To the Core and Back

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[distorted sounds]

- [calliope music]

- [chattering]

[ticking]

[ticking stops]

[scoffs]

- It stopped.

- What's that, Dave?

Nothing. How we doing?

Oh, we're ready.

- You, uh, feeling the magic?

- Oh, I'm feeling the magic, all right.

- Let's hit 'em.

- Yeah.

- Let's do it.

- Here we go.

- Let's hit 'em.

- Let's go make $30 million.

[Dave] Good morning.

Before I begin, let me...

[all murmuring]

- David?

- I'll go get help.

- [horns honking, brakes screeching]

- Jesus. Jesus, David.

- [cars crashing]

- Phone 911. Phone 911!

[woman] David?

[crashing continues]

[people screaming]

[man] Nick? Nicky?!

N icky!

[screams continue]

[sirens approaching]

[man 1] OK.

[man 2] It's OK, it's OK.

You'll be OK.

Get everybody else off the bus.

[ticking continues]

[man 3] Sound waves.

So...

...if we know that sound waves

gain wavelength...

[writing on chalkboard]

...and lose frequency

as they travel

through more dense materials...

...then the anomalies in these waves...

...are the means

by which we can surmise

the fundamental architecture

of our planet.

- How are the nails coming, Christine?

- [laughter]

Good. All right,

let's have a demonstration.

Mr. Acker, Veronica.

Thank you very much.

[blows loud note]

All right. Mrs. Limestone,

being a big softie, you know,

loves walks in the park, bedtime

stories, big romantic. Loves Chet.

I can't play Chet,

but I'll see what I can do.

Watch the oscilloscope, all right?

Here we go.

[playing off-key]

[clears throat]

- Dr. Joshua Keyes?

- Maybe.

- Yes or no, sir?

- The first one.

Please come with us, sir.

- [stammers] Guys, what's going on?

- We don't know, sir.

What do you mean, you don't know?

Your security clearance

is higher than ours.

I have security clearance?

We're just here to

bring you to yourjet.

I have a jet?

[man speaking French]

Hey, Serge.

Serge. Serge.

Damn! It's about time.

You're always late.

Let's keep moving, gentlemen.

What am I doing here? They wouldn't

brief me until you got here.

You know, there are biochemists

everywhere, military. I hate them.

When are you going to meet a nice girl

and bring her for dinner?

- I'm married to my work.

- So am I.

Which makes my wife my mistress.

That's why I'm still in love with her.

- You were always a romantic.

- I love my wife.

- Yeah, I know. I love your wife, too.

- I know.

But I don't love your wife.

You know what I mean.

You don't love her

the same way, you know.

It's the French.

I think it's the cheese.

- Ah, the cheese.

- [both laugh]

- You're... you're teasing me, right?

- Oh, my...!

Whoa. Wait, these are bodies.

I think we're

in the wrong place here.

- Yeah, we're in the wrong place.

- [man] No.

If you were in the wrong place,

you would've already been shot.

- That's a hell of a greeting.

- Serge.

- Serge.

- Serge. Yes. Always a pleasure.

Same here, Thomas.

Dr. Keyes.

I know. Tom Purcell.

Gentlemen, you do realise

that everything here

is totally classified, OK?

At 10.30 a.m. local time,

all within a ten-block radius...

...died.

They didn't get sick first.

- They simply hit the ground dead.

- Nerve agent?

- [Tom] Our first guess. No.

- They all died at the same time?

[Tom] As far as we can tell,

to the second.

This hits CNN in one hour.

I need a reason.

[Serge] ls there a variation

in sex, age, body type?

They all had pacemakers.

Under a minute.

Your reputation is well-deserved.

- Hey, hey, hey.

- [Tom] How did you guess,

- without any clues from the victims?

- No, that's...

Serge and I are the clues.

I mean, he specialises in high energy

weapons. I do geomagnetics.

So calling us means you suspect

an electromagnetic pulse weapon.

If these are the only fatalities,

they must be people susceptible to...

- ...electronic interference.

- QED pacemakers.

- You're spooky sometimes?

- [Tom] Now, I need to know,

did some sort of weapon

kill these people?

The power that you would need

to create an EM pulse strong enough...

I mean, that's... that's not a weapon

that I've ever heard of.

- No.

- OK, we're done.

We're not done, sir. There's nothing

on the other side of the equal sign.

- I agree with Joshua...

- Thank you.

Our greatest concern was this

may have been an act of war,

but since it's not, I think we can all

breathe a little easier, can't we?

[door opens]

[cooing]

- Look at my hat.

- [child squeals]

What is it, sweetheart?

[pained cooing]

It's OK, son. These things

happen all the time...

[birds squawking]

Let's go, let's go! Come on!

[screams]

- [thudding]

- [people shouting]

- [squawking continues]

- [people screaming]

Jusfin!

You bloody idiot!

- [boy] Hurry! Run!

- [screaming continues]

- [grunts]

- [tyres screech]

[both grunt]

- [child shouts]

- [squawking continues]

[all screaming]

[Child] Daddy!

[sobs]

[man on TV] The skies are empty

over Nelson's Column now,

but a few hours ago,

it was a different story.

Eyewitnesses claimed that

the frenzied swarms of birds

were not in fact attacking

people deliberately...

And it's not just this time.

No,no,no,no,no,no.

The Fortean Times reported

violent bird swarms

twice last month in Australia and Japan.

...this bizarre and terrifying incident

in London's historic Trafalgar Square.

- Weird.

- Mm-hm.

- Quite strange, also.

- Mm. Strange, indeed.

- How do birds navigate?

- [woman] By sight?

- No, no, no, the long range stuff.

- [woman] Magnetic fields.

Little ions in their brains align

with the magnetic field of the Earth.

- Yeah, what she said.

- Right?

Acker. Hit the Net, do a search for,

oh, two years ought to do it.

Any and all, like, "weird news,"

you know, bizarre animal migrations,

specifically birds.

Whale and dolphin beachings.

Uh, unusual atmospheric phenomenon,

unexplained plane crashes,

- you know, just use your imagination.

- That is a huge search.

You can use our T-1 line to look up

Sailor Moon crap. You're up to this.

Danni, Danni, get me the brightest kids

from the Field Theory class

and design a computer model

of an electromagnetic field.

- What are we doing?

- I need a 3-D computer model

- of the Earth to lay the field over.

- Whoa, the planet Earth?

Yeah, the planet Earth.

You know, the pretty blue one.

Map out the anomalies that Acker finds

and grunt out the equations.

And... grab those smelly kids

from the Non-Linear Diff class, too.

Listen, Josh, do we even

have time for this?

Do this and I'll sign

your doctorates blindfolded.

- [Danni] Blindfolded?

- Blindfolded. Do not pass Go.

Go directly to PhD.

Be wrong. Be wrong.

[typing on keyboard]

Tim, I'm coming in a little hot.

Give me some drag, will you?

Roger that.

[clears throat]

We are in attitude and ready

for entry interface.

Nice work, Major.

I have the controls now for E.l.

I could take us in.

You could... but you won't.

- I'm ready for this, Bob.

- Oh, no, you're not, Beck.

You're trained, and you're certified.

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