Crimson Queen

Synopsis

BILL NORRIS, 40s, wakes up in a forest. He has pain in his head. He is confused. How did he end up in the forest? Bill makes it into town but finds that his girlfriend is gone, bank accounts cashed-out, and his business closed.

Bill discovers he has amnesia and his injury is causing blackouts and dreams that are actually missing memories.

Bill's former lover, ELLY STOCKS, gets him to hospital after a blackout. Due to the injury the hospital informs DETECTIVE BRUCE, who interviews Bill and looks into Bill’s “missing” girlfriend, Allison. He finds her living with Bill’s former employee, FREDDIE ZANE, in a Maine fishing town. A cop interviews her.

Through his dreams, Bill recalls catching Freddie and Allison using his shipping company to traffic Pink Meth for TONY SERPIENTE, a Columbian cartel lieutenant.

Bill tells Bruce and DETECTIVE WILLIAMSON. They're skeptical about his story but look into it. They find that Freddie is the agent for a Cayman company that owns a fish plant. They learn that the DEA believes that Tony Serpiente is behind the pink meth. Bruce visits the fish plant.

At the plant, Tony, Allison and Freddie plan for fishing boats to pick up pink meth from a fish factory ship offshore. The cops visit the plant too late. While there, Bill leaves a note on their card with two words - “Crimson Queen” - a Panamanian Fish Factory Ship which just refuelled in Boston.

After the cop's visit, Allison is shaken to hear that Bill is around. She has inexplicable encounters with him. After an erie nightmare, she goes to the forest where she and Freddie left Bill and finds an empty shallow grave. She tells Freddie. Worried, their drug business will be blown, they kidnap Bill and Elly, locking them in a fishing boat hold, involved in the pickup of drugs at sea.

Later, the fishing boat approaches the Crimson Queen. Bill and Elly escape and take control of the boat. Bill steers the boat and rams it up the ship's sloped stern. The boat is lodged on the ship. Freddie and crew storm the wheelhouse. Bill is knocked unconscious.

On the Crimson Queen, the Captain decides to sail back to port for repairs. Tony is furious and cuts Freddie's throat. The boat off the ship is lifted off the ship and set loose. Adrift, Bill gets the engines started and sends a Mayday call.

The DEA tracks the Crimson Queen and prepares to ambush the ship in the harbour area. SWAT teams prepare to raid the plant, Allison’s home and the ship when it arrives.

The ship sails in. SWAT teams swoop. A helicopter drops men on the ship; the plant is stormed; Allison is quickly picked up at her home. The Crimson Queen is taken along with the bad guys.

Days later, Bill and Elly meet. Bill tells Elly that he has to leave. He gives her a package for Bruce. Upset and confused, she gives the envelope to Bruce. It's GPS coordinates, which leads the cops to the forest, and a grave. The body is identified as Bill Norris. For the cops it's inexplicable.

Days later, Bruce meets Elly to tell her about the grave. She had a feeling it was Bill and that he came back to put things right and I feel we may see him again. From the trees someone watches Bruce and Elly walk away together.

THE END