To Save the Children (1994) - full transcript

(Multicom Jingle)

(eerie music)
(crickets chirping)

(bus booming)

(bell ringing)

- Now don't forget tomorrow
we're gonna do chapter two,

be sure to have read the entire chapter.

Whatever.

See you tomorrow.

- Bye, see you tomorrow.
- Bye.

- [Student] Bye everyone.

- [Child] Bye, Cody!



- Bye.
- Bye.

- Thanks.

- That was some snowball fight at recess.

- Hey Cody, hey Scooter.

- [Children] Hey Dad.

- Hey Cody, shut the corral gate

so Cornelius doesn't get out, will ya.

- Who the heck left it
open in the first place.

(dramatic music)
(bull snorting)

(gate squeaking)

(bull snorting)

I was gonna do it, I was just waitin'.

- Waitin' for what Cody?

Waitin' until he got out and
wreak havoc with the herd.



- No sir, waiting for him to move.

- You invited him to move
with your indecision.

Go on, get in the house.

C'mon Scooter, I'll take you for a ride

in the sleigh. (laughing)

- [Emma] Hi Cody.

- Hi.

- Why the glum face?
- Nothing.

- What did Daddy say to you?
- Nothing.

- [Scooter] Giddy up
horsey, whee. (laughing)

- Hey Dorsie, what ya doin'?

What's the suitcase for?

- It's the end of the month, David.

- The end of the month, who
are you, the landlord? (laughs)

- No, that's just who's
gonna be here in two weeks.

Now I said that I would give
you until the end of the month

to finally get serious about these bills.

I'm not gonna be the
one who they come after.

- Aw, listen to me, baby.

- Don't, don't baby me.

- Well you are my baby, you
can't take care of yourself.

And by the way, it is not
the last of the month.

- [Dorsie] What do you mean?

- What I mean is that
30 days hath September,

April, June and November,

all the rest have 31 except for February.

- Oh, great, great.

So by tomorrow midnight

our financial problems gonna be over, huh?

You finally gonna start to discipline

that great mind of yours.

- (laughing) I'm not gonna try to kid you.

Nothing changes overnight.

But I swear to you one thing,

starting tomorrow, it's the
beginning of the big one.

- (scoffs) The big one.

- Yeah.

You remember, the Biggie.

- Yeah, tomorrow.

- Yeah, it's hell yes tomorrow,

where you think I've been
for the last two days.

Why do you think I wrote that letter, huh?

The big letter.

Why do you think Freddie
and Lyle are flyin' in.

- Freddie and Lyle are comin'?

- Tomorrow mornin'.

You don't believe me, want to call 'em?

Go on, go on, call 'em.

Come on, huh?

Did I ever tell you it
was gonna be the Biggie

when it wasn't?

- No.

- No.

- Don't.

- Did I ever tell you there
was somethin' so beautiful

about you when your mind is made up.

- That isn't gonna work.

- No?

There's somethin' so strong about you.

Next to me you are the strongest person

that I know and that's
why I need you, Dorsie.

You think I ever would
have planned the big one

if I didn't think you were
gonna be a part of it?

Hm?
(Dorsie sniffling)

Dorsie, you and I are like
two poles on a battery.

Standing alone we're nothin'.

Nothin' but a couple of
stumps stickin' up in the air.

But when we connect. (tongue clicks)

We create a power, a force that's bigger

than either one of us.

You feel the heat that we create, huh?

Do you feel that?

That's power, baby, that's life.

That's us.

And I'll tell ya somethin'.

If by tomorrow night you don't
believe that we're on our way

to a better life, you can walk.

In fact, I'll give you the keys
and you can drive. (laughs)

Oh, the plan's in motion baby,
and nothing's gonna stop it.

And if you leave now,

you will always and
forever say to yourself,

I could have been there too.

I need you baby.

- David.

- I need you baby.

I really, really, really need you, baby.

- It's the council's job
to provide equipment.

- Yeah, but you know how the PTA loves

to have bake sales and
the chocolate drive.

- They're not gonna mind

if the Council gives us
a couple of computers.

(Jake laughing)

- [Man] Did somebody say something funny?

- [Woman] Come on Jake, share the joke.

- Oh, I was just wondering if anyone

from L.A. Unified heard you worrying

about who we're gonna allow

to give us $6,000 worth of computers,

while they're worrying about
how to pay for metal detectors.

- That's why you came home, Jake.

- Nah, he came back from L.A.

because there's no hunting there.

- No, I came back

because I didn't
appreciate being the prey.

- Yeah, okay, Melanie, let's go.

- Where's Dorsie?

- Gone.
- Gone where?

- Gone to Salt Lake, she's
gonna pick up Uncle Freddie

and Uncle Lyle in the
morning at the airport.

- They're not my uncles.

- Well, they're my boys.

I put out the call, they come running.

- Daddy, I thought we
were goin' to Yellowstone.

- We are.

Just gonna mix in a little business.

Commerce never sleeps child.

- Hey, what's all this?
- Just a bunch of junk.

- Daddy, is everything okay with you?

- I have never been better.

- [Kathi] Yeah, no sweat
Cal, we'll cover for ya.

- [Dev] Kathi!

- I'll catch you later, Cal.

Over and out.

(radio chattering)

- What the hell is this?

- I told you about it
two weeks ago, Sheriff.

- I thought I talked some sense into you.

- Well, I listened but I just
don't see the sense in it.

There's more money, more responsibility

and here I'm just a glorified secretary.

- You're a Sheriff's
dispatcher is what you are.

That other think is just
a big fancy title, is all.

What the hell am I
supposed to do tomorrow.

You can't just leave.

- Well, I'm not missin' my first meetin'.

You're just gonna have to find someone.

Wondering what you were waitin' on.

You can get any number of people.

Answering calls and getting you a Danish

does not take extraordinary skill.

- Well let's just turn this
thing around a moment, shall we?

What makes you think a young
lady like yourself is qualified

to be an emergency management
coordinator anyways.

- Because I took the courses, Dev.

- Exactly, the question stands.

(Kathi sighs)

(dog barking faintly)

- [Laura] I love you for bringing us here.

- Not gonna go stir crazy?

- Jake, it's exactly what I want.

A place where my children will be able

to walk the streets anytime
of day or night and feel safe.

- Yeah, well there's no mall

and there's only one grocery store.

- Come on.

(dramatic music)

- Hey!
- Ah!

What the!

- [Jake] Oh, Cal?

- Jake, what the hell.

What are you doing?

- Look, I'm sorry.

Big city reflex.

- Oh, that is my fault,

I guess I should have recognized the car.

Thought you was kids is all.

- Doesn't this take the cake.

Laura was just telling me

how safe she feels here and sure enough,

here's the town's only police
officer spending his night

protecting the young maidens of Cokeville.

- Sorry Jake.

Laura, you all right?

- Fine Cal, except you're
about eight months late.

(Cal laughs)

- I'm sorry.
- No, hike.

- Goodnight.
- Take it easy.

- Well, Tracy and Cody are all tucked in.

Tom, what did you and Cody
have some words about today?

- I got nothin'.

- Lord.

Like father like son.

- No, not like father like son.

At 12 years old I was not
scared to go up to a corral

and close the gate on an old
bull like my father told me.

