Eruption: LA Page #4

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It's way more interesting

than listening

to PR people to come up

with brilliant ideas

on how to reinvent our brand.

[Irwin] You know, it sounds

like you need a permanent

vacation from Tinsel town.

You can help me write

my latest book.

It's all about... Oh, oh,

better not say too much.

There's a dirty bird

in the back with big ears.

[Josh]

I'm not hiding, I'm right here.

And birds don't have big ears.

[Kat]

Ha-ha, actually, they do.

They're just hidden

under their feathers.

[Irwin] Hey, stick with us, kid.

We'll teach you a thing or two

before the day is done.

[exhales]

[Kat] Please don't tell me

Number Eight's gonna hurl.

Hey, kid, you gonna hurl?

[grunts]

He's not gonna hurl.

So, what's got you

all edgy today?

That tremblor this morning?

It's called

a blind thrust quake.

It's when the shift

happens underground

with no visible sign

on the Earth's crust.

I've never seen one

that small, though.

So, they're usually bigger?

Hey, Number Eight,

are they usually bigger?

Uh, yeah, blind thrust quakes

are what they usually

make movies about.

Uh, this could be worse

than I imagined, though.

If my theory...

Hey, Number Eight,

you've read my books, right?

- My name's Josh.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's my theory?

- Which one?

- "Wh-which one?"

The Newport-Inglewood

Fault Subduction Zone.

The leakage, the jump.

Yeah, that, uh, that's what

I wrote about

in Lava Angeles.

You-you?

You wrote that piece of crap?

Holy mother of pearl,

they really scraped

the bottom of the bowl

with you, didn't they?

I mean-I mean,

you steal my research,

and then they hire you,

and they stick you

with me, those sh*t...

Hey! It's not my fault

how it turns out.

- I'm just the writer.

- "I'm just the writer."

[Irwin]

Sheesh!

[rumbling]

[Kat]

What's all that noise?

It sounds like there's something

going on down there.

- Where?

- [Kat] I can't tell.

Right there.

What the hell is that?

[rumbling]

Oh, no.

No.

- Another earthquake?

- No.

No, it's not.

[Irwin]

That's the first stage

of what's gonna be an eruption.

Damn it, I hate it

when I'm correct!

[explosions]

They're gonna have

to clear out the park.

They're gonna have to clear

the whole damn city.

Hold on.

[distant explosion]

- What was that?

- Hold on.

[intense music]

Is that an explosion?

[Jones]

I think it's an eruption.

Oh.

Hold on!

Hang tight!

[alarm beeping rapidly]

- We're going down!

- Ah!

[grunts]

[grunts]

[heavy breathing]

- Come on, Kat.

- Can't... pull...

- Come on!

- ...up!

[Irwin]

Yeah, yes.

[heavy breathing]

Good work.

We're gonna have to set

this thing down.

Yeah, well,

not over there, we're not.

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