RoboCop (1994): Season 1, Episode 12 - The Human Factor - full transcript
RoboCop teams-up with his unsuspecting father, a retired police captain, to stop an insane bomber from unleashing a campaign of terror against OCP that could end in nuclear Armageddon.
(dramatic music)
- [Reporter] Give us three minutes,
and we'll give you the world.
This is "Media Break" with
Bo Harlan and Rocky Crenshaw.
- Up first, bad news for Germany,
where a rise in anti-corporate
terrorist attacks
prompted Teutonicorp, that
country's largest company,
to announce its moving its
headquarters to Iceland.
- Here at home, the Chairman
of Omni Consumer Products
denied rumors of a similar move by OCP.
- No, no, rest assured.
OCP has no intention of
relocating, now or in the future.
After all, this is our home.
- The search continues
for convicted bomber,
Felix Webber, who escaped
from the Henry Ford Center
for the Morally Challenged
late last night.
Police fear that the
one-time research scientist
may renew his deadly campaign
of bombing facilities
owned by OCP, his former employer.
Before his capture by police 12 years ago,
Webber made famous by the movie,
"The Mad Bomber of Old
Detroit," held the city
virtually hostage in a
six month reign of terror.
- [Operator] You have reached
the Detroit Police emergency hotline.
Please hold.
Do not hang up, as your call
will be answered much sooner.
- Typical OCP efficiency.
- [Operator] Police
hotline. Can I help you?
- Yes, this is Felix Webber.
I want to report a bomb.
- [Operator] Thank you, please hold.
(grunting)
(suspenseful music)
- As we celebrate our first half century,
let's remember the qualities
that made OCP great,
determination, drive, and guts.
(audience applauding)
Other companies may respond
to this insidious fad
of anti-corporate
violence by running away.
But as usual OCP has a better idea.
Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly give you
our new Anti Corporate
Terrorism unit, the ACT Squad.
- Forward, march!
(inspirational music)
OCP ACT Unit reporting for duty, sir!
- Thanks, Mr. Granger.
Ladies and gentlemen,
with the best equipped,
most technically advanced
force of its kind, we're sending a message
to the Felix Webbers of the
world who think they can
violently overthrow corporate culture.
Don't try it at OCP.
(audience applauding)
(heavy footsteps approaching)
(dramatic music)
- Attention. A bomb
threat has been reported.
Please evacuate the premises.
Do not panic.
Remain calm.
Exit in an orderly fashion.
Thank you.
- [Police Officer] This side, people.
No, don't use the elevators,
please. Go out this side!
This side, that's right.
- Guess you told them, huh?
- Is the threat genuine, sergeant?
- I'm afraid so, sir.
The voiceprint we matched with the caller
matches Felix Webber.
- In that case I'll take over.
- This is Mr. Granger, Sergeant.
He heads up our Anti
Corporate Terrorism Squad.
- And any threat to OCP personnel
or property is my jurisdiction.
- Since when?
- The memo just went out.
You should have it on your
desk by the end of the day.
- Lempke!
- sir!
- See that the chairman gets to safety.
- Yes, sir.
This way, Mr. Chairman.
- Thank you.
(dramatic music)
I didn't order those candles lit.
(suspenseful music)
- There is a bomb in the cake.
- Live bomb. Activate the
electro shield. Take cover!
(dramatic music)
(gun firing)
(dramatic music continues)
- It is safe to come out now.
- Oh, Alex.
If you hadn't put on that
badge, you'd be with us now.
- It's time to go, Dorothy.
(gas hissing)
Get down.
(bomb exploding)
(flames crackling)
(dramatic music)
- Oh my God.
- [Doctor] Go ahead and shock
the flatline, then let's quit.
- [Nurse] Okay, everybody clear.
- Officer Alex Murphy, shot
to death in the line of duty.
- [Scientist] Legally he's dead.
We can pretty much do what we want.
- There's a new guy in
town. His name's Robocop.
(inspirational music)
- Murphy, it is you.
(inspirational music continues)
- Wow.
(inspirational music continues)
(calm music)
- Check this out.
Report back to me.
- Sarge.
I heard the call on the CB.
Is this Murphy, as in our Murphy?
Robo's parents. Why them?
- Russell Murphy was the Police Captain
who tracked down Felix
Webber 12 years ago.
- Oh, so now Webber wants revenge.
(contemplative music)
(heavy footsteps approaching)
- Good.
- Watch your step.
- Come on. Come on.
- There you go.
Good boy. You did it.
(gasps)
- Get away from her.
She's been shaken up
enough already without some
damn machine scaring
her ass out of her wits.
- I'm fine. I was just startled.
- Are you injured, ma'am?
- No. Only a scratch.
It's just a scratch. Here,
let Mommy make it all better.
- Well, luckily Webber missed his target.
- Luck had nothing to do with it.
Felix knew I'd recognize
the sound of that detonator priming.
I've heard it too many times before.
This was just his way of saying hello.
- Well just to be sure,
I want to put you in Mrs.
Murphy in a safe house.
- Forget it.
Felix never repeats himself.
He'll go after his real enemy now, OCP.
- He already has Robocop diffused a bomb
planted at OCP towers
less than an hour ago.
- Does this thing got some
kind of a computer memory?
- RoboCop's more than
just a computer, sir.
- Describe the bomb's detonator.
Let's work on our multiplication tables.
- Incendiary fuses with time
delay magnesium flush igniters.
- Fuses?
That was no bomb. That was
Felix's idea of a joke.
Sergeant, if I were you,
I'd post SWAT teams at every OCP facility.
- You may be right Mr. Murphy,
but it's Granger's territory now.
- Granger? Stu Granger? Tall, brush cut?
Acts like he's got a computer up his-
- Russell.
- Do you know him?
- All too well. And so does Felix.
OCP doesn't stand a chance.
Come on Dorothy. It's
time for us to go home.
- Well at least let me assign you
some protection until we catch Webber.
- That's a waste of manpower.
Felix doesn't want to kill me.
- Well, you were responsible
for catching him the first time, sir.
That makes you a pretty
good target for revenge.
- He wants me to stay alive,
so I can watch him finish
what he started 12 years ago.
That's his revenge.
- He seems to have a real
handle on this Webber guy.
I'd like to find out what else he knows.
- You volunteering for body guard duty?
- I guess I am.
