Scanners
- R
- Year:
- 1981
- 103 min
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Look at that fellow over there.
I have never seen anything
so disgusting in all my life.
I'll tell you something, he's staring.
- I think we're being picked up.
- Oh, it's too awful.
Can you believe
they allow creatures like that in here?
Really!
Uh...
Uh-uh-uh...
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh...
Oh, help, someone, please!
She's going to be all right.
It's all right. Stand back.
Ugh!
Damn it!
You're 35 years old, Mr. Vale.
Why are you such a derelict,
The answer is simple.
You are a scanner, which you don't realize.
That has been the source of all your agony.
But I will show you now
that it can be a source of great power.
Let them in.
Hurry up!
Hurry up!
You can talk now.
I would like to scan all of you
in this room, one at a time.
I must remind you that the scanning
experience is usually a painful one,
sometimes resulting in nosebleeds,
earaches, stomach cramps, nausea,
sometimes other symptoms
of a similar nature.
There's a doctor present. Dr. Gatineau.
I know that you've all been prepared for this
but I thought I'd remind you just the same.
There is one other thing.
No one is to leave this room,
once the demonstration has begun.
At this point I'd like to call for volunteers.
Anyone. It doesn't matter.
Fine.
Just sit right here, please.
Now, I'd like you to think
of something specific,
that will not breach
the security of your organization,
and that can be disclosed to this group.
- Something personal, perhaps.
- All right.
- I have something. Shall I close my eyes?
- It doesn't matter.
All right, yes, I have something.
Get everybody out, now!
Call ConSec leader!
- I want you to come with me.
- I didn't do anything.
I said I want you to come with me!
Come on!
Gatineau, come with us!
Down there! Quick!
Move it!
Get down!
Give him a shot of Ephemerol!
Come on!
OK.
Take it easy.
All we need is to get stopped by a cop.
It would serve him right. Why the hell
do they have to send us to the old factory?
If this guy's a scanner, they don't want him
down at Central. They're afraid of him.
He is a scanner.
Hey, where's Security 2?
He's moving up fast on the left.
Hey, man, what's happening?
Ray! What the hell's the matter with you?
You gotta pull back behind him, man.
Come on!
Ray, I'm gonna kill you if you don't do it.
Ray!
Oh, my God!
Don't stop! Move it!
No, we gotta get him out of there!
Come on now, let's go!
There are people inside!
Get up.
Let's get out of here, man!
Do you want to get us killed?
All right, now! Pipe down. All right.
Last night, we at ConSec
chose to reveal to the outside world
our work with those telepathic curiosities
known as scanners.
The result, six corpses...
and a substantial loss in credibility
for our organization.
So this morning we have a new director
of internal security, Mr. Braedon Keller.
Thank you.
Mr. Trevellyan, gentlemen,
we're in the business
of international security.
We deal in weaponry and private armies.
We do not trade
in fantasy and pipe dreams.
Let us leave the development of dolphins
and freaks as weapons of espionage
to others.
With all due respect to Dr. Paul Ruth,
I recommend that we drop
our scanner programme immediately, sir.
Dr. Ruth, what's your response?
Mr. Keller, who composed
our audience last night?
We had 25 financial and political VIPs
from all over North America.
Were these VIPs carefully screened?
was very sophisticated, yes.
Yet an assassin managed
to infiltrate this group.
- Yes.
- And kill six of our people?
- Yes.
- How did he kill them?
We have reason to believe
he used scanning techniques.
Then do you suggest, Mr. Keller,
that this highly skilled assassin, very deadly,
who embarrassed us all in front of
the community we were trying to impress
was himself a scanner?
We believe so, yes.
That, gentlemen, is my response.
The weapons capability of these telepathic...
Curiosities?
...is obvious.
If I may, Doctor? Your programme is based
on a list of 236 known scanners, is it not?
It is.
Of that number... Of that number,
how many are now working with us?
As of last night, none.
Well, then, we don't even have
a programme to drop, do we?
It shouldn't be very painful for anyone.
ConSec Surveillance has gradually lost
contact with all the names on our list.
I submit that this is not an accident.
I think we've lost them to a programme
far in advance of ours.
- You might elaborate, Dr. Ruth.
- In my study of the situation
I've come to the conclusion
that there is a scanner underground
developed at North America.
It has an organization that's well motivated,
it has a leader.
That's ridiculous. You can't get
two of them to sit in the same room
without going berserk.
You're making
a very provocative allegation, Dr. Ruth.
Who controls this group?
If you study the descriptions in this report,
you'll find that you probably met him
last night.
His name is Darryl Revok.
And he was on our list.
This is total fiction. Mr. Trevellyan...
One moment, Mr. Keller.
What do you suggest?
- Eliminate the competition.
- How?
Contact a scanner who is as yet
unknown to the underground,
convert him to our cause, and then send
him out to infiltrate the underground.
Convert him, Doctor? How?
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