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You must be very clever to read Chinese.

>> Oh, I'm just playing it safe. Who knows,

they might win.

Yes. Interesting. We have one like this

quiet near Moscow. Only about uh one

half the size.

>> It's amazing, Mr. Sheriff, how modest

you Russians are.

>> In private. That is because we have just

learned from our Chinese friends the

value of keeping face in public.

>> Fortunately, that isn't all you've

learned from the Chinese.

>> We've given this operation the code name

Minotaur.

>> He was the watchdog of the inner

secrets, wasn't he?

>> Precisely. So,

>> good morning, General. I assume it's

morning outside anyway.

>> Any signal at all?

>> Plenty of signal, but also plenty of

noise. Our setup is just too damn

potent. We're getting noise from all

over the universe.

>> Ah, don't be discouraged. Half a billion

classified federal dollars can't be

wrong.

>> Not to speak of our British

contribution. About210, I should think.

>> Where is it? Do we have a fix?

>> About 20 10 miles souths southwest of

Hong Kong.

Let's hear the bad news.

>> Um, good afternoon. Although, I guess

it's good morning to you fellas. You're

listening.

>> I sincerely hope. I'd be upset if you

weren't.

Now, there's not much to report.

>> Um, I assume I'm being watched. I'm

certainly taking every precaution to see

that I am

coming into China openly this way via

Hong Kong with an American passport

stamp not valid for China.

It's hard on the nerves. I think it'll

be more restful to drop in by parachute.

>> Just getting the peaks, the points of

high energy, the dentalizations, de etc.

>> You made a suggestion at our last

conference.

>> Yes. Fill in the gaps with uniform white

noise. Nobody thought much of the idea,

>> including me. But let's try it. The uh

stewardous

is being very very attentive which may

signify a great deal or it may simply

signify that I'm a very attractive

fellow.

Hong Kong is rather crowded this time of

year.

>> I hope you have hotel reservations. Oh,

>> I booked into the King Edmund. Is that

all right with you?

>> Very famous hotel. Very British, but

very good.

>> Congratulations.

Oh, thank you.

This is Dr. Hathaway in London.

>> Washington.

>> Yes.

Hello, Mr. Vice President. How are you,

sir? Yes, I'm calling from London.

Something rather disturbing has come up.

I've had a letter from Professor Sunung

Lee. He's an old colleague and teacher

of mine. We're in the same field. He

went back to China about 10 years ago

and I haven't heard from him since. Now

he writes telling me that it'll be

impossible for me to visit him, which is

peculiar because I made no such request.

>> All right, then. I'll wait to hear from

the embassy.

>> Dr. Haway, would you come with me,

please?

>> I'm Susan Reich, the ambassador's

secretary. He'd like you to take up your

problem with the military, attach, is

that all right?

>> Suppose I don't have much choice.

Well, Shelby, no matter how I try, I end

up talking to you.

>> It wasn't my choice, believe me.

Still, I got nothing against you

personally. You're a brilliant man.

>> Thank you.

>> You're just the wrong brilliant man for

this job.

>> What job? I've got a job.

>> I know all about it.

>> You've renewed for another year. Very

attractive woman.

>> Then I suppose you saw my letter from

Professor Sue.

>> It was shed across my desk.

>> Well, what did you find?

>> A good grade of rice paper made in

Shanton.

>> A letter after 10 years of silence,

General means something. could be

squares with the Russian information

which is generally reliable and

generally too late. So they can play

their game both sides against the

middle.

>> Shelby, I want this understood. I'm out

of the game. How? My orders are to

change your mind.

>> Oh, Dr. Haway.

Sherto.

Alexander Sherto.

>> Well, Sherto, the last time I saw you

was at a cocktail party in Warsaw. You

were then introduced to me as lieutenant

general in the Soviet tank corps.

>> Correct. As he's been promoted to

agricultural adviser.

>> General Sheriff has some disagreeable

film he wants to show.

>> Yes. Taken by some friends on holiday in

China.

>> But now, Dr. Hathaway, watch the top of

the picture. What do you think is this

>> wheat

>> growing in the midst of hot wet tropical

Chinese jungle?

Now we are going to see some pictures

taken in the former country of Tibet. We

found a farm, a pineapple farm.

Pineapples, Dr. Away, growing in ice and

snow at an altitude of 17,600

ft.

Obviously, the Chinese are developing an

enzyme, some sort of growth regulator

that completely erases the effect of

climate. They can grow any crops

anywhere in any season. The Chinese can

simply although this little magic gem

and the undeveloped countries, Asia,

Africa, South America,

>> 90% starving, 90% peasant will crawl all

the way to Ping to get it.

Now the way all we want is a good sample

of that enzyme.

>> Yes, sure. Why not? It's all so easy.

Walk into China, mouthful of

international goodwill. Locate the

laboratory. Grab the goodies and out.

Fast guns blazing in both hands.

>> I've got a simple alternative. Name my

two kids Chinese.

>> Look, General, we want the molecular

structure. That's perfectly true, but

it's in three dimensions. Just a little

bit complicated. A single molecule of

that enzyme may have as few as 3,000

atoms or as many as 400,000. That can't

be memorized, not even by myself.

>> That's just as true for your Chinese

professor as it is for you. He has to

have it done in black and white, on

paper, on film,

>> whatever. And our instructions are

together anyway we can.

