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That thing's like a big champagne bottle.

We have to get hauled in or this one is going to blow its top.

Bowdoin was with her. He took the ledgers. Get on the radio. Bring the

choppers in. Now!

Big story here in the northwest continues to be the eruption watch at

Mount Catherine. The long dormant volcano has been showing signs of

returning to life for some time now, sending out columns of steam and rocking

the earth with tremors.

Scientists are using the latest seismological equipment and are excited

about the awesome opportunity to observe nature close up.

You be sure and keep your eyes glued to that external temperature gauge.

I'd rather not end up fried to a crisp either.

Not in the name of science.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

That thing's like a big champagne bottle that nature's been shaking for the last

25 million years.

We have to get hauled in here just when it's going to blow its top.

Speaking of which, here it comes.

There

she

is, in front of you.

What'd you say?

It's from Dante.

Uh, literally translated.

It means, uh, abandon all hope ye who enter here.

It was written over the entrance to hell.

Okay, string.

I gotta vent just down the hill a bit.

How many samples we need to get anyway?

Oh, a couple of dozen at least.

Gas and steam from vents at different elevations.

We're going to be here for a little while.

Well, I sure hope it's worth it.

Well, if the university's analysis program works, we'll know the old

mountain's next move before she does.

Okay,

I'll settle her in just as close as I can.

There's got to be an easier way to make a living for a guy with a helicopter

than this.

Survey 1 to base.

How is that placement?

Right on the money, Survey 1.

Like that copper ore goes on forever.

She's about five miles out of town. I got one of the units giving her a real

nice escort.

Everything's all set up. Good.

The only thing I don't understand is why we bother to do this every year. She

don't even control the company anymore.

Thanks.

We bother with this little feudal ceremony every year chief because name

of the company is Davenport the last one of those around People need symbols

you give them a queen now forget about the dirt under their own fingernails

with the dedication of new gideon pit number two we further fulfilled the

promise of my late husband albert to supply the world with copper and give

work to the best group of miners ever assembled

so that

despite the ebb and flow of economic conditions

Davenport Mines will still flourish and provide a fair and... Mrs. Davenport!

It seems that when my husband was still alive, we were down here much more.

Holidays, weddings, births, and the sad times as well.

But today, it appears that the distance between Denver is much

further, and I'm afraid that without this,

I couldn't make it at all.

But we're family.

My only family.

And I did so much want to be here with you.

All secure?

Sorry about that, John. We jumped on it real fast. She never saw me.

Okay. I'll see the old lady into her limo and out of here.

Then at the next shift change, we're into a chopper for a little R&R at the

lodge.

May I help you to your car?

Thank you. It was an excellent speech.

Are you sure you won't spend the night, Mrs. Davenport? We have a suite of rooms

reserved. No, I... Thank you, I think not.

An old person needs her own bed.

Well, we're sure glad you came.

It's something we always look forward to, and you were a big hit.

Not as big as in years past, I fear, but... Then...

Times change.

As you say, times change.

Safe home.

Oh, I have one last little present for you.

There will be copper and miners here for a hundred years.

Mr. Colt, what if I need to consult with someone? Are you taking all of the

senior men with you? I'll leave an officer Hadeen here to back you up.

Let's see if you can handle it.

How we doing, Doc?

Well, that's it, String. We got all the samples we need.

Now, as soon as I've entered all the data, here, let the program run.

And in a couple of minutes... What's that?

400 kiloton explosion at a range of 10 miles.

bathroom.

I can't get a thing.

Got something.

It's a blue light.

Oh, thank God.

We're down.

Mama mia.

Hey, this looks like the surface of the moon.

There's the light we saw.

Let's go check it out.

This poor fella's had it.

You know, this new Gideon ought to be close by her someplace.

I'd better take him in.

You mean carry him?

These lights are still working. Maybe we can fire this thing up.

Let's give it a try.

In a huge area of the state from Johnstown and Cold River and as far

north as New Gideon, rivers and streams continue to flood and dust fills the air

after the violent eruption of Mount Catherine.

The blast was equal to the detonation of 27 Hiroshima-sized bombs.

We will continue to broadcast, not knowing whether our signal is getting

through.

Look at this.

Now, that's spooky.

Yeah.

Spooky or not, it looks like it's gonna be home until we get the lady back in

here.

Officer Hadeen, this is Bowdoin. Please respond.

Is there anyone out there?

Hey, look!

They think that we... Hey!

They're looters.

Hey!

What are you doing?

Who the hell are you?

I'm the one asking the questions.

