Thanks for the information.
There's no chance of a mistake?
A misreading? Human error? It happens.
That rules that out then, doesn't it?
So this really is reality.
Mr. Secretary, your car.
Oh, yes. Thank you.
Eddie, let's take the parkway.
Okay, final offer. Non-negotiable.
For every hour you give algebra 2...
...you get two of quality time with Nintendo and Sega. Deal?
Just don't tell your mother.
Good. Now put her back on.
Okay, hon. Number one son back on the straight and narrow.
Me? Fine, just needed a field trip to clear the head.
Bit of a nightmare day.
I'll see you in a bit.
You bet.
I love you, Liz.
It's a dynamic game, Mr. Depina.
You can be honest, Angela. It's bloody.
But the kids will eat this up. But why does it keep crashing?
You have been virused. It's not nice.
You're the best. What can we do?
Don't hit the escape key. It'll wipe out your whole system.
How did it happen?
I just ordered that security program, Gatekeeper.
They all say that. Did you install it?
Absolutely. Soon as we got it. I think.
Don't worry, it'll be okay.
Can we get it back in stores by week's end?
Yes. Everything but the virus. A friend collects them.
Some people save string.
You're a genius. I can't thank you enough.
Wait'll you get my bill from Cathedral.
It's worth it.
I'd love to show my appreciation with dinner, drinks.
Get you out.
I'm flattered, and appreciative, but...
You gotta eat.
Unfortunately, I already have dinner plans.
How about tomorrow? The next day?
These plans are kind of a standing arrangement.
I appreciate it. Thank you.
- You're still the best. - Bye.
Hello.
Large.
Garlic.
No one leaves the house anymore.
No one has sex.
The Net is ultimate condom.
Iceman, talk like that could lead to the extinction of our species.
Exactly! Let's have a date and procreate.
Not me. In two days, I'm off on vacation.
Just me...
...the beach...
...and a book.
I'm there, babe! Look no further.
Sorry, not my type.
I'm crushed!
What do you want in a man?
Butch...
...beautiful...
...brilliant.
Captain America meets...
...Albert Schweitzer.
Spends all day...
...dashing into fray...
...while making world...
...safe for democracy.
At night...
...playing Bach cantatas...
...while curing cancer.
Settle for a guy who puts the seat down?
Listen, you're dreaming.
You're one of us.
We accept you.
You're one of us.
One of us.
Yeah, I know.
It's beautiful.
I love Chopin.
You know this piece?
I should. You taught it to me.
I brought you something.
Don't let the nurses eat it all this time.
My favorite! How did you know?
Do you want to...? We could play together.
I'm going to the Yucatán for a week. If you need to contact me...
...I don't know if they have phones, but you can ask a nurse...
You must be one of my students.
No, Mom. My name is Angela.
Can you bring me some candy when you come again?
- My favorites are... - Almond Roca.
I know your favorites.
Angela Bennett?
- Who is it? - FedEx.
Thank you for using our service. Have a pleasant flight.
Hi.
Line five, please.
I have another one going out.
Great. Here you go.
Here's your virus, Dale.
- Can I use your pen? - Sure.
Nice place.
Thanks.
- Have a nice day. - You too.
Mozart's Ghost, the hottest band on the Internet!
- Cathedral Software. - Dale Hessman.
Hello? - Hi, it's Angela.
FedEx had you sign for the disk three minutes ago. What kept you?
I was having fun...
...with Mozart's Ghost.
I sent you a whopper of a virus.
Beware the escape button.
Here's the problem. Pop yourself into concert information.
"Houston Utilities."
I think you took a wrong turn here.
Not quite Ticketmaster. See anything unusual?
Looks normal, except for that...
Is that a little icon?
Click it, then control-shift.
- My God. - What do you think?
It's a glitch that sends you to the wrong Internet address.
Last night I got Amtrak's mainframe and the Mayo Clinic.
Neither on the same subnet.
I accessed a system I shouldn't have.
Someone gets that disk, they have a lot of power.
Why not find the error and delete it?
I'm not ready to do that yet.
What's your day like tomorrow?
No!
It's my first vacation in years.
I just confirmed my reservation. No refunds.
What time?
Twelve. But I have to pack.
I'm going to be a madwoman. Wait till I get back.
No.
- Tell me what this is about. - Not on the phone.
I can fly down tonight in my Cessna, be there by breakfast.
We'd have five hours.
You know this shit better than anyone.
