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because of some gutless paramedic,

you'd better get

a reality check.

- Start sending those people in here.

- Nord !

- Stay there !

- Get me outta here !

I'm ready to go !

Stay ! That's it.

Don't move, please.

Nord, I hope you make it.

Get outta here !

I always make it, Mr. Latura.

Move it !

Keep going !

Faster ! Faster !

Don't look back !

Keep going !

- It's caving in !

- You played me, fool man !

Get down !

Aaah !

All the D.T.A.'s

are pulling double shifts.

I don't care if some guy's wife

is having a baby.

[ Indistinct Conversations ]

Quiet, everybody.

Everybody, quiet down.

Hey, shut up !

Shut up, everybody !

The mid-river just went down.

[ Barking ]

No, no, no, no, no !

[ Shouting ]

Mr. Latura !

- Easy, easy.

- I'm gonna die, right ?

Don't talk, don't talk.

Give me a scarf.

Please, I can't be goin' out

like this, man.

[ Gasping ]

I can't feel nothin'.

- Shh.

- I can't go out like this.

That's right.

Don't talk.

Tell my father I was helping people

down here, all right ?

I'll find him.

I'll tell your father

that you were a real hero.

[ Gasping ]

He won't--

He won't--

He won't believe you.

[ Gasping, Gagging ]

[ Structure Groaning ]

Oh, Christ !

Oh !

Oh, God, this is too much.

- Hey, stop him !

- Get off me !

Let me go !

We're gonna drown !

No, you're not gonna drown !

Listen to me !

You're going the wrong way.

This tunnel runs downhill.

- The Manhattan end will be

the first place to fill up !

- He's right.

Come on. This way.

It's higher.

Excuse me. Excuse me !

I don't know what you know

and what you don't.

All I know is I've got a 14-year-old,

and her life means more than anything.

So I wanna be involved in any decisions.

Am I clear, Mr. Latura ?

- That's fair enough.

- Latura ? I read about you.

It was in the papers.

Some kind of scandal ?

- What kind of scandal ?

- Not the kind that matters down here.

I beg to differ, Mr. Latura.

Scandals matter to

Mrs. Trilling and myself.

Excuse me, ma'am,

what kind of scandal ?

He was chief

of the Emergency Medical Service.

Some people got killed, and he

was involved. That's all I remember.

What about it, Latura ?

Is that true ?

I asked you a question,

and I want to know the answer !

- Is it true ? Is that true ?

- Hey ! Hey !

Let's remember that

he came down here to help us,

so let's stop focusing on him

and focus on the problem !

She's right.

I'm sorry, Mr. Latura.

That was very rude.

Rude ? What is this, some kind

of goddamn New York country club ?

- Watch your mouth.

- You don't have a child down here !

And his past may have

a great deal to do with our future !

We're gonna drown down here,

and he's all we've got !

If I'm all you've got, why don't you

meet me halfway ? Is that fair enough ?

- Are we gonna drown ?

- No.

- What is your name ?

- Ashley.

Ashley, there's time to stop

the leak before it gets high

enough to worry about drowning.

- That's the good news.

- What's the bad news ?

This water's 38 degrees. What we

have to worry about is hypothermia.

- Hypo what ?

- Hypothermia.

Your body loses heat

and shuts down.

You feel like you're getting tired,

but you're really getting dead.

But that's not gonna happen

to us, because we're gonna

look out for each other.

We're gonna stay high and dry

right on this car dam over here,

so everybody

get on the car dam.

Get the hell outta this water.

Let's get outta the water.

Excuse me, could you

please help me with the dog ?

[ Cooper Whimpering ]

Thanks very much.

Here, boy.

Come here.

Okay, so here we are.

We're high and dry.

So what do you plan on doing ?

In a situation like this,

it's very important that everybody

knows exactly what is happening, okay ?

That last thing we need

is any more surprises, right ?

What I'm gonna try to do

is collapse a section of that tube...

to seal us off from the fire

and try to plug that leak.

- How do you plan to do that ?

- I have to use an explosive.

- Wait, please, let me explain !

- Another explosion ?

- That's your idea down here ?

No wonder you got people killed.

- Steven.

If anyone has a better idea,

now is the time to tell me.

You don't know what kind of damage

this substructure's already sustained,

so how do you know you can

contain it to one section ?

I don't know !

I don't know anything !

The only thing I know is we're

not gonna make it another hour

unless I shut this thing down !

That I do know.

What we need is someone

to go to the Manhattan end...

to see if we're making

any progress, okay ?

- [ Explosion ]

- How about you ?

No, you can't go, Daddy !

- I have a family.

I don't want to leave 'em.

- But you're so good at it.

[ George ]

All right, I'll go.

- I know the place best, anyway.

- You're hired.

She wants her bracelet back.

- What ?

- You're George, right ?

- Yeah.

- Grace said to tell you

she wants her bracelet back.

- She told you that ?

- Good luck, man.

She can't keep anything

to herself.

Listen, you were the one

handling that live wire ?

Uh, yeah, but that

was a very different thing.

I didn't know--

- I need your help right now.

- I appreciate that,

but I don't know anything--

Listen. It took a lot of guts

to do that. What's your name ?

- Uh, Madelyne.

- Madelyne, I need your help, okay ?

Look at this.

A stress hold design.

Better than we did

on Brooklyn-Queens.

-What do you think we're gonna do here ?

-Open it up.

Open it up ?

Let's open it up.

Okay. Still not getting

any trace of them, am I right ?

There was a meltdown on the

phone lines. Walkie-talkies

have been known to go dead.

Am I wrong in saying that

you don't know whether there's

anyone to transmit, period ?

- We saw people !

- Hours ago.

We're gonna break through from

the Manhattan side. That's the

consensus of the city engineers.

- Consensus my ass !

- Who's this ?

- That tunnel's being held up

by counterpoint pressure.

- I asked your name !

Why don't you forget what her name is ?

Listen to what she's saying to you.

You bring in heavy equipment,

cause a pressure shift,

the whole thing could implode.

- That's speculation.

- Maybe a little more time.

We are time poor.

That tunnel is an artery.

The city is bleeding.

Look, you try to redirect

half a million people

in and out of this city...

without that tunnel, you got a problem

you don't wanna think about.

Are you saying that because

of a traffic problem...

you're giving up

on possible survivors ?

Come on, man.

You gotta hold off on the drill.

Look, the city engineers

make the decisions.

You clean up the mess.

- [ Kit ] You're doing real good.

- [ Maddy ] Doin' real good ?

Try scared to death.

Maybe, but you're

dealing with it.

I think you should get someone else.

This is not one of my specialties.

Not a lot of people could handle

that cable the way you did.

- Well, it's not like it had a lot of--

- [ Both Gasp ]

- It's okay. It's okay.

- I can't. I can't.

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