using diving equipment and hiding in the sinking hulk of the yacht.
  
• Rebirth Island
  
  A joint United Nations/Corporate project to clean-up the biological weapons spillage on Rebirth Island is going ahead under the supervision of Scotsman, Quentin Moray, who walks with leg braces due to having polio as a child. He's a renowned philanthropist, but the worlds intelligence and military communities obviously have their concerns about the project - and have assigned observers. One of these is Canada Juarez, an independant observer for the UN of Italian heritage, who it is revealed has commenced a sexual relationship with Moray himself.
  
• London
  
  M is warned that there will be a direct assault on his family home - and orders his family to be evacuated in a motorcade to a safe location outside the city. Bond is not present, but a candidate for Double-Oh status, Alec North, is - alongside a couple of other bodyguards. The motorcade is attacked in the streets of the city - although M's daughter escapes unscathed, his wife is killed and the survivors of the motorcade pinned down. With two of the bodyguards quickly taken out - it is up to M and North to take the battle to the attackers, led by Nathan Hall - a former Double Oh (M's protege when he was a Double-Oh) who has defected to Quantum, simply because the money was good. M stands off against Hall - whilst North handles the others - and the elder man is forced to take down his former protege, pained to do so but given no other choice.
  
  The following day - Bond has returned from his mission in Guatemala and learns about the attack on the motorcade. Bond tries to offer his superior some words of comfort. Bond: "You know, your predecessor once told me that it would be a very cold man who wanted revenge for the death of someone he loved." M: "My predecessor was a very wise woman."
  
  Bond recieves a message to meet a contact in the city - the meeting turns out to be on a crowded underground car with a man with slicked back black hair and an impeccably tailored suit, not the person that Bond thought it would be with though he's assured his female contact is safe and unharmed.
  
  The man tells Bond that they have a mutual friend - Quinn. The man works for Quantum - Quinn has become a liability due to her desire for revenge on Bond and they're willing to sell her out. He tells Bond that Quinn is planning to pursue Mary Goodnight - as the underground train reaches the next station, Bond asks the mans name. The man says his name is 'Mr White' before he steps out into the crowded platform -
  
  Bond pursues, but the man has vanished into the crowds of travellers at Waterloo Station. We see him watching Bond as Bond gives up the chase.
  
• Mumbai
  
  Bond arrives in Mumbai, ostensibly just to investigate a lead but covertly to protect Goodnight, now the Head of Station for Station IM. He keeps the threat on her life from Goodnight - and the pair refresh their relationship. Goodnight doesn't hold any grudges against Bond for her injuries in St. Petersburg - she understood the dangers when she accepted a position in the Double-Oh section, thus placing her as a direct contrast to Quinn. To try and bring Quinn out of the woodwork, he needs to make Goodnight as visible as possible - and thus he arranges for them to attend a casino on the luxurious MORPHOTEL which has been docked off the Mumbai coastline.
  
  Having won thousands in the casino, checked into a room at the hotel itself and changed into very fine formal wear, Bond escorts Goodnight to the hotel's upscale dining room, where they have a seat at a table in the middle of the very large establishment. The two dine over grilled sole and red wine (a call back to their meal in Canberra during "Choice of Weapons"), catching up primarily on what Goodnight had been up to in the time since her injury. She tells him about the work she does as the section chief for MI6, and she tries to squeeze whatever information she can out of him regarding Quantum, but he's reluctant to give anything up, mostly because he's hiding the fact that they are there to set a trap for Quinn.
  
  As they're talking, Bond suddenly sees a look of absolute horror on Goodnight's face. "It's him," she says. Bond turns and sees a rather tall, blonde man, dressed in a rather sharp suit (but one he doesn't look at home in), his eyes hidden behind a pair of sunglasses. Beside him is Quinn, her face horribly scarred from Bond's encounter with her in St. Petersburg not too long ago. Both Quinn and Jonas Black are getting stares from quite a few of the diners as they rather ominously descend down the staircase and into the dining area. They approach the table that Bond and Goodnight are sitting at, grabbing two unoccupied seats from a nearby table, with Jonas staring down the couple sitting at the table when they assert that the chairs were being used. They sit down at the table with Bond and Goodnight, brandishing pistols underneath the table. Quinn's is pointed at Bond, Black's at Goodnight.
  
