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- Da? - Da.

What happened?

I don't know, Dr. Kelly. Please come with me, ma'am.

[Man] I've got estimates on cloud size comin' through on line six.

- What've we got? - NORAD's got R4 going over sector 9877.

It's been localized. Sixty degrees longitude, fifty lat.

- What about N.P.I.C.? - Ground blast 40 minutes ago in the Ural Mountains.

Two trains collided. One was carrying warheads to Cherbynsk.

- Nice hair. Very au naturel. - Jesus.

Nuclear forces are going from DEFCON four to DEFCON three.

Secured faxes comin' in now.

N.M.C.C.'s concerned the Russians are gonna use this incident...

to veil troop movements into Chechnya and Georgia.

That's not our problem. Estimates from Livermore?

Five to seven hundred kilotons.

Mark Appleton's looking for you. He's upstairs.

- All current data on my desk? - Yes.

- I'm gonna need a minute. - Radiation pattern projections in?

- Yeah, but those aren't confirmed. - Get them confirmed.

[Man] Russia. What a fucking mess. God, I miss the Cold War.

Get Essler down here now. I need a translator.

Essler's gone. He quit to run J.P.L.

- Who did we appoint? - My memo's sitting on your desk.

- Who the hell's in charge down there? - [Kelly] Mark?

Mark? Excuse me.

Sorry. Forget Chernobyl. This is- - This is huge.

Dr. Julia Kelly, Acting Chair, Nuclear Smuggling Group.

- You know Terry Hamilton, National Security Advisor. - Yes, sir.

- We met at last year's Christmas party. - I'm briefing the president.

I need to explain how, with our own START team there,

a goddamn accident like this could happen.

It wasn't an accident, sir.

I'm sorry?

We believe that train was carrying SS18s.

- SS18s pencil out at One Point Safe. - What's she saying?

It means if you fire a bullet directly into the warhead,

there's less than a one- in- a- million chance of the bomb going off.

The warhead has to be ignited by its own nuclear trigger.

Would you hold this, please? Here we have the satellite imagery.

This is the two trains approaching, and here's the collision itself.

Now check out the field of regard.

These two shots are at the same height because they occurred at the same time.

Look at the blast. It's two degrees higher,

after the satellites passed over.

Elapsed time between shots?

Between the train wreck and the detonation, 4 minutes.

Somebody set that nuclear weapon off. This was a terrorist act.

Full N.S.C. Briefing at 9:00 a.m.

The Russians' accident story will stand for now. No leaks to the press.

Nobody shows up on Nightline. Doctor- -?

Kelly.

I'm putting your group on point until I find a replacement.

Yes, sir. Oh.

Get me the latest satellite overviews, and keep the updates coming.

Okay, uh, State, we're gonna need talking points for the president.

We're also gonna need to know anybody that might want to detonate a nuke on Russian soil.

General, I'm gonna need a military liaison...

with intel background and Russian contacts.

- You've got it. - Oh, and, General,

make sure he's willing to take orders from a woman.

[Woman] Colonel Devoe, let's deal with the events of May 18.

You were arrested in a bar brawl...

in a Moscow disco called Night Crawler?

Yes, ma'am, that's correct.

And you were in the company of a prostitute...

and a Russian army colonel named...

Dimitri Vertikoff?

Yes, ma'am, that is also correct.

Dimitri and I went into this bar to try and buy some nerve gas...

off this ex- K.G.B. Guy that we had heard...

was selling black market surplus munitions to Iraq.

The fight started because, well, we'd run up a bit of a bar tab- -

I believe the exact amount was $5,200?

Mm- hmm. Well, we had dinner, and I bought a couple of rounds.

Uh, Colonel Vertikoff identified the K.G.B. Guy,

and we were able to stop the nerve gas from getting to Iraq.

So how do you repay a man like that?

- Sports utility vehicle? - That's exactly right.

Dimitri has a teenage daughter. She likes to go four- wheeling.

I know this Ford guy in Maryland who cut me a great deal on these Explorers.

- I like the Bronco better myself. - Colonel, let me get this straight.

You spent taxpayers' money to buy and ship...

a Ford Explorer 8,000 miles...

to the teenage daughter of a Russian colonel?

Yes, ma'am.

Think of it as exporting goodwill.

[Men Chattering In Russian]

Your Russian is awful. Speak English.

- [Speaking Russian] - It was stupid, understand?

Your friends made this deal, but this is my operation.

Don't make me start thinking of why I don't need you.

- They will never let us through. - Of course they will.

Section 21- A, Nuclear Disaster Protocol.

One, secure area. Two, control debris.

Three, evacuate casualties.

[Speaking Russian]

[Chuckles] Huh?

[Kelly] But they would have the technical knowhow...

and should not be ruled out.

And moving on, we come to Shamil Basayev, a scientist.

He claims responsibility for having placed...

a canister of radioactive cesium in a park in Moscow last June,

but his underworld ties suggest he could be part of a much bigger operation.

Uh,

Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev,

Chechen leader since the Russians assassinated Dudayev.

He has threatened to attack Federation nuclear power plants.

There are other possibles on our terrorist list,

as outlined in section 4 of your packet.

Our reaction to the crisis is as follows.

We have initiated an intelligence directive...

with the Nuclear Smuggling Group acting as hub.

D.I.A. And N.R.O., heads up. You'll continue responsibility for primary SAT imagery- -

Excuse me, ma'am. I'm sorry. I don't mean to interrupt.

- Yes? - Um, these terrorists,

have they asked for anything, a list of demands?

Russians out of Chechnya? That sort of thing?

No, but it's not unusual for days, even weeks to go by...

before a claim of responsibility is made.

- Yeah. - Air mob command- -

Uh, excuse me again, ma'am. I'm sorry.

Uh, that's a satellite shot of the two trains just before they collided.

Dr. Kelly, perhaps you should discuss Special Op possibilities?

Right. General Garnett has Special Operations command at full alert.

Excuse me.

Excuse me. I'm sorry to keep interrupting.

You see these blobs right here at one- meter resolution?

Those are people jumping off the passenger train before it crashes.

Now take a look at that train. That's the one with the nuke.

Nobody's jumpin' off that. Why not?

They were already dead.

[Man] How many warheads were on that train?

- The Russians haven't confirmed. - So we have no idea of potential yield.

Are you suggesting this was a robbery?

