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And you will be telling
me you have to leave.

- How do you know so much?

- I don't know so much,

but I do know you
are going to go.

- I won't be long.

In fact, I'm only going
so that I can come back.

- Now, I have to go to
albertstrasse

to meet some liar from Romania.

Nasty piece of film, stennings.

I wouldn't like to think
of fassett seeing it.

He didn't know

we had a surveillance
system in operation.

What exactly
was the wife's category?

- She was a Cypher clerk
in the Polish embassy.

They, ah, ran her as a
string on fassett.

- And why did
they terminate her?

- We're not certain,

but it did clear up a
potentially messy situation.

We were having
trouble in that area,

as I'm sure you'll recall.

- And fassett?

He never knew you made a trade

with the kgb, sir.

He didn't know you
sanctioned her killing.

He went wild trying
to find her killers.

- And in the process he
uncovered omega, did he not?

He uncovered Joseph cardone,

stock manipulator
with a low profile,

heavy clients,
tax shelter expert.

Richard tremayne,

prestigious plastic surgeon

with more than his
share of patients

and a wife with a nose problem.

Bernie osterman,
midnight financier,

TV writer/producer with
three series on the air.

Clean, but very liberal.

All, surprisingly enough,
connected with our old friend,

Mr. Kgb himself,
andrei mikalovich.

However, I think that
fassett's premise is dangerous

because it's based on the
non-benevolent ambition

of one man, John Tanner.

His whole plan depends on
their mutual friendship.

As you know, Tanner's
your number one critic.

My advice is to turn
them over to my section.

However, I might be wrong.

- Being wrong,
stennings, is not nearly

as important as
not admitting it.

Not these days.

- He's excellent,
there's no denying it.

But you don't like him.

He's too much of an individual.

Takes too many shortcuts.

- Well, maybe the time
for shortcuts are upon us.

- I think the way fassett wants

to handle omega is
a high-visibility risk.

With your political prospects,

well, it's an
unacceptable element.

- You think I'll get where
I'm going without risk?

- There are degrees
of acceptability, sir.

Omega in itself is a, well,
it's a highly sensitive matter.

If it were to become public, I
think it could be disastrous.

- What if it became public
at exactly the right time?

- I think fassett
seriously complicates

any such timing, sir.

The man, well he's...

- He's something you're
not and never will be.

- He's a field operative.

- I don't think nostalgia
is the right instinct

at this time, sir.

- Bring in Mr. Fassett.

Mr. Fassett?

- M r. Fassett,

I must tell you I was
impressed by your presentation.

Most impressed.

- Thank you, sir.

I'd be giving away
no secrets, however,

if I told you that
Mr. Stennings here

has a less positive attitude.

Walter.

- Well, you've uncovered three
agents in the omega network.

Your data indicates
they're very high-level.

Probably the highest
below their kgb control,

our good friend Mr. Mikalovich.

I think they should be picked up

and turned over to debriefing.

- You can't pick them up
without ringing a bell.

No, I think the best and
the most efficient way

of unravelling omega is to
turn one of these three.

Then you get a very
powerful reaction. Betrayal.

Even traitors feel betrayal.

- And you propose to use
John Tanner to effect this?

- Well, I've studied him

and they say that converts
make the greater zealots.

Well, it's certainly
true with Tanner.

He's more American
than Americans.

He's a bigot about truth,
democracy, and justice.

If we can convince him
that his friends are spies,

and we can convince him,
then he will feel compelled,

compelled to aid us.

And with Tanner's help, then
we can break these three.

Break them and omega.

- Let's take a look.

Mr. Tanner should be getting
nicely warmed up by now.

- Welcome back.

We 're not talking
about agent orange.

We 're just talking

- to general keever.
- Ready two.

Take two.
Stand by, camera three.

- General, you have
the responsibility

for American germ
warfare research.

- Take three.

- I'm very surprised that
you would ask me questions

on a subject which you
must know is restricted.

I'm in the bedroom.

I have on that, um...

You know the black
gown you gave me?

What do you mean underneath?

Oh, underneath.

Let me see.

Well I can feel my
breast and, ah, my nipples.

They're getting very hard now.

I'm getting very wet.

- You said the
Japanese developed

German chemical warfare systems.

Well, you have to remember

the political
climate at the time.

The Soviet menace was becoming
more and more apparent.

- There aren't no
problems, are they?

- Just mine.

You're the best.

- Yeah, I'm an ace.

Hello, gorgeous.

- Oh. I thought you said

you're not gonna
bring the here anymore.

Isn't that what you said?

- What the hell am
I supposed to do?

Can't take her to a hotel.

- What about a nice,
secluded retirement home?

- Joseph?

Joseph, I'm waiting.

- Coming.

- Can I rest assured

that you'll be able to
find my little nest egg

a nice profitable
short term home?

Turn off the TV.

- Most of these
boys were American.

Most of them died.

- Still, you're not seeing a
single thing, Mr. Osterman.

You're seeing possibility.

In that, you're an
imperfect machine.

For these last two moments,

we will engage conditions
of maximum equality.

Excuse me, doctor.

Oh, baby.

- This just arrived.

- Can I open it?
- No, thank you.

- How much I need...
- Fine.

- Did you hear what
you wanted to know?

- I already know
what I wanna know.

I diagnosed you years ago.

- "Diagnosed", you
make me sound like

I'm some sort of disease.

- I got your picture back.

- I think...

I think that you should
hurry up and come right home

because I'm very sick
and I need my doctor.

- Aw, fuck.

- What's the matter?

- Ah, hello?

No, no, nothing.

I-I dropped the phone.

- My poor little dick.

- Ginny, I'll see you soon.