  "I don't suppose you know why we're here?" Jonas asks, removing his sunglasses so that he can look directly into Goodnight's eyes. The emptiness she sees in him sends chills up her spine, heightened by the fact that she sees no escape.
  
  "It's always nice to see you, Quinn," Bond says sarcastically. "Did you get some work done?" Her response is to jam the muzzle of her pistol into his thigh.
  
  What follows is an intense standoff between the four. Jonas reminds Goodnight of exactly why he is there, to pay her back for the loss of his wife. He thanks Bond for using her as bait for the trap, which now doesn't seem to be going in Bond's favor. Goodnight shoots him a look of dismay and hurt his way, which he responds to with a look of regret.
  
  Quinn then lays out her grievances with Bond, detailing the death of Marcus for him in gruesome detail, as well as how much surgery was needed to save her life after he left her for dead in St. Petersburg. Sensing that the end is growing near, Bond uses his wits to cause a distraction - something as simple as knocking a bottle of wine onto the sommelier providing it - and gives him and Goodnight enough time to bolt for the exit of the dining hall.
  
  They duck around a corner, and Bond reaches for the pistol in his ankle holster. He hands it to Goodnight. "I'm sorry for not telling you," he says. "I'll explain later."
  
  Both Goodnight and Bond exchange fire with Quinn and Jonas through the doors of the dining hall before they begin to retreat through the hotel to the dock, where they plan to take the hotel's water taxi back to the shore. They exchange fire through the halls and open areas of the hotel as they make their way to the dock. Once they reach the outside, they see the water taxi on fire at the end of the dock.
  
  Quinn and Jonas are close to catching up with them, and now have them cornered on the long, narrow stretch of dock that offers no cover for either Bond or Goodnight. "There's nowhere for you to go now," Jonas calls out to them, staring at Goodnight. But Bond notices a Pontoon Solar-Powered Party Boat berthed nearby - pushes the party-goers boarding the boat out of the way and pulls Goodnight onto it.
  
  He revs the engine and the boat speeds away from the morphotel, leaving Quinn and Jonas on the dock - apparantly defeated. Until a speedboat comes level with the party boat. Quinn at the helm of the speedboat, Jonas trying to blast the party boat out of the water with a bazooka.
  
  "You didn't think we'd crash the party without a backup plan, did you?" Quinn asks as the two boats draw close for a moment. Then they part - and the two boats get lost amidst the hustle and bustle of the port. Bond and Goodnight merge into the pedestrians and shopowners, they seperate - with Jonas choosing to pursue Goodnight and Quinn pursuing Bond. However, at some point, the tables are turned - and the hunted becomes the hunter, with Bond pursuing Quinn through the streets and allys of Mumbai, eventually following her onto a building site - for a luxury hotel.
  
  Bond crashes through the building site - charging after the more agile Quinn. Eventually he catches up with her, and after a knife fight on a high rise scaffolding, she falls - landing on several bags of cement. Bond swings down on a chain, lands beside his foe and discovers she's injured - but alive. She tries to stand and escape - but she's got a compound fracture of the fibula or femur, is bleeding profusely and makes it barely a handful of metres before collapsing to the floor.
  
  Bond watches her attempt at escape with amusement, reaches for his pocket as he escapes, pulling out an electronic device of his own, a digital audio recorder. "I came prepared, too," he says, pressing the play button. As the audio plays, Quinn hears a voice familiar to us speaking to Bond - it's 'Mr White' from the meeting on the London Underground. Bond recorded the entire conversation!
  
  Quinn, realising that she has been beaten, decides to be proactive - she pulls her gun out, fires it at Bond, but her gun jams and Bond returns fire, hitting her in the hand. More pain - more blood. She lays on the ground, now unarmed and facing certain death. Bond stands over her, showing little care for her injuries, his gun continuing to be trained on her.
  
