Quantum Apocalypse Page #4

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- Looks like an earthquake.

Come on.

- Is anybody in there?

- Please, help me.

- Pull her out.

- We should wait for the paramedics.

- How can we call them?

- Get it off of me.

Other side, quick.

- The gravity, Leo.

- Please help me.

Major damage across the country.

The polar shift triggered

chain reactions.

We've got massive earthquakes

along the San Andreas.

Los Angeles, San Francisco

both badly hit.

- Word about the anomaly?

- No immediate reaction.

I can't believe it all comes down

to Avril Lavigne and Poindexter.

You'd better start believing.

Find some religion.

I am pleading with you.

Hey Lindsey, don't worry.

My dad will find a solution.

We got a call from the governor.

There's an anomaly headed our way.

The gist of it is

we've got about 48 hours.

Our broadcast is now reaching

most of the countries.

We have a little official word

from the White House on...

the last cataclysmic events.

we expect a news conference...

in the next few minutes.

We are getting some images...

from that 7,9 earthquake

in Southern California.

Thousands are feared dead.

In London an earthquake...

reaching a magnitude of 5,4

left a wake of destruction.

We now go to the BBC

for a full report.

Okay. Let's do this.

These weather changes have brought

loss of life and destruction...

to London. Citizens are

advised to stay inside...

and await further instruction.

The PM will be reporting...

from Downing Street

on American plans to stop...

what scientists

are calling gravitation.

Let's get to work.

Lindsey, don't worry. Dad's

gonna make sure everything's OK.

I don't know what happened to

my parents. I want to go home.

I'll get my dad's truck.

I'll take you back.

- You gotta talk to Terry.

- I'll explain it to him.

I want to take Lindsey home but

he won't let me take the truck.

- Why not?

- He says you need it.

- I don't need my truck.

- I know, but I need it.

- Where does he think I'm going?

- He says you're going to Houston.

- Will you please talk to him?

- Ah, yeah.

I imagine you're upset.

You overheard us talking.

- No.

- So what are you doing?

You have to take me to Houston.

The Space Agency needs my help.

The National Monitor Service.

We've got tide shifting...

typhoons and tropical storms

over the Eastern seaboard.

- I think this is the end.

- Oh, Jesus.

If it's dark matter,

it's completely unstable.

- This could double in intensity.

- Not if the math is right.

We don't have the computing power

to pull this calculation off.

- What are you talking about?

- A strangelet.

- What's that cosmology witchcraft?

- It's multidirectional quarks.

It's a form of dark matter.

It could stop this thing.

Strangelets turn every particle

into other strangelets.

It could cancel this thing out.

At least dilute it.

- Where can we get one?

- Particle accelerator.

- We could somehow transplant it.

- We don't even know if they exist.

There's no suitcase for that.

If it goes wrong, the planet...

will turn into anti-matter,

a big cloud of dust and gas.

- You're thinking inside the box.

- Keep thinking. We're out of time.

You think this is some game.

But people are dying.

A tsunami is hitting Manhattan.

Now, get to work.

- Leo.

- Yeah?

- Take her home. Well talk later.

- Okay.

- Can he have the keys? Hurry back.

- I will. Come on.

What's going on?

Terry wants to go to Houston.

To the Space Center.

- Why?

- He thinks he has the solution.

- You think he's got the solution?

- Maybe. I don't know.

Your brother is sweet but

he has a mental disorder.

- You can't take him seriously.

- What if he's right?

He taught Samantha how to read.

And he figured out hot to make...

a generator out of car parts.

Remember the story about the bus.

What if we can prevent disaster

if we just listen to him?

Let me bring him in there.

Let him explain it to you.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

- Will I ever see you again?

- Of course, I promise.

Oh, my God.

Lindsey! What are you doing?

Stop!

Damn it. Lindsey!

Mom. Dad. Oh, my God.

- Justin!

- Come on. We have to go.

Go ahead. Tell her.

I think we got it.

- The anomaly is dark matter.

- It's a collection of quarks.

- Quarks are generic particles.

- There are 6 different types.

Dark matter is formed when

strange quarks bond into...

a new form of matter because

they don't decay as they should.

It creates an unnatural gravity

that deconstructs everything.

Matter is attracted to the center

and time slows down.

Its existence is caused

by a variety of factors.

- Random chance, really.

- That's the only way to stop it.

- Creating a dark matter cluster.

- This will cancel each other out.

Create a wormhole,

a bridge between the two.

This sounds good.

How do we do it?

We need supercharged,

accelerated particles.

- The ones at CERN in Geneva.

- How do we get them into space?

- Wed have to move it somehow.

- How much time do we have?

- 1st wave of destruction in Asia.

- About 8 hours.

Final destruction, 32 hours.

We can't even get a shuttle

off the ground in that time.

We thought you'd say that.

An option is a nuclear reaction.

Launched at the right velocity,

the right angle, the detonation...

- could give us what we need.

- What type of device?

A thermal nuclear weapon.

One that's reliant on fusion.

Not fission.

Wed have to launch more than 1.

- They can collide.

- At the same time.

We got it. Its multiple devices

can be targeted separated.

The LGM118A Peacekeeper.

It has 10 warheads.

If you give us the coordinates,

we can launch it immediately.

- That's the hang-up.

- We need time to calculate...

the sweet spot.

Thirty some-odd hours.

Let's get started.

We have to try.

- And that's what we have to do.

- I don't know what you're saying.

What makes you think the govt

hasn't already thought of this?

Cause if they did, they would

have already done it.

- We have to go to the basement.

- What's going on?

Tornadoes, come on.

Come on. Come with Daddy.

Here we go, sweetie.

Get in the garage, sweetie.

Quick as you can.

Terry, come on.

See this? Leave it on for

two-minute intervals.

- How we looking, Trish?

- That's all of it.

- How long?

- According to the counter thing...

- about 32 hours.

- What are the alternatives?

It's a complex formula

that only your computers...

could decipher. It would take

me years to solve it by hand.

I don't know if you have

enough paper for me to write on.

Right. Okay.

You're here for a reason.

Just keep me posted.

Leo. Come on. Let's go.

Jesus.

- We dodged a bullet.

- Somebody up there likes us.

- You wanted to see me, sir?

- Are TV and radio still working?

- Yes, sir.

- I want to address the nation.

Yes, sir.

The Interstate's out.

All the tornadoes and earthquakes.

- Many will try to leave town.

- To go where?

Well, anywhere.

They probably think it's local.

So rural roads and highways.

It'll take longer to get there.

It only took us 4 hours to get

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