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Here's a revised version of the outline:

• 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. Bond wrestles with the pilot - tossing him out of the cockpit before wresting control of the plane for himself, leading a flyby of The Greek Ship that is seen by tourists observing the wreck.
  
  Intercut with this, we see -
  
• Somewhere In The South China Sea
  
  - smoke, covering everything. As it clears, we can finally make out, from a crane shot, Bond on the remains of his boat, cradling Yelena; she's dead. Another torpedo (it's revealed the first explosion was also a torpedo) comes racing through the waters to finish him off, and he has to abandon Yelena's body.
  
  Jumping back into the ocean, he starts swimming quickly, finally grabbing onto an outcrop of rocks. Suddenly, a gunner boat slices through the water, guns blaring. Bond dives back down, grabs onto the back of the boat, and kills the motor; then, he swings himself onto the boat and turns all the mens' guns against themselves.
  
  When they're all dead, another boat comes toward him, but he uses the first boat's guns to kill everyone on there, as well -- but not before getting clipped in the shoulder by a round.
  
  Now lying on the bottom of the boat, bloodied and stunned, Bond suddenly hears a ringing in his pocket; his waterproof phone is still on. He pulls it out; it's M:
  
  M: "Bond, what the hell is going on?"
  BOND: "I've -- we've -- been attacked."
  M: "What? Who by?
  
  Gunshots rattle out - another boat skims the hull with , but there's no time for that -- he tosses his phone into the water, grabs a breathing apparatus from under a bench on the boat and throws himself off the side of the boat.
  
  As he sinks to the depths, we transition through to -
  
  
  

  CB.n PRESENTS
  
  DANIEL CRAIG
  as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007
  
  in
  
  CBN MEMBERS'
  SHATTERHAND
  
  
  Violante Placido
  Katja Schurmann
  
  Paul Higgins
  Melanie Laurent
  Dolph Lundgren
  
  Natalia Paris
  Jason Isaacs
  
  Jeffrey Wright
  Emily Blunt
  Tom Hiddleston
  
  Yvonne Strahovski
  Max Brown
  
  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

  
  
• 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 one of M's senior bodyguards, Catesby, 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.
  
  The project is shut down and the area placed under NATO military observation. Bond suggests Moray could be involved with Quantum and gets permission from M to pursue him.
  
  
• Chile
  
  
  Bond flies into Santiago de Chile where he checks into the same hotel as Moray and arranges to meet Felix Leiter who agrees to help Bond. The pair visit a yacht club, travelling in the Ferrari California, using covers as fashion buyers - with Bond utilising his Sandy Bizet identity. At the yacht club, Bond manufactures a meeting with Moray which confirms his initial feeling that he doesn't trust the seemingly philanthropic billionaire - in the meeting we learn that Moray was struck down with polio as a child which caused him to need leg braces, he criticises the National Health Service and places his infirmity on their failings.
  
  Bond leaves, but Felix keeps an eye on Moray under the pretense of keeping the billionaire distracted. Bond sneaks back to the hotel and breaks into Moray's hotel room where he searches for clues. In the course of his search, he discovers papers that show cargoes have been coming in from Europe on planes contracted by Moray's charitable foundation, the cargoes have not left the airport but have then been loaded onto other planes - with flightpaths charted to take them to Antarctica. Bond finds this curious, unsatisfied with the explanation that they are supplies for independant environmental research posts.
  
  He scans the papers with his phone, e-mailing them to Moneypenny - and narrowly escapes discovery by Moray whom Felix has been unable to distract for enough time. He ducks back into his hotel room where he discovers that Jonas is waiting for him with the lights turned off - the pair fight and the windows of the room smash, wind whips round the room as Jonas claims he will kill Bond because Bond killed Quinn. Jonas found Quinn's corpse in Mumbai - and recovered a broach from it.
  
  During the fight, Jonas drops the broach - and ends up being thrown out of the window. Landing on top of - and decimating - the Ferrari California, which Felix has just parked outside of the hotel. Bond looks down on Jonas' broken body and finds the broach on the floor. He picks it up, considers it with a look of disgust, and tosses it out of the window -
  
  It turns out the broach is an elegantly disguised explosive device - and it detonates as it hits Jonas. He is conscious enough to register the broach hitting his chest, his eyes widen - and the Ferrari erupts in a massive fireball, casting the light of the fire across Felix's face - and the face of Bond several stories up.
  
  Felix finds Bond sitting in the shell of his hotel room and asks what happened: "A friend from Mumbai - always did have explosive taste in jewellery -"
  
  The following morning, the stunning receptionist that Bond sweet-talked when he checked in calls Bond and informs him that Moray has checked out of the hotel and chartered a car to the airport. He's leaving the country -
  
  
• 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 says she reminds him of someone he once loved - and says that he knows that Moray blackmailed her into cooperating with him and with Quantum by threatening the life of her boyfriend. He flashes her a photograph of a handsome Italian man and asks if that's her boyfriend. She says it is - and he says that he's safe in the custody of British Intelligence. 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.
  
  With the help of Felix on a military airbase in South America, 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 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 Catesby, the bodyguard from the attack on the motorcade, being the recipient of the 002 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.

[coco1997]

Great job, terminus. It really possesses that epic quality that I feel the final film of the Craig Era deserves. Here are just a few points:

* There are some minor inconsistencies I picked out. For instance, some of the credits are still from "THR" (Depeche Mode as the song singer instead of Grace Jones, Nolan writing and directing as opposed to Doug Liman, and Goldenthal scoring the film instead of Patrick Doyle). During the motorcade attack in London, M's bodyguard is referred to as both North and Catesby. Also, when Bond meets with M after the attack, it says that 007 has just returned from Guatemala.

