1 00:00:01,601 --> 00:00:06,234 NARRATOR: In the city of Betaville, in the near future, 2 00:00:06,359 --> 00:00:10,450 the technology we developed confronts us, the science 3 00:00:10,575 --> 00:00:13,037 we created seduces us. 4 00:00:13,162 --> 00:00:18,922 But will our dreams of tomorrow be turned into a nightmare? 5 00:00:19,048 --> 00:00:19,882 Welcome to Paradox. 6 00:00:33,197 --> 00:00:35,451 Be careful what you wish for. 7 00:00:35,577 --> 00:00:37,538 Nothing is impossible anymore. 8 00:00:41,086 --> 00:00:42,714 In the city of Betaville where the laws 9 00:00:42,839 --> 00:00:45,761 have outlawed advertising, only the stars showcase product. 10 00:00:51,187 --> 00:00:51,980 And they're treated like gods. 11 00:00:58,992 --> 00:01:01,079 But when a poor discarded mortal like P. Burke 12 00:01:01,204 --> 00:01:06,839 is chosen for an experiment to become one of them, 13 00:01:06,964 --> 00:01:12,265 she finds that getting what she's always dreamed of 14 00:01:12,391 --> 00:01:14,394 is more dangerous than she ever imagined. 15 00:01:48,661 --> 00:01:49,705 JOHN: Wait till you see her. 16 00:01:49,831 --> 00:01:52,585 She fits our profile to a T. There. 17 00:01:52,711 --> 00:01:53,461 Push in. 18 00:02:03,645 --> 00:02:05,817 Get closer, Joe. 19 00:02:05,941 --> 00:02:08,530 She is so perfect. 20 00:02:08,655 --> 00:02:10,617 Each time we watch her, I'm more convinced. 21 00:02:38,331 --> 00:02:40,627 Where do you get real feelings like that? 22 00:02:40,752 --> 00:02:42,922 [inaudible] put him on contract last week. 23 00:02:43,048 --> 00:02:44,842 Sales have already doubled. 24 00:02:44,968 --> 00:02:47,681 JOE: I'm telling you, she's our girl. 25 00:02:47,805 --> 00:02:50,185 We keep the feelings, and we take away her pain. 26 00:03:31,048 --> 00:03:32,508 You think she'll go for it? 27 00:04:16,210 --> 00:04:17,503 JOHN: What's she got there? 28 00:04:17,628 --> 00:04:19,965 Where'd she get that? 29 00:04:20,091 --> 00:04:22,220 Let's get an ambulance on the GTX Vid Park. 30 00:04:22,345 --> 00:04:23,514 Full cycle med squad. 31 00:04:23,638 --> 00:04:24,474 We can't lose her now. 32 00:04:24,598 --> 00:04:25,851 Do you think there's time? 33 00:04:25,977 --> 00:04:27,354 JOHN: I'm going to go to the hospital pronto. 34 00:04:27,478 --> 00:04:28,940 If she lives, I'll request GTX for the start-up cash. 35 00:04:29,065 --> 00:04:30,234 Get everything prepped! 36 00:05:12,181 --> 00:05:14,853 P. Burke, right? 37 00:05:14,978 --> 00:05:24,453 John Richie, GTX Corp. Hey, we almost lost you today. 38 00:05:24,578 --> 00:05:25,914 It's a good thing they got here in time. 39 00:05:34,845 --> 00:05:35,555 No family, right? 40 00:05:39,437 --> 00:05:42,401 What about friends? 41 00:05:42,525 --> 00:05:44,154 What do you want from me? 42 00:05:51,250 --> 00:05:52,585 You enjoyed seeing Breath today, didn't you? 43 00:05:55,548 --> 00:05:58,470 Being so close. 44 00:05:58,595 --> 00:05:59,263 How'd you like to meet him? 45 00:06:02,518 --> 00:06:06,067 Not just meet him, get to know him, 46 00:06:06,191 --> 00:06:11,158 get to know all the cast of the Gods, all his friends, 47 00:06:11,284 --> 00:06:17,587 Djuma van O, Ali, Jim Ten, you name it. 48 00:06:17,711 --> 00:06:18,380 I can do that for you. 49 00:06:21,260 --> 00:06:22,428 But you're going to have to work very hard. 50 00:06:28,898 --> 00:06:30,150 Why would you do that for me? 51 00:06:32,988 --> 00:06:36,995 Because somebody up there thinks you're pretty special. 52 00:06:37,121 --> 00:06:38,790 And deep down, you know you're special, too. 53 00:06:45,010 --> 00:06:46,762 It's a whole other world where the vid cams come from, 54 00:06:46,887 --> 00:06:49,684 Miss Burke, watching what we do. 55 00:06:57,281 --> 00:06:58,908 I don't have anything anybody would want. 56 00:06:59,034 --> 00:07:02,081 So what happens when they find out they made a mistake? 57 00:07:13,725 --> 00:07:15,520 Maybe they want something that you would never expect. 58 00:07:18,610 --> 00:07:21,698 Let's look at it this way. 59 00:07:21,823 --> 00:07:23,618 Isn't what I'm offering you exactly what 60 00:07:23,743 --> 00:07:25,955 you've always dreamed of? 61 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:29,170 To be part of something, Instead of groveling 62 00:07:29,294 --> 00:07:30,964 out on the street all alone? 63 00:07:34,804 --> 00:07:36,056 What have you got to lose? 64 00:07:40,397 --> 00:07:41,774 Does Breath know about this? 65 00:07:41,900 --> 00:07:44,195 Not yet. 66 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,037 But if you say yes, I'll make sure he's the first to know. 67 00:08:09,573 --> 00:08:10,324 I'll do it. 68 00:08:17,587 --> 00:08:18,380 That a girl. 69 00:08:28,564 --> 00:08:30,317 FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]: Identify yourself. 