Chain Reaction

We're running out of time.

We have polluted

and peopled this planet

to the brink of extinction.

We are destroying our world

at a suicidal pace.

We need a pollution revolution.

And it's not going to be easy

because the world is addicted to petroleum.

We have limited resources

and we go to war to protect them.

We need a new technology

and this technology

can't be sold.

It must be given away

to everyone.

We are in sight of a dream.

There is a solution.

The answer

is all around us... right here.

Water. H2O.

Two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen.

There is enough energy

in this glass of water

to power the city of Chicago for weeks.

It's the hydrogen we're after.

This is what happens when we burn it.

It's perfectly clean.

You can burn it when you want to,

in a car, in a turbine,

or in your own basement power supply

next to your water heater.

But what if we could release

this energy efficiently?

We will transform the world.

Maybe we start to put an end to war.

Of course, we have to make it work first.

Morning!

Hey, James, how are you doing?

Hey, Eddie, cold enough for you?

It's never too cold.

Hey, Lu! You want me to set up?

Yeah, right away.

Hello, Mr Shannon.

Mr Shannon, the big man, how are you?

Alistair.

- Did you have a good trip?

- Very good.

- Hi, can I get you some coffee?

- I'm fine, thank you.

I turn on the laser here.

We should focus it in the centre of the bubble.

- How's it going?

- You didn't get my fax?

I did. I didn't understand the figures.

We need to control the bubble.

The regulator isn't working.

Eddie, did you computer-model

your work last night?

No, I was too busy building it.

We sustained fusion for 4.6 milliseconds.

Stable?

It's stable... for 4.6 milliseconds.

Let me show you. Come, come.

The power input and output

is fine at this stage.

The output drops to nothing

at stage three, so what happened?

Paul!

All right, I gotta go.

Cross your fingers, everyone.

Good luck.

Mr Chen. Initiate laser.

Initiate laser.

Hydrogen separation in progress.

Initiate hydrogen burn.

Two million kelvin and rising.

Shut it down!

It's unstable. Shut it down.

We learned something important.

We found another way that didn't work.

We need to keep our minds open

and try again.

Alistair.

- It's working.

- Is it stable?

Yeah, it's stable.

- Completely stable.

- My God!

- We go tomorrow.

- Tomorrow, Alistair.

Lily, talk to me.

Temperature, gas flow,

acoustic drive steadied.

- The regulator has stabilised the reaction.

- Lucasz.

My spectrometer shows

stable hydrogen production.

We're getting more out than we put in.

I think you'd better sell your utility stocks.

- Whoa, Mr Chidi!

- Unbelievable!

You're going to be famous.

Thanks for everything.

We want more money!

Thanks for your trust.

I got it, I got it!

Here comes crazy Eddie!

Congratulations. I am quite impressed.

- Congratulations.

- Thank you.

I never agreed to keep

anything from anyone.

Mandela will get this information,

China will find out...

Go anywhere, but don't move an inch.

I can't tell you what could happen...

This is no time to be serious.

Everybody's waiting.

Come on, Alistair!

OK, everybody.

Holy sh*t, we did it!

Holy sh*t, we did it!

One love

One heart

Let's get together and...

Your battery's dead.

There's ice all over the dashboard.

- How do I get home?

- I'll get you home.

We'll take my bike.

Oh, yes, please!

Where do you live?

I live in England.

No, sorry, I live on Kimbark and 54th.

- Kimbark and 54th?

- Mm-hm.

We can't. You'll freeze to death.

Erm...

Let's take a taxi.

- Taxi, huh?

- Uh-huh.

We've got a better chance

of getting picked up by a UFO.

Mr Chen, upload everything.

I want it on the Internet tonight.

We'll wake up a lot of people.

Damn right. Really wake them up.

Barkley...

We don't have the computer model ready.

We have the frequency.

We'll send it to you in one hour.

Yeah, yeah, in one hour.

Where are you going?

Chen?

- Here we are.

- This is Alistair's house.

Isn't he sweet?

He lets me live on the third floor.

Mmm. This... way.

Is this... is this what drunk is?

You've never been drunk?

I've never been this.

Lily's too serious.

She's no fun.

I think you're fun.

Good night, Lily.

Wow!

Alistair!

Alistair!

Chen!

Chen!

Chen!

Get ready.

Shannon.

- Paul? Alistair's dead.

- Eddie?

I found him on the lab floor.

- He was murdered.

- What?

Just what caused the explosion

last night is still unclear.

University officials say

this mill site had been converted

for the experimental production

of hydrogen fuel.

They say that's not supposed

to be dangerous.

One question law enforcement officials

are trying to determine

is whether foul play was involved.

As we indicate, that's unconfirmed.

But an FBI agent has said, and it was reported

by a Bureau spokesperson,

that no nuclear device went off.

There was no atomic explosion.

As far as you know,

are all your people accounted for?

Miss Sinclair? Is this all the group?

Alistair didn't come home last night.

Lu Chen is nowhere to be found.

I phoned him and he's not anywhere.

I started CPR.

I checked for breath, there was no breath.

I checked and there was no pulse.

I continued with the CPR.

Have the locals move

the perimeter back about 1,000 ft.

You got it.

Find me a friendly Federal judge.

I want wiretap orders, search warrants

on everyone that worked here.

Inspector Ford, you've taken

charge of this investigation.

Why is the FBI involved?

Eight city blocks disappeared.

The President talked to my boss at 3am.

He wants answers.

Tell me about Eddie.

Does he drink, do drugs?

No. He's just a machinist,

an undergraduate working to get his degree.

That's the undisclosed cost

of our cheap fossil fuel.

Who'd be interested in this?

Cheap, clean,

abundant energy?

Who wouldn't?

When you left the party, who was there?

Eddie.

So, Eddie, tell us again why you came back?

I'd come back for my bike.

You say you'd returned

from taking Miss Sinclair home.

Yeah. Her car wouldn't start,

so I took her home on the bus.

What is your relationship with Miss Sinclair?

Er... We work together.

I'm a machinist, she's a physicist.

I was

hired by Dr Chen.

And who is Dr Chen?

He was Dr Barkley's

project manager.

Why did he hire you?

Because I'm a physicist.

Gentlemen, what have we got here?

Sergeant?

I think we have Mr Chen in the wind.

Nick, what did you find?

It looks like he packed with a shovel.

He was in a hurry.

Dr Barkley expressed interest

in a specialist in sonoluminescence.

He knew about Dr Chen.

So through some friends

in the State Department,

I got him here and onto the team.

You have friends in the State Department?

We have influential members of the board.

Really?

Who's on the board of your foundation?

Ford.

Various scientists...

Yeah.

...and industrialists.

Your Dr Chen is missing.

Any idea where he might be?

He may be dead.

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