* This might be a stretch, but would it be possible to show the MORPHotel in action, perhaps leaving one port and winding up at another by the time the boat chase between Bond/Goodnight and Quinn/Jonas ends? Part of the appeal of the MORPHotel to me is its mobility.

* The Chile sequence was very well done, and it's nice to see Bond and Felix together again. Perhaps as a nod to the whole 'Is Craig gay'/'Craig wants a gay Bond', you could have Bond and Felix working together and posing as 'life partners'? That would definitely provide some amusing interplay between the two agents.

* What happens to Sophie?

* Where does Bond get the picture of Canada's boyfriend from?

* Don't forget to mention the use of the '007 Theme' right as Bond causes the Villain's base to flood.

* One thing that sticks out after having re-read the whole thing is that it seems the Head of Quantum is being underused. After the final scene of 'THR', you don't seem him again until the big final action scene of 'SHATTERHAND'. I don't know if this was intentional or not, but I feel it would be more satisfying if we saw Kohl/Fey/etc. carrying out some nastiness behind the scenes throughout the film, just so we know who he is when Bond actually goes to confront him in the Antarctic.

* Is it possible to work in CT's idea of having M mention that the 007 designation is being retired?

* Did you decide to axe the idea of having Bond and Lucia on a beach together in Jamaica at the end? I still think it could be accomplished fairly easily.

* I don't know if this was already addressed--if it was, I apologize--but since it seems like we're doing a total reboot of Bond from the ground up following the upcoming anthology series, would it make sense to kill off the new Mr. White at the end so that Quantum is dead once and for all?

[terminus]

* There are some minor inconsistencies I picked out. For instance, some of the credits are still from "THR" (Depeche Mode as the song singer instead of Grace Jones, Nolan writing and directing as opposed to Doug Liman, and Goldenthal scoring the film instead of Patrick Doyle). During the motorcade attack in London, M's bodyguard is referred to as both North and Catesby. Also, when Bond meets with M after the attack, it says that 007 has just returned from Guatemala.

Bugger - must've forgotten to change the production details.

* This might be a stretch, but would it be possible to show the MORPHotel in action, perhaps leaving one port and winding up at another by the time the boat chase between Bond/Goodnight and Quinn/Jonas ends? Part of the appeal of the MORPHotel to me is its mobility.

It might be possible to have Bond go onboard the MORPHotel in Mumabi - and the chase actually occur elsewhere, with Bond and Goodnight having spent the evening in a room in the hotel. But it would be a limited number of locations that we'd move between, can't imagine the MORPHotel travelling that fast. A jaunt down the coast of India could put us in Sri Lanka though - so maybe we could have Bond meet Goodnight and go onboard the MORPHotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with the dinner fight scene and the eventual chase occuring the following afternoon in Mumbai, India?

* The Chile sequence was very well done, and it's nice to see Bond and Felix together again. Perhaps as a nod to the whole 'Is Craig gay'/'Craig wants a gay Bond', you could have Bond and Felix working together and posing as 'life partners'? That would definitely provide some amusing interplay between the two agents.

That could definitely be worked in.

* What happens to Sophie?

No idea. She'd pop up, help Bond during the Amsterdam sequence and then vanish. Any suggestions?

* Where does Bond get the picture of Canada's boyfriend from?

The same place he gets the information about him from - we could have the picture being on Bond's phone, messaged by Moneypenny or M, perhaps.

* Don't forget to mention the use of the '007 Theme' right as Bond causes the Villain's base to flood.

Whoops!

* One thing that sticks out after having re-read the whole thing is that it seems the Head of Quantum is being underused. After the final scene of 'THR', you don't seem him again until the big final action scene of 'SHATTERHAND'. I don't know if this was intentional or not, but I feel it would be more satisfying if we saw Kohl/Fey/etc. carrying out some nastiness behind the scenes throughout the film, just so we know who he is when Bond actually goes to confront him in the Antarctic.

I can't see how he would be able to be written in without detracting from the Quinn/Moray throughlines. He could be heard in the Amsterdam sequence, I suppose.

* Is it possible to work in CT's idea of having M mention that the 007 designation is being retired?

It's possible, I suppose.

* Did you decide to axe the idea of having Bond and Lucia on a beach together in Jamaica at the end? I still think it could be accomplished fairly easily.

It could be done - but I'm not sure that it would serve a point after the reunion in Paris. He says he wants to spend his life with her and she agrees - it would make the Jamaica scene relatively redundant.

* I don't know if this was already addressed--if it was, I apologize--but since it seems like we're doing a total reboot of Bond from the ground up following the upcoming anthology series, would it make sense to kill off the new Mr. White at the end so that Quantum is dead once and for all?

It's definitely a possibility - this could even be Catesby's second kill that earns him his Double-Oh status. However, I kept the scene because it leaves us room to return to the UB-Craigverse should we wish to. What would be preferred?

[coco1997]

A jaunt down the coast of India could put us in Sri Lanka though - so maybe we could have Bond meet Goodnight and go onboard the MORPHotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with the dinner fight scene and the eventual chase occuring the following afternoon in Mumbai, India?

Definitely. I'd like us to spend a little more time at the MORPHotel, showcasing its amenities not just as a casino/restaurant, but as a hotel and a cruise ship.

The same place he gets the information about him from - we could have the picture being on Bond's phone, messaged by Moneypenny or M, perhaps.

My fault. Must've missed that part.

It could be done - but I'm not sure that it would serve a point after the reunion in Paris. He says he wants to spend his life with her and she agrees - it would make the Jamaica scene relatively redundant.

