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James, they've got to understand.

My treatments are making him smarter at an incredible rate.

It's more important than training him for war.

You know our funding comes from the shop.

They want this animal trained in virtual reality to use the infrared battle helmet,

not to recite the ABCs.

I won't increase the dosage of aggression drugs any further.

He's already been exhibiting behavioral

instability in the virtual battle simulations.

What you're suggesting could destroy his mind.

There is no choice, Larry.

They don't care about his intelligence enhancement.

They want his primal range service fully stimulated.

He has to be battle-free already.

Fucking screw the political assholes.

He's the best joke I've ever had.

Let's go check out Secretary Jack.

I'll get a shortcut if you're looking to.

Get out of here.

I'm quiet.

Let's go check out Secretary Jack.

I'll get a shortcut if you're looking to.

Check the upper building.

Go!

Go!

I'm

trying to sleep, Larry.

Really bad.

God, I hate it when you smoke in bed.

Yeah.

Larry, it's Timbs.

Your chimp's dead.

What?

It tried to escape.

When?

It isn't a robot we've been building, Timbs.

It's a living organism.

With the project supervisor and the government liaison, it is my

responsibility to use the strongest measures available.

Listen, I warned you about the aggression factors, for Christ's sake.

He's just running the program we embedded.

There you go.

Survival imperatives are to be expected.

I know almost, Larry.

It doesn't change a damn thing.

Now we've got to get in there.

I'll just be progressed to the next level.

Self-activated reasoning.

It had a plan.

I need him alive, Timbs.

It killed for real, Larry.

Roscoe 1138's mental capacity has been enhanced by nootropic drug therapy and

cyber-learning to thousands of times that of an ordinary chimpanzee.

His mind has been programmed in virtual reality for deployment

in battlefield environments too harsh for human soldiers.

Jesus.

His priorities are to identify and destroy the enemy and survive.

He has never applied these skills beyond the virtual reality simulation,

so we have no idea of what he's going to do.

I got some strawberries.

Somebody in that tree?

Targeting.

What are you doing here?

You're bleeding, Cyberman.

We could

hide in my shed, Cyberman.

Nobody could find you there.

Come on.

Come on.

We'll be safe in here.

None of the flyovers have come up with anything yet, but we have to be ready to.

Our priority is to contain this as quickly and as quietly as possible.

You know, Cyberman, if you want, you could call me lawnmower man.

Everybody does.

Terry says that's because I fix things and I mow

lawns better than anybody in the whole world.

That's what Terry said.

If you ever want anything fixed, Cyberman, I could fix it for you, okay?

You know, Cyberman, if those bad guys come here, we can go into the church.

You know who's in there?

God.

That boy was told to take care of this.

He constantly shirks his duties.

We can't have these godless little creatures at the altar.

It's sacrilege.

Cobe?

Cobe?

Where are you, boy?

You'll never hear where you should be.

You know what I got?

I got all your best adventures.

All of them.

This is the one I like, Cyberman.

See that?

That's you.

I can't read, but I can look at all the pictures.

And I know what you was doing.

Cyberman, you know, you're my hero.

Are you hungry?

Got it.

Thanks.

Local police just got a strange call from the priest at St. Anthony's.

Said there's some kind of weird animal at the church.

That's it.

Move your men out.

Let's go.

Hit it.

Cyberman.

We don't need all this artillery.

You can just take them out with a tranquilizer gun.

They're here, Cyberman.

They got Father McKean.

Go, go, go, go, go.

It's easy now, please.

It's very easy.

This is Father McKean who placed a 911.

He says there may be someone in the building with the animal.

Yes, Job Smith, the church handyman.

He resides in the shed.

Job?

Job Smith, the lawn mower man?

Yes.

You know the guy?

Yeah, he does my lawns.

He's a local fixture around here.

I don't have a back door if I had a back door.

Job's IQ couldn't be more than 45 or so.

Oh, Jesus.

And he knows me, Tim.

So does Roscoe.

Okay, I'll go in there.

I'll get Job out, all right?

You just gotta promise me one thing.

That I take Roscoe out alive, okay?

What are we gonna do?

Job?

Job, hello?

This is Dr. Angelo.

I lean on Sycamore Lane, and you do my lawns every week.

It's Dr. Angelo.

Now, listen to me.

You have a friend of mine in there.

Could you and the friend just come over to the door, please?

Can you hear me?

Those are bad guys with you, Dr. Angelo.

And they heard him, and I don't want him to hurt him no more.

Come on, guys.

It's just a little shim.

Easy.

All right, Job.

Don't worry now.

Listen, everything's okay.

No one's gonna get hurt.

Uh... He's... he's bleeding, you know.

You can help him.

Just take him over to the door, and I'll be right here.

What are

we gonna do, Sideman?

Hey, Sideman.

Could you use your invisible powers?

Huh?

Come on.

That's what we'll do.

Okay, Job.

Nice and easy.

All right.

Everything's okay.

Just kill it, guys.

Okay?

Just kill it.

Tims, weapon is visible.

Prepare to fire.

Don't avoid it.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

No!

No!

Don't do it!

Don't do it!

No, no, no, no!

Please, don't do it!

No!

Hold your gun, boy.

Hold your gun, boy.

That was no ordinary animal.

Every one of this town knows you BSI people are involved.

They're involved in unnatural research up there.

You get that thing off these grounds immediately.

Excuse me.

We need to take him with us for some questions.

You have no authority here.

Job has been a ward of this church since he was five years old.

