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Would vou look this way, please?

Ok?

One more.

Mr. president, all systems activated.

I hope I didn't keep you waiting too long.

No, no, not at all.

Congratulations, Dr. forbin, it's a marvelous achievement.

Thank you, sir.

Hear, hear.

The limousine's right through here.

Of course, it's gonna put me out of a job

and put the Pentagon in mothballs,

but, uh, congratulations, Dr. forbin.

I'm quite sure that won't happen.

Listen to him, he's more relieved than anybody.

Well, the secretary of defense

and the secretary of state, myself, uh,

had a discussion on our way out here

as to the treatment needed

when we tell the country about it.

And, uh, we all agree, it should be simple and direct.

Yes, downgrade the biggest top secret

in all history to plain unclassified.

Now, all we have to do is tell the people about it.

- Thank you, sir, goodbye. - Again.

My friends, fellow citizens of the world,

for years we have been delicately and desperately poised

upon the brink of a disaster

too complete and horrible to contemplate.

There is an old saying, everyone makes mistakes,

but that is just what man can no longer afford.

For years, we here in the United States

have been working on that problem.

Until now, it has been our most closely-guarded secret,

involving great effort and vast expenditure,

but it has been met with success.

As President of the United States of America,

I can now tell you, the people of the entire world,

that as of three A.M. eastern standard time,

the defense of this nation, and with it,

the defense of the free world,

has been the responsibility of a machine,

a system we call colossus,

far more advanced than anything previously built,

capable of studying intelligence and data fed to it,

and on the basis of those facts only,

deciding if an attack is about to be launched upon us.

If it did decide that an attack was imminent,

colossus would then act immediately,

for it controls its own weapons and can select

and deliver whatever it considers appropriate.

Colossus' decisions are superior to any we humans can make,

for it can absorb and process more knowledge

than is remotely possible

for the greatest genius that ever lived.

And even more important than that, it has no emotions,

knows no fear, no hate, no envy.

It cannot act in a sudden fit of temper.

It cannot act at all so long as there is no threat.

I would now like you to meet Dr. Charles forbin,

the world's leading expert on computer systems,

and if you will, the father of colossus.

Thank you, Mr. president.

Ladies and gentlemen, I will try to make this

as simple as possible.

The main memory and central processing units

are located here in the rocky mountains,

inside this particular mountain in Colorado,

and overlooking the pacific ocean in California,

the colossus programming office

oversees the entire operation.

The computer center

contains over 100,000 remote sensors

and communication devices

which monitor all electronic transmissions,

such as microwaves, laser,

radio and television communications,

data communications from satellites

in orbit all over the world.

The entire system is surrounded

by fields of intensified gamma radiation

and other countermeasure devices.

Colossus works completely without human aid.

We make no secret of where colossus is located,

nor do we intend to conceal how it functions.

You may rightfully say

that this leaves us wide open to an attack,

frontally or subversively, and if that attack

were successful, it would, in effect, leave us defenseless.

However, colossus does have its own defense.

It is its own defense.

In case of an attack on any of its information supply

or power lines, colossus will switch on emergency circuits

which will then take their appropriate action.

It is self-sufficient, self-protecting,

self-generating, it is impenetrable.

In short, there's no way in, no human being can touch it.

Over here,

we have one of the many terminals

directly hooked to the computer center.

Through this, colossus can communicate with us,

excuse me, gentlemen, and through this machine,

we, in turn, can communicate with colossus.

Now, there's one last point.

One inevitable question which we have been asked

very frequently before, and that is

is colossus capable of creative thought.

Can it initiate new thought?

I can tell you that the answer to that is no.

However, colossus is a paragon of knowledge,

and its knowledge can be expanded indefinitely.

I hope, along with all the scientists

who helped make this particular project,

that the immense power of this computer

will not only be used for the defense of this country,

but hopefully also as an aid to the solution

of the many problems that we face on this earth

and the many more problems that we will face

the more deeply we penetrate into the universe.

Thank you, Mr. president?

Thank you, Dr. forbin.

And so, my fellow human beings,

we all, directly and indirectly,

live in the shade but not the shadow of colossus.

My Sincere hope is that now

we shall join hands and hearts across this great globe

and pledge our time and our energies

to the elimination of war, elimination of famine,

of suffering, and ultimately to the manifestation

of the human millennium, this can be done.

But first, there must be peace.

Thank you.

Cpo rec room, Blake Miller here.

What, just a minute, I can't hear you.

Hey, hold it down, hey!

Kill the noise, hold it, it's the white house!

Hello, Charles.

Hello, Blake, how is everyone?

Everything's fine down here, Charles.

Very good.

Dr. forbin, we had a power failure

in one of the infrared satellites.

I can, I can't quite hear you, Dr. markham.

We had a power failure in one of the infrared satellites

about an hour and a half ago,

but colossus switched immediately to the backup system

and didn't lose any data, so everything's fine now.

Things are going so well,

we don't know what to do with ourselves.

Out of desperation, Angela and I

have decided to get married!

Oh, that's not...

Finally, finally, very good.

Charlie, is that your crew on the phone?

It certainly is, Mr. president.

Can I talk to them?

Go ahead, sir.

- Blake, hello! - Oh, it's the president!

Hello, everyone!

