INT. SPEAKEASY BASEMENT BAR - SAME

 

INSERT: Manhattan, New York

 

“Anonymous 45” and SILVESTRO QUATTRUCCI, Mafia Boss are sitting at a table in the dim corner. Quattrucci has a lit cigar in his mouth. The fake Jade Cocoon opium pipe carving is sitting on the table fully displayed out of the cocoon next to a GOLD AND IVORY PISTOL and tumblers of whiskey.

 

“ANONYMOUS 45”

Quattrucci, the snakes are leaving their caves in the year of the rat. Simon Koo’s Hong Kong legacy has failed. Seikura Kentaro has my back. Quan Fu was our contact for Chinese Ginger before Tia Raimondi killed him. Osiris is relocating to Singapore preparing for world domination.

 

Silvestro Quattrucci speaks in a heavy Italian dialect. Quattrucci opens up a briefcase. It is full of money.

 

SILVESTRO QUATTRUCCI

The White House owes my organization, Don. Take care of my subpoena with the judge. He owes a gambling debt too big for a judge’s salary. Clean it up, it’s messy. We have a heroin shipment coming in from Afghanistan. Poppy fields are ripe. My associate Langston Lee Whitworth will be in contact. Our Sicilian couriers will be intercepting Escobar’s and Guzman’s cocaine shipments in a blindside. Leave the jade with me for collateral. The Yakuza will take good care of it. See you in Aspen on laundry day.

 

Quattrucci closes the briefcase and hands it to “Anonymous 45”. They each take a swill of whiskey.

 

CLOSE ON -- The fake Jade Cocoon Opium Pipe.

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INT. FLOAT HELICOPTER - SAME

 

“Anonymous 45” has his cell phone to his ear. He is sitting in the rear of the float helicopter with Zongying. He has the fake Jade Cocoon in his lap stroking the green velvet pouch it’s in. He doesn’t take the Jade Cocoon out of the pouch, not just yet, but he’s seen it. He is talking to Tia.

 

“ANONYMOUS 45”

The snakes are leaving their caves in the year of the rat. Simon Koo’s Hong Kong legacy has failed. Seikura Kentaro has my back. Quan Fu was our contact for Chinese Ginger before you killed him. Osiris is relocating to Singapore preparing for world domination. The reception up here is very, very poor. We’re breaking up.

 

SCENE NOTE: (“Anonymous 45” ends the call with Tia on purpose with the “We’re breaking up” metaphor. It has just been established he has a tie to Tia Raimondi and the Osiris cartel, and he’s a double agent playing all sides of a corrupt political agenda. He takes a small jewelry box from his suit pocket to bribe Zongying.) 

 

“ANONYMOUS 45”

Emerald, ruby, sapphire, and diamond, one for each year of another four-year term 2020. They’re yours. I need you to go on a trip with me. Nobody has to know about our trip. I’ll send Secret Service on a wild goose chase around the golf course.

 

He hands Zongying the bribe. They both laugh. Zongying opens the jewelry box.

 

CLOSE ON -- Cut and faceted gemstones inside the black velvet-lined box. The light catches their brillance and sparkle.

 

ZONGYING

What about Josh Randall?

 

“ANONYMOUS 45”

Randall had a fundraiser for me in the 2016 election. In the War of the Orchids, his alias Scott James will meet his match in Seikura Kentaro.

 

ZONGYING

Seikura Kentaro?

 

“ANONYMOUS 45”

My prize fighter in the martial arts. It’s in his biological genes. Seikura Kentaro is a combination of a truth serum vaccine and a DNA lab experiment that will purport a virus to wipeout the enemy. Nationalism is alive and well. We have all these horrible trade imbalances. Democrats want to turn back the clock for the rule of corrupt power-hungry globalists.

 

ZONGYING

We have problem. Quake is big fighter too. A-Team on Josh Randall’s side.

 

“Anonymous 45” mispronounces Zongying’s name, intentional, or not?

 

“ANONYMOUS 45”

No problem Z-Ying, I have the Russian equivalent who is very, very strong, very strong. Moscow breeds cyborgs.

 

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INT. RUSSIAN OFFICE - DAY

 

INSERT: Moscow, Russia

 

“Anonymous 45” and Vladimir Putin are inside a highly elaborate room. 

 

“Anonymous 45” shows the fake JADE COCOON to Putin. He takes it out of the pouch, then pulls it out of the cocoon displaying the full carved jade opium pipe holding it in his hands.