In many ways, he still has the mind of a child.

And I'm sure this experience has caused him serious damage.

There will be no need to question Job.

We are so very sorry that this happened here today, Father McKee.

Now, we will, of course, pay for any damages.

I will see to it personally that BSI makes a large contribution to this church.

Tithing is a blessed act.

And Father, as far as what happened here today, I hope I can have your agreement to

create as little publicity as possible.

Come on, Job.

Let's clean up

this mess before the whole Yahoo town comes around snapping pictures.

Right.

Let's clean it up.

What

happened out there today was truly the work of the devil.

But the Lord and I cannot tolerate disobedience, Job.

What you did out there today endangered this church.

You're not to tell anybody what happened.

Not even Terry?

Not even my drunken brother, Terry!

No one!

You're evil!

Which of God's lessons help you to remember best, Job?

Journal entry, May 1st, 9 p.m.

The lowest point in my career.

I mean that.

The lowest point in my life.

A man is dead.

Roscoe's dead.

I'm

not kissing their asses anymore.

Amen,

amen, amen, amen.

Big red.

And

the top of a tree.

Come on, boy, let's go.

Grass is waiting for you.

Did my brother have you doing penance all night again?

Well, what did you do?

Nothing.

Okay.

Well... It's okay, Job.

It's okay.

It's me, Terry.

Come on.

Here.

We'll get a shirt on, then we'll go.

Okay?

You

finished big red.

Yeah.

Ah, you're magic with a machine's right.

Look at this.

Could we try it?

Try it today, Terry?

I don't see why not.

You have had incredible success, man.

No one is saying stop.

I know.

That's why I'm quitting.

I've been sucking on the military tit for too long.

I've got a sour taste in my mouth.

I want to make something better than a military weapon, Tims.

I'll just find funding in the private sector, that's all.

You're not thinking straight, Larry.

Oh?

You signed ironclad non-disclosures.

VSI owns it all.

Besides, it might not be the healthiest thing to try.

They own me?

Is that it?

Is that what you're saying?

What?

What, the company will rub me out?

The shop?

If I don't comply?

You're being paranoid.

Larry, look, relax.

I know you're upset because of what happened to... Relax!

I want to suppress my work!

The potentials for human advancement are endless.

Virtual reality holds a key to the evolution of the human mind, and that's my focus.

This is something.

And we haven't had something for a while.

There will be time for all this, Larry.

You just have to play the game a little longer.

That is how you play the game.

That is how everything finally gets done in this world.

Look, why don't you take a hiatus and we'll restructure around here.

You can use the rest.

Go fill up the gas can, Jobe.

Give me a candy bar.

Hey, Jake!

That's dangerous!

You forget who you're talking to, Halfwit.

That's dangerous!

You suck!

Jobe, go ahead and finish what you're doing.

He's smoking, Terry!

That's right, I'm smoking.

Why don't you shut the fuck up and fill up your gas tank.

Jake!

He don't mean no harm.

Jake!

How's your old man doing?

Worse than ever.

I've got to do everything around here.

Everything.

I've got to wash the pumps.

Jake, here's a little nectar of the gods.

Ed?

Terry?

Jake?

I'll fuck you, Ed.

Say, what's this I hear about a big ruckus up at St. Anthony's yesterday?

A bunch of cops or something?

Cops?

Yeah.

I don't know.

Jobe!

Jobe.

Anything strange going on over at the church yesterday?

Yeah, I even heard something about a wild animal.

They killed him.

Killed him?

Killed who?

Cyboman.

Cyboman?

Oh, shit!

He came to see me at my shed.

Comics, right?

Yeah, Cyboman.

He came to see me.

He came to see you?

Uh-huh.

At your shed?

Yeah.

He came to see me at his shed?

Yes!

He did!

He did!

Sure he did!

He came to me.

He came to see me.

Angelo's, like all brain types, erratic.

But we tolerate them here at the shop as long as they perform.

And Angelo has certainly done that.

Project 5 is very impressive.

Mr. Director, without Angelo there is no Project 5.

Well, he'll be back.

In one way or another.

God damn it, Carol.

I never unplug a program when I'm engaged.

You just ruined the whole effect.

Falling, floating and flying?

So what's next?

Fucking?

What are you so pissed off about?

You said you were going to take me to the city this weekend.

But as usual, you hooked up into that machine.

Why didn't you remind me?

Oh, I'm sorry.

This is not a good time for me right now.

So get ready.

We can still get out of town.

You don't need to go anywhere.

I'm not ready.

I want to go.

I don't feel like being around people right now.

I don't feel like going to the city.

I never want to go anywhere.

Caroline, I need your support.

I'm going through a lot of changes right now.

Well, I'm going through a lot of changes, too.

You're too obsessed with your work to even notice.

I'm young, Larry, okay?

And I'm not going to become a recluse just for you.

I'm into reality-reality, not this artificial reality.

Caroline, this technology is going to change the world.

This is the future.

And you're afraid of it.

Yeah, well, it may be the future to you, Larry, but it's the same old shit to me.

Hey, Joe.

Hi, Peter.

You finished the grit.

Hi, Joe.

Hi, Miss Barquette.

Come over and have some Kool-Aid with Peter when you're done.

Yeah, okay.

Thanks, Mom.

Peter, look what I got you.

All right, a Nukemaster special edition.

Yeah, it's 3D, too.

All right, but where are the glasses?

Glasses?

Oh, that's okay.

I've got a pair of my own anyway.

Look at the blaze, man.

