Most scenes together: Mike Roark & Amy Barnes (8), Amy Barnes & Rachel (3), Mike Roark & Emmit Reese (2)
Traffic Cop I don't care what your supervisor said! Nobody ran a work order past me, and this vehicle is on public property!
What are you gonna do, ticket us?
You're the cute one.
Traffic Cop How 'bout I plow your ass, honey?
Emmit, FAA’s on the line. They want an update.
Where are we with the airports?
We shut down all outgoing. Everything incoming is being re-routed to Ontario.
No, no, no, no. Marty, no…Look at that screen! That cloud is blowing due east. We gotta send everything to San Diego.
Man Emmit, they got two gas lines burning on Fairfax. They can't get any hydrant pressure.
Swimming pools.
Man What about them?
Pump out all the swimming pools. That's all the water we need.
Man Emmit, we just got a call from La Brea. There's total gridlock from Pico to Sunset.
Didn't we send over all those damn traffic cops?
Man That's who's calling; they're stuck at Olympic. Cars keep stalling out because of all the ash. It's clogging up the air filters.
Chevettes, right?
All right we know that stuff is lava. What do we do next?
You have got to evacuate the West Side. This thing is going to burn through the city until it reaches the ocean.
The West Side, it's a million people!
There will be a million dead or homeless people if we don't evacuate! This is going to destroy everything it touches!
Knock this shit off! What is with you people? Chief, how long will it take this stuff to get to Fairfax?
At this speed, it'll about ten minutes, give or take.
Enough time to build a barricade? [everybody is blank] All right, look [flips map and starts drawing] Wilshire Boulevard, Fairfax. Eighty K-rails, double stacked in a horseshoe. OK? A cul-de-sac. That's gotta be a wall at least six feet high.
D'you have any helicopters, water tankers?
Not yet, but they're on the way.
All right great. Once you get this lava to pool ok, dump everything you've got on it, all at once, try to form a crust. Maybe it'll dam itself, it's what they did in Iceland.
You're welcome.
This is like putting a Band-Aid on a broken leg.
LAPD Lt Ed Fox I don't know how many men we should keep putting in front of this thing.
We're going to put as many people in front of it as it takes. Listen up, people! Let me tell you what's south of us: no more museums, no more department stores, just homes! People! If we turn and run now, they're gonna be defenseless! You don't like my plan? That's good. Give me another plan, but don't tell me we're backing out! Is everybody clear on that?
Yeah!
All right, let's go. Build a wall! [everybody scrambles to work]
How fast can you get to the corner of Wilshire and Western, we got a problem.
No, no. Not anymore. We have got it stopped.
The volume of ash coming down is way too high to think that we're out of danger.
So, well how come it stopped?
Well, maybe it didn't, maybe it just went someplace else.
So, how do you know it didn't stop?
You know, I don't. But when Mount Saint Helens blew, the force was 27,000 times greater then that of the Hiroshima bomb. Do you think that vent released anywhere near that much energy yet?
No.
Well, lets just assume that we haven't seen the real bulk of the magma yet, okay? Trust me, get down here. [hangs up the phone] Shit.
God, this is so stupid. The city's finally paying for its arrogance.
Which particular arrogance is that?
Building a subway under land that's seismically active.
Yeah, it was a foolish man that built his house upon the sand.
Matthew 7:26. Favorite among geologists.
Sometimes magma can find one of those fissures and rise up through it.
What's magma?
Lava.
Lava? Right here in L.A?
It is one of several possibilities. It is unlikely, but it is a possibility.
We have a history of that here in the downtown area?
Parícutin...1943 a Mexican farmer sees smoke coming out of the middle of his cornfield. A week later there's a volcano a thousand feet high. There's no history of anything until it happens. Then there is.
The West Side, there's a million people!
There will be a million dead or homeless people if we don't evacuate! This is going to destroy everything it touches!
Emmit, FAA’s on the line. They want an update.
Where are we with the airports?
We shut down all outgoing. Everything incoming is being re-routed to Ontario.
No, no, no, no. Marty, no... Look at that screen! That cloud is blowing due east. We gotta send everything to San Diego.
Man Emmit, they got two gas lines burning on Fairfax. They can't get any hydrant pressure.
Swimming pools.
Man What about them?
Pump out all the swimming pools. That's a thousand gallons a pop. That's all the water we need.
Man Emmit, we just got a call from La Brea. There's total gridlock from Pico to Sunset.
Didn't we send over all those damn traffic cops?
Man That's who's calling; they're stuck at Olympic. Cars keep stalling out because of all the ash. It's clogging up the air filters.
Chevettes, right?
Oh, shit. Man, I wanna be like Mike.
Man, this Hieronymus Bosch is heavy!
That's because he deals with man's inclination towards sin, in defiance of God's will.
I didn't mean it like that.
Oh.
C.I.G.S. Volcano Databank
Name: Mount Wilshire
Location: Los Angeles, California
Status: ACTIVE
