00:20Yeah, I'm sorry. I just needed to call and tell you, Dad.
00:28What's wrong?
00:29Nothing. There's nothing. It's just that, um, well, there's been a bit of an accident, and I was wondering if
00:38you wouldn't mind coming out here too much.
00:42Would I mind? Son, I...
00:48An accident. What kind of accident?
01:06Hey, Lou.
01:11Hey, Lou. What have you done this time? Same as always! Good job.
01:26Just doing your job, huh?
01:29You were found naked, cleaning out the bottom of a tank that is used to absorb radiation.
01:36Yes, well, it needed to be cleaned, sir.
01:38I know it needed to be cleaned. You know how I know? Because the paperwork came across my desk.
01:44And I approved it to be cleaned next week. The right way. With proper precautions.
01:51Well, I'm sorry I couldn't wait.
01:54Damn it. Lou. You're supposed to... I don't even want to fucking call you a scientist.
02:32Not some half-assed cowboy.
02:34What does your staff call it again? He's...
02:36Tickling the dragon's tail.
02:37No, no. It's, um... Rufus.
02:41No, I don't know. I don't think I want to tickle a man named Rufus, sir.
02:46Everything's a joke to you, isn't it?
02:49You know how often I am warned of how reckless you are with Rufus?
02:54The plutonium core. They can level this entire valley, and yet you play with it like a toddler plays with
03:01a toy.
03:05Have you forgotten what happened to Harry?
03:16Keep it up. You'll be dead within a year.
03:23No, no, no...
04:02Don't be through.
04:05Don't be through.
04:31Betty, tell it to me again.
04:35Again?
04:36Yeah.
04:42Well, it's August.
04:45Just not so far from now.
04:48And there's a little home, and it's not physically unique by any means, but there is something warm about it.
05:02It's inviting, because love dwells there.
05:08You're outside. Barefoot. Looking. Decent, I guess.
05:27You are ethereal.
05:33And you don't know it yet, but I'm with you. Far from here.
05:45And I take your hand, and I whisper that I will always be yours.
06:03Did I... Did I say something wrong?
06:08No.
06:17It shouldn't be this hard.
06:19Two months. Two months.
06:23We test in bikini, and then that's it.
06:26I put this behind us.
06:32You are the most brilliant man I've ever met, and you can't see it.
06:37You will never really be done with this place.
06:40Or that thing.
06:44Rufus...
06:45Is my responsibility.
06:49I'm the best there is at what I do. There is no one else.
06:54So until they find me or replace me...
06:56Until then, all we are is a dream, Lou.
07:01I've got to go.
07:26I've got to go.
07:28I'm terrified.
07:35It's dangerously simple.
07:39The tamper reflects neutrons.
07:42Now, as you'll see, it's molded to fit quite snugly around the core.
07:48However, the result of complete enclosure around the plutonium is, of course, undesirable.
07:55What happens if it does reach criticality?
07:58Supercriticality, you mean.
08:00Yes.
08:02If that happens, it's every man for himself.
08:05I will be the first one out of the room.
08:12I'm teasing.
08:16Criticality region.
08:19That is where our data of interest lays.
08:24This is daredevil science.
08:27Well, you're not wrong.
08:30We are on the razor's edge of physics, gentlemen.
08:35Sometimes, science requires tickling the dragon's tail.
08:40As they say.
08:44Two from Oak Ridge.
08:45There's another pair from Hanford.
08:47Louis.
08:48The best and brightest are on their way.
08:51When they heard the...
08:53Well, they didn't hesitate to take the next train.
08:55We're gonna beat this.
08:56Good.
08:57Well, when they get here, you send them in.
08:59I'd love to shake their hands.
09:03I see a sense of humor still intact.
09:04That's a good sign.
09:06Oh, yeah.
09:07Picture of healthier.
09:11About my dad.
09:13And Betty.
09:20Don't worry, Groves.
09:24Well, he isn't completely unreasonable.
09:26He'll cave.
