Tales from the Darkside

man lives in the sunlit world of what he

believes to be reality

but there is unseen by most an

underworld a place that is just as real

but not as brightly lit a dark side

okay I got it I got a great word GLI TCH

glitch

what kind of a word is glitch it's a

computer word mookie uses it all the

time there's no computer words in this

game

it's a foreign language it's a perfectly

good English word isn't it Mookie okay

what glitch that's a great word what

does it mean it's a computer program you

know a glitch so him English is a

foreign language well you know you can't

argue with twins they always stick

together it's 39 points we're way ahead

okay come upstairs for a sec okay

it's your turn dear all right I know

we're ahead two points you look awful

listen Pookie I want you to make me a

promise

2020 why because I'm asking you to all

right what is it I'm finishing up this

very important program on the computer I

thought I'd have time to finish it but

now I'm not so sure what do you say I'm

saying that I want you to finish it for

me Pookie no that's not what you're

saying listen to me poopy there's not

much time no I won't listen to you you

let this damn machine take over your

entire life and I hate it

Pookie you promised I don't care I'm

gonna switch it off no don't please look

I know you hate computers

but that's just because you don't know

anything about them there's a whole

world in here just waiting to be

discovered I don't know anything about

computers Mookie don't worry

I've prepared a whole special set of

instructions just for you

as special very special

sorry took so long

we're playing come back 50 points I knew

it

Susan Judy and Alison are downstairs

why don't you see them it might make you

feel better

gotta find me what are you looking for

I'm looking for some nuts that Kevin

left for me mmm what note he asked me to

finish something for him before why

don't you just let it be I can't mom

Moke you said it was important okay yeah

yeah I left some notebooks down in that

chest there in the first room

oh I forgot to tell you Dave at the

office is looking for a computer I'm

gonna ask him to uh look at ours and

possibly get it off our hands well I

think we should wait a little longer huh

she's been up there all summer she sits

there just reading those manuals and

punching in those programs she never

sees anybody she's hardly been out of

the house since the funeral just her way

of working through her grief must be the

hardest thing in the world who lose a

twin I think we just have to try to be

patient and help her through this honey

the longer we wait the worse it'll get

we'll talk tonight bye

hi I have a package for Susan Anderson

well I'm her mother good would you sign

please I don't know thank you my mom had

a real breakthrough this morning

I got into a humungous databank I think

I'm really getting somewhere

this package arrived for you do you know

anything about it no just put on the bed

don't you want to know what it is I'm in

the middle second you mind if I open it

if you want you know that riding camp

that you wanted to go to and I said you

couldn't because Kevin was so sick

well I don't see why you couldn't go now

you know you're sitting around all

summer I've signed you up for the next

two weeks session isn't it great now

it's the voice synthesiser

I can't believe it what is it the voice

synthesizer uh it's kind of a talk box

he knew I was ready for it who knew what

are you talking about

Mookie he's in the net working on the

computer he ordered it for me

you can't be serious but who could have

ordered it did you of course not I don't

know she she could have done it herself

you know Harold that's a terrible thing

to say well couldn't she Ruth

we've got to put an end to this I worked

out a deal today with dave meltzer for

the computer so let's just go up there

unplug the thing and take it out of

there just like that just like that

we've got to make a clean break now

believe me we won't have a problem

what's going on Susan we've decided now

what are you doing there

did you hear Mookie yes of course we do

no I didn't hear anybody what I heard

was a computer controlled electronic

voice no matter how fancy a computer is

Susan it's still only a machine

it was mookie calling me he's out there

in the network and he needs me to get

through to him that's why he left me his

notes mom tell him

let's talk sense Susan Kevin is not

inside a computer and he's not on any

network you don't understand Kevin's my