" Here on a Saturday, Mr. Williamson?" " That's the way it goes, Blake." "You must have put somebody's nose out of joint upstairs." "I thought you guys with the suits played golf all weekend." "Hey, tell me about it." "I'll be glad when they get this bird put together." "But you know engineers one speck of dust and we've got to scrub down the whole place again." "Oh." "Will you clear these guys through to the assembly area?" "BLAKE:" "Mm-hm." " Come on, guys." "[BEEPING]" "[CHUCKLES]" "[CHUCKLES]" "Uh, don't forget to punch out the laser grid in section Z-12." " Okay." " Have a good one." "You too, sir." " Mr. Adams." " Spot security check, Blake." " You know the procedure." " Go right ahead." "What the hell are those bozos doing in Z-12?" "One of those bozos is our facility supervisor." " Sir, he's cleared." " I don't care if he's Caspar Weinberger." "He's not authorized to bring un-cleared personnel here." "It's done all the time, senior officer's prerogative." "I logged him in." "Nobody moves." "This is a top-secret satellite project." "Okay, raise them." "I wanna see two of each." "Relax, Dutch." "They're with me." "This is a restricted area, sir." "I'm ordering these men out of here and filing a report on this." "[ELECTRICITY BUZZING]" "[ADAMS GROANING]" "[PHONE RINGS]" " Melrose here." "MAN [OVER PHONE]:" "Morning, Billy." "Yes." " Seen the morning news?" " What?" "Concerns one of your freshmen." "Okay, I've got last night's flash status summary." " Forget your doughnut and read it, okay?" " What line?" "The 11th on page nine looks like our Internal Revenue Committee is doing its job." "Found it yet?" "That's impossible." "[PHONE RINGING]" "LEE:" "Scarecrow." "BILLY [OVER PHONE]:" "Got a problem, Lee." "LEE:" "Yeah, what is it?" "Review board's ready to give Amanda a letter." " What?" " You heard me." "Amanda's getting a letter." "What are you talking about?" "That's gotta be a mistake." "I don't believe it." " Why would they give her a letter?" " I don't know." "I want to see her in my office." "She's out in the field all day." "She's on assignment at Statik Aerospace." "The review board's meeting at 10 and I want Amanda there to defend herself." " Billy." " Don't argue with me, Scarecrow." " Just get a hold of her." " Yeah, yeah, yeah." "I'll try to catch her, okay?" "I want you there too." "Amanda's gonna need support." "All right." "[PHONE RINGS]" " Hello." "LEE [OVER PHONE]:" "Hi." " Hi." " I'm glad I caught you." " What's the matter, you miss me?" " Yeah, sure." "I miss you." "AMANDA:" "What's up?" "Uh, Amanda, something's come up." "They need to see you down here this morning." " Really?" "What is it?" " They're giving you a letter." " What do you mean, giving me a letter?" " Amanda, it's an expression." "They're downgrading your security clearance, they're putting limits on it." "Kind of like putting a condition on your driver's license saying you can't drive at night." "Wait a minute now." "It sounds a little more serious than that." " Okay, it is." " Okay, what is it?" "What did I do?" "I don't know, yet." "But the security review board wants to see you down here at 10." "So please get down here as fast as you can..." " ...so we can figure this thing out." " Heh." "If they do this to you, they could chain you to a desk in Purchasing, make you a gofer." "We might not be able to work with each other anymore." "Okay, okay." "I'll be right there." "After I eat my pancakes." "Call in some favors, talk to people who owe you money make some promises, something." "Just get me something, all right?" " Good morning." " Good morning." "I thought by the time you got here I'd have the inside track but, uh, it's still a deep dark secret." "Well, look, don't get aggravated, all right?" "I haven't done anything." "I know." "I can't help it, I hate review boards." "They make me nervous." "Spies for spies." "Well, they just have a job to do." "Yeah, and they're going to do it in above five minutes." "You're right." "There's no use in getting nervous." "We have to just sit down and think this thing through." " Right." " What could be behind this?" " I don't know." " Where did you cross security?" "Well, all I've been doing is the Statik Aerospace review and nothing else." "They're running a background check on me." "Not just another background check." "I remember you were worried about it." "I wasn't worried about it." "I mean, you always wonder a little bit about that but I wasn't worried." " Hey." " Hi." "What's got you so preoccupied?" "Oh, Security's doing another special background on me." "I've