Perhaps I'm imagining the sequence different than you are, but I was picturing the scene in Paris ending with us not knowing Lucia's decision as to whether to stay with Bond or not--and seeing them together in Jamaica would give us our answer. I don't know, I guess I just really love the image of Bond and his girlfriend/wife retiring together in Jamaica.

The decision to kill off White or not should be left up to the entire group.

Also, since Sophie de Winter was an invention of SamuelKevlar, perhaps he has some idea as to what should happen to her?

[Mr. Blofeld]

I know I sound like a broken record, but... what about that damned explosive pin?

Also, why does Moray need leg braces? It just seems like an ever worse Bond villain-crutch than the bleeding eye; I wanted him to seem physically threatening, besides -- brute strength gone to seed, like Blofeld in Thunderball.

[coco1997]

I know I sound like a broken record, but... what about that damned explosive pin?

Also, why does Moray need leg braces? It just seems like an ever worse Bond villain-crutch than the bleeding eye; I wanted him to seem physically threatening, besides -- brute strength gone to seed, like Blofeld in Thunderball.

Didn't you read the Chile sequence?

Also, I like the leg braces idea. It's been far too long since we've had a villain with a physical deformity (although I guess LeChiffre's bleeding eye counts).

[Mr. Blofeld]

Didn't you read the Chile sequence?

Ahhhh... sorry; was so focused on it being used for Quinn that I failed to consider it could be used for Jonas. Damn.

Also, I like the leg braces idea. It's been far too long since we've had a villain with a physical deformity (although I guess Le Chiffre's bleeding eye counts).

Indeed, it does... leg braces makes me think of FDR, although if the leg braces were a diversion to hide Moray's strength, I'd like it.

[terminus]

Definitely. I'd like us to spend a little more time at the MORPHotel, showcasing its amenities not just as a casino/restaurant, but as a hotel and a cruise ship.

I'll write it into a redraft.

Perhaps I'm imagining the sequence different than you are, but I was picturing the scene in Paris ending with us not knowing Lucia's decision as to whether to stay with Bond or not--and seeing them together in Jamaica would give us our answer. I don't know, I guess I just really love the image of Bond and his girlfriend/wife retiring together in Jamaica.

I'm still not convinced - tell you what, though, if you can write an outline of how you think the Paris/Jamaica scenes would work then I can see how you'd have it work. I still think the final scene with them should be the Paris scene - because it ties back to Kaleidoscope as it's where Bond was going to propose to her.

The decision to kill off White or not should be left up to the entire group.

Also, since Sophie de Winter was an invention of SamuelKevlar, perhaps he has some idea as to what should happen to her?

Agreed on the first count.

Mr Kevlar? Any thoughts?

I know I sound like a broken record, but... what about that damned explosive pin?

Also, why does Moray need leg braces? It just seems like an ever worse Bond villain-crutch than the bleeding eye; I wanted him to seem physically threatening, besides -- brute strength gone to seed, like Blofeld in Thunderball.

Yep - the explosive pin is in Chile. I just couldn't get it to work in the Mumbai sequence in my head - so we've got it in Chile instead with Jonas. I think physically threatening isn't necessarily precluded by the disability - there's a thing to be said for physical intimidation and, dare i say it, sheer presence. I've also not been picturing him with the actor that we've got cast as the character - which is odd, since I suggested him to you as a candidate - but instead been using Nicholas Gleaves, who I think has that presence and ability to intimdate I'm picturing Moray as having.

Indeed, it does... leg braces makes me think of FDR, although if the leg braces were a diversion to hide Moray's strength, I'd like it.

My frame of reference was actually Doctor Weaver (Laura Innes) from ER mixed with a dash of Doctor Fife (Michael Patrick Thornton) from Private Pratice.

[coco1997]

I was also thinking that, during the scene in which M bestows the new agents with their Double-0 designations, could we mention that Dalton's M is retiring? Perhaps after the attack on his family and the death of his wife, M has decided to retire to spend more time with his daughter. His last action as head of MI6 would be to regenerate the Double-0 section.

[terminus]

I was also thinking that, during the scene in which M bestows the new agents with their Double-0 designations, we can also mention that Dalton's M is retiring? Perhaps after the attack on his family and the death of his wife, M has decided to retire to spend more time with his daughter. His last action as head of MI6 would be to regenerate the Double-0 section.

I can see M turning to Tanner after he's comissioned the new Double-Oh division, rubbing his temples and going 'I'm getting too old for this -'

[Captain Tightpants]

I can see M turning to Tanner after he's comissioned the new Double-Oh division, rubbing his temples and going 'I'm getting too old for this -'

How about some sort of scene where M expresses uncertainty about appointing new Double-Ohs when he cannot be there to guide them through the early stages of their training?

[terminus]

I can see M turning to Tanner after he's comissioned the new Double-Oh division, rubbing his temples and going 'I'm getting too old for this -'

How about some sort of scene where M expresses uncertainty about appointing new Double-Ohs when he cannot be there to guide them through the early stages of their training?

In a movie where he's already said how good his predecessor was at her job, this would cast aspersions on his successor which is something I don't see him doing. If they've got the mettle to get appointed as Head of the Double Oh Section, then I think he'd trust them to be able to handle the training of the Double-Oh agents. Were the proposal to retire M (as well as Bond) at the end of the films proposed earlier, we could have set up his heir apparant appear in previous movies - and taking office at the end of this one.

[coco1997]

Since we don't yet have a title sequence description, how about something like "OHMSS" meets "GF" with key images from the previous seven Craig movies projected onto dancing nudes, double helixes, guns, etc.?

[Captain Tightpants]

In a movie where he's already said how good his predecessor was at her job, this would cast aspersions on his successor which is something I don't see him doing.

