"Come on." "Get him, Deak!" "Pick it up!" "Now you see what happened there?" "Huh?" " I'm pretty sure you hit me." " No, I give you left, left." "You think I'm gonna give you another left, and I gave you a right." "I'm just tellin' ya." "I'm just tellin' ya, that's what boxing's all about, okay?" "You show your opponent one thing, and you do somethin' else." "That's how Ali took the title from Foreman." "He beat him with the rope-a-dope." "Don't you remember?" "I don't remember what day of the week it is." "That's right." "Everyone thought Ali's arms had run out." "That he's on empty." "But he's just settin' Foreman up." "He's lettin' him burn himself out." "And then, in the eighth round, he comes." "Poor George has got nothin' left." "I always liked Bruce Lee movies." "Now you're learning." "Don't look at my hands." "Don't look at my hands." "Look at my shoulder." "That's where the punch is comin' from!" " See?" " Come on!" "You're still lookin' at my hands." "Now come on." "Let's try it again." "Come on." "Focus." "Come on." "Shoulders!" "Shoulders!" " Here." " No, no, no." "You keep it." "Come on." "You won." "Yeah, but I always win." "I mean, I feel so guilty about it." "Shut up and take it." "You know why you didn't beat me today, Hale?" "Could it be you've been boxing for 20 years... and you're better at it than I am?" "No." "You don't have the will to win." "Well, your insight is shattering." "You had me today." "You could've shut me down, but you blinked." "Hmm?" "Yeah, well, we were only sparring, buddy." "Thinking like that is exactly why you lost." "Now take this." " It's yours." " No, no, no, no." "Take it." "If you didn't give it everything you've got, then I don't want it." " Go ahead." " No, you don't understand." "See, it really is yours." "I took it out of your wallet while you were in the shower." " General." " General." " Major, were you recently promoted past me?" " No, sir." "Then why are you smoking in my briefing room?" "Ah, sorry about that, sir." "That'll never happen again." "Sit." "You take off in the Stealth at 0-dark 30." "Fly a simulated low-level border penetration." "Nap of the earth all the way." "The usual." "Scare the cows, wake the farmers." "Not tonight, buddy." "We're flyin' the B-3 with two live nukes." "Palmdale's concerned about low-level gamma and X-ray diffusions... screwing up the peripherals." "They want to send up a couple on a pre-dawn run." "See if anything glows." " Sixty-ones?" " Big ones." "Eighty-threes." "Ooh!" "Crowd pleasers." "How's your head?" "It's all right." "I'll be fine." " I'm sorry about that." " Don't worry about it." "I'll get you back." "Ah, now you're dreamin'." "After you, Major." "You know, these exercises are fantastic." "When the day comes when we have to go to war against Utah, we're really gonna kick ass, you know?" "Ground control, we're ready for rollout." "Park ranger!" "I'd like to speak to you about this campfire." " Should I go?" " No, Wanda." "You stay put." "Yeah, I know." "No wood fires in the park." "Just that Wanda has a cold, and I'm tryin' to keep her warm." "Sir, have you seen any other hikers or campers in this area?" "Not this time of year." "Say, what's the fine for somethin' like this?" "Pretty steep." "Secured." "Jesus Christ!" "Drag him outta there." "We'll be smelling that all night." "Climb heading 2-8-7." "Flight level 2-0-0." "That's 2-8-7, 2-0-0." "I don't think that Aurora Project's gonna happen for me." "Spoke to your buddy Taylor." "He doesn't feel like I have enough fighter time to qualify." " And what did you say to him?" " "Thank you very much, sir." "Good-bye. "" "You'll never change, will you?" "And that, my friend, will be your downfall." "You know what your problem is?" "Yeah." "I'm always right." " You think you're always right." " That's deep." "You said so yourself." "You should have made colonel by now... but you're too busy pushing at everybody all the time." "Well, that's an awesome responsibility, isn't it?" "McMurran Control, this is Ghost 7." "Colonel, you boys in Utah still awake?" "Copy, Major Deakins." "We're ready and waiting." "Be advised, we're gonna catch your sorry little butts this morning and bite down hard." "You may pass that along to Captain Hale with my compliments." "Ooh, Wilkins is givin' us attitude." "You want to take it through tonight?" "Tell him I'm gonna fly this thing in one ear and out the other." " He won't even know we were there." " Copy, Colonel." "Hale says that if anyone can catch us, you can." "And everyone get a fix." "They're about to turn out the lights." "Check that. 210 degrees." " Ready, Captain?" " On your command, Major." " Go to war." " Initiating stealth mode." "River valley approach, here we go." "Colonel, they've gone to stealth mode." "Team, we lost 'em on the radar." "Anybody still holding?" "Anybody?" " Got capture on their heat signature, sir." " Good." "They may be running cold, but the air above 10-five is colder." "Good man, Frenchy." "I like that." "Descend to 400 feet A.G.L." "Altimeter setting 3-0-0-1." "Air speed. 