already passed one of those." "I know." "It's an albatross hanging around the neck of every full-time agent." "They hit me every three or four years." "Same old dirt." "Listen." "AMANDA:" "Hm?" "If you had any deep dark secrets, they'd have found them by now." " I don't have any secrets." " Oh, yeah?" " I can think of one or two." " I'm late for class." "LEE:" "I never told you but I really admire the way you threw yourself into all the agent candidate work." " She has a knack for it, it seems." " Thank you." "This week we tackle facilities clearance procedure hands-on." "We certify an actual defense contractor with site security officer." " Yes." " I can't take this one, I've already done it." "Then why don't you thumb through these files and find one you haven't done?" " Why don't I just take, um, Statik Aerospace?" " Fine." "Thank you." "Ahem." "AMANDA:" "It was a typical class assignment." "LEE:" "You went after it with typical enthusiasm." "MAN:" "We at Statik Aerospace consider our affiliation with the government a true partnership." "Everyone working for the good of the country." "The semi-annual security check we go through is rigorous, but we welcome it." "Two years ago, your people found a tiny little speck under my desk." "Ran it through every test they've got until they were convinced" "Convinced it was a button." "Yes, I know, I read the report." "Heh-heh." "Uh, the latest Agency Review calls us "a model of defense plant security."" "Well, nevertheless, it's my assignment to conduct a complete security review of your facilities just according to normal agency policy." " Now, that could take several weeks." " I know." "That's why I'd like to get started." "I'd like to start with Purchasing." "Of course, Mrs. King." "I hope you wore comfortable shoes." "Let's see, Purchasing, Accounting, Grounds, Food Services." "And our next stop is Facilities Maintenance." "Jake Williamson's the supervisor." "Among his other duties, Jake oversees our outside contractors." "Well, I thought security cleared the outside contractors." "Both my department and your agency, and then Jake sends a list of names to ID." " Uh-huh." " It's foolproof." "I see." "Thank you." "You know, the last time we talked about this, Harry, we were talking a dozen." "What do you need, Sam?" "I'm on a long-distance call." "We need to look at your outside contractor files." "OSHA citations, workman's comp, and you'd better throw in the accident report and insurance settlement on Dutch Adams' death." "Well, help yourself." "It's right in the top drawer." "Oh, sorry, Harry, now where was I?" "Oh, yes." "And it was right after that, things went haywire." "Well, these should keep you busy for a while." "AMANDA:" "Mm-hm." " Let me know if you need more, huh?" " I'll have these back to you in a few days." "Next time you're in town we'll get together." "Yep, bye." "LEE:" "You were so caught up in that assignment, I started getting jealous." "AMANDA:" "You did?" "LEE:" "I told you, you weren't listening." "What plans do you have for the weekend?" "Oh, I have three inches of paperwork to do for Beaman's class." "He's got me doing a full security review." "Boring, boring, boring." "I have something much more intriguing in mind." "Such as?" "Crump is in Argentina and I have the key to his cabin." " You, me, moonlit nights..." " Oh, stop." " ...crackling fires, barbecued steaks." " Stop." "Stop, I have to work." "Amanda, Crump's cabin is a once-a-year opportunity." "And for us, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, if you know what I mean." " I know what you mean." " Great, I'll get Beaman to spring you." "No, no, I don't want you to get Beaman to spring me." "I really wanna do a good job in the class." "Amanda, you have been at the agency for three years." "What's to prove?" "Well, I've been there three years, but everything I've done, I've done with you." "I'm doing this on my own and it feels good." "[SIGHS]" " All right." "What's this assignment?" " Statik Aerospace." " Piece of cake." " Big place." "Statik is a great outfit." "I know, I did the original review." "Trust Tanner and you can have this thing wrapped up by Friday." "I don't know, there's some things about it I just don't like." "Their, um...." "Their security-badge system's outdated." "They have video cameras in some places they really don't do any good." "And they buy too much floor wax." "Shadow shock." " Shadow shock?" " Mm-hm." " Definitely, shadow shock." " What is shadow shock?" "Just the way med students come down with every disease they study new