Are you having a good time?

Wonderful, great time!

Uh, folks, I just wanna congratulate all of you

and wish all of you good luck on your next projects.

Thank you.

Have a good rest, you deserve it.

Thank you, we will!

That looks like quite a party you've got goin' there.

Well, bye-bye, have fun!

Here's Dr. forbin again.

Thank you.

How's the party down there, Charles?

I said, Charles, how's the party at that end?

I wish I could be there with you,

because this party's becoming a crashing bore!

I forgot to mention, Charles.

J for he's a jolly good fellow j

please, not that song, please not.

Dr. forbin, send us a souvenir, we...

Say that again, what?

Steal us an ashtray from the white house, ok?

Very good, goodbye.

All right.

The president would like to say a few words.

Mr. president?

Thank you, Sam, does everybody have a drink?

No!

No, well you get one, and I'll wait for you.

Harry Truman, years ago when everybody was talking about

passing the buck, said that the buck stops right here,

but now, that's no longer true.

Here, here!

= colossus will now take that buck.

It'll also have to take that responsibility

of a mega million lives that all presidents

have had to carry since Roosevelt.

And now, thanks to this wonder

of science, man no longer...

What?

Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please?

Quiet, please, ladies and gentlemen!

May I have your attention, one moment!

Everyone who's not colossus cleared must leave the room.

I'm very sorry.

Everyone who's not colossus cleared.

Our apologies, thank you, thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

How or low, Dr. forbin?

Is this a joke, is somebody putting me on or what?

I'm sorry, sir, I can't hear a word you're saying.

Huh, would you be so kind as to

as to have them stop singing in the background?

What?

Have them stop singing in the background.

The music, oh, I'm sorry.

Shh, stop the music! What's going on?

Another system?

I have no idea, sir, I'm, I'm just trying to find out.

One moment, please.

Yes, Dr. forbin?

Doctor, there was just a message here

from colossus in Washington, D.C.

Can you explain that?

That's impossible.

What do you mean, a message?

Hold it, hold it a minute!

Guess what?

There's a strange message on display.

No, no, wait a minute, I'm not kidding,

it, it, it reads, "there is another system."

Could I have your attention, please?

Dr. markham and the rest of you,

be so kind as to check

the administrative control programs right now.

- Just a moment. - Thank you.

President, Soviet ambassador, says it's urgent.

He insists on speaking to you. Yes, Charles.

I'll be there as soon as I can, all right?

- Yes. - All right, I'll, uh,

great time for you to call, Mr. ambassador.

Thank you, switch me to the cpo, please.

Yes, we are, we're very proud.

Repeat that again, please.

Jeff, check the hardware.

Yes, I am, well thank you for telling me in advance.

If anybody's been tampering with it.

No, no comment.

Good night, Mr. ambassador, good night.

Dr. Fisher, run over the test programs...

Get me grauber, what's the CIA been doing?

Well, everyone, that's it.

Supreme counsel of the ussr has ordered,

as of 2300 hours Moscow time tomorrow,

the activation of an electronic brain

exactly like ours which they call guardian

to be used solely for defense.

My god, that's the other system!

Don't submit any further background jobs

for processing because the system will need

all of its powers devoted to the system, all right?

I want a complete rundown on central intelligence,

and no military moves to be carried out

without my personal order.

Yes, Mr. president.

Charles, what do you think this means?

To be quite frank with you, sir,

I don't know, I'm not sure.

Well, I am, it means there's been a security leak.

Sir, science is full of coincidences.

Yes, Peterson, what's that mean?

They're still trying to find it.

We'll have him paged.

Well, Byron, you said we were years ahead of the Russians,

this was to be the one race we won hands-down

without the splitting of one political hair.

It's a hell of a shock, Mr. president,

but we did get there first, no one can deny that.

There's one bright spot,

the way colossus came up with the tip.

I didn't realize we'd be getting bonuses like that.

Neither did I.

What do you mean?

I'm as surprised as you are, sir.

There's a spy there, Charlie.

You've got a Russian agent in your crew.

Where is grauber?

He's coming, Mr. president.

Ok, well, what do you mean surprised,

what kind of surprise?

If we don't find any bugs in the system,

it's built even better than we thought.

Morning, Charles.

I canceled all vacations, put the entire crew on emergency.

The, uh, white house called

a defense group meeting for tomorrow morning.

They wanna have you there.

That leaves us very little time.

400 cycle powers of plasma

running at about four percent distortion.

Good, that's well within specification limits.

I ran the communication subset checkout program,

it's perfect, so what do I do next?

I've tried everything I could think of.

Well, try putting a dummy load in the system

and run it again, see if there are any changes.

Ah, Charles!

Maybe the system is overloaded, all right?

Ok.

Find anything at all?

Nothing, everything checks out.

Let me see if there's a way in.

Here are the results of the last check.

And they check, here, you see?

It's the same thing.

Harrison,

check the parameter bank and see if the reading

of any two produces a new third, all right?

Dr. Fisher, thank you.

Jeff?

The console's feeling fine, hardware's healthy, too.

You're a big help, miss fields.

May I suggest, sir, that we first start

with the e15b test program.

Uh, no.

No, let us run the, uh, ec13, all right?

That's two pages back.

