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sharing the favors

of a murdered whore.

David might even be

a suspect in the killing.

Yeah, well I think that's

something to consider.

It isn't speculation, Tom.

Brice was with me in my apartment

at the time of the murder.

He couldn't possibly

have done it.

Fine, fine, then let's call in the FBI

and let Brice take his chances.

That decision is not yours to make.

What we will do is catch this Yuri

ourselves before anyone

knows what's happened.

After we've got him,

we'll handle the rest of it.

You mean the

gentlemen in the next room.

The man we're after is

a spy and a murderer.

Would anyone deny

that justice had been done?

Yeah, I would.

Well we shall have that discussion

at the appropriate time, but for now

I expect you to

follow direct orders

and I expect you to

demonstrate the personal loyalty

to which both the Secretary

and I have every right.

- You expect a lot.

- I depend on you. We're friends.

And, Tom, if it were

your intention to do

anything to bring

down David Brice

then I'd have no choice but to make

sure that you didn't get away with it.

- Thank you for the warning.

- I'm quite certain it's unnecessary.

When you calm down,

you'll see that we're following

the only possible course.

I gave them the estimates.

They couldn't have cared less.

Get me Senator Duvall.

What's all this

top-secret business

I've been hearing about

over at the Pentagon?

Here's what we do have.

CID is running a phone check.

They're looking for all calls

placed to a Susan Atwell.

Who is she?

She's in the morgue at Fort Meade.

She was murdered last night.

- We know anything about it?

- Get ready for this.

We think she's either David Brice's

or Scott Pritchard's mistress.

She was seen

with both of them.

It didn't seem a

high-priority matter

so my people have been

a little lax in following it up.

Well, spilt milk, and you can forget

about Pritchard. He's homosexual.

I'll be damned.

So will he, if you believe the

Old Testament. Who killed her?

We don't know. They got CID

believing they're searching for Yuri.

Don't tell me anybody

swallowed that.

That poor son of a b*tch Brice.

You know,

I almost feel sorry for him.

- Who's running this at the Pentagon?

- The new boy, Farrell.

So he can take the fall in

case anything goes wrong.

This morning, he looked like a man

who'd like to have a heart-to-heart.

Yeah.

Senator Duvall.

Listen Billy, I've been hearing

some very disturbing news

about the phantom sub.

I tried to talk to the

President about NATO.

All he wanted to talk about

was the phantom submarine.

Why the crunch on that has come now,

of all times, is beyond me.

We'll just have to handle it.

You got me handling a

hell of a lot, haven't you?

Yeah?

Hold.

Commander,

line two, the other phone.

I'll call you back.

Yeah?

I'll be right down.

They want me in

the computer center.

I'll go with you.

Oh, yeah, by all means,

go with him.

What is it, Sam?

Photo lab said there's

no more image

they can get out

of this Polaroid.

Damn, too much to hope for.

We'll just have to forget it.

Maybe not. There's something

I want to show you.

Now, this is as bad

as your Polaroid, right?

Now watch. This is a training tape.

I'm speeding it up.

The original picture is

broken down into pixels.

That's the smallest element

on the emulsion.

Sort of an atom

of the picture.

This is the good part.

The computer just asks itself:

What would be next to what

if we played with the pixels?

That's all there is to it?

We have to keep on top of the computer.

Computers don't think.

For example, if we had

programmed this to

come out a car

instead of a monkey

well, right now, you'd be

looking at a hairy Buick.

All right, then we'll just

get started on it.

Wait a minute.

It takes billions of calculations.

The whole process may take 12

hours or it may take a week.

Well, that's too long.

Perhaps you can get what you

need from the work in progress.

We'll be watching it

right on this screen.

We've got our first phone number,

it's listed to a Nina Beka.

She called last night about

the time of the murder.

- I better see her.

- I was just about to send my men.

Are you Miss Nina Beka?

Yes.

I'm Commander Farrell,

Miss Beka.

This is Mr. Scott Pritchard,

general counsel to the

Secretary of Defense.

May we come in?

Please, do come in.

I'm afraid that we have

some bad news for you.

A woman named

Susan Atwell is dead.

She was a friend of yours?

Yes, she is.

In what way were

you acquainted?

You see, I work at Shalini's

Boutique in the pavilion.

She used to come

in there sometimes.

We'd like you to tell us as

much about her as possible.

We think she was killed by

a man she'd been seeing.

Why?

You needn't concern

yourself with why.

We just need to know the names

of the men that she consorted with.

- Consorted with?

- Yes.

I don't know anything

about Susan's personal life.

I'll ask you again,

who were the men she saw?

Well you can ask me

a thousand times

and the answer will still

be the same:
I don't know it.

You're South African.

- That's right.

- I don't see a U.S. visa.

You're an illegal alien.

Do you know who I am?

I can pick up that phone

and I can have you

on the first plane

to Johannesburg.

I'm assuming you have a reason

for not wanting to be there.

You guessed right.

I know who you are.

I know who Brice is.

David Brice.

Is that the name

you're looking for?

We're not interested in him.

It's another man that we want.

Well, in that case,

why don't we make a deal?

We'll talk about it.

Who is the other man?

Who is the other man?

It's someone at the Pentagon.

- Does he have a name?

- I suppose so, but I don't know it.

Listen...

all I know is that Susan used

to see him, and he reappeared.

- How recently?

- I don't know.

- Three months? Two?

- I don't know!

A month, three weeks. Who cares?

I don't know it.

Listen, she never discussed

these things with me.

All right,

that will do for now.

We're going to close the part of

the investigation that concerns you.

Will that be satisfactory?

- Tom.

- Thank you, Miss Beka.

You've been very helpful.

Sam!

I want the names of all

civilian and military personnel

who have been assigned to the

Pentagon during the past two months.

Can you do it?

It's all in the computer.

I'll just have to set up

a program to find it.

Mr. Pritchard.

Tom, I've got a suggestion.

We're doing this

credit card search

but it's extremely unlikely

that anything charged

over the weekend would

be turned in so soon.

We're wasting valuable computer

time that we could use better.

- I know. I want you to keep on with it.

- What's all this about, Tom?

We'll talk later.

What've you got here, what is this?

I have to see Secretary Brice.

Get started on that list of

new employees, would you?

Yeah, we isolated three pollutants

in the dead girl's stomach contents.

They're the red, green and

blue lines on the graph.

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