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NARRATOR: In the city of
Betaville, in the near future,

the technology we developed
confronts us, the science

we created seduces us.

But will our dreams of tomorrow
be turned into a nightmare?

Welcome to Paradox.

Be careful what you wish for.

Nothing is impossible anymore.

In the city of
Betaville where the laws

have outlawed advertising, only
the stars showcase product.

And they're treated like gods.

But when a poor discarded
mortal like P. Burke

is chosen for an experiment
to become one of them,

she finds that getting what
she's always dreamed of

is more dangerous than
she ever imagined.

JOHN: Wait till you see her.

She fits our profile
to a T. There.

Push in.

Get closer, Joe.

She is so perfect.

Each time we watch her,
I'm more convinced.

Where do you get real
feelings like that?

[inaudible] put him
on contract last week.

Sales have already doubled.

JOE: I'm telling
you, she's our girl.

We keep the feelings, and
we take away her pain.

You think she'll go for it?

JOHN: What's she got there?

Where'd she get that?

Let's get an ambulance
on the GTX Vid Park.

Full cycle med squad.

We can't lose her now.

Do you think there's time?

JOHN: I'm going to go
to the hospital pronto.

If she lives, I'll request
GTX for the start-up cash.

Get everything prepped!

P. Burke, right?

John Richie, GTX Corp. Hey,
we almost lost you today.

It's a good thing
they got here in time.

No family, right?

What about friends?

What do you want from me?

You enjoyed seeing
Breath today, didn't you?

Being so close.

How'd you like to meet him?

Not just meet him,
get to know him,

get to know all the cast of
the Gods, all his friends,

Djuma van O, Ali,
Jim Ten, you name it.

I can do that for you.

But you're going to
have to work very hard.

Why would you do that for me?

Because somebody up there
thinks you're pretty special.

And deep down, you know
you're special, too.

It's a whole other world
where the vid cams come from,

Miss Burke, watching what we do.

I don't have anything
anybody would want.

So what happens when they
find out they made a mistake?

Maybe they want something
that you would never expect.

Let's look at it this way.

Isn't what I'm offering
you exactly what

you've always dreamed of?

To be part of something,
Instead of groveling

out on the street all alone?

What have you got to lose?

Does Breath know about this?

Not yet.

But if you say yes, I'll make
sure he's the first to know.

I'll do it.

That a girl.

FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]:
Identify yourself.

John Richie, GTX Corp.

FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]: Cleared.

How much longer
will this take?

We'll get her healthy first.

I can't wait to see her.

Nice of you to make it.

So since first sales are
up 21% in the Southern

District since Chris
started wearing

beaver hats on the Gods.

I think we can expect those
percentages to increase--

[ring]

Yes?

JOHN [ON PHONE]:
Mr. Isham, I have

Joe Payne on the vid
phone for the prototype

body shop project.
Do you remember it?

Didn't I tell you to
handle all peripherals?

It's the body shop
project, the living doll.

Yes, of course.

What does he want?

JOHN [ON PHONE]:
It's a [inaudible]

goal pending your
dollar [inaudible],, sir.

Any demo?

Not yet.

No demo, no dollars.

Stay on it.

Anything else?

No.

There's been another
incident with your son, sir.

Oh, what is it this time?

Broke into a big
studio and made

another one of his
revolutionary statements.

Knocked the entire
production out for a day.

Playback.

Don't worry, I took
care of the bail.

My son, the social critic.

Nothing a week in a
psychomed room wouldn't fix.

People only listen to him when
he's getting himself arrested.

Give him his own forum with
all the airtime he wants.

Watch him run
himself out of gas.

Today is the big day.

I'm getting better?

That's what the doctor's say.

The fungus place under
my arm is all gone.

Nothing hurts.

JOHN: So what are
we waiting for?

What is that?

That is you.

Don't play tricks on me, Joe.

JOE: I'm not.

She is you.

JOHN: We didn't want
to get you too excited

before it was time to know.

JOE: Now move your hands,
or at least think about it.

Easy, easy, take it slow.

Take it slow.

Easy, take it slow.

Oh no, it can't be.

It is.

Be brave.

Just one minute and then
you'll understand better than I

could ever possibly explain.

That is me.

JOE: She is you.

It's just like
moving your arm, only

the signals from your brain
have a little further to travel,

that's all.

