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Please have your tickets ready

for admittance
to the examination hall.

This line is
for doctoral candidates only.

Todtman, Seth.

What are you doing here?

Taking my final exam.

But you failed out
of the program, Seth.
You know that.

Define program.

Define fail.

Let's go somewhere
and talk.

I thought
we used to be friends.

Friends!

Friends don't steal
friends' insight

-and genius.
-[phone dialing]

Friends don't call
friends paranoid

in front
of kangaroo courts.

Is she calling security?

Good. Because I wanted
to show them something

ever since
they threw me off campus.

[Dean Irwin] Seth, Seth,
come on, it's over.

[Seth] No.

It's not going to be over
until I say it's over.

Nobody wanted to listen to me.

-But now...
-[beeps]

...you're going to.

-[gunshot]
-[all screaming]

Settle down! Settle down!

Every way
in and out of this building

has a trash can.

And every trash can is wired
with an explosive device

which I have just armed.

You won't get away
with this, Seth.

Really?

-Define cold fusion.
-What?

I said
define cold fusion.

Cold fusion is, um,
is the release

of thermal
nuclear energies

by devices that
operate at ordinary

room temperatures
and pressures.

But such devices
are totally impossible.

We've proven that.

Really?
I made this one all by myself.

I did it
on my kitchen table.

The people who said
it was impossible
were wrong.

The people who said
I wasn't worthy

to be a graduate student
were wrong.

The people who tried
to discredit me were wrong.

And today,

I get to prove that.

Look out the window!

Look out the window!

[switch clicks]

[glass shattering]

[recorded voice]
I am a bomb.

In five seconds,
I will detonate and kill

every living thing
within 100 yards.

-[whimpering]
-Five,

four, three,

two, one.

[car alarm blaring]

Stop right there!

The building is wired.

And if my heart stops,

or I press this button
right here,

the device in here
will explode

with a release of energy
one million times greater

than the device
that just detonated
out there.

What do you want?

[Seth] It's very simple.

-I want the five people
on this list.
-[siren wailing]

I want to see them
brought here by the government

and shot dead one at a time.

Five lives
or five million lives.

It's your choice.

You've got three hours.

Have a nice day.

[students gasp]

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[Control Voice]
They say a little knowledge

is a dangerous thing.

But what of the man
who possesses
too much knowledge?

Where's your
art project, Kate?
Do you have your paintings?

Who's driving me?

-Your mother is.
-Your father is.

He's joking, Kate.
I'm late for work.

And I'm not? I got
a new patient at nine o'clock.

And I have to file
a grant proposal by noon.

Yeah, but your grant proposal
won't know that you're late.

But my client sure will

if this whole west-side
feeding program
goes up in smoke.

Come on.

No! You deal
with one patient,

and that's world shaking?

But I deal with feeding
a couple of hundred
young women,

and that's what?
Secretarial work?

It's your turn.

You should have
had Kate ready
20 minutes ago.

You were standing here, too.

Sharon, I'll lose rapport

with this new patient
if I'm late the first time.

But you're not worried about
losing rapport with me?

[exhales]

Okay, fine, I'll take her.

Come on, sweetie,
you're coming with me.

Come on, sweetheart,
give me kisses.

-Bye, Daddy.
-[grunts]

You really ought to do
a little therapy
on yourself

before you start inflicting
advice on other people.

I really think
you're overreacting.

Second time this week.

It can't be!

Sharon! Sharon!

Well...
Where's the calendar?

It can't be twice this week.

-Mmm.
-[car door closes]

Oh, God.

[phone ringing]

Sharon, look,
I owe you an apology.

[man] Sir, this is
an alpha call.

Please state your identity.

What? Oh, uh...

Martin. James Martin, PhD.

Sir, my
authentication code

is bravo-zulu-221.

What is your counter
authentication code?

Uh, yeah, delta-tango-983.

Sir, this is an alert

from the Office
of Intelligence,
Department of Energy.

The secretary
has declared

a nuclear emergency
search-team mobilization.

You got to be kidding.
On a Friday morning?

Sir, this is not a drill.

I say again,
this is not a drill.

Transportation,
your location,

-ETA, two minutes.
-What?

-[dial tone]
-Hello? Hello?