70 00:08:30,442 --> 00:08:34,700 John Richie, GTX Corp. 71 00:08:34,824 --> 00:08:35,618 FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]: Cleared. 72 00:08:43,256 --> 00:08:45,760 How much longer will this take? 73 00:08:45,885 --> 00:08:47,054 We'll get her healthy first. 74 00:08:49,893 --> 00:08:50,894 I can't wait to see her. 75 00:09:03,708 --> 00:09:06,380 Nice of you to make it. 76 00:09:06,504 --> 00:09:10,887 So since first sales are up 21% in the Southern 77 00:09:11,013 --> 00:09:12,598 District since Chris started wearing 78 00:09:12,724 --> 00:09:14,518 beaver hats on the Gods. 79 00:09:14,644 --> 00:09:16,480 I think we can expect those percentages to increase-- 80 00:09:16,605 --> 00:09:17,315 [ring] 81 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:18,484 Yes? 82 00:09:18,609 --> 00:09:19,778 JOHN [ON PHONE]: Mr. Isham, I have 83 00:09:19,903 --> 00:09:21,030 Joe Payne on the vid phone for the prototype 84 00:09:21,155 --> 00:09:22,783 body shop project. Do you remember it? 85 00:09:22,908 --> 00:09:25,037 Didn't I tell you to handle all peripherals? 86 00:09:25,162 --> 00:09:27,541 It's the body shop project, the living doll. 87 00:09:27,667 --> 00:09:28,418 Yes, of course. 88 00:09:28,543 --> 00:09:29,670 What does he want? 89 00:09:29,795 --> 00:09:31,047 JOHN [ON PHONE]: It's a [inaudible] 90 00:09:31,173 --> 00:09:31,590 goal pending your dollar [inaudible],, sir. 91 00:09:31,715 --> 00:09:32,258 Any demo? 92 00:09:32,383 --> 00:09:33,093 Not yet. 93 00:09:33,218 --> 00:09:34,136 No demo, no dollars. 94 00:09:34,261 --> 00:09:35,013 Stay on it. 95 00:09:35,138 --> 00:09:36,264 Anything else? 96 00:09:36,390 --> 00:09:37,809 No. 97 00:09:37,934 --> 00:09:40,271 There's been another incident with your son, sir. 98 00:09:40,397 --> 00:09:42,150 Oh, what is it this time? 99 00:09:42,275 --> 00:09:44,070 Broke into a big studio and made 100 00:09:44,195 --> 00:09:47,158 another one of his revolutionary statements. 101 00:09:47,284 --> 00:09:49,078 Knocked the entire production out for a day. 102 00:09:49,204 --> 00:09:49,913 Playback. 103 00:09:55,673 --> 00:09:57,885 Don't worry, I took care of the bail. 104 00:09:58,011 --> 00:10:01,391 My son, the social critic. 105 00:10:01,517 --> 00:10:04,188 Nothing a week in a psychomed room wouldn't fix. 106 00:10:04,313 --> 00:10:06,734 People only listen to him when he's getting himself arrested. 107 00:10:06,860 --> 00:10:09,405 Give him his own forum with all the airtime he wants. 108 00:10:09,531 --> 00:10:11,075 Watch him run himself out of gas. 109 00:10:16,084 --> 00:10:18,630 Today is the big day. 110 00:10:18,755 --> 00:10:19,715 I'm getting better? 111 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:21,551 That's what the doctor's say. 112 00:10:21,677 --> 00:10:24,307 The fungus place under my arm is all gone. 113 00:10:24,431 --> 00:10:25,183 Nothing hurts. 114 00:10:26,602 --> 00:10:27,478 JOHN: So what are we waiting for? 115 00:11:23,117 --> 00:11:24,577 What is that? 116 00:11:24,703 --> 00:11:28,000 That is you. 117 00:11:28,125 --> 00:11:29,711 Don't play tricks on me, Joe. 118 00:11:29,837 --> 00:11:30,797 JOE: I'm not. 119 00:11:30,921 --> 00:11:33,885 She is you. 120 00:11:34,011 --> 00:11:36,348 JOHN: We didn't want to get you too excited 121 00:11:36,473 --> 00:11:38,685 before it was time to know. 122 00:11:38,811 --> 00:11:41,398 JOE: Now move your hands, or at least think about it. 123 00:12:10,281 --> 00:12:14,331 Easy, easy, take it slow. 124 00:12:14,456 --> 00:12:16,209 Take it slow. 125 00:12:16,334 --> 00:12:18,087 Easy, take it slow. 126 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,620 Oh no, it can't be. 127 00:12:36,744 --> 00:12:38,164 It is. 128 00:12:38,289 --> 00:12:39,708 Be brave. 129 00:12:39,833 --> 00:12:40,877 Just one minute and then you'll understand better than I 130 00:12:41,001 --> 00:12:41,920 could ever possibly explain. 131 00:13:01,746 --> 00:13:02,664 That is me. 132 00:13:02,790 --> 00:13:04,293 JOE: She is you. 133 00:13:04,417 --> 00:13:06,129 It's just like moving your arm, only 134 00:13:06,254 --> 00:13:08,383 the signals from your brain have a little further to travel, 135 00:13:08,508 --> 00:13:09,801 that's all. 136 00:13:09,927 --> 00:13:10,804 That's me. 137 00:13:10,929 --> 00:13:13,057 All I control is the link up. 138 00:13:26,330 --> 00:13:28,668 Oh, God. 139 00:13:28,793 --> 00:13:29,586 JOE: Trust me. 140 00:13:29,711 --> 00:13:30,421 You're doing fine. 141 00:14:41,961 --> 00:14:43,965 This is what was all meant to be from the start. 