diff --git a/lib/strangelove b/lib/strangelove new file mode 100644 index 000000000..518d9877d --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/strangelove @@ -0,0 +1,2786 @@ +Dr. Strangelove: or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb + +Fade in: Slow track over dense cloud cover. Rocky peaks visible in the +distance. + +Wildtrack: + +For more than a year, ominous rumors have been privately circulating +among high level western leaders, that the Soviet Union had been at +work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon, a doomsday +device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top secret Russian +project to the perpetually fog shrouded wasteland below the arctic +peaks of the Zokov islands. What they were building, or why it should +be located in a such a remote and desolate place, no one could say. + +Cut to: Roll credits. Tracking shot of B-52 in mid-air refuel. +Soundtrack lilts"Try a Little Tenderness." + +Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Stanley Kubrick Production. + +Starring Peter Sellers George C. Scott + +Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. + +Hawk Films LTD. All rights reserved. + +Co-starring Sterling Hayden Keenan Wynn Slim Pickens + +With Peter Bull James Earl Jones Tracy Reed Jack Creeley + +And Frank Berry Glen Beck Shane Rimmer Paul Tamarin Gordon Tanner +Robert O'Neil Roy Stephens Hal Galili Laurence Herder John McCarthy + +Art Director Peter Murton + +Production Manager Clifton Brandon + +Assistant Director Eric Rattray + +Camera Operator Kelvin Pike + +Camera Assistant Bernard Ford + +Continuity Pamela Carlton + +Wardrobe Bridget Sellers + +The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are +fictitious and any similarity to the names, history, and characters of +any person is entirely accidental and unintentional. + +Special Effects Wally Veevers + +Travelling Matte Vic Margutti + +Recordist Richard Bird + +Sound Supervisor John Cox + +Dubbing Mixer John Aldred + +Sound Editor Leslie Hodgson + +Assistant Editor Ray Lovejoy + +Assembly Editor Geoffrey Fry + +Make Up Stewart Freeborn + +Hairdresser Barbara Ritchie + +Artistic Advisor Capt. John Crewdson + +Main Title Pablo Ferro + +The Producers gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Solartron +Electronics, Marconi's wireless telegraph-telephone manufacturing, +British Oxygen. + +Music Laurie Johnson + +Director of Photography Gilbert Taylor, B.S.C. + +Anthony Harvey Film Editor + +Ken Adam Production Designer + +Associate Producer Victor Lyndon + +Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern & Peter George, based on +the book'Red Alert' by Peter George. + +Refueling nozzle gently breaks away from recieving aircraft. + +Directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick + +----- + +Cut to: Burpleson AFB, night, int, computer room. A phone buzzes. + +Petty officer: + +General Ripper, sir. + +Mandrake: + +to phone on his desk Group Captain Mandrake speaking... + +Ripper sits at his desk, cigar smoke wafting up through the light of +his desk lamp. + +Ripper: + +to phone This is General Ripper speaking. + +Mandrake: + +Yes, sir. + +Ripper: + +You recognize my voice, Mandrake? + +Mandrake: + +I do sir, why do you ask? + +Ripper: + +Why do you think I asked? + +Mandrake: + +Well I don't know, sir. We spoke just a few moments ago on the phone, +didn't we? + +Ripper: + +You don't think I'd ask if you recognized my voice unless it was +pretty damned important do you, Mandrake? + +Mandrake: + +No, I don't, sir. No. + +Ripper: + +Alright, let's see if we stay on the ball. Has the wing confirmed +holding at their failsafe points? + +Mandrake: + +Yes, sir. The confirmations have all just come in. + +Ripper: + +Very well, now, listen to me carefully. The base is being put on +condition red. I want this flashed to all sections immediately. + +Mandrake: + +Condition red, sir. Yes. Jolly good idea, keeps the men on their toes. + +Ripper: + +Group Captain, I'm afraid this is not a exercise. + +Mandrake: + +Not an exercise, sir? + +Ripper: + +I shouldn't tell you this, Mandrake, but you're a good officer and you +have a right to know. It looks like we're in a shooting war. + +Mandrake: + +Oh, hell. Are the Russians involved sir? + +Ripper: + +Mandrake, that's all I've been told. It just came in on the Red Phone. +My orders are for this base to be sealed tight, and that's what I mean +to do: seal it tight. Now, I want you to transmit plan R, R for +Robert, to the wing. Plan R for Robert. + +Mandrake: + +Is it that bad sir? + +Ripper: + +It looks like it's pretty hairy. + +Mandrake: + +Yes sir. Plan R for Robert, sir. + +Ripper: + +Now, last, and possibly most important, I want all privately owned +radios to be immediately impounded. + +Mandrake: + +Yes sir. Ripper: + +They might be used to issue instructions to saboteurs. As I have +previously arranged, Air Police will have lists of all owners and I +want every single one of them collected without exception. + +Mandrake: + +Yes sir. + +Ripper: + +And after you've done that, report back to me. + +LS Ripper in his office, closing the blinds on wall of windows looking +out at the base. Outside, a siren sounds. + +Cut to: ext. Airborne B-52's with escorts. + +Wildtrack: + +In order to guard against surprise nuclear attack, America's Strategic +Air Command maintains a large force of B-52 bombers airborne 24 hours +a day. Each B-52 can deliver a nuclear bombload of 50 megatons, equal +to 16 times the total explosive force of all the bombs and shells used +by all the armies in World War Two. Based in America, the Airborne +alert force is deployed from the Persian Gulf to the Arctic Ocean, but +they have one geographical factor in common: they are all two hours +from their targets inside Russia. + +Cut to: int. B-52. Machines spring to life as a transmission arrives. + +Goldie: + +Major Kong, I know you're gonna think this a crazy but I just got a +message from base over the CRM 114. It decodes as Wing Attack plan R. +R for Romeo. + +Kong: + +Goldie, did you say Wing Attack, plan R? + +Goldie: + +Yes Sir, I have. + +Kong: + +Goldie, how many times have I told you guys that I don't want no +horsin' around on the airplane? + +Goldie: + +I'm not horsin' around, sir, that's how it decodes. + +Kong: + +Well I've been to one world fair a picnic and a rodeo and that's the +stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure +you got today's code? + +Goldie: + +Yes sir, it is. + +Kong: + +Ah, there's just gotta be something wrong. Wait just a second, I'm +comin' back. + +Kong examines the decoded message and the code book. + +Kong: + +Maybe you better get a confirmation from base. + +Goldie: + +Yes sir. + +Bombardier: + +Major Kong, is it possible that this is some kind of loyalty test. You +know, give the go code and then recall to see who would actually go? + +Kong: + +Ain't nobody ever got the go code yet. And old Ripper wouldn't be +giving us plan R unless them Russkies had already clobbered Washington +and alot of other towns with a sneak attack. + +Bombardier: + +Yes sir. + +Goldie: + +Major Kong, message from base confirmed. + +Kong: + +Well boys, I reckon this is it: nuclear combat, toe to toe with the +Russkies. + +Kong climbs back into the cockpit. Soundtrack: Battle Hymn of the +Republic. + +Kong: + +Now look boys, I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches. But I got a +pretty fair idea that something doggoned important's going on back +there. And I got a fair idea of the kind of personal emotions that +some of you fella's may be thinking. Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even +be human beings if you didn't have some pretty strong personal +feelings about nuclear combat. But I want you to remember one thing, +the folks back home is a countin' on ya, and by golly we ain't about +to let'em down. Tell you somethin' else. This thing turns out to be +half as important is I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're +all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when +this thing's over with. That goes for every last one of you, +regardless of your race, color, or your creed. Now, let's get this +thing on the hump. We got some flying to do. + +Cut to: int. General Turgidson's studio. Phone rings. + +Miss Scott: + +Shouting Buck, should I get it? + +Turgidson: + +Muffled, OF Yeah. You have to. + +Miss Scott: + +to phone Hello? Oh, yes, General Turgidson is here, but I'm afraid he +can't come to the phone at the moment. + +Well, this is his secretary, Miss Scott. + +softly Freddie, how are you? Fine and you? Oh, we were just catching +up on some of the General's paperwork. Well, look Freddie, he's very +tied up at the moment. I'm afraid he can't come to the phone. Well, +just a minute. shouts to Tuirgidson, OF General Turgidson, a General +Puntridge calling. + +Turgidson: + +Tell him to call back. + +Miss Scott: + +to phone Freddie, the General says could you call back in a minute or +two? Oh. shouting He says it can't wait. + +Turgidson: + +Ah, for Pete... well... Find out what he wants. + +Miss Scott: + +Freddie, the thing is, the General is in the powder room right now. +Could you tell me what it's about? Just a second... + +shouting Apparently they monitored a transmission about eight minutes +ago from Burpleson Air Force