If I were writing a hollywood terrorist thriller it would go like this:

Main character would be a Johnnie Walker type all american kid descending into the murky underworld of militant islamic thinking. He rises quickly in the terrorist network like Johnny Depp rising through the drug smuggling ranks in Blow. Eventually, after a series of exciting capers proving his abilities, he is given the big job of making a deal with the Russian mob for a nuclear device. He gets to the deal expecting to take posession of the bomb, but the clever Kyser Sose-ish bad guy calmly informs him that he does not have the device. Pause. "Because it's already in the U.S."

It turns out that the Soviets, years ago, fearing the U.S. ability to cripple all their long range nuclear capabilities with some sort of lightning first strike (EM bomb?) planted nuclear weapons at many key points inside this country. Deep cover secret agents exist just waiting for the orders to trigger the devices. After the break up of the Soviet Union there was no real way, or desire, to deactivate these devices. So instead of an actual bomb, Johnny gets the location of several devices and the satellite codes needed to defeat the fail safe mechanisms. Nail biting chase ensues, followed by an improbable computer hacking scene (the single master password is the name of some Soviet general's mistress, or possibly his cat.) But in the final scene it turns out Johnny was working for the CIA all the time. When you think he is about to blow up Washington D.C., he is really deactivating the bomb. He suceeds with one second to spare, of course. Much rejoicing.

Note: I didn't say it would be a good movie.
- jim 2-25-2002 6:38 pm

not a movie
- dave 3-03-2002 6:15 pm


i didnt say it would be a good movie.
- dave 5-20-2002 5:54 am


Crazy. Maybe the soviets did have a nuke in D.C. Apparently J.F.K. said so (and nobody seemed to notice.) Could this be true?
- jim 8-11-2002 8:27 pm





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