Black Sunrise

This is intended as a five part serial for TV. The attached document includes two sample episodes and a detailed treatment. Episode 1 - ‘Alliances’ In a small northern town ex-soldier Pete Hunter, physically and mentally scarred by his Afghanistan experiences and disturbed by the increasing dysfunction of UK society, is rescued from homelessness by his brother Doug who persuades him to join alt.right group The Ayran Alliance. This is covertly controlled by the London-based League of the Black Sun, founded by Max, a former 1960s rock star with occult obsessions, and his partner, Mosleyite heiress and neo-pagan Lady Diana Waterford. Against a background of increasing disruption from identarian terror groups MI5 tasks Chelsea, a young agent and graduate in artificial intelligence, to infiltrate the AA and its connections with the League, while Diana sees leadership potential in Pete - who is soon befriended by Chelsea. Under a mask of ‘community service’, the AA is training a youth militia overseen by another ex-soldier Sweeney, who is sexually abusing Billy, an under-age recruit. Doug and Pete can’t restrain Sweeney from committing GBH on students at an anti-racist demonstration in which Ross, another AA recruit, is killed and Billy arrested. Sweeney goes into hiding, protected by Doug but under police interrogation Billy reveals Sweeney’s abuse, which goes public. Max decides that Sweeney is a dangerous embarrassment who must be eliminated. As a test of his fitness for promotion to the League, Pete is ordered to kill him, in a gruesome occult ritual at Diana’s country house. Episode 2 - ‘Initiations’ Pete, traumatised by his role in Sweeney’s murder, has no option but to join the League. His initiation, which is visceral and orgiastic, involves taking a psychoactive stimulant that is being developed for Max by his chemist friend and ex-lover Mycroft, who claims it will reinforce latent psychic powers. But Mycroft relies on his assistant Stella, whose Anglo-Indian ‘Ayran’ ancestry has to be concealed from the rest of the League. Under pressure from MI5 to dig deeper, Chelsea’s professional judgement becomes skewed, resulting in her taking the new drug and sleeping with Doug. She is alarmed by oppressive dreams of a Black Sun. However she persuades Doug that she should visit the League HQ in London and ask them to re-affirm his authority in the Alliance - while privately informing Diana of his incompetence and her desire to be initiated in the League, whatever transgressions are involved. In a government bunker under Whitehall, the Prime Minister, various cabinet members, MI5 staff and General George Barber consider the deteriorating security situation, after a series of incidents that have culminated in the bombing of a London school. The PM asks the General about the possibility of military intervention, prompting the General to remember an afternoon in the 1970s when his younger cousin Diana tried to persuade him to join her neo-pagan Companions of Woden and plan a military coup against the socialist government of the day. In the North, an embittered Billy and his AA youth challenge Doug’s leadership by holding an unauthorised benefit for Ross’s family featuring Billy’s band Blitzkreig. When Doug tries to reassert control, he’s shouted down and Billy is proclaimed leader. Doug is forced to hide, but Billy and his supporters track him down. Chelsea is now expected to prove her commitment to the League by killing Doug in a rite of fire. Episode Three - ‘Visions’ Chelsea braves marauding gangs as she drives down to London for her meeting with the League. Billy meanwhile decides to establish an Ayran Homeland across the North as a prelude to seizing the Midlands and London. They seize Diana’s Lancashire mansion, Dunlavin Hall, as their base. Max visits Andy, an old music business friend who lives in a converted Cold War bunker near London, to promote the re-release of his old album with its subliminal prompts, and expand networks for distributing his psycho-active drug. Max sees through Chelsea’s pretexts for contacting the League and asks what skills she can offer. To Diana’s alarm he asks Chelsea about her knowledge of artificial intelligence and the possibility of creating a cyber-entity in the ‘Interspace’ of the internet, combining magic and technology. Diana’s hostility towards Max increases when mixed-race Stella appears as a participant in Chelsea’s initiation ceremony. Pete confronts Chelsea and learns the truth about his brother’s death. She challenges him about his murder of Doug. They realise they are both pawns of the League now, surrounded by the riots and desperate revelries of a city in chaos. Chelsea is abducted by Mycroft. At his lab he and Stella channel messages that Chelsea must translate into code to create a cyber-entity that will go viral on the internet and generate extreme paranormal phenomena. The working is powered by tantric sex and their psychoactive drug use. Pete realises that he can’t return to the AA in the North and there is no future for him in the League. He joins the Squad, an ex-soldiers’ looter gang, and lives in the moment. Imagery of the Black Sun and its sigil is propagating on the Web, on TV networks and even manifesting as graffiti. Digital storage, communication and control systems are constantly disrupted. Chelsea escapes from Mycroft’s lab and tries to make contact with Mark in the ‘safe zone’ of