Knight Rider (1982) s03e20 Episode Script

That's what l call | a serious four-wheeler.
Well, what do you do? l'm a nuclear physicist.
Just what is it you want? | The Pegasus missile.
Wait! Monica.
Dr.
Knightwood, remember? Just as l thought.
| lt's window glass.
l'm going to make you | very sorry.
Michael, you're playing | with suicide.
Suicide is letting them | get away with that missile.
Let's do it! Knight Rider, | a shadowy flight into the dangerous world | of a man who does not exist.
Michael Knight, | a young loner on a crusade to champion | the cause of the innocent the helpless, the powerless in a world of criminals | who operate above the law.
Harley, l didn't | expect you until- l have to talk to you.
| lt's important.
Look, if it's about what l think it | - Bianca.
l won't let you | do this to me.
But you don't have | any choice in the matter.
Yes.
Yes, l do.
Harley, | for the last time if you don't give me the | information on the courier l'm going to take | this tape of us to your wife.
You can't.
You wouldn't! How much do you wanna bet? Wait a minute.
Bianca, please.
Let me give you something else.
| l've got a little money, some stocks.
The information, Harley.
My wife is very ill.
Don't | you have any pity? What kind What kind of woman are you? | A businesswoman.
You wouldn't have had | as much fun with a saint.
Well, Harley? Tanya, see that | Harley's loving wife gets this tape.
Right away.
| No! Wait.
Then you have | the courier's route? Yeah.
Give it to me.
That's a good little boy, | Harley.
l'm sure we'll be doing | more business in the future.
No, Bianca.
No! Tanya! l had to use the full charge.
| He was going to shoot.
l understand.
Wait till all the guests are | asleep, and drive him up the coast.
But remember, Tanya, | make it look like an accident.
Now, let me get this straight.
One, we're on our way | to the beach.
Right.
Two, when we get to the beach you're going to put a parachute on | your back and secure a towing line to my rear bumper.
So far, | you're batting a thousand.
That's what worries me.
| Three, when I get the word Grab the sun.
| Grab the sun.
I'm to race down the beach until I | get enough speed to make you airborne.
That's right.
| lt's called parasailing.
Wrong.
It's called | total insanity.
Well, it just happens to be one of | the most popular sports in Acapulco.
Only there, they do it | off the backs of motorboats.
Michael, we're not | in Acapulco and I have about as much in common with | a motorboat as you have with a seagull.
Devon is calling.
Yo, Devon.
Michael, it's Bonnie.
What's wrong? A good friend of hers was | killed last night in a car crash.
Harley Freeman.
| We suspect foul play.
All right, | l'll be right there.
How you doing? He was a wonderful man.
l'm sorry.
Where did it happen? On Seaview Road.
He was thrown from his car after | crashing into a transformer pole.
One of the broken wires | electrocuted him.
Unfortunately, there were also indications | that he'd been drinking rather heavily.
l don't believe that.
Bonnie.
l never saw him have more than | a glass of wine with dinner.
How long have you known him? For at least 10 years.
He was | one of my professors at MlT.
We became good friends.
He gave up teaching about two years | ago and joined Megafax lndustries so that he could be | closer to his wife.
She's been ill and | confined to a hospital nearby.
Because of the sensitive | nature of his work it was all highly | classified and because of the | circumstances of his death there's going to be a security | investigation and Bonnie feels Well, Michael, Bonnie would | like you to get involved in it.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait a minute.
Look, you know l would do | anything for you.
But Michael, if you think you're | going to find something, you won't.
Suppose l do? Harley would never do anything | to betray his country.
Look, l'm sure | you're right about that but what if there's the | slightest chance you're not? l mean, what's that going | to do to our friendship? l've thought about that.
l'd | be lying if l said l hadn't.
And? lf Harley was involved | in something he wasn't supposed to be then l'd rather | hear it from you.
And don't worry, | l won't shoot the messenger.
Yeah.
All right.
You're sure you don't want to take | one of the other girls with you? Why, don't you | trust me? Trust has nothing | to do with it.
