"This place rots." "Stupid boring, quiet boring, one-horse boring town." "Why do I have to burn my Saturday volunteering ?" "You're not volunteering." "It's called community service." "And you wouldn't be doing it if you didn't pull the fire alarm during your I.Q. test." "I wouldn't be doing it if you hadn't arrested me." "You know, sometimes it sucks having a dad who's the town Smoke." "Well, sometimes it sucks having a daughter who's the town delinquent." "I take it back." " Gee, thanks." " It always sucks." "Please don't make me do this." "I hate old people." "You don't do this, you won't live to be one." " Can't we just discuss this ?" " You're going." "End of discussion." " I will do jail time." " Go." "Scoot." "I can't tell you how much I appreciate this, sir." "No need to thank me, Fargo." "You've earned it." "Having your own office is a right of passage." "It's a symbol of status and rank." "It tells the world you've arrived." "Not yet." "Section five ?" "Pace yourself." "What's down here ?" "You..." "and your new office." "Congratulations, Fargo." "You deserve every square foot of it." "Thanks." "What did you do to get put down here ?" "I earned it." "Having your own office is a right of passage." "It's a symbol of status and rank." "Rank's the word all right." "It smells like something died in here." "Like... say, the 1970s." "You have no vision." "Once all this junk's gone, this will be an exemplary office space." " Just lacking..." " A woman's touch ?" "Style." "Well, you got a lot of great stuff in here." "It just deserves our respect." "The dumpster's down the hall to the left." "Dumpster ?" "No-no-no-no." "One man's trash is another man's treasure." "Been nice doing business with you." "Check this out !" "What do you think ?" "Stereo ?" "Sure." "First generation iPod." "How do you turn this thing on ?" "On ?" "It's got key holes." "And we got keys." "I saw some in the desk over here." "Hey, these two match." "Here." "Go unlock your side." "Ready... set... go." "Just another old piece of useless junk." "That was almost exciting." "Primary firing sequence initiated." "Weapon will deploy in 24 hours." "I don't think I like this station." "Car or no car, it is a 30 mile an hour zone." "Don't you have anything better to do than harass me." "No." "Not really." "Now you do." "Yeah, all that can't be good." "What's going on, Sheriff ?" "I was hoping you could tell me." "This sort of thing happen often ?" " Not to my recollection." " I've never seen anything like it." "It's some sort of I.C.B.M." "I.C.B.M ?" "Please." "Look at the circumference." " Clearly, that's an I.R.B.M." " So you guys have seen this before ?" " Nope." " Nope." "Thanks, guys." "Big help." " What do you think it is, Sheriff ?" " Oh, I know exactly what it is." "Trouble." " Carter." " It's Allison." "We've got trouble." "That's exactly what I said." "Trouble." "Well, hello." "I'm Doris Stokes, the director." "You must be Zoe." "Unfortunately." "I've heard a lot about you." "But everyone deserves a second chance, right ?" "Or a third or fourth." "Let's put you right to work, okay ?" "Actually, Doris, see I usually ease into my day with a latte, maybe some sort of pastry." "Funny." "I understand we have you for the next 13 Saturdays." "13 ?" "100 hours divided by eight-hour shifts." "I'm afraid that three months of Saturdays is not gonna work for me." "So why don't we say we'll just get the whole thing over in one fell swoop ?" "Let's start with the rec room." "Up... and to the side." "Holy crap !" "This is the rec room ?" "It's a nice place to die." "Even nicer place to live." "The residents of Eureka give so much." "This facility is our way to give back." "Run out of tennis balls ?" "I guess all the massages in the world can't stop you from losing your mind." "Here." "So, Doris, are there any age restrictions on getting a room here ?" "You've got a darling sense of humor." "Come on." "I've signed you to Eugenia." "Eugenia, this is Zoe." "She's going to assist you today." "If I desired assistance, I'd be living in an assisted living facility." "Don't mind her." "She has a teence of an attitude problem." " Do not !" " Do not !" "You two should get on just fine." " You