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so

you must be very clever to read chinese

oh i'm just playing it safe who knows

they might win

yes interesting we have one like this

quite near moscow only about one half

the size

it's amazing mr shirt off how modest you

russians are

in private that is because we have just

learned from our chinese friends the

value of

keeping face in public fortunately that

isn't all you've learned from the

chinese

we've given this operation the code name

minotaur he was the watchdog of the

inner secrets wasn't he precisely so

i assume it's morning outside anyway any

signal at all

plenty of signal but also plenty of

noise

our setup is just too damn potent we're

getting noise from all over the universe

ah don't be discouraged half a billion

classified federal dollars can't be

wrong

not to speak of our british contribution

about two pounds ten i should think

where is it we have a fix about 210

miles south southwest of hong kong

let's hear the bad news

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um good afternoon although i guess it's

good morning to you fellas

you're listening i sincerely hope

i'd be upset if you weren't

now there's not much to report

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i assume i'm being watched i'm certainly

taking every precaution to see that i

am

coming into china openly this way leah

hong kong

with an american passport stamp not

valid for china

it's hard on the nerves i think it'd be

more restful to drop in by parachute

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i'm just getting the peaks the points of

high energy the dentalizations dts etc

you made a suggestion at our last

conference yes fill in the gaps with the

uniform white noise

nobody thought much of the idea

including me but let's try

the uh stewardess is being very

very attentive which may signify a great

deal

or it may simply signify that i'm a very

attractive fellow

hong kong is rather crowded this time of

year i hope you have a better

reservation

oh booked into the king edward is that

all right with you

very famous hotel very british but very

good

congratulations oh thank you

this is dr hathaway in london washington

yes hello mr vice president

how are you sir yes i'm calling from

london

something rather disturbing has come up

i've had a letter from professor

tsum lee he's an old colleague and

teacher of mine

we're in the same field he went back to

china about 10 years ago

and i haven't heard from him since now

he writes telling me that it'll be

impossible for me to visit him which is

peculiar because i made no such request

all right then i'll wait to hear from

the embassy dr hathaway would you come

with me please

i'm susan wright the ambassador's

secretary he'd like you to take up your

problem with the military attaches is

that all right

suppose i don't have much choice

well shelby no matter how i try i

end up talking to you it wasn't my

choice believe me

still i got nothing against you

personally you're a brilliant man thank

you

you're just the wrong brilliant man for

this job good job

i've got a job i know all about it

you renewed for another year very

attractive woman

then i suppose you saw my letter from

professor sue

it was shattered across my desk well

what did you find a good grade of rice

paper made in shantan

a letter after 10 years of silence

general means something

could be squares with the russian

information which is generally reliable

and generally too late

so they can play their game both sides

against the middle

shelby i want this understood i'm out of

the game out

my orders are to change your mind oh dr

hathaway

the last time i saw you was at a

cocktail party in warsaw

you were uh then introduced to me as

lieutenant general in the soviet tank

corps correct

see he's been promoted to agricultural

advisor

general sherdoff has some disagreeable

film he wants to show yes taken by some

friends on holiday

in china

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but now dr hathaway watch the top of the

picture

what do you think is this

wheat growing in the midst of hot

wet tropical chinese jungle

now you're going to see some pictures

taken in the former country of

uh tibet we found a farm

a pineapple farm pineapple's dr hathaway

growing in ice and snow at an altitude

of

seventeen 17 600 feet

obviously the chinese are developing an

enzyme

some sort of growth regulator that

completely erases the effect of climate

they can grow any crops anywhere

in any season the chinese can simply

although this

little magic gem and the undeveloped

countries

asia africa south america

90 starving 90 peasant will crawl all

the way to pecking to get it

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that's the way all we want is a good

