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Max Headroom S1E3 - Body Banks
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00:00I'm afraid our star reporter is going to have to disappear.
00:05This is temporary!
00:07Permanently.
00:08Where does all this come from, Bryce?
00:09The components of Carter's mind.
00:12But he's adding to it.
00:15It's computer-generated, whatever it is.
00:18It looks like Edison.
00:23People translated as data.
00:25Max!
00:26Two minds, but with one single memory.
00:30ั
ะพัั!
00:57Permanently.
01:00The first question I want answered is, just what is buried here beneath me?
01:09Does anyone really know?
01:10And if they know, why aren't they telling?
01:13Because this may be a unique place.
01:15Right here may be buried tomorrow's dead.
01:18The dead is yet on board.
01:20What I want to know is, am I standing on the site of an epitaph for the future?
01:25I am in a corner of the fringes which has become home to the thousands.
01:29Or have drifted here to make a precarious living or to build a permanent shelter.
01:34Beneath this apparently unremarkable patch of land lies a time bomb set to detonate...
01:39Run, run!
01:41Or maybe tomorrow.
01:43This is Edison Carter and I'm looking for some answers.
01:49Answer that.
01:50Who the hell are they, Mel?
01:52I don't know. It's the same pair.
01:54But we haven't done anything.
01:55You don't have to have done anything.
01:58Hey, Mr. Bruegel.
02:00Just as long as you're a perfect match.
02:09Keep going.
02:11Go on!
02:23There's no way out!
02:24Over here!
02:25No!
02:26No!
02:26No!
02:26Stop!
02:568.6.2. Good.
03:10Dr. Mason will be pleased. She's the very thing.
03:36Nightingales.
03:37She's close. I think she's what you need.
03:40She's going to break up the report on that one in the bar refrigerator on West Street.
03:45Get in and collect it sometime.
03:53Miss Formley? Listen to me.
03:57Your colleague, Dr. Moon, is adamant.
03:59This is the last transplant Mother can withstand.
04:02We may lose her body, but I will have her mind.
04:05By whatever means, you will obtain that Max Headroom computer regeneration process.
04:11Now, fail me and I will finish Cheviot.
04:16I will ruin him.
04:18And you in particular know I can.
04:21As my investigation continued, I found a wall of silence.
04:42The authorities didn't want to talk about it.
04:44No one would admit anything.
04:46Penetrating the security around this story has not been easy.
04:50But now I can reveal just what is happening here.
04:53The truth will only hurt the guilty.
04:56The guilty know who they are and can hide no longer.
05:00And for the first time in years, I can now reveal the original design projections for this mysterious facility.
05:07This is what you're sitting on.
05:10Beneath you are thousands of tons of such terrifyingly lethal material
05:14that previous generations hid them and threw away the key.
05:19So dangerous were they that they were buried beneath the ground on which this city now stands.
05:24I have Chairman Penn saying of the Zig-Zack Corporation, Mr. Cheviot.
05:29But this problem will not go away for a...
05:31Ohio Gazanas Dozo Yorosco.
05:34Yorosco.
05:35To business.
05:37We have noticed the downward trend in ratings since reverts were discontinued.
05:43We feel this trend is very small, Chairman.
05:46Size of Chairman irrelevant.
05:49Mr. Keogu, please.
05:51This analysis, however, illustrates one remarkable ratings aspiration.
06:00We wish to purchase this presenter for our next product array first.
06:04Gentlemen, as our foremost client, we naturally place you in the first position.
06:10Which presenter is this?
06:11He is named Max Headroom.
06:15We will await your call, Mr. Cheviot.
06:18We are one of the unlucky generations.
06:23We are the children who have been left to play in the poisonous backyard our parents decided not to tell us about.
06:30Formby.
06:34How is Bryce's Max Headroom project progressing?
06:37I'm moving him as fast as possible, but he's got real problems.
06:44Max is very...
06:45uncooperative.
06:49Then we have a problem, Julia.
06:52Zig-Zack wants him for their new promotion.
06:54Today.
06:56Today?
06:56Today?
06:56This has been Edison Carter on Network 23 with a show that answers the questions others are afraid to ask.
07:07Good show.
07:09Terrific show.
07:11Great work.
07:12Good show.
07:13Good.
07:14You.
07:14Great show.
07:16Great.
