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Give us three minutes, and we'll give you the world.

This is MediaBreak with Bo Harlan and Rocky Crenshaw.

Up first, bad news for Germany: The rising anti corporate terrorist attacks prompted Tutonicore,

that country's largest company, to announce it's moving its headquarters to Iceland.

Here at home the chairman of Omni-Consumer Products denied rumors of a similar move by OCP.

No-no, rest assured OCP has no intention of relocating now or in the future.

After all, this is our home.

The search continues for convicted bomber Felix Webber,

who escaped from the Henry Ford center for the morally challenged late last night.

Police fear that the one-time research scientist may renew his deadly campaign of bombing facilities owned by OCP,

his former employer.

Before his capture by police twelve years ago, Webber made famous by the movie "The Mad Bomber of Old Detroit",

held the city virtually hostage in a six-month reign of terror.

You have reached the Detroit police emergency hotline.

Please hold, do not hang up, as your call will be answered much sooner.

Typical OCP efficiency.

Police hotline, can I help you?

Yes.

This is Felix Webber, I wanna report a bomb.

Thank you, please hold.

As we celebrate our first half-century,

let's remember the qualities that made OCP great.

Determination, drive and guts.

Other companies may respond to this insidious fad of anti-corporate violence by running away.

But, as usual, OCP has a better idea.

Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly give you our new anti-corporate terrorism unit, the ACT squad!

Let's march!

OCP ACT unit reporting for duty, sir!

Thanks, Mr. Granger.

Ladies and gentlemen,

with the best-equipped, most technically advanced force of its kind,

we're sending a message to the Felix Webbers of the world

who think they can violently overthrow corporate culture.

Don't try it at OCP!

Attention! A bomb threat has been reported.

Please evacuate the premises!

Do not panic. Remain calm. Exit in an orderly fashion.

Thank you.

This side, people! No, don't use the elevators! Please, go at this side!

This side, that's right!

Guess you told them, huh?

Is the fact genuine, Sergeant?

I'm afraid so, sir. The voice print we matched with the call matches Felix Webber.

In that case, I'll take over.

This is Mr. Granger, Sergeant, he heads up our Anti Corporate Terrorism squad.

And any threat to OCP personnel or property is my jurisdiction.

Since when?

The memo just went out. You should have it on your desk by the end of the day.

- Lempke! - Sir?

- See that the Chairman gets to safety! - Yes, sir.

- This way, Mr. Chairman. - Thank you.

I didn't order those candles lit!

There is a bomb in the cake.

Live bomb, activate the electro-shield!

Take cover!

It is safe to come out now.

Oh, Alex...

If you hadn't put on that badge, you'd be with us now.

It's time to go, Dorothy.

Get down!

Oh my...

Go ahead and shock the flatline, then let's quit.

Okay, everybody clear!

Officer Alex Murphy shot to death in a line of duty.

Legally he's dead. We can pretty much do what we want.

There's a new guy in town. His name's Robocop.

Murphy, it is you.

Keep those reporters back!

Sarge!

I heard the call in the sheen, is this Murphy, as in "our" Murphy?

Uh-huh.

Robo's parents? Why them?

Russel Murphy was the police captain who tracked down Felix Webber twelve years ago.

So then Webber wants revenge.

Watch your step, watch your step!

- Come on! - There you go! Good boy!

Get away from her!

She's been shaken up enough already without some damn machine scaring her half out of her wits.

I'm fine, I was just... startled.

Are you injured... ma'am?

No, it's only a scratch.

It's just a scratch. Here, let mommy make it all better.

Well, luckily Webber missed his target.

Luck had nothing to do with it.

Felix knew I'd recognize the sound of that detonator priming, I've heard it too many times before.

This was just his way of saying hello.

Well, just to be sure, I want to put you and Mrs. Murphy in the safehouse.

Forget it, Felix never repeats himself.

He'll go after his real enemy now: OCP.

He already has.

Robocop defused a bomb planted in OCP tower less than an hour ago.

Has this thing got some kind of a computer memory?

Robocop is more than just a computer, sir.

Describe the bomb's detonator.

Let's work on our multiplication tables.