142 00:14:49,809 --> 00:14:51,854 I'm sorry that was so scary for you. 143 00:14:51,979 --> 00:14:53,565 It'll get less. 144 00:14:53,690 --> 00:14:56,153 I mean, if you want to keep at this. 145 00:14:56,278 --> 00:14:58,073 What is she? 146 00:14:58,198 --> 00:14:59,659 She's called a waldo. 147 00:14:59,784 --> 00:15:01,871 We grew her. 148 00:15:01,997 --> 00:15:05,461 Look, not even calluses on her feet. 149 00:15:05,586 --> 00:15:07,130 She's incredible. 150 00:15:07,256 --> 00:15:11,179 JOE: Yeah, but without a remote operator, without you, 151 00:15:11,304 --> 00:15:14,601 she's nothing, no one. 152 00:15:14,727 --> 00:15:17,106 You're the first. 153 00:15:17,231 --> 00:15:19,360 Why can't you grow a mind for her, too? 154 00:15:19,485 --> 00:15:22,699 Oh, we could, just no one like yours. 155 00:15:22,824 --> 00:15:24,577 Things that you feel, the things that you've been through. 156 00:15:24,703 --> 00:15:27,624 You can't know what I feel. 157 00:15:27,750 --> 00:15:30,129 Don't you know what this is like for me? 158 00:15:30,254 --> 00:15:32,758 I've been locked up in this body my whole life. 159 00:15:32,883 --> 00:15:37,725 It's like I just walked outside. I was free. 160 00:15:44,278 --> 00:15:46,365 Do you know when advertising was-- 161 00:15:46,490 --> 00:15:49,871 um-- what do you call her again? 162 00:15:49,997 --> 00:15:51,750 Delphi. 163 00:15:51,874 --> 00:15:54,045 Right. 164 00:15:54,170 --> 00:15:57,467 JOHN: Do you know what advertising was, Delphi? 165 00:15:57,593 --> 00:16:01,600 It's when they used to tell people to buy things, isn't it? 166 00:16:01,725 --> 00:16:02,601 It's against the law. 167 00:16:05,273 --> 00:16:06,525 This only after two weeks. 168 00:16:06,650 --> 00:16:08,987 It's like she was born again in that body. 169 00:16:12,827 --> 00:16:16,543 Advertising, as it used to be, is something that we 170 00:16:16,667 --> 00:16:18,880 don't like to talk about. 171 00:16:19,005 --> 00:16:21,510 The city was all filled with billboards and signs. 172 00:16:21,634 --> 00:16:26,769 When the vid screens came, well-- 173 00:16:26,894 --> 00:16:32,445 but what makes people buy one product over another? 174 00:16:32,570 --> 00:16:34,407 Ever wonder? 175 00:16:34,532 --> 00:16:36,410 They hear about it from someone else. 176 00:16:36,536 --> 00:16:38,456 Well, what made you buy your particular brand of body lift, 177 00:16:38,581 --> 00:16:40,209 for instance? 178 00:16:40,334 --> 00:16:43,464 I have never had a body lift. 179 00:16:43,590 --> 00:16:45,927 All right, a cooker. 180 00:16:46,052 --> 00:16:48,681 Well, no house to put a cooker. 181 00:16:48,807 --> 00:16:52,230 Don't you remember where you found me? 182 00:16:52,354 --> 00:16:54,024 She's a little head strong, don't you think? 183 00:16:54,150 --> 00:16:55,652 Are you sure she's going to do what she's told? 184 00:16:55,777 --> 00:16:57,781 It's not head strong. 185 00:16:57,906 --> 00:16:59,033 Don't you get it? 186 00:16:59,158 --> 00:17:01,579 She's just so thrilled with being her. 187 00:17:01,704 --> 00:17:03,624 That's what people are going to spark to. 188 00:17:03,750 --> 00:17:05,670 And that comes from the girl plugged into that pod who 189 00:17:05,794 --> 00:17:07,714 never had anything in her life. 190 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:10,052 Not from something we could grow or from somebody 191 00:17:10,177 --> 00:17:11,179 who always had everything. 192 00:17:11,304 --> 00:17:12,932 Oh, wait, I know the best cooker. 193 00:17:13,057 --> 00:17:15,561 Ananga uses the Burnbabi on the Nude Gourmet. 194 00:17:20,070 --> 00:17:21,363 Exactly. 195 00:17:21,489 --> 00:17:23,033 You signed on to using it, so you knew it 196 00:17:23,158 --> 00:17:24,536 must have been a good product. 197 00:17:24,660 --> 00:17:27,707 And that's exactly what you want to be doing for us, 198 00:17:27,833 --> 00:17:30,504 show people which products are good. 199 00:17:30,630 --> 00:17:33,843 Because we both know that if we had to rely on word of mouth, 200 00:17:33,969 --> 00:17:35,680 no one would ever buy anything or hear about anything 201 00:17:35,805 --> 00:17:37,600 new and improved. 202 00:17:37,725 --> 00:17:39,103 And all those people that worked so 203 00:17:39,227 --> 00:17:42,316 hard to think up those products will be out of a job 204 00:17:42,441 --> 00:17:44,236 and on the street. 205 00:17:44,361 --> 00:17:46,073 And I think you know what that's like, don't you? 206 00:17:50,456 --> 00:17:52,543 We're just trying to help people in spite 207 00:17:52,667 --> 00:17:55,631 of an unfair law, Delphi. 