sample of that enzyme

yeah sure why not it's all so easy walk

into china

mouthful of international goodwill

locate the laboratory

grab the goodies and out fast guns

blazing in both hands i've got a simple

alternative

name my two kids chinese look general we

want the molecular structure that's

perfectly true

but it's in three dimensions just a

little bit complicated

a single molecule of that enzyme may

have as few as three thousand atoms or

as many as four hundred thousand

that can't be memorized not even by

myself

that's just as true for your chinese

professor as it is for you he has to

have a don in black and white on paper

on film whatever

and our instructions are together any

way we can

i'm sorry i could do it three years ago

i can't anymore good i have seen your

memorandum

you disagree with our far east policy

well so do i

i'm a bigoted narrow america first

patriot

so we're on different sides of the same

stalemate well there is something else

something you don't know

is that possible

i lost my wife three years ago now i

read the entry in your record

these things happen oh no you can't put

this on a piece of microfilm

she was killed in an accident i was

driving

she was dead in five minutes those five

minutes made me

twice as old as i was but i came out of

it with a

pathological respect for life i can't

undertake any

job that might oblige me to kill good we

agree

you're the wrong man oh incidentally

you have an appointment call in three no

two minutes with the president of the

united states do you want me to call him

off

bourbon scotch

dr hathaway i didn't vote for him but i

had to admit that he just possibly might

be right

and yet all he said was uh dr hathaway

sir i wouldn't be talking and you

wouldn't be listening if this were not a

job of the most urgent and terrifying

importance after that i uh i thanked him

i

hung up and found it i'd forgotten to

say no

so here i am general

treat me gently i'm a little more

sensitive than i used to be

look how this is not a friendly job

russia's helping us up to a point

china's a lot simpler china just doesn't

like us however you may get lucky and

they won't let you in

but if they do it's because they need

you and pretty desperately apparently

they process

a whole square mile of a chinese weed

and all they get is enough crystals to

cover the tip of my thumb

so they need some simple way of

constructing their enzyme out of common

materials and that's your business isn't

it

i assume they didn't give you the prize

for political idiocy no you're the

expert they need

so i must tell you this there's a good

chance you'll never get on

however we've got a remedy for that too

what's that aspirin and this

is our current q23 transmitter

made of plastic same density as human

flesh therefore should be quite

impossible to detect

meanwhile anything you say and also

anything said to you will be transmitted

to london

beautiful in other words i'm a walking

bug

however you have an effective range of

only 110 miles

so you've got to be picked up scrambled

and rebroadcast two weeks before you go

we're going to put a satellite in the

sky over china

the ingenuity of man a little lower than

the angels

where's this thing going my belt shoes

sunglasses

no it's to be implanted in the mastoid

sinus of your skull

what good you want to quit i'd be stupid

if i didn't

i'm stupid dear dr hathaway you have my

profound sympathy

i know it's an international trap

my government or your government may

decide at some moment to change sides

and the pathway you want my personal

advice stay home

thank you now what's your official

advice

our heroic russian intelligence has

placed a man inside china

he is of great importance so do not

contact him

if you are in trouble and i mean serious

trouble

he will come to you and he will give his

name

so read memorize

shang shu

shang's shoe

this model is slightly enlarged it is in

fact one billion times larger than the

actual size of this molecule

and yet with the aid of x-rays we can

see this molecule of living matter

well here's our visiting professor dr

hathaway

only 20 minutes late i was just trying

to explain to our students how to get a

nobel prize

start as you did with air and water

dead carbon spend 20 years of your life

in a foul laboratory

and create life

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sometimes i try to imagine you as a dark

and dazzling child

were you anything like my students iq

150 plus

oh who knew who cared

no one paid much attention i know i

didn't

and then as soon as i could walk i

rushed out in the middle of the street

and became a bum

maybe you're still a bomb emotionally

okay i

won't be visiting your class next month

why not going away

hello only three or four weeks

but you may not have come back why bet

you say anything like that

stupid instinct you're going to china

aren't you

stupid instinct well not entirely

there's a letter in your pocket which i

find i can't read

you read my mail i'd read your mind if

you'd let me

it was from one of my old teachers in

fact

half of my work stems from his last

american paper he should have won the

prize instead of me

great man he's in a bit of trouble and

you're going to china to help him

don't it'll only make things worse okay

don't be so tragic about everything do

you want to know the real problem

no it's very simple

i love you and you don't love me

and the problem is it doesn't matter

it did the first time it doesn't anymore

ladies and gentlemen in a few minutes

time we will be landing at kai dark

airport

would you please ensure that your

seatbelts are fastened securely

and that all cigarettes are extinguished

and what are you watching right here is

body condition

yes this is a recent british invention

a very sensitive transducer is planted

in the appropriate place inside the body

you can then read off pulse rate

diameter of temporal artery

adrenaline per unit volume this one

that's a computer summary of his current

physiological status

anger feel or sickness or extreme pain

physical or psychological styles also

read on these monitors

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we have now landed at hong kong we hope

