1 00:00:07,736 --> 00:00:09,645 You keeping them out or us in, Swensen? 2 00:00:09,821 --> 00:00:13,439 You're the mind reader. You tell me. 3 00:00:17,370 --> 00:00:19,777 - Thanks, Jimmy. - No problem, chief. 4 00:00:19,956 --> 00:00:23,407 So did the lieutenant fly to the moon or see God while I was gone? 5 00:00:23,584 --> 00:00:26,918 No. For once, he's sleeping like a baby. 6 00:00:27,088 --> 00:00:29,839 Well, for once, maybe we can get out of here before dawn, huh? 7 00:00:30,007 --> 00:00:31,799 Let's hope so. 8 00:00:31,967 --> 00:00:34,838 I hope you like ham and cheese. It's all they had. 9 00:00:42,061 --> 00:00:44,100 His brain waves are off the Richter. 10 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:48,729 Pull up! Pull up! 11 00:00:48,942 --> 00:00:50,353 Pull up now! 12 00:00:50,861 --> 00:00:53,434 - Sir. - We're gonna crash! 13 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:56,734 Sir. 14 00:00:58,785 --> 00:01:00,694 Security. 15 00:01:02,289 --> 00:01:03,866 Lieutenant-- 16 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,163 Security alert. Code four. 17 00:01:06,334 --> 00:01:09,584 - Lieutenant, you're safe. It's all right. - Bail out! Bail out! 18 00:01:09,754 --> 00:01:12,043 Bail out! Bail out! 19 00:01:15,927 --> 00:01:17,635 Oh, my God. 20 00:02:16,069 --> 00:02:18,441 What the hell is remote viewing? 21 00:02:18,613 --> 00:02:19,893 It's a kind of a clairvoyance 22 00:02:20,073 --> 00:02:22,528 or ESP, sir. The subject goes into a meditative state 23 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:24,609 and attempts to see something in the next room. 24 00:02:25,995 --> 00:02:28,237 Or on the next continent, sir. 25 00:02:28,414 --> 00:02:30,241 You mean the psychic spy programme? 26 00:02:30,416 --> 00:02:33,121 Hell, I thought the CIA shut that thing down years ago. 27 00:02:33,294 --> 00:02:34,918 They closed most operations, sir, 28 00:02:35,087 --> 00:02:37,246 but there's still some theoretical research going on. 29 00:02:37,423 --> 00:02:41,337 And the Navy Intel has its own top-secret programme called Stargazer 30 00:02:41,510 --> 00:02:45,175 run by Admiral Harrison Spencer. Pretty gung ho type of guy, sir. 31 00:02:45,347 --> 00:02:47,803 Apparently, they were looking for a downed North Korean jet. 32 00:02:47,975 --> 00:02:50,727 The South Koreans wanted to recover the electronics. 33 00:02:50,894 --> 00:02:52,554 Haven't they ever heard of satellites? 34 00:02:52,730 --> 00:02:55,517 Well, satellites don't see underwater, sir, or through clouds. 35 00:02:55,732 --> 00:02:59,730 But a junior officer flat on his back in Washington can? 36 00:02:59,945 --> 00:03:02,436 Well, the CIA programme had a number of successes, sir. 37 00:03:02,614 --> 00:03:05,615 One viewer located a secret Chinese nuclear-test site. 38 00:03:05,784 --> 00:03:07,408 Another pinpointed where the Red Brigade 39 00:03:07,577 --> 00:03:09,285 was holding an American general hostage. 40 00:03:09,454 --> 00:03:13,286 Yeah, and here, a lieutenant goes into a trance and ends up dead. 41 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:14,579 So, Mr. Roberts, 42 00:03:14,751 --> 00:03:17,123 we know how you feel about psychic phenomena. 43 00:03:17,337 --> 00:03:19,294 Yes, sir. There's just too much evidence 44 00:03:19,464 --> 00:03:21,706 to ignore the reality of the paranormal. 45 00:03:21,925 --> 00:03:23,585 Colonel, do you have any preconceptions 46 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,010 about psychic spies and telepathic warriors? 47 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:29,548 Only that it sounds like science fiction. 48 00:03:29,724 --> 00:03:31,218 Well, colonel, a hundred years ago, 49 00:03:31,392 --> 00:03:33,764 putting a man on the moon was science fiction. 50 00:03:33,978 --> 00:03:35,686 You three will make a perfect team. 51 00:03:35,855 --> 00:03:38,346 I want a thorough investigation of Lieutenant McGrane's death 52 00:03:38,524 --> 00:03:41,276 and Admiral Spencer's role in it. 53 00:03:41,485 --> 00:03:42,648 Dismissed. 54 00:03:42,820 --> 00:03:44,978 - Aye, aye, sir. - Aye, sir. 55 00:03:45,156 --> 00:03:46,899 Colonel. 56 00:03:47,116 --> 00:03:48,859 What ever happened about that Korean plane? 57 00:03:49,076 --> 00:03:50,618 They never found it, sir. 58 00:03:59,128 --> 00:04:01,001 Lieutenant McGrane showed incredible promise 59 00:04:01,171 --> 00:04:02,452 with simple precognition tests, 60 00:04:02,631 --> 00:04:04,789 naming the suits of unseen cards, that sort of thing. 61 00:04:04,967 --> 00:04:06,793 You put the lieutenant into Psychic Operations 62 00:04:06,969 --> 00:04:09,257 - before he received medical clearance. - The lab was backed up. 63 00:04:09,429 --> 00:04:11,469 We were lacking the blood and toxicology reports. 64 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,846 Everything else checked out. 65 00:04:14,100 --> 00:04:15,725 - Is this where it happened, sir? - Yes. 66 00:04:15,894 --> 00:04:18,183 We have worked around the clock for the last six months. 67 00:04:18,355 --> 00:04:20,928 Now Admiral Linsenmeyer has suspended all Stargazer operations, 68 00:04:21,107 --> 00:04:23,432 pending your investigation. 69 00:04:23,902 --> 00:04:28,314 I hope you don't ridicule that which you don't understand, colonel. 70 00:04:29,407 --> 00:04:32,610 Sir, do you really believe in all this? 71 00:04:32,785 --> 00:04:34,992 Not at first. I didn't grow up in an ashram, 72 00:04:35,163 --> 00:04:37,072 chanting with some guru. I was a country boy. 73 00:04:37,248 --> 00:04:38,991 Studied chemical engineering at the academy 74 00:04:39,167 --> 00:04:41,492 and believed the laws of science were carved in stone. 75 00:04:41,669 --> 00:04:43,662 But we have tested personnel 76 00:04:43,838 --> 00:04:47,171 whose minds can alter electric current, predict the roll of dice, 77 00:04:47,341 --> 00:04:50,128 even see events thousands of miles away. 78 00:04:50,344 --> 00:04:52,965 And you're sure there's no rational explanation? 79 00:04:53,389 --> 00:04:54,717 Have you never had an experience 80 00:04:54,890 --> 00:04:57,974 that defied rational explanation, colonel? 81 00:04:58,185 --> 00:05:02,479 Never seen something in your mind's eye, and it happened? 82 00:05:02,689 --> 00:05:06,473 Sir, I can't even pick the right checkout line at the supermarket. 83 00:05:06,693 --> 00:05:08,900 And you, commander? 84 00:05:10,572 --> 00:05:14,866 Sir, I have had visions that I can't explain. 85 00:05:15,035 --> 00:05:19,163 I met a Gypsy woman in Russia who could see the future and the past. 86 00:05:19,372 --> 00:05:23,915 So I guess, yes, I am open to the possibility of the paranormal. 87 00:05:24,461 --> 00:05:25,575 And that's all I ask. 88 00:05:26,171 --> 00:05:29,504 Sir, we'll need to go through your records and interview the staff. 89 00:05:29,716 --> 00:05:33,049 Fine. You can start with me. 90 00:05:33,553 --> 00:05:35,380 All right, sir. 91 00:05:37,974 --> 00:05:40,761 - It's November 2nd, and the time is-- - Eleven thirty-six. 92 00:05:42,145 --> 00:05:46,059 - Exactly, as usual. - Colonel, how did you do that? 93 00:05:46,816 --> 00:05:49,603 I don't know, sir. I've been able to tell the time without a watch 94 00:05:49,777 --> 00:05:51,105 since I was in fifth grade. 