I'm suggesting that whoever did this...

had access to Russian satellite positioning intel.

That leaves out your Chechen rebels.

[Murmuring]

I would like to point out...

that 1,500 people were killed last night.

You don't do that unless you're trying to make a very profound statement.

Do you know how much a functioning nuke is worth on the open market?

Minimum $200 million, cash.

$200 million makes for a very profound statement.

Now, I'm sorry, ma'am. The detonation was a smoke screen.

This was a hijacking, and whoever stole these things...

got off the bus a long way back.

[Murmuring]

Well, we will certainly be considering your theory.

Thank you very much.

Well, it's just an opinion.

Whoever has current data on the blast, I need it on my desk A.S.A.P.

[Woman] You got it.

Ken, try to get Russian Missile Command on the phone, please.

[Speaking Russian]

[Speaking Russian]

[Whistles]

- First reports in say the explosion was seen 500 miles- - - Anything on D.I.A.?

- We should have Russian intel within the half hour. - Great.

Sue, I need the START observers' report. Not just the summaries.

- Not just the abstracts. The whole thing. - I'm all over it.

- And where the hell is my military liaison? - Right here.

Lieutenant Colonel Tom Devoe...

reporting as ordered, ma'am.

My enthusiasm sometimes gets the best of me.

I hope that I didn't offend you in there.

No. Of course not.

- Coffee? - Sure. I'd love some.

It's over there.

[Ken] Russian Missile Command's holding on line six.

And I would like to reiterate our commitment to helping you come up with some answers.

- Yes. - L- -

- No, I understand, General. - I brought you some coffee.

I'm gonna- -

Uh, that's right.

Well, we need to know exactly who was on that train.

Uh, no, I am the man in charge. I report directly to the president.

What do you want me to say?

I don't see what that has to do with anything.

Yes, well- - I see.

No. I understand.

I think I have- - I know I have a couple- -

All right.

- Well, if you would be able to get back to me... - Excuse me.

With the names of the men who were on the train and the number of warheads,

Go to the- -

- that would be wonderful. - In my office.

- And how long do you think that will take? - [Chuckles]

Well, uh,

I'll be expecting your call.

Thank you.

To repeat, CNN has confirmed the detonation of a nuclear device in Europe.

[Overlapping Chatter]

[Kelly] We got confirmation. There were ten warheads on that train.

- Departure orders. Forty men on board. - This is meaningless.

- It's in Russian. - [Speaking Russian]

[Speaking Russian]

- Princeton. - Mmm.

The blue- blooded backbone of our country.

- My father's a mailman. - Well, you'd never know.

Ilin, Kodoroff, Kulik, Levindovsky, Lu- -

- Kodoroff? Aleksander Kodoroff? - Yeah. You know him?

Yeah, I know him. Goddamn it!

I don't know about the rest of these guys, but General Aleksander Kodoroff...

doesn't ride around on a nuclear transport train.

Get me N.M.C.C. Intel, please.

- It's like Ivana Trump on a subway. - Can you get my files?

- Have that enhanced off the Urals. - [Man] Yes, sir.

- Sergeant. - Sir.

We know Kodoroff's under investigation for corruption, probably gonna be indicted.

Gave a speech nine days ago in Saint Petersburg.

Mostly nationalistic bluster, bemoaning the loss of empire...

- and unity of the Slavic peoples. - Yeah, yeah.

Family history, phone records, bank statements.

Urinalysis from a Moscow traffic stop last month:367.

- I'm amazed he could turn the key. - That's a few cocktails.

Saw his dentist on Tuesday,

had dinner with some very attractive people on Friday.

We haven't been able to I.D. Them yet.

Jesus, Costello, you're slippin'.

- Oh, I'm gettin' old, sir. - You're not old.

General Garnett's old. [Chuckles]

If you don't mind me askin', sir, is Kodoroff involved?

- We don't know. He was on the train. - You see, that's funny.

- Why's that? - Because the General's got this Finnish mistress.

- She lives in Helsinki. - Laina.

- Guy calls her every day like clockwork. Never misses. - So?

Well, the thing is,

if this Kodoroff guy was on that train and he's so dead,

who's bouncin' calls to Laina in Helsinki off some satellite over southern Russia?

If that's a secure phone, I need it. Excuse me, General.

[Dialing Phone]

Sir, if a top- ranking Russian general is involved,

any intel we get from Moscow is either compromised- -

Palkawunic Vertikoff Pajaloosta.

- Or a flat- out lie. - You're right.

Dimitri, Tom Devoe.

- What do you want? - Are you busy?

I'm with two women. Call me back some other time.

How're you guys holdin' up?

I think the only virtue is, people are forgetting Chechnya.

[Chuckles] Yeah. Listen, D, I've got the troop manifest from that train.

Alek Kodoroff got vaporized out there, did he?

- Yeah. What a shame. - Yeah.

So how is it he's calling Laina from a bird over southern Russian?

How's he doin' that, D?

Hey, D, are you still there?

You must be wrong about that, Tom.

Our figures indicate the fallout should have dissipated by then.

Let me fax you what we've got. Your number?

Hold on. Fax number, please. Hang on.

[Devoe] All right, 0- 0- 1- 7- 0- 3...

- 5- 1- 1- 6- 8. - Six- eight.

I'm going to hang up now. Bye.

Listen, D- -

That scared him.

- Is this the fax? - Yes, sir.

[Newscaster] Information on the nuclear weapon incident...

in Russia's Ural Mountains is still sketchy at this hour,

but we do have a few new facts about the magnitude of the disaster.

Seismographs around the world detected the blast,

and we have reports that the explosion was seen as far away as Lithuania...

on the Baltic Sea.

Initial projections indicate the nuclear fallout...

will affect all of Russia and northern Europe.

There's still no word on casualties.

There's word that President Clinton will issue a statement on this tragedy in 30 minutes.

Vienna, 2:00 p.m., Bacherplatz.

Why Vienna?

- Kordech. - Maybe.

Kordech is a front for the Russian mafia in Vienna.

And it's a trucking company.

Whether it was an accident or a deliberate act of terrorism remains a question.

I need NORAD's sector 9877 intel from the Urals,

updated fallout patterns...

and troop movements from NATO humint.

Honey- roasted. Think anybody'll mind if I stole a couple of bags?

My old man will get a kick out of the Executive Seal.

