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After an astronaut and test pilot is catastrophically mutilated in a test plane crash, he is rebuilt and equipped with nuclear powered bionic limbs and implants.
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00:01:31What's going on here?
00:01:33Where does he think he is?
00:01:35Yes.
00:01:49Hiya, Charlie.
00:01:50How's it going?
00:01:50Fine.
00:01:51Beautiful, Steve.
00:01:52Think I got time for a shave?
00:01:53Oh, I think so.
00:02:01Hiya, Gus.
00:02:02Hi, Steve.
00:02:02How's the family?
00:02:03Just great.
00:02:03How are we looking?
00:02:04Real good.
00:02:12General?
00:02:13Mr. Austin.
00:02:18Yes, sir?
00:02:20Have you any idea what time it is?
00:02:25About five to seven?
00:02:29Excuse me, General.
00:02:32Hey.
00:02:33Steve.
00:02:34You got a positive genius for antagonizing the wrong people.
00:02:37I know.
00:02:37It's a story of my life.
00:02:39Where have you been?
00:02:40Oh, I felt like taking a walk.
00:02:42Walk?
00:02:43Yeah.
00:02:44You know, Doc?
00:02:46Out there, just before the sun comes up, it's just like being up there on the moon again.
00:02:54Kind of relaxes me.
00:02:55Right.
00:02:56I'll be right with you.
00:02:57Okay.
00:03:26.
00:03:31Yeah.
00:05:03Everything's fine in here.
00:05:04Okay.
00:05:05Good luck, Steve.
00:05:20Good luck, Steve.
00:05:22Have a good day.
00:05:44This is NASA-1.
00:05:45Understand B-52 is ready for taxi.
00:05:48It's hard in here.
00:05:49Let's get this show on road.
00:06:20Oh, my God.
00:07:10Okay, Cecil, have you got the B-52 in sight?
00:07:13Negative.
00:07:14Okay, just look to your left.
00:07:16Wait a minute, you took off on 2-2?
00:07:18Sir, uproar.
00:07:19Okay, just look to your left.
00:07:2135 to 40 degrees.
00:07:23I have a tally now, John.
00:07:25Roger.
00:07:36One minute.
00:07:38Someone's keying their microphone.
00:07:41Okay, stand by for systems.
00:07:43Okay, Steve.
00:07:44Okay, you're cutting out.
00:07:45Someone's keying me, buddy.
00:07:46Let's get off the test frequency.
00:07:47Let's put in another 30 seconds, NASA-1.
00:07:50Roger.
00:07:51And 008-1 is heading.
00:07:53Sorry.
00:07:54The distance of two cameras are on.
00:07:56The winds are okay, Steve.
00:07:58Westerly at about 10 knots.
00:07:59Coming on.
00:08:00I'm indicating 004.
00:08:01How does that look?
00:08:02Looks good, Steve.
00:08:03And all the systems are okay here.
00:08:05The winds are westerly at 10 knots.
00:08:07Okay.
00:08:07This is NASA-1 calling 10 seconds now.
00:08:1010 seconds.
00:08:11Roger.
00:08:11Zero, five, four, three, two, one.
00:08:16Locked.
00:08:23Okay, Steve.
00:08:24Check your dampers, old buddy.
00:08:35Dampers are all.
00:08:36They're good for guns.
00:08:40Roger.
00:08:41Roger.
00:08:41Watch your alpha, Steve.
00:08:42Roger.
00:08:43Okay.
00:08:44You're coming up on theta.
00:08:45Okay, on theta.
00:08:47Okay, you're on track and you're on profile.
00:08:49We've got your pitch pulse here.
00:08:51Looks real good.
00:08:52Roger.
00:08:53This is NASA-1.
00:08:54You're just a little inside of track, but I'd hold it just like you are.
00:08:57Looking real good.
00:08:58There's another pulse.
00:08:59And the pulse looks good here.
00:09:01You're starting my turn.
00:09:13Oliver.
00:09:19In the past 18 months, we have had three projects that cost too many lives, too much money,
00:09:26and weren't necessarily risky.
00:09:29That is, risky to the point of threatening uncontrollable international confrontations.
00:09:34We ran an analysis on the subject, and as you can see, the conclusions dictate a somewhat
00:09:42different approach.
00:09:42The use of one single force, especially equipped, as it were, for such projects.
