"MAN:" "Buck Rogers in the 20th century!" "Buck Rogers, now adventuring in the amazing world of the 20th century." "By turning the dial to project us ahead in time  we 're able to be with Buck and friends in the wonderful world of the future." "A world that sees a lot of our scientific and mechanical dreams come true." "You know, there 's nothing supernatural or mystic about Buck." "He 's just an ordinary, normal human being who keeps his wits about him." "[BEEPING]" "MAN 1 :" "What's wrong?" "MAN 2:" "Nothing really." "I just feel that I need something stronger." "MAN 1 :" "If you have a problem, don 't hesitate to ask for assistance." "MAN 2:" "Yes, thank you, I'll be all right." "MAN 1 :" "Call 348-FUN" "MAN 1 :" "What's wrong?" "WOMAN :" "Never mind." "Never mind." "Never mind." "Never mind." "Never mind." "[BEEPING]" "MAN 3:" "Can you feel this?" "What is that?" "Nausea?" "Are you now?" "Or have you ever been?" "Move slowly." "[ELEVATOR DINGS]" "COMPUTER 1 :" "Hello, is somebody else there?" "COMPUTER 2:" "THX, this is inner control." "You're off. 017 to the right." "Correct it, please." "Make the correction, THX." "COMPUTER 3:" "All right." "Just back off, THX 1 138." "Back off for a second." "COMPUTER 4:" "Okay, hold it there, 1 138." "COMPUTER 5:" "Hold." "Hold." "Hold...." "MAN:" "What's wrong?" "THX:" "I need something stronger." "MAN:" "Take four red capsules." "In 10 minutes, take two more." "Help is on the way." "WOMAN:" "What's wrong?" "COMPUTER:" "Take a visual record of this." "We found it in the patching cells." "We killed it." "WOMAN:" "Thank you for being conscientious." "A visual record is being taken and filed with the Department of Biological Flow." "You have" "MAN 1 : --now out of service in one section of the Filoz era" "MAN 2: --shall, in any consequence of any law or regulation be discharged from such service but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service may be due." "MAN 3:" "For greater efficiency, consumption is being standardized." "We are sorry." "COMPUTER 1 :" "All right, just back off, THX 1 138." "Back off for a second." "All right, make the appropriate correction." "COMPUTER 2:" "That's it." "COMPUTER 1 :" "Check the grid line." "Should be 1239, 1239." "All right, watch it." "You 're gonna override again." "Bring it down." "You 're right next to it." "COMPUTER 3:" "Right." "WOMAN:" "What's wrong?" "MAN 1 :" "I bought one of these yesterday and it doesn 't fit my consumer and the store doesn 't have the other kind." "MAN 2:" "For more enjoyment and greater efficiency  consumption is being standardized." " We are sorry." "MAN 3:" "This is" "COMPUTER 1 :" "Attention all stations, I have a temporary blockage affecting a Red Section module." "COMPUTER 2:" "Watch the complete insertion in the override." "It's getting into a critical phase." "MAN 1 :" "What's wrong?" "MAN 2:" "Comperson and penderal..." "CHILD:" "What's wrong, Papa?" "... compatible within group 3A." "WOMAN:" "If you feel you are not properly sedated  call 348-844 immediately." "Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion." "MAN 1 :" "A. Excursions" "MAN 2:" "For more enjoyment and greater efficiency  consumption is being standardized." "We are sorry" "MAN 3:" "This is city probe scanner." "We 've run across some illegal sexual activity." "It should be on your D TO screen now." "[BEEPING]" "[EXPLOSIONS]" "WOMAN:" "There has been an accident in Red Sector L 14." "Do not abandon your post." "There is no danger of radiation leakage." "MAN 1 :" "Repeat, there has been an accident in Red Sector L 14." "Do not abandon your post." "There is no danger of radiation leakage." "COMPUTER:" "624 1, is everything all right down there?" "MAN:" "That accident over in Red Sector L  destroyed another 63 personnel giving them a total of 242 lost to our 195." "Keep up the good work and prevent accidents." "This shift is concluded." "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "A libido leveler has been mislaid near the pulse-buffering gate." "If you have accidentally" "[MUZAK PLAYS]" "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Today, blue dendrites are only 47 credits." "Buy now." "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Visual binaries now can previse and improve your reading." "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Your consumer has a factor of 98." "ROBOT :" "Stay calm." "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "This elevator has been removed from service." "Please use the next elevator on your right." "This elevator has been removed from service." "Please use the next elevator" "COMPUTER:" "My time is yours." "Masses for the masses." "Go ahead." "One