07:17Now look at these calls.
07:18They're pouring in.
07:20Are you going to run a follow-up?
07:21Already in hand.
07:22And we're going to go all the way in show two.
07:24Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
07:27Strong story, Murray.
07:29Congratulations.
07:30Splendid start for your series.
07:32Thank you, sir.
07:33I think, um...
07:34My feeling is we should go for a follow-up.
07:35Really chase this one.
07:37I'll certainly do that.
07:38Congratulate Edison for me.
07:40Very good job.
07:42I certainly will.
07:47It's tough at the top.
07:48Always one step ahead.
07:52Just give me some Edison memory first.
07:56Edison's first kiss.
08:00Great.
08:01Great.
08:02And for your data file, Bryce.
08:05That's a girl.
08:08And there's another one.
08:10Of sorts.
08:12Having fun?
08:13Oh, hello, Mrs. Farby.
08:14Miss.
08:15Now how ready is he?
08:17Not very.
08:18Oh, Miss, Miss, Mrs. Farby.
08:22Now have you seen Edison?
08:24I want to know.
08:24I want to know about a certain night
08:26that I can't remember with any certainty.
08:28All I get is a headache
08:30and a fuzzy, fuzzy, fuzzy hole in my memory.
08:33Memory.
08:35Meg.
08:36How would you feel about making Macs available
08:38to a principal client?
08:40Well, if they don't care when he comes or goes
08:43or what he says or does,
08:45they'd be fine.
08:52Edison!
08:53Good job!
08:56Hi.
08:57Hi.
08:57Congratulations.
08:59Cheviot loves the show
09:00when he wants us to go for it.
09:01What?
09:02The wine truck?
09:03Absolutely.
09:04Oh, let's do it.
09:05Good to see you.
09:06Hey, Murray.
09:07Yeah?
09:08Oh, by the way,
09:08Max has been after you.
09:10Something about a lost moment?
09:11He is a pain.
09:13He got me at home last night
09:14at my terminal.
09:15You can't shut him up.
09:16I had to throw a blanket over him.
09:17They started talking to that.
09:19Way to go, Edison.
09:20Hey, thanks a lot.
09:22His trouble is
09:22is that he was born at the age of 27
09:24with no past to account for it.
09:27So I keep having to explain things to him
09:29neither of us can remember.
09:30So I guess you can't blame him
09:32for talking to the furniture.
09:33Well, a chair I can understand.
09:35Yeah, but a blanket?
09:37Max is being difficult.
09:39I told you.
09:40And so is Zick-Zack.
09:42Let's get Bryce on this now.
09:44But the problem,
09:45he needs a rest to evaluate them.
09:47Bryce could tackle the problem fresh.
09:50There's only one problem
09:51to maintain this network's reputation.
09:54I'm surprised that you,
09:55of all people,
09:56should consider anything
09:57more important than that.
09:57Doctor has two new units waiting in this assembly.
10:06Doctor has two new units waiting in this assembly.
10:11Damn it, Boyle.
10:14Can't you be more discreet?
10:17Discreet meat, Doctor Mason?
10:20Are you discreet when you dismantle her?
10:22Doc, do you keep all the best bits?
10:29Right.
10:30How often am I wrong, Doctor Mason?
10:33It's possible, but unlikely.
10:36Take your type.
10:37I know your type very well.
10:39Shall we check your type, Doctor Mason?
10:43Check him.
10:44Check him.
10:44Check him.
10:45Check him.
10:47Check him.
10:49I did it.
10:53It's a shame about her back.
10:55It was a lovely back, that.
11:01The loudest sound in the universe is
11:03the last heartbeat.
11:08Murray?
11:10This guy just won't take no point answer.
11:12He insists on talking to Edison.
11:14Uh, Theora.
11:16Get this, will ya?
11:18Okay.
11:18Okay.
11:19Okay, party's over.
11:20Come on, let's get to it.
11:22Can I help you?
11:24I have to speak to Edison Carter.
11:28I'm afraid network policy doesn't allow that.
11:30I can take a message.
11:33Hello?
11:35Hello?
11:37Hello?
11:37Hello?
11:44Hello?
11:47Right.
11:49Now let's see if she's got what we need.
11:52And quickly.
11:54Night, Theora.
11:55Good night, Jack.
11:55Good night.
