TRON (1982) Edit

A couple of days.

A laser dismantles the molecular structure of the object,

A recognizer.

A user ? That's right.

A user even wrote you !

Aah !

Aah !

Aah !

Aah !

Aah !

Aah !

Aah !

Aah ! No no no no !

Aahh !

Acknowledged. Proceeding towards sector frontier.

Activate hangar doors.

Actually, what we propose to do is to change something into nothing and back again.

Actuarial program. Nice.

After all, computers are just machines. They can't think.

After you.

Ahem. Flynn !

Ahhh !

Alan 1.

Alan 1.

All my functions are now yours. Take them.

All programs have a desire to be useful.

All right, now we take you three months later,

All right, yori. All right.

All that is visible...

And begins writing a program for video games, invented called...

And catch a transport beam to the game domain.

And get me that chinese language file I asked for.

And he had group 7 access.

And he winds up playing space cowboy in some back room.

And molecules remain suspended in the laser beam.

And no mcp looking over your shoulder.

And our spirit remains in every program we designed for this computer.

And read it up on a v.D.T. At the times, would you ?

Another reco and he gets the world's record.

Anything else ? Yes.

Are we there yet, mommy ?

Are you a user ?

Are you all right ?

As long as we stay off the top floor,

Attention all units, lock onto matrix code.

Barely. Yeah, I, uh

Be right up.

Because, man, somewhere in one of these memories is the evidence.

Blue leader to blue bikes. Run these guys into your jet walls.

Boy ! I haven't been here in a long time.

Bring in the logic probe.

Brutal and needlessly sadistic.

Busy dying, you worn out excuse for an old program.

But he might find it. I'm afraid so.

But he's getting trickier all the time.

But I don't see what we're looking for.

But I'm remembering all kinds of stuff,

But in moments, you will no longer seek communication...

But my user told me to go take that sucker out,

But now this is what I get for using humans.

Bye.

Come on !

Come on !

Come on ! We gotta get outta here !

Come on, big fella, let's see what you've got.

Come on, let's go !

Come on, you little bugger.

Come on, you scuzzy data, be in there. Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on. Come on. Where are you ?

Come on. I'll be down in a minute.

Come on. I'm scared of the dark. All this technology scares me.

Command program sark's carrier is approaching.

Commander, you've enjoyed all the power you've been given, haven't you ?

Computers and programs will start thinking, and the people will stop.

Confirmed, alan 1.

Continue pursuit of remaining conscript.

Could make this a free system again.

Damn !

Damn it !

Damn recognizer.

Dedicate yourself to getting the disk into the heart...

Did we make it ?

Did you say group 7 access ? Yeah.

Difficult proposition. Difficult proposition at best.

Dillinger presents encom with five video games...

Do you realize how many outside systems I've gone into ?

Doing our business is what computers are for !

Don't fall asleep. If and when I activate your tron program,

Don't scream. Yori !

Don't spill anything. Huh ?

Don't worry about encom anymore. It's out of your hands now.

Don't worry.

Don't. You'll be de rezzed.

Dumont !

Dumont ! Yori !

Ed, all I'm saying is if our people can't get access to their programs

Embezzling is such an ugly word, mr. Bradley.

Encom isn't the business you started in your garage anymore.

End of line.

End of line.

End of line.

Ever since he got that master control program,

Every tower is lighting up.

Everything you do or learn...

Excuse me. Do you know where flynn is ?

Feel what ? You okay ?

Finish the game !

First, rezz up the carrier for pursuit.

Flying all over the system in a stolen simulation.

Flynn ? Yes.

Flynn had access to you too.

Flynn has been thinking about breaking into the system ever since dillinger canned him.

Flynn,

Flynn, are you embezzling ?

Flynn's gonna be a part of history, all right !

Forget it, mr. High and mighty master control.

Frustrating. I had tron almost ready...

Get the pursuit forces back into the canyons. Those programs never made it out.

Get them !

Give the kid a little room.

Go right ahead.

Go up ahead. Make yourselves at home.

God, and that was my best program.

Gold 3 to gold 2 and 1. I'm getting out of here now and you guys are invited.

Good evening, mr. Dillinger.