In fact, I'd have been scared not to

for fear of gettin' a lickin',

- So this is about courage and C.C. again.

- I guess.

- Why can't you just
let Cody be who he is.

- I didn't say a word,
I just closed the gate.

- Mm-hmm.

(dramatic music)

- Sh.

Sh.

- What are you doing?

- It's okay, baby.

It's okay.

- Stop staring at me that way.

- Now listen to me, Melanie.

There's gonna be a Brave
New World starting today.

And this is the way you
can be a part of it.

The only way.

- Don't touch me!

(tense music)

- Melanie?

Melanie, you don't understand.

This is it, Melanie.

In a few hours it's gonna be dawn,

the big day, Biggie day, for
me and Dorsie and for you too.

But we all gotta be one.

(door clicking)

- What's in there?

It's a bomb, isn't it?

- (laughs) It's a magic carpet.

It'll take us wherever we want to go.

- Bombs kill people.

- (sighs) Didn't you learn anything?

All the things I tried to teach you.

Death is only a transitional point

on the everlasting wheel of life.

A wheel is a circle spinning
on a horizontal axis.

What goes around comes around.

What you give now you
get back many times over

but you gotta learn to give, baby.

- I want to go home.

- We'll talk about it tomorrow.

- [Melanie] No, now!

- Don't talk back to your father.

You go on back to bed,
I'm not gonna touch you.

But God help you if you
say anything to Dorsie.

(birds chirping)

- [Emma] Oh, it's cold.

You'll be okay, sweetie.

Just wait for the bus.

Here she comes.

(children chattering)

Hi, okay, up you go darlin'.

You take care of my babies now.

Cody, I'll miss you.

- Oh hi Cody, hi Tracey.
- Hi.

- [Emma] Have a good day at school.

(children chattering)

- [Student] Morning Mr. Downey.

- Hi, Mr. Downey.
- Good morning, Mr. Downey.

- Mr. Downey, shot any bears lately?

- Three yesterday, before breakfast.

- [Student] Hi, Mr. Downy!

- [Student] Good morning.

(dramatic music)

- You ever hear of diabetes, Pops?

Insulin, yum, yum.

You want to watch?

(man groaning)

- [Cook] Order up.

- [Waitress] There you go.

- Come on Dorsie, what's up?

- All I can tell ya is it's goin' down.

- The Biggie?

After all these years?

I don't believe it.

- What do you think he
got you here for, huh?

- Hit us up for more money,
I figured. (laughing)

- If you don't believe in him...

- Of course I believe in him.

- Yeah, well you better believe.

All the roads you traveled together.

- David is the smartest
man that I've ever met.

I do believe he's gonna
get us all very rich.

- So what do you think it is this time?

- He's got a bomb.

- A bomb?

- He's in the bathroom
half the night building it.

- Wait a second.

I ain't getting involved with
anything that needs a bomb.

- You just listen to me.

Didn't you just say it yourself

that you believe in him, huh?

That he's a genius.

- Yeah, well, of course he is.

- [Lyle] Why do you
think we flew out here.

- And whatever it is he's got planned,

you know it's gonna work.

And you know it's gonna
make you very rich.

- Are you sure it's a bomb?

- Look.

(dramatic eerie music)

(birds chirping)

- This is my bear, her name's Ursula.

- That's a very interesting name.

Now why did you call her that?

- Because my brother says it means bear.

- That's absolutely right.

Tracy, very good.

Thank you for sharing Ursula with us.

Mikey, who did you bring.

- My bug.
(students groaning)

- [David] Okay, Lyle, Lyle,

I want you to get on the other
side of Dorsie, all right.

Boy, girl, boy, girl, come on.

- Oh, for God's sake.

- Hey, this is historic
occasion, all right,

this is Biggie day, we gotta
capture this for posterity.

Hang on.

Ready, all right.
(camera beeping)

Okay, smile everybody.

(camera clicking)

That picture is gonna
run in every newspaper

from The New York Times on down.

Architects of the Brave New World.

- Brave new world.
- Yep.

- David, now don't you think

it's about time you told
us what this plan is?

- Get my letter?
- Yeah, we got it.

- You read it?
- We read it.

Zero equals infinity.

What's that mean?

- (laughs) Tell him, honey.

- It means nobody knows anything.

So like, there's no reality.

- That's my girl.

- I'm not as smart as
you, David, I know that.

So if you could, if you could
explain what that means.

- (sighs) Well I can see
that there's no point

in my discussing anything of a spiritual,

of a metaphysical, of a
higher plane with you two.

So maybe you'll understand this.

What do you see in the van?

- Um, well there's guns and
and a whole lot of ammo.

- And some kind of bomb.

- Uh huh, very good.

Now what we're gonna do,
we're gonna take these items

down the hill and we
are gonna do the Biggie.

- Which is?

- Which is to take over

the Cokeville Public Elementary School.

Every single teacher, every
single kid, every one of 'em.

- That's it, that's the Biggie?

- David, I don't know--

- Will you shut up!

What's the matter with you people?

I spent months developing this.

Pickin' this town.

It has got one cop.

It has got a school

which has among the best and
brightest kids in the world.

I have learned that their
parents will do anything,

anything for them.

I have designed and built a
foolproof detonating device

and you pygmies can't appreciate it.

Now you know where this letter is going?

This letter that you cannot understand?

To the President of the United States.

That's right.

So that he will know what kind
of a mind he is dealing with.

And he will know

because he is the President
of the United States.

Now you two don't have the
vision to see the path before you

which leads where no man has gone before.

- No way.

Look, I'm sorry David, but I'm out.

- Me too.

I ain't takin' over no school.

- Melanie?

(laughs) Well, I can't force anybody.

- [Freddie] Whoa, whoa,
whoa, take it easy now.

- Okay, Dorsie, there's
handcuffs in the van,

go get 'em baby.

- Don't do it.

- You do it baby

or I'm gonna shoot her
and them, all of 'em.

Come on baby, come on.
- David.

- Come on, this is the
Biggie, this is our shot.

You and me everything we always wanted.

Come on baby, but I
can't do it without ya.

You just do what I tell ya

and nobody's gonna get hurt, all right.

Dorsie, Dorsie, they don't
understand me they never have.

But you and me, we are one baby.

The future king and queen
of the Brave New World.

But I can't do it without ya baby.

I really need your help, now come on.

Come on, nobody's gonna get hurt

if you just do what I tell ya.

Nobody's gonna get hurt, I promise.

- Okay, okay.
- Go on.

- Okay fellas, you just stay right there.

You too.

(birds chirping)

- I'm going to lunch.

- Oh, don't forget,
you've got that interview

with that kindergarten teacher at 1:30.

- I'll be here.
(bell ringing)

Oh God.

(woman laughs)

It's no use, I'll never
get used to that thing.

Does it have to ring in here?

- No, reprogram it.

- Reprogram it?

That's it?

I've been living with this shock
treatment for three months.

All right.

Just concentrate, it
shouldn't be that difficult,

we're all intelligent adult human beings.

(people chattering)

Call a sixth grader.

- (laughs) Jake Downey can do it,

he's the computer whiz around here.

- Call Jake Downey.

- David, now we all been
together a long time.

You have got to listen.