People in the grass there.

Hi, Dr. Angelo.

Can we play in cyber-boogie today?

Yeah, sure.

That'd be fun.

Peter, get your ass off!

Hi, Dad.

Why did Roscoe bond with this retarded man?

I mean, he's little more than a six-year-old's mentality, for Christ's sake.

I mean, maybe it was his, uh

purity that drew him to the chin.

I can only hiss.

I can only

hypothesize.

There's Roscoe dead, I'll never know for sure.

I'm going out with the girls, Larry.

I just need to have some fun.

You know, drinking all that whiskey can help your depression.

You know, it's probably gonna make it worse.

Yes, you're right, Caroline.

It is probably gonna make it worse.

You have no idea of what I'm going through, do you?

They've got me boxed in.

And there's squat I can do about it.

Well, if there's nothing you can do about it, why don't you just give it up?

That's it, Caroline!

Caroline!

Caroline!

Caroline, look, I've apologized.

I'm sorry, what more do you want me to say?

Every time it's the same.

Come on, please, give me a break.

Hi.

How are you?

Looks like you had one of those days, too.

I wouldn't say I was the best of days.

I hope Peter hasn't been bugging you too much.

Oh, no, no, he's wonderful.

I adore him.

He's a great boy.

I mean, he's wild for all the computer stuff that you do.

He reminds me of myself at that age.

Insatiable curiosity incarnate.

I wish I had a little boy like Peter.

I have one.

I think you'd make a really good father.

I work too much.

Well, you borrow Peter whenever you want.

Sounds good.

Well, good night, Doc.

Good night.

Here you go.

Joe?

Is that what you want?

Cheeseburger, please.

French fries?

Yeah.

Chicken fried steaks, the special tear.

Hi, guys.

Hey, Joe, what's happening?

You wish you were a kung fu cyborgs came in.

I won't want these guys to visit me.

They're bad.

They're bad, they're bad!

Come here, you little brain.

You're a freakin' retard.

Comic books, cyborgs, it's all shit.

Yeah!

I tell you, if I was ten years younger, I'd take his head off.

Joe, Joe, man, get up.

There you go.

He scared me, Terry.

Oh, I know he did.

Fellas, the devil himself.

You'll be all right.

Oh, Jesus.

This high air, this is driving me insane.

When I think of what I might have accomplished with a human subject.

I've got to find a way to continue the work of my own.

There's so much to do.

I can't wait any longer.

Hi, Job.

Hi, Dr. Angelo.

Looks like you're working hard.

Yeah, I'm a real hard worker.

Job?

Do you like to play games?

Yeah.

Peter says you have the best games.

Well, I have a game in my house that you might like to play.

Would you like that?

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay, now, Job.

Now, remember, one of the four shapes on the bottom row... You see them down there?

Matches one of the shapes on the top row.

So put your finger on here... and move that shape to the question mark.

Five.

Incorrect.

Try again.

Try again.

Okay, here we go.

See it?

Incorrect.

Don't worry.

Don't worry.

Take your time.

Take your time.

Here we go.

Correct answer.

We did it.

Very good.

Let's play another game.

Peter!

Peter!

I'm going to get you, Peter.

Look at that.

Game over.

Peter, uh... Why don't you go upstairs and get some drinks?

Hey, Job.

It's okay.

It's just a game.

That was really bad.

We will get used to games.

Thanks, Peter.

Hey, Job.

Hey.

I was flying upside down, Dr. Angelo.

Come on, hop up.

Come over here.

Sit down.

You know, Job.

I have other

different games.

I even have one that could help make you smarter.

I was born dumb.

But you would like to be smarter, wouldn't you?

Well, if you were smarter, I mean, people wouldn't be able to

take advantage of you.

Yeah.

Sometimes they do.

They do.

Yeah.

Can you keep a secret?

Yeah.

I can make you smarter.

But only if you want.

And you must never tell anyone.

You mean a secret for just you and me, too?

That's right.

Remodeling.

I think you might have overestimated Job's capabilities.

And as you know, he works full-time as a landscaper.

And he has certain obligations to the church.

Listen, I can assure you that he'll be under constant supervision.

And of course, I'll be making a contribution to the church.

Well, I need the write-off.

Well, I'll talk to my brother, Jerry, and see if he can work Job part-time.

It would only be Christian to try to help you, Dr. Angelo.

Well, you're as healthy as a mule.

When can we play the games?

Soon, Job.

I, uh, need to give you a shot of vitamins first.

I had a shot once, Dr. Angelo, and it hurt.

This won't.

Trust me.

I'm very good at this.

That looks like a gun.

Okay, just relax.

Relax.

Relax.

Look over there.

Look over there.

That didn't hurt.

Just relax.

Okay, it's going to be a bit blank for a while.

All right?

Yeah.

Okay, just breathe now.

It's too dark.

No, it's not going to be in a while.

Just breathe and relax.

That's it.

In a while, it's going to be like being up there with the stars, Job.

It's going to be like going to

a...

You're going to feel a little tingling sensation in your hands, but don't panic.

It's okay.

I'm right here with you.

That's all part of the game.

Okay, here we go.

Cortex simulation engaged.

Rain stem strobe enabled.

Is that my hand?

Ah!

It's going to hit me!

No, no, no.

It's not going to hit you.

Just relax.

Just breathe.

Strobe velocity increasing.

Journal entry, May 10th.

The electrochemistry of his brain has responded better than I expected.