That's me.

All I control is the link up.

Oh, God.

JOE: Trust me.

You're doing fine.

This is what was all
meant to be from the start.

I'm sorry that was
so scary for you.

It'll get less.

I mean, if you want
to keep at this.

What is she?

She's called a waldo.

We grew her.

Look, not even
calluses on her feet.

She's incredible.

JOE: Yeah, but without a
remote operator, without you,

she's nothing, no one.

You're the first.

Why can't you grow
a mind for her, too?

Oh, we could, just
no one like yours.

Things that you feel, the
things that you've been through.

You can't know what I feel.

Don't you know what
this is like for me?

I've been locked up in
this body my whole life.

It's like I just walked outside.
I was free.

Do you know when
advertising was--

um-- what do you call her again?

Delphi.

Right.

JOHN: Do you know what
advertising was, Delphi?

It's when they used to tell
people to buy things, isn't it?

It's against the law.

This only after two weeks.

It's like she was born
again in that body.

Advertising, as it used to
be, is something that we

don't like to talk about.

The city was all filled
with billboards and signs.

When the vid
screens came, well--

but what makes people buy
one product over another?

Ever wonder?

They hear about it
from someone else.

Well, what made you buy your
particular brand of body lift,

for instance?

I have never had a body lift.

All right, a cooker.

Well, no house
to put a cooker.

Don't you remember
where you found me?

She's a little head
strong, don't you think?

Are you sure she's going
to do what she's told?

It's not head strong.

Don't you get it?

She's just so thrilled
with being her.

That's what people
are going to spark to.

And that comes from the girl
plugged into that pod who

never had anything in her life.

Not from something we
could grow or from somebody

who always had everything.

Oh, wait, I know
the best cooker.

Ananga uses the Burnbabi
on the Nude Gourmet.

Exactly.

You signed on to using
it, so you knew it

must have been a good product.

And that's exactly what you
want to be doing for us,

show people which
products are good.

Because we both know that if we
had to rely on word of mouth,

no one would ever buy anything
or hear about anything

new and improved.

And all those people
that worked so

hard to think up those
products will be out of a job

and on the street.

And I think you know what
that's like, don't you?

We're just trying to
help people in spite

of an unfair law, Delphi.

That's why we got to
keep it between us.

Do you think you
can do that for me?

Well, I'm too excited
to follow even half

of what you're talking
about, Mr. Richie, let alone

tell someone else about it.

JOHN: You think
you're excited now?

Hold onto your chair,
because by this time

tomorrow you're going to be
doing your first vid for us

in a beautiful water location.

What do you say?

Right on time, Delphi.

Welcome to the rapids, baby.

You look fantastic.

Well, [inaudible]
are the greatest.

Oh, absolutely.

What do you think of this?

What's that?

A [inaudible]?
- Uh-huh.

And next we're going on a
little lion safari with you

as the meat.

Oh, I want it be
everything just perfect,

baby, for the
festival, you know?

Festival?

What festival?

Oh, well, this [inaudible]
you walk on the street,

[inaudible] straight
to the vid [inaudible]..

Didn't they tell you?

Product stimulation index, baby.

They're checking you out!

It's all right, people.

Let's get her in the
waiting room patios,

under the falls, before
I get too excited.

Oh, Delphi.

Now, you have to
sleep when she's asleep,

or you'll get too tired.

That was an exhausting day.

Even when I'm asleep,
I dream I'm her.

It wakes me up, and I want
to get right back in the pod.

Well, when she's asleep,
she's as lifeless as when

you first saw her.

You're not missing anything.

Now, bed time.

Joe, sometimes when she's
asleep and I'm out here,

I think I'm still inside her.

I feel it.

Ah, the memory of
her is very intense.

That's all

Joe, I've never
been touched the way

she is, the way men touch her.

Does that bother you?

Not how it feels, just
what they mean by it.

MALE ANNOUNCER: Jet-setting
princess and long-time nature

squeeze, Delphi B.
Couldn't resist a dip

skinny or otherwise
when she's found

us vidding the new water garden
sat the Rapids Day Spa Complex.

Don't swim away, Miss Delphi.

Take a look at the
[inaudible] sport

dress and pantyhose figures
off the new Delphi account.

Get Richie on the line.

Fellow citizens, we interrupt
your regular programming

to give you a dose of reality.

