1 00:00:01,375 --> 00:00:05,967 NARRATOR: In the city of Betaville, in the near future, 2 00:00:06,092 --> 00:00:09,556 the technology we developed confronts us. 3 00:00:09,681 --> 00:00:12,895 The science we created, seduces us. 4 00:00:13,021 --> 00:00:15,065 But will our dreams of tomorrow, will 5 00:00:15,191 --> 00:00:18,697 be turned into a nightmare? 6 00:00:18,822 --> 00:00:21,535 "Welcome to Paradox". 7 00:00:21,661 --> 00:00:24,791 [theme music] 8 00:00:32,972 --> 00:00:35,267 Be careful what you wish for. 9 00:00:35,392 --> 00:00:37,396 Nothing is impossible anymore. 10 00:00:39,984 --> 00:00:42,071 In Betaville, virtual reality has 11 00:00:42,196 --> 00:00:44,492 become the reality of choice, even 12 00:00:44,617 --> 00:00:48,040 or especially in the realm of human emotions and sensuality. 13 00:00:51,128 --> 00:00:54,217 So feelies, videocassettes of the 21st century, 14 00:00:54,342 --> 00:00:55,051 are all the rage. 15 00:00:58,182 --> 00:01:01,521 But feelie megastar, Megan Galloway, carefree lifeguard, 16 00:01:01,647 --> 00:01:03,525 QM, are about to find out there's 17 00:01:03,650 --> 00:01:05,152 no substitute for real emotion. 18 00:01:08,575 --> 00:01:10,662 Even if it destroys what they cherish most. 19 00:01:20,805 --> 00:01:22,641 MAN [VIRTUALLY]: I can't believe you're actually here. 20 00:01:22,767 --> 00:01:26,147 I thought when I asked you, you said yes, that I was dreaming. 21 00:01:26,272 --> 00:01:27,191 I made you my barbecue chicken. 22 00:01:34,245 --> 00:01:36,165 MAN [VIRTUALLY]: I have something to ask you, Christy. 23 00:01:36,290 --> 00:01:39,170 When you think about the future, what do you see? 24 00:01:43,177 --> 00:01:45,264 I see a house and a yard. 25 00:01:45,389 --> 00:01:49,480 I see kids playing and a man who cares about me. 26 00:01:49,605 --> 00:01:50,314 Why? 27 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:51,274 What do you see for us? 28 00:02:19,615 --> 00:02:22,245 Little wild thing, Zombie? 29 00:02:22,370 --> 00:02:23,914 Wanna come live with the animals for awhile? 30 00:02:37,312 --> 00:02:38,607 [non-english]. Thank you. 31 00:02:38,731 --> 00:02:39,650 Right this way. 32 00:02:39,775 --> 00:02:40,485 Thank you. 33 00:02:47,580 --> 00:02:49,542 So that's the Golden Gypsy. 34 00:02:49,667 --> 00:02:51,963 More like the brass transistor. 35 00:02:52,088 --> 00:02:54,258 Tell that to the 90 million Slavs who dream 36 00:02:54,384 --> 00:02:56,137 her at the feelies every night. 37 00:02:56,262 --> 00:02:57,974 Transer you mean, get the lingo straight. 38 00:03:02,982 --> 00:03:04,651 ANNOUNCER [OVER SPEAKER]: Now, entering the Hall of Falls 39 00:03:04,777 --> 00:03:06,195 is Megan Galloway. 40 00:03:06,321 --> 00:03:07,824 Appearing in the Feelie Corporation's 41 00:03:07,949 --> 00:03:10,787 latest trans video production for early September release. 42 00:03:10,912 --> 00:03:14,752 Blue Champagne Enterprises trust you will not impede the taping, 43 00:03:14,878 --> 00:03:17,215 and regrets any disturbance.Thank you. 44 00:03:17,340 --> 00:03:19,803 She going to have sex in there? 45 00:03:19,928 --> 00:03:21,764 Galloway doesn't do heavy breathers. 46 00:03:21,890 --> 00:03:23,142 Yeah, wait till her sales fall off. 47 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,417 Careful, QM. 48 00:03:37,542 --> 00:03:39,170 Get in there with her and those 90 million 49 00:03:39,295 --> 00:03:40,798 will be transing you too. 50 00:03:40,923 --> 00:03:43,177 That thing she's got on, safe in the water? 51 00:03:43,302 --> 00:03:44,345 What do they call that thing? 52 00:03:44,471 --> 00:03:45,890 Side Kick. 53 00:03:46,015 --> 00:03:47,351 I think they've got that covered, QM. 54 00:03:47,475 --> 00:03:48,687 OK. 55 00:03:48,811 --> 00:03:50,731 Yeah, jocks like QM don't go to the feelies. 56 00:03:50,857 --> 00:03:51,984 They're not up on all the gadgets. 57 00:03:52,108 --> 00:03:53,068 Ooh, looks like we got ourselves 58 00:03:53,194 --> 00:03:56,115 a little fan club here. 59 00:03:56,241 --> 00:03:58,828 I've been a couple of times. 60 00:03:58,954 --> 00:04:00,374 Can't know if you like it, unless you try it. 61 00:04:00,498 --> 00:04:02,043 And? 62 00:04:02,168 --> 00:04:05,340 Feelie sex is better than the real thing. 63 00:04:05,465 --> 00:04:06,217 No demands. 64 00:04:06,342 --> 00:04:07,594 No commitments. 65 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:09,640 Instant connect, instant disconnect. 66 00:04:12,394 --> 00:04:15,650 Go on, take a taste of that androgen's feelieops, 67 00:04:15,775 --> 00:04:17,904 see what I mean. 68 00:04:18,028 --> 00:04:20,158 They're not just for sight and sound, you know. 69 00:04:20,283 --> 00:04:22,787 They're for everything. 