208 00:17:55,756 --> 00:17:58,136 That's why we got to keep it between us. 209 00:17:58,260 --> 00:18:01,558 Do you think you can do that for me? 210 00:18:01,683 --> 00:18:03,812 Well, I'm too excited to follow even half 211 00:18:03,937 --> 00:18:07,276 of what you're talking about, Mr. Richie, let alone 212 00:18:07,401 --> 00:18:08,863 tell someone else about it. 213 00:18:08,987 --> 00:18:10,616 JOHN: You think you're excited now? 214 00:18:10,740 --> 00:18:13,454 Hold onto your chair, because by this time 215 00:18:13,579 --> 00:18:15,750 tomorrow you're going to be doing your first vid for us 216 00:18:15,874 --> 00:18:16,960 in a beautiful water location. 217 00:18:20,174 --> 00:18:21,426 What do you say? 218 00:18:30,984 --> 00:18:34,657 Right on time, Delphi. 219 00:18:34,783 --> 00:18:37,120 Welcome to the rapids, baby. 220 00:18:37,244 --> 00:18:39,290 You look fantastic. 221 00:18:39,416 --> 00:18:40,834 Well, [inaudible] are the greatest. 222 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:41,836 Oh, absolutely. 223 00:18:41,961 --> 00:18:44,049 What do you think of this? 224 00:18:44,174 --> 00:18:45,009 What's that? 225 00:18:45,134 --> 00:18:46,844 A [inaudible]? - Uh-huh. 226 00:18:46,970 --> 00:18:49,600 And next we're going on a little lion safari with you 227 00:18:49,724 --> 00:18:50,476 as the meat. 228 00:18:53,273 --> 00:18:55,569 Oh, I want it be everything just perfect, 229 00:18:55,694 --> 00:18:57,404 baby, for the festival, you know? 230 00:18:57,530 --> 00:18:58,281 Festival? 231 00:18:58,407 --> 00:18:59,784 What festival? 232 00:18:59,909 --> 00:19:02,623 Oh, well, this [inaudible] you walk on the street, 233 00:19:02,747 --> 00:19:06,713 [inaudible] straight to the vid [inaudible].. 234 00:19:06,838 --> 00:19:07,589 Didn't they tell you? 235 00:19:10,970 --> 00:19:14,100 Product stimulation index, baby. 236 00:19:14,226 --> 00:19:16,897 They're checking you out! 237 00:19:17,023 --> 00:19:18,358 It's all right, people. 238 00:19:18,483 --> 00:19:20,236 Let's get her in the waiting room patios, 239 00:19:20,361 --> 00:19:24,076 under the falls, before I get too excited. 240 00:19:24,201 --> 00:19:25,036 Oh, Delphi. 241 00:19:34,093 --> 00:19:38,893 Now, you have to sleep when she's asleep, 242 00:19:39,019 --> 00:19:40,438 or you'll get too tired. 243 00:19:40,563 --> 00:19:43,109 That was an exhausting day. 244 00:19:43,234 --> 00:19:46,532 Even when I'm asleep, I dream I'm her. 245 00:19:46,657 --> 00:19:50,706 It wakes me up, and I want to get right back in the pod. 246 00:19:50,831 --> 00:19:55,589 Well, when she's asleep, she's as lifeless as when 247 00:19:55,714 --> 00:19:56,591 you first saw her. 248 00:19:56,716 --> 00:19:57,426 You're not missing anything. 249 00:20:00,431 --> 00:20:01,724 Now, bed time. 250 00:20:04,521 --> 00:20:10,907 Joe, sometimes when she's asleep and I'm out here, 251 00:20:11,033 --> 00:20:12,911 I think I'm still inside her. 252 00:20:16,376 --> 00:20:18,546 I feel it. 253 00:20:18,671 --> 00:20:22,636 Ah, the memory of her is very intense. 254 00:20:22,761 --> 00:20:27,561 That's all 255 00:20:27,687 --> 00:20:31,443 Joe, I've never been touched the way 256 00:20:31,569 --> 00:20:36,076 she is, the way men touch her. 257 00:20:36,201 --> 00:20:39,207 Does that bother you? 258 00:20:39,332 --> 00:20:42,796 Not how it feels, just what they mean by it. 259 00:20:54,316 --> 00:20:57,489 MALE ANNOUNCER: Jet-setting princess and long-time nature 260 00:20:57,613 --> 00:21:00,536 squeeze, Delphi B. Couldn't resist a dip 261 00:21:00,660 --> 00:21:03,123 skinny or otherwise when she's found 262 00:21:03,249 --> 00:21:07,339 us vidding the new water garden sat the Rapids Day Spa Complex. 263 00:21:12,723 --> 00:21:13,809 Don't swim away, Miss Delphi. 264 00:21:18,441 --> 00:21:19,944 Take a look at the [inaudible] sport 265 00:21:20,069 --> 00:21:21,530 dress and pantyhose figures off the new Delphi account. 266 00:21:24,702 --> 00:21:25,496 Get Richie on the line. 267 00:21:36,723 --> 00:21:39,227 Fellow citizens, we interrupt your regular programming 268 00:21:39,353 --> 00:21:41,189 to give you a dose of reality. 269 00:21:41,314 --> 00:21:42,692 They're buying and selling your souls, 270 00:21:42,817 --> 00:21:44,612 folks, telling you what to want and when to want it, 271 00:21:44,737 --> 00:21:46,114 hard-wiring your desires directly 272 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:47,826 into the production machines. 