7 Mach 3-0-0-1, 400 feet." "Nap of the earth." "Here we go." "Terry, you been through the Needles entrance tonight?" " No, why?" " Mrs. Parkerjust called." "Oh, God." "What is it this time, another U.F.O.?" "Or did Elvis drop by for dinner?" "She didn't mention him, but she said... a bunch of trucks went through the Needles entrance about an hour ago... and she thought they looked a little suspicious." "Clyde, what exactly does a "suspicious" truck look like?" "I don't know, and I have no idea." "Me neither." "Yeah, the thing is, though, she said one of the trucks was ours." "You're the only one out there tonight, so if it wasn't you—" "She was probablyjust hallucinating." "Don't worry." "I'll check it out." " Lost 'em." " Damn." "Come on." "Keep hunting." "Keep hunting." "We're below their eyes and ears." "Proceed to primary target." "Descending to 200 feet." "Ridge coming up in six seconds." "I got it." "Whoo!" "Very nicely done." " Excellent." " Switching to autopilot." "Almost as good as me." "I still left a few trees behind." "I'll try to do better next time." "You really love this shit, don't ya?" "Where else can you fly a $2 billion plane... 800 miles an hour, a hundred feet off the ground, huh?" "That is a fact." "That is a fact." "You're in for life, huh?" "As long as they'll have me." "Aren't you?" "Nah." "I don't think so." "I mean, come on." "I mean, you even said it yourself." "I should be colonel by now." "Instead idiots like Boone become general." " Boone is not such a bad guy." " Aw, come on." "If he had a thought go through his head, it'd be the quickest trip in North America." "Nah." "Flyin' doesn't mean what it used to mean to me." "No, not the flying." "Carrying the nukes." "I know you." "You love havin' the power of God at your fingertips." "You get off on it." "Look out your window." "There's something wrong with the terrain following here." "Shouldn't that starboard ridge be on our port side?" "Fuck!" "Here she comes." "No!" "What the hell are you doing?" "Clyde, I'm standin' here lookin' at half the valley, and there's nothin' goin'" "Holy shit." "I got him!" "McMurran, this is Deakins!" "Hale's lost it!" "I'm punching out!" "Oh, shit!" "Get me Search and Rescue." "We got pilots down." "The plane crashed 18 minutes ago." "The White House chief of staff is on his way up." "I'm gonna take these in." "Good morning, gentlemen." "So, do I wake the president?" " Bill." " Jack." "Well, what have we got?" "We're going out with this." "Rick's team prepared it." ""The United States Air Force regrets to announce that early this morning..." ""a C-141 heavy-lift cargo plane went down over the Utah desert." "The status of the crew has yet to be determined. "" "Yadda yadda yadda." "Well, that's very nice bullshit, Rick." " Thank you, sir." " We'll go with that." "Wait." "We're making a mistake." "Giles." " You, uh, have some input you wish to share with us?" " Yes, sir." "Aviation Week has been following the development of the B-3 for years." " Aviation Week?" " They have stringers- guys camping' out in lawn chairs all night out by the Whiteman perimeter fence... watching, just in case one of these things take off." "Now, they're gonna know that one took off last night... and they're gonna know that it didn't come back." "We put out a press release saying a C-141 went down in Utah... they're gonna put two and two together." "AviationWeek is gonna run a story." "Everyone's gonna know what really happened, and we're all gonna look extremely stupid." "We're better off just telling the truth." "The truth?" "How'd you get this job?" " Rewrite it, like Giles said." " Yes, sir." "I want you to go to Utah." "I'll have my C-21 standing by." "That was good work in there." ""Guys in lawn chairs. "" "I don't know, Giles." "Sometimes you scare me." "Hell, sir." "Sometimes I scare myself." "Go!" "Move!" "Move!" "Come on!" "Wallace, over there!" "Reed, check over there!" "Kelly, check over there!" " See anything?" " Not a goddamn thing!" "Colonel, this is Rhodes." " Go, Max." " Aircraft disintegrated." "Negative survivors on site." " Checking payload." "Over." " You watch your needles there, Chief." "Over here!" "Over here!" "Take that end." "The nukes are gone." "Colonel, we got ourselves a broken arrow." "You find those nukes, Chief." "If your Geigers pick up more rads than you