Knight Rider (1982) s04e05 Episode Script
Burial Ground
Take that car out.
Shoot! My name is Michael Knight.
I'm with the Foundation | for Law and Government.
He's here | to try and help us.
I'm sitting on millions | of dollars worth of oil.
I don't want to be involved | in any killings.
I know how much the Kobe | burial grounds are worth to you.
Somehow, someway, we've got to keep | the tribe and the land together.
I think you know | what has to be done.
We gotta go around.
| No room for that, Michael.
Knight Rider, | a shadowy flight into the dangerous | world of a man who does not exist.
Michael Knight, | a young Ioner on a crusade to champion | the cause of the innocent the helpless, | the powerless in a world of criminals | who operate above the law.
Stop! Is it What we came for.
The guardian spirits | of the warrior dead.
The Kobe Indian shrine.
They said | we couldn't do it.
We'll show them, Barbara, | we'll show them we've done it! Now, | let's get this to Susan.
It's wonderful.
You know, | I never believed till now.
Barbara! Go! Stress relaxation techniques? It really works, Michael.
Combined with the right | sort of meditation.
What do you know about stress | relaxation and meditation, anyway? The best stress relaxation | is two weeks in Maui.
I can't wait.
Your choice of shirts | make that quite apparent.
The luaus, the sun, | girls in bikinis the sand, | girls in bikinis I'm afraid you're going to have | to settle for a working vacation on the Kobe | Indian Reservation.
Oh, Devon, come on, that's | a contradiction of terms.
What about Maui? Maui's going to have to wait, | Michael.
Have you ever heard | of a Dr.
Quentin Tanner? I can't say that I have.
| Why? He's a noted archaeologist who's | been searching for relics on the Kobe | Reservation grounds.
The Foundation has supported | his activities on behalf of Native Americans | for years.
Last night, he and his | assistant vanished from the area.
Devon, it seems to me that's a thing for the Missing | Persons Bureau or the police.
No time.
The bulldozers will be on the | land before they get there.
There's a conflict between the | Kobe Indians, and some oil man over the ownership of the canyon | in which Dr.
Tanner was last seen.
You're to contact a social | worker named Susan Christopher.
She believes that Dr.
Tanner and his | assistant may be in grave danger.
All right.
I'll check it out | on one condition.
No more references | to working vacations.
Look at it this way, Michael.
In the desert, you'll get | just what you wanted.
Oh, yeah.
What's that? The sun, the sand.
| But no shirt.
And the heat, | and the dust and small little animals | crawling all over your fenders.
Well, here we are, pal.
Looks like we got a | welcoming committee, too, huh? Careful, Michael this doesn't appear | to be a welcoming committee.
I got you.
Go back and tell | Cyrus Oakes we've had enough of his people | putting the squeeze on us.
Wait a minute, | wait a minute.
Come on, hold it! My name is Michael Knight.
I'm with the Foundation | for Law and Government.
I'm here to see | Susan Christopher.
Come on, guys.
| Wait! I know we can talk | about this.
Wait! Stop! Wait! Stop! Will you stop it? Stop.
I called him.
He's here to try and help us | find Dr.
Tanner and Barbara.
We don't need | a white man's help! Tell that to your mother.
A white doctor delivered | your three brothers.
I'll let him go, | if you promise to hold him.
He'll be no trouble.
You control yourself and | you can join us with Thorne.
It's okay.
Who's Thorne? He's the curator | of our Kobe Museum.
You must be Susan Christopher.
And you're Michael Knight.
I think so.
I work closely | with Dr.
Tanner.
We were hoping to come up with | a major archeological find and have the burial grounds | declared a national shrine.
Instead, Cyrus Oakes will be drilling | through the bones of our ancestors to get to his oil.
Oakes has acquired | the rights to exploit the land | as of 8:00 a.
m.
tomorrow.
Dr.
Tanner was our last chance | to keep the grounds intact.
Isn't it a little | far-fetched to believe that Oakes grabbed Tanner | before he completed his survey? I told you | he wouldn't believe us.
I didn't say that.
| What I'm saying here is I need | a little more explanation and a lot more proof | before I'm convinced.
Now, if you don't mind I'd like to start with the spot | where Dr.
Tanner disappeared.
Susan can take you | out there.
But I doubt | you'll find anything.
Shall we? | Yes.
Nothing like a little | tailgate picnic to christen a new | piece of property.
What you're seeing, Lisa, | is diversification.
Real estate, coal, oil.
A natural progression.
The land | and its resources.
Something to grab | a hold onto.
All yours? Absolutely.
Excuse me.
Mr.
Oakes? Yeah.
Yeah? Mr.
Oakes, it's Thorne.
How did you get | my mobile phone? I told your secretary | it was an emergency.
Well, then it better | be just that.
Michael Knight, | an investigator for The Foundation for Law | and Government showed up.
He's on his way out to the burial | grounds now to snoop around.
If you did what | you were supposed to do then there shouldn't be | anything there to find.
It's not just that.
Some of the Indians | are thinking he might help and I think you're going to have | trouble rounding up drill and rig crews.
I pay people to do a job | and I end up doing it myself.
I'll be out to the | reservation to talk to them.
What about this investigator? Handle him.
Use Simpson.
Wait a minute, I don't want | to be involved in any killings.
I'm sitting on millions of dollars | worth of oil waiting to be tapped.
You've got 89 cents worth | of Indian relics.
Where do you figure | your future lies? I'm sorry about | that welcoming committee back at the reservation.
But Jonathan Eagle | has quite a temper and the others are just frustrated | enough to follow his lead.
You seem to be able | to control him.
I've known him | all my life.
