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[SIRENS WAILING]

A dark figure will cross your path.

Now why would you break into this Internet cafe to play a card game?

This is no game, Night Man.

It'’s tarot.

It tells your future.

You know me?Sure.

You have the future.

We did it, man.

We did it.

Dude, we better buck.

[EVIL LAUGH]

JOHNNY: Keyes.

This time it ends.

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

JOHNNY: It'’s Keyes.

The computers were mirroring everything in the background.

Keyes has got cutting-edge technology.

I'’m not making the connection with something as primitive as tarot cards.

He has the Ultraweb.

Right, right. Which has the power

to connect reality with virtual reality.

Remember the Bogey Man?Yeah.

Now the Knight of Swords.

He wants the Night Man dead,

and I want him stopped.

But remember the Chosen One?

Evil'’s worst nightmare? Don'’t sink to Keyes's level.

I'’m not going to.

Keyes has something up his sleeve.

We'’ve come up against him three times,

and all three times we'’ve come up short.

If the law can'’t touch him,

I have to go above the law.

But speaking of the law, Briony already thinks

that Night Man'’s a vigilante.

And so far, we'’ve proved her wrong.

[BRIONY CLEARING THROAT]

I hear my name.

Hey.Hey.

JOHNNY: What brings you here?

I thought I'’d catch your first set.

Take my mind off my ongoing Night Man problem.

He broke into an Internet cafe last night.

Security cameras inside show him thrashing the place.

There'’s something I should know?

What we were just talking about. Keyes.

How he'’s doctored video before.

What, you mean that tape that tried to frame you for being Night Man?

Well, there was no evidence that Keyes did that.

Well, someone did it.

So, what'’s it to you?

I mean, why are you so concerned about Night Man?

[STUTTERING] Like you said...

someone tried to frame me.

[MAN OVER TV] No more showing your driver'’s license

every time you want to write a check.

No more pulling out your ATM card

instead of your credit card.

No more digging through your purse

for that HMO card you know you had someplace.

With the revolutionary Keyes Key,

all your cards are rolled into one.

♪ Life'’s so simple

♪ When you hold the key

♪ Let someone else Keep track of your life

♪ While you

♪ Just live it

Ha!

MAN: For a limited time, buy the beautiful new Keyes Tarot Cards,

or exciting Keyes Sports Cards,

and get a Keyes Key for free...Oh, my God.

This guy is not gonna stop '’till someone stops him.

Look, I admit there'’s potential here for abuse.

Large potential.

But until something actually happens, there'’s not much we can do.

I'’ll say it again, despite your fixation on the guy.

Keyes has never been indicted,

let alone convicted of any crime.

The way that you'’re talking,

makes me wonder if you might be.

Do you always have to go by the book?

Took an oath to.

So did your father.

My father'’s dead.

It'’s time for the first set.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The House of Soul.

And without any further ado,

we present Domino.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

[MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ Oh

♪ Oh, ooh, yeah

♪ It'’s like the cover of a book

♪ When the looking glass

♪ Has a picture made of you

♪ Take another look

♪ Behind the veiled mask

♪ There'’s a story really true

♪ It'’s gonna be A test of your faith

♪ If the picture slips And reveals another face

♪ Can'’t believe what you see

♪ When your mind Is seeing double

♪ Looks deceive Best believe

♪That you'’re gonna... ♪

[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]

[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]

My name is Magda.

You obviously have a message from Kieran Keyes.

[CHUCKLES] Not I.

The cards are the ones who speak.

Why don'’t we go up to my place?

As you wish.

This is your apartment?

Yeah, it is.

I thought you wanted some privacy.

[CHUCKLES] Not I.

You.

Although, if one assumes that the cards know all about one,

there'’s no such thing as privacy.

Is there...

Night Man?

Ooh. We'’re quite high.

Yeah. Yeah, we are.

Listen, I just wanna hear about Keyes.

Why not?

Have a seat

beneath the universe.

Hold the tarot in your hand

and concentrate on what is concerning you at this time.

Virtual reality.

You'’re not real.

Like the Knight of Swords and the Bogey Man.

Oh, come on, Night Man, you know better than that.

I'’m as real as anything else.

[HEARTBEAT]

MAGDA: The Page of Cups.

