- lmplants. - That's what l said.
l-M-plant.
Yeah, but judging from your file here, apparently,
you don't know your shit from your oatmeal, my friend.
Excuse me. This is unnecessary.
You got a problem?
Psycho? You look a little angry.
Maybe you wanna hit me? Go ahead, you can do it.
- Hey! - For God's sake, Ben...
He hit me.
And you wanna help him?
No. That would be political suicide. Of course not.
l want you to help him.
l can't even imagine why.
Mother, l can assure you, l am as uncomfortable asking you to do this
as you are being asked.
My campaign people are getting a restraining order against him.
He's going on every security watch list, but l won't lock him up.
- l'm not pressing charges. - What?
l don't know, it's just...
l don't wanna talk about this right now.
Can we get back to the campaign and focus on something--
Raymond, you don't actually believe his story?
No.
But he does.
And he's a fine soldier.
And if his slim hold on sanity requires
that l tolerate his delusions until he can get help, l'll do it.
lt doesn't diminish me.
l'm not afraid of him.
Raymond.
How much do you actually know about your friend?
Oh, that's sad.
Poor little tin soldier.
Mother, please.
Well, just imagine how terrified your people were yesterday
when Major Marco showed up at campaign headquarters
and you invite--
My God, you invited him in.
With all they know about him.
l know him.
l served under him. He was a good man.
Well, that's what the neighbours always say about serial killers.
You're out of here. Shaw won't press charges.
Someone from Senator Eleanor Shaw's office called
and intervened on your behalf.
Major, you've reached the terminal end of the Army's patience.
You're relieved of duty, effective immediately.
Yes, sir.
Ben,
there is a young neurologist at Walter Reed. His name is Zahn.
He's had real success with Gulf War Syndrome.
You are instructed to get your affairs in order
and report to him first thing Monday morning.
l thought you said you lost it.
l bit a guy. l found another one.
These are not supposed to exist.
These are only theoretical.
So, what does it do?
- l don't know. - You don't know?
l don't know.
l don't wanna know. You don't wanna know.
Look, it's out of you and you are still alive.
That's the good news.
What's the bad news?
Maybe they know you're here.
You said the Army implants, they were for
emergency medical data, right?
The ones they publicized were.
There was a parallel project for all kinds of scary implantables.
The Clinton watchdogs finally freaked out about it, closed down.
Parallel project?
How did you know about that?
Manchurian Global funded me to make some of their scary shit.
Heard of them?
lmagine not just a corporation, Marco,
but a goddamn geopolitical extension of policy
for every president since Nixon.
Cash is king, Marco.
Cash is king.
You sure you wanna do this?
Absolutely.
Because l don't.
l'll owe you one.
No.
l still owe you.
For getting me out of Albania.
Albania.
What are you doing?
ln case l forget things l wanna remember.
l'm putting you on a cocktail of methohexitol to take the edge off.
The edge off of what?
Getting clarity. Or whatever you wanna call it.
ECT not being the precise science that, say,
leeching is.
You don't think this is gonna work?
lt's a desperation move, man.
But, hey, there is a school of thought that says
a victim of induced abreaction--
Here it comes.
The night is cIear. Stars, but no moon.
The patroI is ambushed.
We were on a routine recon inside Iraqi-controIIed terrain,
assessing troop strength...
Captain Marco was knocked unconscious.
In the ensuing firefight, Eddie Ingram gets himseIf separated to the Ieft.
Baker goes after him.
Hello, captain.
Before Sergeant Shaw is able to locate...
Eddie lngram gets himself separated to the left.
Did you go blank on me again?
He said this would happen.
Who?
Your German friend. Your friend.
Ben.
He said it'd be like a computer system crash.
That your brain would shut down, but it would reboot again
and you'd forget all your RAM.
Or most of your RAM.
Do you remember me?
Ben?
Eugenie.
How did l get here?
You called me.
Where am l?
--pIanning a suicide bombing.
The MiIe High City has suffered a series of brutaI attacks
during the past severaI months.