When I got my degree and decided | to come back to the tribe it was like I had never left.
Now, this whole issue | of oil is tearing us apart.
You know, I can understand your loyalty | to tradition and to your heritage.
As beautiful as this country | is, I can also understand why somebody would want to try | and reach out and grab it.
You've got to help us.
Somehow, someway, we've got to keep | the tribe and the land together.
All right.
I'll do the best I can.
Let's do some | old-style tracking.
Please, no Indian jokes.
This isn't a joke.
As a matter of fact, | you're going to like this one.
KITT, give me an imprint | reconstruction of the area.
I want to find out | if there's any evidence of struggle that | took place here last night.
Right away, Michael.
They're certainly putting some | interesting accessories on cars lately! You know, it's amazing what you can | get through mail order these days.
Thank you, Michael.
I show an unusual pattern | for the last 12 hours.
That looks like | Dr.
Tanner's Land Cruiser.
Incredible.
Wait a minute, | one, two, three Four sets of footprints | intersect by the car then disappear.
He wasn't meeting | anyone out here.
He might have been | ambushed after all.
Susan, show me the area in | the cave where he was digging.
KITT, go into | surveillance mode.
Keep an eye on us, | will you? Of course, Michael.
Michael.
Yeah, KITT, what is it? I've detected an intruder | on the rocks above you.
KITT, now listen to me.
Go into electrical | generation mode and give me about 200 volts | through the comlink.
It'll cause more damage to you | than to those snakes.
I'm taking it off, right now.
| Wait for my signal.
Michael.
Do it, KITT! Come on! You all right? Oh, I'll be fine.
I've | seen my share of snakes.
Just not all at once.
Can you locate the guy | on the ridge? I'm afraid he's gone, Michael.
We've got to be able to stop | Oakes now.
Isn't this enough proof? No, not yet.
Nothing to tie him | directly into any crime.
Guy like Oakes | works through middlemen.
But I think I got a good | idea who those middlemen are.
Who's that? Susan there are only two people | who knew we were coming here.
Eagle and Thorne.
It couldn't be Eagle.
Not the | way he feels about the land.
Then it's got | to be Thorne.
He said he was working with | Dr.
Tanner at the dig, right? I've worked with Thorne | for a year.
Susan, it's only a hunch.
But I wouldn't | recommend giving him any of our travel plans | from now on.
Come on.
the land, tradition.
Those values | are very important but so are present day | economic realities.
Who are you people | going to listen to? A welfare worker | paid by the state who has nothing to gain by | this influx of money and jobs? How much money has she put in | your jeans since she came back? When you people start to do | well, she's out of her job.
Or are you going to listen to | that investigator in the fancy car.
He's got a steady salary coming | in from a place called FLAG.
Creep.
So, that's the infamous | Cyrus Oakes.
Now, I can guarantee you six months | employment at double minimum to each and anyone of you who show up at my compound | tomorrow at 6:00 a.
m.
Eagle.
And Oakes Industries can also | guarantee plenty of overtime.
Wait a minute! How can you shake | this man's hand? He's stealing your land.
| He's taking your birthright.
He's offering them jobs, | Eagle.
Jobs, not ghosts.
Is that what you think this | is about, Simpson? Ghosts? This land is the heart | of our tribal heritage.
Get lost, kid.
Wait, don't go.
Stay! | This is your land.
You were born here.
You have a right | to this land.
Why, you dirty What's the matter? Looks like | you've just seen a ghost.
That's Michael Knight.
I thought you | took care of this.
You seem to know so much, | Mr.
Knight.
Since when did you | become an Indian? When I went through | a snake ceremony and lived.
You sound like a lucky man.
I wouldn't push it | if I were you.
You're not me.
May I help you? I knew it.
| In my heart, I knew it.
What in the world | are you doing? It is as my dream foretold.
The God of the wind | has come down to instruct us | in this time of crisis.
I beg your pardon.
Cross-checking my data bank | on tribal customs I find that your | God of the wind materializes as a horse.
It is 1985.
So, in your wisdom you have chosen, instead to come as a car.
No, I haven't.
Ah! You are trying to trick me, | as the legend said you would.
But I know you, Great One.
I know you.
Well, I have to agree, | I could be compared to lightning | on a summer's day wise as an all-seeing hawk, | hmm? Blessed is the servant | of the mighty steed.
He will do great things.
Servant.
You know, Michael, I never | thought of it that way.
Well, don't start to, | ''mighty steed.
'' Sometimes I don't think | you appreciate me enough.
All right, God of the road, | all-powerful one if I may check if my | suspicions are on target please beam | your all-seeing scan on Mr.
Simpson's shoes | and his truck.
You don't have to rub it in.
Now, compare them with the | footprints from the ravine and the snake attack.
We have a double match.
And, Michael, you can | stop worshipping me now.
I see your point.
Good.
Thanks, pal.
All right, let's go talk | to our snake man.
All right, the game | of tag is over, snake man.
And you're it.
What's your beef? You cut me off.
You're the one | who's looking for trouble.
You tried to kill me.
And chances are you're involved | with Tanner's disappearance.
Now, you wanna talk to me? I don't know | what you're talking about.
Call the cops | or cut me lose.
There's no cops now, man.
| It's just you and me.
What do you want | from me? Like I said, | it's tag and you're it.
Now you belong to me and | it's just a matter of time before I come up | with enough facts to come back | and take possession.
Now, you tell that to Oakes.
Michael, would you explain | that last bit of action to me? I assume you have a plan.
It's simple.
We don't have much time before | Oakes takes possession of the land.
One of you left a trail.
Michael Knight's | headed over here.
