1:22:00
Anything that affects
it is my business.
1:22:02
Now what the hell is Destiny?
1:22:04
It's a device.
1:22:06
Deep Earth Seismic Trigger
Initiative, DEST-INI. Destiny.
1:22:11
We had reason to believe
1:22:13
that our enemies were
building a weapon
1:22:15
that could generate
targeted seismic events.
1:22:19
They would be able
to create massive earthquakes
1:22:21
under our territory.
1:22:22
No way of telling who did it.
1:22:23
So?
1:22:24
So... we built one, too.
1:22:27
M.A.D.
1:22:28
Mutually Assured Destruction.
1:22:30
A perfect acronym
if ever there was one.
1:22:32
Beautiful.
1:22:33
They built it first.
1:22:34
I built it better.
1:22:35
I beamed high-powered
1:22:37
electromagnetic
energy waves down Deep Earth
1:22:38
fault lines, and, you know.
1:22:40
Zimsky, what makes you think
1:22:42
that Destiny
would even touch the core?
1:22:44
'Cause it already did.
1:22:47
This isn't a fluke.
1:22:50
We killed the planet.
1:22:51
You keep saying
that the core is too big
1:22:53
to be affected by anything
short of nukes.
1:22:55
- So...
- The core is an engine.
1:22:56
Throw a small wrench
into a big engine,
1:22:57
you can still stall it.
1:23:02
Deep Earth, this is Virgil.
1:23:03
We require clarification on
the status of Project Destiny.
1:23:08
Why weren't
we notified of this, sir?
1:23:09
Because you didn't need to know,
Major.
1:23:12
Now you may not like this.
1:23:14
I may not like it either.
1:23:15
But it's my job,
and I do it for my country,
1:23:17
and if we don't develop these
devices, someone worse will
1:23:20
and they will
use them against us.
1:23:22
But you have my word.
1:23:23
No one in this
administration... no one,
1:23:26
had any idea
that this could happen.
1:23:29
So the device that killed the
planet is your backup plan?
1:23:31
An electric shock
can stop a heart.
1:23:34
It can certainly restart one.
1:23:36
Destiny will work.
1:23:37
It has to.
1:23:39
No, it won't work.
1:23:39
If you fire that thing again
1:23:41
with the core already stalled,
it'll terminally destabilize it.
1:23:43
Yes, granted... there is
a marginal risk involved,
1:23:45
but given the circumstances,
1:23:47
I hardly see that there's
an alternative.
1:23:48
No, Zimsky, listen to me.
1:23:49
Every volcano
on the planet will blow.
1:23:51
There'll be earthquakes big
enough to rip us to pieces.
1:23:53
- Dr. Keyes.
- What?
1:23:54
I'm afraid it's all we've got.
1:23:56
Now, I have orders
from the president.
1:23:58
Come home, Virgil.
1:23:59
We go to plan B.