Base. + +to phone Right. + +shouting It was directed to the 843'rd bomb wing on airborne alert. to +phone Yeah. + +shouting It decoded as Wing Attack, Plan R. + +Turgidson: + +Um ah, tell him to call uh what's his name. Base commander. Ripper. I +have to think of everything? + +Miss Scott: + +to phone The General suggests you call General Ripper, the 843rd base +commander. Oh. + +shouting All communications are dead. + +Turgidson: + +Bull! Tell him to do it himself. + +Miss Scott: + +Freddie, the General asks if you could possibly try again yourself. + +I see. + +shouting He says he's tried personally several times, but everything +is dead. Even the normal phone lines are shut down. + +Turgidson emerges from the bathroom, grumbling. + +Turgidson: + +to phone Fred. Buck. What's it look like? Yeah. Waa... are you sure +it's plan R? Huh. What's cookin' on the threat board.? Nothin? Nothin +at all? I don't like the look of this, Fred. Alright, I tell you what +you better do, old buddy. slaps his belly You better give Elmo and +Charlie a blast, and bump everything up to condition red and stand by +the blower, I'll get back to you. hangs up + +Miss Scott: + +What's up? + +Turgidson: + +Nothing. Nothing. Where's my shorts? + +Miss Scott: + +On the floor. Where are you going? + +Turgidson: + +No place. No... no place... I just thought I might mosey over to the +War room for a few minutes. See what's doing over there. + +Miss Scott: + +It's three o'clock in the morning. + +Turgidson: + +laughs The Air Force never sleeps. + +Miss Scott: + +Buck, honey... I'm not sleepy either. + +Turgidson: + +I know how it is, baby. Tell you what you do. You just start your +countdown, and old Bucky'll be back here before you can say... Blast +Off! + +Cut to: ext. Burpleson AFB. Night. Ripper's voice booms over the PA. +Ready soldiers stand listening. + +Ripper: + +Your commie has no regard for human life, not even his own. And for +this reason, men, I want to impress upon you the need for extreme +watchfulness. The enemy may come individually, or he may come in +strength. He may even come in the uniform of our own troops. But +however he comes we must stop him. We must not allow him to gain +entrance to this base. Now, I am going to give you three simple rules. +First, trust no one, whatever his uniform or rank, unless he is known +to you personally. Second, anyone or anything that approaches within +200 yards of the perimeter is to be fired upon. Third, if in doubt, +shoot first, and ask questions afterwards. I would sooner accept a few +casualties through accident than lose the entire base and its +personnel through carelessness. Any variation on these rules must come +from me personally. Now, men, in conclusion, I would like to say that, +in the two years it has been my privilege to be your commanding +officer, I have always expected the best from you, and you have never +given me anything less than that. + +Cut to: int. Burpleson AFB, omputer room. Mandrake, who has been +closing up shop while listening to Ripper's speech, discovers a radio +inside a line printer and switches it on. Soft jazz is playing. + +Ripper: + +cont Today, the nation is counting on us. We are not going to let them +down. Good luck to you all. + +Cut to: int. Airborne B-52. Soundtrack: Battle Hymn of the Republic. + +Airman: + +to Kong Here's the attack profile, sir. + +Kong: + +announcing through headset intercom This is your attack profile: to +insure that the enemy cannot monitor voice transmission or plant false +transmission, the CRM114 is to be switched into all the receiver +circuits. Emergency phase code prefix is to be set on the dials of the +CRM. This'll block any transmission other than those preceded by code +prefix. Stand by to set code prefix. + +Goldie: + +Roger. Ready to set code prefix. + +Kong: + +Set code prefix. + +Goldie: + +dials up letters: OPE Code prefix set. + +Kong: + +Lock code prefix. + +Goldie: + +Code prefix locked. + +Kong: + +Switch all receiver circuits to CRM discriminators. + +Goldie: + +All circuits switched to CRM discriminators. + +Kong: + +Check auto destruct circuits. + +Goldie: + +Auto destruct circuits checked. + +Kong: + +Primary target, the ICBM complex at Laputa. Target reference Yankee +Golf Tango Three Six Zero. Thirty megaton nuclear device fused for +airburst at ten thousand feet. Twenty megaton nuclear device will be +used if first malfunctions. Otherwise proceed to secondary target, +missile complex seven miles east of Barshaw. Target reference November +Bravo X-Ray One Zero Eight. Fused airburst at ten, check, twelve +thousand feet. + +Cut to: int. Burpleson AFB. Mandrake walks hurredly through the halls +with the portable radio producing another jazz tune, now upbeat. +Mandrake enters Ripper's office + +Mandrake: + +Excuse me sir, something rather interesting's just cropped up. Listen +to that. Music. Civilian broadcasting. I think those fellows in the +Pentagon have given us some sort of exercise to test our readiness. +Personally, I think it's taking it a bit too far; our fellows will be +inside Russian radar cover in about twenty minutes. You listen to +that. Traffic block full of stations all churning it out. + +Ripper: + +Mandrake, + +Mandrake: + +Yes sir? + +Ripper: + +I thought I issued instructions for all radios on this base to be +impounded. + +Mandrake: + +follows Ripper as he rises from his chair to lock his office door Well +you did indeed sir and I was in the process of impounding this very +one when I happened to switch it on. I thought to myself our fellows +hitting Russian radar cover in twenty minutes, dropping all their +stuff, I'd better tell you, because if they do, it'll cause a bit of a +stink, won't it? + +Ripper: + +Group Captain, the officer exchange program does not give you any +special prerogatives to question my orders. + +Mandrake: + +Well I realize that sir, but I thought you'd be rather pleased to hear +the news. I mean after all, well let's face it we... we don't want to +start a nuclear war unless we really have to, do we? + +Ripper: + +Please sit down. And turn that thing off. + +Mandrake: + +Yes sir. Ah, what about the planes, sir? Surely you must issue the +recall code immediately. + +Ripper: + +Group Captain, the planes are not going to be recalled. My attack +orders have been issued and the orders stand. + +Mandrake: + +Well, if you'll excuse me saying so, sir. That would be, to my way of +thinking, rather... well rather an odd way of looking at it. You see, +if a Russian attack was in progress we would certainly not be hearing +civilian broadcasting. + +Ripper: + +Are you certain of that, Mandrake? + +Mandrake: + +I'm absolutely positive about that, sir, yes. + +Ripper: + +And what if it is true? + +Mandrake: + +Well I'm afraid I'm still not with you, sir. Because, I mean, if a +Russian attack was not in progress then your use of plan R, in fact +your orders to the entire wing... oh. Well I would say, sir, that +there was something dreadfully wrong somewhere. + +Ripper: + +Now, why don't you just take it easy Group Captain. And please make me +a drink of grain alcohol and rain water, and help yourself to whatever +you'd like. + +Mandrake: + +salutes General Ripper, sir, as an officer in Her Majesty's Air Force, +it is my clear duty, under the present circumstances, to issue the +recall code, upon my own authority, and bring back the wing. If you'll +excuse me sir. Mandrake tries all exits and finds them locked I'm +afraid sir, I must ask you for the key and the recall code. Have you +got them handy sir? + +Ripper: + +I told you to take it easy, Group Captain. There's nothing anybody can +do about this thing now. I'm the only person who knows the three +letter code group. + +Mandrake: + +voice cracking Then I must insist, sir, that you give them to me. + +Ripper: + +lifts a folder off of his desk and tosses it aside, revealing a blued, +pearl handled.45 automatic. + +Mandrake: + +Do I take it, sir, that you are threatening a brother officer with a +gun? + +Ripper: + +Mandrake, I suppose it never occurred to you that while we're chatting +here so enjoyably, a decision is being made by the President and the +Joint Chiefs in the war room at the Pentagon. And when they realize +there is no possibility of recalling the wing, there will be only one +course of action open: total committment. + +Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenzo once said about war? + +Mandrake: + +No. I don't think I do sir, no. + +Ripper: + +He said war was to important to be left to the Generals. When he said +that, fifty years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too +important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the +training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer +sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, +communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to +sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. + +Cut to: int. War room, Pentagon. + +Muffley: + +Sam, is everybody here? + +Stains: + +Mr. President, the Secretary of State is in Vietnam, the Secretary of +Defense is in Laos, and the Vice President is in Mexico City. We can +establish contact with them at any time if it's necessary. The +undersecretaries are all here, of course. + +Muffley: + +Right. Now, General Turgidson, what's going