Now, he's got a reason | to be here.
You don't.
I'm here | because I'm scared! Scared? I don't care if you're shaking | like a leaf.
If you're spotted here with me | before we take that land tomorrow this whole deal | can fall apart! It's gone too far.
| Farther than you ever said.
I'm willing to settle | for a percentage of what you promised | if I can have it now.
So you can turn around and tell | Michael Knight everything you know, huh? No! I just wanna get away.
I don't want any trouble.
How about you? | You feel the same way? I only told you what | happened to me so you'd know.
I still want | my end of the payoff.
And I'll do what I have to do | to get it.
All right.
Okay, Thorne, | you go wait in the cook shed.
I gotta send for the cash.
| You do want cash, don't you? Please.
Thank you.
I think you know | what has to be done.
Anything else? Yeah.
One little detail.
You'll arrange it so they both go | together.
Him and that Knight character.
I'd say Oakes has got | a pretty big stake in this operation.
And he's protecting it | very carefully, Michael.
That fence is electrified.
Its control grid goes back to | a timed computer-Iocking system.
Okay.
Use your Comprehensive | Configuration Analysis and give me a rundown | on any weak spots.
Do you know what the penalty | is for kidnapping? Yeah.
About the same | as it is for murder.
You have the mentality | of a Cro-Magnon man.
Maybe, but at least | I know where I am.
And I ain't no prisoner.
This is Lucas.
Get over to my office.
I've | got a bonus job for you.
Sure thing, Mr.
Oakes.
Lucas will take you | to the bank.
Oakes has arranged | for the money in cash.
$25,000.
Thanks.
He's all yours.
Michael.
Yeah, KITT, | that's Thorne's car.
He's heading right at us, | Michael.
Scan the car, right now.
Michael, Thorne's inside, | unconscious and there's a packet | of explosives in the trunk.
Can we turbo boost? | Not enough room.
We've got to go around.
| No room for that, Michael.
KITT, dig in! Dig in! I have no traction, Michael.
The whole slope's | coming apart.
I'm going to hit Turbo Boost.
Try and land us | someplace solid.
Well, looks like Oakes figured he'd | get two for the price of one, huh? Setting Thorne up | and using him as bait for me.
I'm afraid he came very close.
| I'll need Bonnie.
You got her.
Michael, I've been getting | some strange readouts from KITT.
It's like an earthquake.
No, no.
Just a rock slide.
I wish I thought you were | kidding.
Is KITT all right? I'm fine, thank you.
| I love you, too.
But KITT's gonna need | some stabilizer readjustment.
We're coming in.
I'll be here.
So much for that.
Man! Those stabilizers | were hit over, under sideways, down.
Michael, didn't you read that | part of the driver's manual where it says, ''Watch out | for the falling rocks''? Yeah, right.
Thanks.
And speaking of | Foundation manuals the Foundation Manual specifically | states on page 47, section C ''When not | otherwise engaged ''the semi driver should | be behind the wheel.
'' Yeah, but Bonnie's | autopilot is so smooth.
Too smooth.
Now, see, I would prefer a more | personalized driving experience.
We know that | you just got here but you really | must be going.
You got it.
It really is a trifle unsettling | to find RC chatting away in here while 30 tones of truck rolls | down the highway, driverless.
Well, Michael our check on Mr.
Oakes | proved most fruitful.
Seven years ago, | he tried to cheat an Indian tribe in Oklahoma | out of some oil rich land.
He was convicted | on 13 counts of land fraud.
But he appealed and beat | the case on a technicality.
A most unsavory man.
He makes me fear the worst for Barbara Ralston | and Dr.
Tanner.
Devon, I don't think so.
Oakes tried to kill me twice.
And his compound | in the middle of the desert has more security | than an army barracks.
I think | he's hiding them there.
I want to get them out.
Well, I would avoid a second frontal | attack on the compound, if I were you.
I'm way ahead of you.
I think I know enough | about Oakes right now to find a different | way in.
Here's his agenda for the | day.
Thank you very much.
Oh! | Looks like he's throwing an exclusive business | party tonight, at a club.
As always, your computers | are way ahead of everyone.
Right down to where he gets | his hair and nails done.
It'd be a shame to interrupt | his moment of pleasure.
and I will talk | to you soon.
Michael, | where have you been? I ran into a small explosion | at Oakes' base camp.
So did Thorne.
He's dead.
Oh, no.
Seems like every time | you turn around there's more madness | going on.
Look, I'm pretty sure Oakes | is hiding Barbara Ralston and Dr.
Tanner | at his base camp.
If they're alive.
| I think they are.
Now, I believe that canyon out | there is your sacred shrine and Dr.
Tanner found | some kind of proof of that.
I knew it.
| I always knew it.
Oakes is gotta be keeping him under wraps | until he can grab all the land for himself.
Now, you listen to me.
Until 8:00 tomorrow morning, | that land out there is yours.
I want you to get everybody who | wants to save their burial ground out there tomorrow morning | and dig.
Now, if I'm late, you stay | there.
Just buy me some time.
Oakes won't let us stay | very long.
I don't want | my people hurt.
I'm not gonna let anything | happen to you or your people.
Well, it's my acolyte.
Hello.
I knew you'd come back.
I've come for my first lesson, | Great One.
In what? The Secrets.
| Ah, yes.
Of the universe, as it were.
| Well, let's see Let's start simple.
Basic stress relaxation | and meditation technique.
Clear your mind.
| Concentrate on your breathing.
Great One, my tribe has known | these things for centuries.
Well, of course, but you must | start with what you know and, in your own way, get to | the great truth by small steps.
I see.
