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I get myself into these things.

You may not touch that.

Just keeps getting better, don't it?

You ever swing at a man?

They're dealing with real people here. The kind who build things and care about

them. Somebody, please help me.

Hi, I'm Max Keller.

This is how I usually leave a bar.

A bunch of bikers were harassing a young couple.

Naturally, I had to try to stop them.

I don't think they liked me.

I think I'll try again.

Stick around.

This should be fun.

Halfway across the world was a man who was going to change my life.

John Peter McAllister. The only Occidental American ever to become a

Time for you to go, little fellow.

He was on his way to the United States to find a daughter he never knew he had.

Elliston.

And ended up with me.

Once he got out alive.

Ellerton. Somewhere in the Twilight Zone.

Wait! Wait!

Whoa!

Help me, please!

Don't wait, please.

I wasn't even going to stop.

that. I like classical music.

Good. Henry likes Mozart.

He saw Amadeus from my pocket three times.

Henry?

The little guy there with the brown fur and fond eyes.

Who's this behind us?

Just get me out of here, okay?

What do you do to him?

What does it look like? Please, just take me to the airport.

You really... They must want to get away from this guy.

No, no.

My father's airport, Trumbull's Airfield. It's just right on the other

the trees. You've got to know where that is. Just pass him through.

Do you know this guy behind us? Yeah, I know him.

Husband or boyfriend?

I don't have either. Look, mister.

Max Keller.

Holly Trumbull.

You're great, and I'm really scared. And all I ask is just please take me to my

home. Okay, okay, I'll take you. I'll take you.

I'm falling to Christ.

more of those little suckers going like hell.

Anything you left out of this damsel in distress story?

Like that's a cop behind her? Just don't talk.

Listen, lady, cops and I don't quite snuggle up. Sure, Kyle.

I have a personal vendetta against myself and my father.

A vendetta?

Take a better look, okay?

You know, I need to spell it out for you. The man tried to rape me.

Cop?

How do I get myself into these things?

Fall over!

This is a chair bump!

Pull up!

Place yourself against the desk and don't let Henry fall out. He gets

when he's mad.

Way to go, Matt.

Don't pass go, Matt. Go directly to jail, Matt.

I thought you died on me. You haven't

moved for an hour.

A warrior in 16th century Japan sat under an icy waterfall with his

arms above his head like this without moving for 86 hours.

Why'd he do that?

I can't imagine.

Yeah, well, I say you didn't move at all.

Slow heartbeat.

Close the door on the senses and listen to the silence.

There must be a lot of laughs at a party.

Look, do you think you could stick around?

I might need you.

I'm going off duty for the day.

Oh, sure. A loner. I got the time.

Fit reading the classified ads in the local motel until Dick Powell comes

running down the television alley at midnight with a gun in his hand.

Sounds good the way you put it.

Um,

he hit his hands on me.

I'm sorry.

That makes three of us. Henry was just getting to like you.

So where's a good place to stay around here?

Cloverleaf Motel is back down the road a couple of miles.

Cloverleaf?

Maybe that'll change my luck.

So long.

Max, I believe you can order chilled champagne even after midnight.

In case Dick Powell's company isn't enough.

Won't be.

Good.

I'm not going to leave this bar through the window, pal.

After wrecking the sheriff's car, I thought I'd take a break.

I didn't know McAllister was right behind me.

Ever meet a ninja in a bar?

It's a lot of fun.

Hey, Max!

Max! Over here!

Wanted to buy you a drink, partner.

For bringing Holly back in one piece.

Last time he blacked her eye.

Someday, someone's going to settle it with the sheriff.

I'd like to do it myself.

What'll it be?

At one time, a Singapore sling would have been the only answer.

I'm looking for this person.

I sell drinks.

You want information?

There's a sheriff right there.

Hey.

Look at here.

Real pretty.

You want to stretch this down the stem, old man?

Okay,

bonita, darling.

You may not touch that.

Just keeps getting better, don't it?

I've been hearing about him down at the truck stop.

That old man can take care of himself.

Yeah, well, the sheriff and I have a prior.

Go for it, kid.

Hard and fast.

Carrying a concealed weapon is an offense in this county, old man.

You're gonna have to confiscate it. Please.

Check out, Jack.

Time for a young fella.

Stand hard and fast, old man.

I pulled you a rap sheet, boy.

It reads real pretty through six counties.

Brawling, disturbing the peace.

Now you come burning through my county.

Add to that not stopping for an officer below. I didn't see one.

All I saw was a frightened girl and a clown with scratch marks all over his

face.

You ever swing at a man?

I need your help.

You're kidding.

Ever think of hiring out as a tornado?

Just get me out of here.

Least I could do.

Yeah, yeah, I see them, I see them.

You always carry an arsenal with you everywhere you go?

All my possessions are with me.

Some are more lethal than others.

I was in a bar one time in Saigon.

This young dude comes in and tears the place to pieces, like it was made out of

nothing.

Said he was a ninja.

A ninja?

Yeah, he carried a variety of different little weapons in a leather pouch.

Hey, what else you got in that suitcase of yours?

Toothbrush.

How could you be hurt?

