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Dark Storm (2006) is a sci-fi disaster TV movie where a disgraced scientist, Daniel Gray, survives an accident with a weaponized "Eruptor" device that harnesses dark matter
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00:30Tower 1, Safety Diagnostic complete. Tower 2, Safety Diagnostic commencing.
00:39Dr. McKay, I didn't know you were going to be here today.
00:43How's the collection going?
00:45We set a new record yesterday. We held a stable particle for 12.8 seconds.
00:50That's not long enough for an extraction.
00:53I know, we all know, but it's still an achievement based on our timeline.
00:5725 seconds for an extraction. 25 seconds, no less.
01:00It's possible the dark matter could ionize our containment field if we hold it too long.
01:04I designed that field for an extraction, and an extraction is what we're going to get.
01:09The test will go off tomorrow as planned.
01:12I'll expect the results in my office in Washington.
01:29Let's commence extraction sequence.
01:32Seek the system's online. We're good to go.
01:34Extraction sequence commencing.
01:48Containment towers activated.
01:5110 seconds.
01:5615 seconds.
01:58This could be our lucky day.
02:0620 seconds.
02:07Come on, then. Hold.
02:1025 seconds.
02:12That's it.
02:13Power level at 100%.
02:14We'll go for extraction.
02:2245 seconds and still holding.
02:25It's working.
02:27It's working.
02:27It's working.
02:42What the hell is that?
02:49Shut it down.
02:51Shut it down!
02:57This hammer seal is blasting!
02:59Evacuate the site!
03:01Evacuate the site!
03:02No!
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07:15SAM, WHAT'S GOING ON?
07:16I-I DON'T KNOW.
07:18OUR SATELLITE PATH IN ORBIT JUST HAD A SMALL ROTATIONAL SHIFT.
07:21MAYBE THERE WAS AN IMPACT FROM ORBITAL DEBRIS.
07:24DEJECTORY LOOKS FINE.
07:25HOLD ON.
07:27ANDY?
07:28WHY IS CONTAINMENT PRESSURE AT 99.6?
07:31CAN'T BE.
07:31GOTTA BE A GLITCH.
07:32WELL, I PICKED HER WRONG DAY TO GLITCH.
07:34IS IT A RIGHT DAY FOR A GLITCH?
07:36POWER'S AT 99.4% AND DROPPING.
07:39I DON'T SEE HOW THIS COULD BE CAUSED BY DEBRIS.
07:42I THINK THE DAMAGE WOULD BE FAR MORE EXTENSIVE.
07:43LET'S CHECK THE RADAR.
07:45SEE IF ANY ORBITAL DEBRIS GOT PAST OUR SENSORS.
07:47I'M ONE STEP AHEAD OF YOU.
07:49IS THERE A PROBLEM HERE?
07:50WE GOT A GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM.
07:53EIGHT YEARS OF IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLING, THE BEST YOU CAN TELL ME IS WE GOT A GLITCH?
07:57WE HAVE A LEVEL 2 SMOVE DIP IN CONTAINMENT PRESSURE.
08:01HOW SLIGHT?
08:01LESS THAN 1%.
08:02BACKUP SYSTEMS HAVEN'T KICKED IN YET.
08:04GENERAL KILLIAN IS GOING TO BE HERE IN LESS THAN 20 MINUTES.
08:08KILLIAN OR NOT, THIS THING GOES BELOW 90% AND WE CAN'T GO.
08:12WHAT DO YOU THINK, DELAY?
08:17DANIEL, THERE IS NO DELAY.
08:18IF WE SO MUCH AS BELCH, THEY SHUT DOWN OUR DEMONSTRATION.
08:21THEN KILLIAN SHUT DOWN OUR FUNDING.
08:23AND THAT MEANS SIX YEARS OF HARD WORK GOES DOWN THE DRAIN.
08:26NOT TO MENTION OUR CAREERS.
08:28SO I SUGGEST YOU FIX YOUR GLITCH.
08:30YOU GOT A LITTLE CHAPANY.
08:57The General's arriving early.
09:00The General always does.
09:02Keep us operational, Daniel.
09:05We've all worked too hard to screw the pooch now.
09:09Daniel, power's stabilized at 99%.
09:11I still don't like it.