you have enjoyed your flight with us

and that we will have the pleasure of

your company again

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the cultural revolution which has been

in progress in china has now spilled

over into hong kong

it began with grievances by the local

labor force alleging poor working

conditions

and violence by a european engineer when

it appeared that these dissatisfactions

could not be settled

sit-down demonstrations and protest

meetings began

the police were called in to disperse

the demonstrators a move that

unfortunately

led to violence when the police tried to

break up the demonstrations and made

arrests

charges of illegal violence were held

against just a moment

in this outsider yes is this dr hathaway

yes this is john hathaway my name is yin

mr young will you be kind enough to meet

me at the kylo killer

yes please come immediately yes i will

what's the address

26 haifang road

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8.3.2

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oh

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there's the place sir the name literally

translated means

house of elegant pleasure

good evening sir good evening would you

like to come with me please

yes thank you

you're mr hathaway how did you get mr

yin was kind enough to show me your most

recent photograph

that's strange i don't remember

presenting one too

ah it was one of the problems of being

famous our cook

too is famous i can see why

what is your famous name tingling

that's very melodious thank you where is

mr yin

we have two floors he is on number three

part of the management precisely no

would you care to play

no no i am told he is a chief in the

security forces of the people's republic

of china

and he'd like me to know that

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some of the most exotic people in the

world gather here

as our honored guest all the women here

are available to you

you may enjoy any form of entertainment

you wish

do you want to be introduced some other

time

mr instructed that the people's republic

of china will pay for anything that

pleases you

very considerate

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foreign

this is a famous play slave girl of

peaking

wonderful performance do you agree

almost real

almost you see how the slave girl walks

in a circle

only to be sold at the end to the

highest bidder is it the end of her life

or the beginning mr yin is in his room

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that's his door up there

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please when you come down ask for me

you bet

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yes please sit down

in china as you possibly know the host

himself comes to the gate to greet his

guest

especially if he wishes to teach him a

lesson you presented me with the

carnival of decay which i take it

represents your

conception of the western world

rich sick and filthy while this

bowl of plain boiled rice

represents your country we simply wanted

to show you the difference

between china yesterday and china today

and between you and us yes hopefully

your visa will soon be granted

as the first american in china in a very

long time

you will be a great celebrity

particularly as you are so tall

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your lights don't work

i call the night manager he promises to

repair this problem

first thing in the morning oh

everybody in hong kong is so terribly

kind

it's beginning to great on my nerves

yes but you feel much better very soon

you didn't come to me so i had to come

to you

i buy 200 butterflies fresh

every evening so when i entertain

the slightest movement they fly

but if you're very quiet they come down

and brush you with their wings and

settle down

on your skin

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um

you excuse me no just for a moment

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oh i know him he would talk but he can't

he has no tongue

call the switchboard get the police no

police they're too expensive

do what i tell you

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mr hathaway's hell uh who are you the

night manager you are trouble sir

trouble no no no it makes you say

anything like that

just that i've been beaten and robbed

that's terrible thing forking edward

hotel

what did you lose oh

oh my shoes anyway

lisa perhaps you were enjoying yourself

that night

the pleasure of our city can make you

forget

yes yes you were absolutely right

is everything all right now oh yes good

night

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mr yin must be worn out

he has been busy feeding me

photographing me inspecting me and

examining me

he'd cut me open if he could and maybe

he will yet

but you were right they want me in china

real bad so bad i wonder if they'll let

me out again

well maybe it's all for the best if they

offer me a nice lab

and a full professorship who knows i may

even change sides and join their little

team

very funny oh and shelby

send a cable for me will you from

milan italy to professor k

hannah london university

having fun wish you were her

good night

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yes this is john hathaway

latest hot flash they're moving fast

they just want me to tell me that my

visa has been graciously granted

i take a chinese plane to shangtu

in two hours

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ah

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you look a great deal like your

