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From: maclatch maclatch@unbsj.ca
Subject: PC:Update, Wednesday, 11 November 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:10:31 -0400

PC Update, Wednesday 11 October 1998

Remembrance Day (Canada), Veteran's Day (US), also the birthday of
Abigail Adams in 1744, who, according to my calendar, was an early
advocate for women's rights (an an American First Lady)

We get closer to the solution...

At the nurse's station, Garcia tells the bomb squad leader that a bomb
explosion caused the
elevator to fall and that there is a second bomb on top of the
elevator.  There are seven
passengers on the elevator, with two of them being injured.  The best
access is through the roof,
so the squad goes to get their gear.

On the roof, Victor recognizes the type of bomb because he was trained
in demolition.  Scott is
skeptical, but Kevin knows that with Victor anything is possible.  Kevin
tells Victor where the
timer is, and that it's counting down.  Scott gets in a jibe that it's
counting down because Kevin
pulled the note off.  They have twenty minutes left, and no time to
argue about who did what.

Frank arrives on the roof.  He wants to go down, but Victor tells him
that it's unstable and the
elevator may not take more weight.  The elevator suddenly shifts.  By
walkie-talkie, Matt tells
them it may be maintenance working from below to try to lower the
elevator.  There are only
eighteen minutes left.  Inside the elevator, Julie is getting more and
more anxious and is thinking
about the single strand that may be holding them up.  Lucy tells her to
stop.  Julie says they're
going to fall to their deaths and Karen tries to calm her.  Eve feels
weak and knows that the
bleeding's not stopping.  Ellen reassures her that they are going to get
her sewn up as soon as
they can.   Lucy tries to kid her that as a vampire she'll have no
problem replacing her lost blood.
But as a doctor, Eve realizes what's happening ö that she could bleed to
death.  Lucy tells her
only the good die young and that she never figured Eve to be a quitter.
Eve says she's being
realistic.  Besides, why does Lucy care if she lives or dies?  Lucy says
she is just getting better
manners.   Eve asks Lucy outright if Lucy thinks that she killed all
those people.  Lucy says
maybe, maybe not.  Eve wants to know why she's helping her.  Lucy says
she'd rather see her in
prison blue than bleeding to death.

Scott and Kevin finally talk to the people in the elevator.  Ellen tells
them Eve and Mary are hurt.
Kevin and Scott tell them they know that from the monitor.  They need
Joe to open the hatch
from the inside.  Karen and Julie help lift him.  The hatch is stuck.
They need something to pry it
open.  The squad arrives.  They try to send everyone off the roof.
Victor rhapsodizes about the
wonderful bomb; Frank refuses to go.  Kevin and Scott ask for a
crowbar.  Mr. Leader-of-the-
bomb-squad starts to go down.  Then, all of a sudden, the secondary
cables snap!

The elevator dropped again.  Mary is OK, Eve is getting more shocky.
Ellen encourages her to
fight it off.  Julie is anxious and wants out of the elevator!  Eve
tells her to cool it, Julie tells her if
she wants Eve's opinion, she'll ask for it.  Ellen referees.  Julie is
really freaking out.  She snipes
at everyone, including Ellen and Karen.

Kevin and Scott are OK.  The elevator seems secure, but there's beams in
the way now, so no one
else can get down.  It's going to take maintenance an hour to come in
from below.  They only
have 13 minutes left.  Lark wants Frank to meet her on the 8th floor in
the supply room.  She
thinks she has a way to get to the elevator, from when she was hiding
out at the hospital.  Garcia
lets her go.

Mary wants to know if anyone's there yet.  She doesn't understand why
they're not inside yet.
Karen tells her their working on the door.  Mary's cold ö Julie gives
her her lab coat.  Mary tells
Joe not to be scared (when he was a little boy he cried in elevators).
Joe wants help again with
the hatch ö he can't just sit and do nothing.  He tries again and they
get the hatch.  They pull Joe
up and sign for him to be quiet when he sees the bomb.  They explain
that they can't get anyone
out as there's no where to go.  There are eight minutes left on the
bomb.

Frank and Lark are in the air ducts.  They find a bag of Lark's
disguises.  They get to the access
panel, but he can't get it open.  There's a girder in front of it, but
they can't move it from inside
the shaft.  Kevin tells Frank to get out of there asap.  Kevin tells
Scott they're going to have to
disarm the bomb themselves.

Frank and Lark are out of the ducts; Frank is trying to get her to think
of any other options.  Lark
wants to leave, but Frank won't leave.  Lark tells him they've done
everything they can.  Frank
won't leave his family.  Lark says that it's her family, too.  Frank
wants her to leave because he
cares about her and doesn't want her hurt.  Lark cryptically says that
he doesn't understand, and
then hugs him good-bye.  The adoption papers aren't finalized yet, and
she doesn't want him to
die before they are.  Frank is going into another shaft.  Lark leaves.
Frank calls Matt.  He wants
the building blueprints, but Matt tells him the east corridor won't get
him anywhere.  Matt tells
him to get out ö he's at ground zero.  Matt's staying, for Ellen, as
long as he can.  But he's on the
first floor, so he'll be insulated if the bomb goes off.  Matt tells him
to get to the roof.  Mary and
Joe wouldn't want him to risk his life.  Frank says he'll go to the
roof.  Frank punches the wall.

It's going to be fifteen minutes until the beams can be moved.  Scott
tells Victor they're going to
disarm the bomb.  There is no sense, says Victor, to moving the people
up the ladder ö there's
enough power in the bomb to blow up two floors.  Joe goes down and tells
everyone in the
elevator that there's a bomb.  Eve jokes she won't have to worry about
bleeding to death.  They
finally seem to remember the suture kit and Ellen goes to start. Eve
doesn't like needles and she
asks Ellen to wait until they know if she'd going to need the suturing
or not.  Eve agrees.  Joe and
Karen tell each other they love each other.

Scott has a pocket knife with scissors.  They are going to use that to
cut the wire.  The bomb guy
tells them to not jerk the wires when they cut. There are three minutes
left.  Bomb guy then
instructs them to look for a glass ampule with mercury inside.  There
are three wires running out
of it.  The green wire is running to the timer, and they are instructed
to cut that one to stop the
timer.  Scott hesitates and looks at Kevin ö Kevin tells him they can
talk about all of that later.
Scott cuts the wire.  No explosion, but the timer didn't stop.  They
need to cut the wire that
closes the circuit ö the one to the power supply on the elevator.  Bomb
guy instructs them to cut
that wire (the red one).  Victor yells ö he doesn't want them to cut
that one.  Victor thinks it's a
trick, which he remembers from looking at the bomb before.  He wants
them to cut the wire to the
alternate source.  The bomb squad guy wants Victor off the roof.  Scott
asks Kevin which one
first.