for all." "AII is one." "Masses are what we are." "We are the masses." "But all in all, we are masses." "For the Party and for all, masses are what we are." "Very good." "Proceed." "Well  I slipped on a thermal transfer this morning." "It's never happened before." "I wasn't concentrating enough." "Yes, I understand." "Things haven't been..." "...going well." "Yes, fine." "How could I be so wrong?" "." "[CLEARS THROAT]" "My mate has been acting very strange." "I can't explain it." "Yes." "I haven't been feeling very well myself." "Yes, I understand." "I don't know, maybe it's me." "Yes, fine." "I needed some pinural last night." "I feel as if something..." "Excellent." "...odd were happening to me." "Something that..." "Yes?" "..." "I can't understand." "Could you be more specific?" "The sedatives." "I'm taking etracene, but it doesn't seem strong enough." "I have a hard time concentrating." "You are a true believer." "Blessings of the state." "please, forgive me." "Blessings of the masses." "Thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of man by the masses, for the masses." "Let us be thankful we have an occupation to fill." "Work hard." "Increase production." "Prevent accidents." "And be happy." "ROBOT :" "If it will make you happy, just this once." "Now, be careful, it's heavy." "THX?" "." "THX?" "." "[FLUSHING]" "LUH:" "THX?" "." "Is that you?" "." "[WHIRRING]" "WOMAN:" "We are sorry, but we must deny your request." "Birthborns are not allowed more than 5 units of enerval." "Substitution of enerval for etracene may cause a serious chemical imbalance." "Thank you." "[DANCE MUSIC PLAYS]" "Never before have we been so contented." "Never." "MAN:" "A dragon sounds like this when" "[THUMPING]" "[MAN GROANING]" "[RAPID BANGING]" "nine units of detuned escalatories have not, however prevented virus and ordnance from invading our centers." "The three recently elected representatives from Con 9 have again resigned..." "...and returned to their sectors." "You ought to eat." "Five felons were caught fleeing rehabilitation center DD2." "All five have been undergoing treatment for drug offenses." " Where did you get this car?" "I was just issued it." "I took it for a test drive and ran straight through a crowd at the dispersal center." "[CROWD LAUGHING]" "MANNEQUIN 1 :" "Oh, terrible." "Terrible." "MANNEQUIN 2:" "No." "No, it was wonderful." "Because I didn 't hit anyone, just an 1 1 14." "What's this?" "." "Why did you change it?" "." "You've seen enough." "MANNEQUIN 2:" "That's wonderful." "MANNEQUIN 1 :" "It's terrible." "You know I don't feel well." "T ake your sedation." "MANNEQUIN 1 :" "That is just terrible." "MANNEQUIN 2:" "No, it was wonderful, wonderful." "Because my hand, it was paralyzed anyway." "THX:" "That was very funny." "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "An enerval overdose may cause a serious chemical imbalance." "COMPUTER:" "My time is yours." "Go ahead." "What's wrong with me?" "." "What am I to her or she to me?" "." "Nothing." " Yes, fine." "She's an ordinary roommate." "I share rooms with her." "Our relationship is normal, conforming." "Excellent." "We share nothing but space." "What is she doing to me?" "." "[COUGHS]" "Yes, I understand." "I think I'm dying." "Could you be more specific?" "[THX THROWING UP]" "COMPUTER:" "You are a true believer." "Blessings of the state." "Blessings of the masses." "Thou art a subject of the divine, created in the image of man by the masses, for the masses." "Let us be thankful we have commerce." "Buy more." "Buy more now." "Buy  and be happy." "COMPUTER:" "What's wrong?" "What's wrong?" "What's wrong?" "What's wrong?" "What's wrong?" "What's wrong?" "What's wrong?" "What's wrong?" "LUH:" "Never mind." "[BEEPING]" "LUH:" "I was so afraid." "So alone." "I wanted to touch you so many times." "THX:" "I was happy." "Why get me involved?" "." "[LUH GASPING]" "LUH:" "They know." "They've been watching us." "I can feel it." "No one knows." "They're watching us now." "No one can see us." "COMPUTER:" "I can feel it." "[MAN SHOUTING]" "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Twenty-four." "WOMAN:" "Twenty-three." "Twenty-two." "6442, gate five, please." "[WHIRRING]" "MAN 1 :" "We 've got a malfunctioning officer in corridor 7A." "MAN 2:" "All right, just a minute." "Standby, scope 1." "[CHANTING]" "[BANGING]" "[BANGING AND CHANTING STOPS]" "If you go back on sedation, you won't feel the same way about me." "You'II report me for drug violation." "I've got a slip movement to install on my next shift." "I'II never make it the way I am now." "I wouldn't turn you in, not now." "You don't" "I know I wouldn't." "You can do it without