I mean, no one even came near you.

Shuriken wound.

It's a small spiked wheel.

Small on my back.

Keeps reopening.

We better stay out of the emergency room so the sheriff gets tired of watching

him.

Better get off this road, too.

Find someplace else.

Your home?

Been traveling in it, Jack.

someplace better.

Mr. Trumbull, any one of my client's proposals would make you a very wealthy

man. Well, you could move to New York and buy yourself LaGuardia.

In my office, there's a picture of a field with a jenny sitting there.

A man with a man in a leather flying jacket wearing a red scarf.

He's got his arm around the shoulder of another man.

And you know where that field is, Mr. Hanlon?

You've caused my client to lose a lot of money.

And yourself, unnecessary grief. That field's right here.

The man in the leather flying jacket wearing the red scarf, that's my father.

And the older man with the biplane, a fellow named Wilbur Wright, who flew

to have lunch with my father because he'd invented a little thing called a

and bank indicator.

And Mr. Wright thought that...

This would be a good place to build an airport.

And my father thought so, too.

I can assure you... No.

If Mr. Christensen would like to come by here and take a plane ride, it's on the

house.

Maybe he'd have a better perspective of the world from 5 ,000 feet.

Those lenses cost me a lot of money. Please be very careful.

Every time I fly into this airport, I look down through the clouds and I see

some good memories.

They wouldn't look that good anyplace else.

You tell Mr.

Christensen that.

Very well.

Thought you might need some help.

But there's a run on old guys getting tough tonight.

What are you doing back here?

Who's Christensen?

Property owner. Owns as much of this town as the law will allow.

He wants to level the airport and build a shopping center.

Just stay out of this, Holly.

Got into some more trouble and brought it back.

Some old guy, the sheriff, was hassling.

All the waifs in town, huh?

Where is he?

In my van.

Take him to the PQ. Come on.

a customized van. Start searching over there. You got a warrant, Sheriff?

Because you better have one before you take one more step onto my tarmac and a

stretcher to take you off.

Threatening an officer of the law is a serious offense.

You're not listening to me.

Now you get off my property and come back with an army.

All I'm gonna need is one more F -A -A in French and I'll be back to shut you

down.

Chew on that.

What happened? What happened, Kyle?

Yeah, he's hurt.

Who is he?

I'd like to know the answer to that one myself.

See you later.

Did she kiss you?

It's scary.

Seemed like the right moment.

Guess they're just not making ninjas the way they used to, huh?

What do you know of the ninja?

Assassins, weren't they?

Phantoms.

You know, I'm surprised your fellow ninjas let you go.

There was a sender.

Yeah, pinwheel in the back. Nice.

Max Keller.

Do I get to call you master?

It's got a ring to it.

John Peter McAllister's the name on the discharge.

From where?

They don't teach what you did in any army I know of. Army Air Corps.

At the end of the war, I found myself in Japan.

A ticket home and nowhere to go.

There's something about the tranquility.

People.

Kept me there.

Approach your home.

Or were you just running?

Searching.

My daughter.

One I didn't even know I had.

Wrote to me a month ago from Ellerston.

This picture's taken outside of one of Trumbull's hangars.

Hard to make out the girl's face, though.

And that's why you've traveled halfway around the world after 30 years?

Just to find her? What other reason could there be?

You're looking over your shoulder for someone.

Secrets locked inside your head that no one else can know about? Lots of

secrets.

I'll take the ones you can give.

I don't understand.

I'm making a deal with you.

I'll help you find your daughter.

If you'll teach me.

What you did in that bar.

And the way you moved.

The way you felt.

There must be all kinds of tricks in that suitcase of yours.

You would not endure the discipline.

Try me.

Or the emotional commitment.

What, what, you don't think I got emotions?

Too many of them.

You want to fight.

Take on six attackers at once.

That's not where it is, Max.

I can hack it.

You got nice qualities.

But not for a ninja.

Anyway, I'm a cantankerous old man who's lived alone a lot of years.

I can see why.

I've been alone, too.

Just thought I'd try another route.

Anyway, hang in there, old fellow.

I'll hang in.

Good luck finding your daughter.

Good luck finding your son.

Guess nobody wants us, Henry.

Bye, Mac.

Somebody, please help me.

Do what you can.

I'm going to get Holly inside.

Come on, Dave.

How

could

any human being go through that?

Even a ninja master.

Who would do this?

Sheriff Kyle.

He's the hired hand.

There's another one.

Haviland, the lawyer.

I'm sure he's going to report on how their little arson show went down.

To who?

That's exactly what I'm going to go find out. Now, wait.

For what?

For strategy.

For stealth.

You want to be a ninja?

I still do, yeah.

Then you must have a plan.

I got a plan. I'm going to go nail Christensen down so tight he's not going

move for a week.

Come with me if you want to watch.

Let's do count for something.

And we'll be building from Willow Lane right across the airport to the river

here. Congratulations, Johnny. It's going to be a beauty.

Great layout, John. Great.

Good luck, Johnny.

Good luck with the center.

Wonderful party, Mr. Christensen.

Thank you.

John.

So, what do you think?

