"Looks like my fishing plans just got canceled." "You don't want to be out on a day like today anyway." "So what you doin' out?" "I'm on my way to work." "What do you do?" "I work for the city." "What about you?" "Well, I'm in town helping out a friend." "Oh, well, good luck." "She don't want my help." "Maybe she does and just doesn't know how to ask for it." "Well, she thinks she can do it all by herself." "I keep telling her nobody can, but the girl is stubborn." "She got a lot of sharp edges?" "Any way you try to hold her, you're gonna get hurt." "Let me ask you something." "How do you go about saving somebody who maybe don't want to be saved?" "Hey, you figure that one out, you let me know." "I don't think you have much choice." "No matter how mad you get, you love her." "What are you gonna do, you know?" "now, why does god make you so darn fragile?" "Maybe he could give you a shell like big old turtles." "Yeah, definitely." "That's an ugly sky, man." "Yeah, I've seen a sky like that before... can't quite remember where." "A sky like that makes you think about the big things... life, death, how they get the squiggly line on them cupcakes." "Yeah, definitely, man." "I'll see you later." "Got it!" "Pompeii!" "Poor guy has a crushed thorax." "Little girl has a three-inch section of skull pushed into her brain." "He's scheduled for post tomorrow." "Families want the bodies, henry." "I'll finish tonight." "Tell them tomorrow morning." "Thanks, henry." "When'd you talk to the families?" "Haven't yet." "Thanks for coming in on a saturday." "Bus accident yesterday." "Rear axle failed, sent 22 first-graders and the driver over the embankment onto the hefner parkway." "We've got 3 dead, 14 in the hospital." "And what turned it criminal?" "Recall on the axles." "Owner of the bus company, carver  son, said he did not have any of those recalled parts in his fleet." "Well, signal 30 disagrees." "D.A.'S going after criminal negligence?" "If it was a mistake." "But if the owner of that company put those buses on the road" " knowing those axles were bad..." " homicide." "You want me dead even sooner?" "You said you needed it." "I do." "Shit." "Let me see?" "Got it through without a problem." "I owe you." "Time's up." "Hey, there's no time limit on meetings like this." "Storm's about to hit." "Take care of yourself." "You been working here... a week?" "How'd I piss you off so fast?" "Andy green was my best friend." "At least you remember the name of the guard you killed." "Not like he knew mine." "Well, leon, as far as I'm concerned, you're going straight to hell." "And anything I can do to expedite the transfer is gonna be a real job perk." "Uh-huh, they have to study, ronnie." "Don't make me the bad guy." "Storm's gonna be bad." "Ronnie kept the kids home today." "Frances is limping?" "Mae was supposed to go to a birthday party... kid's mother thinks we're crazy." "Hard to explain gout forecasting." "Frances is the best meteorologist on the planet." "She starts limping, keep the kids near the storm shelter." "Except that one time she had a nail in her foot and you swore it was gonna snow." "Ha, ha, ha, ha." "Driver had a clean record." "Her grandson was on the bus." "Now they're both at mercy." "She may lose her leg." "Little boy has a broken neck." "I hope carver  son never get another good night's sleep in their life." "Henry's gonna get mad at you." "I just borrowed it." "This is the maintenance report the bus company sent in claiming that the axle wasn't subject to recall." "The axle number was changed." "Signed by D.E.T." "Yeah, and it gets worse." "Recall number is 365-227-43h-29." "And... someone filed off the first three digits." "Grace, where are you going?" "!" "You know we're under a tornado warning!" "you see that sky?" "That sky does not look good." "Something hits, this place turns into grand central." "I checked out the bus company." "It's private, been in business 35 years, total of 9 accidents, none fatal till yesterday." "Your house battened down?" "And darleen's in L.A.With her mom." "Been checking supplies and gear." "All's good to go except something's seriously wrong with the batteries in this flashlight." "It's brand-new." "Put them in backwards?" "Don't tell me to calm down!" "Who the hell is in charge in here?" "!" "I am, sir." "Captain kate perry." "I'm looking for my daughter." "Her name is jenny boatwright." "Can you please tell me where she is?" "Yes, sir, I can." "Mr. Boatwright, let's talk in my office." "They said they was gonna release her last night, then this morning, now tomorrow morning." "I don't want anybody messing with her anymore." "We understand, sir." "You understand?" "You don't understand a