The Rig Page #3

He never made it that far.

Meet me in my office.

Hello.

- Hey, Colin, it's me.

- Hey.

Hey.

I just wanted to make sure

you got to the operations center okay.

Yeah, I'm fine.

I thought about

what you said earlier and...

do you really want

off the rig?

Yeah, I'm gonna talk to Mr. Fleming

about it in a few minutes.

All right.

For what it's worth,

I'm sorry that things didn't

work out the way we'd hoped.

If you really want to do this

I guess I understand.

Colin, you're my

little brother, okay?

You're my responsibility.

If I was driving you nuts...

...it's just because

I love you.

Freddy?

Colin?

Colin, are you there?

God damn it.

- Copy?

- I've got nothing over here.

Man, nothing over here too.

We lost comms.

Well, we knew that was a possibility.

No need to panic.

- Famous last words.

- You pansy.

All right, well, I'm gonna go check

the eco report from the new satellite.

So if anything else comes up,

you guys let me know.

Will do.

Have a seat.

We lost contact

with the mainland.

So we're not gonna be able get any help

looking for Earl

untiI after the storm passes.

I want you to take a look

at this.

What is it?

It's a letter I had to send

to the family of a good man

I lost nine years ago.

You ever have to send

a letter like that?

You ever met

Earl's wife Jeannie?

A hell of a woman.

He's got a daughter Sophia.

She's 12 years old,

a beautiful child,

smart as a whip.

What do you want me to say?

I want you to understand

that when you lead people

in a place like this

that your actions and decisions

can have long-ranging repercussions

that can affect the lives of people

you never even met before.

Now we've got rules and protocol

for a reason.

And when you break 'em,

I gotta write letters like this

to little girls who are gonna

grow up without a daddy.

You need to start taking

responsibility seriously, son.

Now go on,

get the hell out of my office.

- Oh.

- Yeah.

Thanks, man.

Oh, that's wonderful.

Mm-hmm.

And I can open

a freaking window in here.

I know. Smells like kangaroo pouch.

It's pretty bad.

It's about to get worse too.

Aren't you a bit old

to be reading comic books?

You know what? First off,

they're not comic books, okay?

Pay attention. These are graphic

novels. They're a little different.

And no, I'm not.

I'll be back in five.

Hey, take your time, man.

You don't want to rush with that.

Come in.

Hey.

I don't think your father

likes me very much.

Yeah, I know he can be

a little direct.

Yeah.

You find out what happened

to that camera?

No.

Everything turn out all right

with the eco report?

Yeah, we're clean.

It's just...

I don't know, these readings

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