beautiful mother not

i i'm just an ugly chemist

i read your recent paper on peptides

i thought it was brilliant for a woman

oh i agree

but my father helped a great deal i'm

very anxious to see him

he's gone far away to the country oh i

see

to renew his contact with the rural

masses

very logical

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we are honored by your presence and we

are most

anxious to show you our revolutionary

new china

please accept these small tokens of our

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esteem

the red armband is the most treasured

prize in china dr hathaway

when a youngster is given the armband he

takes on a new responsibility

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as a young red god he will instruct and

guide others of his age

he is now a new leader of our revolution

protecting china from the outward

thinking of the online intellectuals

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here we are in good ol shang 2 11 30 p.m

i think they're trying to kill me with

kindness fruit flowers

and the red guards coral society i've

seen

three schools two restaurants

and a zoo no action on the professor

he's off in the country somewhere

renewing his

contact with the rural oh yes you heard

that

no sign of the trap yet

i may have to walk right up and put my

nose on the cheese

come in mr yin

you expected me how gratifying

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these young people are the red guard dr

hathaway

they are the true children of the

chairman the vanguard of the peasant

masses

we all benefit dr hathaway the red

guards are saying

the thoughts of the chairman will enrich

the harvest

the chairman stands shoulder to shoulder

with each of you who tills the soil

one must study while one works or the

strength of china lies in an enlightened

peasantry

while you work you must think for it is

only by constant study and constant work

but china will rebuild itself

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so

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this is a pretty elaborate way to go to

jail perhaps you will be disappointed

you are going to visit the most

important person in the history of the

human race

josh i wonder who that could be success

so far which reminds me general

there's not only a mad rumor going

around it's not true

there's a coil of explosive wire wrapped

around this transmitter

which we can explode when necessary

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wow

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does the chairman come off into this

part of the country you may remember the

giant who lost all his strength

when he did not touch the ground thus

spoke the chairman

volume one page one it was comrade

stalin who said that

oh yes you still admire that strange

animal yes we do commodore do you think

any sane man

would walk into china with a loaded bomb

screwed into his head

no certainly not unless he hadn't been

told

would you tell him

heaven's now

a good doctor is an idealist when his

head blows off he's going to scream

on america

vincent i'm not being pompous just

stating a fact when i say that we are

presently

engaged with the chief enemy of the

western world

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but nothing is fair neither they nor us

