Into the Storm Page #5

- All right?

- Yeah.

[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON RADIO]

What was Donnie doing there

in the first place?

TREY:
He's with Kaitlyn.

He's been in love with her forever.

Johnston?

Yeah. He's shooting this video project

thing for her.

Why didn't he just tell me?

I don't know, Dad. You're so easy to talk to.

I'm just saying.

Whoa.

Oh, my God.

[CAR DOORS OPEN]

GARY:

Hey, boy.

Hey.

TREY:

Dad, that's Chester's dog.

Chester?

TREY:

Chester?

GARY:

Chester!

TREY:

Dad, be careful!

- You okay?

- Had to go looking for shelter.

Was gonna drive.

GARY:

Let me see.

- You hurt?

- Get the door.

The belt's stuck.

I gotta cut him out.

Hey, can I get some help over here?

TREY:

Here.

- I know, I'm not supposed to have that.

GARY:
We'll talk about that later. Hang on.

TREY:
Put this under him.

GARY:
Yep.

- Right there.

GARY:
Put him down.

- Can you get everybody to the high school?

- Uh-huh.

They've got a storm shelter.

- You wanna go with them?

- No way.

GARY:
Make sure he's okay.

- You got it.

Oh, sh*t.

Oh, come on.

Try your phone again.

Oh, come on, come on, come on.

- Anything?

- There's no signal.

Damn it.

There are those idiots.

Pull over.

Hey, Pete, you can pass us.

PETE:
Allison, we don't have time to waste.

ALLISON:
Yeah, we'll catch up to you.

Hello! Your main man Reevis here.

- I'm with my buddy Donk.

- Badonkadonk! Heh.

REEVIS:
What just happened?

- All right, so check this out.

I was in a tornado, right?

And let me tell you. One word:

- "it sucked. " Ha-ha-ha.

REEVIS:
Ha-ha-ha. That's two words, jackass

I know. Two words, but I was, like,

getting sucked up in the thing.

It was smart back there with the knife.

TREY:

Thanks. I thought you'd be mad.

Oh, I am. Hand it over.

TREY:

We should turn left on Main.

I'm gonna take the highway.

Dad, if we out through Main,

we can take Rosewood all the way.

We save like 20 minutes.

All right.

REEVIS & DONK:
Ha-ha-ha.

ALLISON:
Hey, guys!

Gentlemen!

REEVIS:

It's gonna be damn head. Ha-ha-ha.

- Ha-ha-ha.

- Hey.

- You two need to go inside and stay there.

DONK:
Whoa.

REEVIS:

You guys actually get paid to do this sh*t?

I'm in the wrong damn job, man.

- You don't have a job.

- Heh.

Let's go, Allison!

Grab a brew.

It's like a zombie apocalypse out here.

PETE:
We're wasting time.

ALLISON:
I don't think we can leave them.

- Look. They're not our responsibility.

- They're drunk.

- Guys.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa. You getting this?

- Look, look. Donk, Donk.

DONK:
Oh. Hell, yeah! Ha, ha!

Hell, yeah.

REEVIS:

Look at it.

- Whoa, sh*t! Where did it go?

- Where'd it go? What?

PETE:

Where is it-?

DARYL:
It's moving, it's moving, it's moving.

REEVIS:
Whoa.

Hey, Allison, what's happening?

Keep filming.

[SIREN BLARING]

JACOB:
Whoa!

DONK:
Guys! Look at that!

Reevis! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

REEVIS:
Yeah!

DONK:
You getting it?

[REEVIS WHOOPS]

REEVIS:

No! No! Holy sh*t!

- My truck!

- Oh, my God!

[ALL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

TREY:

Dad!

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[ALARM WAILING]

Get out and run for the bank!

REEVIS:

Go! Go! Hurry! Hurry!

Oh, sh*t!

- Oh, my God!

- Dad! Hurry!

Go inside!

Trey!

[ALLISON SCREAMING]

GARY:

God!

Hang on!

TREY:
Oh, my God! No, no, no!