95 00:05:51,278 --> 00:05:54,564 That's a psychic gift. A second cousin to telepathy. 96 00:05:54,782 --> 00:05:57,451 Actually, sir, I just wanted to know how long until recess. 97 00:05:57,660 --> 00:05:58,691 When this is cleared up, 98 00:05:58,869 --> 00:06:01,194 I'd love for you to undertake a remote-viewing experiment. 99 00:06:01,372 --> 00:06:02,451 You'd find it fascinating. 100 00:06:02,623 --> 00:06:08,210 It's a journey outside your own body with a soaring sense of freedom. 101 00:06:17,179 --> 00:06:19,930 Sertraline, fluoxetine, 102 00:06:20,140 --> 00:06:23,758 and a heavy dose of monoamine oxidase inhibitors. 103 00:06:23,935 --> 00:06:26,426 The tox scan shows that your Lieutenant McGrane 104 00:06:26,605 --> 00:06:31,148 was a pharmacological disaster just waiting to happen. 105 00:06:31,317 --> 00:06:33,109 Why would someone take a cocktail like that? 106 00:06:33,278 --> 00:06:37,738 They're standard prescriptions for depression and anxiety, lieutenant. 107 00:06:37,907 --> 00:06:40,481 Have a seat. But you shouldn't be mixing them. 108 00:06:40,660 --> 00:06:42,154 Lieutenant Whitman, call extension... 109 00:06:42,328 --> 00:06:44,237 Eyewitnesses report that the lieutenant thought 110 00:06:44,414 --> 00:06:46,987 he was on a North Korean jet that was about to crash. 111 00:06:47,166 --> 00:06:48,197 Hallucinations. 112 00:06:48,376 --> 00:06:51,412 The drugs combined with the induced meditative state 113 00:06:51,587 --> 00:06:53,959 could've produced some pretty scary images. 114 00:06:54,173 --> 00:06:56,296 Apparently, he was trying to bail out of the plane. 115 00:06:56,509 --> 00:06:58,003 Or out of the dream. 116 00:06:58,177 --> 00:07:00,300 Well, either way, he shouldn't have been there. 117 00:07:00,471 --> 00:07:02,878 Anyone taking psychotropic drugs 118 00:07:03,057 --> 00:07:06,260 shouldn't be fooling around with altered states of consciousness. 119 00:07:06,477 --> 00:07:09,596 Well, the lieutenant signed the release form for human-use experiments. 120 00:07:09,772 --> 00:07:12,607 But the only drug that he said that he was taking was for an allergy. 121 00:07:12,816 --> 00:07:14,145 Then he lied. 122 00:07:16,695 --> 00:07:18,771 Lieutenant Niles McGrane was under psychiatric care 123 00:07:18,947 --> 00:07:22,150 for manic depression and anxiety, and he didn't want the Navy to know. 124 00:07:22,325 --> 00:07:23,820 He filled his prescriptions off-base 125 00:07:23,994 --> 00:07:27,363 and didn't disclose his condition to Admiral Spencer. 126 00:07:28,206 --> 00:07:30,080 So how is it that you know all of this, Bud? 127 00:07:30,250 --> 00:07:32,919 Well, after I spoke to the pathologist, I visited the widow. 128 00:07:33,086 --> 00:07:36,087 Actually, I went to Mass with her and lit a candle for her husband. 129 00:07:36,256 --> 00:07:39,506 That's ethical, isn't it? To establish a common ground with a witness? 130 00:07:39,676 --> 00:07:40,838 It's fine, Bud. 131 00:07:41,010 --> 00:07:42,718 Anyway, based on preliminary test results, 132 00:07:42,887 --> 00:07:44,512 the admiral convinced Lieutenant McGrane 133 00:07:44,681 --> 00:07:47,931 that he was a natural-born psychic. He pushed him into volunteering. 134 00:07:48,101 --> 00:07:49,725 So? He could've declined. 135 00:07:49,894 --> 00:07:52,350 Yeah. You ever tried to say no to an admiral, commander? 136 00:07:52,522 --> 00:07:56,768 Well, I suspect it's only slightly harder than saying no to a colonel. 137 00:07:57,777 --> 00:07:59,769 - Anything else, Bud? - Well, yes, sir. 138 00:07:59,945 --> 00:08:02,567 I've been going over the Stargazer's financial records, 139 00:08:02,740 --> 00:08:05,112 and it looks like Admiral Spencer has been diverting funds 140 00:08:05,284 --> 00:08:08,154 from ELINT and COMINT into the Psychic Warrior programme. 141 00:08:08,370 --> 00:08:09,533 That's hardly incriminating. 142 00:08:09,705 --> 00:08:12,706 As deputy director of Navy Intel, he has the right to reallocate funds. 143 00:08:12,916 --> 00:08:15,242 But he doesn't have the right to violate medical protocol 144 00:08:15,419 --> 00:08:16,830 in human-use experiments. 145 00:08:17,045 --> 00:08:20,082 Wasn't the lieutenant at fault for not disclosing his condition? 146 00:08:20,299 --> 00:08:22,671 Why do you two find it necessary to defend the admiral? 147 00:08:22,884 --> 00:08:25,506 Why do you find it necessary to continually attack him, colonel? 148 00:08:25,721 --> 00:08:28,840 Because he takes unnecessary risks with other men's lives. 149 00:08:29,850 --> 00:08:30,964 Beg your pardon, colonel. 150 00:08:31,143 --> 00:08:34,013 Admiral Chegwidden would like to see all of you ASAP. 151 00:08:35,772 --> 00:08:39,520 He wants to fight it. Wants to go down with the ship. 152 00:08:40,443 --> 00:08:43,361 He told me he had a dream that someday Psychic Ops 153 00:08:43,571 --> 00:08:46,857 would be as commonplace as radar and satellites. 154 00:08:48,034 --> 00:08:49,777 Enter. 155 00:08:51,329 --> 00:08:53,902 At ease, at ease. I believe you all know Admiral Linsenmeyer, 156 00:08:54,082 --> 00:08:55,659 director of Naval Intelligence. 157 00:08:55,833 --> 00:08:57,375 - Yes, sir. - Admiral. 158 00:08:57,543 --> 00:08:59,750 What's the state of the investigation? 159 00:08:59,962 --> 00:09:02,963 Admiral Spencer rushed Lieutenant McGrane into Psychic Operations 160 00:09:03,132 --> 00:09:04,840 before he received medical clearance, sir. 161 00:09:05,009 --> 00:09:07,381 In my book, that's negligence. 162 00:09:07,595 --> 00:09:10,430 I'm authorising the convening of a court-martial. 163 00:09:10,598 --> 00:09:12,590 How long will it take to prepare the charge sheet? 164 00:09:12,766 --> 00:09:14,759 Well, it shouldn't take longer than an hour, sir, 165 00:09:14,935 --> 00:09:16,098 if that's how you wanna go. 166 00:09:16,270 --> 00:09:18,808 Oh, no, no, no. Not you, commander. 167 00:09:19,314 --> 00:09:22,434 Admiral Spencer's requested that you defend him. 168 00:09:22,651 --> 00:09:24,976 He seems to think you're on the same wavelength. 169 00:09:25,153 --> 00:09:28,273 Colonel MacKenzie and Lieutenant Roberts will handle the prosecution. 170 00:09:28,490 --> 00:09:29,735 Prosecution, sir? 171 00:09:29,950 --> 00:09:32,867 Being a JAG lawyer is not like going to the Army-Navy game, lieutenant. 172 00:09:33,036 --> 00:09:35,788 - You don't get to pick sides. - Yes, sir. 173 00:09:35,997 --> 00:09:40,659 Colonel, commander, you two seem to understand each other. 174 00:09:40,835 --> 00:09:42,543 And I hope you understand me. 175 00:09:42,754 --> 00:09:46,039 Your job is to work this out quickly and quietly 176 00:09:46,216 --> 00:09:48,339 and with a minimum of embarrassment to the Navy. 177 00:09:48,551 --> 00:09:53,509 Actually, sir, my job now is to exonerate Admiral Spencer. 178 00:10:02,315 --> 00:10:04,391 What's going on, petty officer? 179 00:10:04,567 --> 00:10:06,856 We're securing the lab on orders from Colonel MacKenzie. 180 00:10:07,028 --> 00:10:08,522 - She called half an hour ago. - Sir. 181 00:10:08,696 --> 00:10:10,523 They're planning to make a bonfire of my work 182 00:10:10,698 --> 00:10:12,406 so they can burn me as a warlock. 