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ice twisters
(Gary)Control, the hiveis humming.
I repeat,the hive is humming.
(Gary)Control, we haveconfirmed cloud formation.
(Gary)I repeat,the cottonis in the gin.
(Joanne)Roger that. We have minimal winds and a very highceiling. Looking good.
And Gary, can youquit with the metaphors?You're driving us crazy.
Roger that.
(male)Mr. Price,are your writings
based on science orapocalyptic sensation??
(Charlie)I think the whole science community ismissing the big picture.
(Charlie)Apocalyptic? Well,maybe a little.
And again, that's what sellsthese days, doesn't it?
Remind me to write a book that more womenwould be interested in
something about relationships, ordogs, or both.
Can we just finish up?I'm starved.
And I'd like to get my nails done beforethe TV interview tonight.
I'm the one beinginterviewed, not you
but what time is it?
6:00, why?
No reason.
Why?
I have gota date.
We just got here.
Plenty of time. Rememberthe coffee barista
and hernice cappuccinos?
Charlie!
I'm kidding.She's an old colleague.
Here? I find ithard to believe.
Me too!
Mr. Price.I've readall your novels.
I'm sorryto hear that.
Well, me too.
(reader)In all of yoursensationalistic writings
I've come to find that you're just as big a hypocriteas the scientific and government establishmentthat you seek so often to condemn.
as the scientificand government establishment
that you seekso often to condemn.
Really? How so?
Do you thinkthe solutions offeredby any of the characters
to any of the disastersin your book
are any betterthan what's beingtried right now?
I don't know,I'm not a scientist
I'm a writer who's blessed with the luxury of dreamingof disasters.
I will leavesolutions for lab rats.
But I readthat you were oncea lab rat yourself
that you leftthe scientificcommunity. Right?
Who do I makethis out to?
Hey, guys,I think it's raining.
Yes!
It is raining.
We did it, Jo.
You should see this.
(Charlie)You don't seethat everyday.
(Gary)Guys, we havea situation
14 miles East of herein the town of Harrisford.
That's not good.
What's taking you so long?
Would you just relax?
I thought I told you to go at the restaurant10 miles ago.
I didn't have to go then.
But you don'tunderstand howwomen work
once we know we can't go that's exactly when wehave to go.
That makes no sense.
Can we drop it?I'm done.
So is the book signingif we don't hurry.
Hurry? You've beendriving like my grandma.
I'm hypermiling, okay?
Going 55 miles an hour gets me an extra 50miles per tank of gas.
I don't care. Just don't blame me thatwe'll miss the book signing.
Hello?
Our assignment was A Day in the Lifeof Charlie Price.
A day, not10 minutes,not an hour.
Did you see that?Did you see those clouds?
Those aren't normal.I'm gonna get the camera.
What areyou talking about?
You didn't see it?
I'II tell you what I see. I see my future whenI fail this class,
and it isn't good.
It's gone.
So, let's go.
(Frank)What we need to focus onis why the first quarter
didn't perform as wellas the third quarter--
(Frank)Excuse me one moment,ladies and gentlemen.
What is it?
(Bill)Our weather sat detecteda blip on the radar
and your ProjectRain Dance--
What is a "blip"?
Yeah, uh--[sighs]
It's a storm.That's what Rain Danceis supposed to do.
Rain Danceis close to 14miles away from this.
[sighs]Put Damonon the phone.
Sorry about that,ladies and gentlemen.[clears throat]
Yeah.
This can't be.This can't be.
Let's just not jumpto conclusions.
Gary, talk to me.
(Gary)I've checked the data,it makes no sense.
Radar, thermals?
Yes, of course,ULF scan, infrared,
we didn't pick upon anything untilafter it hit.
So what, then?
The computers aren'ttelling anything.
Keep looking.
I'm looking!
Widen your search.
Data doesn'tpoint to us.
Let's hope not.
(Charlie)Sure your okay?
(Nora)I'm fine!Really, I'm fine.
(Charlie)They just wannatake a lookat the cut.
You thinkI'm gonna let--
Guys, put a gagin her mouth.
(Charlie)I'll meet you there.
