Kim?
Kim, come on. Kim!
Now, I know...
What if feels like to die.
Everywhere you go, somebody dies.
Who are you? Who sent you?
- I'm a scanner. - Who sent you?
I was found by consec.
Consec?
They wanted me to find Revok.
I think they want to kill him,
but they never told me about you.
Tony!
Tony.
Oh, no.
Come on. We got to get out of here.
Come on.
What happened?
Excuse me.
Outside, Ma'am.
Sir, outside, please.
There's nothing here to see.
Go back to the street.
Back out. Back out.
Oh, it's on fire!
Let's get out of here.
Let's get out of here, like, right now.
We'll be all right here for a while.
It doesn't matter.
It's finished.
and nothing can stop Revok now.
We were the dream.
and he's the nightmare.
There's still us.
I can help you.
We can destroy Revok together.
You?
You're barely human.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, but you don't understand.
You don't know Revok.
You don't know how evil he is,
how powerful he is. You don't know anything.
What are you doing?
He must have something that will lead us to Revok.
Us? No, not me.
There it is.
That's it.
Dr. Ruth, telephone call, sir.
Take it right here.
Yes.
It's Cameron Vale.
I missed you.
I made a breakthrough to Revok.
I want to come in.
I want to bring you an informant from Revok's group.
That's excellent.
I'll arrange for you to be brought in.
Can you call me back in about 10 minutes?
OK. Good-bye, Dr. Ruth.
All set?
10 minutes.
We may have developed a serious problem.
Vale's coming in.
He says he has an informant from your crew.
Now, is that possible?
No, he's lying.
Then why is he coming in?
Maybe he's homesick.
Look, Vale must know something or his informant does.
It could be about me and you.
Then you'd better be the one to interrogate the informant.
And Ruth will talk to Vale.
I won't be able to prevent that.
If Ruth finds out anything,
anything at all...
Kill him.
Really?
- I thought you didn't want... - Kill him.
Really.
Contact central, this is contact two-niner.
Contact two-niner,
this is contact central. Security is in place
and you are clear to land.
Repeat, affirmative to land.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you both and injection of ephemeral.
Well, Braedon, no apologies,
no vote of confidence,
and my man brought back the goods.
Why don't we save the party
until we run around with the president, doctor.
It won't take long.
I have a way with these creatures.
I know that.
So does Trevellyan.
That's why he's asked me to take the informant.
You can do what you like with Vale.
Well, that won't work.
Police state tactics simply won't work. sir.
Really?
Why don't you send a letter to the board about that, doctor?
I'm sure they'd love to hear from you.
Come in.
Welcome.
Congratulations.
It's good to have you back home.
Where's the girl? She should be here.
She's in another room being interrogated.
Thought it would be you.
So did I.
That's why I made sure that the needles I gave you both were harmless.
Don't worry.
She'll be able to protect herself if there's any problem.
Why did you do that?
Gesture of trust to you friend.
I have my own methods.
I have nothing to hide.
Nothing at all to hide.
Not even the right program?
The what?
Do you know of a drug laboratory called biocarbon amalgamate?
Yes, of course. I founded it in 1942.
You?
Right, I sold it to consec. That's why I'm here.
Let's say that we have a, uh...
genial working relationship.
Do you know what that lab does?
It's been so long since I've been in touch with them.
As far as I know, they...
They make some sort of chemical weaponry among other things.
It manufactures ephemeral
for Darryl Rovok.
It may even be run by Darryl Revok.
That's impossible.
No, I was there.
I took the place of one of Revok's men.
I saw Revok in the control room.
The production of ephemeral is computerized.
It's being manufactured
and sent out in huge tankers.
Ephemeral has been sent out?
Sent out where?
The answer is in you own computer.
The program that controls everything is called ripe,
and it's a consec program.
That means that someone here at consec
is a traitor
and that someone is working with Revok.
I want you to access the ripe program.
I do not have consec computer clearance.
Neither do I.
But you do have a nervous system...
and so does a computer.
And you can scan the computer
as you would another human being.
Come.
Hello.
