Agent Triple X and the Mystery of the Jebusite Tattoo

Creator: Catherine Lilai
Age rating: 17 and older
Antiquities agent Ivy Rousseau, anthropologist for the Louvré Musee finds herself in North Africa to retrieve a priceless Levantine Relic but instead confronts the conspiracy of the high tech game
Project collaboration: Open
Full synopsis
Synopsis: In an effort to recapture the glory of France, Paris’ Louvré Museum, in a joint venture with the
French Ministry of Culture have sought out the most promising archaeologists in France,
graduates of the Sorbonne and offered them training in the field of intelligence. Combining the
skills of anthropology and intelligence it has provided the French Ministry of Culture with highly
trained agents to pursue its mandate; the retrieval of lost or stolen French artifacts turning up on
the European and Asian black markets.

Ivy Rousseau is Agent Triple X, head operative for the ARU, Antiquities Recovery Unit. She
has been assigned the task of recovering the Slingshot of David, said to have once been the
property of Dr Elias Magus, a learned and respected Parisian Jew who disappeared under the
occupation of the Nazis during WW2. Intel to hand has revealed the artifact is on its way to the
mysterious Fortress of Devil’s Mouth, a 13th century Moorish castle located on an island off the
coast of Algiers, known to be the headquarters of a shadowy mercenary organisation called
CIFHER. Little is known about the organization only that their name has been linked to
notorious Somalian smuggler, Abu Makesh wanted by Interpol in connection with the
disappearance of a large arms cache bound for Israel that disappeared in the Northern
Mediterranean sea.

In the dead of night, Agent Triple X is secretly dropped off on Devil’s Mouth by the French
Navy. Following the brief, she makes her way across the island to Smuggler’s Cove where it is
rumoured the artifact is to be dropped off. But within minutes of the ship’s arrival the agent soon
discovers France is not the only country pursuing the artifact. Israel too claims ownership. The
suave and deadly Daniel Cohen, agent of the Israeli Antiquities Authority has also been sent to
retrieve the artifact. After a brief confrontation with Cohen the smuggler’s arrive. Here the agent
manages to slip away from the IAA agent ready to confront the enemy alone. When the ship
anchors, the agent quickly discovers that the brief was wrong only to learn the true nature of the
Devil’s Mouth operation. Suddenly she is confronted by the darker side of big business that
involves an alluring assassin, an international slave ring leading her inside the murderous world
of conflict minerals.

Latest Work

  • Script 1 - Catherine's Original Draft
    01/19/12
    Creative Notes:
    My agents are strong female protagonists disillusioned with the system residing in Paris where the consequences of war reverberate long after Western Governments remove it from their agendas. I created a body of intelligence operatives willing to return to the East and rebuild culture fractured by war.
    RTF