"Edison Carter to Network 23." "Network 23, are you receiving me?" "This is Network 23, intermittent device [...]." "Edison Carter to Network 23." "Come on, clear this link!" "Network 23 to Edison Carter:" "OK, we have a link strong and clear." "Your show goes live in two minutes." " Your controller is Gorrister." " Thank you, 23." "Hello Gorrister." "Gorrister here, Edison." "Are you about the incident?" "Descend then, I'll guide you once clear of the chopper" "By the way, you've got competition." "It's quite a scene down there." "No one before I'm on air." "30 seconds." "We'll make it." "This is Network 23." "This is Network 23" ""A Network That Means This" is now transmitting live to the world." "The award-winning Edison Carter, on the "What I want to know."" " Three... two... one... go!" "This is Edison Carter, asking the questions you want answered." "Right now what I want to know is this:" "Just what happened in apartment 42 in the last 60 minutes?" "What I want to know is:" "who is suppressing the story?" "What is it somebody doesn't want us to know?" "Come with me, live and right now." "Let's go and get some answers." "Alright, Control, I'm going in." "Gorrister, do you have an update?" "All we have is: it's an explosion in the area [...] toward the residence." "OK." "Come to the eyewitness." "Three... two... one... go!" "Well, that's reporters and Metro Police everywhere..." "There was an 'orrible noise and a woman come runnin' out." "They've took her [...]" "Hello." "No one here tell us why we've got to stay indoors." "Alright, Control, I'm getting out of the chopper now." "OK." "From your position go North, 300." "Building 84B." "Security on the main door, so I'll take you in on the east side." " Setting up time [...]." " OK, Control." "I want you to turn right." "OK, Edison, there is an intersection ahead." "Go upstairs, and it's on the second floor." " Number 42." " You got any update on that?" "Apparently the wife's been hospitalized." "Yes." "But Carter is right at the scene." "What?" "!" "[...] goin' on air?" "On what authority?" "Put Carter out." "Put him out!" "Hi, Patrick." "Hi, Edison." "This man said, "through-here-we-no-go"." "It's typical." "First time ever we get to a story before you," "Control just pulled us out!" "Gorrister..." "Gorrister, I'm calling you on the link!" "How come this story is pulled?" "It's just come down to Murray." "I'm not dropping this one, Gorrister." "Something smells." "Gotta go round the back and see if I can access a window." "Edison, it's pulled!" "Come on in!" "Gorrister..." "Gorrister, Gorrister, you maniac!" "You...!" "Oh Jesus, I don't believe it!" "Gorrister, I'm in...!" "Gorrister!" "Right, yes." "Bye." "Gorrister, you do not leave me, or anybody exposed down here." " Hey, Edison, what is the problem?" "Easy..." " The problem is almost got KILLED!" " The job was pulled, I pulled you in!" " You cut me out!" "And no job is over until I am back at base, you little idiot!" "Edison, come on." "Won't take this "Pretty Madonna" crap." "Not even from the Great Edison." "LET ME PASS!" "[Leave me alone] Murray." "It's my ass down there, NOT HIS!" "Now look." "Just give me a controller that can do the job." "Just want somebody who can keep me alive out there," " the best." " Okay, okay." " The best!" " Listen, Edison..." "I was out there once, I know how you feel, but it stops THERE!" "It's the big, isn't it?" "I don't know." "It was... pulled from high up... very high." "We've succeeded in pulling Edison Carter off there, Mr. Grossman?" "Yes, fortunately our instructions were carried out in time." "[Turning out to] ratings." "We have every cause for satisfaction." "Overnight ratings Channel 23... low 1.5 million, high 2.36 million which keeps us top network." "Projections for the next hour are excellent." "Let's move to the... 