Go ahead. Knock yourself out.

Would you call Langley? We're still waiting on the psych profile on Kodoroff.

He's an asshole. I'll save you a trip.

Thanks. I'll settle for the official version.

Okay. Officially, he's an asshole.

He'll do anything for money, which is the good news,

'cause it makes him fairly predictable.

I'd say he's been anything but predictable.

He took an order for an expensive, hard- to- find product,

and he intends to make good on delivery.

Supply and demand.

Your area of expertise, right, Colonel?

At least, that's the word on the Hill.

You've been checkin' up on me.

I like to know who I'm working with.

I'd like to know something.

You moved from Lawrence Livermore to the White House.

So, first you build the bombs to blow up the entire world...

and now you wanna save it.

Make up your mind. Which is it gonna be?

Well, I believe this week we're saving it.

- [Chuckles] - So, it's really that simple?

It is to me, that simple.

And when you've been the boss for more than two weeks, you'll know that.

Three weeks. You've done some checkin' yourself.

Well, I like to know who I'm workin' with.

Doctor, you can run your charts and your theories all you want.

In the field, this is how it works.

The good guys- - that's us- -

we chase the bad guys, and they don't wear black hats.

They are, however, all alike.

They demand power and respect, and they're willing to pay top dollar to get it.

And that is our highly motivated buyer.

- What about other motivations? - Not important to me.

Whether it's important to you or not, there are people out there...

who don't care about money and don't give a damn about respect,

people who believe the killing of innocent men and women is justified.

For them it is about rage, frustration, hatred.

They feel pain, and they're determined to share it.

That does me no good. Now let's deal with the facts at hand.

Twenty- three hours ago, General Aleksander Kodoroff...

stole ten nuclear warheads.

He's just a delivery boy.

I'm not afraid of the man who wants ten nuclear weapons, Colonel.

I'm terrified of the man who only wants one.

[Children Shouting, Chattering In Serbian]

[Chattering In Serbian]

[Speaking Serbian]

[Phone Ringing]

[Ringing]

[Ringing]

[Chattering]

[Chuckling] Hey, look who's the secret agent.

Nice hat. You don't stand out at all.

Dress shoes with khakis?

- Look at you. - Leave me alone.

- Let me tell you: Whatever happens, deny it. - I'll try that.

These are CD's. They are for Tasha.

You will not like them. How is she?

Sixteen, and in love with a 20- year- old motocross racer.

- She said to say hello. - Send her my love.

Is Kodoroff involved with Kordech?

Dr. Julia Kelly, Colonel Dimitri Vertikoff.

- Dr. Kelly heads the Nuclear Smuggling Group. - With the White House.

That's good. That's good.

I think we can do business, Dr. Kelly.

- Let's take a walk. - Okay, let's take a walk.

[Patrons Chattering]

[Dimitri] They sit here and drink. We might as well join them.

My group's been monitoring Kordech for years,

- but it's always been a mafia/ex- K.G.B. Operation. - Until recently.

You have to see that in the context of my country.

Alek Kodoroff comes from a generation of officers who grew up in a crumbling system.

Those pictures in your head about Russia- -

bread lines, shitty little apartments, ancient cars- -

Kodoroff and his friends made sure that it never applied to them.

But now, even that system is crumbling. [Popping Sounds]

This was Kodoroff's way out, his big score.

So you brought us here because you can't investigate Kordech yourself.

No, no. I can't investigate without alerting Kodoroff.

Half the men used to be in my unit.

Mr. Dietrich Shumaker schedules all Russian shipping for Kordech.

- You have an appointment at 4:00. - Good.

- Let's go see a man about a truck. - Cheers.

[Groans] That's gasoline.

[Chattering]

[Horn Honking]

- Do you have them? - Yes. We have to begin immediately.

[Speaking Serbian]

You just have to remember the plan. I'm Anthony Haden- -

- I'm Patty Carson. - Right.

We go in, we get the information and then we get out.

You call me Tony. Here we go. Hi.

I'm Anthony Haden. This is my associate, Patty Carson.

- I think Herr Shumaker's expecting us. - Please follow me.

[Computer Beeping]

[Receptionist] Make yourselves comfortable.

Thank you.

Trucking business must be pretty good.

Wonder what chateau in the Loire Valley these came from.

Mr. Haden? Welcome.

Thank you very much for seeing us.

This is my associate, Ms. Carson.

- Nice place you have here. - My personal taste runs to the Italians,

but the German and Austrian late Baroque was heavily influenced by the Italians.

- Several of our paintings are Italian. - Mm- hmm.

- That's a Tiepolo. - Mm- hmm. Oh, yeah.

I'm a big Leroy Neiman fan. Are ya familiar at all with his work?

- No, I'm afraid not. - No. Oh. Tsk.

- Please, come in. - Sure.

To my office.

- Oh, now, this is nice. - Thank you.

Have a seat.

- How can we help you? - I just wanted some information...

about, uh, trucking in Russia.

I might not be the right man if you need to rent equipment.

You're the head of transportation, right?

The head?

- No, I just do the scheduling. - Right.

You're the guy who gets things done. Smart. Put a German on it.

Yes, well.

- As I said, how can I help you? - What we wanna know is...

if I wanted to rent a vehicle to steal and transport nuclear weapons...

from somewhere, let's say, inside the Urals,

would you be the guy to talk to?

Would you be that guy?

No, I'm afraid not.

I believe our meeting is over.

All right, well, thank you for- -

- Do you like Ford Explorers? - We have to go, Mr. Haden.

- Range Rovers, Land Cruisers? - We really have to go.

- Mr. Haden, may I ask you to leave the room? - [Wrist Cracking]

- [Kelly] No! No! - Should've taken the money, Hans.

[Kelly Screaming]

- Get up and get behind that desk. - You broke my nose.

Not a word. Get the duct tape out of my briefcase, now.

I'm not gonna shoot you unless I have to. If I have to, I'm gonna feel real bad about it.

- Now sit down. Give me the duct tape. - Here.

- I need the password. What's the password? - Hang on.

- The password. - [Gasping] No.

All right. Hang on. All right, Hans.

- Oh! - We'll do it your way.

How's the backhand? [Cocking Gun] Password.

- Hasselhoff. - Hasselhoff.

How do you spell "Hasselhoff"? Come on.

Way to go, Hans. Very brave.

