Gemini Man (1976): Season 1, Episode 2 - Minotaur - full transcript
This is Lazy Rider, clear the path, I'm a runaway.
I repeat, I'm a runaway!
Aah!
Take care of these, and I'll call the county Mountie.
Let's go, get up!
Sam! Stop!
What are you doing? Get outta here!
They're shooting at the gas tank, if I don't get this rig
out of town, ain't gonna be no town!
GEMINI MAN
SMITHEREENS
Hale?
Go!
Easy, hold it! Relax! I'm one of the good guys.
Name's Casey. Intersect.
Of course. Yes, thank you.
I'm Dr. Arthur Hale of Intersect's technological division.
Nice to meet you.
Thanks.
I was supposed to meet Mr. Driscoll 15 minutes ago.
It's alright, so was I.
Listen, you got any idea who those turkeys were?
Let's just say that Mr. Driscoll will get into that after the briefing.
Alright.
Tripolodine?
Dr. Hale's new fuel additive.
So-called because it triples vehicular mileage.
70 miles to one gallon?
One one gallon of the mixture, yes.
Cars with special carburetors did even better.
Congratulations, Dr. Hale. This certainly will reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
Yeah, but then again one man's meat's another man's poison.
Meaning certain foreign oil interests won't be overjoyed.
True enough. Could obviously cost them billions.
You saw what happened in the parking lot.
But how did they find out?
A security leak, unhappily.
Not Intersect?
No no no. In Washington, I'm afraid.
You see, last week I contacted federal authorities and told them we planned to
deliver two gallons of Tripolodine to the Federal Energy Commission's branch office
in Long Beach.
Where it'll be tested, and certified.
My purpose was to request an army convoy.
Within a matter of hours, Mr. Driscoll had a call from a head of an international oil combine.
They wanted all the rights to Tripolodine.
To suppress it, of course.
Of course. That's why I urged Mr. Driscoll to get the additive to the Federal Energy Commission
as quickly as possible.
Meaning tomorrow.
Operation: Delivery will begin at precisely 0500 hours
when an army convoy will depart the laboratory.
But! In view of the security breach, and just between the four of us,
that convoy will be a decoy.
It will not be carrying the Tripolodine.
Alright, so who will?
You will, Sam.
Sam, at precisely 600 hours, this rig will arrive at Dr. Hale's laboratory
and you will be at the wheel.
Let's take a look inside.
Dr. Hale has devised this chamber constructed of bullet-resistant armored plating.
That's right.
Now, Dr. Hale will ride in here.
With a two-gallon bottle of Tripolodine,
his special equipment used in the refining process,
and all his secret formulas.
Ok, I think I get it.
If we run into any trouble, then Dr. Hale can hold out in here until help arrives.
That the idea?
Right.
Sam, the Federal Energy Agency closes tomorrow at 1800 hours.
Your mission is to protect Dr. Hale, and get this rig to Long Beach on time.
Well now, Leonard I'll tell you, there's only one problem with me driving this rig.
Well what's that?
I haven't got a union card.
Ha ha ha ha.
This is Overview.
Army convoy has picked up material at secret base as ordered.
Now approaching Checkpoint Charlie.
Roger, Colonel.
Sam, are you in position yet?
Affirmative, Big Daddy. i just arrived at the lab.
Good, proceed with operation. Out.
What do you think, Doctor? About ready to move out?
Just about, couple more items.
Okay.
Oh my.
What's the matter?
It's an oversight. I just realized a piece of equipment I have stored in a warehouse
in Dawson is absolutely indispensable.
No problem, we can stop on the way and pick it up.
We'll be behind schedule.
Not if we leave now.
Well fine, I'm ready.
Alrighty.
Convoy to Intersect, we are now passing Checkpoint Delta.
Roger, Colonel. We will change frequency channel as per plan at this time.
Leonard, wait. Please hold this channel.
Who is this?
It's Abby.
Abby, where are you? The army convoy has left, the operation's underway.
I know that. I'm on my way to Hale's lab.
Why?
Sam was supposed to meet me last night to synchronize his life system
with my recorder. But he bumped into this blonde in the commissary
and-
I know, I know.
And disappeared.
Well you still got 40 minutes.
Righto!
Well I can't sing but I don't care as long as my CB radio's there
I'm on there, I'm on there.
I ain't got no record, ain't got no band but I
sung me a song about a truck drivin' man,
I'm on there, said I'm on there.
