-What? -What?
SIMON: Don't look down.
You know who I am?
No.
I'm the thief you tried to cheat.
This is your accountant.
Talk to him.
SIMON: The phone goes the other way, you moron.
Hello.
Tretiak speaking.
That money to Zurich, send it now.
I said now.
Yeah.
Thank you.
You know what the hardest part about being you is?
Pretending to be so bad in bed.
You son of the bitch.
SIMON: There is an impostor. Get him out.
TRETIAK: Hey, hey, hey!
Take your hands off me, you idiots!
Are you crazy? It's me.
Go, go!
Catch him, go!
Ilya, get the bastard!
[Siren]
[Radio dispatcher speaking Russian]
SIMON: Fifty million. I'm out.
SIMON: Mr. Ferrer checking out.
CLERK: OK. [Speaking Russian]
EMMA: I'll have one, too.
SIMON: Emma.
EMMA: Hi.
I'm...I'm overwhelmed.
You found me.
Wasn't very hard.
Two men with saint's names flew into Moscow yesterday.
Isadore Bakanja is a short, bald African...
whereas Vincent Ferrer--
SIMON: Named after a saint who betrayed his best friend.
How could you do it?
Emma...
l--l had to.
I'm a thief.
I want my cards back.
SIMON: You flew all this way for your cards?
Yes, I did.
No. It's because you're in love.
I rest my case.
Who are you?
No one has a clue, least of all me.
EMMA: And why would you steal cold fusion?
It's free. Why would you do that?
[Bartender speaking Russian]
Eight million reasons.
Eight million. Wow. That's all?
I would have given them to you...
if you'd only asked.
You've got to get away from me.
I'm not going until you tell me why you lied to me.
-You lied to me. -l lied to you?
You almost got me killed. The guy says it doesn't work.
Well, screw him.
I don't think you'd enjoy that.
EMMA: You're right. I don't think I would.
[Speaking Russian]
Emma, you don't know what you're dealing with here.
EMMA: What?
-They took my pills. -No, they didn't.
I palmed them from your purse.
I need one or two.
I need... I have a bad heart.
-I know. -It's starting to pound.
SIMON: It's OK. I've got your pills.
OK, I've got two in my hand.
EMMA: I'm gonna pass out.
Sit down on the floor.
Just get down on the floor. That's right.
Eat two out of my hand.
That's right. OK?
While you're down there...
Get the pocketknife out of my boot.
This formula makes certain assumptions...
which contradict all we know about cold fusion cathodes...
so testing at any level becomes futile...
without further information, Mr. Tretiak.
TRETIAK: Don't despair, Dr. Botvin.
Help is here.
The two came very quietly.
Oh.
TRETIAK: And they left even more quietly.
Close the city.
Kill him, and bring her...alive.
[Sirens]
Why are they after me?
Tretiak, the guy I work for... he owns this city, cops and all.
We have to convince him there's nothing more he wants from you.
EMMA: What do you want from me?
-Everything's on those cards? -Yes.
SIMON: So the formula works?
Oh, kiss me again.
-No. -Make up your mind.
Oh, it's--l have to figure out the order...
before the formula works, and I'm not giving it to him.
-Tretiak will find you. -No.
He found me, and that's hard to do.
-l found you. -Yes, you did.
What do you need?
I need some time...
and I need...
I need a place to work...
and...
EMMA: Where's everyone going?
SIMON: To their country relatives to cut firewood.
There's no heat in the city.
[Dialing telephone]
[Loud rock music playing]
How long will it take you to finish the formula?
I don't know.
Two hours, maybe. I don't know.
Should be enough time to get our passports together...
and for us to get married.
-We're getting married? -Yes.
I want you to be Mrs. Martin de Porres.
-You're not Martin. -No.
Who are you?
I don't have a name.
That's sad.
Will you have a name when we get home?
I don't have a home.
When we get back...
you do the science, I'll do the math.
We'll market your formula around the world.
