RoboCop: The Series

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Good evening. I'm Bo Harlan with Rocky Crenshaw,

and these are today's top stories:

Good news for the environment. In Detroit today the first.

BS-5000 rolled off the assembly line.

Rocky, it's a methane powered car that actually runs on manure.

Oh, there's certainly lots of that around, Bo.

On a more serious note. Another homeless man has disappeared

from our city streets, the twelfth in less than a month.

Please report known new clues and fear that a serial killer,

some call 'the Dogtown Ripper', may be stalking Old Detroit homeless.

Good news for Delta City today.

Omni-Consumer Products announced plans to use cutting edge technology

in a far reaching project that will automate.

Delta City's utilities in public transportation infrastructure.

I have great hopes for Metronet,

a supercomputer that will power this city into a future,

that not only has the silver lining

but will work better and cost less.

But can it program your VCR?

We'll be right back.

They're flagellant or senile,

and the best years of their lives are pretty much behind.

If you're over sixty, should you still be allowed to vote?

Tune in tomorrow and we'll see "What's on Your Mind" with me, Umberto Ortega.

This just in. A terrorist is taking hostages

at a retirement home in Old Detroit.

We take you now to the scene live with MediaBreak correspondent Charles Coffey.

- Charles? - Yes, Rockee, I'm here, at Convalescence Services.

And it's not a pretty picture. One officer dead, one wounded,

and inside - William Ray 'Pudface' Morgan,

a violent psychopath who recently escaped from the Henry Ford center for the morally challenged.

He's currently holding a group of helpless retired people hostage.

Don't jerk me around, cops! Do what I tell you,

or I'll get mad and do something really ugly!

You know there's no escape, Morgan! You know we don't negotiate with terrorists!

Sergeant, he's up there with a military hardware, he's got the whole place barricaded.

Yeah, there are two or three of his gang in there

that who would just love us to try a frontal assault.

Tell us, Sergeant, just exactly what it is Mr. Morgan wants?

Money? A pardon?

Perhaps an exclusive interview with me?

You know, I wish it was that simple.

See, when he was arrested five years ago by Robocop,

he suffered severe damage to his face in a toxic accident of his own making.

So what you're saying is, he wants revenge?

- No, he wants Robocop! - Listen up!

You've got one minute to send me the robot,

or I'll blow all this thing and send them to kingdom come!

- Any comments, Sergeant? Officer? - Get outta here.

- All right, here's the situation... - You called me...

It's bad.

Go get them, Murphy.

'Pudface' Morgan?

Hey, robot.

You wanted to talk to me?

Nah... I wanna kill ya.

Hands above your head. You are under arrest.

No, you're too late for that, robot.

Take a good look at this face.

You did this to me.

Every time I sneeze I think of you.

And I don't wanna ever think of you again!

Now what, tin man?

Police brutality?

In front of all these prune sacs?

You're deadly, you metal giant...

Aaaah...!

Nice job back there, Murphy.

Thank you, Madigan.

Oh, I took my exam for detective this morning.

I don't know for sure but I think I aced it.

The force can always use another good detective.

Thank you.

Messy, lazy, sentimental,

irrational, supersticious, compassionate.

The main obstacle to running the world properly

has always been the human element.

Pardon me?

- You're right about that, doc. - Yes, I tried, I tried

to convince those fools at MIT futurological congress.

Of course they had no vision. They threw ethics at me.

- Well, I should hope so. - Well, that'll never happen here at OCP, doc.

This isn't academia. It's corporate culture, baby.

We've got the money, we've got the gas, we've got the guts.

After you.

Yes, now the real work can begin,

which, of course, means obliterating everything spontaneous.

NeuroBrain will reduce all decisions

to an unimpeachable binary utopia:

Yes-no, black-white, on-off, yes-no, black-white...

In short, utter perfection.

- What about the human spirit? - The human spirit?

Ha-ha. My dear chaos behind the other name.