(Charlie)Joanne Dyson.
Are you still tryingto save the world
one drop at a timeor are you just thirsty?
Charlie.
So you came to my booksigning after all.
How thoughtful.There were drinksinside, you know.
Yeah, I wasn't really--Did you see whathappened here?
(Damon)Hey, uh, you twoknow each other?
Yes. Damon,meet Charlie Price.
(Damon)Yeah, I know whoCharlie Price is.
I was hisresearch assistantat the university
before he becamea famous writer.
(Damon)I didn't know that.
You left science factfor science fiction. Huh?
So why areyou here?
I've always had thisuncanny sense for beingwhere the action is.
[phone rings]Oh, excuse me.
It's Frank.
Yeah, Frank, it's me.
Frank sounds important?
He is.
What happenedhere, Charlie?
Just this massivestorm cell appearedout of thin air
then thisguy opened uplike Armageddon
and in theblink of aneye disappeared.
What are youdoing here?And so fast.
We picked the storm upon our radars, we racedover as soon as we could.
Storm radars. Workingon anything related?
No.
Pull this legit'll play Swanee River.
What do youwant me to say?You know I can't talk.
Look, Frank.We just got on the scene.
We don't know anythingfor sure yet, but--
Relax, Damon. Let'snot jump to any halfbaked conclusions
there's time to figureout what happened.
(Frank)The seraphs havea 48 hour cycle
the next 24 hoursare vital, you know that.
You made it rain, Damon,let's not lose sight of that.
Yes, sir.
And Damon, when youdo figure it out,
make sure it wasn't us.You know what I mean?
Yeah, I understand.
I'm just curiouswhy the federalscience foundation
is in the middleof nowhere, whenthis happens.
We've been stationedhere for three years,you know that.
Doing what?
Mostly robotics.
Come on, Jo.
Sorry aboutthe interruption.Damon Jarwell,
I'm a fanof your books,crazy as that may be.
Well, it's fiction,it's supposed to be crazy.
Like a grown womanin trench coat sifting throughpuddles with a test tube.
Hm. Don't tell me.Earth worms.
Your latestexperiment is withmechanical earth worms.
Or maybe it's drainageor maybe it has to do
with the freakstorm that just torethrough this town.
I'm sorry, we gota lot of work to do.
I'm sure you both do.
So I takethat our dinner plansare off for tonight?
Yes. Sorry,Charlie. Rain check?
No pun intended.
I have a TV interviewtonight anyway.
I can't wait to tellabout all the fun stuffthe FSF is doing out here.
Earth worm robotics,all that kind of stuff.
What's Frank'slast name? I'dlove a quote.
Don't dothis, Charlie.
I can't help myself.
What do you want?
I wanna knowwhat you're doing.
No way.
Come on.
This conversationis over.
I'm no geniusbut you comehere checking puddles
for residualtrace elements
If I did my ownsampling I bet l'dfind heavy oxygen
maybe some elevatednitrogen levels
or maybe I'll just findsome anti depressants.
Trying to makeeverybody feel goodabout the economy?
Be careful. You'resmacking a hornet'snest on this one.
That's a terrible analogy.
It's the truth.
Is it? People died here.
This isn't going away.I'II make sure of that.
Just excuse usfor a second.
Look, Damon.I know Charlie.He's a dog with a bone.
I'II bury him and thatbone if I have to. Thisis our entire career.
Forget thescience community,
the news will eat upanything he findson his own.
The only wayto control the situationis to keep him close.
So? What'sthe verdict?
Oh, no.
No. No. No.
Where the heckare they drawingtheir energy from?
(Joanne)Where?
Another stormcell formed.
So we're stormchasers now, huh?
Get in the car!
[sighs]No one's here.
Oh, I know.
They saidthe signingended early.
I'm sure it did.
They said somethinghappened. A freakstorm or something.
Seriously. You're notgonna talk to me forthe rest of the day?
It was yourbathroom break.
What? It was yourlame hyper gassy thing.
Whatever.
You're so immature.
We have plentyof bathrooms.You have to go?
Nope.
Yup.
So what now?
