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- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
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What's the matter? No, you--
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They call it the Vacant Sea.
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None ofthe major sea lanes
go through it...
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and you could bury the entire land mass
ofAsia there, and nobody would know.
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From there,
they could attack anywhere.
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Our last signals intercept indicate
that theJapanese task force...
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is heading south, toward
the Philippines or Southeast Asia.
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But Captain Thurman
of Naval Intelligence here...
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has his own theory
about the missing ships.
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Sir, I believe they'll try to hit us
where it'll hurt us the most--
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Pearl Harbor.
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That's over 4,000 nautical miles
fromJapan.
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To Pearl, that's a long distance
to steam a navy, Captain.
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Your theory--
It's based on what?
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Well, it's what I would do.
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It's not exactly hard evidence,
Captain Thurman.
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Well, Admiral, if I had hard evidence,
we'd already be at war.
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Sir, we can read their diplomatic
codes faster than they can type them.
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But Captain Thurman's cryptology team is
still trying to crack the naval codes.
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The intercepts have missing words
and garbled lines.
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So to explain the decrypts...
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we have to try to interpret
what we think they're trying to do.
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Interpret? You mean, guess.
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They use their
informed intuition, sir.
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We guess. It's like
playing chess in the dark.
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Any rumour, troop movement, ship
movement, spine tingle, goosebump...
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we pay attention to it.
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When I was in the Asiatic fleet,
the locals used to try to...
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get outside ofa problem
to try to see the inside.
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Well, I see a strike on Pearl.
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It's the worst thing
that could happen.
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A blow to Pearl would devastate the
Pacifiic Fleet's ability to make war.
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So, sir, you would have us
mobilize the entire fleet...
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at the cost
of millions ofdollars...
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based on this spine-tingling
feeling ofyours?
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No, sir. I understand myjob
is to gather and interpret material.
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Making diffiicult decisions
based on incomplete information...
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from my limited decoding ability
is yourjob, sir.
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Then break the damn naval code, Captain,
so I can make a better decision.
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Aye, sir. We are trying.