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Stargazers tonight. The Geminid meteor shower is set to put on a once -in -a

-lifetime show between 6 p .m. and 2 a .m. So set your sights to the north

-northeast high in the sky.

The National Weather Service says temps could dip into the mid -60s, so you have

a beautiful night to sit up with a sweetheart, kick back, and put something

the grill.

And here's a fun fact from Wyoming's Meteor Research Center at Hopkins Air

Base.

Only twice in the shower's history have we seen a shower lasting longer than two

hours. And this one goes late, late into the night. So it sounds like it's going

to be quite a show.

Don't go to bed early.

And I didn't know this, but our weather guy is saying to me that these falling

stars are actually debris from an asteroid that orbits the sun every year

half. It's named, how do you pronounce this?

Bathan. Bathan, is that it?

We won't be able to see that tonight, but plenty of shooting stars will be

dancing across the sky.

Keep it cool. Keep it fun.

Keep it safe.

Definitely be ready for a fireworks display from Mother Nature.

in rural Wyoming this morning. Reports have been flooding in from NORAD and the

International Space Station of some unusual activity related to a meteor

mostly viewable in the northern U .S.

Observatories around the world are coordinating efforts to assure that the

meteor that made ground late yesterday was one isolated incident.

Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California is closely monitoring a group

58 meteors.

They want to reassure the public that there is at this point no cause for

and that they're keeping a close eye on the shower as it intensifies.

Notch's Road. Notch's Road. Let me know when you see it.

And reports here at KYOS Wyoming.

Next dirt road on the right.

Why do meteors always land in the middle of nowhere?

I hate these country roads.

I think we're here.

My great -grandfather built that barn, you know? It's all I have. It's all the

money I have.

All right, all right.

Let's see what we got here, huh?

Well, let's go say hi.

How are you doing, guys?

Hello. Hi. Hi.

Hi. Officer Bridget. Nice to meet you. Kurt.

Yeah, at first I thought it was a jet from the Air Force base that caught on

fire, or maybe it was a missile that flew out of control.

But until we got your call to shelter in place, this town was in a panic.

Well, that's understandable.

A meteor traveling ten times the speed of sound will frighten anybody.

So are you the poor woman who just got her house destroyed?

Yeah. Oh, yeah, she was pretty shook up, but she keeps mentioning how happy she

is that you guys are located just a couple miles up the road. Yeah, you're

folks that study the UFOs?

No, we actually study meteors.

Meredith, this is Dr. Kurt Siegel. He's from the base. He's their lead

meteorologist. That's for weather, Brian.

Actually, we're called meteorists.

Those weather people claim that cool name, unfortunately, so here we are.

Oh, yeah, I mean.

Well, this was my house. I just put in fresh juniper bushes. That explosion

fried my radio.

So, do you mind if we go ahead and take a closer look at things?

Yeah, feel free. It's a sad sight. Come on.

All right, this way.

Watch your step.

You've got to go around here.

There's too much damage on the other side.

All right, now watch your step here. It's kind of tricky.

All right.

All right, so it came from right over here, it crashed the top of my house,

landed right over there.

Go ahead.

Here, watch yourself. Watch it.

All right, watch your step.

Watch yourself.

Look at that.

Well, this doesn't make sense.

What?

The size of it.

It's way too big.

Why? What'd you expect?

About a fraction of this.

That's about six foot.

What do you think, Mara?

If this was the size of an actual missile, what would it do?

Well, Gemini, it's travel what? 20 ,000, 30 ,000 miles an hour?

Let's try.

Okay. Well, even without a payload, a small ICBM would generate the force

equivalent to a ton of TNT.

So something this size?

Speed?

This whole town should be gone.

How do you explain that, Doc?

I'm not sure.

The only plausible explanation is that this meteor was traveling at a much

slower speed than it should have.

We'll need a second opinion on this. I've got to make a call.

Hey, Gwen, it's Siegel.

Yes, I'm at the crash site.

There are a few things that just don't add up here.

I think we could really use your expertise.

Oh, you're on your way? Good.

Because I need you and Beth down here stat to run some element profiles.

I can't figure out for the life of me how this thing survived the atmosphere.

Or if there'll be more.

We're going to need to dig into this thing. Hope you have your field kit.

Okay. See you in a minute.

She asked if we could take the helicopter to save time, and I told her

breaking transport protocol ever again.

Please don't tell me you taught her how to fly a helicopter.

I had a heart attack when I found out you taught her how to fly a jet.

Well, I wish I had a chauffeur to fly me around in a helicopter.

Title's heavy weapons analyst.

But yeah, I can get people where they need to go from time to time.

Especially if they want to blow stuff up.

My apologies.

