O P E R A T I O N   A L E X A N D R I A

 Safiya Sabuka and Musa Bomani are both seasoned scuba divers.

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THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA, NORTH COAST OF EGYPT

EXT. MEDITERRANEAN SEA – NORTH COAST OF EGYPT – EARLY MORNING
The sea is a perfect mirror. Calm. Deceptively innocent.

A sleek charter vessel slices across the water. Twin diesel engines roar as MUSA pushes the throttles forward under SAFIYA SABUKA’s direction.

SAFIYA (grinning) 
Punch it.

The boat leaps ahead. White foam spreads wide as the hull carves the silence.

INT. DIVE PREP – DECK OF CHARTER BOAT
Safiya strips down to undergarments, sliding into a wetsuit with practiced ease. Musa, respectful and discreet, avoids eye contact.

SAFIYA (teasingly) 
It’s okay to look today, Musa. I’m in a generous mood.

Musa chuckles nervously, double-checks the equipment as her dive watch syncs with the onboard receiver.

Weighted ropes. Grid spikes. Compressor. Sea-scooter. Everything in place.

EXT. MEDITERRANEAN SEA – ABOVE DIVE SITE
GPS DEVICE (chirps) Three-meter accuracy. Depth: 7 meters.

MUSA 
We’re here.

Safiya gives the OK gesture. Musa kills the engines. Silence swells.

She grabs the sea-scooter, straps on her air tank, and flips backward into the water.

UNDERWATER – MEDITERRANEAN SEABED
Cold envelops her. Visibility is remarkable. Shafts of sunlight pierce the turquoise, revealing scattered artifacts glinting across disturbed seabed.

SAFIYA’S GARMIN DIVE COMPUTER (depth: 8m / cylinder: full)

Propelled forward, she glides past fragments — ancient ceramics, bronze fittings, faintly etched stone. She circles a mound, noting a triangular crevice.

It’s unnatural. Intentional.

She surfaces.

EXT. DIVE SITE – SURFACE
SAFIYA (breathing hard) 
Musa! It’s real. Call the Baron. Bring Panama.

MUSA 
On it. Taposiris crew has an inflatable. I’ll signal them.

Safiya signals for grid gear. Musa tosses the sacks overboard.

UNDERWATER – GRID SETUP
Safiya methodically pushes spikes into the seabed, forming a 10x10 meter search grid. Musa clips the ropes between markers. The operation is quiet, deliberate.

CLOSE-UP – The cave-like opening in the mound. Just large enough to stir imagination.

Their work is fast but stealthy. Time is precious. The authorities are clueless — for now.

EXT. MEDITERRANEAN SEA – NORTH COAST OF EGYPT – LATE MORNING
The charter vessel bobs gently. Safiya peers at the fish-finder, aligning the grid spikes below by instinct and experience. She cuts the engines. Silence.

Moving to the bow, she drops anchor. The stern is cleared for equipment ops.

INT. DECK – CHARTER BOAT
Safiya tosses the air lift tube over the port side. The thin hose slips down into the sea, untangling as it sinks. She watches — the hose payout slows.

SAFIYA 
Okay Musa, start the compressor. Feed me line if I need it. I’ll signal when to stop. We good?

MUSA (rolling his eyes) 
I’ve done this before.

Safiya smirks, grabs a coffee and candy bar, then climbs down the ladder and dives.

UNDERWATER – SEABED
Safiya walks toward the mound, a diver born to the deep. Her pulse quickens. The triangular fissure is clearer now, fish darting in and out.

She opens the air valve. The suction begins — a reverse-gravity vacuum. She works slowly and with focus. The trick is finesse. Too deep, and the suction stalls.

ABOVE – BOAT DECK
Musa watches the plume of sediment shift sideways — proof of progress.

UNDERWATER – EXCAVATION SITE
With the mound partially cleared, Safiya shuts off the valve and pulls out her LED torch. Inside the triangle — Egyptian carvings. A pillar, clearly marked. She stares, breath caught.

