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[dramatic opening music]

Control, the hive is humming.

I repeat:
The hive is humming.

Control, we have confirmed
cloud formation.

I repeat:
The cotton is in the gin.

Roger that.

We have minimal wind shear
and a very high ceiling.

We're looking good.

-And Gary?
-Yeah.

Can you quit it
with the metaphors?

You're driving us crazy.

Roger that.

Mr. Price, would you
describe your writing

as based on science
or apocalyptic sensation?

I do think the whole
science community

is missing the big picture.

Apocalyptic?

Well, maybe a little,

then again, that's what sells
these days, doesn't it?

Please remind me to write
a book that more women

would be interested in,

something about relationships
or dogs, or both.

Can we just finish up?

I'm starved and I'd like
to get my nails done

before that TV
interview tonight.

I'm the one being
interviewed, not you.

What time is it?

Six, why?

No reason.

Why?

I've got a date.

-We just got here.
-Plenty of time.

Do you remember the coffee
barista who served us

a couple of really
nice cappuccinos?

-Charlie.
-I'm just kidding.

She's an old
colleague of mine.

Here I find that
hard to believe.

Me too.

Mr. Price, I've read
all of your novels.

-I'm sorry to hear that.
-Well, me too.

I've thought about this
a lot and in all

of your sensationalistic
writings I've come to find

that you're just as big
of a hypocrite

as the scientific and
government establishment

that you seek so often
to condemn.

Really. How so?

Do you think the solutions
offered by any of the characters

to any of the disasters
in your book

are better than what
is being tried now?

-Would they actually work?
-I don't know.

I'm not a scientist.

I'm a writer who is blessed

with the luxury of
dreaming up disasters.

I will leave the solutions
to the lab rats.

Yeah, but I read that you
were once a lab rat yourself,

that you left
the scientific community, right?

Who do I make this out to?

[powerful music]

Hey, guys, I think
it's raining.

[cheering]

-Yes!
-Whoop!

It is raining.

You did it, Jo!

[laughing]

You guys should see this.

[hard wind blowing]

You don't see that every day.

[computer beeping]

Guys, we have a situation.

Fourteen miles due east of here
in the town of Harrisford.

[anticipatory music]

[loud crack]
[man gasps]

That's not good.

[screaming]

[music intensifies]
[continue screaming]

What's taking you so long?

Would you just relax?

I thought I told you to go
at the rest stop ten miles ago?

Well, I didn't
have to go then.

Look, you don't
understand how women work.

Once we know we can't go,

that's exactly
when we have to go.

Yeah, that makes no sense.

Can we drop it? I'm done.

Yeah, but so is the book
signing if we don't hurry, OK.

Hurry?

You've been driving
like my grandma.

I'm hyper-miling, okay?

Going 55 miles an hour
is going to net me

an extra 50 miles
per tank of gas.

I don't care what it does.

Just don't blame
me that we might miss

the damn book signing, okay?

Hello?

Our assignment was a day
in the life of Charlie Price.

A day! Not ten minutes,
not an hour, a day.

Did you see that?

Did you see those clouds?

Those aren't normal.

I'm getting the camera.

What are you
talking about?

You didn't see it?

Look, I'll tell
you what I see.

I see my future when
I fail this class,

and it isn't good.

It's gone.

So let's go.

Washington is thrilled.

What we need to focus on
is why the fourth quarter

didn't perform as well
as the third quarter.

Excuse me one moment,
ladies and gentlemen.

-Sir.
-What is it?

Weather sat delta
picked up picked up a blip

on the radar near project
Raindancer's test site.

You mind telling
me what a blip is?

Yeah. Um...

It's a storm.

That's what Raindancer
is supposed to do.

Raindancer is close
to 14 miles away from this.

Get Damon on the phone.

Sorry about that,
ladies and gentlemen.

Where was I?

Man.

This can't be.
This just can't be.

All right, let's not
jump to conclusions, Jo.

[cell phone ringing]

Gary, talk to me.

I've gone over all
of the data, Jo.

It makes no sense.

- Radar? Thermals?
- Yes, of course.

Ulf scans, infrared.

I'm telling you we didn't
pick up on anything

until after it hit.

-So what then?
-I don't know.

The computers aren't
telling me anything.

Something happened here.
Keep looking.

I'm looking.
I'm looking.

Widen your search.

The data doesn't
point to us.

Let's hope not.

-You sure you're okay?
-I'm fine!

Really, I'm fine.

They just want to
take a look at you.

The cut looks pretty bad.

If you think I'm going
to let one of these--

Guys, put a gag in her mouth.

She doesn't know what
she's talking about.

I'll meet you there.

[siren wailing]

Joanne Dyson.

Still trying to save the world

one drop of water at a time
or are you just thirsty?

Charlie.

So you came to my book
signing after all.

How thoughtful.

There were drinks
inside you know.

Yeah, well
I wasn't really...

Did you see what
happened here?

Hey, you two
know each other?

Uh, yes.
Damon, meet Charlie Price.

Oh. Yeah, I know
who Charlie price is.

I was his research
assistant at the university

before he became
a famous writer.

Oh. I didn't know that.

Before he left science fact
for science fiction, huh?

So were you here for
all of this, Charlie?

You know me. I've always
had this uncanny sense

of being where all
the action is.

[cell phone ringing]
-Oh, excuse me.

It's Frank.

Yeah, Frank, it's me.

-Frank sounds important.
-He is.

So what happened
here, Charlie?

Oh, just this massive storm
cell appeared out of thin air

and then the sky opened
up like Armageddon

and then in the blink
of an eye, it disappeared.

But, uh, what are you doing
here, Jo?

And so fast may I add.

We picked the storm
up on our radars.

We raced over as
soon as we could.

Storm radars.

Working on
anything related?

No.

Pull this leg.
It will play Swan River.

What do you want
me to say, Charlie?

You know I can't talk.

Look, Frank, we just
got on the scene.

We don't know anything
for sure yet, but--

Relax, Damon.

Let's not jump to any
half-baked conclusions.

