"The fourth year of 24 begins with a huge event, as always, and this year the huge event is a train crash." "We had to do it in pieces, and you never see the train derailing, but you do see the aftermath, which is behind me here." "We've had three directors." "I'm doing all the first unit at the train wreck." "Tim Iacofano's actually doing the train hitting the truck bomb, which happens another night." "It'll be a massive explosion." "Joseph Hodges shot all the train aftermath with the reporters and firemen and all of that, so between the three of us we're gonna create this train crash." " Can I have the fireman, please?" " Let's shoot." "Let's ask him what he had for breakfast, if you wanna play the train crash." "Here." "I wanna be here." "Guys, we are setting up a video shot of you and you're in the sun." " Can we shoot right now?" " We're about to." "This is a closed set." "I want you to do a bit of this." "I'll go and check on Jay." "Show me your hands and catch the one hand with another." "Just make it very inky." "From the outside." "Outside, yes." "OK, now you can wipe your hands over your legs." "Legs, legs, legs." "I'll come in and do the tight stuff afterwards, but for this wide, this will all be background," " so don't worry about it." " OK." "I'm shooting video." "We're doing the aftermath of this crash." "We show some of the injured people and the police interviewing the eyewitnesses." "It's just all for news footage." "This will be on a television in the background in a living room." "Is he in now?" "Oh, sorry." "Wrong camera." "Guys, don't go crazy." "She's a reporter on this video." " It's a TV in the background." " OK, OK." "Guys, can you move 6 feet down that way?" "I can see sparks coming out from the back of her head." "If they move the camera around a bit..." "She had sparks coming out the back of her head." "You can even just go..." "and just push the zoom a bit." "That'll look cool." "We'll do one more rehearsal." "Rock the train, please." "Action." "This is poor man's process, making motion with the shadows and the lights." "Simulate the train moving." "Poor man's process is taking a vehicle while it's stationary and shaking it, so it's simulating that it's moving." "It's easier on a car than it is a train." " Did you feel that movement?" " She waited for sound effects." "Let's work this one out a little bit." "I'd like to see three of them go down and she can't." "Would that be cool?" "Can you do that?" "Let's start again." "All right, it's fine." "Come on." "Stop watering the field." "Let's go." "I'm sorry." "No, don't touch me." "When the ambulance goes, I wanna see that." "This is beautiful." "Rescue workers are working desperately..." "It would have been nice to shoot all of it when the sun is setting so it feels more like the sun was rising, but we have to clear up and Jon is now gonna come with the first unit and shoot the actual story stuff." "The important stuff." " How'd it go?" " Lots of good stuff." "CTU screens all year." " An hour's worth of footage." " That's great." " B mark." " Coffee cup down." "Three, two." "Three, two, one." "Go!" "Up!" "And forward." "Cut." "Were you trying to time your coffee cup?" "Cos I gotta get that right." "OK." "OK, then." "I was waiting for you to put it down, but I'll just count." "OK." "That worked well." "That worked great." "That looked really good." " The bar's open." " There's a bar back here." " There's no adults here." " He's got the bow tie on." "Reverse frat party, tonight in the train." "Night's the way to go." "Night's harder to shoot, but it looks better." " You've got nuts there." " I do." " Do we know where we're going?" " Right turn." "Right turn." "This is in the foreground." "You don't see the train wreck yet." "You see the guy on the bike, then as he goes that way you go..." "All right?" "And reveal the whole thing." "This angle's fine." "Don't worry about it." "Let's just shoot it." "What's happening right now is all the night work, and it's the aftermath." "A character comes in on a motorcycle, finds another character, and steals what is gonna be a very important part of this year, this case with computer components." "I just got in a fight with somebody and there was a slight altercation." " It's OK." " If you think I'm bad, wait till you see the guy." "I don't wanna press charges." "They slathered some goop on me." "I'm not sure what it was." "It was in a clear bottle." "Then they threw this red stuff on me, and she