'blipvert' problem." "We may have to suspend... the use of 'blipvertisments', temporarily." "There have been, as you know, these... side effects on viewers." "However, returning to conventional 30-second advertisements... will once again give viewers time to switch channels... with the consequent dip in our ratings." "The very thing that Bryce designed blipverts to prevent." "The Zik-Zak corporation very keen to press ahead... buying air time, using our blipverts." "Right now we are the only network that have blipverts." "Unless we use them..." "Zik-Zak might deal with our competitors." "I do not intend to lose our major client." "There's probably no connection with blipverts." "By good heavens, isolated incidents of this phenomena have occurred throughout history." "People do sort of blow up." "Spontaneously combust, you know?" "No." "I don't." "We need some more informed opinion on the matter." "So I avast Bryce to meet us on the video link." "Now he's our top man." "I want you to leave him absolutely to me." " Hello there, Bryce." " I need to talk to you abou..." " I'm rather busy." "I've succeeded in computer generating a parrot on the screen." "Oh, my congratulations." "Whatever next?" "It squawks." "Um..." "I wonder if you could find time to, a... illustrate to the board here this little hitch we have on your blipverts." "Put simply - the human body has millions of nerve endings." "Each carries an electrical charge... individually - very tiny, but in combination - surprisingly large." "Normally, people burn it off, but... in inactive people, it just builds up." "Now, because I designed blipverts to compress a 30 seconds of advertising information into 3 seconds..." "It appears the brain violently stimulates these nerve endings." "Simultaneously." "In some subjects it causes a short circuit." "Some particularly slothful, [...], literally explode." "Simple as that!" "I've got rather good example of one, on this Rebus tape." "It won't be set down simple if blipverts go global." "My God." "Look here, the only people who are THAT inactive are pensioners... the sick... or the unemployed." "I take it that your Rebus tape is in an extremely safe place." "Of course." "But, look, it's not my problem." "My brief was to find a way to stop channel switching." "I mean, you know" " I only invent the bomb, I don't drop it." "We think it might affect sales if, um... people begin to... suspect." "Well, don't tell them, then." "Unfortunately, one of our reporters may have got... quite near the truth." "We have to be very careful." "Ah, fire him." "The cruelest - kill him." "Theora, I'm putting you with Edison Carter." "He is the best we have at Network 23." "I think, volatile, but good." "Yes, I heard." "And what was that story he was pulled from?" "A-ha, Edison, this is Theora Jones." "I managed to [...]." "While I've warned her you're a charmer." " Hi." "Oh, how's the head?" " It's fine, how is yours?" "Right, we do want to start." "No trouble, or I stock your pocket money." "You know the rules." "Yes, we do." "What do you say we start by breaking one?" "So you can get on this rush of reporters being pulled off hard stories for no reason?" "Edison..." "Sort of, um... access the inaccessible?" "Edison, leave it!" "Now back off, I mean it." "Given the kind of material you normally bring in, what's so special about some microwave oven going hot?" "Oh come on, Murray, since when the people guard exploded microwave?" "Right, let's have a go." "Hey, there is no way through there, that's the executive level." "I know." "Let's try up through the plumbing system." "From the lower level, where there is no security block." "[What the] hell." "I accessed the security systems Mr. Carter asked." "This place is about as inaccessible as I can get." "I'll leave you two together." "Alright, Theora, what do you get on the line, apart from the dirty pictures?" "Um... there is missile missing from AKG." " That's hot, isn't that?" " Uh-uh." "Oh, an assassination of a whole medic team in Bolivia." " How about that one?" " Give it to Joe." "Bryce is a problem." "[He's one of] these computer-generating people... ['cause he doesn't] want to know about blipverts." "And we... must keep him on air, then." "Unless Bryce can't sort out that effect, we simply can't use them." "You've seen the Rebus tape, it's just terrifying." "We've no choice." "We committed to the campaign." "And the Zik-Zak Corporation's advertising contract - well, this is massive." "Massive or not - if this gets out, Network 23 is in serious trouble." "They've been too damn close to the truth twice already." "Theora, run that again, that last part." "Network 23 is in