Maybe disappointment or self-doubt instead of uncertainty, then. A sort of "I wish I was here to see them through. I know how good they are, and they'll be fine agents. I should be there to see them become a credit to their country, but I cannot stand in their way" (though not these exact lines). I'm picturing it as the scene before the new recruits are vetted as Double-Ohs. Maybe a scene between Bond and M as they share one last drink in M's office before they retire. M would tell Bond his number is being retired with him as a sign of respect and perhaps admits that he was always uncertain about his ability to pick new recruits. I just think it would be nice to see a moment of vulnerability from M, something that shows he has a weakness somewhere. We've had a few agents - Hastings, Goodnight - kill or be injured of late, and so I think M privately questioning himself about it would be really good. Something like this:

"Sometimes, you can do everything right, and it still goes wrong for you. You'll be dead before you even have time to question it. Left for dead on the other side of the world; buried in a shallow, unmarked grave - if you're lucky enough to be buried. When an agent dies, you'll never know what happened. What becomes of them. What they did, or didn't do; what else you yourself could have done. Questions are a luxury, because the truth of it is, you're going to lose agents. You hope you won't. You know you will. You prepare them as best you can, but you always wonder if you could have done more. And there's no way to tell until the heat of the moment. Even then, it's ... difficult. To know. And that's the rub of it. Because the odds are stacked against you. When bullets start flying, you have to get lucky every single time. They only have to get lucky once. But you do it anyway, because the alternative is so unthinkable that there is no alternative. And when an agent dies, you can't afford to second guess yourself. Question yourself once, and you're only going to get more people killed. The dead deserve more than that."

And after the special run of UBs, I'd like to see Dalton's M come out of retirement as a section chief because he cannot stand being alone and away from the world he knew. I could see a scene with Bond accusing him of cowardice, hiding from his conscience behind his former title. M would realise Bond was right and re-retire before he got more agents killed.

[coco1997]

That would be a wonderful final scene between both men, one a former agent and the other on the verge of retirement. I think it could be nestled in between the Switzerland and Paris scenes. The thought of Dalton and Craig pontificating over brandy in the former's leather-doored office is all kinds of awesomeness.

A random thought: I know the part is small, but who could we have play M's wife? I was thinking it would be a nice nod to the series' history by casting a former Bond girl or perhaps even an actress who was considered for a role during Dalton's tenure.

[Captain Tightpants]

That would be a wonderful final scene between both men, one a former agent and the other on the verge of retirement. I think it could be nestled in between the Switzerland and Paris scenes. The thought of Dalton and Craig pontificating over brandy in the former's leather-doored office is all kinds of awesomeness.

And the door could be wide open. I think that would lend a nice credence to the scene; the meaning of M's office has changed. It's no longer the beating heart of England's covert world, but simply an office belonging to a man. I don't think the scene should end with the two men leaving together and the door closing behind them, or a shot of the open door, but maybe a pan up to the window with London drenched by rain. M comments that a storm is coming; Bond replies that it will pass - it always does. The implication, of course, is that things are beyond their control, and that whoever takes their place will deal with it.

[SamuelKevlar]

Good stuff, everyone. Sorry I was out of the ether for a bit but I took an extended weekend break to visit my brother and was away from the internet for the entirety. Quite a pleasurable temporary loss, actually.

Regarding Sophie de Winter, I figured she'd be something along the lines of Naomi or Paula Caplan (although she shouldn't be killed). A field agent of lesser skill but better local knowledge that helps Bond out, is a straight man for his quips during the action sequence and goes on her merry way afterwards when the action moves to Italy. If Quantum's declared war on the world's intelligence community the Dutch Security Service will be eager to work together with MI6, the agency that has had the most knowledge of and success agains them so far. They've been tracking CCTV cameras in the hope of spotting any of the known Quantum associates whose images have been provided to all intelligence services, and they've picked up on Quinn and/or Moray using various locations in Amsterdam as meeting places.

I've always liked Naomi's introduction in Moonraker. Maybe Bond notices Sophie following him from Schiphol Airport onto the direct express train to Amsterdam, and is initially suspicious because he knows Quantum is on the hunt. She may be similarly wary, or she may just be testing him.

I reckon the Head of Quantum (and I like the Scandinavian Hjalmar, if not the German last name Kohl, it belonging to an ex-leader of that country; maybe something like Mostrom or Karneus instead?) could appear in the museum meeting. Only instead of breaking cover he remains calm, or blends into the panicking crowd. Maybe he even stumbles into Bond on purpose, playing the terrified civilian, learning much about his foe by how he behaves. Maybe instead of another in an endless list of CEOs, Hjalmar Karneus (I'm digging that one) is some sort of academic. A historian, philosopher, of noble blood and ancient name that, like the Quantum organisation and its forebears, goes back centuries. It would fit with the earlier suggestion of Quantum having an ultimately beneficial, even selfless agenda - according to their own skewed view of the world, of course. The League Of Shadows from Batman Begins comes to mind.

I'm not too keen on Moray being found clutching a picture of Canada after his demise in Amsterdam harbour. Not the most realistic of plot coupons. Maybe the incriminating information comes out during the meeting Bond listens in on, and the chase with Moray is merely to prevent him from getting away.

Just had a final thought. Perhaps instead of a meeting (after all, if anybody besides Moray and Hjalmar are together, shouldn't the rest have to be chased down too? Or could Sophie take care of that?) Moray gets coded instructions over the headset, related to the art on the wall. To the average tourist it may seem an educational talk, but the cultured Bond notices discrepancies and begins to work out the real message, figuring out the Erewhon connection and Canada's involvement.

