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You've stayed underground more than 20

years. You know how not to get caught.

- We know you can keep your mouth shut.

- Job pays $175,000, payable on delivery.

You can distribute it among the poor,

if you like.

- Pass.

- We also clean up your record.

Quash the outstanding warrant

for your arrest.

Your pal Cosmo got 12 years.

That was without flight

to evade prosecution.

We all know what happened

to him in there.

If I say no?

Don't say no.

What good would you do anybody

in prison?

I don't believe this.

You lied to us all these years.

- Even lied to us about your name.

- Sorry, okay?

I'm sorry, but when you're wanted

by the feds, you don't go telling everybody.

We're not everybody, Martin,

we're your partners. You tell us.

Fine. Exactly why was it

you had to leave the CIA?

We all have our little secrets, don't we?

Look, you guys have a decision to make.

This is not a test.

The penetration is live,

the target is unaware.

Sneaking a foreign intelligence service

that might kill us is not what we do.

The probable level of security is very low.

But if you guys don't want to take

that chance just to keep me out of jail...

...fine, I understand, don't do it.

Well, Bish, I can't speak for the other guys,

but I'm in it for the money.

- I don't care if you go to jail.

- Me neither. I'm in.

Could we maybe just go back

to the "they might kill us" part?

If I thought that was likely, I wouldn't

bring this to you. But there is a risk.

It pays $175,000!

I'm in.

You guys'll be chalk outlines without me.

All right, what do we need?

We start with a very light surveillance.

Level three. First sign of baby-sitters,

we back off.

He's giving a lecture tomorrow at U.C.

I'm gonna be there and check him out.

Okay? Any questions?

Let's do it.

For the lecture, you want

to take Whistler or do you want me?

No, that's okay, I thought I'd ask Liz.

Who's this?

Sort of an old friend.

Practice! Practice, practice!

- Hi.

- We're not getting back together.

- Did I say anything?

- You will.

I'm here on business, Liz.

Bishop, you don't have a business,

you have a club. It's a boy's club.

You have a clubhouse,

you probably have a secret handshake.

Liz, I need your help.

I will not be dragged back into your world.

I have a new group of gifted children,

and I like the fact they're under 30.

Excuse me.

There's a mathematician named

Gunter Janek. You know him?

I've read him. Now go away.

- He's giving a master lecture at 3:30...

- How nice for him.

- I thought I'd buy you dinner after.

- I am not going out with you.

This isn't a date, dummy.

This is a scientific exploration, a tutorial.

I need you...

...to explain it to me.

Read a book.

They found me, Liz.

The government found me.

They offered me a deal.

If I take their offer...

...they clear my record,

and I can get my name back.

You and I are not getting back together.

Don't flatter yourself.

Pick me up at 3:
00.

Yes!

While the number-field sieve

is the best method currently known...

...there exists an intriguing possibility

for a far more elegant approach.

This guy's good.

...over the rationals, and hence

contained in a single cyclotomic field.

Using the Artin map,

we might induce homomorphisms...

You seeing anybody?

This isn't just about large-number theory.

It's about cryptography.

You mean codes?

I mean unbreakable codes.

It would be a breakthrough

of Gaussian proportions...

...and allow us to acquire...

...the solution in a dramatically

more efficient manner.

Are you seeing...

Such an approach is purely theoretical.

So far, no one has been able...

...to accomplish such constructions...

...yet.

The numbers are so unbelievably big...

...all the computers in the world

could not break them down.

But maybe, just maybe...

...there's a shortcut.

- I'll bet you anything he's found it.

If he has, you're in over your head.

I'll get my coat.

Numbers themselves

may be our best tools...

...may be able to see things

in other numbers that we can't.

Martin.

Martin, how wonderful to see you.

- Hi, Greg. How are you?

- Is it not fabulous?

Today I can in public come and learn

your scientists' new secrets.

Alas, I did not understand one bit

of what he was talking about.

At least I...

Goodness, can it be?

Yeah.

- Elizabeth!

- She's dying to talk to you too, Greg.

Elizabeth.

- Hello, Greg.

- Elizabeth and Martin.

My heart leaps like gazelle

to see you back together again.

Tell it to stop leaping.

We are not back together.

No? What a pity.

Wait. I have smashing idea. Martin!

Kiev String Quartet plays

at the consulate on Thursday night.

You will be my guests.

Really, Greg,

I wouldn't know how to repay you.

Martin, now that our countries

are such good friends...

...perhaps you will finally be able

to do occasional favor for me?

- Gregor, you are shameless.

- See you Thursday night.

What?

New title.

Cultural Attach.

Unbelievable!

Last few years has been very confusing

for people in my line of work.

I'll bet.

I don't care what anybody says

about the new world order.

I don't trust that guy.

Who, Greg? He's harmless.

Let the number itself tell us.

If you'll excuse me...

...I have some work.

- You're gonna follow him, aren't you?

It's okay. I'll get a cab.

Can I call you?

Just be careful.

Janek just got in the elevator.

- Going up.

- We will be ready for him.

- How's the audio?

- Good. Mother's close.

He's just wearing

four safety belts this time.

What, no parachute?

All right. Entry and lights on.

- Describe it.

- Looks like a workroom.

A bench with a soldering gun,

two spools of wire and a magnifying lamp.

Sounds like he's making somethin'.

Then a desk.

Telephone, lamp, answering machine.

A jar of pencils, but no little black box.

It's gotta be there somewhere.

What's he doing?

He's logging on the computer.

This is good.

He's gonna type in his password,

and we're gonna get a clear shot.

Dr. Rhyzkov, good evening.

Let's get an ID on Dr. Rhyzkov.

She was with him this afternoon.

She was trying to tell him something

and it was making him...

Oh, Gunter.

Let's do what we did in Mexico City.

I didn't know you could do that

in Mexico City.

- Mr. Bishop, mind if I take a look?

- Carl.

Grow up.

- Let me see.

- Oh, Gunter.

Elena, really!

I must finish my work.

Okay, back to work.

Nope, here we go.

Now we're gonna get our password.

I leave message here on service,

but you do not call.

I'm sorry, really.

Get out of the way. She's in the way.

- I don't believe this.

- I'm sorry.

It's just, I have this work.

I give you something to work, baby.

Okay. Just for a little while.

Oh, Gunter.

- What's goin' on?

- Nothing.

Elena, really!

I must finish my work.

I leave message here on service,

but you do not call.

Maybe there's a frame

where she doesn't block it.

I'll blow it up.

- Gentlemen.

- Who's Rhyzkov?

Dr. Elena Rhyzkov,

visiting professor from Czechoslovakia...

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