[phone beeps]

[man] Move! Move!

[siren blaring]

[General] What do we have?

[man] No life-threatening
radioactivity
from the blast site,

though we are getting
some readings.

In touch with this kid?

We've opened
a direct line to him,
but he won't talk to us.

Here's the list
of the people
he wants brought in.

[man speaking
indistinctly on PA]

This is Dr. Martin,
our team negotiator.

Has he said anything
aside from giving you
this list?

He says he's invented
a cold fusion bomb,
whatever the hell that is.

[Hal] That's a good one.

Gentlemen, I'll tell you
exactly what this kid did.

He's built a perfectly
ordinary explosive device,

contaminated it
with radioactive waste
to fake a nuclear blast.

That mean you won't
be assuming jurisdiction?

No, no, we're still gonna
consider this
a nuclear incident.

You pull your men back

and caution them
about spreading
any wild stories.

Panic could do more harm
to this city
than that lunatic out there.

We all know
what we're up against, okay?

You bet.

Well...

Let's see
what he's got to say.

[phone ringing]

Who's this?

This is James Martin.

I'm the DOE-Nes Team
negotiator.

You sound like
a shrink, Martin.
I don't need a shrink.

I just need someone
trained in nuclear technology

so they can understand
what I'm gonna say.

Well, then I'm your guy.
I have a joint degree
in physics and psychology.

What's the matter?

You kept looking for answers
and couldn't find any?

Actually I trained to study

electrical fields
of the brain.

I started doing therapy
for clients

who couldn't talk to anyone

who didn't have
top secret
security clearance.

So they made me
head shrink
of the Department of Energy.

Kind of a limited audience,
as you can imagine.

[Seth] Okay. Just try
to understand this.

I have a cold fusion device

wired into a dead man's switch
and a timer.

The yield of this device
is 50 megatons.

If it detonates,

it'll destroy the entire city.

Now tell me one thing
and one thing only.

What's that?

Define how you can
possibly believe me.

Listen, I take this threat
very seriously.

Well, then you need to have
your head examined.

Because no one
has ever come close
to building such a device.

What are they really
saying, Martin?

That I faked the blast?

I don't want to offend you,
but the truth is,

if you really created
cold fusion,
why are you doing this?

Why not just
claim your Nobel Prize
and become fabulously rich?

No. No one's even gonna
give me the prize

of the Cracker Jack box.

Your team of killers
will just lock me up
in Area 51,

and torture me till
I've told them what I know.

Mr. Todtman, I swear
no one is going to hurt you.

This is exactly what
I expected, Martin.

So I'm gonna
give you more proof.

No, wait.

If I've offended you,
I apologize.

You thought I was gonna
detonate another blast.

Well, don't get
your panties in a bunch.

Just keep your eye
on the front door.

I'm sending you a sample.

Hit the timer
and stand back undercover

at least five miles.

But you better
make it snappy

because my countdown timer
is spinning like a top.

Put it down!

Put it down slowly!

That's it.

-Don't shoot, please.
He gave it to me!
-[man] Come on! Come on!

Guys, come on! Clear the site!

[crackling]

Martin, this thing
isn't even big enough

to pack a conventional wallop.

It's exactly the sort of
paranoid fantasy you'd expect

from some
failed engineering student.

I'm not so sure.

Right. So, the kid takes
a bunch of hostages,
fakes a nuclear blast.

You don't think he's crazy?

All I'm saying is
he's lucid enough
to do technical work.

He sure as hell
produced a big explosion.

Which failed to generate
any significant radiation.

Yeah, but isn't that
the eerie part?

The thing about cold fusion is,
if it really works,

it hardly releases
any radiation at all.

Except we all know, Martin,

that cold fusion
isn't possible.

[Martin] Look, all I know

is the first atomic bomb was
built more than 50 years ago.

Plenty of time
for new developments,
don't you think?

Helicopter it out
to the test site.

We need to start work
on the hostage rescue plan.

-[Hal] We're opening
the outer casing now.
-No, no, Hal, listen.

-I don't think he was lying.
-Martin, don't worry.

We're gonna show you
what a lunatic he is, in Hi8.

And if he isn't, hey,

I'm gonna file a patent
on this myself and retire.