- I will assist Detective Madigan.
- Felix Webber is back. Bo?
- Yes, The Mad Bomber
of Old Detroit struck
with a vengeance, detonating
bombs at two OCP facilities.
The first blast ripped through Noxicorp,
OCP's automated industrial
waste recycling facility.
While minutes later, a second bomb
destroyed a pet recycling booth
at the Omni shopping mall in Delta city.
- Stewart Granger of OCP's
new Anti Corporate Terrorism
squad confirmed Webber's
connection to the bombing.
- In fact, due to my ACT unit's
state of the art technology,
we know these bombs were
the work of Felix Webber.
And I assure you the same technology
will lead to his speedy capture.
Thank you.
- Granger thinks Felix can be
numbered and graphed. Bull.
Felix is too complex.
You got to get inside his head,
understand his hatred for OCP,
his macabre sense of humor,
and his pathological
obsession with spiders.
- [Dorothy] So who's winning?
- I just don't think chess is my game.
- I know how you feel, dear.
In 35 years of marriage,
I've only beaten him once.
And I think it's because he let me win.
(calm music)
I don't suppose you drink coffee?
- No, thank you.
- That's our son, Alex.
He was a police officer, like his father.
He was killed on duty.
(calm music continues)
- I am sorry.
- Partner.
You're much better at this game than I am.
How about giving me a hand?
- Well, I have never seen a computer
that could play real chess.
They can be programmed with all the moves,
but in the end they're
mechanical, predictable.
- Well, Mur (clears throat) Robo is
the undefeated champ at Metro South.
- Now my son, he was a real chess player.
I taught him all the moves but,
he had imagination and
guts, the human factor.
You can't program that into a machine.
(suspenseful music)
This is the Velikovsky gambit.
Your opponent will be
distracted by your king.
He'll never see it coming.
Your move.
(calm music)
- Check.
- How did you learn that?
- I had a good teacher.
- Mr. Murphy.
You're still a cop at heart, right?
I can't believe that
you would just sit back
and let Webber endanger lives.
- What choice do I have?
- Well talk to Granger.
Offer him your help.
- He's not gonna listen to me.
- Well, it's worth a shot.
- Detective Madigan is right.
A good cop must protect the innocent.
(calm music)
- Well.
I never thought I'd see
the day when a robot
would remind me what it
takes to be a good cop.
It's amazing what machines
can do these days.
- If it goes bang bang, I got it.
Have a look around. Take your time.
Nice tattoo.
Reminds me about the one
my mother used to have.
- It's my symbol of protest
against the corporate culture
that destroys dreams
for the sake of profit.
- That's fine by me.
I mean, what do I know
about politics, right?
I just supply the hardware.
- I want something special.
- Special? That's my middle name.
We got Cobra assault cannons here.
We got auto nine Avengers.
We got Cougar smart missiles.
All with nice, easy credit terms.
And if you want,
I can negotiate a nice
discount on quantity orders.
- No, I'm looking for something
much more sophisticated,
much more powerful.
(suspenseful music)
- Well, that is a very special order.
- Yes.
- It's gonna cost you extra.
- Money is no object.
It's for a birthday gift.
(suspenseful music continues)
- [Russell] I know Granger.
The last thing he wants is my help.
- [Lisa] Well, it can't hurt to try.
- Thanks for the offer Murphy.
But I'm afraid you'd just get in the way.
- Stu, you haven't changed a bit.
Felix is gonna eat you alive.
- Guys. Come on. We're on
the same side here, right?
The name of this game is Stop Webber.
Mr. Murphy happens to have
extensive knowledge of the man.
- So do I.
Step over here and I'll show you
what modern law enforcement is all about.
Superior technology, that's the
key to catching a terrorist.
Complete physical, psychological,
and genetic data on Felix Webber,
expanded four times daily
with flash ROM updates.
- You still don't get it.
The reason Felix does what he does,
is that he hates all this.
This is the enemy.
And Felix is smart
enough to study his prey,
to learn how it thinks.
He'll take your precious
technology and use it against you,
just like a spider trapping a fly.
- You always were hostile to change.
- This is a waste of time.
- The chairman wants you in
the boardroom immediately, sir.
- Granger, the stockholders are demanding
an explanation for the Noxicorp bombing.
Why did OCP spend a
fortune on your ACT squad,
if Felix Webber can pass
bombs right under our noses?
- He's an extremely clever adversary, sir.
But we'll get him.
- Webber's last rampage
nearly shut us down.
The world's fourth largest
corporation brought to its knees
by a kook who thought he could
grow hair using spider venom.
We can't let it happen again, Granger.
- You have my word, sir.
- I'll hold you to that.
(dramatic music)
- Okay, I need a detailed situation grid
of old Detroit and Delta City.
- Right.
- Lempke, call up a map
of all Webber's bombings 12 years ago.
- Okay, post in all of Felix's
targets since his escape.
- Looks pretty random.
- Felix always has a pattern.
When we boarded his strike
points 12 years ago,
at first we thought it was random.
Then we joined them all together,
and it formed a precise spider web.
- That's it, sir.
All of Felix Webber's
previous bomb targets.
- Right. Now.
Wipe out everything but
the first five strikes,
and call up a comparison grid
with the five he's
planted since his escape.
This time the fly is
going to trap the spider.
- [Operator] Sergeant Parks on the line
for Detective Madigan.
- Madigan, there's an audio only call
from Webber for Captain Murphy.
We're trying to decode and trace,
but he's jamming the signal.
Keep him on the line as long as you can.
- Put him through.
- [Felix] Hello, Captain.
It's been a long time.
- Not long enough.
- It's good to have you back in the game.
I didn't expect my little surprise package
at the cemetery would kill you.
I wanted you alive for the grand finale.
OCP will pay for
betraying me 12 years ago.
- You were fired for conducting
unauthorized research.
- The hair growth serum
that I distilled from spiders
venom was worth a fortune.
It meant hope for millions of
bald sufferers like myself.
Those fools at OCP destroyed my research.
They destroyed me.
- Felix, listen.
- [Felix] And now I'm
going to destroy OCP.
I'm spinning a different
web this time, Captain.
At midnight the towers
fall, and the city dies.
(dramatic music)
- [Operator] Call trace, incomplete.
- He's repeating his old
pattern. He's not so smart.
Call up the location of the
sixth target, 12 years ago.
