1:16:00
But you've got billions committed
to the internal combustion engine.
1:16:04
Omnitech makes spark plugs,
you want to go on making spark plugs.
1:16:08
There's money in carburetors,
you want to go on making carburetors.
1:16:12
You've got vested interests
in 16 oil companies,
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you want to go on selling gas.
1:16:17
You have one noble purpose,
Mr. Richards:
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To keep things the way they are.
1:16:22
Look, an idea
doesn't just turn into a reality.
1:16:26
Something's got to make it happen.
1:16:28
It takes money to build factories,
grind out a product, advertise it, sell it.
1:16:33
Did you ever hear of a box of cereal
or a tube of toothpaste
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going out and giving birth to itself?
Do you know what it takes?
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- Capital.
- Capital! You're damn right!
1:16:43
And I'm not going to commit
my corporation to the expenditure
1:16:46
of millions of dollars
on an idea that just doesn't work.
1:16:50
That you say doesn't work.
1:16:52
Look! Thomas Edison
dreamed up the electric light bulb.
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The government gave him a patent so
that he could profit from his invention.
1:17:00
Fine! But the light itself
belongs to everybody.
1:17:03
And nobody, nobody has a right
to turn on the darkness.
1:17:08
You dare accuse me, my company,
1:17:11
my companies of practices
that belong in the Dark Ages. I...
1:17:14
Then let there be light! Come out
of the dark, Donald Richards!
1:17:19
Who are you? What do you look like?
Where have you been?
1:17:24
Holy Christ, you know what I think?
I think you're dead, Donald Richards.
1:17:28
I think you've been dead for a long
time. Eight, maybe ten years.
1:17:32
It's been that long since anyone
has seen you.
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And if you are dead,
who is running Omnitech?
1:17:38
Who actually holds all that power?
1:17:40
Some cabal of faceless men
without names, without fingerprints,
1:17:44
without Social Security numbers, who
are compounding your suppression
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of the momentum engine
by hiding behind a dead man?
1:17:51
- Why would anybody wanna do that?
- Hell of a lot of reasons.
1:17:55
Dodge inheritance taxes,
avoid a power struggle,
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hang on to government contracts.