They're buying and
selling your souls,

folks, telling you what to
want and when to want it,

hard-wiring your
desires directly

into the production machines.

If you don't wake
up soon, they'll

be nothing left inside of you
a junk heap of old lipstick

and torn pantyhose.

Wake up!

Wake up!

[inaudible]

Excuse me, ladies
and gentlemen, please,

let us through.

Let us through.

Ladies and gentlemen,
let us through, please--

WOMAN: Did you play a
suicidal [inaudible] the Gods?

DAVEY: --Ladies and
Gentlemen, thank you.

Excuse me, excuse
me, everyone.

MAN: Delphi, please!

Look at me!

It's so nice that you
all want to know me.

You have no idea what
it's like to have no one

and then to suddenly
have everyone.

Now if you'll excuse me,
Prince Davey and I would

like to see some more shows.- Excuse me.

Let's get out of here.

MAN: Delphi!

Just another product, no more
real than a tube of toothpaste.

What do you think
they're going to do

to you when you're all used up?

Did you hear the
little speech she made?

She's melting their damn hearts.

Get her on a shopping romp
with Davie and the sleek chick.

Crank up the exposure.

Maybe a spot on the Walk
Venus, then the bird sanctuary

because, oh, I don't
know, a dying mother

collects macaw feathers.

But get her the hell
out of that festival.

Yes, sir.

And away from my son.

Joe is there
anyone else like me?

Like Davey.

Is he a remote, too?

I mean, when he's sleepy,
is he empty like Delphi?

Is he lifeless?

Davey's just
psycho conditioned.

There's no link up.

So he can wake up
whenever he wants.

He doesn't need an
operator to exist.

I told you.

There's nobody in the
whole wide world like you.

Now, it's time for sleep.

I want Delphi to be real.

I don't want to
leave her anymore.

You need to sleep, sweetie.

Please, Joe, I
don't want to sleep.

I don't need to sleep.

Please, I want to be with her!

No, Joe, please!

Let me stay with her!

Easy, easy.

She won't eat.

She won't sleep.

JOHN: There's no
problem here, is there?

Because she's moving merchandise
so fast that they canceled

the shop romp, the
birds, everything.

She spoke on the GTX
vid cam [inaudible]

Friday morning for a
guest-star spot on the Gods.

No more small time, Delphi.

Real.

And once again,
darlings, action!

Will you remember me
when I go back to Texas?

I'll call you every day.

In the night when there's no
one there, I'll call your name,

and you'll hear me.

No, you won't.

You'll go back to Valhalla.

You'll remember
all the good times

and go back, now that
you've used me all up.

Goodbye, Breath.

All right, cut!

[bell ringing]

[inaudible]

A little 100-year-old
method-acting goddess?

Where did you pick that up?

Oh, I love her!

Looks like we have
a show regular here.

The plastic in
this flame dress

is giving me an awful rash.

Do you think that
I should wear it?

And those glow pills.

You swallowed them?

Well, she takes them to look
more beautiful for Breath.

You know, I don't
think that I should

let people see me do something
if it makes me sick, do you?

Get another dress, please.

First, the dress, now the
pills, what does she think

she is, a damn consumer rep?

She believes what you
told her about helping

people and good, new products.

Well, you better
go back and tell

P. Burke that she
better not believe

Delphi right out of existence.

Living dangerous, kitty?

What are you talking about?

Trying to get dead,
dumping on the product?

They just didn't know.

You're joking, right?

I have to go back to set.

Make them wait.

I can't do that.

How about later?

I know where you're staying.

I'll come knock on your door.

There are criminals
getting their minds erased.

There are cops on the coast
with electrodes in their heads.

They got the whole
world wired up

to think what they want them
to think, without even a plan

except to keep the
whole thing rolling.

Keep people buying
more and more.

And on and on and on it
goes, until the entire system

self-destructs.

My father thinks he can shut
me up giving me studio time.

But wait till people
hear what I have to say.

I'm going to blow the
lid off this whole thing.

The truth will come out.

Delphi, you're just one of their
tools, if you let yourself be.

Break away.

I can't.

I don't think you have
any idea what you can do.

They won't come in here.

They're afraid of my name.

Paul Isham.

They're both in
her room together,

and no one's saying a word
because he's your son.

He's holding up production,
and worst of all,

she's starting to buy his line.

