masterpiece has landed.
- Cooper.
- Mr Joyner.
- How are you feeling?
- Better, thanks. A little sore.
I thought we almost lost you
that night in the parking lot.
But you managed to pull through,
didn't you?
Yeah... Sorry...
We're sharpening up the decor
for the Army inspectors.
Well, what do you think?
It was my wife Pauline's idea
to have the racing stripe effect...
- Interesting...
- And tanks!
- You're welcome.
- No...
Oh, pictures of tanks!
- How does Chief Engineer sound?
- What do you mean?
I've had it with
bureaucratic bureaucracy.
That's why I want to promote
someone from the ranks.
- Promote? Me?
- Yep.
- Sounds like you haven't read my letter.
- Your letter?
My letter explaining that
I didn't design the DYP-Gyro.
Of course you didn't design it!
But you knew how to exploit it
and protect it from foreign saboteurs.
That was the letter in which I also
explained that the DYP doesn't work.
That's a minor snag.
Mr Joyner, it's sort of a major snag
because... Look...
The DYP prototype worked by itself
but the final version
is installed next to the WAM.
The point is, if the WAM overheats,
it could make the DYP malfunction.
- The chances of that are very slim.
- But there is a chance.
And you realise that if
the DYP-Gyro doesn't work,
the tank's surface-to-air
missiles won't fire!
Wylie, you've never been to the moon,
have you?
No, not recently. Though... Just wait.
I was fixing my kid's toy
and it gave me an idea
that I can incorporate into the DYP.
On the moon,
you get a whole different perspective.
You learn very quickly not to...
sweat the little shit.
I'll keep that in mind,
but what about the Army test?
- Carol!
- Claire.
Carol is going to help you
transition into management.
You're going to make
a wonderful Chief Engineer,
the chief of all the engineers
on the staff... I'm so proud...
Your new office is upstairs.
Would you like to come with me?
Claire, I was trying to explain to Joyner,
the problem with the DYP...
- I think I can fix it!
- You're off that project.
- If we can postpone the Army tests...
- Postpone?
You don't have to worry about it.
When we became aware of the problem,
we put Harvey Brank on it.
- Did Harvey get it to work? How?
- The DYP is going to pass the test.
That's all that's important, right?
Nine, nine and a half, ten, go!
Get your printouts
and put 'em on Frank's desk.
- OK?
- Yeah, I'll do it!
Mr Cooper!
Congratulations!
I heard they made you Chief Engineer.
Thanks. Why did Claire tell me
not to worry about the Army tests?
I don't know...
Sonny, get that over to the
assembly area and we'll do a check.
Quirk, take it up,
we'll do another run. Listen...
I wanna know what's going on.
Two days ago,
they brought me in here and...
...asked me to do some
recalibrations on the hot boxes.
Oh, that's what I thought they were up to.
Can't fix the DYP,
fix the testing machines instead.
- Listen, I really have to...
- Yeah, right...
You were the guy
who told me the DYP didn't work!
I was overreacting! I mean...
Mr Rupp's right.
It's a lot of military nit-picking.
In a real-life situation,
the probability the WAM's gonna get hot
enough to affect the DYP is miniscule.
- Not zero, Harvey.
- It's a small, calculated risk.
- Joyner here.
- Mr Joyner, it's Claire.
- Claire!
- Yes, sir.
It's about Wylie Cooper.
I think he may be kind of a problem
at the test on Monday.
If Wylie Cooper is going to
make it awkward for everybody,
we'll just have to make sure
he's not at the test.
- Dynatechnics.
- Blevin, it's Wylie Cooper.
- Who?
- Never mind, damn it.
Loparino said he was driving
by the plant and saw a lot of cars.
What's going on?
Have the bastards moved the test up?
Yeah, they got me working Saturday.
Called me last night.
Said the Army are coming this morning.
I could have finished by Monday!
Where are the damned... data sheets?
Where are the goddam data sheets?
Oh, no!