You shelter | your deepest wisdom and in that way tell me | to find my own path.
Exactly.
Then I will trouble you | no more.
Goodbye, Great One.
Goodbye, my friend.
| I think I'll miss you.
You know, Michael, this | being a God is very demanding.
Yeah, well, stick with | what you do best.
Let's go.
Thank you, sweetheart.
This is called luxury, Jim.
A 50-year-old barber | and a hot towel is luxury.
There's got to be | a better word for this.
There is, but none of them | are very nice.
You can't come in here, | it's private.
Well, I'm already in and throwing me out could | prove hazardous to your health.
Let Mr.
Knight in.
Who's your friend? Cyrus and I go back | to the Curran County days.
Back to when his game was running | the oil fields in Indian land.
We'd better talk | about this elsewhere.
You're one hell of an | investigator, Mr.
Knight.
But you're | really pushing it now.
You know, you're right.
I mean, why spoil your pleasures | by dredging up any more of the past? I'll get right | to the point.
I know how much the Kobe | burial grounds are worth to you.
And how much your old record | could screw things up.
Uh-huh? And what do you plan | to do about it? Nothing for, say, | half a million dollars cash.
You're crazy.
Easy, Cyrus.
Easy.
| You know I know it takes a bit of time to | raise that kind of money.
Even for you.
So I'll settle for an initial | installment of, say $50,000.
Cash, of course.
| Tonight.
All right.
But you're gonna have to come | and collect it from my compound.
I've got a business dinner.
| It'll be a couple of hours.
Fine.
It's a tough road, | but I know it very well.
Michael, I can't believe you're going to walk right | into Cyrus Oakes' compound.
I'm not.
| But you just said you were.
No, I said I told Oakes I was.
| There's a difference.
I've got something else | in mind.
Michael Knight's on his way | over there to meet with me.
When he gets there, | you hold him.
I'll be there and deal with | him in a more permanent fashion.
All right, | scan the camp personnel.
Right away, Michael.
There's a concentration of men | by the front gate.
Yeah.
I'll bet you | they're waiting for me.
Wait a minute.
They're | keeping a guard by that hut.
Close in and give me | an infrared scan.
I think we just found Dr.
| Tanner and Barbara Ralston.
All right, I'm going in.
Okay, KITT, neutralize | the fence, will you? Thanks, pal.
Dr.
Tanner? Wait, wait, wait.
| My name is Michael Knight.
I'm a friend of Susan Christopher's.
| I'm here to get you out.
Come on.
Trust me.
| Come on, come on.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Okay, go.
No.
Don't touch the fence.
| Don't, don't.
We've got them now.
| Hold it, or you're dead.
Nice watch.
| You won't be needing this.
Move it, smart guy.
Let's move them out.
I want | to be there by 8:00 a.
m.
Susan we're running out of time.
It's | almost 8:00.
Where's this guy Knight? God of the wind will come.
| As he said he would.
Yeah, sure.
The wind ain't gonna stop | Oakes' men from busting heads.
And I got a family.
Why don't you face it? | It's over.
Listen to me! It's not over.
| Listen to me! Listen to me! All I'm asking is | that we stand here just a little while, | while they come and demonstrate | our feeling for this land.
What good will that do? The land belongs | to Oakes.
Not yet, it doesn't.
Michael Knight has still | got something to say.
And from what I've | learned about him he'll be here to say it.
Please.
Well, I'm sorry our | meeting was delayed but I'm afraid you've caused | some real trouble now.
For yourself | and your friends.
Let go of me! | Where are you taking her? Let go! In fact, Mr.
Knight, | you might say you killed them.
Let them go, Oakes, | you got what you wanted.
And I intend to keep it.
You're going to join them | in a different way.
I think we'll give you another | crack at the electrified fence.
Goodbye, Mr.
Knight.
All right, KITT, I could use | a little posse to the rescue.
I'm surrounded | by the bad guys.
Right away, Michael.
Okay, KITT, lay some smoke and | run some interference for me.
Take that car out.
Shoot! Cover me, pal.
| Cover me.
Go! Game's over, snake man.
Come on.
Come on.
Go.
All right, pal, | give me Super Pursuit Mode.
With pleasure, Michael.
This land is the property | of Oakes Industries.
If you people don't disperse, | you will be forcibly removed.
I'm not gonna take that.
All right, give me | everything you've got! Let's go! I'm not gonna tap dance.
| Get rid of them, now.
Come on, guys.
| You heard him! Get him! | Hey, wait a second, guys.
I'd think twice before you become | accessories to kidnap and murder.
You heard what I said! If there is any | oil on this land it belongs to the tribe and | you don't need Oakes to get it.
Michael! I wouldn't.
Where you're going you're going to end up with all | the land you're ever going to need.
An eight-by-eight cell.
| No digging allowed.
Come on, Michael.
We could use | another pair of strong arms.
You can see | how much fun it is! I've kinda got my hands | full over here, Doc.
Hi.
| Hi.
You think there's any | other caves around here that we could | kinda search privately? I don't think Eagle | would like it.
You and Eagle? Since we were | seven years old.
Oh.
But he'll understand this.
Thank you.
| Thank you.
Take care of yourself.
| I will.
Okay.
Goodbye.
These are beautiful.
These are simply my way of | offering thanks to both of you for your help in our crisis | as the legend foretold.
Thank you.
You know, Michael, I did | fulfill the ancient promise of their God of the wind.
Please.
Don't get it | into your circuits that you have any sort | of divine heritage, all right? But what if it's true? Let me answer that question | with a question.
What's wrong with being | a superb piece of machinery a partner, a friend? Nothing at all.
I rest my case.
