: [Gesturing to a large briefcase] This is the football. It's a remote device that can authorize a nuclear attack in the unlikely event that we are required to do that.
[a Colonel hands Elizabeth a small card]
This is the biscuit. It's an authenticator card containing all the launching codes. That stays with you. The football stays with the Colonel who's never far away.
[Shakes the Colonel's hand] Thank you, Colonel. I hope we never work together.
CPColonel Preston
My hope as well, Ma'am.
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