get off a toaster, I want you out of there." " A broken what?" " Broken arrow." "It's a class-four strategic theater emergency." "It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon." "I don't know what's scarier- losing nuclear weapons... or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it." "They found the wreckage about 90 miles outside of McMurran." "No bombs on board." "This is a real nightmare." "We don't know where the hell the damn things are." " Cappy, put two more teams in the air." " Sir." "I want Chief Rhodes and his men backed up to the fullest extent." " Why didn't they go off?" " They have to be armed to detonate." "They're designed to survive crashes intact." "They could lie in a pool of burning jet fuel for five hours." "No problem." " So what the hell happened?" " In his last transmission..." "Major Deakins said that Captain Hale lost control." "It's possible one of them may have hit "Weapons Release" during the confusion." "Deakins." "You won that round." "Sir, please turn around." " Who the hell are you?" " Park ranger." "Just put it down, and I won't have to kill you." "This isn't a standoff." "I've got the gun." "I never keep it loaded." "I thought you said it wasn't loaded." "I lied." "Now, who the hell are you?" "I'm a captain in the United States Air Force." "Well, Captain, you're under arrest until we can get this sorted out." "Lady, you're missin' the bigger picture here." "Hold still." "All right?" "I have already had a hell of a morning, lady." "Now, I'm not allowed to tell you what's going on, but I need your help, okay?" "This is a good way to convince me." "We both know that the gun is loaded... so if I wanted to, I could blow your head off, right?" "Yeah." "I'm not going to." "Come on." "I got a radio in my truck." "It's this way." "Got 'em." "We got one." " How you doin'?" " Hey!" "You guys need any help?" "It's an Air Force training exercise, sir." "Now I'm gonna have to ask you to leave." "Hey, no problem." "We just, uh—" "Oh, geez." "Any sign of Deakins?" "Maybe the son of a bitch is dead." "What a terrible thing to say." "Get 'em." "You assured me everything would go smoothly." "Everything is going smoothly, I assure you." "Our merchandise is not where it's supposed to be!" "It's right down there, Mr. Pritchett." "Everything's on schedule." "Sir, we got one intact." "Let's go find the other one!" "Move!" "Let's go!" "Care for a Coke or somethin'?" "Two gunships just left McMurran and are headed this way." " Oh, wonderful!" " Don't worry about them." "I worry." "What about the other pilot?" "We saw him eject." "Huh." "Captain Hale." "Well, I seriously doubt that he's alive." "I punched him out of the cockpit when we were scraping' the valley floor." "There's a report that a park ranger called in." " She saw a pilot come down and was gonna look for him." " Really?" "Find her." "I got it!" " Hello." "McMurran, come in." " Go, Max." "McMurran, come in." "Over." "McMurran?" "Max, are you there?" " McMurran?" " Max!" "McMurran, come in." "Down!" "Everybody down!" "Move!" "Gonna open up the access panels." "Gonna drop in a couple grenades." "It won't go nuclear, but it will destroy the bomb." "And who's ever trying to steal it." "I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Chief." "And why not?" "All clear!" "Where is this truck of yours?" "Just around the bend." " How did you find me?" " Saw your chute." "Don't step on that stuff!" "There, on that black stuff." " What is it?" " It's cryptogamic soil." "Very fragile." "One footprint takes centuries to repair." " Oh." " Come on." "Jump." "Yeah." "Thought it was a mine or something." "Endangered dirt." "That's a new one." "Colonel Wilkins, this is Airman Kelly, sir!" " Go." " Chief Rhodes is dead!" " They're all dead!" " What the hell happened?" "What the hell happened?" "It's the nuke!" "It's open!" "It's wide open!" "Kelly, come in!" "What happened?" "God!" "What am I gonna do?" "Whoo!" "Recall Search and Rescue." "Get me Washington." "I want NEST on this right now." " You missed your callin', boy." " Deak, / even bought it." "Make sure you get Hale!" "Go!" "I'd like to remind you there's still two attack helicopters headed this way!" "Not anymore!" "They've just been recalled!" " I'll check the perimeter." " Yeah." "That's where they're headed." " They're goin' over." " Get to work!" "You see, Mr. Pritchett, they believe they've got an exposed core... and that changes things remarkably." "'Cause you can't just send people out to an active radiation area." "I mean, that just wouldn't be right." "First thing you have to do is take a picture from a satellite." "Hell, that takes about an hour and a halfjust to change orbit." "Then