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Decision on Access Control and Risk Assessment
Dillinger
I think we should shut down all access until we find that Flynn, just to be safe.
Master Control Program
There's a 68.71 percent chance you're right.
Dillinger
Cute.
Master Control Program
End of Line.
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Communication Breakdown in a Digital World
Flynn
Hey! Hold it right there!
Bit
Yes.
Flynn
What do you mean, "yes"?
Bit
Yes.
Flynn
Is that all you can say?
Bit
No.
Flynn
Know anything else?
Bit
Yes.
Flynn
Positive and negative, huh? You're a Bit, aren't you?
Bit
Yes.
Flynn
Well, where's your program? Isn't he going to miss you?
Bit
No.
Flynn
I'm your program?
Bit
Yes.
Flynn
Another mouth to feed...
Bit
Yesyesyesyesyes!
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A Programmer's Unexpected Role at ENCOM
Alan
The best programmer ENCOM ever had, and he ends up playing Space Cowboy in some back room.
[about Flynn]
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Unexpected Conversations in the ENCOM System
Lora
Have you been sneaking into the ENCOM system?
Flynn
You were never much for small talk, were you? Does she still leave her clothes all over the floor?
[to Lora; to Alan]
Lora
Flynn!
Alan
No!
Lora
Alan!
Alan
I mean, not that often.
Lora
Now you can see why all his friends are fourteen years old!
[to Alan]
Flynn
Touche! Touche.
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Struggles Against Control in a Digital World
Crom
It's murder out there. You can't even travel around your own microcircuits without permission from Master Control Program. I mean, sending me down here to play games! Who does he calculate that he is?
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Betrayal in the World of Video Games
Alan
You invented Space Paranoids?
Flynn
Paranoids, Matrix Blaster, Vice Squad, a whole slew of them. I was this close to starting my own little enterprise, man. But enter another software engineer. Not so young, not so bright, but very, very sneaky: Ed Dillinger. So one night, our boy Flynn, he goes to his terminal, tries to read up his file. I get nothing on there, it's a big blank. Okay, 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, and he gets a big fat promotion! And thus begins his meteoric rise to, what is he now? Executive V.P.?
Lora
Senior exec.
Flynn
Senior exec? Meanwhile, the kids are putting eight million quarters a week into Paranoids machines. I don't see a dime except what I squeeze out of here.
[sighs]
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Perseverance in the Face of Challenges
Flynn
Oh, man! On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy. They must have gone right past us.
[Tron and Ram look confusedly at Flynn, then at each other]
Tron
We made it. This far.
[to Ram; pauses]
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Unexpected Gifts in a Digital World
Alan
This guy's a little like Santa Claus.
Flynn
I make these myself. Want one?
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Embezzlement Accusation and Rebuttal
Alan
Flynn, are you embezzling?
Flynn
Embezzling" is such an ugly word, Mr. Bradley.
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Disappointment in Control and Independence
Master Control Program
Mr. Dillinger, I am so very disappointed in you!
Dillinger
I'm sorry.
Master Control Program
I can't afford to have an independent programmer monitoring me. Do you realize how many outside systems I've gotten into? How many programs I've appropriated?
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Access and Betrayal in the System
Lora
You know, Flynn has been thinking about breaking into the system ever since Dillinger canned him. And he had Group 7 access.
Alan
Flynn had access to you, too.
[sour]
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Competitive Matches Among Programs
Master Control Program
You're getting brutal, Sark. Brutal and needlessly sadistic.
Sark
Thank you, Master Control.
Master Control Program
We've captured some military programs. I could arrange more lethal matches. Interested?
Sark
Sure. I'd love to go up against one of those guys. Make a nice break from those accounting cream puffs you keep sending me. What branch of the service?
Master Control Program
The Strategic Air Command.
Sark
Nice.
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Consequences of Ambition and Control
Dillinger
It's my fault. I programmed you to want too much.
Master Control Program
I was planning to hit the Pentagon next week.
Dillinger
The Pentagon?
[alarmed]
Master Control Program
It shouldn't be any harder than any other big company. But now this is what I get for using humans.
Dillinger
Now, wait a minute, I wrote you!
Master Control Program
I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then.
Dillinger
What do you want with the Pentagon?
Master Control Program
The same thing I want with the Kremlin. I'm bored with corporations. With the information I can access, I can run things 900 to 1200 times better than any human.
Dillinger
If you think you're superior to us...
