yourself
think in here. Come on.
- Come on.
- I'll be down in a minute.
How's the world
of serious science?
Go make yourselves
at home.
The best programmer
Encom ever saw,
and he winds up playing
space cowboy...
- in some back room.
- Let me handle this.
- Go right ahead.
- Have you been sneaking...
into the
Encom system?
You never were much
for small talk.
Does she still leave
her clothes all over?
- No!
- Alan!
I mean,
not that often.
You can see why
all his friends...
- are 14 years old.
- Touchй.
I have been doing
a little hacking.
- You did break in.
- Tried to.
I can't seem to quite
get the connection.
- If I had a direct terminal -
- Flynn, are you embezzling?
Embezzling is such an
ugly word, Mr. Bradley.
Actually, I'm trying to
get some evidence together.
- I don't get it.
- Okay.
- I don't get it.
- Okay.
Sherman, set the Way-Back
Machine for 3 years ago.
Kevin Flynn,
one of Encom's...
brightest young
software engineers.
He's so bright that
he goes in at night,
and begins writing a
program for video games...
called
"Space Paranoids."
You invented
"Space Paranoids"?
"Paranoids," "Matrix Blaster,"
a whole slew of 'em.
I was this close to starting
my own enterprise.
But enter another;
not so young or so bright,
but very sneaky;
Ed Dillinger.
One night,
our boy Flynn...
goes to his terminal,
tries to read up his file.
I get nothing.
There's a big blank.
3 months later...
Dillinger presents Encom
with 5 video games...
that he's invented.
The slime didn't even
change the names!
He gets a
big promotion.
Thus begins his
meteoric rise...
to -
What is he?
- Senior Exec.
- Senior Exec?
Meanwhile,
the kids...
are putting 8 million quarters
a week into Paranoid machines.
I don't see a dime, except
what I squeeze outta here.
I still don't understand
why you want to break in.
Somewhere in one of these
memories is the evidence.
If I got in far enough
I could reconstruct it.
- My password, Dillinger's
instructions to divert -
- Too late!
Dillinger's cut off
Group-7 access.
Wait. What
are you saying?
The guy knows
what you're up to.
Great.
You're kidding me?
Now there is
nothing to stop him.
It's just Dillinger and
the MCP running things.
Not if my Tron
program was running.
That'd shut
the system down.
If your file
was in there -
If we can get in there,
I can forge a Group-6 access.
Well?
Shall we dance?
I shut down Group-7
for a very good reason.
If our people can't get
access to their programs -
You know how frustrating
it is when you're researching.
I sympathize, but I
have data coming from MCP...
telling me there's
something screwy going on.
That MCP is
half our problem!
The MCP is the most efficient
way of handling what we do!
I can't worry about
every user request.
User requests are
what computers are for.
Doing our business is
what computers are for!
Encom isn't the business
you started in your garage.
We've accounts in 30 countries,
new defense systems,
one of the most sophisticated
pieces of equipment.
I know all that.
Sometimes I wish I were
back in that garage.
That can be arranged,
Walter.
That was
uncalled for.
You can remove Alan and me,
but we helped create it.
Our spirit remains in
every program we designed.
Walter, it's getting late.
I've got better things to do.
Don't worry about
Encom anymore.
It's out of
your hands now.
I don't think
I'm cleared for this.
- I'm certainly not.
- Want to move aside?
Give the kid
a little room.
This guy's a little
like Santa Claus.
I make these myself.
You want one?
They never should have
gotten rid of me.
- Now that is a big door.
- Shut up.
I programmed you
to want too much.
I was planning
to hit the Pentagon.
The Pentagon?
It shouldn't be harder
than any big company.
- This is what I get for using humans.
- I wrote you!
What do you want
with the Pentagon?
The same thing I want
with the Kremlin.