Bullseye!
- [Lisa] OCP Commemorative Park.
It's gotta be Webber's next target.
- No, it feels wrong.
We're missing something.
- Well, this fits his
previous web pattern.
- Webber said he was spinning
a different web this time.
- Yeah, but which one?
If only I had my old spider research here.
- I am accessing data from
the Michigan State entomology department.
- That'll do it.
Have them index up all
known spider web patterns.
- Now run a probability
scan based on his pattern
12 years ago, and correlate
it with his latest strikes.
Then, locate and ID the
nearest OCP facility.
- The Commemorative Park?
That's it. That is his next target.
- Congratulations. Brilliant, sir.
- Yeah.
We have a web. Let's go catch the spider.
- [Robocop] Orb Web.
- No, that's the pattern
Felix used before. Go ahead.
- [Robocop] Hammock Web.
- No. Go on.
(suspenseful music)
Hold it. Freeze.
Sheet web.
All right, erase all the old targets,
and redraw the lines
connecting the recent bombings.
All right, now do a pattern comparison
with the sheet spiderweb.
- Perfect match.
- Now in the mid point of the sheet,
draw a line straight down.
- Where the spider hangs in wait.
- [Lisa] The OCP refinery?
- We better get over there fast.
- I'll tell Parks to warn Granger.
- Electronic components,
microchip circuitry,
some control switches with
dedicated programs for
vertical, horizontal, and volume?
- Explosives, detonators?
- No sir. But I do get
traces of rubber and latex.
- Open it up.
- Me, sir?
- We're right behind you, Lempke. Shield!
- [Announcer] Welcome to
Omni Consumer Products.
Should you need
assistance, please refer to
our automated guides located
throughout the lobby.
And remember, OCP cares.
(alarm blaring)
- Let's go, let's go!
Coming right now. They're coming down.
Let's go. Hustle it up, hustle it up.
- [Russell] Is it beeping?
- [Robocop] No.
- Good. That means the
detonator isn't active.
Can you do an internal scan?
(suspenseful music)
- The bomb has reacted
to my thermographic scan.
It has activated.
- Oh my God.
(suspenseful music)
Felix must've seen you coming.
He rigged it with a thermal graph alarm.
You triggered the detonation system.
It could go at any second.
(suspenseful music)
(bomb beeping)
- [Felix] Shields up.
(suspenseful music)
(bomb beeping rapidly)
- A micro electronic timer
with a geometric sequence.
Not good.
The beeps will get closer
and closer together.
When they become a steady tone-
- The device explodes.
- Here's what we have to do.
We have to unscrew the housing
and find the circuit breaker
without disturbing the motion sensor.
- Perhaps my sense of
touch is more precise.
(suspenseful music)
(air blasting)
(groaning in fear)
- Spiders.
They're rubber and latex, sir.
- What?
(laughing)
- Boom.
Poor Granger.
You're just a poor little fly
already trapped in my web.
And you're just the appetizer.
For the main course, I'm
gonna deal OCP a death blow.
At midnight, the towers will fall.
- Excuse me, sir.
- The towers will fall?
- The towers will fall.
- ACT squad. Lempke here.
- Of course. OCP Towers.
- I'll tell him. Sergeant
Parks at Metro South.
He says Russell Murphy's
located Webber's bomb
at the OCP Refinery.
- Yeah, and I'll take
squad four to the refinery.
You get over to OCP Towers
with squad five and six,
and begin a full evacuation.
I want that place locked up,
and everybody out of
there before midnight.
(bomb beeping very rapidly)
(suspenseful music)
- Can you see the circuit breaker?
- [Robocop] Yes.
- Can you touch it?
- [Robocop] No. It is too small.
- All the years on the force,
you get used to the feel of the
weight of it in your pocket.
Okay, take my hand,
and guide the pin to the circuit breaker.
(suspenseful music)
(rapid beeping continues)
Acid trap.
- Not good.
- He's right here.
- Detective, what's going on here?
- Russell Murphy found
one of Webber's bombs.
He and Robocop are in
there trying to diffuse it.
- You let a civilian play with a bomb?
That old geezer could get us all killed.
- [Russell] Felix thought of everything.
- [Robocop] I hope
nothing else goes wrong.
- [Russell] You still
see the circuit breaker?
- Yes.
- All right, you're gonna
have to talk me in. Here goes.
- Murphy, what are you doing there?
- What does it look like?
We're diffusing a bomb.
- You are not authorized for that.
- Stu, shut up!
- Slowly.
Up.
Down.
Up.
Down.
Up.
- Up, down. Make up your mind.
- Up.
Perfect.
Push the button.
(suspenseful music)
Now.
- Piece of cake.
(metal groaning)
- Piece of cake.
- Nice going, Murphy.
- Well, I had a good partner.
- It's amazing,
what machines can do these days.
(laughing)
(calm music)
- All stations secure, sir.
No one can enter or exit the
building without being spotted.
- Good.
Now, if Webber makes a move,
we'll have him right where we want him.
(suspenseful music)
- Yes! (babbling)
- We have a breach in the boardroom, sir!
- Call it up on the monitor.
He took the bait.
Now, let's go and spring the trap.
(dramatic music)
- Come in, Granger. Join the party.
But I suggest you put your guns down.
Kill me, and you'll die too,
you and everyone else for miles around.
Welcome to ground zero.
(dramatic music)
- [Announcer] It's time for
Commander Cash.
(crying)
- Hey Suzy.
Tears aren't gonna bring Pup back.
Trade those tears for quarters
at your local pet recycling center.
- Where poor Pup can be recycled into-
- Pet food for hungry
cats and dogs everywhere.
- And it's worth a quarter.
- Wow, a whole quarter.
- So, don't forget.
- [All] Recycle your pet.
- [Announcer] Animal recycling bins
are located at all OCP superstores.
Earn money. It helps keep
our streets clean too.
- Workers at OCP Towers got a scare today,
when they were ordered
to evacuate the building.
But OCP denied the move was prompted
by rumors of a bomb threat
made by Felix Webber,
the mad bomber of Old Detroit.
A company spokesman said
everybody was simply given
the day off to celebrate the
company's 50th anniversary.
(police chatter buzzing on radios)
- Is it true, Sergeant?
Does this madman really
have a nuclear device?
- That's what Webber said
when he called Metro South.
He also claims to have
two hostages up there.