To be fair, I did teach Gwen the basics of flying an F -35, and I told her next

time we're up, she can take the controls.

Michael's coming with her.

Michael?

No, it's just her and Beth.

They're here.

Gwen, I understand your husband's a hot shot colonel now.

At the base, but we do still need you in the field from time to time. Sorry I'm

late. Bad big process today?

Bad. Good to see you. Yeah.

So, no, I'm late because I had to start the spectral imaging process. I told you

that was unnecessary.

One of my predictive models called this a meteor shower.

Yeah, well, we should talk about that.

Yeah, we should. You've got to take a look at this.

Okay.

Kurt, did you happen to see all those dead birds in the drive -in this

Yeah, that's not uncommon in a meteor shower.

Yeah, no, but it seemed different.

Gwen, what is it?

Beth, would you mind giving us a moment?

Thanks.

Kurt, I'm telling you, I'm concerned about this meteor cloud's density.

With four objects aggregated from the center, it could indicate something much

larger, more dangerous that's affecting them.

Gwen. I understand being cautious because of Russia, but I ran a complete

matrix and everything looked fine.

You know, but what if we were wrong about Phaeton's disappearance in that

storm?

After that asteroid's last perihelion, it never came back out from behind the

sun. That was the biggest solar shower in decades.

Unless we just can't see it.

Can't see it.

Gwen.

Go ahead. Come on.

The crater's this way.

Beth?

So, Gwen, Beth, this is Brian, and then next to him is Meredith, the unfortunate

homeowner.

Hey, Brian, Meredith, this is our lead astrophysicist. Oh, my God, Gwen

Armstrong. I read all about you in Wired magazine.

Looks like you have a fan.

Oh, God, I'm so sorry about what happened to those poor people who got

and played in this Russia.

Thank you.

I've read every single one of your books. Seriously, when I saw what

TV after your prediction, I felt so sad, you know?

They said that the U .S. got the coordinates completely wrong, and by the

they warned the Russians, it was too late.

Was that you? Were you the one who got the coordinates completely wrong?

That was me.

I'm sorry.

Sorry that that happened.

Thank you.

Thank you for your kind words.

Hey, Brian, Meredith, can I borrow you guys for a second?

I want you to tell me all about what you saw when that meteor struck, yeah?

Hey, Mary, why don't you go radio base and tell them we'll be here about

hour. Copy that.

You okay?

Yeah. I just want to get this sample.

But if I'm being completely honest, this whole Russia thing is still haunting

me.

Sorry. I don't mean to dump all of this on you. I know you're here just to

learn.

Hi.

Dr. Armstrong?

I don't mean to overset my bounds, but for what it's worth, your theories are

taught all over the world. Your husband, Michael, just got promoted for helping

redesign a nuclear launch system.

And you get to work with him every day.

If I even had a fraction of those things, I think my life is pretty

Thank you for all of that.

Okay, it's time to focus on the task at hand.

All right.

So I need you to put these on.

I want you to monitor the meteor cloud as I take the sample.

I've never done this before.

You said you want to work in this industry, right?

Absolutely. Well, right now we need to make sure that this meteor shower isn't

meteor storm or something more dangerous.

Okay.

Put these on.

I'll walk you through it.

Okay.

So the first setting is just a basic telescope that you look through the

The second rendering closes the aperture and gives you a real VR rendering from

the Pentagon's database in real time.

Here you go. Try that on.

Oh, wow.

This is incredible.

It's like I'm standing above Earth's orbit.

Yeah. Pretty cool.

And the third setting, it just freezes the frame and gives you an interactive

model, but you don't need to worry about that right now.

What I need from you is to tell me if you see meteor dust in the center of

meteor cloud or if it's something solid, like an object.

It kind of just looks like a blob.

It keeps shifting and changing around, but I can't really focus on it.

Okay. Well, reach out your hand and pull up the menu bar on the right -hand

side. Squeeze your wrist and open it up.

Okay, and what is the density in the center of that meteor cloud?

Six objects per square mile.

Six? Yeah, it took six.

Do you remember how to do a process?

Yeah, I can do that.

Okay. Okay.

You know.

Hey, Gwen. What's the ETA on that sample?

Uh, 30 seconds.

Okay.

I don't understand why he keeps rushing you.

Maybe if he'd give you more time on your spectral imaging theory in Russia, all

of those people would have gotten hurt.

No. I had enough time.

But your spectral imaging theory revolutionized the way we do things in

industry. I mean... Do you remember that asteroid that we found off the

observatory in Hawaii?

Yeah, it was 40 ,000 miles off of Earth.

Mm -hmm.

Well, we found it because of Kurt's algorithms.

He's the best at projecting algorithms.

What's that prophet say?