Senator EIeanor Prentiss Shaw, does it bother you at aII
that your son repudiates so many of your more
- controversiaI poIicies? - No. He's his own person.
Raymond and I may disagree on certain issues,
but I think we share the same fundamentaI vision
of what this country can be.
- Which is? - Better.
Better and better.
Safer, braver, stronger.
A beacon of freedom in a worId troubIed by shadows.
America must prevaiI.
The future and survivaI of modern civiIization,
democracy, freedom, aII depend upon it.
So your son, Congressman Shaw...
Rosie.
l was in the park on Friday?
We were in the park on Monday.
Monday?
- Yep. - Monday.
We were flying low. lt's, like, over the ocean, and just...
A field hospital.
And they took us up to this place.
- Where? Military? - l don't know. l don't know.
Just state-of-the-art stuff everywhere.
Stainless steel and wires and tubes and monitors.
- Were you tortured? - No. Yeah.
l mean, there was pain. You know, it was like...
l don't know what they call it.
lnvasive procedure.
For example?
Like what? What do you mean?
lnvasive.
See, they were in my head...
...and they made me...
Well, Raymond Shaw, they made him kill somebody.
Like it was nothing.
Private Robert Baker.
That's who it was, it was a private.
One of my soldiers.
l think they made me kill somebody too.
A kid named Eddie Ingram.
Private lngram, stand up.
Walk a few steps, please.
And if you could secure the door, please, Chris.
Captain Marco.
Stand up.
- Raymond. - Yes, sir.
There's a gun on the cupboard.
Would you please take it and give it to Captain Marco.
Yes, sir.
Here.
Captain.
Captain Marco,
please shoot Private lngram.
Now, Raymond,
suffocate Private Baker.
Kill him.
Keep going, Raymond.
l knew the... A soldier knows the enemy.
l'm in command.
That's primary, l know.
l thought l knew...
...who the enemy was.
My men, they trusted me with their lives, you know?
Don't.
Don't touch me.
Ben, the person that did this, what was his name?
Can you remember?
Did he have a name?
Ben?
Smile if you like.
This will just take a minute.
I see you there aII the time.
Bennett Marco. Checks from First NationaI Bank.
Romance noveIs, instant noodIes, NoDoz and tomatoes.
OId friend up there, an oId Army friend that...
WeII, he's in poIitics now--
What eIse did we taIk about?
What happened to you after you were captured.
BIack heIicopters, secret Iaboratories...
...mad scientist, mind drugs...
...shock torture and Raymond Shaw.
- You don't beIieve any of it, do you? - It's crazy.
- It sounds crazy, doesn't it? - It sounds crazy.
That's what they wanted me to think too.
It's exactIy what they want you to think.
What about the other guys from your unit?
Where are they?
They're aII gone. So-caIIed naturaI causes.
Owens died of cancer in '9 7.
ViIIaIobos' car crashed.
Atkins committed suicide.
Jameson died 9/ 1 1, Pentagon.
- Ben? - Yeah?
- Did he have a name? - Who?
The person that did this, Ben.
What was his name? Can you remember?
Ben.
- Yeah? - Did he have a name?
You onIy have to Iook at the enormous strides made
in the Iast decade with the genetic reconfiguration
of the nobIe tomato.
What was happening was the tomato was over-ripening in the process
and it was Iosing its fIavour.
It's actuaIIy a very simpIe procedure to deactivate the gene concerned.
And the same thing can be appIied to ourseIves.
At a fIick of a switch,
we can adjust character,
change personaIity.
And of course, more importantIy...
...we can offset the ravages of dementia
by impIanting memory or adjusting the synaptic connections.
We can free peopIe from the terribIe burden
of an emotionaIIy compromised past.
- Watch where you're going! - Sorry.
Watch where you're going!
Just back up! Just back up.
Watch it. Watch it. Shut up.
Take it easy, sir.
l called the Pentagon and they told me he's on medical leave.
