The Lawnmower Man Page #5

the wife and the kid...

they're getting ready

to go down to the station.

Said they slept

through the whole thing.

Didn't hear or see anything.

Didn't hear anything.

The lab boys tell me

that somebody chased Parkette...

through the house

with a power lawnmower.

I would have thought that

would have made some racket.

Crazy with the heat.

Schiz-o-f***ing-phrenia...

all over town last night.

What else happened last night?

Well, somebody torched

poor old Father McKeen...

with a flame-thrower

or something.

Must have been a Satan cult

or something.

Either that or that weird human

spontaneous combustion thing.

That really happens sometimes.

Hell of a thing.

My God.

That's not all.

Marnie Burke was found

wandering around stark naked...

laughing her ass off,

flipped out.

The psychiatrist figured

she'd probably witnessed...

one of the murders,

and she's just in shock...

but I've seen people

flipped out before...

and this girl

is flipped out for good.

I don't believe

she'll ever stop laughing.

Two bizarre murders

in one night.

This world is chock-full

of nuts, Cooley.

Don't forget that.

Weirdos, schizos, bozos.

Well, accidents happen.

That's all there is to it.

Two bizarre accidents

in one night.

Accidents?

You were just

calling them murders.

We'll just

file a routine report.

Just clean and tidy.

Oh, Peter, come here.

Come here.

It's OK, son. It's OK.

How did this happen?

Jesus Christ.

Jobe, come on.

I gave myself a boost, Doctor.

Virtual reality

is not just a simulation.

It's a whole other world...

a new electric dimension.

Utopia, Doctor.

The utopia that men have dreamed

of for a thousand years...

and I'll be the conduit.

You want to create monsters.

You killed two people, Jobe.

Why?

You've got to let me help you.

Help me?

I'm going to help you,

Dr. Angelo.

I'm going to help all of you...

cleanse this diseased planet.

This technology

has peeled back a layer...

to reveal another universe.

Virtual reality will grow...

just as the telegraph

grew to the telephone.

As the radio to the TV.

It will be everywhere.

You're having delusions, Jobe.

Struggle for reason.

I'm going back to VSI...

to complete the final stage

of my evolution.

I'm going to project myself

into the main frame computer.

I'll become pure energy.

Once I've entered

in the neural net...

my birth cry

will be the sound...

of every phone on this planet

ringing in unison.

Listen to what you're saying.

The first sign of psychosis

is a Christ complex.

Cyberchrist.

Please listen to me, Jobe.

The Project 5 abstracts

that you were exposed to...

were never meant

for the human mind.

You've had a psychotic break.

Let me try to reverse that.

What are you blocking?

You can't hide anything

from me, Dr. Angelo.

So The Shop

is coming to pick me up...

and you've betrayed me,

haven't you?

I'd like to proceed

to Angelo's residence, sir.

Very well. Leave the van's

cameras on transmit.

I want to monitor from here.

Yes, sir.

Now you can witness

the impossible, Dr. Angelo.

Let me pull the curtain back

so you can watch.

We'll check the house.

What the hell...

I'm going back to VSI now...

and once I'm

inside the main frame...

I'll have access to over

5,000 other databases.

And from those 5,000...

I can reach out again

and again and again...

eventually inhabiting

the entire planetary network.

By the year 2001...

there won't be a person

on this planet...

who isn't hooked into it

and hooked into me.

I'm sorry you hate

what you have created.

Right, Jobe.

I'll be right there.

Dr. Angelo has been working on

something else...

behind our backs.

He's developed a fantastic

new energy weapon.

I've observed a demonstration.

It's very advanced.

I want you

to gather his research...

all disks, hard copies,

everything.

Erase the files

from the main frame there...

then transport

it all here personally.

I can't believe it.

Not Angelo.

Not a weapon.

He is totally opposed...

Believe it, Timms.

He took out two of my men in

a way I've never seen before.

I sure have

been missing you, Jobe.

Peter, where are you going?

I want you

to come right back.

Jobe, wait up!

I told him to come down here

and pick me up after work.

What's going on here?

What the f***?

What did you open

the gate for?

We didn't.

Some kind of malfunction.

That's it.

The back. That's it.

Can you do it?

Did the same guy

that killed my dad get to you?

Yes, Peter.

I'll explain it all later.

Go upstairs and tell your mother

to call the police.

Don't worry.

Go on quickly, go.

Erasing 261Y8K.

Confirm erase?

There's a little problem

at the main gate.

It opened by itself,

and it won't close.

Send everything you've got

down to the main gate.

Right.

Now!

Welcome to VSI main frame.

Please enter pass code.

Analyzing.

Pass code cleared.

You have access

to the network node.

File 15 blocked.

What's happening?

Someone's hacking the main frame

from the outside.

They're in, and they're

running a computer virus...

that's placing triple key

encryption codes...

on all outside access

and network connections.

What the f*** does that mean?

We're being cut off.

The main frame will be

totally isolated...

in less than two minutes.

Off the net.

Something's wrong.

I can't even get an operator.

Explosives.

Come on.

You hear something?

What?

It sounds weird.

F*** you!

Holy sh*t!

I have to go now, Terry.

Well, OK, Jobe.

What are you doing here?

Leave me alone.

I'll wait for you

down the road.

I want you out of here

as fast as you can.

But I want to go with you

to find Jobe.

I understand, Peter...

but I want you to stay

with your mother, OK?

Peter, get in the car.

Larry, be careful.

We'll wait here, OK?

I'm in.

I'm in.

System overload.

Automatic shutdown

inoperative.

Oh, my God, Jobe.

I can't believe this.

Outside terminal

activity control.

Now to get out of here.

Simple combination.

Oh, Jobe, what's happened?

He really did it.

Denied?

Denied!

I must find a way out.

I can't believe this!

I must find a way out!

I can't let you do it, Jobe!

You!

Yes, me.

You did this!

You cut the network connections,

but I'll find a way out.

All this power...

isn't meant to be

in the hands of one person.

You're wrong.

You need to be led,

just like everyone else.

It's a basic need.

This technology is meant

to expand human communication...

but you're

not even human anymore.

What you've become terrifies me.

You're a freak!

Your naive idiocy

makes me very angry!

Human!

This universe is mine.

I am God here.

I sense your thoughts.

What are you hiding?

The bombs.

Jesus, the bombs.

Bombs?

You forced me to.

So you were willing to die?

I'll stop them.

You can't defuse

the bombs, can you?

You lost all your power

over the physical world...

once you

transferred in here.

Stop!

So you've given me

one final game to play.

I find a way out, or I die

in this diseased main frame.

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