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Gwen climbs up onto the roof of the Sheriff's Station, exhausted. She sees the hole in the roof and goes to look at it. As she's looking down...
"Is he dead?" Sean calls out.
Gwen turns to see the Sheriff and Andy coasting up in their boats. "No. Someone got him out."
"Who?"
Gwen hesitates then guesses "Maybe Ianto."
"Ianto? How could he get him out?" Sean snorted "You took him out of town."
"I - It …"
"Let's hear it, Gwen."
"It happened real fast, okay?"
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Jack and Ianto float down the alley in the car.
"You ever been robbed before?" Ianto asks to try and take their minds of the mind-numbingly cold water.
"No. The scariest thing that ever happened before was Archie running out of donuts." Jack admitted "I've only been doing this for a couple months."
"Oh."Ianto stares at him, that was not what he wanted to hear. Silence for a few moments. Then Ianto asks "What'd you do before this?"
"I, uh... I sold construction machinery." Jack admits and Ianto stares at him so he adds "I was making good money, it just... I don't know. It just didn't seem right for me anymore."
"How'd you end up in this?"
"My uncle did me a favour." Jack says quietly "Got me in."
"Nice favour. How's he gonna feel after tonight?"
"My uncle was Archie - my partner in the truck."
"Oh, God. I'm sorry." Ianto whispers with honest sorrow.
Jack nods - so is he.
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Gwen climbs into the Sheriff's boat.
"He know karate or something, Gwen?" Andy calls out with glee "Maybe kung fu? I mean, I can't see how else he could overpower the likes of you."
"Shut up, Andy."
"Shut up, both of you. Let's go find Ianto; see if he's got him." The Sheriff fires up his engine and heads off, Andy following.
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Ianto and Jack are still in the car. They freeze at the sound of engines in the distance. The sounds fade. Jack looks around. "God, I wonder whose car this is."
Ianto plucks some cassette tapes out of the water. "Well, whoever it is, he listens to Pat Benatar, Eddie Money and the soundtrack to Footloose."
"Really?" Jack looks at tapes, looks around car "Hold on...I think this is my car from high school."
Ianto laughs. Just then...the car gets caught on something and stops.
"Looks like we get out here." Jack sighs and Ianto hesitates "Come on - I told your father I'd have you home by ten."
Ianto grins. Just then a transformer down the street explodes.
They hear a sparking sound and look over to see sparking on a telephone/power pole close to them. Rain hits it, causing the sparking sound. The floodwater is inching up the pole toward it.
The water will reach the transformer in a matter of seconds.
And while they're staring at that another transformer At the end of the street explodes as water hits it.
They look around - what to do? Jack points. "There!"
They climb out of the car and start swimming toward a house.
Water is three inches from the transformer; two inches...they are Swimming as hard as they can.
One inch from the water... they Reach the house. They pull themselves up onto a television antenna/ladder running up the side of the house. Ianto's feet are still in the water.
"Get your feet up!" Jack cries.
The water is about to touch the transformer. There's a sizzling sound.
They heave a huge sigh of relief - but then Jack realizes... "Oh, shit!"
"What?"
"It's metal!" Jack pushes Ianto over onto a window ledge. Then, just as Jack is about to step over... Eugene comes screaming in on the jet-ski. He dives off the jetski, gets a hold of Jack and pulls him under.
They surface. Eugene is stronger as Jack is so spent from the cold water and he has Jack in a tight grip. One problem - Eugene doesn't know the danger they're in.
"We've gotta -!" Jack splutters but Eugene shoves Jack underwater.
"HEY! I GOT HIM!"
Jack comes up, looks over at the transformer. The sizzling is getting louder. "We have to -!"
Eugene dunks Jack again.
"I GOT HIM!"
Jack grabs Eugene's arms and pulls himself up fast. Jack's head comes out of the water and slams into Eugene's chin. Eugene is stunned. Jack gets free of his grasp.
"Hurry!" Ianto screams.
Jack does the backstroke, pulling hard toward Ianto. Still stunned Eugene, finally hears the sizzling and looks over At the transformer. The water touches the outer casing of the transformer.
He starts swimming fast toward Jack and Ianto. Ianto grabs Jack's arm and Jack gets a hold of the windowsill and pulls himself up.
Eugene grabs onto the antenna … And starts pulling himself out of the water. The Transformer explodes. He feels pretty pleased with himself until... the antenna starts dancing with electricity and... he is hit by the voltage and his teeth clamp shut and his body goes rigid and his clothes explode in flames.
"Look away." Jack says softy to Ianto as they try not to watch.
Dead fish start floating to the surface.
Eugene is fried, smoking. He falls off the TV antenna and hits the water with a loud and ugly hiss. He floats away, his body shaking spasmodically.
Jack hears an engine approaching. He looks around, then smashes the window with his elbow.
The window glass tumbles in. Jack reaches in, undoes the latch and slides up the window. He climbs in, straddling the window sill. Just below Jack's leg ...Laying on the floor, just below the window is a bear trap.
Jack is oblivious. He starts to put his foot down into the trap. Just then he knocks a potted plant off the windowsill. It falls straight down into the trap hitting the trigger. The jaws snap, obliterating the cactus.
"Jesus Christ!" Jack exclaims with shock.
A shotgun barrel snaps into view, pointing right at Jack's head. "You so much as breathe funny and your head is going back out that window without you."
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Meryl drives the boat down the street. Mr. Mehlor is scanning the water with a flashlight.
Meryl! Over there!" Mr. Mehlor calls.
Meryl looks over to see...the jet-ski floating in the water. And not far from it is... Eugene is still twitching.
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Francine holds the shotgun on Jack and Ianto as they move away from the window, hands raised.
"Real slow now. Like you were in a big jar of molasses. That's it." Francine snarls with obvious excitement.
They hear footsteps coming down old wood stairs. "Francine? You haven't killed anybody, have you?"
"I've got everything under control, Clyde. You go back up."
Clyde enters. "Jesus, Francine, you caught a whole gang."
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Meryl and Mr. Mehlor pull Eugene into the ski-boat. Eugene is shivering. Part of his hair has been burned away.
"Jesus, God, it hurts!" Eugene whimpers.
Meryl is frantic "You're gonna be okay, Gene. Mr. Mehlor knows these things and he thinks you're gonna be okay."
Mr. Mehlor looks at Meryl. Mr. Mehlor knows these things and he thinks Eugene is going to die.
"It hurts!"
"Don't you, Mr. Mehlor? Don't you think Eugene's gonna be okay?" Meryl asks, giving him a look of warning.
"Yeah, Eugene. You're gonna be fine."
"Jesus, I can't stop shivering." Eugene sobs,
Mr. Mehlor moves aside. Meryl puts his arms around Eugene.
"I know you didn't want me to come." Eugene sighs, looking up at Meryl.
"You kidding? We couldn't've done anything without you."
"My dad'll sure be pissed off, huh?" Eugene snorts.
"Your dad'd just want you to lay still while we got you some help."
Hey - hey the pain's goin'. Oh, man. "He looks up at Meryl with relief and grins. "When you said I was gonna be okay, I thought you were just shittin' me."
"See? You gotta trust me." Meryl smiles back.
Eugene's shivering stops. It stops because he's dead.
Meryl slowly lets go.