smoke ?" " No." " Drink ?" " No." "You lying ?" "Maybe." "What kind of a name is Zoe anyway ?" "It's a popular one." "You know, probably as popular as Eugenia was back in the Great Depression." "For once, Doris may be right." "How's my hair ?" "Your hair ?" "It's fine." "How's my hair ?" "Why are we whispering ?" "What matters most is the matter of how we handle anti-matter." "That used to be me." "Anti-matter, unlike matter..." "You used to talk to yourself ?" "No." "He used to talk to me." "It had to come from somewhere." " Keep looking." " Yes, sir." "Doctor Stark." "Allison." "Glad to see you." "Sheriff." "Scientist." "Which of your guys is responsible for the Cuban Missile Crisis popping up all over town ?" "They're not missiles." "Really ?" "Cause I have a town full of extremely anxious people who think they look a lot like missiles." "What are they, Nathan ?" "And why do they look a lot like missiles ?" "We're working on it." "So you don't know ?" "He doesn't know." "Don't touch the buttons." "I have to call this in to the D.O.D." "Not yet." "We have plenty of time to figure this out." "Well, I can't only wait too long and I'll need to have answers." "Like, what are these things that look a lot like missiles, but aren't, popping up all over your top secret little town ?" "Give us a little room, people." "Sir, even Henry's a lot smarter and faster than me..." "Fargo, that's the best decision you've made all day." "Henry ?" "Well, it's definitely a weapon and this machine controls it." " Tell me you know more than that." " It's set to discharge a huge" " ionosphere particle beam." " Oh, jeez." "Okay, this ion-beam-thingy, that is what exactly ?" " Irradiated, uranium isotopes." " Oh, God." "Oh, death ray." "Why didn't you just say "death ray" ?" "I searched your entire database." "There's not one single record of silos, or irradiated isotopes, or ionosphere particle beams." " Try "death ray" ?" " It's as if the machine never existed." "Did you try turning it off ?" "Why didn't I think of that ?" "Fargo, turn the machine off." "And that's a stupid question ?" "I mean, you did just turn it on, right ?" "That was an accident." "Jack, this machine was built at the height of the Cold War." "There is no off switch." "Could you cut the power source ?" "And risk there's a fail-safe and it fires immediately ?" "I'm gonna take that as a no." "How much time do we have left ?" "Weapon will deploy in 23 hours." "Finally, a straight answer." "We need to arrange for transport trucks and establish evacuation routes." "Make emergency contingencies for every location that could be hit." "Area hospitals should be prepped for emergency overflow." "And we'll need to estimate collateral damage in and around the target perimeter." "Good." "You can hear us right ?" "Unfortunately." "You're panicking." "We're not panicking." "We're reacting." "You say "death ray", we have a reaction." "You said death ray." "It's a ray, right ?" "It causes immediate death ?" "Yes, it could cause immediate death." "Simply blow up and people here would immediately die." "It could strike Moscow and people there would immediately die." "Then Moscow would retaliate and people everywhere would immediately die." "Evacuation is moot." "No place is safe." "You choose a great time to be indifferent." "I'm not indifferent, Sheriff." "I'm focused." "We have 24 hours and we happen to be in the most advanced scientific facility in the world." "Housing the largest supercomputer in the world." "Populated by the smartest scientists in the world." "We have plenty of time to figure this out as long as we don't panic." "But we've downloaded, scanned, and decrypted every file every schematic, and every piece of paper of every project ever developed here." "And there's nothing." "Well, maybe not every piece of paper." "This is every piece of paper I pulled from Fargo's office." "Something here has to tell us about that machine." "Come on !" "Scientists are so smart." "How come they don't know anything about penmanship ?" "Pardon the alliteration, but which would prefer ?" "Penmanship or progress ?" " Tequila." " Scotch." "Really ?" "What's, uh..." " What's "it"?" " It what ?" "I.T. It's scribbled at