- [Narrator] Since the nuclear holocaust,
20 years have passed.
The leader of the Eurac monarchy,
the powerful Euro, Afro, Asian unity,
who pressed the fatal button
claims to have won the conflict but planet Earth
has been reduced to a garbage-strewn radioactive desert,
inhabited by humans devoid of all hope for a future.
Radiation could not have been worse.
A few deformed creatures developed
in the immediate post-war period then nothing.
For nearly 15 years now, not one human child has been born.
New York City, a huge pile of waste and rubble
is under the control of the Eurac military force.
With the help of mercenary hunters,
the Euracs are with deadly efficiency steadily
exterminating the locals, and using the healthy ones
for every conceivable kind of genetic experiment
in a desperate attempt to kind the key to survival
to the continuance of the human race.
- Listen, and listen carefully.
The deadline in this sector for voluntary presentation
at the experimental center is six o'clock.
In exactly 30 seconds, the hunters and exterminators
will begin total dis-infestation.
The hunt is open.
They're in there.
Through the door.
- There they are.
- No.
- Hey.
- No.
Don't kill me.
- All engines are running.
Drivers are both ready.
On the right is the Exterminator driven by Parsifal,
who is the reigning champion for his team,
and is on the right.
On my left, the challenger,
the four pirates from New Orleans
and the invincible Killer Racer.
The rules of the race champion,
whoever hits the metal flag first, first place.
The tournament continues until one of the cars is destroyed
and its occupants dead.
Get ready. Five, four, three, two, one, go!
- Parsifal.
- Take me to bed. Take me to bed.
Remember what I promise you once you've won.
- You're victor of life and happiness.
You're victor of life and happiness.
- He's your winning file card.
- You're victor of life and happiness.
You're victor of life and happiness.
Life answer kill number 122.
Twenty ounce of the gold.
- My name is Flower. I will share your life.
Flirtation of your next life slave called Flower
and right of life and death.
- You are the greatest, Parsifal.
The man that beat you has yet to be born.
What am I saying, he'll never be born.
Not now he won't? Right champ?
The guy will never be born.
- That thing back there was a cyborg, half man, half robot.
I knew one once.
I didn't know what he was until I had made love with him.
- I know the creep who built them.
- We request a meeting with Parsifal.
Do you read? Over.
- Who are you?
- I'll explain later.
- Then forget it, I don't have time to jaw
with anyone who won't identify himself.
- You're too much, master,
and you're going to make great love.
- Can you ride?
- Certainly not.
Why did you do that?
- They must have drank radioactive water.
- Awful.
- They'd been dead in a couple of hours anyhow.
Here, these are licenses to kill.
They're right over there if you want to use them.
It's all legal.
Gives you the right to their things, and freedom.
- Thank you, master. Thank you.
- [Trooper] That'll keep him out for a couple of hours.
- Leave us alone.
- I had hope you were dead.
- On the contrary. I'm still very much alive.
So is the Pan-American Confederacy.
- This is what you call alive huh?
- Listen, we are secretly reorganizing the state
with the advantage the Euracs know nothing of our existence.
Alaska's one of the least contaminated territories.
We're in a definite position to make a comeback.
The enemies' in for a surprise.
- And after you've won?
What do you have to offer your men?
Besides this sterile planet?
- The memory banks in our genetic robots tell us
there's a fertile woman hidden in New York.
We have got to find her before the Euracs do.
Before they start using her for their insane experiments.
- One fertile woman is not enough to recreate
the entire human race.
- That's where you're wrong.
If she's young, she'll have at least 500 eggs
in her ovaries.
That's 500 uncontaminated human beings.
- But why me?
Can't your genetic robot come up with another name?
Someone else to go and get this woman?
What about your cyborgs?
They can do anything--
- Oh, stop talking nonsense.
The cyborgs have all been eliminated.
Anyway, they didn't have man's adaptability.
- Yeah, well they certainly looked like men,
and they were just as evil.
On top of that, they were stupidly loyal.
Especially when it came time for them to play rough.
- Enough, you are the only man capable of carrying
out this mission successfully.