11:55Now, you call Mr. Carter, wherever he is.
12:20According to a government spokesman,
12:23I guess it fired before clearing its holster.
12:27The rogue cannon is also suspected
12:29of being responsible last week
12:31for the loss of two network TV satellites.
12:34Equipped with the spokesman,
12:36maybe it just got bored.
12:41Edison.
12:41Oh, hi, Theora.
12:42You still at the party?
12:44Edison Carter?
12:45Yes, this is Edison Carter.
12:48Are you alone?
12:51Theora.
12:52Theora.
12:53Hello?
12:55Hello?
13:03Look, I'll have the key in his number.
13:05Do it.
13:08Edison!
13:09You okay?
13:10Yes, I'm okay.
13:12That's more than I can say for him.
13:16You did the wrong thing, friend.
13:20Theora hates violence.
13:31Don't push it.
13:33You can have it now,
13:34or you can have it right.
13:36I can't work faster.
13:39Edie,
13:39how's she holding up?
13:41No problem.
13:43She's a fine specimen.
13:45I just hope the old lady is worth the waste.
13:49Now, just what did you intend to do with this?
13:53Nothing.
13:55It's not loaded.
13:57I wouldn't have harmed her.
13:59Oh, really?
14:00I'm sorry.
14:01I'm sorry.
14:03I had to get to Mr. Carter.
14:06We're not from the city.
14:07We don't know people.
14:08The metro cops never would have listened to me.
14:11Anyway, I can't afford to buy law.
14:13Who's we?
14:14Me and Raina.
14:16We're from the river.
14:17We come in town to sell blood at the body bank.
14:21She's got a rare group,
14:22and they pay well.
14:24We were heading home,
14:26and they just took her.
14:31Okay.
14:32Take it easy.
14:35Now, what happened out there?
14:36There's this story, rumor.
14:40It's all it is.
14:42People are disappearing from the fringes.
14:45It's always a van, these two freaks.
14:49They're stealing people, Mr. Carter.
14:51Stealing bodies.
14:55It's organized.
14:57It's vicious.
14:58It's always girls.
15:03They've got Raina.
15:10Give me another reaction.
15:12My listeners from Poland and Ireland are ready to play.
15:17Hello, Bryce.
15:18Theora Jones here.
15:20Ah, hello, Mrs. Jones.
15:21Listen, Bryce, I'd like clearance and link
15:23to the personality templates on the Diogenes program, please.
15:26Of course.
15:28It's 02622, file set 1885.
15:34Great, thanks.
15:39Here we go.
15:41Now I'll need some physical details, Mel.
15:45Right, male Caucasian.
15:47Age?
15:4825, maybe 30.
15:51Hair?
15:52In bunches.
15:58Chin?
16:00Sharp.
16:03Okay, now the other one.
16:04A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
16:26Right, now Raina and then the van.
16:28I can see why you wouldn't want to lose her, Mel.
16:44Theora, let's have a hard copy of her in the van
16:46and we'll start looking for her.
16:48She types perfectly.
16:50Now, let's get her down to cryogenics
16:52and start the freeze down.
16:55We're hurrying.
16:56We can't do that.
16:58There's a body already on.
17:01But he...
17:01When will you begin the extraction?
17:06Cryogenics are backed up.
17:08I'll have to free another body.
17:11Uh, an hour at most.
17:13I need that pituitary now.
17:17Crash, freeze, or anything.
17:18Mason, one word from these people
17:20and we'll end up with spares in our own body bank.
17:23Dump the other body billet to us.
17:25There's no time left for niceties, Mason.
17:30Let me start in.
17:32See now, did these two?
17:34Keep transmitting it, sir.
17:35Okay.
17:37I'm tracking you.
17:40This is like trying to find a microchip and a mainframe.
17:53Van went east.
17:55We'll get nothing here.
17:58I have the local satellite map.
18:00Looking for the route of the van.
18:03Okay, control, I have it.
18:04You're standing on my porch, Edison.
18:12I'm sorry, I didn't realize.
18:17Busy, my friend?
18:19Yeah, I'm looking for somebody.
18:22You're going to need some wheels.
18:25Just how serious is this problem with Max?
18:28I mean, confidentially, Bryce.
18:30The zigzag corporation's very interested in Max.
18:34Interested in me, me, me, me, me?