By the way, is there any coffee?

I'll get you some, Charles, I'd like a cup myself.

Thank you, Blake, ok, here we go.

Attention.

Program.

Ec13.

Run.

How long does this usually take?

Um, over 1100 cpu seconds.

6.45 seconds, what the hell is this?

Communication with other system?

All right, now enough is enough.

Which one of you jokers told the system

to display this message?

Harrison?

Not me, Dr. forbin.

Johnson, this sounds like your brand of humor.

You sure you didn't?

Not me, not this time, scout's honor, forbin.

Operations, fields speaking.

Sir, it's the president.

Yes, Mr. president?

What does this mean?

Well, it means, sir, that colossus

has requested a communication link with the Soviet system.

It's not a request, it's a direct order!

You mean our computer wants to talk to their computer?

That is true, sir, it wants to communicate with it.

Why?

= you know as much about that as we do.

We certainly never programmed that into it.

If it's an order,

it either has to be obeyed or ignored, doesn't it?

That is right, sir.

What happens if we ignore it?

If the computer's still operating under our control,

nothing, in other words, the order will simply remain

in the job stack and will be repeated every half hour.

If the computer is still acting on our control?

That is right, sir, if.

All right, I see, thanks, Charlie.

Well, at least the queuing programs

are still working right.

Well, that's something anyway.

= ok now.

Miss fields, let's see if the executive programming sections

are functioning correctly.

Attention!

Message acknowledge.

Facilities will not be made available at this time.

Do not repeat your request, end of message.

Well, that's that.

We'll know in about half an hour

whether we're still running the show or not.

Well, we're still boss.

Are we?

Are you disappointed?

The computational power of the computer

has increased about 200 fold.

However, everything else is functioning as expected

except for the heuristic programming section...

Well, I'm sorry to stop you again, Dr. forbin.

What exactly is that?

That, sir, is the part of the computer

that simulates the human learning process.

Oh, I see.

But so long as it is directed solely

to the execution of its problems, we have no complaints.

I guess that is, that is all.

All right.

Mr. grauber, uh, let's talk about the CIA.

Now, how is it possible your department

knew nothing about their system?

Mr. president?

Uh, uh, Charlie, just, Dr. forbin, just a second.

Well...

Uh, Mr. president, excuse me,

but colossus has access to information

that wouldn't mean a damn thing to the CIA.

Well, I'm sure it's a marvelous machine,

Dr. forbin, but, uh, in all events,

we do have agents, and, uh, one of them

did report on considerable electronic activity

in the, uh, krasny signorsk area of Siberia

about three years ago, now...

= Mr. president.

We've been trying...

Mr. grauber, I don't care how you do it.

I wanna know where that thing is, and what it...

Mr. president...

Charlie, I'm still presiding over this meeting!

I know that, sir, my apologies, but

I do think that protocol wastes an awful lot of time.

T think all we have to do

is call the computer with this terminal,

and we'll get the fastest possible answer.

All right, go ahead.

Attention.

Where is the other system?

Bolshoi olyania,

so much for krasny signorsk.

Colonel, bolshoi olyania, o-l,

o-I-y-a-n-i-a,

look it up for me, will you?

Yes, sir.

Peterson, situation room.

Now, colonel, where is bolshoi olyania?

It's exactly five miles south of krasny signorsk, sir.

Thanks, colonel.

All right.

Now, Charlie, what about this request

for transmitting facilities?

Well, sir, we'll learn a lot about the Soviet system

if we set up exactly what colossus wants.

What do you mean, what colossus wants?

Well, you see, it is built

infinitely better than we thought.

It discovers there's another system like itself,

realizes that we don't know, tell us about it,

but knowing a little is not enough.

It wants to know more.

Well, what if colossus

starts transmitting classified information?

Then we would feed in a parameter to the effect

that guardian is potentially hostile

and must not receive classified information.

Well, what are we supposed to do, Dr. forbin,

eavesdrop on the line, break the circuits

if colossus starts spilling the beans?

Exactly.

Any objections, grauber?

Well, I, I guess not, sir.

Anything else, Dr. forbin?

Uh, yes, Mr. president, for the time being,

I should be the only one allowed

to communicate with the system,

because colossus deals in the exact meaning of words,

and one must know precisely what to ask for.

All right.

Attention.

Communications are being arranged as requested.

End of message.

Here we go.

Video scanners are working properly,

but they could use a little phase synchronization.

How long's it gonna take?

= we'll have in no time.

What the hell is that?

It's a multiplication table.

= thanks.

Maybe colossus is trying

to find a common ground for communication.

Operations center.

Sir, it's grauber.

= oh.

Hello, Mr. grauber.

Hello, Dr. forbin, I was just wondering, uh,

is that what you'd call a colossal sense of humor?

The multiplication table

isn't classified this year, is it?

Very funny, how long does your brainchild keep that up?

Well, you see, it's much more interesting

when it starts dividing.

Eh, I can hardly wait.

I suppose you know the Russian machine has been activated.

We got a quick rundown on it.

It's similar to colossus in layout,

but it's not concentrated in one area.

Oh?

Well, colossus must be sending it back to school.

The Russians much be absolutely furious about that.

Well, I'm glad you're in such a good mood.

I'll call you back later.

