[door thuds]
- 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.
[ominous music]
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,
J.T., a gangbanger.
Mr. Mitchell, a failed mob lawyer,
and Amy Li, a beautiful young woman.
They will ultimately discover their history
when present and past collide,
and where one misstep on eitherside
with 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.
[dramatic music]
[mysterious music] [thunder crashing]
Hello, pretty lady.
You make my darker days seem brighter.
That's what I need today.
I only have one question.
I've asked it before.
- Then why ask again?
- I don't know.
I'm looking for a loophole I guess.
- Follow your heart.
- Yeah.
Thank you, pretty lady.
[mysterious music]
[ax thudding]
Yada yada yada.
[dramatic music]
[choral music]
Golf's a lot like life.
The most important thing is to be relaxed.
No thoughts in your mind once you learn the technique.
It's not how hard you hit it,
but it's how you concentrate mentally on it.
You wanna clear your mind and just let it happen.
It's like life.
Life, you wanna hit it straight.
If it goes too far to the right you're in trouble.
Goes too far to the left you're in trouble.
Bring it back slow and follow through.
[club thuds]
Well, mediocre, come over here.
Come over here.
Let me set you up, all right.
Get balanced over the ball.
Okay, nice and easy, easy does it.
[club thuds]
That's not bad.
[ax thudding]
- Is something wrong?
- Yeah, lesson's over.
I've got problem, that's all.
[mysterious music]
- Time for a little rock and roll.
Make it good and make it hurt.
- Don't I always.
[mysterious music]
- At the very least, I want my friend isolated.
- Mr. Smith.
- Yes, Mr. Smith.
[mysterious music]
We were friends once, you know, great friends,
but I suppose that's one of thethings
that makes great enemies, friendship.
[dramatic music]
- So, why are we here?
- [Linda] Because Smith asked you to be.
- Oh yeah, I forgot.
He sneezes, we hold the handkerchief.
- Something like that.
- I think it must be an important sneeze.
- Looks like we're gonna need a big ass hanky.
- Good morning, people.
Time is the only thing that human beings have,
and the only thing that we can't afford to lose.
- Good, so let's get to it.
- Amen.
Simon Cross, asswipe of the millennium,
ring any bells, tintinnabulationanyone?
- I've seen this guy.
- Where?
- Prussia.
[choral music]
What's up with the funny shirt?
- Oh, he thinks it's Halloween all year long.
He's an ultimate ghoul,
and he thinks I'm an ultimate fool.
- So, this is the guy, the man you've been looking for?
- That's correct and now he's looking for me.
- Yeah, how do you know that?
- It's none of your business.
What is your business is to find him first,
before he finds me.
- Same needle in the haystack.
- Yeah, but this needle has a name and a face.
He also has a friend and her name is Tsao Min,
which translates, cold blooded killer.
- I know this chick.
[dramatic music]
- So do I.
- Good, then the haystack has gotten smaller.
Now, let's get it down to just me and Mr. Cross.
- And when we do, does that mean I can go home?
- If you're still alive.
- Can I ask you a serious question?
- You have one?
- This business between you andCross,
I thought it was personal.
- Maybe I lied.
- Why?
- Why, because a lie gets halfway around the world
before truth even gets its pantson,
and everything else doesn't matter.
You're dismissed, you stay.
[mysterious music]
- Hey!
- Hay is for horses.
- Pretty good, you're making progress, J.T.
We gotta talk.
- My place.
- You got any chairs yet?
- Remember, if we nail this Cross dude.
- We can kill each other.
[mysterious music]
- Kahn, I want you to move.
I want you to pack up and go some place safe.
- I should've figured him out the first time I met him.
- Wrong, if he was that sloppy,
I would've destroyed him 2,000 years ago.
- I don't know how you do it.
- What?
- Focus all your energy,
all your anger after all this time has passed.
- Time doesn't pass, time stays,we pass.
Besides, what else am I gonna do?
Hey, kiddo, he's gonna try to get you to Flatland.
- I know.
- Happy trails.
[mysterious music]
- Very clever.