00:09:49We estimate the cost to be roughly six million dollars to establish the facilities, and half
00:09:56a million to a million dollars a year thereafter to sustain those facilities and maintain the
00:09:59operation.
00:10:00That's for one prototype?
00:10:02Well, we have no need of more than one until we work out the bugs.
00:10:05Where do you get the raw materials, Oliver?
00:10:09Are you going to ask for volunteers?
00:10:11No.
00:10:11No.
00:10:12Accidents happen all the time.
00:10:14We'll just start with scrap.
00:10:19They're shut down now.
00:10:22Roger, we have you at max altitude.
00:10:26Trim looks good.
00:10:27When you get a chance, come about five degrees left.
00:10:30Five left.
00:10:36Feels real good here.
00:10:38Okay, Steve.
00:10:39The winds are down to about five or six knots.
00:10:41Keep it coming left, Steve.
00:10:43Okay.
00:10:45Okay, going to lower gains.
00:10:48Okay, looks good.
00:10:50Come on, left, Steve.
00:10:51Five more degrees.
00:10:52You're on energy, Steve, and you're heading right for the turn point.
00:10:55Okay.
00:10:56Got you coming through 17,000 feet now.
00:10:59Okay.
00:10:59I got IT.
00:11:01Correction.
00:11:0120,000 feet.
00:11:02I'm sorry.
00:11:03The crew's got 18,500.
00:11:0518,500.
00:11:06Thanks, Bill.
00:11:06Okay, you're over the turn point now.
00:11:08About 18,000 feet.
00:11:10Okay.
00:11:11I think my interconnects are riding a little bit high.
00:11:14Okay, Steve.
00:11:14Go ahead and check your SAS gains and your interconnects, and you've got it from here.
00:11:18Okay.
00:11:19I'll raise the gains.
00:11:22I don't like that too well.
00:11:24How long are my gains roping?
00:11:26Oh, she's really oscillating now.
00:11:28Check your circuit breakers.
00:11:30Okay, buddy.
00:11:31Once you're right, come get out.
00:11:32Now I can handle it.
00:11:42Don't take any chances, Steve.
00:11:44No sweat.
00:11:45Move away out there.
00:11:46Give him some room.
00:11:47Okay, get ready for your gear.
00:11:49Roger.
00:11:51Okay, NASA-1.
00:11:52I'm going to try and cut it short by angling off to the compass rose.
00:11:56Okay.
00:11:57Take her any place you want.
00:11:59280, 270 knots.
00:12:01Get that chopper out of the way.
00:12:02He's all right.
00:12:03You're okay.
00:12:03Okay, you're clear.
00:12:04Watch your gear.
00:12:19This is NASA-1.
00:12:20Get that fire truck out there immediately.
00:12:22NASA-9, get on your way.
00:13:00I don't know.
00:13:32I'm sorry, Mr. Spencer.
00:13:34I didn't know you were here until about three minutes ago.
00:13:36Is he in a coma?
00:13:37Why?
00:13:37The accident was 36 hours ago.
00:13:39We should be conscious by now.
00:13:40Oh, we're keeping him unconscious.
00:13:41This is a process called electrosleep.
00:13:43We got it from the Russians.
00:13:44We generated an electric pulse directly into his skull through those electrodes.
00:13:48The pulse matches the alpha rhythm, and the body, in effect, resonates with the impulse.
00:13:54As long as we keep the current going, he'll sleep.
00:13:57He won't feel any pain.
00:13:58I'd like to report his condition, please.
00:14:02Rudy?
00:14:05Rudy?
00:14:05Rudy?
00:14:08This is Mr. Spencer, the Office of Strategic Operations.
00:14:11Will you brief him on Steve's condition, please?
00:14:16Well, he lost his right arm in the crash, Mr. Spencer.
00:14:23Both legs were badly crushed.
00:14:25We had to cut them off.
00:14:27He's blind in one eye.
00:14:29We're also concerned about injury to the spinal column.
00:14:33I mean, if some of the main nerves are affected,
00:14:37well, he may not be able to use his remaining arm.
00:14:46And so on.
00:14:48Just keep him alive.
00:15:30I was told this is where you take your breaks.
00:15:34I can understand your feelings, doctor.
00:15:36Do you?
00:15:37Yes, he's a very close friend, I understand.
00:15:41You have a remarkable opportunity, doctor.
00:15:45What do you mean?
