-
Lesson 12
Reply to post your assignment.
-
3 Replies
-
Thriller day 12: Engaging Clues
<div>
</div><div>PETER FELIZ: ENGAGING CLUES. </div>WHAT I LEARNED TODAY: I’m beginning to fill in my script potholes, but creating new ones
“BEADY EYES”
I. MYSTERY . Who paid the medical and funeral expenses for Lucky Lunes ‘s mother?
END RESULT: Cuichi Valenzuela, Lucky’s estranged friend and con man who cheated Lucky’s mother wants Lucky out of his way.
CLUES.
1. Funeral Director is unconcerned about Lucky incurring funeral debt. Why?
2. Mortician assures Lucky that an anonymous benefactor paid the debt.
3. He hands Lucky the empty envelope the funds and instructions came in. It’s postmarked Cumaripa Sonora MX.
4. Lucky remembers Cuichi was born in Cumaripa.
II. MYSTERY: What has happened, is happening and will happen in Cumaripa
END RESULT: Red Herring .The real villain had Cuichi arrested and needs Cuichi alive to save his “boy.”
CLUES
1. No one in Hermosillo wants to take Lucky to Cumaripa
2. While with newfound friends, Lucky discovers an email from FREESOUL61 “Visit the Hermosillo Hilton”
3. Lucky Googles “Cumaripa.” A poorly translated newspaper article vaguely reports of police action in Cumaripa. Cuichi is among those in A photo of the arrested but identified as Maria-Jose Jesus Juarez.
4. Lucky unwittingly aids Cuichi’s escape from jail.
5.The Federales nab Lucky. But before the can torture a confession from him, Lucky is kidnapped by a couple of thugs and taken to the real villain.
III. MYSTERY: What does the Real Villain need from Lucky?
<div>CLUES: </div>
1. The Real Villain shows Lucky a few of the ways Lucky can “disappear”
2. The Real Villain is a tremendously popular Sonoran politico.
3. The Real Villain feeds Lucky an elaborate meal he himself cannot eat due to his IBS
4. The Real Villain is beginning to consider Lucky as valuable bait to lure Cuichi.
IV. MYSTERY Who is the other person in the house with Lucky and the Real Villain.
END RESULT: The Real Villain has a male lover in need of a bone marrow transplant
CLUES:
1. Lucky hears the familiar sound of life support equipment coming from a nearby room.
2. Before the Real Villain can kill Lucky the sick person in the other stops this.
3. The Real Villain will do anything this sick boy wants.
MYSTERY: Who is this sick boy?
END RESULT: The boy is Cuichi Valenzuela’s illegitimate son
CLUES:
1. Lucky notices the boy’s eyes are as beady as Cuichi’s
2. Cuichi had a past mistress he impregnated…but who aborted
3. The boy has one brown eye and one blue.
4. So did Cuichi’s mother…typo I meant Cuichi’s mistress but it’s an interesting alternative
-
Leslie A. A. gives Great Clues!
What I learned: Although I am still figuring it all out, these lessons focus my thinking. Seems I’d be all over the place otherwise. Thanks! Each lesson helps me add in vital details, and it is much more action than dialogue. I’m beginning to wonder if I could do it all with action.
1.Three or Four main mysteries:
Who is PM (hero)?
If the car wreck killing PM’s friend was really just collateral damage, why is PM being followed/ targeted?
Who is the Random Woman? Is she hired by someone to keep tabs on PM?
Why is V (villain) such a jerk / can he get away with murders? /is he really a human trafficker?
2, 3 & 4 Clues for each mystery in sequence:
People in the pub- subtle drag; What is the party for? PM and friend wanting to avoid a raid in pub; Terrible hateful reaction to PM re: friend’s death; PM’s tattooed chest; PM’s personality ‘snaps’ from being a victim to being an efficient survivor.
Random woman in the background at pub, on the street, outside the Embassy, in the hotel, in a phone booth, takes money from envelope but leaves the note, shows up at the estate dressed like staff. Who is she and to whom is she reporting?
V has high tech surveillance equipment and capabilities; has only men around him; unkind to Aide; has unhealthy control issues, obsessed with viral social media hits, mentions kidnapping pretty men, betrays Aide.
PM goes through a change and moves from victim to very proactive.
5. Latest version of Thriller Map:
– decadent party, obnoxious and violent; domination, using people spitefully for the sake of viral social media shares and hits – addictive and tasteless behaviors; acts as if above the law. The introduction of V and Aide and Henchmen.
– surprise that beautiful woman will be ‘sacrificed’ and reactions to that realization. A dramatic out of control speeding reckless car that kills nearly all involved.
– contrasting party in pub, clues re: clientele, social status and social intolerance but less violent; anxiety about a couple driving away, intervention by Random Woman; the hero, PM, and friend heading for crash unawares.