273 00:21:47,951 --> 00:21:49,496 If you don't wake up soon, they'll 274 00:21:49,620 --> 00:21:51,373 be nothing left inside of you a junk heap of old lipstick 275 00:21:51,499 --> 00:21:53,084 and torn pantyhose. 276 00:21:53,210 --> 00:21:54,170 Wake up! 277 00:21:54,296 --> 00:21:57,176 Wake up! 278 00:21:57,300 --> 00:21:59,012 [inaudible] 279 00:21:59,137 --> 00:22:00,514 Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, please, 280 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:01,724 let us through. 281 00:22:01,850 --> 00:22:03,102 Let us through. 282 00:22:03,227 --> 00:22:04,646 Ladies and gentlemen, let us through, please-- 283 00:22:04,772 --> 00:22:06,024 WOMAN: Did you play a suicidal [inaudible] the Gods? 284 00:22:06,149 --> 00:22:07,317 DAVEY: --Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you. 285 00:22:07,443 --> 00:22:09,154 Excuse me, excuse me, everyone. 286 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:10,240 MAN: Delphi, please! 287 00:22:10,364 --> 00:22:11,576 Look at me! 288 00:22:11,700 --> 00:22:14,539 It's so nice that you all want to know me. 289 00:22:14,664 --> 00:22:16,709 You have no idea what it's like to have no one 290 00:22:16,834 --> 00:22:21,009 and then to suddenly have everyone. 291 00:22:21,133 --> 00:22:23,012 Now if you'll excuse me, Prince Davey and I would 292 00:22:23,137 --> 00:22:24,849 like to see some more shows.- Excuse me. 293 00:22:24,973 --> 00:22:27,186 Let's get out of here. 294 00:22:27,311 --> 00:22:28,062 MAN: Delphi! 295 00:22:31,443 --> 00:22:35,200 Just another product, no more real than a tube of toothpaste. 296 00:22:35,324 --> 00:22:36,326 What do you think they're going to do 297 00:22:36,452 --> 00:22:37,329 to you when you're all used up? 298 00:22:44,549 --> 00:22:46,553 Did you hear the little speech she made? 299 00:22:46,677 --> 00:22:49,975 She's melting their damn hearts. 300 00:22:50,100 --> 00:22:53,690 Get her on a shopping romp with Davie and the sleek chick. 301 00:22:53,815 --> 00:22:55,360 Crank up the exposure. 302 00:22:55,484 --> 00:22:58,615 Maybe a spot on the Walk Venus, then the bird sanctuary 303 00:22:58,740 --> 00:23:01,036 because, oh, I don't know, a dying mother 304 00:23:01,161 --> 00:23:03,206 collects macaw feathers. 305 00:23:03,332 --> 00:23:06,212 But get her the hell out of that festival. 306 00:23:06,337 --> 00:23:08,800 Yes, sir. 307 00:23:08,924 --> 00:23:10,344 And away from my son. 308 00:23:13,724 --> 00:23:17,564 Joe is there anyone else like me? 309 00:23:17,690 --> 00:23:18,400 Like Davey. 310 00:23:18,524 --> 00:23:21,029 Is he a remote, too? 311 00:23:21,154 --> 00:23:25,244 I mean, when he's sleepy, is he empty like Delphi? 312 00:23:25,370 --> 00:23:26,664 Is he lifeless? 313 00:23:26,789 --> 00:23:28,750 Davey's just psycho conditioned. 314 00:23:28,876 --> 00:23:30,379 There's no link up. 315 00:23:30,504 --> 00:23:32,049 So he can wake up whenever he wants. 316 00:23:32,173 --> 00:23:34,302 He doesn't need an operator to exist. 317 00:23:34,427 --> 00:23:35,763 I told you. 318 00:23:35,889 --> 00:23:39,186 There's nobody in the whole wide world like you. 319 00:23:39,310 --> 00:23:41,314 Now, it's time for sleep. 320 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:42,609 I want Delphi to be real. 321 00:23:42,733 --> 00:23:43,693 I don't want to leave her anymore. 322 00:23:43,819 --> 00:23:44,946 You need to sleep, sweetie. 323 00:23:45,070 --> 00:23:46,281 Please, Joe, I don't want to sleep. 324 00:23:46,406 --> 00:23:47,826 I don't need to sleep. 325 00:23:47,950 --> 00:23:49,119 Please, I want to be with her! 326 00:23:49,244 --> 00:23:50,121 No, Joe, please! 327 00:23:50,246 --> 00:23:52,626 Let me stay with her! 328 00:23:52,750 --> 00:23:53,544 Easy, easy. 329 00:23:59,304 --> 00:24:00,097 She won't eat. 330 00:24:00,222 --> 00:24:02,017 She won't sleep. 331 00:24:02,142 --> 00:24:03,770 JOHN: There's no problem here, is there? 332 00:24:12,910 --> 00:24:16,667 Because she's moving merchandise so fast that they canceled 333 00:24:16,793 --> 00:24:22,761 the shop romp, the birds, everything. 334 00:24:22,886 --> 00:24:25,349 She spoke on the GTX vid cam [inaudible] 335 00:24:25,474 --> 00:24:28,772 Friday morning for a guest-star spot on the Gods. 336 00:24:35,617 --> 00:24:37,870 No more small time, Delphi. 337 00:25:00,535 --> 00:25:01,286 Real. 338 00:25:08,090 --> 00:25:11,637 And once again, darlings, action! 339 00:25:18,983 --> 00:25:22,239 Will you remember me when I go back to Texas? 340 00:25:22,364 --> 00:25:24,117 I'll call you every day. 341 00:25:24,243 --> 00:25:26,330 In the night when there's no one there, I'll call your name, 342 00:25:26,455 --> 00:25:29,460 and you'll hear me. 343 00:25:29,586 --> 00:25:31,589 No, you won't. 344 00:25:31,714 --> 00:25:34,260 You'll go back to Valhalla. 