[terminus]

Since we don't yet have a title sequence description, how about something like "OHMSS" meets "GF" with key images from the previous seven Craig movies projected onto dancing nudes, double helixes, guns, etc.?

Sounds good - would be a nice homage to the earlier movies and a nice tribute to the other Craig films. Any ideas for any particular sequences that we'd see?

Maybe disappointment or self-doubt instead of uncertainty, then. A sort of "I wish I was here to see them through. I know how good they are, and they'll be fine agents. I should be there to see them become a credit to their country, but I cannot stand in their way" (though not these exact lines). I'm picturing it as the scene before the new recruits are vetted as Double-Ohs. Maybe a scene between Bond and M as they share one last drink in M's office before they retire. M would tell Bond his number is being retired with him as a sign of respect and perhaps admits that he was always uncertain about his ability to pick new recruits. I just think it would be nice to see a moment of vulnerability from M, something that shows he has a weakness somewhere. We've had a few agents - Hastings, Goodnight - kill or be injured of late, and so I think M privately questioning himself about it would be really good. Something like this:

"Sometimes, you can do everything right, and it still goes wrong for you. You'll be dead before you even have time to question it. Left for dead on the other side of the world; buried in a shallow, unmarked grave - if you're lucky enough to be buried. When an agent dies, you'll never know what happened. What becomes of them. What they did, or didn't do; what else you yourself could have done. Questions are a luxury, because the truth of it is, you're going to lose agents. You hope you won't. You know you will. You prepare them as best you can, but you always wonder if you could have done more. And there's no way to tell until the heat of the moment. Even then, it's ... difficult. To know. And that's the rub of it. Because the odds are stacked against you. When bullets start flying, you have to get lucky every single time. They only have to get lucky once. But you do it anyway, because the alternative is so unthinkable that there is no alternative. And when an agent dies, you can't afford to second guess yourself. Question yourself once, and you're only going to get more people killed. The dead deserve more than that."

And after the special run of UBs, I'd like to see Dalton's M come out of retirement as a section chief because he cannot stand being alone and away from the world he knew. I could see a scene with Bond accusing him of cowardice, hiding from his conscience behind his former title. M would realise Bond was right and re-retire before he got more agents killed.

Interesting speech - not sure about having it given in the presence of Bond, though. It means he's jumping about all over the place in the epilogues. At the moment, he's in Switzerland, Paris and possibly Jamaica - if we have him present for the speech then we'd have him in four locations too.

Was kind of hoping to do a wholesale reboot after the anthology!

That would be a wonderful final scene between both men, one a former agent and the other on the verge of retirement. I think it could be nestled in between the Switzerland and Paris scenes. The thought of Dalton and Craig pontificating over brandy in the former's leather-doored office is all kinds of awesomeness.

A random thought: I know the part is small, but who could we have play M's wife? I was thinking it would be a nice nod to the series' history by casting a former Bond girl or perhaps even an actress who was considered for a role during Dalton's tenure.

Maybe Jane Seymour? If she'd do Dancing With The Stars (that was the one she did, right?) then you'd imagine she'd be up for a brief cameo in a Bond film.

And the door could be wide open. I think that would lend a nice credence to the scene; the meaning of M's office has changed. It's no longer the beating heart of England's covert world, but simply an office belonging to a man. I don't think the scene should end with the two men leaving together and the door closing behind them, or a shot of the open door, but maybe a pan up to the window with London drenched by rain. M comments that a storm is coming; Bond replies that it will pass - it always does. The implication, of course, is that things are beyond their control, and that whoever takes their place will deal with it.

See my above thoughts on the scene.

Regarding Sophie de Winter, I figured she'd be something along the lines of Naomi or Paula Caplan (although she shouldn't be killed). A field agent of lesser skill but better local knowledge that helps Bond out, is a straight man for his quips during the action sequence and goes on her merry way afterwards when the action moves to Italy. If Quantum's declared war on the world's intelligence community the Dutch Security Service will be eager to work together with MI6, the agency that has had the most knowledge of and success agains them so far. They've been tracking CCTV cameras in the hope of spotting any of the known Quantum associates whose images have been provided to all intelligence services, and they've picked up on Quinn and/or Moray using various locations in Amsterdam as meeting places.

Similar to how I was picturing her then

I've always liked Naomi's introduction in Moonraker. Maybe Bond notices Sophie following him from Schiphol Airport onto the direct express train to Amsterdam, and is initially suspicious because he knows Quantum is on the hunt. She may be similarly wary, or she may just be testing him.

That's something I could definitely work in.

I reckon the Head of Quantum (and I like the Scandinavian Hjalmar, if not the German last name Kohl, it belonging to an ex-leader of that country; maybe something like Mostrom or Karneus instead?) could appear in the museum meeting. Only instead of breaking cover he remains calm, or blends into the panicking crowd. Maybe he even stumbles into Bond on purpose, playing the terrified civilian, learning much about his foe by how he behaves. Maybe instead of another in an endless list of CEOs, Hjalmar Karneus (I'm digging that one) is some sort of academic. A historian, philosopher, of noble blood and ancient name that, like the Quantum organisation and its forebears, goes back centuries. It would fit with the earlier suggestion of Quantum having an ultimately beneficial, even selfless agenda - according to their own skewed view of the world, of course. The League Of Shadows from Batman Begins comes to mind.

What do people think of the surname Karneus? I quite like it.

I was actually talking with coco1997 last night about the possibility of putting Hjalmar into the Amsterdam sequence - so it's good that other people are thinking on the same wavelength.

I'm not too keen on Moray being found clutching a picture of Canada after his demise in Amsterdam harbour. Not the most realistic of plot coupons. Maybe the incriminating information comes out during the meeting Bond listens in on, and the chase with Moray is merely to prevent him from getting away.

