(MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
STOTTLEMEYER: Take the 23rd, MAN: Yes, Sir,
I want you to take this personal info manager,
uplink all the data on it to Washington, and then bring the pin back to me,
Go!
How the hell did this building's security allow a guy like Zig Fowler
through its front doors, let alone its holy of holies?
I told you, he isn't Zig Fowler, Zig Fowler is dead,
I ran that bastard to the ground four years ago,
Then why does my pin say this is Fowler?
Purge it, okay?
The guy in the server room is named Unger, Cliff Unger,
And don't ask me how the hell he got in here,
I'm still trying to figure it out myself,
So, if this guy's not Fowler, what's he doing here?
I don't know,
This guy should have folded his cards already,
He's a glorified typist, for crying out loud, not a terrorist,
So, like you say, if we move in on him, he should lie down,
Get him on the horn, keep him talking for five to seven minutes,
Can you do it?
(BEEPING)
Unger,
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
What? PETER YASTRZEMSKI: You thought about my offer?
I told you what you can do with your offer, didn't I? Yeah,
But now that I've removed it from that particular place
and wiped it off, I'm putting it right back on the table,
Understand something,
There's no wriggle room here,
These FBI guys, ,, Oh! I've seen their handiwork,
Oh, you think that was bad?
Wait till you see what they're gonna do to you,
If I let them, Let's be real, Cliff,
My name is Zig Fowler,
Your name is Cliff Unger, That's not what my chip says,
I don't care what your chip says,
Look, your only way out of here is through me,
And you're definitely gonna want a way out,
You're not gonna blow up this building,
Oh, no? I'm holding a detonator in my hand,
Wanna see me push it? YAS: I'm willing to admit,
I might have pushed you a little too hard,
I, ,, I'll make it up to you,
I'll get that chip of yours fixed today,
I can make it happen, Right now,
Nah, it's a little late for that now, don't you think?
CLIFF: I'm on one path,
and it's heading in one direction and one direction only,
Look, you said before you wanted to talk to me, face to face,
What if I were willing to agree to that? Huh?
What do you say, Cliff?
You and me,
Mano-a-mano,
Did you hear what I said?
Yeah, I hear you,
Okay,
CLIFF: Come on in,
We'll be in position in three minutes,
CLIFF: Talk to me, I am waiting,
YAS: All right Cliff
I'm coming in,
But, first I've gotta run this by Agent Stottlemeyer,
No, You come in, now,
Cliff, it's not gonna take long, I promise you,
You come in right now, or the deal's off,
You're not Zig Fowler, Why are you acting like him?
Maybe because Zig Fowler was right to try to destroy you
and the unimpeded, wholly democratic free flow of information,
That flow of information you're talking about
is what the Cliff Unger I know believes in
with his heart and soul, and that Cliff Unger, ,,
Knows that if he blows up that information server,
he'll be inconveniencing an awful lot of people,
Oh! Is that all I'm doing?
You know? Maybe that's the problem right there,
I think Zig Fowler just won,
Fowler's dead, man,
He was a loser and so are you,
Have a nice day, (CELL PHONE BEEPING)
Execute Zig Zag end game,
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Zig Zag end game initiated,
Sixty seconds to detonation,
What the hell is that?
That is the sound of the meter running,
You can stop it,
But only if you come in here right now,
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Fifty seconds to detonation, Cliff,
Cliff!
Stottlemeyer,
I need another minute, we're not ready yet,
We're not ready!
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Forty seconds to detonation,
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Thirty seconds to detonation, CLIFF: Hey, Weatherman,
You ready to blow this place up?
Yeah, sure, Why not?
What have we got to lose?
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Twenty seconds to detonation,
Absolutely nothing,
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Ten, nine, ,,
CONTROL VOICE: There is nothing wrong with your television,
Do not attempt to adjust the picture,
We are now controlling the transmission,
We control the horizontal and the vertical,
We can deluge you with a thousand channels
or expand one single image to crystal clarity
and beyond,
We can shape your vision
to anything our imagination can conceive,
For the next hour,
we will control all that you see and hear,
You are about to experience the awe and mystery
which reaches from the deepest inner mind
to The Outer Limits,
CONTROL VOICE: As we surrender more authority to our evermore capable technology,
what will happen when that technology goes awry?
