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the rock - 03 - you and i know that you have no chance
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00:00Last night, General Hummel, using brutal but non-lethal force under the guise of a security exercise,
00:06walked off with 15 VX poison gas rockets. He lost one of his own men in the process.
00:11Is General Hummel in Vietnam? I think he was a major at the time.
00:15Three tours in Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Desert Storm, three Purple Hearts,
00:21two Silver Stars and the Congressional Medal of Jesus.
00:25This man is a hero.
00:27Well, I think legend might be a better description, Mr. Sinclair.
00:30Well, now we can add kidnapping and extortion to his list of accolades.
00:33Mr. Sinclair, General Hummel is a man of honor.
00:37General, it's him.
00:41Frank! Sal Kramer.
00:43How are you, Al? How you doing?
00:45I don't know, Frank. Why don't you tell me?
00:47Got a lot of very, very worried people here, Frank.
00:50I'll come straight to the point.
00:5283 Force Reconnaissance Marines have died under my various commands.
00:5647 in northern Laos and southern China.
00:58Southern China? We never admitted we sent troops into China.
01:01Who is this? Identify yourself.
01:04White House Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair, General.
01:07How old are you, Chief of Staff Sinclair?
01:10I'm 33.
01:12Well, Mr. Sinclair, you've probably got no fucking idea what I'm talking about.
01:16By your ninth birthday, I was running black ops into China.
01:19My men were responsible for over 200 enemy kills.
01:22I'll put some rigging tape over Mr. Sinclair's mouth.
01:25He's wasting my time.
01:27You want to continue, Frank?
01:29Remember Operation Desert Storm?
01:31Those surgical hits made by our smart bombs covered so well on CNN?
01:35It was my men on the ground that made those hits possible by lazing the targets.
01:3920 of them were left to rot outside Baghdad after the conflict ended.
01:43No benefits were paid to their families.
01:45No medals conferred.
01:49These men died for their country,
01:51and they weren't even given a goddamn military burial.
01:56This situation is unacceptable.
01:58You will transfer $100 million from the Grand Cayman Red Sea Trading Company account
02:03to an account I designate.
02:05From these funds, reparations of $1 million will be paid to each of the 83 Marines' families.
02:10The rest of the funds I will disperse at my discretion.
02:14Do I make myself clear?
02:16Except for the Red Sea Trading Company, what is that?
02:19Identify yourself.
02:20This is FBI Director Womack, General.
02:22It's a slush fund where the Pentagon keeps proceeds from illegal arms sales.
02:26Jesus, Frank, this is classified information.
02:29You alert the media, I launch the gas.
02:32You refuse payment, I launch the gas.
02:35You've got 40 hours till noon, day after tomorrow, to arrange transfer of the money.
02:39I am aware of your countermeasure. You know and I know it doesn't stand a chance.
02:43Hummel from Alcatraz, out.
02:47All right.
02:48We have to identify the hostages and contact each of their families.
02:52Tell them something, make up a story, and we've got to keep this undercover.
02:56If this comes out, the city of San Francisco will be in chaos.
02:59I am talking anarchy.
03:00Wait a minute, wait a minute.
03:02What is the potential casualty rate for a single rocket armed with VX poison gas, General Peterson?
03:0960 or 70.
03:11Well, that's not so bad.
03:12Thousand.
03:1470,000 dead.
03:17One teaspoon of this hits the floor.
03:19It's lethal up to 100 feet.
03:22One teaspoon of this shit detonated in the atmosphere...
03:26will kill every living organism in an eight-block radius.
03:29Get the point?
03:31What did Hummel mean by your countermeasure, General?
03:34Standard poison is countered by napalm.
03:36It burns it up, consumes it upon detonation.
03:38Now, the problem with VX poison gas is that it's designed specifically to withstand napalm.
03:43That's where thermite plasma comes in, General Peterson.
03:46Thermite plasma incendiary systems can burn hot enough to consume VX,
03:50but they're still in the test phase.
03:52It's not operational.
03:54Hummel knows this.
03:56We are dealing with one smart son of a bitch.
03:59What's it gonna take to equip a flight of F-18s with thermite plasma within the next 36 hours?
04:05An act of God.
04:07Excuse me.
04:09All right, we can try.
04:11But I strongly urge you to consider the use of this as a secondary initiative.
04:15And we have to go to our primary initiative, Admiral.
04:18Sir, I'd like to bring in our SEAL ground commander, Commander Anderson.
04:21Mr. Womack, who is your best chemical biological man?