I know who you are now.
Your name is Tsao Min.
- And you are Amy Li.
- I also know who you work with, Simon Cross.
- How do you know this?
- He can't hide anymore.
[suspenseful music]
Smith.
- It was a warning, kiddo.
Maybe she just wanted to see if you were in shape, ciao.
Light scrimmage, no casualties.
- You seem pretty cool about it.
- Yeah, sure, whistling passed the boneyard.
It's all an act.
- You mean you're worried.
- Yeah, I'm used to hunting Khan.
- Now he's hunting you.
- I'm not good at reversal of roles.
- So, what're you gonna do aboutit?
- You know, I don't know.
I think that uh, it depends upon what the score is,
and what down it is.
Maybe I'll punt.
- Smith.
- [chuckles] Well, you know.
What would you suggest?
- You never ask for other people's advice.
- But hey, you know, I can learn.
I mean, you know, just have a little problem being taught.
- [chuckles] Have you ever communicated with Khan,
I mean, really?
- A thousand times.
- And what happens?
- I lie, he lies, and we both know it.
- Sounds like me and my mother.
- Not really, unless you hate her guts.
- No.
- Then it's not like that at all.
[mysterious music]
[dramatic music]
- Why me?
- Pretty soon you may be the only one of us left.
- Thanks a lot, why is that?
- It's high noon now.
It's Armageddon on the horizon.
Maybe we draw the inside straight.
- We could get lucky?
- No, it's not that.
- Then what?
- Khan kills me or I kill Khan,Cross,
or whoever the hell he is this time.
- That's pretty morbid.
- I want this over.
- [Linda] But how does it get over?
- It's easy, one of us kills the other in Flatland.
There is no past, the future never happens.
Somebody gets all the marbles.
[dramatic music]
Do you ever think about growingold?
- Sure, we all do.
- Well, when that happens,
make sure that you have something
that you care about, like uh,
a person, a thought,
[man screaming]
a cause, your favorite bubble bath, anything, yeah.
- What is it that you care aboutmost?
- [chuckles] the truth, tada [laughs], Khan.
- [Linda] Getting rid of him?
- Yeah, whatever happens, just remember that, huh?
Care about something.
[ax thudding]
So that's it, you wanna change the chains.
The hunter becomes the hunted.
Well, then come and get me, pal,I'm here.
If you want revenge, let's do it, huh?
You and me, mano a mano, winner take all, deal?
[ax thudding] [thunder crashing]
[dramatic music]
- She was testing you, playing.
- Well, how did she play me intoFlatland?
- [Uncle] It's not too hard.
- But I can never get there on my own.
It seems like it just happens,
or somebody else takes me there.
- Flatland is in your mind.
- But getting back and forth.
- The curse and blessing of freewill.
- So, I can do it on my own,
and get back to this world just by doing it in my mind.
- If you choose
- I know I have weaknesses.
- And you need to know which oneis fatal.
- Yes.
- You fall in love, Amy.
- Falling in love is a weakness?
- And a strength.
Either way it gets you in the end.
- That's not my problem right now, Uncle.
- I know, finding a way for thefuture,
if there is a future.
- In a perfect world,
I would really love for you to tell me
how I could eliminate this cat,Cross.
- If this world was perfect, you would not be here.
- How do I get Cross?
- I only know how he can get you.
- How?
- By using your strength againstyou.
- Me being a warrior.
- Sometimes it's better not to fight.
- Sometimes I need to negotiate?
- A weakness, if you know it,
can be turned into your advantage.
- So?
- You're cynical and self-serving.
- Also good looking and smart,
and if you ask the ladies,
I do this crazy thing with my tongue in their naval.
- Case proven, counselor.
- What's your point?
- Cheap charm and saving your own ass
doesn't always work in Flatland or anywhere.
- Look, if it gets me outta here,
I will be integrity on a stick and Mother Teresa's brother.
- Good, but remember,
you're more of a threat to Khan than J.T. or Amy.
- Why is that?
- Because you think of yourselffirst.
That's not always a bad thing.
[mysterious music]
- [J.T.] And there she is.