and hathaway's in the middle if they

uncover him or kill him

or torture him this whole installation

is obsolete

not to speak of our intelligence in

china our shaky love affair with the

kremlin which we'd rather not criticize

all riding in one man's head sure i wish

we had a fail-safe device in hathaway's

stubborn skull

quick powerful

fatal and a highly skilled technical

officer like yourself would have no

compunction about using it

is that an awful lot of reasoning

general for an explosive device that

does not

exist

it's very kind of you to come would you

like some tea yes thank you but please

go on with your game no

it's time to quit i'm being beaten he's

the champion of china

and only 22 years of age

but dr hathaway i believe will give me

an easy

victory

you want permission to see professor

soon well that's why i've come to china

yes

professor sung is quite far away however

transportation possibly can be arranged

if we can manage to be frank with one

another

i regard this as extremely important

well dr hathaway sir

you've been in our country how long oh

about

20 hours that's all and do you like

china

please help us first impressions are

very accurate

just suppose you are the chairman and i

the american scientist

now tell me what would you do what

thoughts would you collect

well i'd start with that book

a little red book i'd buy back every

copy and use the paper to wrap

fish in my own opinion the chairman's

book is only a form of daily exercise

to help people to think to reason and

therefore to change their lives for the

better

well admired except they don't read it

they recite it might as well be greek

they use it as a form of magic you as

chairman should understand

the peasant masses work with their hands

they need something to grasp

to lift themselves up they have lived so

long like animals

now they must leave and in one

generation from the 10th century to the

21st

and this is not done without noise blood

confusion

and a certain amount of yes magic

mr chairman you know of course how many

have given

their flesh and blood here on the soil

of china since the start of our movement

more than 25 million why why this

sacrifice

because there was no choice the masses

could no longer live in the old way

their suffering was like a mountain

which you as chairman have carried on

your back

for so many years and in that case

why should i as chairman go on spilling

blood

yes i must agree with you we americans

are strange children

we've forgotten the real stink of human

blood our own american revolution

our own civil war when we had to arm

slaves in order to win

yes murder is as necessary to the slave

as water

nevertheless no slave invented the gun

no no the hydrogen bomb either so

therefore the slave must go to you mr

chairman

to the chinese china

will teach the slave three lessons first

to study second to study how to kill

third to kill and mr chairman

when the slave has raised his arm

against his master and killed

and when he has killed his master's

family and his master's dog

and his master's pig then and only then

the slave can stand up and declare

himself a free man

you as chairman must admit this is true

oh i don't then you've resigned your

bloody job

you bet because i'd rather die than kill

oh dr hathaway you are a relic of a past

that never existed

look at the history of the human race

one life is nothing

nothing for all our foolish tears

but in my opinion one life is everything

and human tears must be counted one by

one

you are hopeless oh it's only too easy

to kill

one little iron pellet and the artery is

broken the brain is smashed to jelly

now you have tremendous power mr

chairman but can you put together a dead

man no he is unique

irreplaceable whoever he is a

bushman from new guinea or the chairman

of the chinese people's republic

he will never be seen again in the whole

blind history of the universe

that's why life is so precious you agree

you must agree no and that is why we

will win

and all you people will be thrown onto

the pile of human dung we chinese keep

for the fields

with all due respect dr hathaway

i may shock you to learn that i've just

had another brilliant diet i believe it

supposing it were true that there is

just a little

teeny weeny bomb in hathaway's head

which there isn't

[ __ ] there isn't but supposing there

were we could

two birds with one stone to be frank dr

hathaway

we've been rather worried about you are

you really the doctor hathaway you say

you

are mr yin check your photographs and

your fingerprints

you should be happy to know you are

quite authentic

therefore the second question arose why

does a nobel prize winner wish to come

to china

mainly to see professor soon no

certainly not and we know that you know

and vice versa so

let us put it on the table there's a

rumor that china

has developed the most miraculous enzyme

yes we have the enzyme truly we do

but in very small quantities it is the

same situation as

insulin as you know the medicine for

diabetics

once i'm told the inner organs of a

thousand animals

but now insulin can be made out of

simple materials

yeah sir a suggestion has been made to

me which i feel obliged to pass on to

you

that we are in a position to eliminate

the chairman

therefore it is cheap and plentiful the

same must be done for this enzyme

because we need tons and i'm told you

will know how to do it

am i correct we've asked mr yin

he's compiled a big fat portfolio on me

i'm sure

unfortunately sir this is not a

technical decision but a political one

it should be made in consultation

between our two governments

and possibly the third i'll talk to our

colleagues

wait right there get back to you in

three minutes

but dr heather is more than a great

scientist his record shows that he's

also a thoughtful

and deeply compassionate person

therefore i'm sure he knows that the

world is exploding

in 25 years the earth will endure the

feet of some six billion people

people want children therefore all our

plans

the future of china itself depends on dr

hathaway

therefore i'm glad he has decided to

help us

i've made no such decision then we must

very patiently persuade you

well i'm afraid that might be a pretty

tough job or you can

toss me into solitary feed me on rice

water and straw

distort my chemistry until i'll get up

in front of a microphone and freely

confess that i shot abe lincoln

but you cannot make me do good work

not unless i want to it's just

impossible

please tell me exactly what you want

dr hathaway

freedom you are free i am free

mr yin is free and yet none of us are

free

freedom is the recognition of necessity

ah

yes yours not mine i'm a scientist by

conviction as well as by a habit

i want scientific freedom

i want a positive assurance that china

will not keep the enzyme to herself

in order to blackmail a hungry world if

i decide to work with professors soon

i want your personal promise mr chairman

this crime will never happen

i want a document that will let me leave

china

whenever i want to go with any materials

notebooks or

photographs that i may wish to take

and signed by yourself mr chairman

well mr chairman

yes why not

you're still there oh boy

sir i just talked to our committee

described your rather unfriendly

suggestion

your man said and i quote great idea

forget it

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so

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isolation room of a british hospital