- Okay, and darling?
- Don't forget my medicine.

- That was a lot
better, wasn't it?

Very well, sir.

Hello?

Telephone's for
you, Mr. Osterman.

- There are many reasons
for such action here.

- We 7! Take a
commercial break now.

- Cue commercial.
- For germ free soap.

Next up will be general
keever's service record.

We 7! Be right back.

- Very good.

I'll be fascinated to
see you work on him.

- Yes.

And I'll be interested to
see your progress reports,

Mr. Fassett.

- You'll see my
requisition list first.

- A moment, Mr. Fassett?

In considering your proposal,
I have cross-read your files.

This, ah...
This matter of your wife.

- Accidents happen, sir.

- There are no accidents in war.

You were screwing your wife
in a foxhole

and a mortar shell fell on it.

In this omega business,

there will be no place
for such indulgences.

- It's a mistake I'm not
likely to make twice, sir.

- Good, good.

- Oh, in this matter of Tanner,

I'm sure that the
evidence we have

will convince
him intellectually,

but I think we might
need something more.

Your presence.

I'm sure that you're aware of
the technique "hard and soft"?

- And what role, Mr. Fassett
are you assigning to me?

- I think in view
of your rank, sir,

then you may choose
which suits you best.

- Best of luck.

- Thank you, sir.

- This is of great
importance to both of us.

- Yes, sir.

- Hi! Hi, boy.

Come on.

What about the welfare
of the American prisoners, sir?

That is not
something I can comment on.

I think dad's home.

Prisoners of war
were deliberately wounded.

- Yeah, it looks that way.

Then their wounds were infected

with different kinds of bacteria

and intentionally
left untreated.

Most of these boys
were American.

Most of them died.

As I say,
Mr. Tanner, you had to...

- Let me make this very clear.

No one should mistake the
deadly real nature of this game.

They are out there. And by
"they" I mean the enemy.

You asked about coexistence.

Yes, coexistence
is a fact of life,

but really the ultimate goal...

Hi, dad!

Hi, frank!

- Hi, scout!

Where've you been?

- Went hunting with mom.
- Camped out last night.

- Get anything?

- No, couldn't get a clean shot.

- Yeah, they were down
in this little ravine.

Then they caught wind of us.

We needed your help.

- Did you teach mom to hunt?

- We taught each other.

- Gonna take a bath.

- Mom says you're
a big trophy hunter.

What does she mean?

Is she just bullshitting?

- Come here, you.

Come here.

Sit down and watch TV.

- There's a war being
fought now, as we speak.

All over this country,
all over the world.

And, yes, we do
have troops in it.

And, yes, they're dying.

- What do you think of this guy?

- He sucks.

- You up for this weekend?

- Well... guess so.

- You used to think
they were great.

- Hm. Times change.

- Not for the better. Huh?

- No.

Joe didn't used to worship
money and hate women.

And we used to think
that Bernie osterman

could actually heal people
by making them laugh.

And dick was a doctor
once upon a time.

Now he's a pussy-whipped
mechanic who repairs people.

Yes?

- I have Maxwell Danforth
on the line for you.

- Hang on.

- John Tanner? Maxwell Danforth.

- To what do I owe the pleasure?

- I need a favour
of you, Mr. Tanner.

- I 'd like to hear what it is.

- Well, I wonder, could we meet?
- In person.

Face-to-face, as it were.

- When?
- Today.

Transportation is being
arranged even as we speak.

- Your trophy buck
just broke cover.

- This way, Mr. Tanner.

Fourth floor.

- I have an appointment.

- Mr. Danforth won't be here.

You'll be talking to me.
My name's Lawrence fassett.

Please.

- Maxwell Danforth
wanted to see me.

- Are you, ah, expecting house
guests this weekend?

Joe and Betty cardone,
Richard and Virginia tremayne,

Bernard osterman?

The men were from your
graduating class at Berkeley.

This is the seventh
such reunion,

events known among
you as "ostermans".

In honour of their
original sponsor.

These people
represent a grave threat

to the security of the
United States of America.

- Uh-huh.

- It's my job to convince you

of the truth of
these allegations.

We could arrest all
the conspirators now,

but it would be more helpful
to the interests of the nation

if we could have your assistance
over the coming weekend.

- What the hell
are you talking about?

You could arrest who?

For what?

- If, after I've presented
you with the initial evidence,

you're not convinced
then of course you may go.

Keeping your mouth
shut, of course.

All right, listen carefully.

First I wanna know when
the weekend is scheduled.

- May 17th, at the tanners'.

- You have no
apprehension of Tanner?

He knows
nothing of our business,

suspects nothing, can have
no possible danger to us.

- Nonetheless, we think it would
be better if he were targeted.

- Now that's
absolutely unnecessary.

- This is not an area

in which you have
a lot of choice.

- This is our deal, Petrov.

Nothing happens to Tanner.

Otherwise, we meet
some place else.

- Your partners
don't wanna postpone this.

- Just remember,
we're calling the shots.

- They'll be there if
you need them.

If I ever saw a
setup for doctoring tape,

this is it.

- Be my guest.

Cut, cut, cut!

The sound's not good

'cause we had
them on a directional.

That's how
long some operations take.

We would like to see...

- Then we got lucky
with a concealed.

It would take me
considerable time to be ready.

You know, I have, uh...

I have patients, not
clients like cardone.

Bernie, he has no loose ends.

He just picks up and goes.

- These are not my concerns.

- I don't wanna be in the
country when it comes down.

- I think you will find
that when the time comes...

You will be able to leave the
country very quickly indeed.

- Who's the man?

Andrei mikalovich, kgb.

Russian passport.

CIA report on mikalovich.

Russian technology
clearance file.

