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Stinger Mark II.

These babies can chase and bring down an F -111 fighter.

Or a jumbo jet.

Do each his own.

With 50 of these, I could cause havoc with every major airline in the world.

So let's do a deal.

I will pay 10 % now, the rest when the missiles are delivered.

Go with that, mate.

I need the money now. I've got suppliers to pay.

Those boys don't like to be kept waiting.

You can take it or leave it, Mr. Matthews. Please yourself.

I think you will take it.

Your debts are well known to her.

Hey, you!

Stay where you are!

percent up front.

You got a deal?

Good morning. May I help you?

The last time I was on a boat like this was on the Danube. Well, we don't leave

for an hour, but you'll find it just as interesting.

Where do I get the best view?

On the upper deck at the locker.

Thank you.

Good morning, Jim.

You are looking at the outback of Australia where some of the cattle

as they call their ranches, are bigger than the state of Texas.

One of these Texas -sized stations belongs to Douglas Matthews, cattle

miner, investor, more gambler than businessman.

He has been saved from bankruptcy more than once by his most profitable

sideline, international arms dealing.

Recently, 100 Stinger Mark II ground -to -air missiles were stolen.

They were bought by Matthews, who resold half of them to a terrorist group.

Matthews is yet to deliver those missiles, but is expected to move them

the next three days.

Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it, is to prevent those missiles

reaching the terrorists and to put Matthews out of business.

As always, should you or any of your I .M. force be caught or killed, The

secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

This disc will self -destruct in five seconds.

Good luck, Jim.

Matthew's land is honeycombed with caves like this, which... the local

aboriginal tribes regard as sacred sites.

We think the missiles are hidden there, waiting for the buyer to arrange

shipment. This man may be one of our strongest weapons.

His name is Morwara, and he's a Kadaichi man.

He's a what? A Kadaichi man.

He's an equivalent to a medicine man.

The aborigines believe he has magical powers.

Our main thrust will be to exploit Matthew's own weaknesses.

He's superstitious, he's a gambler, he's always short of ready cash.

He's a high liver and he's a ladies' man. He thinks the woman hasn't yet been

born that he can't conquer.

Well, then it's time he found the exception to the rule.

Oh, he will.

Meanwhile, he's been putting out feelers for a buyer for the rest of the

missiles. Grant, you been in contact?

We've arranged to meet in two days on Queensland's Gold Coast.

Matthews has rented an apartment there. And he'll find this magazine waiting

there for him.

Matthews has arrived.

The limousine's at the apartment. He should be in the penthouse in a couple

minutes.

Okay, Max. Come on in.

How's it feel to be home, Ozzie?

Great, Tim. Just great.

I'm Matthew Smith's newest customer.

Matthews? Hey, this is Donaldson.

How about the merchandise?

Hey, not on the phone, mate.

When do you want to meet?

In a couple days.

I'll call you. In a couple of days?

Listen, mate, I've just flown a thousand miles for this meeting.

You want a deal, you'll deal fast.

I will deal when I get the time.

Relax. Enjoy yourself.

Go to the casino. Go out to the racetrack. Make some money while you're

Listen, if you want this merchandise, you'll put the money up now.

I've got debts to pay.

When I'm ready, you'll hear from me.

It means, then, you can sweat a little.

like a limo. In ten minutes, take me to the racetrack.

Right away, sir. Right, sir.

Ready?

Casey?

Sam, you've got lucky.

Lose some, win some. Tell me about it.

Excuse me, mate.

Don't I know you?

Don't think so.

Land speculator.

Looks about as risky as horse racing.

Doug Matthews, Mr. Ransom.

There is a cover story in the American Speculator magazine.

Oh, Derek. Derek Branson. Nice to meet you, Doug.

As for land speculation, you do your research, study the market, buy wisely.

Still risky, though.

You're absolutely right. But I like a gamble. Makes life worthwhile.

You're not wrong there.

Just who the hell do you think you are?

I'm a court stewardess.

And you're warning me off the track.

Don't I tell you that the bookmakers have refused to accept your bets?

I'm winning?

Let's say it's because you never lose.

Uh -oh. Here we go again.

Look, I've got two days left.

Two days and my luck runs out. They've got to take my bed.

They don't know what it cost me.

They know what it cost them. Look, I'm sorry. You're just going to have to do

your bedding somewhere else.

Well,

we've been thrown out of the casino and warned off the track.

What do we do now?

Your share.

Lucky lady.

Oh, Tracy, this is Doug Matthews. Doug, Tracy Phillips.

Nice to meet you.

How do you do?

Good. I'm off to my meeting now. I'll give you a call if I find anything that

might interest you.

I'd like that.

Would you care to join me for a drink, Miss Phillips?

Okay.

What's the connection between you and Ransom?

You always share your winnings with him?

I needed a stake to get started and Ransom provided it.

