Alright, gentlemen. What we have here are 13 passengers in an express elevator, below floor 30. Bomb's already taken out cables. Bomber wants $3 million, or he blows the emergency brakes.
Harry What's our clock?
He gave one hour. [checking his watch] That leaves us 23 minutes exactly.
B Briggs
Anything else that'll keep this elevator from falling?
The city would like to avoid that event, Officer Traven.
Harry We can't just unload the passengers?
This is an express elevator, gentlemen. The only way in or out is through access panels. The bomber's also wired the hatch to trigger the bomb, which seats him in the crazy but not stupid section.
Sir, Harry volunteers to examine the device.
Harry [scoffs]
Yeah, right.
Fine. The two of you check it out.
The nearest access panel's on the 32nd floor in the lobby.
I want reports only. We're in a holding pattern. Worthy and Briggs, I want you to secure the base area. No one in or out. Everyone else, I want you to affirm building evac. MOVE!
Harry Alright, pop quiz. Airport, gunman with a hostage. He's using her for cover. He's almost to a plane. You're one hundred feet away. [Jack doesn't respond] Jack?
Harry What?
Take her out of the equation. Go for the good wound and he can't get to the plane with her. Clear shot.
Harry You're deeply nuts, you know that? "Shoot the hostage." [chuckles]
Harry, this is wrong. He's gonna blow it anyway.
Harry Why?
I don't know. Gut feeling.
Harry Well, right now Mac outranks your gut, so we sit.
How much do you think that elevator weighs?
Harry Jack, come on.
Maybe we can do something about those hostages.
Harry We're not gonna shoot 'em, right?
[Harry and Jack move to the roof where there is a small service crane]
No, we just take them out of the equation.
[over phone]
Where do we start?
Harry All right, check the speedometer. Has it been **** with, or loosened, or any wires? See any wires, anything?
[to Annie]
Excuse me, ma'am. [looking under the speedometer] No, it's clean.
Harry All right, then it's gonna be under the bus. Probably it was rigged to one of the axles.
I can't get under the bus right now, Harry. It's kind of in motion.
H Helen
Excuse me? Excuse me!
[gasping]
There's an access panel... in the floor... underneath you, man.
[opens the floor access panel]
All right, Harry, we're in. Passenger relay. Sir. [hands the phone to Stephens] take this. I want you to tell him what I see. [looking through the hatch at the bomb] Okay, we got a wad! Pretty big!
There's a pretty big wad.
...I think I can reach the circuit wire.
He can reach the circuit wire.
Harry No! No, no! Don't! Don't do that! That's a decoy, classic.
Harry What else?
[Looking further under the bus, Jack sees that the bomb is rigged to a gold wristwatch]
**** me!
[takes the phone back]
Harry, there's enough C-4 on this thing to put a hole in the world.
Harry Okay, all right. Just stay calm. What else?
Three triggers. One on the axle I can't really see, a cellular remote, and a timer running off a wristwatch.
Harry A watch? What kind of watch?
Gold. Gold band, fairly cheesy.
OB Officer Barnette
I don't get it.
Harry A watch is a shitty timer. Why use it? What's he sayin'
OB Officer Barnette
Lots of people have watches, Harry.
Harry This guy has no M.O. A bomber falls in love with one kind of bomb, and they're very monogamous. This guy uses C-4, dynamite, different trigger every time, and now he throws in this watch.
OB Officer Barnette
He's an encyclopedia of bombs. He knows every kind.
Harry Yeah, and everything we do to dismantle it. [pause] Wait a minute. I want to look a the files for the last ten years.
OB Officer Barnette
We did the mugshots already, it's not gonna help.
Harry No. I want to look at cops.
Harry [Jack is under the bus on a tow-sled, trying to diffuse the bomb]
Okay, we're gonna have to try and bypass the remote current with the battery. Can you find the tripwire for the remote?
I don't know, I've got a few choices here.
Harry Black and red?
Harry Okay. All right. Uh, I'm gonna guess he's not gonna go with standard copper for the remote, that'd be too weak. I'd use a fiber alloy. Jack, I'm gonna need you to look at the wire.
Harry Yeah, I know. You're gonna have to cut off the sheath. But don't cut the wire.
Right. [the bus jolts as it runs over a piece of rubber tire] **** me! Shit! [Jack carefully cuts the sheath off the green wire] Bullseye!
Harry Great! Okay, I want you to clip on the battery, and then run it to the lead wire.
Copy. [he clips the battery to the exposed wire, and reaches to connect it to the bomb, which beeps] I can't bypass, it'll fire.
Harry Oh, shit! It's a collapsible circuit.
