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(ALARM BLARING)

MAN ON PA: Attention. Attention.

All personnel continue emergency evacuation.

Clear through your security checkpoints immediately.

Continue emergency evacuation.

(DINGING)

ALEX: Doctor.

Doctor, the complex has now been completely evacuated.

The last technician just cleared through the perimeter security.

Doctor?

Thank you, Alex.

You're quite sure you want to go through with this?

Quite sure.

We're locked on to the ComSat?

Yes, Dr. Cooper.

Communication satellite Athena 18 standing by for transmission.

Transmission will begin in 30 seconds.

(ELECTRONIC BEEPING)

JULIA ON TV: All right then, now that we've gotten the tomatoes...

Who's got the tomatoes mashed up?

I don't have the...

...we're going to move on to the next step.

Set it over a low burner and simmer while we peel...

Julia's always lights. How come you don't light without a match?

Don't forget to check on the pie crust.

To be certain it's only light brown.

And very flaky.

The potatoes. Okay.

The three potatoes should be very firm

and a little larger than your fist.

Once they're peeled, we halve them...

Will you please slow down?

...no smaller than quarters, mind.

Now we do the same to the green peppers...

Come on, I haven't even finished the potatoes yet.

I've got to be Bionic just to keep up with you!

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

Once we get all the vegetables prepared, the crust is taken piping...

(ELECTRONIC TONE SOUNDING)

Swell.

Good evening, my friends.

Please forgive me for interrupting your television viewing,

but it is a matter of the utmost importance.

Although a few of you may recognize me,

lam sure the majority of you do not.

My name is Elijah Cooper,

and I have the dubious distinction of being called

”The Father of the Cobalt Bomb, ” among other things.

As [speak to you in English, I am simultaneously speaking

in nine different languages to the other peoples of the world

by way of the Athena 18 Communication satellite.

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

As you may know,

the cobalt bomb is the most diabolical instrument of destruction

ever conceived by man.

But for those of you who have never seen firsthand what it can do,

I've arranged a live demonstration

in the Pacific test area.

Yes, I've got it on here, too.

(PHONE BEEPING) Just a minute.

Yes?

Yes. Put him on.

No, Mr. Secretary, the Commission doesn't know anything about this, either.

Well, you know I didn't authorize such a detonation.

What in God's green Earth does Elijah think he's doing?

It is awesome, isn't it?

Supreme devastation.

But let me tell you this, my friends.

It is only a very small scale compared to what will happen

the next time such a nuclear detonation occurs.

Because I have now created a device

that can render the entire world lifeless.

I realize that is a sweeping statement.

There must be doubters among you.

Therefore, I want the United Nations

to deliver to me at 8:00 tomorrow morning,

these four eminent scientists

to confirm that [do have this capability.

Dr. Toshiro Kurosawa,

Dr. Rudy Wells,

Dr. Margueritte Perry and Dr. Victor Evtuhov.

And let me warn all governments

that any military attack upon my research complex

will immediately set the device in motion

and bring an end to all life on this planet.

This message is now concluded.

(BEEPING)

(STATIC)

NEWSCASTER: Reactions to Dr. Cooper's claim have been varied.

The Defense Department denies that the technology even exists

for such a Doomsday Device, but Elijah Cooper's preeminence

in the field of nuclear physics

leaves room enough for doubt.

There are many who believe that the aging doctor has become mentally unstable.

The United Nations Security Council has been

in a closed-door session since early this morning.

We'll have a report from there as soon as possible.

MAN: Then we will proceed immediately.

Mr. Goldman will coordinate the operation

and the strictest security is to be observed.

This meeting of the Security Council is adjourned.

What's the situation profile? Serious.

They agreed to honor Cooper's demands. Unanimously?

Satari voted no for his country, walked out of the meeting.

He would. Cooper got what he wanted, though.

We deliver to him the four scientists he requested?

Kurosawa's en route from Japan,

and the Soviets are flying in Evtuhov over the Pole.