they gotta send in a NEST." "That's a Nuclear Emergency Search Team." "Closest one is about two hours from here." "So, you see, by the time they find us, we'll be gone." "So relax." "Think your radio can get a signal to McMurran from here?" "I'll have Clyde patch us through." "Ifwe can get your people in here... then I can go home and feed my dog." "Clyde, this is Terry." "Do you read me?" "Hello, Clyde." "This is Terry." "Do you read me?" "Why the hell are they shooting at us?" "I don't think we have time to discuss it right now." "Come on." "Let's have some fun." "Whoa!" " You okay?" " Yeah." "Give me your gun." "Come on." "Come on." " You have any more bullets for this thing?" " Yeah." "We need to get out of this canyon." "We can get out up that way." "If I could just get that bastard to hold still." " I have an idea." " No." "Wait." "I didn't mean—" "Oh, shit." "Don't shoot!" " Where is he?" " I don't know." "Oh." "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Holy shit!" "Novacek must've hit a canyon wall." " You think?" " Maybe." "Maybe?" "You said you'd planned this thing carefully." "How are we gonna move those things now?" "Use the trucks." "That's why they're there." "The trucks now?" "You listen." "I've spent a lot of money underwriting this... and, frankly, you're beginning to shake my confidence." "Hmm." "Hmm." "Well, yeah." "Well, I—" "I do appreciate the money... that you and your associates have invested in this operation... but, uh, it is an operation— it's a military operation." "And you don't know dick about that." "Now, I've been in the military for 20 years." "I planned and flew over 100 missions in the Gulf." "I put these boys together because they are motivated... and they are highly trained, like me." "This is what I do, Mr. Pritchett." "And this is battle, and battle is a highly fluid situation." "You— You plan on your contingencies, and I have." "You keep your initiative, and I will." "But what you don't do is share command." "It's never a good idea." "It's still my money." "And if we succeed, you and your friends will get a ton of it." " Ifwe're successful?" " Look, Mr. Pritchett..." "I will deliver the weapons to the destination... but I can't depend and I can't guarantee... that those assholes in Washington won't do something stupid like... not pay." "What if they don't?" "Well, if they don't... the Southwest will be a quiet neighborhood for about 10,000 years." "Wilkins." "Fax me their last transmission." "How much radiation is tracking' out there?" "Fax that to Mr. Prentice." " Yes, sir." " So far we're not picking up any." "Well, that's kind of strange, isn't it?" "I mean, with an exposed core?" "I'd call it good news." "The breach may not be as bad as we thought." "Colonel, what if this wasn't an accident?" "What are you saying, Giles?" "In his final transmission, just before the crash..." "Major Deakins said Captain Hale "lost it. "" "Now, we all assume that to mean pilot error or equipment failure... but what if he meant..." "Hale intentionally lost the plane?" "But why would he do that?" "Two nuclear weapons would be worth a lot of money." "To who, son?" "There are easier ways to buy nuclear weapons." "Go to one of the old Soviet republics... they'll fix you up with a couple for the price of a B.M.W." "Sir, I meant, how much would they be worth to us?" "How much would we pay to get 'em back?" "Hold on." "These nukes have codes or something that prevent people from using them." " Of course." " And no one knows these codes, right?" "Except for the president and you guys." "Access to the codes requires the highest security." "Yeah, but I mean, not even the pilots have these codes, right?" "Where is that NEST team now?" "They just took off, sir." "The E.T.A. in Utah is 96 minutes." " Correct 10 left." " Ten-four." " It's okay." "We—" " It's not okay!" "I wanna know what's going on, and I wanna know right now." "We were carrying nuclear weapons on our plane last night." "My former commander is trying to steal them." " Oh, my God." " That's why I need your help." "Well, without the helicopter, he won't be able to move them at all." "No, no, no, no, no." "Deak'll have a backup plan." "He'll be prepared for that." "Trucks." "He's got trucks." "Last night Clyde radioed me... that someone came through the Needles gate with trucks." "I don't think he's gonna take 'em towards town." "What else is around here?" "The river." "Do you mind?" "No, I don't mind at all." "Care for one?" "See the one in front there?" "That one's got the nukes in it." " How do you know?" " There's only a driver." "They're trying to keep the weight down." " Give me your gun again, will ya?" " What are you gonna do?" "Well, I'll