- You know what?
She's not half bad.
- Ah, she's very bad.
- Deadly, but very tasty.
- Yeah, sure, if you like arsonic.
- Here's the other guy?
Boy got a rap sheet from here toChicago,
narcotics, weapons, murder, damn.
I wonder if his mother knows.
- I think they both gotta be connected to Cross.
We find them, we find him.
- Well, you know what we could do
is check out the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce.
There's gotta be what,
25 million people in the whole of Shanghai?
We could just ask around.
- Or we could just bust you upside your head.
- Easy, homeboy.
- Hey, don't call me homeboy, I don't like that, dude.
- All right, man.
All right, I want this guy as much as you do,
and once this is all over,
you can bust whatever you want.
- Good.
[mysterious music]
- You speak to Uncle?
- Yes, I did.
- And?
- It's none of your business.
- That's what I love about you,J.T.
You're just filled to the brim with communication skills.
- Yeah, well, I don't like anything about you.
- You love me, especially when I'm not here.
- Then why don't you get going already?
- You gonna take his advice?
- No, I'm not.
- Good, there's two things we have
in the whole wide world in common.
[mysterious music]
Fishman!
- Hey, you guys get a look at those pictures yet?
- We're going through them rightnow.
- Got any ideas?
- Well, they should be up on theNCIC.
APB's on every police station
around the world, CIA, FBI, Interpol.
- Look, you're not a cop.
Leave that stuff to me.
- [Quentin] You asked.
- I don't want you guys out there headhunting.
- J.T. may be, but I'd never do anything like that.
- What happens if we do see them?
- You do the right thing, call me.
- Cop stuff.
- That sound like Smith stuff.
- You guys are both immune, thanks to Smith,
but only to a certain extent.
- No, but that doesn't include homicide.
- Or any violation of rights.
- Rights, you wanna talk about rights?
I mean, what about Tsao Min?
How many times has that girl tried to kill me?
- You think she'd be better at her job.
- Fish, seriously, how much help
have the police actually been?
- We'll get them, but we're gonna do it with the rules,
and I do wanna help you guys.
I know how important it is.
I know what's at stake.
I'm good, and come with me.
I got an idea.
[dramatic music]
- You think Fish knows about us?
- I don't know what he knows,
but I'd like to know what he's thinking.
- Yo, Fishman, what's the plan?
- Simple, we wait here.
- I live here.
- I know, Cross knows too, that's why we--
- Won't have to wait too long.
- Right.
- Hey, Mitchell.
[mysterious music]
[gun firing]
- [Quentin] Hit it!
[gun firing]
- I'll take her.
- [Fish] I'll go up top!
- Great, so what do I do?
- You get that over there!
[guns firing]
Okay.
[suspenseful music]
- You know, you and I keep meeting like this,
somebody's gonna get hurt.
[suspenseful music]
I should kill you right now.
Just tell me where Cross is.
[suspenseful music]
[fists thudding] [men grunting]
[suspenseful music]
- [Quentin] Fish!
- Yeah?
- You get him?
- I haven't seen him yet.
- Maybe he went back inside.
- Maybe, I didn't see him when I was coming up.
- What's the deal?
- He can't find him.
[suspenseful music]
- He must've gone back inside!
[suspenseful music]
Unless he's got wings.
[gun firing]
[Fish grunting]
- Fish!
[Fish grunting]
Fish!
- Fish!
Damn it.
[gun firing]
[suspenseful music]
Police!
[suspenseful music]
[gun firing]
[suspenseful music]
[gun firing]
[suspenseful music]
[gun firing]
[suspenseful music]
[gun firing]
[suspenseful music]
[gun firing]
[suspenseful music]
[gun firing]
[suspenseful music]
- That was a cop and a friend.
[gunman screaming]
- I liked him.
- I like him a lot.
[dramatic music]
[siren wailing]
[dramatic music]
[mysterious music]
- Question, is there anything good about fog?
The answer is no.
If you got arthritis, your joints ache.
If you got a cough, it's gonna get worse.
