María!
Are you okay, Sol?
CONALEP SOL, PEPÍN AND MINERS
Yes. What about you?
Topoyiyo!
Topo, is Alicia okay?
Hey!
Everyone's fine here.
Careful, careful.
Please, be careful.
The ladder is on this side.
Go ahead, carefully.
Careful, careful.
Perfect. Come on.
Careful.
Take the man.
That's it. Thanks.
Well done, Pepín. Thanks.
Thank you very much.
That was a scare.
RECORDING STUDIO IGNACIO
You're injured. Don't go anywhere.
Ricardo.
Hey. Don't be scared.
Are you okay?
-You're a little beat up. -Where's my mom?
Come on, I'll take you.
-That's my son! -Mommy!
Your mommy!
Thank you, thank you!
Hey! Over here!
Please, come this way!
Here, please, here!
Help me, please! She's my sister!
Calm down, please. We need to get her out.
-Let's go. -Please help me, she's not breathing!
-She's not breathing. -She's stuck.
She's not breathing, Officer.
Ángel!
EVERY MINUTE COUNTS
DOWNTOWN STREET ÁNGEL
…who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
We're coming! Let's go, let's go.
-Here, I'll help you. -Up here.
Stretch it out. Stretch it, yes.
Tie the knot there. As high as you can.
Come on, put those boxes back here. Hurry up.
Back here.
Stay alert.
-Are you alone? -Yes, they sent me ahead.
Are more firefighters coming or what?
After I report on the situation.
What's happening?
The firefighter wants to come in. I'm asking him if more are coming.
-I'll handle it. -Yes, sir.
Why are you here?
I'm here to get the newborns and Rosario out.
You don't get it, do you?
Shall I call the colonel to get your brother to take you away again?
You know no one is coming.
Don't try to be clever.
What would your parents want if you were buried?
For us to get you out alive now?
Or wait and pull you out dead?
Okay.
But put your helmet on. Don't hurt your head.
Go on, before I change my mind.
Yes.
It's 8:40 p.m.
More than 11 hours have passed since the first quake,
and an hour since the aftershock, which the seismologists had predicted.
Though the government looked the other way--
Chave.
-Sir, what are you doing here? -Isn't my brother here?
How could he be here if you just took him away?
Yes, but I don't know where he went after the last quake.
-What do you mean you don't know? -Relax.
I'm sure he's fine.
The important thing is to find him.
But they said you took him away in handcuffs.
Even that didn't stop him.
I need your help.
I don't care how you do it, but if he comes here,
please, make sure he stays put.
Make him wait for me. It's important.
He seemed really unsteady, and not just physically.
I've never seen him like that.
Yes, he was very unsteady and very disoriented when you took him.
I just hope nothing has happened to him.
I'm going to find him.
Oh, my God.
You're going to take care of our child.
Today and always.
Yes.
Why are you here?
What are you doing here?
You should be resting. Weren't you at the other hospital?
Are you really thinking about going back down there?
For Rosario and the other newborns.
What makes you think they are still alive?
All right.
I'll help you.
We have to try, but I'll go down first.
I can't let you go down alone. What do I do?
It's not the doctor's fault--
No, no, he told me you were here.
You can't go down alone.
I went to find him.
But hurry, I'm taking a risk.
-I'll keep watch up here. -Okay.
Hurry up.
We're already late.
Let's go!
Dober! I need the car keys. It's urgent.
Sure, lend me your new car. I'll give it back to you on December 28.
-No way. -Okay, then you take me.
I think the keys are with Comosama.
Where is Comosama?
Comosama!
Comosama, come here.
I need the car keys.
-I really don't know where I left them. -They aren't there?
Damn it, Comosama. We're such idiots. There are no keys.
Right, when they gave us the car at the dealership,
it already had all the wires ripped out.
-They're such cheapskates. -Oh, sure. Let's go.
-Come on. -Let's go, okay.
How are you doing? Everything's stable here.
On my way.
Everything okay?
Yes.
Why did you come back if you're not going through with it?
The doctor and I are taking a risk too.
Don't back out.
I'm going.
Please, Doctor, we need your help.
The babies, Doctor.
The babies are suffocating.
Doctor!
I don't know how the doctor is still standing.
Pure willpower.
Yes, but he's not well.
He needs to rest, eat something, I don't know.
Why don't you bring him something?
