Back in the actual show, Chance and Jessica are alive, although they're surrounded by rubble. And the air is full of dust, which makes the beam from those flashlights even brighter. Chance wants to start moving rocks, but Jessica spots a chunk of something sticking out of Chance's back. When she starts working on it, she spots a bullet wound and barbed wire (from Sarajevo, says Chance) and something Chance calls a Masai blade of some sort. I wonder if that's from the same guy that taught him to make a smokeless fire. She tells him about a time in Chicago when she get talked into finding a cheap solution and lost her patient, so she took a vow to never walk away from someone she vowed to protect. She's very into vows. She apologizes, then yanks the thing out of his back. Chance briefly blows his stoic, but gets back under control and puts his shirt back on.
Chance hears a hiss. A carbon monoxide vent must have been ruptured by the explosion. Danger!
Patel lurks on a streetcorner and a car pulls up. Guerrero gets in and greets Taggart. Guerrero acknowledges that Taggart probably won't talk in case it's being recorded, but points out that Agrius is going down and that Taggart should distance himself. And he knows Taggart always saves a folder for important purposes. Why should he help? How about doing the right thing? "Nah, I'm just messing with you. I know where you live." So Guerrero says to meet him at Tom's Diner (I love that song!) "Just leave the folder in the back booth by the can, all right? Tell your wife I said hi. See ya, Taggart." Taggart looks disturbed, probably wondering how he got such an important part but no lines.
Down in the shaft, Chance is carrying an acetylene tank, which Jessica thinks is weird. They're both coughing a lot as Chance puts the tank by a wall. They hide and he shoots the tank. KABOOM! AGAIN! Using some of the same exterior footage, incidentally.
The goons find this second explosion odd, and the head goon sends someone to watch the shaft where they probably came out. Chance and Jessica escape into the air, jump wildly off a cliff... and land about five feet down. On the back of a dump truck. It's not exactly a dump truck, I guess. It's a big truck thing, anyway. Some kind of gigantic mining vehicle.
Chance and Jessica start their escape, driving whatever that is. Goons in SUVs fire automatic weapons at them. They fight on and around the truck, with Chance climbing out to trade engage them in fisticuffs.. Lots of bullets are fired, hitting no one. A tank of something does get punctured. Chance and a goon have a fistfight pretty much on the front bumper of the truck, although there's plenty of room to stand up and punch each other in the face. It's still pretty cool. Chance and Jessica jump off and Chance shoots the truck with a flare gun. It explodes, presumably killing three or four goons. Jessica doesn't seem to mind. A plane shows up, and we're presumably almost done here.













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