A straight business venture.

Maybe you and I can come up with the same sort of partnership.

How much money have you lost on the horses today, Mr. Matthews?

Oh, I don't know.

Twenty, thirty thousand?

Why don't you just quit while you're ahead?

Why don't we have dinner tonight and talk about it?

Well, you're persistent.

I'll give you that much.

That's what makes me a winner.

I guess it is.

Good evening, Mr.

Matthews. Yeah, just right.

Now for the elevator.

I'll set the surveillance camera in his bedroom.

had them for years.

They bring me luck.

So, Tracy Phillips, what's a nice American anthropologist doing at a place

this? Studying aboriginal culture.

You mean you've been living with them?

Had them walk about in the bush?

Let me get this straight.

You claim you got this lucky streak of yours from the aborigines?

By a Kodaija man.

He cast a spell for me.

You're kidding.

What did you get him to do there?

I've said too much already. I really don't want to talk about it.

You've been on the lucky streak. You won a lot of money.

You're a scientist.

You can't believe you came from some half -naked aborigine.

It's because I am an anthropologist that I do believe it.

I can't explain it, but I've seen it work.

You've seen it work for me.

Men have died because the Kodai Chi man pointed the bone at them.

There are tribes that can send telepathic messages across thousands of

desert. They can predict rain and drought and flood.

It's all documented.

All proven fact.

The luck they've given me is real.

All right.

I'm prepared to take a gamble.

How do I get in on some of this luck?

Don't meddle with it.

The price is too high.

We'd better wind this up.

I've got enough.

We can loop the film to run continuously.

your people to protect his secrets.

He's desecrated your sacred ground and your caves with his weapons.

He will die for it.

Don't worry. If Matthews dies now, we won't be able to find the weapons he's

sending overseas.

And those weapons, in turn, will kill many more people, innocent people.

I need your help to stop that killing.

We will wait till you are ready.

Thank you.

At rain, time is real, Mr. Phelps.

How magic is real.

Everything is real to those who believe.

You mind?

I'm Donaldson.

They're telling me you shot up.

So I'm here.

What do we talk?

What's wrong with Rod here?

Hey.

Sell weapons.

I don't need to carry one.

I'm not looking for weapons, pal.

I'm looking for a wire.

All right, let's do business.

These things are going to cost you 40 grand each.

It's a little high.

We'll take them all.

You got 100, right?

I had 100.

I got 50. The rest I had to sell.

You've been paid?

I get paid on delivery.

What's that got to do with you?

Cancel the sale.

We'll beat the price.

People I represent can pay in 24 hours.

It's cash.

U .S. dollars or a bank transfer to Switzerland.

It's four million.

Right now.

That's pretty tempting.

But it's no deal.

Terrorists are really good people to double -cross.

They can have 50.

It's a hundred and nothing.

We'll take the 50, but I'll shave the price for cash.

That is, I need money fast.

I'll try and get you some more in a month or so.

Come on, 50 bloody stingers are better than none. You blew it, Matthews. You

the chance to make a lot of money right here.

I think what you need is a change of luck.

Later.

Tracy Dillard.

Are you going to invite me in or not?

This place is like Fort Knox.

Don't you like visitors?

Not when they're uninvited.

That's not very neighborly.

How'd you get past security?

I just showed them what I brought you.

They're not surprised to let anyone come up here.

How's all that?

It's not much, but considering you didn't have to put up a stake, it's not

win for you.

What do you mean, for me?

Ransom found a buyer for one of the properties he's developing.

He had to pay off the mortgage fast, so I put up some of the money.

I put some up for you, too.

That's your profit.

Three hundred percent.

What a sudden change, huh?

Last night, you weren't letting me in.

Now, you risked 50 grand on me.

There was no risk involved.

It was an investment.

In you.

Look, my luck runs out tomorrow, but yours could be just beginning.

So there's nothing to say I can't share in yours like you're sharing in mine.

What's this going to cost me?

I don't know.

But if they give you the luck, there'll be a price.

Believe me.

Look, there's some very ugly people pushing me for money that I owe them.

I'd rather face every Aborigine in Australia than face those guys.

I'll tell you this.

If any Aborigine tries anything with me,

you'll live to regret it.

It's not the living Aborigines you have to fear.

It's the dead.

I'll pick you up here tonight.

What do you mean you won't give me the luck?

You gave it to her? We know who you are, Matthews. We know you'll kill.

We know you sell weapons so others may kill.

What I do is my business, pal.

What do you want? You want a percentage, is that it?

Well, how much? 25, 50, what?

You think the woman brought you here?

We brought you.

So we could see you.

They've seen me.

Do I get the luck or not?

All I give you is a warning.

There'll be no more killing.

And you'll take your weapons off our sacred land.

Well, you'll what?

You're going to point the bone at me, are you?

Or are you going to sell me milk or fry me kidneys?