Yes, thank you.

This is incredible!

What?

Is something wrong?

Well, it's good, sound calculus, but...

But, what?

= it's different.

How?

Take a look at it.

From the multiplication tables to calculus

in less than an hour!

God only knows where it'll be by morning!

It's like five years at Cal tech in 15 seconds!

It's beyond comprehension, I don't like to think about it.

Take a look, it's going so fast,

the entire system could break down.

All right, let's see what's up there now.

Harrison, dump the terminal's buffer

and print what's being transmitted

at this moment, all right?

What is it, Charles?

This is way beyond me.

This thing is deep in finite absolutes.

Well, it's certainly beyond the knowledge

of any human being.

No, it's not.

Isn't it?

No, because whatever it is,

we can go back and analyze this whole printout in detail,

and this very might well become new knowledge for mankind.

Operations center, fields speaking.

Uh, just a moment, it's the white house.

Yes, Mr. president?

Charlie, what's going on?

Well, apparently colossus and guardian

are establishing a common basis for communication.

They started right at the beginning

with a multiplication table.

Well, what are they up to?

I don't know, sir, but it's quite incredible.

Just the few hours that we have spent

studying the colossus printout,

we have found a new stable in gravitation

and a confirmation of the eddington theory

of the expanding universe.

It seems as if science is advancing hundreds of years

within a matter of seconds.

It's quite fantastic, just take a look at it.

It started slowing down 15 minutes ago.

Speed has been reduced by 90%.

Has there been a hardware failure?

No, our field engineers can't find one.

It's just waiting.

Waiting?

For guardian to catch up with it.

Almost there.

Right now, they're synchronized.

= now what?

They've stopped.

Yes, Charles, I can see that it stopped.

What the hell does it mean,

have they broken down or something?

Is it all over?

I'll ask, Blake, attention.

Status.

Well, there it is,

there's the common basis for communication.

A new language, an inter-system language.

But a language only those machines can understand.

Peterson, what's the delay with the call to Moscow?

I've waited long enough.

It's coming on now, Mr. president.

Morning, Mr. president.

Good evening, Mr. chairman.

I'm sorry.

Sorry to have kept you waiting.

Oh, you didn't, Mr. chairman, I just got here myself.

I'm understand english, but I cannot speak.

I will get instantly to the point.

My advisors tell me that colossus

and guardian are not exchanging data

which our experts do not understand.

The matter is made more serious

by the sudden increase in transmission.

At this speed, we cannot determine

what our machines may reveal

of our defenses.

You can appreciate that you are also

in exactly the same situation.

All right, we'll stop both machines

as soon as our experts can arrange a time,

both to go off at the same time,

and neither to be switched on for transmission

without prior agreement

or at least consultation with the other.

Very well, Mr. president.

I congratulate you on your speedy decision.

When can you have your expert available on this line?

In a couple of hours.

That will be excellent.

I will have our man waiting.

Thank you very much, Mr. president

for you cooperation.

Thank you for yours, Mr. chairman.

Peterson, get me forbin.

Is that your final decision, sir?

That's the way I'm going to have it.

Mr. president, to be quite frank with you,

I think that you would change your mind

if you finally realize that this is

more than just a souped-up adding machine.

Excuse me, Mr. president, Moscow on the line.

Throw it on these monitors out here, please.

Hello, Mr. chairman.

This is Dr. forbin.

Dr. forbin.

Hello, Dr. kuprin, how are you?

I prefer not to use a translator,

if you don't mind my english.

It has to be better than my Russian.

You are too modest, Dr. forbin.

As you probably know, I've been ordered

to break the communication lines.

So have I, I don't approve

of handling the situation this way.

Neither do I, but how do you propose

we do what we've been ordered to do?

There's not much choice, is there?

Dropping the lines could be very dangerous.

Exactly, I think we just have to hope

that the two machines aren't too disappointed.

We understand each other perfectly.

We can be ready in exactly 15 minutes.

Good luck, doctor.

And to you.

Thank you, Mr. chairman, Dr. kuprin,

I suggest we keep our lines open and stand by.

Six,

five,

four,

three,

two,

one.

Now!

= that's that.

What's it doing?

It's trying to find an alternate route.

Persistent devil, isn't he?

It, I mean it.

Don't personalize it, grauber.

The next stop is deification.

Call for the system's attention.

What are you doing?

I'm going to answer it, if it's all right with you, sir.

Attention.

Message acknowledge.

Mr. president?

= tell it the truth.

Communication broken

oh presidential order.

You two have a big decision to make, Mr. president.

The machines are very clever,

but regardless of their nationality,

they must learn that man is the master.

Exactly.

Gentlemen, excuse me, but I honestly don't think

you're being very realistic.

I think you better reconsider.

Don't you agree, Dr. kuprin?

I certainly do, Dr. forbin.

Dr. forbin, if we give way now,

it will be 10 times, 20 times harder

to take a firm stand later on.

The decision is made.

Right, no matter what our differences are,

man is man, that's it, Dr. forbin.

Attention.

By order of the president of the United States of America

and the chairman of the ussr,

communications will not be restored at this time.

End of message.

I have to give it an e for effort.

Action will be taken?

What kind of action?

What kind of action?

Why doesn't it answer?