09:13All right, listen up, gang. Here's what we're gonna do.
09:15We're gonna reboot the security processor and run a full diagnostic.
09:19Sure, it's not like we got some big demonstration to give today.
09:33General Killian, it's good to see you, sir.
09:35You know what I'm in the mood for today, McCray?
09:38I'm in the mood to be dazzled or wowed.
09:41Excuse me, General?
09:43No excuses.
09:45My black budget's being squeezed tighter than a mouse in an anthill.
09:49The President said to me, if it doesn't dazzle you or wow you, cut it.
10:04You care to take a seat, General?
10:06I'll stand.
10:11Tell me we're good to go.
10:14How's that diagnostic coming?
10:16Almost there.
10:18You know, Sever, we really oughta just wait.
10:20If the power's stable up there and everything's fine down here, then we're good to go.
10:23We can't just bypass the safety systems.
10:26Turn off that damn warning.
10:29Yes, sir.
10:41Let's put on a demonstration.
10:47Dark matter, General.
10:49Indestructible subatomic particles that make up the mass of more than 90% of the universe.
10:53Yet in order to be collected, it has to exist in what we call a free state.
10:57Six years ago, the Himley experiment taught us many things, particularly that dark matter should only be collected in space.
11:05Today, we're conducting a test with the Eruptor, the world's first dark matter amplification system.
11:11The target?
11:13Claw Valley Nuclear Facility.
11:15Get that eyesore off my Superfund cleanup list and your Eruptor will pay for itself.
11:20My pleasure, sir.
11:22Daniel, will you do the honors?
11:24All right.
11:57The Odyssey Force satellite locks on target by adjusting the dark matter deflector.
12:02At the same time, the Eruptor amplification system has locked onto our satellite.
12:13Target acquired.
12:16Commence firing sequence.
12:22Firing sequence initialized.
12:27Countdown commencing.
12:29Four, three, two...
12:33Firing systems disengaged.
12:40Is there a problem?
12:41No, sir.
12:42We're just, uh...
12:44The bypass is locking the transmission system.
12:46It's not accepting the override.
12:47Do it manually.
12:58I'll see what I can do.
13:01Keep us at full power, Andy.
13:06Yeah.
13:06Never.
13:12It's on.
13:13It's on.
13:14I need never.
13:17It's on.
13:19It's on.
13:28The bypass is on.
13:30I need never.
13:31It's on.
13:34It's on.
13:36I can't do it.
14:10The target absorbs the concentrated dark matter and dissolves in seconds.
14:15Formless with no residue, the dark matter returns to the subatomic makeup of our universe.
14:22Target eliminated.
14:24Trace radiation, 0.4%.
14:26It worked.
14:32Son of a gun.
14:44Son of a gun.
14:45Son of a gun.
14:50Oh, my God.
15:40Oh, my God.
15:44Excellent work.
15:46Of course, we'll have a team of outside analysts verify the results, but for now, let's just say congratulations.
15:52We were all hoping you'd say wow.
15:55Well, I'm impressed.
15:56That's a heck of a down payment on wow.
16:01You've, uh, demonstrated some non-standard military applications.
16:06What else do you have up your sleeve?
16:08Patience, General.
16:10Now that dark matter is controllable, I assure you the possibilities are beyond anything we've ever seen.
16:17Good luck.
16:30What did you have to do down there? Kick the tires?
16:33Something like that, yeah.
16:35Thanks, Daniel. I owe you.
16:38Are you all right?
16:41We really should figure out why containment's at 99%.
16:44That's 99% and holding.
16:47Let's deal with it later.
16:49It's excellent work today, people.
16:51We're on our way to making history.
16:57So, uh, how'd you fix it?
17:03I don't know.
17:04When I got down there, the core had ejected itself.
17:07The insertion tube must have malfunctioned.
17:11Why?
17:13I know. It's weird.
17:16You okay?
17:18When I tried to reinsert the core, it shocked me.
17:23It knocked me right off my feet.
17:24A shock?
17:26Well, I'll go take a look at it right away.
17:29Yeah.
17:33Hey, you want to play some hoops this weekend?
17:35I'll call you.
17:38I'll call you.
17:39I'll call you.
18:11I'll call you.
18:12I'll call you.
18:15I'll call you.
18:16I'll call you.
