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Sam Savage doesn’t waste a split second. He bounds back onto his feet, goes to the instrument panel. He spots a big red button-like switch located on top of the panel.
“EB,” he says. “Emergency f*****g brake.”
All he needs to do is press it. Making a fist, he punches it . . . and waits. The damn train doesn’t slow down. The switch doesn’t work. He punches it again and again out of frustration. It’s the same damned thing. Nothing happens.
“s**t!” he barks out loud. “Morgan sabotaged the entire safety system!”
“You need to kill the power at its source,” comes another voice. “The supercapacitor.”
It’s Safraz. He’s standing in the open doorway along with Maureen.
“Where’s that?” Sam asks.
“Up top,” the little bearded man says. “You need to climb on top of the locomotive and disable i
