Twilight's Last Gleaming

00:49:24,846 --> 00:49:26,597 Hello, Mr Secretary. 528 00:49:26,723 --> 00:49:28,515 So good of you to come. Please sit. 529 00:49:28,641 --> 00:49:31,267 You looked very sharp on "Meet The Press" this morning. 530 00:49:32,645 --> 00:49:35,021 With the football game on television, General, 531 00:49:35,147 --> 00:49:37,065 I'm humbled that you tuned in. 532 00:49:38,484 --> 00:49:41,528 See today's dispatch cartoon on us? 533 00:49:41,654 --> 00:49:43,113 How about some coffee? 534 00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,448 - Too early for a drink? - No, thank you. 535 00:49:45,575 --> 00:49:47,075 Mr President, 536 00:49:47,201 --> 00:49:51,955 when you asked me to come down from Princeton to look after Defence, 537 00:49:52,081 --> 00:49:53,874 as you quaintly put it, 538 00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:57,377 you didn't tell me I'd be working for Renfrew. 539 00:49:57,504 --> 00:50:01,464 If the rumours about my imminent departure are coming from him, 540 00:50:01,591 --> 00:50:03,592 I can handle it, 541 00:50:03,718 --> 00:50:07,012 but I will not be a member of your election team, 542 00:50:07,138 --> 00:50:09,556 if I'm to be replaced after next November. 543 00:50:10,349 --> 00:50:14,060 In other words, Mr President, if you're going to fire me, do it now. 544 00:50:18,816 --> 00:50:22,819 Mr Secretary, I have no intention off iring you. 545 00:50:22,945 --> 00:50:24,821 Not now or after the election. 546 00:50:26,699 --> 00:50:30,911 What I would like... is for you and Renfrew 547 00:50:31,037 --> 00:50:33,622 to expedite the policy of this administration. 548 00:50:34,373 --> 00:50:35,707 What policy? 549 00:50:40,212 --> 00:50:41,755 Are you saying we have no policy? 550 00:50:43,007 --> 00:50:44,508 That's correct, Mr President. 551 00:51:08,490 --> 00:51:11,868 - This is Stevens. - Mr President, this is General Mackenzie. 552 00:51:11,994 --> 00:51:14,287 - We're on scrambler. - Yes, General? 553 00:51:15,372 --> 00:51:19,209 We have a crisis situation at one of our missile centres, sir. 554 00:51:20,169 --> 00:51:21,503 I'm listening. 555 00:51:21,629 --> 00:51:26,633 Three escaped convicts, led by a former general in the Air Force, Lawrence Dell... 556 00:51:26,759 --> 00:51:31,429 Wait a minute. The general convicted of killing somebody up in Wyoming? 557 00:51:32,139 --> 00:51:33,932 Montana. Yes, sir. 558 00:51:34,809 --> 00:51:38,854 They penetrated an ICBM launch centre near Malmstrom. 559 00:51:40,356 --> 00:51:44,776 And, sir, we've confirmed that Silo 3 is isolated. 560 00:51:44,902 --> 00:51:48,363 Isolated? What the hell does that mean? 561 00:51:49,281 --> 00:51:52,200 It means, sir, we're unable to inhibit launching. 562 00:51:53,452 --> 00:51:56,162 You tell me a renegade general's got his finger 563 00:51:56,288 --> 00:51:59,207 on the button of a Titan missile? 564 00:51:59,333 --> 00:52:01,627 No, sir. 565 00:52:01,753 --> 00:52:05,756 The button can launch nine Titan missiles. 566 00:52:08,217 --> 00:52:12,095 Jesus Christ, Mackenzie! What the hell are you guys doing out there? 567 00:52:14,516 --> 00:52:19,435 - Those missiles have atomic warheads? - Yes, sir. Titans are first line of defence. 568 00:52:19,562 --> 00:52:24,775 How in the hell does some... joker walk into a top-secret installation, 569 00:52:24,901 --> 00:52:28,319 and get control of the most sophisticated weapons system in the world? 570 00:52:28,445 --> 00:52:30,822 You want to explain that, General? 571 00:52:30,948 --> 00:52:33,867 Lawrence Dell is no joker, Mr President. 572 00:52:33,993 --> 00:52:36,494 He was on my staff for two years. 573 00:52:36,621 --> 00:52:40,666 He was one of the primary designers of Malmstrom's missile installation. 574 00:52:43,670 --> 00:52:45,962 Where are these missiles aimed, General? 575 00:52:46,756 --> 00:52:48,590 I don't know, Mr President. 576 00:52:48,716 --> 00:52:51,677 You don't know? 577 00:52:51,803 --> 00:52:54,220 All target areas are classified, sir, 578 00:52:54,346 --> 00:52:57,808 known only to you, the joint chiefs and the National Security Council. 579 00:52:58,434 --> 00:53:00,018 Well, take a guess, General. 580 00:53:00,144 --> 00:53:02,187 Well, I would assume, sir, the... 581 00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:06,858 ...the target areas are somewhere in the Soviet Union. 582 00:53:07,527 --> 00:53:12,488 Have you, talked to this, this Dell character 583 00:53:12,615 --> 00:53:14,490 since he assumed control of...? 584 00:53:15,618 --> 00:53:17,828 Silo 3. Yes, sir, I have. 585 00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:23,584 He told me that if he didn't talk to you in 58 minutes, 586 00:53:23,710 --> 00:53:25,085 he was prepared to launch. 587 00:53:25,211 --> 00:53:26,920 Did he say anything else? 588 00:53:28,214 --> 00:53:30,423 He had a number of things to say, Mr President. 589