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Yeah, exactly.

- Sorry, Trish.

- This is my chance.

It's make or break. It's my story.

You know, I'm 38,

destined to be the weather

girl until I'm 40,

when they replace me

with some young, hot thing.

Dan doesn't take me seriously, you know.

He doesn't even listen to me.

Are you listening?

Rick?

Rick? Rick?

Hello. Rick, are you listening?

Sorry, honey, it's just that

we've got outages and alerts

all over the Magnolia area

like I've never seen.

Magnolia?

We're in Discovery Park.

The place is crawling with Navy.

You think there could be a connection?

Yeah, maybe if we declared war on Seattle.

Stop it, I'm serious.

Honey, it's just the snow and the ice.

The pipes are probably frozen, okay?

Our system isn't designed to handle this.

Honey, I gotta go.

Dispatch, talk to me.

Fine.

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Oh, my gosh!

It's the plane from the video.

It's the plane from the video!

You guys...

Oh, my God!

GoPro video of the week. I got it.

Cool.

Come on, upload. Upload.

Come on, dude.

What happened to the biker dude?

I'm fine.

Stop with the oxygen.

Louie, you all right?

Hey, yeah, I'm okay.

How about you?

You should go see a hospital.

No, they checked me out already. I'm fine.

You sure?

Oh, my God!

Hey, Erik, come on inside, okay?

Let's walk and talk.

- Trish...

- We'll just take a beat outside...

Trish, we've been reassigned to Veronica.

I'm sorry.

Come over here and give me a hand.

Trish, what happened?

You look like you got hit by a truck.

I'm fine, okay? I was here.

This is my story.

Really? Dan said that

you were covering snow in Bellevue.

Erik, Louie, we're on in five! Let's roll.

Three, two.

Thanks, John.

Just moments ago, my team and I

were involved in an explosion,

which killed at least five

and left several injured.

But we survived to bring you this story

live from Discovery Park.

Now hold on.

I do believe that this is the fire chief.

Let's see if we can get him

to make a statement.

So, Chief, with your years of expertise,

can you tell my audience

what happened here?

Yeah, sure, Veronica.

From what we can tell,

we're dealing with a gas explosion.

Emergency units responded,

and the situation is now contained.

But sadly, there are five dead

and more than a dozen seriously injured.

No, Chief, I was there.

Something came out of the floor.

Something big came up out of the floor.

Yeah, it's called gas.

No. No, something came up out of the floor

and destroyed the coffee shop.

Something came out of the floor?

Look, I'm sorry, but I

didn't get your name.

Trish Lanson, Channel 55 News.

Like I said, I was there, and something

came up out of the floor. Something big.

Hold on. Wait a minute.

Trish Lanson.

You're the wacky weather girl.

This is Trish Lanson

reporting for Channel 55 News.

Look, Ms. Lanson, why don't you

just leave this to the professionals

and focus a little more on, say,

the weather?

Chief, what causes a gas explosion

such as this one?

Any number of things...

- Hello?

- Hi, Rick.

- Trish, are you okay?

- I think so.

I saw you on the news,

you look terrible. Sorry.

Gee, thanks. Hold on.

Dan's calling. I think he's gonna fire me.

Don't worry about that. Listen, Trish,

you said you saw something in the sewer?

Yeah, look, I know it sounds crazy.

Trish, listen to me.

Something is in the sewer system,

and it's not frozen pipes.

I know.

I think I saw it.

I got water outages

pointing in a straight line

to Westpoint Treatment Plant,

like something huge is...

Westpoint. Okay, I gotta go. Okay, bye.

No, Trish, wait a second. No, wait.

- I gotta go check in with Trish.

- Okay.

Hey, where are you going?

I know where the next accident is gonna be.

Sweet, dude, let's roll.

Hey! Where the hell

do you think you're going?

We're still live.

A tragedy of monumental proportions.

So, did you just steal

the Channel 55 news van?

Stealing? Louie, we have a story to chase.

Besides, do I look like a car thief to you?

Yeah, kind of.

Malone.

This is Rick at SPU. You guys got

any trouble in your flow system?

What kind of trouble?

I got reds all down the line

coming right at you.

I don't know what it is.

Something in the pipes.

It's something big.

Rick, this is a sewage treatment facility,

and there are a lot of

big things in the pipe.

I'm serious, Malone. It's right on you.

Bureaucratic joker.

Hello?

Roger.

Are you seeing any back pressure?

Back pressure?

Yeah, there's quite a bit of back pressure

in the bio-solids tank.

You mean the poop tank.

Yeah, I mean the poop tank.

Yeah, there's back pressure, all right.

Why?

Can you flush it?

Yeah, I tried, but it won't flush.

Run! Everybody, run!

Roger, get out of there!

Roger. Roger, are you all right?

Oh, my God!

I could have been killed.

Oh, God, the smell!

It's horrible.

Obviously too late to warn anyone.

Let's get ready to go live.

Dan.

Hello, Dan? Hey.

No, wait.

No.

No, I'm here. I'm at the plant.

Seriously?

Seriously?

I can't believe this.

What?

He doesn't want me to go on air

after that stunt, as he called it.

"Wait for Veronica."

Are you kidding me?

Sh*t!

That's my van, Trish.

Sorry.

- Right, okay.

- Melody? Now what?

This is Veronica Viola.

Louie.

Louie, look at this. This is what I saw.

Come on, upload. Upload.

That's a shark robot.

They're calling it Roboshark.

Yeah, I've seen RoboCop.

I remember Robocroc.

Roboshark? I like that.

It has a good ring to it.

God, no!

- What do you want to do now?

- Hold on.

No, you're not coming.

Oh, my God, you idiot!

We've got a level-one contamination

out here.

Get that isolation tank now!

No, I don't want this on camera.

Turn it off! Help me!

Let's get out of here.

Okay, where to?

- What is it? It smells awful.

- Calm down, ma'am.

I can feel it on me. It's disgusting.

What? That's not good enough.

Do you understand the situation we're in?

What? Well, I need more, okay?

See what you can get

from Tacoma, all right?

Talk to me.

- I don't know. Pour concrete on it.

- I need you to okay these.

We're gonna need some serious contractors.

Hang on.

Thank God you're okay, Trish!

Look, I can't talk right now.

It is crazy in here.

Hey, listen,

I need to know where it's headed next.

No way!

Look, I've got outages everywhere,

and you have to stay away from it.

You got that?

No, listen, you saw it this morning.

It was on the video that Melody showed us.

They're calling it Roboshark.

"Roboshark"?

What the hell are you talking about?

- Stand down.

- Rick.

Trish, something's going on. I gotta go.

What? Rick!

Get these civilians out of here.

We're setting up right here.

Rick Lanson, Operations Deputy Director.

Mr. Lanson, Admiral Nathan Black,

United States Navy.

It's come to our attention

that you've been tracking a disturbance

in the city sewer system.

Yeah.

Son, the American people need you.

For what?

To defend the homeland.

Can we count on you?

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