345 00:25:34,386 --> 00:25:36,055 You'll remember all the good times 346 00:25:36,180 --> 00:25:41,773 and go back, now that you've used me all up. 347 00:25:41,899 --> 00:25:43,777 Goodbye, Breath. 348 00:25:43,902 --> 00:25:45,572 All right, cut! 349 00:25:45,697 --> 00:25:46,866 [bell ringing] 350 00:25:46,990 --> 00:25:49,746 [inaudible] 351 00:25:49,870 --> 00:25:51,999 A little 100-year-old method-acting goddess? 352 00:25:52,124 --> 00:25:55,463 Where did you pick that up? 353 00:25:55,589 --> 00:25:58,886 Oh, I love her! 354 00:25:59,012 --> 00:26:01,892 Looks like we have a show regular here. 355 00:26:02,017 --> 00:26:03,477 The plastic in this flame dress 356 00:26:03,603 --> 00:26:05,690 is giving me an awful rash. 357 00:26:05,815 --> 00:26:08,152 Do you think that I should wear it? 358 00:26:08,277 --> 00:26:11,199 And those glow pills. 359 00:26:11,324 --> 00:26:12,827 You swallowed them? 360 00:26:12,952 --> 00:26:15,582 Well, she takes them to look more beautiful for Breath. 361 00:26:15,707 --> 00:26:17,377 You know, I don't think that I should 362 00:26:17,502 --> 00:26:20,841 let people see me do something if it makes me sick, do you? 363 00:26:23,721 --> 00:26:24,723 Get another dress, please. 364 00:26:32,612 --> 00:26:36,201 First, the dress, now the pills, what does she think 365 00:26:36,326 --> 00:26:37,579 she is, a damn consumer rep? 366 00:26:37,703 --> 00:26:40,292 She believes what you told her about helping 367 00:26:40,417 --> 00:26:41,961 people and good, new products. 368 00:26:42,086 --> 00:26:43,297 Well, you better go back and tell 369 00:26:43,422 --> 00:26:45,592 P. Burke that she better not believe 370 00:26:45,717 --> 00:26:47,470 Delphi right out of existence. 371 00:26:54,066 --> 00:26:54,942 Living dangerous, kitty? 372 00:26:59,742 --> 00:27:01,662 What are you talking about? 373 00:27:01,787 --> 00:27:05,001 Trying to get dead, dumping on the product? 374 00:27:05,126 --> 00:27:07,672 They just didn't know. 375 00:27:07,797 --> 00:27:08,549 You're joking, right? 376 00:27:30,837 --> 00:27:32,299 I have to go back to set. 377 00:27:32,423 --> 00:27:34,219 Make them wait. 378 00:27:34,343 --> 00:27:36,430 I can't do that. 379 00:27:36,556 --> 00:27:39,477 How about later? 380 00:27:39,603 --> 00:27:40,896 I know where you're staying. 381 00:27:41,022 --> 00:27:43,693 I'll come knock on your door. 382 00:27:52,375 --> 00:27:53,877 There are criminals getting their minds erased. 383 00:27:54,003 --> 00:27:56,256 There are cops on the coast with electrodes in their heads. 384 00:27:56,382 --> 00:27:57,926 They got the whole world wired up 385 00:27:58,052 --> 00:28:00,597 to think what they want them to think, without even a plan 386 00:28:00,723 --> 00:28:03,519 except to keep the whole thing rolling. 387 00:28:03,644 --> 00:28:05,982 Keep people buying more and more. 388 00:28:06,107 --> 00:28:09,237 And on and on and on it goes, until the entire system 389 00:28:09,363 --> 00:28:10,156 self-destructs. 390 00:28:14,246 --> 00:28:17,669 My father thinks he can shut me up giving me studio time. 391 00:28:17,794 --> 00:28:19,172 But wait till people hear what I have to say. 392 00:28:19,296 --> 00:28:20,632 I'm going to blow the lid off this whole thing. 393 00:28:26,350 --> 00:28:27,060 The truth will come out. 394 00:28:31,484 --> 00:28:38,372 Delphi, you're just one of their tools, if you let yourself be. 395 00:28:40,750 --> 00:28:41,502 Break away. 396 00:28:44,507 --> 00:28:45,259 I can't. 397 00:28:51,644 --> 00:28:53,189 I don't think you have any idea what you can do. 398 00:29:35,637 --> 00:29:37,808 They won't come in here. 399 00:29:37,933 --> 00:29:38,684 They're afraid of my name. 400 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:50,893 Paul Isham. 401 00:30:57,905 --> 00:30:59,240 They're both in her room together, 402 00:30:59,366 --> 00:31:02,079 and no one's saying a word because he's your son. 403 00:31:02,204 --> 00:31:03,999 He's holding up production, and worst of all, 404 00:31:04,124 --> 00:31:05,836 she's starting to buy his line. 405 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,215 Nip this in the bottom, all right? 406 00:31:08,340 --> 00:31:09,049 Yes, sir. 407 00:31:17,689 --> 00:31:20,319 Tighter, hold me tighter. 408 00:31:32,799 --> 00:31:36,138 Hey, What the hell are you doing? 