70 00:04:22,912 --> 00:04:24,915 Maybe he's afraid he'll like it better this way. 71 00:04:28,088 --> 00:04:30,300 Turn into a translob in front of our eyes. 72 00:04:34,391 --> 00:04:36,060 Watch me. 73 00:04:36,185 --> 00:04:36,937 Ewe. 74 00:04:40,192 --> 00:04:41,444 Excuse me. 75 00:04:41,570 --> 00:04:42,780 Mind if I uh-- 76 00:04:46,161 --> 00:04:48,915 If you must, but only for a moment, please. 77 00:05:35,705 --> 00:05:36,457 Oh. 78 00:05:40,464 --> 00:05:42,634 Oops, wrong point of view. 79 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:44,888 The dangers of professional equipment. 80 00:05:45,013 --> 00:05:46,808 In feelie, you would have been kissing her. 81 00:06:04,338 --> 00:06:07,301 You know, when we're taping like that, I can feel you too. 82 00:06:07,427 --> 00:06:09,388 Links us up. 83 00:06:09,514 --> 00:06:10,391 Yeah. 84 00:06:10,515 --> 00:06:12,770 What did you find out? 85 00:06:12,895 --> 00:06:14,857 How lost you are. 86 00:06:14,981 --> 00:06:15,733 Humph. 87 00:06:18,780 --> 00:06:19,490 Maybe in your machine. 88 00:06:41,027 --> 00:06:44,283 I'm thinking of switching to two shift. 89 00:06:44,408 --> 00:06:46,411 Since when? 90 00:06:46,537 --> 00:06:48,832 Today. 91 00:06:48,957 --> 00:06:51,253 All you farmers nuts in those Aggie communes, 92 00:06:51,378 --> 00:06:52,797 or is it just you? 93 00:06:52,923 --> 00:06:53,674 What do you care? 94 00:06:56,261 --> 00:06:58,015 Water's the same on two. 95 00:06:58,140 --> 00:06:59,935 Hey, you're all wet, get off of me. 96 00:07:02,815 --> 00:07:06,655 Is that something to do with uh, Urie Feldman? 97 00:07:06,780 --> 00:07:07,573 Why? 98 00:07:07,698 --> 00:07:09,493 Is two his shift? 99 00:07:09,618 --> 00:07:10,870 We're still going to be bunk mates, right? 100 00:07:13,541 --> 00:07:14,710 Are you feeling me up so we can talk? 101 00:07:17,465 --> 00:07:20,345 Just want to know, that's all. 102 00:07:20,470 --> 00:07:24,394 I didn't think it mattered a whole hell of a lot either way. 103 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:26,188 What? 104 00:07:26,314 --> 00:07:28,317 It just might be simpler if we slept alone, that's all. 105 00:07:30,947 --> 00:07:32,741 What's so complicated about sleeping together? 106 00:07:36,081 --> 00:07:36,832 You really don't know? 107 00:07:40,338 --> 00:07:41,090 Forget it. 108 00:07:58,787 --> 00:08:01,333 Just be careful of Megan Galloway. 109 00:08:01,458 --> 00:08:02,210 Why? 110 00:08:05,257 --> 00:08:08,470 I saw what happened today, the way you connected with her 111 00:08:08,595 --> 00:08:09,640 without having to say a word. 112 00:08:15,650 --> 00:08:17,778 Just remember, it was that machine. 113 00:08:24,290 --> 00:08:32,721 ALL: [TOASTING] - Cooper. 114 00:08:32,846 --> 00:08:34,265 Hey, Cooper. 115 00:08:34,390 --> 00:08:36,018 What did I tell you? 116 00:08:36,144 --> 00:08:38,314 Don't say it. 117 00:08:38,439 --> 00:08:40,108 I've been trying to remember since yesterday. 118 00:08:40,234 --> 00:08:41,235 Remember what? 119 00:08:41,361 --> 00:08:42,321 The nick name. 120 00:08:42,446 --> 00:08:43,239 QM. 121 00:08:43,364 --> 00:08:44,199 You're a swimmer, right? 122 00:08:44,324 --> 00:08:45,284 Something to do with racing? 123 00:08:45,410 --> 00:08:46,537 Join us, will you? 124 00:08:46,661 --> 00:08:48,832 Marco Montgomery, talent connoisseur. 125 00:08:48,957 --> 00:08:53,548 And to my left, Coco 89, feelie technician extraordinaire. 126 00:08:53,674 --> 00:08:56,512 Deeply honored to make your acquaintance. 127 00:08:59,810 --> 00:09:01,312 Hey, what the hell is that? 128 00:09:01,437 --> 00:09:02,188 Wacky dust. 129 00:09:02,314 --> 00:09:03,774 Do you want some? 130 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:04,901 Hey, what you think you're doing? 131 00:09:05,027 --> 00:09:06,738 - Marcom. - Relax. 132 00:09:06,864 --> 00:09:08,574 It's such a quick drip, you'll hardly notice. 133 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:10,244 What's it going to do to me? 134 00:09:10,370 --> 00:09:11,872 You'll talk funny for a while and then 135 00:09:11,997 --> 00:09:14,501 become even more tiresome. 136 00:09:14,627 --> 00:09:16,463 Toots kills marble. 137 00:09:16,588 --> 00:09:19,301 Oh. 138 00:09:19,427 --> 00:09:23,225 You all take-- 139 00:09:23,350 --> 00:09:25,354 MARCO: Very good. 140 00:09:25,479 --> 00:09:28,067 Stick to one word sentences and you'll do beautifully. 141 00:09:28,192 --> 00:09:29,820 Temper, temper, young man. 142 00:09:29,945 --> 00:09:30,988 Quarter meter, Cooper. That's it. 143 00:09:31,114 --> 00:09:31,865 Right? 144 00:09:31,990 --> 00:09:33,618 Silver medal in Rio? 145 00:09:33,743 --> 00:09:36,373 1,500 meter, free style. 146 00:09:36,498 --> 00:09:38,334 QM, wait, please. 147 00:09:41,173 --> 00:09:43,761 They're idiots, I apologize. 148 00:09:43,886 --> 00:09:44,930 But you'll be all right, now. 149 00:09:45,054 --> 00:09:45,764 Go on. 150 00:09:45,890 --> 00:09:47,475 Try and say something. 