crushed up real glass and stuck it on my arm." "I've got it here on my forehead and in my hair, and then they got a nice piece right there." "You've got the one line, but it never really stops." " That's what I figured." " You keep it going." "Even when he's leaving, "Please, don't leave me!" "Don't leave me!" I mean, go for it." " Do you want him to come into it?" " Absolutely." "He's gotta fall into it." "On "action", our stunt double Brian will fall down out of the doorway and then Jon will yell, "Switch!"" "Brian will get up, run out of frame." "Jeff will run in." "He'll take the same place that Brian landed, then Jon will yell, "Action!" for a second time." "Jeff will then stagger over, crawling, staggering, crawling, staggering, and land with his head about where the fruit is." "He won't shoot you right away." "I wanna see who you are." "I wanna see you struggling with the gun, OK?" "And same thing." "I'm gonna let you beg before he..." "He's shooting you way too early." "OK." "We kill people really artistically." "We do it in a way that the camera's not set on the person shooting or the person dying." "The camera's moving." "It gets there just a little late." "It almost feels like you were really watching something that really happened, almost like somebody with a video camera behind a tree watching it happen." "It always feels more real to me than most shows." "Background!" "Action." "Help me!" "Where are you going?" "You know what?" "It's like a disco in there." "Look at them." "It's too much." " All right." "David..." " Let's cut." "That was..." "Is that what it was supposed to do or...?" "Oh, really?" "It goes out long?" " Depends on how long a piece I put in there." " OK." " I want you in hysteria off the top." " Got it." "You got a train sitting on top of you." "OK?" "Go for it." " Jon." " Excuse me." "What?" "Can you just come and talk to Jeff real quick and let him know what we'd like him to do?" "Everything you did before." "Everything we've done for the last 17 days you're doing again." "I told you to be here like this, as if you just walked here for the first time." "You walk here, you sit here." "You look at him." "When you hear him, you turn right into your lens." "That's the shot." "I need..." "He was lying there the whole time." "He just got up." "Bang, bang, bang, bang, and then boom." "Look at me." "You're gonna turn to your right." " Here we go." " All right, lock it up, please, and roll sound." "A mark." "Action." "That's better." "It's not a disco train." "No!" "Cut." "Good job all around." "Tighten your lenses." "Let's go." "So, he's gonna start way down." "So, Matty starts way back." "Keep going." "Keep going." "We're just doing an overlap explosion of what we're gonna do next Tuesday when we actually hit the train into a truck that will be breaching the tracks." "Tonight the fireball will be about the same as it's gonna be Tuesday, probably about the same size as this tree here." "It's gas raising up as it's on fire, creates your fireball, and in about a second and a half, it's over." "Ow." "The dangers of filmmaking." "We're getting within a few minutes of firing this thing up, so we should clear everyone away from the train cars that are on the tracks." " Cut." "You OK?" " Yeah." "He went down pretty soft, actually." "Could he go just a tad slower?" "This guy's just a race-motorcycler guy." "He's just, like..." " B mark." " Camera, action." "Come on." "Go!" "Cut." "As big as the tree." "You ended up perfect." "You said it was gonna be..." " Yeah." "Safer." " Yeah, it was great." "I mean, we could do it multiple times." "We'd have to let things cool down, but we're shooting for a one-taker, so then we can go home." "This is part of episode one." "We begin our year." "This is the first terrorist strike in 24." "What they're gonna do is they're gonna stop this train by putting a truck on the tracks filled with explosives and the flame will go about 80 or 90 feet in the air." "Yeah, you're gonna be safely in here, you know?" "Or even out this way a little more." "Here you're gonna be OK, I would think." "How far will that truck be off the side of the rail?" "How close to the tracks can we get with the camera?" "Well, that side's gonna be pretty clear." "So we'll set it down there and pull it back, and if it gets scary, run like hell." "The danger is great, but we're trained to know how far back to be from this." "Our explosives guys are absolute experts." "If they say the flame will