Unproduced Movie Scripts

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Fred Drekker, September 1994

The movie takes place in 1964.

An ex-SS Nazi scientist, Von Duffel, maintains a secret base deep in a Southeast Asian jungle, where he's kidnapped scientists to work on a secret project. He keeps a pteranodon, Turu, as his personal security, in addition to gun-toting guards with floating platforms. One of the scientists tries to escape, and Turu swoops down and kills him.

In Hong Kong, Race Bannon gets into a running gunfight with several Triad members over a piece of microfilm he's obtained from a spy. When all seems lost, Jezebel Jade arrives in her car and helps him escape, before turning a gun on him to take the microfilm for herself. After she leaves, Jennings Corven (a handler for Intelligence One) arrives, assigning Race to guard duty for Dr. Benton Quest at his Palm Key compound. Race meets Dr. Quest and is shown the Quest Jet by Jonny; Benton meanwhile meets with Corven, who reports that a mysterious, metallic sphere has appeared in the Amazon river basin. The US military retrieves the sphere, which is housed for study in a large warehouse at the Quest compound.

Jonny breaks into the warehouse at night out of curiosity, only to discover that the sphere has deployed legs and uncovered a central red eye sensor, and is now moving as though a robotic spider. The army futilely tries to stop it, until Race douses it with gasoline and sets it aflame, which allows a military jet to fire upon it with a heat-seeking missile. Dr. Quest deduces that Zin created this robot spy. Dr. Zin meanwhile receives blueprints transmitted by the robot spy, depicting a secret project that Dr. Quest was working on in that warehouse before abruptly ceasing upon the accidental death of his wife. Dr. Zin instructs Von Duffel to kill Dr. Quest, who has meanwhile deduced that Von Duffel was a former Nazi who was recently processed by Bombay customs. Dr. Quest also surmises that Zin and Von Duffel are looking for the wreck of a German U-boat that Von Duffel previously ordered on a secretive mission during World War II, and journeys to its crash site to recover it in a miniature submersible.

The recovery effort is sabotaged by Von Duffel, who dynamites the wreck while Dr. Quest and Race are inside. Jonny is able to take emergency measures from the control submersible to raise them and the wreck, saving their lives. Dr. Zin meanwhile realizes that the blueprints detail a "Specula" device, which can somehow nullify atomic bombs. Enraged that the blueprints omit a critical detail, he murders his engineers and resolves to have Dr. Quest finish the design for him. The Quest team meanwhile deduces the location of Zin's lair. While traveling through India en route to the coast, the Quest team meet Hadji, a street performer who steals Race's money. They track him down and force him to return the cash. An assassin later tries to stab Race, but is downed by Jade, who is watching over the Quest team with a sniper rifle.

The Quests track Dr. Zin's lair to an island near Sumatra, and rendezvous with a US military liaison there, Chip Balloo.

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