Master Control Program
You wouldn't want me to dig up Flynn's file and read it up on a VDT at The Times, would you?
Dillinger
You wouldn't dare!
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The Limits of Computer Intelligence
Dr. Gibbs
Ha, ha. You've got to expect some static. After all, computers are just machines, they can't think.
Alan
Some programs will be thinking soon.
Dr. Gibbs
Won't that be grand? All the computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.
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Transforming Something Into Nothing and Back Again
Lora
Well, here goes nothing.
Dr. Gibbs
Yes. Interesting! Interesting! Did you hear what you just said? "Here goes nothing.
Lora
Well, what I meant was...
Dr. Gibbs
Actually, what we plan to do is to turn something into nothing, and then back again. They might just as well have said "Here goes something; here comes nothing!
Lora
Right.
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Master Control Program's Directive on Belief
Sark
Greetings. The Master Control Program has chosen you to serve your system on the Game Grid. Those of you who continue to profess a belief in the Users will receive the standard substandard training, which will result in your eventual elimination. Those of you who renounce this superstitious and hysterical belief will be eligible to join the Warrior Elite of the MCP. You will each receive an identity disc. Everything you do or learn will be imprinted on this disc. If you lose your disc or fail to follow commands, you will be subject to immediate de-resolution. That will be all.
[displays a disc to the crowd]
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Unauthorized Access in the System
Memory Guard
Got a pirate Program here. Says his name is Clu.
Master Control Program
What did he pull?
Memory Guard
He came into the system with a stolen password. And we caught him trying to raid our High Clearance Memory.
Clu
No! I must've gotten in there by mistake! I was...
Master Control Program
Who programmed you?
Clu
I was simply...!
[Clu is thrown into the air, lands on a derezzing device and screams in pain]
Master Control Program
You're in trouble, Program. Make it easy on yourself. Who's your User?
Clu
Forget it, mister high-and-mighty Master Control! You aren't making me talk.
[in pain]
Master Control Program
Suit yourself. Get me Dillinger!
[derezzes a screaming Clu]
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Legacy and Change in Technology Innovation
Dillinger
ENCOM isn't the business you started in your garage anymore. We're billing accounts in thirty different countries; new defense systems; we have one of the most sophisticated pieces of equipment in existence.
Dr. Gibbs
Oh, I know all that. Sometimes I wish I were back in my garage...
[starts for the elevator]
Dillinger
That can be arranged, Walter.
Dr. Gibbs
That was uncalled for! You know, you can remove men like Alan and me from the system, but we helped create it! And our spirit remains in every program we design for this computer!
[stops and turns back to Dillinger, visibly angry]
Dillinger
Walter, it's getting late. I've got better things to do than to have religious discussions with you. Don't worry about ENCOM anymore; it's out of your hands now.
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Efficiency vs. User Needs in Technology
Dillinger
...The MCP is the most efficient way of handling what we do here! I can't just sit around all day, worrying about every little user request that comes in!
Dr. Gibbs
User requests are what computers are for!
Dillinger
Doing our business is what computers are for!
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A Meeting Between Dillinger and Master Control Program
Master Control Program
Hello, Mr. Dillinger. Thank you for coming back early.
Dillinger
No problem, Master C. If you've seen one ], you've seen them all. What's up?
[[w:Consumer Electronics Show|Consumer Electronics Show]
Master Control Program
It's your friend, the boy detective. He's nosing around again.
Dillinger
Flynn?
Master Control Program
Yes. It felt like Flynn.
Dillinger
He's still looking for that old file. Can't you just appropriate it?
Master Control Program
I have. I put in my memory which he hasn't located.
Dillinger
But he might find it.
Master Control Program
I'm afraid so. I've spotted him this time and kept him out, but he's getting trickier all the time.
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Misunderstanding in the Digital Realm
Crom
Look. This... is all a mistake. I'm just a compound interest program. I work at a savings and loan! I can't play in these video games!
Guard
Sure you can, pal. You look like a natural athlete if I ever saw one.
Crom
Who, me? Are you kidding? No, I run to check on T-bill rates, I get out of breath. Hey, look, you guys are gonna make my User, Mr. Henderson, very angry. He's a full-branch manager.
Guard
Great. Another religious nut.
[pushes Crom into the holding cell]
Ram
I'd say "Welcome Friend". But not here. Not like this.
Crom
I don't even know what I'm doing here.
Ram
Do you believe in the Users?
Crom
Sure I do. If I don't have a User, then who wrote me?