serious trouble." "They've been too damn close to the truth twice already." "Did they, now?" " What's that crew doing on the roof?" " Camera 5, [...]" "Um... the party that covering Ben Cheviot's departure to New Tokyo to sign this big Zik-Zak contract." "This promises to be one of the most momentous meetings in the history of communications." "Oh, [...] I should say, the history of communications of the world." "And we are looking forward to a long and happy association." "I'm sorry, Mr. Cheviot, we had a camera problem." "We'll do that again, please." "We've always felt that the viewers are most importa..." "Hey!" "What do you guys think you're doing?" "This is MY story." " You wanna go back to Control." "I'll handle this one." " [...], it's all yours" "I understand, sir, you're off to New Tokyo to finalize that Zik-Zak contract." "Well, um... yes." "This will be a major partnership between Network 23 and..." "What's the 'blipvert problem'?" " What?" "Good God, man, it's completely out..." " Too damn close twice already." "Eh, Mr. Cheviot?" "The problem is whether I can trust you." "You see." "We've just heard that..." "How much of that you got, Control?" "Are you busy tonight?" "Maybe all night." "Mister Carter, we hardly know each other." "Rebus." "Um.." "I think that's a kind of puzzle." "Mysterious pictures." "Pictures." "Alright." "Where am I in relative to you, Control?" "You're five floors above me." "I'm getting all clear on the security system." "Hang on, Edison." "Just a few moments." "OK, hold your position..." "Stand by." "We have the level." "Got a problem." "I'm at the entrance, but I need the code." "I know, I can see you." "Right, now, it's Bryce Lynch... 7.10.88." "Libra, might have guessed." "OK, try B-Z-2-U-H." "Uh-uh, try again." "Right." "Oh." "How about 1-J-2-F-I?" "Jesus..." "Yes, we'll do that." "Yes, sir." "Of course, there will be the... usual expenses." "We can do that." "Yes, sir." "Got a nice [eyesight...], then?" " It's the parrot man again." " Another one?" "He must eat them by the dozen." "Where are we going to get one at this time o'night?" "Squaawk!" "Not a parrot." "A nasty little burglar." "To be cornered." "And perhaps, hit." " How about playback unit?" " What did you say?" "Try the playback unit." "How did you know?" "[...] Even clever ones." " I know all about it, boys." " Um, I just bet you do." "Camera check, please." "Edison." "Edison, for Christ's sake!" "I've lost picture." "What's going on?" "Shhhit!" "Shit!" "Did it go?" "[...] it's unbelievable." "You gotta get out of there." "Move." "[...] turn right." "What's the problem, Control?" "Intruders." "Two." "They activated the alarm in the elevator." "By the way, they are armed." "Oh, great." "Any idea who they are?" "No, but they are outsiders." "Not network men." "Is this a change of plan, Control?" "No change, I'm standing by on basement camera." "This is Level 6." "I'm going up." "Look, I don't want to be difficult, but..." "we are going the wrong way." "126 coming up." "If those guys are up there..." "OK, go ahead." "Go left." "Away intersection." "Do not cross the intersection until command." "OK, go." "Edison, there's somebody else in the system." "My bike!" "Quick, the van!" "Well, he smashed my bike." "We made a deal, Mr. Breugel." "Why?" "He saw the Rebus tape." "He is the best known reporter on air." "His show is top-rating prime-time." "It's satellited globally." "And he saw the tape, Mr. Grossman." "Do you know what you're saying, Bryce?" "I run a television network, Bryce." " Not a goddamn hit squad." " It's quite rational." "Keep Carter on ice in a cryogenic unit." "On... ice?" "Meanwhile, his reports keep coming in for a while, so no one will question his sudden disappearance." "Bryce." "I don't want to appear ungrateful..." "But how do we keep his reports coming in, huh?" " With seance?" " No." "I compute the physical characteristics of his head... then I print his memory, his synaptic circuits." "His... synaptic... circuits?" "His mind, you know?" "The brain is only a binary computer, a series of on-off switches." "Then, Mr. Grossman..." "I can generate this man onto the screen from my computer." "He'll be able to continue his program, and no one will know." "But he will, in fact, be computer-generated." "Just like the parrot." " The parrot?" " Squaawk!" "Yes, supervisor, please." "Supervisor." "Yeah, I'm chasing Mr. E. Carter." "That's Edison Carter." " Ident number?" " Um... personal Ident code... 74928BDG6629." " Incident?" " Yeah, auto accident, section 5, area 23." "No, we have nobody answering that description." "This coffee stinks!" "Stinks." "Odorous. [...]