There is no way you could pull this off.

You must know that, you're too smart.

- A elementary school, they may pay off,

but, and you might get away,

but they're never gonna leave you alone.

- What makes you think
that I'm going someplace

where anybody can find me.

- There's no place--

- I'm not talking about Brazil.

You didn't read my letter did ya.

Or any of the stuff that I sent ya.

That's why I need the children.

They haven't been brainwashed yet.

They're pure.

I can save them.

- Dorsie?

Melanie!

- Melanie, don't you dare.
- We have too!

- Just listen to him.
- We can't!

- You don't understand honey,

you do as he says and
nothin's gonna happen right.

He's not gonna hurt anyone.

- Dorsie, what do you think's gonna happen

if he goes into that school with a bomb.

- You heard him, he's got it all planned.

- Dorsie!

- Melanie, listen to yourself.

You're desertin' him just
when he needs you the most.

Your own Daddy.

I'm gonna tell you something, girl.

I tried to leave him, many times.

But I can't.

All right?

So you get to be as old as I am,

maybe you're gonna understand.

You just gotta believe in somebody.

(birds chirping)

- I have somethin' to tell you.

- There's nothin' more to say.

- He's not what you think he is.

- I don't want to hear this.

- Last night in the motel room--

- I said I don't want to hear it!

(car horn honking)

- All right it's one o'clock,

they're lunch will be over in 15 minutes.

Biggie time.

(dramatic music)

(alarm blaring)

(clock ticking)

(machines whirring)

(engine revving)

- You're not armin' it are ya?

What if we hit a bump?

- Boom!
(Freddie yelps)

(David laughs)

(people chattering)

- Dorsie, back it up to the side entrance.

(children chattering)

Dorsie, come on back here and help me out.

Give me your finger.

Put it right there, it's all right.

Okay, now don't move, anybody.

Thank you baby.

Get back here, Melanie.

Melanie, get back here.

Unless you want this
thing to go off right now.

All right, darlin' now let's
get this out of the van.

Come on, help me out, real careful.

- Daddy, please don't do this.

- Just help me get the
rest of the stuff out.

- No, I told you, I'm not going in there.

- Now you got to understand one thing.

This has already started

and nobody can stop it, not even me.

- Come on Mel, now you
just do what he says, okay?

Come on.

- Excuse me.

Hey, NRA?

- God bless, 'em, huh.

- Here, let me help.

- Thank you.

- Ow!
- Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Sorry.
- Take it easy.

You almost took my wrist off.

- Hey?

Hey, hey!
- Hey!

Hey!
- Hey!

- Hey!
- Don't go driving away!

Come here!
- Hey!

(people chattering)

- Okay, kids, kids.

Keep it down to a minor skirmish.

I'll be right back.

(guns clicking)
(children chattering)

Can I help you?

- Yeah, where's the principal's office?

- Just down the hall here,
first door on your right.

- Thank you very much.

Melanie, stay here.

(dramatic music)
(Melanie gasping)

- Oh hi.
- Hi.

- You're here about the kindergarten job.

- Ah, yes I am.

I'm a little bit early though.

- Oh, that's all right, I
just got back from lunch.

Just give me a second, will ya.

- Sure.
- Can I help you?

- Are you the principal?

- Yes, I am.

- Matt Eckhart.

- That's right, now what is this--

- Matt, this school is
being taken hostage.

Don't push any buttons,
don't step on any alarms,

don't answer any telephones,
just do as your told.

- I'm sorry, I--

- Serious now, we've got guns.

- [David] Matt, this is a bomb.

This bomb's powerful enough to
destroy this entire building,

do you understand?

- Now just wait a minute.

- Sh, sh.

You see this little half closed pin

which is attached to my wrist?

This is the only thing

that is keeping this bomb from going off.

And that means that if anybody
attacks me or shoots me

or trips me or even scares me so much

that my arm moves a little bit too much,

it will go off and everyone in
this building will be killed.

Miss.
- Yes?

- Get on the other side of the counter.

- I'll just wait over here.

- On the other side of the counter, now!

Thank you.

- You know, David, we could do it here.

We'd be close to the phones.

- No, we need the kids.

- Terry not back with the mail yet?

- Not yet, Jake--
- Ah, I'll get it later.

- Hey Jake, come on back here.

Yeah, I got a bomb too.

- What?

- Jake Downey.

Don't you know me Jake?

- Ah, no, I don't know you.

- Well sure you do.

David Young, remember?

I rented a house from ya nine years ago.

I was the police chief.
- David Young, the cop.

The one they fired.

- They didn't fire me, Jake, I quit.

You still single.

- No.

- No kidding.

Wow, work with me Jake,

you just might get to see your wife again.

- Come on, let's go find a classroom.

Move!

(dramatic music)

(people chattering)

Excuse us, would you
join our group please?

This is a bomb and it's real.

Let's go.

What's in there?

- First grade.
- It's big.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

Okay, bring the guns.

- No.
- Melanie.

Melanie, don't be a bad girl.

Listen to Papa!

- I told you, but you don't listen.

I am not going in there.

I am not doing this!

I am not doing this!

- It is a sad day indeed

when a man's own daughter can't
share her father's vision.

(blow thuds)

(dramatic music)

Go on, get out of here.

You're no good to me anyway.

Go on, get out of here!

(tense music)

- David.

How are we gonna get out of here?

- Get us out of these cuffs.

- No, just get us the hell out of here.

(tires squealing)

- Oh, Mr. Eckhart, and the
ever popular Mr. Downey.

To what do we owe the pleasure?

What's going on?

- Miss?

- Michaels.

- Miss Michaels, this is a bomb.

- You gotta be kidding.

- No, I am not kidding.

So why don't you just
sit down and shut up.

(children laughing)

Get the rest, Dorsie.

- David, I think we got enough.

- You think, Dorsie, you
are not supposed to think.

The plan says get everybody.

Get everybody.

- Look, how 'bout telling
us what this is all about.

- How about shutting up!

When everybody it here I will tell you.

I do not like repeating myself.

Where are you going?

- Oh, my I?

(children crying)

- Go ahead.

- Sh, sh, sh, quiet.

Sh.

(tires squealing)

- Help me, please, I need a cop.

- Oh, I'm sorry, he's
up in Kimber right now

gettin' his car fixed.

- Oh God.

- Uh, maybe if you
could tell me the nature

of your emergency.

- My father's holding a
school hostage with a bomb.

- I beg your pardon?

- The school!

Over there, the elementary school!

Do something!

He's got guns, he's got assault
rifles, he's got a bomb!

- Wait here.

Don't you go away!

(tense music)

(door knocking)

- Hi, Mrs. Michaels would like
to see everyone in room four.

- What for?

- Well, I don't know,

she just said that it was a big surprise.

- Oh, well, class, I know
you're gonna be disappointed

but I guess long division
will have to wait.

(children cheering)
- Yeah!

- Oh great!
- Let's go.

- [Child] All right.

- Nadine, I'm not a police
woman, I don't know what to do?

- You're the Sheriff's
dispatcher, aren't ya?

- No, I'm the new County
Emergency Management Coordinator.

- Well, if that girl's not wrong honey,

you're in business in a big way.

- [Jim] Would you like a
tissue or a drink of water?