Just had a final thought. Perhaps instead of a meeting (after all, if anybody besides Moray and Hjalmar are together, shouldn't the rest have to be chased down too? Or could Sophie take care of that?) Moray gets coded instructions over the headset, related to the art on the wall. To the average tourist it may seem an educational talk, but the cultured Bond notices discrepancies and begins to work out the real message, figuring out the Erewhon connection and Canada's involvement.

I think either would be awesome - whether it's a full on meeting of the Quantum Board or a simple feeding of information between Moray and his superiors. I do like the the photograph though - he wouldn't necessarily be seen clutching it, just that it'd be found on his person (either on his phone or in his pocket).

[coco1997]

Jane Seymour would be a very good and believable choice.

[terminus]

Awesome - I should be able to knock up another draft of the treatment at some point tonight and hopefully post the proforma for the first anthology film shortly afterwards.

[Mr. Blofeld]

Wait... can I offer an opinion(s)?

The titles: Could we have sequences being reflected through a see-through Walther?

The aftermath of the motorcade shootout: Could we have more emotional unrest from M than just "oh, my predecessor was a very wise woman"?

The ending: I like Tightpants's idea, but it might have to be pushed back earlier in the film to work.

[coco1997]

Looking forward to it, terminus. As I've said before, I've got some ideas in mind for the first couple Anthology series films that I can't wait to get down on paper.

[terminus]

Likewise - as said before, I've an awesome idea for the lead girl in the Connery one - and one in mind for the Dalton one too.

[terminus]

Here's what will hopefully be the final version of the outline. I think I've incorporated everyone's thoughts since the previous treatment. I'll now post the proforma for the first of the anthologies - but we'll give the anthologies their own thread.

• 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. Bond wrestles with the pilot - tossing him out of the cockpit before wresting control of the plane for himself, leading a flyby of The Greek Ship that is seen by tourists observing the wreck.
  
  Intercut with this, we see -
  
• Somewhere In The South China Sea
  
  - smoke, covering everything. As it clears, we can finally make out, from a crane shot, Bond on the remains of his boat, cradling Yelena; she's dead. Another torpedo (it's revealed the first explosion was also a torpedo) comes racing through the waters to finish him off, and he has to abandon Yelena's body.
  
  Jumping back into the ocean, he starts swimming quickly, finally grabbing onto an outcrop of rocks. Suddenly, a gunner boat slices through the water, guns blaring. Bond dives back down, grabs onto the back of the boat, and kills the motor; then, he swings himself onto the boat and turns all the mens' guns against themselves.
  
  When they're all dead, another boat comes toward him, but he uses the first boat's guns to kill everyone on there, as well -- but not before getting clipped in the shoulder by a round.
  
  Now lying on the bottom of the boat, bloodied and stunned, Bond suddenly hears a ringing in his pocket; his waterproof phone is still on. He pulls it out; it's M:
  
  M: "Bond, what the hell is going on?"
  BOND: "I've -- we've -- been attacked."
  M: "What? Who by?
  
  Gunshots rattle out - another boat skims the hull with , but there's no time for that -- he tosses his phone into the water, grabs a breathing apparatus from under a bench on the boat and throws himself off the side of the boat.
  
  As he sinks to the depths, we transition through to -
  
  
  A title sequence reminiscent of 'Goldfinger' and 'On Her Majesties Secret Service' - scenes from 'Casino Royale', 'Quantum of Solace', 'Talk of the Devil', 'The Property of a Lady', 'Choice of Weapons', 'Kaleidoscope' and 'The Hildebrand Rarity'. Almost a 'Best Of ...' compilation - the scenes reflected on writhing naked women, double helixes, ice and guns. Accompanied by a powerful Bassey-esque themetune.
  
  
  

  CB.n PRESENTS
  
  DANIEL CRAIG
  as Ian Fleming's James Bond 007
  
  in
  
  CBN MEMBERS'
  SHATTERHAND
  
  
  Violante Placido
  Katja Schurmann
  
  Paul Higgins
  Melanie Laurent
  Dolph Lundgren
  
  Natalia Paris
  Jason Isaacs
  
  Jeffrey Wright
  Emily Blunt
  Tom Hiddleston
  
  Yvonne Strahovski
  Jane Seymour
  Max Brown
  Rory Kinnear
  
  with Rutger Hauer
  
  and Timothy Dalton as M
  
  "Shatterhand" sung by Grace Jones
  "Shatterhand" composed by Grace Jones and Patrick Doyle
  
  Soundtrack by Elliot Goldenthal
  
  Directed by Doug Liman
  
  Written by Doug Liman

  
  
• 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 one of M's senior bodyguards, Catesby, 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 Catesby 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 Catesby handles the others - and the elder man is forced to take down his former protege, pained to do so but given no other choice.
  
  A handful of days later - Bond has returned from his mission in the Arabian Sea and learned about the attack on the motorcade. At his wife's funeral, 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 bastard who didn't want revenge for the death of someone he loved." M: "My predecessor was a very wise woman." Bond nods. "She also warned me that I was so blinded by inconsolable rage that I didn't care who I hurt - and that was true. Don't let yourself fall into that position, Sir."
  
  Later, on a note handed over by Moneypenny, 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.
  
• Colombo, Sri Lanka
  
  Bond arrives in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, ostensibly just to investigate a lead but covertly to protect Goodnight, now the Head of Station for Station SL. 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 Colombo coastline.
  