think of something." "Wait." "Wait, wait." "Look, we know where they are." "Let's get to a phone and call for help." "Ifthey make it to the river, I'm gonna lose 'em again." "You get to the phone, okay?" "Then I'm going with you." " No, you're not." " You're gonna need help." "Look, lady, I don't have time to argue with you, okay?" "The nuclear weapons are my responsibility, not yours." "You're a park ranger." "I'm a military officer." "Just go to the phone." "Oh, this is a bad idea." "Hi." "Hi." "Hale!" "Well, goddamn!" "Run him down!" "Get him!" "Get him!" "Get him, goddamn it!" "Fuck!" "Don't panic." "Bulletproof glass." "You can get out now." "I don't know." "Looks like we got ourselves a standoff." "No, we don't!" "Go!" "Go!" "Okay." "You can come." "Stay down!" "Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" "Where's St. Jude's Hospital from here?" "Salt Lake City, I think." " Shit!" " What?" " We're losing gas." " They must have hit the tank." "We have to find someplace to hide these things." "I know a place." "What the fuck are you up to, Hale?" "Don't even." "Stop!" "Ah, shit!" "Ah, fuck!" "You learn that in survival school?" "New Jersey." "Trenton, New Jersey." "What is this place?" "It used to be a copper mine." "They shut it down a couple of years ago." "Why would they have a new lock?" "All right." "Good move, Hale." "I didn't see it comin'." "But you're definitely gonna pay for it." "Saddle up, boys!" "This place has been prepped." "Deak's been here." "What?" "You think he's coming back?" "Yeah." "That'd be my guess." "We may not have a lot of time." "What are we gonna do?" "We'll just take away his reason for being here." "Wanna help me unload these things?" "Where do you think they're goin'?" "Same place we were." "It's the only thing on this road." "My God." "Are you sure you know what you're doing?" "When you fly with nuclear weapons, you're trained... to retrieve, if possible, disable, if necessary and destroy, if essential." "And what are we doing?" "I'm gonna disable it." "See, you have to arm these things with a code." "If you enter the wrong code three times, the nuke goes dead." "All the circuitry shuts down and shorts out." "Pretty soon these things'll be nothing more than paper weights." "Hale, pick up." "Pick up!" "Come on, buddy." "Pick up the phone." ""Buddy," huh?" "You son of a bitch." "You tried to kill me." "The friendship is over." "Well, that doesn't mean I don't like you." "Hell, I'm impressed." "I figured you'd have packed up and walked off by now." "Yeah?" "Well, you figured wrong." "Now I got the nukes." "Guess what, Deak?" "I'm gonna deactivate 'em." "You hear that?" "That's me punching' in the wrong codes." "Pretty soon these things are gonna be absolutely useless." " You might as well turn around and drive away." " Outstanding, Hale." "That's the spirit." "Damn, I'm totally screwed now." "Unless, of course, I already thought ofthat ahead of time." "What?" "You're kidding me." "Didn't work, did it?" "I used uncoded circuit boards." "You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend." "Setting off a nuke in this mine's been part of my plan from day one." "Otherwise, some D.C. civilian might say I haven't got the guts." "Fuck!" "He's insane." "You know, Hale, I considered bringing you in on this." " You know why I didn't?" " 'Cause I would've said no?" "Nah, if you had said no, I'd have just killed you." "I was afraid you were gonna say yes... 'cause you don't have the balls to go through with something like this." "We both know that." "How deep is this mine?" "Uh, about 2,000 feet." "That's plenty." "Now look, I'm gonna be there in a few minutes." "My advice to you is to get out of there as soon as you can." "It's your last move, buddy." "You know something, Deak?" "I can think of another move." "I'm gonna keep the both of these things together." "If one of them goes off, the other's gonna get buried under a billion tons of rock." "How's that sound, huh?" "You wouldn't do something like that." "You sure about that, buddy?" "Shit!" "Fuck!" "He's gonna do it." "Let's get him." "All right." "Then we gotta be gone before he gets here." "I" " I can't do this." "Listen." "You told me this is a copper mine, right?" " Right?" " Right." "Okay, the blast and the heat will fuse this place into one big solid copper pot." " But they're coming." " That's right." "They're coming." "And if I don't get these things down to a safe level before they get here..." "God knows where he's gonna use 'em." "Just keep an eye on the timer, okay?" "All right." "What is that noise?" "It's water." "There's an underground river beneath this place." "All right." "Let's get these things unloaded." "I