- You know him?

- Personally.

If you can call tailing somebody
for three months personal.

Now, this next bit with your
friend Bernie is a real gem.

I've seen some of his shows.

He's very good, isn't he?

- Sure, I think the system's
in need of radical change.

How radical is radical?

- Hmm.

Extreme, violent,
chaotic, apocalyptic,

somewhere in there,
I think, you know.

- Are you willing to
help create such conditions,

or are you just a
coffee-house revolutionary?

- No. No, I'm not
a revolutionary.

What I am is a nihilistic

anarchist who
lives on residuals.

- 50 money would
help form your decision?

Oh, yes.

Yeah, it always has.

But what are you asking me?

For your talents and your time,

we would pay generously.

- Numbered bank account.

- Swiss?

- Where else?

- Very good.

I will bring you considerable
details next time we meet.

- Fine.

- And I promise
you it is simple.

There is more,
but it's of no consequence.

- All right.

What's the bottom line?

- This is the
official secrets act.

If you wanna go for the
jackpot, then you must sign it.

But I warn you that
after the signature,

then there is no walking away.

You sign it and your life
isn't gonna be the same.

- I'm not your man.

I'm cloak, you must be dagger.

Mr. Danforth, I won't
betray my friends.

- You don't have
any friends, Tanner.

You're on intimate terms
with three Russian agents.

- I don't believe that.

- Oh, yes, you do.

That story you were pursuing
on your last programme.

About germ warfare.

- What about it?

- Why do you suppose it surfaced

after being submerged
for almost 40 years?

- I had a reliable source.

- To whom the Soviets
conveniently leaked the story.

They knew that you or someone
like you would pick it up,

make a fuss and, with luck,

there'd be a
congressional investigation

and perhaps appropriations
would be held up.

You see, the
Russians don't suffer

from the same
restraints of our system

when it comes to
national security.

- I know how you'd
make the system work.

- Tanner, you know nothing.

You're guessing.

And your guesses are
pathetically short of the Mark.

- Big brother Max
knows everything.

- Suppose I was to tell you

that our enemies are capable
of impairing rational thought.

Of dismantling our
willingness to defend our self,

of disassociating
whole societies

from their value systems.

- You mean they've
got television as well?

- We have such substances.

It's only prudent
to fear they do.

We believe that your
friends are in control

of a Soviet network and that
they have a list of agents

whose task it is to release
these substances on command.

Now, I'm asking
you as an American

to help us to protect
ourselves against them.

- You want something from me.

I want something from you.

I want you on my programme.

- Ag Reed.

And if this turns
out to be more CIA self-abuse,

I'll have it out
of you on the air.

That's a promise.

- I would expect that.

I think Mr. Fassett is waiting
for you to sign the paper.

Comfort yourself
with the thought

that you never
did have a choice.

It's usually the case.

- What is it you want me to do?

- Just behave normally.

You don't have to do anything.

We do it all.

In this world that
you have entered,

things are rarely as they seem.

To us, an enemy agent is
potentially our agent,

if we can turn him.

- Why don't you just
have them arrested?

- We don't want to
arrest your friends.

We want to turn them,
one or all of them.

In this you can
help us, believe me.

You shouldn't be so dramatic.

It's only two days
out of your life.

- Am I getting old?

Your not
competing, Ginny, remember?

- Yeah.

- That's why you married me.

- And you married me because...

'Cause I'm little less expensive
than a Maserati.

And easier to park.

You left Ali?

No, not yet.

- Oh, good, I'm relieved.

Do you wanna drink?

Well, what's wrong, John?

- I talked to Max.

- Danforth?

What are you gonna
do to get rid of him?

I know it doesn't mean anything.

I know she's old enough
to be your mother.

- Don't tell me about business.

All right?

Okay.

- I know how you
feel. Believe me.

- What's that, "omega"?

Who's omega?

Mrs. Hazeltine's
uncle or somebody?

Joe, what is that?

What's going on?

- Why Marsha?

Why kill her?

- It's a warning, I've seen
their work before, it's kgb.

- Oh, so what do I do?

- You go home.

- Just hide in the closet?

What about the police?

- I have everything
under control.

- The press is
gonna be all over me.

- I told you, Mr. Tanner, I
have everything under control.

Now let me play
the beginning game,

you play the middle game. Okay?

- What's the trouble?

- Can I see your
licence, please?

- Hey, I wasn't
speeding, you know?

I've given that up.

You know, I've cut
way back on speeding.

I've cut, cut it way down.

- Oh, I thought that was you.

You write for TV, don't you?

- Yeah, that's me.

Yeah, I'm on my way to
catch a plane, though.

- Oh, don't worry,
you'll make it.

I like your stuff, Mr. Osterman.

Only sometimes I think you tend
to, ah, be a little strident,

you know?

- Strident?

Oh, you're giving me a ticket
for strident writing, are you?

That means the death penalty

for Beverly Hills
parking violations

is coming back, too, huh?

- Have a nice day.

- Yeah.

- Bernie!

- Hey, paisan.

- Yeah.

Doc.

Somebody's on to us, huh?

- Who the hell wouldn't
be on to us?

Look where we are.

- Oh, now, wait a second.

I control this place.

I mean, those, ah,
those guards you saw?

They're mine.
Those gates are locked.

I mean, this is a
natural place here.

- This area is all right.

- There's a good boy, eh?

And what's your name, eh?

What's your name?

What's happening?

- I'm... taking my
wife and son out.

- That's not very smart.

The object of the
exercise is to make

everything seem as
normal as possible.

- I'm taking no chances.

- We can protect
them better here.

How are you gonna explain
the fact that they're gone?

- Well, pm, I'll tell them
we had a fight.

