Mercury Rising

Let's go down.

- You got some out. How many left ? - Three out, eight left.

- Edgar's still the man ? - Edgar's the man.

Edgar, I want to thank you for letting these people go.

Send out the others, and we can come to a peaceful resolution.

Get this straight. I don't trust you or any agent of your occupation government.

Listen to me one more time.

I have an order from the Citizens' Court of South Dakota...

to seize the ill-gotten assets of this bank.

Move your people away from here or these bloodsuckers will burn in hell!

[ Helicopter Engine Whirring ]

They're gettin' ready to come in.

- Let them come. -

- I have to go home. - Get down!

Please, let me go home. Please, let me go home.

- Get the fuck down ! - I just need to go home.

When he says "get down," just do it!

[ Helicopter Engine Whirring ]

Damn!

I sure don't feel good.

You said we were gonna be in and out of here before anybody knew what hit 'em.

You said they were gonna back down.

- - They ain't backin' down, Edgar.

They got an army out there.

They're gonna come in here and shoot all of us.

God just wants His miracle to be greater.

God doesn't want your boys to get killed, Edgar!

We need more time, you sons of bitches!

You ain't in charge here. So shut up!

- They cut us off. - We gotta go in.

- We have a man in there. He wants more time. - Right.

Undercover agent who isn't supposed to be there in the first place.

- We're goin' in. - Let me try 'em on the bullhorn.

- If they come back to me-- - You've got three minutes.

This is Agent Blackwell, Edgar.

I need you to pick up the telephone.

- I need to talk with you. - We can still walk out of here.

You just gotta stand up to him.

Just tell him you wanna go home. Can you do it ?

Edgar, please pick up the phone. We can still work this out.

[ Helicopter Engine Whirring ]

Edgar, please pick up the phone. We were doing well before.

Sir ?

Peter's right.

It's not like you said it was going to be.

I wanna go home.

Edgar, the boy's right.

- Traitor. - Daddy. - Shut up, Isaac.

- Let me call 'em on the telephone. - We don't need him.

- We can still walk out of here. - Do it, Edgar!

For your boys, do it!

Get down ! Get down!

F.B.I. ! Get on the ground.

Go, go, go!

Daddy!

Stay down ! Don't move.

- Don't move, goddamn it ! - I'm F.B.I. F.B.I. ! Get off me, asshole!

- Tell your men to hold their fire. - Peter.

- Peter. - James ?

James, keep your head down ! Where are you ?

- Peter ! - No ! No ! No!

Hold your fire ! No ! No!

Damn it!

Goddamn it!

Shoot ! Shoot!

Get a med tech in here ! Get a med tech in here, goddamn it!

Don't talk. Don't talk.

Come on now, goddamn it!

Get a med tech in here!

He's dead.

Who said "go" ?

Who's the S.A.C. ?

Hartley.

Hartley!

Special Agent Hartley!

Hartley ! Did you hear me ask for more time ?

- Get your hands off me. - Did you hear me ask for more time ?

- You're out of line, Jeffries. - I'm out of line ? I'm out of line ?

Did I just massacre five fuckin' people ? Huh ? Did I ?

Three seconds, Hartley, I was gonna walk 'em all out alive.

Massacre.

They were just kids.

Just kids.

I report to Washington just like you do, Jeffries.

[ Helicopter Engine Whirring ]

Right on Western. Left on Belmont.

- Hey, Simon, I have a surprise for you. - Right on Halsted.

- Left on Fullerton. - You're giving some good directions.

Look. I have something very, very special.

You like these puzzles, don't ya ?

Uh-huh. Okay, but not yet, Simon.

If I give you the puzzle book, I want you to join in with the rest of the class, okay ?

That's great.

It's time to join the group now, okay ?

Good morning, Simon.

Good morning, teacher.

Good morning, teacher.

Look at me.

Good morning, teacher.

I better not beat you. I only accept cash.