goddamn thing." "You're right." "I'm sorry." "You're sorry?" "You're sorry my daughter was crushed to death, huh?" "!" "Damn it!" "Huh?" "!" "I want her back!" "I want her back!" "I want her back, goddamn it!" "You got jenny, and I want her back!" "I want her back!" " I want her..." " come on." "Let's get you some coffee and some answers." "Do you always wear a tie when you work in the bays, mr." "Carver?" "We got a mechanic out sick." "So if you don't do it, it doesn't get done, and these machines don't make money sitting in the yard!" "Initials on the recall form..." ""D.E.T."" "Who's that?" "Office manager." "Shit." "L.G., I need a phillips!" "Hey!" "Listen, asshole." "Stop working and get down here and look me in the eye." "Three kids are dead." "Think I give a shit you fall off a ladder?" "Shit." "My dad started this business on a G.I.Loan." "He built it from nothing!" "Didn't make any difference to him if he made a profit!" "First one to put air-conditioning in the buses 'cause he wanted the kids to be comfortable!" "He retired, you took over... been in the black three years in a row." "That rig rolled out of here clean!" "Still not looking me in the eye." "I borrowed this." "Sorry." "Wanted you to have it so it breaks in your office and not mine." "Rhetta!" "Rhetta!" "Help me get them into the refrigerator!" "Come on!" "Shit!" "Go, go, go, go, go!" "Come on." "Mr. Boatwright, I told you to get out of here." "She's downstairs, isn't she?" "On a cold table, alone." "Sir, we're taking care of jenny." "I promise you, all right?" " You need to get out of here." " Please!" "how much money you lose if one of your buses is out of service for a couple days?" "Person you want to talk to is my office manager." "He filed the serial number off the axle." "You can't come in here and pick up my shit!" "What you want to do now, jerry, is let go of my hand." "You got nothing to hide." "Come back to the office with me." "I need something to tell the parents of these kids, man." "You got something to say, you got to talk to my office manager." "Hey!" "Everybody inside!" "Move!" "I'm a cop!" "Get inside!" "Shit!" " Where you going, jerry?" " Anywhere I want." "What are you running from... that picture on the front page this morning?" "The body of that little boy halfway through the front window of the bus?" "You said you'd help." "I still got questions." "Only way you get in your car is to knock me over." "You do that, you're under arrest." "Me or the tornado, shithead ... take your pick." "We've got three confirmed tornadoes between here and downtown." "I've been following this one." "What you got?" "Mostly shook up." "Cuts and abrasions, one compound fracture." "Throw that on him, would ya?" "Owner thinks two people are missing." "I started a triage." "Thanks." "What, you doin' my job?" "Hardly." "I'm A.L.S rated." "Sweet." "Where's the compound fracture?" "Thataway." "Get started on that end and start tagging them." "And hurry." "There's another storm coming." "That guy?" "That guy doesn't leave." "I got it, I got it." "Can I have your attention, please?" "Emergency operations just radioed in." "The funnel's burned a path from south reno almost to the edge of edmond." "This is now callcord drive incident command... making us responsible for assist and rescue within a 10-block radius." "We have got rescue workers, medics, utility workers, hazmat." "Everybody's gonna be checking in here for their assignments, so, uh, let's be ready." "Let me see your right." "Times like this, the biggest source of injury are unnoticed shards of glass, but you're clear." "Can't find grace." "You lost your partner... again." "Last I heard, she went to the crime lab, but she's not there, and rhetta signed out." "She'll show up." "Um, what... where do I go now?" "Go home... with your family." "My family is downstairs in your morgue." "Can I help you clean up?" "Sir, legally, we can't ask you to help." "No, I'm offering." "All right, man." "Come on." "Let's go." "Help with the windows." "Looks like you've been tossed around pretty good by the storm, huh?" "I tell you, god works in mysterious ways, leon." "Where the hell were you?" "On the banks of the gilgit river... in pakistan." "You figure you'd come back in time to watch me killed?" "Wasn't the guard that brought me back." "It was your visitor... the one with the brown paper package all tied up with string." "How long you been seein' him?" " You got some nerve asking me..." " how long, leon?" "Not long." "A couple days?" "Five weeks." "Why is this going on behind my back?" "I needed to be sure." "Let's see it." "The koran?" "Look, earl, it's not you." "It's me." "You giving me the break-up speech?" "The