[Abe Sargent]

Synopsis of “The Big Fish”

Set in World War II right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on the west coast in CA, our detective of the noir persuasion. He’s got a strong sense of irony, and will note the irony of the good and productive Japanese being taken away while Italian mob bosses are tearing into people and living in mansions.

Anyways, he has just been hired by a powerful movie starlet, Ms. Janey Wilde, a starlet in the movies, her big name producer//mobbie Mr Brunette, and his even bigger name mobbie Mr Pastore. She hired the detective to find Brunette, who hadn’t been seen in a while especially after pushing her out for a younger up-and-coming starlet named Ms. Janice Marsh.

He arrives at an old building of Pastores, and eventually finds him drowned, dead, in a bunch of water that stinks of old fish with some suspicious elements. Then a trio of people come in, hold him at gunpoint and take in the scene. A French woman, British man, and USA man introduces themselves, after verifying his identity, as members of high level secret services, such as the FBI, investigating the case. They chose not to kill the detective, but pay him to get him off the case.

He returns, reports his findings to Ms .Wilde, and agrees to continue to find Mr. Brunette, after finding out that she had, hush hush, born his baby. Brunette took the baby, and she thinks something awful is happening. She had mentioned a mysterious cult, named the Mysterious Order of Dagon. He researches it, and finds out that it has two headquarters, one here in Bay City and the other in Innsmouth, and that’s its leader is Janice Marsh, the decent of the Cap’n Marsh who founded it.

He heads to its headquarters, has an odd conversation with Marsh where she kisses him for a while, and then he gets warned off the case by various police and others. He finds out that Mr. Brunette is on his own floating casino, and heads over on a motorboat.

He ties it up, looks around, finds Brunette have crazy and talking about blowing up their place, and suddenly these half fish people begin to emerge from the water on the boat. He finds Ms Marsh here as well, with the baby, who is talking, and is apparently not to be sacrificed or anything like Janey Wilde feared, but instead is the next generation’s incarnation of Cap’n Marsh.

After some gunplay, and a major attack on the vessel by the military, they head out. He rescues the baby, is pulled in by the agents and such ,and they defeated the Deep Ones for a time, just off off the reef in Innsmouth back in the 20s. The baby is secured, and they discuss that they knew what happened to it, and it’ll be fine.