We'll make a fortune, and then...
we'll see.
OK?
Emma!
[Horn honking]
MAN: No trouble, OK?
If you want to live, never leave my side.
Ohh!
[Splash]
[Music blaring] Spice room, sun room...
Shadow room, night...
EMMA: I've got you.
EMMA: Come on.
Here we go. Up.
We've gotta get you warm.
We're almost there.
EMMA: Come on.
Come on.
You'll wait till Christ comes to Moscow.
Elevator was made of mahogany.
Tenants used it for firewood last winter.
EMMA: We need your help.
He fell in the river, and he's freezing.
-Need clothes. -We're just people--
You're not people. You're Americans.
Yes, but we ran into trouble with your Mafia.
[Tires screech]
[Speaking Russian]
She disapproves of what I do, but eats the bread it buys her.
No heat for sale...
but these clothes will make him warm.
[Speaking Russian]
I tell her, Mashenka, go back to bed.
She's always puttering around.
It's here. Built to escape Secret Police.
In you go.
EMMA: You've got hypothermia.
We have to get these wet clothes off...
keep you warm.
ILYA: They must be in one of these buildings.
Check every apartment.
EMMA: How you doing? Talk to me.
SIMON: Snug as a bug in a rug.
OK. We're gonna...
We're gonna have to do this before your body temperature...
falls below 95 degrees.
MAN: Two kids talking about foreigners.
[Bell rings]
ILYA: Listen to me, tenants!
Show me where the Americans are...
and you'll be paid in American dollars.
Five hundred bucks reward.
Daddy...
have you seen, by chance, two Americans?
Just one American and one polar bear.
[Woman laughs]
Do we get 250?
[Woman speaking Russian]
ILYA: We check upstairs.
[Door closes]
EMMA: What's your name?
Who are you really?
Simon.
Simon?
So you are named for a saint.
No, Simon the magician.
I did tricks...
tricks for Agnes... and that's how I got things.
Priests took everything, took Agnes.
Dogs too big.
Teeth. Teeth.
She fell.
I escaped.
I always escape.
I don't believe in magic anymore.
EMMA: I do.
I've never felt like this before.
How?
I'm freezing.
WOMAN: These are here!
EMMA: We gotta get out of here. Are you OK?
They're coming.
WOMAN: Americans are here!
EMMA: Hurry. Here, put this on.
MAN: Ilya!
[Siren]
Upstairs. Go!
EMMA: Maybe we can jump.
Let's jump.
Come on.
Wait.
We need her alive, idiot.
SIMON: Embassy's east of here.
[Arguing in Russian]
WOMAN: You're late. Where have you been?
I've been waiting two hours.
I've got some beautiful paintings for you to buy.
In here. Come on.
Don't fret. It's just my curator, Toli.
I am Alexa Frankievitch, but being you're Americans...
you can call me Frankie.
SIMON: OK, Frankie. I've got money. We want--
FRANKIE: I know. The icon of the Virgin of the Damned.
-Are those maps of the tunnels? -Yes.
We're not here to buy art. Take us to the American Embassy.
FRANKIE: Right. I need $10,000 up-front.
SIMON: No.
OK. 7,000 and not a penny less.
TOLI: Shh.
[Whispering] Police.
SIMON: No. Tretiak's goons.
FRANKIE: Wait.
ILYA: Sasha, go east to the embassy.
-Are we lost? -What's wrong?
FRANKIE: You're in Russia, sir. Everything is complicated.
But you know the way?
Like the face of a Bulgari chronograph.
I remember. This way.
FRANKIE: At last. Water main.
They shut it down each afternoon in winter.
SIMON: What time do they turn it back on?
FRANKIE: You have five minutes, plus or minus.
EMMA: Plus or minus?
TOLI: That means several minutes earlier or later.
FRANKIE: Don't worry. Third opening is your embassy.
Quick. Someone's coming.
Come on. Come on.
SIMON: Here's the second one.