18:36Mm-hmm.
18:37Oh, why not me, me, me?
18:39You want an audience?
18:40I like an audience.
18:41Shut up, Max.
18:42Bryce.
18:43Not a simple game show, audience.
18:46Everyone.
18:47Oh, heaven.
18:49Shut up.
18:51Is there nothing you can do to control him?
18:56We're not dealing with a technical problem anymore.
18:59Max has inherited all Edison's personality, but so far, none of his self-control.
19:05Unfortunately, he just doesn't relate to me.
19:06He seems to want Edison all the time.
19:08Are you saying he would talk sense to Carter?
19:11He might.
19:13Perhaps so.
19:15Dump that body, whoever it is for.
19:18We are bringing this one down for a crash freeze.
19:21We will risk the tissue damage.
19:24We only need the pituitary gland.
19:28He said wheels.
19:29Keep your camera alive, Edison.
19:31I'll cut it to you now.
19:33What?
19:40Bring the prints.
19:41Leave the camera.
19:43Learn.
19:48Safe on the lock and key.
19:51Safer under a blanket.
19:59Oh, brilliant.
20:02I'll go to satellite.
20:12It's Rick.
20:14Hi, Pacho.
20:15Is Reg about?
20:16You got anything?
20:18Just my contagious smile.
20:24He went home.
20:29A girl named Pacho?
20:32Reg doesn't like Dominique to know.
20:33Oh, shit, that was my favorite blanket.
20:38Annoying, isn't it?
20:43Losing a videocam is a hanging offense at 23.
20:47Well, hang loose.
20:50Still nothing from Formby, eh?
20:52We dare not risk damaging the girl by rushing the process.
20:58I don't care about the fringe of woman.
21:01Do what you want to her.
21:02But if Mother dies before the Max Headroom process gets here,
21:06and we can't ensure that her mind lives on,
21:09your body bank will be swarming with Metro cops in minutes.
21:13Now, you wouldn't want them to know what's really happening in there, would you?
21:20I'll get Mason.
21:22If he can't move her to freeze down,
21:25we'll arrange immediate collection.
21:28We will transfer direct.
21:32Edison?
21:34Control to Edison.
21:36Edison, are you there?
21:38No.
21:39Damn.
21:41Edison.
21:41This is a network linker.
21:45It's a bit out of your league, isn't it, Paula?
21:47So, what do you trade for it?
21:50Hmm.
21:59What's that?
22:01It's a book.
22:04Well, what's that?
22:05It's a non-volatile storage medium.
22:09It's very rare.
22:10You should have one.
22:11Stop it!
22:15Reg?
22:17Oh.
22:19Hello, Dominic.
22:22Ahem.
22:29Why on earth would you switch off, Edison?
22:31Edison, come on.
22:35Come on.
22:36Edison, card report to control.
22:40Edison, card report to control.
22:42So, what's the drama?
22:44Edison okay?
22:45His camera's gone down.
22:46Oh.
22:47I can't even get an audio link.
22:49It's a nuisance, not a crisis.
22:51Yeah, we got one of those, too.
22:53I just spoke with Cheviot.
22:54Edison, card report to control.
22:54They need Max for a big promotion.
22:57According to Bryce, he won't play.
22:58Cheviot's furious.
23:00Yeah, Max said he won't talk to anyone unless he speaks to Edison first.
23:03And we've lost Edison.
23:05Yep.
23:05That's great.
23:08Fiora, the producer's lot is, um, it's not a happy one.
23:16Transfer direct.
23:17Transfer direct?
23:18You must do what he say.
23:34For me, we are desperately short of time.
23:37Mother must get the Max Headroom regeneration process now.
23:40I am moving as fast as I can.
23:43Now listen, Plantagenet.
23:44Our major client has also demanded the Max Headroom process right now.
23:50I can't just walk away with it.
23:53I must be very careful.
23:57No.
23:58I dare not risk the network finding out about it.
24:00Now please, please just give me a little more time.
24:06Yes, yes, ZigZack.
24:08The corporation that makes you give away your money the nicer way.
24:12And here's something for the man who has nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing in this world.
24:16Why not buy him the attractive ZigZack Holdall?
24:20Holdall.
24:20Yes, the bag that makes you look as if you have at least something in the world.
24:24Plus a bag to carry in.
