"live and direct on Network 23." "Carter's the best known reporter we have on the air." "He satellites globally." "Where does all this stuff come from, Bryce?" "The components of Carter's mind." "M-M-Max, M-M-Max." "[Bryce] People translated as data." "It's computer-generated, whatever it is." "It looks like Edison." "Max." "Max Headroom." "Max?" "He's a computer-generated person based on you." "Two minds, but with one single memory." "[Announcer] We now return to Save Yourself," "Network 23's weekly broadcast of the Vu Age Church." "Modern religion for the video age." "[applause]" "[Woman] Thank you." "Thank you." "Your church has been at the forefront of resurrection research." "But resurrection is a very costly process and requires your donations." "Without your generosity, we may have a long, long wait until that glorious day, that rapturous day, when the Vu Age Laboratories perfect cloning and reverse transference." "Now, I know these are big words." "But salvation is a complicated business." "Oh, she's such a good woman, isn't she, Humphrey?" "Yes." "It's wonderful, isn't it?" "Which often destroy our ability to believe without touching." "Perhaps we are a church for all the Doubting Thomases out there." "If that's the case, so be it." "We want a resurrection you can believe in." "A resurrection you can touch." "That does take money, though." "Our goal today is 5 million credits." "But every one of them counts." "This resurrection process Vu Age is offering is a financial bonanza." "Brilliant targeting." "Is there any way our other programs could utilize these techniques?" "We've quite enough to deal with in news and entertainment, Edwards." "Let's leave religion to the televangelists." "After all, they're the professionals." "All right, people, let's do this." "Thank you, Vanna Smith." "Okay." "You don't have to be telepaths to know what I'm thinking." "Oh, go ahead and surprise us, Murr." "All right." "Well, you all know about this Vu Age Church." "Came out of nowhere a few years ago claiming to be the first modern religion for the age of video, but now they're rich." "And they got everyone worried." " Shannon." " In terms of airtime and ad rates," "Vu Age is bigger than Islam, Judaism, IBM, Scientology, and all but two Christian denominations." "Projections indicate that they will pass the Catholics and the 700 Club by this time next year." "Especially with this phony resurrection racket." "Ah, I'm glad someone actually watches the news we produce." "Teacher's pet." "All right, I think Vu Age is a big target begging to be nailed by the Edison Carter show." "Well, by lunchtime tomorrow we can have a total analysis of their financial records." "If they've spent one cent the wrong way, we'll know." " Good." " I can call up the history of the church for background." "Good." "Edison." "You will have to gird your loins for a meeting with Vanna Smith." "Wooooo." "Something wrong?" "Is there something we're missing?" "Murray." "Every X-Mas, we do the story about the fire that wrecks the TV and puts the family out in the cold." "Every spring, we cover the Special Olympics." "Is this the month when we nail a new TV evangelist?" "To everything there is a season." "All right, all right, all right." "He's got a point." "But you saw that spot." "Not only do these people claim to put you in direct contact with God, but now they're selling this resurrection business." "Die now, repay later." "Come on." "You don't think there's a story in that?" "I just don't want to waste my time on a story that Angie Barry can handle in her sleep." "Sorry." "No problem." "Yeah, well, I have a problem." "Excuse me." "Is your contract up?" "Or are you just losing your edge?" "You're the boss." " I'll do it." " Chopper's waiting." "All right, get back to work." "Have you any idea what that was all about?" "I've never seen him chill out on a story." "No." "He tends to be overeager." "Yeah." "That means something's wrong." "I hate that." "There are things wrong all over the world, Murray." "Otherwise, we wouldn't have jobs." "Listen, how much do you know about Edison?" "As much as I need to know." "Has he ever mentioned anything about a religious background?" "Why ask me?" "Well, men tell women things they don't tell men." "Well, this man hasn't told this woman anything like that." "All right." "All right." "Would it be in his file?" " Murray." " No, no, no, you're right." "That would be prying." "And we wouldn't want to do that." "Max." "You rang?" "Oh, God, he's been in the Dobie Gillis file again." "Max, um, you share memories with Edison, is that right?" "I like to think that he shares memories with me, actually." "Right." "Do you or does Edison have a religious background?" "Murray, I really think this is prying." "Depends on what I find out." "Well, that part of our memory is a little confused." "But I find no kneeling on wooden pews, no prohibitions against smoking, dancing, or carrying on, no-no-no crying in the chapel." "Or