I'm on there.
I said i'm on there!
Hey, encore! Encore!
Thank you there, music lover.
It's Lazy Rider here.
Buffalo Bill. Howdy!
Howdy, Buffalo. Where you roamin'?
Route 4, fast and fatal.
Hey whaddaya know, I'm right on your back door, buddy.
Good, you can keep the black marks off my mud flaps.
Say that again?
Hijackers. They hit along this route five times last month.
I gotcha.
Ten-four.
Sam?
Yo?
Are we on schedule?
We're ten minutes ahead, Doctor.
Fine, thank you. I'm going to start work on the patent applications.
Okey-dokey.
Gasoline?
Ten million dollars!
Air Swiss
Now I wonder who's flying to Switzerland?
With ten million dollars?
Mr. Driscoll's office.
This is Abby, get me Mr. Driscoll.
Yes?
Miss Lawrence on six.
Abby?
Leonard, listen to me.
This whole thing is a fraud.
Abby?
Sam is in terrible trouble. Tripolodine is chemically unstable.
Hello hello?
Grace, I've been cut off.
Its molecular structure breaks down, and transforms itself into an explosive
more violent than nitroglycerine.
I don't know how long it takes.
But just a couple drops on a tissue nearly blew this whole room apart.
The slightest jar, and that truck Sam is driving and he's gonna be blown to smithereens.
Leonard? Leonard?
Are you there?
I doubt it very much.
No way, my girl.
No way.
Put her in the copter.
In there.
[MUFFLED WHIMPER]
Hey you want to sign for this stuff?
Dr. Hale says to tell you this bag isn't even his.
Let's see that.
Dummy, it's not even from his locker. Put it back.
Let me change that invoice, will you?
Alright.
Ok, there you go.
Thank you.
Right.
Nice delicate improvisation, Stark. Mr. Nosy, I mean.
Yeah, kind of guarantees a total disappearance.
Uh-huh.
Along with mine, allegedly.
Chopper's out back.
Let's get going.
How you riding back there, Doctor?
All fine, Sam. Just fine.
But I'm working on my patent papers and I really would appreciate it if you didn't disturb me.
Sorry.
You didn't give yourself much leeway.
Plenty.
in every experiment I conducted, it took nearly three hours
for the molecular structure to break down.
I wonder how Intersect's going to feel when they learn that Dr. Hale, together with all the secrets
for Tripolodine, have been blown sky-high by the agents of the international oil cartel?
How long now?
The first good bump in the road.
[MMPPH]
Lazy Rider to Big Daddy.
Now cut that out, Sam.
Shame on you, Big Daddy, you just blown my cover.
Sam, you know very well we're on the scrambler. Now did Abby make contact for synchronization exercise?
Make contact? Where?
At the lab!
No. But then, we left a little ahead of schedule, Leonard.
If she didn't find you at the lab she's probably trying to overtake.
She said you're nearly a minute out of sync.
Which way?
I dunno.
But according to my recording you've got 14 minutes and 10 seconds of invisibility left.
That's my reading too, Leonard.
Maybe it's Abby that's out of sync.
When she reaches you have her contact me too.
Ten-four.
Sam! Sam stop, it's Abby!
Sam! We're gonna blow up!
We're about halfway there, Dr. Hale.
Well that's fine, Sam, fine.
But I am trying to concentrate on these patent papers.
I'm sorry.
Sam!
Oh no.
Hands aside, buster.
Anything you say, pal.
What the?
What's wrong?
He's gone!
Must be a hidey-hole in there somewhere.
Black marks.
Lazy Rider.
Buffalo Bill. Good to meet ya.
Nice to see you, you're a one-man army ain't ya?
Little fancy footwork, that's all.
Why don't you take care of these and I'll call the county Mountie.
Okay. Hey boys, Smokey's gonna put ya in the pokey. Let's go. Get up!
C'mon. Let's join your friends, let's go.
Yeah, get together, make a little group there.
Sam!
Well Buffalo, Smokies are on their way.
Well good.
Listen I gotta get moving, I got a schedule to keep.
Can you handle it from here?
Yeah sure.
And thanks, buddy.
Ain't no problem.
I owe ya one!
Please Lord, no detours, and let all our bumps be little bumps.
Howdy.
Fill 'er up.
Casey to Intersect.
Mr. Driscoll, Sam Casey on three.
