02x12 - The Cross-Country Kidnap

[bunniefuu]

[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC]

BENNO:
Ah, that was very good, Lisa.

Aw, it stank. Whoa.

Well, you dropped the reins
a little bit too soon.

I know, I'm so tight...

and I'm not letting him
pick his own take-off, either.

Well, I'll try it again.

Ah, now, Lisa, you've been working
since 6:30 this morning.

Benno, these are the Olympic Trials...

and I'm so far out of shape
it's pathetic.

Don't be polite with me,
we don't have time.

But I do appreciate the sentiment.

You're a glutton for punishment.
Off you go, kinder.

[DYNAMIC MUSIC]

[HORSE NEIGHS]

Hey, hey.
What do you think you're doing?

He might've broken my neck!

Well now...
Come on.

Arnold is simply being thorough.

Look, boss, Lisa Leitman is a lady
cryptographer who rides for a hobby...

not Wonder Woman!

She's one of the leading experts
on this country's code system.

She is extremely
and uniquely valuable to us.

There must be no mistakes.

Then let's run it again, okay?

Oh, hey, come on!

Arnold is right.

We only have two days
before we kidnap Miss Leitman.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

FLIGHT COM:
It looks good at NASA One.

B-52 PILOT: Roger.

BCS Arm switch is on.

FLIGHT COM: Okay, Victor.

B-52 PILOT:
Landing Rocket Arm switch is on.
Here comes the throttle.

Circuit breakers in.

STEVE:
We have separation.

B-52 PILOT:
Inboard and outboards are on.

I'm comin' forward with the side stick.

FLIGHT COM: Looks good.

PILOT:
Ah, Roger.

STEVE:
I've got a blowout in damper three.

SR-71 PILOT:
Get your pitch to zero.

STEVE:
Pitch is out. I can't hold altitude!

B-52 PILOT: Correction. Alpha Hold is all“.
Threat selector is emergency.

STEVE: Flight Com. I can't hold it!
She's breaking up! She's breaking...

ANNOUNCER:
Steve Austin. Astronaut.

A man barely alive.

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.

We have the technology.

We have the capability
to make the world's first bionic man.

Steve Austin will be that man.

Better than he was before.

Better, stronger, faster.

[MAIN TITLE THEME]

[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC]

[BIONIC SOUND EFFECT]

LISA: Kidnapping?

Yes, kidnapping.

May seem funny to you, Lisa...

but security threats
rarely move me to hilarity.

Well, that, my dear Oscar...

is because you have the gray,
shrunken soul of a bureaucrat.

And because he's a worrier.

But with some reason, this time.

You're gonna be alone on a horse...

for three days during the final trials.

Open country.
No witnesses.

It's a logical place for them to
have a try at you, Miss Leitman.

And we have word, no details...

that they are going to make a try.


see. I see.

Another one of your rumors.

I have to take them seriously.

Well, I don't.

Now let's look at it logically,
all right?

All right.

I'm an expert rider,
in rough country...

on a well-marked course.

The hills will be alive
with the sound of...

Music?

Very funny.

With the sound of contestants,
stewards, trainers, other people.

Now in the middle of all this,
these...

kidnappers suddenly appear,
uttering horrible threats...

what do you think I'm gonna do?

Uh, faint? Surrender?

Or maybe...

Maybe I'll just ride away,
screaming for the police?

You're riding along and somebody
blows your horse's head off.

The horse goes down, you go off...

two men grab you, slug you,
put you in the back of a car and drive away.

Tell me it's impossible.

You hear that?

All right.

Point to you, Colonel Austin.

Steve.

Okay, Steve.

It's possible, but why?

Why not pick me off at my apartment?

Or when I'm shopping, or out
on a date or jogging in the park?

Alicia, we're not saying
these kidnappers are brilliant...

we're just saying that if they're real,
you're in danger.

Oh, I am, Oscar.
Lam in danger.

You've made that very clear to me
over the last three years...

the way your security
gnomes invade my life.

Remember two years ago,
you ruined my ski vacation.

Yeah.

And last year, you managed to
disrupt a very promising love affair.

Well, I had to check him out.

And check him out you did!
You checked him right out of my life!

So that's it.

This year, I am not buying
any tickets to the annual ClA Ball!

Cryptography says that
you're brilliant, Lisa.