Won't be hard to
make that sound real.

- I'm sorry, John.

Just hang in,
you'll get through it.

Yeah?

Where are you putting
all these cameras?

- Everywhere.

The whole house will be covered.

- Not in my bedroom.

- Of course not.

- This is frank.

- That's a boy.

Just one thing, John.

I don't wanna come
home to an empty house

and find some kind of
long, logical letter.

You understand?

If you're bailing out
on me, tell me now.

- I'm not.

I'll get the tickets.

- Hey, mister.

We're looking
for a place to stay.

Mommy!

- You know, we're
looking for some place

with a bridal change
suite, you know, ah...

- What the hell's going on?
- Move over!

I need your help, god damnit.

Oh!

- What is the matter with you?
- That is my wife and son!

Look out!

- I'm gonna count to three!

Let us go, just go.

One! I'm telling you...

Two.

You let me out of
here, you fucker, right now!

- Oh, shit!

- All right, get out!

Come on, come on.

Some honeymoon!

Dumb, son of a bitch.

Oh, honey!

- Stupid idiot!

- My god.

Come on, let 'em go.

Oh, my god.

Honey.

Come here.

Hold me.

Open your eyes, honey.

Hey, take a breath.

- Come on, then, son. Come on.

- That's it. Take it easy.

- Chris!
- Okay. Huh?

There's Chris.

- There's a boy, come on.

- Here.

You all right?

I should've listened to you.

- Luckily, we had it bugged.

But from now on, we
do it my way, okay?

You're gonna be all
right, Mrs. Tanner.

I'm fassett, FBI.

We'll have you back
home before you know it.

Do you wanna ride in
a helicopter, son?

- Mm-h m.

- Come on.

What the fuck happened?

- He's dead.

- So you're telling me that

that man didn't really mean
to kidnap Steve and me?

The FBI thinks

he couldn't afford
to be questioned.

- The FBI.

Magic little elves that
drop right out of the sky.

How come they happened
to be there so quickly?

- We're tailing him!

God, I thought you were dead.

- I'm not dead yet.

- John.

Time for a face-to-face.

- I can't lie to Ali.

- Practise.

Look, I'm sending over
a tape of your friends

at one of their board meetings.

- The kidnapping shows
they know something.

That's mikalovich protecting
his investment, kgb.

I'm certain that your
friends knew nothing.

But the closer you
stay to the house

till this is over, the better.

No one's gonna get in, I
promise you, except your guests.

- We've been working on them.

They're getting
a little unglued.

But you're gonna have to
split one of them off.

And you know which one
you have the best chance

of getting close to.

Now, once you've made that
contact, then we 're in business.

- What if none of them break?

- We'll think of something.

- Are you enjoying this?

- Let me show you
something that I keep

just in case I get to
enjoying myself too much.

You got your wife back
from those bastards.

Puts you way ahead of me.

And you will be telling me

you have to leave.

- Hello, doctor.
- Hello.

- Yeah.

- Is your back all right?
- Yeah.

- Hi. Hello.
- Yeah.

Somebody's on to us.

Well, I'll tell ya.

- Dick, who wouldn't.
- Come in.

They're here.

Well?

Come on, shake a leg.

It's what you've
been waiting for.

Okay.

- Everybody out of the pool.

- Hey, champ, how are you?

Let's see that left
again, come on.

Oh, keep it up. Come on,
keep it up.

- Raccoon. Hello, Christopher,

look at you.
Mm, you're getting big.

- How are you?

- Hello, darling.
- Good to see you.

Maybe he
just wants to be cut in.

I'll cut him in.

In half.

This area is all right.

- Gentlemen, whoever's fingering
us has got a lot of pull.

Video hookups,
phoney cops, the mails.

Betty! Oh, Betty.

And that's government, isn't it?

So if it's the government,

why haven't they
stuck us before this?

- Yeah.
- Why haven't they busted us?

How about your friend?

The interviewer?

- John Tanner?

- He has contacts.

He might have a motive.

- He does!

- No, no, what?

- He's the king of the exposes!

Self-righteous hypocrite.

It's cocktail time!

How dumb of me.

- Hi, doctor.
- Howdy. Same rooms?

- Yeah, same rooms.

- Okay, then we oughta
cancel the weekend.

No, I don't think
we oughta cancel the weekend.

John Tanner's a
friend of ours, right?

- He's a friend of ours.

- Well, so let's go to our
friend John Tanner's house

and set him up.

Fake bricks or
whatever you have in here?

Set him up.

- How you doing, John?

- How's your back?
- How are you?

- You know.

Okay.

- Hey, uncle Bernie,
wanna go for a ride?

- Huh?
- Wanna go for a ride?

- Sure, ride. Bike, yeah.

- Gunga din, yes.

And water boy, one of the great
moments in literary history.

Oh, refreshments.

Oh, look, how beautiful.

- All right.
- Thank you.

- How sweet.
- A treat for the folks.

- I got a toast.

Here is to John Tanner
kicking ass on TV.

- Oh, yes.
- Yes.

- Here is to John Tanner
kicking ass anywhere.

Whoa!

All right, let's hit it.

- Here's to John Tanner's ass.

You never stop, do you?

- Not bad, not bad.

Hey, what's the name of that
guy that you grilled that day?

Keeler, keever? What's his name?
General...?

- Keever.
- General keever.

Now, what I wanna know
is why these people,

a guy like that, would
sit still for that shit?

I wouldn't. No way.

- Bernie?
- Mm-hm?

- I really like your moustache.

Sort of makes me
wanna curl up in it.

- I lick the ends of it.

Go to it, Ginny-Ginny.

- She's serious.