eight weeks before he came to hong kong

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foreign

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so

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what do you call this place the people's

institute of molecular biology

ah it doesn't look it somehow not much

of a navigator but aren't we quite close

to the russian border

we were here before the russians and who

will be here after they've gone

you'll see my father soon you must help

him

he's become unreasonable hates the young

people the red god

which is very bad for him in every way

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hello

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so

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foreign

speak english is it possible there's a

secret transmitter

inside the pavilion more likely it's a

weather disturbance

moving in from russia perhaps we should

look to ourselves before we blame russia

the truth is john i've become half

chinese and half

western papa my poor daughter

if i knew which half was which i

dissected out

and sent it to the people's democratic

morgue to be cremated

please don't say things like that you

know the red guard have you under

surveillance

oh what's the diagnosis old age

and tension always 24 hours

and you are you comfortable here in

china

yes if you can arrange to have my door

shut

and the soldiers removed these are

wartime difficulties

uh the war of class against class

please let me explain the chairman has

enemies

and not only your country but inside

asia inside china

inside picking itself their enemies

possibly here in this laboratory

now show him the problem

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you're looking at one section of the

enzyme we call this chain a

chain b somewhat simpler

chain c the quinoid groups there

are particularly interesting

chain d and this dr heather way

is where our chief difficulty lies

we cannot find a means of attaching this

to this i wouldn't call that difficult

it's more likely impossible

and finally there is nothing in dr

hathaway's belt buckle his cufflinks nor

his watch

nothing in his clothing his baggage not

his body there is no transmitter

then why do we get this garbage on our

radar

the chairman trusts dr hathaway he sent

him here

the chairman could be deceived that's

not possible

good evening shelby things are getting a

little bit tight

soon choose a pretty clever scientist in

her own right

she's also her father's nurse and her

father's policeman the old boy has some

pretty strong ideas if he's not careful

he'll come into head-on conflict with

the red guard

she's wheeled him out of here for a

couple of minutes i don't have much time

the entire structure of the enzyme is

not i repeat

not available only in sections pieces

problem areas and they're all on film

and the film is shown by remote control

from inside

a metal projection room

which is built into the wall

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um

what is the time doctor heatherway

some chew go today i'm not sleeping

i'm sleeping that's why i'm not sleepy

anymore

you'll have to forgive me but i have to

have some privacy

i can't think with a pretty woman

staring into my mind 24 hours a day

you are upset am i really

but i understand you are so far from

home

and you miss your family and your wife

it's natural well i don't have a way

neither have i

so you're not married yes i am

almost oh and do you love him

almost of course of course

he's so far away it's been more than

five years

first cuba then africa

and now i don't know where he is how do

you take it

you don't understand at the suggestion

of the chairman

we young people must learn to give our

love to the masses

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we'll search every inch walls tree

stones

that will take time why we'll use our

radio direction finders

yes but they'll have to be entirely

readjusted the interference is extremely

high frequency

how long a day two days

first things first private message for

professor hannah

you remember her transmit message as

follows

okay baby you were right

kisses are the only thing that lasts now

don't be jealous she'll be i miss you

too

well listen

i'm gonna have to disappoint you but i'm

right

nobody could memorize that enzyme except

an idiot it's too complex

it's a nitrogenase molecular weight

about 90 000

however it is on a strip of film and i'm

going to try to get a hold of that i've

stolen

the bottle of nitro hydrochloric acid

and at the right time

i may be able to cut my way through the

top of the projection

oh oh if you don't hear from me again um

simple funeral please no fuss

no flowers he's got plenty of

rubbers i love him too

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ah

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uh

what the hell is that gunfire

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fire crack is more likely some sort of

chinese celebration

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go away john go away

you can do nothing nothing

get away get away

get away if you want to help me give me

a loan job

get away

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they will carry him round the village as