- I'm in. - [Devoe] All right, I need...

the trucking invoices for the last seven days.

All right.

[Murmuring]

- This is your plan? - Yep.

- This is your big plan? - This is my plan.

[Devoe] Let's go. Hurry up.

- Let's go. Come on. - Almost. Just logging off.

- Stay on. Who cares? Leave it on. - Got it!

Good.

- [Muttering] Oh, shit. - [Chuckling]

All right. Hang on. And...

thank you very much, Herr Shumaker.

[Beeping]

[Speaking German]

- Go. Go! - Come on! Come on!

Hurry!

- You get it? - Got it. You all right?

- No, I'm not. Brilliant idea: Just smash his face in. - That is how things get done.

- That's thinking. No warning. - A couple of bribes, it never happened at all, right?

Check the seats. They go all the way back.

- Oh, yeah. - Cool.

- Embassy car. - Of course. C.D. Player, bulletproof glass.

Everything. Oh, shit.

We may have a problem.

This is going to cost us. What do you have?

- Eighty. - That's enough. I'll be back.

Hold this.

- So you think he set us up? - Who?

- Your friend. - No.

How can you be so sure?

Because he's my friend.

- He needs more money. Give me. - [Gunshots]

- [Gasping] - No!

[Kelly] Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

[Devoe] Down!

Out! Out!

[Tires Squealing]

[Gunshots Continue]

[Click]

Get up front. Get up front!

Up front?

- They're behind us. - How many of them?

- Two. Two- - Three. - Reach into that briefcase. Pull out an extra magazine.

[Horn Honking]

- Where is it? - In the briefcase. Reach in!

Goddamn it!

Seat belt.

No, don't!

Come on. What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?

What are you doing? Wait! Shit.

[Pedestrians Screaming]

[Engine Stalled]

[Shouting In German]

No! No!

[Shouting In German]

[Gasping]

- Come on. - The invoices.

- Come on. Come on! - The invoices!

- Come on, goddamn it! - No!

Go, go, go! Go!

Dimitri has a...

a daughter, Tasha.

Sixteen. She lives in Rybinsk.

I remember when she was three.

Sh- - She's beautiful. Sh- -

Doesn't make sense, you know?

[Sighs] You don't...

kill a Dimitri Vertikoff.

There are certain rules. Killing him isn't useful.

Is it ever?

I never watched anybody die before.

[Beeping] Welcome. You've got mail.

Oh.

I e- mailed Shumaker's files to my A.O.L. Account before I logged off.

Did it work?

Uh... yeah.

We're looking for a vehicle hired in the Urals on about June 29.

- Right? - Yeah.

- No, the truck's too small. - Yeah, yeah. Saint Petersburg, one direction.

Point of origin: Chelyabinsk. Registration number: 7056BM.

Destination: Imisli 44E.

That's Azerbaijan. It's just south of Russia.

That's five miles from fuckin' Iran.

Kodoroff crosses that border and those nukes are gone.

We got a payment number. Looks like a bank- routing code.

There's no names of any clients yet. "44E." Does that mean anything to you?

- What? - Shumaker put a private memo at the bottom of the invoice.

- It can't be copied, and it wouldn't show up in any- - - This is Devoe.

We have a target vehicle. It's a cargo truck.

Registration: 7056 Bravo Mike.

- It's traveling south from Chelyabinsk to Imisli in Azerbaijan. - 44E.

I am requesting a high- priority tasker.

Any birds- - any birds- - find this truck.

We've got nukes heading for Iran.

What the hell is 44E?

[Men Arguing In Serbian]

[Men Exclaiming]

- [Speaking Serbian] - Da.

I am a Serb. I'm a Croat.

I'm a Muslim.

You will look at what I have done and say,

"Of course. Why not?

They are all animals. They have slaughtered each other for centuries."

But the truth is...

I am not a monster.

I'm a human man. I'm just like you...

whether you like it or not.

[Soldiers Chattering, Sergeant Shouting Drill]

Hey, Rich. How you doing?

- We haven't seen you since the great scud hunt! - That's right.

- Captain Santiago, sir. - Hello, Captain.

This is Lieutenant Beach.

He'll be running the operation from the ground, sir.

- Gentlemen, tell me you found him. - Damn close, sir.

Giving them an average speed of 65 clicks,

if their destination of Imisli is correct...

and if they're taking a direct route, we've got 'em somewhere about here, in Dagestan.

Still in Russia, below Mahackala on the Caspian Sea.

We've snuck a peek at everything within a 200- square- mile area.

We haven't turned up your truck. We think they're probably stuck here, in Kumuh.

- There's a hell of a traffic jam down there, sir. - Trucks are too close together.

- We can't get an angle on the plates. - What's going on down there?

Renewed fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Roads are clogged with refugees fleeing north.

Ken? Ken! Get me a copy of Kodoroff's intel phone records.

- What are you thinking? - I need an outside line here.

Somebody give me an outside line, please?

Filthy fucking refugees.

- Azerbaijani, Georgian, Kazhakstani.

Eh, don't curse them.

I don't care what bitch gave birth to them...

Moslem, Serb.

I don't hate them for who they are.

I hate them because they are poor.

- Hey, Alek, how's the ride down there?

- Who is this? - Doesn't traffic drive ya nuts when you're in a hurry?

- Who the fuck is this? - It's Tom Devoe, Alek. How the hell you been?

I gotta know. You still humpin' that Finnish stewardess with the bad skin?

Tom. Are you still trading stolen cars on the black market?

Hey, Alek, you watched CNN during Desert Storm.

Remember all those television shots from the nose cone of the G.B.U. Missiles...

slammin' into those trucks?

Remember that picture?

How it kept gettin' closer and bigger on the screen?

You could just about see the faces of those drivers, and then...

zap, the picture went dead; we didn't get to see what happened next.

Well, guess what, Alek.

You will, you son of a bitch.

Shit. Get out of the way.

- I guess that upset him.

- Can you get an angle? - In a minute.

He rear- ends some guy, that can't detonate that nuke, can it?

- As long as no one opens the primary, they're safe. - Come on.

Come on, sweetie. Come on.

It's coming.

- 70- 56 Bravo Mike. That's it. - How long until the satellite passes out of range?

- One hour, 46 minutes. - Get in contact with Russian command.

Give them the exact location of the truck. Ken?