>> I'm sorry. I could do it 3 years ago. I

can't anymore.

>> Good. I've seen your memorandum. You

disagree with our Far East policy. Well,

so do I. I'm a bigoted, narrow America

first patriot. So, we're on different

sides of the same stalemate.

>> Well, there is something else. Something

you don't know.

>> Is that possible?

>> I lost my wife 3 years ago. Now, I read

the entry in your record. These things

happen.

>> Oh, no. You can't put this on a piece of

microfilm. She was killed in an

accident. I was driving. She was dead in

5 minutes. Those 5 minutes made me twice

as old as I was. But I came out of it

with a pathological respect for life. I

can't undertake any job that might

oblige me to kill. Good. We agree.

You're the wrong man.

>> Oh, incidentally, you have an

appointment call in three, no, 2 minutes

with the president of the United States.

Do you want me to call him off?

Bman

scotch.

Dr. Hathaway. I didn't vote for him, but

I had to admit that he just possibly

might be right. Indeed, all he said was,

"Dr. Hathaway, sir, I wouldn't be

talking and you wouldn't be listening if

this were not a job of the most urgent

and terrifying importance." After that,

I I thanked him. I hung up and found

that I'd forgotten to say no. So,

here I am, General.

Treat me gently. I'm a little more

sensitive than I used to be. Look, Hway,

this is not a friendly job. Russia's

helping us up to a point. China's a lot

simpler. China just doesn't like us.

However, you may get lucky and they

won't let you in. But if they do, it's

because they need you in pretty

desperately. Apparently, they process a

whole square mile of a Chinese weed, and

all they get is enough crystals to cover

the tip of my thumb. So, they need some

simple way of constructing their enzyme

out of common materials, and that's your

business, isn't it? I assume they didn't

give you the prize for political idiocy.

No, you're the expert they need. So, I

must tell you this. There's a good

chance you'll never get on. However,

we've got a remedy for that, too.

What's that?

>> Aspirin. And this is our current Q23

transmitter made of plastic. Same

density as human flesh. Therefore,

should [clears throat] be quite

impossible to detect. Meanwhile,

anything you say and also anything said

to you will be transmitted to London.

>> Beautiful. In other words, I'm a walking

bug.

>> However, you have an effective range of

only 110 miles. So, you got to be picked

up, scrambled, and rebroadcast. Two

weeks before you go, we're going to put

a satellite in the sky over China.

>> The ingenuity of man. A little lower

than the angels. Where does this thing

go? My belt? Shoes? Sunglasses?

>> No, it's to be implanted in the mastoid

sinus of your skull.

>> What?

>> Good. You want to quit?

>> I'd be stupid if I didn't.

>> I'm stupid.

>> Dear Dr. Haway, you have my profound

sympathy.

>> I know it's an international trap. My

government or your government may decide

at some moment to change sides. End of

pathway.

>> You want my personal advice? Stay home.

>> Thank you.

Now, what's your official advice?

>> Our heroic Russian intelligence has

placed a man inside China. He is of

great importance. So, do not contact him

if you are in trouble. And I mean

serious trouble. He will come to you and

he will give his name. So read,

memorize.

>> Shang Shu

Shang Shu.

Shang Shu.

This molecule is slightly enlarged. It

is in fact 1 billion times larger than

the actual size of this molecule. And

yet, with the aid of X-rays, we can see

this molecule of living matter.

Well, here's our visiting professor, Dr.

Haway. Only 20 minutes late. I was just

trying to explain to our students how to

get a Nobel Prize. Start as you did,

with air and water, dead carbon. spend

20 years of your life in a foul

laboratory and create life.

>> Sometimes I tried to imagine you as a

dark and dazzling child. Were you

anything like my students? IQ 150 plus.

>> Who knew? Who cared? No one paid much

attention. I know I didn't. And then uh

soon as I could walk, I rushed out in

the middle of the street and became a

bum.

Maybe you're still above me emotionally.

>> Okay. I won't be visiting your class

next month.

>> Why not?

>> Going away.

>> For how long?

>> Only 3 or 4 weeks.

>> But you may not come back.

>> What makes you say a thing like that?

>> Stupid instinct. You're going to China,

aren't you?

>> Stupid instinct. [music]

>> Well, not entirely. There's a letter in

your pocket which I find I can't read.

>> You read my mail.

>> I'd read your mind if you'd let me.

>> It was from one of my old teachers.

In fact, half of my work stems from his

last American paper. He should have won

the prize instead of me. Great man. He's

in a bit of trouble.

>> And you're going to China to help him.

Don't. It'll only make things worse.

>> Okay. Don't be so tragic about

everything.

>> Do you want to know the real problem?

No,

>> it's very simple. I love you

and you don't love me. And the problem

is it doesn't matter.

It did the first time. It doesn't

anymore.

Ladies and gentlemen, in a few minutes

time we will be landing at Kite Dark

Airport. Would you please ensure that

your seat belts are fastened securely

and that all cigarettes are

extinguished.

>> And what are you watching right here is

body condition.

>> Yes, this is a recent British invention.

A very sensitive transducer is planted

in the appropriate place inside the

body. It can then read off pulse rate,

diameter of temporal artery, adrenaline

per unit volume. This one, that's a

computer summary of his current

physiological status.

