Shockwave Page #4

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ever get Hellstorm operational?

No, there's never been

a successful test.

Even Nikola Tesla

couldn't figure that one out.

And he discovered it.

You know what they say

about a hundred monkeys?

No. What?

Lock them in a room

with some typewriters

and eventually you'll get

a few lines of Shakespeare.

It's time we started

running some scenarios

on the off-chance that this

wasn't just a coincidence.

Sir, we have reports

of another disturbance.

Alright, Kate,

we are leaving now.

Did you find a pattern?

Between setting up shop

and being chased

by a pyroclastic debris cloud?

No, we haven't had chance

to sit down and access it yet.

- Just a question.

- It's not just a question.

I know how that head

of yours works.

No. This information.

This is what I need.

Distance, time, location.

Do you have a printout of this?

- Kate, come on.

- Oh.

Come on, we gotta go.

I need that printout.

- What are you looking for?

- She's looking for a pattern.

Pattern?

The only way to reverse

what's already happened

is to predict

the waves in formation.

The what? Man, this is

way above my pay grade.

Kate, we're out of time.

We have to go.

No, I got to get one more

reading.

[rumbling]

[Jessie screaming]

- Ah.

- Ahh!

[rumbling]

Go!

That's really, really not good.

- Jessie!

- Ah!

- Ah!

- Jessie!

- Get to the truck.

- What is that?

Just get to the truck.

[Rob]

Martin, come on!

We gotta go. Just leave it!

[Kate]

Martin, get out!

[Rob]

Martin, come on!

I got it!

[groaning]

No!

Martin! Martin!

[grunting]

- No!

- He's gone.

- No, no, no!

- He's gone.

He's gone!

[intense music]

[rumbling]

[panting]

Watch out!

[grunting]

[panting]

The storm's gone.

[Rob] Kate, we gotta go back.

We can't leave him there.

- Rob, he's gone.

- We got to get his body.

The only reason that storm

didn't kill us all

didn't take this entire park out

is because of where we are.

[Kate] The San Andreas is a major

vein on the Yellowstone Caldera

and we are sitting on

a ticking time bomb.

Which is why you need to go.

- Go?

- Yes, it's too dangerous.

I need you to take the kids

and get out of here.

Of course, you know, we've only

been together for a few hours.

- That's good enough, right?

- It's not fair.

Jessie, every minute

you are here

is a minute you are more

in danger.

Exactly my point.

And you feel the need to stay?

Just like you decided

to risk your life in some

Godforsaken desert somewhere?

So not the time to be having

this discussion.

Of course it's not.

You never want to talk about it.

Okay, you know this park,

where's the closest exit?

No. Listen, Kate.

If you're right, where are we

gonna go that we're safe, huh?

Los Angeles? San Francisco?

There's nowhere that we can go

that we're not in danger.

Now, we are not leaving you.

You understand?

But if you have a plan,

I sure would like to hear it.

If I just got

the rest of those readings

off that computer,

I could have enough information.

She's pacing.

What does that mean?

- It means she's thinking.

- Or just triangulate.

Yeah, if we can triangulate

the waves, we can get

three different readings

from three different locations.

That might be

enough information.

- Enough for what?

- To try and isolate the wave.

You think you can

stop this thing?

Whoa, wait. What?

We're gonna stop this thing?

Us? Right here?

This thing that's

tearing up the globe?

Yeah, but we're gonna

need a little help.

Y-you're talking about

an explosion in the magnitude

of a-a one kiloton nuclear bomb!

Where are we gonna get that?

- That's plan B.

- She has a plan B.

- Like this one.

- Okay, look, we're here.

This is where we need to go

to get the first reading.

[rumbling]

[Pierce] The Hellstorm

weapon is operational.

You mean the weapon

that doesn't exist?

Sorry, just trying to clarify.

Trying to get my head around

this whole thing. I'll shut up.

Hellstorm is a device

that uses resonance

to amplify toroidal currents

deep within the earth's crust

causing disasters.

Now you've all seen

an opera singer break

a crystal glass with her voice.

It's the same thing,

but on a global scale.

Hellstorm is the voice

the earth's crust

is the crystal glass.

Now the fracture is so deep

within the earth's crust

that it releases a rush

of high pressure gases

causing these storms.

It's a one-two punch

of natural disasters.

As a result, the earthquakes

release the powerful storms.

It'll wipe out any city it hits.

If it's a wave as you say it is

then it should just

fade overtime, get weaker.

No, wh-when the device is active

it's designed to get

stronger over time.

That's what a resonance weapon

is designed to do.

So, we take it out.

Bomb the area again.

It's not that simple.

It's too deep.

Our most powerful weapon

has a range

of 200 feet below the surface.

Hellstorm by now

is over a thousand feet deep.

Besides a bomb of that magnitude

on foreign soil would only

exacerbate global tensions.

Global tensions?

Sir, have you seen the news?

Got it, I'm shutting up.

[Pierce] Now there is

good news, however.

In our preliminary test

with the weapon

there's a signature.

It's a signal

that's associated

with the ultra-low frequency

waves that it sends out.

Uh, drones, radio arrays,

whatever you can tap into

we have to find that signal.

It's the first

and most important step

in stopping this.

What if we don't stop it?

Then it's an end-game scenario.

There are several hotspots

around the globe.

Pacific Rim,

Indonesia, Yellowstone.

A Hellstorm eruption

in one of those areas

would not just threaten a city

it would threaten

the human race.

[intense music]

Bite me.

Godspeed, you wonderful monster.

[intense music]

Did the server crash?

It seems li... It seems like it.

I'm-I'm locked out.

Is everyone else locked out?

Yes, sir.

Uh, no, we have a team working

on that as we speak, sir.

Of course. Call it a...

A contingency plan.

Yeah, yes, sir.

Yes, sir. Will do.

Yes?

Our entire network was

just shut down.

- We've been hacked.

- Oh, damn it.

- Well, h-how extensive is it?

- Everything, sir.

[sighs]

Have we found that signal yet?

[intense music]

[siren wailing]

[Kate]

The Hellstorm weapon

creates a catastrophic

wave of energy.

And we're gonna need an equal

and opposite wave of energy

to destroy it.

So that's what

we're looking for.

Okay, I think it's working.

Good job, Jake.

So what are we supposed

to do now?

Just kinda wait for something

bad to happen?

Yeah. Hope that

the next one isn't as bad.

That's not very comforting.

You should go talk to her.

I don't know how to talk to her.

Kate, she's not a mathematical

equation that you can get wrong.

You're her mother.

Just talk to her.

Okay, we're getting something.

- This is it.

- Get on the timer.

- Record the readings.

- I'm trying.

[rumbling]

You okay?

I think it stopped.

Is one of the storms coming?

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