koran... speaks to me." "My ancestors were african muslim, not christian." "They were forced to convert." "In the muslim faith, heaven is a garden, all rich and sweet and lush, with rivers to swim and trees to climb." "A place where you can plant things and make 'em grow." "So, what you're looking for... it's in this book?" "It's not just a book." "It's the word of god." " That so?" " Yeah." "Well, if you want to be muslim, you know what to do." "If this particular faith is more important to you than I am, you just make your declaration... now." "Get ready, cooley!" "He's coming back." "He's gonna kill me." "So who you gonna ask for help... god or allah?" "Hello?" "Anybody in here?" "Give a shout, bang on something." "We'll hear you!" "Medic 801, do you copy?" "This place must be made out of kryptonite." "Owner said there were no kids here." "Good." "You work the murrow building?" "You?" "Yeah." "Hey!" "Anybody?" "!" "Hey, easy, detective." "Easy, detective." "Not gonna find it any quicker if you pull a wall down on top of us." "Shit." "How come the dead guy gets better service than you?" "Hello?" "Charlie's not available right now." "Why, I'm sure he does care about his outstanding balance." "Where are you, sir?" "Bangladesh." "Listen, this is a police emergency." "You need to call the united states." "Oklahoma city, oklahom... hello?" "Asshole hung up on me." "Try to dial out." "We better move." "shit." "How's the hallway look?" "Well, not so much like a hallway anymore, and this door won't budge." "You signed out, too, right?" "We're the last people they are gonna be looking for." "They'll get down here." "After a storm like this, they usually need the morgue." "Jesus, mary, and joseph!" "If I could just... get a call through to the kids..." " a text, an I.M..." " They're safe." "Probably worried about you!" "Safe?" "What's safe?" "That poor baby." "Her mama packed her lunch, put her on a bus, and sent her off to make igloos out of eggshells." "Wait here." "Where am I gonna go?" "I've been, uh, saving these for a special occasion." "Henry, this is hardly the time." "Champagne?" "Where did you get these?" "I won the state coroner's award for excellence... two years running." ""Most promising investigator... 1989"?" "Well, I didn't say I won it last year." "We've arrived at the whacking zone." "Careful what you touch." "Fire department!" "Hello?" "!" "Hello?" "Hold on, we're coming!" " Hello?" " Hello?" "!" "Hello?" "Hi." "Hi." "Hi." " What's your name?" " Dorothy." "Hi, dorothy, I'm randy." "This here's grace." "You in any pain?" "Shit, yeah." "All over." "Can you feel your legs?" "There's something dripping on them." "Move your toes for me." "Good." "Oh, I thought the whole world was gone." "Most of it's still out there." "Oh, it's not been a good week." "Medic on one, do you copy?" "Do you copy?" "If this damage is out near wister and brighton road, maybe some of us should go help out." "Not until we clear downtown." "We're lucky it's saturday, and that place is a ghost town." "There we go." "You're clear." "How you doin'?" "How else can I help out?" "Uh... you're not civilian emergency response team trained, are you?" " No." " So, think about it." "You guys can get hurt with all this crap on the floor." "I mean, I could sweep." "All I need is a broom." "Probably one in that closet." "Who's your new assistant, benny?" "It's cool." "He's cool." "The kind of grief he's going through is unpredictable." "Just be careful." "Divorced, no kids, younger... says he's a pretty good cook." "Does that feel okay?" "Good." "'Cause that's the first time I ever did one of those." "Can I talk to you in my office?" "Got to go help randy." "You know these paramedics always have a question about something." "I'll be right back." "I want to hear more about this blond guy." "Look, she's fine for the moment." "Her vitals are solid." "I don't think she has any crush injuries, but I can't be sure, so I'm gonna get a backboard and equipment." "I'll be back in 10 minutes." "Want me to go?" "It's faster for me." "I know what we need." "Speed isn't everything." "As long as you come back." "I'm coming back." "This is morphine." "If she needs it, put the needle in the infusion cotton." "Slow pressure, watch for a reaction, no more than five milligrams." "Just keep her talking and awake, okay?" "Dorothy, you keep grace company, okay?" "Okay." "Randy, bring me back a bottle of bourbon." "Dorothy, you like bourbon?" "Vodka!" "One bourbon, one vodka... coming up." "Cute and chubby, sexy julio?" "We had two whole bottles of wine the other night." "I don't usually drink that much, honestly." "But it's really getting... what's your last name, dorothy?" "Talbot." "You