Brilliant.
Why don't you demonstrate it?

Here's what they say about you.

You help develop
a computer coding program...

an entire computer coding program.

Helped? I did it.
All by myself. Me.

STEVE: Exactly.

And because you did it,
you're the key...

the one person who
designed all the software.

I knew you'd listen to reason.
Now this is what we'll do.

We're gonna cancel out
the horse show.

I'll arrange a decoy,
we'll arrange a fake story.

No.

Huh?

This horse race happens to be the
final trials for the Olympics.

It's something I've been dreaming
about since I was 11 years old.

I've worked half my life for it...

and this past month
I've been busting a gut for it!

Lisa...

Back off, back out of my life
or
defect to Mars!

Lisa, I have an idea,
a very good idea.

How about just one agent
to follow you around?

One agent, someone
who's inconspicuous...

somebody who's trustworthy.

Not to mention clean, brave...

reverent and true.
Yes. Right.

No.

I could stay in the background.

Why don't you do that?

About 200 miles in the background.

Lisa... please?

If I see him once...
just once...

I will call the police and scream r*pe!

Have a nice day, gentlemen.

[DOOR CLOSES]

Well, I guess that's that.

Your plane leaves in two hours.

There'll be a car
to meet you at the airport.

You'll be staying at the
same motel as she is.

Wait a minute, what if she spots me
and screams to the local fuzz?

Huh?

You're a bionic man. Run.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[P.A. CHATTER]

What do you want?

How about a towel?

Look, I told you I'd scream.

That wouldn't carry very far out here.

Besides, it might
spook your horse.

[HORSE WHINNIES]

STEVE: That's a beautiful horse.

Just beautiful.

Is this the way it's going to be all day?

I come over the mountain and you pop
out of the bushes being charming.

Look, I don't want to foul you up,
I just want to be here...

just in case.

Right.
forgot!

The world-wide conspiracy,
the forces of evil after me!

Look, I'm willing to play it
any way you like.

I'll stay out of sight.
I'll be inconspicuous.

You name it.

Fine.

But what about Oscar's
other 63 secret gnomes?

Well, this trip it's just me...

watching over you.

What do you say we discuss it
in a civilized manner, huh?

Over dinner?

No.

[HORSE WHINNIES]

I'll bet your horse likes me.

Just dinner and then you leave?

Well, we'll talk about it.

All right.

Why don't you pick me up around 7:00.

I'm over at the...

Yeah, I know.
I'm staying there, too.

Three doors away.

Fantastic.

[BOUNCY MUSIC]

STEVE: Equitation is just a sport, Lisa...

LISA: No, it's a religion.

Or at least, an obsession.

Okay, an obsession.

I know the horse is an
outstandingly stupid animal, but...

when I'm riding, when I'm out there
on that monster of a trial course...

well, I'm free... trying to make
it all happen together...

trying for a kind of perfection.

I think
know the feeling.

Do you?

Well, I've had a ride through outer space,
I've walked around on the moon.

Maybe you do.

Steve, for the past three years...

I've been involved in nothing
but artificial languages...

digital readouts...

and trying to develop this code
that's flexible enough...

to incorporate everything from a radar
pickup on the Arctic DEW line...

to Let's Make a Deal.

So now all I really care about
is making the Olympic team.

And I don't want any interference.

I won't interfere.

That's impossible.

No, it isn't.

Look, let's go back to your room
and I'll explain.

Are you kidding?

No.

There's too many people here.

You know, it's funny,
I think I almost believe you.

Come on.

Well, I never did say I was neat.

Well, it's got some personality.

My room looks like it was
stamped out of plastic.

[BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT]

What's the matter?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[BIONIC SOUND EFFECT]

Are you looking for somebody?

No!

I wasn't looking in on you folks
or anything, honest, mister!

I'm fixing the TV antenna,
that's all!

I'm sorry.

Hey, I don't blame you.

Seein' me right outside your window,
I guess maybe you thought
...

My friend is just a little uptight.

We apologize.

It's all right, miss.

Mind if I pick up the rest of my tools?

Go right ahead.

You are paranoid!

Like you, I'm a perfectionist.

Right now, I would like to think
that we are very different.

It's been an educational evening.

Good night.

I'll be right down the hall.

Good.
Stay there.

Big 9W,
but he moved like a streak.

And strong...

he pulled me right through
that window like I was a package.