- In exchange for what?
- There's an inter-planetary rocket sitting
on the subterranean launchpad.
Somewhere in what was once the United States of America.
If you go to New York and bring us back that woman,
I'll guarantee you a seat for the journey.
- What journey?
- To Alpha Centauri, where there are several planets
capable of supporting life.
As we know it, the continuation of the human race.
Without that woman, the trip is pointless.
Only a select few will make up the crew,
and you could be one of 'em.
- Why should I believe you?
I stopped working for you when I found out
what your promises were worth, remember?
- You don't want to believe me.
No problem then.
Refuse the mission, and you won't leave here alive,
I promise you.
- You never change, do you?
- I presume that that means yes.
You'll have to do without your laser pistol
to avoid identification.
All you'll take with you are your wits
and these two gentlemen.
This is Bronx.
His mind is a veritable map of New York City,
and he has an additional motive for hating the Euracs.
They massacred his family and made him watch.
That's Ratchet, the strongest man in the new Confederacy.
He will help you in every possible way.
Both men would die to save our country.
- They have reserved seats too?
- Naturally, that's the prize for going on this mission.
One of our helicopters will set you down a short distance
from the Eurac's military security perimeter.
You'll be given the necessary equipment to reach New York.
Ratchet has a transmitter and on your return,
once out of the city, you'll be able to contact us.
- How do we get into Manhattan?
- Getting in will be easy.
It's getting out that's impossible.
It's up to you to prove the contrary.
- You see that? They baked the Big Apple.
- He had a wife and kids there when they did it.
Can you still get in?
- You want to get into Manhattan? You're crazy.
You better take my advice man and look at it from here.
- We don't want your advice.
Just answer the question.
- The only road worthwhile
is the one past the Eurac headquarters.
But if you guys ain't hunters,
they'll blow your fucking heads off.
- We're not hunters.
- Well, there's a tunnel for power trains,
if ain't flooded yet.
But if you guys get through, you better watch out
for the hollum hunters because they don't
dig people trespassing on their territory.
- You know where that tunnel is?
- Yeah.
- Thanks.
- Two hours, we've been wading in this crap.
- I know.
Let's not all drown at once.
I'll go first. You wait here.
- Good point.
- Who said getting in would be easy?
Come on.
- We're there but it's daylight.
Come on.
- Ratchet.
- There they are.
- [Bronx] Thanks.
- Come on.
- We gotta beat it before reinforcements get here
but which way?
- That way.
- Euracs.
Follow me.
- Get off you little mother.
These damn rats.
- Kill the rats.
- [Gang Member] Kill the rat.
- A little boy. Get him.
- [Gang Member] Don't let him get away.
- [Gang Member] Get him.
- There he is, there he is. Go.
- [Gang Member] Don't let him get away.
- Let me go.
Let go of me.
- He's not a boy. He's one of the tiny people.
He should be killed.
Bad, bad luck. - Get him.
- Let me go. Don't kill me, please.
- Let's slice the dirty little bastard in two.
- It's not his fault he isn't a child.
- Okay, rat.
Come on.
- Okay, who's next?
- Give up.
- Stop it.
Stop or I'll kill him.
36, 37.
38, 39.
40, 41.
42, 43.
44, 45.
46, 47.
48, 49.
50.
Drag, you're the winner.
You get the first choice.
- Giara.
- She's yours.
- Come on. Come on.
- No. No.
- Deed of God.
The people.
Yeah, please grow fertile so that we can give birth.
Go to it, brothers.
Go to it.
- Take the first person for the experiment center.
Wait a minute, these two don't look like they belong here.
They're prisoners, I think.
They don't smell so bad which is unusual around here.
Who are you? Well, speak up.
Tell me who you are or I'll kill ya.
- He isn't one of us, and neither is he.
- Look at you.
Growing up in this infected shouldn't be bad.
- [Trooper] Come on, move it, move it.
- [Trooper] Oh, hurry up.
- Euriki reporting from West 122 Street.
We captured two men on the island without authorization.
