Synopsis of “Mississippi Sizzling” aka "Welcome to New Pandoria"
Jim Garfield: Jim Garfield is a rising star in the world of organized crime. As a young inmate, he was adopted into The Scholars, a Texas prison club e\devoted to the study of lucrative opportunity. His parole officer, Ulysses Grant Johnson, recognizes Garfield’s prodigious talents and shares ideas and sensitive information with his glowing prospect.
Along with fellow Scholars, Ray Bohm and David Hunter Duncan, Jim Garfield orchestrates a designer drug empire, believing that designer drugs will attract less attention than things like methamphetamine. The bulk of the unnamed triumvirate’s revenue stems from an illegal but highly effective, intelligence-enhancing drug appropriately labeled as “Smart.”
Inspired by previous bioterrorist attacks directed against Houston law enforcement and persuaded by mad chemist, Joe Fungo, Garfield and Federal Probation Officer, Mary Elizabeth Jones orchestrates a chemical attack on neighboring Waller County. The plot goes awry, resulting in a higher than anticipated casualty list as well as the deaths of two small children.
Garfield blames Fungo for the collateral damage and plots to put a bullet in his scalp. His plan is interrupted by a phone call from his close associate, David Hunter Duncan. David announces that his son has been arrested in Northern Mississippi on drug charges.
Duncan is in a bind. As a lottery winner, he could raise bail for his son, Delbert Wayne, but Delbert insists that he would be a sitting duck if he were to remain on house arrest without weapons. Without the knowledge that Garfield was behind, the Waller County attack, David Hunter Duncan quizzes his friend about the fate of the Waller County inmates.
Hoping that a similar chemical attack on Memphis, Tennessee will result in his son’s release, David and mutual friend, Ray Bohm launch an amateurish chlorine gas attack on Shelby County, TN. Frightened by the ineptitude of the operation that Garfield believes could lead authorities back to him, Jim decides to temporarily spare Joe Fungo’s life and to introduce him to David Hunter Duncan.
The reclusive chemist and the brain-damaged biker hit it off better than Garfield expects they would. Fungo informs Duncan that he is capable of manufacturing methamphetamine; a product that Garfield thought would draw too much attention. Fungo upgrades the attack operations, launching a biochemical attack that hospitalizes Delbert Wayne’s lawyer who dies as a result of hospital malpractice.
Fungo launches a second attack involving a stolen airplane loaded with nerve gas. This resulted in further collateral damage but does not improve the fate of Delbert Wayne Duncan. Fearful that David will attempt something even more outrageous, Garfield sends a team of amateur assassins to Northern Mississippi to kill the only witness < > who can keep Delbert Wayne behind bars. This plan is foiled by the witness’s eleven-year-old daughter who nullifies the home invasion with her .410 shotgun.
Ulysses: Ulysses Grant Johnson is a Harris County probation officer who has shown an aptitude for organized crime. He carries a bipolar diagnosis that contributes to his flamboyance, his impulsivity and his recklessness.
Ulysses accepts treatment overseen by his father but Senior Johnson suffers a stroke and Ulysses is left to the tender mercies of his older brother, Tecumseh Sherman Johnson, Jr. Junior escapes his brother’s imprisonment, and visits old associates in an effort to establish his own criminal franchise.
Ulysses fails to recruit any major players until he reads about an attempt on the life of a “super snitch” in Northern Mississippi who happens to be the sole witness to the crimes of Delbert Wayne Duncan. Delbert Wayne is the son of David Hunter Duncan, a former Harris County parolee and lottery winner. It will later be revealed that Ulysses has played a part in getting Delbert Wayne and other Houstonians to move to the Memphis, Tennessee area in an effort to expand the Johnson empire.
Ulysses strikes a deal with David Hunter Duncan to eliminate the super snitch and hires an amateur hitman to shoot James CharlesPearce during a Sunday service at an underground church. The hitman in turn recruits the nine-year-old son of his girlfriend to complete the task. The child wounds but does not kill Pearce. A car chase ensues, and Sheriff Leonard Drain and FBI agents Bob Henderson and Judy Hunnsicker crash head-on into the small Chinese care containing the juvenile shooter, his mother, and their ringleader. The law enforcement personnel survive the crash, but the budding crime family perishes.
Without medication, Ulysses' grandeur progresses rapidly. His renewed flamboyance is accompanied by religious insight. He purchases a purple Civic that he takes to the <Dailey> County street drags. As he contemplates his life’s purpose—to harmonize the yin of Eden with the yang of reason, the true message of Christ—Ulysses crashes his Civic, resulting in his death, as well as the death of a young pregnant woman.
Kurt Olson: Kurt Olson is a DEA agent whose career has stalled. Having been caught in an act of petty theft, he greatly overestimates the trouble he is in and secretly goes to work for “The Enemies List.” He oversees two computer geniuses who plant child pornography on the devices of bad actors. Completing the operation with flying colors, he is surprised to learn that he has been assigned a follow-up mission in Mississippi.
Olson’s new assignment is to surreptitiously place narcotics in the trunk of a car belonging to the son of a gubernatorial candidate. That plan is foiled by a security system designed and marketed by the target. Olson is then given the order to assassinate the gubernatorial candidate.
As Olson stalks Eva Marie Taffy, he notices that she is also being followed by a trio of Central Americans. They, too, seem to want to harm Taffy. Olson gains access to Taffy’s home and plans to put a slug in her skull, but he is unnerved by a photo of Taffy’s deceased daughter, who seems to be staring at him.
Convinced that his life is in shambles but that he can gain status as a law enforcement folk hero, Olson continues his mission to assassinate a candidate who wants to eliminate all drug laws. He catches up to Taffy two days before the election in the parking lot of a football stadium.
Moments before pulling the trigger, Olson spots the trio who had been stalking Taffy. Before he can figure out their intentions, one of the team shoots Taffy’s state trooper bodyguard in the back of the head. Olson reacts. He slays the killers as he endures a nonfatal would. Eva Marie Taffy also suffers a nonfatal wound at the hands of the Central Americans and receives the sympathy vote to elect her governor two days later.
Judy Hunnsicker: Judy Hunnsicker is a divorced LDS FBI agent who cultivates a relationship with a senior FBI agent via a shared sexual fetish. She wins the heart of the married Bob Henderson and while participating in “The FBI’s D-Day,” the roundup of thousands of members of the Mexican Alliance scattered across southern states, things go awry. Agents Henderson and Hunnsicker visit the home of Sheriff Leonard Drain where a message comes across the scanner that there was a shooting at a nearby church whose congregation consisted entirely of law enforcement members and their families (see Ulysses synopsis.)
The sheriff loads up his LTD with his two guests and rightly predicts the shooter’s escape route. They give chase, and shots are fired. The tiny Chinese car suddenly reverses course and straddles the centerline. Sheriff Drain does not budge, and the two cars crash at a high rate of speed.
The three LEO’s survive the head-on crash, but the passengers in the other car are not so fortunate (or possibly unfortunate, given the severity of the wounds and injuries suffered by the survivors.)
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