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Whatcha wanna stop here for? Not that I ain't glad to be on the ground, y'understand.
Just a second.
Thanks. Let's go
I was afraid you'd say that. Hey, is there a bus station around here?
Suit yourself, Gus. Say, does your boss use a computer in this operation?
Please, Mr. Webster, you're a great humanitarian. Ain't you heard what it's like in them jails? You send an innocent boy in and he gets thrown in with killers and robbers and rapers and raper killer and robber rapers and...
Mr. Gorman, just answer me one question...
You've been a naughty boy haven't you? C'mon now, admit it, you were kinda naughty.
Uh...yeah. I didn't think of it that way exactly, but...
Say, fella, I understand. I can what do the kids say these days "dig where you're comin' from." You want to be rich, right?
Uh...
Now me, I was born rich. I've never worn the same pair of socks twice.
Yeah? What do you do with 'em?
I believe they're laundered and sent to some charitable institution. I don't know what the heck they do with 'em. Maybe they use them for dust rags, or pen wipers...
Or socks.
Yes! That never occurred to me. Her ya go, buddy, singlemalt. Gus, my friend, you're a genius. Okay, a naughty genius, but hell, nobody's perfect.
'Cause I know about getting' them halfcentses?
Gus, Webco, the Webster industrial complex, is a familyowned cartel. A little magnesium here, a little zinc there. Some railroads here, some farm machinery there. You follow?
I'm tryin' to.
Gus, do you know what I want now? I want coffee!
Black or regular?
I don't think you understand.
Man, what is this?
Plants. Plants always make an office cozier.
Under different company names. I control the price of coffee beans in Brazil. The price in Venezuela. Java, South Korea, North Korea, the Aleutian Islands, Guam, Bolivia, and the Republic of Gabon!
Decaffeinated too?
But y'see, chum, the problem I got is that one country just won't play ball with me. You know how that can just bug a guy, don't you?
Which country?
Columbia.
Columbia.
Columbia's got two major exports and one of them's coffee.
Wipe 'em out?
Destroy the entire Colombian coffee crop down to the last bean.
But Mr. Webster...you're doin' okay with Brazil and them other places. What's wrong with just one little old country doin' their own thing?
A very wise man once said...I think it was Attila the Hun... "It's not enough that I succeed. Everyone else must fail." And you are going to do it for me.
Me? How?
Gus, tell me, have you ever heard of Vulcan?
That what they call you?
How do you do that?
Like everything else in the 20th century, Gus. You push buttons.
Always making yourself beautiful for me, aren't you? So, Gus, can you make Vulcan do what I want it to? You didn't answer me, pal. Did you hear about that prison riot last week? It seems they were complaining about rats in the cells...
Yeah, yeah, I can do it.
When?
First question got to be "Where."
What?
Not "What." Don't need a genius to figure out "what." Need a genius to figure out "where." He says I'm a genius, your don Brother! Bubba! Your Bubba! See, if y'all don't want them to trace it back, you got to punch this in from someplace nobody'd ever think off. Some little rinky dink operation with a little mickey mouse computer. ROSS It's got to be someplace you can sneak into.
Hey, boss.
Just the man I wanted to see!
Turn on the T.V.
I did. isn't it neato?
Uh...what channel were you watching?
What are you talking about, fella?
It ain't. It's nowhere. It blew up. That's how come they shipped the dude to Earth when he was a baby. well. I know some stuff too, y'all.
Wait a second. Astronomers know where the planet used to be, right? And you know what happens when a planet explodes? Debris. Pieces floating in space.
Just hold on a minute. I have been doin' some thinkin'
God, that's what I keep you for.
That's what I been thinkin' about. How you been keepin' me. I ain't getting' nothing outta this gig.
Gus, if there's anything I hate, it's greed.
Greed! Let me tell you something
He sure wasn't actin' bad and nasty that day in Smallville. Man, he was so full of niceness I was startin' to feel funny about layin' that chunk of...
KRYPTONITE!
Huh?
Every oil tanker and super tanker and superdupertanker in the ocean is controlled. totally, by computers. Computers to tell them where to go, how much oil to take on, where to deliver it.
They ain't got captains?
Yes, but they don't really need them. it's just a throw back to some sentimental sea faring baloney.
And do nothing. Just sit there.
Then how's all the people gonna get their oil?
You catch on fast, old buddy. Tell him about the pumps. I know how you love the part about the pumps.
And then shut down the pipe lines.
Pumps stop pumping oil. Pipe lines stop pipin' oil. Tankers stop deliverin' oil. Man, this is high stakes.
Thanks, kiddo. now, listen, this part's important. I want you to program one special command into all these systems. Tell them these orders are irreversible, so it'll be impossible for anybody to switch them back. Can you do that, pal?
Lookit, you're getting' what you want all the time. it ain't right that I don't get somethin'! I never get somethin'!
I knew it, I knew it, go be nice to people and they think they can ask for the moon!
The moon! Listen, man, when I was a little bitty kid all my friends got them electric trains for Christmas. My mama didn't have barely enough to pay the electric bill, let alone buy me no train set.
Now...when do I get a taste?
I should think a taste of freedom is enough, don't you? Or would you prefer jail?
Don't lay that jail number on me no more. You need me out here doin' stuff for you more'n sitten' in no jail doin' nothin' for nobody. 'Sides, I be known' some heavy stuff about you now. You don't want em spillin' the coffee beans.
Is this blackmail?
Don't be getting' racist with me, man.
Is this whitemail?
Fair's fair.
What do you want?
A wastebasket? GUS Those are plans. Blueprints.
For what?
A computer.
We've already got some.
Not like this one you ain't. Nobody in the world got one like this 'cause it don't exist yet. We got to build it.
You designed it?
I invented it, man. In my head. It's a stone killerdiller getdown getiton and twiceonSunday super mutha computer.
What will it do?
Everything.
What will it get me?
Anything.
Tell me more...
Yeah? How's it look?
It looks wonderful. it is wonderful, let's face it.
I told you it wasn't no jive.
Gus, it seems we are talking stateoftheart technology here. We are talking unlimited power. We are talking "getdown hotcha daddyo" whatever you called it.
Stone mutha.
Exactly. Stoned mother.