151 00:09:47,601 --> 00:09:49,813 Well, if they're such idiots, why do you hang out with them? 152 00:09:49,938 --> 00:09:50,773 See? 153 00:09:50,898 --> 00:09:52,943 No lasting effect. 154 00:09:53,068 --> 00:09:55,448 So why you hang out with them sober? 155 00:09:55,573 --> 00:09:57,660 Maybe I'm lost too. 156 00:09:57,785 --> 00:10:00,498 Why don't you take me somewhere? 157 00:10:00,623 --> 00:10:03,503 We'd better get going before they get too restless. 158 00:10:03,628 --> 00:10:05,381 Megan. 159 00:10:05,507 --> 00:10:07,177 Get back here, this instant. 160 00:10:07,301 --> 00:10:08,178 They'll follow us. 161 00:10:08,303 --> 00:10:09,097 No access to staff quarters. 162 00:10:11,934 --> 00:10:13,270 Megan. 163 00:10:13,395 --> 00:10:14,647 We're recording at 3:00. 164 00:10:14,773 --> 00:10:15,983 You'll be late. 165 00:10:22,954 --> 00:10:23,914 Marcom will die. 166 00:10:24,039 --> 00:10:26,001 I think that already happened. 167 00:10:26,126 --> 00:10:26,877 Where are you taking me? 168 00:10:33,430 --> 00:10:35,392 Spartan? 169 00:10:35,517 --> 00:10:36,644 Military. 170 00:10:36,770 --> 00:10:37,479 Really? 171 00:10:40,818 --> 00:10:41,653 Surrender. 172 00:10:47,663 --> 00:10:49,083 I remember something about you never swimming 173 00:10:49,207 --> 00:10:51,003 any harder than you had to. 174 00:10:51,127 --> 00:10:53,590 Is that what quarter meter's all about? 175 00:10:53,715 --> 00:10:55,761 What you won by? 176 00:10:55,886 --> 00:10:58,265 I don't really want to talk about that right now. 177 00:10:58,390 --> 00:11:00,018 Oh, must be something else. 178 00:11:03,650 --> 00:11:05,444 You gonna show me? 179 00:11:05,570 --> 00:11:06,530 Or do I have to look myself? 180 00:11:20,930 --> 00:11:22,724 What are you recording? 181 00:11:22,850 --> 00:11:25,604 Um, just checking the equipment, my dear. 182 00:11:25,730 --> 00:11:27,483 We may have a very busy afternoon ahead of us. 183 00:11:44,804 --> 00:11:48,018 [soft music] 184 00:11:57,660 --> 00:12:18,613 [moaning] 185 00:12:18,738 --> 00:12:20,783 What's this for? 186 00:12:20,908 --> 00:12:22,703 Get away from your friends? 187 00:12:22,828 --> 00:12:23,538 What? 188 00:12:26,585 --> 00:12:30,007 Easier ways, like, just walking away. 189 00:12:30,133 --> 00:12:33,471 Or you got to put on some kind of show? 190 00:12:33,597 --> 00:12:36,560 You didn't like it? 191 00:12:36,686 --> 00:12:38,397 Did you? 192 00:12:38,523 --> 00:12:39,858 What did you expect? 193 00:12:39,983 --> 00:12:40,693 Romance? 194 00:12:43,781 --> 00:12:44,533 Maybe I did. 195 00:12:49,917 --> 00:12:51,670 And Louise will be back in 10 minutes, you better get going. 196 00:13:11,371 --> 00:13:14,543 [soft music] 197 00:13:56,867 --> 00:13:59,538 Think it ever lines up? 198 00:13:59,663 --> 00:14:01,750 What? 199 00:14:01,875 --> 00:14:04,421 What you want and what you get. 200 00:14:04,547 --> 00:14:05,966 What you think you want, what you need. 201 00:14:09,430 --> 00:14:10,557 Was she that bad? 202 00:14:13,311 --> 00:14:14,480 You know me that well? 203 00:14:17,486 --> 00:14:19,239 No. 204 00:14:19,364 --> 00:14:20,240 I just saw you leave with her. 205 00:14:23,371 --> 00:14:24,540 Then you avoided me at dinner. 206 00:14:29,757 --> 00:14:30,508 What just um-- 207 00:14:36,894 --> 00:14:38,814 I wasn't about to say, no to you when you needed me. 208 00:14:45,784 --> 00:14:47,871 It was the worst. 209 00:14:47,997 --> 00:14:49,667 Like nobody was there. 210 00:14:49,791 --> 00:14:54,467 You know, like, fake somebody. 211 00:14:54,591 --> 00:14:55,927 You thought it would be like, when 212 00:14:56,053 --> 00:14:57,347 you put on those feelieops? 213 00:15:00,853 --> 00:15:03,315 It seemed as if she thought it would be too. 214 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:06,363 Then when it wasn't, didn't even seem to matter. 215 00:15:16,547 --> 00:15:20,094 I don't know if you can ever have what you dream of. 216 00:15:20,220 --> 00:15:23,475 But the feelies are about never even trying. 217 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,271 And that's where she lives, QM. 218 00:15:26,397 --> 00:15:27,315 In a world where no one tries. 219 00:15:35,788 --> 00:15:37,082 Hey, there you are. 220 00:15:37,207 --> 00:15:38,334 - Hey, how are you? - Great. 