Got a pirate program here. Says his name's clu.

Great. You're kidding me ?

Greetings, programs !

Greetings.

Guest of the master control program.

Had enough ?

Halt !

Halt. Dumont.

Hang in there, ram. This looks like a good spot.

Hate to disappoint you, pal, but most of the time, that's the way it is for users too.

Have fun, sweetheart.

Have you been sneaking into the encom system ?

Have you been sneaking into the encom system ?

He calls me. May I pass ?

He came here to help us.

He came into the system with a stolen password.

He gets a big, fat promotion.

He pushed me in the real world.

He saved us. He really did it.

He started small, and he'll end small.

He thinks.

He threw himself into the beam and distracted the mcp...

He was disoriented in transport, tron.

He will explain the training procedures.

He's a full branch manager. Great. Another religious nut !

He's creating a junction.

He's not any kind of program, sark, he's a user.

He's so bright, he starts going in at night,

He's still looking for that old file. Can't you just appropriate it ?

Help tron.

Help tron.

Helping folks plan for their future needs.

Hey !

Hey ! I

Hey, alan. You think I could have some of your popcorn ?

Hey, flynn, how'd you do it ?

Hey, good to see you guys.

Hey, look. You guys are gonna make my user, mr. Henderson, very angry.

Hey, ram,

Hey, what's been going on in the other sectors ?

Hey, what's going on ?

Hey, who's that guy ?

Hey, you okay ? You don't look so good.

Hey.

Hi, dr. Gibbs.

Hi. Hi. Working late ?

Hmm.

Hold it right there !

Hold it.

How ? Why did you bring me back ?

How are you gonna run the universe if you can't answer a few unsolvable problems ?

How did you know ?

How many programs I've appropriated ?

How's it going upstairs ?

How's the world of serious science ?

Hurray for our side.

I can arrange more lethal matches.

I can explain everything, okay ?

I can run things 900 to 1,200 times better than any human.

I can't afford to have an independent programmer monitoring me.

I can't sit here and worry about every little user request that comes in.

I can't stand this commotion. What do you want ?

I do the thinking around here.

I don't believe this.

I don't believe this.

I don't even balance my checkbook on downtime.

I don't even know what I'm doing here.

I don't know what you ever saw in that guy, anyway.

I don't know. A user, I mean

I don't see a dime, except what I squeeze outta here.

I don't see why I have to do that guy any favors.

I don't think I'm cleared for this.

I don't wanna bust out of here and find nothing but a lot of cold circuits waiting for me.

I feel a presence. Another warrior is on the mesa.

I feel so much better.

I get nothing on there. There's a big blank.

I got it. Steer us over by the beam.

I guess I'm still with you.

I have been doing a little hacking, as a matter of fact.

I have been doing a little hacking, as a matter of fact.

I have to get to that input/output tower,

I have. I put it in my memory, which he hasn't located.

I hope you don't think it's me.

I just gotta find you a place to rest.

I know, sir. This isn't correcting my bank statement...

I know.

I know. This will narrow your theory that the scanned u v beam...

I need a little bit of relaxation.

I need your help. Come on !

I ought to know my way around the lightcycle. I wrote the program.

I play video games better than anybody.

I said, move !

I sent you a memo on it.

I spotted him this time and kept him out,

I still don't understand why you want to break into the system.

I still have power. Sark doesn't know that.

I sympathize, but I have data coming from the master control program...

I think the guard saw me.

I think they're breaking in.

I think we should shut down all access...

I thought this was supposed to be easy.

I understand. Now, I wrote you.

I want those conscripts !

I want to get rid of this dead weight,

I was an actuarial program.

I was this close to starting my own little enterprise.

I went out to check on t bill rates, I ran out of breath.

I wonder how you'd take to working in a pocket calculator.

I work at a savings and loan. I can't play these video games.

I worked for a big insurance company.

I'd love to go up against one of those guys.

I'd say, "welcome, friend," but not here, not like this.

I'll be lucky if the mcp doesn't blast me into a dead zone.

I'll probably never meet him.

I'll try to cover you from this end. Go !

I'm a program from a user that knows alan.

I'm all in one piece.