Boom.

- We have to go now. - We only have them under surveillance for another hour.

- It doesn't matter what the State Department says, sir. - Yes, sir, absolutely.

- No, I understand, sir. - Fine. Thank you.

- Yes. Yes, sir. Will do. - Thank you, sir.

- Okay, go. You go. - No, no, you go first.

I was talkin' to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

He says the State Department is draggin' their feet.

I was talking to the president.

- He says it's a Russian problem; they have to manage it. - No, we have the advantage now!

The Russians say they are handling this.

The Russians couldn't find snow in the middle of fuckin' winter.

When that satellite is out of range, those nukes are gone.

It's only jet fuel.

- Get up into NATO. - Good for you. Let's go. Rich?

- No, wait. Wait. Colonel. - Santiago!

With Russia insisting they're handling this,

you will not take action without authorization.

What do you think I am, some gung- ho stupid son of a bitch?

No, I don't think you're stupid.

I think you're a talented soldier with sloppy impulse control,

and I don't want you provoking an international incident because of a personal agenda.

My personal agenda is my business.

Now you are not in Washington anymore.

You are in the real world. In the real world,

there are nuclear arms heading for Iran.

So whether you agree with me or not, get me authorized!

[Speaking Serbian]

Cobra Three, this is Tango Six. What have we got?

[Kelly] Russian command has been notified of the target vehicle's location.

Proceed to position and await further instructions.

- Ken, does N.R.O. Have anything up there for us? - They got us on standby.

Take this down. How much time are we looking at?

We can track 'em for another 45 minutes.

Let's alert IFOR at the Bazta checkpoint.

They'll have to pass through there.

Put that away.

[Speaking Russian]

[Speaking Russian]

Stop.

[Soldier Speaking Russian]

[Reporter] There's been a tragic setback in the ongoing effort...

to secure lasting peace in the former Yugoslavia.

So far, no one has taken responsibility...

for the killing of the Bosnian- Serb finance minister, Zarko Preljevich,

who was assassinated in a Sarajevo churchyard.

Word of Preljevich's violent death...

has sent shock waves through the international community.

The well- liked moderate was considered a crucial player...

in the upcoming peace talke scheduled to begin this week in New York.

Reporting live from Sarajevo, this is Jean Rogers for CNN.

Forty- four "E."

Forty- fourth parallel runs through...

Sarajevo.

Where's that bank routing number? The one off the Kordech invoice?

- You better get over here. - Check it against banks in Sarajevo.

- What's going on? - A Russian roadblock.

They're all dead, ma'am.

I think they're all dead.

[Devoe] Cobra Three, they got 'em?

Negative, Tango Six. How much longer do we have them on satellite?

Less than ten minutes.

Alert the Russians of the truck's current position.

Tell them they have men down out there.

Wallace, stand by to track if they go to Bravo.

[Devoe] We've now reached the Federation airspace, Cobra Three.

Running out of time. Suggest we go.

Negative, Six. Do not proceed without authorization.

- Do the Russians have troops in the area? - Negative.

[Devoe] Cobra Three, we're gonna lose 'em on satellite. We have to go.

Get me a secure phone link to N.M.C.C. Negative, Six.

Do not proceed without authorization. You will not proceed.

When we lose the satellite, do we have other eyes in the area?

[Kelly] Sir, we have the target vehicle approaching the Iranian border.

Requesting permission to enter Russian Federation airspace and take it out.

Dr. Kelly, in your estimation, is this our only remaining course of action?

Based on available intel, the Russians having no forces in place,

our analysis of the satellite sigint- -

I'm not asking for analysis, Dr. Kelly. I'm asking for a decision.

- Must advise we go, sir. - Dr. Kelly, if there are nuclear weapons on that truck,

and the Russians can't interdict,

are you willing to risk a war to stop it?

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir, I am.

Six, this is Cobra Three. We have a go.

Avoid foreign casualties. Secure the target vehicle.

Detain anyone found inside.

Copy, Cobra. Six to task force. We're cleared as briefed. Let's rock and roll!

This is Red Dog Pack to Three. Execute. Execute.

Why aren't they finished back there?

[Speaking Russian]

[Speaking Russian]

Russian control tower, this is Air Force 53762,

a flight of three U.S. Air Force helicopters in pursuit of stolen nuclear weapons.

Request a weapons- hold status.

[Speaking Russian]

You must return to Turkish airspace, U.S. Air Force.

Your intrusion is not authorized. You have crossed international line.

They've locked onto us.

A second battery's locked onto us.

This is Air Force 53762. We are in pursuit of stolen nuclear weapons...

on their way to Iran.

Repeat: Put your weapons on hold.

Reverse course immediately, or we will begin to fire.

This is Red Dog Three. We're lit up like a Christmas tree.

This is Air Force 53762.

Those weapons could be going to Chechnya or Georgia.

We repeat: Put your weapons on hold!

[Speaking Russian]

Here they come!

[Devoe] Number One is down. Cobra, we have a downed aircraft...

two miles east of checkpoint four.

- Number Three, acknowledge. - This is Red Dog Three.

Do you see the aircraft? Do you see any survivors?

Negative. The whole fucking forest is up in flames.

Number Three, duck behind the hill. Behind the hill.

- How many men on that chopper? - Nine.

[Devoe] Cobra Three, we're out of range.

Target is two miles out.

Here it is.

What's he doing?

- Will it work? - It can be activated by a single man...

and will render a nuclear yield of one to two kilotons.

- Why is he doing that now? - Because that was the deal.

One warhead for us, to do with as we wish.

After I get my money.

Helicopters!

All right, gentlemen, whatever you do, do not shoot any civilians.

Do you understand?

Amerikanski.

[Gunfire]

Take out the road!

Rig me a heavy lift line!

Those fuckers you can shoot!

Let's get him out! Pull up!

[Screaming]

Where are they goin', Alek? Where are they goin'?

Fuck you!

- Get it down! Lower it! - Heavy line! Let's go!

- Grab it and get out! - Drop a cable! Drop it!

Bring it down! More! More!

Come on! Get on! Hook on!

[Grunting]

- More! - Lower it! We gotta lower it!

[Shrieking]

Go!

- [Men Shouting] - We're clear! We're clear!

All right, sweep 'em. Open 'em up. Let's go! Let's go!

- You all right, sir? - Yeah. Open 'em up. Let's go!