- Where is Granger?
- It seems that Granger
is one of the hostages.
- Guys, Webber's jamming another broadcast
on the police emergency band.
- This is Stewart Granger.
I'm being held prisoner by Felix Webber.
He has asked me to read
the following statement.
He has the detonator
of an explosive device
wired to a pulse monitoring trigger
that is connected to his carotid artery.
If he's killed, the
stopping of his heartbeat
will instantly detonate the bomb.
For God's sake help!
He's crazy! He shouldn't-
- Shut up!
Okay, listen to me.
This is OCP's 50th birthday.
And I've prepared a very
special surprise to celebrate.
So I want to talk to
the big cheese at OCP.
So get the chairman on this line now,
or I'll light the biggest
birthday candle you've ever seen.
And we'll all sit back,
and get an instant tan
from the Delta City's
first nuclear explosion.
That's clear, right?
(suspenseful music)
- Good Lord.
Without the ACT squad,
OCP is at Webber's mercy.
Isn't there anything you can do?
- The police don't have jurisdiction
on OCP property, remember?
- I am rescinding that policy immediately.
You'll have a memo on
your desk by morning.
- I can stop him.
- Make one mistake up there,
and all of Delta City blows.
- You got a plan, partner?
- I will need a helicopter.
(dramatic music)
- [Officer] Are you sure
this ground is secured?
Get those people back.
- You be careful.
- Good luck.
- Go get them, son. We're counting on you.
(dramatic music continues)
- Take me up, Scotty.
(dramatic music continues)
- I can't believe that this lunatic
is willing to blow himself up.
Let me speak to him.
- Mr. Chairman, you
don't understand Felix.
He's making a statement.
This is all he has to live for.
He doesn't want to negotiate.
We have to play his game.
- Listen to him, sir. He
knows what he's talking about.
- Thank you, detective.
But if there's anything I
know, it's how to negotiate.
(helicopter blades spinning)
- [Robocop] Scotty,
switch to stealth mode.
- [Scotty] Roger, switching to stealth.
- Felix Webber, this
is the chairman of OCP.
- Hello, Mr. Chairman.
It's been a long time.
Say,
is that a receding hairline I see?
(chuckles)
- Let's get down to business, shall we?
How much would it take to
convince you to end this insanity?
- Is he talking about money?
- Of course. Just name your price.
- Do you really think
that you can pay me
back for losing my job,
my research, my beautiful
spiders, my hair?
You destroyed my life!
I don't want your money.
I want revenge.
I've just activated the timer.
We have five minutes to live.
How much is your money worth now, old man?
(laughing)
Gotcha!
(laughing continues)
- He didn't even make a proper demand.
That's not negotiating.
- Robocop, come in. Felix
has triggered the timer.
He says we've got less than
five minutes before it goes off.
If we don't move fast, this
whole city gets wiped out.
Do you read?
The bomb goes off in
less than five minutes.
(dramatic music)
- I will need to use the repel canon.
- [Scotty] It's right
there, loaded and ready.
(dramatic music continues)
- Robocop, do you read?
We've got less than five minutes
before the bomb goes off.
Even if we reach the boardroom,
there isn't enough time
to stop detonation.
It's up to you now.
Do you read me?
Robocop, come in.
- Let me talk to Russell.
- He wants to talk to you.
- What is it?
- You must get Felix to
move away from the window.
- [Russell] How? He's through talking.
- Try the Velikovsky gambit.
- The Velikovsky? How did you?
Yeah, maybe.
But how do I distract Felix
so he doesn't see it coming.
- Use the king.
- King?
The king?
(helicopter blades spinning)
(dramatic music)
- [Felix] You're running
out of time, Delta City.
You're gonna say any last prayers,
better make them less than four minutes.
- Sorry, sir.
- Felix, this is Russell Murphy.
- Well, the ex Captain Murphy.
I'm glad you could be
around for the grand finale.
- I want you to know the
chairman of OCP has been arrested
on charges of stealing your research,
and firing you without proper cause.
- You're lying.
- No, it's true. See for yourself.
- He'll never buy this.
- It's worth a try, sir.
Unless you got a better idea.
- He's also charged with
destroying the environment,
gouging consumers,
and selling faulty products
designed to break down.
- Hold on. That's not true.
- Save it. Tell it to the judge. Let's go.
- Well, it's about time.
It took 12 years. I had
to nuke half of Michigan.
But it was worth it.
- Stop the bomb, Felix. You've won.
- Forget it. I've come too far.
(suspenseful music)
(gun fires)
This old goat in shackles
is the last thing I ever want to see.
Now I can die a happy man.
And when Delta City goes
up in a mushroom cloud,
it will be a lesson for corporations
that you don't screw
over the little people.
(dramatic music)
(glass shattering)
(dramatic music continues)
- How do I stop detonation?
- The only way is to unlock and remove
the pal link cap the fastens
the two bomb spheres.
Now, remove the front panel.
Now you have to reach
the disengage switch,
but you'll need something smaller
than those fingers of yours.
(suspenseful music)
- There is no disengage switch.
I am transmitting a picture.
- Damn! The last Felix puzzle.
(suspenseful music)
- [Robocop] Puzzle?
Look at Felix's tattoo.
The red hourglass pattern.
- The female black widow.
It's possible, but if we're wrong.
- [Robocop] We will know soon.
(suspenseful music continues)
(music stops)
(calm music)
- What happened? Are you all right?
- The danger has passed.
(laughing)
- Well, it's brilliant,
sir. Very good, sir.
I knew you could do it, sir.
Sorry, sir.
- Murphy, we could use a man like you,
perhaps as a consultant?
- Thanks, Mr. Chairman,
but I have a grandson
that takes up most of my time these days.
- I understand.
(people cheering)
- That was nice work up there.
- I had a good partner.
- For what it's worth,
you're a damn good cop.
(calm music)
- [Robocop] So are you, sir.
I must go.
Somewhere there is a crime happening.
(inspirational music)
(upbeat music)
♪ In the heart of the darkness
the light still burns ♪
♪ It takes you back
there to a million foes ♪
♪ In the heart of the
darkness she's still there ♪
♪ She always holding
on to what you shared ♪
♪ Is anybody out there
gonna shake your hand ♪
♪ Hold you close help you understand ♪
♪ There's a future to this life ♪
♪ Let it burn in the night ♪
♪ There's a future to this life ♪
♪ But it's like a star in the sky ♪
♪ There's a future to this life ♪
- [Reporter] Give us three minutes,
and we'll give you the world.
