“Sometimes magma can find one of those fissures and rise up through it.”

Amy

Sometimes magma can find one of those fissures and rise up through it.

Mike

What's magma?

Rachel

Lava.

Mike

Lava? Right here in L.A?

Amy

It is one of several possibilities. It is unlikely, but it is a possibility.

Mike

We have a history of that here in the downtown area?

Rachel

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.

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Mike Roark Tommy Lee Jones More Mike quotes →

Amy Barnes Anne Heche More Amy quotes →

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