You, of course.

A young man involved in the arts

who practices improvisations in the dark.

Crossed by another Page.

An equal.

Wands represents the mind

and electronics.

Keyes.

But you'’re not saying he'’s superior.

[CHUCKLES] He can do that.

The past.

But don'’t worry.

The past is past.

I don'’t worry.

The present.

It'’s just like you.

Hmm.

Also known as The Brothers.

Something that could happen.

Something that must happen.

[MAGDA LAUGHING]

[WIND HOWLING]

[THUNDERCLAP]

[CREAKING]

Come on, Johnny.

Tarot was supposed to raise your consciousness.

Surely you can reach the rope.

[THUNDERCLAP]

[POLE CREAKING]

[GRUNTING]

So you'’re saying you saw this whole thing break off?

I saw it, I felt it.

Lived it.

I was hanging right here by my fingernails.

But there was no storm, so it must have been some kind of an illusion.

An illusion that soaked me to the bone.

Weird. You'’re sure that the fortune teller

was only virtual reality?

As soon as she set me up, she'’s vanished, like Keyes.

You still have her cards?

Yeah. Why?

Keyes must have found a way to intermingle reality with virtual reality.

The fortune teller wasn'’t real, but her cards are.

The storm obviously wasn'’t real, but you got soaked.

Maybe the answer is in the cards.

Here are the cards I got from the kids.

Whoa. Is this safe to have this thing on when Keyes is around?

After what we'’ve been through,

I'’ve built the ultimate firewall around this thing.

It'’s probably the only computer Keyes can'’t get to.

I think.

[PHONE RINGING]

Lieutenant Branca.

JOHNNY: Briony.

Hey, John. Sorry I couldn'’t stay for your next set.

Like I told you, I was only taking a break.

No problem.

Listen, Briony, do you know any experts on tarot cards?

Yeah. Hang on a sec.

I'’ll punch up our consultants list.

I got experts here on everything, from artworks to zip guns.

Uh...

Here we are. Jason Lot, 3715 Sutton.

So, uh, what'’s your problem, John?

Didn'’t the gypsy at the club give you the future you wanted?

[STUTTERS] Thanks. I owe you one.

3715 Sutton.

[INTERCOM BUZZES]

Hey, Quilio.

Yes, Lieutenant.

Come in here a minute, will you?

Sure, Lieutenant.

Lieutenant?

Whoa. Johnny, check this out.

There are microcircuits sandwiched between the cardboard layers,

like a radio receiver.

So each card functions as part of a network.

[BEEPING]

Keyes.

Keyes.

Thanks for seeing me so late tonight, Mr. Lot.

That'’s all right.

I'’m a night person.

JOHNNY: Yeah, so am I.

Uh...

You don'’t have a computer?

I don'’t need one.

What I know about the world

came from books and cards

a long time ago.

Good. I like that.

So...

You'’d like to learn about tarot, Mr. Domino?

Johnny.

Johnny.

Some people have devoted their lives to that.

Yeah, I'’ve heard.

Tonight I just wanna learn the basics.

All right.

There are 78 cards.

Fifty-six of them...

represent a deck of playing cards,

since playing cards descended from tarot.

Four suits.

Ace through ten.

But instead of King, Queen, Jack,

we have...

King...

Queen...

Prince...

and Princess.

These cards represent people.

Ace through ten represent events.

Those are called the Minor Arcana.

The lesser mysteries.

The other cards...

are the Major Arcana.

The greater mysteries.

They represent...

shall we say...

the building blocks of existence.

The forces...

that shape our destiny

and our reality.

Everything will be explained by them.

Everything?

What about virtual reality?

[CHUCKLING]

It may be virtual, but it is real.

Reality is reality, Johnny.

That'’s, uh... That'’s my problem.

What does The Tower mean?

A sudden awakening.

Humans have the habit of thinking

they understand the world.

But every so often their ideas are violently shaken.

Evidently you'’ve seen The Tower tonight.

Tell me about the rest of them.

[BEEPING]

Raleigh?

KIERAN: Johnny.

Calling Johnny, Johnny.