is this the Elvis Presley file?" "All right." "Thanks, Max, we get the idea." "And while we're on the subject of TV religions, may I say unto you verily that they do a good job collecting all those donations." "G-G-G-God may have taken only seven days to create the universe, but they're running repairs." "Expensive business." "Now look what you've started." "[bell rings]" "[bell rings]" "I'm inside the temple, 23." "You tracking?" " We're linked." " Wish me luck." "I'm telling you, he sounds nervous." "[Woman] And then there was Sarah, you know." "Dottie's granddaughter." "Well, she had her art show at the institute last week, and it was the most wonderful thing." "Oh, Humphrey, I wish you could have seen it." "Yes." "It's wonderful, isn't it?" "Humphrey, look, you have a visitor." "Aren't you one of the Talbot boys?" "Um, I don't think so." "No." "They tend to keep their hair." "[laughs]" "What is so funny about that?" "Oh, sorry." "Well, could we have some personal data on this woman, please?" "Already coming up." "Okay." "Her name is Jennifer Marks." "Her deceased husband was-- or rather, is" " Humphrey." "Yes." "It's wonderful, isn't it?" "I'm a reporter, ma'am." "I'd like to ask you a few questions." "Oh." "Well, I guess that's all right." "Isn't it, dear?" "Yes." "It's wonderful, isn't it?" "Do you really believe this video construct is your dead husband?" "You don't have to answer any questions, Mrs. Marks." "What do you think you're doing?" "Protecting our parishioners." "This is a church, you know?" "Yeah, I've heard of them." "They make lots of money." "And no taxes." "I'd be happy to talk to you about the Vu Age Church." "Including its finances." "Anywhere you want." "Except here." "It's wonderful, isn't it?" "Now." "Each member of the church, at his or her election, can have a brain scan done every quarter." "For free, I'll bet." "In the case of death, the files are transferred to an appropriate monitor in our waiting room, the Knocking on Heaven's Door, to await the day when tissue regeneration is advanced to the point where new bodies" "can be cloned for the deceased." "The personality matrix is dubbed onto the blank body." "Rebirth." "Assuming the great day actually arrives, do the parishioners get their money back?" "I can see tremendous legal problems." "Vanna Smith and her associates are addressing those issues." "You can rest assured" "And I should pardon that expression." "...that those issues will be resolved before the resurrection process goes online." "I find all this hard to believe." "Progress always requires us to change our thinking." "But you should be familiar with this sort of process, Mr. Carter." "Isn't that how Max Headroom got his start?" "I wasn't aware that was common knowledge." "It isn't." "Come on." "Come on, handle this guy." "Are you a clergyman?" "Or just a PR man?" "When you come right down to it, Mr. Carter, is there any difference?" "Now, is there anything else I can do for you?" "Yeah, you can do something else for me." "I want to talk to Vanna Smith." "That's my boy." "Vanna Smith is on a personal retreat." "She speaks to no one from the media." "She'll talk to me." "Call her." "Call her." "Yes." "This is Gregory in the front office." "There's someone here who wants to speak to Vanna Smith." "Yes." "His name is Edison Carter." "Dr. Smith, I'm sorry, but" "Edison Carter." "What a pleasure to see you again." "[Murray] I don't believe it." "The lady just threw a right hook." "Should we call for backup?" "No no no no." "Edison gets hit two, three times a year." "I think it's part of his deal." "But we did get that on tape, is that right?" "Yeah, right." "Ah-Ah, Vanna Smith." "One of the chosen few." "You know Vanna Smith?" "Me?" "In the Biblical sense?" " No." " No, Max." "I think" "Murray means does Edison know Vanna Smith?" "Edison?" "I'm sorry." "One of my commandments is thou shalt not squeal." "I'm not sure I want to know." "I'm not sure we ought to know." "I am so sorry, Edison." "I really am." "I don't know what made me do that." "Just don't ask me to turn the other cheek." "I guess it's been such a long time since we've seen each other, and we had a pretty big fight, as I recall." "I think you hit me then, too." "Isn't this the girl who took a vow of poverty?" "Sorry." "From this moment on, off duty." "[laughs]" "There you are." "[no audible dialogue]" "But when was the last time someone offered you salvation?" "Salvation you can trust." "Salvation you can see." "Proud of that?" " You owe it to" " The show?" "Mm-hmm." "Well, it's not Life with Polly, but it seems to work." "You know, the Vanna Smith I was involved with would have second thoughts about taking money from people who couldn't afford to give it." "Yes." "Well, you fought with that Vanna Smith for three years." "No wonder." "Don't get too judgmental with me, Edison." "I mean, we wound up in the same place." "In a lot of ways." "And don't forget, we're both in the reassurance racket." "When you