There's still plenty of time
to figure out what happened.

The serifs have a 48-hour cycle.

The next 24 hours
hours are vital.

You know that.

You made it rain, Damon.

Let's not lose
sight of that.

Yes, sir.

And Damon, when you do figure
it out make sure it wasn't us.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, I understand.

I'm just a touch curious what
the federal science foundation

is here in the middle of nowhere
when this happens.

Even I can't conjure up
that kind of coincidence.

We've been stationed
here for three years.

-You know that.
-Doing what?

-Mostly robotics.
-Robotics? Come on, Jo.

Sorry about that interruption.
Damon Garwell.

I'm a fan of your books,
as crazy as they may be.

Well, it's fiction, Damon.
It's supposed to be crazy,

Kind of like
a grown woman in a trench coat

sifting through a puddle
of water with a test tube.

Hm, don't tell me,
earthworm bots?

Your latest experiment
is with mechanical earthworms

or maybe it's drainage.

Or maybe it just
has something to do

with the freak storm that
just tore through this town.

Well, I hope
you two caught up,

because we've got
a lot of work to do.

Of course.
I'm sure you both do.

So I take it our dinner
plans are off for tonight?

Yeah, sorry, Charlie. Raincheck?

No pun intended.

I have a TV interview
tonight anyway.

I can't wait to tell them
about all the fun stuff

that the FSF is doing out here.

You know, earthworm robotics,
all that stuff.

Hey, what's Frank's last name?
I'd love a quote.

Don't do this, Charlie.

I just can't seem
to help myself.

What do you want?

I want to know
what you're doing.

-That's out of the question.
-Come on, Damon.

-It will be fun.
-This conversation is over.

I'm no genius, but you come here
checking puddles

for residual trace elements.

I bet if I take my own sample,
I could find some heavy oxygen,

maybe some
elevated nitrogen levels,

or maybe I just find
some anti-depressants.

Trying to make
everybody feel good

about the economy
these days are we?

Careful, Charlie.

You're smacking a hornet's
nest on this one.

That is a terrible analogy.

-It's the truth.
-Is it?

People died here.

This isn't going away.
I'll make sure of that.

Just excuse us
for a second.

Look, Damon,
I know Charlie.

He's a dog with a bone.

Yeah, well I'll bury him
and that bone if I have to.

This is our entire careers, Jo.

Exactly.
Forget the science community.

The news will eat up anything
he finds out on his own.

We need to control
the situation

and the only way to do
that is to keep him close.

So, what's the verdict?

[heavy wind blowing]

Oh no.

Oh, no.

No, no, no, no.

Where the heck are they
drawing their energy from?

Where?

Another storm cell formed.

So we're storm
chasers now, huh?

Just get in the car.

[tires screeching]

[screams]

-No one's here.
-Oh, I know.

They said the signing
ended early.

I'm sure it did.

They said something happened.
A freak storm or something.

Seriously?

You're not going to talk to me
for the rest of the day?

It was your bathroom break.

What? It was your lame
hyper-gassy-thingy.

Whatever.

You're so immature.

I'm sure there are plenty
of bathrooms around.

-Do you have to go?
-Nope.

Yep.

So what now?

We missed Charlie
at the book signing,

but we could go to
the TV station

and wait for him there.

Plan?

Yeah, fine.

You know, I wonder if it
has something to do

with those crazy
clouds we found.

Something happened
here actually.

Yeah, it's called weather.

It happens in a lot
of places I hear.

Look, can we just go

and get our failing
grade over with?

-Here you go.
-What's that?

I'm not stopping again
on the way.

So if you've got to go,
there it is.

Gee, thanks.

Are you sure this
is the right place?

This is where Gary said
the storms formed.

What do you expect to find?

Hopefully nothing.

Do you see anything?

Come on. We can't go chasing
every little gust of wind

-and drop of rain now, can we?
-Yes we can,

Until we can confirm that it
wasn't us that caused it.

Gary, we're here and there
isn't a cloud in the sky.

What's causing these
cells to form?

I'm telling you, Jo,
I don't know.

They are like ghosts.

They are coming and going
with no rhyme or reason.

They're moving through
areas of absolutely

no frontal activity.

Maybe that's what
I'll should tell Damon.

That they're ghost storms.
That should go over well.

I'm sure that Frank
would love to hear that.

Okay, well, what do
you want me to say, Jo?

Because at this point,
everything is on the table?

Well keep looking, Gary.
We need to figure this out.

Okay, fine, bye.

What's this?

Whoa!

What's wrong?

This water is freezing.

Charlie, give me that.

I bet I could make a fortune
selling this online.

-Just give it back.
-What is this?

This is our experiment
and the culmination

of years of research.

Well, I'm sorry
that it ended this way.

It didn't end.
We've got about 1,999 more

of them still floating
around up there.

Why doesn't that
sound comforting?

-What does it do?
-Hold on, Jo.

This is classified
information, remember?

Oh, you mean this.

-Finders keepers.
-Come on.

We have more important
things to do.

Look, if something
has gone wrong,

then it's because
we missed it.

We need to challenge
what we think we know

with some fresh
outside perspective.

Charlie is one of the most
brilliant men I've ever known.

-I agree.
-You're not helping.

Look, we need to think
outside of the box

and he could be a zero
gravity thinker?

Him? A zero gravity thinker?

Why not? I'm feeling
lighter all ready.

Fine. Whatever.

It's part of a serif.

It's basically
a self-propelled

self-sustaining silver
iodide generator.

Silver iodide, Jo.

We've been seeding
clouds for 50 years.

That's nothing new.

With the seed clouds you
actually need clouds,

something that's becoming
increasingly rare

in drought-plagued regions.

With Joanne's technology
first, it makes the clouds.

Then it seeds them.
It's revolutionary.

But is it incendiary?

What?

This thing could be
a pretty nasty weapon

if pointed
in the right direction.

Mr. Conspiracy.

Well, you know, not every
government science project

is a weapon.

Said the blind man
to his deaf dog.

