(This Film has not been authorized or endorsed by CERN.)
(It is purely a work of fiction)
(Sign: CERN - Large Hadron Collider)
[whoosing, clanking sounds]
(Security)
(Sign: LHC Safety interlocks Danger: Do Not Deactivate)
[Security man] Hi, it's you. You're not supposed to be here.
[gunshot]
[Hazy babbling voices]
[Same voices and music with strong beat]
[Beeping]
[Birds chirping]
[Man sighs]
[knocks on door] > James, get up. We're late.
[Door shuts]
[Brushing teeth]
[Water noises]
> What else can I say, drunk on a Sunday night.
> Do you remember that part last night, when Amy got on the table... > That's my sister, I do not need to be reminded.
> Where's all the food?
[car horn]
> Come on, let's go.
> Come on, guys, we're going to be late.
> Do you care to drive after your stunt last night, Amy?
> Oh - Hi Mark! > You're in.
> Not going by bus, today? > Nope.
> I - sorry, I was driving past the shops and I picked him up.
> Oh, OK.
> So what's the rush, anyway?
> Some kind of emergency meeting?
[Music: also continues over credits]
(H2ZZ Productions Presents)
(Zoë Hatherell)
(Tom Procter)
(Stewart Martin-Haugh)
(Sara Mahmoud)
(and William P. Martin) (Sign: Flagpole Car Park - Parking des drapeaux P+R CERN - Bienvenue au CERN)
(Decay)
(Ed Friesen Kurt Rinnert)
(Casting by Ellie Davies)
(Original Music by Tom McLaughlan)
(Assistant Director Clara Nellist)
(Production Designer Johannes Ebke Stunts / Choreography Hugo Day)
(Makeup by Rob Cantrill 1st Assistant Camera Joseph McCartin)
(Sound Design Luke Thompson Frank Allen-Battensby Alex Clarkson)
(Editor and Director of Photography Burton DeWilde)
(Co-Directed by Michael Mazur)
(Produced by Michael Mazur, Luke Thompson and Burton DeWilde)
(Written and Directed by Luke Thompson)
> What do you think this emergency meeting is about?
> I don't know, but it can't be that important.
> Go on ahead guys, I'm gonna...
> No, Dr Niven. LHC is most important experiment of our time.
I will not, due that unfounded theory - > Unfounded? Director, my results show that -
> Inconclusive! Your results are inconclusive at best!
No. You'll have plenty of time for measurements when you're down in the tunnel tonight.
> Director, we have to stop the LHC until we assess the danger.
> No. Dr Niven, once we have fixed this problem, the LHC will run again as usual.
Finding the Higgs is the highest priority.
[Door shuts]
> Why is Dr Niven going into the tunnels?
> Why do you think the Director General said it?
> Maybe they made a black hole.
[Clanks of folding seats]
> Sorry!
> Hey! > Hey!
> So did you recover from last night?
> Yeah, you too? > Mhm.
> Wait, aren't you meant to be on your way to Barcelona by now?
> I... might have missed my flight?
> Oh no! [Laughs]
> Good morning. I am professor Vichinski [spelling?], Director General of CERN.
This meeting has been called because last night there was an emergency beam dump.
Here we see a monopole magnet in LHC sector 7G.
Beam sensors have detected that an unknown event caused this magnet to quench
... an uncontrolled shut down.
If this happens again, the results could be catastrophic.
Due to the special circumstances, Dr. Niven is taking a team into the LHC tunnel
to investigate the cause and see what damage there is.
The LHC will be in shut-down, at least until the end of the week.
Since Dr. Niven will not be available, we will need four volunteers to be on shift in the control room.
> We'll do it.
> Okay. You four.
> Oh, I'm going to be in a conference in Barcelona.
> Very well, you, you then.
> Uh, I have an analysis note due this week so I'm not going to have time to do this.
> The collider will be shut down, you can work in the control room.
Report to the control room at 9p.m., that is all everybody.
> Sucks to be you guys!
[Typing sounds]
[Clank]
> Here you go.
> Thanks.
> They don't look like proto-decay matricies.
> [Sighs] No.
Dr. Nivens got me working on this Higgs bio-entanglement simulation.
Some company gave a lot of money to CERN and I get stuck working on it.
I've got so much work to do.
> Listen, are you okay after last night?
> Why?
> You and Matt?
> Don't know what you're talking about. Anyway, are you jealous?
Hm, sorry.
Listen, I better go, I've got a lot of work to do.
[Heels clanking]
Ugh, I'm so tired. I can't even think about work right now.
I hope he doesn't expect me to remember anything.
[Knocking]
> Ahh, Lisa! Did you finish the talk?
> Yeah, just in time.
> I had every confidence in you.
> Did you get a chance to look at my simulation?
> Ah yes, problems with the simple symmetric parameter lattice...
I think I found a way to express it differently.
I didn't implement it in my analysis code yet, but you might like to try it.
> It looks more complex though, I don't know if it will work on my laptop.
> Well, we'll deal with that later if we need to.
> Okay, thanks.
> Anyway, I have to prepare my team for going in the tunnels and look over Lisa's talk
so I'll talk to you later.
And Lisa? Don't miss the plane again.
> I won't.
[Gate opening]
[Footsteps]
> Hey guys, wait.
I'm bringing someone.
> Who?
> Just someone.
> Well, we're gonna be late, so...
> Hi!
> Everyone, this is my girlfriend Kate. Kate, this is Matt and Connor
and my sister Amy.
> Hi.
> Nice to finally meet you.
> Finally? I didn't tell you...
> Mom let it slip. I was waiting for you to tell me!
> It's nice to finally meet you as well.
> Are you coming with us?
> I think so.
> Yeah.
> Okay.
> Should we go?
> So uh, why have you thrown away your evening away to go on shift?
> James was gonna come meet me for dinner but then he told me that you guys had to uh...
> Oh sorry.
> It's okay, don't worry.
> And how did James manage to convince you that vending machine food was going to be
an acceptable substitute?
[Access card beeping]
[Gate opening]
> Shift can sometimes be boring, are you going to be okay?
> I told her.
> Well, I insisted.
> She's with me.
> So are you guys visitors, like James?
> Yeah, but he works on the accelerator. The rest of us are...[???]
> Yeah, he's an engineer, and we're real physicists.
[Amy sighs]
> So, what do you do?
> I'm a trained nurse.
> I hope you're not claustrophobic, it's a long way down.
[Kate coughs]
[Elevator beeps]
[Door opens]
> Guys, I thought of a joke.
> Ugh, another one.
> So a chimpanzee and a sloth...
[Door closes]
> And then the chimpanzee's like, "Stop it, stop it!"
[Everyone laughs]