Incendiary fuses with time-delay magnesium flash igniters.

Fuses? That was no bomb, that was Felix's idea of a joke.

Sergeant, if I were you I'd post S.W.A.T. teams at every OCP facility.

You may be right, Mr. Murphy, but it's Granger's territory now.

Granger? Stew Granger, tall, brush-cut, acts like he has a computer up his...

Russel!

Do you know him?

All too well. And so does Felix.

OCP doesn't stand a chance.

Come on, Dorothy, it's time for us to go home.

Well, at least let me assign you some protection until we catch Webber.

That's a waste of manpower, Felix doesn't want to kill me.

Well, you were responsible for catching him the first time, so it makes you a pretty good target for revenge.

He wants me to stay alive so that I can watch him finish what he started twelve years ago.

That's his revenge.

He seems to have a real handle on this Webber guy, I'd like to find out what else he knows.

You volunteering for bodyguard duty?

I guess I am.

I will assist detective Madigan.

Felix Webber is back. Bo?

Yes. The Mad Bomber of Old Detroit struck with a vengeance,

detonating bombs at two OCP facilities.

The first blast ripped through Noxi Corp, OCP's automated industrial waste recycling facility,

while minutes later a second bomb destroyed a pet recycling booth at the omni-shopping mall in Delta City.

Stewart Granger of OCP's new Anti Corporate Terrorism squad confirmed Webber's connection to the bombings.

In fact, due to my ACT unit's state-of-the-art technology we know these bombs were the work of Felix Webber.

And I assure you the same technology will lead to his speedy capture.

Thank you.

Granger thinks Felix can be numbered and graphed; Bull.

Felix is too complex. You gotta get inside his head,

understand his hatred for OCP, his macabre sense of humor and his pathological obsession with spiders.

So, who's winning?

Oh, I just don't think chess is my game.

I know how you feel here. In thirty-five years of marriage, I've only beaten him once.

And I think it's because he let me win.

I don't suppose you drink coffee.

No, thank you.

That's our son, Alex.

He was a police officer, like his father.

He was killed on duty.

I am sorry.

Partner!

You're much better at this game than I am, how about you give me a hand?

Well, I have never seen a computer that could play real chess.

They can be programmed with all the moves, but in the end they are mechanical, predictable.

Well, Mur... Robo is an undefeated champ of Metro South.

And my son, he was a real chess player.

I taught him all the moves, but he had imagination and guts,

the human factor. You can't program that into a machine.

This is Valakovsky gambit: Here a pawn will be distracted by a king, he'll never see it coming.

Your move.

Check.

How did you learn that?

I had a good teacher.

Mr. Murphy!

You're still a cop if I heard right, I can't believe you'd just sit back and let Webber endanger lives.

What choice do I have?

Well, talk to Granger, offer him your help!

He's not gonna listen to me.

It's worth a shot.

Detective Madigan is right. A good cop must protect the innocent.

Well...

I never thought I'd see a day when a robot would remind me what it takes to be a good cop.

It's amazing what machines can do these days.

If it goes bang-bang, I've got it.

Have a look around, take your time.

Nice tattoo. Reminds me about the one my mother used to have.

It's my symbol of protest against the corporate culture that destroys dreams for the sake of profit.

That's fine by me, I mean, what would I know about politics, right?

I just supply the hardware.

I want something special.

Special... That's my middle name.

We've got Cobra assault cannons here, we've got auto-9 Avengers, we've got Cougar smart missiles.

All with nice easy credit terms and, if you want,

I can negotiate a nice discount on quantity orders.

No, I'm looking for something much more... sophisticated.

Much more powerful.

Well, it is that much special.

Yes.

It's gonna cost you extra.

Money's no object.

It's for a birthday gift.

I know Granger, the last thing he wants is my help.

Oh, it can't hurt to try.

Thanks for an offer, Murphy, but I'm afraid you'd just get in the way.

Still you haven't changed a bit, Felix is gonna eat you alive!

Guys, come on, we're on the same side here, right?

The name of this game is "Stop Webber", Mr. Murphy happens to have an extensive knowledge about...

So do I.

Step over here and I'll show you what modern law enforcement is all about.