understand, sir." "I'll advise NEST of the situation... and as soon as they confirm that the ground is clean, I'll send in a dozen gunships." "We'll secure the whole area." "Yes, sir." "Giles Prentice, sir." "I got here as soon as I could." " Wilkins." "Good to meet you finally." " Likewise, sir." "That was the chairman, Mr. Prentice." "According to an N.S.A. radio intercept, you were right." "But it's Deakins stealing' the nukes, not Hale." "Now what?" "Now we get out of here before he shows up." "Back!" "Back!" "How many times do I have to say it?" "Please don't shoot the nuclear weapons!" "Kelly, we found the nuke." "We're at the end oftunnel "A."" "Put the cold one on the elevator, and we'll be right along." "A service tunnel." "Come on." "Make sure Hale doesn't get back to the bomb." "And, Johnson, the clock is ticking." " Where are you taking us?" " Back to the elevator." "These service tunnels run between the main shaft." "Now, if we take the next right—" "Hey, Hale." "Nice move with the nukes." "It shows initiative, determination." "Proud of ya!" "But I think I gave us all too much time." "Thirty whole minutes." "I don't know." "Shows a lack of total commitment, don't you think?" "So I took it down to 13." "I'll be right back." "Bitch!" " All set." " We'll be right along." "Are you okay?" "Well, I gotta go." "You two have a nice time down here." "And, uh, don't forget to say hi to Johnson for me... when you see him." "I got 20 bucks that says you're gonna see him first." " Really?" " Yeah." "I know what you're up to." "You're gonna ransom Salt Lake City, aren't you?" " Why do you say that?" " St. Jude's Hospital." "You're gonna hide the warheads in the radiology department... so they don't show up on any satellite scans, right?" " Huh." "Well, I'm impressed." " Thank you." " So how much you ask for?" " Lots." "I got a broker in Stockholm that's gonna buy me five percent of Volvo." "And for the rest of my years, I'm gonna live off the dividends... happy in the knowledge that I am helping to make... the safest automobiles in the world." "So that's what this is all about, huh?" "The money?" " Yeah." " Bullshit." "Well, you tell me why." "Go ahead." "You tell me why." "'Cause you've been passed over for promotion so many times... you wanna show the bastards you're right!" "Maybe it's, uh— Maybe it's 'cause everybody's cashing out, so why the hell not you?" "I don't know." "Maybe your mother dropped you on your head when you were a baby." "Who the hell cares, Deak?" "There's no difference between you and a guy who shoots up a school yard." "You both got a head full of bad wiring." " What was that?" " You're fucked in the head, Deak!" " Ha!" " That pissed him off." "Oh, uh, it's this way." "Hey, hey, hey!" "Where the hell's the other one?" "Shut up!" "Help us." "Come on." "What a Mongolian clusterfuck." "Get the goddamn thing in." "Let's get outta here." "That was the only way out." "Oh, man." "That's it then, isn't it?" "You have any family?" "No." "Just me and Fred." "Fred?" "Who's, uh— Who's Fred?" "Your boyfriend?" " No, my dog." " Huh." "The river." "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God!" "They" " They hit it, uh, digging a tunnel." "That's why they shut down the mine." "Come on." "Hang on." "Four minutes to detonation." " You stupid bastard!" "We'll all be killed!" " We'll be fine, Mr. Pritchett." "Now, will you please keep your voice down?" "I'm trying to concentrate." "This should be it." "This thing doesn't go anywhere." "1:00, on the road!" "Attention!" "We are Federal agents!" "Stop your vehicle immediately!" "Oh, God." "Oh, God!" "How does that gunship fit into your grand strategy?" "You don't know what you're doing, do you?" "This is out of control!" "I must have been—" "Hush." "Hush!" "Stop your vehicle!" "I repeat, stop your vehicle immediately." "Bring it around." "We'll get in front of him." "Do not move, or you will be fired upon." "Uh, uh—" "We are Federal agents." "Throw down your weapons and keep your hands in sight." "I just realized something." "I never actually killed anyone before." "I mean, I dropped bombs on Baghdad... but, uh, never face to face." "I don't know what the big deal is." "I really don't." "Turn your electronic equipment off now." "Throw down your weapons." "Okay." "All right." "Stay calm!" " What do you got?" " We're losing power!" " What the hell's going on?" " Oh, my God!" "Control." "Control!" "We've gone red!" "Check the relays!" "Pull up!" "I said, goddamn, what a rush!" " Whoo!" " Son of a bitch!" "Shock wave took down the damn chopper." "That's E.M.P. Electromagnetic pulse." "Nuclear blast sends it out for miles." "Everything electronic shuts down, including