221 00:15:38,460 --> 00:15:39,211 How are you? 222 00:15:41,297 --> 00:15:42,007 Let's go. 223 00:15:46,933 --> 00:15:50,104 [soft music] 224 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:36,310 QM [VIRTUALLY]: Go back. 225 00:16:39,273 --> 00:16:42,446 [gunshots] 226 00:16:43,614 --> 00:16:44,866 QM [VIRTUALLY]: Megan, stop. 227 00:16:44,991 --> 00:16:47,204 MEGAN [VIRTUALLY]: No, I won't let them take you. 228 00:16:47,329 --> 00:16:49,541 [gunshots] 229 00:16:49,666 --> 00:16:51,920 No. 230 00:16:52,046 --> 00:16:53,089 QM [VIRTUALLY]: Let go of her. 231 00:16:53,214 --> 00:16:55,593 Let go of me. 232 00:16:55,719 --> 00:16:57,013 I love you. 233 00:16:57,137 --> 00:16:57,806 QM [VIRTUALLY]: Stop. 234 00:17:03,733 --> 00:17:04,442 I love you too. 235 00:17:07,531 --> 00:17:08,324 I love you. 236 00:17:33,326 --> 00:17:36,373 I quit my job. 237 00:17:36,497 --> 00:17:37,917 I've had it. 238 00:17:38,042 --> 00:17:40,671 I've got to do work that means something before-- 239 00:17:40,797 --> 00:17:42,133 Before you what? 240 00:17:42,257 --> 00:17:43,551 Just listen. 241 00:17:43,677 --> 00:17:46,056 I'm trying to apologize for last night, QM. 242 00:17:46,181 --> 00:17:47,391 I specialize in sensuals. 243 00:17:47,517 --> 00:17:49,228 No sex, just emotion. 244 00:17:49,353 --> 00:17:53,026 Jacked up for all the drones who have none of their own. 245 00:17:53,151 --> 00:17:55,823 But, no matter how good you are, they 246 00:17:55,948 --> 00:17:58,244 get too used to your face and they want your body too 247 00:17:58,369 --> 00:18:00,748 or they stop buying tickets. 248 00:18:00,873 --> 00:18:06,800 I thought if I had to, I could try to make something better. 249 00:18:06,926 --> 00:18:10,264 Maybe a handsome guy from a different kind of life. 250 00:18:10,390 --> 00:18:12,017 Argument turns to attraction. 251 00:18:12,143 --> 00:18:13,854 Good as it gets, it can't last because our lives 252 00:18:13,980 --> 00:18:15,816 are too different. 253 00:18:15,941 --> 00:18:19,364 QM: Wait a minute. What are you telling me? 254 00:18:23,621 --> 00:18:24,957 Marcom said, he'd set the whole thing up 255 00:18:25,082 --> 00:18:26,209 so I wouldn't know. 256 00:18:26,334 --> 00:18:28,004 - He got that on tape? - No. 257 00:18:28,129 --> 00:18:28,839 No. 258 00:18:28,964 --> 00:18:31,551 He erased it. 259 00:18:31,677 --> 00:18:34,473 I didn't know. 260 00:18:34,599 --> 00:18:37,729 Not exactly. 261 00:18:37,854 --> 00:18:39,482 The whole trick to being a transistor 262 00:18:39,607 --> 00:18:40,776 is to forget you're making a tape 263 00:18:40,901 --> 00:18:42,696 so that the emotions feel real. 264 00:18:42,821 --> 00:18:45,743 Because if they don't to you, they won't to anybody else. 265 00:18:45,868 --> 00:18:48,873 So I thought if neither of us knew-- 266 00:18:48,999 --> 00:18:52,213 Why didn't you just stop? 267 00:18:52,337 --> 00:18:54,884 I'm so used to playing it through, pretending it's real. 268 00:18:55,009 --> 00:18:57,179 [electric zap] 269 00:18:57,304 --> 00:19:00,017 It wasn't one of your better performances. 270 00:19:00,143 --> 00:19:02,354 How would you know? 271 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:03,774 I went to see one of your feelies 272 00:19:03,899 --> 00:19:06,362 today to see if I was missing out on something. 273 00:19:06,487 --> 00:19:07,948 You won't find anything out from there. 274 00:19:08,073 --> 00:19:10,953 It's the one where you're being chased at the stadium. 275 00:19:11,079 --> 00:19:14,710 I think I would have done anything to save you. 276 00:19:14,834 --> 00:19:18,967 Then when I walked out, I felt so empty. 277 00:19:19,093 --> 00:19:21,973 I'm going to do independent production from now, on. 278 00:19:22,097 --> 00:19:24,434 No more lowest common denominator stuff. 279 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,357 You can make emotional recordings that mean something, 280 00:19:27,482 --> 00:19:29,944 it's been done before. 281 00:19:30,070 --> 00:19:31,990 This whole medium's been squandered away for the money. 282 00:19:32,114 --> 00:19:33,951 You have no idea how much money. 283 00:19:34,077 --> 00:19:37,416 Soon as I quit Feelie Corp., six major corporations 284 00:19:37,541 --> 00:19:39,336 offered me half the GNP of Japan to keep 285 00:19:39,461 --> 00:19:40,839 doing the same thing for them. 286 00:19:40,963 --> 00:19:43,384 Why can't anybody understand that I've had enough? 287 00:19:43,510 --> 00:19:46,557 [electric zap] 288 00:19:49,437 --> 00:19:52,859 Call Side Kick for me, I can't move. 289 00:19:58,327 --> 00:19:59,997 Been keeping up with your maintenance? 290 00:20:00,122 --> 00:20:00,999 You know I have. 291 00:20:08,594 --> 00:20:10,890 If I want to move, I record. 292 00:20:11,016 --> 00:20:12,769 I can't be separated. 293 00:20:12,894 --> 00:20:15,523 Golden Gypsy has to pay its way. 294 00:20:15,649 --> 00:20:17,819 Uh, the Golden Gypsy was you? 295 00:20:17,944 --> 00:20:19,614 Side Kick first. 296 00:20:19,739 --> 00:20:21,576 Gonna take this out of here for a few minutes. 297 00:20:21,701 --> 00:20:22,870 Just sit tight. 298 00:20:22,994 --> 00:20:23,746 OK. 299 00:20:26,459 --> 00:20:28,087 Relax. 300 00:20:28,213 --> 00:20:32,553 It almost never breaks down and I never take it off by choice. 