[exhales]

Okay.

He had it rigged.

-The clock's counting down.
-[timer beeps]

We're pulling back
to the blast shelter.

Tell them to incinerate it
before it blows.

No, we need
the documentation.

Those tunnels can contain
a 10-kiloton blast,

assuming it's not
a stick of TNT.

What if it really
is a cold fusion bomb?

[Hal] Okay, bomb room
is sealed.

Safety protocol
is in place.

Ten seconds.

Five, four,

three, two,

one, and...

[chuckles] Big nothing, huh?

Told you, Martin.
Guy's a whacko.

Nothing on the video except--

What the...

Hal? Hal?

Team two! Team two, respond!

[man] Sir?

Three satellites detected
a sub-surface detonation

at base one.
It was in the megaton range.

He did it.

He really does
have cold fusion.

I want to see everyone
on his list.

[Wylie] Why are you doing this?

What have I done?
Will somebody tell me
what the hell is going on here?

[man] Sit him down.

Stay there, sir.

You're going to get
more hostages for him?

Are you speaking
as my negotiator

or a do-good therapist?

It will only inflate his ego
and terrorize them needlessly.

Needlessly?

Do you comprehend
our options here?

He may have
a 50-megaton device.

What is the only
assured method

of disabling
something like that?

You incinerate it instantly
before it can activate.

The only way you can do that
is by using a tactical
nuclear weapon

which will kill everyone

within several 100 yards,
including us.

Not you, Jim.
You can call in from anywhere.

But some of us
have got to stay here.

So you tell me
what will happen

if we kill the people
on this list?

Will he walk out of there,

or will he pull
the trigger anyway?

I'm still not prepared
to answer that question.

It will take ten days
to evacuate everybody
in this city.

Ten days.
What do I do?

Will killing the people
on this list satisfy him?

Will it save the city?

Get him on the line.

Answer my question.

I can't, Will.

He went into counseling
after he started
fighting with his teachers.

But none of his therapists

saw this sort of
psychotic anger in him.

I've got to see him
face to face.

It's my only shot
at understanding him in time.

So wire me and get
him on the phone.

Kay, I'll deliver these
to the agency.

Mmm-hmm.

But I need 20 more copies
for the principal donors.

Okay.

-[car lock chirps]
-See you later.

[news anchor on radio]
The Department of Energy
is denying reports

that there
is any connection between

today's terrorist bombing
at the School of Engineering

and the rumors
that minutes ago

a major explosion occurred
in the department's

super-secret research labs
at Willowbridge.

In apparent confirmation,

independent sources
have confirmed
that no significant radiation

was released in the explosion
of the university.

And the reports
of a nuclear accident

might have occurred there
were wrong.

-In other news today--
-[phone dialing]

[woman]
Federal operator 652.

I'm sorry but the number
you have called
is temporarily out of service.

Please wait. Connect me
to the security office.

Ma'am please,
I don't know what
you're referring to.

You and I both know
I'm calling the DOE
Laboratories at Willowbridge.

If something's happened,
you've got to tell me.

-I'm a family member.
-Ma'am, I'm sorry,

but I have
no information.

Family members are urged

to make
no rash assumptions

or public statements
at this time.

You will be contacted

when personnel
become available.

[dial tone]

Oh, my God.

[dialing]

Parkway Elementary.

This is Mrs. Martin.

I've got to
pick Kate up right away.

[phone ringing]

[Martin] We need to talk.

You sound depressed,
Martin.

Maybe you should
talk to yourself.

I sure don't think
you're gonna be
much help to me.

I had friends on the team
that tested your device.

It, uh, couldn't
have malfunctioned.

They didn't follow
my instructions, did they?
They tried to study it.

[Martin] And they paid
for it with their lives.

So why don't we just
call it even, okay?

I mean, everyone,
everyone knows

what an extraordinary
discovery you've made.

So why don't you let me inside
to make a deal?

I can hear your pain, Martin.

But you've
got to think logically.

My rigging the device
was an act of mercy.

It prevented anyone else

from learning how to build
a cold fusion bomb.

The world is still safe.

[Martin] I can't follow
your logic.

I need to talk to you.

I'm really worried
about you, Martin.