go 60 feet in the air, it'll go 60 feet in the air." "If they say it'll go 10 feet off to the side, you could stand at 11 feet and not be burned." "That's how good these guys are at this." "So, we're rigging this down here to throw sparks out on the tyres to represent the brakes coming on in a panic stop, not that it would really happen, but it's good for the TV." "It's like putting my head in the lion's mouth." "The way this was scripted originally was we had two trains colliding." "It's cost-prohibitive, so we can't really crash two trains into each other, so we decided to crash a train into a truck full of explosives to derail the train." "We have a 1970 pick-up truck with eight different explosions in it and there's spikes on this train that'll go through the cab and pick up the truck so we don't just smack the truck and knock it off the tracks." "As far as explosions go, it's two circuits and there's eight bombs that'll be within a half-second of each other." "It'll look like one explosion." "We don't shoot it slow-motion." "We'll try to make it last as long as we can, but basically it's about a second and a half and it'll be over." "These V-pins have baggies of gas over them with lifters underneath." "These are directional." "They'll spray this way and this way, but not out this way." "Then we have a det cord which will set the can of gas on, and they'll all go at once, so pretty much obliterate the back of the truck." "Det cord is basically..." "It's called primer cord, and it's detonation cord." "They use it a lot in blasting." "It's a high explosive that burns at about 23,000 feet a second." " It's just extremely volatile stuff." " It's good stuff, though." "We're just waiting for the word and then we'll be finishing up the loading." " That camera down the side'll be a full shot." " It'll be a great shot." " I'll be right there, so I'll need ear protection." " Yeah." "It's not real bad." "It'll be..." "I never..." "Every time I think it's gonna be really loud, it's not, then when I'm, "Oh, it won't be bad," it knocks me over." "In about ten seconds I'm either gonna be a hero or owe somebody a lot of money." " It's every little boy's dream." " Oh, ma'am." " OK, we're hot." " Here we go." "Put in your ear plugs." "Whoa!" " Look at that." " Awesome, huh?" "Ooh, let's do that again." "Make sure that all those lifters went off in there." "It's all this thing." "Like I said, I'm worried about the sparks." "Well, that was the shot." "The bonds are OK." " This side looks good." " The number board on this one has to go." "The paint was supposed to be removed after one week last December for that shoot." "The train wins again." "Nice boom." " One charge not go." " Oh, one charge didn't go?" "Well, look at..." "Rick got some great pictures." "You gotta see 'em." " A real tall fireball." "Yeah, you see a lot of it." " That was the one." "The one spike that I had in the centre, I don't know if it cut the cord." "Oh, really?" "Oh, well, it looks great." "You gotta see..." "Go take a look at his pictures." "That was really great." "So, thanks." " Thank you." " Good job." "Good job." "Thanks very much." "Marshmallows overdone." "Amazing." "The guys from the press kit didn't come out tonight, so even the TV critics, they didn't get to see this." "DVD buyers, you got to see this." "This weapon system here is the M4 carbine rifle." "It's the preferred weapon of all special forces, whether you're a marine, navy SEAL or army special-force soldier." "It has an Ops Inc suppressor, so it's difficult for the enemy to locate you." "It's equipped with a PEQ-2 infrared laser aiming device." "You can only see it with a night-vision device." "Ejection port, where the round will come out." "We have a laser." "To your left, you'll see a visible red laser on the wall behind you." "Where the dot goes, the round will go." "We want to be able to fire it and see the flame come out." "As long as it has a Picatinny rail system." "I'm sure yours does." " If not, we can put our rail on yours." " OK." "Jason, it's Tim." "Could you switch me to Dick Kyker in props?" "Can you get M4s instead of M16s?" "This is our tech scout, which we do on every episode." "What's different today is we're bringing the marines out that will be roping out of the helicopters and the aviators that will be flying the helicopters for the rescue of Secretary of Defense Heller." "Lieutenant Colonel Phil Kovac." "Call sign:" "Führer." "I'm copilot and the executive