Magician Jonathan Barrow has more
secrets than being a world renowned stage magician. He is also an agent for a government
organization known as the Military Assisted Global Intelligence Command, also
known as M.A.G.I.C. This organization
is only known to the President and a select number of high level intelligence
and military officials, and is used to challenge high level threats to our
national security. Jonathan assisted by
a team of illusionists, technology experts, intelligence specialists, and
special effects masters who are the best in the world.
Jonathan is on stage before a packed
house in Atlanta, Georgia performing some of his greatest illusions. He is known throughout the world as the
foremost illusionist, having made one of the great pyramids in Egypt disappear
in front of a live audience. While
performing one of his death defying tricks called “swing blade,” he sees a
familiar face in the front row of the huge auditorium. Jonathan knows, this man is a courier for a
message that means the M.A.G.I.C. team is about to be activated for a mission
as directed by the President. After
escaping death to the audience’s amazement, Jonathan magically appears in the
audience having vanished from the illusion and stage. As he returns he shakes hands with many of
the audience members. He approaches the
courier and is secretly handed a message.
Ending the show, Jonathan returns with his personal assistant Alexander
Reed. Alex is not just is trusted
confident, he is also a former CIA operative and part of the M.A.G.I.C.
team. Back in his elaborate motor coach,
Jonathan and Alex contact the M.A.G.I.C. central command unit under the
direction of Major General Marcus Thompson.
General Thompson only has person he reports to, that being the President
of the United States. General Thompson
informs Jonathan intelligence has discovered the incident in Russia and inside
information pointing to a group responsible called Rising Sun, an Islamic group
associated with ISIS and al-Qaeda. General
Thompson also reveals the discovery of a freighter bound for the United States
was found adrift off the Georgia/Florida coast with all members
assassinated. Jonathan and his team are
given the task of finding the plutonium, taking care of the terrorist threat,
and doing it without anyone in the press or general public ever knowing of the
threat. Basically their job is to make
the threat simply disappear.
Go back two weeks from the receipt of
Jonathan’s assignment to the Northern Russian border. The border along the Barents Sea is an
extremely cold environment. Russia has
been decommissioning lighthouses along its northern border with the final three
under the supervision of Colonel Andreas Tyransky. These lighthouses were run for decades by
using Plutonium 238 as their energy source.
Plutonium 238 has a half- life of eighty-eight years, can be easily
disbursed because of its composition, and makes an excellent material for
making a dirty bomb. These sites are now
highly radioactive locations and the threat of further contamination, or use for illicit purposes has put pressure
on the Russian government to complete the project. What no one knows is Colonel Tyransky has
fallen to greed after being offered a large sum of money to hand the material
over to what he believes to be a Russian para-military group.
After containing the material, the
caravan of vehicles leaves the Mys Teriberskiy lighthouse site. Along the road they meet a stranded woman
whose car appears to have been broken down.
Against orders, the Colonel asks the convoy to stop and assist the young
woman. Shasha is Colonel Tyransky’s
contact, with everything pre-planned for the turnover of the material and
delivery of his funds. A brutal killer
for hire, she wastes little time in killing the soldiers in the vehicle assisted
by the Colonel. Because of the near
white-out conditions, no one in the following vehicles has any idea as to what
is about to happen. The Colonel and
Shasha go down the line of the four vehicles, killing the occupants one by
one. After dispatching all of the
Russian soldiers guarding and transporting the three plutonium containers,
Shasha and the Colonel return to the lead vehicle to settle up. The Colonel believes he is about to receive
his money and passports in an alias name so he can exit the country. Shasha has other plans as after showing him a
briefcase full of cash shoots the Colonel to insure there are no witnesses to
the event.
Having taken identities as part of the
ship’s crew, members of Rising Sun put their plan of getting the Plutonium 238
from decommissioned lighthouses in Russia into the United States. Their plan is to set off dirty bombs in three
locations within the United States. The
group is led by Akmad Hassan, a terrorist known to have affiliation with
several Muslim groups. The plutonium is
aboard the freighter Sea Avenger destined for the United States port of
Savannah, Georgia. Akmad and his primary
associate Mohammad El Jazar along with other Rising Sun members terminate the
ship’s crew, killing the captain first. After the ship is cleaned of all of its crew,
contact is made with a fishing vessel which is scheduled to rendezvous with the
freighter to offload the material before it enters the United States port. Their mission is to arrive in the United
States undetected and deliver the material to a Muslim Cleric near
Jacksonville, Florida named Hassan Hammad.
