- Do not dwell in the past.
Do not dream of the future.
Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
My name is Smith.
Welcome to Flatland.
- When I first met the devil, his name was Khan.
Mine, Saint Michael.
The war for the soul of mankindhas raged for 3,000 years.
The battleground today is Shanghai.
I have forced three young Americans to work for me.
JT, a gang banger,
Mr. Mitchell, a failed mob lawyer,
and Amy Lee, a beautiful young woman.
They will ultimately discover the history
when present and past collide
and when one misstep on either side
of the fourth dimension is fatal.
In the world of Flatland,
where nothing is as it appears to be.
My name is Smith.
Welcome to Flatland.
- Where is he?
- He'll be here.
- It's your ass if he isn't.
I could have unloaded that stuff in Europe two weeks ago.
- Mr. Watson.
- Yeah?
- I'm Jagger.
You have the sample?
- Right here.
- How many?
- .
- I hope they're still good.
I'll take 'em all.
You prepared?
- Prepared for what?
- This little experiment
is gonna attract an awful lot of attention.
- Anybody alive?
- I don't think so.
It looks like the whole village got wiped out.
Still pretty hot, probably a nerve agent.
Rapid grade of action.
Judging by the lividity, it all happened a few hours ago.
Sir, over there.
- On three.
- Damn!
Oh no, let me get help.
- What's thematter?
Everything's fine.
Let's get this canister to the shop
and see what we've got.
We need to set up a mark.
We have an airborne agent stillactive.
We have to burn this place .
- Arrin, you all right?
Answer me.
Aaron, what the hell's going on?
Aaron, answer me.
Aaron!
- JT?
JT!
Man, the elevator's stuck.
- I like it that way.
- You would.
- What do you want?
- Well, I thought I'd come by and say hello.
- Nobody's home.
- Come on, man.
Just give me a break here.
- Oh, that's cool.
What do you want me to break?
Your leg, your neck?
- Smith called, he says he wants to see us.
- Yeah, I know.
That's why I'm leaving, okay?
I'll talk to you later.
- JT.
- He was a good soldier.
More important, he was a good friend.
It's a filthy business.
Ancient is war, poison the wells.
Fling the corpses over the castle wall.
Spread the plague, invent mustard gas anthrax,
ancient orange, saran, VX.
That gentlemen is one of the legacies of mankind.
They'll look for a higher form of killing.
- Is that what the stuff came in?
- A date 1943.
In them were an experimental classified airborne agents.
They were stored in the Philippines and Subic Bay.
And when the Japanese were about ready to invade,
the navy took the canisters,
put 'em in a transport,
shipped 'em out to ports unknown.
They ended up at the bottom of the south China sea,
thanks to a typhoon named Tillyor Milly or some damn name.
- Well, who found them?
- Now if I knew that would I be asking you?
Have a nice day.
- Good morning.
- Not so far.
- Was it something I said?
- No,
it's probably something he said.
- Smith, great.
I think we need a man's opinion.
Good morning.
And don't tell me it isn't
because I think I found the perfect outfit.
- For the wedding on Saturday.
- People are still getting married?
- In the real world.
- I'm glad I'm not part of it.
- What do you think?
I love the color but is it too sexy
for a third date?
- I don't think you should get married on a third date.
- I'm not, it's a friend of his.
And I think it's a very criticalevent in our relationship.
- I think it's a grand slam.
I think you look great.
- Great is not good enough.
The deal is to lay him out, makehim nuts,
and reduce him to jelly.
- It just needs a finishing touch.
- Where did you get it?
- I had it copied from an old drawing.
It used to belong to a very, very dear friend of mine,
a long time ago.
What do you think?
- It's beautiful.
- I love it.
- I'm glad you like it.
- It's beautiful.
- I'm glad you like it.
- But do you really have to go?
- Just one last trade
in the West Indies.
Then I sail back home for betterdays.
And silver linings?
- Gold at the end of the rainbow.
- Promises kept.
Do you know how much I love you?
