{"id":1239103,"date":"2016-11-09T03:58:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T11:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/?p=1239103"},"modified":"2017-06-25T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T19:01:30","slug":"missing-screenwriter-cloak-dagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/missing-screenwriter-cloak-dagger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Screenwriter: Cloak-and-Dagger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news. Just last week, I received word that our missing screenwriter owns a safety deposit box at a bank in Culver City.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadesofday.com\/VMP\/filmmakers.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Vitaly Sumin<\/a> contacted me recently with some surprising information. He\u2019s the only other person who is authorized to access <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dostoevsky-bts.com\/about_robert_hurley.html\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Hurley\u2019s<\/a> safety deposit box. It makes sense\u2026 Vitaly (director\/producer with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmpfilms.com\" target=\"_blank\">VM Productions<\/a>) trusted Hurley to write the first draft of script for his film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmpfilms.com\/Notes_from_the_new_world.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Notes from the New World<\/i><\/a>. They had a friendship, and they both admired each other\u2019s passion for Dostoyevsky\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Safe.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1239237\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1239237 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Safe-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"Safe Deposit Boxes\" width=\"336\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Safe-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Safe-768x569.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Safe.jpg 805w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After all the time that has passed, it is indeed strange that Hurley would announce his presence in such a way. There are much easier ways to contact a person. Even so, this unusual dead drop\u00a0suggests that Hurley is still in danger. Otherwise, he would have contacted Vitaly\u00a0 directly.<\/p>\n<p>While I awaited Vitaly\u2019s arrival in Los Angeles, I decided to get in touch with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notesthemovie.com\/rex_blog.html\">Rex Hoss<\/a>, a private investigator who helped out the pre-production team in the early stages of Hurley\u2019s disappearance. With his contacts and resources, Rex was able to help me pull some photos from the bank\u2019s surveillance feed. We specifically checked the day Hurley purchased the safety deposit box. Unfortunately, we\u00a0came up short. I didn&#8217;t see\u00a0anyone who looked like Hurley in the lobby.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, Vitaly arrived in Los Angeles. We met up at the bank in Culver City, and then proceeded to check Hurley\u2019s safety deposit box. What we discovered was surprising \u2014 the \u201cmissing pages\u201d that were torn from Hurley\u2019s journal&#8230;<\/p>\n<table style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1239235\" style=\"width: 314px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0070.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1239235\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1239235\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1239235\" src=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_0070-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Hurley's Diary - &quot;Torn Pages&quot;\" width=\"304\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1239235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurley&#8217;s Diary &#8211; &#8220;Torn Pages&#8221; (new)<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_1148535\" style=\"width: 314px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/diary_1-500.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1148535\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1148535\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1148535\" src=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/diary_1-500-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Hurley's Diary (old)\" width=\"304\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1148535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurley&#8217;s Diary (old)<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Page One:<\/p>\n<p><i>Natalya showed me the shipping containers. Russian prostitutes &#8211; as many as nine or ten were led to believe they were free. Some were used as sacrifice, others as servants.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Natalya was originally supposed to be a sacrifice, but one of the Captains or Brigadiers put her in charge of making the customers happy.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Page Two:<\/p>\n<p><i>She wanted a life in America, but she trusted the wrong people. She came from those containers, and she was still under their control. She loved me, and I her. But she knew I see only what I want to see. Natalya wanted me to understand. She wanted me to run away and never look back.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Page Three:<\/p>\n<p><i>I figured I could pay off her debts, but I am losing more money than I make. I should try something different. Maybe\u00a0roulette.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I think the Brigadier knew what we were up to in San Pedro. He seems to have his eye on Natalya all the time. Yesterday, I caught a glimpse at a scar on his face. Looked like a pig\u2019s tail.<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1239236\" style=\"width: 543px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/San-Pedro-Fishing-Industry-800-250.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1239236\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1239236\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1239236\" src=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/San-Pedro-Fishing-Industry-800-250-300x94.jpg\" alt=\"San Pedro, CA\" width=\"533\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/San-Pedro-Fishing-Industry-800-250-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/San-Pedro-Fishing-Industry-800-250-768x240.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/San-Pedro-Fishing-Industry-800-250.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1239236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Pedro, CA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On page four, Hurley\u2019s writing was somewhat convoluted. He mentioned an \u201cend of the world\u201d code that was buried in the text of Fyodor Dostoyevsky\u2019s <i>Notes from Underground<\/i>. Hurley supposedly discovered this code and wanted to share the secret with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadesofday.com\/VMP\/filmmakers.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Vitaly Sumin<\/a> in person. However, he never got the chance because the cult was already on to him.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to rule anything out, but as of now, we have no way of knowing the legitimacy of this \u201ccode\u201d. Based on these newly discovered entries, it seems pretty clear that Hurley was getting too close to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_mafia\" target=\"_blank\">Russian mafia<\/a> and their secrets. He knew about <a href=\"http:\/\/lighttodark.bravehost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Onto Light <\/a>as well as the location of the shipping containers.