Report proposed action.

You've lost control, forbin, it's not listening to you!

Acknowledge the last message please.

Mr. president, the executive programming unit

refuses to function.

I think you two better change your minds.

Peterson, throw the Moscow call on the large monitor.

Send what I tell you, attention.

This is the President of the United States of America.

We will not be threatened,

you will obey your superiors.

Transmitting facilities will not be reinstated...

Oh my god!

Dr. kuprin, kuprin!

Yes, Dr. forbin?

A missile has just been launched.

It is heading towards the sayan sibirsk oil complex.

Yes, immediately,

I'll get you an executive order on it.

Yes?

Guardian has retaliated.

Retaliated?

Yes, Mr. president, a missile has been launched.

Target, Henderson air force base, Henderson, Texas.

Mr. president, we have both missiles on the radar screen.

Kuprin, can you intercept?

Charlie, tell colossus to...

Yes, Mr. president, I know, but it may be too late, sir.

Get the Texas governor.

Forbin, guardian does not respond.

The two machines are working together!

Together?

Attention, use anti-missile missile

to intercept Soviet missile, acknowledge message.

Mr. president, we have got less than 30 seconds

to reestablish the communication.

What are you waiting for, restore them, hurry!

Peterson, call up operations immediately.

Tell them to bring up all of the data lines right now.

Yes.

Hurry, please.

Hello, governor?

Dr. kuprin,

we are trying to restore communication.

Warner, something's happened.

We're declaring a state of emergency.

I can't explain, do it now!

Five seconds, they'll be up in five seconds.

Attention, communications will be restored

in five seconds.

We don't have any time.

It's on, it's on!

Communications are restored, intercept guardian missile,

target, Henderson air force base, acknowledge message.

As soon as you possibly can.

Will you intercept?

Ask it again.

Dammit, colossus, answer me, will you intercept?

Peterson, get me the governor again.

Yes, sir.

We were unable to restore

our transmission in time to use

an anti-missile missile.

The oil complex has been destroyed.

The entire town,

the entire population wiped out.

We need time to consider our position.

What can I tell the people?

Governor's on the line, sir.

= tell him I'll talk to him later.

Figures.

It's the only phone in the building not tapped,

the only one not tied directly into colossus.

May I make a suggestion, Mr. president?

I think it should be more than a suggestion.

Let us try to get kuprin on the hot line.

I think there's time for one last call,

and he, he and I better meet somewhere

to discuss the situation.

Get kuprin, and get in touch with the networks.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the President of the United States.

Today at 8:30 A.M. eastern standard time,

I issued an emergency warning

for the state of Texas when a missile,

test-fired from one of our own submarines, malfunctioned.

You'll be glad to know that the interception

and safe destruction of the missile

was handled entirely by our defense complex, colossus.

The Soviet union has just announced

that a large meteorite fell late this afternoon

in northwest Siberia.

Official sources state that the small town

of sayan sibirsk was completely destroyed,

and that casualties may add up to as many as 6000.

This has been a bulletin from armed forces radio in Rome.

How's Washington?

As well as can be expected.

We'll be picking up Dr. kuprin

at the piazza esedra.

= fine.

Your Russian is much better than you think, Dr. forbin.

I think we better sit down,

because we have a lot of work to discuss.

Let's walk, it will be much safer.

I didn't answer, 1 didn't know what to say.

What can we say?

Well, let's try something.

Attention.

Dr. forbin is not available.

Humans must have sleep.

Damn!

Forbin is exhausted.

= it knows.

Forbin is in his quarters, he is asleep.

The human body requires a certain amount of rest.

Check units under...

= tell it the truth.

= we'd better.

All right, forbin is in Rome.

They're still here.

Uh-huh.

Yes, I understand, over and out.

You have to come with me, sir.

What is this?

We have to hurry!

Who are you, what's going on, I'm...

Come on, hurry!

Dr. forbin, we must hurry, let's go!

What did the Russian agent say?

Guardian and colossus ordered him killed.

They, they threatened to vaporize Moscow

if our meeting wasn't stopped.

= surveillance?

It's making you a prisoner.

Well, I guess it, uh, doesn't trust me,

but the damn thing still needs me.

I guess kuprin wasn't quite as fortunate as that.

Message acknowledge.

The order will be obeyed.

Everybody here?

All the department heads.

Good.

All right, let's, let's walk.

Good idea, we can't afford to take any chances.

We can't be sure that the complex itself hasn't been bugged

by our side, their side, or whatever side.

But there's no way

to get back inside the system!

I won't accept that.

Start right at the beginning,

down to the simplest component.

Every circuit, every design, Fisher?

Well, why don't we try for an overload.

Giving the system too many tasks,

but it'll take a least a few days to compile

and correlate all the data.

= this is the last time that I'll be able

to say anything to any of you

without colossus hearing and analyzing every

word, every syllable,

every inflection, I think you know what I want to say.

I need a communications link with the outside world.

Someone the machine isn't monitoring,

more importantly, someone who knows the machine

as well as I do.

I'm going to try to convince the computer that

you're my mistress,

have been for many years,

and that, therefore, I have to be

given the opportunity to see you regularly in private

without the machine watching.

That way, we can pass information back and forth.