Well, he's protecting her,
Mr. Veneman.

And he's on his toes,
that's all we wanted to know.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Thanks! Always glad
to help out the law.

Bodyguard.

Naturally.

But that's your specialty,
isn't it, Arnold?

Jumping obstacles?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Well, good morning.

So it is.

Benno, this is Mr. Austin,
an acquaintance.

Benno Reichert, my trainer.

Mr. Austin.

How do you do, sir?

Lisa, I raised the pole
for you one notch.

Thank you, Benno.

Well, I've been demoted from
a friend to an acquaintance now.

What's the matter?
No appeal?

Why do I like you?

Well, you ride and lworry.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[HORSE NEIGHS]

[BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT]

[BIONIC SOUND EFFECT]

[g*n FIRES]

[SOLDERING]

Rudy Wells taught me how
to make minor repairs.

Uh... I'm not really ready for this.

All right.

Got a rundown on Benno Reichert.

Austrian by birth,
naturalized four years ago...

show horse trainer, ex-cavalryman...

What else is he?

Clean, apparently.

No known political leanings
beyond Morgan versus Palomino.

Get it?

No criminal connections.
A simple man.

The other one?

You gave me a lousy description
on the other one, Steve.

Well, Oscar, when I got hit,
my legs wouldn't go.

Lam glad that you
weren't seriously damaged.

Oh, Oscar, please!
I can't stand the raw emotion!

[OSCAR LAUGHS]
Nevertheless, putting together your...

Lousy description and...

Top-notch equestrianship,
we came up with Arnold Blake.

An ex-Green Beret gone sour.

Been operating in Asia, on a free-lance
basis for a number of years.

As a horseman?

As anything that'll pay.

Let's see... Hit man.
Courier. Enforcer.

Dangerous with knives and g*ns.

And maybe he's after Lisa.

It all fits together perfectly,
doesn't it?

Yeah, doesn't it, though?

You put a known hit man
on horseback for the world to see.

The only thing missing is
a trumpet fanfare and some flags.

We'll be watching
Arnold Blake like a hawk.

All right, gentlemen, we'll have
field units here...

here and here.

And we'll have inter-communication
between them.

While I'm a roving guard,
tailing Miss Leitman through the course.

My people will man the field units.

It'll be a joint effort with the cooperation
of the external security division.

Ross, do you have anything to say?

Sounds good.

Speaking for our division,
approved.

One thing, Mr. Austin,
Steve?

It'll make things a lot easier
if you can get the girl to cooperate.

BORDEN: I know her, Oscar,
she's a very strong-willed woman.

Well, I've tried.

The lady has a first-class mind...
of her own.

Well, we could simply, ah...

Throw a bag over her head
and stuff her into a dungeon?

A quick way to lose her permanently.

No, we can't risk that.

She's invaluable.

She's also stubborn.

No, the ultimate responsibility
is yours, Colonel.

Thanks.

[DYNAMIC MUSIC]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

Nice go, Lisa.

Yes, your striding was
much better that time.

Thanks.

Good luck in the trials.

Thank you.

[P.A. CHATTER]

Hello.

Hi.

Something's happened,
I gotta talk to you.

What?

Come on, get down.

I'm sweaty.

Well, I kinda like it.

You really do appeal
to all my baser instincts.

Well, we gotta start some place.

What happened?

Well, Oscar's paranoid rumor has
suddenly grown up into a hard fact.

Somebody took a shot
at me this morning.

Lisa, it's still your decision.

I think we'd better talk about it.

Sounds like you're worried about me.

Well, lam.

All right, I'll go change
and we'll talk.

Maybe I'll even listen.

Good girl.

Austin?

Lisa's inside,
she'll be out in a minute.

I do not wish to be rude,
Mr. Austin...

but I would greatly appreciate it if
you were not here when she returns.

What?

You are a distraction!

That girl has worked
desperately hard for months.

Tomorrow she enters the
final for the Olympic trials.

She does not need distraction.

I'm sorry.

I'm afraid that's not good enough.

Why don't we let Lisa decide?

No, I think we should
decide ourselves... now.

You're really anxious
to get rid of me, aren't you?

Precisely!
And I intend to do it!

That girl has a real...

[GASPS]

[BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT]

Come on, let's go!

[DYNAMIC MUSIC]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

What about the car?

