The Core

It stopped.

What's that, Dave?

Nothing.

How we doing?

Oh, we're ready.

You feeling the magic?

Oh, I'm feeling the magic, all right.

Let's hit 'em.

Yeah.

Let's do it.

Here we go.

Let's hit 'em.

Let's go make $30 million.

Good morning.

Before I begin, let me...

David?

I'll go get help.

Jesus. Jesus, David.

Phone 9-1-1. Phone 9-1-1!

David?

Nick?

Vicky?!

Vicky!

Okay, it's okay.

It's okay.

Everybody else off the bus.

Sound waves.

So, if we know that sound waves

gain wavelength and lose frequency

as they travel through more dense materials...

...then the anomalies in these waves

are the means by which we can surmise

the fundamental architecture of our planet.

How are the nails coming, Christine?

Good.

All right, let's have a demonstration.

Mr. Acker, Veronica.

Thank you very much.

All right.

Mrs. Limestone, being a big softie, you know,

loves walks in the park, bedtime stories,

big romantic.

Loves Chet.

I can't play Chet, but I'll see what I can do.

Watch the oscilloscope, all right?

Here we go.

Dr. Joshua Keyes?

Maybe.

Yes or no, sir?

The first one.

Please come with us, sir.

Guys, wh-what's going on?

We don't know, sir.

What do you mean, you don't know?

Your security clearance is higher than ours.

I have security clearance?

We're just here to bring you to your jet.

I have a jet?

Hey, Serge.

Ah!

Serge.

Serge.

Damn!

It's about time. You're always late.

Let's keep moving, gentlemen.

What am I doing here?

They wouldn't brief me until you got here.

You know, there are biochemists everywhere, military.

I hate them.

When are you going to meet a nice girl

and bring her for dinner?

I'm married to my work.

So am I.

Which makes my wife my mistress...

that's why I'm still in love with her.

You were always a romantic.

I love my wife.

Yeah, I know. I love your wife, too.

I know.

But I don't love your wife. You know what I mean.

You don't love her the same way, you know.

It's the French. I think it's the cheese.

Ah, the cheese.

You're... you're teasing me, right?

Oh, my...!

Whoa. Wait, these are bodies.

I think we're in the wrong place here.

Yeah, we're in the wrong place.

No. If you were in the wrong place,

you would've already been shot.

That's a hell of a greeting.

Serge.

Serge.

Serge. Yes. Always a pleasure.

Same here, Thomas.

Dr. Keyes.

- I know. - Tom Purcell.

Gentlemen, you do realize that everything here

is totally classified, okay?

At 10:30 a.m. Local time,

32 civilians, all within a 10-block radius...

died.

They didn't get sick first.

They simply hit the ground dead.

Nerve agent?

Our first guess. No.

They all died at the same time?

As far as we can tell, to the second.

This hits CNN in one hour.

I need a reason.

Is there a variation in sex, age, body type?

They all had pacemakers.

Under a minute.

Your reputation is well deserved.

- Hey, hey, hey. - How did you guess?

Without any clues from the victims?

No, that's...

Serge and I are the clues.

I mean, he specializes in high energy weapons.

I do geomagnetics.

So calling us means you suspect

an electromagnetic pulse weapon.

If these are the only fatalities,

they must be people susceptible to...

electronic interference.

QED pacemakers.

You're spooky sometimes, eh?

Now I need to know,

did some sort of weapon kill these people?

The power that you would need

to create an EM pulse strong enough...

I mean, that's... that's not a weapon that

- I've ever heard of. - No.

Okay, we're done.

We're not done, sir.

There's nothing on the other side of the equal sign.

I agree with Joshua...

Thank you.

Our greatest concern was this may have been an act of war,

but since it's not,

I think we can all breathe a little easier, can't we?

Look at my hat.

What is it, sweetheart?

It's okay, son.

These things happen all the time and...

Let's, go, let's go! Come on!

Justin!

Watch out, you bloody idiot!

Hurry! Run!

Daddy!

The skies are empty over Nelson's Column now,

but a few hours ago, it was a different story.

Eyewitnesses claimed that the frenzied swarms of birds

were not in fact attacking people deliberately...

And it's not just this time. No, no, no, no, no, no.

But seemed to be confused and flying blind.

The FOrtean Times reported violent bird swarms

twice last month in Australia and Japan.

Five people are confirmed dead and dozens injured

in the panic that followed the bizarre and terrifying incident

in London's historic Trafalgar Square.

- Weird. - Mm-hmm.

Quite strange, also.

Mm. Strange, indeed.

Mm!

How do birds navigate?

By sight?

No, no, no, the long range stuff.

Magnetic fields.

Little ions in their brains

align with the magnetic field of the Earth.

- Yeah, what she said. - Right?

Acker.

Hit the 'Net, do a search for...

oh, two years ought to do it.

Any and all, like, "weird news", you know...

bizarre animal migrations,

specifically birds.

Whale and dolphin beachings.

Unusual atmospheric phenomenon, unexplained plane crashes,

you know, just use your imagination.

That is a huge search.

You can use our T-1 line to look up Sailor Moon crap.

You're up to this.

Danni, Danni, get me the brightest kids

from the Field Theory Class,

and design a computer model of an electromagnetic field.

What are we doing?

I need a 3-D computer model of the Earth

to lay the field over.

Whoa-ho-ho, the planet Earth?

Yeah, the planet Earth. You know, the pretty blue one.

Map out the anomalies that Acker finds

and grunt out the equations.

And, uh...

grab those smelly kids

from the Non-Linear Diff class, too.

Listen, Josh, do we even have time for this?

Do this and I'll sign your doctorates blindfolded.

- Blindfolded? - Blindfolded.