The Cokeville Miracle Page #4

- Almost tvwo hours.

- Should I be worricd'!

[door opens]

- Mr' Hanley'!

- How's he doing'!

- Well, that's a good question.

I think you and Jason need to sit down

and have a nice, long talk.

- Yeah, youke right.

He's a good doctor.

Why don't you g0 play for a minute'!

P11 gmb your mom,

and then we'll talk, okay'?

. Okay-

- Hey.

we did K go?

- Oh, it wont great.

I guess there's a few things

he hasn't been telling us,

so I think it's time we have a talk.

- Ron, don't interrogate him

like he's a suspect.

Jase, the doctor

said that we should talk.

Do you know why he said that'!

Don't you want to talk to us'!

- Ws mi

Fm scared.

- Don't be scared, honey.

You can tell us anyxhing.

- It's about that day

with the mean guy.

. Okay-

Well, the thing is,

Whfll I didnfi tell you

was that there were other people

in the mom with us'

- You moan the teachers'?

What other people'?

- The ones all in white.

One was a lady.

She stood by mo.

She said that what dqose people

were doing was very bad

and that the bomb was gonna g0 off.

She said if I stood by the xvindow,

everything would be okay,

- So she helped you'!

- Did shc tell you hcr name'?

- But I mink it

was Grandma Meisler.

- Jase, Grandma Meister

lives in Pinedale.

She wasn't at your school that day.

Okay.

- [whispering indistinclly]

That's Grandma Mcistcr.

- That's hcr.

- That's the lady you saw?

- That's my angel.

- I Llfink Lhafsjusttoo much

of a coincidence

to be a coincidmcc.

- J ass, why didn't you

tell us about this before?

- 'Cause I knew

you wouldn't believe me.

- [Sighs]

[dog barking in the distance]

- What do you think'!

- You don't want to know what I think.

- Say it.

- [Sighs]

Fm just not buying his angel story.

I think it's his COping mechanism.

- You don't believe your own son'?

- You know how I think.

I need proof.

- So you treat your son

like a criminal?

- That's how it works.

I'm trained that way.

- Well, then go find your proof.

Maybe Jason wasn't the only one.

You're thc sheriffs investigator.

Look into it.

. Okay-

I'll pay some visits around xown,

see what 1 can come up with.

Anything at all'!

Anything out of the ordinary'?

- Well, the first thing

I'd tell you is the fact

that the fire alarms went off

for no mason a couple of Limes

in the days j ust before the bombing.

[five alarm ringing]

Those alarms prepared

the kids in a big way.

They learned t0 get

out of a room quickly,

to stay 10w, to crawl

iflhey needed to find air,

but nobody knows

why the alarms were going off

or why now they've just stopped.

And then I'd look at that business

about the magic square,

If Ben hadn't been prompted

to put that down,

there would've been kids right up

next to the bumb when it went off.

They'd have ended up just like Doris.

- But don't you think

that's just coincidences?

- Maybe.

But I don't think so.

- Then I saw Rich Haskell,

He's the bomb expert.

- Hanlcy, when mm bomb wcm off,

there shouldn't have been

any survivors,

but then there xvasflt near as big

an explosion as there shoulcfve been.

One big factor was that the meathead

just happened to choose a milk jug

as the conmincno put rho gas in.

A container that leaked.

Now, the fumes that it gave off

got them tu open the windows.

- Can we at least open the windows'!

- Do it.

- Ho 1c! them keep the dams open.

- 'Cause the bathrooms right thcrc.

- Those openings created

a vent for the blast.

Also, the leaking gas

ran down into a can

that he had filled

with aluminum particles and flour.

They were designed

to shoot into the air on fire,

creating an even bigger explosion.

It would've been

like the air was on fire.

- Now,

- But with it wet,

it cou1dn't happen.

Soc, those things I understand,

but there were just too many things

that I cannot explain,

like only two of the five

blasting caps went off.

The wires than were set 10 n*gger

the other blasnhg caps were cut.

They weren't pulled out,

they weren':
ripped,

but cleanly cup

like snipped with wire cutters.

If those wires

had been connected,

it wouldWc kill

it xvoulcfve killed everyone

in the room.

And then...

[explosion]

The cartridges that

he had rigged inside the bomb

svancd exploding.

Now, youtcll mo.

How did the walls get all packed up

and damaged

without shrapnel

going through people?

[cxplosionS popping]

It doesn't make scnsc.

It doesn't make scnsc.

- He wasn't ma:
Stupid.

Hc wasn't ma:
Stupid.

I don't think he would have picked

a miLk jug that leaked.

I think whoever

or whatever cut those wires

made the milk j ug leak.

- 'Nell, we can think a lot of things,

but hero's a fact.

In hisjoumal, the guy bragged

about how many times

he assembled the bomb, tested it,

and every time it worked

examly the way he planned,

except this time.

- What do you make of that?

- [Sighs]

Unexplainable things

happen all the time,

I don't know. Maybe the guy

just messed up this time.

- And cut his own wires'!

- Well, that's just the bomb side of' it.

Then there's the other side of it...

The Walkers.

- Katie, can you tell

Mr. Hartley xvhat you told me'?

Katie, hc wants to hear from you.

- Well, I was coloring,

and then when I looked up,

there was this lady standing there.

She was all in whim.

Shc told mc that she loved me

and that my brother

would come and get me

and cvcryming would he okay.

And then I looked down for a second.

And when I looked back up,

she was gone'

Then my brother came

and took me over by the window.

- When the bomb went eff,

she was righx there to get out.

[all shouting frantically]

- And her sister claims

that she saw something LOO.

- I was coloring,

and when I looked up,

I saw angels all around where

the tape on xhe floor was,

The angel people,

they stayed between us and the bad guy.

Onc was a lady, and shc stood by mo.

- Rachel, what did the lady look like?

- It was like a white dress.

- What kind of hair'!

- Like yours but more Curly.

- But my same color'!

Excuse mc a minute.

Look at this.

- That's hcr.

That's my angel.

- Except without the glasses.

- That's my mother, Mr, Hanlcy.

She died when I was 15.

Oh, she musfve come back

to watch over them.

- And them wcrc othcvs.

[all summing]

The Soxensen girl said a woman

helped her out oflhe room

- We got to get out ofhew!

- Come an!

- Go, kids, go!

- Then when I got out the door,

the lady xvas gone.

[all summing]

- Jennie later identified

the woman as her aunt

who died ncn years ago.

- So again it was an ancestor'?

- [Sighs]

Yeah.

What's that about'!

- Who else'?

'Who else would care more

about us than our own family'?

Can't you see'?

You can't see

xvhafs going on here'?

- I don't know what I sec.

- You arc such a cop.

Every adult and every child

made it out of that explosion alive,

and you haven't the humility

r0 thank God for blessing us.

[ball bouncing]

- Hey, bud.

Come hem a minutc.

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