- You want some
vitamins, Virginia?

- What, pills? Oh yeah,
that'd be good.

- Put you right.
- Here baby, here baby.

- You want a vitamin, dick?
- Ah, no thank you, I ah...

I had mine this morning.

- You certainly did, darling.

This weekend could be fun.

That was a nude thing.

You go in wet, all right.

Here comes the double fuck.

All right!

There he is.

Oh, there!

Whoa!

Boy, he could swim.

- Bernie!

- Great.

Wonderful stuff, you know?

- Nice, Virginia.

Ah, yes, there we are.

- Virginia, what is it
that you're wearing there?

- Oh, isn't she cute?

- I need a drink.

Betty,
you look great, look at you.

You were very
drunk that day, weren't you?

- Need some help?
- No, no.

- Oh, Jesus. Look, honey.

- She just loves doing
that stuff, doesn't she?

- Wait, wait!

- John?
- Time for a face-to-face.

- Would anyone like more coffee?

- No, interesting piece of film.

- Could you roll that
back to the beginning?

- I'm gonna get a drink.
- I mean right where John was...

Exactly how much we took off.

I'm gonna get a drink.

- You kept it clean.

You want a coffee?

- When you get a
chance, we must talk.

I '/I meet you in the pool house.

That was omega.

He's on to us.

- Come on.

Come, bloody thing.

Too early
to start bribing friends.

- State-of—the-art, damn it!

The forecast calls for
continued good weather

through the weekend

with our current civic centre
temperature at 68 degrees.

- Ah. Can I get
you guys anything?

Nightcap?

- Look, I wanna know who the...

- Joe.

- What we'd like to know is

who transferred the old
movies onto videotape?

- Oh, I had it
done at the studio.

Saves a lot of trouble.

- And that sign at
the end, ah, the omega?

- Lab guy. Why?

Is something up?

- No, I thought they were nice.

I like my walnuts that way.

The air quality index is rated

for fair throughout the, ah...

I think I just had another,
another little bulletin

come in here...
Ah, would you excuse me?

- Oh. Gee, it was great
seeing those movies again.

- And steady, and relative
humidity is ah, is

- 20 degrees, falling to...
- See you in the morning?

- Yeah.

- The air quality index...

- Yeah, let's uh, let's take
care of the ladies, huh?

- Yeah, good night.
- Good night, John.

- Good night.

- With gusts up to 15 miles
per hour, levelling off to

a gentle 5 - 8 miles per hour

by... by breeze tomorrow

where the Baromatica
pressure is 30.18 and steady,

um, the - with gusts of up
to 15 miles per hour,

levelling off to a gentle 5 - 8
miles per hour breeze tomorrow.

And the barometric, ah,
pressure is 30-point...

And in the central
areas it is possible

that they will be
just hanging in there. Um...

- So. Why didn't
we put it to him?

- Because I believed him.

Didn't know
anything about omega.

- Yeah, I believed
him, too, I guess.

- You did?
- Maybe.

- Maybe.

- What, he's s-st-staring
you right in the face.

You didn't believe that
crap about the lab.

Look, it said omega.

O-m-e-g-a, omega, do you...?

- Won't be necessary.

We rely too much on
sight, don't you think?

Appearances being what they are.

- What's wrong?

- Oh, no, nothing,
nothing at all.

You're doing very well.

Just keep it moving along.

Tomorrow night, shortly after
dinner, I'll turn the TV on.

Just watch their reactions
to the programme.

I think you'll find that one
of your friends might indicate

a willingness to confide in you.

Okay?

Who is it?

Are you busy?

- No.

- Um, I heard about
Marsha and I'm sorry.

You must've been chewed up
a lot.

- Yeah.

- I don't have to
tell Ali, though.

- No.

- So what are you worried about?

- I'm not worried.

- Well, it's not the same
old, light-hearted osterman

of yesteryear, is it?

- No.

- Yeah.

- Well, we all got problems.

So who's your next
victim on the show?

- Maxwell Danforth.

- Oh, yeah, big one.

What did you have
to give up to get him?

You know, it's amazing to me
how you invite these gentlemen

on your show and
then you rip them up

and spit them out, you know?

They keep coming back asking
for more, I don't know.

Why do you think people
would do something like that?

- It's a ball game.

- No.

No, maybe they
thought they were right.

I think everybody thinks
they're right, deep down.

- Don't we all?

- No.

You know, there's a
principle I like to live by.

The truth is a lie that
hasn't been found out.

Maybe you ought
to bear that in mind.

These are strange times, amigo.

Why only survive?

- Yeah.

- Let's you and
me survive them together.

- Checking in, sir.

- Thank you.

- That exciting, huh?

What's wrong?

A lot of bad shit going on.

- Well, maybe I
can just help you

forget about all that
bad shit that's going on.

Ow.

- First, the gum.

- Why?

- You need to ask?

- Wanna shtup?

- I bet I could get a little...

"Something" out of Mr. Tanner.

I'd just coke him a little,

stroke him a little.

It's all for a good cause.

- You know.

I don't think that'll get it.

- You're afraid of
him, aren't you?

Well, listen, darling,
he's only a man.

And what works for one,

works for another.

- You know something, Virginia?

I'm tired of you talking
through your nose.

Talk to me, Bernie.

- Feel better?

Thanks.

That was great.

- Don't!
- Don't grab me!

- Throw it, dick.

Get off my back, John!

- Come on!

- Throw it!

- Okay.
- Throw it!

Dunk that sucker!

- You know, Ali, your old man
is really quite something.

I wish I could offer
you a better swap.

Ah. Maybe I could give you dick
on a three-to-one basis.

What do you say?

- Virginia, don't
you ever get tired

of playing the bitch in heat?