choppers and radios." "Hell, we just shut down McMurran's field communications." "That'll put a pretty little dent in their response time, huh?" " Deak, you the man." " I'm the man!" "Colonel Wilkins, sir, shouldn't we be evacuating?" "We're fine." "It was underground." "Colonel Wilkins to General Creely." "Are you sure?" "How do you know that?" "Because if it had been a surface detonation, we'd have felt a different kind of tremor." "We'd also be burned and blind and dying." " Danny, what are your readings?" " I need a damage report." "We're 10 minutes behind." "Mr. Pritchett, would you mind stepping outside?" "It went off underground, thank God." "What do we do now?" "First, we nail a huge goddamn lid on this thing." "And with all due respect to your boy Giles... and his beliefthat honesty is the best policy... from now until the end of the world... what happened in Utah today was an earthquake." "Hey, it's okay." "Oh, my God." "We set off a nuclear bomb." "The walls shielded the blast." "None of the radiation leaked out." " So we're all right." " Look at my hands." "Why are they shaking like that?" " 'Cause they're cold." "The water was freezing." " That's not normal." "No, it's okay." "It's okay." "You're just cold." "You just need to get warm, okay?" "All right?" "Hey, look." "See the, uh— the butterflies there?" "Now, if there was radiation around, they wouldn't be able so survive, now, would they?" " No." " No." " All right?" " I guess not." "It says so in the, uh, detonation manual... that if you see butterflies after detonation... you're gonna be fine, okay?" "It doesn't say that." "I promise you, though, we're fine." "How far down the riverbank does this path go?" "Three or four miles." "We should be able to get to Deakins before he gets out of here." "Wait." " Hey." " Looks like there's just two of them." "Running late." "There's more coming." "Hey, I thought you said Hale wouldn't be a problem." "Yeah, well, he surprised me too." "But he's dead, so let's go." " Sink it?" " Steal it." " Come on." "Let's move it." " They're coming!" "Get out of the boat!" "Get out of the boat!" "Well, your friends in Washington should be getting the package about now." "Yep, I'm sure we got their full and complete attention." "Let's move it." "We're on a tight schedule." "$250 million by 1400, Utah time." "This deadline is not negotiable, and there is no grace period." "The second device is on a timer." "Shortly after you receive this, the timer will be activated." "At 1401, I will make a call." "If I find you've complied, I will stop the timer." "If you have not—" "Yes, yes, I understand." " Creely." " Hold for McMurran, sir." "The president is asking ifwe know where the device is headed." "If Deakins had a plane waiting, it could be anywhere." "We just don't know." " I do." " One moment, sir." "General, this is Colonel Jamison." "They found Captain Hale." "He's at Lake Powell." "This is a really bad idea." " Sir, the prisoner is secure." " All right, Tom." "Good job." "You gentlemen can R.T.B. I'll take it from here on in." "Roger, sir." "Returning to base." "They found the raft on the other side of the lake." "Tracks from a heavy truck ran out when they hit the paved road." " What about the girl?" " What about her?" ""What about her"?" "She's an innocent victim in all this." "I got her involved." "Now, when you guys find that truck, you're gonna hit it with everything you've got." "I don't want her becoming a casualty." "Maybe giving' her up is okay with you, but we're military officers." "We took an oath, one officer to another." "We have a responsibility to save that woman's life and get back the weapon." "And I have a responsibility to follow my orders and return you to McMurran." "Do you understand what orders are, Captain?" " Yes, sir, I do." " Good." "Because I'm about to break them." "Any argument, Mr. Prentice?" "No, sir." "Just for the record, I'm not entirely a civilian." "I was actually a lieutenant in the R.O.T.C. at Yale." "Good for you, Lieutenant." " Is the radio still down?" " Afraid so." "Your chopper will be refueled in two minutes." "I wish I were going with you." " Captain, what exactly are you looking for?" " Tracks." "As in railroad tracks?" "Deak knows you're covering every inch of asphalt north of here." "I'll bet 20 bucks that nuke isn't on a truck." "It's on a train." "Let me see the map." "Salt Lake is northwest of here." "These tracks curve east before it gets to Salt Lake." " Why would he do that?" " I don't think he's going to Salt Lake." "But that's where the closest hospital is." "You found the radiology tag yourself." "I know." "That's what's been botherin' me." "I think he planted it." "He wanted