- No, I don't want a tissue, dammit!

- Now Miss, there's no need
to use that kind of talk--

- Well what the hell kind of
talk do you want me to say

to get you idiots to stop my father

before he kills the children, huh?

- Okay, ma'am, all right,

just slow down and take a breath please.

What is your name?

- Melanie.

- Melanie.

All right Melanie, can you tell me

as calmly as possible what the problem is?

(children chattering)

- [Child] What do you.

- [Child] Look at mine.

- Okay, come on, this way, in here.

- Hey everybody, find a place
in the back of the room.

No, hey, hey, no guns, no guns.

Leave your guns by the door.

Make a pile by the door,
thank you very much.

Find a place in the back of the room.

- Give it to me, that's right.

- I don't like their.
- That's a good boy.

No gun, that's right.

- [Boy] Is he scared of guns.

Yeah, let's shoot him
with our plastic guns.

- Get his gun.
- Set right there.

- Put your guns down.

Come on, that's a good boy, that's it.

- Now, do you believe me.

- Nadine, let's get Sheriff Wolfley here,

he's at Dr. Wilcox's.

- I'll get Cal back here too.
- Where are they?

- [Kathi] Kemmerer, 50 miles away.

Nadine, how many phone lines are in there?

- [Nadine] Uh, four.

- Jim, guys, let's split it up.

I think we need the state
trooper and the FBI.

They're in Casper.

- No, as soon as he sees any

of those people he'll blow it up.

I swear it.

You gotta keep people away.

- We need 'em.

Tell 'em not to go near the school

No sirens.

Does anybody else have any other ideas?

A road block, well let's go.

Let's go.

- Hey, hey, what about us?

(tense music)

(children chattering)

(whistle whistling)

- [Teacher] Okay kids, recess is over.

- Ma'am.

Ma'am!

(dramatic music)

Ma'am, don't go in the school.

- Hi there!
- Ma'am, no, no!

Please don't go in.

Ma'am!

Oh what am I gonna do?

(children chattering)

- All right.

Okay everybody, settle down now.

Settle down, be quiet, be quiet.

I got somethin' I gotta say.

Now you all want to know what's goin' on.

Well here it is.

This is a bomb and you
are all my hostages.

All right.

Now you adults, I want
you to know right now,

I could care less about you.

I'd just as soon kill you as look at ya.

But you kids, I am your friend.

And you don't believe
that yet but you will.

I was a kid too once.

And I know what it's like.

Teachers, snarlin' at ya.

Telling you what to do.

Just pinchin' on the back of your neck,

pulling you up by your ears.

Shakin' your arms, slappin' your face,

sit down, be quiet, sit in the closet.

Get up, shut up.

Button up, hands up, throw up.

Wake up, look up!

Straighten up, line up!

Time's up!

Well you're not gonna have to worry

about any of that any more.

Because we are gonna take
the most important journey

of our lives together.

Except if you try to escape
I'll have to shoot ya.

I don't want to do it but I will.

I'll use a .22 and I'll
try to hit you in the legs

but it will hurt, so just sit quiet.

(girl whimpering)
All right.

Oh, let me have the statements now.

Okay, now I want everybody,

grown ups hand kids to read one of these.

It will explain everything.

Um, I just want you to know
that I have already sent copies

of this to the governor

and the President of the United States.

Pass 'em out.

- All right now, who wants to
help me pass these out, huh?

Huh?

Who wants to be letter monitor?

- All right now.

Listen up.

Seemingly some thousands of years ago,

several individuals combined

or perceived their combination
and therein created man.

It was and is a concept.

Neither right nor wrong,
left but a way among ways.

- Sit down.

For the better part of the interim,

man played with man,
making love, fire, food.

Moaris, children, goods, gods, language,

tools, wastes, combinations
of diverse sorts

in almost as many directions, purposes.

Now, people come and people go.

But always as people.

No longer as individuals

from which people had risen or succumb.

The answer to this concern
regarding the nothingness.

- Tom!

There's some kind of
lunatic in the school,

it's on the radio.

- What?

- He's got guns and bombs.

God, Tom, our babies.

- I'm going down there.

You get my coat.

- All right, Tom, I'm comin' with ya.

(dramatic music)

(siren wailing)

- Are we gonna die?

- Don't be crazy, what
are you talking about.

- I mean, you know, see.

- Tracy, I'm not gonna
let anyone hurt you.

- You smell the gas from the bomb.

- Yeah.

The kids are starting to
get sick, you got any ideas?

- No, he's got that
thing around his wrist.

- You know, Jake, if anybody's
gonna do anything, it's you.

- All we have, for all
the lessons of history.

- What do you want me to do, Jane?

- Christ, revolutions, insurance.

- We don't know what he wants yet.

All we know is that he's inside the school

and he's got guns and a bomb.

- Where in the school,
I got a kid in there.

- We don't know yet.

- Don't you think it's time you found out.

- Ma'am, we don't want to
endanger the lives of the children

until we have a better
idea of what's going on.

- Meanwhile, they're all dead.

I'll run you over.

I don't even know who the hell you are.

- I'm (sighs).

I'm the Lincoln County

Emergency Management Coordinator, sir.

- What?

What the hell is that?

Where's Cal, where's the sheriff.

- They're en route as are the
Highway Patrol and the FBI.

I'm telling you, you get in
the vicinity of that school,

that man has threatened to blow it up!

(woman whimpering)

Sir, what's your name please.

- Um, Howard.

- Howard, I'm gonna need your help,

can you stay with me please.

And ma'am?

- Marlene.
- Marlene.

Can you go get the fire department
and tell them no sirens.

- [Marlene] Uh huh.

(people chattering)

- What's the trouble?

- [Dorsie] He's got a fever.

He needs to see a doctor.

- No, he's not warm, he's not warm at all.

You just wet a paper towel
and you put it on his forehead

and he's gonna be fine,
aren't ya honey, just fine.

(people chattering)

- Look, why don't you call
somebody, make your demands.

We got a cellular phone.

- I am not talking to any authorities.

Jake, he's my negotiator.

Back off!

Dorse, they're crowding me.

- No problem baby, come on.

Come on, come on, come on.

Moving it back girls.

Don't want to make him
nervous now do we, huh?

- Okay, I'll call 'em for you.

What do you want me to tell 'em.

- You tell 'em I want
$2 million for each kid.

- Come on.

- You got a problem.

- It's just that there's
gotta be 130 kids here.

- 134 kids.

And if Jake is not back in 10
minutes, there's gonna be 133.

(gun clicking)

- Oh no!
(people gasping)

- Would he do that?

Would he shoot a child?

- No.

He wouldn't do that, that's just talk.

- Well how can you be sure
with someone like that?

(upbeat music)
(Dorsie gasps)

(dramatic music)
(people chattering)

- I don't care what they say.
- I've got to get in!

(phone ringing)

- This is Kathi Davidson.

- I'm Jake Downey, I'm
a teacher at the school.

We're being held hostage.

I was told to call you.

What took you so long?

I gotta be back in that
classroom in four minutes.

- [Kathi] Oh, well you'll
have to speak fast then.

- Okay, he's got a bomb, it looks real,

it looks big and it's
got a dead man's switch.

- What is that, I don't know what that is.