etracene." "You can." "I know you can." "Then what?" "." "It can't go on forever, you know it can't." "We could leave." "And live in the superstructure." "You only have one more shift left, don't you?" "." "We could be gone before the next series started." "THX:" "It's all right." "It's all right." "COMPUTER:" "Standing by." "[BEEPING]" "THX:" "What's this?" "." "LUH:" "I have to see SEN." "I've just been given a shift change." "When?" "." "Now." "Now?" "." "He wants me to come to his quarters." "A shift change should come through scheduling." "Why should he want to see you?" "." "LUH:" "I don't know." "Don't go." "I have to." "He's a G34." "You don't have to." "I don't trust him." "You ought to file a report." "No." "Don't make trouble." "It's nothing." "Then why did you bring it up?" "." "I didn't." "You asked me about the card." "You're going to get us into trouble." "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Do not push at the fountain." "It's more work for the cleaning detail." "COMPUTER 1 :" "Did you copy that?" "COMPUTER 2:" "The hung-over writing." "Is he getting that?" "Is he copying me?" "COMPUTER 3:" "This is borough-flow submaster." "Control, have you got that code?" "COMPUTER 2:" "I read you very badly." "I'll check the message...." "[BABBLING OVER COMPUTER]" "MAN: --hunter portapods." "SEN:" "It's you." "WOMAN:" "Twenty-three hunter portapods." "SEN:" "Come in." "Sit down." "You know, this is really odd." "I was just thinking about you." "I must apologize for all this chaos." "They moved in this morning and it's been going on all day." "The roommate was destroyed, you know." "Terrible inconvenience." "Have to try to see things in perspective, do what you can to make things fit." "I can accept things up to a point." "But if you get a chance to make adjustments you're very foolish to pass them up." "Where is LUH?" "." "What?" "." "WOMAN:" "Your card, please." "Thank you." "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "This monitor is to be used for emergencies or special requests only." "All routine information can easily be obtained  through the bulletin panels installed at" "Why did you have LUH come here?" "." "Why are you so concerned?" "." "What's going on?" "." "I want you for my roommate." "We'II be very good for one another." "I don't understand." "Living" "Living selection is computed." "I know what you're thinking." "Program-shifting isn't that major a crime, is it?" "." "You're in violation." "Don't say that." "What have you done to LUH?" "." "She was here." "We had a Iong talk." "And she agreed that it would be better for both of you to switch." "She seemed to think that you weren't accurately mated with her in the first place." "I'II never have another mate like ONA." "You rate very high in sanitation." "I've checked." "THX:" "I don't feel well." "We'II be happy." "MAN OVER TV:" "With the economic advantages of the mating structure it far surpasses any disadvantages in increased perversions." "A final trans" "MAN:" "An infinite translated mathematics of tolerance and charity among artificial memory devices is ultimately binary." "Stimulating rhetoric." "[DOOR CLOSES]" "THX:" "LUH?" "." "MAN:" "Absolute." "The theater of noise is proof of our potential." "The circulation of prototypes." "The golden talisman underfoot is phenomenon approaching." "And in the history of now all ethos are designed." "Why are you here?" "." "You' re not cleared for this area." "You know I have a way with computers." "I can program myself for any area, almost." "THX:" "I'II report you." "SEN:" "Listen, no need to be distressed with me." "THX:" "Get out of here, leave me alone." "I've taken care of LUH." "I programmed her to area 5450." "The transfer should come through by the next series." "You're gonna need a new roommate." "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Performance perfect is perfect performance." "WOMAN:" "Your radiation rate is five" "MAN:" "1 1 38, retract." "COMPUTER:" "1 138, retract." "Something is touching the TTO integrated logic modules." "Switch tools." "1 138, what's wrong?" "Would you like a stronger pill?" "1 138, you 're getting talmod contact." "Retract at 220." "COMPUTER 1 :" "Vector 079." "COMPUTER 2:" "We 're making contact at. 003." "COMPUTER 1 :" "Don 't override here." "This is critical." "COMPUTER 2:" "Okay, you can start your descent." "That's it." "Slow down just a little bit." "You 're overriding. 