There's a 68.71 per cent chance
you're right.
Cute.
End of line.
"Your access suspended.
Report to Dillinger. " Come on!
Hey, Alan. Think I could have
some of your popcorn?
Yeah, sure.
Nobody ever wants to see me.
What did I do?
- Sit down.
- Thank you.
We've had to shut down all Group 7
personnel. Just briefly. Security.
Someone with that access
has been tampering.
I hope you don't think it's me.
I don't even balance my cheque book on
downtime. I have an abacus at home.
I'm sure. It should only be a couple of days.
What's the project you're working on?
It's called Tron.
It's a security program itself, actually.
It monitors all contacts between
our system and other systems.
If it finds anything going on
that's not scheduled, it shuts it down.
- I sent you a memo on it.
- Part of the Master Control Program?
No. It will run independently.
And watchdog the MCP as well.
Sounds good.
We should have you running again
in a couple of days, I hope.
OK.
Thanks.
Oh, boy.
Mr Dillinger,
I'm so very disappointed in you.
I'm sorry.
I can't afford to have an independent
programmer monitoring me.
Do you realise how many
outside systems I've gone into?
How many programs I've appropriated?
Come on.
"Couple of days. "
- Well, here goes nothing.
- Yeah. Interesting. Interesting.
You hear what you just said?
"Here goes nothing. "
- What I meant was...
- What we propose to do
is to change something into nothing
and back again.
You might just as well have said, "Here
goes something. Here comes nothing. "
- Right.
- Let's clear the area.
This is the big moment.
I know there's a theory
that the scanned UV beam
is superior to that single-pulse exposure.
Laser activity will exist in 30 seconds.
Put on your goggles.
- Leave the bay for your own safety.
- Let's see if we got the green light.
Twenty seconds.
- Looks good.
- Let her rip.
- 15 seconds.
- This is what we've been waiting for.
Ten seconds.
Five seconds.
Perfect!
- Beautiful!
- Hi, Alan.
You two having fun
disintegrating things down here?
Not disintegrating, Alan. Digitising.
A laser dismantles
the molecular structure of the object
and molecules remain suspended
in the laser beam.
Then when the computer
plays out the model,
the molecules fall back into place
and voila.
Great. Can it send me to Hawaii?
Yeah. But you've got to purchase
your program 30 days in advance.
How's it going upstairs?
Frustrating. I had Tron almost ready
when Dillinger cut everyone
with Group 7 access out of the system.
I tell you, ever since he got
that Master Control Program,
the system's got more bugs
than a bait store.
You've got to expect some static.
After all, computers are just machines.
They can't think.
- Some programs will be thinking soon.
- Won't that be grand?
The computers will start thinking
and the people will stop.
Lora, I'm going to put some data through.
See you tomorrow.
Come on.
- Did you say Group 7 access?
- Yeah.
What a hassle. I was all set.
- Did he say why?
- Something about tampering.
Flynn has been thinking about breaking
into the system since Dillinger canned him.
And he had Group 7 access.
Flynn had access to you, too.
- I want to go to Flynn's place.
- What for?
- To warn him.
- Of what?
That Dillinger's onto him.
I don't see why I have to do that guy
any favours.
I don't know what you ever saw in that guy.
I loved him for his brains.
Don't put any change in the meter.
We'll need it for the games.
Boy, I haven't been here in a long time.
Hey, Barbie! Up here!
- Where is he?
- Somewhere in here,
lost in one of his games.
- Champ, do you know where Flynn is?
- He's over there on his machine.
He's on a roll.
Another Reco and he gets a tie,
then another Reco and
he gets the world's record!
You better watch out for this machine, man.
He's going for the record, man. Come on!
This is it! Get this and it's all over!
- Flynn, how did you do it?
- It's all in