Secret Service, they got him on a couple of their watch and observe lists.
l guess there's been some trouble with this guy
involving Congressman Shaw.
Oh?
Among the shareholders in Manchurian Global,
were they to ever publish a list, which they won't,
you would find former presidents, deposed kings,
trust fund terrorists, fallen Communist dictators,
ayatollahs, African warlords and retired prime ministers.
- See what l mean? - l get it. They're big. They're huge.
They're... They're... They're gigantic.
l can't touch them. l get it. l don't want to.
And you bring me rumours and conjecture.
l started with nightmares. Rumours, conjectures,
that's a giant leap forward.
Nightmares that you've interpreted using as primary resources
A, your spotty memory,
B, the lnternet,
sacred sanctuary of idiots and nutters. That's how they're gonna look at this.
And C, a crazy man's notebook,
along with evidence you chewed out of a man's back.
All neatly stitched together with a common thread
of a supremely powerful, well-connected private equity fund,
who, if you ever get anywhere near them,
will plead ignorance and be shocked.
Shocked to learn
what some of their subsidiary partners are engaged in.
l could give a rat's ass about Manchurian Global, sir.
l could give a rat's ass about them.
That is not why l'm here.
l looked you up too, senator.
Oh?
You were in the Army.
l was drafted.
Didn't make much of a soldier, l'm afraid. Let me see this.
That's not what l saw in the record. That's not what the record says, sir.
And you know how it works.
Wars are fought one battle at a time.
Battles, you win one bullet at a time.
And l'd be lying to you if l said
that l didn't factor in, in a huge way,
the fact that you have a vested, personal,
political and patriotic interest in how all of this shakes out.
l'd be lying to you.
You're right, major.
l do.
A $5000-a-pIate dinner honouring the CEO of Votron Incorporated,
the nation's third-Iargest producer of the controversiaI touch-screen units
that wiII be used in the forthcoming eIection, was disrupted Iast night,
when protestors disguised as waiters and kitchen staff
unIeashed a bIizzard of symboIic chads from above,
resuIting in a momentary panic.
The supporters of presidentiaI hopefuI Vice President Edward NeIson
fIed to exits and dove under tabIes.
Security personneI quickIy subdued the protestors, one of whom...
The man is insane, Tom.
Full-blown schizophrenia.
He's been stalking Raymond, the FBl is all over this already.
l've seen the files.
- Have you seen them? - All over what?
Your bipolar war buddy has been sharing his dreams
with Senator Jordan.
Hello, Raymond.
Hello, senator. How's Jocelyn?
Have you fact-checked this with anyone, Tom?
Raymond.
Do you recognize this man?
No.
His name is Atticus Noyle.
He's a South African scientist and mercenary.
Someone our ClA turned to
for covert mind warfare against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Someone who has sold his technology and services
to terrorists and rogue states.
And what does he have to do with me?
Major Bennett Marco claims that this man...
...brainwashed you.
ln his dreams.
Contrived to have you win the Medal of Honor.
And has you poised to be the first privately owned and operated
vice president of the United States.
Sir, l've already spoken with Ben Marco.
Unfortunately, he's not a well man.
He's delusional.
Nevertheless,
he's pulled from his mad hat
some remarkably lucid connections
between his dreams of your exploits in Kuwait
and this Dr. Noyle
and the private equity fund Manchurian Global,
your mother's primary political benefactor for the past 1 5 years.
Oh, come on, Tom. They contribute to half the Senate.
Both sides of the aisle.
What are you saying?
At the time of Desert Storm, Dr. Atticus Noyle
was working under a research grant from Manchurian Global,
developing deep implant behaviour modification.
Oh, my God.
Rogue scientists, mind control, Manchurian Global.
- You. - Tom.
Connect the dots, Raymond.
Where was your famous Lost Patrol
for those three missing days?
Eluding capture in the desert? Or somewhere else,
being microwaved by this Atticus Noyle?
- Oh, Tom. - l'm sorry, senator,
but what exactly are you suggesting l do?
Bow out gracefully.