7." "Okay, hold it, 1 138." "THX, do you read me?" "THX?" "WOMAN:" "The radiation rate is nine." "COMPUTER:" "THX, you 're entering a critical phase." "All right, contact." "That's it." "WOMAN :" "Respiratory count: 347, or plus 7." "MAN:" "Adrenal off. 74." "We are receiving an extreme respiratory count from a magnum manipulator in operating cell 941 07." "Erratic visual behavior." "T ransfer control information." "MAN:" "Current brain wave confirmation on 1 138: adrenal off. 74." "Analyze: severe." "COMPUTER:" "An explanation for blocking, so allow me to make correction." "You are entering a red phase, THX." "COMPUTER: 1 138 suffering severe sedation depletion  which requires mindlock and arrest." "1 1 38 filed a violation report on SEN 5241 immediately prior to" "Request mindlock for operating cell 941 07." "Subject: 1 1 38." "Prefix:" "THX." "COMPUTER:" "Mindlock restricted." "Do not mindlock cell 9410" "Priority shift." "Repeat, priority" "Mindlock pending." "MAN:" "Priority shift." "COMPUTER:" "Cut the mindlock." "Hold all" "[WHIRRING]" "COMPUTER:" "Emergency in cell 94107." "[ALARM RINGING]" "COMPUTER:" "Evacuate all." "Secure all atomic mass." "Situation white." "Repeat situation white." "Will somebody cut the mindlock?" "COMPUTER:" "Clear." "Clear." "COMPUTER:" "Who permitted a mindlock priority in magnum cell 94 107?" "Release mindlock." "Relapse to command monitor." "Release mindlock." "COMPUTER: 6241, is everything all right down there?" "Did we ignore it?" "WOMAN:" "Control center 626 holds no responsibility for error in mindlock." "COMPUTER 1 :" "Control center's transreceiver, this is grid control." "The power run incorporating an H020 claim  which blocked communication in the" "COMPUTER 2:" "You should've reported that the minute you first detected it." "COMPUTER 1 :" "In any mindlock situation  that is already put to character, try and relieve it." "ROBOT :" "Everything will be all right." "You are in my hands." "I am here to protect you." "You have nowhere to go." "You have nowhere to go." "MAN:" "1 138 THX is charged with violation appendix 445 to 613, index 78. 7." "Drug evasion, malicious sexual perversion and transgression." "Immediate destruction on the basis of an ECO-TRX 31 4 incurable imbalance with socially deteriorating conscience." "Reject." "Reject." "Inefficient, unwarranted destruction." "Must be saved" "allowed erotics to exist" "Inane." "What is the prosecution doing?" "." "BOY:" "But there can be no doubt" "MAN:" "Records show he is of clinic origin." "Remotely subject to alteration." "If society is to free itself of these deviants" "This is not a race issue." "WOMAN:" "He must be destroyed." "We must not continue to consume these erotics." "We must exterminate the source of sin." "Economics must not dictate situations which are obviously religious." "MAN:" "Masses won." "Defendant used, not destroyed." "Case rest." "1 1 38, prefix THX is pronounced incurable and shall be conditioned and held in detention." "[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]" "ROBOT 1 :" "Are you now?" "." "Or have you ever been?" "." "1 642, try 61 2." "He seems to have an 81 8." "Can you feel this?" "." "481 4 avoid the 71 4 and the 2336." "ROBOT 2:" "AII right." "ROBOT 1 :" "3334, that's right." "Concentrate on the tri-1 4 area." "Move slowly." "6341 0." "Wait for 32." "9." "3437." "Now the 5552." "The 41 05." "Above the 521." "The 1 22." "Skip the 1 1 1 4." "ROBOT 2:" "What do you say, 56?" "." "ROBOT 1 :" "The 321." "ROBOT 2:" "And 21." "ROBOT 1 :" "Under the 69." "[SHOCKING]" "ROBOT 1 :" "That's enough." "[WHIRRING]" "[BEEPING]" "[WHIRRING]" "MAN 1 :" "Can I borrow one of your etracenes?" "." "MAN 2:" "Uh...." "Sure." "MAN 1 :" "I think that the lesson'II go a Iot better" "MAN 2:" "Let's write this up." "You said 45 on the" "AII right." "Should we zoom this a Iittle here?" "." "Here, I'II just zoom it." "MAN 1 :" "Hey, doesn't it zoom Iike--?" "." "MAN 2:" "Now, what have you been checked out on over at level 387?" "." "MAN 1 :" "Well, at 387, our system was never completed." "We'd use" "MAN 2:" "So you haven't any experience with the Mark 8 board?" "." "Never" "MAN 1 :" "No, but the Mark 7, you had the same" "You could just open them up as if-- Open all four up." "MAN 2:" "Yeah." "You ought to be careful about the...." "You got any polarity here on the mobile travel?" "." "Look." "MAN 1 :" "What--?" "." "I just punched up one and I'm opening" "imagine that that has something to do with the results the 378 was getting." "That's it." "Okay, now watch that reading." "And as it" "Watch the needle on 5, now." "Watch-- MAN 2:" "This" " This knob is loose." "Wait, which switch gets it out?" "." "MAN 1 :" "Master at the bottom." "Okay, there we are." "What is the real dope on the cortex bond problem, anyway?" "." "MAN 2:" "Oh, you find yourself with" "MAN 1 :" "Don't let it get above 4.8." "Look at this." "MAN 2:" "Little monkey." "I cut