Into the Storm Page #3

TREY:
Come on, man. Take a swing.

- You're into all this environmental stuff, huh?

TREY:
Come on, man. Just ask her out.

Gotta take care of the planet, right?

DONNIE:
Or else the planet

will take care of us, right? Heh.

TREY:

That was awkward.

Heh. Yeah. Well, some of us care,

or at least are trying to.

DONNIE:

No. I'm sorry.

I can help. I have all these cameras

and this editing software and-

- Really?

- Yeah.

Well, this will be easy.

We can reshoot this.

- It'd have to be today.

- Today?

Oh, you're filming the graduation.

No, it's fine.

No. No. My brother, Trey,

he's good with all this stuff too.

- He can get that.

TREY:
No way.

- Like, he can get that footage.

- Really?

- It's not a problem.

- Sure?

TREY:
Yes, it's a problem.

- I'm sure. Yeah.

Thank you so much.

No. You have no idea what this means

for me. I owe you so big for this.

No. Well, you know,

me and the planet go way back, so...

[BELL RINGS]

Thank you.

- I'll see you later.

DONNIE:
Cool.

- Thank you.

- Okay, no.

TREY:

This is so not cool.

You are kidding me.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

TREY:

You're gonna skip the ceremony?

Yeah. Yeah.

You said do something for yourself,

so I'm doing something for myself.

TREY:

Yeah. And leaving me to do all the filming?

You can handle it. Right?

You can handle it, right?

TREY:
Yes.

- Heh.

TREY:

Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Hey. You go for it, bro.

But get some skin on camera.

E- mail it to me.

- Just get the interviews, all right?

TREY:
All right, all right, I'm going.

Okay.

[CHUCKLES]

TREY:

Yo, Todd. We're rolling.

Yo, what's up, me?

How's life in the future, bro?

So I just know by now you are playing

for the NBA, you're super loaded...

and you got a super-smoking-hot

cheerleader wife.

So why the hell are you watching this

right now?

Why don't you get up to your penthouse

and bang her good, right?

[CHUCKLES]

TREY:

That's your time-capsule message, Todd?

Why not?

A message?

Too late for me. Too late for these guys.

But my kids? Grandkids? Simple.

Study. Get good grades.

Or else you're gonna hang around this

group of losers shoveling sh*t all day. Sorry.

Please marry a rich guy.

Please marry a rich guy.

TREY:

Uh, we're rolling.

So, what would you like to say

to yourself in 25 years?

That was it.

Twenty-five years time? Ha! My guess is

we'd have blown up the world by that time.

TREY:

All right.

High school sucked.

Hopefully, it was all worth it.

You've got your Ph. D. from Brown.

You're doing research

and using your skills to help-

Douche-rocket! Ha!

[TODD & TREY CHUCKLE]

TREY:

Sorry, man.

DARYL:
Radio check.

- Yes, sir.

PETE [OVER RADIO]:

Copy that.

DARYL:

Camera's good.

Hey, guys. So you think we'll get to see

a tornado today or what?

You never know.

Jacob, did you bring

all the camera batteries? I only saw four.

I, uh, left them back at the hotel on charge.

Today is not a good day to run out of power.

We gotta go get them.

Let's get moving. This system's

supposed to hit within the hour.

ALLISON:

If that.

Come on, dude, get your sh*t together, man.

You're making me look bad.

MAN 1:

Mike check. One, two, three.

- Where's Donnie?

MAN 1:
Mike check.

MAN 2:
Yeah, it's good.

TREY:
I don't know. Around.

GARY:
He knows what time we're starting?

TREY:
Yeah, sure.

Anyway, I can run the cameras.

GARY:

All three?

TREY:
Well, yes, Dad.

That's why they invented tripods.

GARY:

Trey, this is important.

And I can't do it, right?

I didn't say that.

You kind of did.

[COMPUTER CHIMING]

Hey, Mom. How's Gracie? She still mad?

She's 5 years old. She'll be?ne.

I know, but I've been gone for months.

That's too long to be away from her.

I keep thinking it was a mistake coming here.

MRS. McGEE:

Allison, we're?ne

This is your job.

What you're doing is important.

I can't stop thinking

about those kids that died.

GRACE [ON SCREEN]: What kids?

ALLISON:
Nothing, sweetie. Grandma

and Mama were just talking. But listen.

I am sorry about our call earlier, okay?

I don't want you mad at me.

When are you coming home?

ALLISON:

Real soon. The season's almost over.

GRACE:

Why can't you just come now?

I wish I could. I really do. I miss you.

PETE:

Allison!

Listen, I gotta go. But I'm gonna check in

every couple hours, okay?

Promise me you'll be home soon?

I promise.

PETE:

Allison!

I gotta go. I love you, bug.

I love you too

I'm coming, boss!

We have now con?rmed

that a tornado has hit Riverside.

All of Shaw County remains

under a severe thunderstorm warning.

Chuck, what do you see on radar?

What we're watching now is this very rapid...

- Data, huh?

- Sh*t.

Maybe we'll catch the tail end of it.

PETE:
What's going on in Silverton?

ALLISON:
Give me a minute.

Um, it's dissipating. There's some scattered

thunderstorms and that's about it.

Thunderstorms? Thunderstorms.

Put everything in the van.

We're moving now.

ALLISON:
Where do you wanna go?

- Uh...

You're not going anywhere.

We are going to Riverside.

- How about-?

DARYL:
We'll catch the next one.

Look. There's not gonna be a next one.

Let's go.

[CHUCK SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TV]

[HAIL CLATTERING]

Look at the size of them!

- I thought you said it was dissipating.

- It was.

PETE:
Where you going?

- I'm gonna check the Doppler!

DARYL:

Right behind you, Allison.

Whoa, wait! Wait up!

Oh, you see these, Allison? These are huge!

ALLISON:

Yeah!

DARYL:

Ow! Son of a b*tch!

Oh, my God! Look at these, guys!

They're bigger than golf balls!

Ah! Come on! Hurry up! Let's go!

[GRUNTING]

- What do we got?

- It's regenerating.

And?

Silverton.

It's coming.

Great.

Great.

TOM:
To all the students

of this year's graduating class...

who have dedicated themselves to

the hard work necessary to reach this day...

you are now standing on the threshold

of adult life.

You are free to take your own path...

and that path will be different for all of you.

But it's now time to create your own lives.

To create your own destiny.

I mean, look at this place.

They should tear it down. Decontaminate it.

Plant some trees or a garden or something.

DONNIE:

They should totally build a skate park here.

No, a garden. Definitely a garden

Yeah.

So you wanna just

put the tripod down over there?

- Wow.

- Hmm.

DONNIE:
Watch your step.

- Yeah.

[SIGHS]

I look okay?

Yeah. You look beautiful.

I wasn't saying- I was, like, for the-

I don't know. Uh, I'm rolling here.

- So whenever you're ready to-

- Thanks, Donnie. You're really sweet.

Right.

ALLISON [OVER RADIO]:

Pete, where are you?

PETE:
I'm coming right up.

- Got wall cloud to the east.

- Whoa.

Yeah, but no vortex.

- Jacob. I got some circulation over here.

JACOB:
Over here, got it.

PETE:

It's heading towards those trees.

MAN [ON SCREEN]:

I'm on Oakwood Road.

If you're in Shaw County, you need

to get yourself to a safe place now.

This thing is going to track right,

almost towards town.

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