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We have taken control of 20 nuclear missile silos.

Two days for your friend to come around with the key to the code.

Or by God, we can all kiss this old world goodbye.

It's dead.

The nuclear arms race has held humanity at ransom long enough.

Somehow this madness must be brought to an end.

Therefore, in the interest of world peace, I have taken rather...

Drastic action.

We have taken control of 20 nuclear missile silos, 10 in the United

States and 10 located in the Soviet Union.

These sites have been activated to a pre-launch mode, set to fire

simultaneously in four days' time.

This is your final warning.

Unless all nuclear weapons are disabled,

Throughout the world, by noon of December the 31st, these missiles will

be detonated automatically.

If total disarmament is not achieved, then may God help you.

May God help us all.

Well, we've all heard it.

Now, what the hell are we doing about this fruitcake?

Afraid he's more than a fruitcake, General Harrisburg.

Dr. Lawrence Taylor Badham.

Oxford scholar in computer science.

Nobel Peace Prize nominee two years in a row back in the 60s.

That's when he dropped out of the system.

Information gets sketchy after that.

So, tell me, Newman, what turns a peacenik brain like Badham into a

political extortionist?

I mean, by God, he's willing to set off World War III.

My guess would be the Cyprus party.

The Cyprus party.

What do those radicals got to do with this?

Plenty. According to British intelligence, they're the money and

muscle behind Banham's plan.

I've heard of them derailing arms shipments and sabotaging nuclear tests,

but something like this is out of their league.

Well, not anymore.

We've located them on the Isle of Dundee in the North Sea off the coast of

Scotland. They've set up their operations in a deserted distillery.

Is your team in place?

Yes, Major Mike Rivers has already infiltrated their group through our

British operatives.

He's going to try linking their computer system with Airwolf's so we can override

their missile commands.

That's good.

I hope your boys are as good as I've heard, little lady.

They are, General.

Mike should have contacted us by now.

Give him time.

It's one thing we haven't got.

Once we have the computer link established, all we have to do is

unscramble whatever code Adam has used to reprogram the missile sites.

Right. Nothing to it.

No, Angus, you can't play with the computer.

But how about another story?

Now, what will it be?

We read the Pied Piper yesterday.

What about Jack and the Beanstalk?

Go get the book, then.

He's in.

We've got him.

Oh, great. Now what?

Stay away from that! And what are you doing?

It's over, Badham.

Who are you?

Never mind that.

What's the access code?

Angus. Get Purvis in here.

Hey, can't you take a joke?

Get him!

I want him alive!

He lost it.

He's taking us there.

Get him out of there.

Quickly.

They're taking him inside now.

Doesn't look good.

Can you get him out?

What about Badham?

I don't know.

I'm gonna need some kind of diversion to make any moves.

Give me five minutes to get inside and when I give the signal hit him with

everything we got I'll meet you to pick up point, right?

I Wish I thought of that

It's over finished I haven't come this far just to quit no

it's too great a risk they know where we are

If they attempt to tamper with the system, they could cause the missiles to

launch. Just find out who he's working for and we'll stop them. The plan can

still work.

No, I'm aborting the launch command.

Perhaps you've forgotten who's running this operation.

No, you have.

Get him out of here!

the rest of your men, laddie.

Go to hell.

I'd like to show you something I picked up on a trip to China recently.

Wonderful people, the Chinese.

They've given us so much more than gunpowder and fortune cookies.

I think you'll find this will loosen your tongue.

Now, Jason.

Mike!

Mike!

How is he?

He's dead.

He can't be.

He can't.

Let's take him home.

Sorry, Joe.

There was nothing we could do.

I know.

I'm sorry about your man.

Were you able to complete the mission?

No, sir.

We were too late.

Dr. Badham was killed by his own men.

All right, we'll pick up the ball from here. We've got men standing by to move

in. Yes, sir.

We'll keep you posted.

It wasn't your fault.

We got a long trip ahead of us.

Better run a diagnostic check.

Running diagnostic.

We got enough fuel to make it home.

Sitchin!

I'm reading three heartbeats.

What?

Mike's alive.

Hang in there, buddy.

Hang in there.

What's happening?

Come on.

Breathe. Come on. Breathe, damn it. Breathe, Mike.

