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Elaine, I mean the mission has to be aborted. This ship should never have passed FSA inspection. This thing is held together by string and chewing gum.
Ted, get a grip on yourself. You should never have left the hospital.
Then you <u>do</u> think I'm insane.
I've never used the word insane, Ted.
What word would you use, Elaine?
The word is sick. Ted very, very, very sick.
What would you say if I told you the toilet just blew up in my face.
I'd use the word insane.
There's something dangerously wrong with this ship, Elaine. I know its the wiring. That toilet's just the tip of the iceberg.
Ted, a toilet's not going to kill anyone.
Elaine!
Ted!
Elaine, what's going on?
Ted, there's no time to explain.
Elaine, I'm going back there. Just hold onto that stick and try to control this hunk of tin as best you can.
Ted, please be careful.
Ted, we've only got ten minutes.
Not now, Elaine.
I mean until we start to burn up.
Kurtz was the one who got us into this mess in the first place. You people knew this ship wasn't ready to fly. You played God with over a hundred lives, Kruger, and for what the prestige of your precious space program.
That was very well put, Ted.
Well, Elaine, this might be it if those guys on the ground don't think of something.
I just want you to know, I love you Ted and always will.
That might be the news we've been waiting for.
Simon just ejected!
Sit down, Elaine. If this bomb trick works we just might make it. Simon was a fool to eject now.
You mean...
That's right premature ejection.
What will happen to him, Ted?
The sun will heat that thing to over 450 degrees within seconds. He'll roast like a pig on a spit.
Are you afraid?
Not when I'm with you, Ted.
I guess you'd have to be a fool not to be afraid at a time like this.
We've blown the computer! Elaine! Set course change!
Set!
Now!
Compute!
Ted, the lever!
Kramer, the WORP control handle just came off in my hand.
Oveur.
Dunn.
Shut down accelerators.
Accelerators down.
We seem to have a malfunction in disposal unit four, sir.
You better check it, Unger.
Sir, I've got an overload in disposal unit four.
You better check on it, Mr. Dunn. I'll stay here and fly the ship.
Dunn.
Sir?
You better take this.
Did you feel that?
Yes I did...
Felt like a large asteroid.
Yes it did. Mr. Dunn, can I ask you a personal question?
What is it, Mary?
Um... Do you people scream right when you... you know.
Commissioner, we both know the Mercury shuttle needs another month of prelaunch testing.
Forget it. The boys on the board want that shuttle to go on schedule.
And what do the boys on the board know about safety, Commissioner? Let <u>me</u> talk to them.
Bud, get wise to the political realities. The boys on the board are under a lot of pressure from the boys downtown.
You handle your front office people, I'll handle the press and leave the boys in Washington to the boys downtown and the boys downtown to the boys on the board.
Commissioner.
What?
I just wish it was that simple.
That's right, Commissioner. Senselessly murdered just minutes ago.
That just doesn't make any sense.
I wonder how your boys in Washington are going to take this one.
I told you, leave the boys in Washington to the boys downtown and the boys down...
You've made your point, Commissioner. There's only one other pilot who can handle that shuttle and that's Clarence Oveur. He's got a lunar flight today. I want him pulled. Jacobs, pull Oveur!
Forget it. I was reading.
I was reading too.
What's the story?
Some southern plantation owner falls in love with this poor...
I was asking McCrosky, Commissioner.
Kruger, Sagittarius.
Commissioner, Aquarius.
* CBS said they'll give us four minutes. They thought the Russian was a nice touch.
I always wondered if my freshman Russian class would come in handy.
You wanna knock of f?
No, no. I'm fine. What did the Speaker say?
He and the NRA don't like the wording.
With all due respect, sir, maybe you should give them this one. Your numbers are still pretty low and you called in a lot of chips to nail Stravanavitch.
I might still have a few chips left.
* We could always put you in a duck blind with a twelve gauge. The second amendment types'll love that.
This is a crime bill, Shep. Killing a couple ducks won't get it through committee. Besides, Shep, I told you... I don't shoot babies and I don't kiss guns.
Other way around, sir.
Right... Christ I'm tired. Do me a favor and keep me away from the press.
It's bait. Don't take it.
Sir, the Speaker of the House attacked this administration on national television. You can't afford to leave that hanging.
Did we tape the Duke game?
I said it's not worth the fight. Steward, please.
We'll just say it was in bad taste.
You give me ulcers.
That's my job.
Defense and State Department in the conference room in one hour. I want to review the Iraq situation.
Yes, sir.
Mr. President... they're ready for you in the conference room.
Okay. Hey, pumpkin, you'll tell me all about it later, right?
Mr. President, how the hell did you get on board?
I never left. Where's my wife and daughter?