301 00:20:32,679 --> 00:20:34,557 Just pretend I fainted and in a few minutes, 302 00:20:34,682 --> 00:20:36,560 I'll be as good as new. 303 00:20:36,686 --> 00:20:37,979 Why doesn't anybody know about this? 304 00:20:38,104 --> 00:20:39,482 The public? 305 00:20:39,607 --> 00:20:41,277 Wouldn't that be a big draw? 306 00:20:41,402 --> 00:20:43,614 Feelie Corp. finds latest megastar 307 00:20:43,739 --> 00:20:45,159 in Betaville trauma ward. 308 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,794 My big break was a diving accident. 309 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:53,923 When you can't feel anything, you forget the equipment 310 00:20:54,049 --> 00:20:55,719 easier and trans better. 311 00:20:55,843 --> 00:20:57,889 Enjoy being able to move. 312 00:20:58,014 --> 00:21:00,810 Maybe that comes across too. 313 00:21:00,936 --> 00:21:03,816 I thought I felt that the first day at the falls. 314 00:21:03,941 --> 00:21:04,692 And sadness. 315 00:21:07,614 --> 00:21:11,287 One thing they've never been able to make a turns tape about 316 00:21:11,412 --> 00:21:13,123 is falling in love. 317 00:21:13,249 --> 00:21:15,252 Corporations would sell their souls for one, 318 00:21:15,377 --> 00:21:19,843 but nobody has been able to forget the equipment that well. 319 00:21:19,969 --> 00:21:22,557 You seem happy about that. 320 00:21:22,682 --> 00:21:25,144 You better thank god it's true. 321 00:21:25,270 --> 00:21:27,399 People wouldn't need each other for anything anymore. 322 00:21:32,031 --> 00:21:35,579 Never, unless I ask. 323 00:21:42,883 --> 00:21:46,056 [soft music] 324 00:22:01,457 --> 00:22:04,129 Heard the Golden Gypsy has a mean right hook. 325 00:22:04,254 --> 00:22:04,922 Left cross. 326 00:22:09,387 --> 00:22:10,599 You should have seen her without that thing 327 00:22:10,723 --> 00:22:12,602 on, just about break your heart. 328 00:22:12,727 --> 00:22:14,313 Maybe you ought to save your sympathy 329 00:22:14,439 --> 00:22:16,400 for people who could only afford catheters and collection bags. 330 00:22:16,526 --> 00:22:17,694 Hey, wait a minute. 331 00:22:17,819 --> 00:22:19,530 She's rich for her troubles, doesn't count? 332 00:22:19,656 --> 00:22:20,741 There's a real person there. 333 00:22:20,866 --> 00:22:22,870 The real person behind the image, QM? 334 00:22:22,994 --> 00:22:23,830 Come on. 335 00:22:23,954 --> 00:22:24,706 So old. 336 00:22:24,831 --> 00:22:26,417 Tragic star. 337 00:22:26,543 --> 00:22:29,547 Nobody knows her secret until some strange twist of fate. 338 00:22:29,673 --> 00:22:31,843 It's like some bits of romance and your in it. 339 00:22:38,980 --> 00:22:40,483 I'm going back to the AG communes 340 00:22:40,609 --> 00:22:42,737 next week, Q. I can't take it anymore. 341 00:22:42,863 --> 00:22:43,697 Take what? 342 00:22:43,823 --> 00:22:45,200 Another day of this place. 343 00:22:45,326 --> 00:22:46,076 The people in it. 344 00:22:49,332 --> 00:22:50,834 Wasn't even going to tell you, why bother? 345 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:51,836 I thought we-- 346 00:22:51,962 --> 00:22:54,925 You'd think you'd even notice. 347 00:22:55,050 --> 00:22:57,096 I come from a very different life than you. 348 00:22:57,220 --> 00:22:58,807 I care about very different things 349 00:22:58,932 --> 00:23:00,519 and I wish that you cared about the same things, but you don't. 350 00:23:04,609 --> 00:23:06,027 Some-- sometimes I want to-- 351 00:23:06,153 --> 00:23:09,409 I want to tell you that uh-- 352 00:23:09,534 --> 00:23:10,202 What? 353 00:23:16,003 --> 00:23:17,005 Don't bother. 354 00:23:17,130 --> 00:23:17,840 It's too late anyway. 355 00:23:21,889 --> 00:23:23,224 You know, there are people in this world that 356 00:23:23,350 --> 00:23:26,146 care about things other than sex and swimming 357 00:23:26,271 --> 00:23:28,943 and the latest trends romance, QM. 358 00:23:29,067 --> 00:23:30,362 I've had to work hard for everything 359 00:23:30,487 --> 00:23:32,073 that I've got, including the chance 360 00:23:32,199 --> 00:23:34,452 to come to this pimp city and save enough money to get out. 361 00:23:45,972 --> 00:23:47,391 She's using you. 362 00:23:47,516 --> 00:23:48,226 Don't you get it? 363 00:24:27,586 --> 00:24:28,963 Everything all right now? 364 00:24:29,089 --> 00:24:31,551 It's good as gold. 365 00:24:31,676 --> 00:24:32,553 You want to get in? 366 00:24:32,679 --> 00:24:34,056 No. 367 00:24:34,180 --> 00:24:35,892 It's nice though. 368 00:24:36,017 --> 00:24:38,146 Scares me when the Side Kick breaks down like that. 369 00:24:38,271 --> 00:24:39,690 I hope I wasn't too rude. 370 00:24:39,816 --> 00:24:41,193 Ah, forget it. 371 00:24:41,319 --> 00:24:44,866 Thanks for being so nice to me. 372 00:24:44,991 --> 00:24:45,909 I could show you the first tape we 373 00:24:46,034 --> 00:24:48,623 ever made with the Side Kick. 374 00:24:48,747 --> 00:24:49,457 Yeah, I'd like that. 375 00:25:04,859 --> 00:25:05,986 GPS IN CAR: Destination reached. 