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finger on the power button.

You need the kill codes.

And the only one who has those

is the President.

So, let's just go to the President

and tell him what we know.

No. No.

You can't go to Palma.

We need way more

proof than I have.

We're talkin' about

shutting down Dutch Boy.

I mean even for an hour,

that puts the whole planet at risk.

No, I don't think you understand.

Someone sealed off the

back door into the system.

A back door almost

no one knew existed.

But the President did.

No, Jake, come on, what?

Are you out of your mind?

Not saying it's him.

I'm saying what if.

Who else has the

resources to pull this off?

Murder, cover-up, and a virus

that can only be stopped

with the codes in his pocket.

Why? Huh, tell me. Why?

Why would he do that?

We're two weeks away

from transferring Dutch Boy

to the rest of the world.

Two weeks away from

losing autonomous control.

Now, he talks a good game,

but he's never gonna let it happen.

A series of disasters, an

international crew to take the fall.

And you'd have to

cancel the hand-off.

And who would blame him?

All right. You stay on top

of your satellites.

Max.

Hey, Max,

don't do anything stupid.

Let's go.

Yeah, they already

tried to kill me once.

Max!

Transmission ended.

President Palma.

Some questions please, sir.

Comments before heading to the

national convention

in Orlando, sir?

Mr. President,

is there any statement?

A moment before

you head to Orlando.

My friends from Washington, D.C.,

I could never get off the plane

without first saying

hello to you.

Impossible.

What are you doing here?

- Are you insane?

- Sarah, look.

Jake needs us to steal

the kill codes from Palma.

Us?

You're asking me to help you

on the word

of your a**hole brother

who you haven't even

spoken to in three years!

Yeah.

Think about it, Afghanistan,

Hong Kong,

Cheng, the-the crazy sim sh*t,

the death on the

space station, come on?

Look, you gotta trust me on this.

All right?

I'm not kidding around here.

- Okay.

- Look.

The codes are on

Palma's holoframe.

We can't do it on the plane.

Why not?

Too many eyes.

He's never alone.

All right, then-

then what's the play?

Palma likes some private time

to shower and make calls

before the after parties.

You follow, I'll get you inside.

I can steal the codes

while he's in the shower.

- That's the idea.

- Yes, it is.

- Warning.

- Out of my...

All satellite communication

offline.

All satellite communication

offline.

Report to stations immediately.

Oh, my God.

We have nearly 200 satellites

reporting malfunctions.

Most of them nearing critical.

Pull up the satellite

closest to critical overload.

We've lost all control

of the Tokyo satellite.

Max.

I didn't know you were

coming to the convemtion.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,

my dad lives in Florida, so uh.

I promised I'd get him in

to the convention.

We need every vote, right?

Yeah, bring him to

the green room.

We'll uh, do a little photo op.

Aw, that's very kind of you, sir.

Thank you.

We've got reports of

extreme weather anomalies

building over Brazil, Mexico,

Bucharest, and Belgrade.

There's over a thousand storm

warnings issued around the world.

Rio de Janeiro satellite, critical.

Retrieval routine offline.

Chart a new course.

Get us close to the

nearest satellite going critical.

What are you trying to do?

We're gonna launch

the replacements.

As many as we can.

- Wait, wait, wait...

- As fast as we can.

We have to retrieve

the other satellites first.

All of the replacements

will crash into them.

They're programmed to arrive

in the exact same destination.

And they'll knock out

the infected satellites.

- Yeah.

- Of course!

All crews report to stations

for Rio satellite replacement.

Go for launch.

Away, she goes.

Satellite replacement for Rio

on its way.

Warning:
Satellite on

collision course.

Stable the retro boosters.

Don't let it slow down.

Load 'em up!

Keep 'em comin'!

Warning:
Geostorm Alert.

Time to geostorm:

One hour, 30 minutes.

Four more years!

Thank you.

As you know, the environment

was my late wife's

great passion and purpose.

And I know that she

would be extremely proud...

caused by the worst

hailstorm in recorded history.

There has been another

extreme weather event,

this time in Rio de Janeiro.

An off shore cold front

blew rapidly across land

plunging the city into

dangerously low temperatures.

There are reports of

numerous casualties, but

we don't know

how many at this time.

We're also hearing

that a cargo plane

may have crashed

in the city itself

possibly related

to the freezing cold.

Tokyo and now Rio are the first

catastrophic weather events

since the launch of Dutch Boy.

Stay tuned after the break

when we're joined by

our reporter, Sally Jones.

Oh, God.

Hey, Max!

Where's your daddy?

Oh...

Uh, you know what,

he got so caught

up in all the excitement, I-I...

I recruited you for this position.

I know everything about you.

Your brother,

your mother's death,

your father's death, everything.

Why'd you lie to me?

Hmm?

Why'd you insist

on making this trip?

Tell me what's wrong.

Maybe I can help you.

Maybe I can't.

All right, look.

I've gotta tell you something,

come here.

We are 90 minutes away

from a global storm

we won't recover from.

And I need

the President's kill codes.

Come again?

We gotta shut

Dutch Boy down now.

You're serious.

You said you hired me

because you believed in me, right?

All right, well, I need you

to believe in me now.

Well, we've gotta brief

the President.

Get to Cape Canaveral.

No, no, no, no.

W-We can't do that, sir.

Why not?

I believe he's the one

who initiated it.

United we stand.

United, we can.

Four more years!

You better be goddamn

sure of yourself

making accusations like that.

With all due respect, we don't

have time to argue about this.

Palma and I go way back.

Why would he do that?

That's insane.

Yeah, well, he's doin' it.

What's your proof?

Yeah, I got proof.

Dozens of files, right?

Project Zeus. It's all there.

Well, we can't get the

kill codes from the President.

Why not?

'Cause the President

is the kill codes.

Biometrics. Ten fingerprints,

two retina scans.

Well, what do we do?

I'll have to reason with him.

We'll have to reason with him.

Satellites going critical

over Florida.

Go to replacement sat now.

Station self-destruct

sequence initiated.

Station self-destruct

sequence initiated.

Phase one commencing now.

Great. Shut that down!

I can't, I'm locked out.

We built in back door overrides.

I'm trying them!

If we lose the station, we won't

be able to control

the satellites.

Self-destruct?

Why would you build

that into the station?

In case it fell to Earth.

Where's Duncan?

He's the only one with

enough programming expertise

to override the commands.

Duncan.

That's the fuel tanks.

They're the first to go.

Then section by section

until it can't handle retrieval.

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