Fine.
See you at 7.
Great.
So they finally get to meet. I'll be the tall guy.
I'll be the one with "spineless simp" tattooed to her forehead.
- Bye. See you tomorrow. - Bye.
Why do I do this?
Burbank Tower, Cessna 739 Mike Bravo.
Intercepting approach course ILS, runway eight.
3-9 Mike Bravo, we've lost radar contact.
Say position and altitude.
Passing middle marker, 1300 feet.
That's a negative. Check position and instruments.
You must be able to see my lights.
That's negative. Execute a missed approach.
Contact approach control on 124.5.
Okay, Burbank. But it still looks...
Shit!
God...
- Cathedral Software. - Russ Melbourne.
One moment.
Mozart's Ghost.
- Russ. - It's Angela.
Thought you'd be gone.
I was getting ready to leave.
When you get back, we need to talk.
- We need your genius. - I'm no genius.
Especially with people looking over my shoulder.
Think about it. I can't hire someone to replace Dale...
...considering the security breaches we've had.
Replace Dale? You're kidding, right?
Sorry, I thought you'd heard.
What happened?
Dale's dead. His plane crashed last night outside L.A.
I talked to him yesterday. He was coming to see me.
Puts things in perspective.
Let's talk when you get back.
And try to have a good vacation.
Okay, I'll talk to you soon, Russ.
Plenty of time.
Ain't nothing coming in or out for the last hour.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're sorry to announce a computer malfunction.
All flights are temporarily delayed.
The whole airport is down.
Excuse me.
- A blood test taken last week...
...did reveal that Undersecretary of Defense Bergstrom...
...was infected with AIDS.
You okay?
Yeah, it's just all these people...
I mean, with your soda?
- Would you like a refill? - No, I've had three already.
One more, I could fly myself to Mexico.
Looks like you won't have to.
Waiter?
I'd like a Gibson, please.
It's a martini, with an onion instead of an olive.
Is that okay?
Thanks.
Excuse me. Could I have one too, please?
I'll take mine up at the bar.
Didn't think anyone drank them anymore.
I guess I'm not as unfashionable as I once was.
Is that business or pleasure?
Is there a difference?
Not a great deal if you're a hacker.
Nice hardware. I assume you're in the business?
Isn't everybody?
Nope.
God, we're pathetic, aren't we?
Excuse me?
Well, we're here.
We're on the most perfect beach in the world...
...and all we can think about is...
Where can I hook up my modem?
Exactly.
I'm Jack Devlin.
- Angela Bennett. - Angela.
Hi.
My most embarrassing secret?
You know Breakfast at Tiffany's?
It's my favorite film. I wore out my membership renting it.
You know what I'm talking about, then.
When I was about 13...
...I had this sort of...
...identity crisis.
- I thought I was one of the characters. - Audrey Hepburn?
- No, I used to think I was the cat. - The cat?
I'd sit there...
...and I'd play out the last scene of the movie.
Over and over again.
You know the last scene? In the pouring rain in the alley.
I'm soaked to the bone and I'm scared...
...and I'm...
...abandoned.
I'm alone.
That's it.
Will you have dinner with me tonight?
Come on, it's your last night.
You know what?
I would actually really love to.
Great.
- It's a company perk. - This is a company perk?
Some perk.
I got a calendar one year from Cathedral.
Where are you from? Colorado?
Yes. It has to be the eastern...
Maybe the southeastern part of the state.
The teeming metropolis of La Junta. Population, 50.
La Junta.
Pretty good. Is my accent that strong after all these years?
No, it's just a trick I do.
Why "after all these years"? How long has it been?
Oh, boy.
Seems like a lifetime. Let's see...
...I was 15, going on 10...
...and we moved from La Junta to San Jose...
...Tulsa...
- So your father got transferred a lot? - Not really, no.
I don't know, he just...
...transferred out one day.
What are you looking at?
You.
Me?
Computers are your life, right?
Yes, the perfect hiding place.
That's one of you.
I have a few other interests.
Such as? What's your specialty in computers?
Anything, pretty much. Beta testing, mostly.
That's way over my head.
You just go into people's systems...
...find the faults, and fix it.
What if there are no faults?
Don't believe I've met one yet.
You must be cold.
Not really.
Yeah, a little bit.
- Here. - What?
It goes around here.
- Want one? - God, I used to smoke those.
But you quit, right?
Well, I refuse to.
You should try things without a safety net.