Embassy's next.
-About two more minutes. -Yeah. Unless it's minus.
SIMON: Damn. It's sealed.
We'll have to go back.
EMMA: Come on.
[Distant rumbling]
Hurry.
SIMON: Up you go.
MAN: Yankee, go home! Down with Yankee!
[Crowd chanting in Russian]
Embassy's only about 100 yards away.
There's a car right above us. Watch your head.
[Hissing]
[Crowd chanting in Russian]
SIMON: I'll create a diversion.
It should take you 10 seconds to run to those gates.
They'll open them when they see you coming.
EMMA: OK. I can do that.
You can do it.
Wait. When am I gonna see you?
I'll find you. You found me.
Yeah, I did.
Aah!
EMMA: I'm an American! Open the gate!
I'm an American!
MARINE: Back off from the gate.
Back off. I said back off.
Stand back from the gate.
I said back off!
SIMON: She outran you?
How humiliating.
One...shot left.
Can't come all the way to Russia...
and not play Russian roulette.
Before you shoot me, want to know where the money is?
[Clicks]
Whose money?
Tretiak's, yours.
He treats you like dirt. You could have it all.
ILYA: What are you saying?
I'm saying your father stashed billions...
and I know where it's hidden. Let's make a deal.
So...where are all those hidden billions?
I know...but I don't think I'm gonna tell you.
[Sirens]
MAN: Joseph, what's the holdup? I said get 'em inside!
DOCTOR: You're worse than all the others.
However, burns will heal.
Maybe a little chance of scarring, perhaps...
but all in all, I'd say he's a very lucky boy.
ILYA: Lucky? Look at me.
I am a damn devil.
TRETIAK: Christ.
Yes?
BOTVIN: I have run every test on this cold fusion formula...
and must conclude it is not merely incomplete...
but rather...impossible.
You may as well try to create perpetual motion.
I invest millions...
and you can't make it work!
What are you doing with my money?
Do you think it comes so easy?
No!
BOTVIN: But, sir...
I have been working for nearly two weeks without sleep.
At first blush, the theorem appears quite convincing.
It does?
Yes. It does.
Good man.
We can use it to destroy our enemies.
TRETIAK: Only Dr. Russell can spoil my plan.
If she gets back to London and speaks to the press...
YURI: From here to the airport are three army checkpoints...
all of them loyal to us.
TRETIAK: Make certain they get the message--
she doesn't leave Moscow alive.
Mr. President.
As former Vice-minister of Energy and Power...
I hear all manner of schemes that provide cheaper energy.
And as our countrymen freeze to death...
I've become aware of a marvelous new technology...
about which I'm hopelessly out of my league...
from a scientific viewpoint.
That's why I brought our eminent physicist here...
Dr. Lev Botvin from the University of Moscow.
AIDE: Before we are dazzled by the good news...
let's dispense with the bad.
What is the price of this marvel?
YURI: The cost of research and development are there...
which is all you are asked to defray.
Ten billion in hard currency?
I can't even pay my teachers, my miners, my doctors.
Where are you heading?
I thought we'd drink some vodka to get warmer.
Like the miracle of socialism...
our miracle of cold fusion failed.
But no matter.
We have sold cold fusion to President Karpov.
We will use the scandal of its failure to destroy him.
The army must be mobilized by midnight tomorrow.
You're a man in a hurry. That's only one day.
ILYA: Not now, old witch. We're working.
TRETIAK: Yes. Think of it.
One day, you can be proud again to be a Russian general...
with a big nuclear missile where your prick used to be.
AIDE: You must complete a form before you get on a flight home.
Any medical problems?
EMMA: I have a heart condition.
AIDE: Do you need me to arrange any medication for you?
EMMA: Well, I haven't needed a pill.
That's strange.
MARINE: Get a form from table three down the corridor.
I'll be back in 10 minutes...
by your side, all the way to the airport.
EMMA: Thank you.
