disappointed in you.
I'm sorry.
I can't afford to have
an independent programmer
monitoring me.
Do you realize how many
outside systems I've gone into?
How many programs
I've appropriated?
Come on!
A couple of days.
Hi, Dr Gibbs.
Well, here goes nothing.
Yeah, interesting.
You hear what you just said?
- "Here goes nothing."
- Well, what I meant was--
Actually, 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. Mm-hmm.
- [Man] All right.
Let's clear the area.
[ Dr Gibbs ]
This is the big moment.
I know. This will narrow your theory
that the scanned U-V beam...
is superior to
single pulse exposure.
[ Woman On P.A. ] Laser activity
will exist in 30 seconds.
Put on your goggles.
Leave the bay.
[ Lora ] Let's see if we've
got the green light.
- Is the target area shielded?
- They verified safety.
Twenty seconds.
- Looks good.
- Let her rip.
This is what we've
been waiting for.
Ten seconds.
- Five seconds.
- [ Machines Whirring ]
- Perfect!
- [ Coworkers Clapping ]
- Beautiful!
- Hi, Alan.
You two having fun
disintegrating things?
Not disintegrating,
digitizing.
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 voil !
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.
Ever since he got
that Master Control Program,
the system's got more bugs
than a bait store.
You gotta expect
some static.
After all, computers are just machines.
They can't think.
Some programs will
be thinking soon.
[ Chuckles ]
Won't that be grand?
Computers and programs will start
thinking, and the people will stop.
I'm gonna stay around,
put some data through.
See you tomorrow.
Bye.
Come on.
- Did you say Group-7 access?
- Yeah.
What a hassle.
I was all set.
- Did he say why?
- Something about tampering.
Tampering?
Flynn has been thinking
about breaking into the system
ever since Dillinger canned him.
And he had
Group-7 access.
Flynn had access
to you too.
[ Lora ] 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, anyway.
I loved him for his brains.
[ Chuckles ]
Don't put any change in the meter.
We're gonna need it for the games.
Boy! I haven't been
here in a long time.
- [ Music ]
- [ Chattering ]
[ Girl ]
Hey, Bobby, up here.
- Where is he?
- I don't know.
Somewhere in here,
lost in one of his games.
Excuse me.
Do you know where Flynn is?
Yeah, he's over there
on his machine.
[ Boy ] He's really on a roll!
One more Reco before he ties.
Another Reco and he gets
the world's record.
[ Boy ] He's going for the record.
The all-time record coming up.
This is it.
It's all over.
Flynn's gonna be
a part of history, all right!
Hey, Flynn,
how'd you do it?
It's all
in the wrists.
999,000 points!
Hey, good
to see you guys.
Nothing classes up the joint
like a clean-cut young couple.
We gotta talk.
You can't hear yourself
think in here. Come on.
- Come on.
- I'll be down in a minute.
How's the world
of serious science?
Go up ahead.
Make yourselves at home.
Be right up.
[ Chuckles ]
The best programmer
ENCOM ever saw,
and he winds up playing
space cowboy in some back room.
Okay,