on here? + +Turgidson: + +Mr. President, about thirty-five minutes ago, General Jack Ripper, the +commanding General of Burpleson Air Force Base, issued an order to the +34 B-52's of his wing which were airborne at the time as part of a +special exercise we were holding called Operation Dropkick. Now, it +appears that the order called for the planes to attack their targets +inside Russia. The planes are fully armed with nuclear weapons with an +average load of 40 megatons each. Now the central display of Russia +will indicate the position of the planes. The triangles are their +primary targets, the squares are their secondary targets. The aircraft +will begin penetrating Russian radar cover within 25 minutes. + +Muffley: + +General Turgidson, I find this very difficult to understand. I was +under the impression that I was the only one in authority to order the +use of nuclear weapons. + +Turgidson: + +That's right sir. You are the only person authorized to do so. And +although I hate to judge before all the facts are in, it's beginning +to look like General Ripper exceeded his authority. + +Muffley: + +It certainly does. Far beyond the point I would have imagined +possible. + +Turgidson: + +Well perhaps you're forgetting the provisions of plan R, sir. + +Muffley: + +Plan R? + +Turgidson: + +Plan R is an emergency war plan in which a lower echelon commander may +order nuclear retaliation after a sneak attack if the normal chain of +command is disrupted. You approved it, sir. You must remember. Surely +you must recall, sir, when Senator Buford made that big hassle about +our deterrent lacking credibility. The idea was for plan R to be a +sort of retaliatory safeguard. + +Muffley: + +A safeguard. + +Turgidson: + +I admit the human element seems to have failed us here. But the idea +was to discourage the Russkies from any hope that they could knock out +Washington, and yourself, sir, as part of a general sneak attack, and +escape retaliation because of lack of proper command and control. + +Muffley: + +Well I assume then, that the planes will return automatically once +they reach their failsafe points. + +Turgidson: + +Well, sir, I'm afraid not. You see the planes were holding at their +failsafe points when the go code was issued. Now, once they fly beyond +failsafe they do not require a second order to proceed. They will fly +until they reach their targets. + +Muffley: + +Then why haven't you radioed the planes countermanding the go code? + +Turgidson: + +Well, I'm afraid we're unable to communicate with any of the aircraft. + +Muffley: + +Why? + +Turgidson: + +As you may recall, sir, one of the provisions of plan R provides that +once the go code is received the normal SSB radios in the aircraft are +switched into a special coded device, which I believe is designated as +CRM114. Now, in order to prevent the enemy from issuing fake or +confusing orders, CRM114 is designed not to receive at all, unless the +message is preceded by the correct three letter code group prefix. + +Muffley: + +Then do you mean to tell me, General Turgidson, that you will be +unable to recall the aircraft? + +Turgidson: + +That's about the size of it. However, we are plowing through every +possible three letter combination of the code. But since there are +seventeen thousand permutations it's going to take us about two and a +half days to transmit them all. + +Muffley: + +How soon did you say the planes would penetrate Russian radar cover? + +Turgidson: + +About eighteen minutes from now, sir. + +Mu Muffley: + +Are you in contact with General Ripper? + +Turgidson: + +Ah.. No sir, no, General Ripper sealed off the base and cut off all +communications. + +Muffley: + +Where did you get all this information? + +Turgidson: + +General Ripper called Strategic Air Command headquarters shortly after +he issued the go code. I have a partial transcript of that +conversation if you'd like me to read it. + +Muffley: + +Read it. + +Turgidson: + +The duty officer asked General Ripper to confirm the fact the he had +issued the go code and he said,"Yes gentlemen, they are on their way +in and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country and our +way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them, +otherwise we will be totally destroyed by red retaliation. My boys +will give you the best kind of start, fourteen hundred megatons worth, +and you sure as hell won't stop them now. So let's get going. There's +no other choice. God willing, we will prevail in peace and freedom +from fear and in true health through the purity and essence of our +natural fluids. God bless you all." Then he hung up. We're still +trying to figure out the meaning of that last phrase, sir. + +Muffley: + +There's nothing to figure out General Turgidson. This man is obviously +a psychotic. + +Turgidson: + +Well, I'd like to hold off judgment on a thing like that, sir, until +all the facts are in. + +Muffley: + +anger rising General Turgidson, when you instituted the human +reliability tests, you assured me there was no possibility of such a +thing ever occurring. + +Turgidson: + +Well I don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because +of a single slip up sir. + +Muffley: + +I want to speak to General Ripper on the telephone, personally. + +Turgidson: + +I'm afraid that's impossible, sir. + +Muffley: + +General Turgidson, I am becoming less and less interested in your +estimates of what is possible and impossible. General Faceman. + +Faceman: + +Yes, sir. + +Muffley: + +Are there any army units stationed anywhere near Burpleson? + +Faceman: + +Well ah, I'll just check, sir. + +Turgidson's phone beeps + +Turgidson: + +Hello. pause, then whispering I told you never to call me here; don't +you know where I am? pause Well look, baby, I can't talk to you now. +My president needs me. Of course Bucky would rather be there with you. +pause Of course it isn't only physical. I deeply respect you as a +human being. Someday I'm going to make you Mrs. Buck Turgidson. pause +Listen, you go back to sleep. Bucky'll be back there just as soon as +he can. Alright. Listen, sug', don't forget to say your prayers. hangs +up and composes himself + +Faceman: + +Apparently, the 23rd airborne division is stationed seven miles away +at Alvarado. + +Muffley: + +General Faceman, I want them to enter the base, locate General Ripper, +and put him in immediate telephone contact with me. + +Faceman: + +Yes, sir. + +Turgidson: + +Mr. President, if I may advise, under condition red it is standard +procedure that the base be sealed off, and the base be defended by +base security troops. Any force trying to enter there would certainly +encounter very heavy casualties. + +Faceman: + +General Turgidson, with all due respect for your defense team, my boys +can brush'em aside without too much trouble. + +Turgidson: + +Mr. President, there are one or two points I'd like to make, if I may. + +Muffley: + +Go ahead, General. + +Turgidson: + +One, our hopes for recalling the 843rd bomb wing are quickly being +reduced to a very low order of probability. Two, in less than fifteen +minutes from now the Russkies will be making radar contact with the +planes. Three, when the do, they are going to go absolutely ape, and +they're gonna strike back with everything they've got. Four, if prior +to this time, we have done nothing further to suppress their +retaliatory capabilities, we will suffer virtual annihilation. Now, +five, if on the other hand, we were to immediately launch an all out +and coordinated attack on all their airfields and missile bases we'd +stand a damn good chance of catching'em with their pants down. Hell, +we got a five to one missile superiority as it is. We could easily +assign three missiles to every target, and still have a very effective +reserve force for any other contingency. Now, six, an unofficial study +which we undertook of this eventuality, indicated that we would +destroy ninety percent of their nuclear capabilities. We would +therefore prevail, and suffer only modest and acceptable civilian +casualties from their remaining force which would be badly damaged and +uncoordinated. + +Muffley: + +General, it is the avowed policy of our country never to strike first +with nuclear weapons. + +Turgidson: + +Well, Mr. President, I would say that General Ripper has already +invalidated that policy. laughs + +Muffley: + +That was not an act of national policy and there are still +alternatives left open to us. + +Turgidson: + +Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for +ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, the +truth is not always a pleasant thing, but it is necessary now make a +choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but +nevertheless, distinguishable post-war environments: one where you got +twenty million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred +and fifty million people killed. + +Muffley: + +You're talking about mass murder, General, not war. + +Turgidson: + +Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I +do say... no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh... +depended on the breaks. + +Muffley: + +I will not go down in history as the greatest mass murderer since +Adolph Hitler! + +Turgidson: + +Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned +with the American