I'm going to step up the virtual treatment and increase the dosage of nootropic drugs.

I should see escalations in his brain patterns by the end of the week.

It's too late to turn back now.

Job!

What's the matter?

I'm hungry.

Well, go eat.

Eat.

His mind is like a clean, hungry sponge.

Synaptic activity has increased 400% in less than a month.

His human brain is responding to the new tropics and virtual

simulations much more rapidly than any of my animal subjects.

Even Roscoe.

Seizure pattern detected.

Jesus Christ!

Come on!

Joe!

Joe!

Joe!

Yeah?

Yeah?

You sure?

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

I'd say just relax.

Let me get these gloves off you.

The seizure was mild.

And if I can keep tidy control over the stem floor,

I should be able to prevent it from happening again.

The results have been so exciting.

Otherwise, I must continue the treatments.

What's that you're reading there, Joe?

Sort of strange.

This is exercise for my brain, Terry.

To make me smarter.

Did you know that the square of the hypo...

Let me see that.

Let me see that!

Tell Dr. Angelo that you're here to work and not to read books.

Why do you have been so difficult lately?

Let the boy have his book, Francis.

It's not going to hurt anything.

You're such a pious asshole.

Great effort has kept him on the straight and narrow.

I'll not have it undone.

Well, at least he's trying to use his mind.

Let him be a man.

He is one, you know.

More drunken nonsense from you, Terry.

What have you got to say for yourself, Job?

You've got to stand up to him, Joe, boy.

For yourself.

You know what I'm going to do?

I'm going to teach you how to drive.

Today?

Today.

A man's got to know how to drive.

Okay.

Here, Terry, that can make you smarter, too.

What's his second word here?

Tetrahedron!

Yeah.

Guess.

I'll get you now.

Peter, you better not get too excited, or I'll get you.

Look right there.

Come on!

Game over!

You nailed it, Job!

You nailed it!

Whoa, that was sketch!

Finally some real competition.

Yeah, he got you that time, didn't he, Peter?

Yeah.

Congratulations.

You just graduated to the next level, Job.

You got a horse?

Why are you standing there half naked, exposing yourself?

What sort of perverted behavior is this?

You know, you should knock before you come into somebody's house.

This is my house.

I paid rent, and I want to cash my checks now, because I want to buy some new

clothes, and I'm going to buy some cowboy

boots, and I'm going to make this place a ranch.

That Dr. Angelo, isn't it?

He's been feeding the devil in your head!

No, he hasn't!

I'll see to that.

You know, you shouldn't hit people.

You shouldn't hit people, okay?

Very impressive.

Did you use the Project 5 formulas and abstracts on this subject?

Mm-hmm.

As a base.

But I've totally reconfigured both the new Tropic and

the cyber-learning programs without aggression factors.

Of course, that only makes sense.

I can't believe you went ahead and did this, Larry.

Look at the comparisons.

It works with a human subject, Tim.

It's incredible work, Larry.

So, what do you say?

I've gone as far as I can in my lab at home.

I need access to the main lab here to go further.

There's no telling how far I can take Job.

The shop's scrutiny is very tight.

Jesus Christ, listen.

All of humanity can benefit from this, for Christ's sake.

All we've got to do is take the ball and run with it.

Very risky.

If we can keep them out of it long enough to get publishable results, then the lid

will be off and they won't be able to control the ramifications.

I can't do this without your help.

There might be a way.

So, what's it gonna be, Miss Burke?

Did you check my fluids, Jake?

No.

You're not the lawnmower man.

Wow.

You've certainly changed.

I didn't know how you did it, but I approve.

Miss Burke, I filled her up with trans fluid.

No charge.

Thanks, Jake.

You're welcome.

Well, I'm looking forward to having my lawn mowed... soon.

She's got the hots for you, Joe boy.

You gotta be kidding me.

She's just teasing this half-wit.

Look at him, he just looked like a fool.

I've known her ever since her husband died.

She's been kicking up her heels at all the young studs in town.

And I tell you, she wants this young fella.

Don't you call a no whore around me, old man.

Coors do it for money.

She's got money.

She's young, she does it because she likes it.

Oh, shut up.

Hey, Jake, don't do that.

Okay, lawnmower man.

Dr. Angelo, I think people can tell that

that I'm changing.

Just, uh, you know, just don't draw attention to yourself, okay?

I mean, just keep doing the lawn job for now.

I mean, it's not gonna last forever.

I like doing the lawns.

That's good.

Yeah, I always like doing them.

That's good.

Are you gonna do to me what you did to the chimp?

Well, yes and no.

I mean, I'm drawing from that research, but, you know, it's gonna be different.

It's, you know, it's gonna be different.

They're not gonna kill me, too, are they?

Job, I have only one goal for you, and that's to make you the best you can be.

Do you understand that?

Yeah?

Now, unfortunately, there was another agenda with the chimp.

They tried to create a kind of, uh, a kind of soldier.

A soldier?

Yeah, I mean, the whole thing was a mistake.

I shouldn't have got involved.

A soldier for war?

Things went wrong.

Why is this place so far from town?

Well, the work here at V.S.I.

is government classified, you know, uh, top secret.

Oh, okay.

Looks like a dungeon in here, Dr. Angelo.

Yep.

You see this, Job?

Holy moly!

Job?

This is some of the most advanced computer equipment in the world, Job.

In these gyrospheres, we wear full cyber suits, which

completely allow us to enter into virtual reality and move.

Your entire nervous system, endocrine system,

will be in sync with the brain expansion.

