:22:02
You refuse payment,
I launch the gas.
:22:05
You've got 40 hours...
till noon, day after tomorrow...
to arrange transfer of the money.
:22:09
I am aware of your countermeasure.
You know and I know
it doesn't stand a chance.
:22:12
- Hummel from Alcatraz, out.
- [Receiver Slams]
:22:16
[Womack]
All right.
:22:18
We have to identify the hostages
and contact each of their families.
:22:21
Tell 'em somethin'. Make up a story,
and we've got to keep this undercover.
:22:25
If this comes out, the city of
San Francisco will be in chaos.
I am talking anarchy.
:22:29
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
What is the potential casualty rate...
:22:32
for a single rocket armed
with VX poison gas, Gen. Peterson?
:22:36
Sixty or seventy.
:22:38
Well, that's...
that's not so bad.
:22:40
Thousand.
Seventy thousand dead.
:22:44
- Oh.
- One teaspoon of this hits the floor,
:22:47
it's lethal up to...
100 feet.
:22:50
One teaspoon of this shit
detonated in the atmosphere...
:22:53
will kill every living organism
in an eight-block radius.
:22:56
Get the point?
:22:59
What did Hummel mean by
your "countermeasure," General?
:23:01
Standard poison is countered
by napalm. It burns it up,
consumes it upon detonation.
:23:05
Now, the problem with VX poison gas
is that it's designed specifically...
:23:09
to withstand napalm; that's
where thermite plasma comes in.
:23:12
- Gen. Peterson?
- Thermite plasma incendiary systems...
:23:15
can burn hot enough to consume VX,
but they're still in the test phase.
:23:18
It's not operational.
Hummel knows this.
:23:22
- We are dealing with
one smart son of a bitch.
- What's it going to take...
:23:26
to equip a flight of F-18s
with thermite plasma
within the next 36 hours?
:23:30
- An act of God.
- Excuse me?
:23:34
All right. We can try.
:23:36
But I strongly urge you to consider the
use of this as a secondary initiative.
:23:39
Then we have to go to our
primary initiative. Uh, Admiral?
:23:42
Sir, I'd like to bring in our SEAL
ground commander, Cmdr. Anderson.
:23:46
Mr Womack, who is your best
chemical/biological man?
:23:50
- [Creaking]
- [Stanley, Grunting]
That's interesting.
:23:53
- Oh, yeah.
- That's very compelling.
:23:56
[Both Moaning]
:23:58
Ahh, you like my pigtails?