EXT. BOAT – MOMENTS LATER
Safiya surfaces.

SAFIYA 
Musa! We need Panama. ASAP.

MUSA 
Already en route. Thirty minutes out. Rudolf's at camp prepping. Should sync nicely.

SAFIYA (laughing, thrilled) 
Love you!

MUSA (deadpan, sincere) 
Love you too.

Safiya dives again, torch lighting a wider chamber, valve humming as she vacuums with renewed urgency. She clears sand inside the space, revealing a doorway deeper into the structure.

Her dive watch flashes: Low air.

EXT. BOAT – SHORTLY AFTER
Safiya climbs onboard, impatient. Musa hands her a hot chocolate and energy bar.

A small inflatable approaches. PANAMA, powerfully built, leaps onboard.

SAFIYA 
Hi muscles.

PANAMA 
Too many sport boats out here. What’s the rush, Fräulein?

SAFIYA 
I need your strength.

PANAMA 
Gut. Ja.

SAFIYA 
Ja. Gut. You too, Musa.

Musa blushes. Panama’s presence is... formidable.

SAFIYA 
Panama, you’re on suction duty. I’ll go deeper. Musa watches topside. Lifting bags may be next.

MUSA (grinning) 
Horses for courses.

UNDERWATER – CHAMBER ENTRANCE
Safiya and Panama dive, silhouettes cutting through blue.

Panama positions the pump. Safiya signals thumbs-up. Suction resumes. Her headlamp glints off ancient carvings — then the painted stone doors.

Jam-packed shut.

Safiya uses her diving knife as a crowbar. Scrapes. Wiggles. Nothing. She kicks. Nada.

She signals Panama. They brace together.

THUD. GROAN. THUD.

Panama works the left door. Cracks form. Stone crumbles — it swings.

Safiya slips inside.

INT. MAIN CHAMBER – UNDERGROUND
Safiya’s torch floods the room. Her breath catches.

GOLD ORNAMENTS. TEMPLE CATS. ANUBIS STATUES.

At the back wall, majestic and ominous — a black granite sarcophagus.

Panama joins her. They examine the seal — intact.

Carved: CLEOPATRA.

Her heart hammers.

Could it be?

She recalls Howard Carter’s account of discovering Tutankhamun. What lies beneath?

Panama tries lifting. It doesn’t budge. Safiya halts him.

EXT. BOAT – MOMENTS LATER
Safiya and Panama surface, climb aboard.

SAFIYA 
We must preserve the inner sarcophagus — it could be carved wood, resin-sealed. One wrong move, we could lose her.

SALVAGE RIGHTS >>>>>>

OPERATION ALEXANDRIA - Safiya Sabuka and Musa Bomani recover Cleopatra's sarcophagus from the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Alexandria

 Maps of the Egyptian coastline, Alexandria and Abu Qir, and Taposiris-Magna (red), Alexandria and Thonis-Heracleion road route.

SCREENPLAY: The scenes of this story are published live as part of the development process, with a sequence derived from, but not limited to the copyright scripts. The final order for the proposed screenplay may be the subject of additional drafts to suit movie going taste, streaming, etc., and scriptwriting festivals.

THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM - Queen Cleopatra retreats leaving Mark Antony to lose against Octavian and seek a new deal with Rome.

CURSE - Cleopatra pleas gods of Duat, Osiris, Anubis, Ra & Thoth, when stars align once more, Isis, "Mother of All, weave my essence anew."

TANZANIA - THE STORM BREAKS - Fanatical DNA collector, John Storm, finds Homo erectus skull, Olduvia Gorge, in Tanzanian dig site.

WRATH OF THE GODS - 365BC destruction of Thonis and Alexandria, Anubis and Isis watch on in horror as Cleopatra is submerged.