00:15:46We've been watching your work very closely for some time now.
00:15:49You claim that you and your research team
00:15:52can take a man in Steve Austin's condition,
00:15:55replace the arm, both legs,
00:15:58and possibly even the eye,
00:15:59and make him come out even better possibly
00:16:02than it was before, is that correct?
00:16:04Theoretically, it could work, yes.
00:16:06Theoretically.
00:16:08I am prepared to give you all the money you require
00:16:10to make that happen.
00:16:16Are you serious?
00:16:18I could cost millions.
00:16:19Whatever it takes, we want you to do it.
00:16:31What's the problem, doctor?
00:16:35The problem is it's all on paper.
00:16:39It should work.
00:16:44But if it doesn't, what do I tell him?
00:16:47I haven't the faintest idea.
00:16:48What would you tell anyone?
00:16:50Steve Austin isn't anyone.
00:16:52Of all the men I know,
00:16:53he's the last I'd want to live the way he is now.
00:16:56Well, then you're his only hope.
00:16:58If you can't do it, then nobody can.
00:17:10One question.
00:17:12Yes, of course.
00:17:13Maybe this is none of my business,
00:17:15but what happens
00:17:18after he's been equipped with all these new parts?
00:17:21We have work for him.
00:17:22What kind of work?
00:17:25Certain jobs where the use of
00:17:28ships, planes,
00:17:30multiplicity of personnel
00:17:32would be inappropriate
00:17:34and where the use of a so-called
00:17:36normal agent would be ineffective.
00:17:38And that's where you come in, doctor.
00:17:39We feel that an agent,
00:17:41as you propose,
00:17:42who is part machine and part human
00:17:45would be the best compromise
00:17:46at this particular time.
00:17:47He would work alone, of course.
00:17:49And to the extent that he is machinery,
00:17:53he would be much more durable
00:17:54due to the fact that you could replace
00:17:56the parts that perhaps might become damaged.
00:17:59I suppose he doesn't want to do that kind of work.
00:18:01You don't really know
00:18:02what kind of work we do, doctor.
00:18:06Espionage,
00:18:07sabotage,
00:18:08assassination.
00:18:10Don't make a decision for Mr. Austin
00:18:12based upon hearsay
00:18:14or upon your own personal prejudice, doctor.
00:18:18I know that man.
00:18:20I am not altogether unfamiliar with him, doctor.
00:18:24I've been through a rather extensive file on him.
00:18:27Hmm.
00:18:29I suppose you have a file on me, too.
00:18:31Certainly.
00:18:32I wouldn't be sitting here talking with you
00:18:33if there weren't one.
00:18:36Well, Mr. Spencer,
00:18:38you've given me the opportunity of my life.
00:18:43I can't tell you how grateful I am.
00:18:45You'll forgive me if my anxiety is showing.
00:18:50Yeah, well, I'm sure you'll work it out, doctor.
00:18:55Oh.
00:18:56We're transferring Steve Austin
00:18:58to our research center in Colorado.
00:19:01You'll forgive me if I've taken the liberty
00:19:03of making accommodations
00:19:05for you and your staff in the same plane.
00:19:07We leave within the hour.
00:19:51Sparing me.
00:19:51Fifty milligrams.
00:19:55Okay.
00:20:02Help me stop him down, Gene.
00:20:06This will reassure him.
00:20:08Unconsciously, anyway, we wouldn't have to do this if he were totally powerless.
00:20:15I'm not going to use the sparing.
00:20:16I prefer the corral to hide, in case we have to knock him out yet.
00:20:20I know it's old-fashioned, but it applies in this instance.
00:20:23It's a non-depressant as far as the respiratory system is concerned.
00:20:27You all right?
00:20:42I don't know.
00:21:10I don't want you in here when he comes to.
00:21:12I don't want anybody in.
00:21:14Come on, come, come.
00:21:18Gene.
00:21:20Gene, thank you.
00:21:40Steve.
00:21:44You hear me?
00:21:47Steve.
00:22:02Steve.
00:22:07I'm gonna tell you Steve. I'm gonna tell you everything.
00:22:59I'm gonna tell you everything.
00:23:18Please.
00:23:38Please.
00:24:05Please.
00:24:54Beautiful, isn't it?
00:25:04I imagine you're curious as to why I haven't spoken to you since that night.
00:25:12How long is it now?
00:25:14Four months.
