Striking Range

The employees are not gonna get nervous

and call the Federales, are they?

What do you expect when you make them bait?

Don't worry, I've shut down all the outbound calls.

He may have a future as a cyber-athlete.

You know, some people make a living playing those computer games.

Sitting at a computer console

playing first-person shooter games 24 hours a day

does not make you an athlete, it makes you a college applicant reject.

Go on, move! Move! Move! Move!

God, I always wondered what it'd be like

sitting in a Trojan horse all day and all night.

Huh. They just couldn't stay away

from the fabled pot of gold.

Move! Move!

Oh, God. It looks like they got Sharon.

I told her to leave.

If she wants to be bait, I say let her be bait.

You got our full payment up front, right?

What's she doing here anyway?

She likes Vash.

She's whacked.

You know, the other day, her eyes

were rolling in the back of her head.

She was complaining of a headache.

You know, so I asked her, you know, if I could get her something,

you know, like a glass of water.

She sends me to the damn pharmacy.

Cost me over a hundred bucks.

Hasn't paid me back yet.

That is nothing. I went to the pharmacy

to get Denise's nebulizer. $160.

Is Tave in position?

Yeah.

You know, I'm telling you

your son is one of the best computer game players I've ever seen.

Last summer, he spent 10 hours a day,

every day, playing that damn game.

If you had kids, you'd change your tune, trust me.

All right, I can see them all now.

Mabe baby, let's open this Trojan horse.

All right, Tave, we're moving.

Rule number one, people?

We do not take a bullet...

For a client.

Amen.

Combination!

You know what I'd like to see?

They've got steering wheels for the driving games, right?

Like, joysticks that vibrate

and all kinds of stuff for the flight sim games.

What they need is a gun or a rifle

for these first-person shooter games.

I'm sure they have them.

Yeah, you'd have to aim, reload.

Have sensors so you can duck and stuff.

And then maybe a foot pedal

to control your movements and where you face, instead of a mouse.

Any women play these first-person shooter games?

Not you too, huh?

I'd say less than 5%.

So it's just a bunch of pale-skinned guys,

sitting around, whose only meaningful

relationships are with their DSL?

Right? Is that what it is?

Yeah, those losers.

All right. This hallway is clear.

Thank God.

There's nothing here.

She's right. There's nothing here!

All right, all right.

We'll start beating her hand.

I don't have the combination!

You don't have to have it! No.

You don't know what you're up against.

It doesn't matter.

They're gonna kill us anyway, Sharon.

Sharon. Sharon Careington, here in the flesh.

Your daddy is gonna get real pissed off.

One guard, four hostages.

Shh.

So much for surprise.

You know, Mabe, his son, Robert, is good.

He's real good.

See, that's exactly why I can't wait

for you to get married and have kids.

People running around cyberspace,

killing each other with guns, is not real.

At least if he makes a mistake online, he lives another day.

Hey, hey, hey, come on now, I--I shushed her.

She didn't shut up.

What? I should shoot her?

Move it! Sit down! Move! Move! Move! Move!

Sit down! Don't look up!

Oh, my God, they're gonna kill us all. Look at this.

Look at this. They're lining us up.

They're gonna kill us all one at a time.

Somebody say something, do something to these people.

Oh, my God, my wife.

I have a wife and a little girl at home.

I just ordered a sports car.

Haven't even driven it yet.

I love my car.

You guys are getting sloppy.

All right, Tave, you and Mabe take care of these people.

We'll clean up the last little bit.

Please don't kill me yet.

I just bought a new HDTV.

My wife hasn't finished her boob job.

Please don't shoot me.

The other day, Robert was the last member of his team, right?

Yeah.

His instincts were great, man.

He was up against four pretty good players, he took each one of them out,

the last one with a wall shot. He won the game.

Precisely my point. It's a game.

It's not just a game, man.

You can make a living in the CPL.

All right, freeze! Freeze!

Move that! Move it! Move in there!

Move back! Move back! Move back!

Don't listen to him! Shoot! What did I say?

What did I tell you?

You bastard. My father will have you killed.

You shut up, bitch!

Drop your gun right now! Drop it right now!

Robert spent so much time... Drop the gun right now!

...on that game.

I'm just starting to get a little bit jealous.

Just think of all the hand-eye coordination he's getting

from the hours spent on the mouse.

Right. Drop your gun right now!

I'm telling you guys! Drop your gun right now!

You're a dead man! Don't listen to him.

You shut up!

You got those SS109's?

All I have are these soft 7.62's.

Oh, no. Oh, yeah.

No. Yes.

No. Yes.

Put your gun down right now!

Or I'll shoot her right now!

We haven't been paid yet.

Shoot the bastard! Now! I order you!

She is ordering us.

Drop your gun right now!

Shoot!

Mabe, come on in, bring your med kit.

You tell him what...

Don't, don't let him tell you what to do.

Oh, the MVP Award?

How can you call him a little girl

when you're the one who screamed?

You know what? I didn't just... You're the one who screamed.

You won't let it go. And you.

You know how much coffee I had to drink to talk that fast?

I will tell you one other thing.

The next time I send you inside

you are going in as a deaf mute.

Robert De Niro you ain't.

Okay, deaf mute.

Welcome to Billings Laboratories.

How may I direct your call?

I'm sorry. Mr. Billings isn't taking any calls.

Would you like to speak with his assistant, Monica?

Emily, I want you in on the test.

But no one else. And it'll be Lab C.

Why not the main lab?

Magnetic shielding issues.

I don't give a damn about shielding.

I just don't want the mongrels watching this.

That's how rumors get started.

Power levels are ready.

Distance to target would be

thirty-six inches.

Everything's set.

What did you tell them?

That you wanted to run some tests yourselves.

And no, they don't think it's ready yet.

But you did finish the...

Yes, Dad. It's ready.

Yeah. Well, we'll see.

Initiating pre-sequence.

Power to 80.

80.

Initiating primary trigger.

Now.

The hole's diameter is two inches.

Depth is 4.5 inches.

4.5 inches?

It's three inches more than...

We did it!

We?

It doesn't seem very warm.

It's not supposed to be.

It doesn't split. It separates the quarks, destabilizing the atom.

But a destabilized atom...

The quarks come together,

held by gluon to create stable atoms and thus stable molecules.

You see, what my father found was that