Yeah, Sam?
Leonard, I got a chopper seems to be hanging around. Registration #20DB.
Check it out with the FAA for me, will you?
20DB, will do.
Have you heard from Abby?
Negative.
I'll catch ya later, Leonard.
Thank you.
Sam?
Yo.
Studying our schedule I see that we should've cleared Cedarville by 2:30.
Seems like we're running a half hour late, I'd like you to step on it.
Oh sure, and go bumpity-bump, huh?
Say no, Sam!
Roger.
Lazy Rider here. I'm clearing Cedarville and heading west. Have I got a front door?
Sure have, good buddy. Little ol' Buffalo Bill.
Hey Buffalo, I got a problem. I gotta burn some rubber buddy, and I can't abide any Smokies.
The road's clean, but looks like a bear in the air back your way.
Yeah I got my sights on him, Bill. But that's no Smokey.
Ok, Lazy Rider. Just lay that hammer down.
I said to lay down the highway, get outta my way, I'm gonna roll all over you
Stand back skyway, get outta my way, the Buffalo's comin' through.
Well I got myself a mean machine, we're blastin' fast and burning clean,
I said lay down the highway, I'm rollin' all over you.
Come on roll, roll, roll all over you.
Gonna roll, roll, roll all over you.
I got myself a clean machine, we're blastin' fast and burning clean,
Said lay down the highway, I'm rollin' all over you.
I'm gonna roll, roll, roll all over you.
I'm a roll, roll, roll all over you.
I said to stand back skyway, get outta my way,
the Buffalo's comin' through.
I said lay down the highway, I'm rollin' all over you. Whoo! Yow!
Ahh!
I don't get it. The Tripolodine should be bouncing around like a bowling ball by now.
There's only one possible explanation.
Somehow, that girl has managed to free herself and she's done something to
neutralize the vibration.
Well, he'll be in Desmond soon, that should do it.
Sam?
Yes sir?
It's riding very rough back here.
Oh brother, you can say that again.
I think one of our shocks is gone.
Why don't you pull into the next service station and have them check it out?
We certainly don't want to end up in a ditch, do we?
Why, I'd never forgive myself if anyone got hurt.
Oh!
Take a look at my shocks, will you?
Sure.
Casey.
Sam, the chopper belongs to
Aircraft Leasing, Inc., in Hayden.
It was rented out last night to a man named Luther Stark.
Luther Stark, huh?
Could that be a phony name?
No, no, no, no.
He had to show his pilot's license.
Anyway, we're running a top priority check with the FBI, CIA, Interpol...
Hold it, Sam. Just got a teletype.
Well, obviously the eccentric Dr. Hale didn't fully trust our security measures, and
has laid out a little extra protection of his own.
Wait a minute, I don't get the connection.
This teletype's from the Canadian Royal Mounted Police in Toronto.
Seems a few years back, Dr. Hale was doing some kind of research at Brunel University.
There was an arsonist-type fire in his lab, and the man who pulled Hale out was Luther Stark.
I'd say Hale has his old friend flying surveillance in that chopper.
Surveillance? That's not his bag, he's a scientist.
Something's fishy, Leonard.
I know.
Be careful, Sam.
Right.
Shocks are okay.
Good. I thought they were all right. Listen, what do I owe you?
Catch ya next time.
Thank you.
Hey have a nice day.
Alright, you too.
An arsonist-type fire.
I'm sorry about that last bump, Dr. Hale. I hit a hole in the road.
What bump?
I hope it didn't jar you too badly.
It almost knocked my glasses off. But that isn't important.
We have to make up that lost time.
Roger.
This is Lazy Rider, clear the path, I'm a runaway. I repeat, I'm a runaway!
What's the problem, Lazy Rider?
Buffalo, I got no brakes, buddy.
Where are ya?
I'm on hill 10, and I'm flying.
I am coming down on a wing and a prayer.
Ok, I got your front door. Now listen close, old buddy.
I'm listening.
If you make that straightaway downgrade then maybe I help you.
'Cept you'll have one tiny little problem,
Yeah, how tiny?
Those last hairpin curves right before the straightaway?
I just went through 'em. Ain't nobody ever made it doin' over 30.
What's your speed?
Forty. And climbing.
Gosh ol' buddy, all I can say is I hope we meet again someday on that big highway in the sky.
You sure know how to cheer a guy up.