the bottom of all these pages." "I don't know." "Maybe information technology perhaps from the department from which these documents originated ?" "Looks more like someone's initials." "Well  you are the detective." " Marshal." " Sheriff." "That sounds like a demotion." "Hand me some pics." "What's the shiny thing ?" "Is that a solar flare ?" "That shiny thing is a mirror." "You do remember the moon landing, right ?" "Do not tell me that didn't happen." "No, it happened but we didn't go to the moon just to walk." "We put mirrors all over the moon to bounce signals back to the earth." "Telescopic images, satellite communications." "Death rays ?" "They weaponized the moon." "I mean, they can bounce a laser off the moon and wipe out any target they want." "What, like tanks and stuff ?" "No, cities and stuff." "So you're telling me while the world watched Neil Armstrong take one small step for man..." "N.O.R.A.D. took a giant leap for themselves." "Well, with the help from someone at Global." "Someone with the initials I.T." "I.T." "Irvin Thatcher." "It has to be Irvin Thatcher." "Irvin Thatcher was this brilliant scientist behind M.A.D." "M.A.D.D.?" "Mothers Against Drunk Driving ?" "Mutually Assured Destruction." "Oh, that M.A.D." "You said he was a brilliant scientist." "Was... or is ?" "This is easily explained." "The atom nucleus is comprised of positively-charged protons and neutrally-charged neutrons." "When a nucleus is bombarded by a neutrally-charged particle, the result is fission." "Um, you lost me right after "this is easily explained"." "Okay." "Let me try it another way." "Your father is a proton." "Your mother is a neutron." "You are a free radical." "You're caught stealing CDs in the mall." "You hit your parents with that news." "What happens ?" " They go nuclear ?" " Exactly." "And split." "You..." "You think that I'm the reason my parents split ?" "No-no-no-no." "Zoe." "Zoe." "What ?" "I'm doing the job." "I'm helping people." "I'm assisting... people." "Be right back." "Please... carry on." "This is the "oppressive jerk who's all up in your biznezz ?"" "I see you've found something to talk about." "Hi." "Sheriff Carter." "Nice to meet you." "I'm looking for a retired scientist." "Swing a cat." "A Dr. Thatcher ?" "Irvin ?" "Room 101." "But why do you want..." "Wait for it." " Hey, room 101." "That would be ?" " Room 101 ?" "Right this way." "What do you need him for, Sheriff ?" "There's a situation." "Even the brainiacs at Global can't figure it out." "But... there is one guy in town who can." "And... apparently, this is the guy." " Dr. Thatcher ?" " And this is the guy ?" "The question remains, fusion of fission ?" "Fission ?" "Certainly not." "I haven't been fishin' since I lived on Lake Erie." "You think that's Erie ?" "How do you explain quasar energy paradox ?" "Or baldness among musicians ?" "This is the guy." "Right this way, Dr. Thatcher." "Right this way." "Well, give the doctor some room." "Sir, sir !" "Right this way." "Dr. Thatcher, it's an honor." "I'm Henry Deacon." "This..." "This machine of yours." "It's really something." "It's like a riddle inside an enigma wrapped in ten inches" " of titanium alloy." " We're assuming it's similar to other space-based weapons, using a Single Channel" " Transponder package." " Or maybe a Survivable Low Frequency" " Communication System." " In which case we'd have to reassess" " certain aspects of our approach." " Guys... go easy." "We need that launch code, Sheriff." "And easy's not gonna get it." "Neither is browbeating the man." "Just give him a minute." "Dr. Thatcher ?" "We think the controls are behind this panel." "I just can't figure out how to get to them." "These locking bolts, they're some kind of proprietary threading ?" "Reverse the hex." " Excuse me ?" " If you want sex, reverse the hex." "Sheriff, at any point when you picked him up, the car ride, the long walk down here, happen to notice this guy's not all there ?" "Yeah, there may have been signs." "Righty loosey, lefty tighty." "Got it." "Bang up job." "Reverse the hex." "The screws recede." "It's brilliant." "Okay, Dr. Thatcher." "All I need is a code... to suspend the launch sequence." "Charlie, Tango, Lima." "No." "Charlie