183 00:10:12,575 --> 00:10:14,781 Well, sir, you wanted a fight. Looks like we have one. 184 00:10:14,952 --> 00:10:16,150 I had no choice. 185 00:10:16,328 --> 00:10:19,993 If I slip quietly away into the night, crucial research will be abandoned. 186 00:10:20,165 --> 00:10:22,621 Right now, sir, it's your freedom I'm worried about. 187 00:10:22,793 --> 00:10:23,956 Admiral, it is my duty 188 00:10:24,128 --> 00:10:28,042 to serve you with the charges and specifications against you. 189 00:10:28,340 --> 00:10:29,918 My counsel will answer the charges. 190 00:10:30,092 --> 00:10:33,626 All I ask is a chance to defend my work. 191 00:10:33,845 --> 00:10:36,004 "Failure to obey orders under Article 92 A-1, 192 00:10:36,181 --> 00:10:38,719 dereliction of duty under Article 92 A-3, and--" 193 00:10:38,892 --> 00:10:40,137 Manslaughter. 194 00:10:41,519 --> 00:10:43,014 A man is dead. 195 00:10:57,410 --> 00:10:58,821 I miss you too. 196 00:11:01,873 --> 00:11:03,699 I can't come up this weekend, sweetheart. 197 00:11:03,875 --> 00:11:05,535 Maybe at Christmas. 198 00:11:07,295 --> 00:11:09,750 So are you dating that bodacious Harmon Rabb yet? 199 00:11:11,924 --> 00:11:15,507 No, no, actually. That really would not be appropriate. 200 00:11:16,846 --> 00:11:19,337 Hey, I had a dream last night that the two of you got married, 201 00:11:19,515 --> 00:11:20,795 and I was your flower girl. 202 00:11:21,016 --> 00:11:23,139 Not all dreams come true. 203 00:11:23,310 --> 00:11:25,054 Look, I'll talk to you this weekend, okay? 204 00:11:25,270 --> 00:11:27,940 - Okay. Love you. - I love you too, Chloe. 205 00:11:28,107 --> 00:11:29,766 Bye. 206 00:11:31,318 --> 00:11:35,363 - How is your little sister, anyway? - Wonderful. 207 00:11:35,530 --> 00:11:37,190 But ever since she found her real family, 208 00:11:37,366 --> 00:11:38,741 I don't get to see her that much. 209 00:11:41,077 --> 00:11:42,322 I miss her, Harm. 210 00:11:42,537 --> 00:11:45,111 Anybody ever tell you you have great maternal instincts? 211 00:11:45,665 --> 00:11:48,156 Not as often as they've told me I have a great karate chop. 212 00:11:49,169 --> 00:11:50,627 Look, about yesterday. 213 00:11:50,795 --> 00:11:53,203 There wasn't time to inform you about the document seizure, 214 00:11:53,381 --> 00:11:54,840 nor was I required. 215 00:11:55,049 --> 00:11:58,299 Well, that's all right, colonel, but if you're gonna play hardball, 216 00:11:58,469 --> 00:12:00,509 you better be able to catch as well as throw. 217 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:01,843 Meaning? 218 00:12:02,015 --> 00:12:04,173 The admiral waives his right to an Article 32 hearing. 219 00:12:04,350 --> 00:12:08,644 - We're demanding a speedy trial. - You don't think I'm ready? 220 00:12:08,813 --> 00:12:11,434 Commander, I am ready to run your client and his crystal ball 221 00:12:11,607 --> 00:12:14,063 right out of the Navy and into the brig. 222 00:12:14,276 --> 00:12:15,557 Well, you may be, 223 00:12:15,736 --> 00:12:19,152 but it is in the Navy's best interest to put this case to rest. 224 00:12:19,782 --> 00:12:20,813 I'm listening. 225 00:12:20,991 --> 00:12:22,865 Drop all charges against Admiral Spencer. 226 00:12:23,035 --> 00:12:25,870 He will accept a letter of instruction. No punitive measures. 227 00:12:26,038 --> 00:12:28,825 He continues to run Stargazer, but this time... 228 00:12:28,999 --> 00:12:33,661 - This time, under strict supervision. - You're dreaming. 229 00:12:33,837 --> 00:12:35,296 Yeah, we'll drop the charges, 230 00:12:35,464 --> 00:12:38,002 but the admiral resigns and gives up his star. 231 00:12:38,175 --> 00:12:43,335 - Harm, you can't do better than that. - Yes, I can. I can win. 232 00:12:45,932 --> 00:12:47,557 As director of Naval Intelligence, 233 00:12:47,726 --> 00:12:51,011 I promulgated the rules for all human-use experiments. 234 00:12:51,187 --> 00:12:53,227 And Admiral Spencer reported to you, sir? 235 00:12:53,398 --> 00:12:56,981 He directed Operation Stargazer under my supervision. 236 00:12:57,193 --> 00:13:00,064 - At least, in theory. - Meaning what, admiral? 237 00:13:00,238 --> 00:13:02,147 I issued orders to engage in operations 238 00:13:02,323 --> 00:13:07,069 only with volunteers who had passed rigorous mental and physical exams, 239 00:13:07,912 --> 00:13:09,406 including drug screening. 240 00:13:09,622 --> 00:13:12,078 Why the strict controls, admiral? 241 00:13:12,250 --> 00:13:13,281 Forty years ago, 242 00:13:13,459 --> 00:13:17,920 we learned the dangers of human-use experiments with LSD 243 00:13:18,130 --> 00:13:20,372 and truth serum. 244 00:13:20,549 --> 00:13:22,257 We don't wanna repeat that again. 245 00:13:22,718 --> 00:13:24,675 Did Admiral Spencer follow your orders? 246 00:13:24,845 --> 00:13:25,924 He did not. 247 00:13:26,138 --> 00:13:28,759 He grabbed members of his staff at random, 248 00:13:28,933 --> 00:13:31,055 like a pickup softball game. 249 00:13:31,226 --> 00:13:33,682 That's what he did with Lieutenant McGrane. 250 00:13:33,854 --> 00:13:35,265 Pushing him through Operations 251 00:13:35,439 --> 00:13:37,894 before the drug screens came back from the lab. 252 00:13:38,358 --> 00:13:40,268 And it cost the man his life. 253 00:13:41,403 --> 00:13:43,360 Your witness. 254 00:13:44,281 --> 00:13:46,072 You don't believe in the paranormal, do you? 255 00:13:46,241 --> 00:13:49,361 - Objection. Irrelevant. - It's relevant to bias, ma'am. 256 00:13:49,578 --> 00:13:52,781 Overruled. You may answer the question, admiral. 257 00:13:52,998 --> 00:13:56,082 I don't exclude the possibility of psychic phenomenon. 258 00:13:56,293 --> 00:13:59,661 - Then you have an open mind, sir? - Yes, I do, commander. 259 00:13:59,838 --> 00:14:01,629 But as my grandpappy used to say: 260 00:14:01,798 --> 00:14:05,416 "If you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out." 261 00:14:07,512 --> 00:14:09,670 Admiral, was there much competition amongst your staff 262 00:14:09,847 --> 00:14:11,970 to head up the Psychic Warrior programme? 263 00:14:12,141 --> 00:14:13,470 Hardly. 264 00:14:13,643 --> 00:14:16,015 Harrison Spencer was the only flag officer 265 00:14:16,187 --> 00:14:17,515 who would even touch it. 266 00:14:17,688 --> 00:14:18,933 In fact, sir, wouldn't you say 267 00:14:19,106 --> 00:14:21,776 that directing Stargazer was a career move 268 00:14:21,942 --> 00:14:24,896 equivalent to running your cruiser aground at the Statue of Liberty? 269 00:14:25,071 --> 00:14:27,941 All I know is Congress authorised the money, 270 00:14:28,115 --> 00:14:30,357 and I needed someone to run that programme. 271 00:14:30,576 --> 00:14:34,620 - Or to fail, sir? So you could scrap it? - Objection. Argumentative. 272 00:14:34,830 --> 00:14:38,116 This is cross-examination. I'll allow it. 273 00:14:38,333 --> 00:14:40,871 Mister, I don't want any of my officers to fail. 274 00:14:41,086 --> 00:14:45,214 But, frankly, we could put the money to better use in Electronic Intelligence 275 00:14:45,382 --> 00:14:47,505 or Human Intelligence. 276 00:14:47,718 --> 00:14:51,051 Admiral, are you familiar with the Stargazer research reports? 277 00:14:51,263 --> 00:14:52,294 Yes, of course. 