"What are you doing?" "I'm trying out a new Hartley transformer on these surveillance images." "Weren't you doing that when I saw you this morning?" "No, this morning I was trying out a Fourier transform." "So, how'd you get like this, Birkoff?" "Like what?" "A cyber-geek?" "Hey, technology is beautiful." "You just haven't taken the time to appreciate it." "No." "I just prefer the real world." "Oh yeah, which part?" "The lies, or all the idiots?" " Ooooh..." "A little cynical, Birkoff?" " Whatever." " How'd you get in to Section?" " I killed my entire family." "I'm kidding." "Just my sister." "So, what are you looking at?" "Routine satellite surveillance, digitized images, anything my AI program flags as suspicious." "Maybe I'll just leave you two alone." " What is this?" " What?" "Someone's trying to hide something in there." "Let's try an infrared scan." " How can you tell what that is?" " I can't." "Yet." "I need another view." " That can't be right." " What?" "What's going on?" "I need Operations now!" "Yeah." "We got an S7 trio on a transport headed west." "Yes, it is." "I will." "So what's going on?" "There's a live nuclear warhead about to come into the country." "Nikita, did you reload the backup surveillance?" " Yes." "It's over 20,000 segments." " Probe every one, not just with a program." "I want eyeballs on every one of those tapes." "What do you have, Birkoff?" "The bomb is on a cargo jet that left Helsinki eight hours ago." "We're using a DOD recon satellite to track it." "The plane is on an arted trajectory." "It is now in our hemisphere." "Can we shoot it down?" "Pilot's already flying over metropolitan areas." "We'd run the risk of setting off a nuclear detonation over a large population." " Any changes in altitude?" " None." "Constant at 38,000 feet." "All right." "Based on what we know, what are our sample spaces?" "I've run a sim." "At this point, it could land at any major airport in this region." "All right." "How soon can you narrow it down?" "As soon as he engages anything that resembles an approach pattern, ...we'll be able to target a destination." " Assuming they intend to land the plane." "I've alerted the Pentagon and the NRC to work on one assumption:" "that it's going to be detonated unless we stop it." "His altitude's dropping." "Average approach time is thirty-five minutes." "He's going 550 miles an hour." "If his vectors are stable, I'll have a location in 10 minutes." "Let's get ready, Michael." " Darlene, you there?" " What do you want, Rudy?" "Th-that-th-the large double cheese, is that one-thirty-two north or one-thirty-two south?" " Don't tell me you're lost again?" " No, no." "I'm not lost," "I'm out here at the airport." "So I'm out here, I'm here." "Because if this ends up to another, really, it's coming out of you pay check." "Alright, no I got it, ok, it's here I see it, I see it, no problem." "Is that it?" "Hello?" "Anybody there?" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "You guys ordered a pizza?" "!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Excuse me!" "Excuse me!" "Oh my-!" "Oh my God!" "Help me!" "Help!" "I'm just delivering a pizza!" "So tell me again, Rudy." "Why were you there?" " I told you I deliver pizza." " No one ordered pizza." "I know, but I got lost." "I- I couldn't find the place." "I didn't know if it was North or South, and I got- confused." "What-?" "I" " I gotta get back to work cuz I'm gonna get..." "I'm gonna get in trouble with Darlene." "She's gonna be mad." "She's gonna get" "Forget about the job." "You don't work there anymore." "What do mean I don't work there anymore?" "I still got the job!" "Why are you doing this to me?" "What do you want from me?" "We don't believe you, Rudy." "You're a drifter." "You go from job to job." " City to city." " I told you why I do that!" "An opportunity comes along to make extra money..." "I'm not like that." "What did they hire you to do?" "Drive a car?" "A decoy?" "I deliver pizza!" "For Pizza Pozzo!" "Pizza!" "I'll check his story." "See what else you can get out of him." "All right, Rudy, let's go over it again." "What...?" " We lost satellite surveillance." " Where are the local jurisdictions on this?" "The NRC has three nest teams working." "So far nothing." " What about the plane?" " Completely empty." "Clean." " Any terrorist communiqués in the last hour?" " None." "There will be." "How did you end up delivering pizza to an airport runway?" "I told you before." "I was- I was lo" " I got