agents become suspicious of everyone and everything." "You need a rest and a guy with a healthy sex drive." "[BOTH CHUCKLE]" "Not this week." " There goes the cabin." " The cabin's not going anywhere." "[CHUCKLES]" "LEE:" "I wasn't the only one who thought you were going overboard." "AMANDA:" "I was being thorough." "LEE:" "As only you can." "CURT:" "Every Fourth of July." "DOTTY:" "Wait a minute, don't talk to me unless it's over a bottle of wine." " Good evening, Amanda." " Hello, Captain Curt." "Hi, Mother." "What are you doing?" "Looks like you're marking off parking spaces." "Those are airplane tie-downs." "Pay attention." " It's really not as strange as it looks." " Of course, it isn't." "Everybody waxes their floor at 10:30 on a Saturday night." "No, Mother." "You see, uh, we're doing a documentary at IFF and I'm trying to prove the theory that the average person uses 1.4 ounces of wax per 10 square feet of kitchen floor." "DOTTY:" "Mm-hm." "When you get done, if you got leftover, I got a Monte Carlo out in the driveway." " She could wax that, it'll go faster." " Don't encourage her." "Captain Curt came by to help me, uh, study for ground school." "I think that's great." "Ten-thirty Saturday night." " Good time to study." "Mm-hm." "DOTTY:" "Yeah." " Ahem." "I'll get the wine." "CURT:" "Get the good stuff." "Chances are the review board is not gonna bust you for floor wax." "I still haven't figured that out either." "They buy too much, it sits in their warehouse." "Yeah." "[AMANDA SIGHS]" "Well, come on, we'd better get down there." "Thank you." "Overall, we've been quite pleased with your performance here at the agency, Mrs. King." "Certainly no one can point to any problems of security while you've been employed here." "You've had two full-scale special background security checks, right?" "That's right." "The first one was when Mr. Stetson first recruited me and then, uh, there was another one about a year ago." "Ahem." "Yes." "I ran my own field checks when we started working together." "Habits, haunts, the usual." " You did?" "FRAMPTON:" "Well, it's all here in the record." "A superb record, I think we all agree." "I'm not trying to prolong the mystery, Mrs. King but I think that you can understand why we were surprised." "Surprised about what, Mrs. Frampton?" "Educational records are standard in any background check." "And we had been through yours from the University of Virginia twice." "The third time we found this." "That's a March 4th, 1972, edition of The Skwak which was an unauthorized, ultra-left publication that's now defunct." "Why did it just show up?" "Apparently, the official campus newspaper just donated their collection of radical off-campus sheets like these from the good old days." "And UVA security put any interesting clips in the students' jackets." "Now, would you just read the top column, please?" "[CLEARS THROAT]" ""'Let's light the fuse and see what happens,' says campus activist...."" "Me." ""As hundreds of students set fire to the UVA Administration Building."" " I never said that." " Is that your picture on the top right?" "It looks like me, but it can't be." "I wasn't there." "This is a mistake." "Yeah, see?" "That's it." "That's it, it's a mistake." "Heh, heh." "Amanda King doesn't lie." "Mrs. King, we're all grown-ups here, we don't come down too hard on the occasional peccadilloes, since our agents are rather spirited people." "But there's certain kinds of conduct we can't overlook." "Not when our country's secrets are at stake." "So, what do we have here?" "Incitement to riot, destruction of private property, and trespassing." " That's a little over the line, don't you agree?" " I didn't do that." "Mrs. Frampton, I think you have a bad lead." " Billy, we're checking it out." "BILLY:" "I stand by my evaluation." "Amanda King is a top-notch agent candidate and a class-A security risk." "Were she anything else, I would've known by now." "Well, you certainly should have." "We have a proposal on the table to downgrade your security status to a stop S." "LEE:" "What?" "Subversive tendencies?" "That's absurd." "All right." "Since Mrs. King denies all of this, and you support her so vocally, we'll wait." "But until this is proven one way or the other, I'm putting Mrs. King on a D-15 suspension." "Sorry, Amanda." "I'm going to have to clip your wings." "[STAMMERS]" "It's ridiculous." "Amanda King burning flags, whipping up riots." "Give me a break, will you?" "When they give you a letter around here what color is it, scarlet?" "Blue." "It's a blue S on your file." "The