people, than with your image in the history books. + +Muffley: + +General Turgidson, I think I've heard quite sufficient from you, thank +you very much! + +Stains: + +Mr. President, they have the ambassador waiting upstairs. + +Muffley: + +Oh, good. Any difficulty? + +Stains: + +They say he's having a fit about that squad of MPs. + +Muffley: + +Yes, that can't be helped. Have him brought down here straight away. + +Stains: + +Yes, sir. + +Turgidson: + +Is that the Russian Ambassador you're talking about? + +Muffley: + +Yes, it is, General. + +Turgidson: + +Ahh, am I to understand the Russian Ambassador is to be admitted +entrance to the War Room? + +Muffley: + +That is correct. He is here on my orders. + +Turgidson: + +I... I don't know exactly how to put this, sir, but are you aware of +what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean... begins +closing his notebooks he'll see everything. He'll see the big board! + +Muffley: + +That is precisely the idea, General. That is precisely the idea. +Stains, get Premier Kissov on the Hotline. + +Cut to: int. Airborne B-52 + +Kong: + +Survival Kit contents check. In them you will find: one 45 caliber +automatic, two boxes of ammunition, four days concentrated emergency +rations, one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin +pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills, one miniature +combination Rooshan phrase book and Bible, one hundred dollars in +rubles, one hundred dollars in gold, nine packs of chewing gum, one +issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings +-- shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all +that stuff.... + +Cut to: int. War Room + +DeSadeski enters in a great coat, finishes the contents of a drinking +glass, and places the glass on a banquet table covered with an ornate +array of meats, breads, and pies. + +DeSadeski: + +You don't have any fresh fish? + +Aide: + +I'm afraid not sir. + +DeSadeski: + +Your eggs, then, they are fresh? + +Aide: + +Oh, yes, sir. + +DeSadeski: + +I will have poached eggs. And bring me some cigars, please. Havana +cigars. + +Aide: + +That will be all for you sir? + +DeSadeski: + +Yes. + +Aide: + +Then I'll see to it right away. + +General: + +Try one of these Jamaican cigars, ambassador, they're pretty good. + +DeSadeski: + +Thank you, no. I do not support the work of imperialist stooges. + +General: + +Oh, only commie stooges, huh? + +Turgidson: + +whispers, clutching his notebooks to his chest Mr. President, you +gonna let that lousy commie punk vomit all over us like this? + +Stains: + +Mr. President, we haven't been able to reach Premier Kissov in the +Kremlin. They say they don't know where he is, and he won't be back +for another two hours. + +DeSadeski: + +Try B86543 Moscow. + +Stains: + +Yes sir. + +DeSadeski: + +You would never have found him through his office, Mr. President. Our +Premier is a man of the people, but he is also... a man, if you follow +my meaning. + +Muffley: + +laughs Fine. + +Turgidson: + +mutters to a seated General + +DeSadeski: + +What did you say? + +Turgidson: + +I said, Premier Kissov is a degenerate atheist commie! That's what I +said. + +DeSadeski: + +Mr. President, I formally request that you have this ignorant fool +removed from the war room. + +DeSadeski, Muffley, and Turgidson form triangular spat, each waving a +pointed finger at another. + +Stains: + +interrupts argument I think they're trying the number. + +Track on Muffley as he walks towards Stains. OF: a struggle begins +between DeSadeski and Turgidson. + +Muffley: + +to Turgidson, and DeSadeski who is on Turgidson's lap Gentlemen, you +can't fight in here. This is the War Room! What is going on here? I +demand an explanation. + +DeSadeski: + +This clumsy fool tried to plant that ridiculous camera on me. + +Turgidson: + +Yeah, you bet your sweets, Mr. Commie. Look at this, Mr. President. +This lousy commie rat was taking pictures with this thing. Of the big +board! + +Muffley: + +Mr. Ambassador! + +DeSadeski: + +This clumsy fool attempted to plant that ridiculous camera on me. + +Turgidson: + +That's a damn lie! I saw him, with my own eyes! + +Muffley: + +Gentlemen, this is outrageous. I have never heard of such behavior in +the war room before. + +Stains: + +Mr. President, I think they're getting him on the line. + +Cut to: ext. Burpleson AFB. The attack begins. + +Soldier-1: + +You sure gotta hand it to those commies. + +Soldier-2: + +Yeah. + +Soldier-3: + +Gee, those trucks look like the real thing, don't they? + +Soldier-2: + +I wonder where they got'em from. + +Soldier-3: + +Probably bought them from the army as war surplus. + +Soldier-1: + +Ok. Open up at 200 yards. + +firefight begins + +Cut to: int. Ripper's office. Ripper and Mandrake listen to the +fighting in silence. + +Cut to: int. War Room. + +Muffley: + +Tell him where you are, and that you'll enter the conversation if I +say anything that's untrue, but please don't tell him anything more +than that. Alexiy, Alexiy, please... I beg you. + +DeSadeski: + +I don't have a phone. + +Muffley: + +snaps fingers Give him your phone, Frank. + +DeSadeski: + +Govorit DeSadeski. continues in Russian, then... I've done as you +asked. Be careful Mr. President. I think he's drunk. + +Muffley: + +Hello? Hello, Dimitri? Listen, I can't hear too well, do you suppose +you could turn the music down just a little? Oh, that's much better. +Yes. Fine, I can hear you now, Dimitri. Clear and plain and coming +through fine. I'm coming through fine too, eh? Good, then. Well then +as you say we're both coming through fine. Good. Well it's good that +you're fine and I'm fine. I agree with you. It's great to be fine. +laughs Now then Dimitri. You know how we've always talked about the +possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. The bomb, Dimitri. +The hydrogen bomb. Well now what happened is, one of our base +commanders, he had a sort of, well he went a little funny in the head. +You know. Just a little... funny. And uh, he went and did a silly +thing. Well, I'll tell you what he did, he ordered his planes... to +attack your country. Well let me finish, Dimitri. Let me finish, +Dimitri. Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it? Can you +imagine how I feel about it, Dimitri? Why do you think I'm calling +you? Just to say hello? Of course I like to speak to you. Of course I +like to say hello. Not now, but any time, Dimitri. I'm just calling up +to tell you something terrible has happened. It's a friendly call. Of +course it's a friendly call. Listen, if it wasn't friendly,... you +probably wouldn't have even got it. They will not reach their targets +for at least another hour. I am... I am positive, Dimitri. Listen, +I've been all over this with your ambassador. It is not a trick. Well +I'll tell you. We'd like to give your air staff a complete run down on +the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the +planes. Yes! I mean, if we're unable to recall the planes, then I'd +say that, uh, well, we're just going to have to help you destroy them, +Dimitri. I know they're our boys. Alright, well, listen... who should +we call? Who should we call, Dimitri? The people...? Sorry, you faded +away there. The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters. Where is +that, Dimitri? In Omsk. Right. Yes. Oh, you'll call them first, will +you? Uh huh. Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, +Dimitri? What? I see, just ask for Omsk Information. I'm sorry too, +Dimitri. I'm very sorry. Alright! You're sorrier than I am! But I am +sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are, Dimitri. Don't say that you +are more sorry than I am, because I am capable of being just as sorry +as you are. So we're both sorry, alright? Alright. Yes he's right +here. Yes, he wants to talk to you. Just a second. + +DeSadeski: + +Continues in Russian. Gradually becomes alarmed, then... Das +voydaniya... Rests phone on the table before him. + +Muffley: + +What... what is it, what? + +DeSadeski: + +The fools... the mad fools. + +Muffley: + +What's happened? + +DeSadeski: + +The doomsday machine. + +Muffley: + +The doomsday machine? What is that? + +DeSadeski: + +A device which will destroy all human and animal life on earth. + +Muffley: + +All human and animal life? + +Cut to: int. Ripper's office. Mandrake is sitting worriedly on a +couch. Ripper puts a comforting arm around his shoulder. + +Ripper: + +through his cigar Mandrake, + +Mandrake: + +Yes, Jack? + +Ripper: + +Have you ever seen a commie drink a glass of water? + +Mandrake: + +Well, no I... I can't say I have, Jack. + +Ripper: + +Vodka. That's what they drink, isn't it? Never water? + +Mandrake: + +Well I... I believe that's what they drink, Jack. Yes. + +Ripper: + +On no account will a commie ever drink water, and not without good +reason. + +Mandrake: + +Oh, ah, yes. I don't quite.. see what you're getting at, Jack. + +Ripper: + +Water. That's what I'm getting at. Water. Mandrake, water is the +source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. +Why, you realize that.. seventy percent of you is water. + +Mandrake: + +Uhhh God... + +Ripper: + +And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our +precious bodily fluids. + +Mandrake: + +Yes. chuckles nervously + +Ripper: + +You beginning to understand? + +Mandrake: + +Yes. chuckles. begins laughing/crying quietly + +Ripper: + +Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled +water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol? + +Mandrake: + +Well it did occur to me, Jack, yes. + +Ripper: + +Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of +water? + +Mandrake: + +Ah, yes, I have heard of that, Jack. Yes. + +Ripper: + +Well do you now what it is? + +Mandrake: + +No. No, I don't know what it is. No. + +Ripper: + +Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and +dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face? + +Window in the office is shot through by automatic weapons fire. + +Ripper: + +Walks to window and shouts Two can play at this game soldier! + +more rounds ricochet through the office, cutting down the overhead +desk lamp. + +Ripper: + +That's nice shooting, soldier! Ripper produces a machine gun from a +golf bag in his closet. He turns off the lights, then sweeps his desk +clear with the gun barrel, placing the gun squarely on the desk. +Mandrake! Come here! + +Mandrake: + +You calling me, Jack? + +Ripper: + +Just come over here and help me with this belt. + +Mandrake: + +prone on couch I ah, I haven't had very much experience, you know, +with those... sort of machines, Jack. I only ever pressed a button in +my old Spitfire. + +Ripper: + +Mandrake, in the name of Her Majesty and the Continental Congress come +here and feed me this belt, boy! + +Mandrake: + +Jack, I'd love to come. But, what's happened, you see, is the string +in my leg's gone. + +Ripper: + +The what? + +Mandrake: + +The string. I never told you, but, you see, I've got a gammy leg. Oh +dear. Gone. Shot off. + +Ripper: + +Karate-chops the receiver, cycling the action. Mandrake, come over +here. The Red Coats are coming. Come on! + +Cut to: int. War Room + +DeSadeski: + +When it is detonated, it will produce enough lethal radioactive +fallout so that within ten months, the surface of the earth will be as +dead as the moon! + +Turgidson: + +Ah, come on DeSadeski, that's ridiculous. Our studies show that even +the worst fallout is down to a safe level after two weeks. + +DeSadeski: + +You've obviously never heard of cobalt thorium G. + +Turgidson: + +No, what about it? + +DeSadeski: + +Cobalt thorium G has a radioactive halflife of ninety three years. If +you take, say, fifty H-bombs in the hundred megaton range and jacket +them with cobalt thorium G, when they are exploded they will produce a +doomsday shroud. A lethal cloud of radioactivity which will encircle +the earth for ninety three years! + +Turgidson: + +Ah, what a load of commie bull. I mean, afterall... + +Muffley: + +I'm afraid I don't understand something, Alexiy. Is the Premier +threatening to explode this if our planes carry out their attack? + +DeSadeski: + +No sir. It is not a thing a sane man would do. The doomsday machine is +designed to to trigger itself automatically. + +Muffley: + +But surely you can disarm it somehow. + +DeSadeski: + +No. It is designed to explode if any attempt is ever made to untrigger +it. + +Muffley: + +Automatically? + +Turgidson: + +Ahh.. it's an obvious commie trick, Mr. President. walks backwards +towards the big board We're wasting valuable time. falls over +backwards and does a somersault, and brings himself back onto his feet +Look at the big board! They're getting ready to clobber us! + +Muffley: + +But this is absolute madness, ambassador. Why should you build such a +thing? + +DeSadeski: + +There are those of us who fought against it, but in the end we could +not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space +race, and the peace race. And at the same time our people grumbled for +more nylons and washing machines. Our doomsday scheme cost us just a +small fraction of what we'd been spending on defense in a single year. +But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was +working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap. + +Muffley: + +This is preposterous. I've never approved of anything like that. + +DeSadeski: + +Our source was the New York Times. + +Muffley: + +Dr. Strangelove, do we have anything like that in the works? + +Stains and Turgidson, who have been listening to Muffley and DeSadeski +Stains' station at the round table, slowly turn their heads in search +of Strangelove. + +Strangelove: + +in wheelchair A moment please, Mr. President. stomps one foot on the +tile floor, pushes back from the table and begins wheeling towards the +discussion between Muffley and DeSadeski. Under the authority granted +me as director of weapons research and development, I commissioned +last year a study of this project by the Bland corporation. Based on +the findings of the report, my conclusion was that this idea was not a +practical deterrent, for reasons which, at this moment, must be all +too obvious. + +Muffley: + +Then you mean it is possible for them to have built such a thing? + +Strangelove: + +carefully plucks cigarette from his shaking right hand, which is in a +black glove Mr. President, the technology required is easily within +the means of even the smallest nuclear power. It requires only the +will to do so. + +Muffley: + +But, how is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically, +and at the same time impossible to untrigger? + +Strangelove: + +Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the +whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of +producing in the mind of the enemy... the fear to attack. And so, +because of the automated and irrevocable decision making process which +rules out human meddling, the doomsday machine is terrifying. It's +simple to understand. And completely credible, and convincing. + +Turgidson: + +Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines, Stainsy. + +Muffley: + +But this is fantastic, Strangelove. How can it be triggered +automatically? + +Strangelove: + +Well, it's remarkably simple to do that. When you merely wish to bury +bombs, there is no limit to the size. After that they are connected to +a gigantic complex of computers. Now then, a specific and clearly +defined set of circumstances, under which the bombs are to be +exploded, is programmed into a tape memory bank. + +Turgidson: + +Strangelove. What kind of a name is that? That ain't no kraut name, is +it, Stainsy? + +Stains: + +He changed it when he became a citizen. It used to be +Merkwurkdigliebe. + +Turgidson: + +Hmm. A kraut, by any other name, huh, Stainsy? + +Strangelove: + +Yes, but the... whole point of the doomsday machine... is lost... if +you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh? + +DeSadeski: + +It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, +the Premier loves surprises. + +Cut to: ext. Burpleson AFB. Firefight continues. + +Cut to: int. Ripper's office. Bullets cut down picture frames behind +the desk. Ripper, standing, shoots back at unseen machinegunner. +Mandrake is now crouching by his side. + +Ripper: + +Stay with me Mandrake. Ripper and Mandrake crawl to one side of desk. +Alright, Mandrake, now feed me. Feed me. + +Ripper stands and exchanges fire with attacking troops. Enemy fire +subsides. + +Mandrake: + +laughs Jack, don't you think we'd be better off in some other part of +the room, away from all this flying glass? + +Ripper: + +Ah, naah. We're ok here. Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to +fluoridated water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, +flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, +Mandrake. Children's ice cream? + +Mandrake: + +Good Lord. + +Ripper: + +You know when fluoridation first began? + +Mandrake: + +No. No, I don't, Jack. No. + +Ripper: + +Nineteen hundred and forty six. Nineteen fortysix, Mandrake. How does +that coincide with your postwar commie conspiracy, huh? It's +incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into +our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, +and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard core commie +works. + +Mandrake: + +Jack... Jack, listen, tell me, ah... when did you first become, well, +develop this theory. + +Ripper: + +Well, I ah, I I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the +physical act of love. + +Mandrake: + +sighs fearfully + +Ripper: + +Yes a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. +Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly: loss of +essence. + +Mandrake: + +Yes... + +Ri Ripper: + +I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women... women sense +my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, +Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence. + +Mandrake: + +Heh heh... yes. + +Cut to: ext. Burpleson AFB. Firefight settles into a surrender of +Ripper's defending troops. + +Cut to: int. Ripper's office. + +Ripper: + +Boys must have surrendered. + +Mandrake: + +It's the way it is. Heh heh. Now Jack, listen. While there's still +time, I beg you, let's recall the wing. + +Ripper: + +struts over to an available chair, using machinegun as a walking +stick, kicking debris en route. sits. Those boys were like my +children, Mandrake. Now they let me down. + +Mandrake: + +No no, Jack. Not a bit of it. No, I'm sure they all gave you their +very best. And I'm equally sure they all died thinking of you, every +man jack of