How else will you know you're alive?
I take my share of risks.
I don't always floss.
I rip the tags off my pillows when they're new.
My kind of woman.
Feeling adventurous?
I don't know. What did you have in mind?
Dare you risk it?
Shit! My purse!
It's not worth getting killed over!
Come back! You! Stop!
It's not here.
Not at the hotel. I looked.
I come here like you say. Like magician.
Yeah, you're the midget Houdini.
Jack?
I had everything in that bag. My passport, my credit cards...
Sorry.
Thanks for doing this.
You're bleeding to death. I'm crying about my MasterCard.
- I apologize for being a jerk. - What do you mean?
I'm the jerk.
Only trying to impress you.
For future reference...
...the living interest me more than the dead do.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
I suppose that's quite healthy.
I suppose we should call the Cancún police...
...on the ship-to-shore.
Okay.
It's not working.
We have to head further out.
Sail to Morocco for all I care. It's beautiful out here.
How we doing?
Still no dice.
I'm just going down below.
I won't be a minute.
- Maybe we're not out far enough. - No, this should do it.
Tonight's been so out of control.
Yeah.
Don't take this the wrong way...
...but this isn't exactly my style.
I thought you liked taking risks.
Yes, but you know what I mean.
- What? - You know. First date...
...sex, one-night stand...
- Oh, sex. - Yes, that sort of thing.
- You've been the relationship kind? - Absolutely. Both times.
So when was the last time?
1933.
I see.
Who was he? A college boyfriend?
I bet he was...
...the captain of the drinking team.
Wasn't ready for a relationship.
I wish I had been that lucky.
No, it was my shrink, actually.
You know the story.
I thought I was lonely...
...and he forgot he was married.
It didn't last very long.
Then my mom developed Alzheimer's, so it was really...
You know what? I'm gonna shut up right now and be quiet.
It's okay.
It's me who doesn't want to hear it.
Sorry. I'm rambling a little...
...because I'm a little nervous.
You want a drink?
Yes, that would be greatly appreciated.
So, what's this for?
It's... It's for shark fishing.
Shark fishing?
With a silencer?
Yeah.
You know your ordnance.
In Colorado, you grow up with guns.
Yeah.
So...
...who are you?
Who am I?
I'll tell you.
I'm Captain America meets Albert Schweitzer.
That's what you wanted.
Yes, it is. I remember.
Butch, beautiful...
...brilliant. Dashes into the fray...
...fists flying.
Sorry, I don't know any...
...organ cantatas. Was that it?
If you'll excuse me, it's time to make the world...
...safe for democracy.
Where's the clip?
Give me that!
Bitch!
Somebody, I need help.
Hello, somebody? Please.
I need help. Please.
Okay, the keys.
Hello?
What? No.
How did I get here?
A fisherman found you. He brought you.
You were lucky they came by.
- How long have I been here? - Three days. Try not to talk.
We found a man's wallet filled with money. We tried to contact...
No. No, he...
No, there was no luck finding this man.
There was...
...a disk. A green, square, plastic disk.
Oh, yes.
The disk was ruined by the sun.
You relax now and get well.
- I need... - Take a few days. Look at you.
You haven't got the strength.
- My clothes. How much do I owe? - Please, you have to relax now.
I need my clothes. I have to go.
Turning to national news, our correspondent Daniel Schorr.
Wall Street panicked when stock prices...
...appeared to tumble.
Trading was suspended when it was clear the losses were fictitious...
...caused by computer pranksters.
I need my room key for 2806, please. Angela Bennett.
Wall Street opens tomorrow...
...protected by Gregg Microsystems' security program...
...aptly named "The Gatekeeper."
What about that prank downtown?
Short-sheeting a bed is a prank.
These "Praetorians" could've done serious damage.
Just like at LAX...
Ms. Bennett checked out last Saturday.
You don't understand. I'm Angela Bennett.
- I'm standing right here. - Sorry, it's not on the computer.
She checked out last Saturday.
No, I didn't. I would know if I checked out.
According to the computer, you did. There's nothing I can do.
- Excuse me, sir? - Step in, sir, please.
- That room is fine, we'll take it. - That's for you.
Excuse me, ma'am.
Please dial your card number again.
The card number you dialed is not valid.
Miss Marx?
Ruth Marx?
Excuse me, are you Ruth Marx?
No.
- You're not here for a temporary visa? - Yes, but...
Is your social security number 915-30-1717?
