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Max Headroom S1E6 - Blanks
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00:00I'm afraid our star reporter is going to have to disappear.
00:06You can cover it!
00:08Come on. Where does all this come from, Bryce?
00:10The components of Carter's mind.
00:13But he's adding to it.
00:16It's computer-generated, whatever it is.
00:19It looks like it is.
00:23I think it's translated as devil.
00:26No lines, but with one single memory.
00:56I think so.
01:26Sam's teammate!
01:39Hands on! Open up!
01:46Oh no! It's two...
01:48Wait, get outta here!
01:50You're under arrest!
01:52No, Jack!
01:53Get outta here!
01:56I need nothing to do.
01:58Take it off!
02:00Help me!
02:01No, I think I'm not the right part of that thing!
02:03I need nothing to do!
02:05Leave me, man!
02:07I need nothing to do!
02:09I need nothing to do!
02:11I need nothing to do!
02:13I need you!
02:15I need you to do a lot!
02:17I need you to do a lot!
02:19I need you to do a lot!
02:21Yes!
02:26What are you gonna do with me?
02:40What is this?
02:42Prosecution, data defendant number zero zero zero zero zero zero zero.
02:47Defense, data defendant number zero zero zero zero zero zero zero.
02:53I know my rights. I won't be judged by a machine.
03:07You don't have any rights. You're a blank.
03:10Blank is beautiful! Blank is beautiful!
03:14Blank is beautiful!
03:20Good morning, Mr. Carter. This is your daybreak call.
03:23Your breakfast is preparing, and you're showering.
03:28Satellite 5 is in conjunction with Netsat 7.
03:32Skytel 489 is in the ascendant.
03:35Aquarians, avoid eating.
03:38Vegitarians, avoid meeting people.
03:40And veg-vege-vegetarians, avoid eating meat.
03:43Or people.
03:46Morning, Ed!
03:47Morning, Max.
03:49God, you're horribly chipper this morning.
03:52I spent the night dig-dig-digging-digging round in your old dreams.
03:56They should be arrested.
03:58And you snore.
04:00How do you know?
04:01I've never slept with you.
04:03It's not mine.
04:04I've been to the all-night movie and listened to it. Listen.
04:07Hey, why do you have a blanket over the screen? I can't see it anymore.
04:10That's why.
04:11Hey, the shower's stopped!
04:13See, smother technology and it rebels.
04:18Sorry, I'm late for the security gate challenge.
04:19No one could get in.
04:22It's chaos down there.
04:25My satellite link's gone down, folks.
04:30Can you get past somebody?
04:32We took out the other satellite.
04:33Mine's coming as well.
04:34Rick, you have to do the bathroom.
04:36I've got to stop this.
04:37Check this out.
04:38Get Murray in here.
04:39It's going to be one of those days.
04:44Yeah, great.
04:45Just what I needed.
04:46Delicious cup of boiling water.
04:49How have you got ice cream, cream, cream, ice cream on your head?
04:52The shower cut out partway through.
04:54Now the coffee maker's gone nuts.
04:57That'll teach you not to put a blanket over the television.
04:59It shouldn't fool with technology.
05:02If it wasn't for fooling with technology, my buddy in a box, you wouldn't exist.
05:09At least I worked.
05:10I worked.
05:12The overnight telelection data is now loaded.
05:15If you haven't voted, do it now.
05:16Only three more seconds to cast your vote.
05:21This is a result.
05:22Simon Peller is elected.
05:24Mr. Peller's prerecorded victory speech can be seen in seven seconds on...
05:29Hi, Thero.
05:45Hi.
05:45At least something's working.
05:47I see Peller made it.
05:49Murray, want cover?
05:50He's not in yet.
05:51This place is going nuts.
05:52Look, I'll take the Simon Peller interview.
05:55Get Martinez over here.
05:57Okay.
05:58And it is with pleasure that I accept...
06:01Right there.
06:03Make that, uh, heartfelt pleasure.
06:06It has a ring of deep sincerity.
06:08Fix it, won't you?
06:09Who cares, Simon?
06:11They hit their buttons.
06:12You're in.
06:13They're not listening anymore.
06:14There are times, Ronald, when your cynicism is a positive joy.
06:21Edison Carter from the network, Mr. Peller.
06:23Bring him through, Gabrielle.