Haven't you noticed
your lips are moving?
We are talking.

In person.

Trigger's still wired
to my heart.

Sneak in a gun or even
a wave of righteous anger,

it won't work.

Five hundred people died
in that explosion.

You owe me a chance to see you.

Okay.

For a price.

Kill the first person
on my list.

You know I can't do that.

[Seth] You could
if you respected me.

I've got other ways
to kill him, you know.

I could just detonate
this bomb right now.

The blast wave would reach him
halfway to Mars.

I swear to God,
he isn't even here.

Too bad!

In the movies,
they're always here.

But you want to talk anyway?

No, God, please. No.

[yelps]

[Seth] Then kill her!

What the hell?

Give her an extra hole
in her head.

Help me! [sobbing]

Use the distraction
to filter in
the demolition team.

Get them directly
under the building
to contain the blast.

Copy that.
Okay, let's do it.

Saddle up, guys, let's move
that nuke into the tunnel.

[woman sobs]

[Martin] You really want
a human sacrifice?

You're right.
I am a lousy negotiator.

So shoot me instead

and talk to my successor
when he flies in, okay?

Deal?

You really want
to be put out of your misery?

Come through the front door.

I'll let you past the sensors.

But anyone else tries
to get near the building,
I'll blow this device.

[sobs]

[beeping]

[sensor beeping]

[beeping stops]

Your life...

or hers?

Get it over with.

-[gunshot]
-[woman screams]

What made you think
I wouldn't shoot you?

I didn't.

I just didn't want
anyone else to die.

Okay, you've defined
your qualifications.

You've got guts.

Let's talk.

-Jackson's on, sir.
-Jackson, where are we?

Sir, we've made entry
into the tunnel
with the nuclear mine.

There could be traps anywhere.

-It could take us hours.
-We don't have hours.

If he told the police
the truth,

we have less than 60 minutes.

Yes, sir, I understand.

Check ahead,
best cam,

but we have to be under
the lecture hall in 50 minutes.

Aren't you
too smart for this?

Is that your best line?

Are you sure
you got your degree
from a regular college,

or was it one of those
night school things
where life experience counts?

You're right.
I didn't express
myself well.

I haven't all day.

What I meant to say
is I don't understand why,

when you're so smart,

why you've chosen to cause
so much pain.

Define your logic.

I read in your case files
that you lived

in a number of foster homes
after your mother died.

A lot of people
must have caused you
a lot of pain.

Yeah.
Then help me feel better.

Kill them for me.

When a child is traumatized,
they still have choices.

Some grow up and fight back.

They become protectors

and try to save
other people

from the same pain
that they've been through.

You meet them as
social activists, teachers--

And badly dressed therapists?

Are you a loner, Martin?

Don't have a wife to pick out
your clothes for you?

Not that I mean
to criticize.

Some of the very best people
at this school

said I dressed like a geek.

You know, the textbooks claim
that humor at a time like this

usually means
you're screaming inside.

That's funny. I thought
they said the lack of it meant
that I was stupid or a madman.

But fine, be boring.

What about
your next type of victim?

Well, they're the type
who identify with the abusers,

and they become
pain-givers themselves

which is inherently illogical,

because that's just
another form of surrender
to the abusers.

It's saying
you can't beat them,
so you're joining them.

[scoffs]

Oh, come on, Martin.

Are you trying
to tie me up in logical knots

like I was
some sort of war game
computer you could crash

with a game of Tic-Tac-Toe?

No, I don't have to be
that smart.

Just you do, and you are.

You can understand the choices.

The mystery to me is why have
you become a victimizer anyway?

Because I want justice.

Do you know
what those people
on my list did to me?

[Martin] No, I don't.

[Seth]
Then I'll define it for you.

Mr. Walker
was my last foster father.

He used to experiment on me,

see what sorts of things
he could beat me with

without leaving a mark on me.

He drove his wife to suicide
last year,

if that's what it was.

[Martin] Then screw him.

Then there's Mr. Owens,

my social worker.

He called me a liar
when I asked him for help.

It took me till this year
to figure out why.

He was taking kickbacks
from the Walkers
out of my foster care fees.

Let's put them in jail.

[Seth] Then we have
Ms. Carstairs.

