Creating Reality: The Visual Effects of 'The Sum of All Fears' Page #3

- Trust me.

I'll see you at the car.

Still loving your desk job?

Yeah, I am.

How's your Russian?

Still works. Why?

Three Russian nuclear scientists are

missing. I need to know where they are.

I wasn't doing this any more.

I just need information this time,

Johnny.

Your orders are on the plane.

Wheels up at 2330. Have a nice flight.

Sunday night, 8.00, at the Hilton. The

tickets are in the name of John Clark.

- You do have a tux?

- Yeah, yes, sir.

My beautiful wife, Julie, is from

New Jersey. 15 electoral votes.

And is, as you know, half-Jewish,

so we'll take Florida's

- This is a nice hotel.

- Yeah. Beautiful.

My friend Rita stayed here once.

She said it was... nice.

Maybe after dinner we can...

...we can get a room here.

I already did.

- You didn't.

- Yes, I did.

...I did, on a handful of occasions,

smoke marijuana.

California, 54 electoral votes.

At 0600 Moscow time, the Russians

launched a massive artillery strike

against Grozny,

the capital of Chechnya.

The shells contained an experimental

chemical weapon, a nerve agent.

Saturation, you can see

on the sat photos, took 20 minutes,

after which every person

inside a radius of 12 miles

was rendered helpless by symptoms

approximating late-stage cerebral palsy.

- Oh, my God.

- How many dead?

Best guess, 80%.

Nemerov launched the biggest attack

in the history of chemical warfare.

- Let's talk response.

- The worst thing we can do is nothing.

If he gets away with chemical weapons,

what's next? Biological, nuclear?

OK. Short of gassing the Kremlin,

what's the strongest response?

- We send in peacekeepers.

- Chechnya's not sovereign.

Look, they requested recognition, so we

recognise them. Not full diplomatic, provisional.

Then the Chechens request assistance

and we send in peacekeepers.

- How do you get them in there?

- We fly them in from Turkey.

- Over Armenian air space?

- To screw Russia? They won't complain.

Let's do it. Nemerov can choke on it.

Bill?

- Dr Ryan.

- Yes, sir.

What do you think?

Conventional wisdom suggests

that Nemerov is playing

the traditional Russian role:

be aggressive, flex your muscles,

dare the world to stop you.

- But Nemerov isn't conventional.

- He walks like a hardliner, he talks like a hardliner

Yes. With all due respect,

I don't think he is one.

He just gassed the capital of another

country. With respect, you're wrong.

- So what are we wasting our time for?

- What if he didn't order the attack?

What if Nemerov

didn't order the attack?

What if it was a... a rogue general?

Or a military unit frustrated they

couldn't get the rebels out of the city?

Have you reason to believe he didn't

order it, or are you just floating this?

You don't know.

I don't think he did it, sir.

I would bet he didn't do it.

Will senior staff remain behind

for a few minutes, please?

Russia's newly-installed president,

Alexander Nemerov,

has just begun to address the state.

We join him in progress.

For ten years now,

we have contended...

Excuse me. Could you turn that up?

...toward innocent Russian citizens.

Finally...

...every nation has a right

to defend itself.

This terrorism must end.

The bombing of Chechnya...

was my decision.

Nice going, ace.

How is our Russian friend

affected by this?

I am not affected.

I remain devoted to our little plan.

At what you're charging us,

I am not surprised.

- And the American?

- Mr Mason is a believer.

I put a little extra

in the escrow account for him.

- Why?

- He won't live long enough to get it.

- Where is the package?

- It left Haifa a week ago.

I'm told these things can kill you.

But so much has changed.

Perhaps the new situation suggests

we consider... a different approach?

Maybe try to bring Russia

more into Europe,

more into our way of thinking?

We have discussed that,

Monsieur Monceau,

and with your concurrence, rejected it.

Oh. Perhaps we were hasty.

- Perhaps our plan is...

- Is what?

Not perfectly conceived.

Are you crazy? All over

the world, right-wing parties,

nationalist movements,

Nazis, Aryan Nations,

all working together for the first time.

Is that not perfect?

Well, I respect the will and judgment

of my friends.

But in light of the week's events,

I am grown...

...uncomfortable with this plan.

So I must... beg your leave.

Gentlemen.

Herr Haft will help you out.

Your scarf, monsieur.

Watch it with that thing.

You're gonna kill somebody.

Yo, what's up, Mason?

You know, I always wanted to ask

you... Where'd you get that tat, man?

The navy.

The navy? I was in the navy.

Hospital ship, six years. You?

Eight months.

Oh. You wash out?

All right, brother.

You have a good one.

Yeah, brother.

...not realising the rest of the world is

watching and will take a cue from us...

The unprecedented attack

on Chechnya

signals a dangerous

and troubling shift in Russian policy.

It demands the toughest and most

unambiguous response from the West.

Accordingly NATO forces are on their way to

Chechnya to serve as peacekeepers

and to provide humanitarian aid

to victims of this monstrous...

These are four hours old. Russian

Why haven't they moved?

- Nemerov's too smart to move them.

- He speaks.

Jack, Nemerov's got, like, 19,000

tanks. No way NATO can match that.

That's why he's not gonna move them.

It's like chess.

He's thinking three moves ahead.

The NATO playbook says we can only

stop him with tactical nuclear weapons.

And he won't risk a nuclear war

over this.

I also think he's sending us

a message. He didn't bomb Grozny.

Clark got us her number. NSA traced

calls to that number back to here.

It's an abandoned Soviet army base

on the Kremenchug reservoir.

What are three Russian atomic

scientists doing in Ukraine?

A fair guess, they're building a bomb.

Nemerov has thousands of bombs.

Why would he build a secret one?

Deniability.

Build one nobody knows about, he can

drive it to Chechnya in his Beemer.

No way to track it, no way to trace it.

He could set it off and say,

"I didn't do it."

With respect, I don't think

that adds up.

It adds up. You just don't like

what it adds up to.

The explosive blocks

must be replaced.

Machined to a thousandth

of a millimetre

in a mathematically determined

configuration.

- Do we have a bomb?

- First we must analyse the yield...

Do we have a bomb?

Yes.

Yes, we do.

This is a... a test.

Answer it.

- Answer it.

- Are you sure?

Hello?

Yes.

Yes, sir.

I have to go outside for just a second.

OK? I'll be right back.

I'll be right back.

- Sir, I write reports.

- I reviewed your military records.

- You can take care of yourself.

- Yes, sir. But I'm not trained for that.

I'm not asking you to be an operations

officer, just my eyes and ears. I can't go.

So... this isn't sanctioned.

I want you to give this to Clark,

see what he finds out, bring it home.

Yes, sir.

Jack...

...we never had this discussion.

What discussion?

OK. Clark... So this is

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