-What?
-All I'm saying,

you can't make
something out of nothing.

It's not nothing, Charlie.
It's water,

and the chemical reaction
that creates it is sound.

So, please, let's just fan out

and see if any more dropped
out of their formation.

[cell phone ringing]

Hello?

Charlie, it's me.

Nora, you're out all ready.

How are you, sweetheart?

I'm fine.
I told you it was nothing.

Just a little shaken up,
that's all.

Well, that's a relief.

Yeah, look, I'm gonna
head out of town early.

I'm a city girl.

Would you like
me to take you?

No, no.
You should stay.

You love this stuff anyway.
Good for a new book, no?

Unfortunately I think
I wrote this one already.

Anyways, make sure you
make that interview

and I'll meet up
with you in LA.

You know, I'm not
sure that I can.

-Something's come up.
-What?

It had better be
the bubonic plague.

Charlie, you are going
to make that interview.

As much as I can't stand
this place,

it's these small towns

that are the foundation
of your fan base.

Yeah, but Nora-

Charlie, promise me.

I set your alarm. six p.m..

I promise.

Bye, Nora.

Charlie. Damon.

Oh, boy.

He's blue.

It's really bad.

He's frozen solid.

This is silver poisoning.

He's pumped full
of silver iodide.

Any idea how this happened?

Okay.

This is enough.
Let's just...

Let's take the serif
back to the base.

Damon, get frank
on the line.

I'm recommending that
we abort the test.

Just a minute, Joanne.

If we pull the plug now,
it's not going to bode well

for the future of the program.

People are dead, Damon.
We had a hand in this.

Whoa, hang on.

You know what's at stake here,
and it took me way too long

to get us this
funding to being with.

Look, I understand
the ramifications, but...

I'm sorry. I'm going
to recommend a full abort.

Hey, Frank.

Talk.

The second storm
is confirmed

and our fingerprints
are all over it.

Any idea why this
is happening?

Not yet, but we found
a downed serif.

We're taking it back
to the mobile lab

to run some diagnostics on it.

Let me know what
you find out.

Uh, Frank, listen.
Joanne is suggesting

that we do a full abort now.

The cycle isn't complete.

All the work that you've
done will be wasted.

Plus, I can't promise
continual funding

with a mess like this.

Well what am I to tell Joanne?

We're sitting here
with confirmed casualties.

Don't tell her anything.
You don't work for her.

You work for me.

Those things stay
up in the air.

There's too much risk
to take them down now.

I have to go.

Eric.

Oh, my god.

-What was that, a tornado?
-I'm going to film it.

Wait. You're going to what?

I'm going to shoot it.

Hold on!

[screams]

Nice little fly-by-night
operation you've got here.

It's a mobile unit, Charlie.
Ever seen one?

Serif?

-Gary, this is--
- Phil!

Yeah.

Get this plugged
in right away.

You've got it.

-Gary, this is--
-Yeah, I know who this is.

Hello.

I have work to do.

What's eating him?

He's a little busy right now.

Not everyone's a fan.

-Ash.
-Yeah?

-Are you okay?
-Yeah, I think so.

-What does that mean?
-No, I'm okay.

-Is anything broken?
-No, I said I'm okay. You?

No, I'm fine, I think.

Why is it freezing?

I don't know.

What happened to that other car?

I don't know. It must have
gotten sucked away or something.

I'm not getting any service.

Great. The truck is stuck.

What are we going to do now?

I guess we try to walk
to the TV station.

I mean the truck is not
going to get us anywhere.

- Okay.
- Okay?

-Okay.
-Hell of a day, huh?

-Oh, yeah.
-Shoot, my camera.

What are you doing?

Hey, do you remember
the last time

a confirmed twister
hit this area?

About ten minutes ago.

No. Before that.

How's never?

Do we have work ups
on the storms?

Uh, right here, guys.

Have we mapped them yet?

Everything is right there, Jo.

No, she means have you
started to profile them yet.

Excuse me?

She's looking
for a pattern, Gary.

Okay, can someone please tell
the fiction writer

not to tell me
how to do my job?

The first storm hit here
and then there were two more.

Look, the whole
area is unstable.

There's storms
popping up everywhere.

There's a mandatory
evacuation of five counties

including this one by the way.

It does look like it's growing,

but I can't make out
any discernable pattern yet.

Other than the fact that
there is no pattern.

-I thought I just said that.
-You did, Gary.

-What are you guys, twins?
-Relax, guys.

We're all trying
to figure this out.

Look, Jo, these are
completely unpredictable

and we are only getting
the signatures

after they're formed and too
late to do anything about it.

And therein lies
the pattern.

What is he writing,
riddles now?

What is your
point, Charlie?

In my latest book,
my little hero

solved the co2 human
emissions problem,

but it didn't
solve global warming.

Co2 levels continued to rise.

Pockets of long buried co2
melted out of glaciers

and receding icecaps.

You see, the consequences
had consequences,

and my little hero was so buried
in the human equation,

he missed
the bigger picture,

a systemic reaction.

Well, we're still
missing the point.

He's saying we're not
looking in the right place.

Took a long way to get there.

I'm a fiction writer.
We tend to do that.

You see the serifs
are simply the match.

The storms are the fire.

We just have to figure out
where the fuel is coming from.

And I bet you already
have an idea,

don't you Charlie?

There was a very loud
Sonic boom during the storm.

You heard thunder.

No, it wasn't thunder.
It was something else.

These serifs, you say
they make the clouds

and then seed them
with silver iodide.

How exactly are
they doing this?

They use tiny wind
turbines to supply power

to their propulsion system,

so there's no limit to how
long they can stay airborne.

Once up,

each one has a revolutionary
moisture evaporator

designed to condense
liquid nitrogen

out of the upper atmosphere.

Upper atmosphere?

I thought these were
in the troposphere.

They are, right at the ceiling,
right below the tropopause.

It's useless.
The chips are fried.

We're not getting
anything off of it.

Question: What were
your temp readings

during your control storms?

Normal. The storms don't have
any effect on the temps.