59 % iron and 31 % silicate. Both the iron and silicate have fully

But what if Dr. Siegel ran his algorithm test on something better, something

worthwhile like the Braeberg effect?

I don't think that Anton Braeberg is someone that you should want to model

career after.

He's kind of the laughingstock of the science community right now.

Okay.

Okay, what's the core temperature?

400 degrees.

Are you sure?

Yeah, it says 400.

Um, okay. Um, we've got to take another sample.

That can't be right.

Hey, Gwen, how are we coming on that sample?

30 seconds.

What is that, Gwen?

It's a composite drill. It's a combination of a diamond and a laser.

It can cut through anything.

We've got to get this back to base.

Immediately.

You okay?

Yeah. Hey, Josh!

AMS site just reported meteor -made ground fall 12 miles to the south. We

go. Come on.

We have to escape.

Now. This is much worse than we thought.

I'll check in with NWF.

Fine, just get us out of here.

Go, get us out of here.

Where's Glenn?

Where's Glenn?

Come on.

Where did you get this car?

Owner got killed by a meteorite. Go, go, go.

No.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Beth is not there.

It's gone, Gwen. Gwen. It's gone.

There's no

signal. There's no signal anywhere.

Mara, what do you got? What do you know?

Last update I got was one minute ago. Meteor strike.

Outside of Dublin. The thing's global.

Oh, my God.

Do you have anything?

Man, the network's jammed.

You know what?

Let me try the satellite radio.

Reverse! Reverse! Go back! Go back!

That was close.

Everybody take a breath. We're okay.

One minute.

Okay. You okay?

The guy through the ground fall spans the entire hemisphere.

There's no way the Pentagon's out of full response. No way.

You know, they're definitely going to add a Level 5 nuke strike for good

measure. Probably.

If they've already launched a Level 5, then we're too late.

Because those meteors will detonate those nukes long before it'll reach the

asteroid, and then we'll have nothing left to destroy it.

What about NASA, JPL, GSS? They had to have seen something.

No one can see it. It's hidden inside the meteor cloud.

Remember, it's a needle in a haystack.

I know. Okay, we just need to get there. We need to tell them to stop at level

five.

Stop at level five?

They're not going to react to us. They're going to think we're giving them

flawed data because of Russia.

And if we need proof, we don't have it.

So what are we going to do?

I don't know, Mara. This contradicts my entire threat matrix.

I'm at a loss.

Gwen, help me out.

Okay, first things first, okay? We have to make sure that they launch the EMOD,

okay? The evacuations, the meteor shield, the ordnance, and the orbital

okay? And then, Kurt, you know what? I want you to take this. Flag the center

the mass in the meteor cloud. Mark it as APB and let all the departments know,

okay? At least that will give them a fighting chance, at least if I deem it.

I got it. I got it. Okay, good.

Okay, keep driving.

And level five?

As far as level five, Kurt's right.

They're not going to delay a threat response.

And if we want them to stop the launch, then the data needs to come from

somebody else.

Someone like Michael.

He's now a lieutenant colonel, and he's got nuclear defense clearances.

Yeah, but even if order comes down from him, he still has to get vetted by SING,

who's at base.

Yeah, and SING's not stupid.

He's going to know that order is coming from you, Gwen.

Not if you break the chain of command and go straight to the Pentagon, okay?

There's no vetting, there's no agencies, there's no red tape.

Michael still blames me for Russia, Gwen.

He's going to take your breaking protocol at the same time for some back

gave you.

Look, we all knew whose fault Russia was.

It wasn't yours.

I love him, but today he's just going to have to get over it. Yeah, well, what

if Michael's unable to do it?

Well, if he's not able to do it, then you know what? I'm just going to have to

take that rendering straight to the colonel, okay? Straight to the command

Right at the base.

We have to stop this launch, okay? So just get us to the base and I'll get the

proof.

Yes, ma 'am.

We'll get you there.

Michael?

Gwen? There's a two -mile -wide asteroid hidden inside this meteor storm. We've

got approximately two hours and 29 minutes until it hits. Any nuclear

needs to be saved to strike the asteroid.

Gwen, you know I can't do that.

Colonel Thing has to approve any protocol changes.

I mean, I can flag incoming threats on the database system, but I need a

commanding officer to clear it. But none of the other agencies can see the

asteroid.

Michael, this is the worst -case scenario.

The only reason I know it's there is because I was able to examine this

morning's meteorite.

What is that?

Meteor debris.

Shouldn't be that big.

It is.

Oh, my gosh. It's creating a death cloud. Keep going. Keep driving.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Damn it.

Are you okay?

What's going on? Yeah, yeah, I'm okay. It's just that our vehicle stalled.