18:17Come on.
19:14Hey, sleepyhead.
19:16Hey, I must have passed out.
19:19Another hard day at the office?
19:20Oh, wait, don't tell me.
19:22Same old, same old, right?
19:26Same old dog and pony, yeah.
19:30How about you?
19:31Two car accidents, a shooting, the usual.
19:34Did you get my note about dinner?
19:36Oh, yeah.
19:38Pizza.
19:40Oh, the joys of being married to a genius.
19:43Sometimes they just don't have enough space in their brains
19:45to remember the small things.
19:47Yeah, I know.
19:48But I love you.
19:52I love you, too.
19:54Now, order some pizza.
20:10You always ask women to meet you in empty parking lots, Dr. McCray?
20:13It's an old habit.
20:15We could always reschedule for the White House long.
20:18What's the status?
20:19You can tell your employers that I'll be contacting them shortly.
20:23In the meantime, take this.
20:27Account numbers.
20:30Planning on taking a long vacation?
20:32No.
20:33No.
20:33My work has only just begun.
20:37I'm not gonna find a long vacation.
20:41No.
20:42No.
20:44No.
20:57No, no.
21:00No.
21:02Really?
21:03No.
21:05No.
21:05No.
21:05to the neighborhood. Stanford, Sentry 55, nice to be here.
21:09We're pulling a late one. Sentry 55, Stanford Center, affirmative.
21:13Maintain flight level 370, come left 280, maintain
21:17.78 for traffic. 55, maintaining 370,
21:22left 280. Have a great weekend.
21:33Stanford Center, Sentry 55,
21:36we are experiencing a minor electrical malfunction, possibly a lightning strike.
21:40Sentry 55, Stanford Center, we have no storms
21:44recorded in the vicinity.
21:48Stanford Center, I just lost half my instruments.
21:51Either we've had a lightning strike or we just got a serious EM burst.
21:54Sentry 55, Stanford Center, we have a low level of storm.
21:58You'll put it forward.
22:01Stanford, I'm losing you, come in. Stanford.
22:09Do we have a serious problem?
22:11.
22:14.
22:16.
22:21Meeting! Meeting!
22:24Meeting!
22:27Stop!
22:47Tuck, tuck, tuck, tuck!
22:58Ah!
23:00No, no, no, no!
23:01Give me a minute!
23:06Pfff...
23:21What the...
23:22What the...
23:39You're up early.
23:42Do you need some help here?
23:50Uh, Dandy, do you want to take it?
23:54Yeah.
23:58Go ahead.
23:59Hey, uh, sorry to interrupt your weekend.
24:02Killian just called an emergency meeting.
24:04It's about the Odyssey satellite.
24:06I'm on my way.
24:08What's going on?
24:10I have to go to work.
24:11Well, what else is new?
24:13I'll see ya.
24:17I have to go.
24:29It needs to stay.
24:30Come on.
24:34And in Seattle, things are slowly returning to normal today after a freak electrical storm caused power outages in several
24:42neighborhoods.
24:42The storm arrived with high winds downing trees and causing extensive damage at the local high school.
24:49In other news today, overnight unusual temperatures dropped below freezing, bursting several city water pipes.
25:18Gentlemen, early this morning we lost a surveillance plane over the Pacific.
25:22What do you mean, lost?
25:24At 0600, Mission Control received a distress call from the pilot.
25:27He reported an unexplained phenomenon, and then the surveillance plane vanished.
25:35We've sent out a search team, but so far they haven't found a thing.
25:38Sir, I know what you're thinking, but it's impossible.
25:42Dr. McRae, our planes don't just disappear.
25:48The Odyssey 4 satellite is directly above the area in question.
25:53If you'll give us a few minutes, sir, I'm sure we'll come up with some solid answers.
25:57Sammy, give me a visual on Odyssey.
25:59Already on it.
26:00We have a satellite in the neighborhood, so we should have a feed in a minute.
26:05Give me your status, Andy.
26:09We have a problem.
26:10Odyssey has a major core breach.
26:12Containment is at 76%.
26:16Are you telling me that my $600 million satellite is broken?
26:19We have a feed coming through right now.
26:35Oh, my God.
26:38What the hell's going on up there?
26:45I've never seen that much dark matter in one place.