Well, wemissed Charlieat the book signing
we could goto the TV stationand wait from here.
Plan?
We're fine.
It must have beensomething to do withthose crazy clouds we found
something happened here.
Yeah, it's calledweather. It happensin a lot of places.
Look. Could we just goand get our failinggrade over with?
There you go.
What's that for?
In case youneed it on the way.You gotta go? There it is.
Gee, thanks.
Are you sure thisis the right place?
(Joanne)This iswhere Gary saidthe storms formed.
(Charlie)What do youexpect to find?
Hopefully nothing.
See anything?
(Damon)We can't go chasinga little gustof wind now.
(Joanne)Yes, we can, so we canconfirm it wasn't usthat caused it.
Gary, we'rehere, there isn'ta cloud in the sky.
(Joanne)What's causingthese cells to form?
I don't know.They are like ghosts
they are coming and goingwith no rhyme or reason
moving through areasof absolutely nofrontal activity.
(Joanne)I'll tell Damon,
I'm sure Frankwould love to hearabout ghost storms.
What do you want me to say?Everything is on the table.
(Joanne)Keep looking, Gary.We have to figure this out.
(Gary)Okay, fine. Bye.
What's this?
(Charlie)Oh! Cold.
What's wrong?
This water's freezing.
(Joanne)Charlie, giveme that.
I could makea fortune sellingthis online.
Just giveit back.
What is this?
This isour experiment.
The culminationof years of research.
Sorry itended this way.
It didn't end. We've gotabout 1,999 more stillfloating around.
Why doesn't thatsound comforting?
What's it do?
Hold on. This isclassified information.
Oh, you mean this?
Finder's keepers.
We havemore importantthings to do.
If something's gonewrong it's becausewe missed it.
We need tochallenge what we knowwith some fresh perspective.
Charlie is oneof the most brilliantmen I've ever known.
I agree.
You're not helping. Look.
We need to thinkout of the box
and he could bea zero gravity thinker.
[scoffs]Him?
Why not?I'm feelinglighter already.
Fine. Whatever.
It's partof a seraph.
It's a self propelledself sustaining silveriodide generator.
They've been seeding cloudsfor 50 years that'snothing new.
[scoffs]Well, to seed cloudsyou actually need clouds.
Something increasingly rarein drought-plagued regions.
Joanne's technologyfirst makes the clouds.
Then it seeds them.It's revolutionary.
But isit incendiary?
What?
This can bea pretty nasty weapon
if pointedin the right direction.
[scoffs]Mr. Conspiracy.Not every governmentscience project is a weapon.
Said the blind manto his deaf dog.
What?
You can'tmake somethingout of nothing.
It's water.A chemical reactioncreates it is sounds.
Let's fan out and seeif any more dropped outof their formation.
Hello.
Charlie? It's me.
Nora! You'reout already.
How areyou, sweetheart?
I told youit was nothing.Just a bit shaken up.
That's a relief.
I'm gonna headout of town early.
I'm a city girl.
Would you likeme to take you?
No, you should stay.You love this stuff.
Good for a new book. No?
I think I wrotethis one already.
Make sure youmake that interviewand we'll meet up in LA.
I'm not sure that I can.Something's come up.
(Nora)It better be the bubonicplague. You are makingthat interview!
As much as I can'tstand this place
the small townsare the foundationof your fan base.
Yeah, but Nora--
Charlie, promise me!I set your alarm6:00 PM.
I promise.
Bye, Nora.
Charlie! Damon!
(Charlie)Boy, he's blue.
It's really bad.
He's frozen solid.
This is silver poisoning.
He's fullof silver iodide.
Any idea how this happened?
Okay. Thisis enough, let's--
Let's take the seraphback to the base.
Damon get Frank onthe line I'm recommendingwe abort the test.
If you pull the plug nowit’ll be bad for the futureof the program.
People are dead, Damon.We had a hand in this.
Whoa. Hang on.You don't knowwhat's at stake here.
It took us way to longto get this fundingto begin with.
I understandthe ramifications but--
I'm sorry. I'IIrecommend full abort.
(Damon)Hey, Frank.
