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An alarm will sound off when we're ready.

What you see there will enable you

to enter the cockpit...

...and roll the aircraft out of the hangar.

Here he is. If my colleague here

were to submit some photographs...

-...would it delay our priority search?

-No, the computers can accommodate it.

Then as a favor to an old classmate...

...please tell us who that man might be.

Anyway, Aleksei, you were saying?

We did not realize it was an agent

until tonight.

This man who died at the hands

of his own associates, or so we believed...

...isn't the same man

who arrived two days ago.

But, Aleksei, how does that make him

a foreign agent?

Don't you see? The man who arrived

two days ago is a substitute...

...covering his tracks

with the smuggler's dead body.

Sir.

You should take a look

at these photographs.

These are his photographs, sir.

It's the same man we are hunting,

is it not?

-The guard at the gate has been reinforced.

-And the perimeter fence?

The watchtowers are filled

to overflowing...

...and there are dog patrols

inside the fence every 10 minutes now.

This is not an element

we had counted on.

The added security

is for the first secretary...

...who's coming for the trials tomorrow.

We learned of this only yesterday.

Now it will be that much more difficult.

But it can be done.

Well, I'm not gonna walk back.

You haven't been told,

but there is a second prototype...

...identical to the one you will fly.

It is not to be used in the trials.

It's not armed.

It is, however, fully fueled and in a state

of preparedness at all times.

It could be weaponed

and sent up in perhaps an hour.

But it couldn't overtake me.

No, but it could be refueled in the air,

where you cannot.

In our little diversion,

we must take the plane out.

-How?

-Fire.

We'll set a fire in the hangar.

The fuel lines to the second prototype

must catch.

Hmm.

So you'll have only a few seconds.

When you hear the alarm,

you must immediately come down.

Ignore what you see in the hangar.

Just get your plane out.

A fire is not very predictable.

It's past 12.

Natalia and I dont have to report

until 2:
30, but you must go by 1.

Here are the coordinates that you must

feed into the inertial navigator.

They'll put you in contact

with a commercial flight from Moscow.

As soon as they've seen you

and it appears that you're flying south...

...feed in the second set.

-What happens if I'm late?

-You wont be, if we time it correctly.

The second set will take you

east through the Urals.

But be extremely cautious of your speed

during this phase.

There are listening installations.

"Big ears" we call them.

Equipped to detect a supersonic footprint.

What about this thought-controlled

weapons system?

Yes. You don't even

need to press a button.

Your thoughts are transmitted

through the sensors of your helmet...

...into a computer. The rest is automatic.

Now, Firefox is equipped with missiles

which drop from under the fuselage.

There are two cannon under the cockpit.

There's the rear defense pod

which fires explosives backwards.

Which could knock out

a potential missile.

But this is very important, Mr. Gant,

you must think in Russian.

You can't think in English

and transpose it.

You must think in Russian.

Do you think you can do that, Mr. Gant?

Yes, I can.

Yes, captain?

Colonel. Sir, without your permission...

...I've ordered a dog for the guards

of Security Gate 3...

-...to search the trees in the area.

-Good thinking. Well done.

-Well done.

-Thank you, sir.

Have a good flight, Colonel Voskov.

Hell, you didnt do anything.

Looks like the power transistor,

Comrade Director Baranovich.

Scrap it. Get another.

From the experimental

technical stores?

Yes, Grosch.

I've just come from

Security Gate Number 3.

The guards admitted a GRU officer

four hours ago...

...who matches one

of the composite photographs.

They made a positive identification.

They say he ordered a dog patrol

for the forest--

Wait a minute.

I have seen this man.

And he confirmed those same orders

to me. But where was it I saw him?

-Search the building.

-It's been searched.

Search it again, the hangar, every closet

and stateroom in every building.

He's here. I know it.

Colonel Voskov?

-Yeah, what do you want?

-Emergency condition. Security check.

Your identification, comrade colonel.

I'm taking a shower now.

I don't want to be disturbed.

Sorry, but there's a saboteur

on the loose. We're certain of it.

Is this your idea, or is it Colonel

Kontarsky's orders that I be disturbed?

Sorry, comrade colonel.

Dmitri, look at this!

Get Bilyarsk on the phone. Quickly!

The rearward defense pod...

...is it completed, Maxim Ilyich?

I completed the work two hours ago.

I was just stalling.

Good luck, my friend.

Where are you off to?

The lavatory.

I want to know immediately.

-It's Moscow.

-I'll take it in there.

Put out the dogs.

He might be hiding in the hills.

Sir, control was put on standby.

The first secretary's car

will arrive in 12 minutes.

He wasn't to be here until 9.

They left Moscow early, sir.

No explanation.

-Yes?

-Colonel, we've got him.

He's been identified.

-Are you there?

-Quickly, tell me!

He's a pilot, Mitchell Gant.

-An American.

-American.

Yes, a member of their

Aggressor squadron...

...trained in combat

with Russian machines.

-Go on.

-Obviously, sir...

...he knows our planes

as well as anyone.

He'd be a good choice for sabotage

or analysis of information.

Perhaps he intends a close inspection

of the MiG-31.

He cannot be here for that!

No, sir. Surely not.

He couldn't hope to get away with it.

Thank you, Dmitri. Well done.

Arrest Baranovich and the others, now!

No one is to be let near the aircraft!

No one! You understand?

No!

Spread out, immediately!

Get away from those aircraft, everyone!

Dr. Baranovich, come forward immediately!

They know.

They know now.

Baranovich, come forward!

Colonel Voskov,

I must have your identification.

Colonel Voskov, I must have--!

Mitchell Gant. Dont! Close the door!

Sir.

Sir, airborne early warning radar...

...reports signs of a staggered

sector scramble.

Northern and southern squadrons,

Red Air Force.

Strike Command is monitoring signs

of heavy code communications...

...between Bilyarsk

and the Red Banner Fleet.

Predicted activity indicates

a definite liftoff.

He's up! Great mother of God, he's up!

My dear Buckholz, it might be interesting

if you were to contact Washington...

...and tell them to alert Mother 1.

My pleasure. He's done it! He's off!

Whoo-hoo!

He did it.

Damn, if he didnt actually do it.

That should establish my route south.

I might have cut it a little close,

but you'll have heard that by now.

This is making me feel a little strange.

I'll make it short.

No sign of missile or search activity

at this time.

I'm cruising south-southwest

at 6-5-0 knots airspeed.

I'll now engage the homing device.

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