Westminster. But he dismisses her claim that occult forces are at work. Her only refuge is the League’s HQ. As Pete and the Squad advance down the Mall, they see Buckingham Place in flames and helicopters flying through the smoke. Episode 4 - ‘Manifestations’ General Barber announces martial law and vows to protect London and the South East. Billy’s fiefdom in the North suffers famine and his followers are turning to witchcraft. Billy blames Asians for the deprivations and provokes anti-Muslim riots in which food and property are seized. He begins an Ayran Alliance Crusade to capture Bradford and surrounding territories as a prelude to marching on the Midlands and London. He also negotiates with the Farm Guard, initially a defence body for farmers, which now enslaves refugees from the cities to work on the land. Billy offers protection and Asian prisoners in return for food. He also works with the Scourge, a Liverpool/ex IRA gang who run deceptive people-smuggling operations to and from a collapsing Irish Republic. They can supply weapons in return for Billy’s loot. His deals are sealed with feasting and the personal adult services of the Smile Club. In London Diana finally denounces Max for the loss of Dunlavin Hall, for his dangerous strategy of nurturing rival terrorist groups, and for departing from true Ayran lore, as well as dabbling with technology and introducing a non-white member. She claims to have the support of the majority of the League. Max is unconcerned, telling Mycroft, Stella and Chelsea that they’ll have a new base for their work. He leads them through a labyrinth of tunnels under London to Andy’s bunker/studio which he commandeers. Pete now realises the futility of the ongoing gang warfare in London. The Squad cannot continue looting indefinitely and order has to restored somehow. Diana reaches out to General Barber, imploring him to send a task force to reclaim Dunlavin. When he refuses she decides to mount her own expedition with her League followers and bodyguards. Billy’s Blitzkrieg tactics culminate in the Battle of Bradford in which the Asians are driven out of the city and head south for the rumoured safety of London. Pete refuses to lead Diana’s expedition or to join her in a ritual directed at Max. Instead, he offers his services to Barber but is frustrated by the General’s passivity in dealing with the threat from the North. Max now believes that he can use the cyber-entity to contact alien intelligences. Chelsea is sceptical but a cryptic language reverberates through the bunker - coinciding with an earth tremor in London. Episode 5 - ‘Revelations’ Max rejoices in the chaos he’s provoked and the paranormal energies he has released via his fusion of magic and cybernetics. Diana and her party move through a surreal British landscape fought over by the rival militias. They are attacked by the Salafist Brotherhood outside a church and Diana is wounded. Max wants Stella to help him sacrifice Mycroft and direct the energies against Diana. Stella accuses Max of cowardice and challenges him to eliminate Mycroft himself in physical combat. They fight hand-hand but also use their abilities of psychokinesis and misdirection. Max finally kills his adversary. Energised by Mycroft’s death agonies, Max utters a curse against Diana, invoking a spirit of darkness within the Black Sun, which possesses her. A priest attempts to exorcise her but she dies. Barber learns of her death and regrets his failure to support his cousin, while Pete recalls the horrors he committed on her behalf. They argue about her legacy. Barber is close to breakdown while Pete is distracted by a personal agenda - to find Chelsea. Billy is ready to move south but misinformed by his witch-women he mistakenly believes that Max is now running the show in London, controlling Barber to protect the League. The AA troops are told that London is a treasure trove of loot. From there, they can drive the foreign devils back across the Channel. Pete is leading a reconnaissance group out of London In the Government crisis bunker, we hear him reporting that a large AA force is approaching Oxford. But Barber isn’t listening. He goes out to Whitehall and commits suicide by the Cenotaph Billy’s forces enter North Oxford. Chelsea finally succeeds in contacting Pete although they are fighting comrades now rather than potential lovers. Oxford is saved, thanks to Pete’s tactics, while Chelsea kills Billy. The demoralised Ayran Alliance forces retreat. Pete has won the battle but not the war, as Chelsea warns him, revealing her true identity and the possible extent of Max’s trans-human ambitions. Max reveals his real agenda to Stella. From the start his project was about more than establishing white supremacy, or opposing Islamic terrorism. The Entity in the Interspace, summoned through the portal of the Black Sun, is following its own logic, feeding on our destructive emotions to generate sub-entities and energies. But it is a necessary stage in human evolution and well worth the sacrifices - for the emergence of a New Man who can conquer the Solar System and the Stars, engaging with extra-terrestrial intelligences. He and Stella repeat the cryptic message. Max looks up to the dawn skies. A huge spherical form is descending, obscuring the sun like a solar eclipse. In the ruins of London Pete and Chelsea watch overawed, wondering who or what will emerge from the enigma of the Black Sun... END OF SERIES ONE