Antiviral
Yes.
Yes, wonderful.
I'll transfer you to booking.
Can I help you?
Edward Porris.
- I... I have an appointment.
- Porris.
Just have a seat.
Hannah Geist?
Excuse me?
You look like a Hannah Geist.
I'd take you for a Hannah Geist.
Oh. Yes.
Well, most people are.
I'm here for Michael Felix.
Do you know
he used to torment his lovers
by packing his foreskin with spices
before intercourse?
I'm just lucky they got to him
before the execution. I'm real lucky.
I'll take this one.
Breathtaking.
I understand your fascination with her.
I understand completely.
She's perfect somehow, isn't she?
More than perfect.
More than human.
Her eyes seem to reach...
...right beneath your skin
and touch your organs.
And touch your stomach.
Your lungs.
Gives me the shivers.
As you can see,
we have several options available.
Each was acquired
from Miss Geist directly.
If I thought your interest
was only passing,
there are any number
of low-end packages I could offer.
However you strike me as a man
whose involvement
runs a little deeper than that.
I see you... as a man of taste.
A connoisseur.
If you'll permit me
to make a recommendation.
S-558.
Expensive...
but a must-have for the truly devoted.
Miss Geist was afflicted
during her much publicised affair
with Laura Law in 2003.
We purchased it from her soon after.
- S-558?
- Yes.
A form of the herpes simplex virus.
After infection, the virus lives on
in the cells of its host
for the rest of their life.
Did you know she's deformed?
You can't tell from the magazines.
She has to have
special underwear made.
Fashion designers
make her special underwear.
I've heard that.
Do you have your credit card
with you, Mr Porris?
Which side do you want it on?
I haven't decided.
Most people want it on the left side.
If she kissed you,
it would be on the left side.
If she kissed me?
to the right of her mouth.
Now, if she kissed you,
it'd spread to your left side,
around here.
On the left, it'd be like
she gave it to you in person.
Oh, yes, I'd like the left side.
Lean back, please.
Just a little pinch.
There.
You should be showing
in a couple of weeks.
Enjoy.
Are you carrying
any infectious materials with you
or items belonging to The Lucas Clinic
Incorporated or its suppliers?
No.
Now, I thought a fungus was a plant
because it comes from vegetables, right?
I told them this gives new meaning...
Yeah, come in.
Apparently I'm no biologist. Some of our
viewers were quick to point that out.
I wanted to ask
about the alarm test tomorrow.
There's nothing I can do about it.
I don't like it either,
but it's the law.
No, I know, but...
...it's just that I'm sick right now
and I need my sleep.
Yeah. OK, so, listen,
I'll tell you what we'll do about it.
We'll start at the top floor, so
we won't even get to you until after 11.
It's the Aria Noble Ordeal.
And we'II, you know,
we'll just be in and out.
You can keep your bedroom shut.
The question on everyone's mind is
what is really going on with her?
We're talking to Mr Dorian Lucas,
founder of the Lucas
celebrity services clinic.
Mr Lucas,
how do you respond to critics
who say the disease
you're really selling is a cultural one?
That's ridiculous.
Do you not agree
that the mania surrounding celebrity
is reaching an unhealthy level?
No, I don't.
so deserving of our attention?
In your opinion,
does Aria Noble deserve to be famous?
Let me stop you there.
Deserve to be famous?
What does it mean
to deserve to be famous?
Anyone who's famous
deserves to be famous.
Celebrity is not an accomplishment,
not at all.
It's more like a collaboration
that we choose to take part in.
Celebrities are not people.
They're group hallucinations.
Surely it's naive to imagine
that your clients think the same way.
Really? Naive?
My clients are intelligent adults
from all walks of life, all ages,
and they find meaning
in all the stories around them.
They choose to come to me
because they wanna feel more connected
to those faces, to those people
that they see in the magazines
and on television,
and their lives are much richer for it.
The human face is a powerful messenger.
Our brains are tuned
to its every nuance.
The smallest shift
in its musculature
can translate itself
into complex nonverbal information,
so subtle and communicated so quickly
that we often don't even register it,
not consciously.
One could say that for human beings,
the face is a structure
with a high-information resolution.
The ReadyFace console is designed
to engage the user's
unconscious mental resources
by exploiting the brain's sensitivity
to facial patterns.
Our technician
loads a virus sample into the port,
where it's analysed by ReadyFace
and is translated into a face graphic.
This image represents
the structure of the disease.
It is in a sense the face of the virus,
dense with information.
As Mr March manipulates the graphic,
the machine manipulates the virus
in the sample container,
eventually rendering it noncontagious.
This advanced form of copy protection
affords us control
over the distribution of our products,
beyond the infected client.
ReadyFace fluidly incorporates
our technician's
unconscious mental resources
so that copy protecting
a sample like this one
will take hours rather than days.
Hey, thanks for coming.
Lovely to see you.
- Enjoyed it.
- Thank you.
Thanks for making the time.
Appreciate it.
No, she has to have special underwear
made because she doesn't have a vulva.
She was born without a vulva.
Her father used to make them,
which was an ordeal for her as a child,
but now she has fashion designers do it.
That's what she meant when she told
Spot Magazineshe doesn't have a face.
- Listen to what you're saying.
- You asked me, so I'm telling you.
You're telling me
you've been working here too long.
You're seriously buying into all this.
What's to buy into?
What I'm saying is factual.
Factual? Yesterday her birth defect
was a unique, nonfunctional organ
connected to her urinary system.
It's worth millions
on the celebrity meat market.
Yeah, also true.
I'm sure the kid could shed some light
on the situation.
Didn't you take a genital wart sample
- That was Derek.
- Did he mention if she had a vulva?
We're doing lunch at Dainty Davis.
You coming?
I already ate.
You look like sh*t.
- Hi, Michelle.
- Hey, Syd. What can I get for you?
- 915?
- The new Aria Noble flu.
We got it this morning.
So we did.
Thank you.
Derek.
I understand
your fascination with her.
I understand completely. She's...
...perfect somehow, isn't she?
More than perfect.
An ideal.
Overwhelming.
With a whisper, she could have
anything she wanted.
Anyone she wanted.
I'm happy to inform you that we have
something special available today.
It just came in this morning.
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