Videodrome

Civic TV,

the one you take to bed with you.

Max, it's that time again:

time to slowly, painfully ease yourself back into consciousness.

No, I'm not a dream,

although I've been told I'm a vision of loveliness.

- Who told you that ?

I'm nothing less than your faithful girl Friday, Bridey James,

here with your wake-up call of today, which is Wednesday the 23rd.

You got that ?

Wednesday the 23rd.

And I have a message.

Remember your meeting this morning at 6:30...

with Shinji Kuraki of Hiroshima Video.

This meeting is to take place at the Classic Hotel,

suite 17.

And needless to say, it's your first of the day.

Don't you know anyone who works 9:00 to 5:00 ?

Over and out, Commander.

Civic TV, the one you take to bed with you.

Cindy, open the door, will ya ? - Go away.

Come on. You know I love ya.

Get outta here ! - Will you open the door ? For fuck's sake, open the door !

- I want you out of this place !

For fuck's sake, open the door !

You just gotta open the fucking door !

Well, I looked over the stills.

I am interested a little bit.

How many shows you got ? - Thirteen,

with a possibility of another six if the sales go well.

You got cassettes ? - Of course.

No, hold it. Uh, show me the last one.

- Number 13.

But you won't understand anything. Everything is set up in the first two.

My audience ain't gonna see the first two shows. Show me the last one.

What do ya think ?

Can we get away with it ? Do we wanna get away with it ?

I think Oriental sex is a natural.

I think it'll get us an audience we've never had before.

I don't like it. Not tacky enough.

Not tacky enough for what ? - Tacky enough to turn me on.

Too much class is bad for sex.

Maybe.

I don't know.

It's soft.

Something too...

soft about it.

I'm lookin' for something that'll break through, ya know ?

Something... tough.

Hey, Harlan, uh-- Huh ?

Oh. Okay.

Here we go.

Now, it'll come through on that.

Now, we only got about 53 seconds, so keep your eyes open.

They've got an unscrambler scrambler, if you know what I mean.

It sensed that we were unscrambling...

and, uh, automatically changed its code on us.

What satellite is it coming from ?

Snooker, I think. - Country of origin ?

Uh, let me see. Uh-- Assuming 53 seconds represents the period of delay,

I'd say somewhere, uh,

in Malaysia ?

- Okay, here we go.

This is it.

What is that wall behind her ? What is that, clay ?

Yeah. White clay. -

I think it's electrified.

- That's it ?

That's it.

- Grotesque, as promised.

Okay. Can you hang a search on it next time it--

Already workin' on it.

I was pretty insulted when it just shrugged us off in less than a minute.

Well, patron, interested ?

Yeah. Harlan, can you do something about these labels ?

I mean, uh, this is supposed to be a clandestine operation, you know what I mean ?

Si, patron.

I always find myself getting nervous,

even if you've been doing it all your life, don't you think ?

Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure.

'Course, that's part of the excitement of it. - Mm-hmm.

Want a smoke ?

No, thanks. - Mmm.

Max, just relax. - Okay.

And now here it is: The Rena King Show.

And this afternoon, Rena's guests are Max Renn,

controversial president of Channel 83, radio personality Nicki Brand...

and media prophet Professor Brian O'Blivion.

Take it away, Rena.

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