Personal reasons, an obscure illness.
Yield your spot on the ticket and go into seclusion.
Oh, that's what this is about.
And then surrender yourself to federal authorities.
Help them trace this thing to its source
and address whatever damage may have been done to you.
And l'll be waiting for your press announcement
first thing in the morning.
- And then we'll talk. - Tom.
lf there's any inkling of truth in any of these charges,
if anyone has ever harmed a hair on his head,
l will find out about it.
You have 1 2 hours, senator.
But if it's not true,
l will see you impeached on the floor of the Senate
and bury you.
Good night.
lt's preposterous.
ldiotic story.
Mother, there's something l have to tell you.
What?
l've been having the dreams.
Ben said there were tests they could run to see if...
No. Where are you going?
Sergeant Shaw.
What?
Sergeant Raymond Shaw.
Mother, l...
Raymond Prentiss Shaw.
Yes.
Listen.
Good morning to you aII,
and weIcome to Amtrak's northbound AceIa,
making station stops at BaItimore, PhiIadeIphia,
Newark, New York's Penn Station
and Boston as the Iast stop...
Who's that?
lt's Raymond, sir.
Oh, don't do that.
You're gonna get soaking wet, Raymond.
Raymond.
l came to apologize, sir.
Raymond, what are you doing?
- l'm sorry. - We'll get some help for you, son.
lt's not your fault, Raymond. lt's not your fault.
- l'm sorry, sir. - lt's your mother--
Dad!
Help!
Oh, God. Daddy!
Help!
Raymond? What are you doing?!
What is going on? What is happening?
Where's my father?
What are you doing?
Dad! Dad!
The five-term senator
and recent front-runner for his party's vice presidentiaI nomination
appears to have accidentaIIy drowned
when his kayak overturned near his Chesapeake Bay weekend home.
PoIice say his daughter, 35-year-oId JoceIyn,
may have been trying to rescue Jordan
when she was herseIf overcome by the icy water.
The bodies of Senator Jordan and his daughter
were discovered this morning by a crab fisherman
who spotted the capsized kayak fIoating far offshore,
nearIy a miIe from Senator Jordan's residence.
Neighbours say the senator was an expert kayaker whose morning trips
were a famiIiar sight aIong the western bank of the Bay.
Governor Arthur, do you have any comment on this tragic event?
Senator Jordan was a statesman of the highest integrity.
Tom Jordan was a friend.
A damn fine man.
Just a great American.
That's aII for now. We'II have something for you a IittIe Iater.
They're the Iatest target of SEC corruption probes,
but private equity fund Manchurian GIobaI confirmed today
it is continuing with pIans to finance privateIy owned combat units
to reIieve beIeaguered U.S. troop depIoyments worIdwide.
It is a move that couId save the Defence Department biIIions of doIIars.
How does Arthur die?
You know who l'm talking about, the new president.
lf he dies, Raymond Shaw becomes the new president, doesn't he?
Chain of succession. That's what you got in mind.
That's what you people wanna do.
You wanna really run the world, don't you, Susie? Rosie?
Whatever the hell your name is. l got my library card and l got your tapes.
l do my research too. We're going to the feds,
we're going to the police, the newspapers, whatever it takes.
l am the feds.
Now, get off me!
Get off of me!
We found...
...an implant device...
...in Al Melvin.
You found one in Melvin.
Just like you said.
l'm part of a shadow unit. We've been watching you.
Trying to sort this thing out.
This isn't an election, this is a coup.
This is-- ln our own country, a regime change, in our own country.
Ben, don't. Ben.
This is rich people, Manchurian Global funding bad science
to put a sleeper in the White House, and that's what's going on, Rosie.
- That's what's going on. - l wanna believe you.
Well, then, believe me. Help me. Help me.
Shoot me, then. Help me or shoot me.
Make a decision.
l made a decision when l met you, Ben.
Now, why don't you show me what you have in your file.
- Sir! - Congressman!
Sir, do you have a statement for us tonight?
--was exceptionally clear and simple.