Meteor debris choked out the engine.

Oh, no.

Damn it. Well, let's go fix it.

What do you think it is?

about your home.

About?

Gwen, you've got to get out of there right now.

This meteor storm is escalating. The DOD has already approved a level 5 launch

and there's going to be a meteor shower right in your area. Get out.

Michael, listen to me.

I can't stop this nuke strike, but you can.

Defense protocols are cleared for rank lieutenant, colonel, and above.

Okay, call General Ambrose at the Pentagon and tell him it was you who

personally identified this as an asteroid.

We have to say...

I'm not going to lie to a commanding officer.

It isn't a lie.

It's a mass inside a cloud that you or anyone can see easily on radar. It just

hasn't been ID'd as an asteroid yet.

The observatories can't tell what it is, and the DOD isn't listening to me.

Is this from some intel that Mari gave you?

No, Michael.

You can confirm it, personally.

It's as if you've captured the dimensions through spectral imaging,

You're asking me to stop a nuclear strike in mid -launch.

I'm going to leave the whole planet vulnerable to a meteor storm.

If they launch that strike, this storm will detonate every one of those nukes

before it reaches the asteroid.

Only use conventional weapons on the meteors. The drones have plasma cannons

that can melt tanks.

And the satellite missiles, well, they're bunker busters.

And the meteor shield is woven, crystallized carbon.

And if the nukes strike in the upper atmosphere, we're talking fallout on a

global scale.

At its current heading, the nukes will strike it right outside the mesosphere.

Fallout will be high enough, just like any other nuclear test.

I could go to prison for the rest of my life.

We both could.

There's no time. Break the chain of command, okay? You have to stop this

Michael, you have to believe me.

What's our mark?

Two hours, 16 minutes.

South, southwest.

I love you.

I love you.

So you're a mechanic.

That's nice.

growing threat of what is now being called a meteor storm.

Reported gravitational anomalies and impact zones are stirring up geologic

activity, including hot zones of volcanic activity in our national parks.

Carbon dioxide, monoxide and methane levels in the atmosphere are spiking

nationwide.

This is beginning to impact the wildlife in the area, with reported injuries and

deaths being seen as far north as Canada.

The Department of Defense is involved, as well as the UN and NATO, in

preparation for a potential nuclear strike on the meteor storm.

Stand by for further instructions from the emergency broadcast system. And in

the meantime, please remain indoors.

Wyoming, I just received a terminate signal from you. Hang on, I'm putting

on calm.

There had better be a good reason for this.

Sir, this is Lieutenant Colonel Michael Armstrong, sir. Under Colonel Singh in

Wyoming. I have full confirmation of an incoming NEO backed by radar GSS.

Incoming coordinates outlined by radar are as follows.

That's ID number 3 -2 -0 -0 -Phyathon.

Sir,

we need to stop level 5 countdown immediately and retain as it defends

asteroids.

We did not copy, Lieutenant. Repeat, we did copy.

I repeat, we have an incoming NEO. It will strike in T -minus two hours, 16

minutes, sir. We are aware of the meteor storm, Lieutenant.

However, your alarm regards a global response.

Is this signed off by Colonel Singh?

Colonel Singh is responding directly to a situation in the field, sir. But I

have direct orders from the Colonel to terminate Level 5, sir. Lieutenant, we

have all EMODs active.

Terminate Level 5, sir. We are confirmed on a meteor threat, Lieutenant.

I recognize you. Level 5, aboard.

Do you copy, General? We are initiating...

Nice of you to join us, Lieutenant Armstrong.

Apologies, sir. It won't happen again.

Daniel, what's the status on the meteor shower?

Incoming vector 20, Delta 9 -0 -9, Kentucky.

Incoming vector 9 -19, Epsilon 30, South Dakota.

Washington confirms drones are in place. Meteor shield deployed.

Orbital missiles engaged. Level 5. Strike at T -minus 3 minutes.

We have a terminate switch active on our global response, sir.

Is this accurate?

This phone's dead. Get me Ambrose on the line.

Yes, sir.

This is going to be a long day, Daniels.

Armstrong, what's the status on that phone?

IT's working on it, sir. We should be back up in a few minutes.

We're still on track for launch.

Nuclear response in T -minus two minutes and 30 seconds.

Even if we can't get in touch with the Pentagon, we're following our last known

orders. Daniels, check the target array is still aligned.

Sir, we have a full system crash in the western half of the U .S.

Colonel, we just severed our apparatus to the Pentagon. Our missile systems for

the whole region are failing.

Sir, what did you do?

Lieutenant Armstrong, step away from the comm in this arm now. Private Daniels,

get VOD back online to initiate that launch right now. Sir, all of our comms

down. Our landline and backup seat are down.

