The Following Is The ORIGINAL plot set for ICE as was conceived many years ago.  They died on the vine.  It even used original character names...

Chapter One - DONE
    Introduce Alan
    Find MRAI
    Sell MRAI and get chased away

Chapter Two - NOT STARTED
    Perhaps Rename  Jon to "peter fletcher"
    Introduce Jon Mitsui
    Fly to meeting in Chicago about MRAI
        Urges the termination of MRAI
        project.
    IntaComp execs ask about the whereabouts of the chip
    Jon says hey threw it away (in anger)
    Execs get pissed saying "what if it gets into the wrong hands?"
    Jon replies that he smashed the chip with a hammer, no one could use it

Chapter Three - NOT STARTED
    Bring Alan to Shack in Michigan
    Introduce Jim Archey
    Jim is an MD who is shunned by medical community
    Jim runs a drug  lab in his basement (includes useful drugs, like memory enhancers)
    Jim fixes up Alan's bullet wound, no good anesthetics, makes jock about passing out before the pain gets 'real' bad
    Alan stays with Jim for a few days
    Alan decides to try to retrieve the chip
    Jim lends Alan a old car from 1998
    Alan gets Jim to retrieve his equipment wile gone
    Alan leaves to talk to an associate in Chicago

Chapter Four - NOT STARTED
    Jon gets "visited" by some IntaComp thugs
    Jon is taken somewhere and interrogated about the fact that Alan had the chip
    Jon is given an injection of an amnesiac, serious side effects occur and he loses a bunch of his long term memory
    Jon is seriously pissed about this and plans to seek out Alan to get the chip
    Jon breaks into Alan's apartment to get clues on Alan's whereabouts    

Chapter Five - NOT STARTED
    Focus on Jim
    Accentuate the self destructive  nature of his reckless behavior
    Leaves to retrieve Alan's equipment
    Finds someone in Alan's apartment
    Short gun fire exchange, weapon somehow knocked away from person in apartment
    Person revealed to be Jon
    Equipment has been damaged, Jon offers help with restoring the data on equipments hard drive
    Jim reluctantly accepts, and takes Jon (blind folded) to the shack
    Jim retrieves equipment remains, also stops by Jon's to get equipment
    Insert some joke by Jon about this being blindfolded an taken places becoming second nature to him

Chapter Six - NOT STARTED
    Focus on Alan
    Alan meats associate (Jack)
    Jack hears things (very streetwise)
    Jack finds out that a copy of the chip is an IntaComp building in Chicago
    They plan a break in and execute it
        Requires on of Jacks friends to take care of security by hacking
        Jack and Alan (in disguise) enter building, small ear phone communication thingies used
        Jack acts as gun man in event that cover is blown
        Alan retrieves chip from high security storage room (ala noc list room in mission impossible)
        Computer dude fucks up/ cove is blown
        the two blast their way out of the building
        Jack gets shot down in the very end
        Alan gets away in car, head out to shack

Chapter Se7en - NOT STARTED
    Focus on corporate execs
    They talk about how a bug was put on Jon
    Talk about plan to infuriate Jon into finding Alan seems to be working
    joke about how much cheaper this is than hiring a tracker
    done

Chapter Eight - NOT STARTED
    Focus on  Alan
    Alan arrives back at the shack before Jim
    Jim arrives with Jon
        "Gee, its the guy that got me into this whole mess..."
        "I never put a gun to your head and told you to steal the chip from me..."
    Alan and Jon discuss stuff about IntaComp as Jon is repairing Alan's data cores
    Fixed data cores stuck in Jims computer
    They get that data, and hack some more from IntaComp with help of Jon
    Everything gets backed up on cartridge,
    They find bug
    They remove bug and leave it by the computer( and leave the computer on with the message 'your too late suckers' in big letters)
    They all get ready to haul ass out of there
        they use Jim's new 'special' truck
    choppers heard overhead
    short chase with one of the choppers
    Jim launches a missile from a small armament hidden in truck
    they get away
    they let Jim off in a town somewhere
    
Chapter Nine - NOT STARTED
    Focus on Jon and Alan
    Jon knows someone in twin cities that could help them
    They get in argument about how much Jon played right into intacomps hands
    They leave for twin cities

Chapter ten - NOT STARTED
    Focus on Jim
    he walks around town awhile
    goes to a bar and drinks himself stupid
    leaves the bar, stumbling around
    black car drives by
    gun man takes Jim out
    "last thing he saw was the angular face of the IntaComp logo"

Chapter Eleven - NOT STARTED
    reach twin cities, meat with friend
    they find a file embedded within one of the stolen files that is iced
    some sort of descriptive bit about breaking through ICE on the files they got
    they find in this definitive proof of cover up, and some larger things too
        -like plans to eventually put doctors out of work by using this chip
        -plans to build from that a monopoly over people health insurance
    they plan to broadcast this information

Chapter Twelve (the climax) - NOT STARTED
    they all break into a building that is the main satellite uplink for GNN (heir to CNN)
    IntaComp catches up to their whereabouts
    some sort of final confrontation.  Jon gets killed
    that data gets broadcasted to all of America
    
Chapter Thirteen (the resolution) - NOT STARTED
    talk about Alan's computer business booming
    talk about how he has started an open store front
    talk about IntaComp being forced to sell out to a bigger company because of stock marked losses after the whole event
    the end