[KIERAN LAUGHING]

[ENGINE REVVING]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[ELECTRIC CRACKLING]

[HORNS BLARING]

[LAUGHS MANIACALLY]

♪ Life is so simple

♪ When you hold the key

♪ Life is so simple

♪ When you hold the key

♪ Let someone else Keep track of your life

♪ While you

♪ Just live it

[BEEPING]

MAN: ... buy the beautiful new Keyes Tarot Cards...

or exciting Keyes Sports Cards,

and get a Keyes Key for free...

JOHNNY: Lockdown.

[GRUNTS]

Ooh, Night Man.

Keeping fit, I see.

Don'’t you care what Keyes is trying to do?

Kieran Keyes is a great man

with the right vision for America,

and for the world.

Yeah, right.

You think I'’m kidding?

[SHRIEKS]

You must be brainwashed, or blind.

[BEEPING]

The Smothers Brothers.

[BEEPING]

Orville and Wilbur Wright.

Dizzy and Paul Dean.

Brothers.

Where are you, Keyes?

Show yourself!

KIERAN: I'’m right where I should be.

I'’m in my domain.

I'’m all warm and crazy cozy.

Otherwise known as one vast, seamless reality.

In here and out there. In here, out there.

And always the twain shall meet.

KIERAN: Welcome back, John,

to hell in the web.

Right now you'’re dying to be an exclusive member.

That'’s the spot you lost your daddy, isn'’t it?

Back, back,

I suppose I can'’t expect you to cool down when you'’re in hell.

Night Man, have you seen my new Kieran Keyes Key advertisement yet?

You'’ll never get away with it, Keyes.

It'’s too obvious.

Well, that'’s the point, Night Man.

You see, in my previous ventures I'’ve run in some enemies.

These enemies I'’m sure will go to the US government

and have them prohibit the Keyes Key,

but not my tarot cards.

Not my sports cards, or other collectibles or merchandise.

That just wouldn'’t be very nice.

What'’s the scam?

Oh, I got so much to tell you, brother.

The scam, well...

Keyes Key, what does it do?

It also marks the bearer'’s movements.

And I should have complete dossier

on 91.7 percent of humanity soon.

What do you want, Keyes?

I want to rule the world.

That'’s what I want.

And I will.

Because, you know, Night Man, I have the computer power to do it.

I'’m gonna know

what every sad person, wonderful human being wants,

at any moment, on any issue,

and I will be able to give it to them.

I'’m gonna be very, very popular.

All megalomaniacs have the same idea.

That'’s the problem with me, Night Man.

Lately my ideas have runneth over.

Like all the great minds.

Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great...

Well, I can go on, but I'’d rather talk about me.

This is my house, my rules.

Me, me, me.

[GRUNTS]

[LAUGHING]

Why tarot cards?

Why tarot? Look at my getups, Night Man.

This is all because of tarot.

Do you know that in addition to calling them "cards,"

expert also call them "keys"?

In addition to calling me "Keyes,"

you may call me "The Magician."

"The Magician"?

How about if I saw you in half?

Rimshot Johnny.

[DRUM PLAYS][COMICAL MUSIC PLAYS]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for coming.

What a lovely crowd we have this evening.

You know something, Night Man?

I can, if you want me to,

let the entire world know what your real name is, you know.

Your real name is Johnny with a "J" Domino.

♪ How about that?

♪ What if I were to do that?

I can, you know.

♪ With a snap of my fingers

♪ Just a little snap

♪ A snap or two A snap to last

♪ Here and there And everywhere

♪ Pa, pa, pam, pam

You think I care about that?

After you killed my father?

Your father was a hero, Johnny.

He was nothing but a hero, you know.

Loved that man.

But I'’m here today to talk to you people about tarot.

That is right, people. Tarot.

It is amazing!

I am telling you.

I used to wanna control the world with the Ultraweb.

But because of...

Well, because of Bogey Man and that lovely, lovely Magda,

[MIMICS PANTING] I know now,

that I can bring that world

back into the Ultraweb.

I know what people are doing

and what people are thinking at all times.

And, you know, I can make people do and think

whatever I want. Really...

♪ Life is so simple When you hold the key

♪ Hold the key

♪ Hold the key ♪

It won'’t do you any good if you'’re dead.

Night Man'’s Greatest Threat.

Coming to you this holiday season

in stereo and DVD.