Yeah, what's that supposed to mean?

It means that if you don't own that box, you better stop prying on it.

Heaters.

Kerosene heaters. Are they gone?

Is it safe?

Officer Hadeen?

No, sir. I'm afraid that he's dead.

Well, now, who are you? You're not from New Guinea.

No, we're pilots.

We were forced down by the eruption.

And we'd sure like to be on our way again, so if you know of the news... No,

no, no.

You can't leave.

Didn't you hear me on the radio? You've got to help me. You see, we've got

valuable property here.

Davenport mining property, and it's got to be protected.

It would seem to me that the first priority would be to see if there's

anyone injured or hurt.

Oh, well, yes, that too, of course, but... And have a place with lights.

And he... You need an emergency facility.

We can use this room.

Wait here.

There's a generator in back. Follow me.

Did you get the officer buried?

Yeah. Okay.

Now, wish me luck. I'm gonna give it a try.

I can't raise a finger in this radio.

Must be all the dust in here.

You know, String, I've been looking around, and I got a funny feeling about

this place. I don't know. I just can't quite figure it out.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

What do you think we make a run through town and announce that we've got power

here for the people?

Man, anything. Let's go.

Company store.

Anyone needing assistance, come to the company store.

There's light and heat available.

I think I'm talking to myself.

Excuse me. Officers, wait a minute.

Who are you?

You're not police officers. I know all my husband's men.

Is your husband the chief of police?

No.

John Cove, general manager.

Off hunting with his drunken friends when we need them the most.

Where?

I don't know. In the woods.

Now, look.

Ten minutes ago, one of them miners broke into my house and stole my heater.

What? Yeah.

Nick Kranovich bowled his brass.

While I stood there and watched, he took it.

Now, I'd like to know just who does he think he is.

Well, do you know where he lives?

Right down there, number five.

Now, you just bring that heater back to my house. Won't you get him locked up?

Yes, ma'am.

Yes?

Uh, Mrs.

Kravanovich?

We have a report that that heater is stolen.

Do you know Mrs. Cove?

We all know Mrs. Cove.

Look, these trailers are heated by electricity.

My neighbors are freezing.

I can't afford to do that.

Would you let us take you down to the store? They have heat there.

That damn heater back to her.

Put on another sweater and walk the floor all night.

Look,

please.

Let's take it where it's safe.

Ah, here.

Thank you.

Good night.

Say, you've got heat, huh?

I'll take it. Thank you. Well, if you've got heat, what do you need this for?

Good night.

What's the estimate now?

Hey, Mr. Cove.

You're the boss and all, but if you keep asking me that every 20 minutes, I'm

gonna up and leave you here. Okay, okay.

You're just damn lucky that none of these machines was in the air when it

blew.

So what do you want?

One machine in the air in 10 hours or three in 20?

One in 10 for the chief and me.

Can't stay away from the sheep too long. They forget who's the shepherd.

So tell me, how is our lady?

Well, it looks a lot worse than it really is.

We lost a couple of hundred hours on those turbine blades, but once we clean

off those jets and fuel lines, we should be on our way home.

What about our weapons?

Well, no guarantees there.

Hawk, Santini, this is Bowdoin.

This is Bowdoin.

Mr. Hawk, Mr.

Santini, hello, is anybody out there, please?

Please, does anybody read me, Mr. Hawk?

Mr. Santini, this is Spoden.

Yeah, this is Hawk. Mr. Spoden, please come to the station. Come to the

station. Please, quick.

He... He was... He was one of the looters. Easy, easy, easy. He was one of

the looters.

What's your name?

Nick Kranovich. Let me have that.

I was not looting.

When this eruption came, I ran to the emergency lockers for blankets and food

and lights.

If they hadn't stocked them, they ripped us off.

That's what those people were taking from the store.

Blankets and food.

What was rightly theirs.

Is that true?

Well, is it?

I don't make the rules, Mr. Hawk.

You brought my wife here.

She's asleep.

Yeah, but first, what about that heater?

The company never gives enough electricity to heat.

We have to buy the heaters from the company store.

And then if you're sick or your quota drops, they take them back.

Never mind that it's cold or your wife's pregnant.

They take them back and they sell them again at a special price to one of the

special people, like the wife of the general manager.

Nick? Look, arrest me if you want.

Let me see her for a few minutes.

We'll talk about it later.

Well?

What about it?

Repossession in the middle of winter?

Yeah, that's the way it is up here.

I don't like it.

That makes three of us, Mr. Bowden.

We need Dr. Fisher.

