Prison Pyramid: Synopsis Infamous truth finder, Axel Storm, has been set-up, convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to 15 years in the Prison Pyramid, the largest structure ever built by man. His lawyer gets murdered, his empire is in shambles and his family is distressed. His days of self-appointed establishment critic are over. Chances of early release are slim. Storm becomes the inmate protégé of polymath Dr. Vladimir Zordic who rules over 2 million convicts from his dome compound atop the mile-high structure. Storm is assigned to work under psychiatrist Dr. Carmela Kleo and produce a documentary to help sell the Pyramid concept to other world governments for the Quackenbush Corrections Corporation. Storm has the unique opportunity to explore the prison and collect footage. He meets extraordinary convicts in positions of great responsibility: •\tPrince Obsidian – engineer PhD from MIT, runs the power plant. •\tNikan Diko – Yakuza, controls all activity in the aquaculture. •\tCesare Vincenzi – Mafioso from Bayonne runs waste treatment. •\tMiles Parrish – old hippy from Northern California, manages hydroponics. •\tJung Stallion – a reformed delinquent, an example of Zordic’s habilitation success. •\tMono X – former black militant, now an inmate ombudsman in the prison library. Storm realizes these guys are like him – with skills useful to furthering the needs of the Quackenbush empire. He discovers inmates are habilitated for the purpose of working for Quackenbush after release, including security positions in major corporations – all paid for by the taxpayers. It is the ultimate conspiracy, sanctioned legally. Storm finds that his predecessor, Rogers Bruck, was mysteriously removed from the documentary project and disappeared. In Bruck’s hard drives he finds hidden video clips that expose secrets and provide essential information for his escape attempt. Storm convinces Kleo exterior shots of the Pyramid are needed – a ruse to study the escape route. Storm finishes the film on time and Zordic shows it to Quackenbush execs, Wall Street financiers and government officials involved in promoting the Pyramid concept at a lavish dinner party. They praise his work and hint of Storm’s bright future working with them. The guests retire to bungalows set amid the dome gardens to enjoy sexual favors from selected inmates. Zordic assigns Darka, his special nymphomaniac, to Storm. She drugs and seduces him before extracting his real feelings about the Pyramid. Zordic watches the recordings. A supposed computer glitch sends Storm to Quad 2 where the most violent prisoners are left to fend for themselves – survival of the fittest. He is beaten up and witnesses a murder. Zordic sends robot guards to rescue him and shows how bodies are disposed of in the catfish farms – a powerful lesson. Contrite, Storm redoubles his efforts to please management and is given access to certain sections of the prison and a state-of-the-art editing studio with CCTV cameras. Storm receives many letters from detractors and fans, some send money. Rachel, his wife writes, she has received photos of Storm with Darka and is furious. He writes her in code and resolves to escape. During a thunderstorm when the threat lessens of detection, Storm tapes Kleo to a chair and switches implanted identity chips. This allows him to get to the waste treatment level where he overpowers Hatchet, Zordic’s brutal henchman. He pays off Cesare and gets flushed outside the Pyramid via graywater tubes. Storm runs for his life through the icy rain into fruit groves, dodging laser beams and searchlights. He finds the hidden entrance to Sonora Caverns, slides under the fence and uses voice echoes to navigate through the treacherous stalagmites. A fall blinds an eye before he can stumble to the final door where government men have been waiting. Actin, Simmons and Reynolds have heard his story in flashback during interrogation. Doc Chambers arrives and replaces his damaged eye with bionic technology – they plan to send him back to the Pyramid as their spy. Quackenbush operatives attack the location. Storm escapes in a truck. He stops at the Sonora post office to pick up money, passport and a new car his wife had placed there. Storm drives away undetected, leaves the car at the border and hitches a ride to Topolobampo, Mexico, where he reunites with his family. Epilogue: Storm, back in prison, describes to Miles Parrish the details of his brief stint at freedom and capture by hard guys from Quackenbush. They tracked him through the eye. They let his wife go and gave Storm another 10 years for the escape. Storm is tired from fighting forces beyond his control and accepts his fate… but the fury still burns inside him.