– violent car crash; V engineering it but not enough hits on social media, V wants to target PM and friend; delayed emergency response; V’s viral hits vs PM and friend’s tragedy.
– Car explodes, worsens tragedy and responses.
– Hospital: PM learns of friend’s death, acts out, runs away, police chase but PM gets away.
– Hotel: V’s henchman trashes PM’s room, PM catches him and they fight but henchman gets away. Random woman shows up again observing/ reporting?
– American Embassy – PM seeks help to get friend’s body home etc with the car crash and hospital. PM still very emotional and too angry to cooperate. Embassy tries to understand, assures they will take care of details as PM puts them in touch with his attorney. PM leaves. Again Random Woman is around.
– PM again “running away” but is intercepted by V and aide outside Hotel. V gets PM to have some food and drink. PM is drugged and kidnapped. Aide pays Random Woman who is good at being in the way, to take a note and payment to the Hotel supposedly to pay for room, but Rand.Woman takes the money. Hotel alerted to worsening scam?
– PM wakes at estate. Confronts staff. Tries to run away, is chased by dogs; PM “saved” by V and Aide; hints at human trafficking; PM has a change come over him. PM gets drop on guard and throws him through a window. PM discovers viral footage as he plays cat and mouse in the Estate house.
– V and Aide and henchmen searching for PM – tables turn as PM picks off guards and captures Aide; PM has proof V engineered car crash; Makes V pull the trigger on Aide and others before PM kills V.
– Aftermath; finger prints of PM confusing. They seem to match a CIA operative who died but that operative was a woman.
– PM and friend were actually on honeymoon. Friend’s family so angry because they never liked the gay lifestyle. Random woman was hired by friend’s family to keep tabs on PM and friend, She also knows the PM’s attorney… She may have also known the “former CIA operative” persona.
– PM on private plane with V’s money and credentials landing in Asia… perhaps for more physical changes in identity.
-
Subject line: Jim Thompson Gives Great Clues!
“What I learned is…?”
I’m having some trouble differentiating between my ‘reveals’ and the clues which has left me with a great deal of overlap between the two. I would agree that I am filling in some of the blanks within the story but creating new and also duplicating.
ASSIGNMENT
List out the three or four main mysteries in your story.
Mystery 1 – Why has a terrorist organization attacked North Dakota?
Mystery 2 – How did the terrorists place Mustard powder in hundreds of camouflaged power transformers around Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Rapids?
Mystery 3 – Why is the extended family group killed and is there a relationship between them and the 14 non-lawyer civilians killed around Fargo?
Mystery 4 – Could a single individual manage the scope of attacks?
Create a list of clues for each of the main mysteries in your story.
Mystery 1 – Why has a terrorist organization attacked North Dakota?
A Native American group seeking to change the injustice done to them over the life of the country. <div>
Video from Fargo shows a large man escaping from the police to a ‘safe house’ then changing vehicles at a garage and moving to another house.
Pictures of the Lakota Indian, Everett Dixon, resemble the person shown in the night time videos from Fargo.
A letter is delivered to major newspapers throughout the country (in all 48 continental states), claiming responsibility for the attacks in North Dakota on the injustice system.
A second letter is delivered to the same group when the attacks begin on the power infrastructure in the Midwest.
Letters arrive weekly as courthouses throughout the West, Midwest, South, and Southeast are destroyed by explosives or the power grid in different areas is attacked.
Mystery 2 – How did the terrorists place Mustard powder in hundreds of camouflaged power transformers around Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Rapids?
Use of fake power company trucks found in garages in the cities. </div><div>
Mustard powder is a simple chemical agent to create.
Mustard powder can be mixed with hydrogen and oxygen to create an explosive mixture that will spread the chemical agent over a large area.
The equipment, houses, garages, and material for the chemical agent cost a great deal of money and require identification both can be traced.
The FBI and DHS discover more than 20 different identities used to buy or rent property, vehicles, and material.
FBI accountants discover multiple bank accounts with linkage to several offshore banks – Caymans, Lichtenstein, Zurich, Bahrain, and U.A.E.
Working with Interpol, the FBI are able to freeze or seize more than $10 million.
Mystery 3 – Why is the extended family group killed and is there a relationship between them and the 14 non-lawyer civilians killed around Fargo?
The extended family group sued Grace Miller over the death and undo influence on an aunt. </div>
The jury included the 14 people killed.
The family’s lawyer, Miller’s lawyer, and Judge were among the people killed.
All of the firm’s lawyers for both the family and Miller were killed.
All of the Federal, ND State, County, and City Judges were killed as well as almost all of the clerks and administrative personnel.
All of the courthouses in Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Rapids were destroyed or severely damaged by explosives then contaminated with Mustard powder.
This seems more retribution than an attempt to change the justice system for Native Americans.
<div>
Mystery 4 – Could a single individual manage the scope of attacks?