>> Anger, fear, or sickness or extreme

pain, physical or psychological. Dials

also read on these monitors.

We have now landed at Hong Kong. We hope

you have enjoyed your flight with us and

that we will have the pleasure of your

company again.

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>> The cultural revolution which has been

in progress in China has now spilled

over into Hong Kong. It began with

grievances by the local labor force

alleging poor working conditions and

violence by a European engineer. When it

appeared that these dissatisfactions

could not be settled, sit-down

demonstrations and protest meetings

began. The police were called in to

disperse the demonstrators. A move that

unfortunately led to violence. When the

police tried to break up the

demonstrations and made arrests, charges

of illegal violence were held against

them.

>> Just a moment.

>> In this m

>> Yes.

>> Is this Dr. Haway?

>> Yes. This is John Haway.

>> My name is Yin.

>> Mr. Yin. Will you be kind enough to meet

me at the Kylo Hill?

>> Yes.

>> Please come immediately.

>> Yes, I will. What's the address?

>> 26 Hyong Road.

Heat.

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[screaming]

Heat.

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>> There's the place, sir. The name

literally translated means house of

elegant pleasure.

>> [music]

>> Good evening, sir.

>> Good evening.

>> Would you like to come with me, please?

>> Yes, thank you.

>> You are Mr. Haway.

>> How did you get?

>> Mr. Yin was kind enough to show me your

most recent photograph.

>> That's strange. I don't remember

presenting one to

>> Ah, it is one of the problems of being

famous. A cook too is famous.

>> I can see why.

>> And what is your famous name?

>> Tingling Ling.

>> Perhaps very melodious.

>> Thank you.

>> Where is Mr. Yin?

>> We have two floors. He is your number

three.

>> Part of the management.

>> Precisely. No. Would you care to play?

>> No. No. I am told he is a chief in the

security forces of the people's republic

of China.

>> And he'd like me to know that

>> some of the most exotic people in the

world gather here as our honored guest.

All the women here are available to you.

You may enjoy any form of entertainment

you wish.

>> Do you want to be introduced

>> some other time?

>> Mr. been instructed that the People's

Republic of China will pay for anything

that pleases you.

>> Very considerate.

>> [singing]

>> This is a famous play, slave girl of

peing. Wonderful performance. Do you

agree? Almost real.

>> Almost.

>> You see how the slave girl walks in a

circle only to be sold at the end to the

highest bidder. Is it the end of her

life or the beginning? Mr. Yin is in his

room.

That's his door up there.

>> Please, when you come down, ask for me.

>> You bet.

>> Come in.

Mr. Yin.

>> Yes, please sit down.

>> In China, as you possibly know, the host

himself comes to the gate to greet his

guest,

>> especially if he wishes to teach him a

lesson. You presented me with a carnival

of decay, which I take it represents

your conception of the Western world. Fu

chip wet. rich, sick, and filthy. While

this bowl of plain boiled rice

represents your country,

>> we simply wanted to show you the

difference between China yesterday

and China today

>> and between you and us.

>> Yes. Hopefully, your visa will soon be

granted.

As the first American in China in a very

long time, you will be a great

celebrity,

particularly as you are so tall.

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>> Your lights don't work.

I called the night manager. He promises

to repair this problem first thing in

the morning.

>> Everybody in Hong Kong is so terribly

kind.

It's beginning to great on my nerves.

>> Yes, but you feel much better very soon.

>> You didn't come to me, so I had to come

to you. I buy 200 butterflies fresh

every evening. So when I entertain, the

slightest movement they fly.

If you're very quiet, they come down and

brush you with their wings and settle

down on your skin.

Do you excuse me?

>> No,

>> just for a moment. [music]

Fast service.

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>> Oh, I know him. He would talk, but he

can't. He has no tongue.

>> Call the switchboard. Get the police.

>> No police. They're too expensive.

>> Do what I tell you. [music]

Mr. Hatherway. Uh,

>> who are you?

>> The night manager. You are troubled,

sir.

>> Trouble? No, no, no. What makes you say

a thing like that? Just that I've been

beaten and robbed.

>> That's terrible thing for King Edward

Hotel. What did you lose?

>> Oh, I lost my book.

of my shoes. Anyway,

these sir,

perhaps you were enjoying yourself

night. The pleasure of our city can make

you forget. Yes.

>> Yes, you are absolutely right.

>> Is everything all right now?

>> Oh, yes, ma'am.

>> Good night, sir.

Mr. Yin must be worn out. He has been

busy

feeding me, photographing me, inspecting

me, and examining me. He'd cut me open

if he could, and maybe he will yet. But

you were right. They want me in China.

Real bad. So bad. I wonder if they'll

let me out again.

Well, maybe it's all for the best. If

they offer me a nice lab and a full

professorship, who knows? I may even

change sides and join their little team.

>> Very funny.

>> Oh, and Shelby, send a cable for me,

will you? From Milan, Italy

to Professor K. Hannah, London

University,

having fun.

Wish you were her.

Good night.

Yes. Yes. This is John Hway.

Latest hot flash. They're moving fast.

They just woke me to tell me that my

visa has been graciously granted. I take

a Chinese plane to Shang Tu in 2 hours.

>> [cheering]

>> Heat up [music]

here.

>> [music]

[cheering]

>> I am Professor Song's daughter.