- How are you ? - Well, another day at the office.

- You ready ? - Yeah.

All right, let's talk about it.

Agent Jeffries here to see you, Chief.

The psychologist wrote "delusional paranoia"...

in capital letters across the bottom of your file.

- So, am I fired ? - No, you're not fired.

- But I can't put you undercover anymore. That's over. - What do they expect me to do ?

- To do your job. - I work undercover. That's my job.

- You have a new job now. - And what is that ?

Sitting on a wire, stakeouts, log tapes.

- A little public relations. - Fourteen years on the job, and that's all it means ?

I've gotta sit on a wire with some rookie listening to a housewife order groceries ?

- All you had to do was keep your mouth shut. - All I did was tell the truth.

- Act like you belong on the same team as the rest of us. - What team ?

That bunch of suits sitting behind a desk trying to justify their existence ?

- Like me. Is that what you're saying ? - I don't know, Joe.

- Why didn't you say one thing to back me up ? - Because you were wrong!

- I wasn't wrong ! - You were dead wrong.

Two teenage kids in cold blood, and you know it.

- They were goddamn bank robbers, for Christ's sake ! - They were kids.

Will you forget about South Dakota ?

Forget who's right and who's wrong. This is one of the best undercover guys.

How could I forget that ?

Sit down, Art.

Sometimes... you got somethin'.

It's... magic.

Then it goes away.

You had it.

But the magic's gone.

They told you to break my balls, and see if you could get me to quit.

I'm not gonna make it easy for you.

You want me to sit on a wire, I'll do it.

You want me to chase file applicants, I'll do that.

Take your best shot.

Check your mailbox for your new assignments.

- -

Hey, Simon, we're here.

Mommy, Simon is home.

Look at me.

Hi, Mom.

Hi, honey. I missed you. Come on inside.

Be careful.

It's very hot.

Sip it slowly.

Daddy'll be home soon.

And when you finish that, you can wait for him up in your room.

Congratulations. You've reached the Puzzle Center.

For solving one of our master puzzles,

you've won a subscription to the magazine of your choice.

Can I please have your name, address and telephone number ?

You are...

a stranger.

Excuse me. This the Puzzle Center. Where did you get this number ?

Puzzle nine-nine.

What did you just say ? Who is this ?

Simon, put down the phone.

Simon, Simon, wait a second. Please don't hang--

Come on, come on.

Figures.

See if they correlate.

If they don't, you may have lost some bytes in the transfer, lost a keyword.

You won't be able to defractionate. Yeah ?

- Are you scrambled ? - Give me a break, Leo. I'm busy.

It's Mercury, Dean. Somebody just walked on water. You have to get up here now.

- What did you just say ? - You are a stranger.

- What did you just say ? - You are a stranger.

- Who is this ? - Simon, put down the phone.

Simon, Simon, wait a second. Please don't hang--

Who is that ?

Listen to the timbre of his voice.

It's a child. That had to be his mother.

Right. It's just some rug rat...

drooling over the phone, punching numbers, like a random thing.

Huh ?

We're not that lucky.

- We have to call Kudrow. - What ? Dean, what ?

No, no, no. We don't have to call anybody.

All we gotta do is an analysis, and give him a report when he gets back.

- That's it ! - Do you understand what just happened ?

We have to call him now or he's gonna say we tried to hide it.

- Morning, sir. - Good morning, Marine.

I've got an urgent message for Lieutenant Colonel Kudrow.

Mercury is already operational in most of our com centers.

And I'm here to confirm everything you've already heard.

Mercury is a quantum leap in our communications security.

And once we complete its installation in all of our com centers,

- it's going to be very hard for our adversaries-- - And our allies.

- - And our allies to compromise our communications.

An urgent message for you, sir.

If you'll excuse me.

-Mr. Johnson will continue the briefing. -All right, gentlemen.

Impossible.

- You're late. - I wasn't when I started.

Traffic was like mud.

I oozed home.