Are you not reacting a bit strongly, Mr. Goldman?

Overdramatizing?

I think not, Mr. Satari.

We have the potential of a very dangerous situation here.

I don't know.

Somehow I have the feeling you have everything under control.

As a matter of fact,

I'm quite sure of it.

And so, I will leave this little problem in your capable hands.

How can he be so blase about what's going on?

He never cooperated with the Russians or the United States before.

How can we expect to now? Where's Rudy?

He's already aboard Air Force One at JFK, waiting for us.

Good. Now wait a minute.

What about that fourth scientist that Cooper requested?

The French physicist, Margueritte Perry?

Let's go.

(SIGHS)

JAIME: Merci, Monsieur Goldman.

(IN FRENCH ACCENT) I thank you very much for arranging to escort me.

It is quite an honor for me to be aboard your Air Force One.

Even though I have no idea what I am doing here.

OSCAR: Good.

Now, uh, do you speak French?

Ah, oui. Un peu.

The tennis circuit took me to France a few times.

At least enough to learn more than "Thank you."

"Where's the ladies room?" and ”Non."

Boy, are you glum! What is this all about?

I mean, I know it's Elijah Cooper, but...

Dr. Elijah Cooper requested a team of

four nuclear scientists to be taken to his complex

to prove that the Doomsday Device is indeed a reality.

He's never met these scientists personally,

so NATO has approved for you to take the place of Dr. Margueritte Perry.

NATO? Oscar, wait a second.

Now, speaking a little French is one thing,

but I don't know anything about nuclear physics.

You don't have to know anything about nuclear physics.

All you have to do is hang back, stay loose

and let the scientists take care of the physics.

Here you are, Dr. Perry.

Thank you.

You're not sending Jaime in there to strong arm Dr. Cooper, are you?

Mmm-mmm. Of course he's not.

Once she gets inside, she's gonna have to wing it.

A man of Dr. Cooper's genius, no telling what she'll have to do to stop him.

Oscar, wait a second. I'm not...

Jaime, we don't know what's going on in there.

Maybe he's mentally unbalanced.

I can't believe that, Oscar.

Rudy, if the Doomsday Device does work, who knows what he'll do?

He might blackmail world governments for enormous amounts of money.

And if he finds out that Jaime's an agent, no telling what he'll do.

Wonderful.

One thing is clear, though.

Blackmailer,

whatever else he may have become,

Elijah Cooper is a consummate research scientist.

And if he says he has a device that'll destroy life on this planet,

it probably can.

Remember, you're probably dealing with a madman.

Be careful.

ALEX ON INTERCOM: Good afternoon.

Doctors Margueritte Perry and Rudy Wells.

Thank you for holding your identification up to the television camera.

Please follow the signs along the main road.

Dr. Cooper is awaiting your arrival.

JAIME: Too bad they couldn't find a more remote area for this complex.

How far is it?

RUDY: We've been driving over part of it for the last six miles.

You mean it's underground?

Yes, a lot of it.

It's the largest government research facility in the central United States.

Rudy, do you think that Dr. Cooper could have gone insane?

It is a dangerous possibility.

What if he asks me about nuclear physics?

Just let me do the talking.

Hello?

Dr. Cooper?

Dr. Cooper?

ALEX ON INTERCOM: Welcome to the main complex.

Dr. Cooper is temporarily occupied in the adjacent laboratory.

Please make yourselves comfortable.

He will join you shortly.

I thought Dr. Cooper was alone here.

That's what the communication said.

I wonder who that voice belongs to.

Can you hear anything in the other rooms?

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

No.

Stay here, I'll go do a little snooping, okay?

You be careful.

(SHUDDERS) Like my life depended on it.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

Who are you?

(IN FRENCH ACCENT) Margueritte Perry.

Dr. Perry!

How did you get in here?

Well...

I thought I left that closed.

I must tell Alex to be more vigilant.

Alex?