>> You look a great deal like your

beautiful mother.

>> Not I. I'm just an ugly chemist.

>> I read your recent paper on peptides. I

thought it was brilliant for a woman.

>> Oh, I agree. But my father helped a

great deal.

>> I'm very anxious to see him.

>> He's gone far away to the country.

>> Oh, I see.

>> To renew his contact with the ru masses.

[cheering]

>> Very logical.

>> [cheering]

>> We are honored by your presence, Dr.

Hawit, and we are most anxious to show

you our revolutionary new China.

Please accept [music] these small tokens

of our esteem.

>> [music]

>> The red armband is the most treasured

prize in China. Dr. Haway, when a

youngster is given the armband, he takes

on a new responsibility.

Musi say

as a young red guard he will instruct

and guide others of his age.

He is now a new leader of our revolution

protecting China from the alto thinking

of the old line intellectuals.

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[screaming]

Help. Help. [cheering] Help. Help. Help.

Help.

[cheering]

[cheering]

Here

we are in good old Shing 2. 11:30 p.m.

I think they're trying to kill me with

kindness. Fruit, flowers, and the Red

Guards Coral Society. I've seen three

schools, two restaurants,

and a zoo. No action on the professor.

He's off in the country somewhere

renewing his contact with the rural Oh,

yes, you heard that. No sign of a trap

yet.

>> I may have to walk right up and put my

nose on the cheese.

Come in, Mr. Yin.

You expected me. How gratifying.

>> These young people are the Red Guard,

Dr. Hathaway.

They are the true children of the

chairman, the vanguard of the peasant

masses.

>> For your benefit, Dr. Hathaway, the red

guards are saying, "The thoughts of the

chairman will enrich the harvest. The

chairman stands shoulderto-shoulder with

each of you who tills the soil. One must

study while one works, for the [music]

strength of China lies in an enlightened

peasantry.

While you work, you must think. For it

is only by constant study and constant

work that China will rebuild itself.

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Heat. Heat.

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>> This is a pretty elaborate way to go to

jail.

>> Perhaps you will be disappointed. You

are going to visit the most important

person in the history of the human

[music] race.

>> Gosh, I wonder who that could be.

>> Success so far.

>> Which reminds me, General. There's an

utterly mad rumor going around.

>> It's not true.

>> There's a coil of explosive wire wrapped

around this transmitter

which we can explode when necessary.

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>> Does the chairman come off under this

part of the country.

>> You may remember the giant who lost all

his strength when he did not touch the

ground.

>> Thus spoke the chairman. Volume one,

page one.

>> It was Comrade Stalin who said that.

>> Oh, yes. You still admire that strange

animal?

>> Yes, we do.

>> Commodore, do you think any sane man

[clears throat] would walk into China

with a loaded bomb screwed into his

head?

>> No, certainly not. Unless he hadn't been

told.

Would you tell him?

Heavens know.

[applause]

A good doctor is an idealist. When his

head blows off, he's going to scream

unamerican.

>> [applause]

>> Benson, I'm not being pompous, just

stating a fact when I say that we are

presently engaged with the chief enemy

of the Western world.

So nothing is fair. Neither they nor us

and Hatheraways in the middle. If they

uncover him or kill him or torture him,

this whole installation is obsolete.

Not to speak of our intelligence in

China, our shaky love affair with the

Kremlin, which we'd rather not

publicize, all riding in one man's head.

Sure, I wish we had a failsafe device in

Haway's stubborn skull.

Quick, powerful,

fatal,

and a highly skilled technical officer

like yourself would have no compunction

about using it. Isn't that an awful lot

of reasoning, General, for an explosive

device that does not exist?

It's very kind of you to come. Would you

like some tea?

>> Yes. Thank you. But please go on with

your game.

>> No, it's time to quit. I'm being beaten.

He's the champion of China and only 22

years of age.

But Dr. Hathaway, I believe, will give

me an easy victory.

You want permission to see Professor

Sunung? Well, that's why I've come to

see.

>> Yes.

>> Professor Sun is quite far away.

However, transportation possibly can be

arranged if we can manage to be frank

with one another. I regard this as

extremely important. Well, Dr.

Hatheraway, sir, you've been in our

country how long?

>> Oh, about 20 hours, that's all. And do

you like China?

Please help us. First impressions are

very accurate. Just suppose you were the

chairman and I, the American scientist.

Now tell me, what would you do? What

thoughts would you correct?

>> Well,

I'd start with that book, the little red

book. I'd buy back every copy and use

the paper to wrap fish. In my own

opinion, the chairman's book is only a

form of daily exercise to help people to

think, to reason, and therefore to

change their lives for the better.

>> Well, it might, except they don't read

it, they recite it. Might as well be

Greek. They use it as a form of magic.

>> You, as German, should understand. The

peasant masses work with the hands. They

need something to grasp, to lift

themselves up. They've lived so long

like animals. Now, they must leave. And

in one generation from the 10th century

to the 21st. And this is not done

without noise, blood, confusion, and a

certain amount of yes, magic.

Mr. Chairman, you know, of course, how

many have given their flesh and blood

here on the soil of China since the

start of our movement? More than 25

million. Why? Why this sacrifice?

Because there was no choice. The masses

could no longer live in the old way.