But, Michael you could bring me | flowers some time.
Don't count on it.
Shoot! My name is Michael Knight.
I'm with the Foundation | for Law and Government.
He's here | to try and help us.
I'm sitting on millions | of dollars worth of oil.
I don't want to be involved | in any killings.
I know how much the Kobe | burial grounds are worth to you.
Somehow, someway, we've got to keep | the tribe and the land together.
I think you know | what has to be done.
We gotta go around.
| No room for that, Michael.
Knight Rider, | a shadowy flight into the dangerous | world of a man who does not exist.
Michael Knight, | a young Ioner on a crusade to champion | the cause of the innocent the helpless, | the powerless in a world of criminals | who operate above the law.
Stop! Is it What we came for.
The guardian spirits | of the warrior dead.
The Kobe Indian shrine.
They said | we couldn't do it.
We'll show them, Barbara, | we'll show them we've done it! Now, | let's get this to Susan.
It's wonderful.
You know, | I never believed till now.
Barbara! Go! Stress relaxation techniques? It really works, Michael.
Combined with the right | sort of meditation.
What do you know about stress | relaxation and meditation, anyway? The best stress relaxation | is two weeks in Maui.
I can't wait.
Your choice of shirts | make that quite apparent.
The luaus, the sun, | girls in bikinis the sand, | girls in bikinis I'm afraid you're going to have | to settle for a working vacation on the Kobe | Indian Reservation.
Oh, Devon, come on, that's | a contradiction of terms.
What about Maui? Maui's going to have to wait, | Michael.
Have you ever heard | of a Dr.
Quentin Tanner? I can't say that I have.
| Why? He's a noted archaeologist who's | been searching for relics on the Kobe | Reservation grounds.
The Foundation has supported | his activities on behalf of Native Americans | for years.
Last night, he and his | assistant vanished from the area.
Devon, it seems to me that's a thing for the Missing | Persons Bureau or the police.
No time.
The bulldozers will be on the | land before they get there.
There's a conflict between the | Kobe Indians, and some oil man over the ownership of the canyon | in which Dr.
Tanner was last seen.
You're to contact a social | worker named Susan Christopher.
She believes that Dr.
Tanner and his | assistant may be in grave danger.
All right.
I'll check it out | on one condition.
No more references | to working vacations.
Look at it this way, Michael.
In the desert, you'll get | just what you wanted.
Oh, yeah.
What's that? The sun, the sand.
| But no shirt.
And the heat, | and the dust and small little animals | crawling all over your fenders.
Well, here we are, pal.
Looks like we got a | welcoming committee, too, huh? Careful, Michael this doesn't appear | to be a welcoming committee.
I got you.
Go back and tell | Cyrus Oakes we've had enough of his people | putting the squeeze on us.
Wait a minute, | wait a minute.
Come on, hold it! My name is Michael Knight.
I'm with the Foundation | for Law and Government.
I'm here to see | Susan Christopher.
Come on, guys.
| Wait! I know we can talk | about this.
Wait! Stop! Wait! Stop! Will you stop it? Stop.
I called him.
He's here to try and help us | find Dr.
Tanner and Barbara.
We don't need | a white man's help! Tell that to your mother.
A white doctor delivered | your three brothers.
I'll let him go, | if you promise to hold him.
He'll be no trouble.
You control yourself and | you can join us with Thorne.
It's okay.
Who's Thorne? He's the curator | of our Kobe Museum.
You must be Susan Christopher.
And you're Michael Knight.
I think so.
I work closely | with Dr.
Tanner.
We were hoping to come up with | a major archeological find and have the burial grounds | declared a national shrine.
Instead, Cyrus Oakes will be drilling | through the bones of our ancestors to get to his oil.
Oakes has acquired | the rights to exploit the land | as of 8:00 a.
m.
tomorrow.
Dr.
Tanner was our last chance | to keep the grounds intact.
Isn't it a little | far-fetched to believe that Oakes grabbed Tanner | before he completed his survey? I told you | he wouldn't believe us.
I didn't say that.
| What I'm saying here is I need | a little more explanation and a lot more proof | before I'm convinced.
Now, if you don't mind I'd like to start with the spot | where Dr.
Tanner disappeared.
Susan can take you | out there.
But I doubt | you'll find anything.
Shall we? | Yes.
Nothing like a little | tailgate picnic to christen a new | piece of property.
What you're seeing, Lisa, | is diversification.
Real estate, coal, oil.
A natural progression.
The land | and its resources.
Something to grab | a hold onto.
All yours? Absolutely.
Excuse me.
Mr.
Oakes? Yeah.
Yeah? Mr.
Oakes, it's Thorne.
How did you get | my mobile phone? I told your secretary | it was an emergency.
Well, then it better | be just that.
Michael Knight, | an investigator for The Foundation for Law | and Government showed up.
He's on his way out to the burial | grounds now to snoop around.
If you did what | you were supposed to do then there shouldn't be | anything there to find.
It's not just that.
Some of the Indians | are thinking he might help and I think you're going to have | trouble rounding up drill and rig crews.
I pay people to do a job | and I end up doing it myself.
I'll be out to the | reservation to talk to them.
What about this investigator? Handle him.
Use Simpson.
Wait a minute, I don't want | to be involved in any killings.
I'm sitting on millions of dollars | worth of oil waiting to be tapped.
You've got 89 cents worth | of Indian relics.
Where do you figure | your future lies? I'm sorry about | that welcoming committee back at the reservation.
But Jonathan Eagle | has quite a temper and the others are just frustrated | enough to follow his lead.
You seem to be able | to control him.
I've known him | all my life.
When I got my degree and decided | to come back to the tribe it was like I had never left.
