Summary

"Daybreak" - FEATURE Downtown LOS ANGELES at Night - lighted fountain, TD from building to street, Men underground moving blue barrels, one falls over and splashes on man, toxic gas fills the room, man burns up, portable phone rings and man in bed w/ woman answers, Opening Credits, good graphic shot of subway going by, hockey - face off, good hockey shots, EXT day shot of man walk into suburban house, knocks on door, Nerd kid answers door, recruiter talks to family, kid leaves, runs out across lawn with backpack, they continue talking, trophies pictures and newspaper clippings around the room, man comes home with "late bills", EXT. shot of lighted fountain, woman walking down dark alley, assaulted and raped, group confessional with other women, man dreaming about car wreck, boy trapped inside, great explosion, man wakes up, car being towed, tow truck driving through streets, man and woman exit police station at Night, long conversation, kiss and make up, man arrives at work, woman buys subway ticket at machine, Roy Scheider Grand entrance, subway POV, characters reaching subway platform, buying tickets, Computer display, they get on the train, train departing, POV, man working on electric box, POV, earthquake starts, WS of city black out, seismograph, debris falling, explosions, panic, sparks on the subway track, train jumps tracks, passengers fly around, train cars disconnect, building on fire, debris falling, boxes/books falling off shelves, train trapped in tunnel, injured passengers get off train into tunnel, locked exit door, man running down dark stairs, flashlight in the dark, finds electrician dead, finds passengers, another Earthquake, building falling apart, feet running through corridors, more debris falling off building, lights flicker, tunnel filled with debris, electric box explodes and train catches on fire, water rolling through crack in the tunnel, two men break a bigger hole, water busts through into tunnel, VS of water gushing through corridors and tunnels, people escape across makeshift metal bridge, fingers scrolling over blueprints, skyline shots of buildings on fire, more water shots, water seeping under/through doorway, garbage can used to distract electric current, steel foundation collapsing, man saves girl, hallway flooding and flowing electric currents, deep laceration on boy's stomach, bleeding, closing the wound with glue, man gets slapped by woman, two men fight while the roof collapses, man dies, people enter blue barreled room, workers turn on gas underground, gas erupts through valve, explosion and a fire erupts and another earthquake begins, man crosses gap with wooden plank, fire and flashback to his car crash/child trapped scenario, man jumps through fire to rescue boy, they climb into garbage dumpster, explosion, dumpster launched back across gap, Roy gives Press Conference, fires by barrels, they escape through parking garage, press badger Mayor's assistant, the survivors reach ground level, our hero and romance interest walk off holding hands into the DAYBREAK sky ROLL CREDITS