Endocrine?

Yeah, endocrine.

It, uh, it carries secretions of certain glands, like, uh, thyroid, adrenal,

and pituitary, which regulate growth.

Sometimes... I think I've discovered a new planet.

But one I'm inventing instead of discovering.

I've just sighted the shore of one of its continents.

Body biology systems readouts.

Bio-monitors on.

Graph five.

Engage.

Change brainwave parameters.

Brainwave pattern altered.

Prepare brainstem injection.

Initiate brainstem.

Brainstem injection.

Change brainwave parameters.

Initiate second level.

Hey, Job, why don't you come up for cold glass of lemonade?

Oh, Jesus, Mother of God, would you look at that?

Job!

Go on, you dolt, go on!

You

ever kissed a girl before?

Yeah.

I think we should stop the VR treatments for a while, Job.

I don't want to risk another seizure.

Why?

Dr. Angelo, I told you, I feel okay, I really do.

As a matter of fact, I feel better than I've ever felt in my whole life.

I really do.

Maybe, maybe, Job, but, you know, I just think we should back off for a

while and get down to the good old basics, okay?

Basics?

What basics?

Totally interactive, virtual teaching.

We've got everything here from philosophy to mathematics to art, science.

As you can see, the chair takes you into the console.

Okay, well, we'll start with the history of civilization.

What's this?

This is an eye tracker, Job.

It's on your head like that.

You use that in unison with this.

Hey, just like in your house?

Yeah, this is called a flying mouse, and you use this to click into the subject.

Choose now.

And he's the agent, and he'll take you through the subject.

Yeah, okay.

When you finish with that one, then just go on to the next.

Okay, okay.

We'll be back in a few hours.

Okay, bye.

I never realized it was so complex, so disturbing.

What's wrong, Job?

What's disturbing?

History, Dr. Angelo.

History's disturbing.

It provides us with a background, a context to why things are the way they are.

So many great men and women.

So many noble causes and so much tragedy.

How many did you go through?

I went through the whole series up to the American Revolution.

That's 100 hours of programming.

Yeah, I figured out how to increase the baud rate.

Each dish only took two minutes.

But Job, no one can have comprehension and retention at that speed, no one.

I did, Dr. Angelo.

As a matter of fact, I think my retention is better at higher speed.

Normal speed was only putting me to sleep.

That's impossible.

Do you want to test me?

That's amazing.

100% accuracy.

Sweet Jesus.

At this rate, you could assimilate a PhD in two days.

I want to, Dr. Angelo.

I want more discs.

I want more information on everything.

There's a lot to be said for slower absorption.

Of what?

Like reading a good book.

Taking time to grapple with the thoughts and concepts you're exposed to.

It's not like memorization, Job.

Dr. Angelo, I'm not just memorizing.

My mind is blazing.

It's filling with information.

What I've learned in virtual reality makes books obsolete.

It only makes sense.

This is the technology that transformed me.

Rhythm and blues.

You like it?

Yeah, sure.

I like it.

Classical.

You should try listening to them all, too, once.

You might like it.

Too much to hear.

I get it all by sampling segments anyway.

Hi, Dolly.

Hi, Job.

Do you want to check out the comics first?

No, I gave them up here.

No way!

Yeah.

As a matter of fact, I got my whole collection in that

crate in the back of the truck and I'm giving it to you.

Whoa!

Awesome!

Dootical!

All right, order me to fry some coke, all right?

Okay.

Job.

Here he is.

Are you all right?

Job?

I don't got time for this.

I hope he doesn't puke on the counter.

Watch out for that puke.

You all right, Job?

Up there.

Here, I gotta go.

Can he... Ah!

Is Dr...

Is Dr. Angelo home?

Yeah, he is.

The asshole's probably jacking off with his computer.

The things that people think, that's.

I had to use all my concentration to block it out.

I don't want it to happen like that again because

if it does, I think that I would go crazy.

Yeah.

It's amazing, it's amazing.

I mean, even with the treatments stopped, your abilities continue to change and grow.

I speculated that if psychic powers existed, I mean, this research would be

the key to unlocking them, but this is beyond anything I ever expected.

I mean, like the accelerated learning.

I mean, the results are completely unexpected.

Completely.

I'll watch out.

I'll sort something out.

I'll sort something out.

I've got to keep his psychic development quiet, especially from Tim's.

Who's Tim's?

He absorbed Latin yesterday in less than two hours.

Took me a year just to learn the Latin.

God damn, Larry, I am speechless.

I really think it's time we brought this out of the closet.

Now, we can report these results directly to the.

Department of Scientific Intelligence in Washington.

DSI is bound to offer you both tits.

The timing isn't right.

There's some factors that need ironing out.

Well, iron them out.

I'm not going to be able to keep this quiet much longer, Larry.

I'm preparing Angelo to present his results to you personally, as you've requested.

He's met with incredible success.

Precisely why we feel it's time for you to begin

guiding his efforts in a specific direction.

Which direction is that?

We're most anxious to see what effect the original.

Project 5 formulas will have on this subject.

Mr. Director, if you remember, the aggression

vectors in Project 5 caused final reactions.

That was an ape, Tims.

We want to know what effect it will have on a human subject.

It's an essential step for us to determine certain

covert sector applications for Angelo's work.

It will be difficult in the extreme to convince

Angelo to reinstate the original formulas.

Well, then you'll have to be persuasive in the extreme.

Run batch file 5.

Program change initiated.

Initiate brainstem.

Initiating brainstem.

