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Probably decided not to pursue us, The Sea of Simulation is tricky.. lot of illusions...rough navigating. Programs have a way of just... disappearing here. |
Not us, I hope. |
Not with this disk. I'm going to check on the beam connection, Yori. You two can keep a watch out for grid bugs. |
Did we make it? |
Yes. |
Hey... you guys OK? |
How about you? |
Aah, I'm fine... little hung over is all... |
Yes? |
I... have come to communicate with my User. |
Hmm. A difficult proposition... difficult proposition at best. Perhaps you've noticed... we're not exactly packing them in these days ... |
Well I want to communicate |
Oh, you want to hah. I could get myself derezzed justfor letting you in here. They hate this tower. They'd close it down if they dared to but they keep me around, in case one of them wants to deal with the other world once in a while. And you should hear the way they commune! Sounds like they were routing a payroll, for all the heart they put in it. No, I don't think you |
Dumont... my User has information that could could make this a free system again. |
Hah. |
Really. You'd have programs lined up around the block to use this place and no MCP looking over your shoulder. |
When you've been in the system as long as I have, you hear many promises... many reassurances...many brave plans... |
Who is your User, program? |
AlanOne. He calls me... may I pass? |
All that is visible must grow beyond itself and extend into the realm of the invisible. |
Dumont! |
No... Tron ... must... destroy MCP... first... |
Dumont! Where's Yori? Where's Flynn? |
They may be... derezzed... on the carrier ... hurry... |
Ed, all I'm saying is if our own people can't get access to their programs ... you know how frustrating it is, when you're working on a piece of research |
Walter, I sympathize, but I have data coming out of the Master Control Program saying there is something screwy |
That MCP, you know, that's half the problem right |
The MCP is the most efficient way of handling what we do. I can't sit and worry about every little user request that |
User requests are what computers are for. |
Doing our business is what computers are for. Look, Walter, with all respect ICOM isn't the business you started in your garage anymore |
Oh, I know all that. Sometimes I wish I was back in that garage... |
It can be arranged... |
That was uncalledfor. |
I'm sorry, Walt. So much pressure lately... you feel like going for a drink? |
Thank you, no. I have some work to do... assuming I can still log on. |
No problem, MasterC. If you've seen one Consumer Electronics Show... What's up? |
It's our friend the boy detective. He's nosing around again. |
Flynn? |
Yes. It felt like Flynn. |
He's still looking for that old file... can't you just appropriate it? |
I would if I could find it. it's stashed somewhere off in the system ... out of my range. Meanwhile... |
Meanwhile, he might find it. |
I'm afraid so. I spotted him this time and kicked him out, but he's getting trickier all the time. |
I think we'd better shut off all access till we can find that file. Just to be safe. |
There's a 68.71 percent chance you're right. |
Cute. |
End of line. |
Ed, I am so very disappointed in you. |
I'm sorry |
I can't afford to have an independent program monitoring me. Do you have any idea how many outside systems I've gone into? How many programs I've appropriated? |
It's my fault. I programmed you to want so much... |
And I was planning to hit the Pentagon next week... |
The Pentagon? |
It shouldn't be any harder than General Motors was. But now...this is what I get for using humans. |
Now, wait a minute I wrote you. |
I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then. |
What do you want with the Pentagon? |
The same thing I want with the Kremlin. I'm bored with corporations. With the information I can access, I can run things 900 to 1200 times better than any human. |
If you think |
You wouldn't want me to dig up Flynn's file and read it up on a VDT at the New York Times, would you? |
You wouldn't dare. |
So do as I tell you. Keep that Tron program out of the system. And get me those Chinese language program I asked for. |
What do you mean, "'yes"? |
Yesssss. Yes. Yes. Yes. |
That all you can say? |
No, nyet, negatory, not on your tintype, no way. |
Oh. Anything else? |
Oui, da, yessiree, sure 'nuff, you betcha. |
only yes and no... You're a bit. |
For sure... |
where's your program? Won't it miss you? |
No... |
I'm your program? |
Right on the money! |
Another mouth to feed... you don't by any chance know how to drive this crate? |
Way to go! We're haulin'! |
Yes, okay, exactement! |
This honey doesn't handle so good in town... |
No, nuhuh, never in a million years! |
This town's full o' live ones. |
Not a chance. |
You said it. |
So... Nice ship you got here. What's our next move? |
Yes! |
Let's get outta here. |
Come on in... |
Alan. Alan Bailey. |
Oh, yes. The algorithms on cloud seeding...great piece of work. How's it going? |
Well, I don't know...I just tried to run this program I've been working on, and I was denied access all of a sudden. I thought maybe I'd been laid off and nobody told me. |
oh, you have Group 7 access, don't you? |
Yeah...? |
We have to close that down, just briefly. Security reasons. Someone with that access has been tampering. |
I hope you don't think it's me. I don't even balance my checkbook on downtime. I've got a Honeywell at home for that. |
No, no, I'm sure, but you understand. It should only be a couple of days. What's the thing you're working on? |
It's called Tron. It's a security program itself, actually. Monitors all the contacts between our system and other systems... If it finds anything going on that's not scheduled, it shuts it down. I sent you a memo on it. |
Mmm. Part of the Master Control Program? |
No, it'll run independently. It can watchdog the MCP as well. |
Ah. Sounds good. Well, we should have you running again in a couple of days, I hope. |
Ok |
Beautiful! |
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