REPORTER: ...Across the street in central Moscow...
where a mob attacked several companies with ties to America.
Apparently, four U.S. citizens were injured in the attack.
I'm told that all American citizens...
have been asked to report to the American embassy...
for immediate evacuation.
MAN: [Southern accent] Excuse me. You look lost.
-No, I'm fine. -May I help you?
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is August Christopher.
Named after Saint Augustine, who coined my favorite phrase--
"Give me chastity and give me constancy...
"but do not give it yet."
[Protesters chanting in Russian]
Simon, I'm on the next flight out of here.
Are you coming with me?
No. But they are.
I'll need you to develop a sudden fear of flying.
Find a quiet room.
Finish the formula and fax it back to me.
My number's on the back.
I don't understand. Why are you keeping my cards?
I've got to deal with the Russians...
or you'll never be safe.
Be good at school.
Wait.
-Don't you trust me, darlin'? -Trust who?
SIMON: That hurts, Emma.
EMMA: I'm serious. What's your name?
My name is August Christopher.
Of course I trust you, August Christopher.
I mean, Vincent Ferrer...
I mean, Martin de Porres...
Thomas More.
After all, you are my personal saint.
You have to be a very good...
and, usually, a very dead person to become a saint.
And more importantly, you have to work three miracles.
Now, get to work.
Who's that man?
AIDE: You're leaving on the transport at 9:00, ma'am?
Probably be your last chance out of here.
Better hurry. It's leaving.
YURI: Your troops will depose the president...
and install Ivan Tretiak as leader of Russia.
TRETIAK: Moscow must be ringed with tanks by evening.
Don't worry. The people will follow me.
They will be crying for revolution.
YURI: Still, no one's guessed the simple truth...
of where the heating oil went.
[Laughter]
TRETIAK: Who would believe that a sea of oil...
was hidden under this very building?
[Laughter]
Yuri, I understand your Nataly is to...
WOMAN: Francis, you devil...
I heard you came here, and you didn't call me.
-Hello, Dominic-- -Give me a ring, Charles.
MAN: Lou, I've heard on the grapevine...
you're brokering a revolutionary new energy source.
If it's as good as it's cracked up to be...
I have friends who can double your best offer...
on deposit in Zurich...
within one hour of delivery and confirmation.
I'll be waiting.
[Door opens]
The work could be here.
This machine could work, couldn't it?
[Guards shouting in Russian]
Who are you?
SIMON: A friend of Dr. Russell's.
BOTVIN: Dr. Russell?
What's this equation?
It's so simple.
This is the key to Dr. Russell's formula.
Yes.
[Guards speaking Russian]
The alarm. You had better go.
I need a miracle. You've got 12 hours.
But Mr. Tretiak's rally is tonight.
Can you make it work?
Make it work.
GUARD: What is wrong here?
BOTVIN: Uh, the alarm...
Uh...uh...
I tripped.
[Russian accent] You are Nikolai Petrovich.
You are Nikolai Provovich--
Petrovich.
[Doorbell buzzes]
Tunnel built by KGB...
Leads to machine room in Kremlin.
SIMON: Do you know where the president's quarters are?
FRANKIE: President Karpov is there.
But there are many guards, so I suggest--
An alternate route?
Money. Now.
SIMON: Oh, ye of little faith.
NEWSWOMAN: Russia stands tonight...
on the brink of a second revolution.
As the number of deaths from freezing mounts...
hundreds of thousands of protesters...
have taken to the streets.
Even as Russian President Karpov...
is promising a mysterious solution...
to the crippling heating-oil shortage...
troops opposed to the elected government...
and led by General Leo Sklarov...
have begun to ring the Russian capital city.
Angry, frightened citizens...
are gathering outside the Kremlin in Red Square...
but they're not braving the bitter cold...
for yet another political rally.
They've been drawn here by the promise of a revelation...
whatever that may be...
in what's become a life-and-death struggle...
for the future of democracy in Russia.
