So, I find a need a plot outline.

Yup, I've caved, I need a plot outline, even in brief, to make this script thing work.
umm... not sure what or where to go with it all,

So far we have Jamie at the Dam realizing things are getting bad, and Mike in the tower, about to get a call from Jamie.

So, we have this little town Northfork, and the reservoir is boiling, and it's damaging the concrete dam, threatening the town, (this gives us two, or maybe three days tops to fix and resolve this issue.

Why is the dam boiling?  two options, one is that there is an environmental catastrophe looming and the second is that aliens are trying to do something and it's not working right, (their aim was off?)  Ohh.. how about merging realities instead of the ever popular divergent realities.

Now, where's the movie going to end?  Jamie and his betrothed get married, Mike is retired, wonder who else will show up and what they're going to be doing?

Plot A is what to do about the issue at the dam,
Plot B is Jamie and his fiancées plans.
Plot C is about Mike's running for town council or local government to "make a difference in the screwed up priorities of the local government"

So, why is the dam boiling?
I am leaning towards either the convergent realities or aliens, rather than the environmental thing.  If we have an environmental issue, it probably means moving the whole population due to dangers lingering after the fact.  And I suppose the convergent realities is going to be a stretch for most to grasp, even those who are open minded enough to accept such a reversal of situations, that leaves some form of extraterrestrial intervention.  Fair enough.

So it's aliens.  Why are aliens making the dam boil and how can we stop it and save the town?

Here's what I've come up with so far.  The Alien's cannot materialize on our level of existence yet, but they have picked up on our broadcasts (the nuclear explosions sent radiated pulses out that they picked up) so they're trying to communicate with us via radiated communications that are FTL due to having primitively punched through to subspace to transmit.  But we don't have the receiver's capable to receive and if we did, they're broadcasting a directed beam, they're in a holding position over Northfork (which just happened to be where they stopped when they got to Earth) , and the dam just happened to look like one of their receivers to them (Large gelatinous mass, capable of absorbing the signal, coupled to a moderate amount of electrical technology *the power station controls* so that it can be rendered legible)

I have no idea beyond a local university student home from college for the summer, able to "help" Jamie, they're high-school buddies, but it's going to take some time (most of the first day) to get this even straightened out for these guys, then the next day to set up the receiver, and finally the crowning point, culmination is when they can get a message understood and sent back, (through a jury rigged sending unit) and start communications.

 what means of communication?  how about a generic computer code translation? standard math cross communication?  Yeah, that'll work.  and the college guy can call in a favor from the computer hackers from back at college, and they'll run in enough computing power to make it work.  probably pull the staff and professors into this as well, we'll need them to authorize the equipment needed to make this work properly.

Ok, that's enough to go on for me.  I'll get back to the script.

When it's done, I have no delusions about being able to sell it, so I'll put it up here, and if someone with the skill can fix it and turn it into a movie, I'll pay good money to go see it.  I love these kind of push the bounds of the comfortable and known world.

Take care and God Bless.

Andre.