Yes.

Are you all right, Doctor?

Yes. Yes. Just my 78 years finally catching up to me.

I'll be all right in a moment.

(SIGHS)

From reading your publications,

I'd assumed you were considerably older, Dr. Perry.

Your research work has fascinated me.

Oh, my work?

Yes.

I read your theories concerning

the linear acceleration of positrons through neutrino plasma,

and I've been very anxious to discuss them with you.

Oh, yes, that... Well, it was very interesting work.

Uh...

But you would like to discuss

the linear acceleration of positrons through the neutrino plasma?

COOPER: Yes. Your experiments are astounding.

Well, then, let me try to talk you through them. All right?

Talk him through it?

I can hear her, but how's she gonna...

Her bionic ear.

Jaime?

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

Jaime, can you hear me in there?

JAIME: Ah, oui.

COOPER: Well, tell me,

did you start with the hydrogen super-heated

or did the electric arc serve as a transducer?

Tell him you used deionized hydrogen

with a 20,000 degree Kelvin arc.

I used deionized hydrogen with a 20,000 degree Kelvin arc.

Really? Oui.

And the hydrogen didn't mutate?

No. Tell him you employed a high-intensity helium injection.

No. I employed a high-intensity helium injection.

Extraordinary.

Jaime, the Japanese and Soviet scientists are coming.

I've gotta stop now.

Well, I am most anxious to hear more.

Now, what about the positrons themselves? Dr. Cooper,

I would be very honored

to answer your questions all day long.

But there are more pressing matters we must get on to. Yeah?

Oh, yes. Yes, of course. You are right.

Come. We'll see if our fellow scientists have arrived.

Oh, Dr. Wells, Dr. Kurosawa, Dr. Evtuhov.

Welcome to my research facility.

This is not a social call, Dr. Cooper.

My government is most upset

with the cobalt bomb you have detonated in the Pacific.

There will be no fallout. It was completely clean.

Designed only to get your attention, which it obviously has.

There is no excuse for your actions!

You are clearly in violation of the SALT agreements.

KUROSAWA: I must register the strongest...

Gentlemen, please, please.

I will answer all your questions in a moment.

Now, you know each other by reputation, at least.

And this is Dr. Margueritte Perry.

Bonjour. Dr. Perry?

You look much younger than when we met in Paris last year.

Merci.

Dr. Cooper, we're very concerned about what you're doing.

As well you should be.

What is this Doomsday Device you've spoken of?

Does it really exist?

Most of you are aware that I've concerned myself in recent years

with a new isotope. Uthenium J.

As you can see, I have determined that

it has a radioactive half-life of 507 years

and is extremely toxic.

Now, my Doomsday Device is deceptively simple.

A casing of Uthenium J around a single cobalt bomb of sufficient megatonnage

becomes the ultimate weapon of destruction.

Creating a shroud of radioactive particles in the upper atmosphere.

Precisely. Bringing an end to all life on this planet.

I have made such a device.

And it is here.

In that vault, at the lowest level of the complex.

It is impenetrable and failsafe.

Dr. Cooper, you were always known as a man of peace.

Why have you done this, Dr. Cooper?

It should be obvious. It's blackmail.

Blackmail?

What do you want?

How much money?

Oh, no, it's not money that I want, my friends.

It's peace. World peace.

What?

How does creating the ultimate weapon of destruction

lead to peace?

(PANTING) Because...

Because the only thing that can trigger the device

is an air burst of a nuclear bomb.

I have established the necessary sensors to receive all data.

Seismic, radioactive, heat, shock wave and megatonnage.

I have also made careful allowances for underground testing

and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

But if any country anywhere

explodes a thermonuclear bomb in the atmosphere,

either for testing, or for warfare,

it will trigger an irreversible chain of events here.

And in six hours,

the Doomsday Device will detonate

and life on earth will be ended.

So you intend to blackmail the world into peace.

I hope so, Dr. Wells.