myself." "What if you put a dual display on it and I punch two up?" "." "MAN 2:" "Yes, you can see two at once." "When you see three, punch a third." "The numbers read" "Yeah." "So it's best to go back to two." "And really, to get an accurate reading...." "[SCREAMS]" "MAN 1 :" "I don't see any dissolution here." "MAN 2:" "You haven't" "Don't let it get above 4.7." "MAN 1 :" "Here, I'II bring these back down a Iittle bit." "Yeah, I seem to be overloading it." "MAN 2:" "You should put" " Instead of" "MAN 1 :" "There it is, 4.6." "AII right?" "." "MAN 2:" "Yes, but dissolution occurred at 4.5." "MAN 1 :" "Oh, yeah?" "." "[RUMBLING]" "Are you all right?" "." "What did they do to you?" "." "What?" "." "What?" "." "I'm going to have a child." "Hold me." "Hold me." "[RUMBLING]" "ROBOT 1 :" "Come on, stand up." "ROBOT 2:" "We are only here to help you." "You have-- ROBOT 1 :" "Watch it." "Come on, now." "We don't wanna hurt you." "Let go." "We won't harm you." "We only want to help you." "3927, could you get him from where you are?" "." "[WHIRRING AND SHOCKING]" "[RUMBLING]" "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "THX 1 138." "[MEN MUMBLING]" "SEN:" "Hi." "[SEN CHUCKLING]" "[WOMAN GIGGLING AND GASPING]" "I know you turned me in." "I'm doing quite well here anyway." "I'm setting some things up but it isn't easy." "A very difficult balance, you know?" "." "Listen." "Now, Iet's get something straight right from the start." "It's gonna take you some time to see my overall plans." "So until then, stay out of things you don't understand, right?" "." "You're gonna be making things more difficult for me." "It's the least you can do." "Huh?" "." "What's wrong with you?" "." "Don't be like that." "It's all right." "You're safe now." "SEN:" "When posterity judges our actions here it will perhaps see us not as unwilling prisoners but as men who, for whatever reason preferred to remain as non-contributing individuals on the edge of society." "We must not let this happen." "MAN 1 :" "Countless diversions." "SEN:" "Gentlemen, the choice is there." "Reciting where we are." "Arguing about leaving." "SEN:" "Make no mistake." "Predicting the future." "Ridiculous." "SEN:" "We must choose a leader..." "MAN 1 :" "What about keeping it livable?" "." "...to unite us together." "GUARD:" "LUH 9998." "LUH?" "." "PTO:" "Uh...." "MAN 2:" "What happened?" "." "Who's gone?" "." "MAN 3:" "JOT." "My friend, your point of view yes, CAM, that's it." "Your point is well taken, CAM but it lacks the balance that a broader and deeper range of experience can lend it." "When I first arrived here, I saw things as perhaps you do now." "Yes, I was confused about my predicament." "I longed to thrash out, to tear down, to destroy and annihilate to ravage, wreak havoc and plunder." "Being basically Ievelheaded, however I realized that my first goal should be to study this place where what seemed blind circumstance had placed me." "Listen to the mumblings of an old man and bank those flames with earnest inquiry and honest observation." "SEN:" ""Mumblings. "" "[CHUCKLING]" ""Mumblings," you hear?" "." "Know how many times we listened to that speech?" "." "Do you know how many times we've had to listen to that speech?" "." "Thinks we're as blind as him." "Know what you are?" "." "You make me sick." "If we thought like you" "You know what I want?" "." "I want ideas." "I want one idea." "One idea could get us out of here!" "[SCREAMING]" "SEN:" "We'II have to be sure it's the right idea." "We'II know it when we see it." "I'II know it when I see it!" "clear and straightforward and plain as the nose on your face." "Talked to oneself over...." "PTO: --believed he was going to a place where he'd be happy." "And in so believing, he created a veritable paradise for himself right here." "Unfortunately, not all of us can have the positive conviction of LOO." "But thankfully, not all of us are burdened with the ominous forebodings of SEN." "I, myself" "MAN 2:" "Now, that's what I mean by the wrong idea." "Look, I'm not going to try to prove the usefulness of history." "It is genuinely too obvious to need proof." "[RUMBLING]" "I want to help you." "You can help me." "Here." "Take a biscuit." "You understand, we're all in this together." "You want to leave." "You're not Iike them." "A secret that we all get out of here" "[MEN SHOUTING]" "SEN:" "Take it easy!" "Look at them." "It's pathetic." "It's pitiful." "They've even begun to go into my corner and look for things." "My things." "You're with me." "I know." "I have a contract." "AII it says is:" ""You're with me. "" "We're all in this together." "We must convince the others." "Later, then." "[RUMBLING]" "SEN:" "We need a