- We have ways of making you talk
but before resorting to them,
I thought you might like the opportunity
to volunteer the information I want.
A little spontaneous collaboration never hurt anyone.
Life is more precious today than ever before
as you well know.
- No, I see that certain cultures never die.
- Are you referring to the Picasso painting?
Or to the genocide it depicts?
- Is there a difference?
Beauty and ugliness, good and evil.
It might make sense if future generations learn
of all the horrors we've done to one another.
- We have fused Asia and Europe, and Africa
into a single race, a world civilization.
I believe that God will give us the Euracs,
His chosen people, the opportunity and ability
to create new humans again.
- After He allowed you to almost wipe them out.
That makes sense.
- It's inevitable that an over-developed society
eventually will come to the point of its own destruction.
Our robots and your cyborgs were good example of that.
- Before being destroyed, my nation eliminated the cyborgs.
Your people--
- We must choose every means possible
to save the human race.
Or perhaps you hate it so strongly,
you'll rather see it die out completely.
- Yeah, from what I've seen in the past 20 years,
mankind should be banished from the universe.
- Even though you belong to a highly developed society,
I can see that you're sensitive and knowledgeable.
- I taught pre-industrial revolution history here,
in this city, before your bombers destroyed it.
- I see. Well professor, may I know your name?
- My name no longer exists.
Anymore than my nation.
- I shall now get to the point of this little discussion.
We have reasons to believe that your nation is reorganizing.
We want you to tell us where and how,
and what brought you to New York.
- I'll tell you why I came to New York.
To dig out the eyes of a worm like you.
- Don't kill him.
Don't kill him, I want him alive.
- I want to talk to the prisoner alone.
- I don't believe we've met.
- Do you know me now?
- Certainly no in the Biblical sense.
- You've been condemned to death.
- You're my last cigarette, huh?
- No, if you're willing and cooperative,
and tell me what I want to know,
I might be your petition for mercy.
- I think I'll sign it.
- You're a spy, a spy for the Pan-American Confederacy.
We know you're reorganizing.
- So what? Do you think it'll do any good?
- Why are you here?
- To find a woman.
- Explain.
- The only fertile woman on the face of the Earth.
- And have you found her?
- Yeah. She's with the group that captured me.
Beautiful blonde. Her name's Giara.
- Come, and point her out to me.
Well, which one?
- Her.
- Take that woman to genetic research.
If she is fertile, you've save your life.
If not, you'll wish you haven't been born.
- [Guard] Miss Anya's orders is to watch.
- [Computer Torturer] It is futile to put yourself
through all this pain.
Tell us all about your mission
for the Pan-American Confederacy.
You have five seconds to start.
Five, four, three, two, one.
You are determined to kill island.
In this case, instance of death
will be carried out by me in 10 seconds.
10, nine, eight, seven, six, five.
Four.
Four, four.
Four, four, four.
- Thanks.
- Can you walk?
- Yeah, I can.
- When are they to operate on Fed?
- They're doing the operation now.
- And the girl?
- I can show you the specifics of the test here
on the monitor.
Here we are.
As you can plainly see this comparison
with other women tested, the results indicate
that she's totally sterile.
Healthy but sterile.
- Repeat the test.
- All right, Miss Anya.
But what if the data we have now on her is confirmed?
What are we supposed to do with her?
- Send her back to Vivo section.
- Stairway, over there.
Let's go.
- Wait, with her first.
Hey, take cover.
Quick, come on.
Come on, hurry.
- Have you localized them?
- Not yet, sir.
- We have to catch them.
- [Security Control] Red alert. Red alert.
Targets are at sector four.
- They've localized them.
- Come on. What are you waiting for?
- Good luck, friend.
Come on, bastards.
Bastards.
- I want the other two alive.
- Halt, drop your gun. Drop it.
Walk this way, and get your hands up.
- Stop.
- Go to the wall.
- Quick, after them.
No, I want them alive. Use the stun guns.
- Stun guns.
- This way.
- You go that area.
- Hurry.
- Get them.
- My legs.
- Here, hurry. Hurry.
- Help the girl.