>> Their suffering was like a mountain

which you as chairman have carried on

your back for so many years. But

>> in that case, why should I, as chairman,

go on spilling blood?

>> Yes, I must agree with you. We Americans

are strange children. We've forgotten

the real stink of human blood. Our own

American Revolution, our own civil war

when we had to arm slaves in order to

win. Yes, murder is as necessary to the

slave as water. Nevertheless, no slave

invented the gun. No, nor the hydrogen

bomb either. So therefore, the slave

must go to you, Mr. Chairman. To the

Chinese.

China will teach the slave three

lessons. First, to study. Second to

study how to kill. Third to kill. And

Mr. chairman. When the slave has raised

his arm against his master and killed,

and when he has killed his master's

family and his master's dog and his

master's pig, then and only then the

slave can stand up and declare himself a

free man. You, as chairman, must admit

this is true.

>> Oh, I don't.

>> Then you've resigned your bloody job.

>> You bet, because I'd rather die than

kill.

>> Poor Dr. Hatherway, you are a relic of a

past that never existed. Look at the

history of the human race. One life is

nothing. Nothing for all our foolish

tears.

>> Well, in my opinion, one life is

everything. And human tears must be

counted one by one.

>> You are hopeless.

>> Well, that's only too easy to kill. One

little iron pellet and the artery is

broken. The brain is smashed to jelly.

Now, you have tremendous power, Mr.

Chairman, but can you put together a

dead man? No. He is unique,

irreplaceable, whoever he is, a Bushman

from New Guinea or the chairman of the

Chinese People's Republic. He will never

be seen again in the whole blind history

of the universe.

That's why our life is so precious. You

agree?

You must agree.

>> No. And that is why we will win. and all

you people will be thrown onto the pile

of human dung we Chinese keep for the

fields. With all due respect, Dr.

Heatherway,

>> it may shock you to learn that I've just

had another brilliant idea.

>> I believe it.

>> Supposing it were true that there is

just a little teeny weeny bomb in

Hatheraway's head,

>> which there isn't.

>> Which there isn't. But supposing there

were, we could all appear

>> two birds with one stone.

>> To be frank, Dr. Haway, we've been

rather worried about you. Are you really

the Dr. Hathaway you say you are? Mr.

Yin checked your photographs and your

fingerprints. You should be happy to

know. You are quite authentic.

Therefore, the second question arose.

Why does a Nobel Prize winner wish to

come to China? Merely to see Professor

Sun? No, certainly not.

>> And we know that you know and vice

versa. So, let us put it on the table.

There's a rumor that China has developed

the most miraculous enzyme.

>> Yes, we have the enzyme. Truly, we do.

But in very small quantities. It is the

same situation as insulin. As you know,

the medicine for diabetics. Once I'm

told, the inner organs of a thousand

animals can be processed. But now,

insulin can be made out of simple

material.

Yes,

>> sir. A suggestion has been made to me

which I feel obliged to pass on to you

that we are in a position to eliminate

the chairman.

>> Therefore, it is cheap and plentiful.

The same must be done for this enzyme

because we need tons and I am told you

will know how to do it. Am I correct?

>> We've asked Mr. Yin. He's compiled a big

fat portfolio on me, I'm sure.

>> Unfortunately, sir, this is not a

technical decision, but a political one.

It should be made in consultation

between our two governments and possibly

the third.

>> I'll talk to our colleagues. Wait right

there. Get back to you in 3 minutes.

>> But Dr. Heatherway is more than a great

scientist. His record shows that he's

also a thoughtful and deeply

compassionate person. Therefore, I'm

sure he knows that the world is

exploding.

>> In 25 years, the earth will endure the

feet of some 6 billion people. People

want children. Therefore, all our plans.

The future of China itself depends on

Dr. Hatherway.

Therefore, I'm glad he has decided to

help us.

>> I've made no such decision.

>> Then, we must very patiently persuade

you. Well, I'm afraid that might be a

pretty tough job. Oh, you can toss me

into solitary, feed me on rice, water,

and straw, distort my chemistry until

I'll get up in front of a microphone and

freely confess that I shot Abe Lincoln.

But you cannot make me do good work.

Not unless I want to. It's just

impossible.

>> Please tell me exactly what you want,

Dr. Heatherway.

>> Freedom. You are free. I am free. Mr.

Yin is free. And yet none of us are

free.

>> Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

>> Ah, yes. Yours, not mine. I'm a

scientist by conviction as well as by

habit. I want scientific freedom.

I want a positive assurance that China

will not keep the enzyme to herself

in order to blackmail a hungry world. If

I decide to work with Professor soon,

>> I want your personal promise, Mr.

Chairman, that this crime will never

happen.

I want a document

that will let me leave China

whenever I want to go with any

materials, notebooks, or photographs

that I may wish to take.

And signed by yourself,

Mr. Chairman.

Well, Mr. Chairman.

>> Yes. Why not?

>> You still there? Oh boy.

>> Sir,

>> I just talked to our committee.

Described your rather unfriendly

suggestion. Your man said, and I quote,

"Great idea. Forget it.

>> Come on.

Heat.

Heat.

>> [music]

>> isolation room of a British hospital

8 weeks before he came to Hong Come.

[music]

Heat. [music]

>> [music]

[music]

[music]

>> What do you call this place?

>> The People's Institute of Molecular

Biology.

