four.
LUCKMAN:
Got nothing on us.
BARRIS: There we go.
LUCKMAN: Get a life!
BARRIS:
Okay, Bob, no rush.
LUCKMAN: Not so fast.
- You are flying.
BARRIS:
Decelerate.
Steady.
- Decelerate.
- Slow down.
- Jesus.
- Son of a bitch.
Come on. Decelerate!
[ENGINE STOPS]
Let us over.
Emergency.
We're getting over. Emergency.
[CAR HORNS HONKING]
[TIRES SCREECH]
- What the hell was that?
- Jesus fucking Christ.
What the hell in the hootenanny
was that?
The return spring
on the throttle cable, or...
Look, the gas.
Was it cut or broken?
BARRIS:
Let's give her a look.
Oh, my...
Ah.
It's not the spring. It's the linkage
from the pedal to the carb. See?
It fell apart, so the gas pedal didn't push
back out when you took your foot off...
...but doesn't explain why...
- There is a safety override on the carb.
- When the linkage parts, it's...
- Why'd it part?
Shouldn't this ring
hold the cable in place?
I mean, how could it
just come off like that?
Let's have a look. Let's probe a little.
All right. This screw has been turned
all the way out, the idle screw.
So when the linkage parted, it went
the other way. Up instead of down.
Wait. Now, how could that happen?
There is no way that that screw...
...could turn itself all the way out
like that accidentally.
No way.
Motherfucker! They did it deliberately!
We almost died!
They almost fucking got us, man!
To loosen the lock ring
and nut assembly...
...that holds the linkage rods
together...
...a special tool would be needed.
Several, in fact.
It'll take half an hour
to get this back together.
- I have the tools, though.
- Back at the house.
Correct. We can always go to
a repair center and borrow theirs...
...or get a tow truck out here.
Here.
You know, maybe that's what's
fucking us up, fucking up our brains.
- We're gonna wind up like Freck soon.
- No.
Okay, these are for us.
And I'm going to suggest that you take
several, with the implicit acceptance...
...of the fact that Substance D
cannot screw up an accelerator...
...or a carb-idle adjustment.
- Yeah, dude. Don't blame the drugs.
- Come on.
- Well, so much for...
...our great road trip
to San Diego, Bob.
I told you we should have gone
to San Francisco.
What, like going to San Francisco...
...would not have caused
this problem with the engine?
Yeah, because when you're going north,
it screws this way.
When you're going south,
it screws that way.
If we were in Australia.
This proves you got somebody
out to get you real bad, Bob.
I just hope the house is still there
when we get back.
Yeah, I didn't think of that.
- I wouldn't worry about it too much.
LUCKMAN: You wouldn't?
Christ, they may have broken in
and ripped off all we got.
All Bob's got, anyhow.
What if they stomped the animals?
Don't worry about it.
I left a little surprise for them.
What?
Yes, anyone entering the house while we
were gone will receive a little surprise.
Little something I perfected
early this morning.
What kind of surprise?
It's my house, Jim.
You should ask me before
you start wiring up my house.
Why so uptight about
protecting your house from intruders?
Why would you care?
I'm just saying,
it's my house, that's all.
You can't start going around
booby-trapping my house.
Okay, okay. I mean, jeez.
Or as the Germans say, leise...
...which translates to "be cool."
Just be cool.
So, what did you do?
If the front door is opened
while we are in absentia...
...thumbnail-sized, auxiliary,
motion-detector...
...digital-memory cameras
start recording.
You should have told me.
What if they come in through
the back door or the bathroom window...
...like that infamous Beatles' song?
To increase their chances of entering
via the front door...
...rather than in other
less usual places...
...I, fortuitously,
left the front door unlocked.
- Suppose they don't know it's unlocked.
- That's why I left a note on the door.
- You're kidding me.