go on one of your exposés with Network 23, you don't follow up." "I don't see you marching these perpetrators off to jail." "You assume." "You believe that someone will take care of things." "Well, so do I." "My ethics aren't being questioned here." "You're never gonna convince me it's right to promise people something as important as life after death when you can't deliver." "Edison, has it ever occurred to you that you might be wrong?" "I mean, I know that's close to blasphemy." "But even the great Edison Carter makes mistakes." "Are you saying that I can't admit when I'm wrong?" " Yes." " That's what you're trying to say?" "Yes." "That's what I'm saying." "You haven't changed." "Neither have you." "I" " I believe in the system." "Many other people believe in it too." "So if you won't, if you can't, then all I can do is pray for you." "Okay." "The whole idea is you pay to have yourself copied." "There are no experimental failures." "There's only more data." "And I prefer to use the term cortically scanned and stored." "Cortically scanned and stored." "Which means" " there's a version" " Ugh, ugh." "...version of your personality as of the day you were scanned on tape at the temple." "On the day you die, when your mortal remains go into recycling, that cortically scanned file is opened and displayed, am I right?" "Well, that's all perfectly feasible." "Your relatives can come and have conversations with you." " Eek." " Ugh." "Now, that's where we start to run into some problems, Edison." "You need billions of bits of memory, the kind we have here at Network 23, in order to duplicate just one personality." "So, talking to your dead relative is like talking to Teddy Ruxpin." "Yes." "A series of neutral, preprogrammed responses." "Now, this deluxe package, for which you pay even more, promises that at some future date, the Vu Age Church will transfer that cortical scan onto a new and perfect body, thus making you rise from the dead." "What about that?" "Well, I never use the word impossible, Edison." "Yeah, I've noticed that." "It might be possible to transfer a very complex cortical scan, something on the order of Max Headroom" "Max." "...to a body." "Don't even think it." "But given the crummy little scans that the Vu Age Church makes, you'd end up with an idiot version of yourself that doesn't even possess all your memories." "People are paying their life savings for it." "Well, some people will give their life savings to anyone on TV who asks for it." "Won't they?" "You know, one of the reasons I went into TV was to meet girls." "Ha ha ha ha." "I don't know how you do it, Murray." "You just keep getting funnier and funnier." "Are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "So, you want to tell me anything about you and Vanna Smith?" "Or does she just belt every reporter who comes close to her?" "Look." "You'll get your story." "Another televangelist bites the dust." " Trust me." " Can I?" "Hi." "I'm sorry." "Seems like we're losing a bit of our objectivity." "What's the matter with Edison?" "Something weird going on with him and Vanna Smith." "Two hours ago, he didn't want to talk to her, now it looks like he wants to kill her." " Hmm." " Murray, Mr. Cheviot on line two." "And God created the fish that swims in the sea." "The bir-bir" "The birds of the air." "And yea, the creatures that walk upon the earth." "And then he created Vanna Smith." "Okay, Max, you can stop that any time." "I don't know if I can." "All right, Max." "I know you're dying to tell me." "Did they or didn't they have a relationship?" "Well, if you call three years of thrashing around in his dorm room a relationship," " yes." " Well, I don't, actually." "I was referring to Edison's feelings for her." "Was Edison in love with Vanna?" "Ah, love." "The walks over soft grass." "The smiles over candlelit dinners." "The arguments over just about everything else." "Sorry." "Where was I?" "You were telling me that Edison was in love with Vanna." "The fe-fe-feelings are very strong." "Hmm." "That explains a lot." "Betrayal comes to us in many forms." "The husband whose credit account shows visits to unlicensed sex therapists." "The child who won't watch his TV." "The TV hero who turns out to be quite unheroic." "This is a story about an even greater betrayal." "When those who claim to speak for God turn out to be liars." "Very powerful." "Nice job, Ron." "Um, I'm gonna show that to Murray tomorrow, all right?" "That'll make a great show." "Thank you." "Thanks a lot." "See you." "Are you really going after her?" "Yeah." "It seems to be the thing to do." "Yeah, but does it feel right to you?" "I mean, you two obviously have a past." "Why, Miss Jones, I didn't know you were concerned about my personal life." "I'm concerned about you." "Look, Murray wants a big story, and this is a big story." "But there's no law that says you have to ruin an old friend." "That's an interesting point." "What would you do in the circumstances?" "Well, I