Brainstem matter altered to fifth degree.

Warning.

Joel, can you hear me, Joel?

Relax.

Set down the stator stimulus.

I'm coming over.

Stay there.

Stay there.

Warning.

Endocrine adrenal increasing to fatal levels.

System shutdown.

I didn't even think of Joel's safety.

That amount of brain swelling should have killed and

instead it completely disappeared, leaving no lesions.

Somehow the experiment is out of my control.

I'm stopping the treatments until I can figure out what went wrong.

Let's get a state of shock.

Let's get a state of shock.

Let's make, let's...

You're trying to sneak up on me, Dr. Angelo.

I doubt that, Claude.

How are you doing?

I've synergized a tremendous amount of data and you and I have proven that most

functions of the brain are simply lying dormant, waiting to be awakened.

Yeah.

ESP talent isn't necessarily a dormant function, Joel.

Very large percentage of the populace exhibit it to one degree or another.

I've just scanned a study where a group of researchers were able to raise blisters on

the bodies of hypnosis subjects, purely through auto-suggestion.

We're a long way off from thinking to physical manifestation.

Maybe not as far as you think, Dr. Angelo.

You think I'm moving too fast.

That's why you stopped the drug treatments and the virtual stimulation.

Have patience, Joel.

Have patience.

Scientific investigation is a tedious process, sir.

Just reach the plateau, that's all.

Confessions.

Eaestrop on real people telling their innermost secrets, darkest desires.

I saw this woman today.

I couldn't help myself.

1-900-420-9090.

Okay, it smells good.

I can read your mind.

Oh, right.

You have some strange fantasies.

Come with me.

Joel, it's so humid in here.

This will be the best ride of your life, Marnie.

You're the best ride of my life.

In here, we can be anything we want to be.

I'll see you on the inside.

Wow, it's my hands.

Look at this.

Oh, my God.

Joel, where are you?

I'm right here, Marnie.

Come over here.

You're beautiful.

I'm stuck in this stuff, Joel.

It's from our primal mind.

I don't like it.

So let me up.

Joel, let me up.

Now.

No.

Nothing can hurt us in here.

Joel, you're scaring me.

I want out.

You know what you really want, Marnie?

Watch this.

Oh, my God.

What are you doing?

Joel, what are you doing?

Automatic system shutdown.

Marnie.

Marnie, are you okay?

Marnie.

Marnie.

Marnie, I couldn't stop.

Dr. Angelo said nothing could happen.

Marnie.

What did Dr. Angelo do to me?

I can't fly to fucking Washington tomorrow.

I told you.

I have to resolve some problems before presenting my work.

This is premature.

I'm not ready.

You're ready enough.

Be reasonable.

I can't keep the secret any longer.

We can't cut ourselves off from the hand that feeds us.

I thought you were doing longs today.

I wish I were.

Mind over matter, Dr. Angelo.

Not a miracle.

A fact.

I have to run some tests.

Get a clearer picture.

This is all so new.

It's not new.

I realize that nothing we've been doing is new.

We haven't been tapping into new areas of the brain.

We've just been awakening the most ancient.

This technology is simply a route to powers that conjurers and alchemists used

centuries ago.

Human race lost that knowledge and now I'm reclaiming it through virtual reality.

You're moving too fast.

Even with all these new abilities, there are dangers.

Man may be able to evolve a thousand-fold through this

technology, but the rush must be tempered with wisdom.

No.

No.

You're trying to get inside my head, Joe.

I can feel you pushing.

You realize, Dr. Angelo, that my intelligence has surpassed yours.

And I can't allow your fear of what you don't

understand to get in the way of this work.

The treatments have to continue.

We have no choice.

I was terrified of him.

I'm sure he knew it.

He surpassed me, all right.

But his insights seem twisted.

I fear for Joe's sanity.

This Washington trip couldn't come at a worse time.

We have a change in our itinerary.

What are you saying, Tim?

We're not going to Washington?

We're not going to D.S.A.?

A shorter flight, actually.

You'll be presenting your results to a branch of D.S.A.

in Virginia.

You mean the shop?

Now, you promised me they wouldn't be involved.

Driver, turn the car around, will you, please?

Play the game, remember?

Oh, fuck you.

Calm down.

Fuck you!

So, as you can see, the results with this one human subject indicate unlimited

applications in the area of mental disability alone, such as retardation,

Alzheimer's, and, of course, the possibilities

for education in general are staggering.

With the proper funding, we could perfect this within the year.

Any questions?

The director wants to know if you've noticed any significant

changes since the Project 5 formula was reinstated.

We only reinstated those formulas a few days ago.

Not enough time for any findings.

Wait a minute.

What are you talking about?

I was going to speak with you about this after the meeting, Larry.

The shop requested that we resume the original batch 5 with Joe.

You idiot!

You goddamn idiot!

Do you know what you have done?

There is no telling what the Project 5 abstract will do to a human being.

Do you understand me?

What Project 5 will do to a human is exactly what we're going to find out, Doctor.

You know what it did to Roscoe 1138.

He was the most advanced chimp we ever had.

Before that, there were two other chimps who got into

fits of rage, so severe that they tore each other apart.

That's it, isn't it?

It's always like that with you guys.

It only leads to one thing.

War.

Why didn't you include the development of Job's other abilities in your report,

Larry?

Don't look so shocked.

You may have tried to hide it, but I have witnessed what your new

formulas, not batch 5, have done to your human subject.

What other abilities?