RADIO ANNOUNCER: Now, what's going on, Alan?
ALAN: All we know for sure is that the building was taken over
by a refusenik group calling itself The Syndrome,
and that cybercolumnist Cliff Unger is among the group's members,
The Syndrome, have tried to make a name for themselves
and their anti-technology campaign by hacking, ,,
They make us sound like a bunch of lunatics,
Yeah, YAS: Can I get you anything, Cliff?
Food, drink?
Well, ,,
You could tell the media the truth,
They're gonna find out anyway,
I don't know what truth it is you're referring to,
That Zig Fowler is holding this building and the servers inside it hostage,
Because you're not him,
There's a flaw in your chip,
You're pissed off about it, That's the truth,
Yes, that is the truth,
But you can't tell them that,
because the technology is not supposed to make mistakes, right?
The chip is biocoded to my DNA,
Therefore, I am who it says that I am,
And it says that I am Zig Fowler,
Come on, you can figure it out, It doesn't take a genius,
YAS: Come on now, Cliff,
We're friends, or at least we used to be,
Tell me, how do we get out of this?
Well, for starters, we can put down the phones
to start communicating together like human beings,
Yas, ,,
Uh, let me think about it for a minute,
I want that bastard's head on a stick,
Three of my men are dead,
What's the body count on their side?
Two dead, one critical,
I just spoke to the meat wagon
and all I got out of the critical's
is what a son of a bitch your boy, Cliff, is,
Like he has his own agenda,
What's going on, Yas?
I don't know,
CLIFF: Hello, hello,
You've gone quiet on me, That makes me nervous,
Uh, sorry about that Cliff,
I'm just trying to check on something here,
Look, Cliff, I'm trying to save a few lives here,
Can we make that happen?
"Save a few lives,"
Well, now that sounds awfully funny coming from you
considering what you did to my comrades,
The feds made a mistake, I didn't know they were gonna do that,
Now, I know it's asking a lot, but I don't want it to preclude
you and me coming to some type of an agreement here,
Yeah, okay,
We'll just chalk it up to another valuable lesson
courtesy of Pete Yastrzemski,
(CELL PHONE BEEPING)
Can you hold on just a little longer?
I can try,
Try hard,
This is our destiny we're talking about,
No tricks, or I'll decorate the wall with you,
Isn't that something?
I was just gonna say the same thing to Cliffy here,
You wanna settle the score when the job's done, be my guest,
But if we kill him now, we can't finish the job,
See, here's why I'm getting confused,
We're wired, we're ready to rock and now all of a sudden,
Cliffy wants to lock eyeballs with his buddy Yastrzemski,
Why?
I have my reasons, Accept it,
Translation, The man has got his own agenda,
Geez, I wonder what it is,
Weatherman, he's working for them,
And every second we wait, we're one second closer
to them coming in here and stopping us,
Maybe, Maybe we should, you know,
Set the timers, head for the basement,
WEATHERMAN: This is not just about blowing up the servers,
It's about doing it the way Zig intended,
For God's sake, Weatherman, open your damn eyes,
What I'm talking about, that's what Zig intended,
Wait a minute, Cavalry's on its way,
One of the elevators, It's not moving yet, but it will be,
Would Yastrzemski do that to us?
Is he that stupid?
You're asking him? Yeah, he would,
If they're coming up, we better hit them before they hit us,
Come on, Weatherman, let me drop a load down the elevator shaft,
Man, this is gonna be cool,
Ten ounces of C4 in an elevator shaft, Kaboom, boom, boom,
Hurry it up, Roy, come on! Don't rush me,
The elevator is coming up,
We're going down,
Everybody stand back, When this baby goes,
it's gonna kick all kinds of ass,
Three, two, one, ,,
Boom! Where's the God damn boom?
What the hell are you looking at? This isn't my fault,
That detonator was state of the art,
C4, Son of a, ,,
Hey!
We got to blow the computers now,
What have you done to us?
Haven't done anything,
Weatherman, DELL: Weatherman, push the button,
If you don't finish the job, then I will,
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGING) Elevator,
It's empty,
(SCREAMING)
(GRUNTING)
Cover me,
(GRUNTING)
MAN: Move back, move back, Shut the door,
We're secure at that end, How did you get up the exit stairs?