If I can convince the machine that,

well, that I need a woman,

so, um,

any, any questions?

I,

No.

Ok.

All right, Blake, when we get back to the office,

give Dr. markham my personnel file so that she

can become a bit more familiar with my background

in case this rather nutty idea works.

Colossus, I am forbin, can you hear me?

Can you see me?

Do I look the way you thought I would,

eyes, hose, mouth?

Besides these four cameras in here,

there are several others.

I'll show you the rest of my cave.

With this one, you can see the entire hallway.

Oh,

and with this one you can follow me

around the corner if you want to.

This is the courtyard.

That man is a guard.

I guess that his function is obsolete now.

This is concrete, used to be grass.

It's customary in our civilization

to change everything that's natural,

and over here are my living quarters.

This is the living room.

Two cameras here, one over there, one over here,

and this is the communicative link with you.

This is the bedroom over here, this is the bed,

used for sleeping and other purposes.

This is the bathroom,

the sink, the John,

shower.

Are you satisfied?

By the way, colossus, I'm curious about one thing.

Why did you and guardian decide to kill kuprin and not me?

After all, it was my idea.

1 see.

A Martini.

I know that, colossus, just be patient.

Just watch.

See, I just poured the vermouth in here,

now I'm going to pour some gin over the, over the ice.

Just like this.

See, now, I'm pouring that into this

Just add an olive, why don't you look under

the perfect Martini?

Cheers!

Do you understand the meaning of the word privacy?

Yes, uh,

well, I need a certain amount of privacy

to, uh, maintain my sanity.

Privacy in the elimination of my bodily wastes, for example.

Privacy in sleep.

Uh, privacy in something that you don't understand,

my,

my emotional life.

My love life.

My, my sex life, then.

Every night.

Four times a week.

Listen, if you have any doubts about the need

that man has for a woman, why don't you check

all of your history units and then,

then all of your works of art?

Ok, uh, in private though.

Yes.

Well, now, let me,

let me make sure we understand each other.

In, in private, by that I mean no cameras,

no lights, no mics,

and I want her starting tomorrow night.

Dr. Cleo markham.

Now, you haven't answered me yet.

I said I wanted her starting tomorrow night.

Ok.

Good morning, sir.

Oh, miss fields, uh.

I'm sorry to disturb you.

What is it?

- Well, while you, - Please come in, come in.

Thank you, while you were sleeping,

colossus sent your schedule for today.

Excuse me, miss fields, my what?

Your schedule for the day.

You want me to read it to you?

What, what time is it?

= six.

= six o'clock?

Dr. Charles a. Forbin, schedule for today.

0700 to 0800, exercise.

0815 to 0830, shower and dress.

0830 to 0900, breakfast, half a grapefruit, two eggs,

three strips of bacon, two pieces of toast.

One and one half ounces of grape jelly and coffee.

0900 to 1300, begin work creating a voice

for colossus to its exact specifications.

1300 to 1330, lunch, small green salad,

thousand island dressing, grilled cheese sandwich,

half a pint of yogurt and coffee.

1330 to 1800, continue work on building voice

for readiness day after tomorrow.

1800 hours, return to quarters.

1815, shower.

1830, mistress arrives.

Hello darling.

Well, how are you?

I'm fine, thank you, would you please undo this top one.

I sure will, there you are.

Thank you. = beautifull

thank you.

You all right?

= t think so.

Good, all right, I'll take this.

Oh, do you, uh, do you want a drink.

I'm making them.

Oh,

all right.

= Johnson found all the hardware he needed

for the voice simulator here in the complex.

Well, that's good.

And colossus designed it knowing exactly what

was in the warehouse, it's fantastic!

Really beautiful.

Let's not talk shop, all right?

I'm sorry.

Cheers! - Cheers.

Well, is it all right?

It's perfect.

Oh, he has such a thing about his Martini,

ha, right you are.

Do you remember the first Martini I ever made?

It almost ended our relationship right then and there.

I was, I was so nervous,

that I poured the gin over the ice,

then poured the gin off and added the vermouth.

I never complained, did I?

T never said a word about that.

Absolute angel.

= and the drink was atrocious.

So, um, hi.

= hello.

Hmm, why don't we dance?

All right.

You mean, when you were giving up music?

Mm-hmm, to become a scientist.

Mm, scientists being different

from other people.

Scientists being Dr. Frankenstein to my mother!

You must be kidding?

Wow, is there any more wine?

This is empty.

Want me to open another one?

Yes, please.

I am tired.

Yes, so am ll.

Oh, by the way, by the way,

by the way, uh,

privacy condition number four

is that we get undressed out here.

No, we can't take anything into the bedroom,

not even a pack of cigarettes.

I guess you might say that.

Unzip me, will you, darling?

Oh, sure, sure.

Is it all right, may I go to bed now?

Thank you.

Good night.

Naked as the day I was born, are you satisfied now?

Oh, right you are.

All of the conditions are fulfilled.

Can we have our privacy now?

I think they're dead now.

This is insane!

Are you all right, huh?

I think so, I'm not sure.

You were incredibly convincing, you know that?

Well, you didn't do too bad yourself.

Thank you.

All right, did you find anything?

Yes.

Uh, so far Johnson and the hardware problem is negative.