00:25:20I didn't have anything to say.
00:25:32Apparently, in part due to you, I'm going to stay alive.
00:25:41You may as well begin to deal with it as a fact.
00:26:03I'm going to stay alive.
00:26:15How's it going?
00:26:17You know, doctor, what this is, is impossible.
00:26:21I mean, a man loses an eye.
00:26:23Who can make him a new eye to see out of?
00:26:26And now, look here.
00:26:33What will it look like when it's in place?
00:26:35Just like the other eye.
00:26:37No difference.
00:26:39And we'll match it perfectly.
00:26:41I thought we were talking about a glass eye.
00:26:45Well, they used to think that that was impossible, because the eye normally rejects any foreign bodies.
00:26:52But they've done a lot of operations on pilots who've had pieces of broken windshield in their eyes.
00:26:59And they've discovered that we make jet plane windshields out of a kind of plastic that the eye does not
00:27:07project.
00:27:11I want to show you something, Steve.
00:27:17This is your arm.
00:27:30That's it, huh?
00:27:31Mm-hmm.
00:27:32We're rather proud of it.
00:27:35There's a manual that goes with it that has 840 pages.
00:27:39I'll give you a copy.
00:27:50Now, as you can see, it's not finished yet, but I just wanted to give you a sense of the
00:27:54basic structure.
00:27:57Look at it, Steve.
00:28:00There's nothing else like it in the whole world.
00:28:07Now, this is a nuclear-powered electrical generator that runs this motor.
00:28:13Now, this motor provides power for the manipulation of the arm, the hand, and the fingers.
00:28:21It's infinitely more powerful than your own arm.
00:28:31This is your arm, Steve.
00:28:34It'll be covered with skin that'll match your skin in color and texture.
00:28:39The number of hairs on your forearm.
00:28:43The skin on the fingertips will have your fingerprints on it.
00:28:47Look at it, Steve.
00:28:51Steve.
00:28:55This is not something alien.
00:28:58This is your arm.
00:29:09Now, I'll tell you what we're gonna do.
00:29:12We are going to put you back on the operating table.
00:29:15We're going to connect this arm to you permanently.
00:29:19It will take orders from your brain.
00:29:22It will be alive to do what you want it to do.
00:29:33Now, Steve, when we're through, when we're through,
00:29:43you've finished learning how to use this arm
00:29:46in the same way that a baby has to learn how to grasp, to put down, pick up.
00:29:50When all this is done, you'll be able to hold a woman in your arms.
00:29:57And in no way will any of her human senses be able to tell her which arm you were given.
00:30:02Not by sight, not by touch, not by skin temperature.
00:30:06No way.
00:30:08And we'll also give you two legs.
00:30:11And you'll be able to walk up to her, take her by the hand,
00:30:16and if it's what you want, you'll be able to dance with her.
00:30:28Everything I told Steve Austin was designed to reassure him
00:30:32that in all respects, he'd be a normal man again.
00:30:36What I didn't tell him, because I didn't feel he was ready for it,
00:30:39was the extent to which he'd be abnormal.
00:30:43I didn't tell him that if the operation was a success,
00:30:46his physical powers would be absolutely awesome.
00:30:50In fact, virtually limitless.
00:30:52That his new legs would enable him to run at incredible speeds.
00:30:55That his new arm with its nuclear power source would have the strength of a bulldozer.
00:30:59That his new eye would not only approximate, but conceivably transcend normal vision.
00:31:06In short, what I hadn't told Steve Austin was that if my theories proved correct,
00:31:11he would be transformed into something that had never before existed.
00:31:16Cyborg.
00:31:17A reconstructed man capable of inordinate physical feats.
00:31:22The 11th Post
00:31:24The 11th Post
00:31:28The 11th Post
00:31:35The 12th Post
00:32:05how did it go all right not so all right not in the tone of your voice
00:32:15if he comes to this I don't know I don't know how he's going to react we'll take care of
00:32:24his future
00:32:25you take care of his present but you don't understand mr. Spencer is that I know this
00:32:29boy for a very long do your job
00:32:53yeah
00:32:54yeah
00:32:56yeah
00:32:57yeah
00:32:57yeah
00:33:59Dr. Frankenstein, I presume.
00:37:51Is everything all right?
00:37:53I'm fine.
00:37:56Will you sit with me a minute?
00:37:59Please?
00:38:08May I touch you?