I punched in the lockout codes that Cliff gave us,
Does that mean we're secure? You got me,
What the hell's that supposed to mean?
Hey, if it was Zig Fowler telling us what to do,
it'd be one thing, but it's not,
What is all this, anyway?
This is all the information flowing into and out of the servers,
Hundreds and millions of terabytes a second,
This, is why we're here,
How are you making out with the charges?
CLIFF: Charges are set,
Good, Have you done everything? I think so,
Oh! Who asked you?
Where did you get the idea that you were in charge, anyway? Huh?
What? Did you and Weatherman switch pants when you woke up this morning?
Oh! You son of a bitch!
Listen, let's not fall apart now, We've come too far,
Oh, shut up! Just because you got Zig somewhere in that pin of yours,
does not make you him,
Hey, I got us into the building, didn't I?
Zig got us into it, You came along for the ride,
Please don't tell me you still think I'm up to something,
When you think about it, it's been pretty easy,
Yeah, a little too easy,
Like it's all some kind of a setup, hey?
My ass is on the line here, same as yours,
What's waiting for us, Cliffy, huh? You can tell us now,
You're not Zig, Are you, Cliff?
Tell you what,
You still don't trust me after all this, ,,
Go ahead, shoot me,
Anything you say,
WOMAN: (ON COMPUTER) Miss Chalmers, how nice to see you,
Mr, Ripken is waiting for you,
Just step into the elevator and I'll send you right up,
Now, remember, when you grab the security drop, ,,
I know what to do, Just reminding you, we got to move fast,
If that backup drone gets here before we reprogram the first one, ,,
I'll try to make sure it zaps you first,
I'm sorry, Would you please swipe your hand again?
Just step into the elevator, and the security drone will see you,
CLIFF: Okay,
Here it comes,
Please stand where you are,
Get ready,
Go! (ALARM RINGING)
Hold it still,
Everybody out of here, Now!
(GUNSHOT) (WOMAN SCREAMING)
DELL: Let's go, move it! Move it! Move it!
Execute Zig Zag drone sequence,
Move it,
Out! Out! Out! Out!
Let's go, let's go, ,, Move it!
Let go,
WOMAN: (ON COMPUTER) How nice, ,, How nice, ,, How nice to see you, ,,
CLIFF: Dell secures an elevator,
After Weatherman and Roy clear the lobby,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we know it already,
Quit treating us like morons,
I just wanna make sure everybody knows the plan,
If we do this right, the whole security system will come to a halt,
And what if the plan doesn't work?
Seems to me, like Zig thought of everything,
One bot takes out the rest, and while the system deals
with what's happening, we slip through the crack,
Except it cannot possibly be that easy,
Why are you doing this, Dell? Why now?
'Cause I feel like we're all being sucked into this by him,
And I'm not afraid if that's what you're thinking
and screw you if you are thinking it,
You know what? I am willing to die for this,
But something is not right here,
You want me to prove myself some more, is that it?
Hey! If we're gonna do this, you got to take a leap of faith,
Listen to me,
When I first met Zig, I thought the world was an awful place,
Totally irredeemable,
But Zig showed me how to have faith,
The first step towards finding your own humanity,
is finding it in others,
I trust Cliff,
I trust him implicitly,
But if you're not gonna make that leap with me,
then we stop this right now,
Either we all go forward together, or we don't go at all,
She's beautiful, huh?
Your mom?
She was a great lady,
Smartest person I've ever known,
She died of a genetic heart condition,
Chip didn't pick it up,
You know, ,,
I'm still trying to figure out what exactly is happening here,
I mean, two days ago, I would have walked through fire
to kill you, and now, ,,
Well, ,,
You know what they say about opposites attracting,
Come here,
Kiss me, Don't think about it, just do it,
You don't believe half that crap you put your name on, do you?
I might have said a few things to get a rise out of people,
It definitely got a rise out of me,
There's more Zig Fowler in you than you know,
Getting our hands on a bunch of explosives is one thing,
Getting them on DIR's main servers is something else,
I'm with Weatherman, And if we're smart, we'll quit while we're ahead,
I don't understand you people,
You have this amazing plan here,
Zig Fowler must have spent years working out all the details,
Hell, if I was some kind of cyberterrorist,
I'd be wetting my pants trying to get at a target like this,
Yeah, well, you're not,
So, why don't you clean yourself up and get out of here,
Well, I guess I was right,
The only real threat this group poses
is that they might talk their enemies to death,
Hey, I'm perfectly willing to walk into that building and blow up those servers,
I don't know about wetting myself, though,
I'd do it, Beats sitting around,
WEATHERMAN: Why are you so determined to do this?
