FUBAR

- Up ahead! - You recognize those guys?

No, but Greta often hires from the outside.

If that was US military,

they wouldn't be dropping things into the water.

- That was the last one. - Let's go.

- They're lowering the LRAD. - LRAD sound waves will agitate it.

That will expand and harden the foam and gunk up the dam to a stop.

Got it.

Dad, we're on our way to you in a DARPA helicopter.

Did you hear that gunfire? It's hotter than your mom eating soup in a jacuzzi.

- Oh my. Yeah. - We'll discuss it in therapy.

No! Shit!

All the equipment went over!

Did we turn the LRAD off?

I don't think so.

Shit.

We've been in here too long.

They're taking us out to the forest to do us in, Drea de Matteo style.

The guy from the E Street Band is gonna kill us.

Didn't expect to go out like this,

but at least it's better than how Grandma died.

What?

Oh my God. Wait. In my comic book, Brock Hardman escapes from zip ties,

so I actually googled how to do this.

If I remember correctly,

step one is I have to get my hands in front of my body.

- What are you doing? - I'm just gonna...

I've tried that. I can barely reach the tip.

- Oh God! - You get it?

No, I almost--

Almost.

- Okay. - Step two.

To break the zip tie, you pull it towards yourself forcefully like this.

Like this! Like this! Like this!

Damn it. They're... they're not breaking. I need something to cut them with.

Let me just get my pruning shears.

Your broken zipper. Your broken zipper can cut the ties.

- It's worth a try. - Yeah.

Okay.

Let me just...

...get on in there and...

Okay.

Please look away, Donnie.

You look away.

- Are you fucking serious right now? - I can't control where the blood flows.

Jesus Christ.

- Okay! - Hey!

All right, I just gotta push on the bracket with both my thumbs.

- It's off! - Yeah!

All right, we're good.

We've stopped. It's a red light.

Now! Go, go, go!

- Go get 'em! - Ah, goddamn it.

When Charlotte's web said "some pig"...

You like this story, baby?

...Wilbur had tried hard to look like...

Don't get attached to the spider.

Text from Nonna.

Your favorite informant is running late.

Need to push a half hour.

Ciao.

- Wilbur had tried... - Well,

looks like we've got some time to kill.

And now that the web said "radiant,"

he did everything possible to make himself glow.

- Update. - Three turbines have jammed to a halt.

RPMs are dropping on the fourth, the one furthest from the penstock,

so it didn't get as much of the agitation from the LRAD.

But it'll soon shut down. And once it does, the power stops.

Okay.

I don't see him.

They're so fast. For bikers.

Okay, so we catch our breath, then we keep moving.

All this 'cause of that stupid pig.

It is not the pig's fault, man. It's our fault.

He's probably scared half to death.

God only knows what that little pig is going through right now.

What I want you've got

And it might be hard to handle

But like a flame that burns the candle

The candle feeds the flame

- Oh yeah, well, well, you - Ooh-ooh

You make my dreams come true

- You - You, you, you, ooh-ooh-ooh, you

Well, well, well, you

- Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh - Oh yeah

You make my dreams come true

- You, you, you, ooh-ooh-ooh, you - Oh, yeah

Well, we must have gotten rid of the LRAD

because that turbine is still running.

Yeah, but the polymer in it has basically turned to thick mud.

The turbine's trying to clean it out, but it'll fry before it's done.

In a few minutes, that thing is toast.

- And then the dam shuts down. - Not immediately.

There's a storage depot that keeps about 60 minutes' worth of backup storage

in case we have a temporary shutdown.

But excavating all of this gunk out of the turbines,

replacing the burned-out hardware, that'll take weeks.

The 60-minute window, it only delays the inevitable.

Okay, it might be crazy,

but I think I may have come up with a plan.

You turn off the turbine,

I manually clear out all the gunk so we protect the motor,

then you turn it back on again. All right?

How are you gonna do that?

I put my back into it.

In less than 30 minutes, we are engaging in an all-out battle

to stop America from going into the Stone Age.

What could you possibly be doing on your computer right now?

Why is it any of your business what I'm doing?

Sorry I asked.

Okay, if you really have to know, I'm writing a letter of recommendation.

That "break four bones until you shit sideways" stuff

was pretty gangster.

Thank you.

- Why are you doing it right now? - In case I die at the dam.

I figured one of us should get what she wants

since I'm not getting regional director.

Oh, I do wanna make a few notes here.

"She is a giant ass pain, asks too many questions,

and is too distracted by her multiple male suitors,

who clearly value butts over personality."

Nice.

What are you gonna do about those three randy fellas?

- What? - Carter, Aldon, Chips.

Horny can sniff out horny.

Just do me a favor and don't fuck up Aldon like you did a few months ago.

I'm not trying to fuck anyone up. It's all unreciprocated.

I swear to you, I'm just trying to focus on my job.

I don't want a relationship.

Okay, well, I'm just saying,

the last time you broke my buddy's heart, he ended up sleeping with a pig.

I'll be careful.

- Thanks. You're a good friend. - I'm just looking out for my boy.

I meant me.

I appreciate the letter.

And for what it's worth, I was wrong. You'd have made a great regional director.

- Thanks. - Better than Reed, anyway.

Yes, yes. Come on! Come on!

- I don't think I can do this anymore. - No, no, no, no, no, no.

We're so close to getting this done.

No, no. Come on. You can't break down now.

Let me relieve you. Come on.

All right.

Come on.

Let me get this.

It's... it's stuck. It's...

You think-- I think it's just jammed.

I mean, I loosened it for you.

- He's a real-life Hercules. Look at him. - It's speeding up.

Water's rushing the turbine chamber.

- Get back! Get back! - Come on!

The water's back in. We're refilling the energy storage depot.

That should give us a few hours.

What do you mean a few hours? We fixed the problem.

Imagine an above-the-ground pool with multiple holes in it.

You try to refill the pool with buckets of water.

Yes, you're adding to the pool,

just like this one turbine is adding to the storage depot,

but it will never make up for the amount of water flowing out of the pool,

because this plant has three defunct turbines.

So after everything that we've just done, the whole thing is gonna shut down anyway?

You bought us a few hours.

Barry, did you hear all of that?

He's right. In a few hours, the whole country's out of power.

And we'll descend into chaos.

Unless we unclog the three turbines that aren't working.

Okay, so we use a jackhammer.

You jackhammer that polymer coating, you destroy the hardware.

What if we can remove the polymers without any damage?

Well, then you'd be a wizard.

Or a guy who got an A-plus in AP Chemistry.

I found this research paper from Vanderbilt University.

It seems that if you mix sulfuric acid with water,

you can create an exothermic reaction

that will eat away at this specific polymer,

leaving the blades unharmed.

Based off the size of the dam, the amount of water flow,

20 industrial barrels of acid will do it.

Where am I gonna get 20 barrels of acid? Come on.

I don't know, but I'm going to find out.

Okay. Okay. I... I can't...

I can't run anymore.

Are you okay?

I just got a look at myself.

I was on the altar.

I had my suit on, the music was playing.

- Tally looked gorgeous. - Oh.

I always wanted a family. With her, I was gonna get an instant one.

Two grown kids and a grandchild.

Everything I ever wanted.

Things were actually working out for old Donnie.

And then...

...giant Austrian shits all over me.

Okay.

Them's the breaks though, right?

Well, that sounds like heavy stuff. Do you wanna keep talking about it, or...

- No. - Why not?

Well, for starters, the bikers are here.

What? Shit!