- Come on, are we gonna play?
- Let's play.

- Okay.
- Hey! What are you talking?

- Don't hit me
with the fuckin' ball.

- It was a mistake.
- Come on, Joe.

Come on.

- No, throw it!

Stop it, all right?

- That's it, Martini time.
- Joe, come on!

You got money on the game?

Hey, come on, will you...?

- Allow me.

- Joe, come on!
- Come on!

- We got one more, come on!

- It's just a game, remember?
- Come on, Joe.

- Yeah, but it's my
game and I'm playing it.

- Oh, "it's my game
and I'm playing it".

- Yeah.
- Come on, just one more!

Come on!

Piss off.

- Joe, what's wrong with you?

That's good.

Ah, let him work it off.

I love watching
them get into it.

- Shall we sit here or talk?

- No, let's talk.

Why don't you tell
us who done it, John?

- Who's done what?

- Well, it seems like
some of the bad memories

from the past are
catching up to us, Ali.

- Who's catching up with us?

- Stop playing games.

- I think that ah,
dick is just...

- What is this dick shit?
- Let him speak for himself.

- And I'm gonna speak for
myself, and I'm telling you

I'm not gonna put
up with this anymore.

- Try being more specific, Joe.

- What are you
talking about, specific?

You know what the
hell I'm talking about.

- Why don't you try to
get along a little better?

I mean, after all,
you are friends.

- Why don't you
just shut the fuck up?

- Excuse me.
- For Christ's sake, Virginia.

- The investigator is
trying to put these assholes

through a few of
his own hoops, right?

- More than any other issue,
more than the economy,

more than crime and the streets,

this country now
in greater danger

than ever before in its history.

And that danger is the
indifference of people like you

indifferent to your
responsibilities

as citizens, tax
evaders, traitors in the pay

of foreign governments,
seeking to destroy

our defence budget.

Citizens will laugh
at the brush fires

sweeping central
and South America.

Well, I warn you,

my job is to destroy any
threat to this nation.

You who are guilty, look at me.

Now while I'm not in a position

to share much of this
information with you,

I think every
American should know,

know that I'm coming after you.

That you will be found.

I promise you that.

- The son of a bitch
is mind-fucking us.

- If you men had a pair of
balls between the bunch of you,

you'd take this bastard
outside and straighten his...

Just one more
word out of you, you...

Ali, just calm down!

- That's it, that's it,
that's it.

- Joe, come on, let's just go.

- You okay?

- No.

Bravo, John Tanner.

It's getting tricky
now, isn't it?

It's a mystery.

Have you written
the ending yet, John?

I know that something's
wrong, damn it.

And either you
tell me what it is,

you tell me what
I'm mixed up in,

or I'm leaving with
Chris right now.

- You can't leave me now.

I need you here.

- Mom! Dad!

- What?
- The fridge!

What is it?

- What is it?
- What's wrong?

In the fridge!

- What's wrong?

- Bastards! Sick bastards.

I'm gonna...

Joe, I'm gonna kill you!

- John!
- John, let go of him!

- Let go!
- Leave him alone!

- Why don't you tell
us what happened, John?

Bastards.

I wanna know...

Who did this?

- It's not real, John.
- It's a fake.

- It's not a very funny joke.

That is sick.

- Why are you doing this to us?

- I want you out by
tomorrow morning.

Please?

Oh, he's fine.

We'll find him. He's outside.

- It's a ketchup bottle.

It's not even a good fake.

- Maybe it'll be
gone in the morning.

- We better be
gone in the morning.

- Early.

- It's okay, come on.

Listen to me.

Now you stay here and do
as your mom tells you.

I'm gonna find him, okay?

- Dad, I'm scared.
- Come on.

You're gonna be fine. Lie down.

- John, what are
you doing to us?

- I'm gonna go for help.

You make sure you
lock the door, please.

- Kelly, Tanner's coming out.

Let him through.

Don't want him wandering
around out there at night.

- Well, what are we gonna do?

- Pack.

I'm getting out of here.

Got any brains,
you'll do the same.

- Right.

- Fassett's waiting.
- Follow me.

- You don't need the gun, Joe.
- It's Ali.

- Don't worry about it.

I mean, she knows something.

- Chris, here.

- Come on. Quit screwing
around, Ali. Open the door.

- Get away from my
door, Joe cardone.

- Would you put that gun away?

- Look, I'm tired of
getting stepped on.

- He's right.
- She knows something.

I'm gonna find out what.

- Somebody please
tell me what's going on.

- Yeah, we're getting
out of here now.

Come on, Joe. Come on.

Come on, Joe!

Joe!

- Get your bow.

- All right, fassett.

That's me, I'm finished.

I've had it. I want out.

- And where might "out" be?

- I'm fed up!
- Do what you have to do.

Arrest them, I don't care.

Just get them out of my house.

- We have a single
male adult out there.

Osterman. Terminate on contact.

- Son of a bitch.

We've got one dead.

Grab what's
necessary, that's all.

Come on, move it.

Move it!

Go on.

- Why don't you get them?

- There's no need.

They're going nowhere.

All this activity
and for nothing.

- Yes, that was nice.

- Wait a minute.
- Wait!

Camper, come on.

- He's got my motor home.

The keys in there?

Yeah.

- I didn't leave my keys in it.

There's no need to worry, John.

Everything is under control.

They're just on
a very long leash.

What about Bernie?

He can take care of himself.

- Who's pulling your strings?

- Now, you must go home now.

They're pinning osterman
down at the far end.

And straight home now.

Remember, out there you're
a single male adult, too,

you know?

Kelly, follow him out of
this area and eliminate him.

See where you're going?