24:26Look at the ratings.
24:28But ZigZack caters for everyone.
24:31And especially if you want a chick, chick, chick, chick.
24:32Good decision, Ben.
24:35ZigZack will be pleased.
24:37Ben, you've saved the day.
24:39It wasn't exactly the decision.
24:41Max just appeared.
24:42It's completely unpredictable.
24:45I'll have to see Bryce myself.
24:47I think I better come.
24:48Well, could I...
24:49Kiss off, Ashworth.
24:52Hi there, and welcome back to Network 23.
24:55Listen, listen.
24:56You can forget all that stuff about ZigZack's burger packs.
25:00So don't go reaching for your old leather wallet.
25:02That's just what they taste like.
25:05Seriously.
25:06Have you ever wondered why ZigZack burgers come in plastic packs?
25:09Easy.
25:09Some of the plastic rubs off in the burger and doubles the nutritional value.
25:14Oh, my God.
25:15Bryce, if you can't control him, get him off.
25:17Stop the thing now.
25:19Get him off.
25:20He's from New Zealand.
25:21If they ever have any.
25:23I tried to warn you, you know.
25:25I can't make him stop unless he wants to.
25:30He just self-activates.
25:32He thinks it's a game.
25:32You see, everything he sees is just television.
25:34He could go on like this for hours.
25:36Kill the power.
25:37Dump the computer.
25:39Pull every blasted plug in the building.
25:41But get him off.
25:43Do you realize that means losing everything that is Network 23?
25:47The entire system is an interactive logic construct.
25:50We've programmed instinct out.
25:52Communications.
25:53Satellite nets.
25:54Planning.
25:55Personnel.
25:55Decision making.
25:57Executive oversights.
25:58Plumbing.
25:59Ventilation.
26:00Fire alarms.
26:00Finance.
26:01It's all locked in.
26:03You kill the power and you're ordering the execution of your own network.
26:09Of course, there is an interim solution.
26:12We could dump the actual transmission codes and isolate the program long enough for me to erase him.
26:17Then Max will only exist in the program itself.
26:20Pretty simple, really.
26:22If that's simple, Bryce, complexity must be awesome.
26:26However, at least it'll buy us time to get Carter to talk to Max.
26:30Do it.
26:31I'd better have the program software for safekeeping.
26:35I'm sure it'll be quite safe, Bryce.
26:38This exact automatic bacon straightener.
26:41Yes.
26:42Yes.
26:43No longer will the curly pieces take laundry to fry in the pan.
26:46Pick, pick, pick.
26:47Pick, pick.
26:48Rasher with your rasher.
26:49This cell is reserved for complete bodies.
26:52Please unload.
26:53Lock.
26:54Park vehicles will be sighted.
26:58Small organs will be self-lead.
27:00Please have a plop of arms ready.
27:03Blank red.
27:04He'll know these guys you're looking for and a lot more.
27:08That's it.
27:09As far as I go, he's waiting on you.
27:12Who is?
27:12Uh, what do I owe you, Rick?
27:28Be nice to animals.
27:29Weird.
27:39Weird.
27:47Big time television.
27:48What have I been missing?
27:51Oh, how she tried.
27:56She cut him down to size.
27:58Telling dirty lies to his friends.
28:01But his own father...
28:03Welcome to Big Time Challenge.
28:07All day and every day making tomorrow seem like yesterday.
28:12Now, remember when we said there was no future?
28:14Well, this is it.
28:17Right.
28:18Next up, more of the same.
28:21Dom.
28:23You smoke too much.
28:25Reg, don't talk to me about personal habits.
28:28If you didn't nail your jeans to the floor at night, they'd escape.
28:31Good boy.
28:33Good boy.
28:49Oh, hello, mate.
28:51Oh, don't mind old Fang.
28:53Worst you can do is give you a sloppy lick.
28:55Come in.
28:57Fang.
28:58Yeah, we call the dog Fang.
29:00What's so strange about that?
29:02This is my mate Dominique.
29:06The boss.
29:07Carter.
29:07I'm blank Reg.
29:09Sorry about the mess.
29:12Rick tells me you know everybody around here.
29:16Oh.
29:19Bruegel and Mahler.
29:21Evil.
29:22They need their heads riveted together.
29:23I think you've stumbled on something very nasty, and I think I know what.
