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- Morgan?

- Yes.

You will stick

to the script, Morgan.

You won't try anything risky,

do you understand me?

Sebastian Rooks has agreed to help you.

- When does he want to meet me?

- Not yet. He's in the car behind us.

- How much money does Rooks want?

- He's not interested in your money.

It's your situation. He thinks

he can use it to his advantage.

- How?

- I'll be in touch with you in Wichita.

Wichita?

That's where Sunways will be

sending you for your last assignment.

How do you know that?

They haven't even told me.

Rooks knows. He knows everything.

- Can I trust Rooks?

- I can't give you guarantees.

But he has the resources to provide

you with a new life, a new identity.

It's your choice, Mr. Sullivan.

What do I have to do?

Sunways will send you on

a series of assignments.

You'll receive a courier

disk on each trip.

Digicorp agents will be

following you wherever you do.

Let them, that's what Sunways wants.

At each destination you'll

be met by a Sunways contact.

They'll download data onto your disk.

Digicorp's agents will assume you're

receiving valuable information.

As you travel to more cities,

collect more data, and

complete more assignments,

your agent status will rise.

Digicorp will then assume you

have become one of

Sunways top company men.

Jack?

Each disk you bring home will

seem more important than the last.

As they copy the Sunways files,

Digicorp will think they have won

a major victory against

their greatest rival.

In reality, Digicorp is the loser.

Sunways is feeding them corrupt data

that will sabotage their operations.

But make no mistake, Mr. Sullivan.

Sunways is just as ruthless as Digicorp.

Once this operation is complete,

they will eliminate you.

Rooks will protect you.

Please. You can trust me.

We're sending you to Kansas. Wichita.

It's almost over, Morgan.

After this trip to the vault,

your work for us will be finished.

- The vault?

- It's our data warehouse.

It's completely isolated from the outside

world, but we send in agent couriers

if we need to retrieve or add a file.

You will be our next courier.

And Digicorp will they

have hit the mother lode.

Shh! We need to keep our voices down. Switch

this disk with the one in your briefcase,

before you go to the

vault. Take off your ring.

- What?

- Your ring.

This is a tracking device. We'll know

your precise location at all times.

Does this mean we can

see each other again?

I pick you up after you leave

the vault, deliver you to Rooks.

- I mean, after that?

- We can never see each other again.

It would compromise your identity.

I'm never getting out of this, am I?

I know where to go.

Settle down, Mr. Sullivan. We

have a long ride ahead of us.

You don't have to pretend to be Thursby.

I know you're not brainwashed.

I know that Sunways has been using

you as a double agent against Digicorp.

Are you going to kill me?

Not if you turn your loyalties to me

instead of Sebastian Rooks. Oh,

yeah. I know that you work for him.

As a matter of fact, we both do.

I'm Rooks' inside source at Digicorp.

- His what?

- He paid me to hire you

so you could be his pawn once

you were sent off to Sunways.

You didn't think I hired you because

I was impressed by you, did you?

It's a good plan, really.

Rooks knew that you'd end up here in

Kansas on the way to the Sunways vault.

He knew he could convince you

to switch their disk with his.

- That was his scheme from the very start.

- It's not possible.

Rooks' disk contains a search program.

It penetrates the vault's secure network

and quietly steal a data file

without triggering any alarms.

What data file?

Who knows? But if Rooks has gone

through all this trouble to get it,

it must be extremely valuable.

The plan was foolproof.

Except for one factor

he failed to consider:

me.

What do you want?

When you come out of the vault,

deliver the disk to me, not Rooks.

I've been loyal to Digicorp all along.

Why should I trust you or Digicorp?

Because we'll let you live and

Rooks won't. It's as simple as that.

No one sees his face and

lives to tell about it.

No one sees his face?

He's a deep cover operative.

A Yuri in cyberspace.

He's a phantom. Companies hire him

without actually knowing who he is.

If they did, they'd kill him.

The moment you give that disk to

Rooks is the moment he eliminates you.

There's only one person Rooks

trusts with his identity:

Rita Foster, his lover.

She's completely loyal

to him. No one else.

I'm the only person you can trust now.

I'll be nearby when you come out.

Just in case we get separated.

No charge for the ride.

Good evening, Mr. Thursby.

My name's Virgil Dunn.

Welcome to the vault.

Your first time?

Hope you didn't have a big dinner.

Step ahead, please.

Now that we know you are bug free,

I can call you by

your real name, Morgan.

Dunn, Virgil C.

I need your disk now, please.

Good, good.

Digicorp will cream in their pants

when they copy the bogus data

that I just cooked up for them.

You wouldn't believe

the number of times

they tried to jack

into the systems down here.

- Have they ever succeeded?

- Hell, no.

This place is tighter

than a nun's a**hole.

Uh, snort while we wait?

Sure.

I distilled it myself down here. One

of my little hobbies to pass the time.

- Thanks.

- Here's to the information agent.

I used to be an agent like you once.

I was the best mole

spotter in the business.

You put me in a room with

a possible double agent,

let me ask him a couple of questions,

and I could tell you right there

whether he was a spy or not.

That was before Sunways sent me

down here. That was three years ago.

- What happened?

- Those f***ing machines is what happened.

They said the neuro-graphs were

That a really good spy, a really

good liar, could trick me every time.

It's bullshit, I told them.

But they wouldn't listen.

You see, there are things that only a person

can know about another person, Mr. Sullivan,

things that a machine

could never pick up.

For example, let me ask you

a couple of questions.

Excuse me?

What is your favourite drink? Go ahead.

Answer. I just want to prove my point.

What is your favourite drink?

Er, scotch, single malt, on the rocks.

You're telling the truth.

- Are you married?

- Yes, I am.

Truth again. See, you're very

- very easy to read.

Now

- Are you in love with your wife?

- Yes.

- There, you just lied. Am I right?

Yes, I lied.

It's more than just questions, however.

For instance, I'm sensing

a kind of tension in you.

It's been evident ever since

I put your disk in my computer.

Now why would that be? We both

know the disk is from Sunways.

That's nothing that

should make you uneasy.

- One last question, all right?

- Sure.

Are you a double agent?

Where's Mr. Dunn?

He decided to stay in his office.

- Right. You can go ahead, Mr. Sullivan.

- Thank you.

Open the door!

Emergency crews are on their way.

For your safety, please

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