I'm certainly not. You wanna move aside ?

I'm gonna have to put you on the game grid.

I'm gonna jump.

I'm gonna meet you in your office upstairs.

I'm gonna stay around, put some data through. See you tomorrow.

I'm just a compound interest program.

I'm on it.

I'm ram.

I'm sorry.

I'm taking our friend here...

I'm warning you, you're entering a big error, flynn.

I've been hoping you'd send me somebody with a little bit of guts.

I've been stuck here for 200 microcycles.

I've come to communicate with my user.

I've got a direct terminal in the laser target area.

I've got a little challenge for you, sark; a new recruit.

I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then.

If he thinks you're useful, he takes over all your functions so he gets bigger.

If I can just get us on the scanning transport beam,

If I got in far enough I could reconstruct it.

If I had a direct terminal

If the users can no longer help us, we're lost.

If those grid bugs get us, we've had it.

If you are a user,

If you lose your disk or fail to follow commands,

If you think you're superior to us

If you've seen one consumer electronics show, you've seen them all.

Immediate vectors detached.

Incompetent zero. Now you've got two renegade programs...

Incredible.

Interested ? Sure.

Is he de rezzing ?

Is superior to single pulse exposure.

Is that all you can say ?

It all looked so easy.

It shouldn't be harder than any other big company.

It'd make a nice break from those accounting cream puffs you keep sending me.

It'll come back to you.

It'll only be a couple of days. What's the project you're working on ?

It's a tough case, but but I want him treated in the usual manner.

It's begun.

It's called tron. It's a security program itself, actually.

It's murder out there.

It's my fault. I programmed you to want too much.

It's the only way to help tron.

It's too bad he's in a match now.

It's too late for that ! Dillinger's cut off everybody with group 7 access.

Just briefly. Security.

Leave me alone. We've failed.

Let him fight one of his own kind.

Let him hope for a while, then blow him away.

Let's get this show on the road.

Let's move out !

Like a man says, "there's no problems, only solutions."

Like my user wants me to go after the mcp.

Limited four and eight are missing.

Listen ! We have to make plans.

Look at that !

Look out !

Look, if this is about those parking tickets,

Look, just so I can tell my friends...

Looks good. Let her rip.

Lora ?

Lora.

Losing flynn.

Make it easy on yourself. Who's your user ?

Many brave plans. Please, dumont !

Mark, 45. 48 degrees.

Master control program's been snapping up all us programs who believe.

Meanwhile, kids are putting eight million quarters a week into paranoid machines.

Missed !

More guards.

Move on !

Move out ! This way.

Moving into next sector.

Must grow beyond itself,

My friends, my fellow conscripts, we have scored.

My password, dillinger's instructions to divert the data

My password, dillinger's instructions to divert the data

My user has information that could

My user wants that too.

Name's flynn.

New guy ?

Nice !

No !

No ! I must've gotten in there by mistake.

No problem, master c.

No sign of life. Looks like we got 'em.

No, actually, I'm trying to get some solid evidence together.

No, but I couldn't tell you why not.

No, I

No, it'll run independently and watchdog the mcp as well.

No, it's, uh, no big deal.

No.

No.

No.

Not disintegrating, digitizing.

Not if my tron program was running. That'd shut the system down.

Not so young, not so bright, but very, very sneaky;

Now flynn is saying to look over in here,

Now for some real user power.

Now that is a big door. Shut up.

Now we're smokin' !

Of the mcp.

Of the mcp.

Oh !

Oh, great.

Oh, I don't remember too much.

Oh, I know all that.

Oh, it's nice.

Oh, man, this isn't happening. It only thinks it's happening.

Oh, my user !

Okay, come here.

Okay, here's an easy one.

Okay, let me handle this.

Okay.

Okay.

Old enough to remember the mcp when it was a chess program.

On the other side of the screen,

One night, our boy flynn, he goes to his terminal, tries to read up his file.

One of encom's brightest young software engineers.

One other thing. Don't think anymore.

One second !

Or I'm never getting out of here.

Or phone bill problem this is a must.

Out of this domain, back into the central computer.

Paranoids, matrix blaster, vice squad a whole slew of 'em.