 

“ANONYMOUS 45”

The color of money laundering. Clean oil. The artifact that will give us global power to wipe outgreen energy for good. It worked for the Han Dynasty.

 

PUTIN

(spoken in English with heavy Russian dialect.)

Very good, Donald. America’s dominance is coming to an end, a typical mistake of an empire. My nation is leading a New World Order, and there is a rising China. The nation that leads in artificial intelligence will be the ruler of the world. Future wars will be fought by drones. I am taking a trip to the Middle East bringing two falcons as a gift to Saudi’s King and the Crown Prince to seal the billion dollar oil deal.

 

TIME CUT:

 

INT. VATICAN - DAY

 

INSERT: Rome, Italy

 

“Anonymous 45” and the Pope are in a closed door WHITE ROOM decorated with RELIGIOUS FIGURES. There is a RED PILLOW WITH GOLD BRAIDED ROPE AND TASSELS ON EACH CORNER sitting on a WHITE TABLE WITH GOLD TRIM. “Anonymous 45” takes the Jade Cocoon out of the pouch, then pulls it out of the cocoon displaying the full carved jade opium pipe. He sets it on top of the Royal pillow, coveting it like it’s the real deal. Nonsense, playing all sides as usual.

 

“ANONYMOUS 45”

The evangelicals will benefit from the New World Order. Wonderful, precious souls—and their lovely children.

 

The pope touches the Jade Cocoon with his forefinger and pontificates a world message.

 

POPE

Let us pray for mass immigration. There must be lifestyle changes that consider the environment. We must rethink reliance on nuclear power. We must take action on Climate change for future generations. We must rid the world of opiates and all other drugs and their traffickers. The secret must remain in the St. Petersburg catacombs. The vault is sealed.

 

DISSOLVE TO:

 

INT. KIM JONG UN’S OFFICE - DAY

 

INSERT: Pyongyang, North Korea

 

Kim Jong Un and “Anonymous 45” are in a decorated office. Kim Jong Un is sitting at a BROWN POLISHED DESK. In back of the desk is a wall of rich DARK BROWN CABINETRY with DECORATED ORNATE GOLD TRIM AND DRAWER PULLS. The top half of the cabinetry with GLASS DOORS is filled with rows of books. The bottom half is closed doors and drawers. Anonymous 45” shows the fake JADE COCOON to Kim Jong Un. He takes it out of the pouch, then pulls it out of the cocoon displaying the full carved jade opium pipe on Kim Jong Un’s desk. What Kim Jong Un has to say to “Anonymous 45” leaves “Anonymous 45” with no reply.

 

KIM JONG UN

A gangster fond of playing with fire. You make rude nonsense one has never heard of from his predecessors. A frightened dog barks louder. My country will test the hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean. I vow to take the highest level action toward the United States. No deal.

 

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INT. OCTAGON STRUCTURE - SAME

 

The A-Team, Josh, and Joy step inside, A LARGER THAN LIFESIZE TRUMP PUPPET FIGURE ANIMATES in the center pit of the Octagon. It sounds off with a continuous EVIL, DERANGED laugh. They all stand there STUNNED! Everybody’s frozen and shocked at what they see before them. The laughing will not stop. The laugh heightens at intervals and gets LOUDER AND LOUDER AND LOUDER until the scene fades out to make it stop.

 

DISSOLVE TO:

 

EXT. BLACK LIMOUSINE - SAME

 

The limousine is driving through the streets of what appears to be the United States.

 

DISSOLVE TO:

 

INT. BLACK LIMOUSINE

 

Seikura Kentaro and Zongying are riding in the rear seat. Seikura Kentaro has a REMOTE CONTROL in his hand. He and Zongying are laughing. There’s a VIDEO MONITOR in the center console. They are watching the live video feed from inside the Octagon of the Trump puppet laughing. Seikura Kentaro is electronically controlling the puppet from the remote inside the limousine.

 

EXT. HIGHWAY - SAME

 

CLOSE ON -- Welcome to WASHINGTON, D.C. NATION’S CAPITAL green highway road sign.

 

SEIKURA KENTARO

The United States is a nice place.

 

TIME CUT:

 

JOSH (O.S.)
The United States political leadership is in big trouble when its President steals an artifact he thinks is the original to gain power in a trade war of nations to secure the power title of the New World Order. Here’s the proof. The recorded event doesn’t lie. The lotus awaits karma in the War of the Orchids somewhere in a playing field in Hong Kong.