Harley's micro guidance | system makes everything else we've | ever stolen look like a toy.
That, along with the Pegasus | missile Sendrax recently developed will be worth millions | to us.
Then you found | a buyer? Yes, but l have to | make delivery by tomorrow.
Tomorrow? But you're not even close | to the Pegasus missile yet.
Look, an opportunity like this | comes along only once in a lifetime.
There's no way l'm gonna let | this slip through my fingers.
l'll get that missile.
You just worry about | getting the guidance system.
You better get going.
Okay.
l'll be back | before you know it.
Okay.
Monica, did you see | Mr.
Cooper anywhere? He's over there.
Thanks.
Mr.
Cooper, | welcome to the Retreat.
My name's Bianca Morgan.
| l'm the owner.
Nice to meet you.
Veronica, why don't you | bring Mr.
Cooper a drink? Coming right up.
| Thank you.
l hope you're having | a relaxing time here.
Just what the doctor ordered | to recharge my batteries.
l know what you mean.
| My father was a physicist.
No kidding.
Yes.
ln fact, l built | this retreat in his memory.
A place for all the scientific | community to come and exchange ideas catch up on their | correspondence, meditate or just lie in the sun | and do nothing.
Do you mind if l join you? Not at all.
Thank you.
Sheeba, quiet down.
Two specialties | of the Retreat.
Thank you, Veronica.
| Thank you.
So, what company do you | work for, Mr.
Cooper? Please, call me Ted.
l work for Sendrax lndustries.
Actually, | though, l'm not really a scientist.
Oh, no? | Mmm-mmm.
l'm head of security.
Well, what do you know | about that? Cheers, Mr.
Cooper.
lt's funny.
l've never been | in his house before.
What did you find? Something he wrote on a previous piece | of paper.
Looks like a phone number.
Tristate Courier.
lt's routing | information with today's date.
l'm sure it's not important.
| lt could mean anything.
Bonnie, if l want to get to the | truth, l gotta follow this up.
This and everything else.
KlTT.
| Right here, Michael.
See if Tristate Courier is delivering | anything for Megafax, will you? I'll get right on it.
Wow.
For a guy who only had | an occasional sip of wine he sure has | a well-stocked bar.
l don't understand it, Michael.
l | could be in a complete stranger's house.
Bonnie, sometimes people | change and we don't know why.
All right.
| So Harley changed.
He drank more and he obviously didn't care | as much about neatness but that doesn't mean he was | involved in anything illegal.
Yeah, you're right.
But it sure adds a new | dimension to his profile.
You have any idea | who this girl is? No.
| Wait a minute.
''The Retreat.
'' Yeah, what is it? | Your hunch was right, Michael.
One of Dr.
Freeman's projects, | a microcomputer guidance system is on its way to a testing | facility this very moment.
Plot out the courier's route, | will you? You're acting as though | there's been a crime committed- Wait a minute here.
| We had a deal, remember? lf l deliver bad news, | you won't shoot the messenger.
You're right.
Okay.
So why don't you | stay here check out the photographs | and the diaries and see if there's any mention | of this retreat okay? Okay.
| Okay.
I've plotted the courier's | route, Michael.
He should be coming up | to the foothill junction now.
All right, let's cut him off! You having trouble? lt's just a flat tire.
Maybe l can give you a hand.
Michael, that's | the courier's car up ahead.
And that's the courier | lying next to it.
What about that four-by-four? That'll have to wait till later, | pal.
Scan his vitals, will you? He's in a state of shock, | Michael.
All right, we better give him a | hand.
Let's get him to the hospital.
Michael, look out.
Michael.
KlTT! Hurry, Michael.
Get in.
That's what l call | a serious four-wheeler.
Any word from the hospital? The courier's still unconscious, | but his vital signs have stabilized.
Michael, you didn't even | get a glimpse of the driver? No.
lt all happened | too fast.
Bonnie, we got another problem.