This is "Media Break" with
Bo Harlan and Rocky Crenshaw.
- Up first, bad news for Germany,
where a rise in anti-corporate
terrorist attacks
prompted Teutonicorp, that
country's largest company,
to announce its moving its
headquarters to Iceland.
- Here at home, the Chairman
of Omni Consumer Products
denied rumors of a similar move by OCP.
- No, no, rest assured.
OCP has no intention of
relocating, now or in the future.
After all, this is our home.
- The search continues
for convicted bomber,
Felix Webber, who escaped
from the Henry Ford Center
for the Morally Challenged
late last night.
Police fear that the
one-time research scientist
may renew his deadly campaign
of bombing facilities
owned by OCP, his former employer.
Before his capture by police 12 years ago,
Webber made famous by the movie,
"The Mad Bomber of Old
Detroit," held the city
virtually hostage in a
six month reign of terror.
- [Operator] You have reached
the Detroit Police emergency hotline.
Please hold.
Do not hang up, as your call
will be answered much sooner.
- Typical OCP efficiency.
- [Operator] Police
hotline. Can I help you?
- Yes, this is Felix Webber.
I want to report a bomb.
- [Operator] Thank you, please hold.
(grunting)
(suspenseful music)
- As we celebrate our first half century,
let's remember the qualities
that made OCP great,
determination, drive, and guts.
(audience applauding)
Other companies may respond
to this insidious fad
of anti-corporate
violence by running away.
But as usual OCP has a better idea.
Ladies and gentlemen, I proudly give you
our new Anti Corporate
Terrorism unit, the ACT Squad.
- Forward, march!
(inspirational music)
OCP ACT Unit reporting for duty, sir!
- Thanks, Mr. Granger.
Ladies and gentlemen,
with the best equipped,
most technically advanced
force of its kind, we're sending a message
to the Felix Webbers of the
world who think they can
violently overthrow corporate culture.
Don't try it at OCP.
(audience applauding)
(heavy footsteps approaching)
(dramatic music)
- Attention. A bomb
threat has been reported.
Please evacuate the premises.
Do not panic.
Remain calm.
Exit in an orderly fashion.
Thank you.
- [Police Officer] This side, people.
No, don't use the elevators,
please. Go out this side!
This side, that's right.
- Guess you told them, huh?
- Is the threat genuine, sergeant?
- I'm afraid so, sir.
The voiceprint we matched with the caller
matches Felix Webber.
- In that case I'll take over.
- This is Mr. Granger, Sergeant.
He heads up our Anti
Corporate Terrorism Squad.
- And any threat to OCP personnel
or property is my jurisdiction.
- Since when?
- The memo just went out.
You should have it on your
desk by the end of the day.
- Lempke!
- sir!
- See that the chairman gets to safety.
- Yes, sir.
This way, Mr. Chairman.
- Thank you.
(dramatic music)
I didn't order those candles lit.
(suspenseful music)
- There is a bomb in the cake.
- Live bomb. Activate the
electro shield. Take cover!
(dramatic music)
(gun firing)
(dramatic music continues)
- It is safe to come out now.
- Oh, Alex.
If you hadn't put on that
badge, you'd be with us now.
- It's time to go, Dorothy.
(gas hissing)
Get down.
(bomb exploding)
(flames crackling)
(dramatic music)
- Oh my God.
- [Doctor] Go ahead and shock
the flatline, then let's quit.
- [Nurse] Okay, everybody clear.
- Officer Alex Murphy, shot
to death in the line of duty.
- [Scientist] Legally he's dead.
We can pretty much do what we want.
- There's a new guy in
town. His name's Robocop.
(inspirational music)
- Murphy, it is you.
(inspirational music continues)
- Wow.
(inspirational music continues)
(calm music)
- Check this out.
Report back to me.
- Sarge.
I heard the call on the CB.
Is this Murphy, as in our Murphy?
Robo's parents. Why them?
- Russell Murphy was the Police Captain
who tracked down Felix
Webber 12 years ago.
- Oh, so now Webber wants revenge.
(contemplative music)
(heavy footsteps approaching)
- Good.
- Watch your step.
- Come on. Come on.
- There you go.
Good boy. You did it.
(gasps)
- Get away from her.
She's been shaken up
enough already without some
damn machine scaring
her ass out of her wits.
- I'm fine. I was just startled.
- Are you injured, ma'am?
- No. Only a scratch.
It's just a scratch. Here,
let Mommy make it all better.
- Well, luckily Webber missed his target.
- Luck had nothing to do with it.
Felix knew I'd recognize
the sound of that detonator priming.
I've heard it too many times before.
This was just his way of saying hello.
- Well just to be sure,
I want to put you in Mrs.
Murphy in a safe house.
- Forget it.
Felix never repeats himself.
He'll go after his real enemy now, OCP.
- He already has Robocop diffused a bomb
planted at OCP towers
less than an hour ago.
- Does this thing got some
kind of a computer memory?
- RoboCop's more than
just a computer, sir.
- Describe the bomb's detonator.
Let's work on our multiplication tables.
- Incendiary fuses with time
delay magnesium flush igniters.
- Fuses?
That was no bomb. That was
Felix's idea of a joke.
Sergeant, if I were you,
I'd post SWAT teams at every OCP facility.
- You may be right Mr. Murphy,
but it's Granger's territory now.
- Granger? Stu Granger? Tall, brush cut?
Acts like he's got a computer up his-
- Russell.
- Do you know him?
- All too well. And so does Felix.
OCP doesn't stand a chance.
Come on Dorothy. It's
time for us to go home.
- Well at least let me assign you
some protection until we catch Webber.
- That's a waste of manpower.
Felix doesn't want to kill me.
- Well, you were responsible
for catching him the first time, sir.
That makes you a pretty
good target for revenge.
- He wants me to stay alive,
so I can watch him finish
what he started 12 years ago.
That's his revenge.
- He seems to have a real
handle on this Webber guy.
I'd like to find out what else he knows.
- You volunteering for body guard duty?
- I guess I am.
- I will assist Detective Madigan.
- Felix Webber is back. Bo?
- Yes, The Mad Bomber
of Old Detroit struck
with a vengeance, detonating
bombs at two OCP facilities.