Would a person kill hundreds and injure thousands of people including children in order to obfuscate the killing of a select few? </div><div>
Scott Miller is 71 years old. Could he be fit enough to escape the police during the Fargo attacks?
Scott Miller does not look like the person in the Fargo videos.
Scott Miller has an alibi for the time of the Fargo attacks.
Scott Miller was a reserve police officer and attended courses on forensics and investigative techniques.Scott Miller was a reserve Deputy Sheriff who served on the county SWAT as an assaulter, sniper, and EOD technician.
Scott Miller is an expert at computer automation and has created artificial intelligence programs to run network management for Internet service providers.
Scott Miller is wealthy (more than $100 Million) but his money trail does not lead to any of the attacks or any of the offshore banks.
Scott Miller is under intense surveillance by the FBI, DHS, and NSA but the power infrastructure and courthouse attacks continue.
Scott Miller retired from the US Army having served in Special Forces as a warrant officer and with at least two special mission units (SMU).
Scott Miller’s personnel file is heavily redacted preventing the FBI and DHS from understanding what he did at the SMUs but he speaks several languages fluently, qualified in weapons, engineering, and communications in Special Forces. He qualified as a SF Combat Dive Supervisor, Military Free Fall Jumpmaster, and many other skill sets.
Scott Miller’s military and computer skills would enable him to create the environment for the ND attacks, if he had enough time and money.
Scott Miller has close friends retired from SF and SOF who could be available for mercenary work.
Under the redacted portion of his personnel file, Scott Miller worked with the US Secret Service, FBI, DHS, and NSA.
Decide which clues you want to use and sequence those into clue trails for each mystery.
MYSTERY 1: Why has a terrorist organization attacked North Dakota?
END RESULT: An American Indian protest group experiencing multiple arrests with long prison sentences for minor infractions has partnered with ISIS and other foreign terrorist groups to attack what they have termed the ‘injustice’ system.
CLUES:
A Native American group seeking to change the injustice done to them over the life of the country. </div><div>
Video from Fargo shows a large man escaping from the police to a ‘safe house’ then changing vehicles at a garage and moving to another house.
Pictures of the Lakota Indian, Everett Dixon, resemble the person shown in the night time videos from Fargo.
A letter is delivered to major newspapers throughout the country (in all 48 continental states), claiming responsibility for the attacks in North Dakota on the injustice system.
The Sioux Falls ‘safe house’ was purchased by Everett Dixon.
A second letter is delivered to the same group when the attacks begin on the power infrastructure in the Midwest.
The Waukegan ‘safe house’ was purchased by Everett Dixon but Mahmud Bishara is killed by IED explosives during an HRT attack on the house.
Mahmud has a connection to ISIS-Khorasan out of Afghanistan and made his way to Chicago by way of Spain and Canada more than eight years ago then dropped out of sight.
Letters arrive weekly as courthouses throughout the West, Midwest, South, and Southeast are destroyed by explosives or the power grid in different areas is attacked.
MYSTERY 2: How did the terrorists place Mustard powder in hundreds of camouflaged power transformers around Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Rapids?
END RESULT: The terrorist began placing the fake power transformers for more than ten years. They have also placed explosives inside the courthouses at least five years ago during a remodeling project. The law offices, courthouses, and even the homes of the lawyers killed were under sophisticated surveillance with wireless Internet access sending data and pictures up to cloud-based accounts.
CLUES:
The terrorist organization used fake power company trucks several found in garages in each of the cities. </div><div>
Mustard powder is a simple chemical agent to create.
Mustard powder can be mixed with hydrogen and oxygen to create an explosive mixture that will spread the chemical agent over a large area.
Military explosives were used to destroy the courthouses in the ND cities including PETN, RDX, and C4.
Outside of the judge’s house, the Fargo PD finds video surveillance on all of the external doors and inside the house the FBI electronic forensic team discovers all of the ‘smart’ devices in the house were used for surveillance.
This surveillance was duplicated at each business, courthouses, and the homes of the lawyers killed.
When the FBI attempted to access the data stored in the cloud, the data was erased then overwritten multiple times.
Recovery of data showed an extensive set of data developing a pattern of life for the surveilled individual or family.
The equipment, houses, garages, and material for the chemical agent cost a great deal of money and require identification both can be traced.
The FBI and DHS discover more than 20 different identities used to buy or rent property, vehicles, and material.
FBI accountants discover multiple bank accounts with linkage to several offshore banks – Caymans, Lichtenstein, Zurich, Bahrain, and U.A.E.
Working with Interpol, the FBI are able to freeze or seize more than $10 million.MYSTERY 3: Why is the extended family group killed and is there a relationship between them and the 14 non-lawyer civilians killed around Fargo?
END RESULT: The real focus of the Fargo, ND attacks were the family group, former jury members, and lawyers on the criminal trial and suit against Grace Miller.