Now, this whole issue | of oil is tearing us apart.
You know, I can understand your loyalty | to tradition and to your heritage.
As beautiful as this country | is, I can also understand why somebody would want to try | and reach out and grab it.
You've got to help us.
Somehow, someway, we've got to keep | the tribe and the land together.
All right.
I'll do the best I can.
Let's do some | old-style tracking.
Please, no Indian jokes.
This isn't a joke.
As a matter of fact, | you're going to like this one.
KITT, give me an imprint | reconstruction of the area.
I want to find out | if there's any evidence of struggle that | took place here last night.
Right away, Michael.
They're certainly putting some | interesting accessories on cars lately! You know, it's amazing what you can | get through mail order these days.
Thank you, Michael.
I show an unusual pattern | for the last 12 hours.
That looks like | Dr.
Tanner's Land Cruiser.
Incredible.
Wait a minute, | one, two, three Four sets of footprints | intersect by the car then disappear.
He wasn't meeting | anyone out here.
He might have been | ambushed after all.
Susan, show me the area in | the cave where he was digging.
KITT, go into | surveillance mode.
Keep an eye on us, | will you? Of course, Michael.
Michael.
Yeah, KITT, what is it? I've detected an intruder | on the rocks above you.
KITT, now listen to me.
Go into electrical | generation mode and give me about 200 volts | through the comlink.
It'll cause more damage to you | than to those snakes.
I'm taking it off, right now.
| Wait for my signal.
Michael.
Do it, KITT! Come on! You all right? Oh, I'll be fine.
I've | seen my share of snakes.
Just not all at once.
Can you locate the guy | on the ridge? I'm afraid he's gone, Michael.
We've got to be able to stop | Oakes now.
Isn't this enough proof? No, not yet.
Nothing to tie him | directly into any crime.
Guy like Oakes | works through middlemen.
But I think I got a good | idea who those middlemen are.
Who's that? Susan there are only two people | who knew we were coming here.
Eagle and Thorne.
It couldn't be Eagle.
Not the | way he feels about the land.
Then it's got | to be Thorne.
He said he was working with | Dr.
Tanner at the dig, right? I've worked with Thorne | for a year.
Susan, it's only a hunch.
But I wouldn't | recommend giving him any of our travel plans | from now on.
Come on.
the land, tradition.
Those values | are very important but so are present day | economic realities.
Who are you people | going to listen to? A welfare worker | paid by the state who has nothing to gain by | this influx of money and jobs? How much money has she put in | your jeans since she came back? When you people start to do | well, she's out of her job.
Or are you going to listen to | that investigator in the fancy car.
He's got a steady salary coming | in from a place called FLAG.
Creep.
So, that's the infamous | Cyrus Oakes.
Now, I can guarantee you six months | employment at double minimum to each and anyone of you who show up at my compound | tomorrow at 6:00 a.
m.
Eagle.
And Oakes Industries can also | guarantee plenty of overtime.
Wait a minute! How can you shake | this man's hand? He's stealing your land.
| He's taking your birthright.
He's offering them jobs, | Eagle.
Jobs, not ghosts.
Is that what you think this | is about, Simpson? Ghosts? This land is the heart | of our tribal heritage.
Get lost, kid.
Wait, don't go.
Stay! | This is your land.
You were born here.
You have a right | to this land.
Why, you dirty What's the matter? Looks like | you've just seen a ghost.
That's Michael Knight.
I thought you | took care of this.
You seem to know so much, | Mr.
Knight.
Since when did you | become an Indian? When I went through | a snake ceremony and lived.
You sound like a lucky man.
I wouldn't push it | if I were you.
You're not me.
May I help you? I knew it.
| In my heart, I knew it.
What in the world | are you doing? It is as my dream foretold.
The God of the wind | has come down to instruct us | in this time of crisis.
I beg your pardon.
Cross-checking my data bank | on tribal customs I find that your | God of the wind materializes as a horse.
It is 1985.
So, in your wisdom you have chosen, instead to come as a car.
No, I haven't.
Ah! You are trying to trick me, | as the legend said you would.
But I know you, Great One.
I know you.
Well, I have to agree, | I could be compared to lightning | on a summer's day wise as an all-seeing hawk, | hmm? Blessed is the servant | of the mighty steed.
He will do great things.
Servant.
You know, Michael, I never | thought of it that way.
Well, don't start to, | ''mighty steed.
'' Sometimes I don't think | you appreciate me enough.
All right, God of the road, | all-powerful one if I may check if my | suspicions are on target please beam | your all-seeing scan on Mr.
Simpson's shoes | and his truck.
You don't have to rub it in.
Now, compare them with the | footprints from the ravine and the snake attack.
We have a double match.
And, Michael, you can | stop worshipping me now.
I see your point.
Good.
Thanks, pal.
All right, let's go talk | to our snake man.
All right, the game | of tag is over, snake man.
And you're it.
What's your beef? You cut me off.
You're the one | who's looking for trouble.
You tried to kill me.
And chances are you're involved | with Tanner's disappearance.
Now, you wanna talk to me? I don't know | what you're talking about.
Call the cops | or cut me lose.
There's no cops now, man.
| It's just you and me.
What do you want | from me? Like I said, | it's tag and you're it.
Now you belong to me and | it's just a matter of time before I come up | with enough facts to come back | and take possession.
Now, you tell that to Oakes.
Michael, would you explain | that last bit of action to me? I assume you have a plan.
It's simple.
We don't have much time before | Oakes takes possession of the land.
One of you left a trail.
Michael Knight's | headed over here.
Now, he's got a reason | to be here.
You don't.