campus newspaper suddenly comes up with an attic full of underground newspapers." " I don't believe it either." " It is a naughty skeleton for the housewife of the year to have in her closet." "Francine, would you just take my keys, please?" "I'm sorry." "I'm just trying to lighten you up a little bit." "Relax, Amanda." "Look, anybody can see that you missed the revolution." " I meant that as a compliment." " Can we stop kicking the verbal ball around?" "This is serious." "It's a suspension and it is damn hard to get reinstated." "So get to the bottom of it, but keep a low profile." "If Frampton thinks that you're in her way, she'll put us all on ice." "I'll, uh, need your agency ID too." "But you get a visitor's pass." "And you'll have to be accompanied by cleared personnel at all times." " All right, Francine." "All right." " I'm sorry." "Amanda, this is as hard for us as it is for you." "Yes, sir." "Thank you, sir." "Will that be all?" "Thank you." "[AMANDA SIGHS]" "[AMANDA CLICKING TONGUE]" " Well, what are you doing?" " Nothing." "[AMANDA SIGHS]" "Come on, Amanda, let's go." " Go where?" " Anywhere we have to go." " What are you gonna do?" "Just sit there?" " Yes." "I'm gonna just sit here." "I've got a visitor's pass and that's all I can do." "I wouldn't scare you if I didn't have to but you can't just sit there and wait for this to blow over." "Lee, the security board will clear it up." " Did you hear what I said in Billy's office?" " Yes, I heard what you said." "I can't give you the exact box score but I can tell you this not many suspensions are cleared up, period." "Listen." "A suspension is gonna be cleared up if the charge isn't true." " No." " Yes." "Amanda, it happens." "Sure they can give you a week of their time, and then they move on." "But if they can't get any more breaks if they start running out of leads, it is goodbye, Amanda." "Are you serious?" "I told you before, didn't I?" "We might not be able to work with each other, see each other." " Are you sure?" " Heh." "Yeah." " Okay, what do we have to do?" " I don't know." "Damn it." "Let's make a start." "AMANDA:" "That's me." "But I wasn't at that riot." "So it's a mistake." "I mean, a rag like The Skwak didn't make a dime being meticulous with its facts." "They put in the wrong picture." "Is there any other way to prove that this photo wasn't taken at the riot?" "No, no, no." "Not by the picture itself." "You see, all these shots here could've been taken months, maybe even years apart but the shadows are all the same length which means they must have been taken about the same time of day." " So if it's a fake, it passes that test." " Any other test?" "Well, a complete analysis is going to take a long time but this is what I can tell you now." "The newsprint is the same as they used back then." "The ink is Hobs 970 which is unusual because it contains a hazardous substance." "DPA suspended its use back in '75." "So it looks real." "The last ready check of the detonator for the HK-86 will be completed within 48 hours." "They'll lock it in a clean bin, as usual, for final assembly." "However, the timetable will be tighter than with the other components one or two days at most." " How long do you need?" " Don't worry about it." "We'll have it photographed and back in a bin before they can miss it." "What about the agent that's been nosing around here?" "Amanda King?" "King's a first-year agent." "I've thrown her security review board a bone, that's all she'll be worried about." "Besides, I'm keeping a close watch on her." "If Amanda King winds up in our hair I'll make absolutely certain that she never bothers us again." "LEE:" "I hear the campus cops kept pretty extensive files on '70s demonstrations." "Let's see what else they have." "Mr. Sims, I'm Lee Steadman." "This is Amanda Keen." "We're from the State Comptroller's Office." "Part of the budgetary task force I'm sure you've heard about." "Always glad to help out folks that write the checks." " Ooh." "Mm." " We don't write them, we stop them." "And the task force intends to downscale this operation." "Downscale?" "What is that?" "Well, it's part of the basic laws of economics fewer students, higher cost, fewer parents able to pay tuition." "What she means to say is you can't squeeze blood from a stone." "AMANDA:" "Absolutely." "Well, you're looking in the wrong place to cut back." "We are overworked and understaffed as it is." "Now, we got 15, 20 balls in the air simultaneously." "Uh, come over here." "Now, look at this." "That's a daily log of campus activities." "We got