Not traceable.

Standard model, current year.

Must have cleaned off the license
plate and vanished into traffic.

I didn't get a clear look
at either one of 'em.

At any rate, Lisa...

you won't be able to enter
competition tomorrow.

Yes, I will.

I'll be a target,
I know that, but...

they're not trying to k*ll me.

They're gonna grab you.

There's a good chance they'll try.

And when they do...

you can grab whoever
m*rder*d Benno.

I can't take risk that.

[SIGHS]

Why not, Oscar?

The computer's programmed.

My work is there, it's finished,
no matter what happens to me.

There's some danger involved,
I accept that...

and I'm going to do it!

Are you sure?

Benno was a good man.

He was difficult with people, but...

endlessly patient with horses...

and with me.

I could hold you
as a material witness.

[SIGHS]

Then, consider this my resignation
from government service.

That's Lisa's decision, Oscar.

That's blackmail, Steve!

That's right.

All right.

I'll increase security,
more surveillance posts...

and I suppose your
romantic boyfriend will be by.

Now you're talking.

What about Blake?

I got three men on him.

Lisa, go to bed.
Get some sleep.

Well, the least you could do is win
a position on the Olympic team tomorrow.

Let me speak to Ross Borden, please.

Of course, Oscar,
I'll arrange for three more men.

I'll brief them tomorrow,
first thing.

Oh, no, don't worry, Oscar.

Well, we're back in business.

They're gonna have security men
on that course like ants at a picnic.

Well, that's shouldn't be a problem.
Everything should go smoothly...

if we can get rid of that
bodyguard of hers.

[DYNAMIC MUSIC]

STARTER: Upper synch...


Five, four, three, two, one...

Go!

STARTER: Number 46...


Five, four, three, two...

If you had to have a pet,
it might have been a canary.

Good luck.

Thanks.

STARTER: Number 14...


Number 11...


Five, four, three, two, one.

Come out!

Number 7...


Oscar, this is Steve.

Blake just kicked off.

Lisa '3 next. Over.

Field units are in place, Steve.

Over and out.

Field Unit One, check in.

Field Unit One, all clear.

Field Unit Two, check in.

Field Unit Two, all clear, sir.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Get ready!

[HORSE NEIGHS]

Are you all right?

Five, four, three, two, one.

Go.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Lisa's just taken off.

Stay with her now.

I'll be running right behind her,
over and out...

[BIONIC SOUND EFFECT]

[BIONIC SOUND EFFECT]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[BIONIC SOUND EFFECT]

[LOUD BOOMING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[HORSE WHINNIES]

Freeze!
You're under arrest!

What?

Miss Leitman!
Are you all right?

Shuster. Security.

Come on, let's get out of here.

[HELICOPTER APPROACHING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[BIONIC SOUND EFFECT]

[BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT]

[PHONE BUZZES]

This is Oscar Goldman speaking.

[INDISTINCT]

What? When?

Well, what about security?

All right, keep me informed.

You ready for this?

The master computer in the Cryptography
Section has been destroyed...



What about Lisa?

She's now the only one with a
complete plan of our code network.

And that's in her head,
and they have her.

I don't think they'll risk bothering her.

She's more valuable alive.

It doesn't make sense,
we could change the code.

There's no time.

Every agent that we have in the world
is contacted through that computer code.

If Lisa tells them that code, they'll have
control of every agent that we have.

Every agent in this country,
every agent in the world.

They can betray them,
they can expose them.

They can order them to do anything.

They're very smart.
They used Blake as a decoy.

He was set up.

They really planned this one well.

[ENGINE STARTS]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[PHONE BUZZES]

Yes?

[INDISTINCT]

Thank you.

I should have known it...
Ross Borden.

Oh, she'll know him
and she'll trust him.

How long will it take her to lay out
the entire computer program?

About two hours.

Well, that's how long we've got.

Once they get the program,
they'll k*ll her.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

But they had to set
that chopper down.

Somewhere in this area.

It'd take days to map it all out.

Yeah.

I think I know a short cut.

[TIRES SCREECHING]

LISA: Where are we?

Emergency Communications Center.

Come on.

STEVE: We've checked
all this open area twice.

Let's fly over that
northeast quadrant again.

Some of that vegetation
looked chewed up.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT]

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

Oh, Lisa, thank God you're safe!

