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, let me
handle this.
go right ahead.
have you been sneaking
into the encom system ?
you never were much
for small talk, were you ?
- she still leave her clothes
all over the floor ?
- no.
- alan !
- i mean, not that often.
you can see why
all his friends
are 14 years old.
toucheЙЙ.
i have been doing
a little hacking,
as a matter of fact.
- you did break in.
- tried to.
i can't seem to quite
get the connection
with that sucker, though.
if i had
a direct terminal--
flynn, are you embezzling ?
[ game beeping ]
embezzling is such
an ugly word, mr. bradley.
no, actually,
i'm trying to get some
solid evidence together.
- i don't get it.
- okay.
sherman, set the way-back
machine for three years ago.
kevin flynn,
one of encom's
brightest young
software engineers.
he's so bright,
he starts going in at night,
sets up his own private
memory file...
and begins writing
a program for video games,
invented called...
space paranoids.
you invented
space paranoids ?
paranoids, matrix blaster,
vice squad--
a whole slew of 'em.
i was this close to starting
my own little enterprise.
but enter another
software engineer;
not so young, not so bright,
but very, very sneaky;
ed dillinger.
one night, our boy flynn,
he goes to his terminal,
tries to read up his file.
i get nothing on there.
there's a big blank.
all right, now we take you
three months later,
dillinger presents encom
with five video games...
that he's invented.
the slime didn't even
change the names, man !
he gets
a big, fat promotion.
thus begins
his meteoric rise to--
what is he now ?
- executive v.p. ?
- senior exec ?
senior exec ?
meanwhile, kids are putting
eight 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 into the system.
because, man, 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 the data--
it's too late for that !
dillinger's cut off everybody
with group-7 access.
wait.  wait.
what are you saying ?
the guy knows
what you're up to.
great.
you're kidding me ?
well, now there is
nothing to stop him.
it's just dillinger
and the mcp running things
from on high now.
not if my tron program
was running.  that'd
shut the system down.
you know, if your file
was in there--
wait a minute.
if we can get in there,
i can forge us
a group-6 access.
well ?
shall we dance ?
[ dillinger ]
i shut down group-7
for a very good reason.
ed, all i'm saying is
if our people can't get
access to their programs--
well, you know how frustrating
it is when you're working
on a piece of research.
i sympathize,
but i have data coming from
the master control program...
telling me there's
something screwy going on.
that mcp,
that's half our problem
right there.
the mcp is the most efficient
way of handling what we do !
i can't sit here
and worry about every little
user request that comes in.
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 anymore.
we're building accounts
in