." "Offensive." "Offense." "The guilty party will be reported to network president, Mr. Grossman." "This is an automatic complaint system." "I can dump down all the information in the mind... and replay it at will." "Then I can eliminate any information I don't want." "My parrot squawks in much the same way." "My research funds must not be starved." "I have to have time and money." " Do you ever sleep, Bryce?" " Only physically..." "Ha-ha-ha..." "For the moment, the computer power is only enough to generate a human head... too many coordinates for the rest of the body... which naturally won't be needed." "This is the future." "People translated as data." "Does this thing reproduce a mass of reporters, all that I'm concerned about?" "This whole situation is becoming very disturbing." "These circuits are randomizing a little." "It'll settle, though." "I need more time on the recode generator." "It's bouncing." "It takes a while for the framestore to read out all the information." "Max..." "Headroom?" "Goddam it!" "Get that babbling clown off the screen!" "Kill it!" "What kind of a scrub is this?" " This is a joke, right?" " Leave it alone!" "Don't you dare touch him." "Him?" "This junk is a machine." "This is not Edison Carter." "It is a... computer-generated geek!" "It is useless." "You understand me?" "I understand your opinion, Mr. Grossman." "Then understand this:" "You abandon that garbage." "You apply this unit to the crucial matter of the blipvert problem." "I want that resolved, and I want it fast." "This..." "Parrot Project terminates now." "Perhaps you do not understand the potential of this development!" "I understand the potential of this situation." "This electronic oaf has a record of what Carter saw in the Rebus tape." "Smash it." "Carter here has the same information." "Although relucting [...], somehow we must get rid of him." "I do so hate wasting an employee." "I'll have Breugel and Mahler handle it." "They really performing good works." "I don't like that, Mr. Bryce." "The little shit's too clean." " It gives me the creeps." " Cleanliness is next to the godliness." "That young man got some brain on him." "Be worth a bob or two." "Not a great pay, [...], Mr. Bryce." "Nice head, though." "The body is still alive?" "He's a bit alive." "Nasty knock in the head, but..." "Hey, hey, hey - silly boy." "Who's a silly boy, eh?" "Hands are rare and expensive items, worth more than cameras." "Low-date." "Nightingale Body Bank [...] [...]" "That's it." "They're short at Nightingales." "Mr. Bryce didn't say "kill'im", did he?" "No, but he did say "get rid of him", though." "What's the bonus for a live dead body?" "Clinical brain death, only carries 20 points." "Yeah-yeah, but he's still warm." "There got to be value in that." "There is. 20 points." "Goodbye." "[...] that one." "See ya, folks." "Live on arrival." "Very tasty angle there." "Opens up possibilities." "What we gonna do with Mr. Bryce's little toy here?" "Well... he said he wanted it safe." "And he wanted it in good hands until he needed it." "He did, yeah?" "He said that?" "Right." "Right." "Wonderful." "You are tuned into the Wild Society." "This is Big-Time Television." "Day after day making the morning seem like yesterday." "Yes, we said that... there's no future." "Well, this is it." "This is Blank Redge talking to the Blank Generation." "[...] live from Big-Time Television." " Reg" " And the next...." " more of the same." " Reg" " Reg!" " Shhh!" "Have a nice day." "What's up?" "What is a cross-hatch generator?" " Don't know." " We've been billed for one." "Ah, yeah." "Oh, let's take anything [...]" "I think it was some [...]" "Reggie, darling, how do you expect me to run my business like this, hm?" " You don't help, you know?" " Well, they were cheap." "Hey, why don't you just write it:" ""Money in, money out", and leave it at