>> Ah, it doesn't look it somehow. Not much

of a navigator, but aren't we quite

close to the Russian border? We were

here before the Russians and we will be

here after they've gone. You'll see my

father soon. We must help him. He's

become unreasonable. Hates the young

people, the Red Guard, which is very bad

for him in every way.

We cut. [music]

[music]

German. [music]

Well, that makes you smile, doesn't it?

Consequence

moving in from Russia. Perhaps we should

look to ourselves before we blame

Russia. The truth is, John, I've become

half Chinese and half Western.

>> Papa,

>> my poor daughter. If I knew which half

is which, I dissect it out and send it

to the People's Democratic morg to be

cremated.

>> Please don't say things like that, Papa.

>> You know the Red God have you under

surveillance.

>> Now, what's the diagnosis?

>> Old age and tension. always 24 hours.

And you are you comfortable here in

China?

>> Yes, if you can arrange to have my door

shut and the soldiers removed.

>> These are wartime difficulties. Uh the

war of class against class.

>> Please let me explain. The chairman has

enemies and not only your country but

inside Asia, inside China, inside peing

itself.

their enemies possibly here in this

laboratory.

Now, Sunchu, show him the problem.

>> You're looking at one section of the

enzyme. We call this chain A.

Chain B. somewhat simpler.

Chain C,

the quinoid groups there are

particularly interesting

and chain D. And this Dr. Heatherway is

where our chief difficulty lies.

We cannot find a means of attaching this

to this.

>> I wouldn't call that difficult.

It's more like impossible.

And finally, there is nothing in Dr.

Hatheraway's belt buckle, his cufflinks,

nor his watch. Nothing in his clothing,

his baggage, nor his body. There is no

transmitter.

>> Then why do we get this garbage on our

radar?

>> The chairman trusts Dr. Hathaway. He

sent him here.

>> The chairman could be deceived.

>> That's not possible.

>> Good evening, Shelby. Things are getting

a little bit tight. soon choose a pretty

clever scientist in her own right.

>> She's also her father's nurse and her

father's policeman. The old boy has some

pretty strong ideas. If he's not

careful, he'll come into head-on

conflict with the Red Guard.

>> She's wheeled him out of here for a

couple of minutes. I don't have much

time.

The entire structure of the enzyme is

not, I repeat, not available. Only in

sections, pieces, problem areas, and

they're all on film.

And the film is shown by remote control

from inside a metal projection room

which is built into the wall.

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>> [music]

[bell]

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>> Come on.

>> [music]

>> What is the time? Dr. Heather Way.

>> Sunchu, go to bed.

>> I'm not sleeping.

>> You sleeping? [music]

>> That's why I'm not sleepy anymore. Soon

she will. You'll have to forgive me. But

I have to have some privacy. I can't

think with the pretty woman staring into

my mind 24 hours a day.

>> You are upset.

>> Oh, am I really?

>> But I understand.

[music]

You're so far from home and you miss

your family and your wife.

It's natural.

>> Well, I don't have a wife.

>> Neither have I. [laughter]

So, you're not married?

>> Yes, I am almost.

>> And do you love him? Almost.

>> Of course.

>> Of course.

>> He's so far away.

[music] It's been more than 5 years.

First Cuba, then Africa,

and now I don't know where he is.

>> How do you [music] take him?

You don't understand.

At [music] the suggestion of the

chairman, we young people must learn to

give our love to the masses.

>> We'll search every inch, walls, trees,

stones.

>> That will take time.

>> Why? We'll use our radio direction

finders.

>> Yes, but they'll have to be entirely

readjusted. The interference is

extremely high frequency.

>> How long?

>> A day? 2 days?

First things first, private message for

Professor Hannah. You remember her?

Transmit message as follows. Okay, baby.

You were right.

Kisses are the only thing that last.

Now, don't be jealous, Shelby. I miss

you, too. Well, listen.

Going to have to disappoint you, but I'm

right.

Nobody could memorize that enzyme except

an idiot. It's too complex. It's a

nitrogen molecular weight about 90,000.

However, it is on a strip of film and

I'm going to try to get a hold of that.

I've stolen the bottle of nitro

hydrochloric acid. And at the right

time, I may be able to cut my way

through the top of the projection booth.

>> Oh.

Uh, if you don't hear from me again, um,

simple funeral, please. No fuss, no

flowers.

>> He's got plenty of rubbing,

too.

[cheering]

>> [music]

>> What the hell is that? Fire

>> firecrackers. More likely some sort of

Chinese celebration.

>> Go away, John. Go away. You can do

nothing. Nothing.

Get away. Get away.

Get away. If you want to help me, leave

me alone. John, get away.

[music]

They will carry him around the village

as punishment.

[cheering]

I kept warning him this might happen. He

said he was a scientist, not a political

machine. Can't you see?

He brought it on himself.

The Red Guards say my father's

usefulness as a scientist has ended.

So they will no longer tolerate his

disrespect for them.

Heat

>> [music]

>> up [music]

here.

[music]

Heat

[music]

up

here. [music]

[cheering]

You see, I've discovered something of

great medical value. That a beating

eases the pain of arthritis.

>> There's one book they forgot to burn.

Selected works from the chairman, volume

one, how to persuade your friend to be

your enemy. And my daughter gave it to

me for my 68th birthday in English to

prove that the masters of the world were

on our side. She's right. It solves all

possible problems except how to love one

another.