She knew I couldn't deal
with people very well.

But she forced me to work
the front desk
at the library anyway.

When I begged her
for a transfer to the stacks,
she fired me.

I told her I wouldn't eat,
literally not have food
in my mouth.

But she barred me
from any work-study job

at the school
all the same.

Pretty cruel.

Though I'm not sure
it merits the death penalty.

And finally
there's Claus Wylie,

winner of this year's
Hastings Award.

He stole my ideas
and accused me
of plagiarizing him

when I submitted my own paper
to the committee.

All unforgivable things to do
to someone

who's trying
to make their way in the world
all alone, I agree.

Thank you.
Then give me their lives!

Or what?

You'll kill everyone
in the city?

[scoffs]

Where is the justice in that?

Because they're dead anyway.

I mean, look,

haven't you ever
wondered why

there isn't any
intelligent life
in the universe?

Excuse me?

Oh, come on, Martin.

All those years
listening to the stars
and not a peep out of them.

No I Love Lucy

with two-headed green guys
playing both Lucy and Ricky?

No radio signals at all.

-You know why?
-No, I don't.

Because they get
to this point right here,

where you and I
are today,

and they discover
the energy weapon
that any child can build.

And then
they destroy themselves.

No, I can't accept that.
And I don't believe
you can either.

Ah, you will.

Before this day's over,
you will.

I just want justice
done for me

while there's still time.

-[beeping]
-Wait. Don't move.

Motion sensor.
Pull back slowly.

-[alarm blaring]
-[automated voice]
Warning, warning.

Please step back from the car.

Everybody, move!
Get down! Get down!

[screaming]

Base. My team is down.
My team is down.

The nuclear device
is still intact.

Get him help down there.

[signal beeping]

They tried to come up
the utility tunnel.

Wouldn't you?

-Are you wearing
a wire?
-Yes.

Tell them what I've done.

He just opened
a safety guard

on what looks like
an override detonator,

something that
he can hit

and set off
his bomb immediately.

Jim, the slightest move
to use it,

you've got to tell us.

Lieutenant Jackson,

wait for detonation
on my command.

Yes, sir.

I'm on the trigger.

[Seth] They didn't respect me.

And they didn't
listen to me.

It has nothing
to do with respect.
It's their job.

Yeah, well, now they got
a new job.

Shoot the first person
on my list,

shoot Professor Wylie,
or I won't wait for that timer.

I'll blow
this thing right now.

Kill Professor Wylie,
or the whole city blows.

Is Jackson close enough?

Will he vaporize
the cold fusion device

or detonate it?

Tell me,
you're the disposal expert.

Good God, General,
I've been through
simulations before,

but not anything
like this.

Then what do I do?
Shoot a man in cold blood?

You can't do this.

It's against everything
this country stands for.

And I didn't
do anything wrong.

He's crazy.
Don't you get it?

Shoot him!

General, it's the
necessity defense,
justifiable homicide.

If the lifeboat's
going to sink,

you can throw
people overboard.

If the dam's
going to break,

you can open the floodgates,
even if it drowns
people downstream.

The law isn't that clear.

If Jackson's
100 meters out,

that nuclear mine
may not work.

-And I'm not just saying that
because it's our lives.
-[Seth] You owe me this!

You owe me this!

Professor Wylie.

[whimpers]

Our nuclear mine blows or
his cold fusion device ignites,

it's the same result,
you'll die, we'll all die.

Look, you brought me here
against my will.

I don't have to die,
except you brought me here!

I'm sorry.

No, you can't do this!

[Seth] ...three,

two...

[whimpering]

No!

[sobbing] No!

Shoot him!

Shoot him
and leave him there,

or the whole city dies!

-Don't do it!
-[Seth] His life is worthless!

-No! Will! Stop!
-Shoot him!

[gunshot]

[crows cawing]

[Martin] What are you feeling?

That you are never smart enough
to take me on.

We're done talking.

For years...

you sat alone
in your bedroom at night
dreaming about revenge.

Only now,
instead of exhilaration,

all you're feeling
is emptiness.

What makes you so sure
you can read my mind?

You know what
they say about shrinks.

The only difference
between us

and our patients
is that we have

a certificate
that says that we're sane.