You live at 407 Finley Avenue, Venice, California?
Yeah.
According to the computers of the California DMV...
...you're Ruth Marx.
So if that's who you are...
...sign here and we'll issue your visa.
But I'm not...
You're not what?
I'm not clear about something.
Without this, I can't get back into the United States, right?
Correct.
So all I would do is just sign "Ruth Marx," and?
Right. There.
Okay, think.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God!
Where are you running? Relax!
Stan Whiteman, Whiteman Realty. Come in, I'll show you around.
I saw her move out.
- When was this? - Three days ago.
Moving van, moving men.
I've been in Mexico for a week. How could I sell my house?
It wasn't yours to sell! It's not Angela Bennett!
I'm Angela Bennett!
The real client had the deed.
I got computers. I checked all the records. It's not her!
It would help if you had some form of identification.
I agree!
But I've told you 1000 times, I had everything stolen.
How did she get across with no passport?
- I had a temporary issued. - I don't think they do that.
Oh, my God. This is ridiculous!
Here it is.
It's just under a different name.
- Why's that? - They think I'm not me.
This your signature?
It's my handwriting, I just signed with the name they gave me.
That's a federal offense.
And what is it to steal a house?
- Mike, run this. - Be right back.
They've screwed up my information and fingerprints.
- Who's "they"? - I have no idea.
Where do you work? Around here?
In my house. My office is in San Francisco, but I've never been there.
You've lived here four years, and no one can vouch for you?
My mother is not well, and my father is... No.
My therapist, Alan Champion.
- Your therapist? - Ex-therapist.
We've got Ruth Marx running a scam at a house.
She's wanted for prostitution and narcotics. We'll bring her in.
Would you excuse me?
I'll be right back. I'm just gonna use...
Mrs. Raines?
Is she or isn't she?
She kept to herself, didn't talk to anybody.
Where's the girl?
Where's my phone? Anyone see my phone?
Did you see a woman run out?
- No, I haven't seen anyone. - Thanks.
Yeah?
- What happened, Devlin? - We'll get the disk.
And find who she's been speaking to. She's alone and feeling vulnerable.
We don't want another Cozumel. She's your responsibility.
I said I'd take care of her.
Cathedral Software.
- Russ Melbourne. - He's no longer with the company.
- What do you mean? - Do you want someone else?
I've never dealt with anybody in operations.
- Whom may I connect you to? - Head of Security.
- Say it's Angela Bennett. - I'll get you Miss Bennett.
What? No, I'm Angela Bennett.
Hello?
This is Angela Bennett.
- Who is this? - This is Angela Bennett.
I can help you. Give us the disk.
You have the wrong person. I don't know what you're...
Give us the disk, you'll get your life back.
I don't have your disk.
I don't know what you mean.
Give us the disk.
What is that?
- What's the number? - 555-7605.
The address?
3100 California.
Hi, this is Dr. Alan Champion.
At the beep, leave your name and number. You know the drill.
- Are you screening? Please be. - Hello, I'm home.
Hi, it's me.
I need your help. I'm in a lot of trouble.
Shit!
- What else do you want me to do? - This is a cell phone, right?
- Yeah, so we can't trace it normally. - Listen, there's no problem.
Just get the number, but don't dial it, just send out a signal.
Send it from the base?
Then find two repeater cells to pick it up...
...give me the bisect, and it'll find her within a few hundred yards. Go!
- Angie? - Alan?
Go.
- Nice to see you too. - Just go.
- Come on, I'm not a cab! Say hi! - Hi. Can we go now?
Yeah, now we can go.
- You have that laptop I gave you? - I'm wearing it.
- I'm serious. - I have it.
Get it, then take me to a hotel.
- That's doable. - Just go!
Just go. Go.
I swear, I asked her for a quarter, and she gave me a telephone!
Clever girl.
Voilà!
Alan, you don't have to stay...
...if you don't want to.
- I'm sure that... What's her name? - Amy.
Don't worry, it's over with Amy.
I'm sorry.
Don't be. We're not.
This is bizarre. I haven't seen you in so long.
- What are we doing here? - I figured you'd be safe.
I've gone from being an asshole to "safe."
Thank you very much.
I just figured that they couldn't trace me to you.
- Are your patient records confidential? - My patient records?
I knew I had my subtle charms.
- You're the only one I can turn to. - And you know what?
I'm going to take that as a big compliment.
Guess what time it is? Gibsons.