Talk.
The second stormis confirmed. Ourfingerprints are all over it.
Any idea whythis is happening?
Not yet, but wefound a downed seraph
we're taking itback to the mobile labto run diagnostics on it.
Let me knowwhat you find out.
Uh, Frank, uh, listen.
Joanne is suggestingthat we do a full abort now.
The cycle isn't complete.All the work you've donewill be wasted.
I can't promisecontinual fundingwith a mess like this.
What am I gonnatell Joanne? We haveconfirmed casualties.
Don't tell her anything.You don't work for her,you work for me.
There's too much at riskto take those thingsdown now.
I have to go.
Eric!
Oh, my God!
Is that a tornado?
I'm filming it.
You're gonna do what?
I'm gonna shoot it.
Hold on!
(Nora)Ah!
(Charlie)Nice littleoperation you got here.
(Joanne)It's a mobile unit.Ever seen one?
Sir?
(Damon)Here.
Phil!
I got it.
(Gary)Can youcheck this?
(Joanne)Gary--
Yeah. I knowwho this is. Hi.
Hello.
I have work to do.
What's eating him?
He's busyright now.
Not everyone'sa fan.
Ash! You okay?
Yeah. Ithink so.
What doesthat mean?Anything broken?
No, I saidI'm okay. You?
No, I'm fine.I think.
Why is it freezing?
I don't know.
What happenedto the other car?
I don't know.It must've gotsucked away or something.
[busy tone]I can't getany service.
Great. The truckis stuck. What arewe gonna do now?
I guess wetry and walk upto the TV station.
The truck'snot gonna get usanywhere. Okay?
A hellof a day, huh?
(Ash)Oh, yeah.
Ah, shoot!My camera.
(Ash)What are you doing?
Hey, do you rememberthe last time a confirmedtwister hit this area?
[laughs]Ten minutes ago?
No, before that.
No.
How's "never"?
(Joanne)Do we have workupson the storms?
(Gary)Right here, guys.
(Joanne)Have we mappedthem yet?
(Gary)Everything's rightthere, Jo.
No, she meansif you startedto profile it.
Excuse me?
She's lookingfor a pattern here.
Okay, cansomeone pleasetell the fiction writer
not to tell mehow to do my job?
First storm hit hereand then therewere two more.
(Phil)Area's unstable,storms pop up everywhere.
There's a mandatoryevacuation of fivecounties, including this one.
(Gary)It looks like it's growingbut I can't make outa pattern yet.
Other than the factthat there is no pattern.
He justsaid that.
Are you guys twins?
Relax, guys.We're all tryingto figure this out.
(Gary)They're completelyunpredictable
I'm only getting signalsafter they're formedwhen it's too late.
And thereinlies a pattern.
Is he writingriddles now?
(Damon)What isyour point?
In my latest book,my little hero
solved the CO2 emissionsproblem but he didn'tsolve global warming.
CO2 levelscontinued to rise.
Pockets of longburied CO2
melted out of glaciersand receding ice caps.
The consequenceshad consequences.
My littlehero was so buriedin the human equation,
he missedthe bigger picture.A systemic reaction.
We're stillmissing the point.
We're notlooking inthe right place.
(Damon)It took a longway to get there.
I'm a fictionwriter. I do that.
(Charlie)The seraphs are the match,the storms are the fire
we should figureout where the fuelis coming from.
I bet you alreadyhave an idea.
There's a veryloud sonic boomduring the storm.
You heard thunder.
Not thunder.It was something else,
these seraphs makethe clouds and seedthem with silver iodide?
How exactly arethey doing this?
(Jo)These tiny wind turbinessupply power to theirpropulsion systems
there's no limitto how long theycan stay airborne.
Once up,each one hasa moisture evaporator
designed to condenseliquid nitrogen outof the upper atmosphere.
I thoughtthese werein the Troposphere.
They are. Rightat the ceiling justbelow the Tropopause.
(Gary)It's useless.
Chips are fried.We're not gettinganything off it.
What were yourtemp readings duringyour control storms?
Normal. The stormsdon't affect the temps.