A stronger, safer, more profitable world
through uncorruptible top-level management.
We trust you with our technology
and suddenly you turn him into a common hit man.
How fucking dare you. l trusted you with my son.
You didn't even ask us--
Don't lecture me! You swore to me that this was fail-safe.
No leaks, no glitches, no-- No dreams.
Not even a shadow of what was done to Raymond--
You needed to ask before you acted. This is not a--
Tom Jordan was going to destroy my son and everything l've worked for,
and every one of us along with it. And you wanted me to what?
- Call a meeting? - Now, look, look, look.
ln the larger course of history...
...there are key players...
...and role players, senator.
Bullshit! This is about my son and the future of this country.
l thought we understood each other.
l think we do. l think we really do.
- Your god is money. - Oh, wait, wait, and yours is...?
No, no. l'm a believer.
l am an optimist. l believe in the future.
And people who do, the ones who make history
instead of just sitting around watching it,
no, they're willing to take the big risks.
Yes, l made a decision.
Oh, God! Where are all the men anymore?
My father, Tyler Prentiss, never asked,
''ls this okay? ls this okay?''
You know what l'm saying, Mark?
He just did what needed to be done.
Come on, rise and shine, New York. It's a big day in the Big AppIe.
That's right. AII poIIs indicate that New Yorkers wiII be turning out
in record numbers today across the five boroughs
to seIect a new president.
At Ieast, that's how the ruIebook says it's supposed to happen.
The poIIs open at 6 a.m.
And bars and taverns in Manhattan, BrookIyn, Queens, the Bronx,
and Staten IsIand wiII be opening shortIy thereafter.
That's right, New Yorkers. We are free to drink and vote aII day today.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thanks for coming out.
Congressman, good luck.
- Hello. - Hi.
- Hey. Thank you very much. - The next vice president, sir.
l hope so.
- Let's have a win. - We're with you. We're with you.
Thank you, Tony, take care.
Thank you.
Take care. Goodbye. Thanks very much.
lt's clean.
lt's all right, Evan.
How's your back?
l've been having the dreams, Ben.
Oh, that's good.
They're inside my head.
We'll get them out. l got the proof.
l know what they did to us. l just don't know why.
l dream things, Ben.
Terrible things that can't possibly have happened.
- l'm gone, Ben-- - No, you're not, you're right here.
Ben...
...there's something l want you to have.
l don't deserve this.
Jocelyn's dead.
l know.
And the senator.
Yeah.
Did l...?
l think so, Raymond, yes.
l don't remember, Ben. l don't remember.
Raymond...
...did they tell you what it is they want you to do?
That's what l gotta find out.
We gotta find out what's gonna happen, where it's gonna happen--
Are we friends, Ben? l wanna believe we were friends.
We are connected and that's something nobody can take from us.
You could've had me locked up, but you didn't.
That's proof that there's something deep inside.
There's a part that they can't get to.
And it's deep inside of us. And that's where the truth is.
That's our only hope. That's what you and me need to tap into,
and that's what you and l are gonna use to take them out, Raymond.
We don't have much time. Please.
- l thought you were smarter than that. - Raymond, please.
You don't think they saw this coming, Ben?
You don't think they factored you in?
l am the enemy, Major Marco.
What are you talking about?
Yes, Mother.
Yes, he's right here.
- She wants you. - Me?
Yes, senator.
- Is this Captain Marco? - Yeah.
Captain Bennett Marco?
Yes.
Bennett EzekieI Marco.
Yes.
Listen.
Hurry up!
Major Marco?
Ben?
--people can get together whenever they want and not get in trouble.
People should be allowed to say what is on their mind...
The Bill of Rights gives people...
Thank you.
The candidates made rituaI trips to the voting booths today.
Governor Arthur, casting his baIIot in North PIatte,
wiII spend eIection night in the Big AppIe with running mate Raymond Shaw
for their anticipated victory party.
The presidentiaI rivaI, incumbent Vice President NeIson
returned to his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
He attended speciaI church services this morning--
- All clear. - Raymond...