might show the old friend the tape before it went on the air." "Give the old friend a second chance." "People do change, you know." "Yeah, I know." "But wouldn't that be playing favorites?" "I.E., the old friend." "You'd be acting like a human being." "[dialing]" "Who are you calling?" "Vanna Smith." "[Vanna] This has been quite a surprise." "I didn't know whether I should come here." "I'm glad I did." "I hope you still feel that way a few minutes from now." "I'm not sure I like the sound of that." "Look, um," "I'm breaking my own rules here." "I brought a rough cut of the story I did on the Vu Age Church to show you." "Before I put it on the air." "Why?" "I don't know." "To test your reaction." "To give you a chance to respond." "To see if I would change?" "Give you a chance to change, yes." "Well, your technique has really changed." "I mean, it used to be dinner and then passionate lovemaking." "Now, it's passionate muckraking." "Well, can you promise me that it'll make me happy?" "Uh, I wish I could, but" "Then let's not talk about business." "Actually, I'm relieved." "I really did want to see you again." "But like this, you know." "Not as enemies." "We didn't always fight." "Did we?" "[phone rings]" "You didn't have to sneak out like that." "Edison, you'd better get some clothes on and get in here." "We've got a problem." "What's up?" "Max is missing." "This is impossible." "Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was pretty sure you never used the word impossible." "Well, these are extraordinary circumstances, Edison." "How do we know Max is gone?" "I mean, he's always moving around in the system like a termite." "Yeah, but he usually comes when he's called." "Okay, like a dog." "Murray." "You know, for a moment there, you sounded just like Max." "Okay, okay." "How did this happen?" "Well, I checked the security and transport, and apparently, someone arrived last night with perfectly valid authorization and just took this unit." "But Max is completely integrated into the system, or else they would have made Bryce take him out by now." "Well, if Max is feeling cooperative, he can transfer his essential programming cluster to whatever hardware you want." "That way you can take him places." "A lot of the programming that makes up Max Headroom's still right here in Network 23." "Just like your body would still be in place if someone opened up your head and scooped out all your brains." "But neither of them work like that." "Thank you." "I knew I could count on you for a charming image." "Just like I could count on Network 23 to protect my research." "All right, all right." "What's the big deal?" "I mean, I like Max just as much as the next guy." "Almost." "But he is a computer program." "Can't you just reconstruct him?" "The original program that became Max Headroom is one of the most complex pieces of software anyone is likely to create anytime soon." "Now, I added a daytime serial program to it so it would in essence write itself." "Then I finished it off with a copy protect code." "And then Max himself went random." "That is just a complicated way of saying Max is unique." "Oh, it's easy to make it simple once you've had it laid out for you." " Now, look." " Will you two stop this?" "It's not doing Max any good, wherever he is." "I think I know where he is." "Then tell the rest of us." "Yeah, don't keep us in suspense." "Look, we're doing a negative story on the Vu Age Church and they know it." "They know it?" "How did that happen?" "They also know how important Max is to Edison." "Edison." "Wait a minute." "Where do you think you're going?" "To the temple." "To see my old ex-friend," "Vanna Smith." "Look, it may not be her." "She has followers, you know." "I think you're letting your personal feelings get in the way again." "To hell with my personal feelings." "I'm not some machine." "I've got personal feelings about every story I do." "They're what makes me care." "What makes me work." "What makes me good at what I do." "I'm sorry." "Um, you're the last person I want to yell at." " It's okay." " No, it's not okay." "I" "I need proof." "Bryce." "Hot levels for Life with Polly are stable, but demographics are eroding." "How are they eroding, exactly?" "We're losing the 5- to 11-year-olds." "Might I suggest that the storylines are becoming a bit too complex?" "Do we need younger writers?" "Because I've got this nephew" "Simpler." "Simpler writers." "Will you speak with the producers, Lauren?" "Any other new business?" "The Vu Age Church's Save Yourself show is trending upward." "How does that correlate with the introduction of their resurrection program?" "There's a strong correlation." "The ratings surge began when the church promised" " to bring people back from the dead." " Ben." "In light of that, do you think it's wise for Edison Carter to do an exposé on the church tonight?" "In case you haven't noticed, Ashwell," "I don't try to tell Edison Carter anything." "He's a valuable resource