This isn't some game, you know?
I mean, even if Zig's plan went perfectly
in all likelihood, we're gonna end up killed,
You just want your old life back, right?
Thought I did,
I have a confession to make,
When I was going through Zig's files, ,,
I came across your correspondence with him,
That was private, you son of a bitch!
(STUTTERING) I know, I didn't mean to read it, except, ,,
Once I started, I began to understand why you're doing all this
and what it means to you,
That's why I came back here,
I always used to think of you as this lost soul,
But when I read your words,
I realized I'm the one who's lost,
Really?
You know, I spend a lot of time preaching to the converted,
I don't think I've ever actually ever converted someone myself,
(SIGHING)
Zig once told me, "Have faith in people,"
"They are the disease,
"But they're also the cure,"
Funny thing is, ,,
,, ,now that I'm here,
doing this,
I feel like it's my destiny,
Your destiny?
That's an intriguing word,
(SIGHING)
Okay,
Now it's my turn to tell some dirty secrets,
From the first time I read your column,
even though I hated everything you had to say,
there was something about how you said it, ,,
I don't know how to explain this,
but I had the bizarre feeling that you,
of all people,
were my destiny,
Twenty pounds of C4, There's more of it, if we want,
I guess you guys just walked into the warehouse and took it?
Well, it wasn't quite that simple but, ,,
More or less, that's what we did,
Fed a few instructions into the security system,
the whole thing froze up,
We dropped down from the ceiling, Cliff here swiped his way into the storage room,
we filled up the bags and off we went,
Right out the front door,
Cliffy did okay, for a newbie,
What do you think, Dell? Is he for real?
I don't trust him,
What have I got to do? Kill someone?
I'm a changed man, Why is it so hard for you to accept that?
Maybe because the man you changed from
was a scum sucking, low life, rat bastard
who fattened himself with everything the system had to offer,
Aside from that,
What about Roy? He used to be a scum sucking, rat bastard,
Touch me again, asshole, and I swear, ,, I'm making a point,
I used to be a mouthpiece for the system,
but I never picked up a gun on its behalf,
Oh! So I'm worse than you? I don't think so,
I got out of the army, and I got the army out of me
with a grapefruit spoon,
They treated me like dirt, Same way they treated me,
I'm no different than you,
What about Walt? He's still got his chip, you let him join the club,
I came with certain expertise,
Without my chip, we would've been locked out of the system,
WEATHERMAN: Both these guys came to us with a purpose,
They've dedicated themselves to the cause,
CLIFF: So have I,
Now,
And I brought you something very valuable,
Zig Fowler is this chip,
Don't flatter yourself, You're just the ugly box the Christmas present came in,
The only difference is, ,,
This particular present, only works when the box comes along,
So, ,,
If you wanna play with Zig Zag,
you're just gonna have to invite me to the party,
You want me to kill him, Weatherman?
What do you mean you wanna join us?
I wanna join you, I wanna do what this thing says I'm supposed to do,
You must think we're really stupid?
Just say the word, Please say the word and I'll kill the little SOB,
I told you to back off, Chance,
I don't wanna think about what will happen if the whole flow
of information comes to a grinding halt,
but I do think that something has to happen,
What exactly brought about this little conversion?
Zig Fowler, I never understood him before but now I do,
You wanna prove yourself? You break into the warehouse,
You get us the explosives,
And Zig Zag?
CLIFF: Listen to me,
These people, ,,
They're, ,, They're dreamers,
See, they've, ,, They've all been hurt,
One way or another, they've all been hurt by the system,
And they just want a little justice, That's all,
Just a little, ,,
Just a little recognition that for all the good that technology does,
it also does a lot of bad,
Look at me,
My chip suddenly stops working, My whole life gets turned upside down,
Maybe there's something to what these people are saying,
Answer my question,
Why are you still so obsessed with Zig Fowler?