- Miss Powers, that will be all. - No-no-no,

I would very much like to hear what your

secretary thinks of my philosophy. Is there something you don't understand?

This utopia of yours sounds close to something

a dictator like Hitler would come up with.

- And I don't think I would really like that. - How dare you

compare me to Hitler...

Don't pay attention to her, doc, she's just a secretary.

I am a vice-president, I pay to have opinions and I think you're brilliant.

Yes, Hitler was an amateur.

As you know,

OCP is hosting an upcoming shareware expo.

We never share anything but it's our chance

to sniff out the competition. Chip?

Copernicus. Newton.

Einstein. Disney.

Geniuses with the credentials to change the world.

Cybersafe Concepts has found just such brilliants

in the man it is now my pleasure to introduce to you.

My fellow executives,

doctor Cray Mallardo.

Oh, Chip...

When my new

cybernetic interface, NeuroBrain, goes online,

life as we know it will be over.

Where once a city employed and was victim to the whims

of ten thousand civil servants.

NeuroBrain can never go on strike, will not call in sick

and does not need a coffee break every 3.25 hours...

Imagine a city...

where transportation systems, like corpuscles in the blood stream,

move freely with purpose and at speed;

Where utilities are dispersed from one central point,

digestive system directing nutrients

to hungry organs: Schools and hospitals.

A law enforcement

that efficiently identifies and apprehends criminals

like antibodies attacking the virus.

It is a bold, new world, ladies and gentlemen;

And, if I have anything to say about it, one that we will be visiting very soon.

What's the earliest possible time for him to having Metronet online?

NeuroBrain portfolio, please...

Oh, no, no!

- I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! - No-no-no, don't touch me.

Don't ever touch me. No touching, no touching.

That's it, Powers, you're fired.

- Get out! - Nonsense, Chip. Accidents happen.

Now, when do you expect to be online?

Well, sir, we're pretty much ready to go right now,

it's just we have some little bugs tying down.

Excellent. When CamSoft, Mega,

Extel and all others show at shareware expo,

I want to stand at this window and see my city

run by NeuroBrain.

They'll eat their hearts out.

Get out of my way! Move it!

Look out! Emergency!

Out of the way! Watch your feet!

What are you doing back in my station again?

You've got to lock me up, sergeant Parks. I've been a material witness.

I saw some bank robbers, five or six of them,

- if you don't give me protection they'll... - No way.

You know what? You're going back to Family services.

You've gotta believe me! Please don't make me go back!

I hate that place.

Please let me stay. I'll be good.

You'll be good... you're telling lies, you run away...

You know what you need? What you need is a good spanking.

- Come here! - Help! Child abuse! Help!

You're okay?

Yes! Test results are in.

Upper 10%, thank you very much.

I knew I aced it. You think I'll make a good detective?

You figured out who I was.

I heard you trashed another car.

Any other little problems I should know about?

All systems are functional.

Good. 'Cause every time you break something I get blamed for it.

Try not to do it with... this. Check it out.

Wow. That's a... piece to roll on.

Yeah, it's one of the new interceptors. 0 to 60 in 4.2 seconds,

top speed 200+, heads-up display, maps, a satellite uplink,

and a lot of other goodies that cost more than I make any year.

Well, let us take it for a ride, shall we?

Hide me! They come to take me away...

Wow, Robocop!

You're my hero. When I grow up, I gonna be just like you.

When I grow up, I gonna be just like you, Dad.

- Hey-hey, no kids allowed. - It's okay, that's okay, ease up, Charlie.

No one's going to hurt you, what's your name, little one?

Gadget.

She's a runaway from Family services and she's going back there right now.

This is a police station, not an orphanage.

No, no, I don't wanna go back there, no!

Please don't take me...

You were thinking about them again, weren't you?

Images are all that's left of what I was.

I want to remember.

Murphy, why don't you just tell Nancy and Jimmy who you are?

No.

It's better that they think I am dead.

No, no, no!

No-no, tell the others I want main trunk

brought in under the floor here.

All right doc, I don't care what it takes