278 00:14:52,472 --> 00:14:54,631 Then, sir, you're aware that some volunteers 279 00:14:54,808 --> 00:14:57,050 were able to guess whether a card would be 280 00:14:57,227 --> 00:14:59,350 an ace, a deuce, a heart or a diamond? 281 00:14:59,562 --> 00:15:01,970 Substantially higher than the odds of mere chance. 282 00:15:02,190 --> 00:15:05,641 Oh, they were good at parlour games, card tricks. 283 00:15:05,819 --> 00:15:08,356 But unless we're playing gin rummy with our enemies, 284 00:15:08,530 --> 00:15:09,940 what good will it do us? 285 00:15:10,156 --> 00:15:12,481 Admiral Spencer sent experimenters into the field, 286 00:15:12,659 --> 00:15:15,363 and some viewers in the lab were able to see where they went, sir, 287 00:15:15,536 --> 00:15:18,074 like the Washington Monument, isn't that correct? 288 00:15:18,289 --> 00:15:20,958 - Yes, it's happened. - Then you would agree, admiral, 289 00:15:21,125 --> 00:15:23,663 there is evidence to suggest the existence of telepathy, 290 00:15:23,836 --> 00:15:26,042 precognition and other psychic phenomenon? 291 00:15:26,255 --> 00:15:27,915 Perhaps. 292 00:15:28,090 --> 00:15:29,798 But how do we use it? 293 00:15:30,009 --> 00:15:32,760 When General Dozier was kidnapped by the Red Brigade, 294 00:15:33,512 --> 00:15:37,592 we got tips from a hundred psychics all over the world. 295 00:15:37,766 --> 00:15:40,436 A single psychic, one of ours, 296 00:15:40,602 --> 00:15:43,520 saw where the general was actually being held. 297 00:15:43,689 --> 00:15:46,524 Now, that's one in a hundred. 298 00:15:46,692 --> 00:15:50,310 When you've got a Navy SEAL team ready to break down doors, 299 00:15:50,487 --> 00:15:52,480 how do you know which one to listen to? 300 00:15:52,698 --> 00:15:56,565 Well, isn't that what Admiral Spencer was trying to find out, sir? 301 00:15:58,578 --> 00:15:59,609 Lieutenant Bouchard, 302 00:15:59,788 --> 00:16:03,655 what is Admiral Spencer's nickname among members of his staff? 303 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,037 I don't know about the others, ma'am, but I call him sir. 304 00:16:07,212 --> 00:16:08,540 Well, I'm sure you do. 305 00:16:08,713 --> 00:16:11,963 But when no one else is present, what is the admiral called? 306 00:16:13,635 --> 00:16:16,968 Oh, come, now, lieutenant. Nicknames are common in the military. 307 00:16:17,180 --> 00:16:21,260 Thirty-One Knot Burke. Bull Halsey. Chesty Puller. 308 00:16:21,434 --> 00:16:22,762 Now, what's Admiral Spencer's? 309 00:16:24,020 --> 00:16:25,929 Admiral Spoonbender, ma'am. 310 00:16:27,565 --> 00:16:28,727 And why is that, lieutenant? 311 00:16:29,942 --> 00:16:32,813 Admiral Spencer would invite us to his house for barbecues. 312 00:16:33,821 --> 00:16:39,325 He would pass out spoons and ask us to bend them with mind power. 313 00:16:39,868 --> 00:16:41,493 Did your spoon ever bend? 314 00:16:43,706 --> 00:16:45,698 Only when my mind told my hand to bend it, ma'am. 315 00:16:47,167 --> 00:16:51,663 So, what other kinds of things went on at these barbecues? 316 00:16:52,256 --> 00:16:54,497 Firewalking, ma'am. 317 00:16:54,716 --> 00:16:57,290 One time, after the admiral was done cooking the burgers, 318 00:16:57,469 --> 00:17:01,134 he overturned the grill, and he brought out a guy 319 00:17:01,306 --> 00:17:03,631 who could teach us how to walk barefoot across hot coals. 320 00:17:03,808 --> 00:17:06,644 He said if we kept yelling, "It's cold, it's cold," 321 00:17:06,811 --> 00:17:08,970 it would be like walking on snow. 322 00:17:09,439 --> 00:17:11,396 Was it like walking on snow, lieutenant? 323 00:17:13,234 --> 00:17:15,143 More like a footpath in hell, ma'am. 324 00:17:16,112 --> 00:17:18,105 Your witness. 325 00:17:19,157 --> 00:17:20,948 Lieutenant, did you refer to Admiral Spencer 326 00:17:21,117 --> 00:17:22,908 as Admiral Spoonbender? 327 00:17:25,121 --> 00:17:27,363 Maybe once or twice, sir. 328 00:17:27,582 --> 00:17:30,251 Lieutenant, are you familiar with Article 89 under the UCMJ 329 00:17:30,418 --> 00:17:33,668 which makes it a crime to show disrespect to a superior officer? 330 00:17:34,839 --> 00:17:37,626 Well, I never meant any disrespect to the admiral. 331 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,670 It was kind of all in good fun. 332 00:17:40,886 --> 00:17:43,508 Well, isn't that what Admiral Spencer intended, lieutenant? 333 00:17:43,973 --> 00:17:45,052 Sir? I don't-- 334 00:17:45,224 --> 00:17:49,601 The firewalking, the spoon bending, weren't they meant as good fun? 335 00:17:49,770 --> 00:17:54,479 Just activities to help the admiral's staff bond outside of the office? 336 00:17:56,151 --> 00:17:59,271 Well, I suppose so, sir. 337 00:17:59,488 --> 00:18:02,192 Is it fair to say that you were Lieutenant McGrane's best friend? 338 00:18:02,657 --> 00:18:03,772 Yes, sir. 339 00:18:03,950 --> 00:18:06,406 Were you aware that the lieutenant was seeing a psychiatrist 340 00:18:06,578 --> 00:18:08,535 and was taking antidepressant drugs? 341 00:18:08,705 --> 00:18:09,868 Yes, he told me. 342 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:11,320 Did you advise your best friend 343 00:18:11,499 --> 00:18:13,706 to inform Admiral Spencer of his treatment? 344 00:18:14,836 --> 00:18:15,915 No, I didn't. 345 00:18:16,087 --> 00:18:19,005 Did you inform the admiral of your friend's condition? 346 00:18:19,174 --> 00:18:20,336 No, sir. 347 00:18:20,550 --> 00:18:22,174 Well, isn't it likely, lieutenant, 348 00:18:22,343 --> 00:18:25,593 had you taken the initiative, your friend would be alive today? 349 00:18:25,805 --> 00:18:27,347 Objection. Irrelevant. 350 00:18:27,557 --> 00:18:29,845 - It calls for a conclusion. - Sustained. 351 00:18:33,187 --> 00:18:34,979 Nothing further. 352 00:18:35,147 --> 00:18:40,308 Then we are in recess for lunch. All parties report back here at 1330. 353 00:18:40,528 --> 00:18:41,808 When do I testify? 354 00:18:41,987 --> 00:18:44,146 Well, sir, I'm putting you on the stand last 355 00:18:44,323 --> 00:18:46,150 so your words echo in the members' ears 356 00:18:46,325 --> 00:18:47,404 while they deliberate. 357 00:18:47,576 --> 00:18:49,901 I can prove not only the existence of psychic phenomenon, 358 00:18:50,079 --> 00:18:52,914 but that we can harness the power for strategic use. 359 00:18:53,082 --> 00:18:54,789 Admiral. 360 00:18:55,709 --> 00:18:57,084 Sir, our defence 361 00:18:57,252 --> 00:19:00,621 is that you were doing important work that may bear fruit one day. 362 00:19:00,839 --> 00:19:03,959 That you cannot be legally responsible for an accident beyond your control. 363 00:19:04,134 --> 00:19:05,545 Let us not confuse the issue, sir, 364 00:19:05,719 --> 00:19:09,419 by pulling tarot cards out from behind the judge's ears. 365 00:19:09,639 --> 00:19:12,391 Well, wouldn't it help our case if I gave a demonstration? 366 00:19:12,601 --> 00:19:15,886 - Of what, sir? - My own psychic powers. 367 00:19:17,564 --> 00:19:20,351 With all due respect, sir, no. 368 00:19:20,525 --> 00:19:23,146 We'll wait in here, admiral. 369 00:19:23,570 --> 00:19:25,942 - Colonel, you have an urgent call. - Who is it, gunny? 370 00:19:26,114 --> 00:19:29,696 Someone named Martha Anderson. She said she's Chloe's grandmother. 