Because if he's come back from the dead,
I need to know about it,
See, that's not possible
because he's dead, He died in a fire,
You found his chip,
Look, Zig Zag, It's just this pipe dream that these people have
that they're gonna see the system in ruins,
"What if we did this? What if we did that?"
They're waiting for this messiah to return,
But he's not going to return because he's dead,
You killed him, right?
Maybe I did, and maybe I didn't,
What does that mean?
What that means, Cliff, is that until I'm 150% satisfied
that I know everything, you can't have your life back,
Now, you go back to those Syndrome people
and you stay with them,
I can't, I can't,
First of all, they're never gonna trust me,
Then you've got a problem, Cliff,
A big problem, If you think your life is bad now
because you can't find work and you've got no money and no place to live?
How would you like it if every time you swiped your hand across a reader,
it told everyone in the system that you were a pedophile, ,,
Or a murderer, hmm?
I can do that, you know,
Just like that,
You, ,, You can't,
You go back to those Syndrome people
and you stay with them and you find out everything you can
about this Zig Zag scenario,
And you report back to me and then, maybe,
just maybe, Cliff, I'll give you your life back,
Now, don't take this personally,
but get the hell out,
Answer the question, asshole! How did you find us?
What did you do to my chip? Why does it think I'm Zig Fowler?
Does anybody know what he's talking about?
I can't get into my apartment or my bank account or my computer,
I'm locked out of everything, It's because of you,
Is that possible? I mean, we didn't do this, did we?
I wish, It's a cool idea, We should have thought of it,
Are you telling me it wasn't you?
He still hasn't answered how he found us,
I found a reference on one of his files to a package
he sent about four years ago to a woman named Diane Konzelman,
Is that you? Is that you? Is that your real name?
Zig sent me a disk before he died,
That brought you here? Bullshit,
I'm not making it up, Why would I make it up?
Maybe to suck us in so you can do another one of your idiotic cyber columns,
"They're out there and they're dumb as shit, It's The Syndrome,"
Is that it, Cliffy? You making fun of us?
Can you access Zig's files?
Yes, That's all I can access,
Good, Move your ass,
Make yourself useful for the first time in your life,
I'm totally screwed,
Not little screwed, not medium screwed, totally screwed,
You're upset, Who wouldn't be?
I held my chip to the reader and all of a sudden,
security bots are flying at me from every which way,
This whole thing is a total nightmare,
Look, we'll run some diagnostics
and we'll get to the bottom of it, okay? (DOOR OPENING)
Morning, Mr, Yastrzemski, Morning, Ben,
This is my friend, Cliff Unger,
The Cliff Unger, who writes that great cyber column?
Yeah, are you a fan? (SCOFFS)
I read Strictly From Unger every day before I crank her up,
Where's your column been the last few days?
Well, you know, ,, Don't get him started, Ben, please,
Can I get you to scan your chip for me, Mr, Unger?
Boy, wait till my wife hears that I met you!
Is she a fan too? (CHUCKLING) Oh no! She hates your guts,
Well, all the circuits check out,
Let's see if any of your base files got corrupted,
Pretty ironic don't you think, that a big IT supporter like you
gets hoisted on his own petard? (CHUCKLING)
Hysterical!
(MACHINE BEEPING)
Huh, ,,
Problem? BEN: Um, ,,
I'm getting a stage four security alert here, Mr, Yastrzemski,
A what?
According to this, your chip's IDing you as, um, Zig Fowler,
The cyber terrorist guy?
No, that's impossible, Ben, Run it again please,
Did, Got the exact same result,
What's happening?
YAS: This had better not be some type of an elaborate hoax
you and your editors have cooked up,
CLIFF: Mr, Yastrzemski, we've been working together a long time,
We have an understanding, Now I came to you as a friend because I need help,
So, please, just help me,
I am, we're going to the main server room,
YAS: I'd like you to download everything off his chip and give me a full analysis,
So, after you do this, after you analyze everything that's on my chip,
I get a new one, right?
Cliff, there's a reason this is happening,
Zig Fowler never did anything just for the hell of it,
See, when you say things like that, you scare me,
Listen to me,
Someone is trying to resurrect this bastard,
I'm gonna help you, but you are gonna have to help me,
You pissed off an awful lot of people, lot of dangerous people,
So you think one of these people is doing this to me?