officer." "Lieutenant Colonel Eric Byre, flight lead." "Brian Robins, Huey pilot." "I'll be the aircraft commander next week." "Staff Sergeant Jason Calvert." "I'll be the crew chief in the back of the Huey." "Lieutenant Colonel Pete Cromer." "I'm a Huey pilot." "Mike Cavanaugh." "I'm the operations officer for HMLA-775." "I'll be driving one of the Cobras." "We walked through it." "They know what they're getting into." "I have the props." "But you know what, though, guys?" "I apologize, because it's army." "What I had to do was have them take "army" off, cos I didn't want a bunch of angry marines, know what I mean?" "The precision that we need to have as filmmakers is what we have in common with them, because of the precision of what they do in their job." "So I guess that's the common bond between us." "And again, because I'm fortunate to have the skilful people that I have, who are very precise in what they do," "I think, at least that's my impression, that's something that the marines respond very positively to." "Jack with Secretary Heller have come out and they're pinned down behind this car." "They're in a gunfight with terrorists that are up here, here, and coming up from back there." "These guys are starting to get ready to fire, when number one comes through and takes out these guys, number two comes through and takes out these guys." "Then we'll light up smoke off this helicopter." "There'll be smoke here." "After that, the Huey comes in here and then these guys fastrope down here." "With that kind of dust, can they..." "Yeah." "If it's wet down like that, they'll be able to rope..." "We won't know till they do it." "If they can't they'll wave it off." "We could wet it down, just have them fly the test over, as opposed to running the cameras and waving off, and you can see ahead of time." "At that point, I'll panic and come up with another plan." "This is the AH-1 Whisky Cobra." "We just came back from OIF." "And we fly these operationally." "So what you see is what actually flies currently in our service." "A Huey is a utility helicopter, as the name implies, a variety of missions." "Primarily, we fly with cruiser weapons - a 50-calibre machine gun and then a 7.62mm Gatling gun." "We got a crew of two in back manning the weapons." "We carry a pod of 2.75 inch rockets." "It's an older airframe, but it's performed well for us." "What speed is best for the Cobras to come through here?" "60 to 80 knots. 80 knots is good." "Anything less than that could get..." "We're not used to flying that slow." "But our thing we want to avoid at all costs was fast." "We wouldn't get you on film." "You'd be a blur." "I guarantee you, you guys are gonna look great." "And like I said last week in the meeting, we will give you the best meal you've ever had in your uniform." "So..." "Thank you very much." "Good seeing you." " See you next week." " We'll look forward to it." "Thanks for coming out." "That's pretty good, don't you think?" "That was about 50 knots." " Is that good, too fast, too slow?" " It looked really good." "Great speed, great altitude." "It's gonna be a great sequence." "We're gonna..." "I think we'll live up to the standard we've set, which is pretty high, but we're ready to go." "We will be fastroping up by the steps where it is watered down." "But there is a lot of debris." "Those things become projectiles and can hurt you." "If everyone can stay away from there." "Let's pay attention to everything we've just said, so we can get through this day safely and have a successful shoot." "What we have going today is what we call a "combined-arms exercise"." "Tim, you're sort of working as the ace for us today." "However, you're out of uniform." "Uh-oh." "On behalf of all the marines here today, I'd like to present you with your uniform." "Get changed." "Get into your outfit, soldier." "All right." "Thank you very much." "I'm truly, deeply honored." "Thank you very much." "All right." "We're losing sunlight, so let's get started." "What we're doing is what we call "hard hit"." "We come in with guns blazing, with Cobra attack helicopters lighting up the target." "Then the Huey coming in with the marines." "Then carrying out their mission by killing the enemy, clearing zones, sweeping places, and extracting the friendlies." "We kill the bad guys, save the good guys." "That's the end." "We make it look easy on film, but it's not easy, in that all the marines you're seeing on average have over eight years of