Lieutenant Colonel Armstrong crashed the system, sir.

Subdue him now.

Get the system back online, Daniels.

Get me a communication from the Pentagon, now. It's our new guidance

sir. Armstrong cut off half the country, and a meteor just struck our base and

satellite dish, sir. Okay, repair the dish, and we're going to accelerate that

straight to our ground lines.

You may have just killed millions of people.

Stick with and hold him, or I'll kill him myself.

Colonel, I had no choice but to cancel the level five.

You just severed our defenses to a global threat.

I confirm when they call off a nuclear strike.

I will skin him alive for this.

EMOD live and engaging targets.

All nuclear -capable countries have confirmed participation level five.

Give me a level five mark.

We are live.

Target's engaged.

Okay, give me a real -time kill ratio. Keep me appraised, Level 5.

Standing by for kill ratio.

And... Level 5 standing by.

Have we restored communication with the Pentagon?

ETA 30 seconds, sir.

EMOD kill ratio at 6 % and climbing?

7%. 8%.

Gwen,

check with VR. See what's happening.

Meteor shield deploy.

Looks like we still have incoming meteors.

Level 5 launch in. T -minus. 30.

29. 28.

27.

26. 25.

When?

Meteors are still coming through. What's going on out there?

All batteries are deployed.

Defense systems are firing, but that's not enough.

18, 17, 16, 15, 14.

13, 12.

Phalanx 1 through 4 down. Phalanx 8 through 12 down.

Launch Hortongo, 90 degrees.

Sir, nuclear assets in the entire western hemisphere are offline.

It seems like they've been crashed from a program out of Wyoming.

Do we have backup?

Launch backup as soon as it's live.

Gwen, what's the status on that response?

Only 12 % of the meteors have been destroyed.

Still no sign of the nuke.

East

Coast backup

system is restored.

T -minus zero and launch.

East Coast is go.

Russia's go.

India's go.

U .S. arsenal, 50%.

What? What? What is it? The nukes.

They've detonated the nukes.

I have VR confirmation that they've launched from the East Coast, along with

the other nuclear countries.

This is Dr. Armstrong. Come in.

What's our percentage of airborne nuclear missiles?

Fifty percent. All of the countries have launched their full arsenal.

All of the weapons?

All ordnance and drones are completely destroyed.

We've also lost four out of 20 of our communications satellites. The only

we have left is the shield, sir.

Yeah. Michael, why did you let them launch the nukes?

Dr. Armstrong, your husband has been arrested for a breach of national

His attempt to take down the nuclear guidance system was stopped, but we were

only able to fire half our payload.

Colonel. Sir, I assure you that Michael was just forwarding... If you're

involved in any way in any of this, you will never see the light of day again.

Now return to base immediately and report to me in command.

Michael's been arrested and Singh wants me to report to the command center as

soon as we arrive.

But you can't report to Singh. If he has you arrested, you're done. We're all

done. Mara's absolutely right.

I can run predictive algorithms all day long. It's spectral imaging. That is

your area of expertise, Gwen.

By the time I compile the data, it will be too late.

Here's what we're going to do. As soon as we arrive at the security checkpoint,

I want you to report your injuries. Under code blue, they cannot arrest any

injured personnel. Right. They'll definitely have MPs looking for you all

the medical bay. I imagine they will.

But I'll find my way to the lab, okay? I'll get the proof, and I'll meet Sting

in the command center.

Got it.

Thanks a lot.

What have we got?

No.

No, no, no.

The strike is complete, sir. All nuclear weapons from all countries have

detonated in orbit, sir. What's our kill percentage?

25%, sir. What?

That's not possible.

Meteor shield's taking heavy fire, sir.

Sir, the entire shield's coming apart.

Bitch.

Come on.

I'm good, I'm good, I'm good.

Where is everybody?

Why are there no guards?

It's protocol to secure all personnel inside the facility during a launch.

like the cameras are down.

Thanks, Michael.

Code Blue, where's the OR?

The OR? What happened? Please, I lost a lot of blood. How? What happened? I was

hit by a meteor.

Come on, we don't have time.

Where do you need to go? The OR.

Come on. Come on.

Code Orange is now in effect.

All medical personnel report to your designated emergency response location.

I'm all right. I'm all right.

Okay, I should wrap this up.

Yeah, I'm okay.

Don't worry about me.

Just give us a minute, please. Thank you.

I'm fine. I'm fine. Just get the gauze. Wrap me up.

We got to go.

Just grab anything.

What's wrong with you?

I'm fine. Mara, what happened? I'm fine.

Hey, come here. You have to meet me.

There you are. Hold it.

Are you sure you're all right?

Okay, sit down.