No, What do you think?
Mr, Yastrzemski, something strange just came up with this chip,
The coding almost looks like a key file,
It's the sort of thing a hacker uses to access someone else's files,
The coding indicates, ,, I think it's aimed at the security system,
Is it dangerous?
No, it's dormant, like it came with its own firewalls,
We should be able to neutralize it,
I was right, Someone is using you,
WOMAN: And a strange sequencer file that keeps looping around the whole thing,
YAS: I don't like where this is going,
I don't like this at all,
Johnny, don't do this to me, I'm having a horrible day, Now, open this door,
Look, I'd love to let you in, But if I did that and Mr, Unger came home, ,,
What are you talking about? I'm Mr, Unger, You know who I am,
Yeah, sure I do, But don't you understand?
Doesn't matter if I think you're the guy,
If the building doesn't think you're the guy, you ain't the guy,
I am the guy, Look, open this door or I'm gonna have you fired,
(CHUCKLING)
Now that's a laugh, You can't get me fired 'cause you ain't the guy,
Mickey, ,,
Mickey,
Give me IS, My computer won't talk to me,
And that's a surprise to you? The way you talk to it,
Just do it, I'm not in the mood,
Hello, info services can only be accessed online,
Hello, I know that, I can't get online, That's why I need your help,
Good thing I got no work to do,
There's a problem here, It ain't your computer,
Oh, look, It's working, Maybe it's your chip, have you thought of that?
Don't say that, Jesus, with a thing like that, I could be in hell,
And I can't think of anyone more deserving,
CLIFF: Unfortunately, the truth is we're not
nearly as intelligent as the computers we've built,
There are roughly 12,000 people joining us in this cyber conference today,
Put all our brains into one box, not a pleasant thought,
and our collective computing power is less than
half of the computing power of one server
in the building that I'm standing in right now,
Does that answer your question?
Mmm, kind of, I mean, I'm not disagreeing with you,
There's no doubt that the proliferation of biometrics
has improved our lives,
It's improved my life,
Life is better for everyone,
Example, A cashless society is a safer society,
Why?
Because we've removed human beings and their weaknesses
from the equation,
You can't steal what doesn't exist,
CLIFF: Just like the Internet revolutionized computing,
personal information technology has revolutionized what it is to be human,
That's why we built the system,
That's why we have the system,
And that's why the good people here at DIR are helping us to spread the word,
YAS: We've got time for one more question,
Luciana from Sao Paulo, Brazil
I would say that we had a connection problem, but, ,,
But that would be admitting that your faith in technology is based on a lie,
Hackers, ,,
Uh, to whom do I owe the pleasure?
Weatherman, ,, Just Weatherman,
Weatherman, really? The Weatherman, hmm,
Don't take this personally, but you're a lot better looking than I had imagined,
Fuck you,
Just for everybody out there, Weatherman is a frequent e-mailer to my cybercolumn,
She and her group, the, um, ,,
(STUTTERING) The, ,, Was it the sandunes?
The Syndrome,
Right, right, right, The Syndromes are under the ridiculous notion
that all of the wonderful technological advances that we've made
in the past few years are somehow
eroding our humanity, isn't that right?
As always, you've oversimplified a complex and significant problem,
CLIFF: Hmm, Significant to whom, sweetie?
The few Luddites and know-nothings that would rather live
in divine ignorance outside the boundaries of big, bad, technology?
WEATHERMAN: I don't need a chip in my body to feel like I belong,
People like you and your audience have become so reliant
on technology, that they let their humanity wither,
You don't have conversations anymore, You have conjoined data flow,
You don't have relationships, you have cybercommunion,
Doesn't that tell you something?
Don't just stand there, Get her off, Get her off,
(STUTTERING) It's okay, It's these postcards from the lunatic fringe
that remind us of how good we have it,
Now, I think this is a good thing,
It's good that you feel that way, Cliff,
Because time is on our side, not yours,
And the day will come when the unimpeded flow of information will stop,
and people will have to deal with each other like humans again,
Thank you, Next time, don't call us, we'll call you,
God, am I glad this is over,
I hate these cyberconferences,
ZIG: Weatherman, how's the weather?
WEATHERMAN: You just love that joke, don't you?
Never seems to get old,
Trust me Zig, it does, So, what's up?