376 00:25:09,033 --> 00:25:10,327 Hi, been waiting long? 377 00:25:10,452 --> 00:25:11,162 Just got here. 378 00:25:15,336 --> 00:25:16,713 Good. 379 00:25:16,838 --> 00:25:19,300 I got a call from SDX, about those special trans 380 00:25:19,426 --> 00:25:20,469 project I told you about. 381 00:25:20,594 --> 00:25:21,847 Great, how did it go? 382 00:25:21,972 --> 00:25:23,474 Ah, you know, the usual. 383 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,020 They turned you down again, didn't they? 384 00:25:26,146 --> 00:25:28,316 They listened very politely then they doubled 385 00:25:28,442 --> 00:25:29,318 their offer for hardcore. 386 00:25:36,873 --> 00:25:39,627 Sure you want to go through with this? 387 00:25:39,753 --> 00:25:42,466 Positive. 388 00:25:42,591 --> 00:25:44,260 Some people from the Feelie Corporation 389 00:25:44,386 --> 00:25:46,180 showed up a few months after my accident 390 00:25:46,306 --> 00:25:48,184 and thought I had potential. 391 00:25:48,309 --> 00:25:49,144 Don't ask me why. 392 00:25:52,483 --> 00:25:53,693 This is the first feelie I've ever 393 00:25:53,819 --> 00:25:55,113 recorded with the Side Kick. 394 00:25:58,827 --> 00:26:01,373 It's early stuff, very fragmented. 395 00:26:01,499 --> 00:26:03,210 It's only one point of view. 396 00:26:03,336 --> 00:26:06,925 Just turn it on. 397 00:26:07,050 --> 00:26:09,596 Early training didn't go so well, it hurt a lot. 398 00:26:09,722 --> 00:26:12,476 Every movement required extraordinary effort. 399 00:26:12,602 --> 00:26:13,645 I hadn't walked for three months. 400 00:26:25,165 --> 00:26:26,960 MEGAN [VIRTUALLY]: [gasping] 401 00:26:27,085 --> 00:26:28,420 OK, Megan. 402 00:26:28,546 --> 00:26:30,299 Let's give it a try. 403 00:26:30,424 --> 00:26:32,260 MEGAN [VIRTUALLY]: OK. 404 00:26:32,386 --> 00:26:33,096 Good. 405 00:26:49,373 --> 00:26:50,209 Does it hurt? 406 00:26:50,333 --> 00:26:51,169 Remember to breathe. 407 00:26:51,293 --> 00:26:52,003 Just breathe. 408 00:27:06,027 --> 00:27:08,782 Good. 409 00:27:08,907 --> 00:27:11,078 MEGAN [VIRTUALLY]: [grunting] 410 00:27:11,203 --> 00:27:12,038 Ah. 411 00:27:12,163 --> 00:27:12,914 Oh. 412 00:27:18,299 --> 00:27:20,678 You don't have to do this anymore. 413 00:27:20,803 --> 00:27:21,513 Yes, I do. 414 00:27:26,939 --> 00:27:27,690 All right. 415 00:27:35,579 --> 00:27:36,289 Megan. 416 00:27:36,413 --> 00:27:38,542 Megan. 417 00:27:38,667 --> 00:27:39,962 Let's try and stand. 418 00:27:50,689 --> 00:27:51,398 OK. 419 00:28:00,163 --> 00:28:11,015 QM: [grunting] 420 00:28:11,140 --> 00:28:14,813 Oh, too fast, Megan. 421 00:28:14,939 --> 00:28:20,030 MEGAN [VIRTUALLY]: [heavy breathing] 422 00:28:20,156 --> 00:28:21,575 [grunting] 423 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:22,410 MEGAN [VIRTUALLY]: Whoa. 424 00:28:26,918 --> 00:28:27,669 OK. 425 00:28:57,513 --> 00:28:59,015 Sorry. 426 00:28:59,140 --> 00:29:00,769 That's what you get for going too far into somebody 427 00:29:00,893 --> 00:29:02,479 else's joy or silence. 428 00:29:05,485 --> 00:29:07,322 What do you mean? 429 00:29:07,446 --> 00:29:10,202 How do you know it lasts? 430 00:29:10,326 --> 00:29:12,413 How could it not? 431 00:29:12,539 --> 00:29:14,209 You have everything now. 432 00:29:14,333 --> 00:29:15,126 Do I? 433 00:29:26,187 --> 00:29:26,980 I think I love you, Megan. 434 00:29:33,116 --> 00:29:34,118 Maybe you should wait until you've 435 00:29:34,243 --> 00:29:36,622 recovered from the tapes. 436 00:29:36,747 --> 00:29:37,916 It's pretty emotional. 437 00:29:40,420 --> 00:29:41,172 No. 438 00:29:53,067 --> 00:29:55,405 From my toes to my chest, I just about 439 00:29:55,530 --> 00:29:57,116 can't feel a a thing. 440 00:29:57,242 --> 00:30:00,706 But my lips, they felt that. 441 00:30:04,003 --> 00:30:05,172 Fix it up wasn't the only thing that 442 00:30:05,297 --> 00:30:08,719 made it bad for us at first. 443 00:30:08,845 --> 00:30:11,223 Tom, I showed you how to really make love to me. 444 00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:22,577 Hi. 445 00:30:22,702 --> 00:30:23,954 Been looking for you. 446 00:30:27,919 --> 00:30:29,798 I wanted to say goodbye in the place we spent time together. 447 00:30:33,137 --> 00:30:34,598 Wouldn't have thought of you going out of your way 448 00:30:34,723 --> 00:30:35,933 for me a week ago. 449 00:30:36,059 --> 00:30:38,605 Well, maybe I'm not as cold as you think. 450 00:30:38,730 --> 00:30:39,899 Come on, sit down with me for a second. 451 00:30:43,363 --> 00:30:47,787 So you got it bad, don't you? 452 00:30:47,913 --> 00:30:50,834 Are you going to stay on at the resort? 