- Who woulda thunk after all these years,
still had the power to get 'em?
My hats off to him.
- Living isn't fair.
Now living ones you love.
I die a little each time I thinkabout it.
And you revel in it, don't you?
Death, destruction, .
Take the other people along.
- Can't even I please?
Tell Mr. Watson we got a hiccup.
And he needs to take care of it.
- There she is.
Ah, we should party.
You look great.
- Thanks.
- You know what, we really gotta go out some time.
- What in the world would she want
to go out in public with a fool like you for?
- 'Cause I'm smart, handsome, intelligent.
I've memorized the whole Kama Sutra.
- John Watson, Arthur Lebinsky.
- They were on the transport ship carrying the containers.
Records say they settled in Shanghai after World War II.
- Damn, they gotta be over 70 years old.
Did the record say anything about them still being alive?
- We haven't found those recordsyet.
- Did I mention that I love thattop?
- You never give up, do you?
- Not when the prize is so delicious.
- You should meet my cousin.
I'll introduce you.
Everyone says she has a great personality.
- That's chick code for fat andnasty.
- That's code for are these people still alive?
- American consulate.
- Stood our game.
- So you think Linda's seeing anybody?
Come on, man, it's a yes or no question.
Easy, even for you.
- The odds don't look too good to me.
- Look guys,
there really must be some kind of mistake.
- Come on.
- You can run but you can't hide.
You going somewhere?
- How'd you get up here so fast?
What are you?
- Give it up man.
And I'll tell you what.
You tell me who sent you, I won't hurt you.
Oh, you don't want to do that.
You really don't want to do that.
Just give me a name.
- Ah!
- Hang on, I'll get you.
Damn.
Who is it?
- It's John Watson.
It's the guy we're looking for.
- Wait a minute.
This dude is 28.
It says here he should be 80.
- You know something?
The world may just end tomorrow.
How is one known?
May as well keep on dancing.
- Listen man, it's not likewe askin'
for classified secrets.
All we want to do is find one dude.
- I'm sorry.
I cannot give out information regarding American citizens,
not unless you're a relative or a government official.
- All right, then he's my cousin.
I doubt it.
- Don't be smart.
I will bitch slap you.
- Hey, come on, man.
- Are you threatening me?
- Breathe.
Show some respect for a civil servant.
Okay?
- Hi, Benton Mitchell, New YorkCity.
Where are you from?
- San Francisco.
- San Francisco, that's a greattown.
I bet you root for the 49ers, huh?
- I hate baseball.
- I spend a lot of time .
- Do you have a question?
Or do you just want to compare travel itineraries?
- I'm gonna slap your glasses off your face.
- Man, come on.
Something we know how to do.
- I'll kick his ass too.
- Let's try a different approach, okay?
- What the hell are you doing?
- Watch and learn.
Hey this is Mitchell.
I'm having a little trouble overhere
at the consulate.
I was wondering if you might speak to Mr. Fenton for us?
This is my boss, Mr. Smith.
- Yeah, hello?
- Your name is Fenton, my name is Smith.
You're GS1, I'm NSA2, get it?
- Yes, sir.
- Now, you're gonna tell myfriends what they want to know.
- Oh, I will, sir.
- Anything else?
- No, thank you sir.
All righty then.
What was the name of the personyou were looking for again?
- Some of the servants, they canbe a joy.
- Low pay, hard work.
- Not as hard as mine.
- Can I ask you a question?
- You will anyway.
- When do you decide to be Smith
and when do you decide to be Uncle?
- It's not a decision.
I just go with the flow.
- Okay.
- Tell me about the canisters.
- Lab says it's something they've never seen.
A new generation.
It can trigger selective enzymereactions.
- I love tech talk but what doesit mean?
- You can make it diet sensitive
and target ethnic populations.
- Designer death device pool?
Ah, better killing through chemistry.
We've come a long way, baby.
Is there anyway to stop it?
- Oh, you can put it off for a while
with a damp towel and some water,
but otherwise the victims never know what hit them.
Are you all right?