06:27Ah, Mr. Carter.
06:29Welcome, welcome.
06:30You know Ronald, my political manager, I think.
06:33I know his kind.
06:34Last time we met, he was working for your opponent.
06:37Very successfully, as I recall.
06:39Oh, the acerbic, Mr. Carter.
06:41Very proper, very proper.
06:43Uh, fearless reporting demands directness, I'm sure.
06:47Well, shall we begin?
06:52That's good.
06:56It's stuck in the bloody elevator.
06:58Damn thing broke down.
06:59What the hell is this?
07:00Edison went direct.
07:01This is Edison Carter calling to you.
07:02Edison hates the creep.
07:04With the newly elected Simon Peller.
07:06I am to the light.
07:07The viewing audience has selected me to represent them.
07:11This is why I so admire our computerized telelection system.
07:15It allows the people constant assessment of, uh, my performance.
07:21That assumes people care enough to check, Mr. Peller.
07:24I'd agree with doing what they did.
07:26Oh, how cynical, Mr. Carter.
07:28Our computers give us instant democracy.
07:30A constant pulse of opinion.
07:32And, uh, heartfelt feedback between the people and the, uh, networks which represent them.
07:40What should we do, man?
07:43Cheviot here.
07:45What the hell is going on?
07:46Renews standby.
07:47There isn't one.
07:49Everything's dead, Murray.
07:51What?
07:52Every computer link system we've got is misfiring.
07:55I'm afraid our link's gone down.
07:57Just as well.
07:58Oh, not so, Ronald.
08:00Mr. Carter is merely doing his very well-paid job.
08:02The appearance of dispute is essential to the network's, uh, electrode democracy, eh, Mr. Carter?
08:08May I call you Edison?
08:10No.
08:10And I don't like the word appearance, Mr. Peller.
08:16Very well.
08:18Some other time, then.
08:19When your equipment is working, perhaps, huh?
08:28He's too smart and too aggressive.
08:31And too late.
08:33If he gets out of line, Cheviot'll handle him.
08:35Now then, progress.
08:36We have several blanks already, but we have no idea how many more there are.
08:41I greatly enjoy neatness, Ronald.
08:43I find it very soothing.
08:45But, uh, with these blanks running loose, uh, things are very untidy.
08:51Now, if I round them up, who knows?
08:55This city may erect a hologram in my memory.
08:59Huh?
09:03There's no way to tell what's happening.
09:05I am deeply uneasy.
09:06It's not easy.
09:07We're losing millions.
09:08Every network is affected.
09:09Look.
09:11Apparently, the banks have stopped transactions.
09:13Their computers are down, too.
09:14Edwards, is this a power failure?
09:16No, that's what's so odd.
09:17There have been intermittent minor computer failures citywide since dawn.
09:20There's plenty of power.
09:20It's just not working.
09:21I'm away with power.
09:22I'm most unsettled.
09:24Huh.
09:26Simon.
09:26What is going on, Ben?
09:28My first address is due shortly as my sponsors.
09:30You really must get me on the air.
09:32I wish we could.
09:33We're going to go critical if we don't act soon.
09:35We're going to have riots out there.
09:36We should distribute emergency video players immediately.
09:39How are my ratings?
09:41Our ratings?
09:42But my constituents, my votes, 296 million of them.
09:46Simon, we all know the votes are computer enhanced.
09:48My question is whether your opponent isn't sabotaging your victory.
09:51Of course not.
09:53We negotiated election results weeks ago.
09:55Come on.
09:56Of course.
09:57Oh, come on, Ben.
09:58You process the news as and when it suits you or us.
10:01Who knows?
10:02Who cares?
10:02I care.
10:04When that is done, it's done for the public good.
10:06Well, right now, the public good, my good, and your good are the same thing.
10:10We need pictures.
10:13Ben, do something now.
10:14I call it data re-scan.
10:18Fantastic.
10:20Want the software?
10:21I'll route it to your home terminal on your optical link.
10:23Yeah, of course.
10:27How did you do this?
10:29Well, data transfer is pretty common.
10:31They used to color old movies with the years ago.
10:33My data re-scan program is just a sophistication.
10:36They were a bit slow.
10:37There we go.
10:48This changed the course of history.
10:50The Trojan Sheep.
11:00Edison.
11:03Edison.
11:07Edison, this is urgent.