But we have no onions, only Seldane.
The antihistamine of champions.
- I can always make you laugh. - I'll pass.
- No drink? - No.
All right, I come bearing gifts. Some of Amy's clothes.
Try these on.
This is a nightmare. I'm not me anymore.
Hey, come here.
Look at me. You're freaking me.
Take a breath. Take a pause.
If you're not you, tell me who you think you are.
- You're not listening. - I am! Somebody stole your purse.
- I didn't think you'd believe me. - I do.
That's not true. Know what I believe?
I believe you're frightened.
You're disconnected from the human race, out on your own.
- Mix in your father leaving... - No.
He has nothing to do with the fact that my car is gone...
...or that my house is empty...
...or that the police are chasing me and somebody wants to kill me.
I believe something happened, but that doesn't make sense.
I don't want to be simplistic...
...but you're just reaching out.
Yes, I am reaching out.
To anyone who knows me, who will listen and believe me...
...be my friend, somebody I can trust...
I'm sorry.
Sometimes it's easier to play doctor than to listen.
I don't understand. Why me? I'm nobody. I'm nothing.
But they knew everything!
What I ate and drank, what movies I watched...
...where I was from, what cigarettes I used to smoke.
They must have watched the Internet.
Our whole lives are there.
They knew I could be vanished and no one would care.
That it wouldn't matter.
It'll be okay. What can I do?
I need you to take my mom and put her anywhere...
...under a different name. I don't know what they will do.
I can put your mom in a county sanitarium.
How's that?
It would mean a lot. She's all I've got left.
All you have left?
They really got into your head with this.
Put yourself in my shoes. I don't hear from you...
...then I get a call and this story?
Listen, I don't buy the whole package...
...but I've got a friend in the FBI, Ben Phillips.
No. I'm running from the police.
That's the last thing I need.
Well then, why don't you just live the rest of your life in this hotel?
Do you trust him?
I held his head over the toilet at parties.
I'm serious. Do you trust him?
Yes, I trust Ben. I do.
Okay.
What's the plan?
I'll figure out how to transfer your mom to the sanitarium.
Then I'll call Ben. If I get any information, I'll call.
Don't be so down. Come here.
It'll be okay, I'm on watch now.
This would've never happened if you'd stayed with me.
Alan?
Thank you.
For everything.
You're welcome. You stay put.
Okay.
Merci, now prompt me please.
Okay, you carried this around because it was important.
Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Password?
Okay.
We'll try you.
No. Okay.
You look familiar, I'll try you again.
Come on.
Oh, my God!
Yeah?
- Someone's on. - Think it's our girl?
They're covering their tracks, a dozen hops so far.
One in Switzerland, a Unix box in Montana...
...five routers at Berkeley. They're smart.
- How soon can we track her? - Depends on how long she stays on.
- Maybe 30 minutes. - Call me the second you find her.
And that other matter?
That's free of charge.
Thanks.
Praetorians. Praetorians?
More information.
"Big Bad Wolf, Cyber-terrorists."
I need more information.
"LAX, Wall Street, extremely dangerous. Don't mess with them."
They've started messing with me.
"Meet in IRL, in private."
In real life.
No, it's gotta be a public place.
Where it's safe, with a lot of people.
Santa Monica Pier.
By where?
The Ferris wheel.
- Any luck? - 8833 Rosewood, West Hollywood.
Remind me to buy you guys something nice.
Hello?
Angie!
- Let me in. I'm dying with this food. - Sorry.
- Sorry, I thought... - Forget it.
I knew you'd be hungry, so I stopped on the way.
I got you your favorite. Chinese.
It's your favorite. I never really liked it.
- Well, it's somebody's favorite. - How's my mom?
Mom is fine. She's safe in the county sanitarium.
Thank you.
About the Chinese food...
...let me take you to that Greek restaurant.
- I can't, I have to go. - Really?
Whenever I see you, you run away.
There's a guy from the Internet who might know what's going on.
Can I at least tell you about my friend, Ben Phillips?
I told him your story. He wants to see you in the morning.
- Can't you wait? - He knows about LAX and Wall Street?
Of course. What did happen?
Some kids black out part of a power grid? That's an emergency?
Cyberbob figured it out. If I don't talk to him, it'll be too late.
Listen to you, you're going to meet a guy named Cyberbob.
Have you even seen him? You can't go alone.
- Come with me. - Sure, where do we meet him?
Santa Monica Pier.