Hassan was thought to be associated with the events in the United States
on September 11th, 2001, however, nothing was ever proven by
intelligence officials. After offloading
the material onto the fishing vessel, the ship is sent adrift in the Atlantic
ocean and the fishing vessel returns to its home port of Jacksonville, Florida
with nothing apparent except it returning with a bountiful catch.
Jonathan meets one of the lead members
of his M.A.G.I.C team in an unusual location, Sea World in Orlando,
Florida. What appears to be an elderly
gentleman sweeping the seating area where whales perform for the delight of the
crowd sits down next to Jonathan as the whale trainers go through their
practice session. Ollie Rodriguez is not
only great at disguise, he is also a well- known magician and special agent for
M.A.G.I.C. Ollie is also a former Navy
Seal, and pretty handy with weapons and special tactics. The combination of agent, illusionist, and
military knowledge make him a great asset to the team. Jonathan slips Ollie a computer disk shaped
like a coin, as they briefly discuss the intelligence that has been given to
Jonathan. After Ollie makes the coin
vanish, he returns to his clandestine job of sweeping the area before going to
an office to download the data off the coin.
The M.A.G.I.C. team is pulled together
with orders from the President of the United States to track down the material,
prevent a radioactive disaster from happening, and simply make the terrorists
and their plot disappear. To have the American
public find out about the intentions or to have the bomb threat executed would
cause mass chaos within the country impacting personal health for hundreds of
thousands of citizens, financial instability world-wide, and possible
contamination of thousands of acres of territory within the United States. The team is also made up of Megan Turner known
for being one of televisions greatest stunt doubles and movie special effects
artists, Ferguson Nicholas a member of MI6 and a well- known physicist, and Jason
Lang who is not only a technology expert but also a special effects master and
stunt person within the motion picture industry. Gaining additional
intelligence is of primary importance if they are going to be successful, and
in the garage of a home near Jacksonville makes a great local command center
for the team. Here they will work
together to assess the situation with the aid of highly complex tools along
with misdirection and some movie magic.
After the radioactive material has been
smuggled into the United States, Hassan Hammad provides them safe haven for Akmad
and his associates. Preparations are made in a secure compound
owned by Hassan in Orange Park, Florida near Jacksonville which has highly
sophisticated surveillance systems and armed guards at every entry point. The large compound owned by this Islamic
Cleric had multiple buildings and covers almost two acres. Large garage facilities house the trucks used
for delivery of the devices, and special contamination rooms were secretly
built underground when the location was developed almost fifteen years
ago. The plan is to place the containers
at raised elevation locations near Ft. Bragg Army base in North Carolina, the
Daytona 500 during the race in Daytona, Florida, and from a mobile platform
above Walt Disney World in Orlando. From there, the terrorists will deploy their
teams to the three locations for detonation at the same time, on the same
day. Nasseif and Saleim will deliver the
device and detonate it in North Carolina, two of the Rising Sun members who
came on the ship, Naseiff and Saleim are to detonate the device in Daytona, and
Mohammad is to going to set the device over Disney World. Three devices capable of releasing a large
quantity of radioactive material into the air and contaminating people, crops,
and assets for many years are ready for delivery.
One of the tricks is to get intelligence
from inside the highly secure compound without being discovered. This is where special effects, movie magic,
science, and a few specialized toys the M.A.G.I.C. team have at their disposal
come into play. The team uses a flying
platform to perform surveillance before attempting to physically enter the
site, a special piece of equipment that has cloaking technology. Using some movie makeup magic and hocus pocus,
Jonathan enters the compound as one of the Rising Sun members. After
placing two guards into slumber land using chemicals found in the Far East
which produce an amnesia effect, Jonathan enters a tunnel system and discovers
detailed information about the sites and devices to be used.
With plans laid out, the terrorist
depart the compound for the three locations.
Ferguson and Ollie have their sites on the vehicle headed to North
Carolina with intentions of using illusion and deception to stop the terrorists
in their tracks. Jason and Megan are
assigned the task of preventing the device from detonation just north of the
Daytona 500 site with the help of a street luge and Megan’s beauty, while Alex and
Jonathan must take to the skies to insure Akmad is not successful in
Orlando. All of their efforts require
timing, deception, and not allowing communication within the terrorist teams
who have dead man devices in each of the vehicles in case any of them or their
counterparts are caught.
The exciting finale ends with Jonathan
fighting for his life and attempting to board a hot air balloon while in flight. The threat is neutralized with, magic,
cunning, deception, and some very special effects. The M.A.G.I.C teams averts a national catastrophe
risking everything to insure the event appears to have never happened, and the
devices and terrorists simply “disappear.”
Just when you think it has all ended there is a hint of the next mission which is revealed
to Jonathan as he performs another exciting show.
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