looking for that old file.
Can't you appropriate it?
I put it in my memory
which he hasn't located.
- He might find it.
- I'm afraid so.
I spotted him this time
and kept him out.
It's getting trickier.
We should shut down
all access...
until we find
that Flynn.
- There's a 68.71% chance you're right.
- Cute.
Come on!
Alan, think I can have
some of your popcorn?
Yeah, sure.
Sit down.
Thank you.
We've had
to shut down...
all Group-7
personnel...
just briefly.
Security.
Someone has
been tampering.
You don't think
it's me!
I don't even balance
my checkbook on downtime.
It'll only be
a couple of days.
- What's your project?
- It's called Tron.
It's a
security program.
It monitors contacts between
our system and others.
Anything not scheduled,
it shuts it down.
I sent you
a memo.
- Part of the Master Control Program?
- No.
It'll run independently
and watchdog the MCP as well.
Sounds good.
We should have you running
in a couple of days.
I hope.
Okay.
Thanks.
Oh, boy.
Mr. Dillinger, I'm very
disappointed in you.
I'm sorry.
I can't afford an independent
programmer monitoring me.
You realize how many
systems I've gone into?
How many programs
I've appropriated?
Come on!
A couple of days!
Hi, Dr. Gibbs.
Here goes nothing.
You hear what
you just said?
"Here goes nothing."
Actually, we propose
to change something...
into nothing
and back again.
You might have said, "Here goes
something, here comes nothing."
Right.
This is the
big moment.
This'll narrow your theory
that the scan U-V beam...
is superior to
single pulse exposure.
Laser activity will
exist in 30 seconds.
Put on your goggles.
Leave the bay.
Let's see if we've
got the green light.
- Target area shielded?
- They verified safety.
20 seconds.
- Looks good.
- Let her rip.
This is what we've
been waiting for.
10 seconds.
5 seconds.
Perfect!
- Beautiful!
- Hi, Alan.
Having fun
disintegrating things?
Not disintegrating,
digitizing.
A laser dismantles
the molecular structure.
Molecules remain suspended
in the laser beam.
When the computer
plays out the model,
the molecules
fall back into place,
- and voilб!
- Great.
Can it send me
to Hawaii?
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.
Ever since
he got...
that Master
Control Program,
the system's got more
bugs than a bait store.
You gotta expect
some static.
Computers are machines.
They can't think.
- Some programs will be thinking soon. Computers will
start thinking,
and the people
will stop.
I'm gonna put
some data through.
- See you.
- Bye.
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...
ever 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 favors!
I don't know what
you saw in that guy.
I loved him for his brain.
Don't put change
in the meter.
We're gonna need
it for the games.
Boy! I haven't been
here in a long time.
Hey, Bobby,
up here.
- Where is he?
- I don't know.
- Where is he?
- I don't know.
Somewhere in here lost
in one of his games.
- Do you know where Flynn is?
- On his machine.
He's really on
a roll!
One more Reco
before he ties.
Another Reco and he gets
the world's record.
He's going for
the record.
The all-time
record coming up.
This is it.
It's all over.
Flynn's gonna make him
a part of history!
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 couple.
We gotta talk.
You can't hear