- I just got a lot on my mind.
- Anything I can do to help?
Well, thanks again for the cameo.
- Oh, by the way, how did that work out?
- Oh, it was a third date syndrome.
We got in a fight at the reception.
- That's good.
That means you won't be getting married soon
and I won't be losing you.
- Yeah.
- I love to watch you swim.
I love to watch you do a lot ofthings.
Before that take a look here.
Till death do us part.
Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
I have a little job for you.
I want you to find her, follow her.
Every move.
I want to know everything.
What are you jealous?
Good.
I know you'll do exactly as I want.
- He hasn't called you yet?
- Nope.
- All right, what happened?
- Well, at the reception we had a few drinks
and Mr. Terrific tells me he's married.
- He's married?
- He thinks it's over and blah, blah, blah.
- You didn't sleep with him, didyou?
- No.
Why is it that just when you think you found paradise,
it turns out to be a no tell motel
that wants to rent rooms by thehour?
- Come on, there are some five star resorts out there.
- I spent a lot of money on thatdress.
- Think of what it coulda cost you.
- I'm never gonna go on a date again.
I'll just go to the movies and dinner by myself.
I know I'll never get married,
unless of course I meet someone like Smith.
He musta' been a real catch when he was young.
- Was he ever married?
- I don't know.
I never heard him talk about it.
- Where you going?
- Shopping.
I think I'll max out some plastic.
- Well, when the going gets tough.
- Yeah.
- Anybody home?
- You say no.
- We don't want to hurt you, we just want to talk.
- Why shouldn't I shoot you?
- 'Cause you don't have a magazine.
And there's none in your pipe, man.
- I knew someone would come.
- Come for what?
- The whole thing was Johnny Juni's idea.
He read me Teddy.
- Who's Johnny Juni?
- Johnny Watson Junior.
He dead died last year.
We read you off of a sheet.
That's how we knew the canistersworked.
- Let me get this straight.
You knew Johnny Juni is dead knew where the canisters were.
You got 'em, you brought 'em back?
Johnny Juni wiped out a whole village of people?
- No, we saw them.
We sold all the loads of stuff.
- Sold it to who?
- I don't know his name.
- Could you come with us?
ID a photo.
- I could try.
- Let's go.
- I'm sorry.
God forgive me.
- Classy chick.
- Mmm, Smith always had a tastefor women.
Not like mine of course.
I'm more conventional to the point of boredom.
- So when do you want it done?
- Tonight.
Make it fun.
It's time to close the circle, balance the scale.
Settle a little debt.
Put that on her.
- This supposed to mean something?
- It means if you live long enough,
you'll see that history has a way of playing out.
Reaching a balance.
It's about payback.
- You must really hate her.
- She doesn't mean a thing.
It's all about him, which means it's all about me.
Smith and I are a circle, Mr. Jessem.
A moon gate.
- You know each other pretty well.
Sure you weren't' friends at onetime?
- The best.
But sometimes friends make the best enemies.
I think I'd like to see my old friend.
Watch him suffer.
- I can't believe you guys.
- What?
- Lebinsky, Watson Junior, whoever he was, both dead.
- But we didn't even know who they were.
- Smith doesn't care about whatyou know.
He's gonna go ballistic about what you don't know.
- Fair enough.
But there were four clowns on a motorcycle.
- All you had to do was grab one.
- Sure, just grab one.
They were trying to kill us.
Why are you acting like we screwed up?
- Because you did.
Somebody is going to a lot of trouble
to protect those canisters
and a lot more people are goingto die
unless they're stopped.
- So what do you wantus to do?
- We'll figure something out.
- Good, do it fast.
- What's the matter with her?
I've never seen her like that.
- You know man, those bikes have bore out heads.
- Whoopee.
- That makes it sound totally different.
- So.
- Only a greaser would know what he's doing.
If we find him, we find the bikes,
then we find the guy.
- You sure this is it?
- Got the right plates.
- How'd you know he's here?
- Still warm.
- What are you doing?
- Watch and learn.