ENIGMA - The birth of computers at Bletchley Park under Alan Turing, and his visits from Anubis and Isis, who see the potential in his ideas.

SYDNEY WILL READING - John's uncle Douglas vanished, declared dead, the adventurer inherits keys and a note from George Franks.

ANGEL OF DEATH - Anubis and Isis occupy Josef Mengele's and Adolf Hitler's subconscious as spirits steering their legacies.

INNER CIRCLE OF SIX - Joseph Mengele's Fourth Reich plans an escape to Brazil to develop Nazi-funded human research laboratories.

NELSON BAY - John visits the coordinates George gave him, to discover the Elizabeth Swann, ARK and Hal, AI computer.

BRAZIL BOUND - Doctor Death bargains for funding and logistics of relocation to Amazon South American base via Argentina.

NEW WORLD ORDER - A former Neo-Nazi plan to regenerate Aryan supremacy, develops into a cause for good.

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE - Having reached the end of his PhD, William and Jane Bates have epiphanies, Will should follow his dream.

ROADBLOCK - Nobody would fund his R&D, William and Jane Bates are blanked by DARPA, computer and software houses.

THE AFTERLIFE - Cleopatra's tomb lay lost for centuries submerged and out of sight with little change of discovery.

QUANTUM LEAP - Jane and Will find backers, then US military and computer processor chip makers cyber attack, hack and bug them.

WASHING MACHINE - Inventor Franco Francisco comes up with the Incubus, artificial uterus concept while repairing his household appliance.

EXIT STRATEGY - Realising they will always be a target from industrial and military espionage, Jane & Will devise a cunning plan.

CYBERCORE GENETICA - Nano computer technology is purchased at an auction by a semi religious sect, New World Order.

INCUBUS - Roberta Ferrara secures the expertise of Franco Francisco for knights of the New World Order: Neuwelt Rittertum.

SPLICE - Klaus and Eva von Kolreuter find a way to live forever using cloning technology; Genonimo Investments, Geneva.

TREMORS - Cleopatra's feels vibrations after a shift in the tectonic plates triggered a tremor off the coast of Alexandria.

PANAMANIAN RUNNING MAN - The secret is out, an enhanced human is spotted running at unbelievable speeds.

THE ARK - NeuWelt Rittertum headhunt John Storm seeking access to his genetic DNA map of life on earth, but they fail to reach agreement.

MARJORIE BOYLE - Sam Hollis tracks down sexy backpacker, Majorie Boyle, to Brighton Point in Trinidad, beautiful Caribbean Island.

THE AMAZON - Charley agrees to meet John & Dan at Manaus, but is a little too inquisitive.

OPERATION LEVIATHAN - New World Knights, Klaus and Franco go to Plan 'B' to track and steal the Elizabeth Swann & The Ark DNA database.

TOMB RAIDERS - Safiya Sabuka and Musa Bomani dive among sifting sands to discover precious artifacts and golden treasures.

OPERATION ALEXANDRIA - Neo-Nazi occultists recover Cleopatra's sarcophagus from underwater tomb near Palace.

SALVAGE RIGHTS - Entering Cleopatra's mausoleum, locating sarcophagus and raising with air bags to the surface, Safiya Sabuka tomb raider.

COASTGUARD PATROL - Safiya and Musa surface off Alexandria to a waiting customs vessel, they pretend to be sports divers fooling the officials.

UNESCO - Catholic Church fear grave desecration heritage theft, asks agencies for help. Interpol issue Red Notice.

KIDNAP - Charley is taken prisoner but John rescues her, in the process becoming injected with a serum.

SARCOPHAGUS OPENING - The wooden inner casket is opened revealing Cleopatra's mummy, golden crown and death mask, perfectly preserved.

AWAKENING - In the afterlife, the DNA extracted from Cleopatra's mummy triggers a divine stirring with Anubis and Isis comforting the Nile Queen.