• Mumbai, India
  
  Having won thousands in the casino, checked into a room at the hotel itself and spent the night on the MORPHotel as it has sailed from Sri Lanka, up the western coast of India and docked off the coast of Mumbai. Relaxing through the day, the two agents change 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 - as John Barry's '007' kicks in, adapted by Patrick Doyle. 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.
  
  The project is shut down and the area placed under NATO military observation. Bond suggests Moray could be involved with Quantum and gets permission from M to pursue him.
  
  
• Chile
  
  
  Bond flies into Santiago de Chile where he checks into the same hotel as Moray and arranges to meet Felix Leiter who agrees to help Bond. The pair visit a yacht club, travelling in the Ferrari California, using covers as fashion buyers - with Bond utilising his Sandy Bizet identity. At the yacht club, Bond and Felix check into the yacht club - the maitre de checking his guestlist "Signor Bizet - and husband?"
  
  As the pair enter the club, Bond: "I'm going to kill Tanner when I get back to London", Felix: "Calm down sweetheart, you're making a scene -". Bond manufactures a meeting with Moray which confirms his initial feeling that he doesn't trust the seemingly philanthropic billionaire - in the meeting we learn that Moray was struck down with polio as a child which caused him to need leg braces, he criticises the National Health Service and places his infirmity on their failings.
  
  Bond leaves, but Felix keeps an eye on Moray under the pretense of keeping the billionaire distracted. Bond sneaks back to the hotel and breaks into Moray's hotel room where he searches for clues. In the course of his search, he discovers papers that show cargoes have been coming in from Europe on planes contracted by Moray's charitable foundation, the cargoes have not left the airport but have then been loaded onto other planes - with flightpaths charted to take them to Antarctica. Bond finds this curious, unsatisfied with the explanation that they are supplies for independant environmental research posts.
  
  He scans the papers with his phone, e-mailing them to Moneypenny - and narrowly escapes discovery by Moray whom Felix has been unable to distract for enough time. He ducks back into his hotel room where he discovers that Jonas is waiting for him with the lights turned off - the pair fight and the windows of the room smash, wind whips round the room as Jonas claims he will kill Bond because Bond killed Quinn. Jonas found Quinn's corpse in Mumbai - and recovered a broach from it.
  
  During the fight, Jonas drops the broach - and ends up being thrown out of the window. Landing on top of - and decimating - the Ferrari California, which Felix has just parked outside of the hotel. Bond looks down on Jonas' broken body and finds the broach on the floor. He picks it up, considers it with a look of disgust, and tosses it out of the window -
  
  It turns out the broach is an elegantly disguised explosive device - and it detonates as it hits Jonas. He is conscious enough to register the broach hitting his chest, his eyes widen - and the Ferrari erupts in a massive fireball, casting the light of the fire across Felix's face - and the face of Bond several stories up.
  
  Felix finds Bond sitting in the shell of his hotel room and asks what happened: "A friend from Mumbai - always did have explosive taste in jewellery -"
  
  The following morning, the stunning receptionist that Bond sweet-talked when he checked in calls Bond and informs him that Moray has checked out of the hotel and chartered a car to the airport. He's leaving the country -
  
  
• Amsterdam
  
  
  Bond trails Moray to Amsterdam - and Bond is convinced that Moray, and therefore Quantum, is onto him when he appears to be getting trailed through the airport and onto the express train to the city by a beautiful woman. Bond corners her at the train station and the woman turns out to be Sophie De Winter, a member of Dutch Intelligence who are more than willing to offer MI6 whatever assistance they want -
  
  Trailing Moray through the city, the two operatives observe Moray at a meeting between Quantum members in an art gallery (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. Bond is looking at a painting and covertly observing Moray - but a man speaking Dutch approaches him and asks him about the position of a specific painting. The exchange catches Moray's attention and the Scottish businessman bolts - as much as he can - with interference being caused by gunshots going off, causing tourists to scatter and art gallery staff to panic as bullets perforate a number of Rembrandts and Vermeers.
  
  Directed by Sophia who is watching events from the security office via CCTV, Bond pursues Moray through the corridors of the gallery and out into the streets - at which point Bond must rely on his own wits to pursue Moray. The chase arrives at a small dock on one of the canals where the businessman climbs onboard a speedboat. Bond 'borrows' a speedboat from a rotund American from the South - and a chase on speedboats through the canals results, finally culminating in a stand-off in the harbour, the two boats circling each other like a stand-off on horseback, where oil spills are set alight and the battleground becomes a sea of fire.
  
  Moray is killed in the fight - 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 says she reminds him of someone he once loved - and says that he knows that Moray blackmailed her into cooperating with him and with Quantum by threatening the life of her boyfriend. He flashes her a picture of a handsome Italian man on his iPhone and asks if that's her boyfriend. She says it is - and he says that he's safe in the custody of British Intelligence. 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.
  
  With the help of Felix on a military airbase in South America, 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 Karneus. Karneus is an older man but still a viable physical threat - he's deceptively strong and he's the man that spoke to Bond in the Amsterdam Art Gallery. Karneus tried to make Moray aware of the agents presence in order for him to escape - though this backfired, obviously.
  
  At least the other members present at the meeting didn't panic and run, muses Karneus. At least they've learnt something since the debacle at the opera in Bregenz. 'At least,' says Karneus, 'I've got that'.
  
  Karneus 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.
  