lost." "Why don't" " Why don't anybody believe me?" "I'm telling the truth." "How much longer they're gonna keep me here?" " Depends." " Cuz I gotta" " I gotta call my sister." "She gets very upset if I don't call her every night." "She's got the Down syndrome." "Did you ever hear of that?" " Yes, I have." " Yeah." "She gets aid from the State." "But I was trying to explain to the guy before, but he wouldn't listen to me." "That that's why I move around a lot." "I'm not a drifter." "It's just that the aid runs out and we have to reapply, we go to a different state." "Rudy?" "I wanna help you, but I can't do that unless you give us some information." "Well, what kind of information?" "Helsinki was the plane's third stop." "The cargo originated in Sudan." "We're cross-checking our database of terrorists groups that have operations ...in or around that area." " Our pizza man has seen faces." " Whose faces?" " Two men." "One was leaving by a truck, the other by limo moments before we arrived." " He told you this?" " I think we took the wrong approach." "This Rudy's a little on the simple side." "Just had to ask the questions the right way." " Sir?" " Birkoff?" " State just sent us a Mpeg." " Cue it up." "Your complacent masses will learn death and misery on a terrified scale." "Next time our people speak, you'll listen." "Because you'll understand suffering the way we have for thousands of years." "Because of our action, we'll have autonomy without the influence of your immoral culture." "A twenty-megaton nuclear warhead has been hidden in one of your cities." "There is nothing that you or anyone can do to stop it." "I'm the only one who knows its location." "I'll give you twenty-four hours to ponder which of you will die and which of you will live to mourn the dead." " Yeah?" " Get this to Comm." "Tell them to abandon the Kassar's file." " That's it?" " That's it." " About Rudy's sister..." " What is it?" "Rudy calls her every night." "She's institutionalized." "Forget it." "I just think it would help his state of mind before the debriefing." "It's not his state of mind that I'm concerned about." "Save your concerns, Michael." "Rudy doesn't have a lot of concentration to spread aroundm, and right now all he's thinking about is his sister." "He's a Class One collateral in a deadcom scenario." "We incubate." "You know the rules." "I know 'em." "I just think they should be rewritten." "You might be right about his sister." "Go back in there and calm him down." "That is a good idea, Michael." "Wow!" "I never seen a police station like this before." "Look at the size of their computers!" "Big!" "Belinda likes computers." " Oh, who's Belinda?" "Your girlfriend?" " Naaaah, I haven't got a girlfriend." "It's my sister" " You said I could call my sis" " Could I use the telephone?" "Yeah." "Rudy, we just gotta do something important first." "Come on." "I ain't never done anything important before." "Oh, boy." "You guys still angry with me?" "No, we're not angry." "Sit down, Rudy." " Thank you." " How far along are we?" "He gave Birkoff the license plate number of the limousine at the airport." "License plate." "Yeah, I..." "I remember numbers." "My telephone number when I was a kid was Cloverdale 24079, my grandpa's was Gedney 62505." "The serial number of my refrigerator was KL" "Can you tell us about last night?" "Well, there was two guys... they was two... talking to one another, and one of them had a fancy phone with gadgets on it." "The activator." " Did you see this man here?" " Wow." "What is that?" "Rudy, just look at it and tell us if you recognize the man you saw." "Yeah, that, that's the guy who walked to the truck." " Wait a second" " What is it?" "This isn't a police station, is it?" "You're 500 feet underground." "This is called Section One." "We're a secret government organization that helps people in trouble." "Now we need your help." "Can we count on you, Rudy?" "Could I... could I keep this shirt when we're finished?" "Sure." "You can keep the shirt." "We'd like you to identify the other man." "Can you describe him to us?" "What?" "The... the man in the limousine?" " Yes." " Well, he was kinda of a" " Take him to Birkoff." " Who's Birkoff?" "Who's that?" "Is he the big cheese?" "Is that..." "Who is he?" "Operations told Rudy who we are!" "That's a death sentence, isn't it?" "The moment we brought him here that decision was made." "Why!" "Rudy's like a child!" "He's innocent." "No one would believe what he said