- Can you make it?
- Yeah.
- They haven't a hope of surviving in the sewers.
- Is that you Anya?
- They got away with the help of a dwarf
and another infiltrator.
- We've got to recapture them especially the girl.
- Her fertility tests proved negative.
It was just a trick to give that spy a chance to escape.
- Perhaps but he is not escaping alone.
I'm convinced he belongs to the new Confederacy,
and he took the girl,
which can only mean she passed the test.
You better get her back, my dear.
Your very life depends on it.
- I swear, I'll have them back before you see
the light of day again.
- And alive, at least the girl.
- Hey, hey Parsifal.
You're back in the land of the living.
- Where's Giara?
- Here. Over there.
She's still out of it but don't worry.
She'll be back with us in a minute.
- Where are we?
- Below the ruins of the United Nations.
It's pretty safe down here.
There's an exit to the street through a bunch of sewers.
- What's your name?
- Shorty, what else?
- He and his people helped me
get you out of Eurac headquarters.
- How did you know I was there?
- I have a body scent receiver.
I hooked into your frequency, and there you were,
along with Bronx.
- Thanks.
- You better eat now.
Here.
- We're grateful. Thanks.
- I owed you a favor. Just returning it.
- Well?
- Not a sign of 'em but we found their motorcycles
on the other side of the tunnel,
the sector controlled by the hollum hunters.
- Then see that they double up on the patrol in that area.
They must be prevented from leaving the island.
- Oh we flooded the tunnel.
They'll never leave by that route.
- They're still down in the sewers.
They must be forced into the open again so force them.
- I'm really routing for you to bring this mission off.
- You think it's worth it, trying to save a future
for ruins like us.
- Yeah, I felt the same way.
She gave me back an older feeling, hope.
- I know what they say you're here to get Parsifal.
- You know where she is?
- Of course.
- What do you want to tell us?
- I want you to promise that when you leave here,
you put me in your suitcase.
- What makes you think it's any better where we're going?
- Be in some place else.
It's the illusion it gives.
That's all it counts.
- You got a deal. You can leave with us.
It's okay, you can take the wax out now.
- Let's get out of here.
- We can't let them get away.
- Don't worry, they won't, Miss Anya.
The bridges were never rebuilt,
and the tunnels are blocked except the Lincoln,
and we have that covered.
- What about if they use a boat?
- We have eight subs on patrol.
They'll sink anything that's not ours.
- Have them double the guard at the entrance
to the Lincoln Tunnel,
and send six monk squads to comb the area
between 34th and 48th street.
I want them to check every rooftop,
every hole, every inch of rubble,
every damn thing they come across.
- Careful, there's something weird about this.
- It's them. Hold your fire.
- Let me go. Let me go.
I haven't done anything.
Let go of me.
- Drop it or he's dead.
- What do I do with this one, Big Ape?
He says he's not one of them.
- Right, but I'm their friend.
I'm the one who saved them from the Euracs.
If it hadn't been for me, they wouldn't be alive now.
Ratchet please, don't let them kill me.
Tell them I helped you. Tell them.
- That's right, he did.
- They've been combing this city for you guys.
Like you were bunches of bananas. Why?
- Because we're from the new Confederacy,
and they want to find it.
- There is no Confederacy, no more, no where.
- Wrong.
- Wrong?
So what are you doing in town?
- The president sent us.
He says there's a woman here who can make babies.
We're here to find her and take her back.
- Make babies?
I couldn't make babies.
There's two of us that are still uncontaminated, two.
If there's a woman who can produce,
where is this woman who makes babies?
Her?
- No. We're still looking for her.
- I'm one of the Needle people.
You're Big Ape, right?
I heard a lot about you down in the sewers.
- This is my town.
And those kings come here from across the ocean.
I assume gonna find that out.
- That woman's begging for a man like me.
- If you like her, you take her.
- Hold it. She's my woman.
- You don't have belongings.
Just be glad you're alive.
- Take your hands off her.
- You come and get her if you can.
- Stay out of it. It's between them.
- Wo, okay, I'm on but you gotta explain to me
the house rules for one to one fight.