  "Now that you know your bosses sold you out, maybe you wouldn't mind returning the favor. What is Quantum planning?" Bond asks.
  
  "Operation: Shatterhand," she says. "If you look into it, which I hope you do, it will mean certain death."
  
  "I hate you," she says.
  
  "Don't worry, the feeling's mutual," Bond replies, Bond says, pulling the trigger, and eliminating Quinn.
  
  He turns and sees that Goodnight has arrived, battered, bruised and bloody. "Jonas got away," she says. Then looks down at Quinn's dead body - and regards Bond: "I hope this was worth it." she says.
  
• Rebirth Island
  
  At which point we learn that Operation: Shatterhand is the name of the operation that Quentin Moray is running on Rebirth Island to clean up the toxins. He's using the operation to covertly smuggle cannisters of biological weapons off the island to an unknown location - and this is done, in part, with the assistance of Canada Juarez who, it is revealed (though it was suggested earlier) is actually working for Quantum too.
  
  (There is more information here - the project is shut down, but neither Canada or Moray are uncovered as yet. Bond doesn't trust Moray so decides to keep an eye on him.)
  
• Argentina/Chile
  
  Bond pursues Moray to South America - he ends up having to use his secret identity of 'Sandy Bizet, fashion buyer' and drive the Ferrari California. There is a car chase - this may be Jonas who has followed Bond to South America via Uzbekistan. Bond fights Jonas - who is vengeful against Bond for killing Quinn. Eventually Bond connects Moray to flights from a local airport headed for Antarctica but he's unable to figure out what the flights are carrying - though he learns that the flights are legitimate flights to environment and fauna observation stations. He still doesn't trust Moray - and, before he can learn more, must follow the billionaire to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
  
• Amsterdam
  
  Bond trails Moray to Amsterdam where he is teamed with Dutch operative, Sophie. Trailing Moray through the city, the two operatives observe Moray at a meeting between Quantum members in a museum (using those self-guided tour headsets to communicate - the smuggling of the biological weapons from Rebirth Island to 'Erewhon' is confirmed at this point - the flights to the observation stations are confirmed as cover for the bio-weapons smuggling), which quickly goes awry when Bond intervenes. Tourists scatter and security guards panic as bullets perforate a number of Rembrandts and Vermeers. The confrontation spills out onto the street and becomes a chase, first on foot through the winding streets, then on speedboats through the canals, finally culminating in a stand-off in the harbour, where oil spills are set alight and the battleground becomes a sea of fire.
  
  Moray is killed - but he dies clutching a picture. Bond pulls the picture from Moray's hand and discovers that it is a picture of himself and Canada Juarez. Bond makes connections -
  
• Italy
  
  And manages to stop Canada just as she is about to detonate a biological weaponry device in the centre of St Peters Square. Bond talks her out of it, explaining that Moray is dead - but suggesting that Quantum betrayed him and left him to die. He encourages her to seek vengeance on the organisation - and forces the location of 'Erewhon' out of her.
  
• The Antarctic
  
  Everything has come down to this. And as you'd expect, it's not going to be easy. Quantum's undersea base - known as "Erehwon" ("nowhere" spelt backwards) - is located near King George Island, in the Shrieking Sixties - the space between Antarctica and Tierra del Fuego. High winds, stormy seas and low temperatures make traditional forms of approach impractical, and Quantum have a sophisticated radar/sonar system that means vehicles will be unable to get near the base without them knowing about it. There is only one option: a stratospheric parachute jump.
  
  Bond must ride a specially-designed balloon gondola to the very edge of space before leaping out from over 100,000 feet above the earth's surface. He will be in freefall for over five minutes as he hits speeds of close to 1000km/h, using the curvature of the earth to slingshot himself over King George Island. To complicate matters, he only has one shot at hitting his target - if he misses, he is as good as dead. In order to be on target, he must use a drouge, a small, perforated parachute that is designed to keep him stable. However, the drouge does not deploy properly and Bond starts drifting off-course. He must collapse the drouge (collapsing a parachute is about the most dangerous thing you can do in a parachute jump) and risk going into a flat spin at 200rpm (which would be fatal) to make sure he lands on-target. He successfully lands over King George Island, and is able to swim down to Erehwon.
  