new unity." "And not a unity which discourages dissent." "We need dissent, but we need a creative dissent." "Our voices are not raised in any harmonious chorus but our differences are differences of emphasis rather than of fundamentals." "Tomorrow, as we-- ROBOT:" "Nondescript 6431 399." "What is it?" "." "A shell dweller." "They live in the outer shell." "Quite unique." "There have been two here before and they smell." "MAN 4:" "What do you know?" "." "Come here, my friend." "Let me touch you." "[SHELL DWELLER GROANING]" "What'd he just do?" "." "What's wrong, huh?" "." "Your lunch is dirty." "What a waste." "Here, we can save some of it." "It's all right." "Everything's fine." "[SQUEAKING]" "What?" "." "Well, if you didn't want it, why'd you take it?" "." "I thought this was all settled." "Hm?" "." "Where you going?" "." "I'm leaving." "SEN:" "Leaving?" "." "Leaving what?" "." "You can't leave." "You can't go." "Hey, wait." "Oh, I know, the smell." "Yeah, it's terrible." "It's a Iittle bit...." "Hey, you can't-- You can't leave without...." "Just a minute." "Wait." "Just wait there a minute." "After long deliberation, I have decided to go out and personally examine the barrier to Iearn firsthand what difficulties are involved and decide how to overcome them." "I recognize an element of risk but moments such as these require a choice be made and action taken regardless of the danger." "We'II be back soon but we'II be gone long enough to form an accurate and functional escape." "And I shall have an honest idea how best to organize us into a working unit." "The new alignment." "Incredible." "Wait." "Wait." "Hey, wait for me." "Just the thing to put them on their feet." "Show them who the leaders are." "When we get back, they'II be right there, right in the palm of my hand." "There's no question." "Even old PTO would be with us if he'd still been advised." "[RUMBLING]" "How far before they can't see us anymore, huh?" "." "Maybe we better sit down right here." "Hey, rest for a while." "I can't...." "I can't see them anymore." "LUH." "You're going after LUH, aren't you?" "." "Why, it's ridiculous." "[CHUCKLING]" "Going after...." "Oh, wait, I knew there was something I had to tell you." "Uh, LUH, you know, the other, the new LUH?" "." "He told me he'd seen her." "He saw her just before he came out here." "She's gonna be coming out here." "How was she?" "." "Oh, very well." "Very good health." "Just exactly the way" "You're lying." "No, I am not." "The air's getting thinner." "Or pressure's getting greater." "It's the pressure." "How do you feel?" "." "Shouldn't be this far." "There's no air." "I haven't got the time." "You can stay here if you Iike." "I'II come with you." "[RUMBLING]" "SEN:" "What?" "." "THX:" "Look." "SEN:" "What?" "." "That's a man." "It's a man." "He's waving." "He's waving to us." "[SEN CHUCKLING]" "SRT:" "Hi." "Hi." "Hello." "Uh, where'd you guys come from?" "." "Oh, well, it doesn't make any difference." "Is that food?" "." "I'm starving." "Do you mind?" "." "How did you get here?" "." "I mean, I was lost." "You're not lost now?" "." "Uh-uh." "Know the way out?" "." "Uh-huh." "That's the way out." "That's the way we came." "Yeah, but maybe you traveled in circles." "That's the way out." "How do you know?" "." "Well, look." "Look more closely." "You see?" "." "Come on." "SEN:" "Oh, yeah." "[CHUCKLING]" "[BEEPING]" "[BEEPING STOPS]" "SEN:" "Nothing stopped us." "SRT:" "Come on." "Here's a doorway." "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Keep causeways clean." "Save time." "Save lives." "Keep causeways clean." "Save time, save lives." "Keep causeways clean." "Save time, save lives." "Keep causeways clean." "Save time, save lives." "Keep causeways clean." "Save time, save lives." "[CALMING MUSIC PLAYING]" "COMPUTER 1 :" "Hello, 12." "COMPUTER 2:" "This is security B." "Read me, synapse module?" "Research into relay system must be given" "COMPUTER 2:" "intercerebral process reported earlier." "SRT :" "How shall the new environment be programmed?" "." "[SQUEAKING]" "SRT :" "It all happened so slowly that  most men failed to realize that anything had happened at all." "I wonder what happened to SEN." "We'II never make it through that main way." "Who are you?" "." "I'm a hologram." "I'm not real." "You know, the fantasy bureau electrically-generated realities and all that." "I was stuck in the same circuit for too long." "The arm and leg routine, did you see that one?" "." "I always wanted to be part of the real world." "So I Ieft." "Hey, look." "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "You are engaged in an unauthorized procedure." "Remain where you are." "This" "We have a U65 