- Clear. - ...Iisten.
The buIIet wiII strike Bob Arthur the moment you step forward
and arrive on your star beside him.
Because the assassin...
...the deranged, obsessed...
...tragically paranoid lone gunman...
...is trying to kill you.
Major Marco's an excellent marksman.
But you must stay very, very still
and stand right where you're supposed to stand.
What happens to Ben?
The assassin always dies, baby.
lt's necessary for the national healing.
l'm sure you will never entirely comprehend this, darling.
But l want you to know, Raymond...
...l did this for you.
So that you could have what l couldn't.
What your father threw away.
The opportunity to lead this nation.
- l know, Mother. - And so l let them take you
and change you a little bit.
Not so much that you would notice,
but just enough to bring you back to who you really are.
And to what you will become.
Oh, and look at you.
Look at you. Look what you've achieved,
look how far we've come. lt's working, Raymond.
And you're going to save our country now.
ln the hour of her greatest need.
Yes, Mother.
But...
But when you smile...
...oh, darling, when you smile, that's what l live for.
When you smile.
WeII, it's officiaI. CBS News now projects
Robert Arthur and Raymond Shaw to be the next president
and vice president of the United States.
With at Ieast 2 70 eIectoraI votes and support of aImost 70 percent
of votes taIIied tonight.
Arthur and running mate Raymond Shaw are Ieading
in aII but one remaining race,
in the sitting vice president's home state of Louisiana.
Wait, Jimmy. Jimmy, wait.
Wait. Go back. Can you go back?
Yeah.
- Stop. - Sure.
Now, can you zoom in on that guy?
Yep.
No, no, Jimmy, the other one. The one in the back. The one in the shades.
- This one? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Never mind. Thanks, Jimmy.
Arthur! That's right!
Arthur! Arthur!
- We did it. Wow. - Yeah!
All right! Yes!
- Yes. - Hi.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Let's have a good show, people. Let's have a really good show, okay?
Arthur! Arthur! Arthur! Arthur!
Cue screens.
Very good.
Stand by with the first music cue.
Now, music.
Okay.
Damn it. Shaw missed his first position.
AOP! AOP!
Up there!
Ben!
All right. Bye.
The FBI has just reIeased security footage
of the assassin of Raymond and EIeanor Prentiss Shaw
entering the hoteI two hours before the fataI shooting.
Authorities have identified the gunman as KIaus Bachmann.
Bachmann was beIieved to have been kiIIed in a car bomb expIosion
in Chechnya four years ago.
He was empIoyed there as a covert operation speciaIist
by GIobaI Endeavours,
a U.K. subsidiary of the equity fund giant Manchurian GIobaI.
A second former Manchurian GIobaI civiIian contractor
was taken into custody by federaI agents
at Chicago's O'Hare Airport earIy this morning.
Laurence Tokar made news during the GuIf War
for his presence on Raymond Shaw's famed Lost PatroI.
Tokar was missing in action after the ambush that resuIted in Shaw
being awarded the CongressionaI MedaI of Honor.
Authorities are expIoring additionaI connections between the two men.
StiII reeIing from the recent tragic Ioss of Senator Thomas Jordan,
Congress has aIready announced a far-reaching investigation
into Jordan's death,
in an effort to Iearn if it is in any way reIated to the Shaw assassinations.
In a supercharged encounter moments ago, president-eIect Arthur--
l remember running.
l had to...
...get out...
...to where the sky was. And had to...
...get to the water. Escape. Regroup.
Come back, get my men.
l thought that if l could just get to the water...
...everything would be okay.
lf l could just get to the water.
Now, when you're rescued and returned with your patroI
to command headquarters,
what wiII be among the first of your duties that you'II undertake?
I'II recommend Sergeant Shaw for the MedaI of Honor, sir.
He saved our Iives.
He terminated the enemy. Led us across the desert to safety.
ExceIIent. And there were casuaIties?
There's aIways casuaIties in war, sir.
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