The first blast ripped through Noxicorp,
OCP's automated industrial
waste recycling facility.
While minutes later, a second bomb
destroyed a pet recycling booth
at the Omni shopping mall in Delta city.
- Stewart Granger of OCP's
new Anti Corporate Terrorism
squad confirmed Webber's
connection to the bombing.
- In fact, due to my ACT unit's
state of the art technology,
we know these bombs were
the work of Felix Webber.
And I assure you the same technology
will lead to his speedy capture.
Thank you.
- Granger thinks Felix can be
numbered and graphed. Bull.
Felix is too complex.
You got to get inside his head,
understand his hatred for OCP,
his macabre sense of humor,
and his pathological
obsession with spiders.
- [Dorothy] So who's winning?
- I just don't think chess is my game.
- I know how you feel, dear.
In 35 years of marriage,
I've only beaten him once.
And I think it's because he let me win.
(calm music)
I don't suppose you drink coffee?
- No, thank you.
- That's our son, Alex.
He was a police officer, like his father.
He was killed on duty.
(calm music continues)
- I am sorry.
- Partner.
You're much better at this game than I am.
How about giving me a hand?
- Well, I have never seen a computer
that could play real chess.
They can be programmed with all the moves,
but in the end they're
mechanical, predictable.
- Well, Mur (clears throat) Robo is
the undefeated champ at Metro South.
- Now my son, he was a real chess player.
I taught him all the moves but,
he had imagination and
guts, the human factor.
You can't program that into a machine.
(suspenseful music)
This is the Velikovsky gambit.
Your opponent will be
distracted by your king.
He'll never see it coming.
Your move.
(calm music)
- Check.
- How did you learn that?
- I had a good teacher.
- Mr. Murphy.
You're still a cop at heart, right?
I can't believe that
you would just sit back
and let Webber endanger lives.
- What choice do I have?
- Well talk to Granger.
Offer him your help.
- He's not gonna listen to me.
- Well, it's worth a shot.
- Detective Madigan is right.
A good cop must protect the innocent.
(calm music)
- Well.
I never thought I'd see
the day when a robot
would remind me what it
takes to be a good cop.
It's amazing what machines
can do these days.
- If it goes bang bang, I got it.
Have a look around. Take your time.
Nice tattoo.
Reminds me about the one
my mother used to have.
- It's my symbol of protest
against the corporate culture
that destroys dreams
for the sake of profit.
- That's fine by me.
I mean, what do I know
about politics, right?
I just supply the hardware.
- I want something special.
- Special? That's my middle name.
We got Cobra assault cannons here.
We got auto nine Avengers.
We got Cougar smart missiles.
All with nice, easy credit terms.
And if you want,
I can negotiate a nice
discount on quantity orders.
- No, I'm looking for something
much more sophisticated,
much more powerful.
(suspenseful music)
- Well, that is a very special order.
- Yes.
- It's gonna cost you extra.
- Money is no object.
It's for a birthday gift.
(suspenseful music continues)
- [Russell] I know Granger.
The last thing he wants is my help.
- [Lisa] Well, it can't hurt to try.
- Thanks for the offer Murphy.
But I'm afraid you'd just get in the way.
- Stu, you haven't changed a bit.
Felix is gonna eat you alive.
- Guys. Come on. We're on
the same side here, right?
The name of this game is Stop Webber.
Mr. Murphy happens to have
extensive knowledge of the man.
- So do I.
Step over here and I'll show you
what modern law enforcement is all about.
Superior technology, that's the
key to catching a terrorist.
Complete physical, psychological,
and genetic data on Felix Webber,
expanded four times daily
with flash ROM updates.
- You still don't get it.
The reason Felix does what he does,
is that he hates all this.
This is the enemy.
And Felix is smart
enough to study his prey,
to learn how it thinks.
He'll take your precious
technology and use it against you,
just like a spider trapping a fly.
- You always were hostile to change.
- This is a waste of time.
- The chairman wants you in
the boardroom immediately, sir.
- Granger, the stockholders are demanding
an explanation for the Noxicorp bombing.
Why did OCP spend a
fortune on your ACT squad,
if Felix Webber can pass
bombs right under our noses?
- He's an extremely clever adversary, sir.
But we'll get him.
- Webber's last rampage
nearly shut us down.
The world's fourth largest
corporation brought to its knees
by a kook who thought he could
grow hair using spider venom.
We can't let it happen again, Granger.
- You have my word, sir.
- I'll hold you to that.
(dramatic music)
- Okay, I need a detailed situation grid
of old Detroit and Delta City.
- Right.
- Lempke, call up a map
of all Webber's bombings 12 years ago.
- Okay, post in all of Felix's
targets since his escape.
- Looks pretty random.
- Felix always has a pattern.
When we boarded his strike
points 12 years ago,
at first we thought it was random.
Then we joined them all together,
and it formed a precise spider web.
- That's it, sir.
All of Felix Webber's
previous bomb targets.
- Right. Now.
Wipe out everything but
the first five strikes,
and call up a comparison grid
with the five he's
planted since his escape.
This time the fly is
going to trap the spider.
- [Operator] Sergeant Parks on the line
for Detective Madigan.
- Madigan, there's an audio only call
from Webber for Captain Murphy.
We're trying to decode and trace,
but he's jamming the signal.
Keep him on the line as long as you can.
- Put him through.
- [Felix] Hello, Captain.
It's been a long time.
- Not long enough.
- It's good to have you back in the game.
I didn't expect my little surprise package
at the cemetery would kill you.
I wanted you alive for the grand finale.
OCP will pay for
betraying me 12 years ago.
- You were fired for conducting
unauthorized research.
- The hair growth serum
that I distilled from spiders
venom was worth a fortune.
It meant hope for millions of
bald sufferers like myself.
Those fools at OCP destroyed my research.
They destroyed me.
- Felix, listen.
- [Felix] And now I'm
going to destroy OCP.
I'm spinning a different
web this time, Captain.
At midnight the towers
fall, and the city dies.
(dramatic music)
- [Operator] Call trace, incomplete.
- He's repeating his old
pattern. He's not so smart.
Call up the location of the
sixth target, 12 years ago.
Bullseye!
- [Lisa] OCP Commemorative Park.
It's gotta be Webber's next target.
- No, it feels wrong.