the office manager?" "Yep." "Middle name?" "Edwina." "Well, shit. "Edwina. "" "That's one you don't hear anymore." "Are you looking for something?" "Force of habit, I guess." " How long you been a cop - 21 years." "So, you and your brother run this place with your dad?" "No, it's carver  son." "I'm an employee." "Dad's old-fashioned." "He thinks a business is something a man passes to his son." "Oh, shit." "How bad's the pain?" "Bad." "Saw your initials on that other piece of paper today." "Recall sheet on the bus those kids died in." "Space where the axle serial number goes, somebody screwed with it, changed it." "You know anything about that?" "What?" "Triple homicide, dorothy." "That why I was here today... to talk to you and your brother jerry." "I" " I don't understand." "What don't you understand?" "The part about the papers or the part about the murdered children?" "I had so many plans... to buy a oat, take a year off, learn how to use it, break one of these against the hull." "Now molly's gone, and I pretty much have only one bright spot left on the horizon." "The prospect of buying another cat?" "No, I already got one... emma." "No, I'm talking about grace." "She has been so understanding, so sympathetic." "Grace has reached out to me in a very special way... on a deeply personal level." " She slept with you." " Yes." "Yes, she did." "Not that there was a lot of sleeping involved." "In fact, I was awake for days." "Now, grace... she slept." "Did you know she snores?" "I never heard those kind of noises come out of a woman." "Well, I'm not sure quite how to react to this." "Oh." "Oh, I shouldn't have told you." "You got to promise me... promise you'll..." "you'll never tell grace I betrayed her trust." "I already knew, henry." "She told you?" "Of course." "You tell each other everything." "Not everything." "We got three people unaccounted for, last seen on the third floor of 308 prospect!" "We're also looking for a detective grace hanadarko and... hello?" "Hello?" "!" "Shit!" "Computers are down again, and cplex is out." " I'm going amateur." " With a ham radio?" "Nice." "Wx5-eo, this is ke5-ns." "Where's boatwright?" "Uh, we sent him home." "This is wx5-eo." "You the one looking for grace hanadarko?" "Yeah, we lost track of her here at callcord command." "She's on the roster for south may command." "They got her doing search and rescue at a bus company." "Fire, emt's on the scene." "At least she's not alone." "Wx5-eo, thanks for the help." "You can see search-and-rescue operations are still going on behind me at this bus garage." "Right now, they're transporting a fireman, a paramedic who was found unconscious in the building." "It's ok, you will be fine" "It's better when I can see you!" "Sorry." "Hope you didn't get the wrong idea just now." "I'm not saying you filed that number off and changed the paperwork all by yourself." "Maybe just you know who did it." "That really hurts." "I think we're stuck in here, dot." "People call you dot?" "Dorothy." "Didn't randy say 10 minutes?" "He might have gotten lost." "You can hear it." "The building settled even more, dorothy." "I don't know if I can make it through, either." "Good thing I was here." "That could have gone on for hours." "Imagine that." "It's okay." " Oh, god." " Be right back." "Always a bird singin' somewhere, grace." "Nice act of god you got going here." "It's not my favorite." "Stay with me." "I can'T." "God kind of likes the one-on-one stuff at times like this." "You got to let go, grace." "Let go." "It's between you and god." "You can probably make it out if you left now." "I'm not leaving her." "Why don't I find comfort in that?" "What?" "Oh, god." "Here." "You don't need some?" "Not anymore." "Stand clear!" "O.C.Fire department!" "Stand clear!" "Thank god!" "You have no idea how badly I have to pee." "I just used a beaker." "Jerry made me make the place work." "You and jerry, but jerry got the name on the sign." "" Son. "" "My daddy was leaving him a tip." "If there's something you want me to know, might be a good time to tell me." "Did your brother know about the bad axle?" "Yes." "Why didn't he just pull the bus out of service and fix it?" "We could lose the contract." "So it was about money." "He said, "we got to keep them rolling." "Nothing's gonna happen, "" "and he'd catch it on the overhaul next month." "So you doctored the paperwork and let that bus out on the road again." "How could you do that?" "All I was thinking was he finally needed me." "Christ, dorothy, what'd you think they were gonna put in those seats... watermelons?" "Oh, god, those babies." "What did I do to those babies?" "!" "Please, just do it." "Please?" "I want you