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CRYPTO

CRYPTO
By Joe Suba

GENRE: Action
LOGLINE:

A mathematics savant is held hostage by an international crime syndicate forcing him to hack stolen crypto-currency wallets.  His only hope for survival rests with his three uncles who must use their police and military training to track him down and kill his captors.

SYNOPSIS:

The story begins when a twenty year-old mathematics savant named WALLY is offered a job by an old friend of his deceased mother named HARRY. Harry has been tasked with a cross-country truck shipment that allegedly requires the kind of technical expertise and mathematical calculations that Wally excels in. But when Harry and Wally arrive to pick up the truck, their suspicions are aroused by the cryptic and enigmatic manner of their employer ILONA, a sullen and sultry Russian woman who puts Wally through a series of tests to assess his skills. Before long, Wally finds himself breaking into crypto-currency wallets that Ilona claims belong to her company, and have been rendered obsolete by improperly encrypted passwords.

Although there is no trace of Wally or Harry, the brothers manage to bump into a former NYPD officer anamed VICTOR that they both know personally. Victor claims to work for the trucking company that was going to hire Wally and Harry, but seems to have little information about their whereabouts. Ray and Lee suspect Victor is lying, but without proof, they decide to explore a garage downtown where the man who put Harry onto the trucking job is employed. Unfortunately, when the brothers arrive at the garage there is a cohort of trained mercenaries waiting for them. The mercenaries knock them out, kidnap them, and take them to the safe house where Harry was murdered.

Back at the safe house, Lee and Ray are in a dire predicament. Strangely, despite being bound and tortured, they are comforted by a GPS tracker that is attached to Ray’s leg and remains undiscovered by the Russian mercenaries working for Mikhail. As the brothers wait in captivity, we find out that the crooked cop Victor also works for Mikail. Victor tells Alex that he can’t just murder two ranking NYPD officers and expect to get away with it. He explains that it has to be made to look like an accident, or the NYPD will retaliate. Alex leaves the scene to consult Mikhail while Victor goes into hiding and awaits further instructions. But shortly after their conversation, a man in a dark SUV arrives at the safe house and blasts his way inside. With the skill of an experienced veteran of special operations warfare, he kills the mercenaries and rescues Lee and Ray. When the rescue is complete, we find out that the man in the dark SUV is a third brother named TROY with a background in counter-intelligence. Troy explains to his brothers that he uncovered the trucking company’s shell corporation and did some digging into Wally’s captors. He tells Lee and Ray that Wally will be murdered in a matter of hours unless they are able to track down Mikhail and his network and kill them all. After some difficult deliberation, Lee and Ray agree to team up with Troy in what seems like an impossible mission to save their nephew, keeping a sacred promise they made to Wally’s mother before she died.

With Wally safe again, it’s an emotional moment for the family. But Troy warns them they can’t rest yet. He explains that Mikail, Alex, and Ilona must all be killed as soon as possible or they will regroup and hunt the brothers and Wally down. In a bold move, Ilona calls Wally and tries to make a bid for the hard drives. Troy tells Wally to agree, and they prepare to give her back the drives as a way to leverage her for information. But Ilona is sly and decides to use the brothers for her own interests by luring Alex and his men to the scene. In a huge shootout the brothers kill Alex and his men and take Alex’s phone, but not before Alex shoots Ilona in the chest, not knowing she is wearing a flack vest.

All seems to end well, until the last scene when we find out that Ilona’s flack vest helped her survive the shootout. In a cliffhanger we discover that Wally has been secretly working with her, smitten by her beauty and charm, and once again facing a dangerous world of international crime.

Abdusamad Shafiev

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