We're missing something.
- Well, this fits his
previous web pattern.
- Webber said he was spinning
a different web this time.
- Yeah, but which one?
If only I had my old spider research here.
- I am accessing data from
the Michigan State entomology department.
- That'll do it.
Have them index up all
known spider web patterns.
- Now run a probability
scan based on his pattern
12 years ago, and correlate
it with his latest strikes.
Then, locate and ID the
nearest OCP facility.
- The Commemorative Park?
That's it. That is his next target.
- Congratulations. Brilliant, sir.
- Yeah.
We have a web. Let's go catch the spider.
- [Robocop] Orb Web.
- No, that's the pattern
Felix used before. Go ahead.
- [Robocop] Hammock Web.
- No. Go on.
(suspenseful music)
Hold it. Freeze.
Sheet web.
All right, erase all the old targets,
and redraw the lines
connecting the recent bombings.
All right, now do a pattern comparison
with the sheet spiderweb.
- Perfect match.
- Now in the mid point of the sheet,
draw a line straight down.
- Where the spider hangs in wait.
- [Lisa] The OCP refinery?
- We better get over there fast.
- I'll tell Parks to warn Granger.
- Electronic components,
microchip circuitry,
some control switches with
dedicated programs for
vertical, horizontal, and volume?
- Explosives, detonators?
- No sir. But I do get
traces of rubber and latex.
- Open it up.
- Me, sir?
- We're right behind you, Lempke. Shield!
- [Announcer] Welcome to
Omni Consumer Products.
Should you need
assistance, please refer to
our automated guides located
throughout the lobby.
And remember, OCP cares.
(alarm blaring)
- Let's go, let's go!
Coming right now. They're coming down.
Let's go. Hustle it up, hustle it up.
- [Russell] Is it beeping?
- [Robocop] No.
- Good. That means the
detonator isn't active.
Can you do an internal scan?
(suspenseful music)
- The bomb has reacted
to my thermographic scan.
It has activated.
- Oh my God.
(suspenseful music)
Felix must've seen you coming.
He rigged it with a thermal graph alarm.
You triggered the detonation system.
It could go at any second.
(suspenseful music)
(bomb beeping)
- [Felix] Shields up.
(suspenseful music)
(bomb beeping rapidly)
- A micro electronic timer
with a geometric sequence.
Not good.
The beeps will get closer
and closer together.
When they become a steady tone-
- The device explodes.
- Here's what we have to do.
We have to unscrew the housing
and find the circuit breaker
without disturbing the motion sensor.
- Perhaps my sense of
touch is more precise.
(suspenseful music)
(air blasting)
(groaning in fear)
- Spiders.
They're rubber and latex, sir.
- What?
(laughing)
- Boom.
Poor Granger.
You're just a poor little fly
already trapped in my web.
And you're just the appetizer.
For the main course, I'm
gonna deal OCP a death blow.
At midnight, the towers will fall.
- Excuse me, sir.
- The towers will fall?
- The towers will fall.
- ACT squad. Lempke here.
- Of course. OCP Towers.
- I'll tell him. Sergeant
Parks at Metro South.
He says Russell Murphy's
located Webber's bomb
at the OCP Refinery.
- Yeah, and I'll take
squad four to the refinery.
You get over to OCP Towers
with squad five and six,
and begin a full evacuation.
I want that place locked up,
and everybody out of
there before midnight.
(bomb beeping very rapidly)
(suspenseful music)
- Can you see the circuit breaker?
- [Robocop] Yes.
- Can you touch it?
- [Robocop] No. It is too small.
- All the years on the force,
you get used to the feel of the
weight of it in your pocket.
Okay, take my hand,
and guide the pin to the circuit breaker.
(suspenseful music)
(rapid beeping continues)
Acid trap.
- Not good.
- He's right here.
- Detective, what's going on here?
- Russell Murphy found
one of Webber's bombs.
He and Robocop are in
there trying to diffuse it.
- You let a civilian play with a bomb?
That old geezer could get us all killed.
- [Russell] Felix thought of everything.
- [Robocop] I hope
nothing else goes wrong.
- [Russell] You still
see the circuit breaker?
- Yes.
- All right, you're gonna
have to talk me in. Here goes.
- Murphy, what are you doing there?
- What does it look like?
We're diffusing a bomb.
- You are not authorized for that.
- Stu, shut up!
- Slowly.
Up.
Down.
Up.
Down.
Up.
- Up, down. Make up your mind.
- Up.
Perfect.
Push the button.
(suspenseful music)
Now.
- Piece of cake.
(metal groaning)
- Piece of cake.
- Nice going, Murphy.
- Well, I had a good partner.
- It's amazing,
what machines can do these days.
(laughing)
(calm music)
- All stations secure, sir.
No one can enter or exit the
building without being spotted.
- Good.
Now, if Webber makes a move,
we'll have him right where we want him.
(suspenseful music)
- Yes! (babbling)
- We have a breach in the boardroom, sir!
- Call it up on the monitor.
He took the bait.
Now, let's go and spring the trap.
(dramatic music)
- Come in, Granger. Join the party.
But I suggest you put your guns down.
Kill me, and you'll die too,
you and everyone else for miles around.
Welcome to ground zero.
(dramatic music)
- [Announcer] It's time for
Commander Cash.
(crying)
- Hey Suzy.
Tears aren't gonna bring Pup back.
Trade those tears for quarters
at your local pet recycling center.
- Where poor Pup can be recycled into-
- Pet food for hungry
cats and dogs everywhere.
- And it's worth a quarter.
- Wow, a whole quarter.
- So, don't forget.
- [All] Recycle your pet.
- [Announcer] Animal recycling bins
are located at all OCP superstores.
Earn money. It helps keep
our streets clean too.
- Workers at OCP Towers got a scare today,
when they were ordered
to evacuate the building.
But OCP denied the move was prompted
by rumors of a bomb threat
made by Felix Webber,
the mad bomber of Old Detroit.
A company spokesman said
everybody was simply given
the day off to celebrate the
company's 50th anniversary.
(police chatter buzzing on radios)
- Is it true, Sergeant?
Does this madman really
have a nuclear device?
- That's what Webber said
when he called Metro South.
He also claims to have
two hostages up there.
- Where is Granger?
- It seems that Granger
is one of the hostages.
- Guys, Webber's jamming another broadcast
on the police emergency band.
