Donald Richards,
to have you here at last,
in the flesh, so to speak.
Would you state your occupation,
please?
I'm president and chairman
of the board of Omnitech International.
Why did you refuse to testify in
the suit against your company?
I never received a subpoena.
They have to know
where you are to serve it,
but you deliberately made yourself
unavailable, remained in hiding.
Doesn't an American citizen
have a right to privacy?
Tell me something, sir, I'll bet you have
a share or two of stock in Omnitech.
I'm the majority stockholder.
Yes, I kind of thought you were.
Now, what about all those
little stockholders
who got wind of the appalling notion
that you, Mr. Richards, grabbed up
an earthshaking idea and strangled it?
You know what I find appalling?
That you have the arrogance
to pass judgment
on something
you don't know anything about.
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But you do, Mr. Richards?
When we test something,
like the momentum engine,
and we find out it doesn't work,
we drop it.
We spend our time and money
on something that will work.
What about the experts
who say it does work?
You think that I would deliberately
dump an idea
that could make millions
for my stockholders?
But you've got billions committed
to the internal combustion engine.
Omnitech makes spark plugs,
you want to go on making spark plugs.
There's money in carburetors,
you want to go on making carburetors.
You've got vested interests
in 16 oil companies,
you want to go on selling gas.
You have one noble purpose,
Mr. Richards:
To keep things the way they are.
Look, an idea
doesn't just turn into a reality.
Something's got to make it happen.
It takes money to build factories,
grind out a product, advertise it, sell it.
Did you ever hear of a box of cereal
or a tube of toothpaste
going out and giving birth to itself?
Do you know what it takes?
- Capital.
- Capital! You're damn right!
And I'm not going to commit
my corporation to the expenditure
of millions of dollars
on an idea that just doesn't work.
That you say doesn't work.
Look! Thomas Edison
dreamed up the electric light bulb.
The government gave him a patent so
that he could profit from his invention.
Fine! But the light itself
belongs to everybody.
And nobody, nobody has a right
to turn on the darkness.
You dare accuse me, my company,
my companies of practices
that belong in the Dark Ages. I...
Then let there be light! Come out
of the dark, Donald Richards!
Who are you? What do you look like?
Where have you been?
Holy Christ, you know what I think?
I think you're dead, Donald Richards.
I think you've been dead for a long
time. Eight, maybe ten years.
It's been that long since anyone
has seen you.
And if you are dead,
who is running Omnitech?
Who actually holds all that power?
Some cabal of faceless men
without names, without fingerprints,
without Social Security numbers, who
are compounding your suppression
of the momentum engine
by hiding behind a dead man?
- Why would anybody wanna do that?
- Hell of a lot of reasons.
Dodge inheritance taxes,
avoid a power struggle,
hang on to government contracts.
Omnitech is a phantom government
hiding behind a dead man.
We can't see it. We didn't elect it.
It doesn't exist. It never dies!
Why don't we hoist up a new flag.
The Star-Spangled Omnitech!
Omnitech rules the waves!
Omnitech ьber alles!
Dan, are you all right?
Yeah, sure.
It was a lot of fun. I enjoyed it.
One, two.
Up.
- What do the doctors say?
- They don't know. They're testing.
- Is he in any pain?
- No. I don't think so.
I don't ever remember
Dan being sick before.
He considers it unconstitutional.
I've never walked into that chamber
without Dan there.
Are you ready,
gentlemen and Madame Justice?
After today's session, I need 24 hours.
I have to go to California.
Something I have to be
absolutely sure about.
Of course.
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