Videodrome Page #6

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- It changed my life.

I'm not surprised.

It's dangerous, you know.

Because your father admits

he's somehow involved with Videodrome?

More than that. It bites.

Isn't that what you said?

What kind of teeth

do you think it has?

It triggered off a series of hallucinations.

I woke up with a headache.

- First time ever?

- No, l-I've been hallucinating for a while...

- ever since -

- What?

Since I first saw Videodrome.

How did you come

to be exposed to it?

Pirate satellite dish.

A- An accident.

I made some tapes.

This is part of my own

Videodrome collection.

But that tape is just your father

sitting at his desk.

The tone of the hallucinations is determined

by the tone of the tape's imagery.

But the Videodrome signal,

the one that does the damage...

it can be delivered

under a test pattern, anything.

Mmm.

Damage?

The signal induces

a brain tumor in the viewer.

It's the tumor that creates

the hallucinations.

You let me watch it?

I expect them to come to me eventually

to hurt me. I thought it might be you.

Now I realize you're

just another victim...

like Father was.

Where is your father?

I think I'd better talk to him.

He's in there.

I'm afraid he'll disappoint you.

This is him.

- This is all that's left.

- What are you talking about?

Brian O'Blivion died quietly

on an operating table 11 months ago.

- The brain problem?

- The Videodrome problem.

- You have it too.

- But he was on that panel show with me.

On tape.

He made thousands of them.

Sometimes three or four a day.

I keep him alive as best I can.

He had so much to offer.

My father helped

to create Videodrome.

He saw it as the next phase in the evolution

of man as a technological animal.

When he realized what his partners

were going to use it for...

he tried to take it

away from them.

And they killed him.

Quietly.

At the end, he was convinced

that public life on television...

was more real than

private life in the flesh.

He wasn't afraid

to let his body die.

Tell me about

my Videodrome problem.

My father knows much more

about it than I do.

Listen to him.

Where's Harlan?

He's not in the lab.

- I think he's up in V.T.R. Max -

- Not now.

- Harlan.

- S, patrn.

Have you been hallucinating lately?

No.

- Should I be?

- Yes.

You should be.

I believe...

that the growth in my head -

this head, this one right here -

I think that it is not

really a tumor...

not an uncontrolled,

undirected little bubbling pot offlesh...

but that it is in fact...

a new organ...

a new part of the brain.

I think that massive doses

of Videodrome signal...

will ultimately create

a new outgrowth...

of the human brain...

which will produce

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