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McKittrick:
General, the machine has locked us out. It's sending random numbers to the silos. Pat Healy:
Codes. To launch the missiles. General Beringer:
Just unplug the goddamn thing! Jesus Christ! McKittrick:
That won't work, General. It would interpret a shutdown as the destruction of NORAD. The computers in the silos would carry out their last instructions. They'd launch. General Beringer:
Can't we disarm the missiles? Pat Healy:
Over a thousand of them? There's no time. At this rate it will hit the launch codes in... 5.3 minutes. General Beringer:
[smiles sarcastically at McKittrick]
Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks. McKittrick:
I don't have to take that, you pig-eyed sack of shit. General Beringer:
Oh, I was hoping for something a little better than that from you, sir. A man of your education. Major Lem:
[holding a telephone]
General, it's the president. McKittrick:
What are you... what are you going to tell him? General Beringer:
I'm ordering our bombers back to fail-safe. We might have to go through this thing after all
General, the machine has locked us out. It's sending random numbers to the silos. Pat Healy:
Codes. To launch the missiles. General Beringer:
Just unplug the goddamn thing! Jesus Christ! McKittrick:
That won't work, General. It would interpret a shutdown as the destruction of NORAD. The computers in the silos would carry out their last instructions. They'd launch. General Beringer:
Can't we disarm the missiles? Pat Healy:
Over a thousand of them? There's no time. At this rate it will hit the launch codes in... 5.3 minutes. General Beringer:
[smiles sarcastically at McKittrick]
Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I've come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks. McKittrick:
I don't have to take that, you pig-eyed sack of shit. General Beringer:
Oh, I was hoping for something a little better than that from you, sir. A man of your education. Major Lem:
[holding a telephone]
General, it's the president. McKittrick:
What are you... what are you going to tell him? General Beringer:
I'm ordering our bombers back to fail-safe. We might have to go through this thing after all
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The machine's locked us out It's sending random numbers to the silos
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It's trying to hit the codes to launch the missiles
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Just unplug the goddamn thing
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Jesus Christ That won't work general
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It would interpret a shutdown as the destruction of NORAD
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Computers in the silos would carry out their last instructions They'd launch
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Can't we disarm the missiles
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Over a thousand of them There's no time
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At this rate it'll hit the launch codes in 5 3 minutes
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Mr McKittrick
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After very careful consideration I've come to the conclusion
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that your new defense system sucks
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I don't have to take that you sack of shit
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Oh I was hoping for something a little better than that from you
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a man of your education
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Man It's the president
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Well what are you gonna tell him
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That I'm ordering our bombers back to fail safe
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We might have to go through this thing after all
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Movie Summary
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