JACOB:
Hang on!

TREY:

Dad, hold on!

ALLISON:
Oh, God! Aah!

GARY:
I've got you!

GARY:

Hold on!

I won't let you go!

Grab the door!

TREY:

No. Dad, no!

ALLISON:

Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

[ALLISON SCREAMING]

[GARY GRUNTS]

[BOTH PANTING]

Are you okay?

Yeah.

DARYL:
Allison, you okay?

- Come on, Trey. Let's get in the car.

ALLISON:
Everyone here?

DARYL:
Yeah.

JACOB:

This is crazy, guys.

TREY:

Oh, sh*t.

Whoa.

Hey, can I use your cell?

My son's out there. I got no signal.

ALLISON:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh...

I don't either.

Where is he?

He said he was at an industrial park

on Garner Road.

ALLISON:

Is that north of here?

JACOB:
This is crazy.

PETE:
This is what we're paying you for.

ALLISON:

Give me one second.

Guys, what's going on?

Daryl, can you believe this?

Your buddy here wants to quit.

DARYL:
Hey. No one's quitting here.

Just give us a minute, Pete.

You got a minute.

DARYL:

You'll be okay. Right?

This is crazy, man, all right?

I mean, a truck almost fell on us.

Relax.

Make it through today, and by next week...

you got cash and you are sitting on a beach

sipping margaritas...

with that beautiful girlfriend of yours.

All right?

- I don't even like margaritas.

- Heh. Trust me.

Come on, we're wasting time.

Daryl, just take his damn camera from him.

He's got this.

PETE:
Let's get ready for the next system.

- All right.

GARY:

Another system?

ALLISON:

Wait a minute. That was going north, right?

That's toward the paper mill.

I gotta get there. Can you take us?

My car is totaled.

- Sorry. No time.

- His son's out there.

Pete.

Just stay out of the way.

ALLISON:

You guys can come in the van with me.

- I can take the kid with the camera.

- Really? Sweet.

No, no, Trey, you're staying with me.

Look, the Titus is the safest place for him.

He's right. It's a tank.

We'll be right behind him.

- Just as far as Garner, okay?

- Right.

Keep that camera rolling. When this is over,

I'll give you 3 grand for your tape.

TREY:
Three grand?

- Yeah.

- Heh. You got it.

- Now we're talking.

Let's move!

How's your leg?

It's a bit better.

Here.

- Ah.

- All right?

[KAITLYN WINCES]

Okay.

Where'd you learn that?

Uh, my mom was a nurse...

so when we were kids, instead of

story time, we'd have, like, CPR lessons.

[KAITLYN CHUCKLES]

At the time I was kind of lobbying

for Cat in the Hat, but now...

Ha, ha. Yeah, thanks, Mom.

- Okay?

- Yeah.

Thanks.

I told my parents I was going to the library.

Your dad is coming, right?

Someone will find us.

[DONNIE GASPS]

[KAITLYN SIGHS]

DONNIE:

You okay?

Look, I waited my whole life

for a storm like this.

Please don't let me down.

Who you trying to reach?

My little girl, Gracie.

I've never been away from her

this long before.

GARY:

Where is she?

She's with my parents about 200 miles

to the south.

They'll make sure she's safe.

Yeah. It just really feels wrong

to be away from her right now. You know?

How old is Gracie?

She just turned 5.

Wow.

- They're a real handful at that age.

ALLISON:
She's a really good kid.

How old is your other son?

GARY:

Donnie? He's 17.

He'll be all right.

He knows everything at that age.

After his mom died,

I kind of lost him for a while.

We'll find him.

So is this what you guys do for a living?

Go around chasing trouble?

They chase. I study.

Makes me the grown-up. Right, Daryl?

I've never heard

of this many tornadoes before.

It's a freak occurrence.

Two storm fronts taking the same path.

It's not freak anymore.

Not after Katrina. Not after Joplin.

What used to be once-in-a-lifetime

seems to be happening about once a year.

Look what happened with Hurricane Sandy.

Whatever it is, we have to figure it out...

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