If you drive a car, you'll hit something.
You can't land a plane.
I mean, this is nasty stuff,
hides all kinds of things, bats,Dracula,
the Wolfman, damn Jack the Ripper,
and most of all, it hides the truth, yeah.
Hey, do I walk through the valley?
Nah, make that alley.
I will fear no evil.
Pea soup, my ass.
This is the devil's breath.
[ax thudding]
[dramatic music]
I will fear no evil.
[dramatic music]
- [Quentin] Okay, so let's figure out what we know.
- Well, we don't know much.
- Simon Cross, Tsao Min, Shanghai.
You got a Yellow Pages?
- He can fight.
- Good for him.
- He fights like we do.
He's part of Flatland.
- Does Smith know?
- Who knows what Smith knows.
- Good point, okay, so we've got one of us on our hands.
- Two, actually, and she's really dangerous.
- You can say that again.
I ran into this girl a couple oftimes.
Actually, more than that
if you count previous reincarnations.
- You know what?
There's three of us.
That puts us up two.
- So, we're all in?
- Hey, I want out, all right,
and if getting this clown is what I have to do,
I'm gonna do it.
Look, we know our strengths,
and we gotta try and figure out what our weaknesses are,
because that's what he's gonna play.
- And we need to find out what his weaknesses are,
if he has any.
- I think he has one, me.
- What makes you say that?
- It's always been that way.
- Okay, so he likes to chase skirt.
That's a good start.
- Now, wait a minute.
I don't know if we should be using Amy as wait.
- It's okay, I am anyway.
Besides, I want it to be over as much anyone.
- All right, well, first we're gonna need some help.
- Mm hmm, Shanghai police, CIA,FBI.
Maybe get the Chinese Army too.
- Until then, we got Uncle.
- Oh, there's one more thing.
Smith wants me to find another place to stay
until this is over.
- Well, if that's your way of asking,
you can kick it on the futon.
I'll sleep in the back.
- Are you sure it's okay?
- You saved my ass twice, I oweyou.
- Thanks, J.T., I'll grab my stuff
and meet you guys at Uncle's.
[mysterious music]
- So, how come he gets to be the lucky guy?
- Because your ass ain't worthsaving.
[mysterious music]
[dramatic music]
- It's the end game or the beginning.
Take the bait, Khan.
What do you have to lose, except your life?
[mysterious music]
[ax thudding]
[child laughing]
[ax thudding]
[mysterious music]
Khan, you miserable bastard.
[mysterious music]
[Amy gasping]
[mysterious music]
- [Khan] You always loved me, Amy Li.
- I've never loved you.
- But you have always.
Don't you understand?
- Understand what?
- [Kahn] You're beautiful like paint on silk.
- [Amy] You're not gonna disappear, are you?
- I'll be back.
I'll always be back and I alwaysam.
- We're not finished yet, Amy.
We're never finished.
And we never will be.
- I know who you are.
- Good.
- And I know what you are.
- Then try and understand it.
[mysterious music]
- Why don't you come into the light?
- [chuckles] Why don't you come into the dark?
- Never.
- Not a word I like,
and for us it has no meaning.
[door thuds]
You can go, but remember, I'm always close.
[mysterious music]
[Smith grunting] [glass crashing]
- How do I know you're not a fake?
Show me your real face.
[thunder crashing]
Come on, Khan.
We both want it.
Let's do it.
[suspenseful music]
Where you going, Cross?
Into the future?
- [Cross] Another time.
- Why, afraid to end it all?
Come on, I'm giving you everything you want, I always do.
Let's go back to Flatland.
Let's end it all, once and for all.
- I'd rather make you suffer.
[Khan screaming]
[dramatic orchestral music]
- You son of a bitch.
You always were a lousy coward.
- [Khan] Oh, I'll be back.
I'll always be back,
and I'll make this world a living hell.
I'll be back.
I'll always be back.
[mysterious music]
[haunting choral music]
- Do not dwell in the past.
Do not dream of the future.
Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
[haunting choral music]
Now, why can't I do that when I'm out there?
[haunting choral music]