Superior technology, that's the key to catching a terrorist.

Complete physical, psychological and genetic data on Felix Webber.

Expanded four times daily with flash ROM updates.

You still don't get it?

The reason Felix does what he does is that he hates all this! This is the enemy!

And Felix is smart enough to study his prey and learn how it thinks.

He'll take your precious technology and use it against you.

Just like a spider trapping a fly.

You always were hostile to change!

This is a waste of time!

The Chairman wants you to the boardroom immediately, sir.

Granger!

The stockholders are demanding an explanation for the Noxi Corp bombing.

Why did OCP spend a fortune on your ACT squad if Felix Webber can plant bombs right under our noses?

He's an extremely clever adversary, sir. But we'll get him.

Webber's last rampage nearly shot us down.

The world's fourth largest corporation brought to its knees

by a cuckoo who thought he could grow hair using spider venom.

We can't let it happen again, Granger.

You have my word, sir.

I'll hold you to that.

Okay, I need a detailed situation grid of Old Detroit and Delta City.

Right.

Lempke!

Call up a map of all Webber's bombings twelve years ago.

Okay, post in all of Felix's targets since his escape.

Looks pretty random.

Felix always has a pattern.

When we boarded his strike points twelve years ago, at first we thought it was random, then we joined them all together and it formed a precise spider web.

That's it, sir. All of Felix Webber's previous bomb targets.

Right.

Now...

Wipe out everything but the first five strikes

and call up a comparison grid with the five he's planted since his escape.

This time the fly is going to trap the spider.

Sergeant Parks on the line for detective Madigan.

Madigan, there's an audio omni-call from Webber, for captain Murphy.

We're trying to decode and trace but he's jamming the signal.

Keep him on the line as long as you can.

Put him through.

Hello, captain, it's been a long time.

Not a long enough.

It's good to have you back in the game.

I didn't expect my little surprise package at the cemetery would kill you.

I wanted you alive for the grand finale. OCP will pay for betraying me twelve years ago.

You were fired for conducting an unauthorized research.

The hair-growth serum that I distilled from spider venom was worth a fortune!

It meant hope for millions of bald-suffers like myself! Those fools at OCP destroyed my research!

They destroyed me!

Felix, listen!

And now I'm going to destroy OCP.

I'm spinning a different web this time, captain. At midnight the towers fall and the city dies.

Call trace incomplete.

He's repeating his old pattern, he's not so smart.

Call up a location of the sixth target twelve years ago.

Bull's eye!

OCP commemorative park.

That's gotta be Webber's next target.

No, it feels wrong... We're missing something.

Well this fits his previous web pattern.

Webber said he was spinning a different web this time.

Yeah, then which one? If only I had my old spider research here...

I am accessing data from the Michigan state entomology department.

That'll do it, have them index up all known spider web patterns.

Now, run a probability scan based on his pattern twelve years ago and correlate it with his latest strikes.

Then locate and id the nearest OCP facility.

The commemorative park!

That's it! That is his next target.

Congratulations, brilliant, sir!

Yeah.

We have a web, let's go catch the spider!

Orb web.

No, that's the pattern Felix used before, go ahead.

- Hammock web. - Nope, go on.

Hold it, freeze!

Sheet web.

All right, erase all the old targets

and redraw the lines connecting the recent bombings.

All right, now do a pattern comparison with the sheet spider web.

Perfect match.

Now in the midpoint of the sheet draw a line straight down.

Where the spider hangs in wait.

The OCP refinery?

We'd better get over there fast!

I'll tell Parks to warn Granger.

Electronic components, microchip circuitry,

some control switches with dedicated programs for...

vertical, horizontal and volume?

Explosives, detonators?

No, sir. But I do catch traces of rubber and latex.

Open it up.

Me, sir?

We're right behind you, Lempke.

Shield!

Welcome to Omni Consumer Products!

Should you need assistance, please refer to our automated guides located throughout the lobby.

And remember: OCP cares.

Let's go, let's go!

Hustle up.

Is it beeping?

No.

Good, that means the detonator isn't active.

Can you do an internal scan?

The bomb has reacted to my thermographic scan.