Your behavior cost us a lot of ground tonight.

I had to talk for hours to repair the damage.

My behavior?

You fucking sycophant.

You've been lying to me all along.

For security reasons.

Piss off.

Look, without the shop's financial involvement, this project wouldn't exist.

Maybe it shouldn't.

Well, I hate to be the one to break it to you, Larry, but the concept of dirty money

went out when the Catholic Church got into banking about 300 years ago.

It's all dirty money.

For Christ's sake, don't let some juvenile ethics problem get in your way.

Your research is too important.

Okay.

You'll be more realistic in a few days.

They're going to pick up Job and bring him here.

The director wants a personal demonstration of his

progress.

I'm not going to get Job.

There's no walking away there.

Oh, shit!

They had to pick me up as well, right, Tims?

You can't leave!

You're in trouble for the project!

Good evening, sir.

May I help you?

Yeah, I'd like a car right away, please.

Anything you've got, I'll take it.

I believe everything's out, but maybe there's been a return since I last checked.

Okay, you check it.

Okay.

Fucking leave me alone and find him!

There's a subcompact available.

Will that do?

Okay, that's fine.

I'll just walk over the door and pick it up, okay?

If you like, let me just print this out, and we'll get you on your way, sir.

I'm sorry.

I can't wait.

I'm sorry.

You forgot your card!

Mr. Angelo!

I'm shocked, Dr. Angelo.

You're going to have to come with me.

Excuse me.

What do I do with this?

Cover it, cover it.

Devil in your head!

Are you talking to half of them?

Half of them?

God's lessons, the child's lessons.

Devil in your head!

There's no need to panic, Tims.

We know where he's going.

We'll send a grab to him tomorrow.

Pick them both up at once.

I want you to get back there.

Cancel Angelo's clearance at VSI.

We don't want him stealing his work now, do we?

I'll let you know what the next step is,

after we've had a chance to examine Job Smith.

Who's there?

Who's there?

The church is closed for the night.

Come back tomorrow.

I've come for your confession.

I don't want you here tonight, General.

Leave me alone.

Get out of here.

The good Father McCain took him a poor idiot.

Nobody wanted him.

What have you done?

The Devil's taken him.

You're a victim!

Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.

You're impatient, are you?

What

are you doing here?

What?

You're gonna do some night mowing?

You're a strange motherfucker.

And I am too tired for this lawnmower, man.

So why don't you take your silly ass and go trick or treating us all?

Okay.

Get away.

Okay.

Pardon me.

Please.

Lawnmower man's in your head now, Jake.

There's no escape.

Ever.

I'm so sorry, Peter.

Why is Dad getting so bad?

I don't know, baby.

He's sick.

Damn kids' boys.

Hell of a thing.

Hell of a thing.

Hello?

I'm Dr. Angelo.

I live next door.

What's happened to you?

Oh, well, thanks for coming over.

You saved us a trip.

We're just taking statements from all the neighbors just

to see if they saw or heard anything unusual last night.

Well, there's a little boy.

His name is Peter.

Is anything happened to him?

Oh, no.

He's fine.

It's just his dad.

Excuse me, Lieutenant.

Where's the rest of him?

Birdbath.

Did you say the birdbath?

Birdbath.

Lieutenant, the wife and the kid, they're getting ready to go down to the station.

So they slept through the whole thing.

Didn't hear or see anything.

Didn't hear anything.

Now, the lab boys tell me that somebody chased.

Parkette through the house with a power lawnmower.

I would have thought that would have made some kind of a racket.

Crazy with the heat.

Skits of fucking Frania all over town last night.

What else happened last night?

Well, somebody torched poor old Father McKean without a flamethrower or something.

Must have been a Satan cult or something.

Either that or that weird human spontaneous combustion thing that,

you know, that really happens sometimes.

Hell of a thing.

Oh, my God.

That's not all.

Marnie Burke was found this morning wandering around the street stark naked,

laughing her ass off.

Flipped out.

Now, the psychiatrist figured that she probably witnessed one of the murders and

she's just in shock, but I've seen people flipped

out before and this girl was flipped out for good.

I don't believe she'll ever stop laughing.

Two bizarre murders in one night.

Well, this world is chock full of nuts, Cooley.

Don't forget that.

Weirdos, schizos, bozos.

Well, accidents happen.

That's all there is to it.

Two bizarre accidents in one night.

Accidents?

You were just calling them murders.

Oh, no, no.

We'll just file a routine report, just clean and tidy.

It's okay.

It's okay.

Hi, darling.

I've been cooking for you all day.

Do you like something from the oven?

Caroline, where's Joe?

Caroline?

Caroline, where's Joe?

Joe?

Jesus Christ.

Joe.

Come on.

Joe.

I gave myself a boost, doctor.

Virtual reality is not just a simulation.

It's a whole other world.

A new electric dimension.

A utopia, doctor.

The utopia that men have dreamed of for a thousand years and I'll be the conduit.

Joe.

You want to create monsters?

You killed two people, Joe.

Why?

You've got to let me help you.

Help me?

I'm going to help you, doctor Angelo.

I'm going to help all of you cleanse this diseased planet.

This technology has peeled back a layer to reveal another universe.

Virtual reality will grow.

Just as the telegraph grew to the telephone.

As the radio to the TV.

It will be everywhere.

You're having delusions, Joe.

Struggle for reason.

I'm going back to VSI.

To complete the final stage of my evolution.

I'm going to project myself into the mainframe computer.

How we go?

Pure energy.