Oh, I just called to chat,
No, you never just call to chat, What's wrong?
You know me too well,
Yeah, except, ,, I don't know what you look like,
I don't know what kind of food you eat,
I don't know whether you're a boxers or briefs man,
Other than that, yeah, I guess I know you pretty well,
Boxers, Predictable,
So, what's wrong?
I'm gonna have to go away for a while,
How long is awhile?
Till they forget about me,
Doubt that'll be anytime soon,
You're wrong,
That's the problem,
They will,
So, why don't you come work with us?
We have the same goals, You'll just have to learn to do it
without that chip inside you,
This chip is what's gonna bring them down,
Who are you kidding?
You're just trying to embarrass Yastrzemski at his own game,
He's benefitted at my expense long enough,
I think it's time I returned the favor,
What, so this is all about making a name for yourself?
You know me better than that, don't you?
Yeah, I do,
I'm gonna miss your words,
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
Yastrzemski, Were you planning to call before you stopped by?
Oh, no, Zig, What would be the fun of that?
We've got you this time,
Oh! Well now, how do you figure that?
I'm a mile away and I've got three dozen men riding shotgun,
All this attention, I'm touched,
Okay, so it was a bad joke, So, we're even,
Are you there?
Zig?
WEATHERMAN: Zig, it was a joke,
How are you gonna know it's me?
YAS: Oh, your chip will tell me, of course,
Yes, you're right, You got me this time,
You're right, you know, (WEATHERMAN SIGHING)
You're gonna have to be more specific,
I'm right on so many occasions,
Computers aren't the problem,
They have failsafes built right in,
Thousands of ways to correct themselves,
Hell, I see that every time I try to hack in,
It's when the Yastrzemskis of the world enter the picture,
When humans get involved,
see, that's when things get scary,
So, what? You gonna concoct some elaborate scenario
where the computers are always right and the humans screw it up?
WEATHERMAN: Sounds complicated,
It is,
But it'll be worth it,
Wish I could be there to see it,
I gotta go,
You will be there,
Promise,
See you soon,
What's that? Another bad joke?
We'll see each other,
It's our destiny,
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Six, five, four,
three, two, one,
Zig Zag detonation module is now activated,
You know, you could have saved us a lot of trouble
if you'd just told me who you were,
I didn't have to,
You knew,
Ah! I knew you'd come,
I knew you didn't have the guts to do it,
Well, had to get you in the room somehow, And here you are,
Back away from the server, ,, It's all right, it's all right,
(GUNS COCKING) Hold your weapons,
Relax, we got 'em,
How do we know there's not some other detonation device in here?
ZIG: Oh! There is,
There most certainly is,
But you won't find it in that modeling clay we strapped to the servers,
What the hell are you talking about?
Zig Zag, ,,
It's alive,
It's growing,
Just waiting to be set free into the information grid,
Oh! By the way, thanks for letting me in,
You let me into this room, remember?
The key that you allowed me to leave on the server, came real handy,
This is bullshit,
Is it? It doesn't look like bullshit,
Zig's chip didn't fail, Yastrzemski,
You did,
Oh, he's playing a head game,
Yeah, he wants the world to know how smart he is,
Well, I caught you once and I caught you a second time,
End of story, Zig,
No, See, when the execute command is given,
these servers will begin hoarding electricity
interconnecting with all the power that they can tap into,
This is gonna happen so quickly, they won't be able to handle it,
There's going to be a massive explosion,
It's not gonna be pretty,
They're gonna go, boom,
Then the building,
Then the block,
Then the city, (MIMICS EXPLOSION)
Mass destruction,
Oh, it's gonna get ugly,
The funniest part is, the on and off switch is right there in your hand,
You crazy son of a bitch!
ZIG: And now, the real countdown begins,
All you had to do is keep your hand away from that reader,
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Sixty seconds to detonation,
Your chip is the execute command,
YAS: No, ,,
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Fifty seconds to detonation,
That's the end of the story,
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Forty seconds to detonation,
Thirty seconds to detonation,
So, this is our destiny?
Enjoy the ride,
ELECTRONIC VOICE: Twenty seconds to detonation,
Ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four,
three, two, one,
CONTROL VOICE: In the end, it may be our certainty that we are infallible
which will prove