[Protesters shouting in Russian]
[Door shuts]
SIMON: Mr. President? I'm your friend.
KARPOV: What do you want?
I want to help you to destroy Tretiak.
I need you to listen for about 30 seconds.
I'm all right. Stay outside.
Please, continue.
Tonight you'll stand trial in Red Square before the world.
Whatever Tretiak accuses you of, I need you to admit to it.
Agree with this criminal?
If you want to destroy Tretiak...yes.
Gruschev, take Mr. Karpov downstairs.
The wife stays here.
[Mrs. Karpov speaking Russian]
Get your hands off! What you are doing is illegal!
The people won't stand for it!
The people are too cold to stop it. Who are you?
CROWD: Tretiak! Tretiak! Tretiak!
[Crowd cheering]
Friends...
countrymen...
Russians!
You heard about this morning's sensational events.
Many shocking documents were recovered...
from the president's secret files...
locked within his private safe.
The documents which will be published in today's papers...
prove that the traitor Karpov...
was about to steal over 40 trillion...
of our precious Russian rubles...
in a reckless scheme to save his hide!
To add insult...
millions of dollars were to be paid...
to this international criminal!
[Crowd reacting]
TRETIAK: And for what was your president...
hoping to bankrupt our national treasury?
What you see is a fairy tale called cold fusion.
You pass electric current into the machine...
and there is supposed to be a chemical reaction.
Watch. [Beep]
It can't even light up a tiny light bulb!
Do you dare deny this, Mr. Karpov?
KARPOV: Absolutely not!
I proudly admit it!
TRETIAK: But enough puny failure.
Failure's in the past!
Begging is behind us!
The balance of power is about to shift!
Miracle one.
CROWD: Karpov! Karpov!
Karpov! Karpov!
TRETIAK: Ilya! Ilya!
ILYA: Go! Go!
Go, go, go!
SKLAROV: I order all troops loyal to mother Russia...
to seize the criminal Tretiak!
A thousand apologies, Mr. President.
There was a miscommunication in the chain of command.
[Thinking] Miracle two.
NEWSWOMAN: The billionaire industrialist and his son...
were taken to the infamous Lubyanka prison...
where they await trial along with General Leo Sklarov.
Moscow woke today to the forgotten sensation of warmth...
as millions of gallons of heating oil...
flowed from a storage depot beneath Tretiak's mansion.
INSPECTOR: He made no threat to contact you in the future?
EMMA: He never had the chance.
You'll tell us if he makes contact?
EMMA: Yes.
Which he may well do. He's a proper rogue.
He charms women, this so-called Saint.
It seems it's his stock in trade. No offense.
Well, I am offended. All I got from this Saint...
was a series of near-death experiences.
Count yourself lucky.
I have a very important conference I must prepare for.
INSPECTOR: We understand. You have a life.
WOMAN: We appreciate your taking the time.
EMMA: No problem.
INSPECTOR: She's in love with him.
[Giggling]
SIMON: I wanted to call you and tell you everything.
It hasn't been safe.
EMMA: I couldn't stop thinking about you.
SIMON: So...have you been busy?
EMMA: Yeah. I've been working real hard.
Thank God I have my cards back.
SIMON: You don't believe in this cold fusion mumbo jumbo?
You know, you're a very pretty lady.
EMMA: Oh, my God.
That was you?
SIMON: That's who I thought Dr. Russell would like.
I thought you were some old biddy...
not some gorgeous soon-to-be-trillionaire.
You know you're going to be the richest woman in the world.
EMMA: I am?
SIMON: Why do you think I'm hanging around?
-Emma. -Yeah?
My life is very strange.
I just...
I don't do anything normal.
I'm--l can't even--
I know. I know you.
I know your life.
-What do you want? -l want you.
For how long?
It doesn't matter.
Tell me you love me.
l--l love you.
Simon.
I love you, Simon.
Miracle three.
EMMA: Dear Simon...
the pin is something I've kept for years.