anyway!" "We can't take that chance." "You don't deserve this, Rudy." " Don't forget what's at stake here!" " Oh, I'm sorry, Michael." "Just a temporary lapse in humanity." "I'll get over it." "Yes?" "Okay." "He traced the plates." "It's an Embassy." "And the man that we're looking for works there?" "Hopefully, we'll find that out tonight." "Well, what's tonight?" "A party?" "You mean like a birthday party?" "No, it won't be that much fun." "It's an Embassy dinner." " There'll be a lot of stuffy people." " Is there gonna be baked potaties there?" "Rudy, remember, we're only going there so that you can point out the man you saw last night." "You're gonna need to wear this." " Hey, can you hear me, Rudy?" " Yeah, I can hear you!" "You're right in my ear!" "Rudy." "See, we don't want them to know that we're trying to communicate with you, ...so you gotta play it real low key." " Oh, yeah, right, yeah, I can do that." "Okay, what day is it today, Rudy?" "Rudy can you hear me?" " Rudy, not that low key." " Okay, stay close to him." "We'll work it through you." "The function's at eight." "Let's move." "Where we going now?" "To the party?" " Could I take the tie off." "The tie itches me..." " No, you can't." "...all over the place." " Is that better?" " It itches my neck." " Is that better?" " No." "I want to take it off." " Please, Rudy." " Dr. Firestein, how are you?" " I'm all right." " I'm Joan Firestein." " Hi, Joan." "I'm Janet Winters." "Oh, Mrs. Savars, the undersecretary in Paris was just talking about ...your research facility." " Yeah." " We hear wonderful things." " Thanks so much for inviting us." "Thank you." "There's a lot of people in here." " Rudy, remember" " Ah, there's music there." "Rudy remember we're looking for the man you saw at the airport." "I haven't seen him yet!" " Hey, isn't that the guy from" " No." "Rudy, keep looking for the man..." " Are you receiving?" " What?" " I got ya." "Rainman's seen anyone yet?" " Not yet." " It's very, very feathery music." " You wanna switch to channel four?" "...I'm getting a lot of static." " How's that?" " It's feathery." " It'll do." " I gotta go to the bathroom." " Just a little while longer." "Come on!" "I gotta go to the bathroom now!" " Michael, Rudy needs an escort." " I don't need that." "I can go myself." "Michael will take you." "Just wait a second." " Rudy." "Rudy, just follow Michael." " Ah, all right." "Oh, I'm sorry." "I'm so sorry." "I didn't mean to spill the water on you." "Excuse me." "Can I help you with that?" "I'm sorry." " It's quite all right." "No problem." " My husband's a little clumsy." "These things happen." "They've separated." " Rudy's with Michael now." " Keep me posted." "The... the guy who was giving out the towels was really angry at me." "Hey, Nikita!" "You should see the bathrooms they got here!" " The toilets flush all by themselves." " Are you feeling better?" " Yeah." " Let's find this guy now." " Rudy, let's go and check another room." " Nice flowers." " Let's go and check another room." " All right." "Nikita, if- if- if I didn't wanna help you find this guy ...what would happen to me?" " What do you mean?" "Well, cuz I gotta take care of my sister, and... and... and she depends on me ...and anything happens to me" " Nothings gonna happen, Rudy." " You promise?" " I promise." "Look at my face." "I promise." "I..." "I..." "I gotta take this tie off." "It still itches me really bad." "You can't." "You can't take the tie off, Rudy." " Nikita?" " What, Rudy!" "There he is." "Talking to the two pretty girls." "Michael, we got him." "He's in the east wing at the base of the stairs." " They've got him." " Good." "Bring him in." "Let's take him in." " Rudy, just wait here for a second." " All right." " Excuse me, sir." " Yeah?" " We need to ask you some questions?" " Who the hell are you?" "We can make it quite unpleasant for you if you don't cooperate." "Rudy?" " This can't be him." " Why not?" "David Zacharoff's attached to the Canadian Trade Commission." "He was in Brussels the night Rudy said he saw him addressing a conference." " There's about 5,000 witnesses." " Voice confirmations?" "Yeah, I talked to half a dozen people." "He was there." "Rudy fingered the wrong man." "Either by mistake, or intentionally." " Have they found him yet?" " No." "They're working on it." "You're hurting me!" "You're hurting me." "You're breaking my finger." "Okay, now I'm gonna make a face, and you say from 1 to 10 how good it is, ok?" "All right." " A