that?" "And if the credit terminal wants to see the figures, what do I do, huh?" "Just wave the back of the old envelope at them?" "You smoke too much, Domi." "Reg... if you didn't nail your jeans to the floor every night, it escaped." "So don't talk to me about personal habits." "We have just got to find something better..." " then those bloody old video kits." " Don't!" "Just because they are free, doesn't mean to say they are good, you know?" "I like 'em." "Blah-blah..." "Big-Time TV... challenge." " What?" " A word in private, Reg." "Nice to see you, Reg." "We have get something for you-u-u." " Very special thing, yeah." " Yeah." "You being an expert." "You just press this white button here and keep things in." "Things?" "What the bloody hell is it?" "Actually, it's the red button." "No, it's the white." "But you got to plug it in, you know, Reg?" "Never would've known that." " How much?" " Oh, well..." " Hello, Mahler here." "Can I..." " Mr. Breugel." "Nightingale's here." "That body you sold us was taken..." "Um..." "Sorry, Reg, bit o'business." "Um..." "Talk about the transaction later, right." "Try the goods surplus [...]." "Hey, hey." "Leave it." "We have got inconvenience." "" T'is now the very witching time of night," ""when churchyards yawn..."" ""and hell itself breathes contagion to this world. "" ""Lady, shall I lie in your lap?"" "No, no, I mean..." "my head upon your lap." "If he smashed his hand, it still'd be up the body bank." "It's gonna cost us as is..." "Have you seen a blond man with a camera?" "Excuse me, have you seen a man in a gown, carrying a camera?" "He's escaped from the Body Bank." "Thank you very much." "A Bright Broadcasting Good Morning Television..." "First up, Dr. Duncan [...], the Video Symptom Show." "Theora." "And it's giving me absolute agony." "Just pull off your [pants] against the legs, would you?" "Theora." "Edison..." "Edison, for God's sake, where are you?" "Keep transmitting, I'm locating you." "Morning." "I need your address." "I'm in bad shape." "Hello." "Nice to have your visit." "Please enter code." "And while you were out, these were your message." "Digital watch tunes." "You can enjoy them all on this cassette." "Remember... and..." "and the classic..." "There's many, many more on "Digital Watch Tunes, Volume 2"" "Available now, from Zik-Zak." "Hello there." "Call this number and find out what an incredibly nice guy God is." "He won't keep you waiting on the line, he won't hang up on you, he's sitting by..." "My God, what happened?" "You don't even know what it is." "It could be anything." "Might even be a bomb." "Plus... what did it cost, Reg?" "It's free." "If it doesn't work, we throw it back." "If doesn't work on what?" "Christ, Reg." "Can't afford even a decent program... let alone a cross-patch rota-vator thing, whatever it's called." "Geronimo!" "Go on." "Go on!" "Th-Th-thi-this-this..." "This is live and direct?" "Li-Li-Li-live... why am I on air?" "N- n-n-can't identify station." "Enter data." "Go on, Reg." "Enter... "Big-Time"." "This is..." "live and direct on-on-on- ... bi... big... big... time." " Am I on air?" " Bloody hell." " I'm beggin' your pard'n?" " Hey!" "It's speaking to us." "You say something." "Um... talk to it." "Hello, mate." "I'm Reg." "This is my partner, Dominique." "Bi..." "Bi..." "Big Ti-Time." "Hi." "Both of you." "Welcome to-to-to- "Big-Time"." "You want to check these ratings?" "It seems we have an audience of two." "Great." "Terrific." " Where'd they get this?" " Hey." "What's it for?" "Hello and welcome to Big-Time Television." "Live... and direct." "It's Big-Time Television." "The station where... two is a company and three is an audience." " Where does it get all this from, Reg?" " En-en-ent... ent- ...data!" " Data... data... data..." " Un-bloody-believable." "THE CHAOS IS NOT HELPFUL!" "Please be seated." "Ben, what exactly have the Zik-Zak Corporation said?" "Their whole campaign is organized round the use of our blipverts to prevent channel switching." "No blipverts - no deal." "This contract is huge." "We can't just reject a Transglobal campaign." " We cannot withdraw blipverts now." " We can't go on using them!" " They are lethal, goddam it!" " That is not proved." " That tape wasn't proof." " What