371 00:19:35,706 --> 00:19:38,458 - Martha, what is it? - Oh, Sarah, thank God you're there. 372 00:19:39,460 --> 00:19:43,873 Chloe went out riding, and Scout came back without her. 373 00:19:56,727 --> 00:19:58,601 Ma'am, I talked to the county sheriff. 374 00:19:58,812 --> 00:20:00,390 They have search parties out for Chloe. 375 00:20:00,564 --> 00:20:02,355 The state police kicked in some bloodhounds. 376 00:20:02,524 --> 00:20:04,813 It's pretty rugged country. There's no trace of her yet. 377 00:20:04,985 --> 00:20:08,568 If you hear anything, come get me. I don't care if I'm in closing argument. 378 00:20:08,739 --> 00:20:11,408 Yes, ma'am. Oh, and the sheriff faxed me this. 379 00:20:12,784 --> 00:20:14,576 They're circulating these in three counties. 380 00:20:14,744 --> 00:20:17,117 - Thanks, gunny. - Yes, ma'am. 381 00:20:17,289 --> 00:20:18,699 Mac. 382 00:20:18,873 --> 00:20:20,249 Hey, I just heard. 383 00:20:20,417 --> 00:20:22,955 Look, if you wanna seek a continuance, I'm not gonna object. 384 00:20:23,169 --> 00:20:26,372 No. I don't know what else I could do out there besides worry even more. 385 00:20:26,548 --> 00:20:29,548 When we get the verdict, I'll catch the first flight, but thanks. 386 00:20:29,759 --> 00:20:31,301 May I see that, colonel? 387 00:20:34,430 --> 00:20:35,759 You know, I have some experience 388 00:20:35,932 --> 00:20:38,719 using remote viewing to locate missing persons. 389 00:20:38,893 --> 00:20:41,810 Please, sir. Don't even think about it. 390 00:20:45,775 --> 00:20:48,859 Well, that's all that I was going to do. 391 00:20:49,862 --> 00:20:51,689 Think about it. 392 00:20:53,199 --> 00:20:55,357 There's always an element of wishful thinking 393 00:20:55,534 --> 00:20:57,112 when it comes to psychic testing. 394 00:20:57,286 --> 00:20:58,317 Studies have shown 395 00:20:58,495 --> 00:21:00,737 that when the testers believe in the paranormal, 396 00:21:00,914 --> 00:21:02,112 they get better results. 397 00:21:02,583 --> 00:21:04,207 How do you account for that, professor? 398 00:21:04,418 --> 00:21:08,546 Well, in poker, we'd call it a tell. It's an unintentional clue. 399 00:21:08,714 --> 00:21:12,379 Some word or gesture that tips off the subject. 400 00:21:12,551 --> 00:21:14,294 Professor Pilkington, have you had a chance 401 00:21:14,469 --> 00:21:17,506 to review the scientific findings of Operation Stargazer? 402 00:21:17,722 --> 00:21:21,969 Well, I'm not so sure that I would dignify the work by calling it scientific. 403 00:21:22,143 --> 00:21:24,599 But, yes, I've had a chance to look at the report. 404 00:21:24,813 --> 00:21:28,016 Would you have an opinion as to their accuracy? 405 00:21:28,191 --> 00:21:32,520 No. Without verifying the controls under which the tests are conducted, 406 00:21:32,695 --> 00:21:35,566 it's impossible. No scientist could accept it. 407 00:21:35,782 --> 00:21:39,151 So the scientists who wrote glowing reviews 408 00:21:39,327 --> 00:21:42,078 about Operation Stargazer were wrong? 409 00:21:42,622 --> 00:21:44,661 And what scientists would they be? 410 00:21:44,874 --> 00:21:46,451 Well, Professor Wiggen from Duke. 411 00:21:46,626 --> 00:21:48,914 Dr. Holstrom from the Helsinki Institute. 412 00:21:49,128 --> 00:21:52,497 Wiggens is an agronomist. Holstrom is a fraud. 413 00:21:52,715 --> 00:21:55,466 Dr. Holstrom was nominated for the Nobel Prize. 414 00:21:55,634 --> 00:21:58,090 Well, anyone can be nominated for anything. 415 00:21:58,846 --> 00:22:02,796 Your Honour, may I confer with my co-counsel? 416 00:22:03,017 --> 00:22:04,843 I suggest that you do. 417 00:22:08,897 --> 00:22:11,649 - Sit down, Bud. - Yes, ma'am. 418 00:22:11,858 --> 00:22:14,017 No further questions. 419 00:22:18,740 --> 00:22:21,492 You flip, professor. I'll call. 420 00:22:25,121 --> 00:22:26,781 Heads. 421 00:22:26,957 --> 00:22:30,325 - Heads it is. - One more time, please. 422 00:22:32,462 --> 00:22:34,122 Tails. 423 00:22:34,547 --> 00:22:37,418 Heads. I guess you're not a psychic. 424 00:22:37,634 --> 00:22:40,800 Now, what if somebody with the powers of telekinesis were to try? 425 00:22:41,012 --> 00:22:42,043 There's no such thing. 426 00:22:42,221 --> 00:22:45,092 No one can control inanimate objects by mind power. 427 00:22:45,308 --> 00:22:47,466 And yet several Stargazer volunteers 428 00:22:47,643 --> 00:22:50,846 exceeded numbers far greater than statistical probability. 429 00:22:51,063 --> 00:22:53,222 Well, if you give typewriters to enough monkeys, 430 00:22:53,399 --> 00:22:56,850 they'll eventually compose all the works of Shakespeare. It's... 431 00:22:57,027 --> 00:22:58,142 It wouldn't shock me 432 00:22:58,362 --> 00:23:01,648 if one or two of the subjects exceeded probability. 433 00:23:01,866 --> 00:23:05,069 If you were to flip this coin a thousand times, 434 00:23:05,244 --> 00:23:08,079 what are the odds it will come up heads 900 times? 435 00:23:11,750 --> 00:23:14,621 Well, that would be one chance in... 436 00:23:16,838 --> 00:23:21,132 One in six times ten to the 162nd power. 437 00:23:21,343 --> 00:23:23,964 That's a number greater than all the grains of sand 438 00:23:24,179 --> 00:23:26,468 on all the beaches of the world. 439 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,513 It simply couldn't happen. 440 00:23:28,683 --> 00:23:32,633 Well, professor, explain how two Stargazer subjects 441 00:23:32,812 --> 00:23:36,596 were able to exceed 900 out of 1,000 correct calls 442 00:23:36,816 --> 00:23:39,023 when attempting to influence the results? 443 00:23:39,194 --> 00:23:42,479 Well, the only explanation is that their numbers are wrong, 444 00:23:42,655 --> 00:23:46,487 either through intentional fraud or negligent controls. 445 00:23:46,659 --> 00:23:47,822 Oh, I see, professor. 446 00:23:47,994 --> 00:23:50,070 Because you refuse to believe in an event 447 00:23:50,246 --> 00:23:52,239 that defies our current scientific understanding, 448 00:23:52,415 --> 00:23:53,826 that event must not have happened. 449 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,377 You're asking me to prove a negative. That psychic phenomena doesn't exist. 450 00:23:58,546 --> 00:24:03,884 I challenge Admiral Spencer to prove it does exist to a scientific certainty. 451 00:24:04,093 --> 00:24:06,085 Is there a Supreme Being, professor? 452 00:24:06,637 --> 00:24:09,128 - What? - Do you believe in God? 453 00:24:11,016 --> 00:24:12,510 Objection. Irrelevant. 454 00:24:12,976 --> 00:24:15,550 Well, the witness did take an oath to tell the truth, 455 00:24:15,729 --> 00:24:17,638 so help him God. 456 00:24:17,815 --> 00:24:20,732 Although I suspect Commander Rabb has other fish to fry. 457 00:24:21,193 --> 00:24:23,102 I'll allow it. 458 00:24:24,946 --> 00:24:26,654 Yes. 459 00:24:27,282 --> 00:24:28,824 I believe in God. 460 00:24:29,034 --> 00:24:30,528 Could you punch up on your calculator 461 00:24:30,702 --> 00:24:32,908 the equation that proves God's existence 462 00:24:33,079 --> 00:24:36,329 to a scientific certainty, professor? 463 00:24:36,916 --> 00:24:39,289 I can't do that. I take it on faith. 464 00:24:39,502 --> 00:24:43,879 The greatest paranormal force in the universe you take on faith? 465 00:24:44,340 --> 00:24:48,041 Well, somebody had to create the laws of science, counsellor. 