00:38:40Now, I have a choice again.
00:38:44Two hands, two hands, two hands, right down to the fingerprints, which one do I touch you with?
00:38:53What will the other one?
00:38:54What will the other one?
00:38:54What will the other one feel?
00:38:56They have touch circuits built into it.
00:38:58So that I can feel what I'm touching?
00:39:01Something like that?
00:39:04Something like that.
00:39:32I can carry it.
00:39:33I'll take you carry it.
00:39:35Easy.
00:39:39Now, come on, slowly.
00:39:42Push it, push it.
00:39:44Come on.
00:39:44Great, Steve. That's it. Come on, boy.
00:39:49Good. Good.
00:40:00That's it, Steve. Put your back into it.
00:40:06Easy coming around.
00:40:08Attaboy. Good, good. Good.
00:40:13Easy.
00:40:21Oh.
00:40:24That's good. Hold it.
00:40:31Want some help? No.
00:40:35The thing is, Doc, why? Why?
00:40:38Why what?
00:40:40Oh, come on. I may walk like a two-year-old, but I'm not that naive.
00:40:44Now, you all have given me a gift, and I thank you very much.
00:40:46But now, what is the price tag?
00:40:48We have given you something back that you've lost, and that is all.
00:40:52How do you know what I've lost?
00:40:53We've given you an eye for an eye, haven't we? An arm for an arm?
00:40:56My arm didn't come packed in a wooden box.
00:40:58What do you want? I want to know who's paying the freight!
00:41:00What's the difference?
00:41:01The difference is when the bill comes due.
00:41:04What are you so suspicious of?
00:41:07Look, I was a civilian member of the space program for 12 years.
00:41:10I know how much things cost.
00:41:11Now, why am I worth a few million dollars, and what do I have to do for it?
00:41:15How can I communicate with you when you suspect everything that I say?
00:41:19No.
00:41:32When I was up there on the moon, Doc, I was a quarter of a million miles away from the
00:41:38real world.
00:41:42But I felt a lot closer to it then than I do now.
00:41:49Thank you very much.
00:42:44He's not even breathing hard.
00:42:46Well, you see, his lungs are used to handling oxygen for the blood supply for two arms and two legs.
00:42:53Well, they only have to take care of one.
00:43:01Look, it's impossible.
00:43:09Twenty years ago, so was a four-minute mile.
00:43:12The limits are here, Miss Manners. Here.
00:43:16That arm, those legs of his will do anything, absolutely anything, his mind tells him to.
00:43:20I think he's ready for us now.
00:43:22I'm not quite sure, Oliver.
00:43:23I think perhaps a few days off, a little R&R, as it were.
00:43:28Don't you think so, Miss Manners?
00:43:30Well, that's all.
00:43:30Oh, my God.
00:44:03Man flying.
00:44:05We always try to imitate nature.
00:44:08Do her one better.
00:44:10Why is that?
00:44:12I guess because it's there.
00:44:17Yeah, because it's there.
00:44:19You know, that's why I wanted to go to the moon.
00:44:21When I was a kid, it really used to bug me.
00:44:24No way to reach it.
00:44:26We just couldn't get there from here.
00:44:28Finally, though.
00:44:30Oh, yeah.
00:44:32Always, finally.
00:44:42And they gave me a long lifeline.
00:44:46You remember you asked me about feeling?
00:44:48Whether or not you could feel or touch anything?
00:44:53I was there the day they...
00:44:57The day they worked out the built-in vibratory sensors in the fingertips.
00:45:04Afterwards, when we got to know you, everything was personal.
00:45:08But that day, you went electro-sleep, and everything was just technical.
00:45:14We didn't connect it to anything real or living.
00:45:29I'm sorry.
00:45:32I'm sorry.
00:45:33It's warm.
00:45:44It's all right.
00:45:45Nothing broken.
00:45:54It's all right.
00:46:00Nothing broken.
00:46:03I'm going, baby.
00:46:05Help!
00:46:08Help!
00:46:13I got to stab it, my little boy.
00:46:16And it's got to help.
00:46:18It's right there.
00:46:19There you can.
00:46:22Please stay here, please.
00:46:24Help him.
00:46:25It will be all right.
00:46:34He's in the front.
00:46:35Get him out of there.
00:46:35He's busy.
00:46:36He can't get out.
00:46:41Get him out.
00:46:54Get him out.