[Devoe] Give me the radio. Cobra Three, are you there?

Six, what happened?

One assault aircraft is gone. Nine men are dead.

- Santiago! - Kodoroff is dead, and we have recovered...

- eight nuclear warheads... - Someone's holding on over the side!

- In their containers. - That's not enough warheads.

- What? - [Kelly] That's not enough damn warheads.

- For once, you could say something nice. - It was an SS18- - ten warheads.

One detonated, eight with you. That leaves one unaccounted for.

Colonel Devoe! There's somebody alive down here!

Hold on a minute. Take this. Motherfuck.

Goddamn it!

We got a live one, Colonel.

- Do you speak English? - Yes, l- - I went to Harvard.

Go, Crimson! Help me up, please.

- Where's the other warhead? - Please, bring me up.

Listen to me very carefully. You are gonna die unless you tell me where the warhead is.

- I don't know. He took it. He's gone. - Who?

I don't know his name! He's, uh, with the ones who arranged this!

- Kodoroff? - No, Kodoroff just handled the money!

It was the other one!

He- He made me dismantle the primary, make it mobile.

- How? - It's in his backpack. Help me up, please?

- I'm goin' back to the rig. - Help me up.

- Just hang on. We'll bring you up. - Okay.

Kelly? A guy got away with a bomb.

[Kelly] Copy, Devoe. All right, come on back.

We got it. The bank account on the Kordech invoice?

Registered to an address in Grbavica, a Serbian suburb of Sarajevo.

Good. Get this information to IFOR. Tell them to proceed with caution.

Where are you going?

- [Boy Chattering] - [Siren Wailing]

[Horn Honking]

[Speaking Polish]

[Speaking Serbian]

Tsk.

- Are you all right? - I've been better. How 'bout you?

I've been better. We traced the money back to a man named Vlado Mirich.

IFOR found a tape in his apartment. They're uplinking it to us now.

They say it has some sort of terrorist message on it.

Colonel, the guy you caught is Dr. Amir Taraki.

Pakistani. Ph.D. In astrophysics. Educated at Harvard.

That's right. We educated half the world's terrorists.

- You need to tell me exactly what he said. - All right.

He removed the primary from the warhead, and he put it in a backpack.

The primary is packed with plutonium.

Detonated, it could still take out ten city blocks...

- IFOR tape is transmitting! - And kill 100,000 people...

in a densely populated area like Sarajevo or Tuzla.

[Mirich] You will look at what I have done and say,

"Of course. Why not?

"They are all animals.

They have slaughtered each other for centuries."

But the truth is...

I'm not a monster.

I'm a human man. I'm just like you...

whether you like it or not.

For years, we have tried to live together...

until a war was waged on us.

On all of us.

A war waged by our own leaders.

[Mirich On Videotape, Continuing] And who supplied...

the Serb cluster bombs,

the Croatian tanks,

the Muslim artillery shells...

that killed our sons and daughters?

It was the governments of the West who drew the boundaries of our countries- -

sometimes in ink, sometimes in blood- -

the blood of our people,

and now, you dispatch your peacekeepers...

to write our destiny again.

We can never accept this peace that leaves us...

with nothing but pain- -

pain the peacemakers must be made to feel.

Their wives, their children,

their houses and churches.

So now you know. Now you must understand.

Leave us to find our own destiny.

May God have mercy on us all.

- [Click] - IFOR can shut down Bosnia. He's never gonna get into Sarajevo.

- He's never gonna get into Tuzla. - He's not going there.

We weren't meant to find this until after he had detonated the bomb.

Now, "pain the peacemakers must be made to feel."

The peacemakers aren't in Bosnia. They're in Europe and the U.S.

- They're signing a new treaty this week, right? - Tomorrow at the U.N.

- What is the address? - Over by the river, east side.

Forty- fourth Street. Forty- four "E."

He's goin' to New York.

- What've you got, Ken? - The only way we can close the airport...

is with a Federal Nuclear Emergency Response Plan.

- It has to come from her. - All right. I'll give it to her.

I wanted to know...

who they were.

Oh.

All right.

Secure line to N.M.C.C.

This is Dr. Julia Kelly. I am issuing a presidential directive...

for a Federal Nuclear Emergency Plan.

We have a possible weapon of mass destruction...

coming into the United States by unknown terrorist or terrorists.

- Check in the rear. - Yes, sir.

Commencing diplomatic evacuation. Perimeter is secure.

Repeat: Perimeter is secure.

Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please?

I'm with the U.N. We've been informed of a serious threat to the treaty signing.

We have to get you off this plane to insure your safety.

If you would all please stand up now. Everyone, stand up.

Thank you. Move to the exits...

at the rear and front of the aircraft in an orderly fashion.

- Glad you could make it. Coffee? - No, thank you, sir.

- I popped a couple of "stay- awakes" on the plane. - Dr. Kelly?

- I'm fine. - How many "stay- awakes" did she take?

This is Mark Carey, Energy.

Over here, Special Agent in Charge, David Branigan, F.B.I.

Welcome to New York. We're running N.Y.P.D. And Agency response out of here...

in coordination with D.O.E.

- Evacuation plans? - FEMA and National Guard are on alert.

- What about NEST? - Energy has containment teams...

on alert in Battery Park awaiting instructions.

We're running casualty scenarios.

Initial blast would throw 60 rads of prompt radiation out three miles.

That's most of lower Manhattan and Q\ueens- - 2.5 to 3 million people, 50%/% survival rate.

We're gonna need to monitor localized wind patterns, and we're gonna need...

radiation detectors, ground and air.

- Intel report from IFOR. - Let me see that.

All right, Vlado Mirich, Bosnian- Serb, radical.

Been missing for about a week. Father fought with Tito. No wife or children.

Has a half- brother who was a classical pianist in Sarajevo.

Mirich's been arrested three times for smuggling and black- marketeering.

- It's gotta be him. - No, no, something doesn't fit.

- What? - The man in the tape.

He's no black- marketeer, and he's not a nationalist.

Remember, he said, "I am a Serb, a Croat and a Muslim." He's holding everybody responsible.

- This background doesn't fit. - Sir, I'm checking all incoming passenger manifests.

I've got a V. Mirich on SwissAir Flight 1204 from Zurich to Kennedy.

- [Devoe] Arriving when? - Touchdown seven minutes ago.