Where is he? I'll get him.

Did you check the jail?

Jail? Yeah, they arrested him yesterday at the ceremony.

He's not in his office. He must be there. Well, I checked the jail. It was

empty. Oh, no.

Those three people that were arrested yesterday, they wouldn't put them in the

jail just in case Mrs. Davenport wanted to inspect it.

What are you talking about? Where did they put them?

Well, I heard one of the men say something about number seven.

My God.

What? What's number seven?

The tunnel condemned a year ago.

Could never stand these tremors. You show them where!

I'm gonna get the rest of the miners.

All right, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

This is it.

Anybody see String?

It's caved in.

Completely sealed.

Hey, anybody in here?

Is there anybody in here?

It's totally blocked, fellas.

It's hopeless.

You can sure tell you're not a miner, pal. That's a word we don't know around

here. String, you watch yourself, you hear?

Stop!

All right, everybody.

Come on. Everybody, let's go.

Here we go.

Everybody up.

I never did find a chance to thank you for saving our lives in that horrible

place. Don't thank me.

Thank String and Mick Kranovich.

They're the ones that did the saving.

Mrs., uh... Miss Mary Avery. I am grateful, like I say, but there's

something I gotta ask.

Just where do you come from and whose side are you on?

You know, Miss Avery, Dom and I, we just sort of backed into this situation.

I think we'd like to ask you a question.

Just what was it that you did that got you put in jail?

I drive a 40-ton ore truck for Davenport.

I drove for three years before I committed the ultimate sin. I questioned

company policy.

I asked why the company store rates were so stringent. I asked why the basic

safety and housing needs of the miners were being ignored.

They forgave me all that, but when Doc Fisher and I here discovered that the...

health and pension plan was being systematically ripped off and planned to

tell Mrs. Davenport to her face.

Why, that's when John Cove and his private police force decided we'd gone

far enough.

And for that, they put you in the slammer, huh?

Yeah, that's right.

Of course, they would have let us go in a couple of days. No charge, no trial,

just let that be a lesson.

I'm sorry, but I don't get it.

If this is such a hellhole and you didn't even get your basic rights...

Then why didn't you all pull up stakes and get the hell out of here?

You should ask Nick that question.

He left.

Went down a cold river looking for work. No seniority, no money in the bank to

tide his family over. And inside of a week, he was back begging for his old

job. You see, mining isn't exactly a growth industry right now.

Young people, it's easy to split, but you start a family and they got you.

You make waves, you go under.

I can hardly imagine you making waves.

Without waves, there's no tide or change.

What happened?

Let's get her out.

Easy.

It took us 24 hours just to get this far.

Oh, no.

There are good men and women inside. I don't want her in there contaminating

the place.

Hey, this lady's hurt.

There are a lot of people hurt.

There are a lot of people dead from accidents and hurry-up schedules.

Listen to me.

Any person that's injured has a right to medical attention.

I know my friend and I are strangers here, and we've had some tense moments.

But so far, only one person has died.

Now, if you deny her medical aid, you all are responsible.

Maybe you should be working for Chief Kremens.

That's a pretty cheap shot from somebody who speaks like a leader.

Here we go. Just let it through there. That's it. This lady doesn't feel well.

Clear the way. Mary in here. Come on. Hold her, hold her, hold her right

there. Hold her.

Doc, you want to give us a hand?

I only ask you not to deny her medical attention.

I never said you couldn't speak your mind.

Come on.

Why do you hate me?

Hate you?

Woman, I don't even know you.

That's not the way it looked out there.

In church, we were taught, hate the deed, not the doer.

Is the money that important that the profits must come in the form of these

folks' broken lives?

Miss, uh, Avery?

Avery.

Well, Miss Avery.

My husband was a mine engineer.

And we... We lived in many small towns such as this.

And he... We worked very hard to build up Davenport Mining.

And not on the backs of our employees.

Well, that was then.

This is now.

I was locked up and almost killed to keep me from talking to you.

Well, you're talking to me now Yeah,

I guess I am

Mr. Cove.

Mrs. Davenport, I'm so glad that you're all right.

When that mountain blew up, I thought, well, you might still be on the road.

I never did get back to Denver.

But when I do go back, I'm taking some of these people with me.

I think that's when she's under arrest.

Don't you touch her!

I don't know how she got away, but I let her out.

We got her out.

That hole you had her buried in.

Who the hell are you?

Where's Officer Radine?

He's dead.

He died in the eruption.

Get your hands off me, or I'll bust you for assault.

Easy.

You're making a mistake, whoever you are.