Mm-hmm.

- Just wait, son of a bitch.

- You want me to finish
this now or shall we talk?

- You traitor.

- I'm gonna kill
you like a chicken.

But I'm not gonna let you
die so ignorant, John.

Now what is this
traitor bullshit?

We're just saltin'
some money away

for good times, that's all.

Now it ain't legal, but it
sure as hell ain't traitorous.

I'm gonna let you up, John,

'cause I want you to talk to me.

But if you make a
move for this bat,

you'll be wearing it in
your ass for a month.

- Do you understand?

Good.

I'm awfully tired.

- Where's my dog?

- Not in there.

Who's in the Van?

- A CIA man called fassett.

He says you, dick, and Joe
are working for the Russians.

- That's bullshit.

- I saw a film on you
talking to the kgb.

I saw you make a deal
with a guy called Petrov.

You remember Petrov,

the independent film producer?

To help create such conditions,

or are you just a
coffee-house revolutionary?

- No. No, I'm not
a revolutionary.

What I am is a nihilistic

anarchist who
lives on residuals.

So money would
help form your decision?

- Don't you feel better
now that you know

that all your old friends are
just tax evaders after all?

Or are you just a
little disappointed?

- You were setting us up.

Why?

- We're in prime killing time.

All it took was to
have my wife murdered

while my employers watched
on closed-circuit TV.

I t's just another episode

in this whole snuff
soap opera we're all in.

- Switch it off, John.

- You know better
than that, Bernie.

It's your business, both of you,

addicting people so
they can't switch off.

- Smash the set.
- Smash it!

Switch this one off.

- What's the rush, Joe?

- I got a lot of
things to clear up.

- You know what we need
right now? A spaceship.

Come right over
those trees, invite us in.

J“ Jesus loves me j“

j” this I know j”

j“ for the Bible j“

- Betty, get out there!

- Joe, Joe, get out!

Virginia, come here.

Do you see what I see?

- Betty, get out!
- They can't hear us.

- Joe, get out!

- Things could be worse, right?

- Right.

Oh, I see.

You want to send them a message.

Just wait.

- Betty, get out.

Come here.

Come here.

- What the hell have you got
all over your face, Virginia?

- Come here.

- Come on.

- Get out of the camper now.

- I don't wanna be in the
country when it comes down.

I think you will find
that when the time comes,

you will be able to leave the
country very quickly, indeed.

- Joe.

- This is our deal, Petrov.

Nothing happens to Tanner.

Your partners
don't wanna postpone this.

You've already been consulted.

- Just remember,
we're calling the shots.

- What the hell is
he trying to pull?

- I don't know but we better
get out of here.

J“ Jesus loves me j“

j” this I know j”

j“ for the Bible... j“

- we're all gonna die.

- Get out!
- Come on.

Let's go, come on.

- Betty, get out!
- Come on!

Move now!

- Come on!
- Come on.

Betty, come on!

Betty, come on, damn it!

J“ for the Bible j“

j“ tells me so j"

J“ little ones to him belong j'

J' we are weak but he is strong j”

- And then there were two.

You crazy, murderous bastard.

He's mad.

- Try to think of them
as fleas on a dog

that gets hit by a stolen car
driven by a drunk teenager

whose girlfriend had
just given him the clap.

It will help your perspective.

All agents move in to execute
termination procedure.

Repeat

execute termination
procedure, all agents.

- Have you got a gun?
- No.

- You got a gun? I - no! '-

Agent Kelly, they're
going out of the backdoor.

Stop them.

It'd be nice if we had a weapon.

I have bows.

- Oh, bows, that's keen.

- In the bedroom, go get 'em!

- Shh.

- Kelly?
- Kelly, do you read me?

Kelly?

Oh, god, what's the
matter with this thing?

- Kelly, watch it!
- Rotten commies!

Kelly?

Can you read me?

- Get the - get the gun!

Do you read me?

Kelly!

- I know what to do.

- The pool house.

- They're making
for the pool house.

- Oh, my god.

- No! God, wait!

- Sure.

- I had bows in here!

- Is this what you want?
- Shh!

- I'm ready - oh, that's good.

You're gonna shoot
mice with that, right?

See you later, bye.

- Bernie!

Bernie!

- There's someone
out here with a bow.

They got agent brick.

- Damn.
- Blue-eyed bitch.

Mrs. Tanner.

Just keep them in the pool.

Don't move.

Mikalovich, can you read me?

There's gasoline
behind the pool house.

Use it.

Agent donner, do you read me?

Keep them in the pool.

Repeat, keep them in the
pool till further orders.

You're gonna be all right,

I'm fassett, remember?

FBI.

Do you want to ride in
a helicopter, son?

Come on.

Chris?

- Mrs. Tanner.

I'm fassett, remember me?

I don't think we'll
need the bow, huh?

Gonna take a little
trip, the three of us.

Come on. Come on.

Come on.

- I think we got him!

Don't walk away.

- Uh-huh, right.

Ah, next time, I'm gonna
wear my own clothes, babe.

Strident son of a bitch.

John.

Worshipping
graven images again, John?

Be of good cheer.

Salvation is at hand.

John, I don't want
you to do anything wrong.

I love you.

- I'll be in touch.

- What the fuck's going on?

He found out Tanner's friends

were funnelling money
out of the country.

Then he uncovered their bag man,

mikalovich, and he tamed him.

Then he fabricated a
kgb dossier on him.

- I told you he was a
very skillful operative.

- But why?

Why did he make us try
to believe omega existed?

- Stennings, stennings.

The existence of omega
has not been disproved.

Don't you understand that?

Omega is as real
as we need it to be.

We have enough evidence

to convince any congressional
committee of that.