them back to the '50s." "Check it out." "We're always busy with something." "And that's just the past 48 hours." "LEE:" "Uh, what's this one here?" "Uh...." "That'd be R.D. Frampton from IFF." "It's a document film company." "LEE:" "Uh-huh." "I see." "SIMS:" "We get a lot of those." "You know, I'm thinking that a computer would save us a bundle around here." "Hm." "You don't understand, these things have to be done in person." "Now, we verify every signature to make sure nobody gets nothing they shouldn't ought to have." "Look, off the record how many of my boys you think I stand to lose?" "My friend, here's the deal." "The retirement fund is killing us." "We wanna lose some people." "Lose them?" "Hey, you're talking about guys like me." "You can't do that." "We are a union." " We'll put that in our report." "Yes, we will." "LEE:" "Heh." " What'd you come up with?" " A list of demonstrators." "Some of them were ID'd by surveillance photos from '71, '72." "I didn't recognize know any of the names except the Green Dragon." " Green Dragon?" " Yeah, that's all anybody ever called him." "He was the campus agitator." "He might be the guy to say you never had any part of this." " How do we find the Green Dragon?" " I don't know, maybe the editor of The Skwak." "Sparkman Publications, huh?" " Hello." " Good afternoon." "What can I do for you?" " Well, we're looking for Abbe Sparkman." " Yeah." "How can I help you?" "You're the Abbe Sparkman who used to publish The Skwak?" "With the beard and the hair." "That's me." "I traded in the dreadlocks and earrings for this." " But inside, I'm still the same Abbe." "AMANDA:" "Uh-huh." "Please, have a seat." "You want a jellybean?" "My favorite's tequila sunrise." "No, thanks." "Uh...." "We're Steadman and Keen of the law firm Steadman and Keen." "We recently won an important decision against the Sendrex Corporation." " The napalm boys?" "AMANDA:" "Yes, and tear gas." "They used to use a lot of it on some of the more radical campuses in the '60s." "Yeah, that's right." "Now, Abbe, we're looking for some more names of possible victims." "All you had to do was even be touched by that tear gas, you know what I'm saying?" " Hefty...." " Settlement." " Yes." " Right on." "We were wondering if we could look at some back issues of the newspaper." "You gotta be kidding." "When I was working on that paper, we didn't think there'd be a future." "Nobody thought about back issues." "I think a guy named Wide Body Banks has them in his van." "Okay." "Do you happen to know where we might be able to find a guy called the Green Dragon?" "Do you remember him?" "No." "He's been underground a long time." "Oh, that's too bad." "We're paying a substantial finder's fee." " You're not cops, right?" " No." "I could make a few calls, see if he's around." "If he is and if he's interested, I could set up a meet." " You could do that?" " For a substantial finder's fee." "Wait in front of the Beaux Arts Theatre on 5th, all right?" "Yeah, sure." "AMANDA:" "I saw my first Truffaut film here." "Well, I wonder if Leather Kittens is Bergman or Truffaut." "Come on in." "He wants to have a look." "If he likes what he sees, he'll talk." "He said I can tell you his name's Darrell Perry." "[DISCO MUSIC PLAYING ON SCREEN]" "[AMANDA SIGHS]" "Listen, why don't you have a seat?" "Enjoy the film, I'll be right back." "MAN 1 [ON SCREEN]:" "What?" "Ha, ha, ha." "We're gonna have to handle this guy Perry very carefully." "He's been underground for 14 years, so we're gonna have to win his confidence." "[WOMAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY ON SCREEN]" "MAN 2 [ON SCREEN]:" "Interesting." "[LEE GRUNTS]" "All right." "Ahem." "Let's get him out of here." "Get him back to Sparkman's office." "AMANDA:" "Thank you very much." " Yeah." "WOMAN [ON SCREEN]:" "Oh, yes." "MAN 3:" "Welding?" "WOMAN:" "Ha, ha." "He just has a changeover to make, he'll be right out." "If you need me, you know where to find me, right?" "Right." "[MOVIE PROJECTOR WHIRRING]" "[CROWD SCREAMING]" "MAN 1:" "What happened?" "MAN 2:" "There's a fire!" "Let's get out of here!" "LEE:" "Are you all right?" "AMANDA:" "Yeah." "Get to an outside phone." " Call the Fire Department, then the agency." " Yeah." "MAN 3:" "Over this way." "MAN 4:" "The back, hurry up." "[COUGHING]" "Why are your people, one of whom is on suspension interfering with my investigation?" "Actually, we weren't there on your investigation." "We have been after Darrell Perry for a long time now." "FRAMPTON:" "Fourteen years." "Except that the Justice Department and