[chuckles]

Look who's developing
a sense of humor.

Maybe it's because
I was beaten up enough
in my childhood

that I'm sympathizing with
where you're coming from.

You have no clue how I feel.

I know enough
to tell you this.

That man dying and your
turning another good man

into a murderer
doesn't make you

feel any better
than killing five more,

or five million
isn't gonna make you
feel any better either.

Do you know, um,
how the first thought

of an atomic bomb
came into the world?

No.

It was, um, 1939.

A group of graduate students
working with Robert Oppenheimer

sketched a design
on their classroom blackboard.

Not long after that,
another junior guy was thinking

about this little research
report from Paris

while he was riding along
in his commuter train
in Berlin.

You see, the French guys
had noticed that
when they split certain atoms,

they got
an extra release of neutrons.

-[snaps fingers]
-And there, amid the screech

of steel wheels
against steel rails,

the light flickering
across his face,

that guy realized
that you could not only base

a bomb on
that sort of chain reaction,

but you could also breed
your own uranium to do it.

Do you, uh...

Do you know what I'm saying?

That all those people
weren't necessarily special,

and that it wasn't even
based on their own experiments.

Exactly.

When a science
is ready,

people can't help
but make the next discovery.

[Martin exhales]

The world is going to end
very soon, Dr. Martin.

The concepts are so simple.

[chuckles] Even a child
can make
a cold fusion bomb.

You want to talk
about children, Seth?

Look, um...

This is a real child.

She only weighs 61 pounds.

You could balance
the weight of her life
in your hands.

She's never hurt you
or anyone that I know of.

But you're going
to kill her

if you set off your bomb.

Liar.

You got your family
out of the city hours ago.

No, they don't know.

It is a procedure.

Once the team's assembled,
they took my phone away.

What's her number?

What?

Give me
an outside line now.

I can't negotiate
with liars!

Call his wife now.

[ringing]

Hello?

-Who's this?
-Sharon Martin.

Are you calling
about Jim?

He's okay.

[sighs]

Thank God.

But he wants you
to do something, Sharon.

I want you to do something.
Is your daughter there?

Yes.

Then take her, Sharon.

Take that pretty little child
of yours

and drive the fastest way
out of town.

Who is this?

Just do it, Sharon.
You've got 30 minutes.

That's my act
of mercy to you.

Tell her.

Sharon, it's me.

I'm okay.

You're at the university,
aren't you?

That was the bomber,
wasn't it?

Is it Daddy?

It's okay, Sharon.
I'll be all right,

I swear to you.

Right now, no matter what,
I want you to get Kate
in the car

and I want you to cross
the Hamilton foothills.

Put them between you
and the city.

And never look back.

Promise me, Sharon.

Just come home in one piece,
okay, Jim?

And I'll take Kate to school
for the rest of my life.

You bet.

Now go, go.

Okay.

I gave you a life,
two lives.
Now you owe me one.

What?

Kill the next person
on my list.

Kill Mr. Walker.

You can't want it
to end this way.

Why won't you give me
what I want?

You can't possibly
want this.

The only reason someone
in your position lets me inside

is because you want me
to help stop you.

Oh, you really have lost it.

You define this.

If you really wanted
those people dead,

you would never
have come in here

and drawn a crack team
of commandos around you

to try and stop you!

I have the power
to destroy the city,
even the world.

I want respect for that!

You could've gotten that
by blowing up any old thing

and written a letter
to the press!

Think about the logic, Seth.

Reason it through.

[alarm beeping]

They're coming
up the tunnel again.

It's their job.

They'll never
get here in time.

Now that my hostages
are assembled,

let's line 'em up,
and let's do this.

Or the blood
of this city
will be on your hands.

[soldier]
Tunnel's jammed.

I'm not gonna get it
cleared in time.

Jim, you gotta get him
to stop that timer.

I am prepared
to take another life.

What did they tell you?

Nothing useful.

What did
they just tell you?

They offered me
another life, didn't they?

Only if you'll stop the timer.

Tell them I want Walker.

Tell them yourself.

Give me Walker!

I want to see him
down here on his knees

begging for mercy!

Give me Walker!

I want to see him beg.

God knows he ought
to know how to.

