FVIA Year 2 Interactive Film project 2011

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After the end of World War II the world was split into two—east and west this marked the beginning of the new era called the Cold War.

COMMANDER

I’ve got some important news. The CIA has given us the green light for the mission.

jack

Talk to me.

COMMANDER

About two years ago. A certain Soviet scientist requested asylum in the West through one of our spies. His name is Nikolai Sokolov. The head of the BTC-755 Design Bureau, one of Soviets’ top-secret weapon research facilities.

JACK

Sokolov...isn’t he that famous rocket scientist?

COMMANDER

The very same one. On April 12 1961 the Soviets achieved the first space flight in history. The rocket that carried Yuri Gagarin into orbit was the A1, also known as the Vostok 3KA-3 but Sokolov is said to be the man most responsible for the multi-engine cluster used in that rocket.

JACK
From a lowly technician to head of a Design Bureau, That’s quite an achievement but why’d he want to defect?

COMMANDER

It seems he’d become afraid of his own creation.

JACK
Is that why he lifts his country and his family behind and went over the fence?

COMMANDER

Not exactly. One of his conditions was that his family was also to be taken safely to the West. We used our spies to get the family out first. And succeeded in sneaking Sokolov over the Berlin Wall. I was the one who conducted the operation.

JACK
Then what?

COMMANDER

We got Sokolov over in one piece but the whole ordeal head lift him exhausted. We checked him into a hospital in west Berlin it took use two weeks and more than 500 miles to get him from the research facility in the Soviet Union to Berlin. He was in no condition to say anything coherent and it was only a week later that we had a much bigger problem.

JACK
The Cuban Missile Crisis.

COMMANDER

Indeed. On October 16th 1962 President Kennedy received word that the Soviets were in the process of deploying intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba. The President demanded that the Soviets dismantle and remove the missiles at the same time, he announced a Blockade to prevent further missile shipments from reaching Cuba, But the Soviets didn’t back down. Instead of placing their armed forces on secondary alert the Soviet transported ships carrying missiles to continue on course towards Cuba. The US and Soviet forces went on red alert an all-out nuclear war. Frantic negotiations were conducted through United Nation’s Emergency Security Council to end the standoff. Finally, on October 28th the Soviet Union agreed to remove its missiles from Cuba and so the world avoided a nuclear holocaust. But in order to get the Soviets to pull out the missiles we had to make a deal.

JACK
So what did the Russians really want?

COMMANDER

Sokolov, they wanted us to return Sokolov.

JACK
You mean to say the Soviets pulled out of Cuba just to get their hands on Sokolov?

COMMANDER

That's right.

JACK

What the hell was he working on?

COMMANDER

At that time we had no idea, we were running out of time. It was either give up Sokolov or risks a full-scale nuclear war, but in the end we had no choice. President Kennedy gave into Nikita Khrushchev demands. The next day I got Sokolov out of the hospital and handed him over to the Russian agents on the eastern front. Sokolov kept on screaming ’Save me’ until he disappeared from my sight. Then a month ago, we received some new information from one of our spies.

JACK
About Sokolov?

COMMANDER

Yes. He was taken back to the research facility and forced to continue working on the weapon in question under KGB supervision and what’s more the weapon it’s on the verge of completion.

JACK
What is this weapon?

COMMANDER

Missiles.

JACK
Some technology?

COMMANDER
No. It appears to be a new kind of nuclear missile device. Our satellite showed in the last 9 month the soviets have been conducting frequent nuclear test at Semipalatinsk.

JACK
Something to do with the weapon I assume.

COMMANDER

We are talking about a secret weapon so big that Khrushchev was ready to pull out of Cuba to get it back.

JACK
Is Sokolov still in the facility?

COMMANDER

No. According to our information he’s in Astana.

JACK
Kazakhstan?

COMMANDER

Yes. Apparently they’re conducting a new field test program for the weapon. Jack this mission would never have been possible if he were still in the research facility. This is out best chance to get him back. You need to infiltrate him and mark the drop off point. Time is taking. Do you accept this mission--YES/NO.