Oh, they don't?

There was a massive change
in temperature

when the storm hit Harrisford.

And there was near
freezing water

that I pulled
that thing out of.

What are you
getting at?

Anybody have
a marker or a pen?

Behind you.

Okay.

Your serifs are here,

taking moisture
in the atmosphere

and processing
into liquid nitrogen, right?

Making this area here
extremely dry at first.

I mean, even if the
clouds form here,

this area is nearly devoid
of moisture, right?

-Correct me if I'm wrong.
-No, you're right.

All right.

There's a subatomic
reaction happening.

It's drawing moisture
from the upper atmosphere.

The effect of this process
is creating vertical weather.

Come on. You know it
doesn't work like that, Charlie.

No, it hasn't
worked like that.

It is now.

The boom I heard has got
to be the pauses

that separate the layers of this
atmosphere being shredded apart.

That would account for
the severe drop in temperature.

It would also account for
the fact that you can't predict

where these storms
are coming from.

Oh, that is absolute fiction.

We've been on this project
for three years now--

And you can't explain why
this is happening, can you?

Hmm? Any of you?

The reason you can't track
these storms

is because they're not
happening here.

They're starting here
and forcing their way down.

I've heard
enough of this.

What? Something I said?

Damon.

Look, Jo, we have a real
problem on our hands.

I'm not going to stand
around here

and listen to this joker
concoct his next book idea.

I know. Let's just get the
serifs down and collect the data

and then we'll
know for sure.

What?

You did get the order, right?
Frank is taking them down?

No. the serifs
aren't coming down.

And you're just
telling me this now?

Look, Jo, calm down.
It's not our call.

Frank wants them to complete
the cycle.

If we take them down now
he's going to pull the plug

-on the whole project.
-Over my dead body.

Jo, Jo.

[telephone beep]

[woman] Sir, I have
a Joanne Dyson

on the line for you.

Sir?

Take a message.

You're telling me
you don't see that?

See what? I have no idea what
you're talking about.

It's like a circle
or an ellipse.

It kind of fades
and darkens.

Oh yeah, yeah.
Look at that cloud.

It kind of looks
like a circus clown.

Oh, oh. And that one looks like
a chihuahua riding a tricycle.

I'm serious.

No, I think that accident
permanently damaged your brain.

-You still cold?
-No, not anymore. You?

It seems to have
warmed up a bit, huh?

And that's not
weird to you?

I didn't really
think much about it.

I mean, before I was cold
and now I'm not.

Yeah, it was near
freezing earlier.

I mean, normally
one would have to be

in the deserts of Mongolia

to experience a weather
change that drastic,

and this one
happened in what,

the course
of an hour or less?

Eric, it's getting
cold again.

Okay, we need
to find shelter.

-Eric.
-What?

-I'm seriously scared.
-It's okay.

It's okay.
We're going to be fine.

I can't believe that you
didn't tell me this earlier.

Okay, Jo, just breathe, alright?

You're being a little
crazy right now.

A little crazy? It's still
my project, Damon.

Uh, well, I don't think
Frank sees it that way.

Why? What did he say?

He said that he financed it
so he owns it.

-You know.
-He can't be that dumb!

I sense we have
a disparity

in the chain
of command around here.

This guy's powers
of perception are outstanding.

I also sense that
you don't like me.

You stole my idea.

I what?

You stole his idea.

Your book. Your novel.
Your bestseller.

That was my idea.
You stole it.

What on god's green earth
are you talking about?

Gary was working on
a wonderful book

about the rising
co2 levels.

-So?
-So, well...

[both]
You stole it!

And pawned it
off as your own.

I'm completely
lost here, fellas.

Gary, are we still
linked with the serifs?

Phil?

Uh, well, I believe so.

How about control?

Yeah, why?

-Good. Take them down.
-Wait.

Joanne, that is a dangerous
game you're playing.

-Take them down!
-[both] We can't.

-Why?
-Not from here.

The kill commands sit with Frank

and the department
heads strictly.

We don't have that
kind of power.

That's garbage.

Well if we can't take them
down, then we can sure as heck

change what they're
doing up there, right?

Joanne, I wish you
would reconsider,

because once you go down this
path, there is no going back.

-We can reverse the process.
-What?

Reverse the ionization process.

They won't grab
any more moisture.

They'll simply be
redistributing it

instead of processing it.

Okay, we have never
done that before.

We haven't had to.

Will that work?

I don't know. Maybe.

It would work in
one of my books.

Ah, well there's the zero
gravity thinking

we've been looking for,

or maybe it's just
zero thinking.

Or maybe it's
Gary's next bestseller.

Gary. Can that be done?

It would have been done if
this guy hadn't stolen it.

No, Gary, can we reverse
the ionization process?

Theoretically. I will try.

I'm going to have to get
my resume together

after I do, Jo.

Whoa, whoa.
That's not good.

What?

We've got another cell,
a bad one.

Where?

Here.

Uh, guys, the temp just
crashed in the test area.

-Uh, guys?
-Get the signal out now.

How long will it take to
reconfigure the serifs

-to reverse the effect?
-I don't know, Jo.

I told you I haven't
done it before.

Well, hurry!

[whistle]

We've got a twister!

[loud thunder]

Oh, man. That is coming
straight for us.

It's freezing
everything in its path.

Okay, everybody
in the trucks. Let's go!

Come on, let's go!

The data!
Guys, we need that data!

No, leave it. Go get the trucks
and get these two out of here.

Jo, leave it!

[Loud thunder]

Come on.

Wait.

Get out of the van!

[screams]

Come on, let's go!

[Loud thunder]

Did they make it?

I don't know.
I can't see anything.

[tires screeching]

Come on! Come on!

We'll be safe
in the culvert.

Come on. Grab my hand.

[violent winds]

Hold me.

Hold on tight.

Hold on.

[Loud thunderous wind]

How long ago was this?

Half hour, sir.

Have you tried
making contact?

Yes, but hard lines are out
and cell towers must be down.

I'm having trouble
getting through.

And we've lost all visuals.

