In its very first scene, Washington fixer Conrad Breen Robert De Niroo) is brought to a political bunker several floors below the White House and briefed on the situation: the President has been accused of sexual misconduct with an underage girl who was visiting the Oval Office with her group of "Firefly Girls".
Before Pesce's father was arrested, in 2005, he had been hiding for years in a carefully renovated bunker under the floor of his mother's house.
The magnified hum of neon light bulbs, in work by Alicja Kwade, broadcast through 11 speakers facing curved, black steel panels penetrates the bunker's first floor like a persistent fly butting against a window.
Among those arrested were three people hiding in a secret bunker under a floor in their house in the southern town of San Luca, where the two families are based.
He added that "a select few tucked away in the top floor bunker in Truro have decided to ignore that clear view from the council and plough on regardless".
A bunker stacked from floor to ceiling with MREs, and the latest freeze-dried foods".
There are also soundscape installations on each of the bunker's five floors.
I went with him into an underground bunker with bare floors and Kalashnikovs and ammo clips hanging on the walls.
One tank holding 6,000 gallons of fuel was in the building to provide power to the command bunker on the 23rd floor.
Others will be at the command and control center inside 1 Police Plaza, the City Office of Emergency Management's so-called bunker on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center and a temporary Navy center on Pier 94 on the Hudson River.
The speaker, Julie Menin, chairwoman of Community Board 1, invoked the fate of the city's last crisis command center at the location, a bunker on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center that was destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks.
