Quantum Apocalypse Page #2

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- Great.

Come in.

- Hey. How are you doing?

- I tried to call you.

All the phones are down.

You got time for lunch?

Let's do that.

Grab a jacket.

Trish Zane. Tom Lively.

This is Dr. Zulkowski.

Thank you both for coming.

We've had an anomaly.

We hope that you can

help us stop it.

Stop it?

That sounds dangerous.

Representatives from the military

and the NSA are on their way.

We hope to have some answers

by the time they arrive.

We'll be asking a lot of you

in very short a time.

Anything we can get for you

to move the process along, name it.

I need some no. 2 pencils

and some wide-line paper.

No notebook, no college ruled.

Loose leaves of paper.

- Okay? Trish.

- Energy drinks and cigarettes.

- Any particular brand?

- Surprise me.

- None of that generic crap.

- They need to be... menthol.

- Can you keep the drinks warm?

- Room temperature anyway.

- Please.

- Well have that brought over.

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

I'll have Rhodes here

get you up to speed.

No. 2 pencils and energy drinks?

Is this some kind of joke?

Those two are the rock stars

of theoretical physics.

out of MIT for proposing M theory.

Her hypothesis was confirmed

by research 6 months ago.

- They're brilliant.

- Well I certainly hope so.

- Go home. See your family.

- I've got work to do.

Besides, it's the end of

the world, I'll be fine.

- That quiz was a real ball buster.

- He loves springing staff on us.

- I'm probably failing right now.

- You should sit next to me.

What does that mean?

You're making me smarter by osmosis?

- The tests are multiple choice.

- Yes.

We can create a secret language,

like I scratch my head...

the answer's A,

if I sneeze, the answer is B.

I need your test results before

I start copying your answers.

Make sure you're not

trying to impress me.

Suit yourself, but,

I got a secret weapon.

- And what is that?

- My uncle.

- Your uncle's a math teacher?

- No. Better. He's a savant.

He has a kind of autism.

He has no good motor skills.

He lacks the brain part that

filters out useless information.

- Yes, he knows everything.

- You lie.

- No, I swear.

- What, like Rainman?

Better than Rainman.

I would not lie to you.

- That's pretty wild.

- Well, it's pretty true.

Oh, man.

- What's his problem?

- Don't get me started.

- You broke up like last summer?

- Tell me about it, right?

He shouldn't have a problem

with your new boyfriend.

- New boyfriend, huh?

- Did I just say that?

Yeah.

- Margaret.

- I've seen that face before.

Another story to hit the Internet?

What do you regret this time?

- No, it's not that.

- Well, what?

- What is it?

- An extinction level event.

- We have a day. Maybe two.

- Before what?

They don't know. We need to

get back to Washington.

- Mr. President.

- Carson.

Members of the Cabinet

are ready to reconvene.

Good. I just told Margaret

we need to get back.

The Secret Service thinks

it's unsafe for you to fly.

I don't care what they think.

We're going back.

This is a national crisis.

The American people deserve...

to have their president

in the White House...

not hiding out

in some secret location.

The American people

need their president, sir.

The FAA has suspended all travel

until further notice.

Set it up here, in the hotel.

But keep the vice president...

- in D.C.

- Yes, sir.

My God. What are we going to do?

Jumping into a ready-made family

is difficult. Can you talk to him?

Samantha is too young

to remember her mom...

but Leo misses her.

He's a great kid but he

won't respect me.

Take him fishing or take him

to Hooters, do something...

- to get him on my side.

- We'll do.

- Well, Terry sure misses you.

- Still gets letters from Houston?

- Emails them every day.

- I think that's kind of cute.

Till the Feds send a SWAT team

to bust him for stalking.

Yeah. He needs something to do.

We need global coordination.

I want briefings every 10 minutes.

We have a few hours satellite

telecommunications left.

Then fire up the old

Cold War infrastructure.

We cannot do this alone.

Mobilize the National Guard.

We need to maintain law and order.

I want every governor kept in...

the loop as long as possible.

There is no plan for any of this.

We need to act from our gut

and just hope and pray...

we made the right decision.

Please don't sit there.

Please use a chair.

You'll mess up the sheets.

I'll have to make the bed.

Sorry.

What are you working on?

I have a friend. Reflex1987.

He works at the Space Agency.

I wanna work there

and use my computer.

Those guys have computers

even better than yours.

No. AMIGA has a superior

operating system.

Lynne and I wanna give you some

stuff to do around the house.

Maybe work on getting you

your drivers license.

- I don't wanna drive.

- You'd make a great driver.

I'd make an excellent driver.

Other drivers are bad.

- You have a point.

- I wanna work there.

The Atlas Space Agency.

They need me.

I know you do. We'll talk

about this again tomorrow.

Okay. Bye. Love you.

I love you too.

Leo said the Internet was down.

I rerouted my terminal through

another DNS terminal.

- It works.

- Good thinking.

- My talk with Terry went bad.

- Well, as usual.

It's like talking to a wall.

My dad was frustrated with him.

- Like father, like son.

- I'm not frustrated.

OK, he's frustrating.

It's like having another kid.

- We're doing OK with the other 2.

- Should we send him for treatment?

No, he belongs with his family.

Putting him in a nut house...

- isn't doing him any favors.

- Who talked about a nut house?

That's where those centers are.

How's your blood pressure?

- I don't wanna tell you.

- Sweetie.

- 145 over 98.

- Still pretty high.

I'll call the doctor tomorrow

and adjust my meds.

We determined that what you say

is not only unlikely.

The clearance process for people

who are already working on this...

is underway,

but obviously we can't wait.

I'll inform our team

in Washington.

- Okay.

- As long as they're the best.

Sorry for the interruption.

General Rodgers, Ms. Taylor.

- Greetings.

- Hello.

Ms. Taylor, please take a seat.

General, over here please.

- Thank you, Stan.

- Any updates for us?

- Update? Like what?

- What's the situation?

Right. Of course.

We worked on some calculations.

Thanks for getting so much time.

That's what we came up with...

- sir General...

- General.

Super cool suit, by the way.

What we came up with is that...

we are... screwed.

One hundred per cent.

- It might not be that bad.

- Might not?

- Really? Go on.

- To minimize its impact...

we need to identify it.

Know exactly what it is.

It takes scientists decades

to work this stuff out.

All resources of the US govt

are at your disposal.

Until all the satellites go down,

all the power is gonna go.

Could it be a sort of weapon?

Al Qaeda? Possibly the Chinese?

No. This is an incident

to remind us how insignificant...

we are in the universe.

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