them, heh, Jack. Supposing a bit of water has gone off, +eh? And certainly one can never be too sure about those sort of +things. Would you look at me now. Do I look all rancid and clotted? +You look at me, Jack, eh? Look, eh? And I drink a lot of water, you +know. I'm what you might call a water man, Jack. That's what I am. And +I can swear to you, my boy, swear to you, that there's nothing wrong +with my bodily fluids. Not a thing, Jackie. + +Ripper: + +Mandrake, were you ever a prisoner of war? + +Mandrake: + +Well, Jack, the time's running...very... huh? + +Ripper: + +Were you ever a prisoner of war? + +Mandrake: + +Ah yes I was. Matter of fact, Jack, I was. + +Ripper: + +Did they torture you? + +Mandrake: + +Ah... yes, they did. I was tortured by the Japanese, Jack, if you must +know. Not a pretty story. + +Ripper: + +Well what happened? + +Mandrake: + +Oh... well... I don't know, Jack. Difficult to think of under these +conditions. But, well, what happened was they got me on the old +Rangoon HNRR railway. I was laying train mines for the bloody Japanese +puff puffs. + +Ripper: + +No, I mean when they tortured you, did you talk? + +Mandrake: + +Ah, oh no, I ah... I don't think they wanted me to talk, really. I +don't think they wanted me to say anything. It was just their way of +having... a bit of fun, the swines. Strange thing is they make such +bloody good cameras. + +Ripper: + +You know those clowns outside are gonna give me a pretty good going +over in a few minutes. For the code. + +Mandrake: + +Yes. does a double take Yes, well you may have... you may have quite a +point there, Jack. + +Ripper: + +I don't know how well I could stand up under torture. + +Mandrake: + +Well of course the answer to that is, boy, no one ever does. And my +advice to you, Jack, is to give me the code now. And if those devils +come back and try any rough stuff, we'll fight them together, boy, +like we did just now, on the floor, eh? You with the old gun, and me +with the belt and the ammo, feeding you, Jack! Feed me, you said, and +I was feeding you, Jack. pats Ripper on the shoulder + +Ripper: + +No, Mandrake. I happen to believe in a life after this one, and I know +I'll have to answer for what I've done. And I think I can. + +Mandrake: + +Yes, well of course you can, Jack, of course you can. You can! I'm a +religious man, myself, you know, Jack. I believe in all that sort of +thing, and... I'm hoping, you know, Jack, rises to follow Ripper, who +is walking despondently about the room, dragging the 50 cal. which he +lets fall. You dropped your gun, Jack, yes... picks up the machine gun +and carries it you know what I'm Ripper begins removing his jacket +here, no, Jack. Let me take that for you. I'll take that for you, +Jack. takes Ripper's jacket and drapes it over the gun. And, ah, you +know what I'm hoping, Jack? I'm hoping you're going to give me the +code, boy. That's what I'm hoping. And, ah... Ripper enters the +washroom. oh, you're going have a little wash and brush up, are you? +What a good idea. Always did wonders for a man, that, Jack. A little +wash and brush up. Water on the back of the neck, and... makes you +feel marvelous. That's what we need, Jack! Water on the back of the +neck and the code. Now,... now supposing I play a little guessing game +with you, Jack, boy. Ripper shuts washroom door. I'll try and guess... +I'll try and guess what the code is, a gun shot rings out from within +the washroom. Mandrake gapes at the closed door, drops the machine +gun, and pushes on the door, which is blocked after opening a few +inches. + +Cut to: int. Airborne B-52 + +Copilot: + +Copilot to navigator, I'm ready with the fuel figures now. We have one +hundred and nine thousand total, seventy nine thousand in the mains, +and thirty thousand in the auxiliaries. And that works out to roughly +seven hours fifteen minutes endurance for this time. + +DSO: + +DSO to Captain, I have an unidentified radar blip. Distance: 60 miles. +Approximate speed: mach three. Looks like a missile tracking us! +Confirmed, definite missile track. Commence evasive action right. + +Missile still closing range; distance: 50 miles. Continue evasive +action. + +Copilot: + +OF Lock ECM to target intercept mode. + +DSO: + +ECM locked to target intercept mode. Missile still tracking and +closing distance. Range: 40 miles. Continue evasive action. + +Electronic guidance scrambler to blue grid. Missile still tracking +steady and closing distance. Range: 30 miles. + +Missile still closing true and steady. Continue evasive action. + +Range: 20 miles. Missile still closing distance... and tracking +steady. + +Copilot: + +Evac range gate on maximum scan. + +DSO: + +Range gate on maximum scan. + +Range: 10 miles. Missile track deflecting. Continue evasive action. +Deflection increasing; range: 8 miles. Deflection still increasing; +range: 6 miles. Missile still deflecting; range: 4 miles. + +Range: 2 miles; missile still deflecting. Range: one mile; missile +detonated! Distorted voices audible through headset intercom. Kong is +jolted as shock wave hits the plane. Crew scrambles to attend to +fires, regain control of aircraft. + +Kong: + +Spot lever to cutoff... + +reselect to central power... + +Extinguishers... + +Transfer switches... boost pumps up. + +Fuel valves three four and six. + +Give me full power. + +Aircraft returns to straight and level; under control. + +Cut to: int. Burpleson AFB, Ripper's office. Mandrake examines a +notepad on Ripper's desk. It is covered with doodles and an +interlocking pattern of the words Peace On Earth, and Purity Of +Essence. + +Mandrake: + +Peace on Earth. Peace on Earth. Peace on Earth: P O E. Purity of +essence. O P O E. whispers O P E. + +shots ring out as the doorlock is destroyed, and the door to the +office opens. Enter Bat Guano, brandishing an M-1 carbine. + +Guano: + +Put your hands over your head. + +Mandrake: + +What the devil do you think you're doing, shooting your way in here? +Who are you? + +Guano: + +I said, put your hands over your head. What kind of suit you call +that, fellah? + +Mandrake: + +What do you mean, suit? This happens to be an R. A. F. uniform, sir. +And I am Group Captain Lionel Mandrake. I am General Ripper's +Executive Officer. + +Guano: + +Where's General Ripper? + +Mandrake: + +He's dead, in the bathroom. + +Guano: + +Where's the bathroom? + +Mandrake: + +Next to you. + +Guano: + +Peers around bathroom door and whistles in exclamation. + +Mandrake: + +Look, I don't know what sort of stupid game this is you're playing, +but I've got a very good idea what the recall code is and I have to +get in touch with SAC headquarters immediately. + +Guano: + +I said put your hands over your head and keep'em there. Got any +witnesses? + +Mandrake: + +Witnesses? What are you talking about, witnesses? He shot himself! + +Guano: + +While he was shaving, huh? + +Mandrake: + +Now look, Colonel... Bat Guano, if that really is your name, may I +tell you that I have a very, very good idea, I think, I hope, I pray, +what the recall code is. It's some sort of recurrent theme he kept +repeating. It's a variation on Peace on Earth or Purity of Essence. E +O P. O P E. It's one of those! + +Guano: + +Put your hands up on top of your head. Start walking. + +Mandrake: + +Don't you know that General Ripper went as mad as a bloody march hare +and sent the while wing to attack the Soviets? Don't you know that? + +Guano: + +What are you talking about? + +Mandrake: + +I'll tell you what I'm talking about. I'm going to pick up this red +telephone which is connected to SAC. And I hope... blast. Blast! Shot +away, I expect by one of your men during this ridiculous fighting! +picks up another phone Right. glances down to discover this phone has +no cord at all. + +Guano: + +Alright, Charlie, I been wasting too much time on you. I got a lot of +wounded men outside. Start walking. + +Cut to: int. B-52. Goldie is examining the damage to the radios. + +Goldie: + +All the radio gear is out, including the CRM-114. I think the +auto-destruct mechanism got hit and blew itself up. + +Bombardier: + +The fire is out. Emergency power is on. Everything seems to check out +alright. Will advise. + +Kong: + +Roger. Navigator... + +Nav. + +I've worked out our rate of fuel loss at approximately one six two per +minute. This gives us a radius of action sufficient to take out +primary and secondary targets. But we will not, repeat, not be able to +make it back to any base or neutral country. However we would have +enough fuel to ditch at weather ship tango delta: grid coordinates +zero zero three six nine one. + +Kong: + +Now, boys, we got three engines out; we got more holes in us than a +horse trader's mule, the radio's gone and we're leaking fuel, and if +we's flying any lower, why, we'd need sleigh bells on this thing. But +we got one little budge on them russkies, at this this height, why, +they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no +radar screen. + +Cut to: int. Burpleson AFB. Hallway. + +Guano: + +marching Mandrake out of Ripper's office at gunpoint The other way. + +Mandrake: + +Where are you taking me? + +Guano: + +The main gate. + +Mandrake: + +Colonel! Colonel, I must know what you think has been going on here! + +Guano: + +You wanna know what I think? + +Mandrake: + +Yes. + +Guano: + +I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. And I think General +Ripper found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing +some kind of mutiny of preverts. Now, move! Mandrake replaces hands on +head and begins walking. On top of that I don't know anything about +any planes attacking Russia. All I was told to do was get General +Ripper on the phone to the President of the United States. + +Mandrake: + +Now just one second. You just said... the President. + +Guano: + +What about the President? + +Mandrake: + +Now, the president wants to speak to General Ripper, doesn't he? Now, +General Ripper is dead, is he not? I am General Ripper's executive +officer, so the president will bloody well want to speak to me, won't +he? There's a telephone box over there, and the line may be open. + +Guano: + +You want to talk to the president of the United States? + +Mandrake: + +I don't want to talk to him, Colonel, I've got to talk to him. And I +can assure you, if you don't put that gun away and stop this stupid +nonsense, the court of inquiry on this'll give you such a pranging, +you'll be lucky if you end up wearing the uniform of a bloody toilet +attendant! + +Guano: + +Ok. Go ahead. Try and get the president of the United States on the +phone. Mandrake enters phone booth and closes the door. Guano pushes +it back open. If you try any preversions in there I'll blow your head +off. + +Mandrake: + +places coins in the slot and dials Operator? This is Group Captain +Lionel Mandrake, I'm speaking from Burpleson Air Force Base. Look, +something very urgent has come up and I want you to place an emergency +person to person call with President Merkin Muffley in the Pentagon, +Washington D.C. Aaaa... Burpleson3-9180. No, I'm perfectly serious, +operator, the President, yes the President of the United States. I'm +sorry, I haven't got enough change. Um, could you... could you make +this a collect call, operator? Mandrake waits on the call to be placed +while Guano looks on. Just one second, operator. to Guano They won't +accept the call. Have you got fifty-five cents? + +Guano: + +Well, you don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my +pocket, do you? + +Mandrake: + +Operator, look, ah... is it possible to make this an ordinary... +ordinary trunk call? Well, what do you call it... you know, ah... raps +on phone box with knuckles oh, ah... station to station. counts change +in his palm Oh, blast. Still twenty cents short. Operator, hold on +one... ah... I shan't keep you a second. to Guano Colonel, that +Coca-Cola machine, I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be +some change in there. + +Guano: + +That's private property. + +Mandrake: + +exasperated Colonel, can you possibly imagine what is going to happen +to you, your frame, outlook, way of life and everything, when they +learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of +the United States? Can you imagine? Shoot it off! Shoot! With the gun! +That's what the bullets are for, you twit! + +Guano: + +Ok. I'm gonna get your money for you. But if you don't get the +President of the Unites States on that phone, you know what's going to +happen to you? + +Mandrake: + +What? + +Guano: + +You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company. Turns to the +Coke machine and fires into it. Change spills from the coin return +slot. As Guano bends to collect it, coke streams from a bullet hole +and showers his face. + +Cut to: int. War Room + +Voice on PA + +This is SAC communications control. The recall code, OPE, is being +acknowledged roger by elements of the 843 bomb wing. Cheering starts +among men in the War Room. These are the details: missions 12, 22, 30, +and 38 are reported destroyed by enemy action. All other missions have +acknowledged recall code. This is SAC communications control, over and +out. + +Turgidson: + +Whistles loudly Gentlemen, gentlemen. War room falls silent. Ah, +gentlemen, Mr. President, I'm not a sentimentalist at all, by nature, +but I think I know what's in every heart in this room. I think we +ought to all just bow our heads and give a short prayer of thanks for +our deliverance. + +Lord, we have heard the wings of the angel of death fluttering over +our heads from the valley of fear. You have seen fit to deliver us +from the forces of evil... + +Stains: + +Excuse me sir, Premier Kissov's calling again and he's hopping mad. + +Cut to: int. Airborne B-52 + +Goldie: + +Fuel flow in active engines and leakage has increased. Now works out +at two zero five. Estimate remaining fuel at eight seven nine zero. + +Navigator: + +Roger. Confirm two zero five per minute and remaining fuel eight seven +nine zero. + +Cut to: int. War Room + +Muffley: + +to phone No. No, Dimitri, there must be some mistake. No, I'm certain +of that. I'm perfectly certain of that, Dimitri. Just a second. puts +down phone You know what he says? He says that one of the planes +hasn't turned back. He says according to information forwarded by our +air staff, it's headed for the missile complex at Lapuda. + +Turgidson: + +Whah... Laughs in wheezing incredulity That's impossible, Mr. +President. I mean, look at the big board! Thirty-four planes, thirty +recalls acknowledged, and four splashes, and one of them was targeted +for Lapuda! + +Muffley: + +to phone Dimitri? Look, we've got an acknowledgement from every plane +except the four you've shot down. Oh. Oh. He says... Hang on a second, +Dimitri. covers phone He says their air staff now only claims three +aircraft confirmed. The fourth may only be damaged. + +Turgidson: + +Mr. President, I'm beginning to smell a big fat commie rat. I mean, +supposing Kissov is lying about that fourth plane, just looking for an +excuse to clobber us. I mean, if the spaghetti hits the fan, now we're +really in trouble. + +Muffley: + +to phone Dimitri, look, if this report is true and the plane manages +to bomb the target, is it... is this going to full.. is this going to +set off the doomsday machine? Are you sure? Well, I.. I guess you're +just going to have to get that plane, Dimitri! Dimitri, I'm sorry +they're jamming your radar and flying so low, but they're trained to +do it. You know, it's it's initiative! Look, Dimitri, you know exactly +where they're going and I'm sure your entire air defense can stop a +single plane. Listen, I mean, it's not going to help either one of us +if a if the if the doomsday machine goes off, now is it? Dom... +Dimitri there's no point in you getting you hysterical at a moment +like this! Dimitri! Keep your feet on the ground when you're talking, +Dimitri. I... I am not I am not getting... no, Dimitri. I... I just am +worried, that's all. Look, now if our air staff say it's primary +target is Lapuda and it's secondary target it Bordkov, I mean it's +it's true, Dimitri! You gotta believe it. Turgidson nods affirmative +Look, can I gi... Dimitri, can I give you just one word... can I give +you just one word of advice, Dimitri? Listen, Dimitri, put everything +you've got into those two sectors and you can't miss. + +Cut to: int. Airborne B-52 + +Navigator: + +Sir, if we continue to lose fuel at the present rate, I estimate we +only have thirty-eight minutes flying time which will not even take us +as far as the primary. + +Kong: + +Dog gonnit, Sweets, you told me that you'd get me to the primary! + +Navigator: + +I'm sorry, Sir. That estimate was based on the original loss rate +factor, not at two zero five. + +Ko Kong: + +I don't give a hoot in hell how you do it, you just get me to the +primary, you hear? + +Navigator: + +I'm sorry Sir, but those are the figures. We'll be luck to reach +weather ship at tango delta. + +Kong: + +Well... shoot. We ain't come this far just to dump this thing in the +drink. What's the nearest target opportunity? + +Navigator: + +Sir, if the rate of loss does not increase, we have a chance to reach +target three eight four, grid coordinate zero zero three six nine one, +and possibly make it from there to the tango delta weather ship. + +Kong: + +What kind of a target is that, anyhow? + +Bombardier: + +Sir, that's the ICBM complex at Kodlosk. + +Kong: + +Alright. Designating new target three eight four. Give me a rough +heading on that just as soon as you can get it worked out, will you? + +Cut to: int. War Room + +Muffley: + +to phone Well, we'll keep our fingers crossed, Dimitri, and remember, +there's just one thing, we are all in this together. We're right +behind you, Dimitri. We're with you all the way. Yes. Well, we'll keep +the line open. Alright Dimitri. rests phone on the table General +Turgidson, is there really a chance for that plane to get through? + +Turgidson: + +Mr. President, if I may speak freely, the Russkie talks big, but +frankly, we think he's short of know how. I mean, you just can't +expect a bunch of ignorant peons to understand a machine like some of +our boys. And that's not meant as an insult, Mr. Ambassador, I mean, +you take your average Russkie, we all know how much guts he's got. +Hell, lookit look at all them them Nazis killed off and they still +wouldn't quit. + +Muffley: + +Can't you stick to the point, General? + +Turgidson: + +Well, I'm sorry. Ah... If the pilot's good, see. I mean, if he's +really... sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low spreads his arms +like wings., laughs you oughtta