What? The four-wheeler that | attacked us was steel-plated and armed with | a concealed weapon.
With KlTT's molecular | bonded shell that shouldn't have been | a problem, Michael.
l know, but the bullets are.
KlTT analyzed them | as being Tufflex-coated.
His tires.
They can withstand the impact of | conventional bullets, but not Tufflex-coated.
l mean, Tufflex can even | penetrate a bulletproof vest.
Got some more | bad news for you.
Michael, l know | what you're going to say but just because Harley had a | note of the courier's route doesn't mean he had anything | to do with the theft.
Then why did he write the | note? And where is the note? Better yet, why did he | go out of his way to find out the courier's | route in the first place? l don't know.
But l'm positive there's got to | be some logical explanation and l don't think it had anything | to do with greed or disloyalty.
Maybe not, | but one thing's for sure.
That micro guidance system is | definitely in the wrong hands.
Look, what else did you get | at Harley's place? l don't know.
Take a look.
lt's a company photograph | taken about three months ago at a restaurant called Sl 14.
The ''Sl'' is a symbol for silicon | and the ''14'' is its atomic number.
lt's great for trivia games.
| What else? lt's in an area | known as Silicon Valley because of all the high-tech | industries located there.
lncluding Megafax.
Michael, see the bar | at the end of the table? Let me move in on it.
The lady at the Retreat.
And she seems to be | eyeing Harley.
Like a vulture.
KlTT l know it would be | asking a lot but can you make me into a | brilliant computer scientist? Michael, that's not asking a | lot, that's asking a miracle.
Doesn't seem possible, | does it? That this little computer board can send | a missile halfway around the world guide its multiple warheads | to various targets and then send the missile home | safe to its launch sites.
Aren't you forgetting | one thing, Bianca? First, you have to have the missile, | and the Pegasus missile at that.
l told you.
l'm working on it.
Meaning Ted Cooper? Whose company just happens | to build the Pegasus and whose wife just happens to be | in New England visiting her parents.
That doesn't give you a lot of | time.
What if he's the faithful kind? They're all the faithful kind as long | as they think they can get away with it.
See what l mean? Ted, come in.
lt's all right, | Tanya was just about to leave.
Have fun.
l'm glad you could make it.
| l am, too.
lf l tell you something, | you promise not to laugh? Of course.
l've been thinking about you | ever since we met.
That's funny, 'cause l've | been thinking of you, too.
Very nice.
Well, the best | is yet to come.
Why don't you fix yourself a drink | and l'll make myself comfortable.
Michael, | are you really certain you want | to go through with this? KlTT, if my hunch is right the contacts | are somehow made at the Sl 14 restaurant.
And l gotta pass myself off as one very hot piece | of space-age manpower.
Then no question about it.
The cover | I've given you should do exactly that.
lt's not the cover l'm worried | about, KlTT, it's the knowledge.
l need the words.
Michael, you're asking | too much of yourself.
You don't become a top scientist | overnight, much less in a couple of hours.
You want the best advice | I can give you? l'm listening.
| Say as little as possible.
Thanks a lot! Mind if l join you? No, not at all.
l couldn't help overhear your | conversation with the bartender about needing | some R and R from work.
Does your business | take you away from home a lot? Yeah, l'm afraid it does.
Well, what do you do? l'm a nuclear physicist.
l used to be engaged to a man once | in the space industry, Tom Johnson.
You ever hear of him? Tom Johnson? No.
What happened | to your engagement? Let's just say it's one of those | sad little stories l'd rather forget.
Monica Brown.
| Michael Knightwood.
Dr.
Michael Knightwood, | AlgoTech lndustries.
What do you do? Well, you might say l'm a hostess | at a place called the Retreat.
Oh.
Sounds interesting.
We cater to | the scientific community.
Maybe you'd like an invitation | to drop by sometime.
It was a pleasure meeting you, | Dr.
Knightwood.
The pleasure was mine, | Ms.
Brown.
Keep a fix on Miss Congeniality, will | you, pal? We don't wanna lose her.