punishment

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i kept warning him this might happen he

said he was a scientist

not a political machine can't you see

he brought it on himself

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the red gods say my father's usefulness

as a scientist has ended

so they will no longer tolerate his

disrespect for them

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so

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foreign

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you see i've discovered something of

great medical value

that a beating eases the pain of

arthritis

there is one book they forgot to burn

selected works from the chairman

volume one how to persuade your friend

to be your enemy

and my daughter gave it to me for my

68th birthday

in english to prove that the masters of

the world were on our side

she's right it solves all possible

problems

except how to love one another

look sir if i could arrange to get you

out of here

legally or illegally would your daughter

stand in the way

my father will never leave china he will

never betray his country her father will

never leave china

he will never betray his country

absolutely

you said to me once you remember we were

working at princeton in a lab standing

in a window admiring a thunderstorm you

remember and you said that just as

weather has no nation science has no

nation

no loyalty none except to humanity as a

whole

and therefore i suppose the enzyme

belongs to the world

and you came to china to steal it not

for the american

ruling class oh no but for the world

that's right yes that's right

not very fashionable today to think of

humanity is it

yes i came for the enzyme

i'll take it out of here if i can that

will never happen

both you and i john will die in china

but i have a document signed by the

chairman giving me free passage any time

the chairman is too great to be confined

by a piece of paper

all of us in this room we're prisoners

we're chained hand in foot to an enzyme

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here

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red card stuff

there's nothing i can do about it so i'm

going to make a try for the film

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quiet then okay we're back out

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so

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thank you

so

you

ah hathaway

who else i'm in the projection booth

very elaborate protection for nothing

there's no film in the projector it's

been removed

well game's about up here anyway

i think i'll pack my laundry and come

home if i can

if i can't come and see me someday and

bring money

chinese

it's over the laboratory

i'll investigate it's moving again

failure when you send a civilian to do a

soldier's job you and i would do a lot

worse

three years of work

heartbreak no i don't know what to do

do you

maybe hathaway does he's in the front

line we're not

better get some sleep call me at the

three crowns if you need me

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he could not accept the new revolution

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what was it sodium cyanide

it was so quick there was nothing i

could do

he wanted to march alongside of us

but he was too old

he had the chairman's book in his hand

after the last second of his life

he wanted you to read it he marked it

especially for you

please take it please

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intellectuals tend to be subjective and

individualistic and some will drop

out of the revolution at critical

moments

but a few may even become enemies

it's not true it couldn't it's not true

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please don't go please

they will kill you they will

and they'll be right

i don't know

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would you help me

how can i the soldier

you could talk to him for just about two

minutes that's all i need

will you do that

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call up squads one and three hurry

marsha falcao

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hey

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hey

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oh

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are your life

come on come on shelby wake up

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if you don't believe me we're both dead

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man

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i'm on my way back anything new he's

making his move he's getting out of

china

it's more than 50 kilometers to the

russian border suicide

any suggestions yes do nothing

wait for me and keep in contact

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thank you

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hello

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you're in the fire fight hit me in form

i'll leave the line open

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borrow the car distance to the border 37

kilometers

hope i don't run out of gas

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you're the general he's going to the

russian border i'll contact shirt off

and get back to you

hello shut up our boy is sitting on the

russian border

will you hotline moscow get him across

or we may have to pull the switch

i say general will do what we can

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still headed for the board

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so

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all the physiological signs are moving

into the red what are his body readings

not good details blood pressure erratic

up and down

house right 150 160 170

general has been severely wounded is my

guess

shall i get out the tape what tape the

non-existent tape for the hypothetical

execution

do nothing nothing till i get there

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so

i'll be with you in three minutes

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any word for him no

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we don't have voice transmission he's

engaged in some physical effort

they're also signs of great fear and

anxiety

the heart won't slow down well general

you know the procedure

who's the clown who did this me

operation minotaur

all lines open operation minotaur all

lines open

shirt over here russian embassy i want

general shelby

urgent

shirt of russian embassy general there

is little moscow can do while he's still

on chinese soil

listen pal what do you want us to do

declare war

the border guard has been alerted yes

but he's got to cross the wire before we

can help him

wire that chinese wire and it carries 2

000 volts

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tachycardia what's that heart racing

itself to death

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how long does it take 32.5 seconds

run it up to 33.

