Movie Title: Dusty Streets
Genre: Political Thriller / Action / Crime Noir
Written by: Joseph C. Jukic
Starring:
- David Hill as Mayor David Hill, a reformer trying to save his city
- Pierce Brosnan as Alistair Drake, a shadowy MI6 fixer with murky loyalties
- Joe Jukic as Agent Intrepid, a rogue CSIS operative haunted by truth
- Special Cameo: Archive footage and deepfake simulations of George W. Bush as himself
Logline:
In a city choking on fentanyl and corruption, three unlikely allies — a righteous mayor, a haunted spy, and a rebel Canadian agent — expose the hidden hand of the CIA’s darkest secret: a global drug cartel born from Skull and Bones and protected by presidents.
Tone:
Traffic meets Sicario meets The Constant Gardener with shades of Jason Bourne and Three Days of the Condor. Dark, stylish, gritty, and unrelenting. Neon lights flicker over empty fentanyl baggies. Every dusty street hides blood, betrayal, or both.
Treatment:
Act I: The Smog of Peace
Vancouver is dying slowly — not from war, but from overdose. Every alley and clinic is a morgue. Mayor David Hill, a populist former teacher, fights to clean up the city’s image and protect his people. But every attempt to ban safe supply or investigate big pharma is blocked — by someone high up.
At the same time, MI6 operative Alistair Drake arrives quietly in Vancouver. Officially, he’s retired. Unofficially, he’s following a money trail that links fentanyl profits to the old Anglo-American elite — the same network he once served.
CSIS field agent Intrepid (Joe Jukic) is sent to surveil Drake but quickly finds himself blacklisted after he stumbles upon an encrypted dossier codenamed “Black Ivy” — linking Skull and Bones at Yale to a long-standing CIA drug pipeline. The last entry? “Mission Control: Vancouver.”
Act II: The Bones Beneath
Mayor Hill invites whistleblowers and journalists to a secret roundtable. That night, a journalist’s car explodes. Hill realizes he’s crossed into something far bigger than civic politics. He reaches out to Intrepid through backchannels.
Drake reveals he once brokered a heroin-for-arms deal in Afghanistan that funded off-the-books CIA operations in the early 2000s. The signature on the op? George W. Bush, then Texas Governor, tied to the “Tomb Sons” — a Skull and Bones offshoot that still controls covert CIA black sites, legal fentanyl flows, and even pharma lobbying arms.
As Vancouver drowns in death, the trio of unlikely allies unite — a mayor, a MI6 ghost, and a rogue CSIS analyst — to expose the network. But the deeper they dig, the more operatives surface: DEA agents on foreign payrolls, biotech billionaires laundering profits, and rogue RCMP commanders who serve the Shadow Charter, a hidden appendix to NAFTA that legally protects intelligence-backed trafficking.
Act III: Dust to Dust
Their investigation leads to an offshore server on a barge in the Pacific, where drone footage, satellite pings, and Bush-era war memos reveal the cartel’s true origin: a continuity operation created after Iran-Contra, now fueled by Chinese precursors, Afghan fields, and Yale-born death merchants.
In a climactic sequence, Hill stands on the steps of Vancouver City Hall, refusing to back down. Drake distracts a CIA kill team by walking into their ambush with a wired confession. Intrepid hacks into a CSIS satellite link and livestreams the full truth to every screen in the country.
The world watches as George W. Bush — at a gala in Texas — is served a subpoena by Interpol. He smiles. “I am the decider,” he says. “And the world don’t like who I chose.”
The film ends with Vancouver quiet. Still dusty. But no longer asleep. Intrepid disappears. Hill is re-elected in a landslide. And Drake? His grave is empty.
Themes:
- Corruption at the top is always bipartisan and transnational.
- The drug war is a cover for empire.
- Truth can only win if someone is willing to die for it.
- Even dusty streets can birth revolution.
Tagline:
“Not all wars are fought with guns. Some are buried in silence. Until now.”