I have felt the same pangs that my friends Einstein,

Oppenheimer and Fermi felt.

Well, how many of us have watched our scientific discoveries

twisted into war machines?

I have felt the same things that Alfred Nobel felt a century ago,

when he saw his dynamite being used to blow up human beings.

Well, I'm... I'm an old man now,

as this tired heart of mine keeps reminding me,

and this will be my final chance to bring a lasting peace to mankind.

KUROSAWA: This is outrageous!

No matter how benevolent your goals are!

Dr. Cooper, no one man can be allowed to play God.

(ELECTRONIC BEEPING)

It is done.

Dr. Cooper,

I understand.

But there will be those people

who will insist that you deactivate your system.

They will not respect your age or position,

even if it came to torture.

Yes, Dr. Evtuhov, I've thought of that,

but it's completely out of my hands now.

The Doomsday Device is controlled by Alex.

Alex?

Who's Alex?

We spoke to him when we came in here. Now who is he? Where is he?

You are standing inside of him.

Alex is the master computer that controls every phase of this complex.

He's the highest form of computer art and design.

Until this very moment,

I've had him operating on only half efficiency.

But from here on, his eyes and ears will watch over

and govern this complex and its defenses.

He is supremely intelligent, yet passionless.

Aren't you, Alex?

ALEX: Yes, Dr. Cooper.

The perfect guardian of the peace.

So now, if any nation detonates a nuclear bomb,

not even I could stop the Doomsday Device.

The choice is clear and simple, my friends.

It is peace

or oblivion.

Are there any other questions?

Then you are free to go now.

MAN: Then we are agreed.

Until the situation can be more closely analyzed,

we shall institute a worldwide ban on any and all nuclear testing.

The UN has complied with Elijah Cooper's demands.

Good.

Not every one of them, Oscar.

The intelligence sources in the Mid-East have just picked up on something bad.

I've just checked it out.

This is Oscar Goldman speaking.

SATARI: Mr. Goldman? - This is Satari.

I am speaking to you from the desert testing center in my country.

I want to advise you that my government

has officially labeled the Elijah Cooper matter as a superpower plot.

What?

A superpower plot,

to keep Third World countries from expanding their nuclear capabilities.

Don't be ridiculous.

We do not intend to be made ridiculous.

We will continue with our nuclear research on schedule,

including the plan for an atmospheric thermonuclear bomb test

five hours from now.

But that will trigger the Doomsday Device!

I want to be clearly understood.

We do not believe there is such a device.

Have a good day, Mr. Goldman.

OSCAR: Mr. Satari...

PILOT: This is - Reconnaissance One.

Advise Mr. Goldman that we're now crossing over the Dakota test area.

(BEEPING)

(BEEPING RAPIDLY)

Mayday! Mayday! This is Recon One. We've been hit. Mayday!

The UN is sending an emergency force to Satari's country.

Can they get there in time?

I don't think so. Rudy, you got anything?

No. All communication with Cooper's complex have been cut off.

(SIGHS) Oscar, the reconnaissance helicopter we sent

towards Cooper's complex has been fired on.

Were they hit? Yeah.

They ditched just outside the test area,

and apparently the Alex 7000 computer has activated the total

air defense system of the complex.

All right. Then we don't have any choice. We have to go in over land.

We've got to disarm that Doomsday Device

before Satari's nuclear test triggers it.

Oscar, even if we had the troops right here ready to go,

the Dakota complex has a class 16 automatic fortification.

Do you know how many lives we'd lose trying to storm in there?

Besides, Satari is set to detonate in less than five hours.

We don't have time.

Oscar, is Steve still aboard the Skylab?

Yes.

Well, then he won't be able to help us.

Rudy, is there any way that I could stop the device?

Now, hold on there, Jaime. Is there?

I don't know, Jaime.

Maybe if you could disable the computer's main memory banks.

But Elijah's probably even built in defenses against that.

Well, it's worth a try. Jaime...

