World Trade Center Page #4

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Mr. Bush is going or for how long.

I don't know if you guys know it yet,

but this country's at war.

Pastor, I gotta go down there.

-Where?

-New York.

You can't. Only emergency responders

are being allowed in.

I've spent my best years

with the Marines.

God gave me a gift

to be able to help people,

to defend our country.

And I feel him calling on me now

for this mission.

Then find a way to listen, Dave.

I'll leave that to you

to determine just how widespread

the human loss will be

in New York City alone.

America has changed today.

This is a dark day in this country.

It's in bold print in future history books

about how America was attacked

within its continental borders

to devastating effect by terrorists

in a coordinated assault

using hijacked civilian airliners.

-Hey, Mom?

-Yes, sweetie.

Dad knows it's

my birthday party Saturday, right?

Your birthday, are you crazy?

Of course he does.

He's just...

He's still working to help people

at the disaster at the Trade Center.

But they keep saying a lot

of those people aren't coming back.

I'm not supposed to tell you this, okay?

But he told me that he was gonna

take you to the playoffs next month.

-The playoffs? Are you serious?

-I'm serious.

Yes! The Yankee playoffs? I knew it.

I knew he was going to.

Mom, you better come here.

Stay here, okay?

What's wrong?

Dad and Uncle Pat have a deal.

If anything happens to one of them,

they go and tell the other family.

Are you here to tell me something?

Don't come in here, Pat. I mean it.

Don't you come into this house.

Donna, he's not.

We don't know. We don't know.

They've declared him as missing,

that's all. He's just missing.

I know. I know. I'm with you. Come here.

I know.

We got confirmation. John went in.

Oh, Dad.

It's okay, baby.

It's okay. It's gonna be okay.

Hey. Hey.

Will's a tough nut. He's gonna make it.

-I know it, honey.

-Dad.

-I just know it. Come on.

-Dad.

-Dad.

-Your mom's out there.

-I'll clean you up.

-Dad.

What?

How...

How would I tell Bianca

her father's dead?

Missing means missing, Ma.

It doesn't mean dead.

She's very strong.

She's gonna be all right.

-Jer.

-Yeah.

We've got to call a doctor.

Give her something fast.

-Why?

-She could lose it.

What is happening to this world?

...of this horrible and vicious

act of terrorism, acts of terrorism.

And our focus now has to be

on saving as many lives as possible.

Do we know the number of casualties

at this point?

I don't think we really want

to speculate about that.

The number of casualties will be more

than any of us can bear, ultimately.

Sounded like a truck bomb.

Like in '93.

Blasted out the lobby.

Pushed everything in here.

Concourse must have collapsed.

You never answered, Sarge.

What have we got?

How long does this

internal bleeding take?

I don't know. I'm not a doctor.

Twenty-four hours

is the most I've heard of. Maybe 14,

Just don't sleep.

So we've been in six, seven hours.

What does that mean?

Another seven, eight hours from now?

You remember that earthquake?

Where was it? Turkey?

There was a little girl there.

She lived four days

buried in the rubble like this.

She was, like,

three years old or something.

If she could make it, we can make it.

Maybe we ain't bleeding so bad inside.

-Sarge?

-Yeah, Will.

You got any kids?

Four. I got four.

-That's a lot of kids.

-Yeah.

It's a lot of work for my wife.

What are their names?

Steven. He's the oldest.

He's 15.

Caitlin's 12. Peanut.

JJ, he's 10.

We got a little girl.

Erin.

She's four.

We had her late.

It wasn't planned. It just... It happened.

I don't know.

-What's that?

-What's what?

That sound.

I got a pipe here.

Keep doing that!

What about JJ's tuition?

-It's not easy.

-Right.

Did you vomit yesterday?

Yeah. Yeah, yesterday and today.

-And today?

-Yeah.

You know what?

I probably just have the flu, hon.

Yeah? Okay.

So, wait...

Yeah, there's supposed to be a stripe.

-A stripe? It's a stripe.

-Yeah.

Yeah, it's a stripe.

That's good.

It's good. It's good. It's good. It's good.

Yeah, it's good. Yeah.

It's good.

...seems just like a ghost town

in the financial district. Very eerie.

You saw people being wheeled

on gurneys

away from the site of the explosions.

People were coming out

with masks over their face,

anything they could put over their face

because the air was

still very thick with debris.

The ash on the ground

is at least two inches thick.

It's more like snow cover.

Mom, listen.

Officials are saying that as many

as 400 police, fire and rescue teams

entered the towers,

and there are fears that half of them

are missing and feared lost.

We are waiting for more

on the survivors.

There are no clear estimates

yet on numbers,

but it is clear that many

of New York's finest

have been lost on this day.

These are the so-called

first responders.

Oh, my God.

That's so many.

What are we going to do?

Mom, let's go get him.

Can we just go to the city and find Dad?

-We don't even know where he is.

-You're gonna go drive and get him?

-Can't you call someone?

-The phones don't work.

Come on, JJ,

there's really nothing we could do.

-You're just worried about your birthday.

-No, Caitlin, stop it.

He needs us. I know if we just go

down there, we can find him.

Dad doesn't need you to go find him.

Come on, Mom, please.

JJ, would you just stop it?

Stop it for a minute. Okay?

They'll call when they know something.

Lay off your ma, please. This is tough

enough on everybody. Come on.

You don't really care, do you?

I'll go talk to him.

Hey, JJ, come on.

Come back here, kid. Let's go.

He's scared. He's just a kid.

Yeah.

He's right, you know?

I don't even remember

the last thing I said to John.

Excuse me.

This is it.

I'm sorry. No, sir.

Nobody gets by here. Nobody gets by.

United States Marines.

-Sure thing. Is your unit down there?

-Yes, sir.

I'm gonna take a 3-8, Sarge.

Okay.

Just don't go to sleep.

"Let me get that."

What?

That's what he said to me.

Antonio.

"Will, let me get that."

The cart.

If he hadn't switched places with me...

And Dom.

I made him stay and help me.

I told him to stay.

Yeah, I begged him.

"Don't leave me, Dom.

Please don't leave me." And he stayed.

You know, there was time.

He could have gotten out.

And Chris. After being cut so bad,

he didn't have to go in.

You tell them.

You tell them.

I took them in.

For what?

What good did we do?

We wanted to go in.

Kassimatis said you were the best.

You were the guy

who knew everything down here.

Dom, Antonio and Chris, nothing was

gonna stop them from trying to help.

We figured

we might as well follow the best guy in.

The best?

They did what they had to do, Sarge.

They couldn't have lived

with themselves if they hadn't gone in.

That's who they were.

Okay.

Thank you, Will.

Will?

If this is it,

I am gonna see you someplace better.

Sarge, I don't know you too good...

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