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under the wire looks hopeless

they're going to blow away through for

him

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i can't make it

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almost got fried

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our motor has hit their minds

general we have order to save hathaway

if we can

but no bloodshed

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our last motor hit the wire we lay smoke

bombs

general shelby sir i'm not getting any

readout on his physiological status

a concussion may have damaged the q23

well are we going to wait

no they'll happen by then start the tape

come on come on let's get it done

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change of my school

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shelby he might make it he's almost on

russian soil

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john is safe

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go

we had a choice inform you then or

inform you now if i believed one word of

what you told me shelby i'd go sick

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kind of a [ __ ]

before i say goodbye to you shelby there

is

something i'd like to tell you oh come

on now doc don't go send him out i

want you to give me one reason why i

should help you any longer one

just one patriotism maybe just a thought

oh look general i

love my country just as much as you do

but there is no further obligation as

far as i can see for me to have the same

affection for you

or for the people whom you admire or the

policies or the disasters which your

kind

have brought down on the rest of us i

know you see absolutely no difference

between me and your friend mr yen

ah the difference between chinese and us

is that they'd have told their man the

absolute truth

they'd have shown him the plastic

dynamite wired to his brain

they'd have demanded that he'd be

perfectly willing to blow himself up

for the final victory to the peasant

masses but you

oh no no you're too kind too thoughtful

to do anything like that to me

might upset my fine complex mind might

even interfere with a mission so you

kept the switch in your hand

ready to explode my skull without

hurting my feelings all right fella now

wait a minute

if we told you we had a lien on your

life you wouldn't have gone and there

was literally no one else would have had

no way to penetrate the chinese wall

and the little chairman would have the

enzyme all to himself to dominate the

world for the next terrible sensory

or if it wouldn't dominate star

yes i would i'd trade your life

or my life or anybody else's do anything

use any deception any weapon to get a

fingernail sample of that enzyme well we

bet on you and we

lost in your opinion in mind this job

was one

big total bust so in what way do you

think you can help it

the professor's book why do you think he

gave it to me

for ballast you think i'm a fool we've

examined the book

nothing nothing

still nothing then let's try x-ray high

magnification

okay we sent you to china and brought

you back i guess we can stretch our

budget a little further

you see the professor traced over these

letters with lead pencil not carbon

real lead which x-ray cannot penetrate

with his crippled hands it must have

taken him hours and hours

well what the hell is it some kind of

code plain language to every chemist in

the world

the abbreviations for the amino acids

ser serine

tyr tyrosine pro proline

the molecular formula he had it all

worked out

every atom of it and he's given it to us

brave man i hope i can justify him

there was a meeting this morning this

stuff has got to be the most powerful

weapon at our disposal and we intend to

keep it that way

under wraps

oh you're kidding their decision not

mine but i agree

we're live don't you intend to lock me

up in your files

you were discussed yes i've been asked

to tell you to forget that you went to

china

you've been in hospital for the past

three weeks under sedation

general you've made a big mistake you're

level with me you should have left that

bomb screwed into my head

we could have but we didn't i went to

china

and i came back if i'm forced to it i'll

tell my story to the press

i'm gonna fight this decision shelby

doesn't belong to us to me or to my

government right or wrong

and not to the chairman and certainly

not to china

not even to professor soongan it cost

him his life

no it belongs and i mean this literally

to that peasant with a wooden hole

working in the mud of some

god forsaken valley it's his

not ours hathaway in all frankness

i don't understand you people

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okay baby i don't treat you at all well

it's all right it's all right isn't all

right everything's gonna come down on my

head

headlines phone calls in the middle of

the night obscene letters

they'll call me a chinese agent i don't

even have to prove it

all they have to do is refuse to deny it

and i'm finished

except that i'm not i'm going to fight

back it'll be a rough walk

you want to stay you want to go

you're my girl be with me

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i'm here

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wow

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so

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you