They don't? There wasa massive change of tempwhen the storm hit Harrisford.
I pulled thatthing out of nearfreezing water.
What areyou getting at?
Marker? Pen?
(Joanne)Behind you.
(Charlie)Okay. Yourseraphs are here
taking moisturein the atmosphere
and processingit into liquidnitrogen, right,
making this area hereextremely dry at first.
Even if the cloudsform here
this area is nearlydevoid of moisture, right?
Am I wrong?
No, you're right.
There's a sub atomicreaction happening
it's drawing moisturefrom the upper atmosphere
the effect of this processis creating vertical weather.
Come on,you know itdoesn't work like that.
(Charlie)No, it hasn't.It is now.
The boom I heardhas got to bethe pauses
that separate the layersbeing shredded apart,
that would accountfor the severe dropin temperature
and unpredictabilityof these storms.
(Damon)We've beenon this projectfor three years.
(Charlie)But you can't explainwhy this is happening. Huh?
The reason you can'ttrack these storms
is because they'renot happening here.
They're starting hereand forcing theirway down.
I've had enough of this.
What? SomethingI said?
Damon.
We have a real problem
and I'm not gonnalisten to this jokerconcoct his next book idea.
Let's just get the seraphsdown, collect the dataand we'll know for sure.
(Jo)What? You didget the order, right?Frank is taking them down.
No. The seraphsaren't coming.
And you're justtelling me this now?
(Damon)Calm down,it's not our call.
He wants them to completetheir cycle or else he'llkill the project.
Over my dead body.
Jo!
(Assistant)Sir, I have JoanneDyson on the line for you.
Sir?
(Frank)Take a message.
(Eric)You're telling meyou don't see that?
See what? I haveno idea of whatyou're talking about.
It's like a circle
it kind of fadesand then darkens.
Oh, yeah,look at that cloud.It's like a circus cloud.
Oh, oh, and that onelooks like a chihuahuariding a tricycle.
I'm serious.
No, I thinkthe accidentdamaged your brain.
Are you still cold?
No. Notanymore. You?
No.
Seems to havewarmed up a bit, huh?
And that'snot weird to you?
I didn't think muchabout it. Before I wascold and now I'm not.
Yeah, it was nearfreezing earlier.
Normally, one would haveto be in the desertsof Mongolia
to experiencea weather changethat drastic
and this onehappened in the courseof an hour. Less?
Eric, it's gettingcold again.
We needto find shelter.
I'm seriously scared.
It's okay. We'regonna be fine.
I can't believeyou didn't tellme this earlier.
Okay, Jo, justbreathe, alright?
We're being abit crazy now.
It's still myproject, Damon!
Uh, well, I don't thinkFrank sees it that way.
Why? Whatdid he say?
Uh--[computer sound]
He saidthat he finances,so he owns it. You know.
He-- Well--He can't be that dumb!
I sense we havea disparity in the chainof command around here.
This guy'spowers of perceptionare outstanding.
I also sensethat you don't like me.
You stole my idea.
I what?
You stolehis idea.
(Gary)Your book, your bestseller, that was myidea and you stole it.
What on God's earthare you talking about?
(Phil)Gary was workingon a wonderful bookon the rising CO2 levels.
So?
So, well,(both)you stole it!
You penned itoff as your own.
I'm completelylost here, fellas.
(Jo)Gary, are we stilllinked with the seraphs?
Phil?
Uh, well, uh,I believe so.
How about control?
Yeah. Why?
(Jo)Good. Take them down.
Wait. You're playinga dangerous game.
Take them down!
(both)We can't!
Why?
The killcommand sit with Frankin the Department Head,
we don't have that power.
That's garbage.
If we can't downthem we can changewhat they're doing, right?
(Damon)Once you godown this paththere's no coming back.
But we couldreverse the process.
What?
Reverse the ionization,they won't grab moisture,
they'll redistributeinstead of process.
We've never done it.
We haven't had to.
Will that work?
I don't know.Maybe. It would workon one of my books.
(Damon)There's the zero gravitythinking we needed.
Or maybe it's just"zero thinking."
Or maybe it's Gary'snext best seller.