Lock.

It's working.

You're gonna make it, Mike. You're gonna make it.

The respiration is stabilizing, but the heart rate is still down.

Come on, Mike.

Stay with us.

No.

No, I want a full team in there now.

Well, bring them in from every British base.

I want that distillery torn apart.

Mike's alive.

He's strong.

I pulled through.

Well?

Whatever those people injected him with, it seems to have suspended his

metabolism to a comatose state.

The head trauma alone should have killed him.

It's the damnedest thing I've ever seen.

Is he going to make it?

The transfusion has brought his vital signs back to normal, but he's still in

a coma.

So what's next?

All we can do is wait and hope he wasn't deprived of oxygen for too long.

Perhaps you'd like to see him.

How long has it been?

Almost nine hours.

My so-called experts over there, they've come up with nothing. They couldn't

crack the code.

What are the Soviets doing?

What do you think they're doing?

They put their forces on full alert.

They don't give a damn who pushes the buttons so long as they can shoot back.

Haven't you disarmed the silos yet?

It doesn't work that way, little lady.

Look, say we pull the plug on all of our missiles.

What if the Russians don't?

Are you willing to take that chance?

I didn't think so.

Two days.

Lady, gents, two days for your friend to come around with the key to the code.

Or by God, we can all kiss this old world goodbye.

I wish it was me in there instead of Mike.

He was always a good idea, man.

He might have come up with a plan.

I haven't got a plan. I was hoping you had a plan.

You don't have a plan?

Oh, great.

All right, look, what we need is one of your diversions.

My diversions?

Why not one of your diversions? I don't do diversions. All right, look.

We'll go to plan B.

Plan B?

What's plan B?

We make it up as we go along.

Come on.

He never was short on luck.

I just hope he's got something left.

He has to.

Mike was always a survivor.

Rivers?

Major Rivers.

Hello, Locke.

I thought you were supposed to be on some sort of survival training course.

Where are the others?

Oh, they'll catch up in two, three hours.

I'd offer you a drink, but I seem to have run out of glasses.

I've got a new assignment for you.

Sorry, I'm all booked.

Well, get unbooked.

You got yourself a new partner.

Partner?

Orders.

Does it say I can't finish my drink first?

He would never let any of us down.

No, he wouldn't.

He's always been there for me.

May I have this dance?

Let's get out of here.

He was always there.

Is always there.

Yeah, sorry.

He's coming out of it.

Don't get too excited.

He's not out of the woods yet.

Can we see him?

Mike he may not be lucid just yet.

He's coming around How's the headache pal

Welcome back to the world of the living Mike

There was never any doubt right Mike,

what are you talking about?

I don't know you people.

Mike, you're all right.

It's OK, buddy. We're here.

Take it easy, Mike.

I don't know.

Think. Damn it.

We've got less than 36 hours.

I'm trying.

It's just not there.

That's enough for now.

Try to reach him.

General.

Have your men turned up anything at the distillery? Not a damn thing.

I'm headed over to the Isle of Dundee to take charge of the operation.

You get anything, I mean anything at all, radio ahead to Dundee.

Damn.

You feeling better?

Joe.

You remember.

Yeah, it comes back in pieces like a jigsaw puzzle.

The doctor said it would.

Yeah, I guess so.

Jason.

Sinjin.

I'm Sinjin.

Sinjin.

What the hell kind of name is that?

Sinjin, what do you make of this? Huh?

Sinjin.

What do you mean, St. John? St.

John. St. John. It's British.

It's a British name. You know, St. John, St. John.

My father named me after a guy he flew with in the war.

Stringfellow. Now, there's a weird name.

There's a guy who got in fights in school.

Stringfellow?

Stringfellow. He was your brother?

That's right.

What else?

Do we have a big black helicopter of some kind?

Yeah, we've been known to fly around in one occasionally.

Sinjin.

Joe.

Hey, would one of you guys answer me?

Look, Dr. Keith suggested we take you on a crash course down memory lane. You

think you're up to it?

I don't know.

I don't have a choice, do I?

You remember this place?

You live here.

So do you, for now.

Don't tell me.

She threw you out.

I wouldn't say threw me out.