Yeah?
Hi, Bob Fox?
They killed Dale. Now they think I have the program.
I'm with you. First someone tried to kill you, now Dale?
They replaced me at Cathedral and covered it up.
Why would anybody want to do this?
They'd want someone at Cathedral to overwrite the programs...
...to make sure this won't happen again.
That'd take weeks.
You can't do that from the outside. You know Devlin's Internet number?
It gave me the medical files...
...of the Undersecretary of Defense, Michael Bergstrom.
- The guy who blew his head off? - A computer test said he had AIDS.
But when they did the autopsy, there was no HIV found.
Maybe my autopsy will prove I'm not Ruth Marx.
I'm starting to think you're not delusional.
I need to go to Cathedral and get on that Mozart's Ghost program.
They've got a program that retraces all your keystrokes...
...in case you made a mistake.
Are you all right? What's wrong?
Pull over.
- You're scaring me. - Pills.
Talk to me, what pills? You know what, we'll go to the hospital.
He's okay, isn't he?
Well, he's allergic to penicillin. They have him intubated.
- I have no idea what... - He'll be fine.
If you like, you can go see him.
Yeah, I would like that. Thank you.
Hi.
How do you feel?
- I'm starving. - Yeah?
When you're out, I'll cook the best microwave meal you've ever had.
How long are they gonna keep me here?
I think just another day.
And will you be handling the outpatient care, nurse?
Well, do you mind?
Visions of sponge baths dance in my head.
I gotta go.
Are you gonna be okay?
I'll be fine. I'm more worried about you.
I'll be fine.
I wish it was over, but I'll be fine.
I know.
Come here, I wanna tell you something.
Come close.
I wanted to do that since yesterday.
You know...
...when you're better, I might let you do it again.
- Do you still think I'm crazy? - Sure I do.
I always have.
Great picture!
Hey, how are you doing?
Everybody's a winner. Step right up.
Wanna dance?
Come on, give Benny a big hug.
Come back here. Hey, I'm a break dancer.
It's safer to stay right here.
Sorry, Bob couldn't make it.
Hey. Hey.
- Is this how you greet old lovers? - That's not your category.
I'm surprised you didn't kill me, then fuck me!
It was difficult, because I was attracted to you. I still am.
Well, I'm gonna attract the police if you don't go away now.
You've been avoiding them since you ran out of that house.
They'd be interested to hear how you crashed Dale's plane, how you tried...
...to kill me. - Go ahead then, you feel free.
They'd be happy to meet you.
Did you know that Ruth Marx has a criminal record...
...for drugs?
And prostitution?
- You've got quite a record. - Yeah, almost as...
...good as Bergstrom has. - What?
I know about his suicide, and the Praetorians.
They'd love to hear about that.
Everybody has their button.
Bergstrom's just happened to be homophobia.
You have to know people well enough to know...
...which button to push.
I don't have your disk. If I did, I'd give it to you.
- It was ruined in Mexico. - That's okay.
But what we need now is up here, so you come with me.
I promise, I'll look after you.
What do you want?
It's not about what I want...
...it's about what my employers want.
So take a look around.
Do you think things are working? I don't.
- They'll make things better. - By killing?
I don't ask questions. I suggest you do the same.
Hey, quit! Don't push!
Hey, you jerk!
Dr. Henry to ICU.
Everybody clear! Let's go!
Everybody clear! Okay, he's got no pulse.
- Get her out! - He's my friend.
- Wait, he's my friend. - Help me.
No, let go of me! Alan, no! Get off of me!
- Look, Mrs. Champion, I'm sorry. - I'm not Mrs. Champion.
There were complications.
- Would you like me to call a cab? - Can someone pick you up?
Ma'am?
Would you like to talk with a counselor?
Maybe you should lie down...
I don't understand. You said he'd be fine.
I know I did. I'm sorry. The insulin caused...
No, he was on penicillin.
- He was being treated for diabetes. - No!
- He went into insulin shock. - No!
- He was not a diabetic! - I'm afraid his file says...
Hello?
You've no idea what it does to me just hearing your voice.
Don't hang up, Angela. This is important.
If you'd just take a step back from all this...
...you'd see that you and I aren't so different.
We're both loners, we're both...
...isolated, we're both really untrusting.
We're both looking for the same...
...clarity.
- You mean a great deal to me. - You mean shit to me.
Look, I have to admit an arrogance in my perceptions of you.
See, I've come to visit a friend of mine.