409 00:31:36,263 --> 00:31:37,349 Hey, you will kill her. 410 00:31:42,232 --> 00:31:42,983 Ah! 411 00:31:46,406 --> 00:31:48,159 Ah! 412 00:31:48,284 --> 00:31:50,037 What is it? 413 00:31:50,162 --> 00:31:51,540 I wasn't supposed to. 414 00:31:51,665 --> 00:31:52,709 They told me not to. 415 00:31:57,884 --> 00:31:58,677 Oh, my god. 416 00:31:58,802 --> 00:31:59,553 Oh, my God. 417 00:31:59,679 --> 00:32:00,389 Delphi! 418 00:32:04,145 --> 00:32:05,063 Oh, no. 419 00:32:05,189 --> 00:32:06,524 Oh, God, I should have known! 420 00:32:06,649 --> 00:32:07,818 They can't get to me so they use you. 421 00:32:07,943 --> 00:32:09,613 They control you. 422 00:32:09,738 --> 00:32:10,698 Easy, easy, easy! 423 00:32:14,204 --> 00:32:14,956 No! 424 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:15,790 No! 425 00:32:15,916 --> 00:32:17,084 Paul! 426 00:32:17,209 --> 00:32:18,962 [inaudible] those bastards, my father. 427 00:32:19,088 --> 00:32:21,633 It's not your fault. You're not you! 428 00:32:21,759 --> 00:32:24,430 I'm Delphi, I'm Delphi! 429 00:32:24,556 --> 00:32:25,724 I'll kill them. 430 00:32:25,849 --> 00:32:27,560 I'll kill whoever did this to you. 431 00:32:57,946 --> 00:33:00,117 It doesn't matter, Joe. 432 00:33:00,242 --> 00:33:01,453 It doesn't hurt. 433 00:33:03,415 --> 00:33:05,502 Try not to talk, OK? 434 00:33:05,626 --> 00:33:08,256 I'm going to die. 435 00:33:08,382 --> 00:33:10,135 I'm going to be born again in Delphi. 436 00:33:16,395 --> 00:33:17,146 Where is she? 437 00:33:20,152 --> 00:33:21,029 I don't know, Duckie. 438 00:33:23,449 --> 00:33:24,200 I'll be back. 439 00:33:30,962 --> 00:33:32,715 Where does that GTX know our lab? 440 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:34,260 I don't know what you're talking about. 441 00:33:34,385 --> 00:33:35,846 I'll break it! 442 00:33:35,971 --> 00:33:37,849 Think I don't know all our psycho goons when I see one? 443 00:33:37,975 --> 00:33:39,936 What are you possibly going to accomplish by going there, huh? 444 00:33:40,062 --> 00:33:41,564 I'm going to take the electrodes out of her head. 445 00:33:41,689 --> 00:33:42,816 I'm never going to let them do what 446 00:33:42,942 --> 00:33:44,444 they did to her ever again. 447 00:33:44,569 --> 00:33:45,655 You don't understand, she's just a-- 448 00:33:45,780 --> 00:33:46,782 Don't I? 449 00:33:46,906 --> 00:33:48,242 I know all about the pleasure-pain 450 00:33:48,368 --> 00:33:49,953 implants you sons-of-bitches use, just give them 451 00:33:50,079 --> 00:33:51,456 a little jolt every time they don't eat, 452 00:33:51,582 --> 00:33:53,626 breathe, and think exactly what you want. 453 00:33:53,752 --> 00:33:55,171 Your big trade secrets are out there. 454 00:33:55,296 --> 00:33:57,509 It's only a matter of time before everybody knows. 455 00:33:57,633 --> 00:33:58,426 That's not what we're doing. 456 00:33:58,552 --> 00:33:59,345 Shut up! 457 00:34:03,185 --> 00:34:05,272 The alarms all voice-coded. There's nothing I can do. 458 00:34:05,397 --> 00:34:08,026 I can't-- 459 00:34:08,152 --> 00:34:09,571 That's why you're going to say exactly what I 460 00:34:09,696 --> 00:34:11,073 need into this voice simulator. 461 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:13,619 Lie to me, and I'll come back for you. 462 00:34:13,745 --> 00:34:16,166 You know I can, and I will. 463 00:34:16,291 --> 00:34:19,379 I didn't think you'd want to see me anymore after you left. 464 00:34:22,343 --> 00:34:23,762 Let's go grab a bite. 465 00:34:23,888 --> 00:34:24,639 Why? 466 00:34:27,686 --> 00:34:29,063 Just do what I say. 467 00:34:44,506 --> 00:34:45,717 FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]: Betaville Underground 468 00:34:45,842 --> 00:34:48,013 System, your destination. 469 00:34:48,138 --> 00:34:49,515 Carbondale lab. 470 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,896 FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]: Five, four, three, two, one. 471 00:34:57,070 --> 00:34:59,032 Auto pilot engaged. 472 00:34:59,157 --> 00:35:01,077 I thought after you had time to think about things 473 00:35:01,202 --> 00:35:02,288 you'd change your mind. 474 00:35:02,413 --> 00:35:03,790 I'm taking you away for good. 475 00:35:03,915 --> 00:35:06,128 If they try to hurt you again, I can stop the pain. 476 00:35:06,253 --> 00:35:07,129 This will cut the signals. 477 00:35:07,255 --> 00:35:07,963 It will protect you. 478 00:35:10,635 --> 00:35:11,345 You can't do that. 479 00:35:11,470 --> 00:35:13,349 Yes, I can. 480 00:35:13,473 --> 00:35:14,642 Where are we going? 481 00:35:14,768 --> 00:35:17,188 I found out where they did this to you. 482 00:35:17,313 --> 00:35:18,065 I don't know, Paul. 483 00:35:18,190 --> 00:35:19,275 You're with me now. 484 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:20,778 You don't have to be afraid anymore. 