Part of the master control program ?

Perfect ! [ coworkers clapping ]

Pick me up in an hour. Thanks.

Please, don't take

Positive and negative, huh ? You're a bit.

Prepare all programs for war games.

Prepare for digital beam transport.

Prepare hangar for game simulation transport.

Prepare to terminate.

Pretty good drivin', huh ? Oh !

Priority one !

Program alu, request additional information for sector two.

Pursuit force minus one tank. Close ranks.

Pursuit force reporting.

Pursuit force reporting. No sign of escaped units.

Pursuit force reporting. Two escaped units de rezzed.

Put him with the others ?

Put on your goggles. Leave the bay.

Ram !

Ram ?

Ram ?

Ram, flynn, do you read me ?

Range, 9.

Really gives you a great feeling...

Right next to it.

Right. Mm hmm.

Route us to the mcp.

Sark ?

Send out every game tank in the grid.

Senior exec ?

Sets up his own private memory file...

Sherman, set the way back machine for three years ago.

Sir, conscript being moved from pit cell to ring game.

Slave, it doesn't matter.

So are you, one that should have been erased.

So, we have erased that program

Some programs will be thinking soon.

Someone with that access has been tampering.

Somewhere in here, lost in one of his games.

Sounds good.

Space paranoids.

Split up. Take them one on one.

Stay close.

Stop ! Please.

Stranger and stranger.

Suit yourself.

Sure you can, pal. You look like a natural athlete if I ever saw one.

Sure, a little disorientation, that's normal in transport.

Take him !

Take that program to the holding pit.

Take that program to the holding pit.

Taking him into the maze.

Tampering ?

Target units accelerating !

Ten seconds.

Than to have religious discussions with you.

Thank you, but no buts. That's for users.

Thank you, dumont. Hurry ! The users are waiting.

Thank you, master control.

Thank you, peter. You can go now.

Thank you. I can feel it.

Thanks.

That he's invented.

That mcp, that's half our problem right there.

That was a very fancy shot.

That was uncalled for.

That will erase the mcp and change the system.

That... Is just...

That's nice.

That's the spirit. Keep that tank rolling.

That's the way it is for programs, yes.

That's what you're doing here.

That's your name, isn't it ? The name of my user.

The cost is really quite minimal.

The guards are coming.

The guy knows what you're up to.

The mcp is the most efficient way of handling what we do !

The mcp, it's the heart of the whole system.

The new guy was asking about you.

The pentagon ?

The same thing I want with the kremlin. I'm bored with corporations.

The slime didn't even change the names, man !

The system's got more bugs than a bait store.

The tower guardian is helping him.

Then pull yourself together. Get this clown trained.

Then, when the computer plays out the model,

There isn't another junction for seven or eight nanoseconds.

There they are with the guardian.

There you are. Clu ? Yes, sir.

There's a 68.71% chance you're right. Cute.

There's been a mistake. I've gotta see the guy in charge.

There's just three of us.

There's nothing special about you. You're just an ordinary program.

There's too many !

These walls yori, something's happening.

They don't see us. I'll go first.

They hate this tower. They'd close it down if they dared.

They'd better be.

Thing just goes straight.

This baby doesn't handle so good in town. No.

This code disk means freedom.

This far.

This interface is located at its base.

This is flynn. The one who busted me out.

This is it. Come on.

This is it. It's all over.

This is just like the old arcade grips.

This is the holding area for the lightcycles.

This is the key to a new order.

This is what we've been waiting for.

This is where tron said he was going.

This means you.

This ship and everything that remains on board...

This solar sail simulation will take us across the game sea,

This superstitious and hysterical belief,

This way !

This way, quickly.

Those demons are coming down.

Those of you who continue to profess a belief in the users...

Those of you who renounce...

Those tanks won't find us here.

Thus begins his meteoric rise to what is he now ?

To serve your system on the game grid.

Tonight we check everything in the right hand column.

TouchÈ.

Train him for the games,

Tron !

Tron ?

Tron ?

Tron believed in him.

Tron's dead.

Twenty seconds.

Uh oh ! We've got company.

Uh, I'm fine. No problem.

Until we find that flynn, just to be safe.