An old piano teacher friend of mine.
Leave my mother alone.
It seems I have no choice.
She's been moved by a Dr. Champion.
The late Dr. Champion.
Shit.
This is the highway patrol.
Reduce speed, carefully pull over and turn off your engine.
There it is!
There she is! Police!
Stop!
- Freeze! - Angela Bennett.
My name is Angela Bennett.
Get down! Get down! Get your hands around back!
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can be used against you...
...in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney...
I want to help you, but everything you're saying is so far-fetched.
They changed your name, your friend's medical records, crashed planes...
But just think about it.
Our whole world is sitting on a computer. It's in the computer.
Everything: Your DMV records, your social security...
...your credit cards, your medical history. It's all right there.
There's an electronic shadow on us, begging for someone to screw with.
They've done it to me, and they'll do it to you.
Look, Miss Marx...
I'm not Ruth Marx. They invented her and put her on your computer.
I hate to tell you, but California Criminal Justice computers...
...have been protected by Gatekeeper for the last six months.
So nothing that you're describing could possibly happen.
Oh, my God, it's the program.
It's the Gatekeeper program. It has a flaw.
If they changed my identity, the Praetorians know.
- That solves it. - Think about it!
You wanna tell me how you ended up in a stolen car?
Listen to me. It's like...
...a Trojan horse, this thing, the Praetorians.
They hack into computers and cause this chaos.
LAX, Wall Street, the Department of Water and Power in Atlanta.
People go out, buy this program, and get a false sense of security.
Only to find out they've given the Praetorians...
...access to the system.
Imagine what they can do with this power.
This is absolutely fascinating, Ms. Marx.
Please, my name is Bennett.
Write it down, if you want.
It's Bennett: B-E-N-N-E-T-T. Bennett.
I have no reason to make this up.
As your appointed attorney, I'm obligated to do as you wish.
So I will call you Cleopatra if you want.
But if you go before the judge with this craziness...
...I guarantee you'll be found incompetent to stand trial...
...and they will hold you indefinitely.
Hi. Yeah, this is her daughter.
Hi, Mom.
It's me.
How are you doing? You doing okay?
How's that new nurse treating you?
It's Angela, Mom.
It's Angela.
Mom, listen.
I need you to do something for me. There's a lady here who I need you...
She's gonna take the phone, and I need you to tell her that I'm me.
Because she doesn't believe me.
Can you tell her that, Mom?
Mom, don't. No.
Are you there?
I just want you to know that I love you, and...
Lady?
What?
Somebody answer the damn phone.
- Here she is. - Who's come to get me?
Special Agent Ben Phillips, FBI. I'm Alan's friend.
It's terrible, what happened to him.
I'm so glad you're here.
Soon as I heard your story...
...I had half our agents chasing this down.
Most of them beating every bush, trying to find you.
Sorry it had to be here.
Yeah, me too.
Let's go, get you someplace safe.
- Got an office 40 minutes away. - And then what?
Then I'm going fishing.
- A shark named Jack Devlin. Know him? - Yeah.
He's a one-man dirty-duty squad. Smart, efficient and lethal.
The moral conscience of a chain saw.
As scary as he is, the guys behind the keyboards are worse.
- The Praetorians. - We've been chasing them for years.
But we have to move ASAP, so sketch me a quick background.
Okay.
How the hell did you access their system in the first place?
I didn't, a programmer at Cathedral sent a disk to me.
A goddamn disk. That's what started all this up?
Did you make a copy of the disk before it was ruined in Mexico?
No.
Damn!
That disk is our only hope of catching them. You talk to anyone?
Did you give copies of the disk to anyone?
- You're amazing sons of bitches. - Excuse me?
Amazing, amazing. How'd you know it was ruined? How?
I only told Devlin about it, how'd you know?
You're not even with the FBI. It doesn't matter.
Ever since I touched that disk it's been a nightmare. I'm tired of it.
I'm so out of it. I'm tired of it.
What are you doing? Come on.
Let go, you're gonna kill us both!
Let go!
Let go! My seat belt!
After a month of playful but costly computer tampering...
...an incident took a dark turn.
We go live to Dermot Conley in Chicago.
Police were called when computer errors turned ugly.
Six of Chicago's banks were forced to close...
...due to massive computer tampering, halting economic life.
It's a desperate situation.
City services will be conducted at the one bank...
...unaffected by the glitches.