Aaahhh!
Aaahhh!
Buffalo?
Yeah, Lazy Rider?
I'm on the straightaway, buddy.
Hallelujah and praise the Lord!
The real tough problem is just beginning, Lazy Rider.
Your speed's gonna build up, and that's about the time you're gonna be coming up on ol' Buffalo's hindquarters.
Ok, I got ya in my rear view.
Now what's your speed?
60mph.
Oh man, I hope the jolt's easy.
I got a very dangerous cargo.
Now you tell me.
What are you carrying?
40 crates of eggs.
I sure hope you like 'em scrambled.
63!
Alrighty, i'm comin' up on your mudflaps at 67.
That dude's gotta have horseshoes in both pockets.
Sam, why have we stopped?
As if you didn't know.
Sorry about that ride, Mr. Hale, looks like the airbrakes went out on me.
Don't worry about a thing, I can get 'em fixed. Just have to get out the ol' toolbox.
Alright, that's fine, Sam.
I guess you won't be needing me anymore. I gotta get rolling.
Bill, thanks for saving my neck, buddy.
Like I said, I owed you one.
We're even now.
Yup.
Hey Bill, take it easy, huh?
You too, Lazy Rider.
What's taking him so long in there?
Oh Sam!
Abby!
Now hold it Sam. This is unbelievable. Tripolodine's an explosive?
And Abby was locked up by Dr. Hale?
Incredible!
Alright, Sam. I'll be on my way as soon as I can dispatch a local bomb squad.
But under no circumstances touch that Tripolodine.
Or move that truck, as Abby says, one slightest jolt will blow it all to pieces.
Believe me Leonard, I wouldn't move this rig another foot for all the rice in China.
I'll catch you later.
Ok, Abby. Gonna go out there and try to stall 'em.
Please stay out of trouble.
I think he's onto us.
He'd be a fool if he wasn't after that ploy with the brakes.
We gotta know.
There's only one way to find out.
Sam?
Yo?
Where are we?
Cobb's Junction, just over the city line.
Then drive to the Valco station, it'll speed up the repair job.
Drive without brakes?
It's only a block or two, you can gear down.
No, that's too dangerous. Besides, I'll have these brakes fixed in a minute.
He knows. Get me in a position for a shot at the gas tank.
The whole town will go up.
So? The whole town will go up.
Along with Casey, the girl, and allegedly, yours truly.
Ten million dollars, Luther. Ten mil.
Alright, but I can't get too close, or we'll go up with it.
Sam, stop!
Abby, what are you doing? Get outta here!
Hale's shooting at the gas tank, if I don't get this rig out of town, there ain't gonna be no town!
Go on, Abby, get off there. Get off!
Closer?
No, no. Stay back.
That road's gonna do the job for us.
Why doesn't it blow?
In about two seconds, he'll bail out.
That we can't have.
He's ducked down.
Or bailed out the other door.
No, I would've seen him.
He could not have survived.
Well, I want to make absolutely sure.
He could be hiding somewhere.
No way, he was blown to bits.
No. This can't be! You're dead?
No, really? Well how'd you like to see a ghost punch?
Hold it, Casey!
Wait a minute, Doctor, that's not gonna work.
For your plan to succeed, I had to die in that explosion, right?
How you going to explain a bullet, huh?
I don't care anymore.
You destroyed all my plans. Somehow, you've countered my every move.
Well, let me see you counter this!
Are you through?
Huh?
Sorry, Doctor. Bad guys finish last.
Doctor, whatever made you think you could get away with this insane scheme?
I would have, except for him.
Listen Driscoll, whatever happens to me, there's something you should know.
The man's inhuman! Unnatural!
He vanished! Disappeared right before my very eyes, into thin air!
You're imagining things, Doctor.
Uh-uh.
Hallucinations of a guilty mind.
No!
No! Into thin air, I tell you!
The only thing that vanished was the $10 million we spent on this fraud!
It's not funny. What am I gonna tell the bureau of the budget?
That's no problem, Leonard. There's a bank down the street.
So what?
So, the chief needs ten mil, we;ll get him ten mil, right sweetheart?
Oh, for sure Sam, that cracker box is a pushover.
Now wait a minute, you two.
I'll be back with the loot in five minutes, Leonard.
Sam? Sam?
Sam!
See? He did it again!
Inhuman! Thin air! into thin air, I tell ya!