29:27Tom, bring us that item Paula brought in.
29:30Mm-hmm.
29:34Hmm.
29:40Edison Carter, report to Control.
29:43I think we should talk about the buyback on this squad, if you get my meaning.
29:47Really?
29:48Yeah.
29:49Yeah.
29:55Control, Edison here.
29:56I'm back with you now.
29:57Edison, at last.
29:59Stand by.
29:59I have Mr. Cheviot on the line.
30:01Cheviot?
30:02Go ahead, Mr. Cheviot.
30:03Carter, at last.
30:05We're having a problem here with your alter egotist Max Headroom.
30:09We can't control these outbursts of his.
30:12Now, in Bryce's words, Max is now a personality, not a process.
30:15It's his view that you could talk to him, persuade him to cooperate.
30:20I want you to get back to the network at once.
30:22I believe a girl's life is being threatened here.
30:25I can't just abandon an assignment to go and have a talk with Max, Mr. Cheviot.
30:29This is not a choice I'm prepared to make.
30:31Dammit, I am not offering you a choice, Carter.
30:33Now, I've ordered your electronic surrogate switched off until you can convince him of his responsibilities.
30:37He seems to think this network is some sort of toy.
30:41Now, it's imperative that you return here at once and make him see sense.
30:45Contact me immediately, you arrive.
31:10What about the law, though, wretch?
31:34The Metro cops, they've broken up crooked body banks before.
31:36Law? In the fringes?
31:39Justice is cash flow, my son.
31:45What's it going right for loyalty, wretch?
31:49Ask the dog, mate.
31:53Let's go have a talk with Mr. Bruegel and Mr. Mahler.
32:06Mr. Bruegel?
32:12Mr. Bruegel?
32:12I want to talk business.
32:40Jim Bruegel?
32:40Business is our business, sir.
32:53Where is the regeneration software?
32:56It's in the system.
32:57Obviously not here.
33:01Come with me.
33:02Come with me.
33:05Let's find out where you're going.
33:07Sybaris Condell?
33:08Why is she taking you off there?
33:11I'm afraid I'm going to have to switch myself off.
33:13It's safer.
33:14Call it professional pride.
33:17Smell a rat rat.
33:19I don't know why he's gone to the monthly salaries file.
33:22I want to become a corpse.
33:31Easy transition in the right hands.
33:36And I want to be delivered to a certain place.
33:49Eternity?
33:52You took a girl to a body bank today.
33:55And I want to go to the same one.
33:57How sweet.
33:59How sweet.
34:03My privilege.
34:14Has Carter reported in yet?
34:18Anything from Bryce?
34:19Very well.
34:22Get me, Formby.
34:24She's left.
34:27You mean you have no idea where she is?
34:36Rest in peace, Mr. Carter.
34:40Go quietly into your grave.
34:43A gift, Dr. Mason.
34:51Enjoy.
34:56Just answer.
34:58Where's the girl in street, gentlemen?
34:59What's going on?
35:00Tercery!
35:04Traitor!
35:05Traitor to the mother!
35:06What's the mother?
35:09Talk.
35:10Physician, heal thyself.
35:19Great Christmas.
35:20Great Christmas.
35:40Where is Formby?
35:44Just let us run with it, Murray.
35:46You have nothing to run with.
35:47We don't have a thing about who, where, anything.
35:50Hey, Murray.
35:51What?
35:55Well, he's right.
35:56Get me, Carter.
36:02Edison, I've got Mr. Cheviot on for you.
36:04What now?
36:05You want to talk to him?
36:06Get someone over there.
36:08You can't get a fix.
36:09You can't get a fix.
36:09You can't get a fix.
36:12You can't get a fix.
36:13You can't get a fix.
36:14You can't get a fix.
36:15You can't get a fix.
36:15You can't get a fix.
36:16You can't get a fix.
36:16You can't get a fix.
36:17Carter.
36:18Well, it's about time.
36:20Carter, I want to make it very clear that if you don't talk to Max, we're prepared
36:24to put it to your show, and what's more, terminate your operating clearance code immediately.
36:29This will effectively stop you from using Network 23 resources for what seems to become
36:33your own purposes.
36:34I will not allow even you, Carter, to disobey my instructions.
36:39You want me to choose between a girl's life and a job?
36:47You know my answer already.
