MOTHERLAND - SPEC SCRIPT.

 This spec screenplay is ready for development and alterations by prospective prodcos will be welcomed in order to allow transit to the big screen. I am a team player and will be part of the team.  

 

MOTHERLAND.

Logline: When a British agent is assassinated by neo-Nazis, Arrowsmith (his buddy), discovers a plot to use weapons of mass destruction in Syria. ‘Arrow’ and his team foil the plot by killing the Nazis and warning the Pentagon.

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MOTHERLAND is an Action/Thriller/Suspense story about terrorists and spooks involved in the current Syrian conflict.

A fast moving show about our Secret Service guys living on the edge (of darkness) in the bloodthirsty world of international terrorism, mainly; Hezbollah, neo Nazis and Russian agents.

The good guys are; MOTHERLAND (an ultra-secret branch of the British Secret Service), MOSSAD and the Cousins (CIA); who are all drawn together in the fight to prevent the bombing of Israeli embassies in Europe and the evil intent of a rogue missile attack using chemical weapons in Syria during the G20 Summit Meeting at St. Petersburg in Russia.

Their success in preventing the missile attack costs lives on both sides, but the end justifies the means in their exciting, fast moving endeavour.

Treatment: It's 2013. The political climate in the Middle East is very unstable and the rest of the world isn't much better.

When several influential Jews (rabbis) are assassinated by neo-Nazi terrorists in Berlin, it comes to the attention of the British Secret Service that an infamous Arab bomb maker is working with the Nazis and their agenda is much greater than killing a few rabbis.

This information was discovered by Zac Bleiberg, a Mossad agent seconded to the Brits.

When photos of Nazis were seen to include Saif Al-Adel, the Hezbollah bomb maker, Zac pointed him out and everything changed; it became of international concern.

The subsequent investigation reveals the involvement of the Russians, in the form of Zina Zarubina, a senior Kremlin spy, whose agenda is solely to expedite the diversionary tactics (Israeli embassy bombings) to coincide with the missile attack in Syria and the 2013 G20 Summit in Russia.

But, she has a big problem with Saif Al-Adel, who wants to kill the Brits who 'made' him with the Nazis. He kills Zac in an ambush that starts a car chase in which our protagonist, Arrowsmith, and his team; Ibrahim (a mujahidin warlord), Lily Squires (MI6 operative),Sara “Sticky” Wickett (MI6 operative) and 'Q', Head of Station - Berlin, step up their efforts to neutralize the terrorists.

To replace Zac, Mossad sends Hannah Cohen to Berlin. She (crucially) places a recording device in the terrorists' safe house, but is eventually killed by Saif Al-Adel, but before dying she gives a clue to Lily in her dying breath. Lily, in turn is also shot by the Russians, but passes the clue to Arrowsmith, who eventually finds the recording device and the information is sent through CIA Station - Berlin, to the Pentagon and at the very last moment before launching the rogue missiles, the cavalry arrive in the form of the US Sixth Fleet and its Tomahawk Cruise Missiles take out the rogue missile site in the desert.

The neo-Nazis, used by Zina Zarubina to create the diversion by attacking various Israeli embassies are all killed by their own bombs detonating prematurely, quite spectacularly in various European cities. Several others are killed by the Brits and Saif Al-Adel is killed by Ibrahim.

Zina Zarubina escapes (she's needed in the sequel), but her three henchmen are killed by the Brits. Unfortunately, Sticky Wickett is killed by a car bomb; an assassination attempt on Arrowsmith that went wrong.

A CIA guy named Higgins takes four bullets in the back, but survives... crucially, to provide the key to Arrowsmith’s escape from an assassination by a Russian double agent named Brakken who Arrowsmith kills with his bare hands.

All of this takes place during edge of the seat cloak and dagger action with a thrilling race to the nail biting finish.

This is a very brief treatment, but enough, I hope, to give you the gist of this screenplay wherein lies the thrills and spills; the suspense and drama of a contemporary, original picture of modern day terrorism and its consequences.