Mad City Page #3

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This is not news, brothers.

Stories like this happen every day.

What we have here is news | for all time in the word of God.

Out of there! Back up! | There's an armed man inside!

Franklin, Johnson, I want those people | off the steps now!

What happened?

Sir, can you tell me who shot you? | How do you feel?

Sir, can you tell us who shot you? | Are you all right?

Can you tell us who shot you? | One man? Two men?

There's the chief!

Chief Lemke, | do you have any plans yet?

- Any statement? | - What are you going to do?

the victim is Clifford Williams...

... a security guard at the museum.

Mom! It's Dad.

- In front of the museum.

Flooding has claimed four lives. | Coming up...

...an unexpected role for pigeons | in New York at the United Nations.

We'll have that story when we return.

We're back in two.

I heard you talking | during the broadcast. What's up?

Hostage situation.

- Who's feeding us this? | - Our affiliate in Madeline.

Guess who the reporter | in the museum is. Max Brackett.

I knew that bastard | would pop up again.

Here's the tease you use | at the top of the hour.

I'm not sharing a broadcast with him.

Say, "The situation's unfolding. | Tune in tonight for an update."

I'm not teasing a story | I know nothing about.

I promise a story, it evaporates. | How does that make me look?

- It comes from above. | - We're back in 30.

- Foolishness because somebody thinks | this is a good lead-in.

- Back in 20. | - With Brackett, it won't evaporate.

Kevin, it's a guy getting shot, | bunch of kids taken hostage.

It's good television. | And no other net has it.

He can't be trusted. I'm not going | on the air with that crazy man.

- Kind of before the beginning of time. | - Five, and...

I wanna find out how Brackett got | there and what the hell he's doing.

to use firepower...

It was an accident, moron.

- Boys. | - It's broken.

I just want my job back.

Now look at this. Look at this!

Look. I'm never gonna | get my job back now.

Everybody knows who I am, | where I...

Everyone knows where I am | because of you.

- No, because you shot someone. | - Shut up, newsboy.

Did you do this | to get your job back?

What do you think?

That's for you.

If you make contact...

...tell them everyone is okay. | You'll buy yourself time.

I'll tell them they better back off | because I will shoot someone.

I'll throw your body | out the front door.

- I wouldn't do that. | - Why not?

That'll make them jumpy. They might | do something we'll all regret.

Remember that hostage situation | in Torrance years ago?

- Car dealership. | - Four people died. One was the gunman.

- Shut up! | - I was there. I covered that story.

- Hello? | - This is Chief Alvin Lemke.

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