(Jo)Can that be done?
It would've beenif he hadn't stolen it!
No, Gary! Can we reversethe ionization process?
theoretically, I'II try.
(Gary)I'll have to updatemy resume after I do.
Whoa, that's not good.
What?
We've gotanother cell.A bad one.
(Joanne)Where?
(Gary)Here,
guys, the tempjust crashedin the test area.
(Jo)Get the signal down.
(Jo)Then we can changethe seraphs' activity.
I don't know. I saidI've never done this.
(Jo)Look, hurry.
[whistles]We got a twister!
Oh, man,that's comingstraight for us.
(Jo)It's freezingeverything inits path.
Everybody, inthe trucks,let's go!
Guys, we need the data.
(Damon)No, leave it!Go to the truckand get out!
(Damon)Don't! Leave it! Go!
(Charlie)Damon, move!
Come on!
Wait!
(Charlie)Get out!
(Joanne)Phil!
(Phil)Ah!
Come on, let's go!
Did they make it?
I don't know.I can't see.
Come on.We'll be safe there.
Come on.Grab my hand.
(Charlie)Hug me.
Hold on tight.
Hold on.
(Frank)How long ago was this?
A half hour, sir.
You've triedmaking contact?
(Bill)Yes, but hardlines are out
and cell towersmust be down. I'm havingtrouble getting through.
We've lost all visuals.
Okay, here's whatI want you to do.
I wanna fly overwithin the next hour
if we can't find outwhat's going onfrom the ground
maybe we can from the air.
Good.
Good?
Yes.
I just don'tunderstand. Whatcould be causing this?
Government testing.
Come on.
Governments wantto control the weather.
This looks morelike out of control.
China does itall the time.
Russia accusedChina of stealingtheir rain.
They almost wentto war over it.
Wait, Chinaand Russia at war?
Now you'restarting to soundlike Charlie Price.
Hey, maybewe ought toburn this tape
so the U.S. doesn'tend up going to warwith Canada, huh?
It's possible.
No! What'spossible is usfailing this class.
What if we changethe assignment?
We get to the TV station,we cut the footage,
we get together a piece,it always happenson the news,
you're coveringone story, somethingelse happens, boom. No?
Well, that'sthe best ideayou've had all day.
Are youbeing facetious?
No, it's actuallya really good idea.
I know, right?
Sir, the planewill be over the targetarea in over two hours.
What about FSF?Have you been ableto reestablish contact?
No. The stormsare growing
and they've wreaked havocon local communications.
And the seraphs?
18 hours and counting.
That's good.
Where'd theygo? You thinkthey're okay?
I don't know.
They got the signaloff the seraphsin time?
I don't think so.
Me neither.
I swear,if I ever gethold of Frank--
Ha! Governmentand scientists don'tmake good bed fellows.
Don't gothere, Charlie.
Do you thinkit's easy?
I didn't say that.
You thinkthis is bad?
You wannatake a snapshotof the Sudan right now?
Of Darfur? Ethiopia?
Hundreds of thousandsof people are dying.
And we're close.
I understandthe world's problems.
So whatare you doingabout it then?
What happenedto you, Charlie?
You were oneof the most promisingscientists I ever knew.
You could'vedone great thingsand now you write fiction.
Yeah, that's right.
I got tiredof wasting time.
Sitting aroundfor funding
for worthwhilesolutions toreal problems.
Well, that'sa part of it.
I also gotsick of kowtowingthe Government whims
under the nameof science.
Thanks. I'drather try and dowhatever good I can
than waste my brainwriting dimenovel sci fi
waiting for mynext movie deal.Who's that helping?
Book stores?Movie studios? Me?
Good for you.
Let's try to stayon the sameteam here.
You neverwere a teamplayer, were you?
What happenedto the hugging?
We were hugging.I felt the warmth.
I'm just tryingto stay alive.
(Damon)Hey.
Are you alright?
(Damon)Yeah. Howabout you two?
Where's Phil?
Get in.
Anything?
No.
(Jo)So how are wegonna fix this?
(Charlie)Gary?
(Gary)We only needa broadband connection.