  Karneus 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 Karneus 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 with a blast of the Bond theme fanfare 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 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 -
  
  
• London
  
  
  M brings the three trainee Double-Oh operatives before him - 009, 006 and 002 (002 turns out to be Catesby from the motorcade assault) are appointed as Tanner stands by his side. Tanner comments on the fact that the Prime Minister has agreed that the 007 designation has been retired from usage for the forseeable future. Whilst M speaks to the new Double-Oh operatives, he gives them an inspirational speech -
  
  "Sometimes, you can do everything right, and it still goes wrong for you. You'll be dead before you even have time to question it. Left for dead on the other side of the world; buried in a shallow, unmarked grave - if you're lucky enough to be buried. When one of you dies, the rest of you will never know what happened. What becomes of them. What they did, or didn't do; what else you yourself could have done. Questions are a luxury, because the truth of it is, you're going to lose friends. You hope you won't. You know you will. You prepare them as best you can, but you always wonder if you could have done more. And there's no way to tell until the heat of the moment. Even then, it's ... difficult. To know. And that's the rub of it. Because the odds are stacked against you. When bullets start flying, you have to get lucky every single time. They only have to get lucky once. But you do it anyway, because the alternative is so unthinkable that there is no alternative. And when one of you dies, you can't afford to second guess yourself. Question yourself once, and you're only going to get more people killed. The dead deserve more than that."
  
  The newly appointed agents file out of the room. M stands, walks to the window with a glass of scotch on the rocks. It's raining, he sips from the scotch and looks back on Tanner - sighs: "I'm getting to old for this."
  
  
• Oracabessa, Jamaica
  
  
  Bond emerges from the warm waters of the Caribbean, the sequence reminiscent of his emergence from the water in Casino Royale. He walks up the sand towards a luxurious villa, picks up a towel, hides a gun underneath it - turns ... finds Lucia standing on the decking of the villa. "I didn't think you'd come -"
  
  
  

  THE END OF
  'SHATTERHAND'
  
  BUT
  
  007 WILL RETURN

  
  
• Location: Classified
  
  
  Mr White sits behind a desk, speaking to someone using a blue-tooth earpiece. We don't see who he is speaking to, but the message is clear - that although Erewhon has been destroyed, although Hjalmar Karneus is dead and although it may be some time before they can make another strike, Quantum is very much alive. And without Karneus at the top - there's a power vacuum ...

[Mr. Blofeld]

That can't be the final outline; you can see the cuts in my PTS portion where you took out the attack on MI6... might want to revise that.

[terminus]

I don't see the 'cuts' you claim are there.

[Mr. Blofeld]

I don't see the 'cuts' you claim are there.

Now lying on the bottom of the boat, bloodied and stunned, Bond suddenly hears a ringing in his pocket; his waterproof phone is still on. He pulls it out; it's M:

M: "Bond, what the hell is going on?"
BOND: "I've -- we've -- been attacked."
M: "What? Who by? (There is no end to the quotation here, nor is there a proper resolution to M's question)

Gunshots rattle out - another boat skims the hull with , (skims the boat with a comma? Okay...) but there's no time for that -- he tosses his phone into the water, (No rationale for that, now that the attack on MI6 is gone) grabs a breathing apparatus from under a bench on the boat (How does he know there's a breathing apparatus on the Quantum boat, and why would a boat loaded with hired thugs ever carry complicated breathing apparati for what would be assumed to be a drive-by boat shooting?) and throws himself off the side of the boat.



There; pointed out.

[terminus]

There IS such a thing as being picky, y'know!?

Now lying on the bottom of the boat, bloodied and stunned, Bond suddenly hears a ringing in his pocket; his waterproof phone is still on. He pulls it out; it's M:

M: "Bond, what the hell is going on?"
BOND: "I've -- we've -- been attacked."
M: "What? Who by? (There is no end to the quotation here, nor is there a proper resolution to M's question)

Gunshots rattle out - another boat skims the hull with , (skims the boat with a comma? Okay...) but there's no time for that -- he tosses his phone into the water, (No rationale for that, now that the attack on MI6 is gone) grabs a breathing apparatus from under a bench on the boat (How does he know there's a breathing apparatus on the Quantum boat, and why would a boat loaded with hired thugs ever carry complicated breathing apparati for what would be assumed to be a drive-by boat shooting?) and throws himself off the side of the boat.

1 - No end to the quotation, whoops missed that. There's no proper resolution to M's question because gunshot rattles out.

2 - It was trying to create a sense of pace - meant to suggest that Bond tossed his phone into the water and acted without stopping to analyse what he was being shot with, just knowing he was still being shot at.

3 - Bond might believe his phone is being used to track him in some manner, thus why it needs to be disposed of. Albeit, if he's going to dive over the side of the boat he doesn't need to throw the phone over, he could leave it on the boat or take it with him.

4 - The breathing apparatus could have been underneath a bench on the open deck of the Quantum boat - having been scuba diving on several occasions, this isn't an unusual practice. There's no reason that Quantum wouldn't have the apparatus with them, they've come prepared for multiple occasions.

[coco1997]

Bond 'borrows' a speedboat from a rotund American from the South

What a fantastic story. I'm quite proud of our efforts on this one--the collective work of the core group of UB'ers really produced an exciting final product. I admit I don't feel I contributed as much as I should have regarding story and character development over the last two editions, but with this one, I really felt like I was in the thick of it--and with SamuelKevlar now in the fold, we have another great mind in the melting pot. All the last minute suggestions and ideas--M's wife's funeral, the final scene with the Double 0 agents in M's office, the Jamaica scene--were implemented seamlessly and satisfactorily. I'm looking forward to reading the others' reactions.

And Matt, you really need to chill out regarding the little details of your PTS. None of us had everything we proposed incorporated in their entirety--for instance, I initially wanted the PTS set in Iran, but terminus thought it might be too controversial of a location--and some things had to be changed to fit the story more organically. But I don't think tdalton and Tightpants are going to go on bitching about it.

[SamuelKevlar]

and with SamuelKevlar now in the fold, we have another great mind in the melting pot.

Thank you kindly.