CLUES:
The extended family group sued Grace Miller over the death and undue influence on an aunt.</div><div>
The jury included the 14 people killed.
The family’s lawyer, Miller’s lawyer, and Judge were among the first people killed in Fargo.
All of the firm’s lawyers for both the family and Miller were killed.
All of the Federal, ND State, County, and City Judges were killed as well as almost all of the clerks and administrative personnel.
All of the courthouses in Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Rapids were destroyed or severely damaged by explosives then contaminated with Mustard powder.
This seems more retribution than an attempt to change the justice system for Native Americans.
MYSTERY 4: Could a single individual manage the scope of attacks?
END RESULT: Given the scope of the attacks, one person with the correct set of skills and total ruthlessness could accomplish the attacks but acquiring the funding would probably require at least a small group.
CLUES:
Would a person kill hundreds and injure thousands of people including children in order to obfuscate the killing of a select few? </div><div>
Scott Miller is 71 years old. Could he be fit enough to escape the police during the Fargo attacks?
Scott Miller does not look like the person in the Fargo videos.
Scott Miller has an alibi for the time of the Fargo attacks.
Scott Miller was a reserve police officer and attended courses on forensics and investigative techniques.Scott Miller was a reserve Deputy Sheriff who served on the county SWAT as a trainer, assaulter, sniper, and EOD technician.
During his time on the SWAT team, there were more than a dozen drug houses raided by a vigilante who killed the people in the house and took their money.
Scott Miller is an expert at computer automation and has created artificial intelligence programs to run network management for Internet service providers.
The FBI identify a Nebraska realtor company that arranged the leases for Midwest Mobility, LLC on farm land across the state.
The FBI identify a subcontractor working for Midwest Mobility, LLC putting up the cell towers in Nebraska and Iowa.
Scott Miller is wealthy (more than $100 Million) but his money trail does not lead to any of the attacks or any of the offshore banks.
Scott Miller is under intense surveillance by the FBI, DHS, and NSA but the power infrastructure and courthouse attacks continue.
Scott Miller retired from the US Army having served in Special Forces as a warrant officer and with at least two special mission units (SMU).
Scott Miller’s personnel file is heavily redacted preventing the FBI and DHS from understanding what he did at the SMUs but he speaks several languages fluently, qualified in weapons, engineering, and communications in Special Forces. He qualified as a SF Combat Dive Supervisor, Military Free Fall Jumpmaster, and many other skill sets.
Scott Miller’s military and computer skills would enable him to create the environment for the ND attacks, if he had enough time and money.
Scott Miller has close friends retired from SF and SOF who could be available for mercenary work.
Under the redacted portion of his personnel file, Scott Miller worked with the US Secret Service, FBI, DHS, and NSA.
The latest version of your Thriller Map –
ACT I
Opening Image (0% – 1%)
Life Threatening Event 1 – Three police cars have a suspect trapped inside the house of a judge. The suspect fires on the cars disabling all of them. As the police get ready to breach the house, the Fargo courthouse explodes along with several business in downtown Fargo, ND.
Mystery 1 – Who is the person shooting the police?
Mystery 2 – Why have the buildings exploded?
Villain’s Plan 1 – The real reason for the attacks in ND and the killing of lawyers is more complicated.
Setup (1% – 10%)
Villain’s Plan 2 – Make the ND attacks the worse terrorist event in US history to have multiple Federal and State law enforcement agencies interact.
Life Threatening Event 2 – The courthouse and many other buildings are contaminated with Mustard gas/powder. In addition, the power structure for the city has been taken down with the substations contaminated with Mustard. This has resulted in hundreds of injuries of first responders and power company workers.
Villain’s Plan 2 – Distraction of the Federal LEAs through ruthless attacks and use of Mustard to injure and kill, increase pressure for a quick solution.
Primary Mystery 1 – Why has a terrorist organization attacked cities in North Dakota?
END RESULT: An American Indian protest group experiencing multiple arrests with long prison sentences for minor infractions has partnered with ISIS and other foreign terrorist groups to attack what they have termed the ‘injustice’ system.
CLUES:
Overt: Meeting of the CIRG including FBI, DHS, ATF (EOD team), US Marshal Service, and Fargo PD with the FBI Assistant Director asking why Fargo, ND rather than a much larger and more strategic target. This attack including the sophistication of using a WMD against first responders does not make sense. </div><div>
Covert: Video from Fargo shows a large man escaping from the police to a ‘safe house’ then changing vehicles at a garage and moving to another house. Pictures of a Lakota Indian, Everett Dixon, resemble the person show in the night time video from Fargo.
Overt: A manifesto is delivered by USPS to newspapers, political podcasters, and other media claiming responsibility for the attacks in North Dakota on the systemic injustice done to Native American by the State of North Dakota and the Interior Departments BIA.
Overt: The Sioux Falls ‘safe house’ was purchased by Everett Dixon. He is also the owner of the SCUBA diving business located at the residence.