Oh, yes.

I may be safe,
but I'm really shaky.

Of course. Shuster, get
Miss Leitman a cup of coffee.

You bet.

Sit down.

Have a little coffee
and a minute to relax.

Here.

STEVE: Get in the same
direction as that highway, Charlie.

I realize you've had a bad time,
but a minute is damned near all we have.

Why, Ross?
What's happening?

Blake was not just a kidnapper.

Blake was a professional k*ller.

Oscar Goldman told me that.
He was trying to k*ll you.

Why?

Our entire intelligence
communication structure...

has been shifted to the
computer code program.

I know that, Ross.
Damn it, it's my program.

I set it up the computers.

Precisely.

This morning, the Computer Cryptography
Section was sabotaged in expl*si*n.

It was completely destroyed.

Oh my God.

Well, that means...

our entire communications
network just stopped.

Exactly one unique human being
could re-program it.

You. That's why they
wanted you dead.

And Blake almost did it.

But he didn't, you're safe.

It looks like we've lost them.

Hold it!

Bank right!

[BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT]

That's it.

Those tire tracks match the others.

Lisa could be in there.

Set the chopper down on that hill, Charlie...

and then tell Oscar where we are.

This back-up Com center is ready.

You can re-program right here.

All right.

Listen, shouldn't we have an
authorization from the top on this?

Oscar Goldman always
wants all the checks.

Of course, but...

[SIGHS]

Oscar was...

in the Cryptography Section
when the expl*sives went off.

He's dead.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

First Benno and now Oscar...

I don't want to carry this
around any more.

I know, Lisa. I know.

Get them re-programmed.

Then you won't have the
responsibility any more, okay?

All right.

Yeah.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[METAL CREAKING]

[DEVICE BEEPING]

Austin, you're under arrest.

[PHONE RINGS]

Austin just showed up.
Can we gut him?

I don't want her disturbed.
Put him on ice.

All right, straight ahead,
Austin, against those pipes.

Move it!

We have a complete
readout on you, Austin.

So I'm not leaving you here
to tear your way out.

They stand right there,
with those burp g*ns on your belly.

You move too fast,
they'll cut you in half.

Can I breathe?

Very carefully.

So, stay cool, and you stay alive.

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

I said no interruptions.

It's all right, Ross.

I'm ready to re-program.

Wonderful.

I'm sorry, just a little itch.

[METAL CREAKING]

[BIONIC SOUND EFFECT]

[g*ns FIRING]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

[METAL CREAKING]

[ELECTRICITY BUZZING]

[POWER WHIRS DOWN]

What happened?

I don't know,
a power interruption.

Find out what caused it!

You just stand-by until the
power comes back on.

What about the standby generators?

How should I know,
I'm not a technical man.

Every installation
has standby power.

Well, I don't know where it is,
just stand-by until the power comes on.

All right,
first let me call Washington.

Sit down!

Just stay there!

You know, it's no good
without the encoding keys.

Then you'll just have
to give them to us, won't you?

Sorry.

That's amazingly accurate.

That's exactly what you'll be...
sorry.

Shuster, get in here!

Come with me.
Yes, sir.

Keep your eyes open.
Yes, sir.

I can't find out
what the problem is.

[GASPING]

Do whatever you have to.

Get her to give us
the computer keys.

It'll be my pleasure.

[LOUD BANG]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[METAL CREAKING]

SHUSTER: sh**t him, boss!

[METAL CREAKING]

[BIONIC SOUND EFFECT]

[SHUSTER YELLS]

[LOUD CRASH]

You all right?

You're incredible.

Well, it's all in a day's work
of a paranoid bodyguard.

[DISTANT SIRENS APPROACHING]

Come on.

[DYNAMIC MUSIC]

Hey, that was great.

Nice ride.
Good work.

Thank you.

How'd she do?
How did she do?

Why, she did just great.

Time was excellent.

But I'm sorry, Mr. Goldman...

As I explained before,
once a rider has been disqualified...

My request for a special consideration
comes from a...

from a high source.

I didn't realize.

Of course, under these
circumstances...

we'll honor your go,
Miss Leitman, of course.

Thank you, gentlemen.

Thank you, Oscar.

What about me?

Oh, I thought I'd get to you later.

Come on.

[HORSE WHINNIES]

[END THEME MUSIC]