Killing Zoe*

Claimed 'deed' of a modern Robin-Hood (or James Bond?) whose mission to usurp a diamond-baron's evil North American storage creates 'romance' establishment.

A fan-translation of Killing Zoe (Roger Avary).

DISCLAIMER: This work of 'cinema-fanfiction' offers no formal/legal views tied to the creators/writers of the original work and is therefore presented only as a personal exercise in creative translational effort (and all images used herein are only atmospheric allusions for 'private' excerpt). 

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"Who'd think I'd be finding the motive for a bank-heist in North America? I was at a gas-station/market and overheard to fellas talking about a ruthless blood-diamond baron (Ion) who'd stored his smuggled 'conflict-zone' gems out of Sierra Leone and sought to store them in a British Columbian bank safe-box (insured) and eventually ship them to already economically-challenged/troubled Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)!"

"There I was at the station-market with my little baby-doll friend, my imaginary daughter (Ezzy), and I thought she whispered into my ear that I should 'upend' this Baron Ion and leave-behind my desk-job selling insurance in New Jersey, and I didn't know what to think, though I knew from movies/media that blood-diamond insurance and/or smuggling corruption was sullying the global gem-highway(s). I felt like I was in a movie of some 'dark' kind."

"I filled a toy water-rifled with hot acid after inserting a thin-glass tube into the shooting piston and walked into the Vancouver bank where Baron Ion stored his African blood-diamonds and explained to the manager I was sent by Ion for a media-theater 'stunt' about insured-gem disclosure(s) for media journals and the prepaid 'operation' would create positive stories in British Columbia about street-dialogue surrounding diamond-insurance candid cameras favoring Ion's social 'mystique' as an 'open' investor in the gem-piracy Crusade to end insurance enquiries with Interpol-relation."

BANK MANAGER: The Ion-relation gave us the handwriting-note by the Baron (himself); he then carried the chess-stalemate.

"Now, I don't look like a daring daredevil or Evil Knievel or anything like that, since I'm a normal Western bureaucrat with an average visage/appearance, but on the day of the diamond-heist to usurp Ion's 'grip' on North America, I really did look/appear as a 'true' American psycho (or emissary)."

INTERPOL: Blood-diamond corruption today threatens the world-gem exchange and makes terrorism woe!

"With all the terrorism of the rogue kind out there right now, I'd have to believe my baby-doll girl imaginary friend inside that station-market that day of heist-inspiration to destroy/sully Ion was telling me something of revelations-value(s). In fact, when you turn on the TV news these days (e.g., BBC, Al Jazeera), you see images of these 'rogue-terrorists' all over the place and they're masked/clothed like 'radicals' of fashion, and you wonder what separates them from mere criminals (really) in this post-9/11 era of great commerce/treasure securities distance(s). Blood-diamonds are now linking to this 'new underworld' of wrought darkness."

INFORMANT: Damn, you achieved a cool stalemate in chess-play with me on this anonymous cyber-channel, man.

ME: I know, I know; but I've always been a 'secret' chess wizard, even here/now in Zurich, my retirement-property, friend.

INFORMANT: So, you knew absolutely nothing of the blood-diamond 'African dilemma' or any derivation(s) for Interpol?
ME: Nope; in fact, all I know from any Robin-Hood/James-Bond veil of modern Earth is alien-chess and stranger folk(s)!

INFORMANT: I gather you're some kind of comic-book aficionado, or cyber-chess amateur 'dancer' on social-media then.

ME: That's precision; that's true, good sir; in fact, I'm working on a comics-adaptation of a 'James Bond' chess-man with gems.

INFORMANT: Very cool!

"On the day of that 'sacred' Robin-Hood shine, I met a gorgeous teller named Shelbye whom I whisked away to Zurich with me following my Interpol-relation (commission!) deed and promised her to become a financed 'artist' in Europe with no future vision(s) of anything 'dangerous' or elephant. In fact, now I'm a cyber-chess homeschool teacher in Switzerland with a normal account/enterprise."

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)