Countdown - Part 6
Red Alert - 60 seconds and counting
Again, the NORAD launch control center goes on Yellow Alert but this time it escalates rapidly to a Red Alert. The countdown commences.
- VOICE
- Yellow alert !
- Take your positions please.
- Yellow alert !
- CHARLIE
- Strap yourself in Jenna.
- JENNA
- How 'bout we bet it goes back to green in under three minutes...
- CHARLIE
- Safety harness, Jenna.
- JENNA
- ...Five bucks? What do you say, Charlie?
- VOICE
- Orange alert !
- Stand by please.
- Stand by please !
- Orange alert !
- CHARLIE
- Some hallucination !
- JENNA
- I hate it when it goes this far !
- VOICE
- Red alert !
- Red alert !
- Red alert !
- JENNA
- Oh, my God, it's not a run-through.
- It's not a test.
- CHARLIE
- Get your code, Jenna.
- Count with me.
(they both reach out to the safes on either side of the, prepared to press a button simultaneously)
- VOICE
- Red alert !
- Red alert !
- Red alert !
- JENNA & CHARLIE
- Five, Four, Three, Two, One.
(the safes open and they each extract a decoding manual.
Using their decoder, they decode the message on their computer screens)
- JENNA
- (looking up from her code)
- Oh, my God, it's not a run-through.
- It's not a test.
- CHARLIE
- Confirmed.
- VOICE
- Sixty seconds to launch.
- Sixty seconds and counting...
- JENNA
- They'll send it back.
- They've made a mistake !
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