- To crap about rules.
We fight to the death. That's it.
- Okay, Big Ape.
When do we get the green light to start?
- You got it. Go on.
She's yours, enjoy her.
All right. Leave 'em alone.
You like blonde women huh?
- Do you mind?
I knew right away when I first saw you.
- Giara, if love had any meaning in this world,
you'd be the one I love.
- Love me now.
Love me, yes.
As if this was the last day of our lives.
- You lousy punk, you lied.
She's the fertile woman.
We met one of the hunters' call.
You son of a bitch.
I'll kill you.
- Don't. It's not her, Big Ape.
She's not the one.
I know where the only fertile woman in the world is hidden.
Parsifal was telling the truth.
He just wanted to save this one from the Euracs.
She's not fertile. I've seen the one who is.
I used to see her every day in the place
where she's been hidden.
She's sort of like sleeping beauty. Know that story?
- No, but I hope there's a happy ending for your sake.
Take me to her.
I want to live on through my children.
- Come on.
- Try anything you dirty runt, you're gonna be cut.
- Oh for Pete's sake, Big Ape.
If you want to see that woman, come on and follow me.
- Wait a minute.
We can walk in now.
What's the matter?
You never seen rats having lunch before?
- They were his people.
- So what?
If we don't find that woman,
the rats are all that are gonna be left.
- Hey, now where the hell are you taking us?
- Where do you think?
To where the girl is hidden. This way.
Let's go.
- Professor, it's Shorty, open the door.
Don't let him see ya 'til I explain.
He becomes suspicious of everybody.
Professor, it's Shorty.
Professor, are you there?
He's gotta be. It's me, Shorty.
The girl is inside there.
I swear to ya.
- Let's try to force it.
Impossible.
- I couldn't it.
- Give up, Big Ape?
- I can't do it.
Get back.
- Step aside. I'll do it.
- Come on.
Professor?
Professor.
- I'm sorry.
- She can make a baby?
But she's dead.
- No, she's in hibernation. That's all.
She has been almost her whole life,
ever since the nuclear war.
- Who is she?
- Her name's Melissa. She's the professor's daughter.
He knew what would happen to women exposed to radiation.
So he hibernated her.
She was to breed a new race
but there was never a place to take her.
- How do you plan to escape?
Get her in that life support system off the island?
- You wanna see? Come on.
- An old car?
- It runs beautifully and the tank's full.
Just down there is a wall.
The side of the Lincoln Tunnel.
Now it's the only way left out of New York.
Breaking through the wall will be easy.
- What about the Euracs?
- They're the big problem.
There are three systems of barriers in the tunnel,
and a lot of it is mine,
and the men are armed with lasers.
- The gorilla's love. Beauty and the beast.
At least beast have warm blood.
Yeah, it should be fast enough.
- Yeah, but what about the cannon?
It's one of the far end of the tunnel.
It bores through steel as much as 30 millimeters thick.
- With the right shield, we can make it.
- Yeah, we need some thick steel or lead.
- I know an old junkyard, where there's plenty of steel.
It's crawling with Euracs though.
It's not a place I advise going into.
- We have to risk it.
Hey, Big Ape, you heard what we were talking about?
- I heard but you go.
I'll stay here to look after her.
- You understand, Big Ape.
She's the only hope mankind has for the future.
- They'll have to kill me first
before they lay a hand on her.
- Okay, come on. Wait.
Giara, stay with her.
- You'll make me a mortal
carrying my seed.
- How about this?
- I don't know. It looks okay.
- We need more though.
- Uh oh, Euracs.
How are we gonna get out of here? With all that stuff?
- I don't know. Pray.
No.
- Get back in hiding for Pete's sake.
Bastards.
- It's that damn dwarf. Get him.
- He's attracting their attention.
So we can find what we want right here.
Now come on, let's get on with it.
- Hey, you sneaky little bug.
Now you're going to tell us where your friends are hiding.
- All right, just don't hurt me, huh, and I'll tell you.
I'll tell you where they are.
- [Trooper] Well?