Nip this in the
bottom, all right?

Yes, sir.

Tighter, hold me tighter.

Hey, What the
hell are you doing?

Hey, you will kill her.

Ah!

Ah!

What is it?

I wasn't supposed to.

They told me not to.

Oh, my god.

Oh, my God.

Delphi!

Oh, no.

Oh, God, I should have known!

They can't get to
me so they use you.

They control you.

Easy, easy, easy!

No!

No!

Paul!

[inaudible] those
bastards, my father.

It's not your fault.
You're not you!

I'm Delphi, I'm Delphi!

I'll kill them.

I'll kill whoever
did this to you.

It doesn't matter, Joe.

It doesn't hurt.

Try not to talk, OK?

I'm going to die.

I'm going to be born
again in Delphi.

Where is she?

I don't know, Duckie.

I'll be back.

Where does that
GTX know our lab?

I don't know what
you're talking about.

I'll break it!

Think I don't know all our
psycho goons when I see one?

What are you possibly going to
accomplish by going there, huh?

I'm going to take the
electrodes out of her head.

I'm never going to
let them do what

they did to her ever again.

You don't understand,
she's just a--

Don't I?

I know all about
the pleasure-pain

implants you sons-of-bitches
use, just give them

a little jolt every
time they don't eat,

breathe, and think
exactly what you want.

Your big trade
secrets are out there.

It's only a matter of time
before everybody knows.

That's not what we're doing.

Shut up!

The alarms all voice-coded.
There's nothing I can do.

I can't--

That's why you're going
to say exactly what I

need into this voice simulator.

Lie to me, and I'll
come back for you.

You know I can, and I will.

I didn't think you'd want to
see me anymore after you left.

Let's go grab a bite.

Why?

Just do what I say.

FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]:
Betaville Underground

System, your destination.

Carbondale lab.

FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]: Five,
four, three, two, one.

Auto pilot engaged.

I thought after you had
time to think about things

you'd change your mind.

I'm taking you away for good.

If they try to hurt you
again, I can stop the pain.

This will cut the signals.

It will protect you.

You can't do that.

Yes, I can.

Where are we going?

I found out where
they did this to you.

I don't know, Paul.

You're with me now.

You don't have to
be afraid anymore.

He thinks it's used as a
pleasure-pain implant, that

we could just take them out.

I'm going there myself.

No weapons, no police.

Can't you just order
Delphi back to the studio?

JOE: Not if the waldo
op refuses, sir.

So do something
to make her agree.

Withdrawal has to be phased
just right, and she knows it.

If we just pulled Burke
out, we lose them both.

Why aren't the drugs
knocking her out?

I don't know.

She's got a will that
almost defies [inaudible]..

Then threaten to cut
off her life support!

No, that's what she wants.

How about we cut the crap and
give Burke a little reminder

of who's in charge around here?

JOE: Sir, she is very weak.

I don't know how
much she can take.

Make an estimate.

I'll deal with Paul.

COMPUTERIZED FEMALE
[ON INTERCOM]:

FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]: Reaching
destination in 10 seconds.

Hang in there, baby.

All you got to do is stay alive.

Stay alive.

FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]:
Carbondale Lab.

Identify yourself.

John Richie.

Let them in.

FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]: Cleared.

Well, this really
must be something

special to bring you here.

MR. ISHAM: You don't know
what you're dealing with.

Take out her implants,
and you'll kill her.

PAUL: Where is your
operating room?

MR. ISHAM: She's
just a shell, Paul.

A doll with someone else's mind.

What wouldn't you say to
protect your investment?

Take your implants
out of her now!

I can't.
Your father's right.

Do it!

Paul!

Who do I have to hurt here?

Who's that?

Listen to me!

Paul, I-- I--

DELPHI: Paul?

She said she would.

Paul, no sleep.

Now!

Take the implants out of her!

She's dead.

The girl who animated the
body you call Delphi is dead.

I can't take anything out.

If you're not in the
operating room by 3,

I'm going to burn your leg off!

1, 2, move!

Fix her!

For god's sake
take her to the lab.

Don't sleep.

I'm Delphi?

I'm Delphi?

I'm her.

I love you, Paul.

Paul--

When you combine advanced
technology with human anatomy,

science can create
the perfect body,

but it can never
replace the human heart.

Welcome to the paradox.