You guys seewhat I see?
I'm not hungry.
(Damon)No, Gary.He means the WiFi.
Oh, uh, yeah, it'sprobably worth a shot.
(Damon)Hello?
Hello!
There's nobody here.
They're in the stormcellar with Auntie Em.
Enough with that.
(Jo)Remember themandatory evacuation?
Sorry, bad habit,I think.
I didn't realize youwere thinking at all.
What areyou doing?
(Gary)Well, hospitality'sa little slow here, Jo,
can you getthat table, Damon?
Phones are still out.
[sighs]If phones are out,how are we getting online?
WiFi runsto the cable modems,they're underground.
(Gary)Will someonetry the lights?
Power's out.
For Pete's sake!It's a motel,
there's gottabe a generatorhere somewhere.
(Gary)Bottom line,no power, no modem.
No modem, no connection.
Let's let the cybergeeks get online, we’llgo find the generator.
Or maybe the hot tub.
Got the disks?
Yeah.
Come on.
(Jo)I'm sure thereare some keys back--
Or youcan do that.
A generator.
You can't write itbetter than this.
[Damon mumbles]"Cyber geeks. "
He called uscyber geeks?
Or maybe you can.
What do you mean?
We're out of gas.
We have gasin the SUV.We can siphon some out.
Yes we do.
(Eric)Where's everybody?
(Ash)They're evacuatedand with their families.
News? Newsdoesn't sleep.They don't close.
This isnot New York.This is small town USA.
Don't knock small towns.Your first jobs are gonnabe in places like this.
I wonder if they scrappedthe interview withPrice altogether.
Probably. [sighs]Alright, whereto now?
Where to? I'dcut this footageand write this story.
They're notgoing to.
So let's finda way back tothe university.
We're breakinga story. Time'sof the essence here.
I get it but thisplace is closed.
Yeah, buthow closed?
You're nottalking aboutbreaking in, are you?
It's notbreaking in.We were invited.
Eric, it's closed.
There's no sign.I'd say the doorsare mistakenly locked.
Breaking and enteringwill not look goodon our resumes.
You kidding?It's Reporter 101!
Breaking inand not gettingcaught is our job.
That's how it'sdone in this field.
Look at this. Huh?
If you want somethingthe universe conspireswith you.
I wanteda pony as a kid
but I never got it.
You help me breakthis story? I'IIget you two ponies.
And the Lord said.
Let there be light.
I sure hopethis works.
It's got to.
(Gary)Okay, I have the up link.It's weak but it's there.
(Damon)Will the signalget through?
It should.
(Jo)Gary, pull upthe Doppler for me.
(Gary)Oh!
Oh, great.It's getting awfullyclose to Portland.
How much longer?
Uh, I don't thinkthey're responding.
What are you doing?
It's my attempt to emaila punch in the face.
How did that feel?
I'II feel betterwhen this is over.
This is Frank,Where's that plane?
I need somekind of visual.We're flying blind here!
It's likewe're shut out.
Frank.
Keep trying.
(Jo)We're losing power.
We can't be.The generator's full.
(Gary)Signal's fluctuating.
We need more power!
I'II checkthe genny.
Wait! I have a link.
(Gary)It's weakbut it's there.
What about the seraphs?
(Gary)They're holdingtheir pattern.They're not responding.
(Joanne)We haveto overridethem, keep trying.
(Pilot)Something's wrongwith the pressure.
(Pilot)We lost an engine.
(Pilot)We're going down.
(Pilot)Mayday! Mayday!
(Male voice over phone)We lost contactwith the recon plane.
[shouts]Where's oureye in the sky?
Like I said, can't writeit any better than this.
The tank's cracked.Even I can't fix it.
We're running outof time. The seraphsweren't responding.
Damon, areyou sayingFrank locked us out?
That's wheremy money is.
But the connectionwas weak,
the signal couldhave been jumbledin the transmission
maybe comingfrom another source
and the seraphsjust ignored it.
So they'reartificially intelligent?
No, I'm saying Ineed a solid signal
I need somesatellite up linkthat isn't land based.