[Devoe] Call JFK. Get Security. Send 'em a picture.

- [Kelly] Reroute to Kennedy Airport NEST. - [Ken] Done.

Excuse me. Excuse me!

Cover all the exits. Nobody gets out of here. You understand me?

- Nobody gets out! - [Agent] Who's Devoe?

- SwissAir Flight 1204, nonresidents. - Station 20.

This way.

[Kelly] He's not here.

- He's not here! - We got a possible identification at desk seven.

It's the far corner.

Excuse me.

Vlado Mirich?

Yes?

Who the hell is this?

- [Speaking Serbian] - Uh- huh. All right.

Passport's fake. Claims he bought it on the street in Sarajevo.

- He wants a lawyer. - We've been able to detain eight men.

Tried to enter today using passports issued by the former Yugoslavia.

- None matches your description. - Where the hell is he?

- Even with the treaty signing? - That doesn't include the delegations.

- The what? - They don't go through customs.

- Give me that. - Altogether, there must have been a couple hundred of them.

- [Alex Trebek On TV]... Julius Caesar. - [Contestant] Marcus Brutus.

- [Trebek] Right. - Half- brothers, 800.

[Trebek] Answer: Another Daily Double.

[Game Show Continues, Indistinct]

No, ma'am. Let me explain. We are talking about a possible terrorist situation.

We need to detain the entire delegation.

These are diplomats, here as guests of the State Department. I can't order them around.

- Then I need their names and room numbers. - We're looking for Vlado Mirich.

- I need what floor they're on too. - This isn't Vlado Mirich.

This is Dusan Gavrich. He's an alternate with the Bosnian- Serb delegation.

Their minister was assassinated last week. Mr. Gavrich is attending in his place.

The brother.

[Beeping]

[Firearms Cocking]

[Poodle Wheezing]

[Elevator Beeping]

Go. Go!

Oh, shit. "Diplomatic papers." They never even searched it.

Still warm.

Please. Move.

[Gunshots, Screaming]

Nina! Nina!

- [Gunshots, Pedestrians Screaming] - Nina!

Nina! Nina!

[Speaking Serbian]

[Screaming In Serbian]

[Speaking Serbian] Help me!

Help me! Help my child!

Please help me!

[Speaking Serbian]

[Horns Honking]

East 44th Street.

- D.O.E., you have anything yet? - Choppers are up.

Couple of +2 spikes reported, but nothing approaching target levels.

The backpack's gonna be leaking radiation.

They should be able to locate him within a three- to four- block area.

Set up roadblocks here. We're gonna close off Second Avenue.

Funnel him down 43rd to the U.N. We deploy snipers between First and Second...

- Command Center. - And take him out.

General, we have to close down the east side of Second Avenue...

from 55th to 42nd and the north side of 42nd from Sixth to the river.

- [Kelly] Let's go. - [Devoe] We're gonna be in position at the U.N.

Instruct all field agents, all snipers:

Subject cannot be aware of the hunt.

[Police Whistle Blowing]

- [Horns Honking, Whistle Blowing] - Move it.

Something big at U.N. Today. Traffic bad all morning.

[Kelly] Chopper Hunter One, anything?

- That's a negative. - H. Q\., Kelly. We're gonna work our way south into the funnel.

Suggest stopping anyone with a backpack north of 55th.

- [Branigan] Roger. How soon will you get to the U.N.? - What are you talking about?

This is a national emergency.

- [Pedestrians Shouting] - Get over here and spread 'em.

Hold it! Up in the air! Put your hands on your head. Don't move.

Who are the fascists now? Du kleine Ficke!

[Horns Honking]

- [Tires Squealing] - Come on!

Come on.

- [Horns Honking] - [Man] Let's go!

- [Siren Wailing] - Come on!

Okay, guys, let's move it out. Go! Go!

Come on. Let's move it.

[Whistling] Go!

[Horns Honking, Drivers Shouting]

- [Siren Wailing] - [Officer] All right, move back on the sidewalk.

- What the hell is this? - We have instructions to secure- -

- It looks like Desert Storm! Get these men outta here! - He sees us, we're all dead.

- Colonel. - N.Y.P.D. Is shutting down off- ramps to clear it.

- Where's the containment trucks? - It's gridlocked out there.

- Where are they? - [Pilot] We picked up a diffused radiation source...

somewhere between Third and Second, 54th and 46th.

- Can you be more precise, D.O.E.? - Not at this altitude.

On my way. You keep an open channel.

When we locate him, move out with the NEST team.

[Chattering]

[Helicopter Whirring]

H.R.T. Command, put me direct with your closest shooter.

- Hunter One, copy. - Leader, this is One.

[Devoe] Expect he's comin' your way, One.

[Hunter One] Roger that. Do we have a green light?

[Devoe] Affirmative.

- [Officer #1] Thank you. - [Officer #2] Get outside the barriers, folks.

Good. That's good.

No, you may not walk that way. Please turn around.

- Thank you. Round the barrier. - Over to the left, please.

I think he's somewhere between First and Second, probably below 46th.

All positions, do you see target?

No, sir. Not me.

Come on. Come to Papa.

This is Four. Target acquired. Three hundred meters.

Not clean. Too many friendlies.

Four, this is Leader. Take the shot.

[Hunter Four] There's a child, a family.

Acknowledged. Take the shot.

Shoot him. Come on.

Four, this is Leader. I repeat: Take the shot.

Take the shot!

Shoot him! Take the shot!

- Oh, God. - Goddamn it! Somebody shoot him!

- [Sighs] - This is One. I have target acquired.

Four hundred yards, inbound. No shot. Should open at 43rd.

[Siren Wailing]

F.B.I.!

- I need to get the hell through. - You and the rest of New York. Take it easy, all right?

Just get outta here.

Dispatch, this is 1501. I need backup on 43rd Street...

as soon as you can get it for me.

Leader, this is Hunter One. Waiting for target to clear.

You with the backpack, get your hands up.

- Get out of the way. - Get your hands up.

I'm a diplomat with the United Nations.

I must be allowed to pass.

Leader, I may have lost him. He stopped.

- What? - He may have stopped. He went behind some trees.

He's gotta be there. Reacquire. Move if you have to.

- What've you got in the backpack, buddy? Cuffs. - You got it.