11:13Story break.
11:15Don't forget to link it to my apartment.
11:19Picture!
11:21Without regular picture transmissions,
11:24thousands are swarming the streets,
11:26desperately buying black market tapes from video vendors.
11:29There's another story on the streets, however.
11:31In a dawn rave,
11:32Metro cops swooped down on this building and made an arrest.
11:35So far, little is known about the detainee.
11:39I'm going inside to find out who or what this girl was.
11:43This is J.D. Crane, Network 23, downtown.
11:55It's a story break.
11:56Is it here?
12:09I've got the picture!
12:10I've got the picture!
12:10I've got the picture!
12:12It seems normal enough.
12:24What's the big deal?
12:26Some girl was arrested.
12:28By the look of the place, she was leaving in a big hurry.
12:30This new guy, Powers, ordered all the blanks arrested.
12:33He says it's untidy not having people on the computers.
12:35Makes them hard to catch.
12:39Edison.
12:40It's an off switch.
12:44She'll get years for that.
12:46Off switches are illegal.
12:51This is a message to the authorities.
12:52What's this?
12:54It is also an ultimatum.
12:57You have until sunset to release the detained blanks.
13:01You have until sunset to release the detained blanks.
13:13You have until sunset to release the detained blanks.
13:18What on earth is it?
13:24Or the point.
13:27Who is it?
13:28This morning's failures were tests.
13:38We can desolate your systems.
13:40The reason is the actions of Simon Peller.
13:53Release the blanks or every computer in the city will be simultaneously wrecked.
13:58You have until sunset.
14:00Sunset?
14:02Good Lord.
14:02Who is it from?
14:03Not some damned clairvoyant astro.
14:06Peller.
14:06These people are known as blanks.
14:10And I will not negotiate with off-the-record people.
14:13But you must consider the consequences.
14:15What are these blanks?
14:16People who have somehow erased or blanked their names from our central computer.
14:22They're computer experts gone bad.
14:23Bad?
14:24My God.
14:24They could lobotomize the network.
14:26Without televisions, this city would be ungovernable.
14:31Big time!
14:32Television!
14:33Big time!
14:35Tele-tele-teacher!
14:3624 hours a day, day after night, making tomorrow seem like yesterday!
14:42Yeah!
14:44All right!
14:45Reg, I've been thinking.
14:48Very commendable, Dom.
14:50Very executive.
14:51Reg, are you trying to teach your stomach to read with that stuff?
14:56Dom, I do believe I love you.
14:59Like a sister, I trust?
15:00Well, I always fancied nuns.
15:02Listen, Reg.
15:05Listen.
15:06Now, if all those threats are for real,
15:09I mean, well, there'd be no networks, would there?
15:11No, Dom.
15:13Not if the lads do the business.
15:15We don't have a computer, do we?
15:17No, we don't.
15:18Computers know too much.
15:19But they don't know about us.
15:22So if they blow up the computers,
15:24we could be the only network working.
15:27They don't blow things up, Dom,
15:29but you are catching on at last.
15:31Reg, what do you know about all this?
15:34Enough.
15:36Enough to get some mates of mine out of the slammer
15:38and give you and me a tasty little earner?
15:41We must be on the road.
15:43We've got things to do.
15:47Whoever these people are,
15:48we must attempt to find them
15:49and find out exactly what they want.
15:51Maybe they'll negotiate.
15:52I want you to use Carter, Murray,
15:54and have Bryce assist you with a network computer.
15:57Yes, sir.
15:57But they must assume we'll go for them
15:59before we give up.
16:00What do you suggest, Murray?
16:01Change the target.
16:02Set up an off-network base
16:03where they won't find us if they're looking.
16:04We could launder our mainframe here
16:06up the optical link to Edison's apartment.
16:08Be my guests.
16:09My systems may be unreliable
16:12and all my shower cut out this morning.
16:14I had shampoo in my hair.
16:17You don't know what that's like, Murray.
16:21I'm sure that was very distressing.
16:24However, we currently face the grave threat
16:26of having our screens blanked out.
16:27It's a nightmare possibility
16:28and we have very little time.
16:30So get started.
16:33Shut up.
16:37Coffee's ready?
16:38Want some?
16:39At the academy,
16:40they used to say
16:41caffeine kills concentration.
16:43Which academy, Bryce?