Chief Crammons is the law enforcement officer of this township.

Appointed by you.

You're risking a felony, all of you. We'll let the state police worry about

that. Yeah, and once they look over this phony's record of, uh, false arrests and

improper imprisonment.

I don't think they'll mind a little arm bending.

Go.

Outside.

However, what you've been doing cannot be overlooked.

You've been getting an earful from the local radicals, I see.

Quite.

I cheat them in the store, I work them too hard, their homes are cold. There

are no emergency supplies.

People survived the eruption but almost died because of your greed.

You've been looting the pension and health fund.

You're through with this company, Mr. Cove.

And I want you off the property within 12 hours.

That's it, huh?

You think I'm some mid-level Denver flunky you can intimidate?

I was raised in these mines, lady.

I've worked as hard as any man in my time.

But I always knew who my boss was.

My boss is the board of directors.

Now what they see is a copper mine turning a profit while all the others

are going down the tubes. Now you try to fire me, you'll be the one with 12 hours

to pack.

You guys want a job?

We can talk.

Is he right?

I don't know.

I feel terrible.

What's happened to me?

I used to have nerves of steel.

You're just a little older. That's all.

Oh, that shouldn't matter.

I say just get in there and start kicking some shins.

Yeah, I don't want to intimidate you.

When you get back to Denver and you're on your own home turf, that's when you

nail him.

I hope that's true.

But the company is mine in name only.

My stock and the stock I control comes to about a third.

And Mr. Cove is right.

They like him back there, all the profits he's making.

Off of our backs? I wish you could tell them that.

What? That limo isn't big enough for you?

and I'd be very proud to have you with me.

But without positive proof, especially the pension fraud, I feel just

helpless.

Excuse me.

But, uh, would there be room in that limo for two more?

Mr., uh... Bowdoin, chief accountant.

I'll, uh, need the extra seat for my books.

She left back to Denver in the limo. Let her go.

The boatman was with her. He took the ledgers.

Get on the radio. Bring the choppers in. Now!

Slowly, communications and travel in the Northwest are returning to normal after

the devastating eruption of Mount Catherine.

Downwind areas are still deeply affected by dust, but even the most remote areas

are reporting in now with surprisingly low loss of life.

Hey, hey, we're up and away.

We may not have turbo power, but we're flying home.

We're gone.

Don't thank me. Thank her, baby. She's a sturdy bird.

Mr. Hawk, Mr. Santini.

Hey, where are you guys?

Can anybody hear me?

It's over here. It's me, Kranovich.

Where are you guys?

Over here.

Mr. Colvin, Chief Plymouth, they just took off.

I think they're trying to stop Mrs. Davenport.

What is that?

That's our, uh, our aircraft.

Looks fast.

I hope it's faster than the Chief's, for her sake.

Come on, Dom.

Here, take the car.

to get a normal start here.

Come on baby, let's go.

That's my sweetheart.

I knew she wouldn't let us down, String.

These ledgers make for very interesting reading, Mr. Bowden.

And they prove all of the accusations against Cole.

It's a trap. We can't turn around until we reach the bottom of the pit.

That liver must have come along this road.

I think it caught out in the open. I've got explosions. A pair up. They're in 3,

4, 5.

Okay, Mr. Cole.

This one is triple bullseye.

Three against one.

And I mean, you know what a good pilot Jonesy is. And this big black chopper

comes... We would have been buried at the bottom of pit number one if it

hadn't come along.

I'd certainly like to thank those gentlemen that flew the plane.

Only I knew who they were.

Hi. We just wanted to say goodbye.

You know, Mrs. Davenport, I bet they already know how grateful we are.

Say, how's Nick's wife?

We understand she went into labor.

Well, we're waiting for him right now.

And I must get back to Denver. I have a recommendation to make to fill Cove's

job. Someone with a working conscience, we hope.

Oh, yes. Yes, indeed.

You know, my husband had a good friend who was a miner who knew the real

condition of things.

And he insisted that that man serve on the board of directors.

as a member at large, and everybody listened to him.

And I think it's time for Davenport Mining to have that type of voice again.

Oh, no, wait a minute.

I'm not what you're looking for. I'm not a manager. Now, please, don't tell me

after all we've been through together, you still look on me as the enemy.

No, but I couldn't boss people around.

You know very well that you don't boss anyone, but you can lead them.

Hey, Nick, what's the matter? You look a little... Is everything okay?

How's your wife?

She's fine.

They're fine. They're all fine.

All?

Betty and Laura and Nick Jr.

Triplets?