Okay, here's what
I want you to do.

I want a flyover
within the next hour.

If we can't find out
what's going on

from the ground,
maybe we can from the air.

-Good.
-Good?

Mm-hm.

I just don't
understand it.

I mean, what could
be causing this?

-Government testing.
-Come on.

No, I'm serious.
Government's been trying

to control
the weather for years.

No, this doesn't
look like control.

This looks more like
out of control.

I said trying.

Hell, China does
this all the time.

You know that last year
Russia accused China

of stealing their rain.

They almost went
to war over it.

Wait. China and Russia, war?

No, now you're starting
to sound like Charlie price.

Hey, you know, maybe we
better burn this tape

so the U.S. doesn't end up
going to war with Canada, huh?

It's possible.

No, it's not possible.

What is possible
is us failing this class.

Well, what if we
change the assignment?

Maybe we get to
the TV station,

take the footage and cut
together a piece.

You see it all
the time on the news.

You're covering one story,
something else happens.

Boom.

Wow, Eric, that's the best
idea you've had all day.

Are you being facetious?

No, no! It's actually
a really good idea.

I know, right?

Sir, the plane will be
over the target area

in two hours.

What about FSF?

Have you been able
to re-establish contact?

The storms are growing
and they've wreaked havoc

on local communications.

And the serifs?

Eighteen hours and counting.

That's good.

Where'd they go?
Do you think they're okay?

I don't know.

Do you think they got the signal
off to the serifs in time?

I don't think so.

Me neither.

I swear if I ever
get a hold of Frank--

Government and science don't
make good bedfellows, my dear.

Don't go there, Charlie.

You think it's easy?

-I didn't say that.
-You think this is bad?

You want to take a snapshot
of the Sudan right now?

Darfur? Ethiopia.

Hundreds of thousands
of people are dying

and we're close, Charlie.

I understand
the world's problems, Jo.

So what are you
doing about it then?

What happened to you, Charlie?

You were one of the most
promising scientists I ever knew

and you could
have done great things

and now you write fiction.

Yeah, that's right.

I got tired of wasting time
sitting around for funding

for worthwhile
solutions to real problems.

Well, that's part of it.

I also got sick of
kowtowing to government whims

under the name of science.

Thanks. Well, I'd rather try
to do whatever good I can

than waste my brain
writing dime novel Sci-Fi

waiting for my next
movie deal.

I mean, who is
that helping?

Book stores, movies studios, me.

Well, good for you,
Charlie price.

Hey, let's just try to stay
on the same team here.

Well, you were never
really a team player, were you?

What happened
to the hugging?

We were hugging.
I felt the warmth.

Well, I was just
trying to stay alive.

[car horn]

-Hey.
-Hey, are you all right?

Yeah, how about you two?

Where's Phil?

Get in.

Get in.

[busy dial tone]

Anything?

No.

So how are we
going to fix this?

Gary?

We only need
a broadband connection.

You guys
see what I see?

I'm not hungry.

No, Gary, he means
the Wi-Fi.

Oh, yeah, it's probably
worth a shot.

Hello?

Hello?

There's nobody here.

Maybe they're in the storm
cellar with "Aunty Em."

Enough with that, Charlie.

Remember the mandatory
evacuation.

Sorry, bad habit.
Keeps me thinking.

Didn't realize you
were thinking at all.

What are you doing?

Well, hospitality
is a little slow here, Jo.

-Can you get that table, Damon?
-Yeah.

The phones are still out.

If the phones are out,
how are we getting online?

Wi-Fi runs through cable modems.
They're underground.

Ding, ding.
Give the writer a prize.

-Can someone try the lights?
-Power is out.

Oh, for Pete's sake.
Come on, it's a motel.

There's got to be a generator
around here somewhere.

Bottom line:
No power, no modem,

no modem, no connection.

Let's let the cyber
geeks get online.

We'll go find the generator
and maybe the hot tub.

Can I have the disks?

Hang on.

Come on.

I'm sure there is
some keys back--

[loud bang]

Or you could do that.

A generator.

I'm telling you, you can't
write it better than this.

Cyber geeks.

What?

He called us cyber geeks.

Or maybe you can.

What do you mean?

It's out of gas.

We have gas in the SUV.
We can siphon some out.

Yes, we do.

Where the hell is everybody?

I take it they were evacuated

and went to be
with their families.

The news? The news
doesn't sleep, Ashley.

They don't close.

We're not in New York, Eric.
This is small town, USA.

Don't knock the small town.

Our first jobs are going
to be in a place like this.

I wonder if they just
scrapped the interview

with Price altogether.

Probably.

-All right, so where to now?
-Where to?

I'll take this footage
and cut it together

and break this story,
they're not going to.

Okay, so let's find a way
back to the university.

We're talking about
breaking a story.

Time is of the essence here.
Come on.

I get it, but this
place is closed.

Yeah, but how closed?

Wait. Eric, you're not talking
about breaking in, are you?

It's not breaking in.
We were invited.

Eric, it's closed.

I don't see a sign.

These doors are just
mistakenly locked.

Breaking and entering
is not going to look good

on our resumes.

Are you kidding?
This is reporting 101.

Breaking and entering
and not getting caught

is the cornerstone
of our industry.

That's how it's done
in this field.

Look at this.

If you want something
bad enough,

the universe conspires
with you to get it.

I wanted a pony as a kid,
but I never got it.

Yeah, you help me
break this story,

I'm going to get
you two ponies.

And the lord said...

Let there be light.

I sure hope this works.

It's got to.

Okay, I have the uplink.

It's weak,
but it's there.

Will the signal
get through?

It should.

Gary, pull up
the doppler for me.

Oh, this just gets
better by the minute.

It's getting
close to Portland.

Gary, how much longer?

I don't think
they're responding.

What are you doing?

It's my attempt at an
email punch in the face.

How'd that feel?

I'll feel better
when this is over.

This is frank.

Where's that plane?

I need some kind of visual.
We're flying blind here.

I'm telling you
it's like we're shut out.

