Colossus: The Forbin Project Page #3

One moment, please.

Yes, Dr. Forbin.

Doctor?

There was just a message here from Colossus

in Washington DC.

Can you explain that?

That's impossible.

What do you mean?

Everybody!

Hold it, hold it a minute!

Guess what?

It's a strange message on display

No, no. Wait a minute.

I'm not kidding

It reads:

There is another system.

That's impossible.

Could I have your attention please.

Go on Sir.

Dr. Malcolm and the rest of you.

Be so kind as to check the administrative

control programs right now.

Just a moment..

Mr. President?

Soviet Ambassador.

He says it's urgent.

Hello? Yes.

What time do you call Mr. Ambassador?

Oh yes we are, we are very proud.

Repeat that again please.

Yes I am.

Well, thank you for telling me in advance.

No, no comment.

Goodnight Mr. Ambassador.

Goodnight.

Dr. Fischer, run all the test programs.

Get me Grauber.

What's the CIA been doing?

Well everyone, that's it.

The supreme council

of the U.S.S.R. has

ordered as of 2300 hours

Moscow time tomorrow

the activation of an electronic brain,

exactly like ours, which they call Guardian

to be used solely for defense.

My god,

that's the other system.

Ted, I want a complete rundown

on central intelligence

and no military moves to be carried out

without my personal orders.

Yes, Mr. President.

Charles, what do you think this means?

To be quite frank with you, sir..

I don't know, I'm not sure.

Well, I am.

It means there's been a security leak.

Sir, science is full of coincidences

Yes. Peterson!

What's happening?

They're still trying to find it.

We'll have him paged.

Hello Byron.

You said we were years ahead

of the Russians

This was to be the race we won hands down,

without the splitting of one political hair.

It was a hell of a shock but we did

get there first, no-one can deny that.

And there's one bright spot

the way Colossus came up with the tip.

I didn't realize

we'd be getting bonuses like that.

Neither did I.

What do you mean?

I'm as surprised as you are, Sir.

There's a spy there, Charlie

You've got a Russian agent in your crew.

Where is Grauber?

He's coming Mr. President.

Ok, Well..

What do you mean, surprised?

What kind of a surprise?

If we don't find any bugs in the system..

It's built even better than we'd thought.

Morning Charles!

I canceled all vacations,

put the entire crew on emergency.

The White House called a defense group

meeting for tomorrow morning.

They wanna have you there.

That leaves us very little time.

Four hundred cycle powers of plasma

running at about four percent disclosure.

Good, that's well within

specification limits.

I ran the communication subset

check up program, it's perfect.

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