485 00:35:27,206 --> 00:35:29,626 He thinks it's used as a pleasure-pain implant, that 486 00:35:29,752 --> 00:35:31,338 we could just take them out. 487 00:35:31,463 --> 00:35:34,176 I'm going there myself. 488 00:35:34,302 --> 00:35:35,637 No weapons, no police. 489 00:35:39,102 --> 00:35:41,063 Can't you just order Delphi back to the studio? 490 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,903 JOE: Not if the waldo op refuses, sir. 491 00:35:45,028 --> 00:35:48,200 So do something to make her agree. 492 00:35:48,326 --> 00:35:51,957 Withdrawal has to be phased just right, and she knows it. 493 00:35:52,082 --> 00:35:56,382 If we just pulled Burke out, we lose them both. 494 00:35:56,506 --> 00:35:58,593 Why aren't the drugs knocking her out? 495 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,179 I don't know. 496 00:36:00,305 --> 00:36:02,016 She's got a will that almost defies [inaudible].. 497 00:36:02,142 --> 00:36:03,769 Then threaten to cut off her life support! 498 00:36:03,895 --> 00:36:04,813 No, that's what she wants. 499 00:36:07,818 --> 00:36:11,199 How about we cut the crap and give Burke a little reminder 500 00:36:11,323 --> 00:36:12,702 of who's in charge around here? 501 00:36:12,826 --> 00:36:16,959 JOE: Sir, she is very weak. 502 00:36:17,083 --> 00:36:18,043 I don't know how much she can take. 503 00:36:20,673 --> 00:36:23,095 Make an estimate. 504 00:36:23,219 --> 00:36:24,096 I'll deal with Paul. 505 00:36:25,849 --> 00:36:27,310 COMPUTERIZED FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]: 506 00:36:27,435 --> 00:36:29,105 FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]: Reaching destination in 10 seconds. 507 00:36:29,230 --> 00:36:30,106 Hang in there, baby. 508 00:36:30,232 --> 00:36:31,233 All you got to do is stay alive. 509 00:36:34,197 --> 00:36:35,032 Stay alive. 510 00:36:44,590 --> 00:36:45,968 FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]: Carbondale Lab. 511 00:37:02,455 --> 00:37:03,163 Identify yourself. 512 00:37:03,289 --> 00:37:04,040 John Richie. 513 00:37:07,003 --> 00:37:08,506 Let them in. 514 00:37:08,632 --> 00:37:09,425 FEMALE [ON INTERCOM]: Cleared. 515 00:37:21,403 --> 00:37:23,408 Well, this really must be something 516 00:37:23,532 --> 00:37:24,952 special to bring you here. 517 00:37:25,076 --> 00:37:26,246 MR. ISHAM: You don't know what you're dealing with. 518 00:37:26,371 --> 00:37:29,083 Take out her implants, and you'll kill her. 519 00:37:29,209 --> 00:37:30,128 PAUL: Where is your operating room? 520 00:37:31,463 --> 00:37:32,339 MR. ISHAM: She's just a shell, Paul. 521 00:37:32,465 --> 00:37:34,843 A doll with someone else's mind. 522 00:37:34,969 --> 00:37:39,352 What wouldn't you say to protect your investment? 523 00:37:39,476 --> 00:37:42,315 Take your implants out of her now! 524 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:43,943 I can't. Your father's right. 525 00:37:44,068 --> 00:37:45,028 Do it! 526 00:37:45,153 --> 00:37:46,030 Paul! 527 00:37:46,155 --> 00:37:47,532 Who do I have to hurt here? 528 00:37:56,590 --> 00:37:57,425 Who's that? 529 00:37:57,550 --> 00:37:58,259 Listen to me! 530 00:38:23,553 --> 00:38:34,906 Paul, I-- I-- 531 00:39:27,665 --> 00:39:28,375 DELPHI: Paul? 532 00:39:43,316 --> 00:39:47,408 She said she would. 533 00:39:47,532 --> 00:39:52,499 Paul, no sleep. 534 00:39:52,625 --> 00:39:53,543 Now! 535 00:39:53,668 --> 00:39:55,296 Take the implants out of her! 536 00:39:55,421 --> 00:39:56,923 She's dead. 537 00:39:57,049 --> 00:39:59,720 The girl who animated the body you call Delphi is dead. 538 00:39:59,845 --> 00:40:01,556 I can't take anything out. 539 00:40:01,682 --> 00:40:03,435 If you're not in the operating room by 3, 540 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,021 I'm going to burn your leg off! 541 00:40:05,146 --> 00:40:12,409 1, 2, move! 542 00:40:12,534 --> 00:40:14,746 Fix her! 543 00:40:14,872 --> 00:40:16,959 For god's sake take her to the lab. 544 00:40:22,009 --> 00:40:22,969 Don't sleep. 545 00:40:37,369 --> 00:40:40,123 I'm Delphi? 546 00:40:40,249 --> 00:40:41,083 I'm Delphi? 547 00:40:44,506 --> 00:40:45,341 I'm her. 548 00:40:49,765 --> 00:40:51,560 I love you, Paul. 549 00:40:55,609 --> 00:40:56,318 Paul-- 550 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:35,261 When you combine advanced technology with human anatomy, 551 00:41:35,386 --> 00:41:37,765 science can create the perfect body, 552 00:41:37,891 --> 00:41:40,269 but it can never replace the human heart. 553 00:41:40,395 --> 00:41:41,062 Welcome to the paradox.