-Frank.
-Just keep trying.

-We're losing power.
-We can't be.

The generator is full.

-The signal is fluctuating.
-We need more power.

-We don't have any.
-Not good.

-I'll check the gene--
-Wait, wait.

I have a link.
I have a link.

It's weak,
but it's there.

What about the serifs?

They're still holding
their pattern.

They're not responding.

They just aren't responding!

We have to override them.
Keep trying.

[man]
Pressure is dropping.

Stall. Stall!

Mayday. Mayday.

We lost contact the recon plane.

Where's our eye in the sky?

Like I said, you can't write
it any better than this.

The tank is cracked.
Even I can't fix it.

Well, we're running
out of time.

The serifs weren't responding.

Is that what you're
telling me, Damon,

-that Frank locked us out?
-That's where my money is.

It's a possibility,
but the connection was weak.

I mean the signal could
have been jumbled

and the transmission may be
coming from another source,

and the serifs, well,
just ignored it.

So now these things are
artificially intelligent.

No. That's not
what I'm saying.

I'm saying
I need a solid signal,

I need some sort of satellite
upload that isn't land based.

And what about Frank?
What if he did lock us out?

-Well, then it's useless.
-No!

Of course it's not.
Even if he did,

I can get in there,
I can hack it.

-He can't keep me out.
-What are you thinking?

Look, we can't even get
a phone line to work.

We're in the middle
of nowhere.

Where do you suggest we
find a satellite feed?

-Thank you, Nora.
-Who?

How about a TV station?

Yeah, that would work. Where?

I'll show you.

I'm supposed to be
there in an hour.

Wow. This is terrific stuff.

This footage is priceless.

How is the piece coming?

How does this sound?

"What was supposed
to be a day

following the controversial
author Charlie price,

quickly turned into a harrowed
real life struggle for survival

as the very disaster that his
latest novel fictionalizes

materialized in a small town
with fatal consequences."

-That's not bad.
-Yeah?

-It needs some finesse though.
-Like what?

I don't know, uh,
Materializes and fictionalizes

right next to each other?
Sounds kind of weird.

Yeah, it's kind of a mouthful.

Yeah, and you throw
in consequence.

It kind of sounds
like thesaurus soup.

-A What?
-You know what I mean.

Dumb it down a bit.

-Eric.
-Hmm?

We better not get in
trouble for this.

Relax with it all ready.

No one is going
to jail for editing.

The worst thing they'll do
is charge us a rental fee.

Oh, my gosh!

Look at that.

It must have been
right in its path.

Hello?

Can anybody hear me?

Can anyone hear me?

Watch yourselves guys.

Hello?

Can anyone hear me?

Nora.

Nora!

Nora!

Joanne.

Joanne.

[sobbing] How did this get
so out of control?

We're supposed
to be saving lives.

No one wanted this.

And how could we know anything
like this could possibly happen?

Because it's our job to know!

I mean, how could
we be so stupid?

And you let Frank
take this over!

You handed him this!

You let him hijack
my research!

Well, no one else would fund it

and that's the price we paid.

Well, take a good look
because this is our handiwork!

We're murderers!

And where's Frank?

He's in his office somewhere
reading the sports pages!

Joanne. Joanne!

Don't touch me!

I'm sorry, Charlie.

I don't know
what to say.

You don't have
to say anything.

She shouldn't have
been out here.

-This is my fault.
-Don't do that.

Why not? It's true.

I should've been
with her at the hospital

instead of snooping around here

pretending that
I'm still in the game.

You can't control these things.

What, the weather?

I'm sorry, Jo.
That was wrong.

No, you're right.

When you start these things,

you never expect
something like this to happen.

But I knew who I was getting
into bed with.

And I thought I could
handle the politics

and the bureaucracy, but I guess
I'm not strong enough.

Damon may act
like he can,

but deep down I don't think
he can stomach it either.

And Gary...

Gary's just a boy genius
in a big world.

No.

Here we go again.

Gary, Damon, get
in the car now!

Hurry!

Come on, let's go!

[loud thunderous wind]

Move it.
A twister is coming!

Let's go! Let's go!

[Loud thunderous wind]

[tires screeching]

[Loud thunderous wind]

Sir, we're not sure yet
what happened to the plane.

Right now it's what intel
is calling vertical weather.

Yes, sir, vertical weather.

They're not sure,
but it's definitely

not the serifs.

Yes, sir.

How long before
the serifs complete?

-Thirty-nine hours.
-Okay.

I think we have all
the proof we need.

Time to pull the plug.

Sir, there's a problem
with that.

What's that?

They're not responding
to any commands.

I don't care.

Shoot them out of the sky.

I don't need these storms
hitting a populated area.

[tires screeching]

[Loud thunderous wind]

These things are
all over the place.

[Loud thunderous bang]

Whoa.

Oh, man.

My, god.

Now, we're not sure where
these storms are coming from,

but what we can say--

Okay, look at me for a minute.

Alright.

They occur without warning.

Okay. Feel pretty good about it?

Yep. I think so. Let's do it.

Okay.

[tires screeching]

Uh-oh.

Oh crap.
We've got company. Hide.

Hide? I thought you said no one
goes to jail for this.

Well, this... Maybe.

It's the breaking and entering
part I'm a little iffy on.

I'm not hiding.

Would you--Look at the truck.
It says FSF.

That's federal special forces.

Now would you get under here?

It looks closed.

The news is never closed.

Hello? Anybody in there?

[pounding]

-Would you hide? Hey!
-Hello?

-Is anybody there?
-Special forces?

Really?

Look at the truck.

I don't think anyone is here.

See?

Where is
the station manager?

Uh, not here.

-Who's in charge?
-Don't know.

So who are you?

Eric.

Hey, you're Charlie Price.

Ash, it's Charlie Price.

Yeah, yeah,
it's Charlie Price.

Wait a minute,
who are you again?

We're from the university.
We were supposed to be doing

an all-day interview with him,

but there's some crazy
weather going on outside.

It took our car.
We were stranded.