the FBI suspended him from their active list in '81." "They did?" "Let me see that." "It's all right, Lee." "Mrs. Frampton, I went to talk to Mr. Perry unofficially because I thought he could clear me." "I take full responsibility." "More precisely, I ordered Mrs. King to accompany me as a backup." " I take responsibility." " No" "BILLY:" "Hold it, people." "I take responsibility around here, remember?" "Now, what started out to be just an internal agency review has turned into a murder investigation, that makes it agency business." "We'll keep you fully informed, Mrs. Frampton." "All for one?" "Well, that's normal." "I admit that there's a hidden agenda behind all this which makes the case against Mrs. King even more disturbing." "You're on the spot." "I'm not unsympathetic, but don't step on my tail again." "Do you understand me?" "I'm trying to help you, Amanda, just don't trip me up." "All right, what do we have?" "That newspaper was no mistake, it was a plant." " Why?" " To suspend her, to distract us." "She is onto something and doesn't even know it." "That means someone would have to know that you were up for review." "Who might that be?" "Statik Aerospace is the only thing I'm working on, sir." "It's a class assignment." "BILLY:" "They have contracts to monitor a number of spy satellites." "They're also building the HK-86." "Yes, sir." "The first space weapon of the 21st century." "It's a hunter-killer satellite." "She has stuck her finger into somebody's pie over at Statik Aerospace and they have started a smear campaign to get her out of the way." "All right." "You find out who they are." "If they're inside the hunter-killer space project, we've got big trouble." " Do it." " Yes, sir." "This is Jake." "It's set for tonight." "I'll need about, uh, four hours of overtime." "What about the woman from the agency?" "You should've put her out of our misery." "Did you ever hear the expression, "Setting the cat amidst the pigeons"?" "Well, you kill an agent, the roof falls in." "This way, they're more confused than ever." "What are they gonna do in the next 24 hours?" "I leave the strategy to you." "We're ready at this end." "Well, we'll wrap it up tomorrow and be on our way." "Effrom, I want the Statik Aerospace files, come on." "It's just busy work for your protégé, why?" "Because that busy work just turned into a full-scale flap." "I still need an E-15 requisition filled out in triplicate and signed by our superior." "She's suspended, you recall?" "Thursday at 10:15 p.m., you and Roxanne from Accounting in the copier room the lights off, your tie off and your shoes off." "Tell you what I'm going down the hall to get a cup of noodle soup out of the vending machine." "My office is unlocked." "[SCOFFS]" "LEE:" "Okay, Billy." "It was worth a try." "Yeah, I'll talk to you later." "Bye." "Their security guy, Tanner, did a top-to-bottom at Statik Aerospace." "AMANDA:" "Mm-hm." " Tight as a drum and nothing missing." " Oh." "[AMANDA SIGHS]" "[AMANDA GROANING]" " You are tight." " Yeah, right here." "You know, in some circles I have what are referred to as magic fingers." "In fact, the same neck rub once prompted a member of a particular royal family into making me an indelicate offer." " Look at this." " What?" "I think I see a pattern here." "All right." "We have a dead security guard, a lot of floor wax and janitors, right?" "LEE:" "Mm-hm." "Now, the security guard was killed with a piece of equipment that janitors use to wax floors." " He was electrocuted, right?" " Mm-hm." "Okay, uh, plant maintenance." "You determine your plant maintenance by the number of men who work plus the hours that they work." "Ah, we're back to the floor wax." "That explains this." "Okay, Grime Busters is billing Statik Aerospace for 57 janitors." "Statik personnel has been carrying 60 for the past three months." "You've got three extra men and I don't know what they're doing but I don't think they're waxing floors." "Here we are, gentlemen, the heart and brains of the world's first hunter-killer satellite." "Now, handle this with extreme care." "It's the down payment on the rest of our lives which I might add should be spent in the East." "Way East." "Once the Warsaw pact gets a hold of this baby the Western space defenses won't be able to keep out a mad parrot, let alone an ICBM." "There have been three more janitors coming in here than Grime Busters contracted." " Who makes up the schedule?" " Jake Williamson." "Ah, two months ago we began final ready check of the HK-86." "We check each subassembly and then we lock