26:47That cloud is way too big to be caused by a core breach.
26:51Sammy, run a gamma filter and then turn up the background.
26:54Got it.
27:01See how all those little pools of dark matter are starting to gravitate towards our cloud?
27:08If you get a big enough cloud of unshielded dark matter altogether, it starts to act like a magnet.
27:14I'm telling you, sir, that cloud's going to get bigger.
27:20What does this have to do with my missing plane?
27:22Nothing.
27:22The cloud isn't dangerous.
27:25Only a ruptor can concentrate a charged dark matter.
27:28Theoretically, we haven't had enough time to analyze the data.
27:31The truth is, if the cloud becomes big enough, it could interact with the Earth's electromagnetic field.
27:37Dr. Gray, you are venturing into total conjecture here.
27:41Am I, Doctor?
27:44Three years ago, General, we ran some simulations to see what might happen if there was a complete and total
27:50satellite breach.
27:52If you look at the screen here, you'll see this shield around the planet.
27:55That's a geomagnetic field.
27:58You see how the cloud is being absorbed?
28:01And then look here.
28:02That spike, General.
28:05We call these spikes dark matter storms.
28:08They're very brief but extremely powerful.
28:10Sir, I believe it's what's responsible for your missing plane.
28:12But this has never happened before, so in my estimation, it's an unknown.
28:17You're wrong, Doctor, and I believe it's highly probable.
28:20General, we understand the severity of the situation.
28:23I don't think you do understand, Dr. McRae.
28:25I'm not interested in half-baked cloud theories or electromagnetic fields.
28:29I'm interested in facts.
28:32We have lost one plane and one entire flight crew.
28:36We have one broken satellite directly above their last location with the power to wipe them off the map.
28:42Odyssey 4 is the only answer to this mess.
28:45Sir, I don't have to remind you we have some of the brightest minds in science in this room.
28:49The United States government is officially closing down this project.
28:53I want this travesty to disappear.
28:57What about Odyssey?
28:58Consider your satellite retired. Destroy it now.
29:02You can't do this.
29:04Pray that's the only thing I retire today.
29:16You heard the order. Type in the self-destruct sequence.
29:20You can't just blow up Odyssey 7.
29:22It'll release more dark matter and make this whole thing even worse.
29:25It's not your call.
29:26You can't do this.
29:31Think it through.
29:55It's over.
30:05This is not over.
30:06If that cloud continues to be charged by the Earth's electromagnetic field...
30:10Then the Earth is acting like a giant eruptor.
30:15Look, even if we can prove this incredibly scary theory of ours, how do we stop it?
30:19We can't destroy dark matter.
30:22But what if we could scatter...
30:23I'm not following you. The satellite was just destroyed.
30:27We don't need a satellite.
30:28We're not trying to send a beam back to the Earth.
30:31Andy, tell me what you think of this.
30:33What if we were to positively charge the core of the eruptor,
30:36then fire that beam right through the center of this thing?
30:39That might scatter the negatively charged cloud.
30:44We're gonna have to create a completely new threat test.
30:46We gotta do it quickly.
30:56How are we gonna do all this with the project being shut down?
30:59Just have to show one simulation to General Killian.
31:02Hopefully that'll be enough to show him that this place needs to remain operational.
31:10You okay, Doc?
31:11I'm just a little tired, that's all.
31:17Gentlemen, we have orders to lock down this facility.
31:20You'll both have to leave.
31:22We will as soon as we're done with our work here.
31:24I'm sorry, sir. This is effective immediately.
31:28Sir, all government property must remain on the premises.
31:32It's very important that we leave here with this data.
31:35We're surveying contractors, right?
31:36Sir, you can't leave with that.
31:39Sir, put down the folder now.
31:47This is ridiculous.
31:59Okay, that was not a fluke.
32:01I don't know how, but you definitely did that.
32:04What's going on?
32:05I'll explain later.
32:07Where are we going?
32:08We have to go back to my home office.
32:10I have some backup files there so we can run some simulations.
32:13But we need our lady's dad to do any kind of simulation.
32:16Andy, please.
32:16We gotta go.
32:44We gotta go.
32:52Daniel!
33:08It's me.
33:10We need to step up the timetable.
33:12I want it done tonight.
33:17夾!
33:19Woo!
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