service." "We're veterans of the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan." "All these marines have combat experience." "What you see is a chance for the audience to step into the world of a marine, a combat marine, and see what they do." " Looks good." "You got that..." " It's a good thing." "The suit fits good, actually." "Thank God I lost weight." "If I was like I was on that F-18 day, this would have been probably about here, this zipper." "This is more appropriate." "The times I've called Terry or the Pentagon and said:" ""Can I have this and that, and how about that?"" " SECDEF?" " SECDEF." "Secretary of Defense." "It was humbling to get it, to tell you the truth." "And I was proud." "You earn the respect of guys like this, or at least..." "To earn their respect is a high compliment." "It really is." "Cos what they do, their line of work, they could die." "We go home." "If you do not need to be out here, please get into the tunnel or the bunker." "I don't want to do this all day." "This is what we talked about." "Everybody find their positions so we can begin our day." "Here they come." "Can they go a little bit faster?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Yeah, that was good speed." " How was that for altitude?" " It's great." "The second guy is perfect." "They're liking that." "Real low, like that in a longer run." "Go ahead and land, pick up the marines, and we'll have..." "We're gonna go again." "This next run will be an actual line number for film." " Will that be the speed?" " Yeah." "He'll come in slowly." "I got the smokers in the air." "We're already set up." "Let's just jump in to the initial piece with the Cobras coming by and shooting, right?" "You three guys." "OK." "For the Cobra pass, they'll be up there." "This is Matty Taylor." "This is the stunt coordinator for 24." "Horses, motocross, explosions - this guy does it all." "We're trying to incorporate everything in the world we live in." "These guys have been killed numerous times on the show." "We'll kill them again today." "Death number 31 and counting." "And you get a free lunch too, so..." "there you have it." " It's a mighty living." " It's not bad." "Pays the bills." "Not bad living being dead." "This is squibs inside of what we call PyroCell." "It's a lightweight material." "When it blows up it'll look like concrete blowing away, from the 20-calibre guns on the Cobra ships." "We'll have four looms of 12 on here, so it'll look like all hell's breaking loose." "Let's roll!" "Let's roll!" "Excellent, yeah!" "One more?" "Let's do one more." "Hey, Stan?" "We'll need your hits up there again." "What we're doing here, this is a strafing run for when the Cobra comes down." "Where all these little pin flags are, there's one of these." "These are what we call Moroccan mortars." "We named them that cos we made them up when we went to Morocco." "But basically, charge goes down in the bottom, fill this with cork and peat, a little bit of fuller's earth." "Shoots up about three feet." "As the stunt guys are coming down here, we'll see the Cobras come around." "Stunt guys will turn around and this will march from there at the last bunker right down the row here." "Probably two takes in here." "I think we have about 80 hits in here." "So we can show the stunt guys exactly where they can stand and take the hit." "When they hear it, they should turn to fire, then... the bullet..." "They should fire until the squibs go off." "We got the helicopters in the air burning fuel, so as soon as we're loaded and ready to go." "B mark." "Fire!" "Fire!" "Beautiful." "That was cool." "That was really cool." " It worked?" " Yeah." "Moving on." "It's going really well." "It's better than we anticipated." "The helicopters are a lot closer than we thought they were gonna be." "Everything is bigger and better than we expected." "So thumbs up, so far so good, and all that stuff." "When the last three guys get to the bottom of the stairs, fire off in this direction." "There would have been a bad guy in that corner there, and coming out of that hole." " You want us full auto?" " Absolutely." "Do you want us to shoot rounds at nothing, or to shoot at the guys?" " There's no guys." " There will be three guys, right?" "No." "Your bad guy is that corner." "That corner of that bunker is a bad guy." "That tunnel's a bad guy." "Movie bad guys." "Movie bad guys." " I'm just asking!" " You wanna hit me?" "Let out that aggression?" "Good." "We'll make an actor