Volcano Page #3

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- She hates earthquakes. She's only 13.

- Nobody likes an earthquake.

- She's been alone...

- She has not. I left her with a baby-sitter.

- Who?

- A neighbour.

How's she supposed to know

what to do if there's another earthquake?

- Kelly knows what to do...

- You never change, Mike.

Hello? Hello?

Phone went dead.

Yeah, they been doing that all over the city.

I'll get a crew out right away.

Why not do more underground blasting

to see if there's a fault line?

- No, let's do it your way.

- My way?

- We'll empty every building over two storeys.

- God, you're a geek.

- Mike, Emmit.

- You're a geek.

Nice shirt, Stan.

You Roark? Amy Barnes.

- Hi.

- I'm from CIGS. Nice to meet you.

Careful not to disagree

with anything Dr Barnes says.

Would you give it a rest? All we said was

Cahuenga was geologically unstable.

- The whole city is.

- That's why we don't want tunnels blown up.

Thanks for coming on short notice,

but save the fight for later.

Sure. Two o'clock good for you?

- Huh?

- Go ahead. Encourage her.

Dr Barnes, can you tell me

what's under MacArthur Park?

Not with any certainty, no,

- That's a shock.

- but l...

We ran trains through all day. No incidents.

This analysis from the guys

who collapsed Hollywood Boulevard.

My engineers were there - no demonstrable

risk. You got conflicting evidence?

Some reason to strand passengers?

I'm all ears.

Until then, we stay on schedule.

I'm sorry, Mike.

Oh, lah!

He's gotta change his nicotine patch.

- So?

- So.

So? How do I find out

what's underneath MacArthur Park?

..low-grade evacuation ofMacArthurPark.

City officials won'tsayif

it has anything to do with the deaths today

of those seven public workers.

Take a look at this.

OK. Um, what am I looking at?

That lake was 62 degrees yesterday.

Today it's up to 68.

- Yeah, it's a sunny day.

- It is lovely, isn't it?

It takes a geological event to heat a million

gallons ofwater by six degrees in 12 hours.

What is a geological event?

I'm sure you're aware of this,

that our continents sit on tectonic plates.

- Great big rafts on an ocean of molten rock.

- Yeah.

When they shift, like they did this morning,

we get an earthquake. OK?

Yeah.

Same mechanism

can sometimes open a fissure, sometimes.

Magma can find

one of those fissures and rise up through it.

What's magma?

- Lava.

- Lava? Uh, here in LA?

It's one of several possibilities.

It is unlikely, but it is a possibility.

We have a history of that

in the downtown area?

Paracutin, 1943, a Mexican farmer

sees smoke coming out of his cornfield.

A week later there was a volcano 1,000ft high.

There's no history of anything

until it happens, then there is.

Well, thanks, ladies.

Um,

enjoy your day in the park.

- Ooh, yeah, that was subtle.

- What? You want me to humour him?

He asked us for a hypothesis.

You have a better one?

It's lava.

Lava, hm.

Hey, hey, that's me!

My God, I'm gonna call my mom.

- Uh-huh.

- I'm on the TV, man!

Excuse me.

You invited us, remember?

You want me to call Olber

and tell him the demonstrable risk is lava?

- Just give me time to do my work.

- Cos a lake went up a few degrees?!

No, because seven men baked to death

and nobody knows why.

MTA does not answer to the city.

I cannot go to the mat with them

unless you know something.

I do know something,

just not with any certainty.

Is that the company line?

I'm a scientist. Certainty is a big word.

I need time to collect my data.

I've gotta get down there and get samples.

- I can't let you do that.

- Why not?

It is too dangerous.

That's why.

I'm sorry.

Sh*t.

What did he say?

Oh, it's too dangerous.

It's man's work and you're girlies.

I can't let you go down there.

- He likes you. I can tell.

- He's OK.

In a macho, controlling, "suspicious of

anyone not from his home town" kinda way.

So you like him. This is good.

We've got to go down there.

I don't see how we can.

This place is swarming with cops.

Yeah.

Let's do it in the morning

before the cops come on duty.

All right. I'll pick you up at four.

Four it is. Bring coffee. What have you got?

More harmonic tremors.

Good morning. It'sjustafter5.10.

Didn't take long

to get ourfirstalert this morning.

A jack-knifed truck on the westboundside

of the 10 is spreading tomatoes everywhere.

One lane open...

Wow.

Earthlings, we come in peace.

God, these suits weigh a ton.

I feel like I'm wearing a car.

Hey, look at this.

- What's that?

- Looks like sulphur.

I can't smell it.

- Ah, sh*t! My flashlight's going out.

- It's everywhere.

Could be traces of magnesium, nickel.

What d'you think?

Take some samples. That's how we'll find out.

My battery's dead. Hold on a sec.

Hey?

What? What you got?

I don't know.

Daddy!

Kelly, baby!

Kelly!

Dad!

Hang on, baby!

Come on, sweetie.

Back! Get under the door frame.

Oh, God!

Rachel?

Amy! Argh!

Help! I've got...

Amy! Amy!

Rachel!

Give me your hand!

- Oh, God. Come on!

- Help!

- Someone help me!

- I'm burning up!

I'm burning up! My legs are burning!

Hold on, Rachel!

Oh, b...

How 'bout that wake-up call, everybody?

OK, we have phone lines. Phone lines are up.

Generator's switching.

Emergency power's up.

What you got coming in, Phil?

I got...

- Katie, DWP?

- DWP - I'm doing that right now.

- Anybody seen Billy?

- He's stuck on the 10. He's not in yet.

Listen up, people.

I want a meeting of all department heads

in exactly five minutes.

That's a very cool hat, Emmit.

Thanks. Your wife rolled over

and said the same thing to me this morning.

- Hello.

- That's a pink slip.

Any more quips, or can we work this thing?

Like you, we here at the Channel 10

newsroom felt that big jolt this morning.

It was a powerful earthquake.

We're having trouble

contacting emergency officials...

Put your seat belt on, honey. Remember?

That's OK, baby. There you go.

I wanna go home.

We're going to

the safest room in town, I promise.

- Operations.

- Yes, this is Roark.

- Got Roark, line one.

- Got him.

Mike, listen. There's no reports of damage yet

to any hospitals, but 911 is off the hook.

- ATSAC's reporting all freeways are clear.

- We got good news. All freeways are clear.

I want you to get all helicopters up now.

Bob, we need pictures.

I need those choppers in the air now.

I'm heading east on Wilshire.

We're coming up on the Tar Pits.

Poles are all up, but there's no light.

A lotta haze here.

Let me in there, Brian.

Yeah, looks like

power's down everywhere in the city.

How'd you get in so fast?

Get in? Come on, Boss,

you know I sleep on your desk.

Disaster is my life.

He's kidding, right?

It's too early to hear from

the California lnstitute of Geological Studies...

Dad!

Hold it. Wh-what was that?

That something on your end, Mike?

- Mike, come in. What's going on?

- I got Burbank up.

Daddy, what is this?

I don't know, baby.

Argh!

Mike, come on!

- We're gonna die!

- No, we're not. I need both hands!

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