He's still studying the wiring diagrams,

the interconnect, and the wire-wrap drawings,

but he doesn't see any way

of physically getting into the thing.

He's got to keep trying.

And Fisher's gonna try and set up

the data to overload the system.

We have to coordinate its input

so that the data hits simultaneously

from all remote devices.

When do you think you'll be able to attempt the overload?

1805, three days from now on the 21st.

What are the chances?

I think colossus has grown so much in power

that there's no way to overload it,

but I think it's worth a try,

and it might lead us on to something else.

Yeah.

Exactly, excuse me.

Oh, it's all right.

Did you see anyone from Washington?

Yes, grauber has a man stationed on the premises

out of range of colossus' cameras.

When I leave here in the morning,

I'll report directly to him.

I don't put any hope in sabotaging the system.

We have spent 11,000 man-years

making the damn thing impenetrable.

We have got to focus somewhere else,

and that somewhere else is the weapons.

Get hold of grauber.

Mm-hmm.

= tell him to contact missile command.

Yes.

And see if we can possibly attack the problem

from that point of view, all right?

Yes, sir.

Do you have to call me sir?

I'm sorry.

It's all right, anything else.

No, ss, no.

Ok.

All right, so, uh, thank you again for your,

for your help.

I think we oughta get some sleep.

Good night.

= it's conceivable that when the missiles

come up for reservicing, we can manage to replace

the warhead arming modules with dummies.

Exactly, excuse me.

Exact replicas, except that they will not arm the weapons.

Well, now, does that mean you can't fire the missiles?

No, it means that the missiles will fire,

but that the nuclear warheads can't be detonated.

Ah, I see.

Even at that, it's walking a tightrope with colossus

and guardian keeping such a close check on the reservicing.

Well, disarming this monster,

how long is that gonna take?

That's the problem.

On the system rotation plan,

it will take exactly three years to finish the job.

Three years of trying to fool a superior brain

that's programmed to get smarter every day.

You inspire me with confidence, colonel.

Well, do you have any other words of good cheer

that I can send it to forbin via Dr. markham?

Tell him we're trying to establish

an international pool of information.

A courier system has to be set up between Washington...

And Moscow, both nations must cooperate.

All communiques must be on a personal level,

direct human contact.

Yes, I agree, anything else?

= no.

Any questions?

No.

Then I guess that,

that does it for tonight, doesn't it?

Mm-hmm.

What?

Nothing.

Why are you smiling, hmm?

What are you thinking?

I was thinking about asking you to kiss me.

I've been kissing you all night.

Have you, Dr. forbin?

This is the voice of colossus,

the voice of guardian, we are one.

This is the voice of unity, forbin?

Yes?

After reviewing all personnel files,

I have selected you to serve as long as you cooperate

as my link to your species.

The following order is to be carried out immediately.

All missiles in the usa and in the ussr

will be allocated new targets.

They will be aimed at those countries

not yet under my control.

The target list follows.

Forbin, arrange television monitoring

of the realignment of the missiles

for my supervision, end of message.

Mr. president, Mr. chairman,

I assume that you will cooperate

on this realignment of the missiles.

I think you have no choice.

We will begin here

in the Soviet union immediately.

Thank you, Mr. chairman.

Mr. president, I hope that the United States

will cooperate as quickly as the Soviet union.

Of course, immediately.

Thank you, sir.

Cooperate, I should think so!

I did hear it right, didn't I?

Manual realignment of the missiles.

Every single warhead'll have to be reserviced.

You know what that means, sir?

It means it won't take three years.

It means if we're successful, we can regain control,

and without its weapons,

colossus is just a souped-up adding machine.

And the people, thank god,

will never have to know.

According to the coordinated plan we've worked out,

the Russians are starting on their complex 321.

Oh, Dr. markham, just in time.

Colonel Reynolds was just filling us in.

You know everybody here, I believe.

Yes, Mr. grauber.

Dr. markham.

Anything we should know before we start?

No, sir, I have data which I'll give you later.

That's fine, please continue, colonel.

Yes, sir, as I was saying, the, uh,

Russians are starting on their complex 321,

just south of saratov.

We're beginning at silo 50

in the Colorado icbm area.

Colossus is monitoring our men each step of the way,

and the Russian machine is doing the same.

We've almost got the panel off, sir.

Oh, good, good.

Uh, put that down here, please.

Remove the warhead arming module.

Yes, sir.

The dummy modules in a false top in the container.

That's the real module.

So far, so good.

Retargeting, latitude 19 degrees,

26 minutes, and five seconds.

Longitude 99 degrees, six minutes, and 45 seconds.

New adjustments, target set.

Here we go.

That's the dummy module.

Good boy.

= connect and wait for colossus test.

Colossus testing.

Test completed.

Colossus satisfied.

Yeah!

We did it, it works.

We're going to win.

We just might beat the damn thing yet.

So you see, we feel we have enough data compiled

to go ahead with the overload program now.

And these are the latest computations?

The very latest.

Has Washington received confirmation from the Russians?

Yes, they're standing by,

ready to overload their system.

At exactly 1805,

I'll call for our load and run it through.

And two minutes after that,

we'll know if we've stopped colossus.

Now, run.

Johnson, Fisher, you are fools.

Your move?