466 00:24:48,261 --> 00:24:52,009 Well, maybe he also created people who could break them, professor. 467 00:24:54,434 --> 00:24:56,307 Nothing further. 468 00:24:58,980 --> 00:25:02,313 I'm sorry. I know I shouldn't allow my personal feelings to affect my work. 469 00:25:02,483 --> 00:25:05,104 It won't be necessary to gag you before going to court tomorrow? 470 00:25:05,277 --> 00:25:07,519 No, ma'am. But thank you, ma'am. Thank you. 471 00:25:07,696 --> 00:25:09,239 - Anything, gunny? - No, ma'am. 472 00:25:09,406 --> 00:25:12,573 But they're doing the best they can. They added a chopper to the search. 473 00:25:12,743 --> 00:25:13,858 What else? 474 00:25:14,036 --> 00:25:16,990 Well, they're expecting a freeze tonight, so hypothermia's a danger. 475 00:25:17,164 --> 00:25:19,157 But the sheriff says there are caves in the area, 476 00:25:19,333 --> 00:25:20,875 so she might be able to find shelter. 477 00:25:22,085 --> 00:25:24,790 Well, Chloe's strong, and she's smart, so she won't give up. 478 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:30,378 Colonel. 479 00:25:32,137 --> 00:25:34,129 How are things going? 480 00:25:34,306 --> 00:25:38,553 Fine, sir. Proved a prima facie case. 481 00:25:39,811 --> 00:25:41,851 I meant Chloe. 482 00:25:42,939 --> 00:25:45,940 I'm monitoring the situation, sir. 483 00:25:46,651 --> 00:25:48,026 Really? 484 00:25:48,194 --> 00:25:51,812 Yeah. The sheriff is doing everything possible. 485 00:25:51,990 --> 00:25:55,489 - And... - Hey, Mac. 486 00:25:55,660 --> 00:26:00,654 Even Marines can show emotion, especially when it's warranted. 487 00:26:04,543 --> 00:26:06,832 I feel so helpless, sir. 488 00:26:07,046 --> 00:26:10,166 Well, that, colonel, is the nature of love. 489 00:26:25,981 --> 00:26:29,895 Admiral Spencer, how did you become the director of Operation Stargazer? 490 00:26:30,068 --> 00:26:33,983 The programme was an orphan. No one else at Intel would go near it. 491 00:26:34,197 --> 00:26:36,771 Did you have an interest in the paranormal at the time, sir? 492 00:26:36,992 --> 00:26:38,735 No. Not at the time. 493 00:26:38,910 --> 00:26:41,615 I didn't truly understand the significance of the programme 494 00:26:41,788 --> 00:26:44,326 until I reviewed the classified files. 495 00:26:44,499 --> 00:26:46,124 I'm gonna ask you directly, sir. 496 00:26:46,668 --> 00:26:48,625 Did you disobey Admiral Linsenmeyer's orders 497 00:26:48,795 --> 00:26:51,547 regarding safeguards for remote-viewing operations? 498 00:26:52,006 --> 00:26:54,213 No, I did not. 499 00:26:54,384 --> 00:26:58,381 I ordered that all subjects, including Lieutenant McGrane, 500 00:26:58,554 --> 00:27:02,255 undergo mental and physical exams, including the drug screening. 501 00:27:02,475 --> 00:27:06,722 If I made a mistake, it was in believing the lieutenant. 502 00:27:06,896 --> 00:27:08,723 Had I known he had mental problems 503 00:27:08,898 --> 00:27:10,725 and was taking heavy doses of antidepressants, 504 00:27:10,900 --> 00:27:12,939 I never would've allowed him to go under. 505 00:27:13,110 --> 00:27:14,735 There is nothing, 506 00:27:14,945 --> 00:27:17,615 absolutely nothing, more important to me 507 00:27:17,781 --> 00:27:19,774 than the welfare of my personnel. 508 00:27:19,992 --> 00:27:23,575 - Not even Stargazer, sir? - Not even Stargazer. 509 00:27:23,787 --> 00:27:25,661 Thank you, admiral. 510 00:27:25,873 --> 00:27:27,415 Nothing further. 511 00:27:27,583 --> 00:27:29,824 Admiral, at the time of the remote-viewing operation 512 00:27:30,002 --> 00:27:32,706 that claimed Lieutenant McGrane's life, 513 00:27:32,879 --> 00:27:35,252 were you aware that Congress was considering 514 00:27:35,424 --> 00:27:39,006 whether to continue funding Psychic Operations? 515 00:27:40,804 --> 00:27:42,179 Yes, I was. 516 00:27:42,347 --> 00:27:45,846 You needed a new star to show off to the Appropriations Subcommittee, 517 00:27:46,017 --> 00:27:47,642 didn't you? 518 00:27:49,270 --> 00:27:50,813 It would've helped the cause, yes. 519 00:27:50,980 --> 00:27:54,065 And that's why you rushed Lieutenant McGrane into Psychic Operations? 520 00:27:54,275 --> 00:28:00,313 No. No, no. We had many promising candidates. 521 00:28:00,490 --> 00:28:03,693 Everyone has a certain amount of psychic ability. 522 00:28:03,910 --> 00:28:07,859 - And that would include you, sir? - Yes. 523 00:28:08,414 --> 00:28:10,703 - To some extent. - Admiral, who's gonna win 524 00:28:10,875 --> 00:28:13,282 - the Super Bowl this season? - I don't know. 525 00:28:13,461 --> 00:28:15,916 Well, what about this week's winning lottery numbers, sir? 526 00:28:16,088 --> 00:28:17,119 Objection, Your Honour. 527 00:28:17,298 --> 00:28:20,417 This case has nothing to do with the admiral's psychic abilities. 528 00:28:20,634 --> 00:28:23,837 I gave you considerable leeway with the prosecution witnesses, 529 00:28:24,013 --> 00:28:26,468 Commander Rabb. I'll allow it. 530 00:28:28,726 --> 00:28:32,474 - The lottery numbers, sir? - Doesn't work that way, colonel. 531 00:28:32,646 --> 00:28:34,722 Numbers are particularly difficult to fathom 532 00:28:34,898 --> 00:28:36,938 through telepathy and precognition. 533 00:28:37,109 --> 00:28:40,026 Pity. Tell us about firewalking, admiral. 534 00:28:40,195 --> 00:28:44,940 Did you have your staff prance across coals in your backyard? 535 00:28:45,117 --> 00:28:48,532 I invited them to try. It was totally voluntary. 536 00:28:48,703 --> 00:28:51,455 Did you also tell them that it was mind over matter, sir? 537 00:28:51,623 --> 00:28:54,826 That if they thought it was cold, they wouldn't get burned? 538 00:28:55,043 --> 00:28:59,752 There is an element of biofeedback in firewalking. 539 00:28:59,964 --> 00:29:02,455 Is there, admiral? Or is it just that coals 540 00:29:02,634 --> 00:29:04,959 are inefficient at conducting heat? 541 00:29:05,136 --> 00:29:07,342 Like when you touch a cake in a 500-degree oven 542 00:29:07,513 --> 00:29:09,257 and your finger doesn't get burnt. 543 00:29:09,432 --> 00:29:12,967 Isn't the explanation scientific and not paranormal? 544 00:29:13,186 --> 00:29:17,682 I don't really know where science ends and the paranormal begins. 545 00:29:17,898 --> 00:29:19,179 Apparently not. 546 00:29:19,650 --> 00:29:21,524 At these firewalking events, 547 00:29:21,694 --> 00:29:24,695 did you also bend spoons with mind power? 548 00:29:25,739 --> 00:29:26,937 Sometimes. 549 00:29:28,659 --> 00:29:31,066 May I borrow this, Your Honour? 550 00:29:31,537 --> 00:29:33,660 It is government property, counsellor. 551 00:29:33,831 --> 00:29:37,875 I doubt it'll be any worse for wear when we're done with it. 552 00:29:38,043 --> 00:29:39,621 So tell me, admiral, 553 00:29:39,795 --> 00:29:42,286 can you bend this spoon with mind power? 554 00:29:42,506 --> 00:29:44,297 Objection, Your Honour. This is irrelevant. 555 00:29:44,508 --> 00:29:46,216 As I recall, commander, 556 00:29:46,385 --> 00:29:49,919 you were in here yesterday flipping coins. 557 00:29:50,096 --> 00:29:53,761 Now, your client can try and bend this spoon if he wishes, 558 00:29:53,934 --> 00:29:54,965 or he can decline. 