One thing our enemies
fear is that someone

who knows them for what they are

might come to
power in this country.

And they're right to be afraid.

Now you find fassett! Before
that damn show tonight.

Stennings,
give me central control.

- Repeat.
- Launch all helicopters.

Launch all helicopters.

Codeword, omega.

Seek out and destroy.

Roger.

Good.

I approve this list of
questions you've submitted.

And I'm glad to see
that you acknowledge

that you are bound by the
security articles you've signed.

We're in accord.

It should be an
interesting evening.

- Um...

Just kinda wondering
how we got in this mess.

- It's called being programmed.

Good evening,
welcome to face-to-face.

The title of our programme
tonight is Alpha to omega,

the first to the last.

First, we talk to
Maxwell Danforth.

Mr. Danforth, tell us
your policy, please,

regarding the present
Soviet missile buildup.

- Take three.

- This is the end of the
20th century in which we live

and no nation can expand further

without coming into
conflict with its neighbour.

We are being forced
into playing a game

in which there will
have to be a winner

and the Soviets
intend it will be them.

- And you, sir, have a
solution to all this?

- Our people must be educated

to the realities of this crisis.

We have always been
ignorant of our destiny,

and yet our destiny is simple.

Not easy, mind you, but simple.

Our destiny is to survive.

- Do you have ambitions
to be president?

- That's a very pointed
question, Mr. Tanner.

And my answer is no.

My ambition is to continue
to serve my country

with all of my
talents and energies.

However, if it is my destiny

to be called on by
the American people

to assume that exalted office,

I should feel
compelled to accept.

I have always sought
out my country's enemies

and foiled their
designs against us.

As president of
these United States,

I would continue to do so.

- At this point, I 'd
like to introduce

a man until recently
employed by the CIA.

While at the same time,

moonlighting as kgb agent.

A man who has worked closely
with Maxwell Danforth

on a covert operation

that cost the lives of
four innocent people.

A man who represents
the hidden side

of Maxwell Danforth's power.

- Central control?
- Ladies and gentlemen,

Lawrence fassett.

- This is stennings. Red alert,
he's surfaced.

Mr. Fassett,
what can you tell us

about the director of the CIA?

- I know Maxwell Danforth
very well. Ah...

He killed my wife two years ago.

Not with his bare
hands, of course, but...

The danforths of this world
don't murder in that fashion.

- Launch omega termination.

- Immediate launch omega
termination section.

- Now, calm down, be quiet.

- They make telephone
calls, write memos.

Use jargon words like
terminate and eliminate.

- Erase.
- Location confirmed, sir.

Get me network control now.
This is priority, get it...

So that their mouths
don't have to touch words

like murder.

Or kill.

To you out there,
my fellow Americans.

The man you have just
seen is a Russian agent,

and a killer of innocent people.

And with the connivance
of John Tanner,

he has been allowed
to appear here

and to make
allegations against me,

which he has no
possible means of proving.

- Take one.

- This piece of film was taken
by CIA surveillance cameras.

The woman is Mrs. Lawrence

fassett and the
killers were kgb.

- It is true.

It is true that I have
killed innocent people.

But then my guilt
is not in question.

But the guilt of this man is.

And it will continue
to be so until he is...

Exposed.

A man that is prepared to
use the power of his office

and all its techniques

in order to further his
own personal ambition.

- Any comments, Mr. Danforth?

- Comment? Yes,
I have a comment.

You and this man
fassett are traitors.

An archaic term, but it fits.

When I realised
what you had done

by bringing this murderer onto
your programme, I was shocked.

But now I'm glad.
'Cause you have illustrated,

better than I ever could,

exactly how dangerous
our enemies are.

And by their presence here,

they bear witness
to my assertion

that not until we have a
leadership in this country

committed to rooting
out this disease,

not until then, can we
have a healthy nation.

I say to you all,
all of you watching,

without a healthy america,

we live in a hopeless
world, indeed.

Well, why don't you
kill me, then, Max?

Use your powers.

Show your audience how
you're going to save them

from what lies
inside each of them.

Kill me, Max, and pretend that
you're killing their fear.

Be the new saviour risen
in the hour of need.

- Don't think you
won't be found, fassett.

And don't think you
won't be exterminated.

You have my word
on that, you hear?

Do you hear me?

Take three.

- Where's my wife?

All eyes, pull back.

Widen out, two.

Oh, this is nice.

Okay, get ready, one.

Just get eyes, get
eyes on Tanner, one.

Take three.

- What you just saw, was in a
way, a life-sized video game.

You saw a liar talk to a killer

and you couldn't
tell them apart.

And who cares?

It's only television.

- And hold it there.

- As you all know,
television programmes

are just the fillers between
attempts to steal your money.

So if you wanna
save some, switch off.

It's simple.

It's done with a hand and what
is left of your free will.

This is the moment.

My bet is you can't do it.

Go ahead and try.

Am I still on?

Cue Tanner, take one.

Well, why don't you
kill me, then, Max?

Use your powers.

Show your audience how
you're going to save them

from what lies
inside each of them.

Kill me, Max, and pretend that
you're killing their fear.

Be the new saviour risen
in the hour of need.

- Don't think you
won't be found, fassett.

And don't think you
won't be exterminated.

You have my word
on that, you hear?

Do you hear me?

What you just saw,
was in a way, a life-sized

video game.

You saw a liar talk to a killer

and you couldn't
tell them apart.

And who cares?

It's only television.

As you all know,
television programmes

are just the fillers between
attempts to steal your money.

So if you wanna
save some, switch off.

It's simple.

It's done with a hand and what
is left of your free will.

This is the moment.

My bet is you can't do it.

Go ahead and try.