- It means if he gets shot

or knocked out the bomb's
gonna go off anyway.

You gotta keep everybody back

or we're gonna have a
lot of dead kids here.

- I'm trying.

Where in the school is he?

- Um, room four.

The south side of the
building, facing Pearl Street.

He's got the whole school in there.

130 kids.

A dozen adults.

He's got a woman with
him, calls her Dorsie.

- Okay, what does he want?

- You sitting down?
- Hardly, sir.

- He wants two million a kid.

- What?
- Exactly, what do I do?

- I'm sorry, excuse me?

- What the hell do I do?

- Um, um, just sit tight.

Everyone's on their way,

I just have to relay this
to the proper authorities.

Just stay calm, Jake.

- Yeah.

(phone clicks)

(dramatic music)

(Jake gasping)

(people chattering)

- Hm.

- Oh, he's here.
(people sighing)

- You tell 'em.

- I told 'em.
- What they say?

- They said they'd call back

after they contacted
the proper authorities.

- No cops, you tell I said no cops.

- I told her.

- Good.

Take a pew, Jake.

(people chattering)

- I don't think there's that much money

in the whole state of Wyoming.

He must know that.

What is he thinking.

- Who knows any more.

- Melanie?

- I don't know.

- Well do you have any ideas?

- Well last night he started talkin'

about some Brave New World
he was going to with Dorsie.

And how I ought to come along.

- What Brave New World,
what's he talkin' about.

- I'm not real sure.

- What do you think it means?

- Well, ma'am, he
believes in reincarnation.

He might have meant reincarnation.

- Are you saying that he
aims to get killed today?

- [Freddie] Damn, maybe that's
what he was talkin' about

on the mountain.

- What did he say?

- Well this morning when he cuffed us,

we told him he'd never get away with this,

there was no place he could hide

and he said they'd never get him.

And that he wasn't talkin' about Brazil.

- Oh God.

- It's the Brave New
World he's talkin' about.

A place he can control, where
he thinks he's gonna be king.

- But what does he mean

about the kids not being
brainwashed at all?

And that they'd be kind to 'em and all?

- You guys is nuts.

David is not gonna kill hisself.

He said he was gonna save those children.

- Oh Lord, we could be talkin'
about saving their souls,

he could be talkin' about takin' every one

of 'em with him. (sighs)

(bright music)

- [Instructor] Inhale and hold.

Feel the stretch through the spine.

Now move your body forward.

- A heavily armed man with a bomb

who has apparently taken control

of the Cokeville Elementary School.

We've received no word about any injuries

or about any demands.

But we do have our KROV news
team en route to the scene

and will inform you of any
developments as they occur.

- Oh my God, Jake.

(tense music)

- [Tom] What the hell's going on, Sheriff?

- I just got here, Tom.

You probably know more than I do.

- Did you bring the money?

This guy, he wants a truckload of money.

- Yeah, I heard about that.
- And?

- And I heard about.

We're handling this, Emma.
- Doesn't look like it.

- Excuse me, Dev, thank God you're here.

- You seen Cal Frederickson?

- No, he should be here by now.

The FBIs due any minute
and I've got Chuck Detrick

from ATF out of Salt Lake on the radio.

Says he can have 50 people
here in three hours.

- Let me get the lay of the land first.

Anything else from inside.

- No, sir, just the one call.

Sheriff, I think we could have
a Jonestown situation here.

- You can tell that from one phone call?

- No, I've been talking with his daughter.

He's got some crazy idea
about reincarnating everybody

into a Brave New World.

- [Woman] How long have the been in there?

- He plan on reincarnating the money, too?

- [Woman] There's nothing.

(eerie music)

(child coughing)

- [Woman] I'm scared.

- Oh please.
(Jake sighs)

- You were saying?

- What was he like when
you were his landlord?

- Hardly ever saw him.

Paid his rent on time.

He stiffed me for two months

after they fired him and he just took off.

When I went over he trashed the place.

- Mr. Downey, my sister's
getting pretty sick

from the smell of the gas.

Can I open a window?

- I'll ask him.

- She's pretty scared too.

- We all are, Cody.

- Mr. Downey, we could take him.

You could grab his arm and
the rest of us could jump--

- Don't even think of it, Roy.

- Who's that kid?

- Just a kid.
- Yeah?

I think he's thinkin' about
doing something stupid.

- Look, everybody's getting
sick from the gas fumes.

Is it okay if we open a window?

- No.

- Come on, David, come on, huh.

It's getting so hot in here.

You know, we could open up a door,

get a little cross-ventilation.

- Be quiet.

- [Jake] Last thing
anything needs is a roomful

of sick kids.

- No.

Last thing anybody
needs is a dead teacher.

Except me.

(children gasping)
- No!

- Maybe I need a dead teacher.

Teach everybody a lesson.

Huh?

Come on, mountain man.

It's what you are, isn't it?

Mountain man?

Let's see what you're made of.

Come on.

(gun clicking)

Forget about the gun.

Let's just see if you can get
to me before I can get to it.

(tense music)

- You'd blow everybody up.

- If you don't get to me first.

- All right, David, whatever you want.

You're the boss.

- I'm not the boss.

I'm the king!

People generally kneel to a king.

(dramatic music)

Right.

Hit the phone, Jakey.

(people chattering)

- [Dev] Okay, but tell me
exactly where they are.

- I already told the woman.

- [Dev] I know, calm down.

You need to tell me.

- On the Pearl Street
side, the south side.

- [Dev] Are the blinds up?

- Come on, mister, you take
one shot and we're all dead.

Even if you get him.

Where's the woman I was talking to?

- [Dev] She's working on the money.

You gotta deal with me now.

- Well of course I'm gonna hold,

I don't have a choice now do I?

- [Dev] Okay.

- Well cool it when you get near.

We don't want to make any announcements.

- What's he say, Dev?

- I told him I'm bringing
the governor into this.

- I'm on hold now.

- [Dev] Well did you tell
him this is an emergency?

- Of course I did!

I didn't say it was a social call.

- All right, all right.

Well after you get through alert

every hospital within 200 miles.

- Yes, sir.

- Okay, good news.

SWAT team is coming in from Jackson.

- SWAT team?

I didn't authorize any SWAT team.

- Come on, Dev, let's not get into this.

Kidnapping's a federal
crime, you know that.

- I'll tell you what I know.

I know the SWAT team's got
all those expensive toys

and all that expensive training.

And I also know that when
you're armed to the teeth,

it's hard to be patient.

- Same old Dev, huh.

- But mostly what I know is this.

Those are my people in
there, my town, my county.

And nobody, but nobody,

goes anywhere near that
school lest I say so.

- Of course.

- Just a moment, Sheriff.

- [FBI Agent] Mind if we go over the van?

- Be my guest.

Better make that every
hospital within 400 miles.

Governor, yeah.

(child coughing)
(people chattering)

- Go talk to him.

- You wouldn't.

- Oh yeah.

- Go on, I dare ya.

- Okay.

Watch me.

So, uh, what kind of guns are those?

- Back off.

- [Roy] I just want to know
what kind of guns they are.

- Yeah?
- Yeah.

(people chattering)

- Alrighty.

See that shotgun right there?

That's one of the finest over
and unders in the whole world.