I'm here | because I'm scared! Scared? I don't care if you're shaking | like a leaf.
If you're spotted here with me | before we take that land tomorrow this whole deal | can fall apart! It's gone too far.
| Farther than you ever said.
I'm willing to settle | for a percentage of what you promised | if I can have it now.
So you can turn around and tell | Michael Knight everything you know, huh? No! I just wanna get away.
I don't want any trouble.
How about you? | You feel the same way? I only told you what | happened to me so you'd know.
I still want | my end of the payoff.
And I'll do what I have to do | to get it.
All right.
Okay, Thorne, | you go wait in the cook shed.
I gotta send for the cash.
| You do want cash, don't you? Please.
Thank you.
I think you know | what has to be done.
Anything else? Yeah.
One little detail.
You'll arrange it so they both go | together.
Him and that Knight character.
I'd say Oakes has got | a pretty big stake in this operation.
And he's protecting it | very carefully, Michael.
That fence is electrified.
Its control grid goes back to | a timed computer-Iocking system.
Okay.
Use your Comprehensive | Configuration Analysis and give me a rundown | on any weak spots.
Do you know what the penalty | is for kidnapping? Yeah.
About the same | as it is for murder.
You have the mentality | of a Cro-Magnon man.
Maybe, but at least | I know where I am.
And I ain't no prisoner.
This is Lucas.
Get over to my office.
I've | got a bonus job for you.
Sure thing, Mr.
Oakes.
Lucas will take you | to the bank.
Oakes has arranged | for the money in cash.
$25,000.
Thanks.
He's all yours.
Michael.
Yeah, KITT, | that's Thorne's car.
He's heading right at us, | Michael.
Scan the car, right now.
Michael, Thorne's inside, | unconscious and there's a packet | of explosives in the trunk.
Can we turbo boost? | Not enough room.
We've got to go around.
| No room for that, Michael.
KITT, dig in! Dig in! I have no traction, Michael.
The whole slope's | coming apart.
I'm going to hit Turbo Boost.
Try and land us | someplace solid.
Well, looks like Oakes figured he'd | get two for the price of one, huh? Setting Thorne up | and using him as bait for me.
I'm afraid he came very close.
| I'll need Bonnie.
You got her.
Michael, I've been getting | some strange readouts from KITT.
It's like an earthquake.
No, no.
Just a rock slide.
I wish I thought you were | kidding.
Is KITT all right? I'm fine, thank you.
| I love you, too.
But KITT's gonna need | some stabilizer readjustment.
We're coming in.
I'll be here.
So much for that.
Man! Those stabilizers | were hit over, under sideways, down.
Michael, didn't you read that | part of the driver's manual where it says, ''Watch out | for the falling rocks''? Yeah, right.
Thanks.
And speaking of | Foundation manuals the Foundation Manual specifically | states on page 47, section C ''When not | otherwise engaged ''the semi driver should | be behind the wheel.
'' Yeah, but Bonnie's | autopilot is so smooth.
Too smooth.
Now, see, I would prefer a more | personalized driving experience.
We know that | you just got here but you really | must be going.
You got it.
It really is a trifle unsettling | to find RC chatting away in here while 30 tones of truck rolls | down the highway, driverless.
Well, Michael our check on Mr.
Oakes | proved most fruitful.
Seven years ago, | he tried to cheat an Indian tribe in Oklahoma | out of some oil rich land.
He was convicted | on 13 counts of land fraud.
But he appealed and beat | the case on a technicality.
A most unsavory man.
He makes me fear the worst for Barbara Ralston | and Dr.
Tanner.
Devon, I don't think so.
Oakes tried to kill me twice.
And his compound | in the middle of the desert has more security | than an army barracks.
I think | he's hiding them there.
I want to get them out.
Well, I would avoid a second frontal | attack on the compound, if I were you.
I'm way ahead of you.
I think I know enough | about Oakes right now to find a different | way in.
Here's his agenda for the | day.
Thank you very much.
Oh! | Looks like he's throwing an exclusive business | party tonight, at a club.
As always, your computers | are way ahead of everyone.
Right down to where he gets | his hair and nails done.
It'd be a shame to interrupt | his moment of pleasure.
and I will talk | to you soon.
Michael, | where have you been? I ran into a small explosion | at Oakes' base camp.
So did Thorne.
He's dead.
Oh, no.
Seems like every time | you turn around there's more madness | going on.
Look, I'm pretty sure Oakes | is hiding Barbara Ralston and Dr.
Tanner | at his base camp.
If they're alive.
| I think they are.
Now, I believe that canyon out | there is your sacred shrine and Dr.
Tanner found | some kind of proof of that.
I knew it.
| I always knew it.
Oakes is gotta be keeping him under wraps | until he can grab all the land for himself.
Now, you listen to me.
Until 8:00 tomorrow morning, | that land out there is yours.
I want you to get everybody who | wants to save their burial ground out there tomorrow morning | and dig.
Now, if I'm late, you stay | there.
Just buy me some time.
Oakes won't let us stay | very long.
I don't want | my people hurt.
I'm not gonna let anything | happen to you or your people.
Well, it's my acolyte.
Hello.
I knew you'd come back.
I've come for my first lesson, | Great One.
In what? The Secrets.
| Ah, yes.
Of the universe, as it were.
| Well, let's see Let's start simple.
Basic stress relaxation | and meditation technique.
Clear your mind.
| Concentrate on your breathing.
Great One, my tribe has known | these things for centuries.
Well, of course, but you must | start with what you know and, in your own way, get to | the great truth by small steps.
I see.
You shelter | your deepest wisdom and in that way tell me | to find my own path.