the hell do you need?" "A live demonstration?" "Ashwell, I find that tasteless." "It is very clear that blipvert is a... brilliant breakthrough." "Half a million of advertising in 3 seconds - it's magnificent!" "It is." "It's also killing people." "We buried that kind of crap decades ago." "I am not prepared to risk my network over it." "Ben, I am talking ratings!" " I'm talking people." " Same thing." "We must come clean on this." "If you won't, then I will." "Well, there is a connection loose on the [...] that I fixed." "But we still have nothing from the other night." " Can you remember anything?" " No, not a thing except... bits." "Remember Bryce in the lab, and... a barrier arm, and some... weird noises, like voices." "And here was Bryce and somebody..." "And some creep standing over me with a scalpel in a Body Bank." " Body Banks are for dead people." " Yeah." "And whoever was in the system the other night, certainly knew what they were doing." "I nearly lost you." "You gonna get the chance to lose me again tonight, 'cause I'm going back to Bryce's studio." "Edison, are you fit enough?" "Okay, I'm going back into 23, and you'll need some clothes." "With me just one piece." "I won't explain." "Just stay tuned to Big-Time." "More later..." "M..." "later." "Yes, of course." "I'll prepare the contract immediately." "Thank you so much." "Goodbye." "Hey!" "Reg!" "Come in quick!" " What's up?" " We got a client!" "Some TV repair." "I think [...] in here is perfect for them." " They love it!" " More later... more later... more later..." " Because [...] too much." " More later... more later... more later..." " But that's just the point." " More later... more later... more later..." " They want to use that." "" " More later... more later ..." "More later." "More I... mo..." "Big-Time Television." "Ratings 1000." "Ratings 1000." " How am I supposed to...?" " Stick together?" "Stay put." "Reg, this is incredible." "Over a thousand viewers." "You might get paid this month." "What the hell is that?" "His rating." " You kidding?" "Well, why not?" "Max Headroom, 2.3 million." "Well, that's what you wanted, ain't it?" "Max Headroom." "He could have his own show." "Big-Time, this is Max Headroom on Big-Time Television." "And what I want to know is:" "Don't Eskimos ever get bored with their weather forecast?" " It's Max, Max, Max on Big-Time!" " Christ, this is amazing." "How amazing." "If you are watching me, who's watching Network 23?" "A network with a great future behind it." "As they say when you buying suppositories:" "with friends like those, who needs enemas?" "Go for it, Max." "You... son of a bitch, go for it!" "We'll get a car phone fixed." "Probably just a grilled microchip." " Mr. Bryce." " You were supposed to come back and report." "I share no need to go on the videophone." "Well, um... my mom wasn't feeling too good and we just [...] to see it." "You did exactly as I asked?" "Oh, to the letter - one got rid of and the other locked away." "Good." "Locked away." "I admire the clarity and precision of your response." "Perhaps, therefore, you could clearly and precisely explain this:" "Big-Time Television." "Do the Chinese really have 30 different ways of saying a simple little word..." " and is that why their population is so..." " Hm." "Very like the other bloke." "A film with him is it, Mr. Bryce?" "It is very like that other bloke." "But it is not a film." "That, Mr. Mahler, is a complete person." "And that machine is encoded mind of the deid Mr Carter." "Soon I will be able to reconstruct anybody on the screen... even you, Mr. Mahler." "So accurately that even your own Mom would know it was you." "Might care to call it The Phoenix Mr. Bryce?" "My God... you could have all your politicians in little boxes." "It is very handy." "Now, Mr. Breugel, where is Big-Time Television?" "We could move up the "Polish-O", pull in an extra episode," " and get the "Standby Show" online..." " and [...] vacuum by midnight." "Could re-run "The Rat Killers", it went megabox last level." "We could go porno earlier." "What do the analysts say, Ben?" "What actually did it?" "Is only two percent." "Two percent is 26 million consumers, Ben." "Once they start switching channels - it's war, you know that!" "It