on a K8." "T ransfer all unauthorized contacts in precinct 688 Con-G to this center, mode 7." "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Termination of exurban links DD, NEC-08." "This tram will return to the Central Web in five minutes." "[CLANGING]" "[WHIRRING]" "ROBOT 1 :" "This is 91 021 on case 91 8." "We are going to need assistance." "This is an electronic-restricted area." "It would be nice to have three additional officers." "ROBOT 2:" "Have you seen them?" "." "ROBOT 1 :" "No." "They must be in group 9." "ROBOT 2:" "Operation 5271." "[RUMBLING]" "[RUSTLING]" "[HORN HONKS]" "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Budget Control  we'd like a cost analysis on the THX 1 138 account." "Include all interest and inflation percentages." "COMPUTER:" "Expenditures are 649 and rising." "[RUMBLING]" "SRT :" "What was that?" "." "THX:" "Must be an expressway." "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "This is Budget Control." "The expenditure ceiling on the THX case is 14,000 credits." "Remember, thrifty thinkers are always under budget." "Would you Iike part of this?" "." "It's not very much." "SRT :" "Did you know all the insides are gone from all these people?" "." "[MAN MUMBLING OVER SPEAKER]" "[WHEELS SQUEAKING]" "[SCREAMS]" "MAN:" "Halt." "[SQUEAKING]" "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Economics make it necessary to terminate any operation  which exceeds 5 percent of its primary budget." "COMPUTER:" "Expenditures are 1000 and rising." "[MEN CHANTING IN LATIN]" "Things don't seem to make sense." "Sometimes I see things get left out and they don't fit." "People don't seem to see them." "Or they don't know what to do." "Sometimes I" "Sometimes little...." "A little adjustment can make all the difference." "I wanna do the right thing." "I wanna go back." "I...." "I...." "I can" " I can start again." "I can change." "I can" " I can help." "I just need a...." "Need to rest up for a Iittle while." "MONK:" "This is no place for prayer." "If you want to speak to OMM, you must go to a unichapel, you know that." "SEN:" "Yeah." "What?" "." "Are you in any trouble?" "." "SEN:" "No." "I'm okay." "I'm going now." "What's your number and your prefix?" "." "I'm gonna see this gets into your report." "No, I'm leaving now." "I'm sorry, I have to report all intruders." "Where's your identification badge?" "." "SEN:" "I lost it." "MONK:" "You're in violation." "I'II have to report you to authorities." "SEN:" "No, it's not my time." "please, just" "THX:" "Trapped." "SRT:" "Trapped." "SRT:" "Looks like the only way out is the way we came in." "Say, do you have any more of that food?" "." "I'm hungry." "She's not there." "Who are you looking for?" "." "ROBOT:" "Can you hear me?" "." "Stay calm." "Everything will be all right." "The door seems to be jammed." "please check the lock on your side." "Everything will be all right." "We are here to help you." "Stay calm." "We are not going to harm you." "Everything will be all right." "SRT :" "Well, unless that computer has made a mistake that's your roommate." "No." "No, you' re wrong." "ROBOT 1 :" "I hope that auxiliary load holds." "ROBOT 2:" "I'm almost through to the upper positive plates." "Upper positive plates?" "." "Maybe you are right." "Maybe there's something wrong with the computer." "I don't know." "It's a strange life." "Cybernetics, genetics, lasers and all those things." "I guess I'II never understand any of that stuff." "Guess maybe holograms are not supposed to." "COMPUTER:" "THX 1 138 will be taken into custody at a minimal monetary expenditure." "Total operation cost:" "6000 credits under budget." "Congratulations." "Be efficient..." "...be happy." "WOMAN :" "Thank you." "ROBOT :" "Are you all right in there?" "." "Proceed to dispersal center 21." "Projected route of flight will be transferred." "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Termination of exurban links DD, NEC-08." "This tram will return to the Central Web in five" "[CHILDREN CHATTERING]" "SEN:" "What is that?" "." "An inducer?" "." "Did it fall off?" "." "Yeah." "Um...." "SEN:" "How--?" "." "BOY :" "What' re you doing?" "." "Oh, sorry." "Excuse me." "Hello." "Let me see that again." "I think I got it." "Here, give me your arm." "You know when I was at school, it was all very different." "We used to stay in bed all the time." "Combined primary economics...." "Combined primary economics was a bottle about this big." "Took a week." "Wow." "COMPUTER 1 :" "A visual contact with 5241 SEN." "COMPUTER 2:" "Two officers to pick up felon SEN." "Officer 1 088, proceed with recovery of felon 5241 SEN." "Current position" "MAN OVER SPEAKER: --sure to