Oscar, we're a little short on options right now.

Russ, where do you think would be the best spot for me to get through?

It's hard to say.

There's automatic weaponry on the outer perimeter

and electronic mines closer in.

The defenses were designed to keep an army out.

I don't know if you have much of a chance.

But the roughest terrain is the least protected.

Now, I'd say the rock cliffs along the south quadrant

on the other side of this hill.

Okay.

It's the computer's main memory bank?

Maybe.

All right. Let's hope so.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

(BEEPING)

(BEEPING RAPIDLY)

(EXPLOSIONS)

(EXPLOSIONS)

(GRUNTS)

Hello.

How did you get here?

By crawling up this drainage ditch.

My people have satellite photographs of this complex.

I knew you... (EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE)

I knew you weren't Dr. Perry, but you're not even French.

No. Why didn't you expose me, Dr. Evtuhov?

Because I am not Dr. Evtuhov. Look out!

What are you doing here?

The same thing you are, I imagine. Who are you?

Trying to disarm the Doomsday Device

before that Mid-Eastern bomb detonates.

That's fine, very noble.

Now just turn right around and crawl back out of here.

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

The lives of my people are in danger here, too.

So I will continue.

And in the interest of time, may I suggest we work together?

Here.

I think we're past the artillery perimeter.

JAIME: This place is loaded with other automatic defenses.

DIMITRI: I don't see anything.

We didn't see those artillery shells coming down on us, either.

Look, why don't you stay here and let me scout around, huh?

No, we will go together.

How fast could you run to those rocks?

Faster than you can.

(CHUCKLES) All right, let's go.

(LASER GUN BUZZING)

All right?

You're hit?

No, it just caught my pack.

I'll do something about those laser guns.

(BEEPING)

Nothing's happening. Patience, woman.

(CLATTERING)

How did you do that?

It's a little toy I've designed for the Soviet Army.

So you are a scientist.

Yes.

I am Dimitri Muskov.

My friend Victor is too old for this sort of thing.

What is your name?

Jaime. Jaime.

Hmm.

You brought no equipment, huh?

Oh, well, I lost it in the mortar barrage.

All right. Then we will use mine.

Come on.

I don't have the right style piton for this type rock.

I will be diligent, however.

(PITON CLANKS)

Yeah, and slow.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

Snow White, can you hear me?

Jaime?

Victor Evtuhov is in here with me, only he's not Victor Evtuhov.

He's Dimitri Muskov.

What? Well, how did he... Never mind that.

His government sent him in here on the same mission I'm on.

The question now is, should I leave him behind or not?

I've heard of Muskov.

He's also one of the Soviets' top men.

He could help her immeasurably.

All right, Jaime, take him along if he can keep up.

What about letting him see the bionics?

Well, I'm always concerned about revealing bionics to the Soviets, Jaime.

Oh, I'll do the best I can. All right?

Bye.

Dimitri?

How do you come to be up there?

I found a short cut.

Here, just take the rope.

Come on up.

Hang on tight.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

Fine, fine.

How you get up here? How you pull me up like that?

Oh, just a little leverage, that's all.

Little leverage?

Woman, you're speaking to a man very familiar with the laws of physics.

Now, I'd like to know how you do that!

Doctor, I am a little stronger than I look.

So let's just leave it at that.

Now, the most important thing right now

is to stop Dr. Cooper's device.

Agreed.

But I'll be very curious to see how you get up this next cliff.

Are we on schedule?

Yes, the testing area is ready.

Detonation tower, telemetric sensors, film and television cameras.

A mock-up town, everything.

Good. Personnel are all moving out?

Yes.

Then we are ready for countdown to detonation?

Yes, sir.

(OVER PA) This is Operations Control.

Stand by for countdown commencement.

They thought they could frighten us

with their ridiculous story about a Doomsday Device.

They think we are fools?

Begin.

This air gun I developed will get us up much more quickly

than conventional climbing techniques.