I take it she didn't | buy your cover, Michael.
She bought it.
She just | wants time to check it out.
I'd consider that substantial | progress.
What's another day or so? We don't have a day or so.
There's a high fence | surrounding the entire property.
Of course, I could use my | microwave jammer to open that gate.
See what you can find out | about this Wait a minute.
l think l've found | another way to get in.
According to various | city records this property is licensed | as a private hotel-spa which appears to cater mostly to | members of the scientific community.
It also appears to be an | entirely legitimate enterprise.
Which only goes to prove | appearances can be deceiving.
You ready? Ready, but hardly willing.
Michael, what happened | to the good old days when we simply turbo-boosted over | fences or crashed through walls? You said it yourself, partner, the | terrain is not suitable for turbo-boosting.
You don't win friends and influence | people by crashing through their walls.
Okay, let's grab the sun! Oh, my! Yeah! Faster, KlTT.
l need all | the altitude l can get.
See you later, pal.
Hold it right there.
Hi.
l was just looking | for the tennis courts.
Do you know if they | rent rackets there, too? Wait! Monica.
Dr.
Knightwood, | remember? ls this him? | Yes.
She said she'd be | in touch with you.
Yes, l know, but Well, she made the Retreat here sound so | peaceful and intellectually stimulating that, well, l guess l got carried | away and followed her here.
l'm kind of | the impatient kind.
The impatient kind, huh? | Yes.
You know what Einstein said | about mass and velocity.
No, but it sounds interesting.
| Tell me about it.
Mass and velocity? lt's very complicated, | and l'll tell you what how about you and l discussing | mass and velocity over a drink? Dr.
Knightwood, this is a private | retreat surrounded by a very high fence.
How did you get in? l walked through | the front gate.
That's impossible.
The gate | only opens with a key card.
Well, something's very wrong, | because the front gate is wide open.
Really? We'll have to see | about that.
l need you to open | the front gate real fast.
I'm not sure I can do it from this | distance, Michael, but I'll try.
Do it now.
For your sake, Doctor, | l hope you're right.
lt's open.
| That's what l told you.
Veronica, have that fixed | immediately and l want to know why he wasn't | picked up on the surveillance camera.
Yes, Bianca.
Well, as for you, Dr.
Knightwood, | welcome to the Retreat.
Thank you.
The girls will | make you comfortable and maybe later we'll have a chance for | that discussion on mass and velocity.
Keep an eye on him.
Stay out of sight, partner.
The one | who attacked us on the road is here.
You might be recognized.
More important, Michael, | you might be recognized.
Don't think | it hasn't crossed my mind.
Coming, Doctor? Yes.
Yes, l am.
Oh, no.
| Just what I don't need.
All right, fur ball, scat.
Go chase a mouse, | or better yet, a sardine.
Well, we'll just | see about that! Oh, dear.
That was | a tactical error.
Oh, dear.
Nice little kitty.
Oh, no.
Watch out.
Get off of there.
Oh, no, | don't push the turbo-boost! Seen enough? l don't think l understand.
Come on, Ted.
| You're an intelligent man.
You've been around.
You decided | to play the game and you lost.
How many years | have you been married? Ten.
| ln October.
October 2nd, to be exact.
You have two daughters, | Mary Ann and Elizabeth a dog named Bon-Bon, | and a parakeet named Lovey.
Your wife bakes you chocolate | chip cookies every Friday which you take with | a glass of warm milk to bed.
Just what is it you want? The Pegasus missile.
You're insane! And you're head of security | for Sendrax lndustries which is about to ship the | Pegasus to the testing grounds.
But it'll never arrive, because | you're going to help us steal it.
l can't.
Of course you can.
Because if you don't, your wife | is going to see that tape and so are your daughters.
And there'll be no more chocolate | chip cookies before going to bed.
Tanya, l think Mr.
Cooper | needs a glass of warm milk.
Seymour! Are you sure you wouldn't | like to have a drink, Michael? No, thank you, | l never drink.
l thought you wanted to have | some fun.