Until you get to a pure source.

User requests are what computers are for.

Users are users. They

Vacate entry port, program.

Very funny, dumont. Maybe I should keep you around just to make me laugh.

Video game unit 18. In here, program.

Video game warriors escaping game grid. This is an illegal exit.

Video warriors, look at the I/o towers.

Wait ! I need that !

Wait a minute. I wrote you !

Wait a minute. If we can get in there,

Wait.

Wait. Wait. What are you saying ?

Want me to slow down your power cycles for you ?

Wants to deal with the other world once in a while.

Watch it. Watch it.

Watch out for nested macros.

We can't get to the mcp...

We did it !

We don't have much time to find that file. This is top priority.

We gotta stop this thing ! Yes !

We gotta talk.

We have one of the most sophisticated pieces of equipment in existence.

We have transport.

We lost visual contact with escaped units. Awaiting further orders.

We made it...

We should have you running in a couple of days. I hope.

We thought you were dead.

We will not be able to communicate again unless you succeed.

We'd better, null unit.

We'll get them. It's only a matter of time.

We'll get you fixed up. Hang on. Come here.

We'll have them back in no time, sir, long before the interrupt interface.

We're getting closer.

We're gonna make it, ram.

We're only gonna fail if we give up ! Come on, look, the wall !

We've had to shut down all group 7 personnel.

We've kidnapped some military programs.

Well ? Shall we dance ?

Well, good. Check in with alan. Maybe he knows what's

Well, here goes nothing.

Well, I I was just

Well, if you know anybody who's got an army for rent, that's fine,

Well, then I owe him some thanks.

Well, you know how frustrating it is when you're working on a piece of research.

What ?

What a hassle. I was all set.

What branch of the service ? Strategic air command.

What do you want ? I'm busy.

What do you want with the pentagon ?

What for ? To warn him.

What good will that do ?

What I need right now.

What if I can't ?

What is this ?

What kind of program is he ?

What program ?

What this dream is about, okay, where am I ?

What were you, you know, before ?

What's happening ? Power surge in the mcp.

What's that ?

What's the matter, sark ? You look nervous.

What's the progress on the simulation ?

What's this do ? How 'bout this one ? No. No.

What's up ?

What's your name ? Crom.

What's your name ? My name's ram.

When did they put this in ? This is where I work.

When dillinger cut everyone with group 7 access out of the system.

When I disembark,

Where can we go ?

Where did you hear that name ?

Where's flynn ? It was incredible.

Where's ram ?

Where's the program ?

Where's your program ? Isn't he gonna miss you ?

Who are these weirdos ? Inoperative data pushers.

Who are you guys ? Hold it !

Who does he calculate he is ?

Who you calling program, program ?

Who, me ? Are you kidding ?

Who's that ? That is a user, dumont.

Why, I could be de rezzed just for letting you in here.

Will automatically de rezz.

Will be eligible to join the warrior elite...

Will be imprinted on this disk.

Will receive the standard substandard training,

With each other or your superfluous users.

With the information I can access,

Without permission from master control program.

Without the help of my user.

Wow.

Yeah, but you've got to purchase your program 30 days in advance.

Yeah, he's over there on his machine.

Yeah, interesting. You hear what you just said ?

Yeah, sure.

Yeah, sure. If I don't have a user, then who wrote me ?

Yeah, that's great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. Let's do that some more.

Yes ? What do you mean, "yes" ?

Yes yes yes yes yes !

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. I taught you everything about the system.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yori.

Yori.

You all right ?

You are going to stick with me ? What for ?

You brought me back.

You can remove men like alan and me from the system, but we helped create it.

You can see why all his friends are 14 years old.

You can stay there all night if you have to.

You can't even travel around in your own microcircuits...

You can't hear yourself think in here. Come on.

You gotta be good if you wanna survive.

You gotta expect some static.

You guys know what it's like.

You guys sure are friendly.

You hear many promises, many reassurances,

You invented space paranoids ?

You keep doing what it looks like you're supposed to, no matter how crazy it seems.

You know, if your file was in there

You may pass, my friend.

You might just as well have said, "here goes something, here comes nothing."