  As a result of Bond's actions, the underwater base starts flooding, and he chases after a man revealed to be the Head of Quantum - Hjalmar Kohl (or whatever we end up calling him). Kohl is an older man but still a viable physical threat - he's deceptively strong. Kohl beats him to a high-speed elevator shaft in the oil rig, the only way to safety. Bond's extraction plan is to use a Skyhook recovery system to escape, but he releases the helium-filled balloon in the elevator shaft. The extra-long tether (designed for the high seas outside) gets caught up in the mechanics, and Bond is pulled up the shaft. He is able to cut himself free and jump onto the elevator as the entire thing jams up. Our Villain climbs out to confront him and the two fight atop the elevator car as the shaft steadily floods.
  
  Kohl overpowers Bond momentarily, and takes the opportunity to leap onto the elevator couterweight directly opposite them before throwing a grenade at Bond. It is filled with a weaponised anaesthetic gas that stuns Bond, but he is able to throw it into the open elevator car before he succumbs to it. Weakened by the gas, he is preparing to throw a conventional grenade, but lets it fall into the elevator car. Our Villain thinks he's won, but Bond's grenade goes off, blowing the bottom of the elevator car into nothingness. Now freed of the weight of the car, the counterweight plunges back down the shaft, dragging Our Villain into the icy water below.
  
  Now robbed of his one escape from Erehwon, a weakened Bond is able to get out of the elevator shaft where he finds Our Villain's personal submarine. And not just any submarine, but an old Soviet Akula-class monster. Bond is able to disengage the submarine from the upper levels of the oil rig and performs an emergency surface manoeuvre, which expels all the water from the submarine's ballast tanks at once. The submarine surfaces rapidly; so rapidly that it would normally leap out of the water like a dolphin when it surfaces. This being Antactica, however, there is a sheet of ice between Bond and the outside world. It offers little resistance to the Akula, bursting through the ice sheet before coming to land in the icy water, with the threat posed by Quantum finally over.
  
  Bond climbs out of the Akula and collapses to tis deck - a helicopter piloted by North coming in to land on the ice nearby.
  
• Switzerland
  
  Bond recuperates from his ordeals and borderline hypothermia in a clinic in Switzerland where he has the chance to consider what he will do now that Quantum has been beaten. He opens an e-mail program on his laptop -
  
• Paris
  
  And meets Lucia at the base of the Eiffel Tower - no longer willing to propose, he tells her everything and explains that he has given that life up and wishes to spend it with her. She, after a moments hesitation, agrees.
  
• London
  
  M brings the three trainee Double-Oh operatives before him - 009 and 006 are given to a man and a woman respectively with North, upon the suggestion of Bond himself, being the recipient of the 007 designation. The credits roll.
  
  

  THE END OF
  'SHATTERHAND'
  
  BUT
  
  007 WILL RETURN

  
  And then, after the credits have rolled -
  
• Location Unknown
  
  The new holder of the 'Mr White' designation is shown to be alive and well - sitting behind a desk in a city (exact city to be confirmed). He explains that although 'Number One' has been killed, it is far from the end for Quantum.

[Mr. Blofeld]

What happened to my "explosive Quantum pin" idea?

[Captain Tightpants]

If you're looking for a location for the PTS, the I'd suggest The Greek Ship, a Greek frigate that ran agroud off the coast of Iran nearly fifty years ago and simply hasn't been removed.

Also, with the epilogue, I think the 007 number should be retired with Bond's retirement. It's something they do in sports a lot - whe Wayne Gretzky retired from ice hockey, the NHL retired the number as a show of respect (sometimes teams retire a player's number, but Gretzky is the only player whose number as been retired league-wide). No hockey player may carry his number, 99. Likewise, when Dale Earnhardt was killed during the 2001 Daytona 500, his number was unofficially retired (though his son does occasionally carry it at special events). So I'm thinking that when Bond retires from active duty, MI6 retire the 007 code number because there is no way anyone could live up to his legacy.