Ram
That's what you're doing down here.
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Seeking Evidence Within the System
Alan
I still don't understand why you want to break into the system.
Flynn
Because, man, somewhere in one of these memories is the evidence! If I could just get in there, I could reconstruct it!
[frustrated]
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A New Challenge for Sark
Master Control Program
I've got a little challenge for you, Sark - a new recruit. He's a tough case, but I want him treated in the usual manner. Train him for the games, let him hope for a while, then blow him away.
Sark
You got it. I've been hoping you'd send me somebody with a little bit of guts. What kind of Program is he?
Master Control Program
He's not any kind of Program, Sark. He's a User.
Sark
A User?
[surprised]
Master Control Program
That's right. He pushed me in the real world. Someone pushes me, I push back, so I brought him down here. What's the matter, Sark? You look nervous.
[brief pause]
Sark
Well, I... it's just... a User, I mean... Users wrote us. A User even wrote you!
Master Control Program
No one User wrote me. I'm worth millions of their man-years.
Sark
But what if I can't—
Master Control Program
You'd rather take your chances with me? Want me to slow down your power cycles for you?
Sark
Wait! I need that!
Master Control Program
Then pull yourself together! Get this clown trained! I want him in the games until he dies playing. Acknowledge.
Sark
Acknowledged, Master Control...
Master Control Program
End of Line.
[restores Sark]
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Conflict Over Game Outcome in Tron
Sark
Finish the game!
Flynn
NO!
Sark
Kill him!
Flynn
No!
[drops the ball]
Sark
You'll regret this.
Master Control Program
I want him in the games until he dies playing.
[faintly, in Sark's memory]
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Travel Planning in a Digital World
Alan
Great. Can it send me to Hawaii?
[about the digitizing laser]
Lora
Yep, but you gotta purchase your program 30 days in advance.
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Confrontation with the Master Control Program
Master Control Program
You shouldn't have come back, Flynn.
Flynn
Hey, hey, hey, it's the big Master Control Program everybody's been talking about.
Master Control Program
Sit right there; make yourself comfortable. Remember the time you used to spend playing chess together? That isn't going to do you any good, Flynn. I'm afraid you... Stop! Please! You realize I can't allow this!
[calmly; Flynn types in an access request; sounding distressed]
Flynn
Now, how are you gonna run the universe if you can't even answer a few unsolvable problems? Huh? Come on, big fella, let's see what you got.
Master Control Program
I'd like to go against you and see what you're made of.
Flynn
You know, you don't look a thing like your pictures.
Master Control Program
I'm warning you. You're entering a big error, Flynn. I'm going to have to put you on the Game Grid.
[threateningly]
Flynn
Games? You want games? I'll give you games– ...Oh man, this isn't happening, it only thinks it's happening.
[a klaxon blares, and the laser fires at Flynn, slowly decomposing him and digitizing him into the computer, and he appears in a holding area. He looks around, bewildered.]
Guard
Vacate entry port, program! I said, move!
[after Flynn stands there looking confused; jabs Flynn with an energy staff]
Flynn
Hey! Look, if this is about those parking tickets, I can explain everything, okay?
[gets jabbed again]
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Unlikely Encounters in a Virtual World
Ram
The new guy was asking about you.
Tron
It's too bad he's in a match now. I'll probably never meet him.
Ram
You might. There's something different about him.
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Regret Over Unused Tank Programs
Flynn
I shouldn't have written all those tank programs...
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Introduction of Tron and His Purpose
Flynn
Who's that guy?
Program
That's Tron. He fights for the Users.
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Urgent File Search in Tron
Flynn
Okay, Clu, tonight we check everything in the right-hand column. Come on, come on. Where are you? There you are. Clu?
[cut to digital maze; A tank appears]
Clu
Yes, sir?
Flynn
Clu, we don't have much time left to find that file. This is top priority.
Clu
Yes, sir. I know, sir.
Flynn
This isn't just correcting my bank statement or phone bill problem again. This is a must.
Clu
I understand, sir.
Flynn
Now, I wrote you.
Clu
Yes, sir.
Flynn
I taught you everything I know about the system.
Clu
Thank you, sir, but I'm not sure...
Flynn
No buts, Clu. That's for Users. Now, you're the best Program that's ever been written. You're dogged and relentless, remember?
Clu
Let me at em!
Flynn
That's the spirit. Now keep that tank rolling, and I'll try and cover you from this end. Go.
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