never tangoed in Lima." "Here." "He's just tired." "Dr. Thatcher, why don't you take a seat ?" "Don't give up, okay ?" "Up, down." "Up, down." "The windows on the bus go up and down." "Up and down." "Any luck ?" "The windows on the bus go up and down." "Up and down." "Up and down." "Up and down." "The windows on the bus go..." " Were we our kids sent home from school ?" " Is there gonna be a missile strike ?" "Do we need to evacuate ?" " No reason to panic, folks." " I heard it was a death ray." "That's ridiculous." "That's obviously a rumor." " Started by an idiot." " Who's he ?" "Is he responsible ?" "Oh, yeah." "Folks, listen up." "Just go on home." "Okay ?" "Situation's completely under control." "It could also be thermal conductive resistance." "Let me take a look." "Yeah, it looks like they used the classic formula." "Red for hot, blue for not." "Yellow's usually the ground." "So I guess... it's pretty safe to cut the blue." " What do you think ?" " Weapon will deploy in 20 hours." "Do it." "Launch code override initiated." "Yes !" "Weapon will deploy in seven hours." "No." "Let's not cut any more wires." "All right." "Dr. Thatcher, I know it's in there." "Just give us a hint." "Gravity." "The natural force of attraction exerted by a celestial body upon objects at or near its surface." "That's great." "Give me a second." "Look, we have our best people working on this." "You don't know Nathan, but he will find a way to shut it down." " Nothing against your husband" " Ex." "Soon to be ex." "But the man with the answers is sitting right there." "We just need to figure out how to get them out of him." "What ?" "What what ?" "You got that look on your face like you know something" "I should know, but you're not telling me." " Spill !" " I can't." "It's classified." "It's Nathan's turf, and there's no way that..." "Allison, if we don't stop this thing, there won't be any turf." "What is it ?" "Okay." "The gravity." "Got it." "What ?" "Hey, Allison." "Absolutely not." "That technology is highly experimental and far too dangerous for anyone to..." "Carter ?" "Really ?" "That's just a risk we may have to take." "So this is basically a..." "Vulcan mind meld ?" "The PX-24 allows one person to probe the consciousness of another." "In theory, anyway." "In theory ?" "Well, we haven't performed a human test run yet." ""In memory of Skippy."" "He was everyone's favorite test chimp." " Did he die on this thing ?" " No." "Autopsy was inconclusive." "Carter, listen." "I'm not gonna think any less of you if you don't wanna do this." "What am I looking for... again ?" "Sequences, equations," " codes." " Okay." "A kiss for luck ?" "Last chance to be a hero, Doc." "You just say the word." "Worth a shot." "Carter, are you okay ?" "Eugenia." " Okay, I'm stopping this." " No !" "Keep going." "Stockholm." "Linus Pauling." "Eugenia." "Eugenia." "Who is Eugenia ?" "Carter." "Did you see how to stop it ?" "No." "But I saw what happens if we don't." "Irvin, we're gonna go and see that girl of yours." "Would you like that ?" "Don't play coy with me, okay ?" "I've been inside that big brain of yours." "I know how much you love her." "That doesn't go away, does it ?" "Well, I don't think it does." "And I know that when you're not thinking about nuclear holocaust, you're thinking about Eugenia." "That's what I thought." "Got you with the nuclear holocaust thing, didn't I ?" "I put a trace on the hot wire." "The power source leads out the back." "That's where the machine is vulnerable." "Now, if we can reach that, then we can get to the guts off the thing." "I got a team in Section 5 working on a laser bombardment drill that will bore right through the titanium shell." "Yeah, unfortunately, your guys in Section 4 tell me it's not titanium." "It's arconium carbonide, which is..." " Impenetrable." " But." "I believe we can get there from here, through the base of the machine." "If we tunnel down, under, and up, we'll be directly behind it." "And then I think we got a shot." "Tell Fargo to give you anything you need." "And not to touch anything you don't." "Bad news, good news." "We didn't get anything from Thatcher." "But Carter wasn't hurt in the process." "And