RAIDERS: DISCOVER LOCATION OF CLEOPATRA'S TOMB

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<<<<<< OPERATION LEVIATHAN

ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT

EXT. MEDITERRANEAN SEABED – NIGHT
Moonlight refracts through turbulent waves. TREMORS ripple across the ocean floor, stirring centuries of silt and secrets.

Within a rocky alcove, CLEOPATRA’S SARCOPHAGUS remains sealed, its ornate reliefs cracking under rising acidity. Flashes of gold — a comb, a brush — dislodge and float upward like lost memories.

EXT. EL DEKHEILA PORT – MORNING
Sea mist dances around the busy docks. Fishermen shout over engines. AHMED SALEH, rugged and sharp-eyed, surveys his overflowing nets.

CREWMEMBER (to toss ornate comb overboard) 
Just junk.

AHMED SALEH (shouting) 
No! Wait!

He lunges down the gangway, intercepts the item, eyes blazing with recognition. Holding both comb and brush, he stares at the royal seal: ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑ

AHMED SALEH (to himself) 
This... this is history.

INT. FISHING VESSEL – LATER
Ahmed discreetly saves the GPS coordinates onto a USB STICK, slipping it into a hidden compartment beneath the helm.

INT. EL DEKHEILA HARBOURMASTER’S OFFICE – DAY
HARBOURMASTER (a glint of opportunism) The media would love this.

Ahmed smiles faintly, knowing the real location is misreported. Let the world chase the wrong shadows.

INT. ALEXANDRIA SAFEHOUSE – NIGHT

Dimly lit. A wall of monitors flickers. SAFIYA SABUKA, deadly and composed, sharpens her blade with clockwork rhythm. A RADIO hums in the background.

RADIO ANNOUNCER (V.O.) (urgent, excitable) 
...Artifacts believed linked to Queen Cleopatra were found off the coast near Alexandria. Local fisherman Ahmed Saleh claims royal seals—

Safiya pauses, blade mid-air.

SAFIYA (calmly) 
Saleh. You’ve been careless.

She reaches into a drawer, retrieves a small satphone, and dials.

SAFIYA (to phone) 
Activate Shadow Protocol. I want everything on the fisherman — vessel registry, family, financials. And prepare a dive team. This tomb won’t wait.

She moves to the window, staring out into the dark waters.

SAFIYA (murmuring) 
Cleopatra kept secrets… and I intend to steal every last one.

INT. TAPOSIRIS MAGNA CAMP – SUNSET
The wind stirs the canvas walls. SAFIYA SABUKA, relaxed but alert, sips iced lemon tea, her gaze fixed on a flickering TV monitor. A news segment plays: Ahmed Saleh holding up a comb and brush. Her eyes narrow.

CLOSE-UP – The artifacts. Ancient. Ornate. Distinctly ceremonial.

SAFIYA (softly) Burial tokens... not junk.

INT. SAFIYA’S TENT – NIGHT
Candles flicker. Incense coils lazily. Safiya sleeps restlessly.

DREAM SEQUENCE Shadows swirl. A jackal-headed figure — ANUBIS — emerges.

ANUBIS 
Your devotion is seen, priestess of the lost queen. Pursue your destiny. The tomb must awaken.

The vision shifts. ISIS appears, radiant.

ISIS 
All trials serve the rebirth. You will stand among queens.

Safiya stirs, sweat glistening. Her face hardens with conviction.

INT. SAFIYA’S WAR ROOM – NIGHT
Screens display satellite data and seismic logs. She taps her phone.

SAFIYA 
Baron. I need a vessel. Diving gear. Musa’s expertise. Meet me at Taposiris tomorrow at dusk.

BARON (V.O.) 
And you?

SAFIYA 
I’m meeting a fisherman.

She ends the call.

EXT. EL DEKHEILA DOCKS – DAY
Safiya’s SAND-COLOURED MERCEDES roars to a stop. She steps out, composed and purposeful, her movements calculating.

She spots AHMED SALEH aboard his trawler. He’s unsuspecting.

INT. FISHING VESSEL – LATER
Ahmed grins, charmed. Safiya plays her role, weaving flirtation into careful interrogation. Words dance between them — tourism, relics, lucky storms.

Her questions sharpen.

SAFIYA 
GPS? Autopilot?

Ahmed falters. Eyes dart toward a hidden cabinet. She reads him like a cipher.

INT. DECKHOUSE – MOMENTS LATER
The cabinet opens. An IVORY COMB, engraved with ΚΛΕΟΠΑΤΡΑ. Safiya marvels.

Then she strikes.

In a flash, Safiya neutralizes Ahmed — swift, calculated, emotion buried beneath duty. She locates the USB, wipes systems clean, sabotages evidence.

SAFIYA

Dead men tell no tales

EXT. TAPOSIRIS MAGNA – NIGHT
Safiya returns with artifacts in hand. She studies the map encoded within, lit by lantern glow. Her eyes flicker with awe.

DREAM SEQUENCE – CONTINUED
Anubis and Isis stand beside her, cloaked in light.

ANUBIS 
Your blade carved truth from silence.

ISIS 
Now walk through the veil. History awaits your hand.

INT. SAFIYA’S CAMP – DAWN
Safiya sits in stillness, body poised, mind anchored. The gods' whispers echo.

She’s ready.

Her mission: recover Cleopatra's remains. Awaken lost brilliance. Rewrite history.

OPERATION ALEXANDRIA >>>>>>

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

  AHMED SALEH FINDS EGYPTIAN QUEEN'S HAIRBRUSH OFF COAST OF ALEXANDRIA, ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERS LOST TOMB - THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN STORM: CLEOPATRA & THE MUMMY REBORN OF THE AFTERLIFE

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