I'm sorry.

It's all right.

It's all right. Just a quick wrap. We got to go.

I know.

It's all right.

Are you sure you're all right?

I'm fine.

Hey.

We have to go talk to Colonel Singh.

Are you okay?

Yeah. Let's go see Singh.

Let's get you going.

Pop up.

Where's this going? There.

Alright, so that's good. And these coordinates...

47...

9...

Okay. This

database...

Around the meteor cloud, the density, 600.

Let's find you.

Officer Pritchard, Dr. Siegel. Colonel Singh, sir.

As soon as the storm passes, we will be disbanding your department.

The incoming is too heavy. We can barely get a damage report from the field.

Colonel, sir, Dr. Armstrong thought the threat was big enough. She doesn't give

orders. I give orders. Where is Gwen Armstrong?

Sir, she left us as soon as we arrived.

Well, she needs to be here at this calm to be questioned by me personally.

People are dead and dying, Dr. Siegel. Sir.

Officer Pritchard.

Sir, I've been working in the field with Dr. Armstrong for over seven years now,

and her input concerning this storm is critical to our survival.

I'm aware of your work with Dr. Armstrong.

Her husband hasn't been shy about reporting your failures in Russia.

You know what?

Gwen Armstrong has been flagged as a national security risk, and I cannot

her wandering this base.

Colonel, sir, you must let her complete her testing before you speak with her.

Dr. Siegel, I respect you, and I'm trying to respect your team, but after

Russia incident and today's failed orbit defense, you are no longer cleared to

advise this base. Are you with me?

Where's the power reserve? The last impact carried an electromagnetic pulse.

reserve power's offline, sir.

Engineering's in route right now to repair it. And the communications?

Engineering's running a dedicated line to both the dish and the command center

that goes all the way to D .C.

Engineering's doing their best right now.

Sir, please, detaining Gwen is a grave mistake. No one is more steeped in this

research than she is. We are dealing with a global threat right now, not Gwen

Armstrong's latest free association.

Your team is relieved.

It's an asteroid.

I have proof.

Undeniable proof.

I just need to wait for the information to come in to create a spectral image.

There are over a hundred observatories. The observatories can't see it. And it

won't show up on radar until it emerges out of the meteor cloud that it's

covering. And then it's going to hit Earth.

I don't see how a rainbow reflected back from a meteor cloud can create an image

like this, Doctor.

We kept picking up a dense section on our radar.

Well, it failed to yield anything definitive, but...

I knew that something was acting on those meteors, slowing them down. So I

a sustained spectrometer reading, and...

There it is.

So you're telling us this asteroid is cloaked by its own meteor shell.

This is the sun, okay?

During its last perihelion, Phaeton was knocked off of course, causing it to go

back into the meteor trail.

When it finally caught up with the meteors, it exerted its own

force, causing the meteors to slow down and making them safe to actually enter

into our own atmosphere, which is what's causing the meteor storm outside.

So even if we were to destroy all the meteors, we still have a 2 .6 -mile

asteroid to destroy.

Where will this strike?

It's difficult to say, which is why Dr. Segal has run a sequencing algorithm.

Kurt? Its trajectory places it on the northernmost tip of Manitoba, 1 ,538

west of the bay.

Fortunately, I was able to upload its vector to a priority list before the

power outage. It's far from the populated area.

That doesn't matter, sir. The force will be equivalent to one million

Hiroshimas.

So that's why you fought so hard to stop Level 5.

Exactly. Now with what we have, we need a surgical response.

Surgical. Mara?

We have about 2 ,000 warheads left at 50 megatons each. That's 100 ,000

megatons, or 50 ,000 per stage of attack.

Good. So it hasn't reached a million megatons yet.

We need to use half of our remaining nuke to dissipate the meteor cloud, then

shoot the other half straight at the asteroid to destroy it.

Sir, we're back online. All systems are active.

Daniels, you need to get General Ambrose on the phone. And you, go get your

husband.

Copy that.

Michael! Michael, what are you doing here?

I'm so scared.

I'm so afraid you got hurt up there.

Is there any update?

They need you in command.

We've proven that there's an asteroid.

The colonel's team working with the Pentagon?

He is. And he needs you.

And me.

The entire team.

Come on. Let's go.

Let's go.

Sir, we just received a priority alert on the data cloud.

So has every other major observatory across three continents.

Who's sending this out?

NASA, JPL, ANS, and FEMA just forwarded it from our base in Wyoming. It's a live

vectoring model.

What do the vectors target?

We don't know, sir. It's a field, sir, with precise measurements.

2 .18 miles,

1 .31 miles, 2 .62.

General Ambrose.

It's Colonel Singh, Wyoming.