Life Threatening Event 3 – Fargo PD Detectives Jeff Peters and Jorge Robertson get video of the perpetrator’s escape from the uniformed officers. Using the video, they find a house where the perp may be located. When the detectives investigate with SWAT backup, they discover what appear to be improvised explosive devices protecting the property and back off for the explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) team.
Life Threatening Event 4 – Before the Fargo PD EOD team arrives, planes carrying the Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) from the FBI and including members of DHS, ATF, US Marshall Service, and DoD investigators (includes members of Delta’s WMD squadron). This also brings Special Agent Jennifer Andrews part the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) advanced force who will prepare the ‘environment’ for the HRT squadron.
Mystery 3 – Why did the attackers use Mustard in their attacks? How did they manufacture Mustard?
Mystery 4 – How did the terrorists place the Mustard in containers camouflaged as power transformers?
Primary Mystery 2 – How did the terrorists place Mustard powder in hundreds of camouflaged power transformers around Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Rapids?
END RESULT: The terrorist began placing the fake power transformers over more than the last 10 years. They have also place explosives inside the courthouses at least five years ago with some done during a Federal Justice Department remodeling project. The law offices, courthouses, and even the home of the lawyers killed were under sophisticated surveillance with wireless Internet access sending data and video up to cloud-based accounts.
CLUES:
Overt: Some of the garages discovered in Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Rapids have fake power company trucks, including ‘Cherry pickers’ for placing or replacing transformers </div><div>
Covert: Mustard powder is a simple chemical agent to create.
Overt: The Sioux Falls ‘safe house’ has the facilities to create the Mustard powder in quantity and to place it into containers using the mixed gas SCUBA filling system.
Overt: The ATF investigators determine many of the courthouses and other building destroyed were from military explosives including RDX and PETN which are used in aerial bombs and artillery shells. They also found the use of C4 explosives used by the US Army and USMC.
Overt: Outside of the judge’s house, the Fargo PD finds video surveillance on all the external doors and inside the house, the FBI electronic forensic team discovers all of the ‘smart’ devices in the house being used for surveillance with data uploaded to cloud accounts.
Catalyst (10%)
Life Threatening Event 5 – The perp’s house in Fargo has IEDs which will spread Mustard over more than a city block and the EUDs are sophisticated with anti-tamper devices which make the task of the EOD teams extremely risky.
Mystery 7 – The perp’s house in Fargo is destroyed through explosives and seeded with Mustard but using Site Sensitive Exploitation (SSE) procedures developed by the DoD SOF, the HRT finds evidence of a ‘safe house’ in Sioux Falls, SD where the Mustard was manufactured. Included in this SSE are indications of a terrorist group made up of Native Americans, ISIS, and possibly other groups working to tear down the US government.
Reveal — The first Fargo safe house has indications of additional houses, apartments, and garages in Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Rapids, ND. Therefore, this is a huge. complex operation requiring large funds and sophistication This must be the work of either a domestic or foreign terrorist group.
Villain’s Plan 3 – Further distraction through attacks on Bismarck and Grand Rapids.
Mystery 5 – With the collection of data on the attacks, the Bismarck and Grand Rapid attacks have no surveillance video showing a perp, only the Fargo attacks show a perp.
Debate (10% – 20%)
Life Threatening Event 8 – Frank Walters and Robert Williams receive direct pressure from the ND representatives and senators to find the terrorist group. They see Jennifer’s focus on a possible single perp as a threat and threaten dismissal or disgrace to Jennifer if she does not stop.
Villain’s Plan 4 – Start of the attacks on the Midwest power infrastructure to increase pressure.
Life Threatening Event 9 – Jennifer travels to Sioux Falls as part of the reconnaissance advanced team to place surveillance on the house with a focus on what the HRT will need to know for their assault. As part of the assault, she is slightly injured but two members are killed and five members are hospitalized.
Mystery 8 – Who is the Lakota, Everett Dixon, whose remains are found in the Sioux Falls safe house?
Mystery 9 – The SSE found in Sioux Falls leads the CIRG/JTTF to a safe house in the Midwest.
Villain’s Plan 5 – The safe house in Sioux Falls includes a chemical lab in the basement and SCUBA diving air generators to fill and mix gases.
Reveal – There is a Sioux Falls, SD safe house location containing the Mustard powder manufacturing and some mixed gas facility. Discovery and surveillance show at least one individual in the house.
Reveal – Everett Dixon, a member of the Lakota tribe, owns the house and a SCUBA diving business including filling air tanks. Dixon is a former member of the US Army Special Forces as a weapons sergeant and is a current member of a native American protest group. The take down of the house does not go well for the HRT due to booby traps and IEDs which kill and injure several operators. Everett Dixon is ‘vaporized’ in an explosion as the HRT takes the house. Jennifer Andrews is among the injured.