report all decibel surges in excess of one point in your zoned section for longer than three minutes." "Jet acceleration will not be safe to persons in dispersal area." "To avoid being singed by jet exhaust, please exit your vehicle on the right and walk through the blue zone on the left." "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "is not equipped with afterburner  you are not to park in the inner dispersal area." "[CALMING MUSIC PLAYING]" "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "temporarily restricted in this area." "COMPUTER:" "Centerex ancillary number 364." "Southbound A 1Z, that was 14B1C." "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Critical noise levels in this area." "Be sure to report all decibel surges in excess of 1. 5 on the Murrer" " Wiggins scale." "and stand to the right." "If you wish to pass, please do so on the left." "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Fourstar vehicles at the observation" "COMPUTER:" "There 's been an accident in level" "I think I ran over a Wookiee back there on the expressway." "Central, Central Control." "MAN OVER SPEAKER: --used to test the construction of the K34 determiner proves its analogy to the J20 series." "[WHIRRING]" "COMPUTER:" "We have an accident in 821." "Felon vehicle is a 3T Support." "Felon is not in vehicle." "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Changeable." "Alterable." "Mutable." "Variable." "Versatile." "Moldable." "Movable." "Fluctuate." "Undulate." "Flicker." "Flutter." "Pulsate." "Vibrate." "Alternate." "Plastic." "COMPUTER: -- 185, group 26, corner 185, that is correct." "[TIRES SCREECHING]" "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Clear traffic in central left web." "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Officers are 300 and closing." "Officers are 285 and closing." "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Expenditures are 10,000 and rising." "Expenditures are" "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Officers are 270 and closing." "[BANGING]" "COMPUTER:" "212, too many vehicles on code on B." "COMPUTER: 1 138 appears to have stopped on expressway" "MAN OVER COMPUTER:" "Officers are 205 and closing." "Officers are 195 and closing." "Officers are 185 and closing." "Officers are 170 and closing." "Officers are 165 and closing." "Officers are 160 and closing." "Officers are 150 and closing." "[TIRES SCREECHING]" "COMPUTER 1 :" "Vehicle's at 1 15, approaching Expressway 300." "COMPUTER 2:" "All right, then, I'm gonna" " See him on scope 1." "ROBOT : --into the internal-module control pulses, a nine." "Now, this is the 61 9." "A brand-new 6071." "This lodging network converts the buffered memory signals" "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Vehicle entering a restricted-access expressway." "Vehicle is a Samos 3." "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Expenditures are 14,000." "ROBOT :" "I'II show you." "These modules are made by" "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "You exceeded your primary budget." "COMPUTER:" "Stop your vehicle." "You are approaching a work area." "Stop your vehicle." "You are traveling in a restricted-access expressway." "Stop your vehicle." "Do you read?" "Do you read?" "MAN OVER SPEAKER:" "He 's headed for that construction site at tunnel 400." "WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:" "Approaching the area at 235 miles per hour." "COMPUTER 1 :" "A vehicle is entering a restricted-access express" "COMPUTER 2:" "Construction personnel, evacuate area." "Evacuate area." "COMPUTER 1 :" "Control, he 's in the area." "He 's now passed into expressway...." "He appears to be headed for that construction site." "[BEEPING]" "COMPUTER:" "Mission control" "[PEOPLE GROANING]" "ROBOT 1 :" "We've lost him." "Can you pick him up on the electroscan?" "Thank you." "COMPUTER:" "We have a sonar fix on subject." "[SCREAMING]" "ROBOT 1 :" "Yes, we hear it." "ROBOT 2:" "That's him." "It sounds like shell dwellers." "[GROANING AND GIBBERING]" "COMPUTER 1 :" "He appears to be heading outside the city." "Repeat, he is heading outside the city." "COMPUTER 2:" "All I can do is note your information." "COMPUTER 3:" "Stand by." "[GASPING]" "ROBOT :" "please come back." "You have nothing to be afraid of." "COMPUTER:" "The THX account is 6 percent over budget." "The case is to be terminated." "Discontinue operation." "Report to thermal station 62." "Discontinue operation." "ROBOT :" "We have to go back." "This is your last chance to return with us." "You have nowhere to go." "You cannot survive outside the city shell." "We only want to help you." "This is your last chance."