for this network." "If he feels the need to do an exposé on the church, we should allow him to follow his professional instincts." "Besides, if there's a knock-down drag-out between our two ratings leaders, the ultimate winner is still Network 23." "Isn't that right, Ben?" "I couldn't have put it better myself." "Now, what are we gonna do about the cost overruns on the Polly show?" "Okay, Miss Jones, you last spoke to Max at 5:00." "Right." "Wasn't that about the time you helped me make my dinner date?" " I suppose so." " Hmm." "And when I went looking for Max at 3 AM, he was missing." "Well, I guess it was either that or a night on the town, right, Bryce?" "First we need to isolate the area of the data center where Max's CPU was located." "Then we access the securicam file and we go for playback." "And we find out just what's happened." "There." "Poor Max." "Now we can track them wherever they go in Network 23." "Oh." "Um, I'm using two dots as designators." "[Theora] Thank you, Bryce." "I was just about to ask." "Looks as though they probably just went down in the elevator to the loading dock." "That's what I'd do if I was trying to sneak out." "Let's see." "You're right." "They are heading for the loading dock." "Securicam." "[Theora] Do we have any other angles?" "We still don't know who these people are." "If we magnify things, maybe we'll be able to pick up some kind of ID number." "Nothing there." "Let's backtrack." "They had to come from somewhere." "Don't worry, we'll find them." "There." "Someone's in the shadows." "[Theora] Zoom in, Bryce." "Gene Ashwell." "I don't believe it." "Hey, wait up." "I'm gonna have to talk to business affairs about this Polly thing." "Carter, what the hell do you think you're" "Where's Max Headroom?" "Uh, he's at the temple." "Thanks to you." "I'm not the only one involved in this." "It was all Vanna's idea." "I was just helping out." "After all, I do have a certain loyalty to my church." "Which obviously takes precedence over your loyalty to 23." "I admit I had a certain crisis." "But then I realized what's good for the Vu Age Church is good for Network 23." "Max Headroom is our property." "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." "It's thinking like that, Ashwell, that's made you what you are today." "I don't think you're in any position to lecture me about my loyalty to this network." "You spend our credits every day and think nothing of destroying our sponsor." "The very people that pay you." "If you think it's necessary." "Well, this was necessary." "Wait a minute." "Kidnapping Max Headroom?" "What has he done?" "He's made himself important to you." "That's all we need to force you to make a choice between your Vu Age story and Max." "I want to talk to him." "Fine." "And he better be all right." "Gregory, this is Gene Ashwell." "I have Edison Carter with me." "He'd like a word with Max Headroom." " Excuse me?" " Just put him on." "Hi, Max." "Ah, a sinner." "Please enter your universal cred-cr-credit number." "Your forgiveness will be mailed to your home-- to your home." "Thank you for calling the Vu Age Church." "You all right?" "Oh, sure." "Don't worry about me," "I'm in a wonderful position." "If you don't drop your story on this Vu Age Church, they're gonna flat-flat-flatline me." "And they keep using the word deadline." "Which is what I'll be if they flatline me." "There you have it." "Dump your show, or lose Max." "Welcome to the boardroom, Mr. Carter." "We have a favorite saying around here." "The ball is now in your court." "We're doing everything we can to get you back, Max." "Well, we all know there's one small thing you could do." "Max, you know I can't give up my story on the Vu Age Church." "Of course not." "Don-Don-Don't they know how we feel about that sort of challenge?" "We're not going to let them push us around, are we?" "No." "I was afraid he'd say that." "This is M-M-Max Headroom, coming to you live and direct from the Vu Age temple." "And let's not beat about the burning bush." "We're not like any other church, temple, mosque, or prayer mat." "Where you die and it's just goodbye." "He looks sort of unnatural, doesn't he?" "He might have been one of the early ones." "His visual template is definitely primitive." "Here at Vu Age, we really do offer you eternal life-- life." "So come along and be saved." "In fact, we'll save you for as long as you like." "Call now." "Our operators are standing by." "[bell rings]" "At least until 8:00 tonight." "They'll have a tough time putting him into a new body someday." "What do I need a new body for?" "I never had an old one." "Hey, it might be my imagination, but is everyone around here a little weird-- weird?" "And don't say "It's wonderful, isn't it?"" "Wonderful, isn't it?" "He's only been programmed for a few basic responses." "He's outside your parameters." "I beg your pardon." "I was wondering what it would be like to have a part of yourself running around in a TV like them." "Or