Optical illusion!
Sam! Sam?
You're as elusive as Robert Denby!
I repeat, I'm a runaway!
Aah!
Take care of these, and I'll call the county Mountie.
Let's go, get up!
Sam! Stop!
What are you doing? Get outta here!
They're shooting at the gas tank, if I don't get this rig
out of town, ain't gonna be no town!
GEMINI MAN
SMITHEREENS
Hale?
Go!
Easy, hold it! Relax! I'm one of the good guys.
Name's Casey. Intersect.
Of course. Yes, thank you.
I'm Dr. Arthur Hale of Intersect's technological division.
Nice to meet you.
Thanks.
I was supposed to meet Mr. Driscoll 15 minutes ago.
It's alright, so was I.
Listen, you got any idea who those turkeys were?
Let's just say that Mr. Driscoll will get into that after the briefing.
Alright.
Tripolodine?
Dr. Hale's new fuel additive.
So-called because it triples vehicular mileage.
70 miles to one gallon?
One one gallon of the mixture, yes.
Cars with special carburetors did even better.
Congratulations, Dr. Hale. This certainly will reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
Yeah, but then again one man's meat's another man's poison.
Meaning certain foreign oil interests won't be overjoyed.
True enough. Could obviously cost them billions.
You saw what happened in the parking lot.
But how did they find out?
A security leak, unhappily.
Not Intersect?
No no no. In Washington, I'm afraid.
You see, last week I contacted federal authorities and told them we planned to
deliver two gallons of Tripolodine to the Federal Energy Commission's branch office
in Long Beach.
Where it'll be tested, and certified.
My purpose was to request an army convoy.
Within a matter of hours, Mr. Driscoll had a call from a head of an international oil combine.
They wanted all the rights to Tripolodine.
To suppress it, of course.
Of course. That's why I urged Mr. Driscoll to get the additive to the Federal Energy Commission
as quickly as possible.
Meaning tomorrow.
Operation: Delivery will begin at precisely 0500 hours
when an army convoy will depart the laboratory.
But! In view of the security breach, and just between the four of us,
that convoy will be a decoy.
It will not be carrying the Tripolodine.
Alright, so who will?
You will, Sam.
Sam, at precisely 600 hours, this rig will arrive at Dr. Hale's laboratory
and you will be at the wheel.
Let's take a look inside.
Dr. Hale has devised this chamber constructed of bullet-resistant armored plating.
That's right.
Now, Dr. Hale will ride in here.
With a two-gallon bottle of Tripolodine,
his special equipment used in the refining process,
and all his secret formulas.
Ok, I think I get it.
If we run into any trouble, then Dr. Hale can hold out in here until help arrives.
That the idea?
Right.
Sam, the Federal Energy Agency closes tomorrow at 1800 hours.
Your mission is to protect Dr. Hale, and get this rig to Long Beach on time.
Well now, Leonard I'll tell you, there's only one problem with me driving this rig.
Well what's that?
I haven't got a union card.
Ha ha ha ha.
This is Overview.
Army convoy has picked up material at secret base as ordered.
Now approaching Checkpoint Charlie.
Roger, Colonel.
Sam, are you in position yet?
Affirmative, Big Daddy. i just arrived at the lab.
Good, proceed with operation. Out.
What do you think, Doctor? About ready to move out?
Just about, couple more items.
Okay.
Oh my.
What's the matter?
It's an oversight. I just realized a piece of equipment I have stored in a warehouse
in Dawson is absolutely indispensable.
No problem, we can stop on the way and pick it up.
We'll be behind schedule.
Not if we leave now.
Well fine, I'm ready.
Alrighty.
Convoy to Intersect, we are now passing Checkpoint Delta.
Roger, Colonel. We will change frequency channel as per plan at this time.
Leonard, wait. Please hold this channel.
Who is this?
It's Abby.
Abby, where are you? The army convoy has left, the operation's underway.
I know that. I'm on my way to Hale's lab.
Why?
Sam was supposed to meet me last night to synchronize his life system
with my recorder. But he bumped into this blonde in the commissary
and-
I know, I know.
And disappeared.
Well you still got 40 minutes.
Righto!
Well I can't sing but I don't care as long as my CB radio's there
I'm on there, I'm on there.
I ain't got no record, ain't got no band but I
sung me a song about a truck drivin' man,
I'm on there, said I'm on there.
I'm on there.