What if Frankdid lock us out?
Then it's useless.
No. Of courseit's not!
(Gary)Even if he did,I can hack it.
He can'tkeep me out.[chuckles]
We can't even geta phone line to work.
We're far away,where will we geta satellite feed?
Thank you, Nora.
Who?
How about a TV station?
Yeah, thatwould work. Where?
I'II show you. I'm supposedto be there in an hour.
(Eric)Oh, this is terrific stuff.
Oh, this footageis priceless!
How's the piece coming?
Here. How's this sound?
"What was supposedto be a day followingthe controversial author
"Charlie Price,quickly turnedinto a harrowed
"real lifestruggle for survival
"as the very disastersthat his latestnovel fictionalizes
materialized in a small townwith fatal consequences."
That's not bad.
Yeah?
It needs some finesse.
Like what?
"Materializes" and"fictionalizes" areright next to each other.
Yeah, it's kindof a mouthful.
"Fatal consequence"sounds like a sortof soup.
A what?
You know what I mean.
Eric, we'd betternot get in troublefor this.
Relax, we're done already.
No one's goingto jail for editing.
Worst thing they'lldo is charge usa rental fee.
Oh, my Gosh.
(Damon)Look at that.
(Charlie)It must have beenright in it's path.
Hello!
Can anybody hear me?
(Charlie)Can anybody hear me?
(Charlie)Watch yourselves, guys.
Hello!
Can anyone hear me?
Nora.
Nora!
Joanne.
Joanne!
How did this getso out of control?
We're supposedto be saving lives.
No one wanted this.
How could weknow this wouldpossibly happen?
Because it'sour job to know!
I mean, how couldwe be so stupid?
And you letFrank take us over.
You handed him this!
You let himhijack my research!
Well, no one elsewould fund it.
And that'sthe price we paid.
Well, take a goodlook because thisis our handy work.
We're murderers!
Where's Frank?Probably in his officereading sports pages.
(Damon)Joanne!
Don't touch me!
I'm sorry, Charlie.
I don't knowwhat to say.
You don't haveto say anything.
She shouldn'thave been out here.
This is all my fault.
Don't do that.
Why not? It's true.
I should have beenwith her at the hospital
instead of hangingaround here pretendingI'm still in the game.
You can't controlthese things.
What? The weather?
I'm sorry, Jo.That was wrong.
No, you were right.
When you start these things
you never expect somethinglike this to happen.
[sniffs]But I knew who I wasgetting into bed with.
And I thought I couldhandle the politicsand the bureaucracy
but I guessI'm not strong enough.
Damon may actlike he can but,
(Jo)deep downI don't think hecan stomach it either.
And Gary's--
(Jo)Gary's just a boygenius in a big world.
No.
Here we go again.
Gary! Damon!Get in the car now!
Hurry!
Come on, let's go!
(Charlie)Come on! The twister'scoming! Let's go!
Sir, we're not sure yetwhat happened to the plane,
Intel is reportingvertical weather.
Yes, sir, vertical weather.
We're not surebut it's definitelynot the seraphs.
Yes, sir.
How long beforethe seraphs complete?
39 hours.
I think we haveall the proof we need.Time to pull the plug.
Uh, sir, there'sa problem with that.
What's that?
They aren't respondingto any commands.
I don't care.
Shoot them out of the sky.
I don't needthese storms hittinga populated area.
These thingsare all overthe place.
My God!
[whispers]We're not surewhere these stormsare coming from
(Eric)Okay, look at mefor a minute.
Alright.
Okay. Feel prettygood about it?
Yup! Yeah,I think so.Let's do it.
Okay.
(Eric)Oh, crap.We got company. Hide!
(Ash)Hide? I thoughtyou said no one goesto jail for this!
Maybe. It's justthe breaking and enteringpart I'm a little iffy on.
I'm not hiding.
Look at the truckit says FSF,
that's FederalSpecial Forces.
(Damon)It looks closed.
The newsis never closed.
[knocks]Hello? Anybody in there?
Would you hide? Hey!
Special Forces? Really.
Look at the truck.
(Jo)I don't thinkanyone's here.