One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly' Page #5

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No understanding of reverse engineering.

When they attempted to reassemble it,

they panicked.

They left nine orphan gears there

on the floor.

They're still there

on the garage floor.

Let's just go rescue

the orphan gears, dude!

Don't you see

that that's part of the plan?

They're going to try to sell them to me,

not give them...

...as they rightfully should have as

included in part of the original sale price.

Oh, my God, there's no telling

what else they've bait-and-switched.

Yeah, but if all of us go together,

oh, they'll give them back.

Oh, you bet they will.

Oh, you bet they will.

- Let's just go as a team, okay.

- Wait. Wait, wait, wait.

Are you sure there are only nine gears

on this bike?

- Eight.

- Okay, eight, nine, whatever.

Don't you think that before we go over

and accuse, and start some sh*t...

...we should find out for sure?

Right, Donna.

Who do we know who's an authority...

...on this type of bi...?

Get off me!

Let me...

We are all way too close to this.

There's only one thing we can do...

...to thwart these albino,

shape-shifting lizard b*tches.

We are gonna take this outside,

ask the first person we see.

Introduce some novelty.

That way we get an objective viewpoint.

Yeah.

By the way, I might take you up

on that $60 offer.

No, that was for an 18-speed.

You know, for this, 18 minus 10,

I'll give you 23.75.

Are you certain

that's the right math on that?

Come in.

You are Officer Fred?

- Yes.

- Have a seat, please.

All right, Fred.

We're going to administer

several tests...

...and there will be no

physical discomfort involved.

If this is about the speech I gave to the...

What this is about stems from

a recent departmental survey...

...showing that undercover agents

have been admitted...

...to neural-aphasia clinics

during the last month.

You're conscious of the high factor

of addictiveness of Substance D?

Of course I am.

Of course,

these tests in no way pertain...

...to the addictive properties

of Substance D, but to...

Well, let's start

with the set-ground test first.

Within the apparently meaningless lines

is an object that we would all recognize.

You are to tell me what that object is

and point to it in the total field.

In many of those taking Substance D...

...a split between the right and the left

hemisphere of the brain occurs...

...which results in a defect within both

the percept and cognitive systems.

Although apparently the cognitive

continues to function normally.

You located the familiar object

in this drawing?

It should just jump right out at you.

I see a Coke bottle.

A soda-pop bottle is correct.

Was it in the speech I gave?

Maybe it seemed I showed

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