16:44ACS.
16:45Academy of Computer Sciences.
16:47I went in when I was 10.
16:4910?
16:49What about your family and your friends?
16:51Oh, they were very proud, I think.
16:52No, I mean about you leaving home so young.
16:55I have no idea.
16:57I haven't seen them.
17:02One coffee.
17:03The machine seems fine now.
17:05I went haywire this morning
17:06along with the shower.
17:08There must have been a glitch
17:08in the domestic computer, too.
17:11The domestic system?
17:12Nothing wrong with the coffee user.
17:14All these malfunctions.
17:15There must be a faulty port
17:16at the control computer.
17:17It must tie into the system somewhere.
17:19Right here.
17:21Let me try.
17:22Okay, if we couple Edison's terminal
17:25back to the domestic fault tracing system,
17:27we can find the weak link.
17:31Now, there was a weak link
17:33in Edison's local subframe, right?
17:34I might be able to penetrate the mainframe through.
17:40The downtown mainframe's breached.
17:41The downtown mainframe's breached.
17:42The downtown mainframe's breached.
17:43The downtown mainframe's breached.
17:44The downtown mainframe's breached.
17:45The downtown mainframe's breached.
17:49The downtown mainframe's breached.
17:52The downtown mainframe's breached.
17:54The downtown mainframe's breached.
17:56They can access the domestic's mainframe.
17:59They can control everything.
18:01That computer runs the city.
18:05The downtown mainframe is breached.
18:09Our overload program is connected.
18:14Our ultimatum has been transmitted.
18:19Our ability to interrupt television has been demonstrated.
18:22Our friend, Blank Ridge,
18:27will set up Tracker's solar trigger.
18:31And then, he sent me wait.
18:35God, patient friend.
18:43Since pictures have returned,
18:46we are able to confirm two more Blank arrests
18:48despite the sunset ultimatum.
18:50Simon Peller continues his relentless campaign
18:53to put the Blank's behind bars.
18:54That bloody clown Peller is still arresting people.
18:56That's breaking and tear
18:56in the very fabric of our society as we know it.
19:00Edison, that bloody clown Peller
19:01is still arresting people.
19:02Yeah, I heard.
19:04Can't Cheviot do something?
19:05I mean, he's almost network property.
19:07Peller's up there with Cheviot now.
19:09Very hush-hush.
19:10Even the Secura cams are cut.
19:12How we doing?
19:12I wouldn't give to be a fly on that boardroom wall.
19:22Well, you can if you like.
19:23What?
19:24Bryce, what is this?
19:39Oh, it's a bug.
19:41Well, a fly, actually.
19:42It was my graduation project when I was 11.
19:45A mechanical fly?
19:47Bryce, that's brilliant.
19:48It's pretty good once I've rewritten
19:52basic aerodynamics.
19:56Music.
19:57People will turn on the network's
19:59authority's everything.
20:01When you attack them,
20:02they were promises a fly.
20:06Simon, risking my network.
20:09A fly.
20:14I'm sorry, Bryce,
20:16but that was pretty funny.
20:18It took ages to perfect.
20:20Take a look at this.
20:23I'm at the source,
20:24but there's a sort of gate.
20:27What is it?
20:28I don't know.
20:29Try another route.
20:46I thought I was stuck.
20:47No, we're not.
20:49We can get invited in.
20:51How?
20:52Bryce gave it to me.
20:53His new toy,
20:55Data Rescan.
20:56No.
20:57No, Edison,
20:57that's not a security breaker.
20:59That's a data transfer system.
21:01Yeah, but Bryce,
21:02you remember the Trojan horse?
21:05The city of Troy had to take it in
21:07because they couldn't resist it.
21:08So?
21:09So, we'll give them a Trojan horse.
21:12Something so unique for a computer hacker,
21:16we'll have to take it in.
21:19We'll give them Max.
21:20I hope you're wearing something under there, Dom.
21:38Is it absolutely necessary to come up here?
21:43It's barbaric.
21:44You really are a trial, Reg.
21:46Well, take a look down there, Princess.
21:48It's also the best vantage point there is.
21:51We can see the sun go up there and down over there.
21:55Oh, that's wonderful, Reg.
21:58So what?
21:59So, little cactus,
22:02when I've lined the dish up,
22:03we can put big time on air
22:05over the whole city
22:07while doing Blank Bruno a favor.