I said i'm on there!
Hey, encore! Encore!
Thank you there, music lover.
It's Lazy Rider here.
Buffalo Bill. Howdy!
Howdy, Buffalo. Where you roamin'?
Route 4, fast and fatal.
Hey whaddaya know, I'm right on your back door, buddy.
Good, you can keep the black marks off my mud flaps.
Say that again?
Hijackers. They hit along this route five times last month.
I gotcha.
Ten-four.
Sam?
Yo?
Are we on schedule?
We're ten minutes ahead, Doctor.
Fine, thank you. I'm going to start work on the patent applications.
Okey-dokey.
Gasoline?
Ten million dollars!
Air Swiss
Now I wonder who's flying to Switzerland?
With ten million dollars?
Mr. Driscoll's office.
This is Abby, get me Mr. Driscoll.
Yes?
Miss Lawrence on six.
Abby?
Leonard, listen to me.
This whole thing is a fraud.
Abby?
Sam is in terrible trouble. Tripolodine is chemically unstable.
Hello hello?
Grace, I've been cut off.
Its molecular structure breaks down, and transforms itself into an explosive
more violent than nitroglycerine.
I don't know how long it takes.
But just a couple drops on a tissue nearly blew this whole room apart.
The slightest jar, and that truck Sam is driving and he's gonna be blown to smithereens.
Leonard? Leonard?
Are you there?
I doubt it very much.
No way, my girl.
No way.
Put her in the copter.
In there.
[MUFFLED WHIMPER]
Hey you want to sign for this stuff?
Dr. Hale says to tell you this bag isn't even his.
Let's see that.
Dummy, it's not even from his locker. Put it back.
Let me change that invoice, will you?
Alright.
Ok, there you go.
Thank you.
Right.
Nice delicate improvisation, Stark. Mr. Nosy, I mean.
Yeah, kind of guarantees a total disappearance.
Uh-huh.
Along with mine, allegedly.
Chopper's out back.
Let's get going.
How you riding back there, Doctor?
All fine, Sam. Just fine.
But I'm working on my patent papers and I really would appreciate it if you didn't disturb me.
Sorry.
You didn't give yourself much leeway.
Plenty.
in every experiment I conducted, it took nearly three hours
for the molecular structure to break down.
I wonder how Intersect's going to feel when they learn that Dr. Hale, together with all the secrets
for Tripolodine, have been blown sky-high by the agents of the international oil cartel?
How long now?
The first good bump in the road.
[MMPPH]
Lazy Rider to Big Daddy.
Now cut that out, Sam.
Shame on you, Big Daddy, you just blown my cover.
Sam, you know very well we're on the scrambler. Now did Abby make contact for synchronization exercise?
Make contact? Where?
At the lab!
No. But then, we left a little ahead of schedule, Leonard.
If she didn't find you at the lab she's probably trying to overtake.
She said you're nearly a minute out of sync.
Which way?
I dunno.
But according to my recording you've got 14 minutes and 10 seconds of invisibility left.
That's my reading too, Leonard.
Maybe it's Abby that's out of sync.
When she reaches you have her contact me too.
Ten-four.
Sam! Sam stop, it's Abby!
Sam! We're gonna blow up!
We're about halfway there, Dr. Hale.
Well that's fine, Sam, fine.
But I am trying to concentrate on these patent papers.
I'm sorry.
Sam!
Oh no.
Hands aside, buster.
Anything you say, pal.
What the?
What's wrong?
He's gone!
Must be a hidey-hole in there somewhere.
Black marks.
Lazy Rider.
Buffalo Bill. Good to meet ya.
Nice to see you, you're a one-man army ain't ya?
Little fancy footwork, that's all.
Why don't you take care of these and I'll call the county Mountie.
Okay. Hey boys, Smokey's gonna put ya in the pokey. Let's go. Get up!
C'mon. Let's join your friends, let's go.
Yeah, get together, make a little group there.
Sam!
Well Buffalo, Smokies are on their way.
Well good.
Listen I gotta get moving, I got a schedule to keep.
Can you handle it from here?
Yeah sure.
And thanks, buddy.
Ain't no problem.
I owe ya one!
Please Lord, no detours, and let all our bumps be little bumps.
Howdy.
Fill 'er up.
Casey to Intersect.
Mr. Driscoll, Sam Casey on three.
Yeah, Sam?