five." " Five?" "All right, now this one." " A ten." " Come here." "I love you so much." "You'll always be my brother." " Always." " Yeah." "No one in the whole wide world will ever hurt you." "And, if they even try, they have to come through me, I will karate them down to pieces." "You're such a sweetheart." "I love you so much." " What?" " Who's a big girl, though?" " Yeah, I am." " Who?" " Who's the big girl?" " I am." "Yeah." "So, you don't need me to call you anym" "You don't need me to call you every night, though, right?" " Not every night." " Yeah, just..." "Cuz you're big, right?" "So, you don't need me that much no more, right?" " Don't say that." " Yeah, right, but I gotta..." "I need you a lot more than I ever have, because you're my only brother that I have got." "So, remember that." " Hi, Rudy." " Nikita!" "This is my sister I was telling you about." "Belinda." "Belinda, Nikita." " Hi." " Hi, Belinda." "Nice to meet you." "Yeah." "Nice to meet you too." "You know a lot of people think that I'm dumb, but I'm not dumb, you know." " Oh, I don't think you're dumb, Rudy." " Well, I'm not saying that I'm very smart." " It's just that I'm not dumb." " We don't have a lot of time!" "Come on, Rudy." " You're a big girl now, right?" " Yeah, that's right." "I am." "Yeah, that's right you are, so you don't need me call you every night, right?" " That's right." " Yeah!" "Right." " Oooh!" "Rudy got a girlfriend!" " Not my girlfriend!" "It's Nikita!" "You gave us the wrong man at the Embassy!" " I'm sorry." " Why?" "I was scared that you wouldn't ever, ever let me go, ...so I had to go to see my sister." " And, you did." "So no more games, Rudy!" "A lot of innocent people can get hurt if we don't do our job." "Yeah, right." "Do you want me to go back to the party?" "No, Rudy, Rudy no!" "We have pictures of everyone who was there." "I want you to look at them and try to find the man you saw at the airport." " Okay?" " All right." "Okay." " Come on, Rudy." " Yeah." "He's very mad at me." "I get online with the Agency heads in ten minutes." "I need to know what to tell them." "Are we going to proceed with Rudy, or are we spinning our wheels?" "I think he's a waste of time." "We should reallocate our resources." "I disagree!" "It's obvious that he saw someone at the airport." "There's a very good chance that person was at the Embassy." " He's lied to us." " He needed to see his sister." "Now that he has, ...I think everything's gonna be o.k." " You think?" "!" "They're waiting for you downstaris." "You've got Birkoff for another hour." "If Rudy can't produce by then, cancel him." " What if he can produce?" "Then what?" " Let's just hope that happens." "Not good enough." "What happens if he comes through?" "You know we can't let him go." " Well?" " No, that's not him." "Oh, yeah, I remember her." "She was pretty." "Nice gems." "Rudy no not her, him." "Did you see that man?" "No." "All right gentlemen, we have nine hours left." "What's been happening since we last spoke?" "George?" "The trio is equipped with a transmitter that's broadcasts an electronic signature." "We're sweeping the metropolitan area now, about a third of it's covered." " So far nothing." " So what you're saying George, is that you don't think you can complete the sweep in the remaining hours?" " That's correct." " What's happening over there, Margaret?" "We're implementing a horizontal escalation that's all over our active sights." "We expect to see significant improvement at this time and don't anticipate any problems." "No, that ain't him." "That is not our job!" "Section One should be handling it." "Don't break my rice ball George." "We're spread as thin as you are." "You could have lined up your ducks before it ever got this far." " We don't need rudder orders from you!" " Alright!" "Alright, gentlemen." " Settle down." " How many more Birkoff?" " 45 or 50." " What's going on over there?" "Rudy, nothing." "Come on, focus." "...when do we go public." "And when do we begin evacuation." "And how do we implement that evacuation." " Maygar?" " At this point, I think it..." " Rudy you can't go!" " ...there's no collateral benefit ...for casualty reduction." " What's he doing?" "Get him out of here." "Rudy what is it?" "Is that the man?" "Yeah, it's him." "Frankly, based on the numbers I think evacuation would be a mistake." "At this point..." "We weren't due to convene for another 30 minutes." "Something's come up, Guy." " I need to see you." " See me?" "I