We will do what only we can do.

And you will suffer, Matthew.

Just as a woman will suffer when she pays her price.

It hurts.

I think it's about time we disturbed Mr. Matthews' beauty sleep.

It's a harmless drug, but he's for a sleepless night.

We'd better get moving.

This is white.

In there.

And it just flew away, sir.

It burst into flame at the top of the rail.

And then it just...

Well,

it seems to have blown itself back again.

Have a scuff, sir. It'll help you sleep.

Have a good night, sir.

You look like death.

To hell with that.

Darn it, haven't I?

Dreams.

The dreams that aren't really dreams.

Don't give a damn about the dreams.

You know what they mean to me?

They mean it works. It really works.

I don't understand.

They're magic.

If they could do stuff like that, it means the luck's real.

Your luck.

The luck they wouldn't give to me.

Taking you all this time to work that out?

And we're going to make the most of it.

This is your last day, right?

We're going to gamble like no one's ever gambled before.

You place the bets, and I... Follow your lead.

I'm barred from the track and the casino.

There's nowhere else to go.

Just where are we going to do all this gambling?

With your friend Ransom.

Oh, I don't know.

We made some money with him before, but I don't think we should risk everything.

You call him and tell him we want a deal.

I'll get the Stock and Land Bank to do a credit check on him.

I'll really put him under the microscope.

Good afternoon, Stock and Land Bank.

I'd like to speak to the credit manager.

One moment, please.

I'm hooking in now.

Credit Department, Calden speaking.

Doug Matthews here, Bundy Station.

You know me, I suppose?

Ah, Mr. Matthews, of course. You're a very valued customer.

Look, I'm after some information on a yank called Ransom, a property investor.

And I need it fast.

Hmm. It'll take me about an hour. Would that be all right?

Yeah, a can hour's fine.

I'll see you then.

Better get going.

Carlton, this is Beetson.

We're in the middle of a board meeting, and the president would like you to

attend.

And you know what? What?

Let's park in the base.

Thank you very much.

Yes. There's a Mr. Matthews here to see you, sir.

Please, set him in.

Hi, Mr. Matthews. I've been expecting you.

There you go. I have that information on Mr. Ransom for you.

Good on you.

Rather substantial man, now, Mr. Ransom.

Extraordinary financial backing.

Hold on, that's interesting.

What is?

There's a very big deal going on right now.

As a matter of fact, he has only today raised that money.

Really?

We're going in a hell of a hurry. They don't want to protect this deal.

Oh, Mr. Matthews.

I thought you wanted the complete information on Mr. Anson.

Are you feeling all right, Miss Phillips?

I'll live.

Will we get down to business?

Yes, of course. What sort of business was it you had in mind?

Well, that new land deal you've been negotiating with the Japanese.

How do you know about that? That's absolutely confidential.

Don't mess me about, Ransom.

I know about your Japanese deal. I know how much it's going to cost.

And I know how much you need to finance it.

A cool 10 million. Well, a month or so, a couple of new investors, that's not a

problem. I also know you haven't got a month.

You've got today, right?

You seem to know more about my business than I do.

Hey, Kate, we put up the 10 million.

I mortgage my cattle station, she comes up with a couple of million cash, and we

get 50 % of the profits.

50 %? You've got to be joking.

Suit yourself.

Well, wait a minute.

All right, half a profit is better than none at all.

Ransom, with your no -how, my money, good luck.

We're going to be rolling in easy money, mate.

Faith like that has got to be rewarded.

Grant, we're going to set up downstairs.

It's only me, guys.

Let's get this stuff out of here.

Matthews. Carlton here, Stock and Land Bank.

Our head office is worried about your account.

What the hell have they got to be worried about?

Well, you realize the bank accepts no responsibility for the advice it gives

customers. Listen, just spit it out, will you? What are you trying to tell

Obviously, you haven't looked at this morning's papers.

No?

Why don't you have a glance at them?

And then come in and see us.

Maybe there's something we can save.

Hello?

Tracy! Tracy!

Well, that should really do it for Matthews.

Gives him just one place left to run.

Hang on.

That's not what you said.

You said you'd match their price for the full hundred.

That was yesterday.

This is today.

Take it or leave it.

All right.

With cash in advance.

You get paid when I've seen the stingers. Now, where are they? You must

I'm stupid.

We'll meet.

I'll decide where.

You bring the money, I bring the stingers. Then you come alone.

Name the place.

Name the time.

Thank you.

Bring the money. We'll make the middle

I've

been up put him on the ground

We're exchanging vehicles.

How do I know the stingers are really in there?

There, there.

Just get the damn things out of me sight.

Get those bloody things off my property.

Okay, Max.

Should we pick him up?

No, he belongs to someone else now.

I'll get rid of the weapon.

You can have it all.

You can have the land.

You can have it.

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