What a pleasant surprise.
You're very attractive.
OK, let's do it the formal way.
- Your name? - Kim Obrist.
Your name?
Not relevant.
Now, tell me everything you know
about Darryl Revok's organization.
Before I tell you anything,
I want to know how you're going to protect me.
When Revok finds out that I've come here...
He's going to try and kill me.
Miss Obrist, you best protection...
is to tell us everything we need to know.
As soon as you do,
Revok will cease to be a threat to anyone.
Not good enough.
Revok's people are everywhere.
and that scares me.
To be honest with you, Kim...
The only one you should be afraid of is me.
Why should I be afraid of you?
I came here of my own free will.
Because...
I know you're not what you say you are.
I want to see someone else.
Listen to me! Listen to me!
Now, I have acquaintances in Revok's group. They tell me...
They tell me that you have never been one of them.
Why are you here?
Why?
Good-bye, Kim.
It must be Kim.
Where is she?
This is more important.
No!
No, this is more important.
The computer is more important.
Access the ripe program.
More important.
But the ripe program is the past.
Therefore, to access the ripe program is to access the past, no?
Access the past.
Security!
The scanners, find them and kill them.
Put it on the air!
Find them and kill them.
Mustn't happen again.
It's always been there inside me...
Lurking away.
Sucking out my joy and rotting my successes.
Cameron, oh, Cameron.
I have a way with you, Cameron.
Mustn't happen again.
Ripe... ripe, indeed.
The ripe program must be stopped!
This isn't the same thing, you understand?
Not the same thing at all.
It's different.
First time was an accident.
Fortunate for some...
unfortunate for others.
The ripe program is cold and cruel.
Very... very cold.
Very cruel.
What happened?
Keller tried to kill me.
Keller? Then he's the one.
Oh, my god.
Mom, what are you doing here?
I'm sorry, mom.
Mom, I didn't... I... I didn't mean it.
I didn't mean it, mom. Please!
There was blood on my hand.
Secure the computer room!
Blood on my hand.
What's going on?
What the hell is going on?
It's the scanners, sir. They're out.
Is this the only way we can do it?
If we don't plug into the computer now,
they're going to reprogram it.
What does that mean?
It means that someone has reprogrammed the computer in such a way
that the ripe program is locked away inside.
Somebody not only threw away the key. He plugged the keyhole.
Try it again.
That's as deep into it as we're going to get.
Hey, Lee, punch up your internal monitor.
- Access is I M 863. - Why? What is it?
Someone's inside this thing right now. Getting the ripe program.
How can this happen?
This room is max security.
We're plugged into the telephone system.
Anybody who has the proper series of access codes could get in here long distance.
You mean, someone's getting that right now?
Yeah.
Damn!
It's him.
It's Vale. He's inside.
- Is that possible? - It's got to be.
It's got to be. I want to hurt him.
How can we hurt him before he gets out?
Hurt him? I don't understand.
Vale's nervous system and the computer's nervous system are joined together.
He's scanning it.
I want to cripple them both.
Or maybe kill them both. How?
I don't know if it's what you want,
but I could override the max security self-destruct.
It's designed to blow all the circuits
in case of anticipated possession of data
by unauthorized and unfriendly forces.
Do it now.
But, sir that would entail a total loss of all data,
all programs within the consec system.
I couldn't do that without the written authorization of consec leader.
Mister, this is your authorization.
Sit down!
Do it now or I'll kill you.
Yes, sir I'm doing it now.
Sir, I have to finish it over there.
Sir, this is the last step.
- Are you sure? - Do it!
There's no need for that.
It's all very quiet.
It's just internal switching.
Really? No one's ever switched off a scanner before.
Whoa, shit!
See, I told you.
No fireworks!
Hey, I'll go find the doctor.
All right. I'll keep an eye on the door.
Excuse me. Do you know if the receptionist is coming back soon?
Yeah, I guess so.
Thanks.
Please, I'll be with you in a few moments.
I have to talk to you right now, doctor.
Will you please get out of here?
It's about this drug, Dr. Frane.
I understand you've been prescribing it to some patients.
