Local Hero Page #3

- Macintyre. Houston.

Welcome to our little world.

You've come to see the bay, eh?

Marina, this is Mr Macintyre

and Mr, eh...

Oldsen, Danny. Hello.

The sensor on 421's gone haywire.

I better replace it.

- She's got magnificent lungs.

- Oh, yes. A great asset.

Five oceanography degrees

and a talented programmer.

I'll get rid of her.

She's not in on this Ferness thing.

Actually, she's better in the field.

Here's the dud.

Um, you can take

some lunch now, Marina.

Sure.

I'll show you the site models,

shall I?

You'll see what you're

in the market for.

This is a bay in a million.

The silt's deep enough

to take the foundation piles.

This harbour here is a natural for

blasting in the underground tanks.

Here. Hold Ferness

a minute, would you?

Plus, the debris rock will be used

to fill in the other beach

for the refinery.

With 12 more miles of coastline,

this could become the petro-chemical

capital of the free world.

Six months' blasting,

two years' construction.

It'll last 1,000 years. Forever!

It'll even survive the next ice age.

We've proved that, you know.

We've simulated 10,000 years

of glaciation over the whole bay.

We don't need that ice age.

We can divert the Gulf Stream

and unfreeze the Arctic Circle.

He proved it, but they won't listen.

They want to freeze.

Thank you, Norman,

there was no need to bring that up.

- Will, um, Marina be back?

- No, not for a while yet.

We should head north soon.

We'll see you

when we get back, maybe.

No. Take it. Keep it.

Dream large. Dream large!

- What you thinking about?

- Girls.

Naked girls.

Me, too.

- In a fish tank.

- Yeah.

- What's up?

- I think we hit something.

It got misty all of a sudden

and I think we hit something.

Sh*t! I hate hitting things!

- It's just kind of stunned.

- Maybe a broken leg.

- Should we put it out of its misery?

- What?

Hit it with something hard?

You did that with an automobile.

Put it in the car.

Well, we can't drive in this stuff.

Where are we?

The last road sign was in Gaelic.

It's not one of my languages.

You speak languages?

French, Italian, Spanish.

Greek, Turkish, Russian, Swedish,

German, Japanese, Dutch, and Polish.

I have a facility with languages.

I've got some chocolate and some gum.

- What have you got?

- Nothing.

Niente.

- Nada, rien...

- OK, OK.

This is my car.

Porsche 930.

Turbo-charged.

A car's important.

I got migraine headaches

driving a Chevy.

A car like this won't let you down.

Conference time in Houston.

I'll give them a call tomorrow.

Good night.

Yeah.

Could we

have the lights off?

Sure, sure.

- Morning.

- Hello.

- Some place, huh?

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