Leonard, I got a chopper seems to be hanging around. Registration #20DB.
Check it out with the FAA for me, will you?
20DB, will do.
Have you heard from Abby?
Negative.
I'll catch ya later, Leonard.
Thank you.
Sam?
Yo.
Studying our schedule I see that we should've cleared Cedarville by 2:30.
Seems like we're running a half hour late, I'd like you to step on it.
Oh sure, and go bumpity-bump, huh?
Say no, Sam!
Roger.
Lazy Rider here. I'm clearing Cedarville and heading west. Have I got a front door?
Sure have, good buddy. Little ol' Buffalo Bill.
Hey Buffalo, I got a problem. I gotta burn some rubber buddy, and I can't abide any Smokies.
The road's clean, but looks like a bear in the air back your way.
Yeah I got my sights on him, Bill. But that's no Smokey.
Ok, Lazy Rider. Just lay that hammer down.
I said to lay down the highway, get outta my way, I'm gonna roll all over you
Stand back skyway, get outta my way, the Buffalo's comin' through.
Well I got myself a mean machine, we're blastin' fast and burning clean,
I said lay down the highway, I'm rollin' all over you.
Come on roll, roll, roll all over you.
Gonna roll, roll, roll all over you.
I got myself a clean machine, we're blastin' fast and burning clean,
Said lay down the highway, I'm rollin' all over you.
I'm gonna roll, roll, roll all over you.
I'm a roll, roll, roll all over you.
I said to stand back skyway, get outta my way,
the Buffalo's comin' through.
I said lay down the highway, I'm rollin' all over you. Whoo! Yow!
Ahh!
I don't get it. The Tripolodine should be bouncing around like a bowling ball by now.
There's only one possible explanation.
Somehow, that girl has managed to free herself and she's done something to
neutralize the vibration.
Well, he'll be in Desmond soon, that should do it.
Sam?
Yes sir?
It's riding very rough back here.
Oh brother, you can say that again.
I think one of our shocks is gone.
Why don't you pull into the next service station and have them check it out?
We certainly don't want to end up in a ditch, do we?
Why, I'd never forgive myself if anyone got hurt.
Oh!
Take a look at my shocks, will you?
Sure.
Casey.
Sam, the chopper belongs to
Aircraft Leasing, Inc., in Hayden.
It was rented out last night to a man named Luther Stark.
Luther Stark, huh?
Could that be a phony name?
No, no, no, no.
He had to show his pilot's license.
Anyway, we're running a top priority check with the FBI, CIA, Interpol...
Hold it, Sam. Just got a teletype.
Well, obviously the eccentric Dr. Hale didn't fully trust our security measures, and
has laid out a little extra protection of his own.
Wait a minute, I don't get the connection.
This teletype's from the Canadian Royal Mounted Police in Toronto.
Seems a few years back, Dr. Hale was doing some kind of research at Brunel University.
There was an arsonist-type fire in his lab, and the man who pulled Hale out was Luther Stark.
I'd say Hale has his old friend flying surveillance in that chopper.
Surveillance? That's not his bag, he's a scientist.
Something's fishy, Leonard.
I know.
Be careful, Sam.
Right.
Shocks are okay.
Good. I thought they were all right. Listen, what do I owe you?
Catch ya next time.
Thank you.
Hey have a nice day.
Alright, you too.
An arsonist-type fire.
I'm sorry about that last bump, Dr. Hale. I hit a hole in the road.
What bump?
I hope it didn't jar you too badly.
It almost knocked my glasses off. But that isn't important.
We have to make up that lost time.
Roger.
This is Lazy Rider, clear the path, I'm a runaway. I repeat, I'm a runaway!
What's the problem, Lazy Rider?
Buffalo, I got no brakes, buddy.
Where are ya?
I'm on hill 10, and I'm flying.
I am coming down on a wing and a prayer.
Ok, I got your front door. Now listen close, old buddy.
I'm listening.
If you make that straightaway downgrade then maybe I help you.
'Cept you'll have one tiny little problem,
Yeah, how tiny?
Those last hairpin curves right before the straightaway?
I just went through 'em. Ain't nobody ever made it doin' over 30.
What's your speed?
Forty. And climbing.
Gosh ol' buddy, all I can say is I hope we meet again someday on that big highway in the sky.
You sure know how to cheer a guy up.
Aaahhh!
Aaahhh!
Buffalo?