It has activated.

Oh my God!

Felix must've seen you coming and rigged it with a thermograph alarm.

You triggered the detonation system, it can go at any second.

Shield up!

Microelectronics timer with a geometric sequence.

Not good.

Beeps will get closer and closer together, when they become a steady tone...

the device explodes.

Here's what we have to do: We have to unscrew the housing and find the circuit breaker without disturbing the motion sensor.

Perhaps my sense of touch is more precise.

Spiders!

Rubber... and latex, sir.

What?

Boom!

Poor Granger, you're just a poor little fly already trapped in my web.

And you're just the appetizer. For the main course, I'm gonna deal OCP a death blow.

At midnight the towers will fall.

Excuse me, sir!

- The towers will fall? - ACT squad, Lempke here.

Of course, OCP towers!

I'll tell him.

Sergeant Parks at Metro South. He says Russel Murphy's located Webber's bomb at OCP refinery.

Damn, I'll take squad 4 to the refinery!

You get on with the OCP towers with squads 5 and 6, I mean the full evacuation!

I want that place locked up and everybody out there before midnight!

Can you see the circuit breaker?

- Yes. - Can you touch it?

No, it is too small.

Twenty years on the force, you get

used to the feel of the weight of it in your pocket.

Okay, take my hand and guide the pin to the circuit breaker.

Acid trap.

Not... good.

It's right here.

Detective, what's going on here?

Russel Murphy found one of Webber's bombs. He and Robocop are now trying to defuse it.

You let a civilian play with a bomb?

That old geezer could get us all killed!

Felix thought of everything.

I hope nothing else goes wrong.

Do you still see the circuit breaker?

Yes.

You're gonna have to talk me in, here goes...

Murphy, what are you doing there?

What does it look like? We're defusing a bomb!

You are not authorized for that!

Stew, shut up!

Slowly.

Up.

Down.

Up.

Down.

Up.

"Up", "down", make up your mind!

Up.

Perfect.

Push the button...

now.

Piece of cake.

Piece of cake.

Nice go, Murphy.

Oh, I had a good partner.

It's amazing... what machines can do these days.

All stations secured, sir. No one can enter or exit the building without being spotted.

Good. Now, if Webber makes a move, we'll have him right where we want him.

Yes!

We have a breach in the boardroom, sir!

Call it up on the monitor!

He took the bait!

Now let's go and spring the trap!

Come in, Granger, join the party.

But I suggest you put your guns down.

Kill me, and you'll die too.

You and everyone else for miles around.

Welcome to ground zero.

It's time for...

Commander Cash!

Hey, Suzy. Tears aren't going to bring Puff back.

Trade those tears for quarters at your local pet recycling center!

Where poor Puff can be recycled into...

pet food for hungry cats and dogs everywhere!

And it's worth a quarter.

Wow, a whole quarter!

So, don't forget:

Recycle your pet!

Animal recycling bins are located at all OCP superstores.

Earn money! It helps keep the streets clean, too!

Workers at OCP towers got a scare today when they were ordered to evacuate the building.

But OCP denied the move was prompted by rumors about the bomb threat made by Felix Webber, the Mad Bomber of Old Detroit.

A company spokesman said everybody was simply given a day-off to celebrate the company's fiftieth anniversary.

Is it true, sergeant?

Does this madman really have a nuclear device?

That's what Webber said when he called Metro South. He also claims to have two hostages up there.

Where is Granger?

It seems that Granger is one of the hostages.

Guys, Webber's jamming another broadcast into police emergency band.

This is Stewart Granger. I'm being held prisoner by Felix Webber.

He has asked me to read the following statement.

He has the detonator of an explosive device wired to a pulse-monitoring trigger that is connected to his carotid artery.

If he's killed, the stopping of his heartbeat will instantly detonate the bomb FOR GOD'S SAKE HELP! HE'S CRAZY! HE'S...

Shut up!

Okay, listen to me.

This is OCP's 50th birthday. And I've prepared a very special surprise to celebrate.

So I want to talk with the big cheese at OCP!