to." "Nobody will know." "That's enough... for now." "Where you goin'?" "See if anyone needs help." "Bullshit." "We got a 20 on grace." "You ask someone about her?" " Yeah." "Perry." " Well, next time, ask me." "You're the one who loses track of his partner all the time." "Well, where's your partner?" "Milwaukee, asshole." "Well, phone service is out, asshole." "She went to interview a suspect without telling you." "You don't know shit about my partner!" "Yeah?" "Know more shit than you do." " Yeah?" " Yeah." "Known her longer than you." "How recently you know her?" "Hey!" "Well, heaven everything you thought it'd be?" "More." "Is it real?" "Realest thing you ever seen." "Can I... heck if I know." "You might want to let this play out." "You might want to get a mop." "Good." "I was afraid this might be filled with silly string." "Go ahead!" "Get out of here!" "What I did to those kids, this is god's punishment." "God's got nothing to do with that!" "That's between you and oklahoma county!" "Dorothy edwina talbot... you're under arrest on three counts of negligent homicide." "If god wants you, he's gonna have to go through me first." "Don't worry." "We'll be okay as long as the tornado doesn't know your name's dorothy!" " Forgive me." " What?" "!" "Forgive me." "Shut your eyes." "Lot of crap flying around." "You can't have her!" "She's mine, you son of a bitch!" "Still want to make that declaration?" "Yeah." "Well, then do what's in your heart." "You mess with me, but I'm gonna miss you." "Kind of you to say." "Goodbye, earl." "Au revoir, leon cooley." "I bear witness that there is no god but god." "I bear witness that mohammed is the messenger of god." "Assalamu alaikum." "Wa alaikum assalam." "I thought you'd be gone." "Doesn't work like that." "But aren't you christian?" "Humans." "Why you always get so caught up in which road to take?" "They all lead to the same place." "You're still my angel?" "It's kind of like when you move, your phone number moves with you." " No, it wouldn'T." " Well, same thing, really." "You got to learn to be kind to people." "Make amends for what you done." " But what about..." " yeah, sure, you got to pray on a clean surface five times a day, but, uh, facing mecca... now, who told you that was the direction of the kaaba?" "The man who gave me my koran... my imam." "Who you gonna believe... him or me?" "For goodness sake, leon, I was there like a half hour ago." "You... you need to turn it a little more." "Earl, you don't want to just go touching a man's prayer mat." "Well, I know what direction to put it in." "That's north, though, isn't it?" "I..." "leon." "Thank you." "You're still under arrest." "I know." "Hey, joel." "You asked for it." "I never thought I'd be glad to see another funnel." "This is the more forgiving kind." "Hey." "No way." "On the house." "Man, you opened the bar for us." "You've been giving me drinks for weeks." "Only 'cause you keep giving me smiles." "there she is... grace hanadarko, one-woman police force." "She works the case, makes the arrests, stares down tornadoes." "Doesn't tell her partner where she's going." "What kind of shit is that?" "Me being a dumbass." "Jake, let's talk tequila." "I got pissed off." "I left." "I wasn't thinking." "I'm sorry." "You want to work alone?" "No, ham." "Today, when I got trapped," "I was thinking if you were with me, you wouldn't have let me go in the building." "You'd have gone anyway." "Yeah, but you'd have come with me." "You had duke, eddie, chris, and snake." "Four partners in six years." "Bunch of pussies." "Yeah." "Well, aside from a few momentary lapses, you guys kicked some stupid ass today." "Tornado, boatwright..." "I'm real proud of you guys." "Grace, whatever you did out there at carver  son," "I know you were a credit to the department." "So I'm here to buy y'all a drink, or two or three or four." " Oh, hell no!" " Drinks on us, coach." "Finally my baby is working again!" "What the hell happened to you guys?" "Maybe the storm messed up butch, but me..." "I'm fine." "Oh, i got messed up." "I got messed up." "Come on." "Any word on randy?" "Yeah, your paramedic is conscious." "He's fine." "You can see him in a few hours, but dorothy talbot's dead." "City bus t-boned her ambulance on the way to the hospital." "Lights were out." "Everyone survived but her." "What you doin'?" "Her middle name was edwina." " Sorry about the way this turned out." " Shut up." "Excuse me?" "I said shut your goddamn mouth." "I'm tired." "I can't listen to you anymore." "I just wanted to get her out of there." "So you could send her to jail?" "Yes." "No." "All I wanted to do was save her." "You did." "She's dead." "You just don't get it, do you, child?"