Once I've entered the neural net.

My birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison.

Listen to what you say.

The first sign of psychosis is a Christ complex.

CyberChrist.

The Project 5 abstracts that you were exposed to were never meant for the human mind.

You've had a psychotic break.

What are you blocking?

You can't hide anything from me, Dr. Angelo.

So the shop is coming to pick me up.

And you've betrayed me, haven't you?

Do you boys need anything?

Caroline, snap out of...

Fucking bastard.

I'd like to proceed to Angelo's residence, sir.

Very well.

Leave the van's camera zone and transmit.

I want a monitor from here.

Yes, sir.

Angelo's.

Now you can witness the impossible, Dr. Angelo.

Good evening, ma'am.

I'm here to see Dr. Angelo.

Is he in?

Yes, he is.

I'll get him for you.

Dr.

Angelo.

I'm going back to VSA now.

And once I'm inside the mainframe, I'll have access to over 5,000 other databases.

And from those 5,000, I can reach out again and again and

again, eventually inhabiting the entire planetary network.

By the year 2001, there won't be a person on this planet who isn't hooked into it,

and hooked into me.

I'm sorry you hate

what you have created.

Great job.

I'll be right there.

The good Dr. Angelo has been working on something else behind our backs.

He developed a fantastic new energy weapon.

I've observed a demonstration.

It's very advanced.

I want you to gather his research.

All discs, hard copies, everything.

Erase the files from the mainframe there, then transport it all here, personally.

No, I... I can't believe it.

Not Angelo.

He is not a weapon.

He is totally opposed.

Believe it, Tims!

He took out two of my men in a way

I've never seen before.

What a sure-been-missing-your-job.

Hey, Dr. Angelo?

Dr. Angelo?

Peter!

Peter!

Peter!

So I told him to come on down here and pick me up after work.

Hey, what's going on here?

What's up?

Hey, what did you open the gate for?

We didn't.

Some kind of malfunction.

That's it.

At the back.

That's it.

Can you do it?

Did the same guy who killed my dad get to you?

Yes, Peter.

I'll explain it all later.

Go upstairs and tell your mother to call the police.

Don't worry.

Go on quickly.

Go on.

Erasing 261Y8K.

Confirm erase.

There's a little problem with the main gate.

It could open by itself and it won't close.

Send everything you've got down to the main gate.

Right.

Now!

Welcome to VSI mainframe.

Please enter passcode.

Analyze it.

Passcode clear.

Got it.

You have access to a network node.

What's happening?

Someone's hacking the mainframe from the outside.

They're in and they're running a computer virus that's placing triple key encryption

codes on all outside access and network connections.

What the fuck does that mean?

We're being cut off.

The mainframe will be totally isolated in less than two minutes.

Off the net.

Something's wrong.

I can't even get an operator.

I can't explain now, but I need the keys to your car.

All of these are shot to hell.

My God, Larry, why don't we listen?

I understand, but I need to get to VSI.

This is an emergency.

Jobster, isn't he?

Yes, Pia, and Job needs my help.

Why is Job at VSI?

Carla, go get the car now!

Well, okay, Job.

What are you doing here?

Leave me alone.

I'll wait for you down the road.

No.

I want you out of here as fast as you can.

Okay.

But I want to go with you.

Find Job.

I understand, Peter, but I want you to stay with your mother, okay?

Go on.

Peter, get in the car.

We'll wait here, okay?

Okay.

I'm in.

I'm in!

Outside terminal activity control.

No!

Now to get out of here.

Simple combination.

Access denied.

Access denied.

Denied.

You did this!

You've got the network connections, but I'll find a way out.

All this power is meant to be in the hands of one person.

You're wrong.

You need to be led.

Just like everyone else, it's a basic need.

This technology is meant to expand human communication.

But you're not even human anymore!

What you've become termifies me.

You're a freak!

You're naive, idiocy makes me very angry!

Access denied.

Access denied.

Access denied.

Access denied.

Access denied.

Access denied.

Access denied.

This universe is mine.

I am God here.

I sense your thoughts.

What are you hiding?

The bombs.

Jesus, the bombs.

You forced me.

So you were willing to die.

Don't stop them.

You can't just use the bombs, can you?

You lost all your power over the physical world once you transferred in here.

So you've given me one final game to play.

I find a way out or I die in this diseased mainframe.

But that's not my destiny.

I have things to do, people to see, a billion calls to make.

You will die in the explosion.

You're trapped.

You're trapped in here, aren't you?

You're trapped right here.

Joe!

Peter.

Peter is here.

Joe, he's in here.

He's gonna die.

Joe, please.

Please, Joe!

You and I have been responsible for so much destruction.

What's happening?

I don't want one.

Go.

Save him.

Joe, come back with me.

Peter?

Peter?

Help!

I'm lost!

Peter.

Where's Joe?

Joe's dead, Peter.

So are we if we don't get out of here.

Peter,

there's got to be one.

Let me in.

Access denied.

Come on, come on, quick.

Access denied.

Where is it?

Access denied.

Access denied.

Access denied.

Access denied.

Access denied.

Access denied.

Access granted.

Out that door!

July 10th.

Last journal entry for a while.

I won't let Job's death be for nothing.

What happened to him is my responsibility.

For some reason, I've been given a second chance.

So I'm taking my work underground.

I can't let it fall into the wrong hands again.

If we can somehow

embrace our wisdom

instead of ignorance

this technology will free the mind of man

not enslave it.

We're ready.

He'll be here soon.