[terminus]

What happened to my "explosive Quantum pin" idea?

I'm struggling to get it - like Felix - into the sequences we have to work with. I'll have a rethink and see what I can do.

If you're looking for a location for the PTS, the I'd suggest The Greek Ship, a Greek frigate that ran agroud off the coast of Iran nearly fifty years ago and simply hasn't been removed.

I think saying 'Somewhere In The Arabian Sea' is as specific as we need to make it - it doesn't specify a given country but allows it to be an island belonging to any one of a number of possible countries.

Also, with the epilogue, I think the 007 number should be retired with Bond's retirement. It's something they do in sports a lot - whe Wayne Gretzky retired from ice hockey, the NHL retired the number as a show of respect (sometimes teams retire a player's number, but Gretzky is the only player whose number as been retired league-wide). No hockey player may carry his number, 99. Likewise, when Dale Earnhardt was killed during the 2001 Daytona 500, his number was unofficially retired (though his son does occasionally carry it at special events). So I'm thinking that when Bond retires from active duty, MI6 retire the 007 code number because there is no way anyone could live up to his legacy.

Okay - this would make the character of Alec North largely redundant in the treatment. But, given he doesn't do much at all - this would be no loss and his removal rather easily done. It would also mean we'd decrease the surfeit of characters that appear in the movie for brief periods - his role in the London sequence (as it's really his only appearance) could be easily covered by making the character a Mitchell level supernumeray of M's.

[Captain Tightpants]

I think saying 'Somewhere In The Arabian Sea' is as specific as we need to make it - it doesn't specify a given country but allows it to be an island belonging to any one of a number of possible countries.

I'm just thinking in terms of the sequence - have the flying boat squadron going over the Greek Ship.

Okay - this would make the character of Alec North largely redundant in the treatment. But, given he doesn't do much at all - this would be no loss and his removal rather easily done. It would also mean we'd decrease the surfeit of characters that appear in the movie for brief periods - his role in the London sequence (as it's really his only appearance) could be easily covered by making the character a Mitchell level supernumeray of M's.

I like that better. I don't know who created North, but when I was re-reading your outline, I couldn't work out who he was. Bond is the best Double-Oh agent MI6 have, so it seemed a little weird to be passing his code number on to a complete unknown. Retiring his number with him seems like a more-befitting way of doing things. It also opens up a possible future where Bond is recalled to active service.

[Mr. Blofeld]

What happened to my "explosive Quantum pin" idea?

I'm struggling to get it - like Felix - into the sequences we have to work with. I'll have a rethink and see what I can do.

It's right there in the description; she would goad Bond into shooting her, hoping to take him with her. It's a much more immediate catharsis for revenge than hoping Project Shatterhand will lead him to his death...

I don't know who created North, but when I was re-reading your outline, I couldn't work out who he was.

I'm pretty sure that was terminus's own idea, with implementation from tdalton; there, now you know.

[Captain Tightpants]

So, I've got a killer idea for the historic UB series ... it would just have to wait for the Age of Moore, I think. It would be suitably over-the-top and silly.

[coco1997]

I'm struggling to get it - like Felix - into the sequences we have to work with. I'll have a rethink and see what I can do.

I think it's quite easy. Somehow Quinn goads Bond into shooting her, and he winds up shooting her pin which causes a huge explosion.

I think saying 'Somewhere In The Arabian Sea' is as specific as we need to make it - it doesn't specify a given country but allows it to be an island belonging to any one of a number of possible countries.

I might suggest that if you feel the idea of placing Bond in Iran would come across as 'Bond vs. Islam', then we could alleviate this by having him team up with an Iranian/generically Middle Eastern agent, who would, of course, get killed, forcing Bond to take on the flying boat fleet by himself. If not, we could go in an entirely different direction and place the PTS in a South Asian country, such as Cambodia.

Okay - this would make the character of Alec North largely redundant in the treatment. But, given he doesn't do much at all - this would be no loss and his removal rather easily done. It would also mean we'd decrease the surfeit of characters that appear in the movie for brief periods - his role in the London sequence (as it's really his only appearance) could be easily covered by making the character a Mitchell level supernumeray of M's.