Yeah, you guys see
what's going on out there?

So neither of you
two work here?

Yeah, they co-host
the nightly news.

-Try the phones.
-Oh, don't bother, they're dead.

Sorry, we already tried.

The satellite feed
is up and running though.

Working on it.

Yeah, Gary, get the doppler up
and start checking these storms.

What are you two doing here?

We were late
to your book signing,

so we decided to try
to catch you here.

We got this crazy
footage, Mr. Price.

Yeah. It's like something out
of one of your books.

What do you mean,
you taped this?

Yeah. We were just getting ready
to put a piece together.

Uh, where would that tape be?

-It's right there.
-Oh, great. Thanks.

-Dude, that's my tape.
-Not anymore.

Hey, you can't do that.
Who are you guys?

She's right you know.
You can't do that.

I've re-established contact.

Give them back that tape.

-So order them down.
-I told you I've got contact.

I didn't say we're in control.
We're still locked out.

What about the storms?
How long do we have?

From the looks of it,
I'd say only a few hours.

-Two hours before what?
-Nothing.

You guys testing some kind
of crazy weather program?

Gary, can you get
those things down?

Back off. I'm trying.

We don't have time.
What do you have on that tape?

-I'm right, right?
-What's on your mind, Charlie?

Can we get this
Frank on the line?

It's time to take back
control of the situation.

Just how do you plan
on doing that?

I don't know.
I'm writing this as we go.

Thank God you are alive.

We've been trying
to re-establish contact.

We're not all alive, Frank.
People are dead.

Phil is dead.

And Frank, if our
calculations are correct,

in about two hours,
massive storms are going to hit

Portland and Seattle
and lot more can die.

-Yes, we know.
-You know?

When we lost contact,

we tried to abort,
but we couldn't.

So what are you doing
about it, Frank?

Relax, Jo. We have ordinates
on the way to take them out now.

I understand you've been
through hell and back,

but we have no choice.

We have to terminate
the project in its entirety.

I'm sorry, Jo, Damon.

I know how hard you've worked.

We'll talk about
this when it's over.

Dammit.

Well, it's over.

He's hiding something.

This is Frank.

Project Raindance is a success.

We're terminating
the storm sequence.

[loud explosion]

[phone ringing]

Yep.

Yeah, it's done.

They're down.
The serifs are gone.

What's a serif?

You okay?

That's a stupid question.

I was close, Charlie.

I know.

I just feel like I'm back
at square one.

So much time wasted.

It wasn't wasted.

You made great strides.
You advanced the field.

You're going to do
great things, Joanne.

But I should've
known better, right?

Not necessarily.

You know, as bad as
this is Charlie,

no matter what
you think of me,

the reality is progress
doesn't fund itself.

No, it doesn't, does it?

The question is,
is this progress?

What do you mean?

Frank didn't lock you
at as a precaution

or a safety measure.

He wanted to see something.

He wanted to see how powerful
these storms could get.

They used you.

They hijacked your research
and they used both of you.

[beeping]

What?

It's not breaking up.

-What do you mean?
-How can that be?

It's actually getting worse.

And it's headed
straight for Portland.

How can it be getting worse?

The match is gone
but the fire's is still lit.

The reaction is
perpetuating itself.

That's outrageous.
The serifs are down.

The storms are going
to burn themselves out.

-And if it doesn't?
-How could they not?

What are you talking
about, Charlie?

What do you mean
if it doesn't?

-The eye of Jupiter.
-What?

Brace yourselves people.

The writer is cracking
another can of zero gravity.

I don't care what you think.

This storm won't dissipate.

The eye of Jupiter
has lasted 300 years.

It draws its power source

much like the ones
you've created.

If I'm wrong this
storm dies out.

If I'm right, we could have
stopped something

that's gaining the momentum
that could kill thousands,

maybe millions of people.

We took down
the serifs, Charlie.

Guys, I hate to add to
the sense of panic here,

but these storms are rapidly
gaining in size.

What do you mean
they're not stopping?

The serifs are down, right?

Somehow the storms are
still gaining momentum.

This isn't over.

It's Frank again.

The cells have gotten worse.

How is this possible?

We're just trying
to figure that out now.

I'm offering all
the help I can give.

I just need to know
what that is.

It would have been
nice a few hours ago.

Hey, Frank,

Eric here.

You know, in the critically
acclaimed book, Ionos-fear,

these mercenaries
take over the Hart

and they shoot
holes in the ozone.

It's pretty cool.

Maybe you could dry out
these storms like that.

Wow, Eric, that's real sweet.

I'm sure Mr. Price
thanks you for reading,

but it would be best
if you didn't speak.

Actually, the kid is right.

Who the heck is talking?

They picked up a few
people along the way.

It's Charlie price, Frank.

-The author?
-No. The tin man.

Look, theoretically,
that's what we should do.

Heat up the upper atmosphere.

That would expand the upper
air masses

to the point
where we could cut off

power source completely.

This just keeps getting
crazier by the second.

Is that possible, Joanne?

Theoretically.

The Hart facility is real.

It's really far away.

It's in Alaska.

Well, actually the university
has a high altitude array.

It's a smaller facility,
but it's similar to Hart.

I just need to know if
something like that would work.

Well, would it,
Joanne? Charlie?

Well, hart would open up
the ozone,

but we'd need a heating element
like reflective satellites

to concentrate the sun's energy
where we needed it.

That would take me weeks
just to cut through

the red tape to free up
those satellites.

What you actually mean, Frank,
is you don't want to do it

because you don't want your
fingerprints all over it.

Look, I am offering
all the help I can give,

but you want it,
you take it now.

-Or what?
-Guys, I could get this done

a lot sooner.

What do you think you
have me around for?

Look, Frank, All I need
is access codes

for the satellites.

And we'd only
be borrowing them for a bit.

Do you know where
this facility is?

It's about 30 miles from here
just outside of Beaverton.

Gary, I'll get you
those access codes,

but I need assurances.

Well you're not getting any,

and we're not doing
a damn thing

until you give Joanne
back her program.