Direction: Terrorist group successfully attacks inside the US.
Twist: This may be a single individual out for revenge, using the killing of hundreds and maiming thousands to mask his vengeance.
ACT II
Break into Act II (20%)
As Jeff and Jorge refine the Fargo homicide data, they find several deaths outside of the city of civilians who are not lawyers or judges. Why were they killed?
MYSTERY 3: Why is the extended family group killed and is there a relationship between them and the 14 non-lawyer civilians killed around Fargo?
END RESULT: The real focus of the Fargo, ND attacks were the family group, former jury members, and lawyers on the criminal trial and suit against Grace Miller.
CLUES:
Overt: Jorge and Jeff discuss this with Jennifer, the extended family group sued Grace Miller over the death and undue influence on an aunt. The jury included the 14 people killed. </div><div>
Overt: The family’s lawyer, Miller’s lawyer, and Judge were among the first people killed in Fargo.
Overt: All of the firm’s lawyers for both the family and Miller were killed.
Overt: All of the Federal, ND State, County, and City Judges were killed as well as almost all of the clerks and administrative personnel.
Reveal – After going through the hundreds of killed and thousands injured in Fargo, Jeff and Jorge discover a small number of civilians belong to the same extended family and most resided outside the primary Fargo attacks. M.I.S. – the attack across multiple cities is huge and uses WDM (Mustard powder) to expand the scope. Confusion and cover-up by the total number of people killed and injured. Letters delivered to media sites indicate a campaign against courts by Native Americans. Increasing political and media pressure to identify, arrest, or kill the terrorist group leaders. Multiple Native American leaders state there are no terrorist activity by any of the tribes.
Mystery 6 – The civilians killed are all part of the same family group Why were they killed?
Life Threatening Event 6 – Jeff and Jorge take their findings about the odd group of civilian deaths to the FBI Assistant Director in charge of the CIRG and the Joint Terrorist Task Force (JTTF), Frank Walters but Director Walters does not agree and still believes these are anomalies.
Life Threatening Event 7 – Jennifer hears about the anomalous civilian deaths, she seeks out Jeff and Jorge to find out more. When her HRT supervisory agent, Robert Williams, hears of this, he orders her to stop this line of inquiry and focus on developing the ‘battlespace’ for the HRT follow on forces. Jennifer does her job but also works with Jeff and Jorge including allowing access to multiple Federal databases.
Trust: Andrews is encouraged to present directly to the Assistant Director in charge of the investigation. Walters. He agrees that the evidence appears to indicate something different than a standard foreign or domestic terror group.
Distrust: Walters receives pressure from the US Senators and three Representatives from ND that he find the terrorist group.
Distrust: Williams places pressure on Andrews to put aside the singleton theory and put emphasizes her AFO duties.
Trust: Williams has known Andrews for years from being her commanding officer in the Army to encouraging her to apply to the FBI and then sponsoring her for selection into the FBI’s HRT, finally letting her create an Advanced Force Operations (AFO) cell within the HRT.
Distrust: Andrews presents the findings from the Fargo PD detectives, Williams seems to agree but when discourages Walters from agreeing.
Direction: Possible single perpetrator out for revenge.
Twist: The SSE recovered from the safe houses prove to the FBI, DHS, and ATF this is a larger terrorist group.
B story (22%)
Villain’s Plan 6 – The use of fake cell towers leased by ‘Midsouth Mobility, LLD’ which is owned through multiple shell companies that eventually lead to an account in Lichtenstein.
Villain’s Plan 7 – The use of stolen military weapons for the attacks using the cell towers.
Life Threatening Event 10 – Prior to the assault on the Sioux Falls house, attacks begin on the power infrastructure in the Midwest by using cell towers with high powered military weapons, 50 caliber machine-guns, 81mm Mortars, and recoilless rifles. These take out the critical substations with very high and extremely high power transformers.
Direction: Military weapons indicate a sophisticated terrorist group.
Twist: Retrieved serial numbers from sites show all weapons were from DoD Armory robberies but more than ten years ago.
Reveal – The fake cell towers used in the power system infrastructure attacks were leasing land paid for by Midsouth Mobility, LLC. This company is a shell within a shell but eventually FBI accountants trace funds back to banks in Lichtenstein. The FBI and Interpol go after the funding in these accounts.
Reveal – The weapons used in the infrastructure attacks were stolen from US military armories but the thefts were more than 10 years ago and were ‘commando-like’ raids.
Mystery 6 – The civilians killed were members of a jury pool more than 15 years ago. Why were they killed? Does this have to do with a trial more than 15 years ago?
Reveal – Fourteen civilians killed in the Fargo attacks had been part of a jury more than 15 years ago. The number killed in the attack slows down the discovery process.The trial was for Grace Miller who died 15 years ago. The extended family killed were related to Grace and won a verdict against her. Grace’s husband, Scott, is still alive but is 71 years old working as a computer network security engineer. One of her daughters is a US Army CID warrant officer. Her son is a US Army Special Forces engineering sergeant who would be an expert with explosives including IEDs.