- [Gunshots] - [Pedestrians Screaming]

- Can you engage, Number One? - Negative, sir. Somebody shooting.

Corner of 43rd and Second.

Is he down?

Is he down? Is he down?

[Hunter One] Negative. They're southbound, toward 42nd.

Stay in contact with the containment trucks...

and have them ready to move on my command.

- Where are you from? - Philadelphia.

Give me the keys.

[Siren Wailing]

Hey! Out of the way! D.O.E., you have him?

He's eastbound on 42nd.

- Get out of the way! - [Siren Wailing]

Go! Make way!

[Woman Screaming]

Move it!

[Cabbie] Hey, off o' the car!

[Screaming]

[Speaking Serbian]

Oh!

- East of Second, off 41st. Give me backup now! - He went down there!

- There! - Stay behind me!

- [Gasping] - Drop your weapon, and show me your fuckin' hands.

We got him. Alley off 41st.

[Yelling Gleefully]

[Yelling]

- [Grunting] You all right? - Yeah.

[Gasping]

[Radio] The signal just quit. You're right there. He's gotta be indoors.

[Panting] Oh, Vlado.

[Speaking Serbian]

- [Woman] I saw them! - [Man] Up those stairs! In there!

[Speaking Serbian]

[Door Opening, Bell Ringing]

Move! Move, move, move!

- [Screaming] - Move! Move!

- Move! - [Students Shouting, Screaming]

- Anybody have him? - [Radio] Negative. Nothing to the south end. Same to the north.

- D.O.E., what have you got? - Still picking up a diffused energy source...

somewhere in the area.

We're circling back now.

He knows he'll never make it to the U.N.

He doesn't have to. He's got a nuclear weapon.

All he has to do is sit down behind a Dumpster and take out half of Manhattan.

He doesn't wanna die behind a Dumpster. He wants his death to mean something.

- [Radio] Still not getting a clear reading. - Keep circling.

Fan out. We've established a new perimeter. He's gotta be within 200 yards.

- Look for blood, door to door. - [Radio] There's no sign, Colonel.

He probably ducked into a building.

- Keep looking! - Will continue circling a six- block area.

Devoe!

Listen.

[Speaking Serbian]

[Shouting In Serbian]

- Go! Go! - [Children Screaming]

[Priest] Hurry along. Come on. Come on.

- [Screaming] - Father, take these children out of here! Move it!

[Priest] Come on, girls. Q\uickly. Q\uickly, girls.

[Faint Noise]

Come on. Come on. Give me your hand. Give me your hand.

Let's go. Go.

Go, go, go, go.

[Indistinct Noise]

[Gasps]

You cannot stop this.

Never!

Okay.

Okay, just, just, just stay still.

Stay there.

Stay still.

It's okay.

You don't wanna die like this.

Tell me about the bomb. Is it on a trigger?

Is it on a timer? Is it activated?

Come on. Talk to me.

- We can decide on a way out of this. - [Gasps]

- [Cocks Pistol] - No!

Who decided for my wife?

My child, murdered. Huh?

For what?

For what?

[Whispering] For breathing?

For smiling?

And now, I am left.

Who decides for me?

Mr. Gavrich, what is it you want?

[Speaking Serbian]

- L- - - I want it to be...

like it was.

Sir, it's not our war.

- It is now. - No!

- Son of a bitch. - Where the hell is NEST?

- [Beeping] - Get NEST in here!

- It's on a timer. - All right, listen. The bomb's on a timer, all right?

Ken. Ken. Where the hell are they?

- I don't know. I'm on it. - Ken, tell me NEST is here.

[Ken] Affirmative. We've cleared 43rd. They'll be there in four minutes.

They're not gonna make it. They're not gonna make it!

All right. Okay. You're gonna have to do this.

Understand? Look at this. Tell me what you see.

- Take a look at this and tell me what you see! - Yeah. Uh,

an SS18 primary with a plutonium core.

A bomb inside a bomb. It has a capacitor- relay detonator, double pull, double throw.

Uh, the only way of knowing is to open it up.

What?

- What? - Let's move it into the chapel. Get it off him. Get it off!

Hang on. We got a trip wire right here. We're gonna move the man with the bomb.

All at once. Here we go. Ready? Go!

Let's go! Let's go! Careful!

Get the gate!

- Why in here? - It'll help contain the radiation.

You need to get out of the church. Evacuate as many people from this area as you can.

- Okay. I, uh, I need something for the screws. - Here.

- Anything. Q\uick! - Go, go.

Devoe, get out of here.

Okay. I'll be in the truck. [Laughs]

[Gasping] Shit.

The plutonium core is surrounded by explosive panels.

Uh, give me the knife. I need the knife back.

If we can separate one of the panels,

uh, we may be able to blow up the outer bomb...

without the core going to nuclear yield.

You're gonna blow this up. You're gonna blow up the bomb?

You know what you're doin', right? You've done somethin' like this before.

Defused stolen nuclear primaries jerry- rigged by Pakistanis?

No.

[Beeping]

Oh! [Gasping]

- [Blade Snapping] - Ah, damn!

All right.

Uh, I need your gun. Give me the gun. I need the gun.

Go.

Easy, easy, easy, easy!

It's all right.

- [Devoe] Fourteen, thirteen, twelve, - I know.

- Eleven, ten, - It won't let go!

- Nine, eight- - - Move!

Come on! Seven! Come on! Six, five!

Go, go, go, go!

[Beeping]

[Rapid Beeping]

[Siren Wailing]

Julia. Come here. Come here. Are you okay?

- [Gasping] - Hey! Are you okay? Hey!

- Come here. Come here. - [Siren Wailing]

Come here. Hey.

- You okay? - I think so.

- [Man] Get in there with the ladder! - All right.

[Crying]

Yeah. All right. Hey, listen. You're okay.

All right?

- You're okay. - Sir, we need you to go with these men.

- Yeah. Go, go, go. Go. - We have to get you to a radiation checkpoint.

- Julia! - I'm bleeding.

Julia. Julia!

Julia!

[Horn Blowing, Siren Wailing]

So, they give you any new medals?

Yes, they did.

- Well, you worked very hard for them. - Thank you.

So we've got kind of a tradition over at military ops...

whenever combatants come back from the field in one piece.

Uh, we buy each other a beer.

- You made that up. - Yes, I did.

Well, um, I got ten more to go.

I'll wait.