00:47:02Kill me.
00:47:17Oh, don't kill me.
00:47:26Oh, my God.
00:47:54Oh, my God!
00:48:03Charlie! Oh, God!
00:48:05Are you all right?
00:48:07Oh, Charlie.
00:48:08Oh, thank God.
00:48:11Thank God.
00:48:12It'll be all right, ma'am.
00:48:16I want to thank you.
00:48:26What are you?
00:48:31What are you?
00:48:34Come here.
00:49:07Oh, Spencer, I'm glad you could come.
00:49:09How is Malton?
00:49:11Hot.
00:49:12How is he?
00:49:20He can't see us.
00:49:21No, the mirror's on his side.
00:49:24Any change since you called me?
00:49:27No, he just sits there.
00:49:29He won't let us repair the arm.
00:49:30He won't let us sedate him.
00:49:33We've given him food and he won't eat.
00:49:35He just sits there.
00:49:38Suicidal?
00:49:39No, he's just fighting us.
00:49:42Fighting us?
00:49:44Mm-hmm.
00:49:57You all right?
00:49:59I'm fine.
00:50:00I just feel a little cold inside.
00:50:13I got a report on what happened.
00:50:16Is that a one-way mirror?
00:50:17Yes.
00:50:19Yes, it is.
00:50:20Who's watching me?
00:50:22Rudy Wells.
00:50:25We have a job for you.
00:50:26I won't take it.
00:50:28That's too bad.
00:50:29The timing is very bad.
00:50:31It won't be a long assignment.
00:50:33A week, ten days at the most.
00:50:36No.
00:50:37Well, let me tell you what's involved.
00:50:39I'm not interested.
00:50:44It may be more important than your rush to get the hell out of here.
00:50:48I don't owe the OSO anything.
00:50:51Oh?
00:50:53You had 12 years, 12 billion years with the space program.
00:50:56One of six civilians so trained and employed.
00:51:01All courtesy, all compliments of Uncle Sam.
00:51:04And I paid my obligations above and beyond the call of duty.
00:51:07There is no end to obligations.
00:51:09Look, I will not work for the OSO, period.
00:51:12Why?
00:51:13Why?
00:51:14Because you had an experience this afternoon
00:51:15that made you feel a little like, oh,
00:51:18some kind of a Frankenstein monster, eh?
00:51:22And now you hold the OSO responsible for those feelings
00:51:26simply because we gave you those two legs and that arm
00:51:28and that eye to see out of?
00:51:30Is that what you're talking about, eh?
00:51:32That's what you're feeling?
00:51:34Well, let's cut through this nonsense.
00:51:36We're pressed for time.
00:51:38If the OSO were an artillery outfit,
00:51:40we would very simply pick up the telephone
00:51:42and call a foundry
00:51:42and have a cannon designed and built for us.
00:51:45We are not, however, an artillery outfit.
00:51:48We do need a different kind of a weapon.
00:51:50A weapon that is potentially far more destructive than a cannon.
00:51:53It must be mobile and self-propelled in the field
00:51:55under any circumstances over any terrain.
00:51:57It must be able to reprogram itself in the field
00:52:01on the basis of new information and altered circumstances.
00:52:05It must have superior strength, stability, and utter dependability.
00:52:11Now, those were our specifications.
00:52:14And I'm the result.
00:52:15You are the result.
00:52:16One robot.
00:52:17No, actually, we would have preferred a robot.
00:52:20A robot doesn't have emotional needs and responses.
00:52:23You do.
00:52:25We have you because you are the optimum compromise
00:52:29in the present state of technology, Mr. Austin.
00:52:33A cybernetic organism.
00:52:36Part machine, part human being.
00:52:40The cyborg.
00:52:42Yes, we've had to settle for that.
00:52:52Mr. Austin.
00:52:55We didn't order you into that lifting body you were testing.
00:52:58We didn't order it crashed.
00:53:00We merely picked up the pieces and, unlike Humpty Dumpty,
00:53:04put you back together again.
00:53:07In some ways, I think even better than before.
00:53:10Only these feelings of mine wouldn't keep getting in the way, right?
00:53:12Yeah, something like that.
00:53:19You know, you're more of a robot than I am.
00:53:22You should have been me.
00:53:24Yes, it would have been simpler.
00:53:32All right, supposing I agree to take your assignment, whatever it is.
00:53:37How do you know I'll follow through?