you." "I wouldn't know." "I have all of me here running around in the TV." "And" " And call me conceited, or call me Max Headroom." "Max Headroom." "But I think I have a lot more to say for myself than they-- they do." "You really are Edison." "Aren't you?" "Yes." "It's wonderful, isn't it?" "I feel as if he sent you somehow." "I know, I know, that's ridiculous." "I mean, you were taken." "Weren't you?" "[giggles]" "Edison." "I saw what happened with Ashwell." "What are you gonna do?" "What else can I do?" "I'm gonna drive these particular money changers out of the temple." "Maybe I can catch them by surprise." "Well, that is ridiculous." "I've gotten into tighter places, thank you." "Not the assault, Edison, the idea of it." "That it should be necessary." "Yeah?" "What choice do I have?" "I'm not gonna be intimidated into dropping a story." "I might as well go work for Big-Time TV, then." "And I'm not gonna let them erase Max." "Look, you and Vanna had a relationship, right?" "You still have some sort of relationship." "She wants to deal with you, not with you and some SWAT team." "She used me." "Don't you understand?" "Oh." "And you never used her?" "I can go now?" " You sure?" " Yep." "You don't want to think about it." "You realize, of course, Mr. Carter, that if you touch that processing unit, the alarm will go off, and Max Headroom will be erased." "At the risk of repeating myself, you tell your boss I want to talk to her." "We don't have a picture, but at least we can hear." "You already are." "I guess a private conversation's out of the question, huh?" "It's almost 8:00." "Cutting it a bit close tonight, aren't we, Edison?" "But then, you do like to cut things close." "I misjudged you, Vanna." "I thought you were still the nice girl I knew in college." "Not someone in the business of lying for a living." "Why is it so difficult for you to believe that I'm sincere?" "You don't have a monopoly on the truth." "Sometimes facts and figures, they're just not as important as faith." "Am I supposed to be encouraged by all of this?" "Look at these people around you." "Look at these faces." "Look at these people with their loved ones." "I'm giving them hope." "Giving them false hope." "By whose standards?" "Yours?" "Who are you to judge?" "There's still time, Edison." "I can't." "As the boys in the boardroom say, the ball's in your court." "Now, just hang on a minute here." "Don't I get to say anything about this?" "I-I-I'm the one who's gonna cross over into the great beyond in about a minute and a half." "You two broke up because you were f-f-fighting all the time." "I know." "I was there." "And now, we're all here." "Your job is selling sal-sal-salvation." "His job" " His job is telling the truth." "His truth may hurt you." "But your salvation will k-k-kill me." "It'll be just like killing Edison." "He's going right to the line with this." "Oh, ye of little faith-th." "He not only sounds like you." "He seems to have a soul of his own." "Isn't that exactly what you've been claiming?" "Gregory." "Let him go." "[bell rings]" "All right, we're gonna go live." "Run Edison Carter, direct on air." "Go." "This is Edison Carter." "Tonight I want to take you to the Vu Age Church, where a charismatic televangelist named Vanna Smith promises that you will literally be born again." "This is a story about an even greater betrayal." "When those who claim to speak for God turn out to be liars." "Yes." "It's wonderful, isn't it?" "I heard what happened." "I'm sorry about the way things worked out." "Or rather, didn't work out." "Yeah." "Knew I was taking a chance." "Took a chance she was still in love with me." "You were still in love with her." "I wouldn't have believed it." "I honestly haven't thought about her in years." "That's not what I heard." "Max." "[static]" "Did you tell Theora I was still in love with Vanna Smith after all these years?" "Who, me?" "Not in so many words." "What right have you got to turn my memories into entertainment?" "Hey, they're my memories too, you know." "Besides, I had to save you from yourself." "From Vanna Smith." "I don't believe what I'm hearing." "She kidnapped you." "Oh, there's a million places" "I could've hidden in the system." "I-I-I let myself be kidnapped." "Besides, it was Vanna Smith." "It's probably true, Edison." "I mean, Bryce did say Max would have to cooperate in order to be moved, didn't he?" "All right." "But, Max, why?" "[German accent] She was bad for you." "You needed to believe that she would do anything for herself." "Even hurt you." "Or me." "I guess you saved my soul." "A-A-And without asking for any donation, which reminds me," "I have to preach to my flock." "Excuse me." "Brothers and sisters, this is indeed the Reverend Max-Max-Max Headroom, live and direct from heaven's own Net-Net-Network 23." "And today, my friends," "I'm gonna talk to you about salvation." "Will someone please say amen?" "Amen." "Closed-Captioned By J.R. Media Services, Inc." "Burbank, CA"