Exactly.
Then I will trouble you | no more.
Goodbye, Great One.
Goodbye, my friend.
| I think I'll miss you.
You know, Michael, this | being a God is very demanding.
Yeah, well, stick with | what you do best.
Let's go.
Thank you, sweetheart.
This is called luxury, Jim.
A 50-year-old barber | and a hot towel is luxury.
There's got to be | a better word for this.
There is, but none of them | are very nice.
You can't come in here, | it's private.
Well, I'm already in and throwing me out could | prove hazardous to your health.
Let Mr.
Knight in.
Who's your friend? Cyrus and I go back | to the Curran County days.
Back to when his game was running | the oil fields in Indian land.
We'd better talk | about this elsewhere.
You're one hell of an | investigator, Mr.
Knight.
But you're | really pushing it now.
You know, you're right.
I mean, why spoil your pleasures | by dredging up any more of the past? I'll get right | to the point.
I know how much the Kobe | burial grounds are worth to you.
And how much your old record | could screw things up.
Uh-huh? And what do you plan | to do about it? Nothing for, say, | half a million dollars cash.
You're crazy.
Easy, Cyrus.
Easy.
| You know I know it takes a bit of time to | raise that kind of money.
Even for you.
So I'll settle for an initial | installment of, say $50,000.
Cash, of course.
| Tonight.
All right.
But you're gonna have to come | and collect it from my compound.
I've got a business dinner.
| It'll be a couple of hours.
Fine.
It's a tough road, | but I know it very well.
Michael, I can't believe you're going to walk right | into Cyrus Oakes' compound.
I'm not.
| But you just said you were.
No, I said I told Oakes I was.
| There's a difference.
I've got something else | in mind.
Michael Knight's on his way | over there to meet with me.
When he gets there, | you hold him.
I'll be there and deal with | him in a more permanent fashion.
All right, | scan the camp personnel.
Right away, Michael.
There's a concentration of men | by the front gate.
Yeah.
I'll bet you | they're waiting for me.
Wait a minute.
They're | keeping a guard by that hut.
Close in and give me | an infrared scan.
I think we just found Dr.
| Tanner and Barbara Ralston.
All right, I'm going in.
Okay, KITT, neutralize | the fence, will you? Thanks, pal.
Dr.
Tanner? Wait, wait, wait.
| My name is Michael Knight.
I'm a friend of Susan Christopher's.
| I'm here to get you out.
Come on.
Trust me.
| Come on, come on.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Okay, go.
No.
Don't touch the fence.
| Don't, don't.
We've got them now.
| Hold it, or you're dead.
Nice watch.
| You won't be needing this.
Move it, smart guy.
Let's move them out.
I want | to be there by 8:00 a.
m.
Susan we're running out of time.
It's | almost 8:00.
Where's this guy Knight? God of the wind will come.
| As he said he would.
Yeah, sure.
The wind ain't gonna stop | Oakes' men from busting heads.
And I got a family.
Why don't you face it? | It's over.
Listen to me! It's not over.
| Listen to me! Listen to me! All I'm asking is | that we stand here just a little while, | while they come and demonstrate | our feeling for this land.
What good will that do? The land belongs | to Oakes.
Not yet, it doesn't.
Michael Knight has still | got something to say.
And from what I've | learned about him he'll be here to say it.
Please.
Well, I'm sorry our | meeting was delayed but I'm afraid you've caused | some real trouble now.
For yourself | and your friends.
Let go of me! | Where are you taking her? Let go! In fact, Mr.
Knight, | you might say you killed them.
Let them go, Oakes, | you got what you wanted.
And I intend to keep it.
You're going to join them | in a different way.
I think we'll give you another | crack at the electrified fence.
Goodbye, Mr.
Knight.
All right, KITT, I could use | a little posse to the rescue.
I'm surrounded | by the bad guys.
Right away, Michael.
Okay, KITT, lay some smoke and | run some interference for me.
Take that car out.
Shoot! Cover me, pal.
| Cover me.
Go! Game's over, snake man.
Come on.
Come on.
Go.
All right, pal, | give me Super Pursuit Mode.
With pleasure, Michael.
This land is the property | of Oakes Industries.
If you people don't disperse, | you will be forcibly removed.
I'm not gonna take that.
All right, give me | everything you've got! Let's go! I'm not gonna tap dance.
| Get rid of them, now.
Come on, guys.
| You heard him! Get him! | Hey, wait a second, guys.
I'd think twice before you become | accessories to kidnap and murder.
You heard what I said! If there is any | oil on this land it belongs to the tribe and | you don't need Oakes to get it.
Michael! I wouldn't.
Where you're going you're going to end up with all | the land you're ever going to need.
An eight-by-eight cell.
| No digging allowed.
Come on, Michael.
We could use | another pair of strong arms.
You can see | how much fun it is! I've kinda got my hands | full over here, Doc.
Hi.
| Hi.
You think there's any | other caves around here that we could | kinda search privately? I don't think Eagle | would like it.
You and Eagle? Since we were | seven years old.
Oh.
But he'll understand this.
Thank you.
| Thank you.
Take care of yourself.
| I will.
Okay.
Goodbye.
These are beautiful.
These are simply my way of | offering thanks to both of you for your help in our crisis | as the legend foretold.
Thank you.
You know, Michael, I did | fulfill the ancient promise of their God of the wind.
Please.
Don't get it | into your circuits that you have any sort | of divine heritage, all right? But what if it's true? Let me answer that question | with a question.
What's wrong with being | a superb piece of machinery a partner, a friend? Nothing at all.
I rest my case.
But, Michael you could bring me | flowers some time.
Don't count on it.