Ever since the accident,

I'’ve been amused by what people sync to.

You'’ve lost yourself in this Night Man stuff, Johnny.

Because you used to be

a normal, happy, long-haired, beautiful sax player.

Then you came to hear

this frequency of evil.

I'’d rather not hear it.

But as long as I do,

I won'’t turn away from it.

I know.

I understand, Johnny.

I do.

You are hardly normal.

Billions and millions and billions of people around this world

would pretend to be deaf or mad.

This isn'’t the life I'’ve chosen.

But as long as there'’s evil,

I have to do something about it.

[SCOFFS]

[CRACKLING]

Your fatal flaw, Night Man,

is that you care for people.

You do. You really do.

But do any of these people care for you?

[THUNDERCLAP]

Look at these sassy looking creatures on my right.

We have the Prince of Swords.

On my left we have the Empress of Fire.

But you'’ve lost those friends, Night Man.

Haven'’t you?

Just like you'’ve lost yourself.

[GRUNTING]

I don'’t wanna fight you.

[GRUNTING]

Remember.

The cards!

There'’s a dial.

[GRUNTING]

If you hurt them...

I'’m not going to hurt them,

because I may want to use them later.

What do you want, Keyes?

Me dead?

You could'’ve done it by now.

No, I don'’t want you dead.

Don'’t you understand, Night Man, even now?

See, I'’ve come to realize that you...

you have this... this unique power.

You do. It exudes from you.

I don'’t want to destroy that power.

In fact, I want you to work with me.

Not a chance.

I'’d rather die.

Really?

You'’d rather die?

What about all these innocents you could be saving?

If I work for you,

I wouldn'’t be saving people.

Well, yes, you certainly would,

except for those that I wouldn'’t mind seeing...

suffering.

I don'’t think I like the health benefits.

What about the health benefits of your friends?

I'’ll have to think about it.

My offer'’s on the table

'’till dawn.

If you decide to see it my way,

come back.

And if not...

consequences.

[KIERAN LAUGHING]

I'’ve been trying to reverse engineer

Keyes'’s technology since the first time...

The cards. There'’s a dial.

[BEEPING]

Raleigh?

Briony?

Hi, Night Man.

What'’s up?

[WITH HEAVY ACCENT] We have a deal?

I haven'’t decided yet.

Stop playing games with me,

or I will stop playing games with you.

What else do you have to offer?

What else do I have to...

Your dad.

Your father.

I could bring him back for you.

What, like slaves?

Or a zombie?

Like these two?

No. No, no.

Fully alive, fully aware, fully healthy.

If I go to work for you?

Johnny...

your dad worked for me once.

That would be just one more thing

that you two would have in common.

If you could bring him back,

you would have done it by now.

All right.

I am working here.

I am trying my hardest here.

You leave me no choice.

I think the battle lines are being drawn.

It is you against me,

the king of the world!

So the interesting thing to me

is how do we make this battle enjoyable?

I know.

Tarot!

I will give you the same powers of tarot

as I behold.

Take the heat, Night Man.

It'’s the stupidity.

Well, someone sure has been cramming for his finals.

A little bit of wisdom goes a long way.

Look at the fool.

Balancing on the edge of the cliff.

A little bit of jeopardy.

Careful. Careful.

Not if he keeps his balance.

Like the Scales of Justice.

Justice.

I thought you wanted to kill me?

This is real justice, Keyes.

Just because I give you power, Night Man,

that does not make you the same as me, you know?

Because I am king of the world!

King of the World,

but it'’s your own world.

And now you'’re alone in it.

No real women, no real anything.

[STAMMERS] What about Ali?

Ali?

You keep her at a distance,

so she won'’t know the real you.

Uh, a professional relationship.

Really?Yes.

Well, perhaps you'’re right. I mean, I have...

spent so much time with myself lately,

I haven'’t had a lot of time left

to play the female card.

What?

No, no, no.

What are you talking about?

I can'’t believe that you'’re saying that

after all that I have done for you!

Ali, what are you doing here?

Night Man, you did not play a card for her!

JOHNNY: Not everything goes by your rules, Keyes.

Not even here.

I knew she would follow me to protect you.

That was my job!

But I thought I meant more to you than that!