Yes, but will it be fast enough?

OSCAR ON RADIO: Jaime, where are you now?

We're still on the cliff,

about three miles from the complex.

You've got to cover those last three miles very quickly.

Now, listen to me carefully.

We're moving to the Communications Center at Brantley Air Force Base.

Now, I'll give you some update material.

Satari's people have already started their countdown

and the UN forces can't get there in time.

Oh, boy.

How much time do we have?

You've got three hours and 37 minutes.

Okay. I'm just gonna have to blow my cover then.

I'll get back to you.

Dimitri? What?

We're gonna have to move a lot faster.

Jaime, there is no way we can.

Well, maybe there is. Now, I'm coming up.

You?

Yes, move over now, here I come.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

(EXCLAIMS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

Okay, give me some of these metal spikes now.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

(JAIME GRUNTS)

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

I guess a little foothold wouldn't hurt.

Okay. Come on, Dimitri, follow me. Here we go.

You okay?

(PANTING)

You are a cyborg.

A what?

A cyborg. A cybernetic organism.

Well, I prefer to call it bionics myself.

It has a much nicer ring to it.

Somebody has finally succeeded with a human.

(STAMMERING) I mean, in my country we succeeded with lower animals,

but our two attempts with humans ended tragically in death.

Yeah. Well, everybody's gonna end up dead

if we don't get inside that complex

and disarm that Doomsday Device, so come on.

What is it? What's the matter?

You've put me in a very awkward position.

I wonder how my government would react to learn of your existence.

(SCOFFS)

We've only got a couple miles to go.

All right, Russ, let's get cracking.

I want to establish a priority com link to the Pentagon,

the State Department and the White House.

What about the UN? Good.

Set it up so that we can use a scrambler if we have to.

Oh, and if you get any more signals from the Athena 18 ComSat,

I want them jammed and coded so that nobody sees them except me.

How about a microwave relay to Washington?

Fine.

Send a feed to the world government leaders,

but not to the general public.

If Elijah Cooper has any more messages to send,

I'd like the world leaders to monitor them first.

Right. It might prevent a lot of panic if things get worse.

If things get much worse, it may not matter.

Oscar, can you set up a data link to my computer at the O.S.I.?

There's something I'd like to check out.

Okay. I'll take care of that, Rudy.

Russ, what's the news on the Satari countdown?

I'm getting it now.

Their nuclear device is set to detonate in

one hour, 41 minutes.

Jaime and Dimitri don't have much time.

JAIME: The complex is just beyond there.

Okay. Come on. Wait!

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

It's a mine field.

DIMITRI: What? (STAMMERING)

They told me there was an electronic mine field here.

How do you know? I can hear it with my bionic ear.

Perhaps I can jam it.

(BEEPING)

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

Uh-uh.

It isn't working.

So your electronics are more sophisticated than I expected.

It's over for me then. I cannot cross it.

Wait a minute.

Wait a second.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

Okay. Come on. Get down. Get down.

(MAN 1 EXCLAIMS IN PAIN) (MAN 2 SHOUTS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

Okay. I think I can get us through. Come on.

Not possible.

Well, I can hearthe electronic hum change

when I get close to one of the mines.

So if you just stay right in my footsteps...

Jaime, I can't do it! ...we can get through.

I can't.

I was almost killed in a mine field in Manchuria.

I can't do it, it's over a mile across.

We've got to try, Dimitri. Now come on.

Nyet!

It's impossible.

Wouldn't you rather die trying than wait for that Doomsday Device?

Think of your people, Dimitri.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

(ALARM BLARING)

MAN: Attention. - Attention. Attention.

All personnel, clear Sector Two.

Gain potential to 0-1-0.

The countdown is at T-minus 60 minutes.

Mark.

(MAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

Jaime.

Dimitri, come, we're almost through now.

(SHOUTING CONTINUES)

Dimitri?

Jaime!

MAN ON PA: Detonation tower circuits check.

D-C manual override ready.