You might. There's something different about him.

You must return to game grid. Repeat, this is an illegal exit.

You must return to the grid. Gold 2 to gold 3.

You realize I can't allow this ?

You really think the users are still there ?

You see this ?

You should have joined me. We'd have made a great team.

You shouldn't be able to do that.

You think we can merge with this memory, bit ?

You two having fun disintegrating things ?

You wanna watch those force fields.

You will be subject to immediate de resolution.

You will each receive an identity disk.

You will.

You wouldn't dare !

You wouldn't want me to dig up flynn's file...

You wrote the program ? It's time I level with you.

You, you come this way.

You'd have programs lined up to use this place,

You'd rather take your chances with me ?

You'll be having plenty of chances to get hurt. Don't worry about that.

You'll only have a few minutes to use it before dillinger catches the break in security.

You're a...

You're dogged and relentless, remember ? Let me at 'em.

You're nothing.

You're the best program that's ever been written.

You're the one who never needed help, remember ?

You've almost reached your decision gate,

Your user can't help you now, my little program.

30, 56, 99 are correct.

30, 56, 99 are correct.

999,000 points !

[ mcp ] who programmed you ? I was simp

alan ! I mean, not that often.

executive v.P. ? senior exec ?

get out of here ! yes yes yes.

greetings, program. you're alive !

hey, flynn, you made it ! wait here.

I don't get it. okay.

I have an abacus at home for that. I'm sure you understand.

I'm what you guys call a user. you're a user ?

no ! kill him.

no. I'm your program.

ready ? ready.

she still leave her clothes all over the floor ? no.

she still leave her clothes all over the floor ? no.

sit down. thank you.

so long, sucker ! aah !

there's another beam ! it's too far.

watch it ! aah !

what's this game called ? this is lightcycle.

yes. another mouth to feed.

you did break in. tried to.

you were de rezzed. not me, sark.

you won ! alan.

you're very persistent. I'm also better than you.

"here goes nothing." well, what I meant was

[ alan ] good luck, hotshot.

[ alan ] I am creating the information on your disk...

[ alan ] tron, location query. Confirm.

[ beeping ]

[ bit ] no no no no !

[ boy ] all right, give me room. Here we go.

[ boy ] he's going for the record. The all time record coming up.

[ boy ] he's really on a roll ! One more reco before he ties.

[ chuckle ] no, really !

[ chuckles ] the best programmer encom ever saw,

[ chuckles ] won't that be grand ?

[ clears throat ]

[ computer voice ] prepare to transport to lightcycle grid.

[ dillinger ] I shut down group 7 for a very good reason.

[ dr. Gibbs ] this is the big moment.

[ flynn ] here comes a headache.

[ flynn ] I should never have written all those tank programs.

[ flynn ] I'm glad you agree !

[ flynn ] okay, clu,

[ flynn ] they never should have gotten rid of me.

[ flynn ] what is it ? What do you see ?

[ footsteps ]

[ game beeping ]

[ girl ] hey, bobby, up here.

[ groans ]

[ groans ] tell the guy with the jackhammer to lay off.

[ guard ] move out.

[ laughing ]

[ laughing ]

[ laughs ] you wish.

[ lora ] I want to go to flynn's place.

[ lora ] let's see if we've got the green light.

[ master control program ] what did he pull ?

[ master control program ] you're getting brutal, sark.

[ mcp ] get me dillinger.

[ mcp ] I want him in the games until he dies playing.

[ mcp ] I was planning to hit the pentagon next week.

[ mcp ] I'd like to go against you and see what you're made of.

[ mcp ] keep those programers out of the system,

[ mcp ] mr. Dillinger, I'm so very disappointed in you.

[ mcp ] sark ?

[ mcp ] sit right there. Make yourself comfortable.

[ mcp ] you're in trouble, program.

[ ram ] got it.

[ sark ] dumont ?

[ sark ] more power !

[ tron ] boy, you forget how good the power feels...

[ tron ] control programs ! Come on.

[ tron ] this is gold 1 to gold 2 and 3.

[ whistles ] I hope you make it.

[ yori ] this isn't going to be easy.

∂ [ music ] [ chattering ]