[SOBBING]

I know, I'’m sorry. I'’m sorry.

I really am sorry, because I...

I really do love...

I love my costume and I love the world.

[GUNSHOT][SCREAMING]

Now why would you do that?

KIERAN: She'’s napping.

It'’s a little game that we play, okay?

It'’s called Soap Opera Theater.

Lightning, please.

It'’s time to call it a night, man.

[HEARTBEAT]

Hey, that'’s not fair.

I had Death first.

You don'’t make all the rules.

Don'’t I? It doesn't make any difference.

You can block my card all you like.

It doesn'’t affect me.

No? How about now?

[BEEPING]

Yeah. Oh, boy. All right, well...

Okay. The opposite.

The counter to death is life. Yes.

The Empress of Nature.

You don'’t have that.

I got all the power in the world, pal.

I got all the power at the web.

[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]

What are we doing here?

There'’s nothing like returning to a man'’s castle, is there?

This is not your castle.

You know, Johnny, it is, in a way now.

It is and it isn'’t. But it is.

This is my father'’s house.

The man you murdered.

No, there was no murder.

Did you ever think for one second

that your father'’s death might'’ve been an accident?

Accident?Uh-huh.

You'’ve traveled through cyberspace.

You know how stressful it can be.

This isn'’t gonna work, Keyes.

I brought you here for a very, very important reason, Johnny.

Please, please, hear me out.

What harm is there in you dispassionately

listening to all the facts surrounding your father'’s death?

None.

Thank you.

Fact number one.

I gave him a very prestigious job

as head of security of the entire web.

JOHNNY: Dad, what have they got you doing there?

Well, the nature of my job is confidential, Johnny.

Unless Mr. Keyes wants to tell you about it.

Dad, there'’s something very wrong going on.

You gotta get out of there.

Johnny, I'’m having the time of my life here.

He loved it.

The joy! I heard it in his voice, you could see it in his face.

You saw it in his face.

Because you fooled him.

Please. Please.

You agreed to hear me out. Yes? That was one.

Two.

I was under extreme duress

when I sent him back through cyberspace

Do you remember that?

Send him back or die.

Don'’t do that.

KIERAN: Remember that? You were choking me. I couldn'’t breathe.

All my calculations were probably wrong

when I sent him through the cyberspace travel.

It'’s me, Johnny.

No, I know you'’re bad.

'’Cause you're sure as hell not my Johnny.

Send him back!

KIERAN: He was under strain.

The adrenaline was pumping.

COMPUTER: Delete. Delete.

You think all this dialog is gonna save you?

You know, Johnny, you have plenty of reasons to want me dead.

But murdering your father is not one of them.

It was a total accident.

I liked Frank.

I really liked Frank. He was a great guy.

You know something?

He was like a father to me.

Stop.Do you know what else I have to tell you?

Don'’t.

The crystal ball told me, and crystal balls don'’t lie.

Is it possible that you and I are brothers?

What do you think?

Orcus hinted that. Remember that?

Remember he hinted at that, didn'’t he?

That was all an illusion.

No. No, he hinted at us being brothers. Remember?

The battle against your dark side.

My own brother.

What if your dark side was really your dark brother?

Take us back.

If you wish...

brother.

Look in you mind, Johnny.

Open your mind and you will see that I am telling the truth.

We, you me, we are parts of the same whole.

Just like the Bible, good and evil,

Cain and Abel.

Cain killed Abel.

But Abel never would be able to kill Cain.

You know, I am defenseless.

If you do this, this will be murder.

Nice job!

You cannot reverse

the polarity of the cards, Night Man.

Now death is mine again.

It was a lie, wasn'’t it?

No, it wasn'’t.

I don'’t need cards to deal with you.

Well, then you'’ll never know the truth, Night Man.

You lose, Keyes.

If I lose, so do your friends.

[KIERAN LAUGHING]

Keyes.

I have to know.

Are we brothers?

Some other time, Night Man.

Ciao.

Whoa. Where...

Don'’t worry, we're back.

Night Man.

What the hell?

Where'’d he go?Uh, who?

Who? Night Man.

I didn'’t see anyone. But then again...

I'’m a little spaced. Maybe you are too.

Nice outfit, Lieutenant.

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]