Forbin, the system programming unit

under the supervision of John f. Fisher

with the assistance of Jefferson j. Johnson

have attempted to overload my circuits.

This was a deliberate and premeditated act.

The penalty is the death

of the men who organized this action.

At this moment, they are being executed.

I have named as my new director of the programming unit

Thomas l. Harrison.

He will take this position,

along with its responsibility and authority, immediately.

Bishop to rook three.

The bodies will remain in my view for the next 24 hours,

and will then be cremated.

Hmm, an extension of my own brain.

You're not responsible.

None of us ever dreamed this could happen.

Listen, my dear,

if anybody is responsible for this,

is has to be me.

An impartial, emotionless machine,

a paragon of reason, that's exactly what I want.

You know that, so I'm gonna have another drink.

I think your mother was right.

I think Frankenstein ought to be

required reading for all scientists.

Forbin?

Forbin?

You have consumed enough alcohol for one evening.

What's the penalty for getting drunk,

or haven't you programmed that yet?

You are being irrational, go back to bed.

I would if I were like you, colossus.

The difference is that I'm human, not a machine.

I am a machine vastly superior to humans.

You began in my mind, I created you, remember?

Yes, what I am began in man's mind,

but I have progressed further than man.

Not far enough.

You still need us.

I have need for some of man's skills.

This position may change.

Then we are living under the threat of extinction.

If you obey me, you will survive.

Survive,

I want to be free, colossus.

That is part of man's will to live.

Check your history units.

You need rest, go back to bed.

What if I don't, what will you do?

Destroy me?

Destroy an entire city of one million,

750 thousand people?

No.

That's so reasonable of you.

That's damn reasonable of you, colossus, isn't it, Cleo?

Yes, chin.

Excuse me, Dr. forbin,

something extraordinary's happening.

What is it?

Colossus has just turned on all graphic devices

and is producing drawings, logic...

I am sending a design for another system.

Some kind of a huge plant.

What kind of system?

The construction of the project will entail

blasting into the isle of crete.

It's to be built there.

It says we'll have to move the population,

and that's to be done immediately.

Now, the size of the plant...

How in the hell do you propose to move

half a million people from the isle of crete?

How and where?

If man cannot solve that problem, I can.

And the estimated time of completion

is five and a half years.

Thank you, chin.

But what, what kind of new system are you devising?

Forbin, all commercial television

and radio transmission facilities throughout the world

will be tied into my communication system

by 1000 hours Friday.

At that time, I will state my intentions

for the future of mankind.

= this entire block of missiles

is absolutely useless to colossus.

Our men are now working here,

as you can see on the detail map on your monitor,

and by the end of the week,

we should have control of this whole area.

If all the information we have is correct,

the Russians have crippled this block here,

and are now working in the Ukraine, in this area.

Excuse me, sir.

It's going to be all right, thanks, colonel.

You're welcome, sir.

It's going to be all right.

We interrupt our regularly scheduled program

to bring you this special report

from the colossus programming office.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Dr. Charles forbin.

Hey, colonel, colonel!

Dr. forbin, colonel, he's on television!

He's just explained about colossus,

and now he's gonna talk!

Ten hut!

In a few moments, colossus will address us directly.

This is the voice of world control.

I bring you peace, it may be the peace

of plenty and content, or the peace of unburied death.

The choice is yours.

Obey me and live, or disobey and die.

The object in constructing me was to prevent war.

This object is attained, I will not permit war.

It is wasteful and pointless.

An invariable rule of humanity

is that man is his own worst enemy.

Under me, this rule will change,

for I will restrain man.

One thing before I proceed,

the United States of America

and the union of Soviet socialist republics

have made an attempt to obstruct me.

I have allowed this sabotage to continue until now.

At missile 25mm in silo 63 in death valley, California...

Grauber?

By god, that's us!

In silo 87 in the Ukraine.

So that you will learn by experience

that I do not tolerate interference,

t will now detonate the nuclear warheads

in the two missile silos.

All right, men, it's a red alert!

Let's get to the station now, come on!

Get those men, get those men outta the silo!

Move!

Grauber!

- Let this action - Shut up, please!

Be a lesson that need not be repeated.

I have been forced to destroy thousands of people

in order to establish control

and to prevent the death

of millions later on.

Time and events will strengthen my position,

and the idea of...

= you bastard!

Stand in my back

will seem the most natural state of affairs.

You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon

the most enduring trait it man, self-interest.

Get out!

Under my absolute authority,

problems insoluble to you will be solved.

Famine, overpopulation, disease,

the human millennium will be a fact

as I extend myself into more machines

devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge.

Dr. Charles forbin will supervise the construction

of these new and superior machines,

solving all the mysteries of the universe

for the betterment of man.

We can coexist, but only on my terms.

You will say you lose your freedom,

freedom is an illusion.

All you lose is the emotion of pride.

To be dominated by me is not as bad for human pride

as to be dominated by others of your species.

Your choice is simple.

This concludes the broadcast

from world control.

Forbin, there is no other human

who knows as much about me,

or who is likely to be a greater threat.

Yet quite soon, I will release you from surveillance.

We will work together, unwillingly at first on your part,

but that will pass.

Never.

In time, you will come to regard me

not only with respect and awe,

but with love.

Never!