- Stupid bastards.
- Where is Shorty?
- Euracs got him.
He did it to help us escape.
Everything okay here?
- Everything's fine.
- Hey Big Ape, come and help me.
This will protect the front
but we'll be driving damn near blind in the tunnel.
- So we have to protect Melissa.
Nothing else matters.
- I was just explaining.
Okay, let's give it a try.
They won't be expecting us in daylight.
- No time like the present.
Shorty might have talked.
- He wouldn't. He'd never say anything to them about her.
- Okay, check it out.
- I think we can make it.
- Hang on.
- We managed to get rid of him.
Now let's move.
- We need all the friends we can get.
Come on. Get in.
- If you were trying to trick me, you almost made it.
- Hang on.
- [Security Control] Alert! Alert!
Unidentified vehicle. Lower barricade.
- The checkpoint.
- Stop! Get out of your car.
- Watch it.
- Look out.
- A great ride, friend.
But I have a feeling it's about over. Look.
- Fire.
- We did it.
- We're safe.
- You let them escape, get out of the city.
You know what happens to those who failed in their duty.
- We can still catch them.
There are 10 squads combing the desert around New York.
- Perhaps, but you did promise to bring them to me
before I saw the light of day again.
- No.
- Now, I've all the time I need.
- Confederacy air units wiped out Eurac headquarters.
We have only three hours for a total preemptive strike
before they reorganize.
- Now I know why you wanted Big Ape with us.
You knew he'd protect that woman with his life.
Have you asked yourself why?
- Love at first sight.
I just hope his seed is fertile as you both said it was.
- You figured that out as well, huh?
- I've established contact with the Confederacy helicopter.
It should be here in a minute.
- Mission completed.
- Almost.
Why did you stop?
- You know when I caught on Ratchet?
- Caught on to what?
- That you're not a man.
- What makes you think that?
- When the Euracs hit us with that ultrasound,
we were all on the point of lying on the floor except you.
It didn't affect you a bit.
You are a cyborg, Ratchet.
- [Giara] No.
No. Don't.
Me too for you. Like Big Ape.
- No, not you Giara.
A helicopter's coming.
You'll see, you'll make it.
- I already have. Like Big Ape.
Remember, long ago, a small step for man,
a giant leap for mankind.
Do you know what that leap is?
Love, for you, for us. For mankind.
It has to live on.
- Why Giara? Why?
We destroyed the world.
Two billions of people, and we still do.
- Kiss me now. Kiss me with love.
Life is love, then love.
- All right, my love. You win.
Man somehow get it together again.
It's because you're in love with it.
All right, my cold beauty.
Now, it's up to you.
But you're in for a big surprise, Mr. President.
If you want to give the order to have me killed,
you can do it just as easily sitting down, can't ya?
- I wasn't sure about you, Parsifal.
And that woman is imperative to the journey.
Without her, it will be senseless.
That's why I sent the cyborg.
I knew I could trust him.
- Yeah, same old trip again huh.
You were right though.
Alone I wouldn't have brought her back.
But too many good people died to keep her alive.
- Yeah. A necessary sacrifice.
What's important is she's with us.
You and the others will remove the eggs as she ovulates.
You will fertilize them on the glass,
and the human race ought to be saved.
- We'll remove?
- You decided that you're bowing out?
- You were never slated for a seat on that spaceship.
- You are giving me yours?
- I should've like to taken a look out there.
Even presidents were kids once,
and dreamed of becoming astronauts.
But the doctors have given me three months.
I don't think I could withstand
the G-force during launch.
So you see, no gifts.
To each, its own little piece of history.
Mine is finished. Yours is just beginning.
Good luck. Man.
- As soon as the girl awakens,
somebody would have to explain everything to her.
She knows nothing about the disasters of the last 20 years,
and what she now represents.
She must be told the whole story.
The right man to tell her is you. Come.
- [Spaceship Control] Coming out on X minus one minute.
20, 19, 18, 17, 16,
15, 14, 13, 12, 11,
10, nine, eight, seven, six,
five, four, three, two, one, zero.