- [first lines]
- Matthew Drake: Check that. Our Midwest gambling take is down ten percent. Now get me the figures on our narcotics distribution.
- Person on Tape: [voice on tape] Good afternoon, Mr. Phelps. As the result of a power struggle between Syndicate executives, Tom Bachman and Matthew Drake, Bachman stole the Syndicate's top-secret computerized records; enough information to destroy their operations in eight Midwestern states. In the process, Bachman killed two men and seriously wounded four others, including Matthew Drake, whose organization is now desperately hunting for Bachman and the records. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to get those records before Drake does. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.
- [last lines]
- Thomas Bachman: [removing tapes from hidden cache] Here they are.
- James Phelps: [coming in with guns drawn] We'll take that.
- Thomas Bachman: You...