SECTION ONE - El Niño
The boy’s past and fate.
The boy’s relationship to El Patroncito. He is curious (more so than in previous text)
Dogs in Chamula. Cocodrillo, the colectivo driver.
The boy’s relationship to La Fuente.
La Fuente’s home.
The Anglo and his Pill.
The ruins of Hacienda La Fuente and a baobab stump. The job of the Anglo: broadcasting random numbers via low power transmitter. La Fuente calls him a spy. The Spy.
La Fuente’s religious angle: mayan mysticism from her old muchacha.
The Talking Cross. La Fuente tells the boy an old mayan cross talks to her in a field.
The boy and the Spy become closer.
The Spy teaches the boy about the use of an OTP (cryptographic one-time-pad).
The boy’s teacher (Adara).
FLASHBACK {The truth about Hacienda La Fuente. El Bisabuelo (El Patron de la Fuente), his GOLEM, his beautiful muchacha india, his spurned wife. A horrific event. The great house burned to its foundations. El Patron is killed in the fire. The arsonist is his son in law. The girl El Patron wronged, his own granddaughter, is left to live in the waterworks of the old estate. She lives there alone with her old mystical muchacha. The girl becomes La Fuente. Their illegitimate son goes to live in San Cristobal to fill in his bisabuelo’s footsteps. The footsteps of El Patron. The boy becomes known as El Patroncito. The GOLEM roams free, loose of his Patron’s intentions.}
The boy’s father, AKA the Spook.
The boy and Adara. He prays for protection from the GOLEM at the Talking Cross. A pistol appears at the foot of the cross.
SECTION TWO – El Espia
Assassination in San Cristobal by the GOLEM.
FLASHBACK {The Spy’s memories of Invasion of Panama. El Escogido, The Chosen One. Who is the chosen and for what? Rescued by the Spook (the boy’s father) in DF}
The job and historical, electrical innovations in Mexico and not in Mexico
The new transmitter and its usage. FLASHBACK {The rest of the story: the Spy’s job in Chamula }
El Patroncito’s relationship with the Spy {El Patroncito’s relationship to the Spook’s job for the Spy}
Cocodrillo drives boy to San Cristobal in his colectivo. El Patroncito’s visit with the boy. {Story of la muchacha india, her soul eaten by a dog. La Fuente searches for her soul and protects the dogs in Chamula.}
The Spook arrives in San Cristobal, presses for more from the Spy, into the job.
The Pill, return of.
Adara’s “molojov coctele.” She steers the Spy advertently away from finding the OTP, como los jovenes in the parks. Overt connections to Panama, obvious to Adara
El OTP presente. Inside a dog hit by car in San Cristobal’s central park. Boy finds it. Aided by Cocodrillo.
The Spy seeks the OTP. Clues lead him back to Chamula.
The revenge on la muchacha through the dogs is El Patroncito’s manipulation.
Dogs in Chamula, dead. (some torn up “OTP doggie style”) La Fuente is dying, she has poisoned her dogs. She gives the Spy the OTP from the boy.
FLASHBACK {uncover the reason for the work the Spook has the Spy do. Chamulans use Spy’s made up numbers for Loteria. “Find the OTP,” says the Talking Cross.}
Talking Cross tells the Spy “Slam Arc On It. E.” Helicopters hang in the Chamula sky.
FLASHBACK {El Chorillo, Panama City, 1989. Experimental weapons test. The Spy’s invention, Ice Cream Truck, draws out a young boy into courtyard. Unexpected (to the young Spy) Death Ray melts the boy’s rescuing mother.}
Spy returns to San Cristobal. {Why was the Spook’s call sign “E?”} Cryptogram: “Trade La Fuente for “some names”.
SECTION THREE - El Cliquero
Mexican military hunts El Cliquero: the GOLEM. Pay for the death of the boy.
FLASHBACK {The boy’s death in front of El Cliquero}
Adara helps El Cliquero (she reveals she works with EZLN) {“The world must end through you.”}
El Cliquero and Spook. Learns of the Spook’s role in Panama.
El Cliquero matches PSYOP patch on yeoman’s fatigues to the Spy.
FLASHBACK {Origin of El Cliquero. Panama. Helicopter. The Spy’s invention: Ice Cream Truck. The Spook’s invention: The Death Ray. El Cliquero brought under Ice Cream Truck’s audio mind control. His mother killed by death ray. His face burnt by her melted flesh.}
El Cliquero’s wrath, his destiny. If he is a GOLEM, he is an accidental GOLEM. He chases the Spy.
Spy returns from Chamula with the true OTP.
Helicopter rotors reveal the truth. Slam Arc On It. E. {Spy’s POV. How does knowing this reveal what is in the Spook’s head? All along he has wanted to make contact with Nikola Tesla and G. Marconi locked away in their subterranean city hideout. }
The Spook is dead. {The GOLEM?}
Countdown to the Spy.
Mexican NASCAR. Colectivo driver takes a bullet for the Spy.
The Spy is caught in El Cliquero’s sights. Clicker: 000.
The Spy’s mayan sermon. Adara observes in slo-motion.
Who is El Cliquero?
SECTION FOUR
The Spy’s replacement message and multiple targets {DF, La ciudad subteranea de los Andes, the boy}
The Spy’s proposed journey to the Andes.
FLASHBACK {Origin of the Spook}
The GOLEM
There are underlying stories and there is a process of revelation through the present day action.
What are the underlying stories?
The story of Hacienda La Fuente.
The story of the Death Ray in Operation Just Cause, 1989.
What are the overlying stories?
An American spy is hiding from his past, and in attempting to avoid it, involves himself in something far worse.
A spy, a young boy, and a Mexican teacher form a bond under the influence of a mystical old woman.
The motivations for a CIA spook’s terrible acts come to light—he is trying to contact Nikola Tesla and a subterranean city deep in the Andes.
An old man schemes to reclaim his place as rightful heir to an estate with a horrific past—by summoning the family’s long dormant golem.
And old woman struggles to find spiritual remnants of her loving muchacha