With the character of North rescinded, maybe you could supplant that suggestion with a title sequence description?

Also--I have another idea for the Canada character. It might complicate things, and if that's the case, then forget it. My original idea for Placido's character, having been inspired by her role in "The American", is that she would be a true love interest to 007, the kind of woman who actually convinces Bond to leave the Service and settle down--basically Vesper or Lucia. That doesn't really fit with things now, but since we're placing her Italy for her final scene, it would be interesting to have some sort of homage to Vesper, since Italy is where she met her demise. I'm not exactly sure what the homage should be, but I think it would be a very nice touch.

[terminus]

I'm just thinking in terms of the sequence - have the flying boat squadron going over the Greek Ship.

We only see one flying boat in action - the one that Bond eventually jumps onboard as it makes its escape and eventually comandeers. The other two are destroyed in the hangar by the explosives that Bond detonates - though maybe Bond's escape on the flying boat could be glimpsed by tourists on the Greek Ship at sunset. If Iran wasn't a dry country (I believe it is, correct me if I'm wrong) then we could have even stuck a tourist with a bottle of wine/beer doing a double-take as a bit more of a tip-of-the-hat to the Moore movies.

I like that better. I don't know who created North, but when I was re-reading your outline, I couldn't work out who he was. Bond is the best Double-Oh agent MI6 have, so it seemed a little weird to be passing his code number on to a complete unknown. Retiring his number with him seems like a more-befitting way of doing things. It also opens up a possible future where Bond is recalled to active service.

I admit the character would have been better had he been in at least one other movie - giving us time to meet him and build him up. I'm happy to delete the character - it makes sense in the content of the movie.

I'm pretty sure that was terminus's own idea, with implementation from tdalton; there, now you know.

That sounded so much like a kid ratting our another kid for being naughty in the classroom - no need to sound so gleeful in your announcement. I will admit that the character of North didn't come across as I had envisaged him, thus why I have ALREADY SAID that I would delete him from the proforma.

So, I've got a killer idea for the historic UB series ... it would just have to wait for the Age of Moore, I think. It would be suitably over-the-top and silly.

I've got a killer casting idea for the leading lady in the Ultimate Connery film - she's got the look and the voice to be a truly memorable Bond Girl Who Never Was.

I think it's quite easy. Somehow Quinn goads Bond into shooting her, and he winds up shooting her pin which causes a huge explosion.

It's certainly possible that it works something like that - will take a look and see if I can implement the gadget somewhere else, but if I can't, then we'll see about implementing it in the Mumbai building site fight.

I might suggest that if you feel the idea of placing Bond in Iran would come across as 'Bond vs. Islam', then we could alleviate this by having him team up with an Iranian/generically Middle Eastern agent, who would, of course, get killed, forcing Bond to take on the flying boat fleet by himself. If not, we could go in an entirely different direction and place the PTS in a South Asian country, such as Cambodia.

See my suggestion above for the usage of the wreck.

With the character of North rescinded, maybe you could supplant that suggestion with a title sequence description?

Maybe.

Also--I have another idea for the Canada character. It might complicate things, and if that's the case, then forget it. My original idea for Placido's character, having been inspired by her role in "The American", is that she would be a true love interest to 007, the kind of woman who actually convinces Bond to leave the Service and settle down--basically Vesper or Lucia. That doesn't really fit with things now, but since we're placing her Italy for her final scene, it would be interesting to have some sort of homage to Vesper, since Italy is where she met her demise. I'm not exactly sure what the homage should be, but I think it would be a very nice touch.

I'm not sure she could be given much more screentime than she has already been given - and having not seen 'The American', I've got nothing to judge her on. We can certainly implement some comparison to Vesper - perhaps when Bond confronts her, he says that she reminds him of Vesper. Maybe she's been courted to betray the United Nations by Moray in the same fashion that Vesper was by Quantum, with the threat of harm coming to her boyfriend.