453 00:30:50,959 --> 00:30:52,295 Well, if Megan gets the independent deal 454 00:30:52,420 --> 00:30:54,048 she wants I may go out of town with her. 455 00:30:54,173 --> 00:30:55,050 Right. 456 00:30:55,175 --> 00:30:57,888 Right, um-- what was that again? 457 00:30:58,013 --> 00:31:00,017 Feelies that mean something? 458 00:31:00,142 --> 00:31:01,310 How's that going? 459 00:31:01,436 --> 00:31:02,354 Uh, she's still waiting. 460 00:31:05,777 --> 00:31:09,867 Gee, I got to admit it, QM, she's changed you. 461 00:31:09,992 --> 00:31:10,702 You've come alive. 462 00:31:14,083 --> 00:31:15,043 Even though she's going to hurt me? 463 00:31:18,132 --> 00:31:19,802 I hope not. 464 00:31:19,926 --> 00:31:20,678 You don't deserve it. 465 00:31:31,572 --> 00:31:32,657 Take good care of yourself, OK? 466 00:31:43,259 --> 00:31:44,386 I'll be thinking of you. 467 00:31:57,533 --> 00:31:58,994 [ON TV] The company feels that your proposal, 468 00:31:59,119 --> 00:32:01,039 while intriguing because of your involvement, 469 00:32:01,165 --> 00:32:03,586 simply isn't real world enough for us. 470 00:32:03,710 --> 00:32:05,798 On the other hand, Megan, if you would like to reconsider 471 00:32:05,923 --> 00:32:08,260 our previous offer, I'm sure we could come to some type 472 00:32:08,386 --> 00:32:09,638 of mutual agreement. 473 00:32:09,763 --> 00:32:11,599 Skip. 474 00:32:11,725 --> 00:32:13,645 [ON TV] The trans project is hardly a viable use 475 00:32:13,770 --> 00:32:16,274 for the Golden Gypsy given the enormous expense 476 00:32:16,399 --> 00:32:18,736 involved in its maintenance. 477 00:32:18,862 --> 00:32:21,533 Megan, I'm sure I don't have to explain this to you. 478 00:32:21,659 --> 00:32:22,368 The bottom line-- 479 00:32:22,493 --> 00:32:23,203 End. 480 00:32:35,641 --> 00:32:37,812 Hi. 481 00:32:37,936 --> 00:32:38,772 Who died? 482 00:32:43,154 --> 00:32:45,241 Me. 483 00:32:45,366 --> 00:32:46,576 That was the last one. 484 00:32:46,702 --> 00:32:48,246 12 for 12. 485 00:32:48,372 --> 00:32:51,836 No smaller companies out there that would be interested? 486 00:32:51,961 --> 00:32:53,672 There are no smaller companies, QM. 487 00:32:58,389 --> 00:33:00,643 You felt how powerful the trans tapes are when it's 488 00:33:00,768 --> 00:33:03,106 about something, didn't you? 489 00:33:03,230 --> 00:33:05,026 I mean, I'm not dreaming the whole thing up, am I? 490 00:33:07,863 --> 00:33:10,452 What am I talking about? 491 00:33:10,576 --> 00:33:11,787 These are corporations that would 492 00:33:11,912 --> 00:33:14,166 repress the cures for disease because they 493 00:33:14,292 --> 00:33:16,670 didn't cost enough to use. 494 00:33:16,796 --> 00:33:17,714 Well, we'll do something else. 495 00:33:17,839 --> 00:33:19,050 We'll figure it out, Megan. 496 00:33:19,175 --> 00:33:20,260 Do you have any idea how much it 497 00:33:20,385 --> 00:33:22,639 costs to maintain the sidekick? 498 00:33:22,765 --> 00:33:24,350 I don't even own it. I lease it by the month. 499 00:33:30,027 --> 00:33:31,822 I love you whether you have that thing or not. 500 00:33:31,947 --> 00:33:34,576 Don't you know that yet? 501 00:33:34,702 --> 00:33:37,290 The damnedest thing is is that I made this break through that 502 00:33:37,415 --> 00:33:39,001 nobody thought was possible. 503 00:33:39,126 --> 00:33:40,587 I could set this whole industry on fire, 504 00:33:40,712 --> 00:33:41,589 but no one will talk to me. 505 00:33:44,719 --> 00:33:46,890 I've been racking my brains on how to tell you this, Cooper. 506 00:33:50,187 --> 00:33:51,439 Did you understand me when I told you 507 00:33:51,565 --> 00:33:53,819 my transcorder is always on? 508 00:33:53,943 --> 00:33:55,070 I thought I explained it. 509 00:33:55,196 --> 00:33:57,909 You telling me you got love on tape? 510 00:33:58,034 --> 00:33:58,952 The moment we fell in love. 511 00:34:02,459 --> 00:34:04,003 What about the technicians? 512 00:34:04,128 --> 00:34:04,879 No, you weren't listening. 513 00:34:05,005 --> 00:34:07,008 They just to the visuals. 514 00:34:07,133 --> 00:34:09,136 The gypsy records the feelings. 515 00:34:09,262 --> 00:34:10,055 Well, can I see it? 516 00:34:10,180 --> 00:34:12,601 No. 517 00:34:12,726 --> 00:34:13,936 Well, it's something we did together. 518 00:34:14,062 --> 00:34:15,398 I mean, how can you take something so private 519 00:34:15,523 --> 00:34:16,358 and sell it? 520 00:34:16,483 --> 00:34:19,196 I'm not got to sell it, QM. 521 00:34:19,321 --> 00:34:20,740 I would hate that just as much as you would. 522 00:34:32,260 --> 00:34:36,100 My money can hold up, I just get scared. 523 00:34:36,225 --> 00:34:39,982 Look, maybe you better let me be by myself for awhile, OK? 524 00:34:40,107 --> 00:34:42,278 You sure? 525 00:34:42,403 --> 00:34:43,279 I'll call you in the morning. 526 00:34:43,405 --> 00:34:45,992 Go on, I'll be all right. 