Yeah, Lazy Rider?
I'm on the straightaway, buddy.
Hallelujah and praise the Lord!
The real tough problem is just beginning, Lazy Rider.
Your speed's gonna build up, and that's about the time you're gonna be coming up on ol' Buffalo's hindquarters.
Ok, I got ya in my rear view.
Now what's your speed?
60mph.
Oh man, I hope the jolt's easy.
I got a very dangerous cargo.
Now you tell me.
What are you carrying?
40 crates of eggs.
I sure hope you like 'em scrambled.
63!
Alrighty, i'm comin' up on your mudflaps at 67.
That dude's gotta have horseshoes in both pockets.
Sam, why have we stopped?
As if you didn't know.
Sorry about that ride, Mr. Hale, looks like the airbrakes went out on me.
Don't worry about a thing, I can get 'em fixed. Just have to get out the ol' toolbox.
Alright, that's fine, Sam.
I guess you won't be needing me anymore. I gotta get rolling.
Bill, thanks for saving my neck, buddy.
Like I said, I owed you one.
We're even now.
Yup.
Hey Bill, take it easy, huh?
You too, Lazy Rider.
What's taking him so long in there?
Oh Sam!
Abby!
Now hold it Sam. This is unbelievable. Tripolodine's an explosive?
And Abby was locked up by Dr. Hale?
Incredible!
Alright, Sam. I'll be on my way as soon as I can dispatch a local bomb squad.
But under no circumstances touch that Tripolodine.
Or move that truck, as Abby says, one slightest jolt will blow it all to pieces.
Believe me Leonard, I wouldn't move this rig another foot for all the rice in China.
I'll catch you later.
Ok, Abby. Gonna go out there and try to stall 'em.
Please stay out of trouble.
I think he's onto us.
He'd be a fool if he wasn't after that ploy with the brakes.
We gotta know.
There's only one way to find out.
Sam?
Yo?
Where are we?
Cobb's Junction, just over the city line.
Then drive to the Valco station, it'll speed up the repair job.
Drive without brakes?
It's only a block or two, you can gear down.
No, that's too dangerous. Besides, I'll have these brakes fixed in a minute.
He knows. Get me in a position for a shot at the gas tank.
The whole town will go up.
So? The whole town will go up.
Along with Casey, the girl, and allegedly, yours truly.
Ten million dollars, Luther. Ten mil.
Alright, but I can't get too close, or we'll go up with it.
Sam, stop!
Abby, what are you doing? Get outta here!
Hale's shooting at the gas tank, if I don't get this rig out of town, there ain't gonna be no town!
Go on, Abby, get off there. Get off!
Closer?
No, no. Stay back.
That road's gonna do the job for us.
Why doesn't it blow?
In about two seconds, he'll bail out.
That we can't have.
He's ducked down.
Or bailed out the other door.
No, I would've seen him.
He could not have survived.
Well, I want to make absolutely sure.
He could be hiding somewhere.
No way, he was blown to bits.
No. This can't be! You're dead?
No, really? Well how'd you like to see a ghost punch?
Hold it, Casey!
Wait a minute, Doctor, that's not gonna work.
For your plan to succeed, I had to die in that explosion, right?
How you going to explain a bullet, huh?
I don't care anymore.
You destroyed all my plans. Somehow, you've countered my every move.
Well, let me see you counter this!
Are you through?
Huh?
Sorry, Doctor. Bad guys finish last.
Doctor, whatever made you think you could get away with this insane scheme?
I would have, except for him.
Listen Driscoll, whatever happens to me, there's something you should know.
The man's inhuman! Unnatural!
He vanished! Disappeared right before my very eyes, into thin air!
You're imagining things, Doctor.
Uh-uh.
Hallucinations of a guilty mind.
No!
No! Into thin air, I tell you!
The only thing that vanished was the $10 million we spent on this fraud!
It's not funny. What am I gonna tell the bureau of the budget?
That's no problem, Leonard. There's a bank down the street.
So what?
So, the chief needs ten mil, we;ll get him ten mil, right sweetheart?
Oh, for sure Sam, that cracker box is a pushover.
Now wait a minute, you two.
I'll be back with the loot in five minutes, Leonard.
Sam? Sam?
Sam!
See? He did it again!
Inhuman! Thin air! into thin air, I tell ya!
Optical illusion!
Sam! Sam?
You're as elusive as Robert Denby!