Direction: FBI Assistant Director in charge of the investigation sees merit in the revenge motive.
Twist: The increased scope and scale of the attacks make a singleton perpetrator impossible.
Trust: Andrews out of the hospital, brings further evidence to Walters that the perpetrator must have extensive US military and special operations experience
Fun and Games (20% – 50%)
Villain’s Plan 8 – The use of cloud, advanced automation techniques, and artificial intelligence to pace the attacks as well as surveil the locations. The use of AI allows only necessary surveillance to alert Scott.
Mystery 10 – How can the terrorist strike dozens of power sites simultaneously?
Life Threatening Event 11 – Jennifer is sent to examine a ‘false’ cell phone tower with a small team of HRT operatives. When they arrive, they are under surveillance and when they arrive, the team and their vehicles are taken under fire by a 50 caliber machine-gun.
Mystery 11 – Do all of the false cell towers have terrorist surveillance?
Reveal – Scott is an engineer and expert in cloud computing, security, advanced encryption techniques, automation, and artificial intelligence. He has multiple patents and copyrights.
Life Threatening Event 12 – Jeff and Jorge bring more evidence to Jennifer that the attack on ND is simple revenge and not a more sophisticated terrorist group. Convinced, she goes directly to Frank Walters who listens but the pressure from executive and legislature branches who need these escalating attacks to be part of ISIS and not a single man bent on revenge. He threatens her with immediate dismissal and being black listing to prevent her from ever working in law enforcement.
Trust: Andrews believes the evidence and information the Fargo PD detectives have gathered.
Direction: Federal law enforcement focuses on identifying the terrorist group through SSE and taking down the identified safe houses.
Twist: The body parts recovered of Dixon in Sioux Falls have ice crystals, he had been frozen before the HRT took down the house and the IED nearly vaporized him.
Mystery 12 – Who is Scott Miller?
Reveal – Scott worked as a reserve Police Officer and Deputy Sheriff for about 15 years.
Villain’s Plan 9 – Scott uses general aviation assets through multiple IDs for untracked movement around the country. He hires an actor ‘look alike’ for the ND attack timeframe. He kills the actor to remove the link.
Mystery 13 – Scott Miller has an alibi for the time of the attack in ND, he is working in Atlanta.
Midpoint (50%)
MYSTERY 4: Could a single individual manage the scope of attacks?
END RESULT: Given the scope of the attacks, one person with the correct set of skills and total ruthlessness could accomplish the attacks but acquiring the funding would probably require at least a small group.
CLUES:
Covert: Would a person kill hundreds and injure thousands of people including children in order to obfuscate the killing of a select few? </div><div>
Overt: Scott Miller is 71 years old. Could he be fit enough to escape the police during the Fargo attacks?
Overt: Scott does not look like the person in the Fargo videos.
Overt: Scott has an alibi for the time of the Fargo attacks.
Covert: An actor was killed the weekend after the Fargo attacks who has a resemblance to Scott.
Overt: Scott was a reserve police office and attended courses at the NC State Police Academy on forensics, investigative techniques, and homicide investigations.
Overt: Scott was a reserve Deputy Sheriff who served on the county SWAT as a trainer, assaulter, sniper, and EOD technician.
Covert: During his time in law enforcement, a vigilante attacked more than a dozen drug houses, killing all of the residents and stealing the cash but not the drugs.
Overt: Scott is an expert at computer automation and has created artificial intelligence programs to run network management for Internet service providers.
Overt: Scott retired from the US Army before starting his computer consulting business as a Chief Warrant Officer with service in two special mission units (SMU).
Covert: Scott’s military personnel file is heavily redacted preventing the FBI and DHS from understanding what he did at the SMUs. However, they did find that he spoke several foreign languages fluently, qualified in weapons, engineering, and communications in Special Forces. He also qualified as an SF Combat Dive Supervisor which would include skills in the use of mixed gas and closed circuit diving as well as a large number of other skills.
Covert: Under the redacted portion of his personnel file, Scott worked closely with the US Secret Service, FBI, DHS, and NSA.
Covert: Scott has a large number of close friends who are combat veterans of SF and SOF. These people might be available for mercenary work.
Life Threatening Event 13 – Jeff, Jorge, and Jennifer begin investigating Scott Miller but other than a generic US Army record in SOF and retirement as a CW4, they have very few details. They do find that he is a highly successful computer network engineer over the last 20 years. As they dig, Jorge is killed with Jeff and Jennifer both wounded – but Scott has an alibi for the time of their attack.
Reveal – Scott retired from the US Army after 30 years as a Special Operations warrant officer with more than 20 years in Special Mission Units. Their daughter and son both are overseas during the Fargo attacks. Scott was working in Atlanta and stayed there the weekend of the attacks. Scott’s personnel file has more redacted portions than open.