559 00:29:55,143 --> 00:29:56,341 He declines, ma'am. 560 00:29:56,895 --> 00:30:00,061 Your Honour, I have a right to get an answer from this witness. 561 00:30:00,273 --> 00:30:02,182 Can you bend this spoon, admiral? 562 00:30:02,775 --> 00:30:05,148 - Yes. - Ma'am, we would like a recess. 563 00:30:05,361 --> 00:30:06,939 No, we wouldn't. 564 00:30:08,114 --> 00:30:09,739 It's my neck on the chopping block. 565 00:30:12,076 --> 00:30:14,033 I'm afraid you're outranked, commander. 566 00:31:00,999 --> 00:31:02,493 I... 567 00:31:03,418 --> 00:31:04,616 I can't do it. 568 00:31:20,268 --> 00:31:21,928 Admiral, this morning, you told this court 569 00:31:22,103 --> 00:31:23,846 that you could bend a spoon with your mind. 570 00:31:24,021 --> 00:31:27,224 Yes. Yes. I never should've tried. 571 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,725 Can you tell us why you failed, sir? 572 00:31:29,902 --> 00:31:32,689 Sometimes psychic phenomena can be summoned at will, but often not. 573 00:31:32,863 --> 00:31:35,022 And a courtroom is hardly the place 574 00:31:35,199 --> 00:31:37,357 to demonstrate the powers of the subconscious. 575 00:31:37,534 --> 00:31:39,527 Why is that, sir? 576 00:31:39,703 --> 00:31:43,238 I suppose, too many stimuli, too many distractions. 577 00:31:43,457 --> 00:31:45,615 But you have succeeded in the past, haven't you, sir? 578 00:31:45,792 --> 00:31:49,707 Yes. I have. And I've remote-viewed. 579 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,837 And I have picked the suits of cards 580 00:31:52,007 --> 00:31:55,874 at a rate 30 percent better than pure chance. 581 00:31:56,052 --> 00:31:58,508 But I've also failed. 582 00:31:58,805 --> 00:32:00,845 It's the nature of the phenomena. 583 00:32:01,057 --> 00:32:04,509 Now, doesn't this limit the usefulness of Operation Stargazer, admiral? 584 00:32:04,728 --> 00:32:06,186 Yes, of course. 585 00:32:06,354 --> 00:32:09,059 But psychic research is still in its infancy. 586 00:32:09,232 --> 00:32:13,941 Given enough time and support, who knows what we can accomplish? 587 00:32:15,905 --> 00:32:21,112 I deeply regret the death of Lieutenant McGrane. 588 00:32:21,285 --> 00:32:24,370 And I would do anything to turn back the clock. 589 00:32:25,581 --> 00:32:29,330 But I pray that the Navy will not use this terrible accident 590 00:32:29,502 --> 00:32:31,375 to destroy all the work that we've done 591 00:32:31,545 --> 00:32:35,128 and close the door on what remains to be done. 592 00:32:35,716 --> 00:32:36,914 Thank you, sir. 593 00:32:37,510 --> 00:32:39,004 Ma'am. 594 00:32:41,221 --> 00:32:44,258 If psychic research is in its infancy, admiral, 595 00:32:44,433 --> 00:32:48,181 isn't that all the more reason to avoid potentially dangerous operations 596 00:32:48,353 --> 00:32:49,764 in uncharted waters? 597 00:32:49,980 --> 00:32:51,973 You know, at some point, 598 00:32:52,149 --> 00:32:55,648 every explorer, from Columbus to John Glenn, 599 00:32:55,819 --> 00:32:58,488 has to sail uncharted waters. 600 00:32:58,697 --> 00:33:00,903 But you shoved off without a compass, admiral. 601 00:33:01,074 --> 00:33:03,446 - Objection. - Sustained. 602 00:33:04,786 --> 00:33:06,613 So, what was it in this courtroom 603 00:33:06,788 --> 00:33:10,038 that kept you from demonstrating your psychic powers? 604 00:33:10,208 --> 00:33:11,287 I'm not really sure, 605 00:33:11,459 --> 00:33:14,460 but a quiet, meditative place would be better. 606 00:33:14,921 --> 00:33:19,215 So a bunker on a battlefield, or a flight deck on a carrier, 607 00:33:19,384 --> 00:33:21,839 probably wouldn't be the best place for Psychic Warrior? 608 00:33:22,553 --> 00:33:28,556 - Probably not. - But it's not noisy in here, is it, sir? 609 00:33:28,726 --> 00:33:30,517 Well, even the buzz of some electric lights 610 00:33:30,686 --> 00:33:32,180 can interfere with brain waves. 611 00:33:32,855 --> 00:33:34,812 Lights? 612 00:33:35,983 --> 00:33:39,434 - They seem quiet to me, sir. - Objection. Argumentative. 613 00:33:40,029 --> 00:33:43,195 Sustained. Questions, counsellor. 614 00:33:44,908 --> 00:33:50,413 Admiral, do you hear things, see things, that the rest of us don't? 615 00:33:53,041 --> 00:33:54,322 Sir? 616 00:33:56,420 --> 00:33:57,700 Admiral, are you all right? 617 00:34:02,718 --> 00:34:04,176 Yes, Your Honour. 618 00:34:10,684 --> 00:34:14,135 Question withdrawn. Nothing further. 619 00:34:14,854 --> 00:34:16,847 You may step down, admiral. 620 00:34:17,023 --> 00:34:20,772 - Commander? - The defence rests, ma'am. 621 00:34:22,987 --> 00:34:25,941 Very well. We're in recess for 30 minutes. 622 00:34:26,115 --> 00:34:28,404 We'll hear closing arguments when we reconvene. 623 00:34:33,414 --> 00:34:35,074 You may step down, admiral. 624 00:34:41,088 --> 00:34:43,247 They've checked all the caves in these two areas here. 625 00:34:43,424 --> 00:34:45,630 Colonel. As you were. 626 00:34:45,801 --> 00:34:48,553 Admiral, it's improper for us to speak without your lawyer present. 627 00:34:48,721 --> 00:34:51,128 - This isn't about the case. - That doesn't matter. Under-- 628 00:34:51,306 --> 00:34:52,884 It's about Chloe. 629 00:34:53,767 --> 00:34:56,341 - What about her? - I saw her. 630 00:34:56,562 --> 00:34:57,972 Last night, I tried, but couldn't. 631 00:34:58,146 --> 00:35:02,476 Then, just now, on the witness stand, I saw a covered bridge. 632 00:35:02,651 --> 00:35:07,893 An old wooden bridge over a dry stream with white rocks. 633 00:35:08,115 --> 00:35:12,112 Chloe's under it. She's cold and tired and hungry. 634 00:35:12,702 --> 00:35:14,576 But she's alive. 635 00:35:16,331 --> 00:35:20,578 You expect me to act on your hallucinations, sir? 636 00:35:23,463 --> 00:35:25,621 Even if you don't believe it. 637 00:35:26,049 --> 00:35:27,080 Please. 638 00:35:27,675 --> 00:35:30,878 Tell the people who are looking for her. 639 00:35:36,934 --> 00:35:39,721 I'd call the sheriff, ma'am. 640 00:35:39,937 --> 00:35:42,511 It's crazy what people do when they get desperate, you know? 641 00:35:42,690 --> 00:35:45,442 They turn to quacks and con artists. 642 00:35:45,609 --> 00:35:48,231 What if that takes the searchers away from real leads? 643 00:35:48,445 --> 00:35:51,115 There aren't any leads, ma'am. They've come to a dead end. 644 00:35:52,866 --> 00:35:55,571 You don't really believe in all this, do you, gunny? 645 00:35:56,745 --> 00:35:57,860 In our living room at home, 646 00:35:58,038 --> 00:36:00,825 my mother has a painting of Santa Teresa de Ávila, 647 00:36:00,999 --> 00:36:04,249 a mystic before the Church turned her into a saint. 648 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,956 On Sundays, I pray to the guy that walks on water. 649 00:36:08,131 --> 00:36:09,625 Who knows, colonel? 650 00:36:15,472 --> 00:36:19,304 - Call the sheriff. - Yes, ma'am. 651 00:36:23,354 --> 00:36:26,973 Discipline is the heart of any military organisation. 652 00:36:27,150 --> 00:36:29,819 Obedience is its soul. 653 00:36:29,986 --> 00:36:35,822 The most basic principle of the military is that a lawful order must be obeyed. 654 00:36:36,451 --> 00:36:38,242 We have proved that Admiral Harrison Spencer 655 00:36:38,411 --> 00:36:41,577 violated a lawful order to restrict Psychic Operations 656 00:36:41,747 --> 00:36:45,959 to personnel who had passed rigorous medical exams. 