- Dr. Goldschein: Are these figures just preliminary?
- Lacey: Yes, the eruption began only 15 minutes ago.
- Dr. Goldschein: And yet, it's exactly as we predicted. 12 Kilometer high plumes, 2000 tons of ash per second, the multiple earthquakes. This is going to carry on for a few days. We'd better start revising the model. We'll need data from the other sites as well. Call the monitoring stations. I want facts before I call the authorities.
- Lacey: You really think this is it?
- Dr. Goldschein: If the data holds to the model, I think it is.
- Steve Foster: Thank you control. This is 1765 out.
- Lacey: What was that all about? An ash Cloud?
- Steve Foster: Not much I hope.
- Control Tower Man: Morava NB 1765, reduce altitude to 30,000 feet and report. Roger that, Control. 1765, reducing altitude. Ah, there it is. The coast.
- [Looks at the land below them]
- Lacey: Ah, the scepter-ed isle, this blessed plot.
- Steve Foster: What's that?
- Lacey: Shakespeare, darling.
- Steve Foster: Oh, right of course.
- Lacey: Lucky you are so handsome. Why are they having you reduce altitude?
- Steve Foster: Oh, I'm sure it's just an air traffic issue. Control, this is 1765. We are at 30,000 feet.
- Control Tower Man: Roger, 1765 stand by for further instructions.
- Steve Foster: Roger that.
- Lieutenant Perkins: Oh really? Again?
- Colonel Ralph Dillard: What's up, Perkins?
- Lieutenant Perkins: Iceland's erupted again. It's an annual event, apparently. First it was Eyjafjallajokull. Then Grimsvotn, and now Lakagigar.
- Colonel Ralph Dillard: Wonderful language skills you have. Be careful, you'll get a posting there. So how bad.
- Lieutenant Perkins: Probably the strongest yet. It only happened about an hour ago, and it had already reached an altitude of 17 kilometers.
- Colonel Ralph Dillard: 17 kilometers. You know, that really is rather bad. What's the spread?
- Lieutenant Perkins: Winds aren't too strong.
- Colonel Ralph Dillard: All right, keep me posted. Oh, one moment. What's happening with that little storm system in the northwest Atlantic?
- Lieutenant Perkins: Oh it's gathering strength. Temperature is down 12 degrees. Pressure is down by 240 millibars. If that crosses the ash cloud, it would make rather a mess.
- Colonel Ralph Dillard: Yes it will. All right, if there is even a possibility of a major grounding, the sooner people know the better. Spread the good news.
- Lieutenant Perkins: Will do Colonel.
- Ryan Foster: I wonder when that cloud is going to reach us?
- Taryn Foster: Hopefully not until dad and what's her name get here.
- Ryan Foster: Lacey.
- Taryn Foster: Whatever. Okay, so we have four... No, five stops until we get to Gala Dulles. Then we got to take a bus to the airport? Or should we just take a train?
- [Ryan Foster gets distracted by a woman walking by him]
- Taryn Foster: Ryan! Hello? Ryan? It's like the freaking end of the world coming. Can you stop being a perv long enough to pay attention?
- Ryan Foster: There is nothing perverted about admiring a beautiful woman.
- Taryn Foster: It is when you do it to every single woman that walks by.
- Ryan Foster: It's Paris. You know? I mean the whole reason I'm going to Grad school here is to experience another culture.
- Taryn Foster: Right. And I thought it was cause every single woman in America shot you down.
- Ryan Foster: Anyway, it's probably not the end of the world. It's just an ash cloud. It's like when that I in gen fur. whatever how you pronounce it, went off years back they just cancelled some flights and that was the end of it.
- Taryn Foster: Do you think it'll affect Dad's flight?
- Ryan Foster: Let's hope not. Man you know, I really got to visit that thing. Before I graduate.
- [Points to the Eiffel Tower]
- Taryn Foster: What? You haven't been to the Eiffel Tower? Oh my God, Ryan, what is wrong with you? Such a loser.
- Ryan Foster: You know Taryn, you really might consider being nicer to me. You really think that Mom and Dad would have let you transfer to the Parson's program here if I wasn't already in Paris? Their little girl. All alone in the foreign country. No way. Especially with your history.
- Taryn Foster: I don't need a baby sitter. I'm fine. In fact, I'm doing great.
- Ryan Foster: So glad to hear it.
- Taryn Foster: That's why I want to get to the airport. Not on time, but early. I want dad to see that I'm not this little girl anymore. And this semester has matured me.
- Ryan Foster: So he'll pony up for the summer session?
- Taryn Foster: I just want him to be proud of me. Even though he is midlife crisising.
- Ryan Foster: Ah Taryn?
- Taryn Foster: What? The ink is not even dry on the divorce and he runs off and marries some random chick.
- Ryan Foster: Mom left him! What do you want him to do? Sit around crying and apologizing for the rest of his life?
- Taryn Foster: Yeah. Sounds about right. How many nights did Mom spend crying and alone?
- Ryan Foster: The guy's a pilot, of course he's going to have to... You know what? We're not doing this. You and I are not gonna have our little version of the same fight Mom and Dad had for 20 years. They divorced. Dad remarried.
- Taryn Foster: Yeah, some chick he knew five minutes who's my age. That's gross.
- Ryan Foster: She's older.
- Taryn Foster: Still.
- Ryan Foster: Well, we are still doing all right on time. They probably haven't hit England yet, so...
- Taryn Foster: Alright, I just don't wanna take any chances. You know how Dad is about punctuality. If we're late we're grounded... For life.
- Ryan Foster: For life.