That one in the middle, it's
a Kalashnikov assault weapon.

- Yeah, fully automatic?

- No.

Not fully automatic.

Semiautomatic.

Fully automatic is illegal.

(David scoffs)

- Sit down.
(people chattering)

- Oh you're crazy.
- Don't do that again.

- Jake, you did the right thing.

Listening to him.

Nobody expects you to--
- Sure they do.

So do you, Matt.

(people chattering)

- Now this is the hardest
thing I've ever had to do

and if we do anything else we're lookin'

for a lot of trouble.

Now the best thing we can do is wait

for more assistance and more developments.

- Like what?

Like until the first child gets shot?

I got my two kids in there, Cal.

- I know, I'm tellin'
ya they're all right.

- Oh, Cal, is Jake okay?

He's not much for taking
orders from people.

- I know, Laura.

As of yet, no one's been hurt.

- How do you know.

How do you know he's okay?

- You don't know?

We've been talkin' to Jake on the phone.

(Laura crying)

- Leona's in there.

She's got the sniffles,

but I bullied her ma into
making her go anyway.

So you got Cody and what's the little one?

- Tracy.
- That's right.

Cute little brunette.

- What the hell's goin' on in there?

- Looks like a whole lot of nothin'.

Let's go down and see what's what.

(people chattering)

- [Teacher] How long you been married?

- Nine years.

Ever since David was police
chief here. (laughing)

Oh, I never could resist a uniform.

- Dorsie, uh, why are you doing this?

- Oh hell, you know men.

They always think they can
do this stuff by themselves

but (sighs) I have to, girls.

- No, nobody has to do
something like this.

You made a choice.

- The others wouldn't help him.

Not his friends, not his own daughter.

You should have seen the look on his face

when she deserted him.

I know he won't.

He doesn't think I saw him but,

he needs me.

- Dorsie, you know something
real bad could happen here.

- No, it won't.

Now he is not gonna hurt the children.

He cares about them.

- That's why he has a bomb.

- [Dorsie] I better go.

- You can make sure that nothing happens.

You wouldn't be hurting him,

you'd be saving his life
and a lot of others.

- How?

- Well, maybe you could get
ahold of that shoelace thing.

- [David] Dorsie!

- I don't know, I gotta go.

- At least convince him to
let us open up the windows

'cause everybody's getting sick.

- Dorsie, get over here!
- Okay.

(child coughing)
(quiet tense music)

- They say he's got a bomb
with a dead man's switch.

- How do they know,
nobody's been in there?

- No, but they've been talkin' to someone.

What can you see?

- [Larry] Window, it's gotta be the one.

I can see kids.

- Oh, Larry, I don't know
if this is such a good idea.

- No?

Well let me tell you somethin'.

If he gives me a head shot, I
got a nine grain hollow point.

(people chattering)

- Okay, all right.

All right.

Okay, everybody, you
want air, you got air.

- Yay!
- I'm not a hard man

to get along with, ask anybody.

(child coughing)

Okay, scoot, come on, scoot.

- Larry, what if they're right.

- Quiet.

Somebody's heading for the window.

(dramatic music)

Hey!

- We're not gonna do this.

- [Student] Hey, everybody,
finally we get a breeze.

(people chattering)

- [Student] We got some air.

- There now we can all breathe easy.

- [Student] Thank you so much.

- Hey, look.

- Is it drugs?
- Insulin.

Someone's diabetic.

- Bang, bang!

- It's just a toy, see.

- I can see what it is.

I can also see that
you people have no idea

of how to control your children.

No idea in the world.

Do you!

You call yourselves teachers!

Imparters of knowledge.

You are nothing but keepers.

Prison guards.

Well let me tell you something,
in the Brave New World,

a child will never, ever
point a gun at an adult.

Never, never, never, never, never.

- Come on baby, hang in now, hang on.

Hang on.

Hang on.

It's okay.

It's okay.

It's okay.

- Who's the diabetic.

- [Charlie] Young
according to the daughter.

He last took it this morning.

- When does he need it next?
- Soon.

- Well if it's here it ain't in there.

- And maybe we're gettin' lucky,

maybe he gets sleepy goes
into a diabetic coma.

- It doesn't happen like that.

In fact--

- Charlie, call the lab,
see what they can tell us.

- Dev, the fact is that
if he took it this morning

and he hasn't had lunch, then
the insulin's got nothing

to work on except the sugar
that's already in his system.

He's gonna get hypoglycemic.

He's gonna have low blood sugar,

he's gonna go into insulin shock.

- How do you know?

- I, 'cause I have a friend
who's diabetic, I know.

He'll feel shaky, he'll start to sweat,

he's gonna get hungry
and thirsty and he's--

- And he's what?

- And, that's it.

- [FBI Agent] ATFs here.

- Aw, hell, you were scared of us.

- He's gonna get sweaty,
hungry, thirsty and?

- He's gonna get real irritable.

He's gonna be subject to
wide mood swings, Dev.

- Thanks for keeping that to yourself.

(people chattering)

- Okay kids, whoever
doesn't want to play game,

watch some videos, okay.

- Yay!
- Yay!

- I can't figure out if she's
Ma Barker or Betty Crocker.

- Neither can she.

- Yeah, that's enough now.

- Want me to rub somethin' else?

- I said that's enough.

- Okay.

You don't have to bite my head off.

(people chattering)

Wow, that's real good.

Boy I could, um, I could never stay

in the lines like that
when I was your age.

- When that bell rings,
do we get to go home?

- Well maybe not right then,
but soon you know, real soon.

- How soon?

- Look, I know some of you
are a little afraid right now.

But you ought to be thinking

about this like one great
big adventure, okay.

You're gonna have some story
to tell your grandkids.

- She's nice.

(people chattering)

(David sighs)

- You hear that?

In 20 minutes when the bell goes off

we're gonna be in trouble.

- What do you mean?

- Think about it, it's pandemonium.

It's a reflex.

You pick up your books

and your lunch bucket and you go home.

And if 100 kids jumping up

at the same time doesn't set
him off, what about the kids.

These younger ones, after three o'clock

when they see they're not going home

and to their moms and
dads, they're gonna panic.

- So what do we do.

Make some kind of announcement?

- Well that might take
the surprise out of it,

but that bell's still gonna
trigger a lot of emotions.

If I could get out there
I could disconnect it.

- That's good, I sure wouldn't know how.

- Hey, pst.

Come here, come here,
I want to talk to you.

Look at this.

- So.

- It could cut your
hair off with one swipe.

- So what are you gonna do?

Give him a haircut?

- Cut the shoelace off his
wrist and I need your help.

So exactly two minutes
before the bell goes off,

you go up there, start asking
him stuff about the guns.

While he's talkin' about 'em,

'tween you and the bell going
off, he'll be distracted.

So Washburn, Kenny and
Powell can go up there

and grab his arm and keep it still

and I'll cut the lace off.

- Really, what if it doesn't work?

- It'll work.

Can't just wait around here
for this guy to blow up.

(people chattering)

- [Announcer] What they figure Eddy

by welcoming one of the all
time greatest skating stars

and expert commentators Art...

- [TV Character] We've got some friends--

- Everybody, now listen up here.