What?

We all know what
you did, Frank.

You hijacked the research.

You locked us out when we
could have stopped this,

and we have proof.

How long before the full
brunt of those storms

reaches the major cities?

Uh...

About an hour.

He's right.
It's what we're looking at.

What are my assurances?

None. But you don't have
a choice, do you?

Because if you did, you would
have taken it all ready.

All right, all right.
I'll give you what you want.

Just stop those things.

Well we've got some
storms to stop.

When this is over.
I want Frank's head.

And I'll help you get it,

but we have bigger
problems right now.

Uh, FYI--Hello.

If you guys are actually
driving to the university,

you're going to be heading
through the heart of the storms.

I love a challenge.

Do you love suicide runs?

Because that's what
you're dealing with.

Here, kid.

You two, you know how
to work the TV equipment?

-Yeah.
-Send out a storm warning.

Get that footage out

and contact as many stations
as you can.

Tell people to stay inside
and take shelter.

All right, let's
light the sky on fire.

[beeping]

Yeah, I've got Portland.

This is KJRX.

We've been hit by a massive
storm cell.

Several twisters
tore through town

raising buildings
and leaving many dead.

It looks to be headed your way.
You need to issue warnings.

Come on, Frank,
give me those codes.

[Loud thunderous wind]

Here we go.

Did I ever tell you that
you're a beautiful woman,

-Joanne Dyson?
-What?

I figure now is as good
a time as any for a confession.

[beeping]

Come on, Frank!
Give me the codes!

Yes!

Give me that printout.

Hey, are these
the access codes.

Yep.

Can I make a copy of these?

Nope.

Come on, come on!

Dammit.

They're all around us.

What do we do? We've gotta stop.

You better buckle up.
We're going through it.

We can't do that.

We can.

We just have to shoot
through at the right angle.

It will shoot us through
like a slingshot.

Are you crazy?

You're just
figuring that out?

It's not going to work.

You guys have
got to read more.

In my book, Mach-10,
I researched physics.

It's called
the moment of inertia.

I just need the right speed.

Hang on.

[beeping]

Oh, no.

What? What's going on?

They're not
going to make it.

We're going to make it.

We're going to die.
We're going to die.

We're going to make it.

[tires screeching]

Hello, beautiful.

All right, let's play.

Move! Get inside now!

You've gotta be kidding me!

Come on! Hurry up!

We need to take cover!

Oh, god!

Damon! Damon!

Damon!
-We've gotta get inside.

You can't save him.

-Joanne!
-Damon!

-Joanne!
-Damon!

Come on!

Let me go!

Damon!

There's nothing we can do.

All we can do is stop
this from happening.

Are you all okay?

Unfortunately, not all of us.

Is this facility operational?

Yes.

All right, we don't
have much time.

We better hurry.

I knew you were coming.

I'm just not sure
what you need.

Short version: what you're
seeing our cyclonic storms

drawing their power from
the upper atmosphere.

We need to use this facility
to punch a momentary hole

in the ozone so we
can use our satellites

to heat up mesosphere
so that we can extinguish

these storms and saving
millions of lives.

Are you getting the picture?

Control room is this way.

What's wrong?

I don't think these
are the right codes.

How could they not be?

-If I knew that--
-Try your cases.

-My what?
-Your cases.

It could be case sensitive.
Try your cases.

It happens to me all the time.

Okay, you know what,
why don't you just go back

to your little corner there.

Okay, look, dude,
I'm just trying to help.

Take a hike.

Calm down.

I'm fine.

Wow, I'm in.

How long to power
up the array?

Not long.

What's your plan?

We need to wedge
open the ozone.

Okay. We're powering up.

I hope Gary got those codes.

I'm telling you,
Jo, you can't--

Please don't say
that stupid line.

Nothing good happens
when you say that.

You have to hurry, Gary.

We're getting reports of
massive storms over the cities.

And one of them is over Hart.

Well, no one is going
to be waiting on me.

You did it?

-Oh, yeah.
-Yeah?

Dude. Good stuff.

Gary did it.
We have three minutes

until the satellites
are in place.

Good. We'll be at full power
by then.

Let's just hope the storm
doesn't freeze the array.

They have control
of the satellites.

It's all on them now.

And the storms?

Critical mass.

Lord help us.

[loud thunderous wind]

[alarm wailing]

What is that?

It's what I was afraid of.

We just went
to generator power.

Not another generator.

Is it enough
to power the array?

It should be.

[screams]

We're out of time.

Power is coming back.

We're at 75 percent.

[loud thunderous sound]

We're at 85 percent.

Come on, guys, fire it now!
Come on! Now!

Come on!

Ninety-Five percent.
Almost there.

It's now or never.

Fire it!

Guys, something's happening.

What's going on?

[loud thunderous wind]

This facility wasn't
built for this.

[Loud thunderous sound]

Is it working?

The beam is getting through.

Yes.

They fired the satellite!

But is it working?

Is it working?

I don't know.

They're dying out.

[Loud thunderous wind]

They did it!

-Yes!
-Yes!

Holy cow! They did it!

I can't believe they did it!

Huh?

They did it!

Yes!

Sir, I think it worked.

I think they did it.

[birds squawking]

[laughing]

There they are. It was you.

I told you it was Charlie.

So, what's with all
the hush-hush stuff?

Why are we meeting
so secretively?

You said your assignment
was a day in the life

-of Charlie price.
-Yeah, it was.

What do you say we
do something better?

Yeah, absolutely.
What's on your mind?

-You ready for this?
-I guess so.

Ready as I'm ever going to be.

You know, after this
I'm going to have to go back

to being your
research assistant.

I should be so lucky.

-Set up the camera.
-Alright.

[thunder]

Is it supposed to rain today?

[laughing]

No, Charlie, you can't write it
any better than this.

Hey, I didn't say it.

Sir, we have a problem.

Why do I care about this?

Because copies were sent

to the senate
investigation committee.

[telephone beeping]

What?

Sir, there are a couple of
federal agents here to see you.

[dramatic music heightens]