:50:02
We'll find it, all right.
Over.
:50:04
What'll you do when that happens?
Bomb it from the air? Over.
:50:08
No, we've decided not to.
:50:11
We have reason to think its destruction
must be complete and instantaneous.
:50:15
We risk complete failure with
a near miss, or if we merely wound it.
:50:19
The monster has only
one vulnerable spot, one fatal target...
:50:23
its brain.
:50:25
We're going to try to take advantage
of that in a certain way.
:50:29
Put ProfessorJoyce back on.
Over.
:50:33
Go ahead, John Carter.
Over.
:50:35
Leslie, take the newsmen down
to the San Francisco Navy Yard...
:50:39
and show them the weapon.
:50:40
That's all for now.
Stand by, Operations. Over and out.
:51:07
Looks like any other torpedo,
doesn't it? But it's not.
:51:10
This has no propeller.
It's jet-propelled.
:51:13
The Navy doesn't know
what to make of it.
:51:15
Perhaps you'll explain
where you got the idea.
:51:18
I spent all day yesterday
at the Seamen's Institute...
:51:22
talking to retired whaling men.
This is the result.
:51:25
A warhead patterned after a harpoon
is encased in the nose.
:51:29
Instead of exploding on contact,
it's designed to penetrate...
:51:32
and remain fixed
in the monster's flesh.
:51:34
By means of spreading barbs.
:51:37
And what's going
to destroy the thing?
:51:39
The explosive is sufficient
to do that.
:51:42
The difference is
that in this case...
:51:44
we set it off electronically...
:51:46
once we're certain
it's dead on its target.
:51:50
Attention on deck!
:51:56
Another thing: The men want to know
if they can go on liberty.