Human Target

Blending in.

You have no idea what it's like, always blending in.

You forget who you are.

Eventually, you start to forget who you ever were.

They push you and push you further into the margins.

Treat you like dirt, take away your manhood.

Make you small.

Somebody had to do something about it.

I hear you, Hollis, I really do. He used you.

Took advantage of your work and cut you loose. It's a terrible thing.

But I got people to answer to.

They're talking about kicking down doors.

Look, since I don't think either one of us wanna go down that road just yet...

...help me buy time. Send out the employees.

No. No. That won't work.

Let me finish. The deal is I get the bystanders, you keep Ken Lydecker.

He's the only one you really want anyway.

You'll still have leverage and I'll have something to show my bosses.

We'll all get to live a little while longer.

All right. Everybody but Lydecker, out.

Let's go. Move.

This way. This way. Keep moving. This way.

Hey, buddy, we alone yet? - Shut up, I'm-

I'll take that for a yes.

Excuse me.

- Are you Ken Lydecker? - Yeah.

Well, if you're out here, who's that inside?

Where's Lydecker?

Just give it a minute. You'll figure it out.

I've seen you. You've been around here.

You're the auditor.

Not really.

Listen, never make threats. You wanna do something, don't talk about it.

- Do it. - What?

Lydecker. Been sending him threats. Got him planning, got his guard up.

Now look where you are.

Threats just make things messier. No more threats. Just action.

You just committed suicide for that snake.

That rat. Do you realize that?

First, I don't think you can be both of those things at the same time.

Second, you're a salesman. You got fired.

Not like he had you working a chain gang.

He took out eight years of my life.

Left me with nothing. No severance. No savings.

I mean, he broke me. And he deserves to die for it.

- No, he doesn't. - He does.

No, he doesn't.

Nobody deserves to die, and after seeing your behavior this afternoon...

...I think Lydecker deserves a medal for putting up with you.

- What are you doing? - I'm gonna take the gun.

- Guns are not for messing around. - You think I'm messing around?

We've been here for six and a half hours. I'm tired. I missed lunch. Enough already.

Are you crazy?

Am I crazy?

I'm assuming that was a rhetorical question.

You don't wanna go out like this, do you?

No.

So I'm gonna go outside.

And I'm gonna get as close to Lydecker as I can.

And then I'm gonna finish what I started.

And you can stand there and say whatever you want.

That I'm about to do a terrible thing. That I can still get out of this.

But it's not gonna change anything. This is still gonna happen.

Hollis, what did I tell you?

No threats.

Hello, Carmine.

So how's your buddy today?

Happy to be home.

Morning, Winston. Checking up on me?

Why, did something happen?

Could care less about you.

Who's been feeding that beast the whole time you've been laid up?

I don't know. Figured he finally got a hold of the mailman. Just been eating him.

- Lydecker sent payment. - This? Oh.

So...

Whiskey?

It's not whiskey.

It's a 25-year-old bottle of Takagi. That's $900 a pop.

When I suggested we keep transactions quiet by bartering instead of cash...

...I assumed you knew I meant bartering for things of significant value.

That stuff's not easy to come by.

Hold onto it for 10 years, it'll be worth 10 times as much.

- Oh, so it's an investment. - Exactly.

A guy blows up the building he's in, you don't think him a long-term investor.

We're still having this conversation? Really?

It was the only way to stop the guy from killing Lydecker and bystanders.

Yeah, so you've said.

However, what I'm trying to figure out is how the whole thing even got that far.

Why not challenge him at the outset?

The guy didn't arm the vest until late in the game.

Why not disarm him cleanly beforehand?

So I let it get that far because I thought it'd be fun?

I don't know. So why don't you tell me?

Why don't you just ask me what you wanna ask me?

Are you slipping?

I waited because I felt Lydecker was in no immediate danger.

Do you think I would've pulled the trigger if I didn't know there was a bearing wall?

If I didn't know that homemade fuse...