REPLICANT - The Society reproduce Cleopatra using Francisco's RepliVator™, uploading synapse sequence and implanted memories.

BRAIN CONDITIONING - Klaus and Franco upload digitally recreated memories in historical order to trigger correct learned synapse firing sequence

REBORN - The former Queen of Egypt speaks for the first time to her creators, proving that her brain is working, the implants succeeded.

FULL STEAM AHEAD - Storm speeds to Thonis, then uses the Swann's AI sensors and the Ark database to find tomb has been plundered.

PROPOSAL - Baron von Richhofen's gambit, a union of Royal ancient and Aryan blood, for strength and intellect, a powerful heir as her successor

RITUAL SACRIFICE - The Baron prepares Cleopatra for ceremonial impregnation, but Anubis and Isis know the man with a solar boat cometh.

MANAUS TO ALEXANDRIA - A hydrogen powered race across the Atlantic Ocean in nine days, John Storm guided by Anubis and Isis.

SANCTUM INTERRUPTUS - John finds secret Nazi hideout near Alexandria, disturbs ritual - rescues Cleopatra, arresting conspirators.

THE CHOSEN ONE - The reincarnated Cleopatra falls for her rescuer. John comes under her spell, despite her being a replicant.

MOVIES, WHAT ARE THEY - Reincarnated Nile Queen asks John and Dan to explain films, they show her 20th C. Fox 1963 Elizabeth Taylor biopic.

MUMMY DNA - Dan and Hal discover DNA from the Egyptian Pharaoh's teeth and run the Ark to confirm a match, modern Frankenstein

JOHN'S BLOODLINE - Dan and Hal trace trace John's noble lineage back to the iconic figures of Ancient Egypt & Roman General Mark Antony

DÉJÀ VU - Dan and Hal reveal John's family tree as being related to Roman General Mark Antony via Julia and Queen Drusilla of Mauretania.

MEDICAL EXAMINATION - Jack Mason talks John and Cleopatra into agreeing to a check up at Port Royal, Jamaica, working for NSA and CIA

GEORGE WARNS OF TORTURE - Franks radios Swann to tell John & Dan that New World Knights are being tortured at Guantánamo Bay, you're next.

JESUS CHRIST - Cleopatra asks about this man. John, Dan & Hal explain he is an ancient religious preacher from Galilee, son of Yahweh, Hebrew god.

BIOCORE BRAIN IMPLANT - Dan and Cleopatra drill John's skull, occipital bone implanting biological chip to interface with CyberCore Genetica.

DARPA, NSA & CIA - National security and military intelligence chiefs Iras Charmian and Dr Stefan Raengst, plot to remove all human obstacles.

MILITARY INTERVENTION - The military detain Cleopatra to appease stakeholders, despite media & medical protests. Storm distraught.

BATTLE ARMOUR - Thanks to some unexplained divine intervention, Dan Hawk talks John Storm into wearing a bullet proof suit.

GUANTÁNAMO BAY - History repeats itself, US military kidnap Cleopatra, John forced to rescue puts Elizabeth Swann at risk.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - Commander John Storm, in Navy SEAL mode, attacks the Cuban torture camp at Guantánamo Bay, in stealth mode, black op.

MISSILE LOCK - USA military try to hack into Hal, anticipating a strike, as the DOD launch Tomahawks, John hacks into NORAD, and redirects them.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN TRUMAN - Hails the Swann to find out why John is shooting missiles at Guantánamo Bay, Storm sets the record straight. FINALE

  OPERATION ALEXANDRIA, SAFIYA SABUKA, TOMB RAIDER FINDS LONG LOST SARCOPHAGUS AND RAISES CLEOPATRA'S MUMMY FROM THE SEABED - THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN STORM: ISIS QUEEN OF NILE IS REBORN OF THE AFTERLIFE - COPYRIGHT REVISIONS V2 NOVEMBER 2024

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