527 00:34:46,118 --> 00:34:46,827 Promise? 528 00:34:46,952 --> 00:34:48,539 Yeah, I promise. 529 00:35:49,645 --> 00:35:52,858 [electric zap] 530 00:36:17,818 --> 00:36:21,158 Play 531 00:36:21,282 --> 00:36:22,535 Can you um, help? 532 00:36:22,660 --> 00:36:23,412 Please? 533 00:36:38,145 --> 00:36:40,649 Play. 534 00:36:40,775 --> 00:36:43,696 QM, I couldn't wait for you. 535 00:36:43,822 --> 00:36:46,242 They were going to take my body away. 536 00:36:46,368 --> 00:36:48,872 They're going to leave me with nothing but pity in people's 537 00:36:48,998 --> 00:36:53,088 eyes, in yours most of all. 538 00:36:53,213 --> 00:36:56,469 So I took the deal and they gave me my body back. 539 00:36:56,593 --> 00:36:57,345 What deal? 540 00:37:01,561 --> 00:37:02,312 What deal? 541 00:37:32,615 --> 00:37:33,825 GPS IN CAR: Arrival at the northwest ag 542 00:37:33,950 --> 00:37:36,121 communes in five seconds. 543 00:37:39,126 --> 00:37:42,298 [buzzer] 544 00:37:56,740 --> 00:37:59,578 At least you called first. 545 00:37:59,703 --> 00:38:00,413 What are you doing here, QM? 546 00:38:03,001 --> 00:38:06,382 You were the only one who understood. 547 00:38:06,506 --> 00:38:07,592 The only one who warned me. 548 00:38:11,056 --> 00:38:13,269 She called me not long after the last time you saw her. 549 00:38:13,393 --> 00:38:15,063 She seemed to know that you would come to me 550 00:38:15,189 --> 00:38:17,526 and there were things that she could never say to your face. 551 00:38:20,990 --> 00:38:23,620 There's only one Goldman Gypsy, QM. 552 00:38:23,745 --> 00:38:26,208 And it costs more to lease for a month 553 00:38:26,333 --> 00:38:29,129 than you and I will ever see in our entire lives. 554 00:38:29,255 --> 00:38:30,549 If you ran the company that owned it, 555 00:38:30,673 --> 00:38:32,176 who would you lease it to? 556 00:38:32,302 --> 00:38:35,098 Somebody who does what you tell her and makes it pay? 557 00:38:35,223 --> 00:38:37,769 Or somebody with a different idea? 558 00:38:37,895 --> 00:38:39,230 I would have stayed with her through anything 559 00:38:39,355 --> 00:38:41,401 and she knew that. 560 00:38:41,526 --> 00:38:43,029 Yes, and she also knew that she couldn't 561 00:38:43,153 --> 00:38:44,531 live with her betrayal of herself 562 00:38:44,656 --> 00:38:45,825 with you there to reminder her. 563 00:38:50,542 --> 00:38:51,418 I can't go back. 564 00:38:51,543 --> 00:38:53,463 I can't face the city anymore. 565 00:38:53,589 --> 00:38:56,302 Of course you can, that's where you live. 566 00:38:56,426 --> 00:38:57,470 You'll get past this. 567 00:38:57,595 --> 00:38:59,182 Let me stay here with you. 568 00:38:59,306 --> 00:39:00,266 I can work hard. 569 00:39:00,392 --> 00:39:01,102 Maybe we-- 570 00:39:01,226 --> 00:39:01,978 You don't want me. 571 00:39:04,983 --> 00:39:06,361 Go on. 572 00:39:06,486 --> 00:39:09,909 Get back in your car, drive back to the city. 573 00:39:10,033 --> 00:39:10,826 You've changed, QM. 574 00:39:10,952 --> 00:39:12,413 You've become somebody. 575 00:39:12,538 --> 00:39:14,583 Now, go home and find somebody to share your life with. 576 00:39:43,801 --> 00:39:46,973 [soft music] 577 00:40:06,256 --> 00:40:08,886 Sorry. 578 00:40:09,011 --> 00:40:10,346 That's what you get when you go too far 579 00:40:10,472 --> 00:40:12,016 into somebody's joy or sadness. 580 00:40:12,142 --> 00:40:13,018 QM [VIRTUALLY]: What do you mean? 581 00:40:16,023 --> 00:40:18,486 How do you know it lasts? 582 00:40:18,611 --> 00:40:20,406 QM [VIRTUALLY]: How could it not? 583 00:40:20,531 --> 00:40:21,742 You have everything now. 584 00:40:21,866 --> 00:40:24,579 Do I? 585 00:40:24,705 --> 00:40:25,915 QM [VIRTUALLY]: I think I love you, Megan. 586 00:40:29,798 --> 00:40:32,218 Maybe you should wait until you recover from the tapes, 587 00:40:32,343 --> 00:40:34,346 it's pretty emotional. 588 00:40:34,472 --> 00:40:35,182 QM [VIRTUALLY]: No. 589 00:40:52,295 --> 00:40:56,385 From my toes to my chest, I just can't feel a thing. 590 00:40:56,510 --> 00:40:58,055 But my lips, they felt that. 591 00:41:01,519 --> 00:41:04,566 Fix it up wasn't the only thing that was bad for us at first. 592 00:41:04,691 --> 00:41:06,903 Tom, I showed you how to really make love to me. 593 00:41:24,518 --> 00:41:27,313 As you can see, technology is a double edged sword. 594 00:41:27,439 --> 00:41:28,983 It can help and it can hurt. 595 00:41:29,108 --> 00:41:31,655 Megan's side kick helped her to be whole, 596 00:41:31,779 --> 00:41:33,575 but the feelies robbed thousands of others 597 00:41:33,699 --> 00:41:36,622 from experiencing their own real emotions. 598 00:41:36,746 --> 00:41:41,046 So is technology a blessing or a curse? 599 00:41:41,171 --> 00:41:43,425 Or can we tell the difference anymore? 600 00:41:43,550 --> 00:41:45,219 Welcome to Paradox.