see it sometime, it's a sight. A big +plane, like a'52, vroom! There's jet exhaust, flyin' chickens in the +barnyard! + +Muffley: + +Yeah, but has he got a chance? + +Turgidson: + +Has he got a chance? Hell Ye... ye... covers mouth in solemn +realization + +Cut to: int. Airborne B-52 + +Navigator: + +Navigator to Captain, approaching target. Distance, one zero miles. +Switch from green grid to target orange. + +Kong: + +Roger. Ready for final bomb run check. Take over, Ace. + +Copilot: + +Roger. + +DSO: + +DSO ready. + +Bombardier: + +Bombardier ready, sir. + +Kong: + +Bomb fusing master safety on, electronics, barometrics, time and +impact. + +Bombardier: + +Bomb fusing master safeties on, electronic, barometric, time and +impact. + +Kong: + +Fused for ground burst, delay factor yellow three. + +Bombardier: + +Fused for ground burst, delay factor yellow three. + +Kong: + +Bomb fusing circuits one through four, test. + +Bombardier: + +Bomb fusing circuits one through four, test. Lights on. + +Kong: + +Bomb arming test lights on, one through four. + +Bombardier: + +Bomb arming test lights on, one through four. + +Kong: + +Engage primary trigger switch override. + +Bombardier: + +Primary trigger switch override, engaged. + +Kong: + +Track indicators to maximum deflection. + +Bombardier: + +Track indicators to maximum deflection. + +Kong: + +Detonator set to zero altitude. + +Bombardier: + +Detonator set to zero altitude. + +Kong: + +Release first safety. + +Airman: + +First safety released. + +Bombardier: + +First safety. + +Kong: + +Release second safeties. + +Airman: + +Second safety released. + +Bombardier: + +Second safety. + +Kong: + +Check bomb door circuits one through four. + +Bombardier: + +Ah... bomb door circuits, negative function. Lights red. + +Kong: + +Switch in backup circuits. + +Bombardier: + +Roger. Backup circuits switched in, still negative function. + +Kong: + +Engage emergency power. + +Bombardier: + +Roger. Emergency power on. Still negative function. + +Kong: + +Operate manual override! + +Bombardier: + +Roger. Ah... still negative function. The teleflex drive cable must be +sheared away. + +Kong: + +Fire the explosive bolts! + +Bombardier: + +Roger. Um... still negative, sir. The operating circuits are dead, +sir. + +Kong: + +Stay on the bomb run, Ace. I'm going down below to see what I can do. + +Copilot: + +Roger. + +Kong: + +to DSO and Bombardier Stay on the bomb run boys. I'm goin' to get them +doors open if it hare lips everybody on Bear Creek. proceeds through +hatch to bomb bay + +Kong studies a sparking tangle of wires above a suspended bomb, and +then climbs atop the it, fanning the sparks with his stetson + +Navigator: + +Target orange grid reference, checks. Target distance, eight miles. + +Copilot: + +Roger, eight miles. Telemetric guidance computer into orange grid. + +Bombardier: + +Telemetric guidance computer into orange grid. + +Navigator: + +Target distance, seven miles. Correct track indicator, minus seven. + +Copilot: + +Roger. Seven miles. Set GPI acceleration factor. + +Bombardier: + +GPI diversion factor set. + +Navigator: + +Target distance, six miles. + +Copilot: + +Roger. Six miles. False ident transponder active. + +Bombardier: + +False ident transponder active. + +Navigator: + +Target distance, five miles. + +Copilot: + +Five miles. Bundling alignment factor zero mode. + +Bombardier: + +Bundling alignment factor to zero mode. + +Navigator: + +Target distance, four miles. + +Copilot: + +Roger. Four miles. Auto CDC into manual teleflex link. + +Bombardier: + +Auto CDC is to manual teleflex link. + +Navigator: + +Target distance, three miles. + +Copilot: + +Roger. Three miles. + +Navigator: + +Target in sight. Where in hell is Major Kong? + +Kong busily works to splice two wires together. He finishes and then +attaches an alligator clip to a patch panel above his head. The bomb +doors open. He grabs his stetson to keep it from blowing away in the +sudden slipstream. + +Kong: + +Aaaaaa hooooo! Aaaaaaaa hooooo! the bomb is dropped, and Kong along +with it + +Bombardier: + +Hey, what about Major Kong? + +Kong: + +Aaaaaa hoooo! Waaaaa hooooo! Kong rides the bomb in its falling arc +waving his hat over his head, celebrating his success in ecstatic +rodeo style. On reaching the ground, the bomb detonates. + +Cut to: int. War Room + +Strangelove: + +Executes an about face from the big board to face the camera. Mr. +President, I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of +human specimens. It would be quite easy... heh heh... rolls forward +into the light at the bottom of ah... some of our deeper mineshafts. +The radioactivity would never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet +deep. And in a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements in dwelling +space could easily be provided. + +Muffley: + +How long would you have to stay down there? + +Strangelove: + +Well let's see now ah, searches within his lapel cobalt thorium G. +notices circular slide rule in his gloved hand aa... nn... Radioactive +halflife of uh,... hmm.. I would think that uh... possibly uh... one +hundred years. On finishing his calculations, he pulls the slide rule +roughly from his gloved hand, and returns it to within his jacket. + +Muffley: + +You mean, people could actually stay down there for a hundred years? + +Strangelove: + +It would not be difficult mein Fuhrer! Nuclear reactors could, heh... +I'm sorry. Mr. President. Nuclear reactors could provide power almost +indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plantlife. Animals could be +bred and slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the +available mine sites in the country. But I would guess... that ah, +dwelling space for several hundred thousands of our people could +easily be provided. + +Muffley: + +Well I... I would hate to have to decide.. who stays up and.. who goes +down. + +Strangelove: + +Well, that would not be necessary Mr. President. It could easily be +accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and +programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, +intelligence, and a cross section of necessary skills. Of course it +would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be +included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership +and tradition. Slams down left fist. Right arm rises in stiff Nazi +salute. Arrrrr! Restrains right arm with left. Naturally, they would +breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. +But ah with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten +females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their +way back to the present gross national product within say, twenty +years. + +Muffley: + +But look here doctor, wouldn't this nucleus of survivors be so grief +stricken and anguished that they'd, well, envy the dead and not want +to go on living? + +Strangelove: + +No sir... Right arm rolls his wheelchair backwards. Excuse me. +Struggles with wayward right arm, ultimately subduing it with a +beating from his left. + +Also when... when they go down into the mine everyone would still be +alive. There would be no shocking memories, and the prevailing emotion +will be one of nostalgia for those left behind, combined with a spirit +of bold curiosity for the adventure ahead! Ahhhh! Right are reflexes +into Nazi salute. He pulls it back into his lap and beats it again. +Gloved hand attempts to strangle him. + +Turgidson: + +Doctor, you mentioned the ration of ten women to each man. Now, +wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so called monogamous +sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned? + +Strangelove: + +Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the +future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be +required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will +have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have +to be of a highly stimulating nature. + +DeSadeski: + +I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor. + +Strangelove: + +Thank you, sir. + +Turgidson: + +to Muffley I think we should look at this from the military point of +view. I mean, supposing the Russkies stashes away some big bomb, see. +When they come out in a hundred years they could take over! + +DeSadeski begins walking away from the crowd around Strangelove and +the President, toward the banquet table. + +General: + +I agree, Mr. President. In fact, they might even try an immediate +sneak attack so they could take over our mineshaft space. + +Turgidson: + +Yeah. I think it would be extremely naive of us, Mr. President, to +imagine that these new developments are going to cause any change in +Soviet expansionist policy. DeSadeski kneels, unseen, and begins +photographing the big board with a secret camera within a pocket +watch. I mean, we must be... increasingly on the alert to prevent them +from taking over other mineshaft space, in order to breed more +prodigiously than we do, thus, knocking us out in superior numbers +when we emerge! Mr. President, we must not allow... a mine shaft gap! + +Strangelove: + +...sir! stands up out of his wheelchair I have a plan. Heh. pauses, +realizing that he is standing Mein Fuhrer, I can walk! + +Multiple scenes of exploding bombs, dancing to the tune of"We'll Meet +Again." + +THE END