out of you yet." "We'll bring some guys out from behind the van and they can take them out." "They'll come down the steps." "They'll turn this way and see us." "They're gonna riddle us." "He can peel around the corner and, boom, get hit." "Oh, sorry." " We don't have any ammo." " I'll get some for you." "That'd be kinda cool if you gave a little b-b-boom." "We're charged, but we haven't been given the OK." "You're going for cover, you'll come in here." "You go down." " I'm coming over too." " Right, right." "You'd be in here like this." "Coming back." "Boom, boom." "OK, good." "A pro can take direction when he's on a cell phone because you spend half your life as a stuntman on a phone getting your next job." "It's important to be able to multitask." "From surfer beach-kid to terrorist in ten minutes." "Down here." "Down here." "I want really good hits." "Really good..." "Oh, yeah, we'll be chillin'." "Freakin' AK-47s filling us with two inches of brass." "Yeah." "You guys are getting filled with lead." " In reality, what would they do?" " If we see a target, our guns come up." " We'll cut that down." " It's fine." " You sure?" " Yeah." "I'm just gonna pull it." "I come to here." "I'll stand here." "I'll grab it, throw it." "I'll duck." "Boom!" "It'll go off and then we go in." "Come on, this way." "This is just cork, a little bit of fuller's earth, a little PyroCell, like before." "It looks like cement when it goes off." "Up here is a theatrical AB flash." "It'll simulate a white flash as the thing's going off and throwing everything out the door." "Just simulating a grenade hit." " We're ready." " Action!" "Move it!" "Cut!" "Excellent." "Excellent." "Excellent." "What you're seeing today is a lot of Hollywood." "The marines spend countless hours perfecting their trade, their craft." "It takes a lot of professionalism and hard work to train to the level you're seeing." "To see people doing what they do, be it on news or television, it's powerful for folks at home saying, "I'd like to serve my country. "" ""I'd like to do something more than the average thing that my friends do, and that is go in and pursue a career in the Marine Corps. "" "We're glad if that's the effect, if a person says, "I'd like to rise to that challenge. "" "But I'll tell that audience, it's not easy, it's hard work." "Sometimes when people see stuff like this, they think, "That's great." "It looks good on TV", but they find out when they're cold and hungry that maybe it's not the skill for them." "Five-minute warning." "Five-minute warning." "We should try and do all the fastroping we can first." "If the wind shifts, they have to turn the helicopter." " AII I hear is static." " That's all I've heard all day." " Push to talk?" " I've been pretending to talk." "Yeah." " What do you call yourself?" " Meat." "Coyote meat." " They're shut down." " Coyote meatless." "That's what I would be." " That's right." " Cut that!" "I'm gonna get a Cobra to pass above the Huey as they're roping." "OK?" "Positioning the Cobras now." "Positioning our Cobras." "That's good." "Right there." "We gotta make those marines doing the work look good too for their I-love-me wall." "Cut!" "Whoa-ho!" "That was great, man." "Oh, man, was that good?" "!" "That was cool." "That really..." "That looked..." " You got the Cobra in frame going through?" " Yeah." "Yeah, that looked so hot." "That looked so hot, man." "It was great." " I'm feeling we head over behind..." " Yeah, yeah." "We got that one." "That was really good." "All right!" "Way to go!" "Bravo, guys!" "Way to go!" "We'll make actors out of you yet." "We'll make you an actor." "Way to go, guys." "Way to go." "Thank you." "God, wait till you see this film." "You guys will be impressed." "You're gonna be impressed." "All right!" "Any of this stuff today, it all worked to perfection." "It just, you know, I..." "I think the shot that was probably one of the most exciting to me was the one where we looked up at the guys roping down onto this structure, and as we saw them roping down, we saw a Cobra pass through frame." "It's good to tie that stuff in together." "When you get as much in the frame as possible, that was exciting." "Nobody got hurt?" "That's all I care about." ""The more we sweat in peacetime, the less we bleed in the war" is a concept that we go with." "That's what you're seeing today - highly trained marines helping out Hollywood." "It was just jazz." "This is fun." "It's boys with toys, you know?"