22:13I want to get this clear.
22:14You want me to pretend, pretend, pretend to be a horse?
22:17I saddle up for a nomad.
22:19Max, it's our only chance.
22:21If they, whoever they are,
22:23will open up that gate, we can get in.
22:25And you are irresistible.
22:28Yeah.
22:30Whoever they are,
22:32what I want to know is
22:33what happened to the Trojan horse?
22:35Well, it became a great mythical figure.
22:38Yeah, but did they pick up, pick up, pick up?
22:39Did they pick up the option on a series?
22:41Please, Max, we need to find out
22:43who the threat is coming from and why.
22:51Okay.
22:52Right, right.
22:53Just put me down for getting out again.
22:57Oh, that's no problem.
22:58We'll just keep the lines open
22:59so we can bring you out anytime we want.
23:01Now, feed the data out once you're in there,
23:03and we'll run you back to 23's mainframe
23:05if they don't take the bait.
23:06Bait, bait, bait.
23:07Bait?
23:10Eat my guest.
23:14Delicately, Bryce.
23:14Good luck, Max.
23:28What was it?
23:30That's Max.
23:31That's him.
23:33That's how the computer sees him.
23:37And now we'll send him on his way.
23:40Adios.
23:41Oh, no.
23:46What is it?
23:47Extranius matrix approaching.
23:49Don't!
23:50Freak!
23:51Freak!
23:51Help!
23:52Help!
23:52Help!
23:53Help!
23:53It is dormant.
23:58Show me.
24:02Elegant.
24:06Recheck uplink feedback.
24:07None.
24:08It is a self-contained ROM construct.
24:10Shall we check for sentience?
24:12Hmm.
24:23They've seen him.
24:25They're running a neuromoth room.
24:27Are we clean?
24:29Sanitized.
24:30There's no way they can trace him back to us.
24:34Oh, this is beautiful.
24:36What is it?
24:38It is passive.
24:40But alert.
24:45Well, God, what do you think?
24:46Should we let it in?
24:48They're looking at him.
24:50Hang in there, Max.
24:53We'll take it into the volatile RAM.
24:55If it's non-hostile, I'll transfer to a mainframe siding.
24:58The RAM is linked.
25:02On command, flatline all access links.
25:06Isolate that thing from its source.
25:14Come on.
25:14Hang in there, Max.
25:20On the trace.
25:21We need that feed.
25:21Quick!
25:22Flat-minders.
25:26What's that mean?
25:27It means they know we're there and they've locked us out.
25:31Run the construct.
25:32Is this a pre-recording?
25:44No.
25:45It has full responsive capacity and artificial intelligence capabilities.
25:49Less of the artificial voice box.
25:54Box.
25:55Box.
25:56Anyway, where am I?
25:58I am Bruno.
26:01I'm a blank.
26:03I am Max.
26:04Max.
26:05Hed-h-h-h-h-hed-h-Hedro.
26:07Max.
26:07Hed-h-Hedro.
26:24Can't we do something?
26:26Max is trapped in there.
26:28We had to run his construct complete.
26:31They would have sensed a duplicate.
26:33I'm afraid he's stuck in there.
26:37Chaos.
26:38People are in a panic fighting for old video recordings.
26:40First thing, I'd rather watch a smoke alarm.
26:41Man, Peller must do something.
26:43We may not survive this.
26:44They mean business.
26:45He won't move.
26:46He's out of it.
26:46No deals.
26:47I know.
26:47Let's fire somebody.
26:50Edwards, the whole network's out again.
26:52A complete void.
26:53They've crashed all the transmission programs again.
26:55If Peller doesn't move, we're dead.
26:58So, line up the trigger towards the sun.
27:06Open the lens.
27:09Lock the old device into the sun.
27:19Solar trigger locked.
27:21Sun's declination now 55 degrees.
27:24Trigger now automatically tracking the sun.
27:27Bruno, Blank Reg here.
27:30It's all set and running.
27:34I have the trigger hot and clear.
27:37Thank you, Blank Reg.
27:43Declination now 50 degrees.
27:46All sorted.
27:47Start the journey up, Rapunzel.
27:49Moving on.
27:52Thanks.
27:52Bye.
27:54Big Time television.
28:07Big Time.
