Ice Twisters Page #2

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Rain check?

No pun intended.

I have a TV interview

tonight anyway.

Can't wait to tell 'em, about all the

fun stuff the FSF is doing out here.

You know, earthworm robotics,

all that kinda stuff.

Hey, what's Frank's last name?

I'd love a quote.

Don't do this, Charlie.

I just can't seem

to help myself.

What do you want?

I wanna know

what you're doing.

That's outta the question.

Oh, come on, Damon,

that'd be fun.

No, this conversation

is over.

I'm no genius but, uh...

you come here checking puddles...

for residual trace elements.

I bet if I did my own sampling

I could find some heavy oxygen...

maybe some elevated

nitrogen levels...

or maybe I'll just find

some anti depressants.

Trying to make everybody feel good

about the economy these days, are we?

Be careful. You're smacking

a hornet's nest on this one.

That is a terrible analogy.

It's the truth.

Is it?

People died here.

This isn't going away.

I'll make sure of that.

Just... excuse us

for a second.

Look, Damon. I know Charlie.

He's a dog with a bone.

I'll bury him and that bone if I have to.

This is our entire career.

Exactly, forget

the science community,

the news will eat up anything

he finds on his own.

The only way to control the situation

is to keep him close.

So?

What's the verdict?

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

No. No. No.

Where the heck are they drawing

their energy from?

Where?

Another storm cell formed.

So we're storm

chasers now, huh?

Get in the car!

No one's here.

Oh, I know.

They said the signing

ended early.

I'm sure it did.

They said something happened.

A freak storm or something.

Seriously. You're not gonna talk to me

for the rest of the day?

It was your bathroom break.

What? It was your lame

hyper gassy thing.

- Whatever.

- You're so immature.

We have plenty of bathrooms.

You have to go?

Nope.

Yup.

So what now?

Well, uh... we missed Charlie

at the book signing...

we could go to the TV station

and wait from there.

Plan?

We're fine.

Well, it must've had something to do

with those crazy clouds we found...

something happened here.

Yeah, it's called weather.

It happens in a lotta places, I hear.

Look. Could we just go

and get our failing grade over with?

Uh-huh.

There you go.

What's that for?

Uh... how about something

you need on the way.

Say you gotta go?

There it is.

Gee, thanks.

Are you sure

this is the right place?

This is where Gary said

the storms formed.

What do you expect to find?

Hopefully nothing.

You see anything?

Come on, we can't go chasing a little gust

of wind and drop of rain now, can we?.

Yes, we can, so we can

confirm it wasn't us that caused it.

Gary, we're here,

there isn't a cloud in the sky.

What's causing

these cells to form?

I'm telling you, Jo, I don't know.

They... they are like ghosts...

they are coming and going

with no rhyme or reason...

they're moving through areas

of absolutely no frontal activity.

Maybe that's what I tell Damon

they're just ghost storms.

That should go over well.

I'm sure Frank

would love to hear that.

Okay, well,

what do you want me to say, Jo?

Because at this point,

everything is on the table.

Well, keep looking, Gary.

We have to figure this out.

Okay, fine. Bye.

What's this?

Oh! Cold.

What's wrong?

This water's freezing.

Charlie, give me that.

I could make a fortune

selling this online.

Just give it back.

What is this?

This is our experiment, the culmination

of years of research.

Sorry it ended this way.

It didn't end. We've got about 1,999

more of 'em just floating around up there.

Why doesn't that sound comforting?

What's it do?

Hold on, Charlie, this is

classified information, remember?

Oh, you mean this?

- Finder's keepers.

- Hey, come on...

we have more

important things to do. Look...

if something's gone wrong,

it's because we missed it.

We need to challenge what we think we know,

with some fresh outside perspective.

Charlie is one of the most

brilliant men, I've ever known.

I agree.

You're not helping.

Look.

We need to think

outside of the box...

and he could be

a zero gravity thinker.

Him, as your gravity thinker?

Hey, why not?

I'm feeling lighter already.

Fine. Whatever.

It's part of a seraph.

It's basically a self propelled,

self sustaining, silver iodide generator.

Silver iodide generator?

They've been seeding clouds

for 50 years that's nothing new.

Well, to seed clouds

you actually need clouds.

Something that's becoming increasingly

rare in our drought-plagued regions.

Joanne's technology

first makes the clouds.

Then it seeds them.

It's revolutionary.

But is it incendiary?

What?

This thing can be

a pretty nasty weapon...

if pointed

in the right direction.

Mr. Conspiracy.

Well, you know what?

Not every government

science project is a weapon.

Said the blind man

to his deaf dog.

- What?

- All I'm saying...

you can't make something

out of nothing.

It's water, and the chemical reaction

it creates is sound.

So please, let's just... fan out and see if

any more dropped out of their formation.

Hello.

Charlie? It's me.

Nora!

You're out already.

How are you, sweetheart?

I'm fine, I told you it was nothing.

Just shaken up a little.

Well, that's a relief.

Yeah, look,

I'm gonna head out of town early.

I'm a city girl.

Would you like me to take you?

No, no, you should stay.

You love this stuff anyway.

Good for a new book.

No?

Fortunately I think,

I wrote this one already.

Be sure you make that interview

and I'll meet up with you in LA.

Yeah, I'm not sure that I can.

Something's come up.

What? It better be

the bubonic plague.

Charlie, you are going to make

that interview!

As much as I can't stand

this place...

these small towns are the foundation

of your fan base.

Yeah, but Nora...

Charlie, promise me!

I set your alarm 6:00 PM.

I promise.

Bye, Nora.

Charlie! Damon!

Oh, boy, he's blue.

It's really bad.

He's... frozen solid.

This is silver poisoning.

He's pumped

full of silver iodide.

Any idea how this happened?

Okay.

This is enough, let's...

let's take the seraph

back to the base.

Damon, get Frank on the line.

I'm recommending we abort the test.

Just a minute, Joanne.

If you pull the plug now,

its not gonna go well

for the future of the program.

People are dead, Damon.

We had a hand in it.

Whoa. Hang on.

You know what's at stake here?

and it took me way to long,

to get us this funding to begin with.

Look, I understand

the ramifications, but...

I'm sorry. I'm...

I'm gonna recommend full abort.

Hey, Frank.

Talk.

Well, the second storm is confirmed,

and our fingerprints are all over it.

Any idea why this is happenin'?

No, not yet, but we found

a downed seraph...

we're taking it back to the mobile lab,

run diagnostics on it.

Let me know what you find out.

Uh, Frank, uh... listen.

Joanne is suggesting,

that we do a full abort now.

The cycle isn't complete.

All the work you've done will be wasted.

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