Our research team just confirmed a million megatons, sir.

We have a near -Earth object with all intel uploaded to DoD's data.

General, we're calling for a two -stage...

General, we have to launch these missiles now.

Phaeton's gravitation field is accelerating the meteor shower.

It's only going to get worse.

This whole place is going to blow.

Sir, Wyoming's been hit.

Without the orbital shield, Phaeton's projecting meteors straight at us.

Do we have any communication?

Sir, we have a signal, but it keeps cutting in and out.

Colonel Singh wouldn't have called unless he was requested a severe

Keep working to get the remaining of our nukes operable.

Copy that, sir.

All right, the main evacuation route is this way. Come on. We can't leave until

we make sure that Ambrose has the proper information.

We can't stay, Gwen. The base has been compromised. It's too dangerous. Come

I need to see this through.

Okay, I'm not leaving until I'm sure that they're going to launch everything

according to plan.

Sir, come on. We have to evacuate to Washington now.

Quinn, we need to leave now.

Please.

Yeah, yeah. Where do we go? Okay.

All right, we need to exit back through the command room.

Come on.

You okay?

Yeah. Michael,

where's the control room?

Straight this way.

All right.

We'll go through the wall.

We're not going through that wall.

That's solid concrete, six inches thick.

We'll cut straight through.

With this.

Almost there.

You through? Yep.

Here goes nothing.

Nice job.

The roost collapsed here, too.

We can get there through the annex bridge.

Okay.

This way.

Wyoming, go for Ambrose.

This is Gwen Armstrong.

Do you have a confirmed target?

It's an asteroid, sir. Two square miles.

I've sent you all the data. What is the ETA to impact?

One hour, 15 minutes.

The strike requires a two -step response.

50 % into the meteor cloud and 50 % directly into the asteroid.

Baby, you okay?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You? Yeah.

Go. Get to the entrance.

Mario, go. Go. Go. Go.

Home.

Get down.

We got it. We'll come.

Go. Just go.

Go.

Help the others. I'm right behind you.

Quinn, come on, baby. Okay.

Okay. We're coming.

Come on.

Gwen, come on.

Here,

take my hand.

I shouldn't have seen you. Please stop.

Hi, ladies and gentlemen.

Our two -mile -wide field is an incoming asteroid.

Sir, are we talking about the one that disappeared behind the sun, Phaeton?

That's affirmative.

We need to use the rest of our nukes on a Stage 2 Level 5 response.

We need to set our target system so that the first wave of nukes all hit the

exact same spot of the meteor cloud.

That'll create a compound wave to dissipate the cloud and reveal the

asteroid so we can target it.

That's brilliant, sir.

This is Gwen Armstrong's plan, and yes, it is.

Sir, we just lost two more communications satellites, but we do

communication with other surviving bases.

Prepare for the first wave.

Yes, sir.

Stand by.

Level five.

Level five is go.

Level five is go.

Level five is go.

50 % response, go.

Heat signature at 4%. 2%. Sir, it's working. The cloud's beginning to

Heat signature, 1%. Level

5, stage 2.

Target that asteroid.

50%. Go!

The asteroid is still intact. The nukes were ineffective, sir. They were unable

to make contact with the target.

Damn it!

Impact estimated in 38 minutes.

Make sure the President, Congress, and Joint Chiefs of Staff are evacuated to

the doomsday bunker.

Yes, sir.

We are now being informed that the mission to destroy the incoming asteroid

unsuccessful. A general evacuation order...

Also received word that the president's motorcade is being redirected to the

Raven Rock bunker in Pennsylvania.

God help us all.

Gwen! Gwen!

Go! We have to go!

No! We're not having another Russia incident!

Michael, with all due respect, you were not there. She did what she was supposed

to be doing. Did she? She had 15 minutes before that order came in to ground

those planes!

Gwen! Are you okay?

I gave her the orders, Michael.

It was my fault, okay?

We were supposed to meet Kurt in Russia.

I'm the one that told her to stay behind. It was my fault, Michael.

She stayed because of me.

Well, they didn't have to pin the whole thing on you.

Okay.

How much time do we have left, Gwen?

We have 34 minutes.

And we already launched phase one and phase two of the nukes, right?

So what's going to be, guys?

Plan B is we make our way to the airfield about a mile from here. Now,

two birds on the ground. We evac to safety.

All of us. No, no, no. We're not going to evacuate yet.

Look, there could be a solution here.

It's a long shot, but it could work.

The Braeberg effect.

Braeberg. Come on, Gwen. Enough with that. You know he's the laughingstock of

our community. Okay, but Kurt, listen to me, okay?

So the last few hours, I've been noticing that all this meteor impact has

displaced methane into the atmosphere. When you add an electrical force to

methane, it turns into plasma vapor.