>> Look, sir,

if I could arrange to get you out of

here, legally or illegally,

would your daughter stand in the way?

>> My father will never leave China. He

will never betray his country.

>> Her father will never leave China. He

will never betray his country.

So Lee,

you said to me once, you remember we

were working at Princeton in a lab,

standing at a window admiring a

thunderstorm. You remember? And you said

that just as weather has no nation,

science has no nation, no loyalty, none

except to humanity as a whole.

>> And therefore, I suppose the enzyme

belongs to the world. And you came to

China to steal it. Not for the American

ruling class. Oh, no. But for the world.

>> That's right.

Yes, that's right.

>> Not very fashionable today to think of

humanity, is it?

>> Yes. I came for the enzyme.

I'll take it out of here if I can.

>> That will never happen. Both you and I,

John, will die in China.

>> But I have a document signed by the

chairman giving me free passage any

time.

>> The chairman is too great to be confined

by a piece of paper. All of us in this

room, we're prisoners. We're chained

hand and foot to an enzyme.

[music]

for

quite yet.

[music]

[music]

Professor Sue's in trouble. red card

stuff.

[music]

>> There's nothing I can do about it. So,

I'm going to make a drive for the film.

[music]

All

>> [music]

[music]

>> right.

Quiet then. Okay, we're back out.

>> [music]

[music]

[music]

>> Haway.

Who else? I'm in the projection booth.

Very elaborate protection for nothing.

There's no film in the projector. It's

been removed.

>> Well, game's about up here anyway.

I think I'll pack my laundry and come

home if I can. If I can't, come and see

me someday and bring money. Chinese.

>> It's over the laboratory.

I'll investigate.

>> It's moving again.

>> Failure.

>> When you send a civilian to do a

soldier's job,

>> you and I would do a lot worse.

>> Three years of work.

Heartbreak.

No, I don't know what to do. Do you?

>> Maybe Hatheraway does.

>> He's in the front line. We're not.

>> Better get some sleep. Call me at the

Three Crowns if you need me.

>> [music]

[music]

[music]

>> He could not accept the new revolution.

>> What was it?

sodium cyanide.

It was so quick.

There was nothing I could do.

He wanted to march alongside of us, but

he was too old.

He had the chairman's book in his hand

up to the last second of his life.

He wanted you to read it. He marked it

especially for you.

Please take it,

please.

Intellectuals tend to be subjective

[music] and individualistic, and some

will drop out of the revolution at

critical moments, while a few may even

become enemies.

It's not true. It couldn't. It's not

true.

Please don't go. Please. They will kill

you. They will.

>> And they'll be right.

I don't know.

Would you help me?

>> How can I?

>> The soldier.

You could talk to him for just about 2

minutes. That's all I need.

Will you do that?

Will you

call out squads one and three? Hurry.

Masha.

[music]

paper. Wow.

>> [music]

>> I hear light. [music]

[music]

Come on. Come on. Shelby, wake up.

>> [music]

[music]

>> We are Ch.

>> I am Chu. If you don't believe me, we're

both dead men.

What do we get out of here?

[music]

>> I'm on my way back. Anything new?

>> He's making his move. He's getting out

of China.

>> It's more than 50 km to the Russian

border. Suicide. Any suggestions?

>> Yes. Do nothing. Wait for me and keep in

contact.

[music]

[music]

>> [music]

>> We all got you.

[music]

[music]

Thank you.

Heat.

[music]

Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

[music]

Heat

up here.

[music]

[music]

>> [music]

>> Get in the firefight.

>> Hit me in for I'll leave the line open.

Borrowed a car. Distance to the border

37 km. Hope I don't run out of gas.

Hear

that general? He is going to the Russian

border.

>> Our contact shirt off and get back to

you.

>> Hello.

>> Shut off.

>> Our boy is sitting on the Russian

border. Will you hotline Moscow?

>> Get him across or we may have to pull

the switch.

>> We'll do what we can, General. Listen.

>> I say, General, we'll do what we can.

Mr.

>> Benson, where's Hway?

>> Still heading for the border.

All the physiological signs are moving

into the red.

>> What are his body readings?

>> Not good.

>> Detail.

>> Blood pressure erratic up and down.

>> House rate 150 160 170. General has been

severely wounded is my guess.

Shall I get out the tape?

>> What tape?

>> The non-existent tape for the

hypothetical execution.

>> Do nothing.

>> Nothing till I get there.

I'll be with you in 3 minutes.

Heat up

here.

Any

word for him? No.

We don't have voice transmission. He's

engaged in some physical effort.

There are also signs of great fear and

anxiety.

>> The heart won't slow down.

>> Well, General, you know the procedure.

Who's the clown who did this?

>> Me.

>> Operation Minotaur. All lines open.

Operation Minotaur. All lines open.

>> Sherto here. Russian embassy.

>> I want General Shelby.

>> Urgent.

>> Sherto. Russian embassy.

General, there's little Moscow can do

while he's still on Chinese soil.

>> Listen, pal.

>> What do you want us to do? Declare war?

>> The border guard

>> has been alerted. Yes, but he's got to

cross the wire before we can help him.

>> Wire.

>> The Chinese wire. And it carries 2,000

volts.