think the Sections's been breached." "Can we meet somewhere?" "Sure." "Or maybe you like to try me from a secure outside line?" "No, I'd rather not take the chance." "I got the lead." " OK, that's fine." " Point off the Green half an hour?" " He didn't want to meet." " Would you?" "The head of the largest domestic anti-terrorist task force is about to perpetrate the unthinkable." "We'll assume he's floating backup teams." " Will they know what's going on?" " Doesn't matter." "Anyone between us and him goes down." "I'll contact you from my car." "If I'm killed, implement the chain of command." "What about Rudy?" "We have less than three hours before a nuclear bomb goes off." "Keep your eye on the ball." "Turn off the lights." "Hello, Guy." "It's an odd time to call a meeting like this." "Why is that?" " I hope your intel was worth the delay." " Oh, it's worth it." "Well..." "Bring him up." "I don't think you're going to make your budget next year once they find out you kidnapped the head of FanTec." " Where's the bomb?" " You heard" " You heard Kassar." "He's the only one who knew." "Start removing fingers." "We'll put it on ice, Guy." "I don't know where the bomb is." "But, I can tell you where he was transmitting from, so sew my finger back on!" "Nikita?" "Where's Nikita?" "She said she was gonna come back here." "What are you doing?" "!" " Michael, the activator!" " Birkoff!" " How much time?" " 7 and a half minutes." "It's a 16-digit code." "Can we deactivate it from here without the bomb?" "We don't need the bomb." "We need the 16-digit code." "At this rate, it'll take two hours to generate everything" " We don't have two hours!" " That's as long as it's gonna take." " It looks like a phone." " What?" "Rudy said he saw a phone." "A fancy phone." "Maybe this is it." "Where is he?" "No!" "Are you sure Nikita didn't say she want to see me?" "What's the matter with you guys?" "What?" "!" "The cat got your tongue?" "!" "Yes?" "It's for him." "Hello?" " Rudy?" " Yeah." "Nikita?" " Tell these guys not to hurt me." " I will." "Yeah, because you promised!" "You promised me." "Yes, Rudy, I promised." " Remember the fancy phone you told me about?" " No." " From the other night at the airport?" " It's very warm in here." "It's very moist." " Rudy, did you see any numbers on it?" " Yeah." "What were they?" "Um... nine-two-four um..." "four-three-one-o- nine-two-four-four..." "three-one-zero... nine-o-two-six-seven-eight, no seven!" "Definitely seven." " Keep going, Rudy." " That's all." "I didn't see any more." " That's all he saw." " Doesn't matter." "If those are right, it'll sequence through the rest in a couple of seconds." " Did it work?" " I think so." " What do you mean you think so?" "!" " We'll know for sure in 20 seconds." "You wanted to see me?" "The most difficult decision we have to make is the incidental disposal of innocents." "Good euphemism for murder." "Some years ago there was a situation involving someone not dissimilar to Rudy." "He helped us effect a mission, which resulted in the rescue ...of several hundred hostages." " What did you do to him?" "I let a young operative convince me to send him out of the country." " And what happened?" " One of enemies tracked him down." "Tortured him, and extracted information about one of our substations." "Within hours, all of our operatives were dead." "So was our innocent." "What enemy's even seen Rudy?" " He was at the Embassy." " As Dr. Firestein." "Who doesn't exist." "Don't get into this with me, Nikita, or I'll change my mind." " Change your mind?" " We've decided to let Rudy live." "He's already been injected with a micro-transmitter." "We'll be able to monitor him from the Section." "His life won't change." "He'll return to his job, and we'll see to it that his sister remains at her current institution." "There's only one thing." "If anything goes wrong, you cancel him." "Agreed." "Rudy, don't..." "don't touch that." " Why?" " You can't." "There's a program running there, ...all right?" "Just leave it alone." " Oh." "All right." "What's this here?" "Here!" "Rudy!" "You wanna play a game?" " Rudy." " Hi, Nikita!" "Come on." "Say good-bye to Birkoff." " Goodbye, Birkoff." " Yeah." "Bye." "Big Cheese." "Where we going now?" "You're going home." " I am?" " Yup." "I knew that you'd keep your promise." " Can you keep a secret, Rudy?" " Yeah, I can keep a secret." "Once I walked in on my teacher..." "Oops!" "I almost broke it." "I shouldn't have said that." "Come on."