No, I can't. I can't leave him alone.
I'm not talking to anyone else. I've already put my neck on the line.
You can tell Chave.
But only her.
Tell her to bring food and injectable vitamins.
Only her, no one else.
No one else can know.
-No. -Get the nurse and the babies out
-and leave, okay? -Yes.
Thank you.
Come on, let's go!
This is where they hide the boxes.
They're such thieves.
You should know.
I wish I had my camera right now.
So, what do we do?
Jack told me they confiscated all his stuff.
His camera and equipment are in there.
-We have to go in and get it back. -You want to go in?
-And you're going to help me. -You're crazy, girl.
We make a good team, huh?
Yes, but we need to hurry.
Good things take time.
They have plenty of medicine.
People need this.
At the General Hospital, they've had to perform surgeries without anesthesia.
And they have extra here…
Well, that's how the military is. Everyone knows that.
And they have, what's it called?
Authority.
-But their job is to help. -Since when?
They only exist to keep screwing over the screwed.
But a thief who robs a thief…
Focus on the essentials and the medicine first.
Everything that fits in the car.
Everything will fit in there. Wait and see.
We need to find Jack's things.
Don't move too much.
That's it.
Don't move because head injuries need to be handled carefully.
Ma'am, I need to tell you something.
What is it?
In private.
Okay.
I'll be right back.
Don't fall asleep.
The pill I gave you will work soon.
Yes, okay.
What happened?
-No… -Is something wrong?
Stay calm when I tell you.
We don't want to draw attention.
Dr. Ángel is back and he's in the tunnel with Dr. Carlos.
What?
Ma'am. Ma'am!
Dr. Ángel is in there?
Why did you let him go in? What's wrong with you?
Lower your voice.
She didn't need to come.
She ran over as soon as I told her. I couldn't stop her.
Doctor.
What's wrong, Chave?
You're not well.
How could you go back in there?
We need to get Rosario and the newborns out.
The firefighters haven't shown up, right?
Yes, but at least eat something.
Stay hydrated.
I'll bring him something to eat, but please make sure he eats it.
Not a word to anyone.
Yes, yes.
Freeze!
Relax.
Relax, don't do anything stupid. Put the gun down.
We are journalists.
Sure.
That kid is a cartoon character, right?
He's my assistant.
I'm a close friend of Ignacio Zambrano. Do you know him?
He's a high-ranking government official and he knows what's happening here.
He's probably already sent someone for us.
Well, let's see where they find you.
-Come on, move it. -Yes.
Let's go.
Quickly.
Don't make trouble for yourself.
Take what you need.
Your families will thank you. Just go.
Shut up.
-She's messing with our heads. Ignore her. -Okay.
We take them out, then grab as much as we can.
We take it across and--
Cartoon character, my ass, you asshole.
Dober. Dober!
-Enough! -That's why we call him Dober.
Calm down.
-I'm going to find Jack's camera. -We need to get out of here.
I won't be long.
Head to the car.
My name is Ignacio Zambrano Aguilar.
I'm an official with the Secretariat of Tourism,
and I was directly involved in the response…
or rather, the lack of response from the Mexican government
after the September 19 earthquake.
We rejected international aid to appear strong to the world.
But, above all, to appear strong to FIFA,
so we wouldn't lose our bid to host the next World Cup.
The worst part is…
Doctor!
…we ignored the warnings of experts about the possibility of an aftershock.
And the worst part is, we didn't do it out of ignorance.
My boss and I, and Guillermo Peralta,
the private secretary to the Minister of the Interior,
had other motives.
We blocked the flow of information.
And we devised a plan to reject international aid
so we wouldn't lose our share of the World Cup ad campaigns.
Come on.
I suppose that one day history will be my judge.
And I think that's all.
When you tell the truth, there's no need to keep talking.
As for me, I'll do everything in my power
to undo as much of the damage as I can.
Thank you very much.
What is it, ma'am? I thought you had gone to sleep.
No. No, look, I'm tired of finding dead bodies. I'm done.
Okay, you're more stubborn than my mom and my wife combined.
What?
What's up with her?
Ma'am, no one's going to hear--
What is she doing?
Silence.
There's life! There's life in CONALEP!
Come on, come on!
Hold on, we're getting you out.
-Hand me a flashlight. -Got it, got it.
Bring the ropes. ight. -Got it, got it.