So get the Chairman on this line now, or I'll light the biggest birthday candle you've ever seen,

and we'll all sit back and get an instant tan from the Delta City's first nuclear explosion!

That's clear, right?

Good Lord!

Without the ACT squad OCP is at Webber's mercy.

Isn't there anything you can do?

The police don't have jurisdiction on OCP property, remember?

I'm receding this policy immediately. You'll have a memo on your desk by morning.

I can stop him.

Make one mistake up there, and all the Delta City blows.

You got a plan, partner?

I will need a helicopter.

Keep the people back!

You be careful!

Good luck!

Go get them, son, we're counting on you!

Take me up, Scotty!

I can't believe that this lunatic is wanting to blow himself up if I don't speak with him...

Mr. Chairman, you don't understand Felix, he's making a statement.

This is all he has to live for, he doesn't want to negotiate.

We have to play his game.

Listen to him, sir, he knows who he's talking about.

Thank you, detective, but if there's anything I know, it's how to negotiate.

Scotty, switch to stealth mode.

Roger, switching to stealth.

Felix Webber, this is the chairman of OCP.

Hello, Mr. Chairman. It's been a long time.

Say... is that a receding hairline I see?

Let's get down to business, shall we?

How much would it take to convince you to end this insanity?

Is he talking about... money?

Of course. Just name your price.

Do you really think that you can pay me back for losing my job,

my research, my beautiful spiders...

my hair? You destroyed my life!

I don't want your money.

I want revenge.

I've just activated the timer.

We have five minutes to live.

How much is your money worth now, old man?

Got you!

He didn't even make a proper demand, that's not negotiating!

Robocop, come in! Felix has triggered the timer.

He says we've got less than five minutes before it goes off.

If we don't move fast this whole city gets wiped out.

Do you read?

The bomb goes off in less than five minutes!

I will need to use the repel cannon.

It's right there, loaded and ready.

Robocop, do you read?

We've got less than five minutes before the bomb goes off!

Even if we could reach the boardroom, there isn't enough time to stop detonation!

It's up to you now.

Do you read me?

Robocop, come in!

Let me talk to Russel!

He wants to talk to you.

What is it?

You must get Felix to move away from the window.

How? Just through talking?

Try the Valakovsky gambit.

The Valakovsky... How did you...

Yeah, maybe. But how do I distract Felix so that he doesn't see it coming?

Use the king.

The king?

The king...

You're running out of time, Delta City.

You're gonna say any last prayers?

Better make them less than four minutes.

Sorry, sir!

Felix, this is Russel Murphy.

Well, the ex-captain Murphy.

Well, I'm glad you could be around for the grand finale!

I want you to know the chairman of OCP has been arrested on charges of stealing your research and firing you without proper cause.

You're lying.

No, it's true. See for yourself!

He'll never buy this.

It's worth a try, sir, unless you've got a better idea.

He's also charged with destroying the environment, gouging consumers and selling faulty products designed to break down.

Hold on! That is not true!

Save it! Tell that to the judge, let's go!

Well, it's about time!

It took twelve years I had to nuke half of Michigan!

But it was worth it.

Stop the bomb, Felix, you've won.

Forget it, I've come too far!

This old goat in shackles is the last thing I ever wanna see.

Now I can die a happy man.

And when Delta City goes up in a mushroom cloud,

it'll be a lesson to corporations that you don't screw over the little people!

How do I stop detonation?

The only way is to unlock and remove the paddle link (?) cap that fastens the two bomb spheres.

Now remove the front panel.

Now you have to reach the disengage switch. But you'll need something smaller than those fingers of yours.

There is no disengage switch.

I am transmitting a picture.

Damn, the last Felix's puzzle!

Russel, look at Felix's tattoo.

The red hourglass pattern.

The female black widow. It's possible, but if we're wrong...

We will know soon.

What happened? Are you all right?

The danger has passed.

That was so cool, sir, very good, sir, I knew we could...

Sorry, sir.

We could use a man like you, perhaps as a consultant.

Thanks, Mr. Chairman, but I have a grandson, that takes most of my time these days.

Understand.

That was nice work up there.

I had a good partner.

For what it's worth, you're a damn good cop.

So are you, sir.

I must go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.