the good news ?" "Here you go, buddy." "Take a seat." "I'll go look for Eugenia, and you enjoy the view." "With a room." "Where is that ?" "Linus Pauling." "Royal Palace." "Stockholm." "Sweden." " How do you know that ?" " I don't know." " I was there." " When ?" "Recently." "Do you know where Eugenia is ?" "She's not to be disturbed." "Her words, not mine." "Come on." "This is her." "Eugenia ?" "Eugenia, it's Zoe." " Has she done something wrong ?" " No, no." "Eugenia, it's Sheriff Carter." "I need to talk to you." "Is there something I should know ?" "No." "There is, isn't there ?" "Actually, yeah." "Yeah, that crack I made about your being a delinquent." "Yeah." "Didn't mean it." "You're my girl." "It's really bad, isn't it ?" "No." "Eugenia !" "Eugenia ?" "Eugenia ?" "Eugenia." "Come in, Jo." "Where are you, Jo ?" "Come on, Jo, talk to us." "We all live here." "We have a right to know what's going on." "What is the trajectory of the weapon ?" "Is there a sea-based boost phase intercept ?" "Have the launch protocols been initiated ?" "Don't know." "Don't know, don't know." "Go home." "We've got everything under control." "Except for that." "Zoe, think." "Did she say anything about going anywhere, doing anything ?" " Not that I remember." " How about family ?" " Did she ask the kids picking her up ?" " It never came up, okay ?" "Where is that ?" "The Mensa Think-Off." "Yeah, I seriously doubt you can compete." "No, the sundial." "Where is that ?" "Copernicus Park." "I can..." "It's on the south side of the distilled water tower." "Come on, that's where we find my girl." "I thought I was your girl." "Wait, that sounded weird." "Henry, how's..." "Henry, how's the-..." "Henry, how's the drilling going ?" "!" "This laser bombardment drill cuts through quartz like butter." "I should be done drilling in, what... five hours." "Weapon will deploy in four hours." " Drill faster." " Yeah." "Oh, my God." "Eugenia, what..." "what are you doing ?" "How'd you even get here ?" "Henry souped up my chair." "I can go 50 miles between charges." "So why have I been pushing you around all day ?" "I wanted you to feel good about yourself." "Like you were assisting." "Fine." "I didn't hate the company." "Dad, are you okay ?" "Eugenia." "Dad, what the hell are you doing ?" "Why did you do that ?" "I'm not sure." "Mind your own business, Zoe." "Sorry." "Your anniversary." "Our anniversary." "Anniversary." "Of what ?" "You and me." "Him." "Thatcher." "Anniversary ?" "He never even proposed." "Yes, he did." "I saw it." "Trust me." "Never happened." "Is dementia contagious ?" "No... okay." "In his mind, he proposed." "I mean, right here." "That's why you come here." "I come here... for lunch... every day." "This is where we first met." "We'd sit... and look at the sky." "He told me how the stars shined, how the planets revolved around the sun." "How his universe revolved around me." "And then his universe came crashing down and mine with it." "What happened ?" "We were going to get married..." "in Stockholm after Irvin won the prize." "The Nobel Prize ?" "No one imagined Linus Pauling would win a second Nobel." "It was devastating to Irvin." "He had a complete mental break the day of the announcement." "The day he was going to propose." "The day I lost the love of my life." "The picture." "The virtual Stockholm." "You must think I'm a fool." "Pining over a love that's gone." "It's not gone." "We just have to pick up where we left off." "Did I say we ?" "Sorry." "Weapon will deploy in three hours." "Well, there's gotta be something." "I mean, use explosives to blast through the rest of the bad rock." "This machine was programed as a second strike dead man's weapon." "Any kind of explosion and..." "I cannot believe we built this thing to protect ourselves." "I'm gonna have to put a call in to the D.O.D." " You can't." " I have to." " You can't !" " I think that they'll notice" " if we start World War III." " Allison, think about it." "What are you gonna say ?" ""We may accidentally blow up" ""Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang, and Stockholm ?"" "Okay, I know how fond you are of Stockholm, Nathan." "But this is bigger than you." "If you tell