it away in a clean bin until final assembly." "Until then, no one rechecks the components?" "No." "Get one of your tech people to give us the cook's tour." "Francine, find Williamson." "I wanna talk to him." " Yes, sir." "I'll put the trappers on it." " Let's go." "I sealed the detonator subassembly in there myself on Friday, where is it?" "They've been smuggling the parts out and bringing them back before anyone missed them." " Let's hope they bring this one back." " They don't have to." "The detonator was the last piece of the puzzle." " They've got the whole enchilada." " I'd better notify State." "DOUGLAS:" "What's missing is the proximity bomb." "It's our doomsday option." "We can snuggle the HK-86 up close to the target, and then poof." "How do you track it?" "It's designed to be tracked by commanders in the field with mobile gear." " That could find it for us." " None of it's been assembled yet." "Great." "That takes us right back to square zero, doesn't it?" "Not necessarily." "All I need is this little circuit board." "This row of LED's." "I could use this power supply." "I could jerry-rig something." " Okay." "We don't have much time." " Can you afford five minutes?" "WILLIAMSON:" "Coming soon to the Bulgarian Embassy." "Complete photographs of the prototype hunter-killer satellite." "We're not in the pizza business, we don't deliver you do, and you buy the beer." "Upstairs." "Keep a lookout." "I don't know how this is gonna work, particularly in D.C. with all the microwaves." "Then again, if it's outside the D.C. area there's no way you're gonna pick up the signal." "My guess is they haven't taken it out of D.C." "This is like a coat-hanger antenna on a car radio." "When you get close, you're gonna have to fine-tune it with the keyboard." "We don't really have the time to memorize a lot of complicated codes." "No problem." "I'll copy these for you." "But whatever you do, don't enter 267." "That's the destruct sequence." "There's no fail-safe in a unit like this." "Okay." "I guess we should probably start working out from the plant in concentric circles." "It's a million-to-one chance, but we're gonna have to take it." " Two-six-seven." "Thank you." "LEE:" "Thank you." "LEE:" "They've gotta be close by." "I'm sure they want as much time as possible to put those parts under a microscope." " All we can do is keep working this pattern." " Yeah." " I can't raise them." " Don't expect to." "Uh, I didn't have time to shield the field transceiver." "It's probably blocking the cellular signal." "I hope they know they're on their own." "[DEVICE BEEPING]" "I got something right over there." "Hey, we've got company." "WILLIAMSON:" "That's the guy from the agency." "[SIGHS]" "Damn phone." "Frequency is out again." "You stay put, keep trying to get us some backup." "Wait a minute." "You can't go in there alone." "[LEE SIGHS]" "You're fond of quoting me the rule book, right?" " Chapter 11, sub-chapter four." " No." "Without tactical backup, an agent team must not risk both members in the same action." "If one of us gets in trouble, the other can cover." "I wish you wouldn't take all the chances." " I'm not taking all the chances." " What do you mean?" "I'm going in there alone and you're staying out here alone, okay?" " Yeah, right." " Remember, the destruct code is 267." "Two-six-seven." "That thing is not to go over to the other side..." " ...no matter what, understand?" " It won't." "I got it." " Ah." "Okay." "Let's do it." " Be careful." "[LEE SCOFFS]" "Get outside." "[GRUNTING]" "[GUNSHOTS]" "[GROANING]" "[KEYPAD BEEPING]" "LEE:" "Damn it." " You cut that pretty close." " I didn't wanna have to do that." "Yeah." "[WILLIAMSON GROANING]" "He's alive." "Mrs. King, I'm well aware of the events that have happened over the last couple of days." "You handled yourself with great poise and professionalism under harrowing circumstances." "And from what I hear, Mr. Stetson would agree with me." "Oh, yes." "And now it is my pleasure to announce our unanimous decision to reinstate Amanda King's security clearance." "Oh, and please forgive us for our earlier misunderstanding." "Thank you, Mrs. Frampton." "Yeah." "Ahem." " Well...." " Yeah." "Now that the smoke has cleared, what do you say we take that day off, huh?" "We've lost the cabin but, uh, I think we can find some trouble to get into." "I still have a lot of work to do at Statik Aerospace." "Oh." "Come on." "Okay, suit yourself." "I don't wanna be accused of putting ideas in your he" "Ooh." " You gave up too easily." " Oh, yeah?" "[English" " US" " SDH]"