657 00:36:46,127 --> 00:36:51,369 By disobeying that order, he recklessly endangered lives. 658 00:36:51,549 --> 00:36:54,253 He committed a culpable act of negligence 659 00:36:54,426 --> 00:36:57,178 that caused the death of Lieutenant Niles McGrane. 660 00:36:57,346 --> 00:37:00,133 Which was a tragedy, but would never have occurred 661 00:37:00,307 --> 00:37:04,257 if Lieutenant McGrane had disclosed his medical condition. 662 00:37:04,436 --> 00:37:06,725 So let us not compound that tragedy 663 00:37:06,897 --> 00:37:11,523 by destroying the life of a dedicated senior officer. 664 00:37:11,693 --> 00:37:14,611 The Navy assigned Admiral Spencer the task of running a programme 665 00:37:14,780 --> 00:37:16,772 that nobody wanted to touch. 666 00:37:16,948 --> 00:37:21,741 He accepted that job with commitment and enthusiasm. 667 00:37:21,912 --> 00:37:23,406 Now, it doesn't matter if you think 668 00:37:23,580 --> 00:37:25,537 that Admiral Spencer is a brilliant visionary 669 00:37:25,707 --> 00:37:27,865 or a naive dreamer. 670 00:37:28,293 --> 00:37:34,212 He is not legally responsible for the death of Lieutenant McGrane. 671 00:37:34,882 --> 00:37:36,507 Thank you. 672 00:37:47,395 --> 00:37:50,099 What does it mean when they're out this long? 673 00:37:50,606 --> 00:37:52,515 Well, sir, sometimes it's good for the defence. 674 00:37:52,691 --> 00:37:57,567 And sometimes they're just arguing over what to order for dinner. 675 00:37:59,782 --> 00:38:01,157 The sheriff just called, ma'am. 676 00:38:01,325 --> 00:38:03,483 There are four covered bridges in the immediate area. 677 00:38:03,660 --> 00:38:05,203 You told them what I saw? 678 00:38:06,747 --> 00:38:08,407 Two of the bridges are over dry streams. 679 00:38:08,582 --> 00:38:09,910 Did they find her? 680 00:38:10,083 --> 00:38:12,621 They checked all four. There's no trace of her, admiral. 681 00:38:16,131 --> 00:38:17,958 - Thank you for trying, gunny. - Yes, ma'am. 682 00:38:18,133 --> 00:38:21,502 You can catch a flight out of Nashville as soon as the verdict's in. 683 00:38:27,475 --> 00:38:30,476 Thank you, admiral. I know you meant well. 684 00:38:32,188 --> 00:38:34,810 Maybe I just wanted to believe. 685 00:38:36,609 --> 00:38:38,602 Maybe I was wrong about everything. 686 00:38:41,072 --> 00:38:43,361 The defence shall rise. 687 00:38:45,785 --> 00:38:47,659 You may publish the findings. 688 00:38:47,829 --> 00:38:49,655 Admiral Harrison Spencer, 689 00:38:49,830 --> 00:38:52,452 on the specification of involuntary manslaughter, 690 00:38:52,625 --> 00:38:54,997 this court-martial finds you not guilty. 691 00:38:55,544 --> 00:38:57,916 On the specifications of dereliction of duty 692 00:38:58,130 --> 00:39:00,586 and failure to obey the order to restrict Psychic Operations 693 00:39:00,758 --> 00:39:03,509 to personnel who pass rigorous medical examinations, 694 00:39:03,677 --> 00:39:06,133 this court-martial finds you guilty. 695 00:39:08,682 --> 00:39:10,390 Commander, I assume you'll wish 696 00:39:10,559 --> 00:39:13,429 to present evidence of extenuation and mitigation? 697 00:39:13,645 --> 00:39:14,677 Yes, ma'am. 698 00:39:14,855 --> 00:39:18,935 Then we stand in recess until sentencing, 0900, Monday. 699 00:39:21,153 --> 00:39:22,184 Ladies and gentlemen, 700 00:39:22,362 --> 00:39:24,189 we may be experiencing some turbulence. 701 00:39:24,364 --> 00:39:26,606 The captain has requested that you return to your seats 702 00:39:26,783 --> 00:39:29,867 and keep your seat belts securely fastened. 703 00:39:31,663 --> 00:39:34,201 Fasten your seat belt, sir. 704 00:39:41,839 --> 00:39:45,540 Flight 186 from Cincinnati now arriving at Gate 3-B. 705 00:39:45,718 --> 00:39:50,510 Flight 186 from Cincinnati is now arriving at Gate 3-B. 706 00:40:29,469 --> 00:40:30,798 Flight 864... 707 00:40:30,971 --> 00:40:34,174 - Oh, thank you, Sarah, for coming. - Any news, Martha? 708 00:40:34,349 --> 00:40:36,638 No, but they're going to be searching through the night. 709 00:40:36,810 --> 00:40:39,098 - I've been so worried. - Me too. 710 00:40:39,270 --> 00:40:42,686 But I feel better just seeing you here. 711 00:40:44,651 --> 00:40:47,438 God, I hate to think of her out on a night like this. 712 00:40:47,612 --> 00:40:48,691 I know, Sarah. 713 00:40:48,863 --> 00:40:51,650 But we'll just have to pray she's all right. 714 00:40:54,911 --> 00:40:57,069 Oh, no. 715 00:41:10,134 --> 00:41:12,257 It's too big to move. 716 00:41:19,935 --> 00:41:21,310 I'll back it up. 717 00:41:21,478 --> 00:41:23,934 - We'll have to take Highway 60. - No. 718 00:41:24,147 --> 00:41:25,855 What? 719 00:41:26,233 --> 00:41:27,775 The searchers looked here? 720 00:41:28,318 --> 00:41:30,441 At least twice. 721 00:41:30,654 --> 00:41:32,812 I've seen this place. 722 00:41:33,824 --> 00:41:36,231 What are you doing? 723 00:41:37,285 --> 00:41:40,452 - Did Chloe ride here? - Sometimes on an old logging trail. 724 00:41:40,664 --> 00:41:42,870 But the searchers looked. 725 00:41:43,041 --> 00:41:45,080 Chloe? 726 00:41:45,502 --> 00:41:47,494 Chloe? 727 00:41:49,714 --> 00:41:53,130 - Chloe? - Here. 728 00:41:53,968 --> 00:41:56,044 Chloe. 729 00:41:56,429 --> 00:41:58,552 Grandma. 730 00:41:58,723 --> 00:42:03,349 Are you all right, child? Oh, there, there. 731 00:42:03,519 --> 00:42:06,010 I feel like such a dweeb. 732 00:42:06,188 --> 00:42:08,181 Scout threw me, and I sprained my ankle. 733 00:42:08,357 --> 00:42:09,851 And he just left me there. 734 00:42:10,025 --> 00:42:13,560 It was so dark, and there were some weird noises coming out of the woods. 735 00:42:13,737 --> 00:42:15,232 And I was so scared. 736 00:42:15,406 --> 00:42:17,149 And I thought a bear was gonna eat me, 737 00:42:17,324 --> 00:42:19,483 so I went into a cave. 738 00:42:19,660 --> 00:42:25,283 And it was so cold that I couldn't sleep. And I'm dying for a pizza. 739 00:42:26,667 --> 00:42:28,125 But you're okay. 740 00:42:29,503 --> 00:42:32,338 I was really scared. 741 00:42:32,547 --> 00:42:34,457 Baby. 742 00:42:34,633 --> 00:42:36,921 - Come on, pumpkin. - Come on. Come on. Come on. 743 00:42:37,093 --> 00:42:41,138 What do you say we go get that pizza, huh? 744 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,720 - Double anchovies? - Yeah. 745 00:42:46,895 --> 00:42:48,804 Watch your step. 746 00:42:54,402 --> 00:42:56,608 Mac. I heard they found Chloe. 747 00:42:56,779 --> 00:42:58,404 - Great news. - Thanks, Harm. 748 00:42:58,573 --> 00:43:00,565 - Congratulations, colonel. - Thank you, admiral. 749 00:43:00,742 --> 00:43:04,075 This is my list of witnesses for the admiral's sentencing hearing. 750 00:43:04,245 --> 00:43:07,661 - They'll all attest to his long-- - Not necessary. 751 00:43:08,249 --> 00:43:10,704 I'm gonna recommend that the admiral be spared confinement 752 00:43:10,876 --> 00:43:12,869 and be permitted to retire at full rank. 753 00:43:18,259 --> 00:43:20,298 Thank you, colonel. 754 00:43:21,303 --> 00:43:22,714 You found her. 755 00:43:24,306 --> 00:43:26,548 You had a vision. 756 00:43:33,941 --> 00:43:36,016 What'd you see, ma'am? 757 00:43:36,568 --> 00:43:39,273 So who's gonna win the Super Bowl, Mac?