them that we can't stop it, they're gonna try and stop it." "They'll nuke us and" "And, I know, any kind of explosion can trigger the device." "I get it." "But we're running out of options." "Beg to differ." "Gonna need to borrow your Nobel." "It was open." "Sorry." "What in the hell are you doing ?" "We're gonna party like it's 1962." "I miss Sheriff Cobb." "You should wear that dress more often." " Do you think this'll work ?" " Works for me." "Let's hope so." "Oh, Sheriff." "When a light bulb goes off in your head, what are we talking ?" "15, 20 watts ?" "If you have a better idea, I'd love to hear it." " No ?" " Yeah." "Better get started." "Jo ?" "You look" " No," " Ladies and gentlemen and" " you look... the other way." " and distinguished colleagues." "Welcome to Stockholm." "Robert Oppenheimer famously said," ""The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable."" "One man never forgot those words." "The man we welcome among us today." "A man whom Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Parliament have selected for this year's award of the Nobel Prize," "Dr. Irvin Horatio Thatcher." "Fargo." "Dr. Thatcher." "I got that." "He's been carrying that speech for 40 years." "A simple little children's song." "But it was this song that inspired my concept of mutually assured destruction." "We build an A-bomb, they build an A-bomb." "We build an H-bomb, they build an H-bomb." "Round and round, round and round." "The wheels on the bus leading us towards an unending escalation of newer, more powerful, more deadly weapons." "Which is what led me to my greatest achievement." "The Ionosphere Particle Beam." "In order to ensure peace on earth," "I built the deadliest weapon in the universe." "But that's the end of the story." "Let me take you back to the beginning." "We don't have time to go back to Neverland." "Dr. Thatcher." "There's an urgent situation that needs your attention." "Sorry." "I would just like to end by thanking the committee." "And Eugenia, my love, without whom this achievement would not have been possible." "We have a lot of catching up to do." "I don't like that look." " What's wrong ?" " My crew." "I've gotta get my crew to fix the device." "Your crew ?" "Oh, for the love of God." "30 seconds and counting, guys." "Ready." "Set." " Go !" " Key 1." "Key 2." "Enough." "Launch code override initiated." "Yes !" "Yes !" "All right !" "Oh, crap." "Dead man's protocol activated." "Launch sequence initiated." "Second strike weapon will deploy in five minutes." "Did somebody cut the blue wire ?" "Not good." "Very not good." "This is the one that assures mutually assured destruction." "How do we stop it ?" "You can't." "It can't be shot down." " Henry, how much time do we have left ?" " 30 seconds." "Is there anyway we can realine it ?" "Once it wrap down to its target, it cannot be realineed." " Ten." " Will it work ?" "I think desperate times call for desperate measures." "Henry, when you outfitted my Jeep, did you put in any air bags ?" "Seven." " Six." " Carter." "Five." "Four." "Three." "Two." " Henry, you got it ?" " I got it." "It missed !" "We missed the moon !" "Carter, Carter !" "Great job, man." "We missed the moon." "We missed the moon." "We missed it !" "Little help ?" "But where did it go ?" "The Zephyr rover is making its final approach to Jupiter." "Pasadena, we have a problem." "That's gonna be a shiner." "Yeah, well." "One small step for man, one giant welt for me." "So, when are you gonna tell him my Nobel isn't his to keep ?" "I don't know." "He saved your ass." "I think he earned it." "No, I earned it." "It's mine." "Take it away." "Lose a great scientist." "It's not a difficult equation." "You never know, you might need Thatcher to dismantle the next ticking time bomb." "Good point." "Really ?" "You did a good job, Carter." "Thanks." "I had a little help from my crew." "You remember that feeling ?" "It's nice to know that it lasts a lifetime." " You kind of depressing." " A little." "I'm just grateful that we finally got together." " I said "we" again, didn't I ?" " Yeah." "How long is this supposed to last ?" " I'll see you tomorrow, Carter." " No, seriously." "Synchro:" "Seth Cohen and Csivore"