Now, the test that I took this morning of that meteor, it proved that it has

magnetic force. So if we somehow find 6 ,000 megawatts of electricity and create

an electrical arc up into the atmosphere, it could actually displace

electromagnetic force. And the nukes, the meteors, and the asteroid all

together. Yes, and destroy them.

Okay, I understand that, but where are we going to get that power, that

We don't have that.

There's a power plant not far from the airfield.

Could we use that?

Yes, but we would need some sort of... A massive controlled explosion.

Exactly. One of those F -35s has to be stocked with missile. Okay. Okay.

Let's go to the hangar. Let's go. Let's go. Come on. Let's get the airfield.

Oh, my God. Wake up. Come on. Come on.

The National Weather Service is now reporting that this storm is due to a

gravitational slowdown from inside of the meteor cloud caused by the two -mile

-wide...

Okay. Mara, you scour this field.

Find that jet.

Let's just pray that puppy is armed with striking capability.

I got it. Now, this incoming we're experiencing, I can only imagine it's

to get worse. So, Kurt, you go with her. You ensure her success, okay?

Yeah. Okay? Copy that. All right.

Quinn and I are going to locate a power source.

The transformer's on the other side of the airfield. Do what?

Okay, perfect.

Meet back here.

Okay go, go, go, go, go!

iPad, Quinn.

All right.

You okay?

Yeah.

Okay.

Hold it.

Okay. You got it? Yeah. Okay.

Please make this fast, okay?

I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying.

We're in. Okay.

My security clearance should give me access to the main grid.

Okay, I'm redirecting all kilowatts within a hundred mile radius to

47.

Okay, 47.

Where are those coordinates, Michael? Wait a minute.

You haven't fun yet, Doc?

You're crazy.

Come on. Come on, Mark.

Come on, Mark.

Almost there. Come on.

Send it to you now. Okay, great. You got them. Plugging those in, the equation,

and let's see if this works.

Put that here over this.

Now, with that frequency, those coordinates, that dimension, at that

What do you got, baby?

Michael, work.

Corinne, come on. We've got to go. We've got to go.

We've got

to go.

We're going to have to taxi this jet.

Yeah.

Lose the chauffeur now.

There's no missiles.

No metal.

We've got to go tell them.

We've got to go tell them. Come on.

Come on.

Ma! It hurts!

Okay. F -35 into the tarmac.

Ten percent fuel.

It's okay.

Gwen, there's no missiles.

Okay. What?

It's over.

There's nothing we can do.

There's got to be... Okay.

There's nothing left we can do.

The jet becomes the missile.

I take it off. The jet becomes the missile.

I just take off and fly straight up into the air and come down at Mach speed to

that electrical plant and hit it right in the center.

Gwen, what are you talking about? No one's getting inside that jet. That's a

suicide mission.

And you know what? There's got to be another way.

We'll figure it out.

You're not thinking straight. No.

No one's getting into that jet.

It's over.

It's over. Just get me into the SATCOM. I'll figure it out. Just hook me back up

with the nurse. Okay. You can do that.

No.

and fuels at 10%. Wait, wait, wait!

Wait!

Michael, stop! She's gone!

That is to eject her from an open field.

Okay.

We've got to get to an open field. We've got to get to an open field. Come on,

let's go! Move it! Let's go find an open field!

Initiate

flight

sequencing on.

Engage. Engine one, on.

Flight time, three minutes.

Let's do this.

Okay, come here.

She's got to land here, okay? This is the only spot that she can land.

Do you copy?

I read you. Five by five, Michael.

Our radar is detecting an object moving the speed of sound flying up out of

Wyoming. Do we have an ID on it?

No, we don't know what it is yet, sir.

Come in, Gwen. Gwen, come in.

Looks like it's one of ours, sir. An F -35.

You get out of there.

You make sure you get out of there, Quinn.

Quinn, do you copy? Make sure you get out of there.

Come on, Quinn.

45 seconds.

The target.

The target has been neutralized. You heard correctly, ladies and gentlemen.

The asteroid has been destroyed.

We're clear. We're all clear.

Lieutenant Armstrong, we can confirm.

Peyton has been eliminated.

Is your wife all right?

Where is she? Where is she?

Quit. Lieutenant Armstrong, do you copy?

Where is she?

No sign of her yet.

She's coming in for a landing!

Hey Doc?

You're crazy.

I had to.

What was the probability of that happening, huh?

We didn't.

You're crazy.

I'm crazy.

The world doesn't need to know. The world needs to know.

No, no, no.

The world is safe.

Kurt!

Kurt!

What a team.

Well done, Colonel.

Sir?

Yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.