eXistenZ Page #5

Vinokur?

He gave you a new bio-port.

Oh, God.

He gave you an infected one so that

my pod and my game system would die!

I'm infected?

Wait a minute.

It was saying it was sick by introducing

the theme of disease in the game.

"The theme of disease"?

l'm f***ing really infected!

What? ls it gonna rot my brain?

All right. Just calm down.

l've got something that will help you.

Turn around.

I'm gonna seal up your bio-port

with this sporicidal resonator.

It uses the Umby pickups for power.

It should cleanse all your

porting channels of infection.

It's gonna give you a slight

skin buzz when it's done.

We can't play until then.

Great.

Now listen.

Iisten.

This could be critical.

Were you really saying that Vinokur...

-...is an agent for--

-Oh, God!

Pikul...

...my pod's dying.

I can't help it.

There's nothing...

...l can do for it.

The uprising has begun!

The world is in flames!

Let's go!

You gotta get out of here!

The cashier...

...from the game.

How can he be here?

Ieave that here.

lt's done its job.

I keep my game inside there!

l can't let my game die!

No! Wait!

Allegra! Listen to me.

Listen to me.

We're still inside the game.

I think your pod's

out there somewhere safe.

I think it's all right

to let go of this pod.

It's not the real one.

Everybody out!

Now!

This way! Come on!

Follow me!

This way. Come on.

Up here.

You can see everything

from here!

What are we seeing?

The victory of Realism.

You were part of it.

The death of eXistenZ.

And we were part of it.

There's just one more thing.

We're on your side.

How could you be?

How could Allegra Geller...

...the world's premier game designer,

be on our side?

Yeah, we know who you are. But you

can't hide inside a game forever.

Something slipped

over the edge.

Something's wrong.

See what l mean?

See the problem?

I tried to find you.

Thank God l got here in time.

My dog brought me this.

You didn't get here in time.

My game is dead.

You murdered my game!

No, l murdered your pod.

Your game...

...is healthy and happy.

I replicated...

...your pod's entire nervous system

during our surgical procedure...

...at the chalet,

complete with contents.

You copied eXistenZ?

Allegra...

...come over to Cortical Systematics.

Yes, Cortical Systematics.

I am defecting, and

so are all Antenna top brass.

You're a spy for Cortical?

If you want to be reunited

with your baby, you'll come.

Can you talk to her?

It would be best for everyone.

I mean, you can come with us too.

What are you doing?

You've killed him.

Are you gonna kill me next?

He was only a game character.

I didn't like how he was

messing with me.

You didn't like that,

so you killed him?

He's only a game character.

What if we're not

in the game anymore?

If we're not....

If we're not...

...you killed someone real.

It was no accident we ended up

on the run together.

Not an accident?

No.

That's why you never had a bio-port.

You were one of them.

I still am one of them.

But you have a bio-port now.

I made the bio-port sacrifice

to get close to you.

Why would you do that?

To understand what l have to kill.

Then understand this.

I knew...

...you were my real assassin when you

pointed the gun at me in the restaurant.

And understand that...

...you're dead.

Death to the demon Ted Pikul!

Have l won?

Have l won the game?

Have l won?

Are you all back?

We're back.

We're back, Merle...

...but l have a feeling some of

our crew doesn't realize it yet.

Anybody want a bowl

of hot and sour soup?

It's on me.

Yes, l'll have some.

If you make sure there's some mutated

amphibian nervous systems in the rice.

My accent in the game was so thick,

l could hardly understand myself.

-How long were we gone?

-About 20 minutes.

God, it seemed like days.

lt's fantastic.

Just think about it, man.

If you stayed your whole life

in the game world...

...you could live to about,

l don't know, 500 years.

The twists and turns at the end

made my head spin.

Maybe there was too many,

too fast to absorb.

I sucked.

You guys were great.

I mean, you were like game divas.

Personally, l think you both

deserve to win.

I was bummed out at first.

l got knocked out of the game so soon.

It was fantastic how mean you were.

Really scary and crazy.

I had a lot to do in the church,

but the character was boring.

Well, no matter how boring you were...

...you still all get a certificate

for helping us out here and....

Am l right, Merle?

Yes. And that will entitle

you to reserve one of the first...

...of the transCendenZ game modules...

...at a seriously discounted price.

You're gonna love it.

Remember, it's written like this:

Capital "C," capital "Z."

transCendenZ.

It's new from Pilgrlmage, capital "P,"

capital "l," and it's coming soon.

I just wanted to say thank you

to Mr. Nourish...

...for giving me the chance to play

the role of a star designer.

I guess the game picked up

on my ambition to be like you.

Allegra, you were so good

in that role, l suspect...

...it won't be long before Pilgrlmage

is after you to sign a design contract.

And maybe you should bring along

your friend, Mr. Pikul.

He's good in a crisis. And when you

design games, there's plenty of those.

I guess you could tell that

Pikul and l had a relationship...

...prior to coming here.

We do like to play together.

We do.

But l'd just like to

assure everybody here that...

...Allegra wouldn't really jump

into bed with a security guard.

Unless he were me.

What do we have to say

to our brilliant...

...designer, Yevgeny Nourish?

Does he have another winner

on his hands or not?

I was very disturbed

by the game we just played.

What do you mean?

It had a very strong,

very real anti-game theme.

It began with the attempted

assassination of a designer.

Really? That's very creative.

On second thought, l see what you mean.

lt makes me nervous.

You think this must've come

from one of our game players?

Well, it sure didn't come from me.

Iet's probe it when

we do the focus group.

Thank you for looking after my dog.

We just wanted to ask

Mr. Nourish some questions.

Sure. Shoot.

Just don't ask me

to fill in your questionnaires.

We've played your game...

...so we can finally agree that you

are the world's greatest game artist.

We weren't sure before.

Thanks so much.

Yevgeny?

Don't you think you should suffer for

the harm you've done to the human race?

What?

Don't you think the greatest

game artist ought to be punished...

...for the most effective

deforming of reality?

I don't think this--

Guys, can you come over here now?

Death to the demon Yevgeny Nourish!

Death to Pilgrlmage!

Death to transCendenZ!

No, no, no!

You don't have to shoot me!

Hey, tell me the truth.

Are we still in the game?

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