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to speak to you,

I love you and dad.

And I hope

that I made you proud.

Just know that.

Okay?

[sighs]

[phone ringing]

Hello?

Okay, I'm getting him now.

Sir!

I have a phone call,

I think you should take it.

Repeat everything you just said

before the mayor.

Who?

Hello?

Mr. Mayor?

I'm a friend of Doctor Irwin's.

I was with him when he died.

- He's dead?

- Yes.

But he told us of a way

that we could save the city.

I'd love to know

what that is right about now.

Well...

We're gonna need a bomb.

A really big one.

Right this way, ma'am.

- Over there.

- Thank you.

Next, please. Keep moving.

Hold on, some of my patients

from the hospital are in there,

I need to go tend to them.

I'm just glad you're okay.

[Jessica]

Me too.

[Jessica sighs]

Take care of my baby brother

for me.

I will.

Go write us a happy ending.

This is Doctor Irwin's

personal information

which I've been reading.

Now it's all in here.

He knew that by collapsing

the lava tubes,

it'd made things much worse.

That's what Doctor Robson said

before he disappeared.

In his eyes, we were sitting

on top of some...

some kind of pressure cooker

ready to explode.

[Josh]

It is exploding.

Now, before Doctor Irwin died,

we were taking readings

of the Newport-Inglewood Fault.

Something very strange happened.

- You mean that voice thing?

- Yeah.

It's like we were sucking

on helium balloons.

[scoffs]

What?

[Josh]

According to Dr. Irwin,

helium leakage is very unusual

at a fault

because that means the fissure

must go so deep

that it goes

through the lower crust

and then to the mantle

of the Earth's core.

I have no idea

what he's talking about.

- Just...

- Sorry.

All right, look here.

The Inglewood Fault ends

directly south of Long Beach

at the hydroelectric facility.

A controlled explosion

directed inward

might magnify enough

and blast open a sea wall

and flood

the entire magma tunnel network.

Which puts Los Angeles

under five feet of water.

[Jones] Thank God you're alive,

Dr. Robson.

[Robson]

Thank you, Mayor.

Look, I don't know who you are

and what your relationship

to Irwin is, but that theory

was disproved a long time ago.

You're wasting time

that we don't have.

This would make matters

much worse.

These fissures do not go down

that far into the Earth's core.

There's definitely

helium present

and look, uh, we're not gonna

flood all of Los Angeles.

I-I-It'll come in straight

through the magma...

Hey, we're running out of time

so I'm done discussing

geology with you.

It's time for you and your

little Hollywood friend

to leave.

- Guard!

- Yes, sir.

Escort these two out, please.

Mayor, please.

I'm sorry,

you'll have to excuse us.

You're joking, right?

[Kat sighs]

There's something

I wanna show you.

This is one of the...

- Yeah.

- If the evac happens...

[siren wailing]

Let's face it, Kat.

Dr. Irwin got stuck

with the two most useless people

in the universe to help him.

What are we even doing here?

We're doing what we need to do.

I mean, we certainly

didn't ask for this,

but now that it's been

given to us,

we can't just

look the other way.

I think I have an idea,

you still have that sat phone?

Yeah, it's right here.

I have a certain Russian friend

who can get us

to where we need to go.

All right, Dr. Robson.

What do you need from us

to help get this done?

We need to get the magma

to the gas reserve ASAP

and then blow the whole thing

with explosives.

Yes, it will destroy

the entire area,

but better a small contained

zone than the entire West Coast.

That is millions of dollars

worth of infrastructure,

not to mention

all the lives lost.

Look, everyone there will

already have been

killed or evacuated

at this point.

Mayor, we need to load

a chopper with explosives

and get a team out there

to do this job.

Okay.

Preevyet, Kationic.

Took you long enough.

My apologies, princess.

I had to kick the backside of

a volcano just to get here, huh.

[sighs]

What do you need from me?

I need you to help me

steal a copter

and rig a bomb

to explode a power plant.

[exhales]

This one...

I knew he's trouble.

What kind of crazy ideas

you put in my Kat's brain, huh?

He's bad for business.

He didn't put anything

in my brain.

It's because of him

we might be

able to save Los Angeles

from this volcano.

This true?

Huh?

You can help save LA?

I have family there.

Yeah.

I believe so.

[sighs]

Don't.

[sighs]

[chuckles]

Okay, we best get moving, huh?

Come on.

[Serge] How do I get

into these messes with you?

I think the helicopter's

over there.

[Josh]

Yeah, it is.

[sighs]

Ugh, flying.

I hate flying, she knows...

You know I hate flying.

Shh.

Come on,

this has gotta be quick.

[growls]

[Kat]

Hey, boys.

[soldier]

Whoa, it's Kat Rivers.

We appreciate everything

you've been doing

for the cause, so, um...

I came out here to do

a little USO type show for you.

[instrumental music]

[chuckles]

[grunts]

About time.

It's beautiful dance.

Come on, screenwriter boy.

[exhales]

[helicopter blades whirring]

How did you know there were

explosives in these boxes?

- There was a time...

- Yeah.

The time that you played

a sexy bomb technician

in some movie about stuff

blowing up?

No. I was gonna say the time

I spent on base.

My dad was a helicopter pilot

for the army.

Oh.

I can't believe we're gettin'

away with this so easily.

Well, there is

a disaster happening.

People are a little busy

trying to survive.

What?

Someone just stole

the helicopter

we were preparing

for Dr. Robson's mission.

- What?

- Who?

They were saying

it's Kat Rivers.

Is that that girl

that was just here?

Yeah, that little

young Hollywood actress.

Oh, my God.

They're gonna try to implement

Irwin's ridiculous plan.

What was he talking

about blowing up again?

Oh, there, here, here,

the, the hydroelectric plant.

We need to get in touch

with whoever's there.

I'm on it.

It looks like there's

more soldiers down there.

What are we gonna do about 'em?

[helicopter whirring]

I think we got a bogey.

This hydroelectric plant,

what do we know about it?

In times of crisis like this,

the National Guard takes control

of all power stations.

- Great, let's contact them.

- We can't.

They're under

a full communications blackout.

Oh, great, what are we

supposed to do?

With any luck,

they'll shoot 'em down.

- What's up there?

- Huh?

National Guardsman, huh?

Weekend warriors.

Be surprised

if they even have weapons.

[gunfire]

You know, it sounds a lot like

they're firing at us.

Okay, so they have weapons.

Yes, they do.

What the hell are they thinking?

You know, a strange military

helicopter's

heading straight

toward the facility

in the middle of a crisis,

I might have cause for concern

as well.

I highly doubt that they

can even hit

broadside the port,

only if they were

standing five feet

in front of us.

[gunfire]

[Kat] We're like sitting ducks

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