the person that found it to think that's where he was heading." "He's doing a rope-a-dope." " He's doing a what?" " Rope-a-dope." "It's a boxing term." "Ali and Foreman in Zaire?" "I know what the rope-a-dope is." "What's your point?" "My point is is that if everything he shows us... says he's heading west, he's actually heading east." "Denver." "You said you had Salt Lake sealed up pretty tight." "What's it gonna hurt ifwe check out Denver?" " Shepherd!" " Hey, Deak." "Any trouble with the train crew?" " Not a bit." "They went like lambs." " Ah, good for them." " Let's get that satellite dish wired in." " Already done." " Excellent." " With this remote, you can shut the bomb down face to face... or you can dial it in over the link." "All right." "Let's close this deal." "Now, Shepherd, I want to be airborne in five minutes en route to the mountains." "Kelly, contact Washington." "Let them know the bomb's on its way to Denver." "Then contact Geneva." "When the money's in place, I'll shut down that puppy." "Smile, boys." "We're about to retire." "Let's get this bird unwrapped!" "Go." "All right." "We haven't met." "I'm Max." "You probably thought I was a computer nerd, didn't you?" "Wrong." "I was a Navy SEAL, lady." "You really should see what I can do... with just my thumb." "You just saved me $3 million." "I owe you one." "Shoot yourself." "We'll call it square." "Whoa!" "Attitude!" "Now, where's my little buddy Hale?" "He left you alone, didn't he?" "Well, that's his speed— 100% pussy." "He's got more guts than you think." "But would he have enough guts to eat a bullet... before he'd help someone vaporize a whole city?" "I think he'd fold." "But not you." "I think you've got more guts than he does." "I— I think you'd eat a bullet." "Let's find out." "Now, press four." "Ooh." "I said push four." "Go ahead." "Push four." "Four." "Eight." "Seven." " Go ahead." " Please." "Seven." "Starting at ground zero and moving out in concentric circles... we have, in terms of immediate effect... 100% fatalities to 30 miles, 90% at 40 miles... dropping roughly 10% for every 10 miles after that." "Two." "One." "Enter." "Enter." "We estimate 250,000 dead on impact... another quarter million projected within the year." "Enter." "Come on." "Just push enter and it's done." "Which is it gonna be?" "Huh?" "Ah." "Hmm." "You know, to tell the truth, I thought you were gonna fold." "Well, I'm dead either way... so do it yourself, asshole." "Open the door!" "Night-night, honey." " Cover me!" " Good luck." "Bring it in." "Give me your hand." "Okay, you can come." "Get me down there right now!" "Let's give those guys a haircut!" "Shit!" "Get down!" "Freeze!" " Wow." " That was a first for me too." "This is where you two get off." "No!" " We're leaving, now!" " Yes, sir!" " Where is Shepherd?" " He's supposed to be here." "Find him!" "Cut the power!" "Goddamn you, Hale." "We're never gonna get clear in time." "We need to shut down the nuke." "You hear me?" "You need to disarm it!" "Find Hale." "Oh, God!" "Your shoulder." "Help me off with this." "Oh, God." "No matter what happens, this train can't make it to the city." "So you stay here and uncouple the car." "I'm gonna go after Deakins." " I'll see you soon." " You promise?" "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke." "What the fuck are you doin'?" "Shut that son of a bitch down, now!" "This ain't what I signed on for!" "I'm not ready to die." "Not for you." "Everybody dies, Kelly." "I'm as good a reason as any." "Come on." "Come on!" "Hale!" "Incoming!" "Come on out, Deak." "It's over." "You lose." "I still got my finger on the trigger." "That's the remote trigger." "You see, if I press this button here, you lose." "And if I push this button... the weapon is disarmed." "Why don't you disarm it then?" "I'm not in the mood." "Now get rid of your weapon." "Get rid of your weapon." "Come on." "That a boy." "Now you can shut it down." "You just have to come and get it." "And $20 that I took from you last night... says that you won't." " You're out of your mind." " Yeah." "Ain't it cool?" "I'm serious, Deak." "Your mind has taken a walk off the map." "That may be, but I'm still gonna kick your ass." "All right." "You're bleeding, aren't you?" "That's good." "Let's see ifwe can't get any more out of you, all righty?" "Used to be every fight went to a knockout." "You know what it feels like to be knocked out?" "Your brain presses against your skull, and it feels like this." "Feel anything like that?" "I win." "Sir, please turn around." "My name's Riley Hale." "Terry Carmichael." "Pleased to meet you." "You know, you're still under arrest, Captain." "Oh, yeah?" "Well, I guess you better take me in."