Direction: The search by Jeff, Jorge, and Jennifer has been dangerous but impersonal.
Twist: They are under surveillance and considered a threat by the perp.
Villain’s Plan 10 – Scott created the initial war chest through attacks on drug houses in the Southeast region. He identified the houses through his county Deputy Sheriff’s access.
Villain’s Plan 11 – Scott increases the war chest by attacks on armored cars carrying diamonds and large amounts of cash from gambling.
Mystery 14 – If Scott Miller is the perp, how has he gotten the funding and weapons for an operation of this scope?
Mystery 15 – Could this all have been planned and put into place over the last 15 years without anyone realizing it?.
Bad Guys Close In (50% – 70%)
Distrust: Walters has Andrews suspended for failure to follow orders and insubordination.
Life Threatening Event 14 – Jennifer is placed on suspension while in the hospital. She takes her findings to the DoD and Delta operatives on the CIDG/JTTF.
Mystery 15 – DoD agents find Scott’s ‘201 file’ heavily redacted and of not much more use than what Jennifer has already discovered.
Mystery 16 – The Delta operatives discover more since Scott had been in 1st SFOD-D for 12 years before going to the Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) for another 10 years.
Reveal — The Delta operatives reach out to the ISA to get ‘read on’ to projects and activities. The query reaches up the ranks until the commanders of the units talking.
All is Lost (75%)
Trust: Andrews is encouraged to present directly to the Assistant Director in charge of the investigation. Walters. He agrees that the evidence appears to indicate something different than a standard foreign or domestic terror group.
Distrust: Walters receives pressure from the US Senators and three Representatives from ND that he find the terrorist group.
Distrust: Williams places pressure on Andrews to put aside the singleton theory and get back to her AFO duties.
Distrust: Williams and Walters under political pressure to find a foreign terrorist group which the US can attack, work to disgrace Andrews within the FBI.
Life Threatening Event 15 – Frank Walters finds out that Jennifer has given the DoD and SOF operatives sensitive FBI information, he lets her know that her career at the FBI is now at an end.
Villain’s Plan 16 – Increase the number of attacks and pressure on law enforcement agencies.
Mystery 17 – With Scott under surveillance, the attacks in the Midwest, South, and Southeast continue and even increase in their pace and scope. More than a quarter of the nation is having brown outs or even black outs. More than 100 courthouses have been blown up to the point of being razed. How can Scott continue doing this with the level of surveillance on him?
Villain’s Plan 17 – Distraction by getting the FBI and DHS focus on other safe houses he’s allowed them to discover.
Mystery 18 – The other safe houses discovered have a mixture of Native Americans, Arabs, Black, and Hispanics with indications of their complicity in the terrorist attacks.
Direction: Discovery of the terrorist network of safe houses.
Twist: The body parts recovered have ice crystals like Dixon. All were frozen before the explosive dismemberment.
Mystery 19 – Even as the safe houses are rolled up, the attacks on the infrastructure continue and even increase.
Dark Night of the Soul (75% – 80%)
Mystery 20 – The commanders of Delta and the Activity place the full resources of multiple teams on Scott to figure out if he is the perp of the worst terrorist attack in US history. Scott was a plank owner for the AFO G Squadron and an expert in singleton intelligence operations which he perfected at the Activity. If he is the perp, they will have him killed.
Life Threatening Event 20 – Jennifer is confronted by operators from Delta’s F Squadron warning her off, hinting that they will take care of their own.
Life Threatening Event 21 – When Jennifer does not drop it, she is abducted a block from Scott’s home, taken to an unknown location with a black hood over her head and hands cuffed behind her back.
ACT III
Break into Act III (80%)
Mystery 21 – Does the DoD or Delta have evidence that Scott is the perp?
Life Threatening Event 22 – Released, Jennifer manages to get through surveillance to confront Scott at his home and question him.
Finale (80% – 99%)
Life Threatening Event 23 – Jennifer is picked back up when she leaves Scott’s house. Rather than threatening her, a DIA operative offers her an opportunity to switch from the FBI over to either the DIA or NSA with an increase in pay grade.
Mystery 22 – While Scott appears to be safe, he prepares to leave for South America. Why does he leave and why are the attacks continuing?
Villain’s Plan 18 – Finish and escape to live another day.
Mystery 23 – Scott leaves for Brazil.
Final Image (99% – 100%)
Scott is assassinated in Ireland (or Sao Paulo, Brazil?) by an IC contractor who once worked for Scott at the Intelligence Support Activity while Jennifer watches from a concealed position.
Direction: Jennifer has dedicated 10 years to the FBI and plans on it as a career.
Twist: She resigns from the FBI, hired at the DIA then volunteers for the Activity.
</div>
Log in to reply.