Excuse me.
I'll be back in just a moment.
Just relax. Read a magazine.
Where did you get this?
What do you want with me?
Who are you?
What happened?
I was scanned.
The woman in the... in the waiting room.
She scanned you?
No, not her...
Her child.
Her unborn child scanned me.
That's what the ripe program is.
The doctors on the computer list
are giving ephemeral to there pregnant patients.
- I don't understand. - Ephemeral!
Ephemeral is creating new scanners.
- Hold still. - Oh, god!
- Hold still. - Oh, my god.
OK, OK, come on.
Let's got out of here.
Come on, you can make it. Come on!
- Kim! Kim! - Vale.
Kim.
Sleeping beauty awakes.
Where's Kim?
The next room.
She'll be awake in a few hours.
We don't want anyone in here with us.
This is just between you and me.
Where's your partner Keller? He should be here.
Keller? Seems he died when you blew up his computer.
By the way, that was very impressive.
Keller murdered Dr. Ruth. He deserved to die.
Shouldn't mourn the good doctor's death.
You should celebrate it with me.
Dr. Ruth was a great man.
He tried to help us. He helped me.
'Great man.'
There's only one person on earth who ever tried to help you and that's me.
You?
You sent your soldiers out to kill me.
Never. Never you.
I've spent years looking for you.
And then when Keller told me that Ruth had dressed you up
and sent you out as some ridiculous amateur spy,
I tried to take care of you look after you, guide you to me.
Now why would you try to do that?
Who's your mother?
I don't know.
Who's your father?
I don't know.
What was your first childhood memory?
I don't have any.
No, you don't. It's no accident that you don't.
You were kept on ice.
It wasn't until consec had trouble putting me away that they thawed you out.
You've been monitored every day of your life allowed to live like garbage, scum.
He knew where you were but it wasn't until he needed you
that he reached down and hauled you up out of the slime.
Who?
Your father...
Dr. Paul Ruth.
Our father.
No.
You're my brother, Cameron...
my kid brother.
No.
Sit down. I want to show you something.
This was a test campaign used in 1947 to market a new product.
The product was a drug a tranquilizer called ephemeral.
It was aimed at pregnant women.
If it had worked it would have been marketed all over North America.
But the campaign failed and the drug failed.
Because it had a side effect on the unborn children an invisible side effect.
It created scanners.
Yes, the man who invented ephemeral was very excited by this weird mutation it caused.
So was consec.
They offered to finance his experiments...
so he sold them his company and himself.
And that man was Dr. Ruth?
That was daddy.
Now I said that the side effects of ephemeral
were invisible but that's not completely true.
Daddy could see them. He could see them in us.
He had given the prototype of ephemeral to his pregnant wife, our mother
4 years before it hit the market and then again a year later.
These children turned out to be difficult
till he realized that the only thing that would calm them down
was his drug, ephemeral.
That's why we're older than all the others.
Not only older more powerful.
The rest of them they're nothing compared to us.
Then what did you need Keller for?
Consec had hardware. It had contacts.
- Keller could see the future. - The future?
You murdered the future.
That's negative, Cam. Defeatist. Disappoints me to hear you talk that way.
You're starting to sound like them.
There's a whole generation of scanner soldiers just a few months away from being born.
We'll find them train them to be like us,
Not like an old person or a band of cripples.
Bring the world of normals to their knees.
Rule an empire so brilliant, so glorious
we'll be the envy of the whole planet.
You sound just like him like Ruth.
No, not like him.
- Like Revok, Darryl Revok! - No, like him.
It's as though he's been reincarnated in you.
You're not listening to me.
You're not cooperating, Cam.
You're not cooperating with me at all.
I've been counting on you for years, Cam.
Tell me you're not going to betray me like all the rest.
Tell me you're not.
No!
All right, we're going to do it the scanner way. I'm going to suck your brain dry.
Everything you are is going to become me.
You're going to be with me Cameron, no matter what.
After all, brothers should be close. Don't you think?
Cameron?
Kim.
It's me, Kim, Cameron. I'm here.
We've won.