09:27In the meantime, I've got someone on the outside.
09:29They're sending telegrams to Betty and your folks.
09:35And I'd thank Nurse Anna, too.
09:36But she won't give me the white blood cell count now, will she?
09:43I'm sorry.
09:44I'm sorry.
09:48I can't.
09:54Damn it, Lou.
09:59Always did have a way with women.
10:04That bad, huh?
10:08The greatest scientific minds are on their way to solve this.
10:11There's no need to be hopeless.
10:15Well, just remember, when hope fails, let patience hold.
10:22I like that.
10:24Who said it?
10:26Harry did.
10:28Nine months ago.
10:31In this room.
11:01It's all right.
11:02I've done it a thousand times.
11:05And I've got the spacer in.
11:19Not today, Louis.
11:24No, Lou.
11:25Go ahead.
11:27Go on.
11:29Go on.
11:33Lou, what are you gonna do?
11:36What's he gonna do?
11:38Well,
11:40if you're going to replace me, then you need to see
11:43how we do it here at Los Alamos.
11:54I say it.
12:03You know what's he doing?
12:03You can't get up.
12:04But...
12:12You can't do it.
12:12It's just a bit okay.
12:12Do you have any questions?
12:12Can I help her?
12:16Do you have any questions?
12:17Are you gonna get in?
12:17Oh, you know?
12:53So the doctors in Chicago, this dye they claim that could...
13:03I see.
13:06Is there nothing that could be done?
13:08May I hear the doctors say that he doesn't have the abdominal rash?
13:13That's good, right?
13:15I wouldn't know.
13:18He does.
13:21How do you mean?
13:24Harry Daglian.
13:26It was a Tuesday when it got him.
13:30Tuesday, 21st.
13:32Same corps, same building.
13:33Hell, we got him in the same hospital.
13:37How are the others?
13:41They'll live.
13:42Good.
13:44Good.
13:45That was a heroic thing that Lewis did.
13:49And you're gonna say that in your statement?
13:50Not this again.
13:52You know why we can't be transparent?
13:54There'd be endless panic.
13:57This facility has a reputation as the home of the most powerful weapon ever known.
14:04This was an embarrassment.
14:08Steppened thing.
14:09The truth comes out eventually.
14:12Yeah.
14:13And in time, they'll come to know Lewis Slotin as a hero.
14:24In time.
14:31Major, he's my friend.
14:33Yeah, Philip.
14:35He knew what he was dealing with.
14:39We had to handle Harry's passing the same way Lewis knows.
14:42So we let him die alone in agony.
14:50You're his friend, aren't you?
15:04What exactly was her own?
15:07Knocking it apart.
15:08Ending it.
15:09A reflex.
15:10A nanosecond.
15:10Completely avoidable.
15:11I've told you, put the experiment under remote control for months.
15:15Proper radioactive precautions.
15:16You said it yourself.
15:20Have you even tried to notify his father?
15:26No, I thought not.
15:49I have your word.
15:55Mr. Slotin.
16:01Mr. Slotin.
16:03I'm Philip.
16:04It's a pleasure to meet you, sir.
16:05Welcome.
16:06Your son, Lewis.
16:07He's told us.
16:23Why don't you follow me?
16:24My son is, sir.
16:27Oh, my God.
16:32My son, yeah.
16:43I know.
16:47I'm the care the king of the brother.
16:49I'm the care the king of the fellow daughter.
17:11You made it.
17:18A little accident?
17:22No.
17:23Just a bit of a burn.
17:42It's okay.
17:46I'm here.
17:47I'm here.
17:48I'm here.
17:51I'm here.
17:59I'm here.
18:02I'm here.
18:13You're here.
18:23it's bad
18:25I found the rash
18:28I'm unsure of the precise pathology
18:30but the rash it indicates
18:32Mr. Morrison
18:34that was the last time
18:36I am ever going to speak
18:38with my son
18:41yes sir
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18:55possibly get a bottle of whiskey
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