00:53:39I don't.
00:53:40Unfortunately, I have no guarantees.
00:53:43But I would have thought that a man with your background,
00:53:47the kind of a life you've led,
00:53:48would lead you to want to be of further service to your country.
00:53:52All I want is to be left alone.
00:53:58One of the most powerful men in Israel has been kidnapped by terrorists.
00:54:02He is a vital link to any negotiated settlement in the Mideast.
00:54:06And you want me to spring?
00:54:08Precisely.
00:54:12What if I trade places with him?
00:54:14I'd never accept you.
00:54:15The terrorists have nothing to gain from peace.
00:54:17Their coming to power depends on war.
00:54:20I don't want to kill people.
00:54:21No one's asking you to.
00:54:22Oh, come on.
00:54:23That depends upon your ingenuity.
00:54:40All right.
00:54:42I'm not promising, but I'll listen.
00:54:52Dr. Wells.
00:54:53Dr. Wells?
00:54:54I'm here.
00:54:56We're going to have to have Mr. Austin repaired and modified.
00:54:58Would you get things rolling on that, please?
00:55:00Steve?
00:55:01We're in a time band, Doctor.
00:55:07I'll arrange a briefing for you on transportation.
00:55:10I'll get Miss Manners in here.
00:55:11I want her replaced.
00:55:14I don't want a permanent nurse again.
00:55:15It gets too personal.
00:55:44We'd better sort this out, Steve.
00:55:48We're not talking about a nurse assigned to a case.
00:55:53We're talking about a man and a woman and feelings.
00:56:00I'm in love with you.
00:56:03You're going to have to deal with those feelings.
00:56:07Getting the lady replaced doesn't settle it that easily.
00:56:14Think it over.
00:56:17I'll be here waiting when you get back.
00:56:19Come on.
00:56:32Come on.
00:56:34Well, Mr. Austin.
00:56:36Glad to see you looking so fit.
00:56:39Shall we get on with the briefing?
00:56:41Good evening.
00:56:42This is New Dela, Desert Survival.
00:56:45And the Sheriff.
00:56:46And Gerald and Operational Tactics.
00:56:50Please sit down.
00:56:53We have a touchy situation, Mr. Austin.
00:56:58Shall we begin?
00:56:59Right.
00:56:59Dim the lights, please.
00:57:05This is Ali ibn Jabral Hamud.
00:57:08He's an Arab who chose to remain in Israel.
00:57:11Very rich.
00:57:12Very powerful.
00:57:14Committed to detente between the Arabs and Israelis.
00:57:18As you know, he's being held hostage by a group of terrorists.
00:57:21Why don't the Israelis get him out?
00:57:24He's an Arab, Mr. Austin.
00:57:26Should he die in the attempt, the Arab world would blame Israel.
00:57:30Then, in effect, they're damned as they do and damned as they don't.
00:57:34Exactly.
00:57:36Would you take over from here, Mr. Geraldton, please?
00:57:38Yes, thank you.
00:57:42Saudi Arabia, of course.
00:57:44This is where they are.
00:57:47The Arabs call it Arab al-Khali, which translates as the empty quarter.
00:57:53It's an appropriate description.
00:57:55Absolutely no habitation of any sort.
00:57:58A great deal of sand, as you can see.
00:58:00In fact, quite desert.
00:58:04This flyby was a calculated risk, but do you think it's worth it in order to get these shots?
00:58:10Now, that aircraft is the DC-3 that you will use in your escape.
00:58:17There it is in closer shot.
00:58:21Now, notice, please, these two half-tracks.
00:58:26They are manned by 30-caliber machine guns.
00:58:30And nearby is a reinforced emplacement.
00:58:34There it is.
00:58:35That has a .50-caliber machine gun.
00:58:39And it's about 30 yards from this blockhouse where we believe Al-Hagmoud is kept.
00:58:45That's a distance of about 250 yards from the plane which is on the runway.
00:58:51But to make it, you will have to put out this tank.
00:58:54And that's a cannon. It's a 105mm.
00:58:58Now, as you can see, they've been fully prepared for this.
00:59:03We cannot storm them because if we do, they'll simply kill Al-Hagmoud's.
00:59:07Try to wear your lights, please.
00:59:09The problem, then, is to get him out.
00:59:13And that, Mr. Austin, is where you come in.