Elizabeth is feelin' kind of sad

and I think maybe we
could sing her a song,

try and cheer her up, what do you think.

I know one.

♪ If you're happy and you
know it clap your hands ♪

(children clapping)

♪ If you're happy and you
know it clap your hands ♪

(children clapping)

♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪

♪ Then your face will surely show it ♪

♪ If you're happy and you
know it clap your hands ♪

(children clapping)
(ominous music)

♪ If you're happy and you
know it shout hooray ♪

♪ Hooray ♪

♪ If you're happy and you
know it shout hooray ♪

♪ Hooray ♪

♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪

♪ Then your face will surely show it ♪

♪ If you're happy and
you know shout hooray ♪

♪ Hooray ♪

♪ If you're happy and
you know shout hooray ♪

♪ Hooray ♪

♪ If you're happy and you
know it shout hooray ♪

♪ Hooray ♪

♪ If you're happy and you know it ♪

♪ Then your face will surely show it. ♪

♪ If you're happy and you
know it shout hooray ♪

♪ Hooray ♪

(children clapping)

(people chattering)
(clock ticking)

- Two minutes before the bell goes off,

he's gonna go up there an talk to him.

And we'll have Kenny.

- Here goes.

- What, what do you want?

- You don't look so good, David.

Uh, why don't you let
me get something for ya,

you know, whatever you need.

I'll call somebody.

- Yeah, all right.

Okay yeah, let's make a phone call.

Matt!

Jake here is up to somethin'

so I'm promoting you to phone monitor.

I want you to make a call,

find out what's goin' on with that money

and I want you to get me something to eat.

- Uh, what do you want?

- Something sweet, juice or
candy bars, I don't care.

I don't care what it is,
just be back in five minutes.

- I'll need more time than that.

- Five minutes.

- That's not--

- Five minutes, I'll start shootin' kids.

(guns clicking)

Go on!

- He's got two guns.
- Two guns.

- Two guns.
- Shooting.

(clock ticking)

- Honey, you're gonna need your medicine.

- I'm fine, all I need
is a little bit of food.

- No, you are not fine.

You need your insulin.

Now why don't you tell what's
his name to get some for you.

- Oh, sure, why don't I
have him bring it to me

so they can put something in it.

Why don't you just get away
from me you stupid bitch!

Don't you realize that

in the Brave New World I
will no longer need insulin!

In the Brave New World our
bodies will not be ravaged

by the common ailments of man.

Children will not longer be puking

and I will no longer need a gun to rule.

(ominous music)

- Okay.

- Why, what's the gun gotta do with it,

we gotta get the rope.

(people chattering)

- Jakey!

Front and center.

(people chattering)

Closer.

All right, that's close enough.

Now somebody is planning
something stupid in here.

Somebody other than you.

- I, I don't think so.

- I don't care what you think.

- Well look, ah, what
if we protect you then.

I'll protect you from these children.

- How?

- Well we could, you know
we could draw a circle,

tape a circle around you and
no one can cross over it.

- Okay, you do that.

Make it a wide one.

- [Matt] Listen, I think he's sick.

He's sweating like a stuck pig.

- [Kathi] He's diabetic.

- That doesn't make any sense.

He asked for candy.

I thought--

- Well, we don't have time
to explain you just have

to make sure he gets
something sweet, quick.

- Okay, okay, what about the money.

We gotta make him some kind of offer.

- It's in the works.

We talked to the governor.

Right now the food's more important.

Have you got something there.

- Ah, yeah, yeah.

(tense music)

- [Dev] You can tell him no,

we can send some in
there, put him to sleep.

- There's no time for that.

He's about to explode, I mean literally.

I gotta go.

(people chattering)

(clock ticking)

Oh God.

(people chattering)

- All right Jake, you
tell 'em anybody crosses

that line's gonna get shot.

- All right, I'll tell 'em.

(clock ticking)

You see this line here?

This circle?

Well we're gonna call it a magic circle

and, uh, they're the only ones
allowed inside the circle.

Everyone else has to stay outside.

- What happens if we don't?

- Well then you're out of the game.

(David laughs softly)

(clock ticking)

- [Student] Mr. Eckhart's back.

(Jake sighs)

- Cutting it rather close,
aren't we Mr. Principal, sir.

- Whatever you boys are planning,

it's over, you understand me?

- But, Mr.--
- Over!

(people chattering)

- [Child] Look at that.

- [Child] You're getting sick, eat it.

- [Child] That must be good I want.

Why can't he even be sick.

- [Child] Look at how
fast he's eating that.

- [Child] Ew, he's really cramming it in.

- [Child] Ew, he's scared.

(children laughing)
(people chattering)

- Give me more.

- [Child] How can he
eat so much at one time?

- [Dispatcher] 5-0 to George, this is.

- [Dispatcher] 5-0 George.

- [Dispatcher] 5-0 George
(speaking faintly).

- So no lunch and he's
under a lot of stress,

what's he like when his sugar's low?

- Crazed.

That's when he'd bang us around.

He's gonna be crazed, ma'am.

Isn't there somebody,

I mean with all this
firepower, somebody's gotta.

- [Man] Bring your guys over here.

- God.

I can't believe I'm suggesting
somebody kill my father.

- [Man] Channel four.

- [Man] Channel four to walk.

- First the man is asking for 270 million.

And you can't get anybody
to authorize one million.

- That's not what we're pursuing--

- Second his own daughter
says he's probably planning

to blow everybody into this
Brave New World of his anyway.

He keeps asking for 300 million, right.

But never once has he asked
for an escape vehicle.

- What's the rush here boys?

He's been in there what?

Goin' on two hours.

So far everybody's alive.

- Dev, but I've been
talkin' to his daughter.

She says he gets crazed
when his blood sugar's low,

I mean, I mean, really crazed.

- He just had a candy bar
and some juice, didn't he?

- Yeah, it's just a stop gap,

you can't regulate a diabetic
with just candy and juice.

He's had no lunch, he's
under a ton of stress.

He could just lose control of
his blood sugar levels and...

- Well what about gettin'
some of your mickey juice

into his food, make him sleepy.

- Okay, we'll helicopter
it in from Salt Lake.

- Two hours.
- That's right.

- We can get some men in the rear door

without being observed.

Principal says the classroom door is open.

In all probability we can
maintain an air of surprise.

My guys are armed with S20 longs.

Come on, we can immobilize
him where he stands.

- Oh, he'll freeze on
his feet like a statue.

Please boys.

- We can wait til he sits down.

- [Man] No, we don't know what
exactly we're dealing with

as far as his firepower.

(radio chattering)

- God be with us all.

(people chattering)

- Listen, (drowned out
by people chattering).

(dramatic music)

(people chattering)

- Dorsie!

Dorsie, they got somethin' goin'.

I know it.

- David, come on now.

Just relax, okay.

Just relax.

You know what this is?

It's your blood sugar doin' loopy-de-loops

from all those candy bars you had.

- Uh uh.

- Sure it is.
- Uh uh.

- Come on, it's okay.

You know, maybe you
should go to the bathroom.

- I really do gotta go.

- I know you do, baby.

I know you do.

You're squirmin' here
like a little froggie.

Look at you.

Come on, it's okay.

I'll take it, you go on.

- Dorsie.

- Sweetie what are you
gonna do, pee in your pants?