Let yourself go.
Maybe if you made yourself | a little more comfortable.
Physicists are shy by nature.
On second thought last one in the spa | is a rotten pineapple.
But you still have | your clothes on.
Oh.
Yeah.
Now who's shy? Well, on second thought | here l think l will go change | and wear a bathing suit.
Keep the water wet.
KlTT? | I'm here, Michael.
What was that? That is a very long story.
| I'll tell you about it later.
There's a man | in a light blue station wagon.
I see him.
| Check him out, will you? Anything in particular | you want me to look for? Yeah, l wanna find out what qualifies | him to be a member in the Retreat.
I'll get right on it, Michael.
And as for you welcome to the Arctic.
KlTT, see if there's a safe hidden in this room anywhere, | will you? Right away.
There's one in the cabinet | behind you, Michael.
All right, give me some amplification | on these tumblers, will you? lf everything goes | as planned we'll have both the missile | and the guidance system just in time for delivery.
Later, pal.
What say we celebrate | with some champagne? Great.
Don't worry, he won't.
And how can you be so sure? Because I know men, Tanya.
| A man's home is his castle.
The real power | behind the throne.
Nice kitty.
Kitty, kitty, | kitty, kitty.
That's it.
That's right.
Come in, ladies.
| Plenty of room for everyone.
What are you | doing here? Soaking.
l can see that.
lsn't that | what a hot tub is for? Not my hot tub.
Unless by special invitation.
Well, like l said, l'm | kind of the impatient kind.
Mass and velocity? That's right.
You are something else, | Dr.
Knightwood.
Please, please, | call me Michael.
But then l suppose one has to expect | a certain amount of arrogance from a man of your brilliance.
Well, l guess it's l guess it's part of | the whole package.
l have to admit | l do like the wrappings.
But if you're lying to me, | if you're up to something l'm going to make you | very sorry.
Somehow, l believe you.
Good.
Now we can have | that drink together.
But in the living room.
Don't get up.
l'm telling you, Bianca, except for the | glasses and the way that he's dressed l'm almost positive it's the same man | who came to the aid of the courier.
That's very interesting, | Tanya but before l do anything, l have | to be sure that you're right.
Dr.
Knightwood.
Feel better? Like a new man.
| Good.
Please, call me Michael.
| l'd like that.
Thank you.
| Wanna come sit over here? Yes, thank you.
| Good.
Maybe you'd feel even more comfortable, | Michael, without your glasses.
l don't see very well | without them.
Just as l thought.
| lt's window glass.
Don't kill him! l wanna see | what he knows first.
What a pity, Michael.
l was looking forward to that | lecture on mass and velocity.
Michael, you have no idea | how much this hurts me.
Why don't we change places? But that's just it.
There's no need | for either one of us to be here.
All l really wanna know | is who you are.
l told you my name is Dr.
Michael Knightwood.
l work for AlgoTech | lndustries.
l'm sure you had me | checked out.
A computer is only as trustworthy | as the information fed into it.
No, l'm sure you work for one | of the law enforcement agencies.
The only thing is | l don't really care which one.
The only thing | l want to know is can l get away with it? You haven't got a chance.
Then they know.
Everything.
No, Michael.
lf they knew everything, they'd be | here breaking down the doors right now.
My guess is they sent you here on your | own to see what you could find out.
l'm telling you, | they know everything.
All you have to do is tell me | what l'm after, Michael.
What is it, Michael? | Can l get away with it? Michael, what is it? He has no idea | what we're after.
Which means once we hear | from Cooper, we can go get it.
Come on.
KlTT, l'm a little concerned about | Michael.
Have you heard from him? Not for a couple of hours, | Devon.
I tried making contact with him on the | comm link, but there was no response.
Is it possible there's some sort | of interference with the signal? I thought of that, Bonnie, | but I couldn't find any.
I did notice sudden surges | of electrical current but I wasn't able to isolate | where they were coming from.
Of course, there is | one other possibility.