28:12Swimming around the right there, and I'm thinking tomorrow, I'll see my yesterday.
28:16From sunrise to sunset, filling your eggs with pointless drink.
28:42Murray, I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but Blank Reg, he knows the blanks.
28:47You got a fix on it.
28:48Right.
28:49Joe, you got a fix on that transmission.
28:52We got something.
28:53Move!
28:54Move!
28:55With Blank Reg running transmissions, our age is lost.
28:59People will watch anything, for God's sakes.
29:02I will talk to Blank Reg.
29:04Hey!
29:05Talk to him.
29:06You should slam him back on the files.
29:09Traker.
29:10Now, Jaxi, are all the links in place?
29:13We should run the dump-down program now.
29:16Nobody's been released.
29:18Why wait?
29:19Because we gave our word, Traker, my irascible good friend.
29:23No, the dump program will run at sunset.
29:25I will not override that system.
29:27I have built elegance into this.
29:29It will remain.
29:39Reg, this is Bruno.
29:41Oh.
29:42Hello, mate.
29:43Everything all right, is it?
29:45It is not.
29:46You must stop your transmissions.
29:48Our deal was just the photoelectric trigger.
29:51You owed me, remember?
29:52Red.
29:53Maria, I've got the source.
29:58And there's a microlink conversation on the same carrier channel.
30:01Listen.
30:02Well, I don't see how it affects the detonator, Bruno.
30:05It doesn't, but those screens must be blank.
30:08Unless we can demonstrate our ability to stop television programs,
30:11our threat has no edge.
30:13You understand?
30:14All right.
30:15Get a trace on the other end of that.
30:17All right.
30:18Hold on to it.
30:19Addison is right.
30:20We've got him.
30:23There is a trace on this microlink.
30:25Damn, Reg.
30:27Cut out.
30:28They're running traces.
30:32We lost him.
30:34Damn it.
30:36Oh, this sounds like fun.
30:37Well, what are you going to blow up with such...
30:40...Elegals?
30:42You're a very subtle concept, Max.
30:44Too subtle to talk of bombs.
30:46Very crude devices.
30:48Dangerous.
30:49I didn't mention bombs, but, uh...
30:53What else is a detonator for?
30:55Our bomb is simply a program.
30:57It links all the programs of the city through the main one simultaneously.
31:00Massive overload.
31:02Could buy everything from security systems to network 23.
31:06Well, I'll let you know if there's life after the off switch.
31:09I already know.
31:11All the computers, and all the systems, and all the world,
31:14I had to walk into yours.
31:16What I want to know is why you want to wreck our network. Network!
31:28Your network and the authorities are mesmerizing millions into worshiping this new priesthood of the computer.
31:35Like cavemen worshiping fire.
31:38It's a false faith, Max.
31:40We're not against the computer. We're against its misuse.
31:43We want to use computers to make brilliant, gigantic leaps.
31:46Even a leap, leap, leap, leap in the air begins with two feet on the ground, my friend.
31:53You are one fingertip away from oblivion.
31:58I don't think you'll do that.
32:01I'm too irresistible.
32:05Too...
32:07Fast, fast, fast.
32:08Fascinating.
32:10Fascinating.
32:12Even unique, but repeatable.
32:15You see, Bryce Lynch was once my pupil.
32:23I'm sorry about Max Edison.
32:26I feel so helpless.
32:28It's like you being in there.
32:31It's starting to happen.
32:35The world's gone away.
32:38Without their TVs, what is there for them?
32:40It's frightening.
32:42Bryce.
32:44What did you do?
32:46Bryce.
32:48What did you do?
32:50Bryce.
32:52Bryce.
32:54Bryce.
32:56Bryce.
32:57Bryce.
32:59Bryce.
33:00What did General Cornwallis say before Yorktown, when he was asked what history would say if he lost a battle?
33:09No.
33:10He...
33:12He said that history will lie.
33:16As usual.
33:17Exactly.
33:19Get the data rescan on.
33:21We lost with the Trojan horse.
33:25Let's see what we can do with the Trojan sheep.
33:27The Trojan sheep.
33:36Enson, what are we doing?
33:38Bryce, get data rescan, set to run.
33:40Theura, call Murray and have him get a camera over to you at Peller's office.
33:42Get the chopper here, fast. I'm going to big time.
33:44Get the chopper here fast. I'm going to big time.