...was gonna have at least a three-second delay?

- Where you headed? - To see Peale. He's got a referral for us.

- I can come. - Ha, ha. No, no, you can't. No.

You can't, because the shop's closed and it stays closed until you recover.

No discussion.

Thanks for worrying.

But there's nothing to worry about.

It was about a week ago.

I get in the car to go to work and it won't start.

Two hours later, I'm at the dealership...

...and the mechanic comes out with this look on his face.

He says, "Good news is your battery's dead. "

Bad news is he found 8 ounces of Primasheet 2000 under the hood.

Plastic explosive.

I don't know why anyone would want me dead.

I've never gotten threats. Don't have enemies.

I don't know what this is. That's why I need your help.

The police refused to grant protection?

You know the deal with the department.

Captain gave me two men, no overtime.

Given the situation, it ain't hardly enough.

The situation? What situation?

Tell him what you do.

I work for McNamara Engineering.

I run the design team for the Monterey Line.

California bullet train?

The lady's responsible for the most expensive public works project...

...in U.S. history.

The last thing McNamara needs is controversy surrounding the project.

But I'm not here for the company. I'm here because she's my wife.

With the train's maiden voyage coming up tomorrow...

...you can understand why we wanna keep this information private.

If you can help end this faster and safer than the police can...

...you're the men we want.

All right, well, um, we're not taking any new clients on at the moment.

- I can refer you to another security- - No.

No, I was told that you provide a unique service.

- That you're the people that I need. Why me?

You can flush this person out, yes?

Get him to reveal himself and take him out.

I work with a cover. Blend in to the background.

Let you appear vulnerable so the threat reveals itself.

And then eliminate the threat.

I don't wanna live my life in fear.

Whoever's behind this shouldn't have that kind of power over me.

How fast does this train go?

Safe cruising speed is about 200 miles per hour.

Would I get to ride on it?

I assume so.

Okay. I'm in.

Let's go over the cover again. Who am I?

You're Tony Graham, my new translator.

Good. What happened to your old translator?

The company provided one to deal with our Tokyo financiers...

...but she made too many mistakes, so I hired my own.

While we're on the subject, you are fluent in Japanese, right?

Guess we'll find out, won't we?

Mr. Saito congratulates you on a well-deserved celebration.

He's honored to be invited.

Thank you. I'm so glad you could be here.

- What? - They're our biggest investors.

What did you just say?

He wanted to know how I recognized his dialect was Satsuma-ben.

My grandfather was stationed in Tokyo.

After the war, they had a steward from a village on the island of Kyushu.

My grandfather sponsored him when he came to the U.S. for college.

Became a friend of the family. He taught me Japanese.

Wow, that's- Is that true?

No.

Do you really think whoever's after me is gonna be on this train?

Three hours in a confined space with no escape, no apparent security.

This is where he makes his next move.

Then why are you letting me on it?

Because there's no escape for him either.

When he moves, I'll be standing right next to you.

In three hours, one way or the other, this thing is going to be over.

McNAMARA: When my father started this company...

...I doubt he'd have thought the state of California could ever accomplish this.

But in three hours, we'll be in L.A.

Nothing will ever be the same again and it's all because of you.

So here's to you.

- Cheers. - Cheers.

Cheers.

Don't sweat what everybody says. You'll enjoy working for her.

- What does everybody say? - That she's miserable to work for.

That if you're not smart as she is, you must be incompetent.

That mistakes should be punishable by death.

So it isn't true?

No, it's true. Ha, ha.

If she's so difficult, why does anyone put up with working with her?

The truth?

James.

He protects her. From everybody.

Even McNamara.

Yeah, speak of the devil.

I was, uh, just telling Tony how everybody hates you, except for me.

Tom was James' best man. He introduced us.

He's McNamara's general counsel.

You'll have to excuse me.

Our undersecretary for mass transit insists...

...on bugging me about the tab for today.

- So, what was the tab for all this? - All in? About 80 billion.