That bank was protected by Gregg Systems' Gatekeeper.
- Live from Chicago, I'm Dermot Conley. - Thank you.
Jeff Gregg, founder of Gregg Systems, was at today's announcement...
...by new Undersecretary of Defense Calvin Shoemaker.
The entire federal government will be installing Gatekeeper.
In this day and age, information is sacred. It's power.
Society must protect that at all costs.
Today's announcement came just two weeks after the suicide...
...of Michael Bergstrom, an opponent of the Gatekeeper program.
Locally, a car crash leaves one unidentified man dead.
We go live to the scene of the crash.
I'm yards away from where the body was found...
...with a gang-style shot to the head.
Police are looking for the passenger...
...a woman in her 20s, going under the name Ruth Marx...
...and believed to be wanted on charges of car theft...
All Cathedral employees: This is a reminder...
...that Cathedral's convention booth...
...is in the northwest corner of the convention hall.
Our booth is in the northwest corner of the convention hall.
All right...
Mozart's Ghost!
Don't do this. I am Angela Bennett.
- Cathedral Software. - Angela Bennett, please.
Programming, Angela Bennett. Hello?
Who the hell is this?
- Hello? If you got something to say... - Don't hang up.
Angela?
I know where you are. Let's get you away from your machine.
How about I start a little fire...
...right here.
Fire alarm!
Please proceed to the nearest emergency exit.
Angela, there's a goddamn fire in the building!
- Just a sec. - Don't give me a "sec." Let's go!
Now! Come on!
Mozart's Ghost.
It's about time.
Password, natoar23ae?
Where are you?
- If there's a fire, where's the smoke? - We're looking into it.
What's this? "Terminate Mozart's Ghost files..."
Got you, don't I?
Okay, who is Praetorian?
Okay, let's search you out.
Attention all employees, return to your workstations.
The Fire Department says it was a false alarm.
All clear!
Where are you? There you go.
Attention all employees, return to your workstations.
The Fire Department says that it was a false alarm.
So you did do this, didn't you?
- Come on! - You gotta go to the john too, huh?
Disk, disk, where are you? Where are your disks?
The virus. Thank you, Dale.
Save.
Hurry, hurry. Come on!
You're going to the convention.
Oh, my God!
Security!
Break-in on the fifth floor.
Female, about 5'7", brunette...
Did you see a brunette?
- Nobody came by. - There's only firemen around here.
Devlin.
- Where is she? - She must be with the firemen.
- She's copied the disk. - You should have gotten rid of it.
If you'd shot her a week ago, she'd never have made the copy.
Smart. Better call Gregg.
She's gone to the Moscone Center!
- Are you sure she's out there? - She's out there.
She won't be hiding. She came here to use a computer.
Get away from the computer.
What were you trying to do? Save the world?
Not the world, just myself.
It's too late. The offer's been withdrawn.
Look at the screen. Everything on that disk's gone to the FBI.
- Everything. - So?
Proof that Gatekeeper has a back door.
- My, my. - Proof...
...that Gregg ordered Bergstrom's and Dale's murders.
Watch her.
The beauty of Gatekeeper:
We get into the FBI like it's a library.
Beautiful system.
Let's finish and get out. These people make me nervous.
What you did will be wiped out by just escaping the system.
Really?
Goddamn it, you're in the mainframe! It's eating the entire system!
A virus is eating the Gatekeeper program.
It's destroying everything.
Take the far side!
Angela, stop!
Angela.
Shit!
Angela.
Just you and me now.
Do you realize you've changed everything?
Yeah.
One little keystroke, and you've wiped out my employer.
You've canceled my contract.
Reversed everything they've done to you.
Got your life back, as you wanted.
Angela?
I knew you'd do the right thing.
- It won't respond. - Try a new password.
Excuse me, miss.
I can't remember what you told me to plant.
Why don't I come outside and help you?
FBI agents today...
...escorted Jeff Gregg from his exclusive penthouse.
Gregg will be arraigned for conspiracy, fraud...
...and complicity in Undersecretary Bergstrom's death.
An FBI spokesperson attributes the arrest to a transmission...
...sent via Internet by an Angela Bennett, a systems analyst.
In other news, police are investigating...
...two deaths at the Pan-Pacific Computer Convention.
A young woman found shot to death...
...has been identified as Ruth Marx.
The other deceased, a male in his 30s, is unidentified.
Now the weather. The weekend will be bright and sunny.
It seems like summer is finally here.