33:46What do I talk to him about?
33:47Talk to him about the blanks.
33:48But what if he won't talk to me?
33:49Just be beautiful. He'll melt.
33:51I do.
34:04Destination now, 30 degrees.
34:08You can at least terminate in the comfort of your own computer.
34:14Oh, no!
34:16Oh, no!
34:17Oh, no!
34:17Oh, no!
34:23Max!
34:33Well, I'm back.
34:34They threw me out of that place.
34:37You've got to help me, help me, Bryce.
34:38I'm frightened.
34:39If they run that program, they'll erase, erase me.
34:42They'll turn me into wandering electrons, deserts of vast eternity.
34:46The gray, gray, gray, gray yard of old angels.
34:50No, they won't.
34:51Not if I can help them.
34:51How can we help you, Mr. Carter?
35:15I want to talk to you about the blanks.
35:27Go on.
35:29How'd you become a blank, Rich?
35:31I was working for these very bright, young computer hackers.
35:38I was in a bit of bother.
35:40Tax creds, the law, slight violence, all that.
35:44I had to disappear officially.
35:47They did me a favor.
35:49Suddenly, I didn't exist.
35:51I was a blank file.
35:53Still am.
35:54Now it's a kind of a philosophy, huh?
36:02Yeah, sort of.
36:04Well, everything's bleeding rules, isn't it?
36:06They want a license for the dog.
36:07Imagine.
36:09He'd only eat it, you see.
36:11Who's running that bomb threat, Rich?
36:14Oh, come on.
36:14You can't ask me that.
36:17Simon Keller is a fool.
36:18And you blanks may be right.
36:22But you're fooling with millions of ordinary people here.
36:26And your network.
36:28If that bomb goes off, you'll have everybody behind him.
36:32And he'll go for the lot of you.
36:35Rich, I believe in the principle.
36:41But the method stinks.
36:43Thanks.
36:43Rich, let's have it.
36:57Declination now, 25 degrees.
37:02I don't care how many regulations you break, I want them locked up.
37:08Laura Jones.
37:09I've never heard of her.
37:10Get rid of her.
37:13Reg, I know you can contact them.
37:36We traced your microlink.
37:39Okay, have my word.
37:39There's no trace now.
37:40You must let me talk to them.
37:47It's not them.
37:49It's him.
37:50We got bananas.
37:56I've got to record this if I'm going to stop this becoming a catastrophe.
38:00Reg, you have to decide whether you trust me.
38:04Hello, Bruno.
38:18There's a bloke here who wants to talk to you.
38:20Sorry, Squire.
38:21Don't cut me off.
38:23There's no trace.
38:24You have my word.
38:25There is no trace on this microlink.
38:28Mr. Edison Carter, a privilege.
38:30Dare I ask what you want?
38:32I want to give you the chance to tell your side of the story.
38:36I wonder why.
38:37I'd like to think blank.
38:38Reg is a friend of mine.
38:40And I respect his right and yours to be a blank.
38:44If I can persuade Peller to announce he'll release your friends, will you stop this thing?
38:49Naturally.
38:50We gave our word, Mr. Carter.
38:51But no one will be harmed.
38:53There is simply a massive electronic hemorrhage.
38:56The sunrise industry meeting at sunset.
38:58Give us our screens.
39:01Give me the chance to do my story.
39:04If I have those screens, I might be able to do something.
39:07Very well.
39:08But it will simply make the inevitable end more public.
39:12And time is short.
39:15He's right.
39:17The sun's almost down.
39:18I'm not going to have time.
39:20Oh, yes, you are.
39:23The sun's not the only tool to earth.
39:30So if these blanks stop this sunset bomb, will you release their friends?
39:34No, my dear and very attractive, Miss Jones.
39:42I will not release these people.
39:44It's already sunset.
39:46And as you can see, our television screens are on again.
39:51What are you doing?
39:55This is the trigger.
39:57Photoelectric cell.
39:58Now, when the sunlight goes, the switch closes and roll up.
40:02The programs overload the system.
40:04Sunrise industry meets at sunset.
40:08Oh, my God.
40:10What?
40:13There's a timer.
40:15There's a demolition charge on it.
40:17Well, get away from it.
40:18No.
40:19Not if it's going to buy you some time, mate.
40:22Now, don't hang about.
40:23This flashlight's not very reliable.
