Frequency Page #2

FIRE COMMANDER O'CONNELL and a CON ED SUPERVISOR approach.

BUTCH:

(deep irony)

A fun one.

FRANK:

Yep.

COMMANDER:

We got high voltage cables ripped loose

in the underground. They hit water, that

fault's gonna arc.

Frank looks at the tanker over the manhole. There is now

nobody around it.

FRANK:

Why haven't they killed the juice?

SUPERVISOR:

Switches are shorted out.

FRANK:

You're shitting me!

SUPERVISOR:

Wish I was. Oldest part of the system

down there. We're on it, but it's gonna

take awhile.

FRANK:

We gotta go underground. Get those guys

out, now.

SUPERVISOR:

We tried. Bulkhead door's rusted shut.

Won't budge.

COMMANDER:

The block is being evacuated. I don't

want anybody... including our

boys...within fifty yards of that

tanker...it's a f***ing bomb.

Frank has been staring at the capsized rig.

Butch knows what he's thinking. But it's too late. Frank is

gone...slogging through the oozing oil to the hull of the

tanker. He kneels over the three-quarters covered manhole,

using a flashlight to peer into the darkness below. Sparks

from the loose cables spit off flashes of light as the cables

hiss and slap against the ceiling and walls of the vault.

FRANK:

This is the Fire Department. Frank

Sullivan. You guys okay?

CON ED WORKER #1'S VOICE

Please man, you gotta get us out of

here...

FRANK:

That's exactly what we're gonna do.

And Frank is up, heading for his truck, signaling Gibson.

FRANK (CONT'D)

(yells to Con Ed Supervisor)

How do we get to the vault door?

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