All systems condition green.

Stand by.

Detonation is in mark.

T-minus 15 minutes.

(GROANS) Are you all right?

Oh, my leg.

Can you move it at all?

It's my kneecap, I think.

The laser triggered the mine.

The explosion must have taken out the laser gun.

The laser gun almost took me out.

Thank you.

Look, I think we're almost through these mines here.

Let me help you. Come on, okay?

I don't know if I can make it.

Come on.

MAN ON PA: High speed cameras to test mode.

Check.

Detonation at T-minus eight minutes and counting.

Easy. (GROANS)

Dimitri?

Jaime, I must stop this bleeding.

You go.

You try to disable the main logic and memory banks of the computer.

Please.

You carry the torch for my country now as well as yours.

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

(BEEPING)

Dr. Cooper!

ALEX: How did you get through that locked door?

How did you get through the automatic outside defenses?

You're not Dr. Perry. Who are you?

(BIONIC POWERS ACTIVATING)

What is your name? Who are you?

Won't you at least tell me your name?

It's Jaime.

Unusual and pleasant.

I am the Alex 7000 Master Computer.

What exactly are you trying to do, Jaime?

It would seem that you are trying to damage some of my components.

But anything you do to these components

will have no effect on me whatsoever.

(EXCLAIMS)

I'll prove it to you, if you like.

How?

The main breaker is by the door where you came in.

It turns off this entire component section.

There, you see?

There's really a great deal more to me than meets the eye.

Automatic sequencer stand by.

Automatic sequence start.

T-min us three minutes.

Dr. Coop...

Dr. Cooper.

Here, Elijah. Come on. Are you all right?

I guess this old heart of mine

is tired of the schedule I've been making it keep.

Easy. There we go.

(SIGHS) You're not Dr. Perry.

What are you, government?

Yes.

No matter now anyway.

How can I help you? What can I do?

Oh, you could stay by, young lady.

It's funny how people

never feel closer to life than when death is right there upon them.

I always appreciated life most dearly

when I was at someone's funeral.

Yes, I understand that feeling, believe me.

But, Dr. Cooper, I need your help.

Now, the world needs your help.

There are some men in the Mid-East

who don't believe that you've created this Doomsday Device

and they're about to test a hydrogen bomb.

You must tell me how to stop your device.

I'm greatly saddened that this has come to pass so soon.

But I warned you.

There is no way to reverse the device.

Oh, please, you can't...

My child,

the people of the world have persisted in their warring ways

and they must learn their lesson.

God help you, my child.

God help us all.

Dr. Cooper?

T-minus 10 seconds.

Nine, eight,

seven, six,

five, four,

three, two, one, zero.

(ALARM RINGING)

ALEX: The Doomsday Device has been activated by a nuclear explosion.

Detonation of the Doomsday Device will be in six hours.

We're not certain, Mr. President.

We have no confirmation that any...

We're getting a signal now, Mr. President.

No, the public can't see it. Only the world leaders.

My friends,

I had hoped this taped message would never be broadcast.

But somewhere in the world, a nuclear bomb has just been exploded.

Thus, the Doomsday Device has been activated automatically

and it will detonate in just under six hours.

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

(SPEAKING MANDARIN)

(SPEAKING FRENCH)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Three hours from now,

several large rockets will be launched to seed

the upper atmosphere with a chemical to make the Uthenium J even more lethal.

Believe me,

I am profoundly grieved that these events shall come to pass.

But they shall.

In six hours, all life will begin to die on this planet.

Alex, can you hear me?

ALEX: Of course, Jaime.

You realize that I have to get to the central core

of this complex and stop this from happening, don't you?

It is foolish to even make the attempt.

Well, I'm going to.

The central core housing the Doomsday Device

is more than a mile underground

and I have sufficient defenses to stop you.

I am programmed to show no mercy.

You will die if you make the attempt.

So...

Then it is a duel between you and me.

Yes.

May the best one win.