- This is Stewart Granger.
I'm being held prisoner by Felix Webber.
He has asked me to read
the following statement.
He has the detonator
of an explosive device
wired to a pulse monitoring trigger
that is connected to his carotid artery.
If he's killed, the
stopping of his heartbeat
will instantly detonate the bomb.
For God's sake help!
He's crazy! He shouldn't-
- Shut up!
Okay, listen to me.
This is OCP's 50th birthday.
And I've prepared a very
special surprise to celebrate.
So I want to talk to
the big cheese at OCP.
So get the chairman on this line now,
or I'll light the biggest
birthday candle you've ever seen.
And we'll all sit back,
and get an instant tan
from the Delta City's
first nuclear explosion.
That's clear, right?
(suspenseful music)
- Good Lord.
Without the ACT squad,
OCP is at Webber's mercy.
Isn't there anything you can do?
- The police don't have jurisdiction
on OCP property, remember?
- I am rescinding that policy immediately.
You'll have a memo on
your desk by morning.
- I can stop him.
- Make one mistake up there,
and all of Delta City blows.
- You got a plan, partner?
- I will need a helicopter.
(dramatic music)
- [Officer] Are you sure
this ground is secured?
Get those people back.
- You be careful.
- Good luck.
- Go get them, son. We're counting on you.
(dramatic music continues)
- Take me up, Scotty.
(dramatic music continues)
- I can't believe that this lunatic
is willing to blow himself up.
Let me speak to him.
- Mr. Chairman, you
don't understand Felix.
He's making a statement.
This is all he has to live for.
He doesn't want to negotiate.
We have to play his game.
- Listen to him, sir. He
knows what he's talking about.
- Thank you, detective.
But if there's anything I
know, it's how to negotiate.
(helicopter blades spinning)
- [Robocop] Scotty,
switch to stealth mode.
- [Scotty] Roger, switching to stealth.
- Felix Webber, this
is the chairman of OCP.
- Hello, Mr. Chairman.
It's been a long time.
Say,
is that a receding hairline I see?
(chuckles)
- Let's get down to business, shall we?
How much would it take to
convince you to end this insanity?
- Is he talking about money?
- Of course. Just name your price.
- Do you really think
that you can pay me
back for losing my job,
my research, my beautiful
spiders, my hair?
You destroyed my life!
I don't want your money.
I want revenge.
I've just activated the timer.
We have five minutes to live.
How much is your money worth now, old man?
(laughing)
Gotcha!
(laughing continues)
- He didn't even make a proper demand.
That's not negotiating.
- Robocop, come in. Felix
has triggered the timer.
He says we've got less than
five minutes before it goes off.
If we don't move fast, this
whole city gets wiped out.
Do you read?
The bomb goes off in
less than five minutes.
(dramatic music)
- I will need to use the repel canon.
- [Scotty] It's right
there, loaded and ready.
(dramatic music continues)
- Robocop, do you read?
We've got less than five minutes
before the bomb goes off.
Even if we reach the boardroom,
there isn't enough time
to stop detonation.
It's up to you now.
Do you read me?
Robocop, come in.
- Let me talk to Russell.
- He wants to talk to you.
- What is it?
- You must get Felix to
move away from the window.
- [Russell] How? He's through talking.
- Try the Velikovsky gambit.
- The Velikovsky? How did you?
Yeah, maybe.
But how do I distract Felix
so he doesn't see it coming.
- Use the king.
- King?
The king?
(helicopter blades spinning)
(dramatic music)
- [Felix] You're running
out of time, Delta City.
You're gonna say any last prayers,
better make them less than four minutes.
- Sorry, sir.
- Felix, this is Russell Murphy.
- Well, the ex Captain Murphy.
I'm glad you could be
around for the grand finale.
- I want you to know the
chairman of OCP has been arrested
on charges of stealing your research,
and firing you without proper cause.
- You're lying.
- No, it's true. See for yourself.
- He'll never buy this.
- It's worth a try, sir.
Unless you got a better idea.
- He's also charged with
destroying the environment,
gouging consumers,
and selling faulty products
designed to break down.
- Hold on. That's not true.
- Save it. Tell it to the judge. Let's go.
- Well, it's about time.
It took 12 years. I had
to nuke half of Michigan.
But it was worth it.
- Stop the bomb, Felix. You've won.
- Forget it. I've come too far.
(suspenseful music)
(gun fires)
This old goat in shackles
is the last thing I ever want to see.
Now I can die a happy man.
And when Delta City goes
up in a mushroom cloud,
it will be a lesson for corporations
that you don't screw
over the little people.
(dramatic music)
(glass shattering)
(dramatic music continues)
- How do I stop detonation?
- The only way is to unlock and remove
the pal link cap the fastens
the two bomb spheres.
Now, remove the front panel.
Now you have to reach
the disengage switch,
but you'll need something smaller
than those fingers of yours.
(suspenseful music)
- There is no disengage switch.
I am transmitting a picture.
- Damn! The last Felix puzzle.
(suspenseful music)
- [Robocop] Puzzle?
Look at Felix's tattoo.
The red hourglass pattern.
- The female black widow.
It's possible, but if we're wrong.
- [Robocop] We will know soon.
(suspenseful music continues)
(music stops)
(calm music)
- What happened? Are you all right?
- The danger has passed.
(laughing)
- Well, it's brilliant,
sir. Very good, sir.
I knew you could do it, sir.
Sorry, sir.
- Murphy, we could use a man like you,
perhaps as a consultant?
- Thanks, Mr. Chairman,
but I have a grandson
that takes up most of my time these days.
- I understand.
(people cheering)
- That was nice work up there.
- I had a good partner.
- For what it's worth,
you're a damn good cop.
(calm music)
- [Robocop] So are you, sir.
I must go.
Somewhere there is a crime happening.
(inspirational music)
(upbeat music)
♪ In the heart of the darkness
the light still burns ♪
♪ It takes you back
there to a million foes ♪
♪ In the heart of the
darkness she's still there ♪
♪ She always holding
on to what you shared ♪
♪ Is anybody out there
gonna shake your hand ♪
♪ Hold you close help you understand ♪
♪ There's a future to this life ♪
♪ Let it burn in the night ♪
♪ There's a future to this life ♪
♪ But it's like a star in the sky ♪
♪ There's a future to this life ♪