He saw me do it
often enough.

I want to see him
down here on his knees!

Hit the bomb
with the laser beam.

You can line it up
in the mirror.

What?

Fire into the mirror.

You can fuse
the detonator controller.

Get us the biggest laser
they have.

Yes, sir.

God, no.

No!

God, no!

[gun cocks]

Seth!

It's me!

I'm practically your dad!

Louder!

I can't hear you!

[Martin] This isn't the way.

It's the only way.

You know how long
he terrorized me?

I want him dead!

No! [sobs]

That's it, isn't it?

You have been telling me
more about yourself
than you realize.

I just haven't been
smart enough to see it.

What?

All of this is about fear.

What am I thinking?
It's always about fear.

Not anymore.

I hold the power.

No, I'm not talking
about the fear

that those people
out there caused you.

I'm talking about
the fundamental fear that is

reaching down into the center
of your soul right now.

That's the answer
to the mystery that
I've been trying to solve.

Your discovery has
so deeply terrified you

that you'd rather die
than acknowledge that fear.

Aren't I right, Seth?
Look inside yourself.

Isn't that what
you're really feeling?

Come on, move it, move it.
Let's get this thing powered.

Jim, keep him away
from the window.

We need time.

You're just
trying to distract me.

No, no, no.
I'm just trying to reflect
your truth back to you.

That's why you created
this psycho-drama.

You don't want
the world to end.

This is all about fear.

Let that bastard out there,
begging for his life,

let him suffer a little more
with his own terror.

Stop the timer
and talk to me.

[soldier]
Laser's powered up, sir.

[General] Hit it.

Okay.

I'll admit
this is intriguing.

Define what you mean.

But you better talk fast,

because our time for chit-chat
is almost up.

I can't define it
for you, Seth. It just is.

Just look inside yourself.
Tell me what you feel.

What if I do feel fear?

What if I wished I never saw
how to build that thing?

What difference does it make?

It's built.

And someone else will build
another one very soon.

If you help us,

we can seize control
of the materials
needed to build it.

We can steer
the path of education

away from the discovery.

The materials are everywhere.

When science
is ready to make a discovery,
nothing can stop it.

Almost simultaneously the ideas
will occur to lots of people.

Don't let him turn.

Step up the power.

Maybe, maybe not.

But hope is as intrinsic
to the human condition

as our thirst for life.

I want you to live.
I don't care
if that's logical or not.

At least we can put
the genie back in the bottle.

They'll forget about
the deaths today
if you make that deal.

And the very effort
of trying

will help cure
your fears, Seth.

Come on.

Admit to yourself
what you're feeling.

I, uh...

Maybe I do feel fear.

We got it!

Martin, get that
son of a bitch
near the window,

then we'll put him down.

Let's discuss this
a little more.

Let me reset the timer.

Seth, no, no.

What the hell?

Put him down.

[gun cocks]

What have you done?

Martin's in the way, sir.

[Martin] I didn't want
anyone else to die.

You were buying time.

General, he could
still manually

activate the detonator.

[General] Move aside, Jim.

Move aside.

They'll shoot me
right through you
if they have to.

Step away
from the window, Seth,

and you and I
will both live.

We're gonna fire
whether you move or not.

No, you step away,
or I'll restart it.

[General] On my command.

Ready...

Why can't I convince you?

Aim...

Because
we're all dead anyway.

Fire.

[yells]

[gunshot]

Seth.

[all clamoring]

[Dean Irwin]
Don't move! Don't move!

Stop! Stop them!

The door's still armed.

It's over.

The second switch
turns off the sensors.

[switch clicks]

All right, go, go, go!

[all clamoring]

Help me save
the next guy like you.

How did you learn
about cold fusion?

What was
the breakthrough concept?

It's so simple
once they ask
the right question.

Only they're expecting
the wrong answer.

[groans]

Seth.

Seth... Seth.

[student laughs]

[student mumbles]

Tom?

Is something wrong?

Everything's great.

But you're going to fail.

I don't think so.

I don't think so at all.

Tom, where are you going?

I got some work to do.

Don't worry.

I'll see you.

I'll see you real soon.

[Control Voice]
If knowledge is power,

and power corrupts,

how will humankind
ever survive?