Huh?

- I don't know.

- Aw, baby, it's okay.

It's okay.

I'm right here.

It's okay.

Listen.

I started this because I love ya.

And I'm gonna finish it
for the same reason okay.

- Okay, okay.

- It's gonna be okay.
- Okay, okay.

- Come.

Give that to me.

(dramatic music)

- He's taking off the bomb.

He's taking off the bomb.

- That's good.

(dramatic music)

- Dorsie, you take care
of my children for me.

- I will.

- Every single one of them is precious

in the Brave New World.

Alrighty.

- Okay.
- Okay.

- You go on now.
- All right.

- Go on, go on.

- [FBI Agent] The woman has the bomb,

the woman has the bomb.

He's leaving, he's leaving the room.

- Is she hooked up to the switch?

- Is she hooked up to the switch, over?

(ominous music)

(bomb booming)

(Kathi gasping)

(dramatic music)
(women screaming)

- Get out now!
- Get out!

- [Man] Where's that guy from Los Angeles!

(gun firing)

- [Dev] Get down!

Everybody down.

- You're shooting the kids.
- Get down!

- Don't get shot!
- Get back!

(gun firing)

- Get back!
- Get back!

(children screaming)

- [Teacher] Kids, kids come on.

Wendy!

- Get down.
- You're gonna be all right.

- Is anybody hurt.
- Gotta get the kids out.

- Jesus Christ.

- Help.

Help!

Help!

Help me!

- Dorsie!

Get back!
(gun firing)

- Get back!
- Get down.

Get down!

- Help me.
- Dorsie!

Dorsie!

Dorsie, oh my God.

- David.
- Oh baby, I'm sorry.

Dorsie I'm so sorry.
- Help, help.

Help, help.

- [Matt] Let's go, come on, everybody out.

- Bye baby.
(gun firing)

(people screaming)

(guns firing)
- Out the front door!

- I'll take the front door!
- Get the kids out.

Send 'em out the front!

- [Jake] I'll get 'em out the window.

(children screaming)

- [Matt] Don't stop running
til you get to the street,

all right everybody out.

Everybody out, that's
right, you're all right.

That's right, you're all
right, you're all right.

Big kids look out for the little kids.

Everybody out, lets go.

- What's going on.

Sounds like a war.

- I'm gonna get this bastard.

- [Jake] Come on, come on, let's go.

Come on.

- Everybody out, let's go, down the hall.

- [Man] Come on kids.

(people screaming)
(girl crying)

- [Girl] It hurts.

- Get back, get back.

Fire and police only,
come on kids this way.

Come on!

- We got gunshots,
burns, smoke inhalation,

we need every medevac
helicopter you can get.

- [Dispatcher] 10-4.

- Thank you.

- Come on, keep going.

Look after her.

All right, anybody else?

Jake that's it over here.

Do you need any help?

- No, just a couple more.

(dramatic music)

(Jake coughing)

Okay Cody.

Come on, you hit the ground running, sir.

- Tracy!

Have you seen Tracy!

- Anybody else?
- Tracy!

- Anybody else?

(dramatic music)

- [Emma] Cody!

Cody!
- Daddy!

- That's it, come on, come on.

Come on.

- Jake, Jake!

- [Man] Come on, come on, let's go.

- Jake! (crying)

- Jake have you seen my sister?

- Uh no, Cody.

- Pa!
- Wait.

Cody, no, don't go back, kid.

- [Laura] Jake!

(children screaming)
(people coughing)

- [Cody] Tracy, Tracy, where are you?

- [Jake] Cody!

Cody!

- [Jake] Tracy!

Tracy!
- Cody!

Come on, we gotta get out of here.

- Oh, wait, Tracy!
- Come on!

- Oh, all right.

You go that way.

- Okay, Tracy!
- Tracy!

- Tracy, where are you!
- Tracy.

- [Cody] Tracy!

(gun firing)

- Did you get him?
- I don't know.

(bullets clattering)

- [Cody] Tracy!

(dramatic music)

(Cody screaming)

- [Jake] Cody, what is it?

Did you find her.

- Freeze!

You move and I'll blow your damn head off.

- Oh my God.

- Put the gun down.

Put the damn gun down.

- Are you all right?
- Yeah, no thanks to you.

- I saw the gun, and I
don't know what I thought,

I heard gunshots.

- Well that's the heat

from that fire exploding the extra ammo.

- [Cody] Hang on Tracy,
you're gonna be okay.

- Cody!

- [Cody] Hang on!

- [Tom] Cody!

- Easy.
- Tracy.

- Easy, get her to the hospital.

- Her skin.

- She's still breathing.

You're gonna be okay honey.

- [Emma] Tom, Tracy!

How is she.

- I gotta get her to the ambulance.

- [Laura] Oh Jake. (crying)

- It's all right, sh.

It's okay, baby.

It's all right.

It's all over.

- Fourth grade over here.

- Over here.

- [Teacher] Fourth grade's over here.

- We have to check you out.

Parents, bring your kids
over here before they go.

Over here.

(helicopter blades whirring)

- My father?

(sirens wailing)

- I'm sorry.

(Melanie whimpering)
I'm sorry.

The woman's gone too.

I'm so sorry.

(radio chattering)

- How many children?

- None so far.

A teacher got shot and
there's some bad burns

but other than that,

everybody else is pretty
much accounted for.

- How can that be?

- I don't know.

- Excuse me.

We need you to make a
formal identification.

- Oh, Dev, can she do that tomorrow?

- Yeah, sure.

- No.

It's all right.

Where.

- Town hall.

We don't have a morgue.

- [Dispatcher] 10-4.

- Kathi, pretty good day's work.

- Oh, always happy to lend a hand.

- Thank you.
- Thank you, Dev.

(gentle music)

- Yeah.

Could I have a few minutes?

- Sure.

(somber music)

(Melanie crying)

- Goodbye, Daddy.

(somber music)

(birds chirping)

(people chattering)

- [Child] Can't be late.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

- Very late though.
- Already?

(people chattering)

(angelic vocalizing)

- [Miss Micheals] Hello
Tracy, nice to see you.

- [Teacher] Tracy, welcome back.

- No.

I'm scared.

- Tracy, two weeks ago when
you were in the hospital,

there was this sort of doctor.

She said it was okay for us to be scared

as long as we went back into the room.

- No!

- As long as we went back into the room,

saw there was nobody
there and we took it back,

then we wouldn't be afraid.

All the kids did it.

- Did you?

- I was waiting for you.

(angelic vocalizing)

- What are these?

- That's another thing the doctor said.

She said if we went back into the room

and we wrote our names on the floor,

it would be like a sign that we were here

but we were okay now.

You want to do it?

I think I will.

- (laughs) She's gonna be okay.

But what about you?

You've been pretty quiet
the last couple of weeks.

We let you down, we adults?

Should have taken care
of this lunatic sooner.

- I thought about it.

But, I also know sometimes
it's just better to wait.

How come none of us were killed?

- Well the bomb guys say
only half of it went off.

The windows were open, the doors,

let out the force of the blast.

- What's that?

- I'm not sure.

But maybe it's where God stood.

(people chattering)

(angelic vocalizing)

(gentle music)

(Multicom Jingle)