We could always have her relent from detonating the bomb when Bond reveals he knows about the boyfriend and he reveals that she's safe. It would be a bit of a cathartic moment for Bond - he'd be metaphorically saving Vesper from her fate by saving someone who's been going through the same thing as she was.

[coco1997]

See my suggestion above for the usage of the wreck.

Ooh, cool idea. I must've missed that.

We can certainly implement some comparison to Vesper - perhaps when Bond confronts her, he says that she reminds him of Vesper. Maybe she's been courted to betray the United Nations by Moray in the same fashion that Vesper was by Quantum, with the threat of harm coming to her boyfriend.

We could always have her relent from detonating the bomb when Bond reveals he knows about the boyfriend and he reveals that she's safe. It would be a bit of a cathartic moment for Bond - he'd be metaphorically saving Vesper from her fate by saving someone who's been going through the same thing as she was.

Awesome--That's precisely the kind of homage I was picturing.

[coco1997]

I've had a few ideas regarding how to use Felix.

1) I had this vision of the Quantum Head declaring his intentions to use the bio-weapons to the world--and we'd see reactions from the intelligence agencies all over the world, including MI6, CIA, Mossad, etc. We could see a quick flash of Felix watching with concern from Langley or wherever he's stationed in South America.

2) If Bond is brought up to the 'edge of space' in some sort of craft, perhaps we could find a way to justify Felix piloting the ship, or at least having him on board? I'm thinking of the scene in "TND" wherein Wade helps Bond HALO jump out of the Army plane and into the South China Sea.

Also, I think the final showdown, right at the point when Bond causes Erewhon to start flooding, would be a perfect place to use the '007 Theme'.

[terminus]

I've had a few ideas regarding how to use Felix.

1) I had this vision of the Quantum Head declaring his intentions to use the bio-weapons to the world--and we'd see reactions from the intelligence agencies all over the world, including MI6, CIA, Mossad, etc. We could see a quick flash of Felix watching with concern from Langley or wherever he's stationed in South America.

2) If Bond is brought up to the 'edge of space' in some sort of craft, perhaps we could find a way to justify Felix piloting the ship, or at least having him on board? I'm thinking of the scene in "TND" wherein Wade helps Bond HALO jump out of the Army plane and into the South China Sea.

Also, I think the final showdown, right at the point when Bond causes Erewhon to start flooding, would be a perfect place to use the '007 Theme'.

1) I'm not sure posturing like that is entirely in keeping with Quantum - we've got Bond putting the pieces together and seeking out Canada and stopping her from setting off the bio-weapon in Rome, so that takes care of the villains declaration of intent.

2) I could definitely see that working - and I'll be writing Felix into the South America sequence too.

Good idea on the 007 theme

[Mr. Blofeld]

Could we change the name from Canada Juarez? I feel it sounds too contrived... either Canada Lee or Benita Juárez would be preferable, to me.

[terminus]

coco1997 borrowed the name from an article I once told him I had read years ago, when I lived in Dubai, in the local newspaper. It must have been about the time that Tomorrow Never Dies came out - and it was making fun of the Bond franchise, predicting a version of the next several decades. My memories of it are fuzzy - but the names of two of the girls they mentioned stuck with me: Canada Juarez and Fuente DeNight.

So that's where he got the name from.

It is up to coco1997 as to whether he changes the name of the character - it's not something I am going to make him change. That said, were the name to be changed, given that we've suggested the character is Italian, it might be an idea to give the character a more Italian sounding name than - Canada Lee.

[coco1997]

It is up to coco1997 as to whether he changes the name of the character - it's not something I am going to make him change. That said, were the name to be changed, given that we've suggested the character is Italian, it might be an idea to give the character a more Italian sounding name than - Canada Lee.

Keep the name but make her Spanish--Is that better?

[terminus]

We can certainly do that - though I had her as Italian as we already had a Spanish Bond girl in Lucia. If we don't mind two Spanish girls, I'm cool with it.

[coco1997]

Slightly off-topic--Are we still on track to begin the pro forma for Ultimate Connery on Monday?

[terminus]

I think so - will revise and repost the outline for Shatterhand tonight.