>> [music]

[bell]

>> Heat. Heat.

[music]

>> [music]

>> Taki cardia.

>> What's that?

>> Heart racing itself to death.

[music]

>> [music]

>> How long does it take?

>> 32.5 seconds. Run it down to 33.

[bell]

I want that here.

Heat.

Heat. [music]

Our

patrol has spotted him under the wire.

Who's hopeless. They're going to blow a

way through for him.

>> [music]

>> I can't make it.

[music]

Other

way fired at wire. No dice. Almost got

fried.

Trouble. Our mortar has hit their minds.

>> General, we have order to save Haway if

we can, but no bloodshed.

Our last motor hit the wire. We lay

smoke bombs.

General Shelby, sir, I'm not getting any

readout on his physiological status. A

concussion may have damaged the Q23.

>> Well, are we going to wait?

>> No, they'll happen by then. Start the

tape.

>> Come on. Come on. Let's get it done.

Hey,

[music]

hey,

Shelby,

he might make it. He's almost on Russian

soil.

[music]

>> [music]

>> John is safe.

>> [music]

>> 2.

>> [music]

>> We had a choice. Inform you then or

inform you now.

>> If I believed one word of what you told

me, Shelby, I'd go sick.

Son of a [ __ ]

>> Before I say goodbye to you, Shelby,

there is something I'd like to tell you.

>> Oh, come on now, Doc. Don't go

sentimental.

>> I want you to give me one reason why I

should help you any longer. One. Just

one.

>> Patriotism. Maybe just a thought.

>> Now, look, General. I love my country

just as much as you do. But there is no

further obligation, as far as I can see,

for me to have the same affection for

you or for the people whom you admire or

the policies or the disasters which your

kind have brought down on the rest of

us.

>> I don't you see absolutely no difference

between me and your friend, Mr. Y.

>> The difference between the Chinese and

us is that they'd have told their man

the absolute truth. They'd have shown

him the plastic dynamite wired to his

brain. They'd have demanded that he be

perfectly willing to blow himself up for

the final victory to the peasant masses.

But you, oh no, no. You're too kind. Too

thoughtful to do anything like that to

me. Might upset my fine complex mind.

Might even interfere with the mission.

So you kept the switch in your hand,

ready to explode my skull without

hurting my feelings.

>> All right, fella. Now, wait a minute. If

we told you we had a Leon on your life,

you wouldn't have gone. And there was

literally no one else. We'd have had no

way to penetrate the Chinese wall. And

the little chairman would have the

enzyme all to himself to dominate the

world for the next terrible century. Or

if it wouldn't dominate, starve.

Yes, I would. I'd trade your life or my

life or anybody else's. Do anything, use

any deception, any weapon to get a

fingernail sample of that enzyme. Well,

we bet on you and we lost. In your

opinion and in mine, this job was one

big total bust. So, in what way do you

think you can help it? The professor's

book. Why do you think he gave it to me?

For ballast?

>> You think I'm a fool? We've examined the

book.

>> Nothing.

Nothing.

Still nothing.

>> Then let's try X-ray. High

magnification.

>> Okay. We sent you to China and brought

you back. I guess we can stretch our

budget a little further.

>> You see, the professor traced over these

letters with lead pencil, not carbon.

Real lead, which X-ray cannot penetrate.

With his crippled hands, it must have

taken him hours and hours.

>> Well, what the hell is it? Some kind of

code?

>> Plain language to every chemist in the

world. The abbreviations for the amino

acids. S E R serine T Y R Tyrosen P R O

proline. The molecular formula.

He had it all worked out. Every atom of

it. And he's given it to us.

>> Brave man. I hope I can justify him.

There was a meeting this morning. This

stuff has got to be the most powerful

weapon at our disposal, and we intend to

keep it that way. Under wraps.

Are

>> you're kidding?

>> Their decision, not mine. But I agree.

>> Well, I don't. You intend to lock me up

in your files?

>> You were disgusted? Yes. I've been asked

to tell you to forget that you went to

China. You've been in hospital for the

past 3 weeks under sedation.

General, you've made a big mistake.

You're level with me. You should have

left that bomb screwed into my head.

>> We could have, but we didn't. I went to

China and I came back. If I'm forced to

it, I'll tell my story to the press. I'm

going to fight this decision, Shelby.

This doesn't belong to us, to me, or to

my government, right or wrong. Not to

[snorts] the chairman, and certainly not

to China. Not even to Professor Sun.

cost him his life. No, it belongs, and I

mean this literally, to that peasant

with a wooden hoe working in the mud of

some godforsaken valley. It's his,

not ours.

Hathaway, in all frankness,

I don't understand you people.

Okay, baby. I don't treat you at all

well.

>> It's all right. It's all right. It

>> isn't all right. Everything's going to

come down on my head. Headlines, phone

calls in the middle of the night,

obscene letters, they'll call me a

Chinese agent. They don't even have to

prove it. All they have to do is refuse

to deny it. and I'm finished.

Except that I'm not. I'm going to fight

back.

It'll be a rough walk. K.

You want to stay? [music] You want to

go?

Be my girl. Be with me.

>> I'm here.

[music]

Heat.

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Heat.

Heat

>> [music]

>> up

here. [music]

Heat

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up [bell]

here.

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>> [music]

>> Heat.

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Heat.

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