A graduation gift from Catholic school.
But don't worry. You don't have to wear it.
I just wanted you to have something of mine...
something I loved.
Simon, if sainthood requires three miracles...
then I'd say you've made it, my love...
and so I hope you'll understand.
Last night, it became clear what I have to do this morning.
I'm going to give cold fusion to the world.
It's the only way, if we're ever together again...
that I'll know it's for you, and you'll know it's for me.
If cold fusion is free, then you and I will be free.
If you think giving away everything before the world...
preventing us from making an unimaginable fortune...
will accomplish anything... you're absolutely right.
Simon, what are you doing here?
There are police.
They're everywhere.
I wouldn't miss it for the world.
-You wore the pin. -Of course.
You better go.
How will I find you?
[Giggles]
I'll find you. You found me.
[Applause]
Although our next speaker requires no introduction...
after last week's Moscow fireworks...
please let me welcome Dr. E.J. Russell.
SIMON: Excuse me. Is this seat taken?
No.
CHAIRMAN: Dr. Russell?
You don't believe in all this cold fusion mumbo jumbo, do you?
EMMA: Thank you. Good morning.
INSPECTOR: No.
We all know cold fusion has had a...
a difficult childhood.
Those of us in the field are orphans...
bastards, at best.
But difficult childhoods make the most interesting adults.
I know most of you thought that cold fusion...
SIMON: I'm her biggest fan.
I think she's a fox. Look at that.
EMMA: Even though some of you may feel...
that its practical application is still somewhat speculative...
I've come here today to share how that dream is slowly...
becoming a reality.
Yes, it may take years to finally learn...
SIMON: Look at the time. Got to go.
EMMA: ...stabilize its power, but with your help...
we can all work towards making the--the...
dream of cold fusion finally come true.
Quickly!
We got him!
Hyah!
INSPECTOR: Hands behind your back!
Got you, you slippery--
MAN: What's going on?
Damn!
REPORTER: Donations totaling three billion dollars...
were made today to the Red Cross....
the Salvation Army...
and the United Nations Children's Fund.
The funds were wired from the account...
of jailed Russian tycoon Ivan Tretiak.
In other philanthropic news...
a nonprofit research foundation...
has been established to develop cold fusion technology...
funded with an anonymous donation...
and to be headed by Russian physicist Dr. Lev Botvin.
The E.J. Russell Foundation...
is charged to develop inexpensive...
SIMON LE BON: [Singing] Light a candle.
Lay flowers at the door...
for those who're left behind...
and the ones who've gone before.
Here it comes now...
sure as silence follows rain...
the taste of you upon my lips...
the fingers in my brain.
Ever gentle...
as it kills me where I lay...
who am I to resist?
Who are you to fail?
Got to get you out of my mind...
but I can't escape from the feeling...
as I try to leave the memory behind.
Without you, what's left to believe in?
I'm so sorry...
for the way it had to go.
Now I feel your presence...
in a way I could not know...
and I wonder...
do you ever feel the same?
In the spilling darkness...
do you ever hear my name?
Got to get you out of my mind...
but I can't escape from the feeling...
as l...
try to leave the memory behind.
Without you, what's left to believe in?
Deep in the back of your mind...
And how could you dare...
to come so close...
when you're just a ghost to me?
And I've got to get you out of my mind...
but I can't escape from the feeling...
as l...
try to leave the memory behind.
Without you, what's left to believe in?
Here in the back of your mind...
[Ballad begins]
CRYSTAL: [Singing] It's just black-and-white...
or color.
Those postcards...
sent from heaven...
says, "Make the most...
"of never-never."
Horizon starts right here.
The future's always near...
and l...
I know this time...
is borrowed.
I try to remember and forget my sorrow...
celluloid...
monochrome...
or color.
Don't want to end in tears.
I'll leave before my fears are found.
Scared to love...
wasted knowledge...
into the brink...
these four walls...
are lost forever.
I will never...
be that clever.