40:25Oh, my God.
40:28Go on.
40:45Don't throw me now, sir.
40:50Detonation now.
40:5120 degrees.
40:52My dear Miss Jones, of course, I will not release these people.
41:01Of course, I will...
41:04Of course, I will...
41:07I will...
41:10Edison, what's going on?
41:14We got the Oris Peller interview and all the screens are back on.
41:16I know, I know.
41:17Did you get it on the microlink to Bryce?
41:19Yes, yes, yes.
41:19But why?
41:20What the hell's happening?
41:20I'm almost with Peller now.
41:22Trust me on this one, Merck.
41:31Detonation now.
41:3315 degrees.
41:37Carter.
41:39The emergency is over, and I have triumphed.
41:43Stand by control.
41:44We're going live.
41:44All right, hit TX on six.
41:47We are live.
41:48Get my mic released to Bryce.
41:50Stand by studio.
41:52Counting.
41:53In five, four, three...
41:55Edison, I hope to God you know what you're doing.
41:58You mean you have no idea what Carter is up to?
42:00None.
42:01And he has my absolute trust.
42:03Simon Piller.
42:04At dawn this morning, our city was hit by a series of critical computer failures.
42:10Until minutes ago, our screens were blank.
42:12These were not accidents.
42:14The people who caused these failures are not terrorists.
42:18They claim that some of them have been wrongfully imprisoned.
42:21Just moments ago, I had an opportunity to speak with their leader.
42:24If I can persuade Simon Piller, will you stop this thing?
42:36Inclination now.
42:38Zero degrees.
42:39Why has the dump program not run?
42:40Trigger enabled.
42:41There must be a fault in the solar trigger.
42:43It doesn't matter.
42:45I rigged a demolition charge.
42:47If the trigger fails, it'll blow it to bits.
42:50Same result.
42:52You did what?
42:54Blank Reg might be near that thing.
43:01What if the program doesn't rot?
43:03We all lose.
43:04It's not worth Reg's life, Trigger.
43:17Damn your arrogance.
43:19I'm flatlining the program.
43:21I cannot risk Reg's life.
43:23No.
43:24Yes.
43:36Only one man can prevent our city being paralyzed.
43:41Simon Piller.
43:43Mr. Piller, are you prepared to negotiate to prevent this catastrophe?
43:47Microlink running control.
43:54My dear Miss Jones, of course I will release these people.
43:59I have no intention of risking this city or its television network.
44:04I never said that!
44:08Carter has done it.
44:10Stand by, Opinion Temple.
44:12Picture surely can't lie, Mr. Piller.
44:16Let's see what the public thinks of your very sensible decision.
44:19The public seems to approve your decision by a huge majority.
44:25Are you order the release now?
44:34I hereby order the release of all Blank detainees.
44:40It's all over.
44:49That was gross misrepresentation.
44:51The people wanted a solution.
44:52I gave them one.
44:53I just pretended it was yours.
44:56Those Blanks will be brought to justice.
44:59They haven't heard the end of this, Carter.
45:00Oh, I think they have, Simon.
45:03Unlike the fringes, justice here is a lot more than cash flow or politics.
45:08I believe you two can find your own way out.
45:18What are you laughing, laughing, laughing about?
45:22Bryce just tried to kiss me.
45:24Kiss me?
45:25Well, you are irresistible.
45:28Well, thank you.
45:34Blank Ridge.
45:36Come on.
45:36Come on.
45:38Reg, what are you doing fooling about up there?
46:04Being heroic, Dom.
46:06It was my turn.
46:08This, this, this is funny.
46:26Network 23 is saying, I'm getting above, above myself.
46:32So, so, so, they've decided to interrupt me with fucking real stomach, and guess what they've picked?
46:43Commercials.
46:50Come, come, come, come on.
46:52Let's see them.
46:53I'll be right back, right after them.
47:06I'll be right back, right after them.
47:06I'll be right back, right after they were like, thank you.
47:07I'll be right back.
47:08Let's see who's going.
47:09I'll be right back.
47:10This will be my luck.
47:14And this will be my turn.
47:18You'll be right back.
47:19AquÃ's going.
47:24Well, I'll be right back.
47:25But I'll be right back.
47:28Maybe, maybe.
47:28No?
47:29I'll be right back.
47:29Come on.
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