\u00a0This new information is all very compelling, and the pages might be the key to finding out what happened to Hurley. But I have my doubts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First of all, Hurley was not captured by the surveillance cameras at the bank. This could mean that there is someone who has Hurley&#8217;s identity. If this is true, why would someone want to\u00a0pretend to be Hurley? Secondly, it is fairly obvious that the handwriting in Hurley&#8217;s journal is slightly different than the handwriting in the new pages. Although one&#8217;s handwriting is not as unique as a thumb print, it is usually a characteristic that doesn&#8217;t change. So, Hurley may or may not have written those entries.<\/p>\n<p>If not Hurley, then who?<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Be sure to visit our website and learn more about Robert Hurley and the film that was made about his experience at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dostoevsky-bts.com\/landing.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dostoyevsky Reimagined: The Making of Notes from the New World<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Want to know more about what we do? Sign up to learn more about our process, our projects, and upcoming premieres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dostoevsky-bts.com\/hurley_mystery\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-401962\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-401962 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/signupnow-ribbon-orange.png\" alt=\"signupnow-ribbon-orange\" width=\"224\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Follow this developing story through our social media on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NotesMovie\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/missing-Hurley-102978929751989\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/b\/106007188115393873480\/106007188115393873480\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">Google+<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/vmpfilms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/vmproductions-us.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/vm_productions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/show\/1254413-dostoyevsky-bts\">Goodreads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Ford\u2019s blog:<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/missing-screenwriter-inside-job\/\">The Missing Screenwriter: An Inside Job<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/missing-screenwriter-eyes-wide-shut\/\">The Missing Screenwriter: Eyes Wide Shut<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/missing-screenwriter-relevant-patterns\/\">The Missing Screenwriter: Relevant Patterns<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/missing-screenwriter-darkness-becomes-light\/\">The Missing Screenwriter: When Darkness Becomes Light<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/the-missing-screenwriter-diary-of-a-madman\/\">The Missing Screenwriter: Diary of a Madman<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/the-missing-screenwriter-what-we-know-so-far\/\">The Missing Screenwriter: What We Know So Far<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Mark\u2019s\u2019 blogs:<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/dead-ends\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dead End<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a class=\"row-title\" title=\"Edit \u201cIt only got stranger and stranger\u2026\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/it-only-got-stranger-and-stranger\/\" target=\"_blank\">It only got Stranger and Stranger\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/my-attempts-to-work-with-jord-the-vlogger\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Attempts to Work with Jord, the Vlogger<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Lauren\u2019s blogs:<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/production-notes-the-plight-of-the-vlogger\/\" target=\"_blank\">Production Notes: The Plight Of The Vlogger<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/production-notes-a-new-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\">Production Notes: A New Perspective<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/production-notes-disappearances-dark-tidings-sinister-situations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Production Notes: Disappearances, Dark Tidings, &amp; Sinister Situation<\/a>s<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/production-notes-changing-seasons-changing-moods-and-what-comes-next\/\" target=\"_blank\">Production Notes: Changing Seasons, Changing Moods, And What Comes Next<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/production-notes-vlogs-the-missing-and-the-fear\/\" target=\"_blank\">Production Notes: Vlogs, The Missing, And The Fear<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/production-notes-what-happened-to-robert-hurley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Production Notes: What Happened To Robert Hurley?\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/production-notes-incentives-sign-ups-and-more-mysteries\/\" target=\"_blank\">Production Notes: Incentives, Sign-Ups, And More Mysteries\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/production-notes-saying-goodbye-staying-on-track-ominous-signs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Production Notes: Saying Goodbye, Staying On Track, &amp; Ominous Signs\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/production-notes-incentives-updates-and-the-missing-screenwriter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Production Notes: Incentives, Updates and the Missing Screenwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/the-missing-screenwriter-silence-speaks-volumes\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Missing Screenwriter: Silence Speaks Volumes<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/changes-updates-the-missing-screenwriter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Changes, Updates, &amp; The Missing Screenwriter\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Shari\u2019s blogs:<\/p>\n<p class=\"title title24 entry-title selectionShareable\"><a title=\"The Missing Screenwriter: Dark Onto Light continued\" href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/the-missing-screenwriter-dark-onto-light-continued\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Missing Screenwriter: Dark Onto Light continued<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/the-missing-screenwriter-dark-onto-light\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Missing Screenwriter: Dark Onto Light<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/the-missing-screenwriter-the-journal\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Missing Screenwriter: The Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/the-missing-screenwriter-part-two\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Missing Screenwriter: Part Two<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/the-missing-screenwriter-part-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Missing Screenwriter: Part One<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news. Just last week, I received word that our missing screenwriter owns a safety deposit box at a bank in Culver City. Vitaly Sumin contacted me recently with some surprising information. He\u2019s the only other person who is authorized to access Robert Hurley\u2019s safety deposit box. It makes sense\u2026 Vitaly (director\/producer with VM Productions) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":1303849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[61,1],"tags":[301,129,17,111,131,49,6],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239103"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241089,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239103\/revisions\/1241089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1303849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dostoevsky-bts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}