:22:01
You alert the media,
I launch the gas.
:22:05
You refuse payment,
I launch the gas.
:22:08
You've got 40 hours,
'til noon day after tomorrow
to arrange transfer of the money.
:22:11
I am aware of your
countermeasure. You know and I
know it doesn't stand a chance.
:22:15
Hummel from Alcatraz. Out.
:22:19
All right. We have to identify
the hostages and contact
each of their families.
:22:24
Uh, tell 'em somethin'. Make up a story,
and we've got to keep this undercover.
:22:28
If this comes out, the city
of San Francisco will be
in chaos. I am talking anarchy.
:22:32
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
What is the potential casualty rate...
:22:35
for a single rocket armed with
V.X. poison gas, General Peterson?
:22:40
- Sixty or seventy.
- Well, that's, that's not so bad.
:22:43
- Thousand. Seventy thousand dead!
- Oh.
:22:48
One teaspoon of this hits the floor,
it's lethal up to a hundred feet.
:22:53
One teaspoon of this shit
detonated in the atmosphere...
:22:56
will kill every living organism
in an eight-block radius.
:22:59
Get the point?
:23:02
Uh, what did Hummel mean
by your countermeasure, General?
:23:04
Standard poison is countered
by napalm. It burns it up,
consumes it upon detonation.
:23:08
Now, the problem
with V.X. poison gas is...
:23:11
that it's designed specifically
to withstand napalm.
:23:13
That's where, uh, thermite plasma
comes in. General Peterson?
:23:16
Thermite plasma incendiary systems
can burn hot enough to consume V.X....
:23:20
but they're still in the test phase;
it's not operational.
:23:24
Hummel knows this. We are dealing with
one smart son of a bitch.
:23:28
What's it gonna take to equip a flight
of F-18s with thermite plasma...
:23:32
within the next 36 hours?
:23:35
- An act of God.
- Excuse me?
:23:38
All right, we can try.
:23:40
But I strongly urge you to consider the
use of this as a secondary initiative.
:23:43
Then we have to go to our
primary initiative. Uh, Admiral?
:23:46
Sir, I'd like to bring in our SEAL
ground commander, Commander Anderson.
:23:49
Mr. Womack, who is
your best chemical/biological man?
:23:54
- Oh, that's interesting.
- Oh, yeah.
- That's very compelling.