Mind Blown

Hey.

Look at you out here in the middle of nowhere.

You want a ride in my truck?

Water...

Water...

Someone help me.

Subjects, report to decontamination.

Subject Ruben Sanchez, clear.

Subject Clive Jones, clear.

Subject Rick Lee, clear.

Subject Gertie McAfee, clear.

Subject Jennifer Gaines, clear.

Ionization complete.

Proceed to your pods.

- Jennifer. - Colonel.

- How'd you sleep? - Same.

Wanna talk about it?

- Thanks, Gertie. - Hey, girl.

Jen. Jennifer.

Hey, how about after the test, we go steal a Hummer

and, uh, hang out?

I ain't bad company. Just saying.

Sounds amazing.

Is that what you call a pick-up line these days?

- Eh. - Oh, for sure.

He's a panty-dropper, that one.

Yeah, Rick, she has to actually like you, bro.

Up yours, fat-ass.

- Oh, babe. - Yeah, mwah.

Jennifer, you sure you don't wanna hit that?

Oh, watch out. Someone's sassy this morning.

Yeah, yeah, keep laughing. See how hot it gets up in here.

I'm talking that nasty, desert heat.

Oh, no, don't wanna make the fire guy angry.

Hey, I know where you sleep, Clive.

Good morning, everyone.

Just remember your training and all will go as planned.

This is not an exercise.

Today, we go live.

Satellite arrays on the western side

will beam your intentions to the target area,

and we're gonna see what we're gonna see.

- Copy? - Colonel.

General.

We weren't expecting you until the 20th.

That's why they call them "surprise visits," Colonel.

Thought I'd come see for myself.

See if it's worth all that BS you've been shoving up the hill.

Personally, I think it's a waste of DARPA taxpayer dollars,

and probably the worst op name I've ever heard... Project Mindblown?

But I'm here ready to be impressed. Nice to meet you all.

We won't disappoint you, General.

All right, people, let's make history.

TKs, tap in.

Drone is clear of the test area, sir.

- Biometrics? - Online and ready, sir.

- Satellite relay? - Targeting now.

- Harmonic convergence? - Frequencies are hot, sir.

- Target security? - Target area is clear and secure.

TKs are tapped and ready for your projection.

- Terrestrial? - Go.

- Atmosphere? - Yeah, go.

- Incendiary? - Go.

- Aqueous. - Go.

- Sight? - Go.

Initiate!

General, we built a small mock town

about 50 miles outside of Edwards.

Sounds like the nuke test we did back in the '50s.

Except for we won't leave a radioactive wasteland

- for the next 200 years. - Well, that's always a good thing.

Look, Colonel, I'm not convinced these people can do anything with their minds yet.

Let alone level a small town 50 miles away.

- You will be. - That's why I'm here.

Let's see what you got.

Let's begin the sequence.

Sight and Atmospherics first.

Jennifer.

Probably cracked the radiator

coming over that ridge on I-58.

Yeah, they gotta fix that.

They gotta fix a lot, son.

Yep, it's the radiator.

You want me to check up on you in a couple days, a week?

It's no bigs, Mrs. Soren.

Son, I fixed Hellcats in Korea,

tank busters.

I don't need no babysitter.

No offense. Just trying to be helpful.

That crack's gonna take some welding, by the way.

- I gotta come back later. - I can take care of this, son.

- Don't worry about it. - Hey... hey, be careful.

Damn, last thing we need is you...

Mrs. Soren, watch out!

You okay? Let me call 9-1-1.

Ten fingers, ten toes,

I'll be all right.

Lord almighty.

How the hell did that happen?

Everything okay?

- Hey, Adam. - Hey.

- Honey, you all right? - Yeah. Yeah, I'm good.

- You been drinking? - No, I haven't been drinking.

- Sit down. - Baby, get him some water.

- You all right? - Yeah.

- Just, uh, headache or something. - Yeah, you still look woozy.

- Where you coming from? - Mrs. Soren's.

She is a tough old broad.

You guys see that?

Well, that's a weird dust devil.

Oh, shoot, my windows are down.

Deploy.

What happened?

Where's the feed to the test area? Where is it?

What we found, General, is the satellite transmissions

disrupt all the other wavelengths.

Jennifer...

guide us in.

- Cassie! - What the hell?

Jamie.

- Cassie! - Jamie!

No!

No, Jamie!

- Is this normal? - Everything's right as rain.

You guys seeing this?

Whoa, whoa.

No, no, no, no, no.

What the hell is going on?

Something's wrong!

- There's people! - That's not our town.

Shut it down!

Shut it down, man!

- Okay, stop it. - Wait.

- What's going on, Colonel? - I said shut it down!

Wait!

What the hell was that?

We interrupt this program for some breaking news.

We have unconfirmed reports that a 9.0 earthquake

has struck the Mojave Desert in California.

For the very latest, let's check in with our reporter,

who's live near where the epicenter struck.

We're in the small town of Mojave, California.

We just arrived on scene, and you can see right behind me,

major devastation.

We know multiple people have died,

but officials remain very tightlipped

on what's going on here.

Now, we see people being rushed into the ambulance, taken to the hospital.

This is a very small town.

Lightning strikes, earthquakes, tornados,

people being taken away to the hospital.

Again, we're still waiting for information on the death toll.

But if you look behind me, you can see major devastation.

Ma'am, ma'am, I'm with ENN News. Can you tell me what happened?

- Please, not now, please. - Are you okay?

- Please, not now. - Step away. Please step away.

There was a tornado. Can you not see the results?

But then all of a sudden, something exploded in the back, and it was... I...

Have you ever seen anything like this?

Never. I've never experienced anything like this before.

Witnesses were telling me there was also an earthquake and they saw lightning strikes.

- Did you see that, too? - I saw lightning strikes.

How are you doing?

I'm a little shaken.

So, what was it exactly?

I really... I couldn't even tell you.

I've never seen anything like this.

It came out of nowhere.

There was just... it was... There was no wind at all,

and then all of a sudden there's just a big gust.

- Everything gone, your whole house? - Everything.

You have nothing left?

It would've been our three-year anniversary on Friday.

She had a whole thing planned.

I should call her mom.

What about you?

I got no one to call.

Hey, um, did you hear something weird?

Just before it all started? Like a buzzing?

No.

I don't know. I just...

I'm so sorry, Cassie.

Adam...

thank you.

Drone images coming in, sir.

Colonel, this looks like a damn nightmare waiting to happen.

General, I don't understand.

Well, you get paid to do so, Colonel.

Oh, God, no.

- What? - Switch to TV.

Turn on the news channel.

This was us.

We did this.

That's impossible.

I guided in right. I saw the town.

There was no one. I sensed no one.

All right, shut it off.

We killed those people.

- Excuse me? - Jennifer...

Colonel, I think it's time we were honest with each other.