36:49With respect, Mr. Cheviot, the priority is clear.
36:54With respect.
36:55My priority is Max Headroom and this network.
36:59I don't know anything about this girl.
37:01To help her, you need the network.
37:03And to have our support, you need your show.
37:05And the only way to keep that is to persuade Max to cooperate and present the zigzag promotion.
37:11The priority is clear, Mr. Cheviot.
37:14Now look, Addison, let's back off here, okay?
37:22Now, you and Max are like one person.
37:26You have a mental umbilical.
37:27You're inseparable.
37:29You share experience, behavior, temperament, logic.
37:33Now, we all of us share a rather nasty problem.
37:37Solve it for everybody's sake.
37:39Including this girl.
37:44Theora.
37:46Yeah?
37:46Get Max on.
37:47Okay.
37:48That's odd.
37:59He's not in his file.
38:02Call Bryce.
38:03Okay.
38:06Crace inhibited.
38:09Nothing.
38:09Damn it.
38:12The girl's ready.
38:19I can operate immediately.
38:21Then we will need the Max Headroom process.
38:25Make this work for me.
38:28Save her.
38:30And you save your precious Cheviot.
38:33Otherwise,
38:34your mutual indiscretions
38:37will become public knowledge.
38:39It's really quite simple.
38:41Once this little operation is over,
38:43we want you to repeat the process
38:45you applied to Mr. Carter
38:46on our respective patient here.
38:49You must help me, Bryce.
38:52Your computer generation process
38:54is the only hope.
38:57You must generate her mind
38:59just as you generated Max
39:01from Addison Carter.
39:03She's very wealthy and powerful, you see.
39:06This is not a choice.
39:08What will you need to replicate her
39:10after we complete the transplant?
39:13That girl's alive.
39:15You can't.
39:16I mean...
39:20Got anything?
39:23No.
39:24What?
39:25I don't know.
39:26This graphic keeps accessing my screen.
39:29What is going on?
39:31I know.
39:32I'll run a maintenance mall through it.
39:33It's a map.
39:37It's a transport surface route depicter.
39:39I know, and it has no business here.
39:44That's even weirder.
39:45It's originating in monthly salaries.
39:46Well, it's a restricted access.
39:47You won't get in there.
39:49But you can route out from that file.
39:51If some clerk is in it
39:53and trying to clear with the wrong coding,
39:54it could be dumping on us.
39:56Addison, it could jam us
39:57until the idiot closes down.
39:59Control!
40:00Control!
40:01This is control?
40:03Not you.
40:03I'm trying to control myself.
40:06Where are you sourcing?
40:08I'm in accounts.
40:09I've been trying to find a deflection port.
40:12This one's just opened.
40:13So dreary.
40:14Max, this is very important.
40:16I have to talk to you.
40:17What's on our mind?
40:27What are you doing?
40:28I'm linking to my terminal
40:30to access that regeneration software you need.
40:33That's the only one
40:33the command structure will obey.
40:35If I use this direct,
40:36my own security will dump me.
40:37Just be very careful who you talk to.
40:40Max, unless you cooperate with the network,
40:51they're going to kill my show.
40:53And with it,
40:54almost certainly a young girl.
40:57Max,
40:58please help me.
41:00And her.
41:01Asking is just polite
41:03demanding.
41:05That sounds familiar.
41:07It's shit.
41:08It's one of yours.
41:09I know.
41:11I have a polite demand.
41:14A question.
41:15Okay.
41:17I want to know two things.
41:19One,
41:19why is there a fuzzy hole
41:21in my memory bank?
41:23And two,
41:23what is drinking?
41:26King.
41:28And,
41:29was it drinking
41:30that caused the fuzzy hole?
41:32Make that three things.
41:34Okay.
41:35One,
41:36it was a graduation party.
41:38Two,
41:38it wrecks you.
41:40And three,
41:42yes,
41:43it was.
41:43In that order.
41:45In that case,
41:46how many times
41:46did you graduate,
41:47graduate,
41:48graduate,
41:48graduate?
41:48Because there's a lot more
41:50I need to get straight.
41:50What's that?
41:54Accounts.
41:55I can see that.
41:56Why?
41:57I'm going to requisition
41:58transport to bring it here.
42:00I need a purchase account.
42:01That's the system.