happens all the time." "We are used to it." "But if we were still running blipverts instead of regular adverts, there wouldn't be any channel switching." "Blipverts have only been off the air for 10 hours and already the ratings are 3.7% down, Ben, not 2% you suggest." "I'm going to reinstate blipverts." "And that's final." "More class." "Reggie, I take all back." "You are brilliant." "And this Max can [...] all the beer you want." "I'm starving." "Now, I'm gonna micro some..." "Alphabettie spaghetti lettuce in tomato sauce." "You want some?" "You offend." "This Max is a rare facility." "His data store is huge, right?" "So he can access a lot of info, right?" "Create a command and away with the next [...]" "But it [...] data, you know - 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32." "It jumps." "And it's not just information." "It's like... intuition." "Oh, Reggie... daaarliiing... it's only just a bloody old voice box, with a load of bytes." "Route it and off it goes." "It's just other people's phrases it uses." "And how come he's got a sense of humor?" "There's something very bad here - those two goons having Max." "No one there [...], doesn't head up, though." "It had zap on my figures." "Max is making this station." "What if the real owner wants him back?" "Over my dead body." "It might be." "I'm gonna put the wheels on our bus back on - just in case." "Okay, Bryce." "Let's start with the other night." "Give me a graphic." "We're holding." "It's okay, we've steadied." "28 and 42 have taken [...]." "Get analysis on this." "That was unpleasant." "But how unpleasant this is going to be when the blipverts have their [...] effect." "Somebody, sometimes is going to make a connection." "Hey, look at this." "That climb is exponential!" "Figures in my news standing to thousands." "Let's take a look anyway, They may have something worth chasing." "Now I understand why people prefer watching television to the radio." "They work out how boring it is - watching the radio." "This is Max Headroom on Big-Time." "I had to spend a little time recently with a parrot." "It's true." "I won't tell you why, but what amazes me is why anybody wanna spend any time at all, sitting at home, teaching a bird to talk." "I mean, what's wrong the rest of the family, huh?" "And of course, they teach it something really interesting like: "Who's that pretty boy?"" " What I want to know is [...] rich man's..." " Get." "Me." "Bryce!" "And you left him?" "Like this?" "Now, Bryce." "Where is it?" "That parrot station..." "I think Edison Carter might have it." "Carter?" "But you told me he was..." "Who did this to you?" "Carter." "How do we find him?" " How, damn it?" " Breugel and Mahler." "They know." "But it is a significant distance." "How much?" " Oh, I should think of..." " At speed there will be much fuel." "Thank very much." "(sings) "Destruction's our delight." "Delight our greatest sorrow."" "(sings) "Seven little girls... sitting in the back seat, everyone in love with Fred."" ""I said, why don't one of you come up and sit beside me?"" ""This is what the little girl said:" "All together now, 1, 2, 3..." ""keep your mind on the driving, keep your hands on the wheel..."" ""... keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead." Oh, look!" "(sings) "We're having fun, sitting in the back seat..."" ""... hugging and kissing with Fre-e-ed."" "Okay, we are here." "Close the doors, lads." "Too old for the Body Bank." "Don't move." "They are not going anywhere." "Murray, you getting all this?" "You realize what this means?" "You want to drift me?" "It will never happen, Carter." "They won't transmit it." " What do I do, Ben?" " Do what you have to, Murray." "Okay." "We interrupt this program for a special news flash." "Details over now live and direct to Edison Carter." "Mr. Grossman, Head of Network 23." "You gonna tell me exactly what I want to know about "blipverts"." "The whole story." "The world is watching, live, and now on Network 23." "Tell me, Sir." "When did you first learn that blipverts... caused people to spontaneously explode?" "What lot of... bollocks." "Parrots are only one round above politicians, though." "You always know when they're lying - their lips move." "subtitles © VV 2015"