I'd just say that we came to a mutual agreement that maybe I shouldn't live

there anymore.

At 2.45 in the morning?

Yeah, well, I mean, timing was never my strong point.

Well, where do you want me to put my stuff?

Have I paid my half of the rent yet?

We'll talk about that later.

Come on, we've got a lot of ground to cover.

I knew I'd put it somewhere.

Can you hear it this time, Jason?

Music to my ears.

You're starting to get the picture now, eh, Mike?

I was on a mission of some kind.

Scotland.

I'm supposed to bring something back.

It's not coming.

It's not there.

Let me show you something. Come here.

Pat him. That's right.

I was supposed to get a code.

That's good, Mike.

What was it? There isn't much time.

I don't know.

Don't know or don't remember.

Think, Mike.

I can't.

We can't give up. Not now.

All right. All right.

Maybe if I talked about him he's dead.

You're all we've got Then take me back to Scotland

You've got to take me back I have to

try he's right There's no time to waste

Let's go

Less than four hours to launch.

Can't she go any faster?

What the... Russian makes coming in fast from behind.

That's impossible.

We're nowhere near Soviet airspace.

Move up to them. This missile's scared of breaking all the rules. Well, we

haven't got time to stop for a geography lesson.

this is a lot port releasing traffic

looks like we found a yellow one that's fine with me almost there

You got the computer all warmed up, ready to roll.

I just hope the memory's all there.

Yeah, I can identify with that.

Major.

Major!

Over there.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know the way.

How about Jack and the Beanstalk?

Go get the book, then.

What

is

it, Mike?

A book.

Badham had a notebook.

There was a notebook. My men have torn this place apart.

Angus. Who the hell's Angus?

Hi Angus.

How's the frying pan?

I'm sorry about Dr. Badham.

He was your friend, wasn't he?

You used to read those stories to you?

You might.

I'll bring it back to you, I promise.

I'll be back.

Okay, fairy tale titles.

Badham could have used these titles as code names. Now, that's nothing but a

child's book for marbles out there.

The last entry.

The Pied Piper.

All right, we've got less than an hour. Let's give it a try.

Right.

We're almost there.

Almost could be eternity.

Think, Mike.

Well, what will it be?

We read the Pied Piper yesterday.

How about Jack and the Beanstalk?

Jack and the Beanstalk.

Badham didn't put it in his book, but he put it in the computer.

Try it.

Beanstalk.

That's it. That's got it.

Mr. President, we did it.

Now to deactivate the system.

Stand by, one.

My God.

One of them didn't respond.

One of theirs or one of ours?

One of theirs.

Poskoff.

Mr. President, we've got a problem.

Can we stop it?

Not from here.

If the missiles launched, the president's authorized cancellation of

first strike response.

How much time do we have?

She's lost.

What's its trajectory?

Heading for upstate New York.

Don't miss this one, boys.

12 minutes, Sergeant.

What's our best shot?

There's only one.

We'll have to catch it before it drops.

We'll be dropping too fast to track.

I'm only hoping to nail it with the laser as it reaches its apex.

Twelve minutes, brother. You have to work out the dispersal of the laser over

that greater distance.

At best, it's only a guess. Do you have any other choice?

Approaching 52,000 feet.

Eight minutes to impact.

Happy New Year, General Harrisburg.

Well, she hung together pretty well.

Considering what we put her through, we're lucky she's still around.

We're lucky anybody's still around as close as we came.

You know, I almost wish Battam had succeeded.

Total disarmament?

I wish it was that easy.

Isn't it?

It's all here.

Battam was a brilliant scientist.

He had the right idea. He just went about it the wrong way.

Like Piper.

fairy tales yeah he believed in him so what i mean think about it i mean in all

those stories is good versus evil a good guy wins and they live happily ever

after is there anything wrong with that another thing party time

people hello present from the company excuse me

You remember how to do this, don't you? Yeah, sure do, Sinjin. Oh, just kidding.

That was pretty touch-and-go there for a while, wasn't it?

Okay. Well, we're on the subject. I'd like to make a toast to the return of

Mike Rivers.

You know, Mike, we thought we'd almost lost you.

Welcome back, buddy. Here's to you.

Here's to fairy tales.

Thank you.

Thank you.