What is that? | The lady of the Retreat.
She's quite attractive.
Of course, knowing Michael | the way I do, Devon it would strictly be | in the line of duty.
Yes, in the line of duty.
Well, we'll wait a little | longer and see what happens.
One more thing.
Michael had me check out one | of the guests at the resort.
I learned his name | is Theodore Cooper.
He's head of security | at Sendrax Industries.
Good work, KITT.
| I'll get on it right away.
Hello? lt's me, Ted.
Do you have the information? Yes.
Bianca, listen- Just give it to me.
lt left in an unmarked truck | about 15 minutes ago.
Good.
All right.
| Yes, l got that.
Thank you, Ted.
l'm glad we | could help each other out.
When do l get my tape? When? Why, when l have | no further use for you.
Well, l'll be in touch, darling, | and say hello to wifey for me, okay? Well, it's already on its way.
| We just have to move fast.
What about You found him, Monica.
| You can get rid of him.
No problem.
| Great.
Let's go, girls.
Such a waste.
You took the words | right out of my mouth.
KlTT, come pick me up.
I just saw that lady leaving | with two of her friends.
Which way are they headed? They turned north | on Stockton Road then disappeared | from my scanner range.
Michael, Devon is calling.
Devon.
Michael, I'm relieved | to see that you're safe.
Yeah, l feel better about | it, too.
What have you got? A Pegasus missile is en route from | Sendrax Industries to the proving grounds.
It's what is known as | a smart missile because of its ability to launch multiple warheads and | then return to its launching site.
Sounds impressive.
Yes, at the very least.
The only thing is it's practically | useless without its guidance system.
You mean Dr.
Freeman's | micro guidance system.
Exactly.
And my guess is that whoever has | that will now go after the Pegasus.
lt's a very educated guess.
Bonnie, do you have the | information about the delivery? I'm programming it | into KITT's CRT now.
All right, l'll be in touch.
If the truck | carrying the Pegasus is traveling at its | prescribed speed, Michael we should be exactly | 25.
7 miles from it.
All right, pal, | let's step on it.
Are you going our way, boys? Too bad, we could have | had some fun.
Good girl, Tanya.
| Now for the missile.
KlTT, can you pick up | the truck on your scanner? Negative, Michael.
| It's still out of range but we'll be coming up | to Stone Mountain Road soon.
Can't be soon enough.
Michael.
No question about it, | they've been here.
The guards appear | to be all right.
I have the truck | in scanner range, Michael.
l see it! | Now let's go get it.
Where does | that other road go? It dead-ends 100 yards from here, | just above the truck's route.
Right.
Got an idea.
Michael, you're playing | with suicide.
Suicide is letting them | get away with that missile.
All right.
Let's do it! What was that? Nothing l can't get rid of.
KlTT, get down here, buddy.
Right away, Michael.
KlTT, the four-wheeler.
Leave that to me, Michael.
Don't forget about | the Tufflex bullets.
Hello.
lt's all over.
Michael, the four-by-four | is under control.
Right behind you, buddy.
Good work, buddy.
Thank you, Michael.
Hello, Bianca.
l told you, | you couldn't get away with it.
Now, about | mass and velocity.
l guess you were right all along, | Michael.
My idol had feet of clay.
l don't think you can | judge him too harshly.
Harley was a lonely man who fell into the clutches of a | very beautiful and very evil woman.
l think the worst you can | accuse him of is being human.
Thank you.
So this is | the Retreat, huh? Was.
Past tense.
| lt's all over now.
But it was great | while it lasted, huh? Come on, Bonnie.
What's so great about beautiful | women running around in bikinis catering to your every need? l don't know.
You tell me.
| You got a couple hours? Oh, no, I thought | they arrested her, too.
Wrong, buddy.
The authorities have | found a brand-new home for her.
Just so it's far away from me.
Actually, the Foundation was | thinking of adopting Sheeba as a pet.
You have to be kidding.
Hey! We have a KlTT, | why not have a cat? Very funny, Michael, | very funny.