I think your shopping center's premature, considering you don't own the

East Wing is standing on.

And how did it go down?

It did go down, Mr. Christensen.

It went up, like a big fireball.

I'm sorry. I'm afraid I don't understand your remark.

Maybe you can understand this.

You're dealing with real people here.

The kind who build things and care about them.

And can't be bought like your Harvey Flunky here.

Go ahead.

Blow up another airplane.

Set fire to the whole damn airport. Because you're not going to move

his daughter four feet off that patch of earth. Not if I can help it.

Trumbull. Trumbull.

It's not a familiar name to me.

And here's a name to get familiar with.

Max Keller.

It's mine.

I want you to get used to it because you're going to be hearing it a lot.

Probably down at the DA's office.

Something tells me you're not on the guest list, Mr. Keller.

Long line of party questions.

Mr. Keller walked into the wrong party. See him out, would you?

Enjoy all this, pal.

Because it's just going to be a sweet memory when you're an eight by six box

with no shadows.

It's okay.

It's all right, ladies and gentlemen. Just a little misunderstanding.

It's okay.

Tell Kyle.

I want that young man in jail.

Cheers, Mr. Keller.

I got thrown out.

I figured.

Even Rocky had to take a couple of lessons before he went back in the ring

Clubber Lang.

Now, if I can't... I control your passions.

The least I can do is teach you enough to stay in one piece.

Thought you'd never offer.

How do you know about Rocky? You've been out of the country for over 30 years. I

saw him on the airplane.

Hell of a guy, isn't he?

You're kidding with this outfit, right?

It's traditional.

We'll ease you into it.

Come at me. No holds barred.

I'm going to kill you.

Okay.

The center of your being.

Inner strength.

What about getting the outer strength smacked out of you?

That's something you should also be concerned about.

Let's see how you kick.

Good.

You didn't feel a thing.

It was still good.

A ninja must have perfect balance.

Keep your eyes on the attack.

From in here.

Expect attack from any direction.

Concentrate.

What else you got in that suitcase?

When you're ready.

You win.

I can't hack it.

Max.

Don't think I'm walking away from Christensen.

I told him I was going to nail him and I meant it.

Thanks for the lesson.

You have more tenacity than I expected.

And speed and courage.

Thanks. Didn't do me a damn bit of good.

You showed you can do more than fight.

And that you're going to have to do.

Now you're beginning to understand me.

You have no choice.

You saw Kyle set the fire at the airport.

You let Christians know who you are.

Unless you split town.

Fat chance.

We'll have to deal with this.

We?

I didn't like what happened last night.

I didn't like that at all.

Maybe the sheriff would like a visit from a real live ninja.

That could be arranged as soon as I get my breath back.

What is it?

Presents.

Let's make that visit.

Thank you.

Who was with you last night when you torched the airport?

I don't know what you're... Name them.

Name them.

Rossetti. Palmer.

Johnson.

Donahue. Who are they?

Police reserves.

Every word passed through the DA's office. They'll be by directly. Now,

Christensen?

You kidding? I can get mean and nasty with my friend behind you.

You know the one dressed in black with the samurai sword?

You know how those ninjas are?

Always going around beheading each other?

Barbaric, I know.

To them, it's some kind of ritual.

Know what I mean?

Now, where's Christensen?

I'll tell you.

Like a man who keeps his head, don't you?

It's a guard in the lobby at the front desk. A lot of monitors and security

guards on every floor.

The boss is on the top floor. How do we get up there?

I would suggest you use the elevator.

How are you going to get up there? I'll walk up.

The stairs?

The building.

Sorry, I asked.

Now you should have gone down like a sack of flour.

Hey,

what are you doing there?

That old man can take care of himself.

Christensen. Helicopter's a little late, huh?

Too bad.

Your lawyer, Mr. Haviland, and Sheriff Kyle are both under arrest.

But then, of course, you know that.

That's why you're leaving in such a hurry.

Sometimes things just don't work out the way you planned.

Well, I'm glad we had this chance to meet again, Mr. Keller.

Otherwise, your grandstand play last night wouldn't mean a thing, would it?

Well, it's better late than never.

Just one question.

And what would that be?

How do you plan on getting up on the roof?

You really think you can stop me, Kelly?

Just keep talking.

Check out Jack

I've

been expecting you a ninja does not betray his destiny you will die

I'll take him.

You've always done.

Kill him.

Never again.

There will be another time.

They will be coming for you.

Don't turn your back on that guy.

He won't fight again tonight.

He's hurt.

An artery was severed.

Who is he?

Okasa. Now a ninja master.

Was one of my students.

Sent to kill you.

What ancient little gadget did you use to sever Okasa's artery?

My fingers.

Sorry I asked.

She's in Atlanta.

Is she all right?

Find that out when you get there.

I can take you that far.

It's pretty.

Symbol of my household.

It's what Ocasa wanted.

I don't get it.

For another man to possess it would mean I was no longer alive.

You guys got your own set of rules.

No one else can play, huh?

I was taught the secrets of the ninjas for a purpose, so that I might pass them

on the way my master passed them on to me.

Anyway, what good is a ninja teacher without a student?

It's getting scary again.