A scene from Sneakers 1992
Cosmo

[Cosmo has just forced Martin Bishop at gunpoint to give him the box]

You could have had the power.

Bishop

I don't want it.

Cosmo

Don't you know the places we can go with this?

Bishop

Yeah, I do. There's nobody there.

Cosmo

Exactly! The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money, it's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.

Bishop

I don't care. [walks away]

Cosmo

I don't expect other people to understand this but I do expect you to understand this. We started this journey together.

Bishop

It wasn't a journey, Cos. It was a prank.

Cosmo

There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!

Bishop

If I were you, I'd destroy that thing.

Cosmo

Don't go. [aims at Bish's head as he prepares to go down the ladder] Don't go.

Bishop

You do what you have to do, Cos, but if you want to stop me, you'll have to pull the trigger. You. [leaves]

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