00:59:17We'll fly you in as close as we can without alerting them, of course,
00:59:21and drop you by parachute, but you will have some traveling to do.
00:59:25And time is an important factor here.
00:59:28A normal man, of course, could not be expected to survive the ordeal.
00:59:31In fact, there's no guarantee that even you...
00:59:33If we fly you in by airfoil parachute, you'd have a 4-to-1 glide ratio.
00:59:38But then you might pick up 30 or 40 miles in gliding down.
00:59:41What about the winds?
00:59:42They're unpredictable.
00:59:44But 30 or 40 miles is a serious distance.
00:59:53If he thinks so, I'm for it.
00:59:56All right, then you'll go in and fly him out safely in the DC-3.
01:00:00Oh, my God.
01:00:12Step six steps.
01:00:15God for it.
01:05:26And what I don't know is how you could possibly send a man to his death for no reason whatsoever.
01:05:32I had my reason.
01:05:33None that could justify what you've done.
01:05:35None.
01:05:36Dr. Welles, Dr. Welles, Dr. Welles, listen to me, Dr. Welles, listen to me carefully.
01:06:06It's just a man.
01:06:06It's just a man to find a man to find a man to find out if he has the need,
01:06:08the will to survive.
01:06:09You're telling me, you're telling me, you're telling me, you're telling me, you're telling me for the test?
01:06:10You're telling me for the sake of a test? You risk an extraordinary man's life? Is that what you're telling
01:06:14me?
01:06:14Please, please, Welles, don't be sentimental. I can always have another cyborg built if this one fails.
01:06:19But if he should survive, which appears to be doubtful, then I know that I have my man.
01:06:24On the contrary. If he survives, you've lost your man.
01:06:28But doesn't your file tell you that he'll hold you in contempt for what you've done?
01:06:33I am not concerned about feelings his, yours, or mine.
01:06:37Before I risk World War III on a man, I must know beyond a doubt that he is utterly, totally
01:06:42reliable.
01:06:47There was no other way.
01:06:50Boy, you guys really play for keeps, don't you?
01:06:54Yes, Dr. Welles. Of course we play for keeps.
01:07:08Why didn't they kill you, too?
01:07:11I am Israeli.
01:07:13They can use me as bait for a prisoner trade.
01:07:17But you, my friend, understand me well.
01:07:22Atameveen, they will question you.
01:07:24And if they determine you have no use to them, they will shoot you.
01:07:30Are you?
01:07:33Abuse to them?
01:07:35No.
01:07:37Pity.
01:07:40Here, take a cut.
01:07:43Too bad.
01:07:44Too bad. It's a great trick.
01:07:46You fly that little number out there?
01:07:48Yes, why?
01:07:50I'm going out of here.
01:07:51You coming?
01:07:53Vatai, Vatai, of course.
01:07:54But I must warn you, it is not easy running in broad daylight dragging a cement wall behind you.
01:08:24I'm going out of here.
01:08:26How are you able to do that?
01:08:27Vitamins.
01:08:29Still now, we got out of this building at that door, two inches thick.
01:08:32Never mind, just stay here.
01:08:34And when the shooting starts, run for the plane, start it up.
01:08:37I'll follow.
01:08:43How are you going to do that?
01:08:47I'll follow.
01:08:48I'll follow me on the track.
01:08:55Take me away.
01:08:55I'll follow you on the track.
01:09:08Let's go.
01:09:33Let's go.
01:10:12Let's go.
01:10:34Let's go.
01:11:34Congratulations, Steve.
01:11:36Fooled you.
01:11:37Did you?
01:11:39Uh-huh.
01:11:40I made it back.
01:11:41Well, I was always hoping you would.
01:11:45Bend down here a minute, Spencer.
01:11:47I want to tell you something.
01:11:52Yes?
01:11:55Really?
01:11:57Well, I haven't been called that since grammar school.
01:12:04Steve, we're going to put you back into a lecture of sleep to get you through the pain.
01:12:08Yeah, you'll be healing while you sleep.
01:12:10Okay.
01:12:11Here's the doctor.
01:12:13Dr. Boyles.
01:12:19Is it possible to keep him asleep indefinitely?
01:12:25Now, what are you going to do?
01:12:27Keep him under, between assignments, and wake him up only when you need him?
01:12:33Over my dead body.
01:12:39Well, it was just an idea, and not a bad one at that, eh?
01:13:09So, anyway.
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