mr. deaver, well done. are there gadgets?t's probably what we'll most want to know in silicon valley. >> don't we love gadgets? >> and bond's gadgets, particularly. >> when i was researching the book, i not only looked into the history of espionage in general, but i looked into the technology of espionage, not only in the past. my blackberry has more computing power than existed in the world in 1953. so, i had to come up with some rather imaginative apps that were, let's say based on reality, but hey, i write fiction for a living, right? i can get away with a few, let's call them stretches? >> that's true, because in this day in age, impressing people with the sort of gadgets that james bond would have -- you know, he has a portable tablet. well, wait a minute, everybody's got a portable tablet. >> yeah. >> it gets a little bit more difficult. >> well, you can basically, if you want to be a spy nowadays, go to your local electronics supply store and you can get everything you need, including, you know, encryption programs and

deavere smith, "let me down easy" is the play. pleased to welcome j.j. abrams back to this program. if you have been in the dark, because mr. abrams wanted that way, and the cat is out of the back, we have scenes from "super 8." >> and action. watch out! freighter derailed but the cargo on that freighter, we don't know. >> i can't tell anyone. >> i know. >> i understand you have conc n concernings about our cargo. >> we have calls coming in local. >> it's like they all just ran away. got property damage, i got theft. i got nine people missing now and there are things happening that i can't explain. tavis: before we get to the content of the film. i have a few questions about the context, the build up to the film. first of all, congratulations on a great weekend. but let me start with the purpose, the value is on a film like this in deliberating keeping people in the dark? >> honestly for me it's about the experience of the audience. when i was a kid going to the movies, you weren't force fed information everywhere you looked and you had an experience and got surprised and had fun. and now i go to the theater and see a trail