42:02As you presumably
42:03don't want this account
42:04traceable,
42:04I have to
42:05create a spurious file
42:07to open account codes
42:08and blank it later.
42:11Or I could access
42:12to your file
42:12if you like.
42:14Don't be clever,
42:15Bryce.
42:16Sorry.
42:17Rather thought
42:17that's why I was here.
42:18Hold on.
42:40There's someone
42:41in my file.
42:47That's from the same
42:48file again.
42:49And there's something
42:50else, Edison, look.
42:57Too far, too far.
43:01What's that?
43:02Nothing.
43:03It's just a
43:03transportation selection file.
43:10Max, where is
43:11this input sourcing?
43:13Hold on.
43:16I know that code.
43:18That's Bryce's code,
43:21the door code.
43:21This is from Bryce.
43:23Why?
43:23Where?
43:25The map.
43:27Look, and Raina's face
43:28from the identity template.
43:30This is all part of Max's
43:31program, Max's primary system.
43:34And Bryce must have
43:35watched our construction
43:36as it ran.
43:37He's with her.
43:38Got it.
43:39Murray?
43:39You got it?
43:42It has to be.
43:43Edison will need help.
43:49Four men.
43:50Sent to a condo.
43:51Go.
43:52Go!
43:53Well, I'm in the file
43:54that Bryce is using.
43:57Yes, I know.
43:58And it would be so,
44:00so easy
44:01to access
44:02his route and...
44:03Do it.
44:04Do it, Max.
44:05What are you doing?
44:07No, no.
44:08What are you...
44:09What are you doing
44:10with Bryce?
44:11Hi, Bryce.
44:12Here I am.
44:13That was right.
44:14I did smell a...
44:15Max...
44:17Right.
44:18Here it is.
44:19I've got that
44:20program online.
44:21That is what you wanted,
44:22isn't it?
44:23That's fool.
44:25I knew Bryce
44:26shouldn't have trusted her.
44:28Allison, acknowledge control.
44:30We're almost there, control.
44:32You have opposition.
44:34Two doctors
44:34and Formby.
44:36Formby?
44:37How do you know?
44:37Max is looking at her right now.
44:39What's she got to do with this?
44:41I don't know.
44:42If we can locate Bryce,
44:43you might find out.
44:47Descending to the roof, control.
44:49Number two chopper
44:50in close support.
44:56Okay, we're in
44:56descending to the level.
44:58My God,
44:58that entire level
44:59is owned by one person.
45:01Better get Chevy in there.
45:03Red the door,
45:03give me the code.
45:04Edison, quick.
45:05506-274.
45:06Go.
45:10Who are you?
45:17Mother!
45:19Mother!
45:20Rainer?
45:22Rainer?
45:25This for me?
45:26How'd you know?
45:29Max Hedrum told me.
45:32Okay, Max, let's go.
45:34Is this where I cooperate?
45:36Yeah, if you're ever going to.
45:38This is Max Hedrum presenting,
45:43courtesy of the 666-6-6-Zack Corporation,
45:47an Edison Carter late-night special-chol-chol-chol.
45:51A show that answers the questions
45:52others dare not ask.
45:56Non-titled.
45:58We are about to reveal
45:59how an organization in this city
46:01has been supplying the wealthy,
46:02the corrupt,
46:03and the privileged
46:04with organs taken
46:05from healthy young people.
46:07The fringes of our city
46:08have been a living stockpile
46:10through a grotesque form
46:11of biological engineering.
46:14Live spare parts.
46:15Go for it.
46:20And I'll be back
46:22in a few moments
46:23with more from Network 23.
46:31They blackmailed me, Ben.
46:36They knew about you and me.
46:39I couldn't risk your reputation.
46:41You took a terrible chance.
46:44Without Carter's tenacity,
46:45they might have succeeded.
46:47You would have been
46:47permanently vulnerable.
46:48But we weren't.
46:52It's over.
46:53We were over
46:54a long time ago, Julia.
46:57I meant
46:57neither one of us
47:00were compromised.
47:02You have a network to run.
47:04Yes, we do, Julia.
47:10Get Edwards in here.
47:11Sit down.
47:13We haven't had a ratings battle
47:15for a couple of minutes.
47:18We've got a ratings battle
47:20for a four-minute people
47:21for a three-month-old- Ziggy.
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