You own the white bike with the bored out heads?
- Yes.
What's going on?
- A cab just came by and hit your bike, man.
- What?
- It hit it hard.
Who do you work for?
- Who are you working for?
- Your mother.
- Why'd you kill the old man?
- I didn't kill anybody.
- This could take a while.
- That's okay, I've got all day.
- Let's take him down to Shanghai police.
Let them ask him some questions.
Get moving.
- Ah!
- See now that's what I call service.
What do you gotta do to get a drink around here?
May I have one martini, two olives,
whatever my friend's having minus his bad day.
- You can tell, huh?
- You kidding me?
I've seen people at a funeral that are happier than you.
Some days you just want to start all over, don't you?
- Some days?
Try whole years.
Maybe whole lifetimes.
- What'd you have a bad day at work?
- You might say that.
- You know, my father used to say,
get into the hardware business,son.
- Why that?
- You own a hammer?
- Yeah, I probably got a bunch of them
lying around some place.
- You see, that's my point.
You got a bunch and you only need one.
Probably got the same withscrewdrivers, pliers, wrenches.
The hardware business, it's a good business
and no worries.
- Did you take your daddy's advice?
- No, no I didn't.
I'm actually between jobs rightnow.
Looking for ways to conquer theworld,
turn things upside down.
- Well, you're young.
You got plenty of time.
- Maybe not as much time as youmay think.
- That's true.
Hey, to better days.
- Silver linings.
- And gold at the end of the rainbow.
- Promises kept.
- It's beautiful.
- Try to conquer the world.
Turn things upside down.
- Two eyewitnesses put you at the scene.
Found the murder weapon in yourapartment.
- I don't know anything.
- I do.
You're gonna get the death penalty.
- I heard someone say the cylinders were headed
for the subway system.
- Where in the subway?
- I don't know.
Wherever, it's too late to stopit.
- What do you mean?
- He's going down right now.
- Do we need to go shut it down?
- No one goes down without a suit.
This is not a dress rehearsal, people.
Make one mistake and you're history.
Is that understood?
- Yes, sir!
- Good luck.
- Amy, what's going on?
- I'm on my second platform.
Haven't seen anything else.
It's pretty dark on the tracks.
- Any people?
- Everyone's out.
Anyone find Linda yet?
- We left messages.
JT went to her apartment, nothing yet.
- Keep trying.
- Will do.
- We got miles to track.
This is going to take all night, if we've got all night.
- If those canisters
are open down there, we don't.
- I thought you shut this thingdown.
- We did.
- behind me.
- All the trains have been stopped.
- I guess this one didn't get the message.
- All right, check the monitors.
What the hell is that?
- It's an old trolley.
They used to run it above ground.
- What's it doing down there?
- I don't know.
- What's going on?
- It's on track 71.
Let me see where that is.
- What is that?
Someone stuff.
- Probably the toxins.
- There's somebody in the car.
They just sat up in the car.
- What?
- They had more backers.
It's rigged to explode.
If it explodes it'll spread to the whole damn city.
- Where is it?
- Track 71!
It's miles away from here.
Come in now!
This is Sammy Low.
Yes sir.
- What?
- Sir, we can't do that.
- What did he say?
- Sir!
- What did he say?
- They want to send the car into an abandoned tunnel,
seal it off and blow it up likea tomb.
They know it's rigged to explode.
- What are they talking about?
We can't do that.
Don't they know we got somebody down there?
- Sir!
They've done it already.
Come in!
- Smith.
- I know where he is.
Tunnel.
- Two minutes.
- Why Linda?
- Whoever it was wanted to senda message.
- But why?
- I wish I knew.
- Are they really gonna blow itup?
- In less than a minute.
- Smith.
- We don't have much time.
- How did you get here?
- Going with the flow.
I want to take you somewhere.
- Where?
- Flatland.
Your life'll change forever.
You'll become one of us.
You'll end dying an endless cycle.
I wouldn't have chosen this foryou,
but it's the only way.
Do you understand?
- Silver linings.
Promises kept.