Max headroom incident tv tropes1/15/2024 ![]() ![]() When Carter catches up with Theora at the restaurant, just as she's learned that her brother no longer works there, she is angry at being followed. In the meantime, Shawn has been badly hurt in a raking match. With that and a look at Theora's personnel record, which mentions several unknown items of interest including her brother, Carter takes off in search of her. Bryce dithers suddenly the material is up on the monitor, courtesy of a chuckling Max Headroom. Theora's unexplained departure infuriates Murray, who orders her put on suspension or fired, even though Carter objects.Ĭoncerned, Carter tries to convince Bryce Lynch to make an end run on Network 23's security and show him the security tape of Theora at her workstation. Murray's clumsiness with the newer equipment causes them to fail. Theora's abrupt departure from her station leaves Murray, out of practice and inept, to cover Edison Carter on a story - an attempt to catch the "Bureau Burner" arsonist. and to get an ugly hint that he's involved with raking. Theora traces him to the posh restaurant where he works, only to find he has lost his job as a busboy. When Theora receives a frantic phone call from her sister-in-law Winnie, she comes running to help only to find that Winnie will not tell her where her estranged brother Shawn is. With his new control of Network 23's computers and broadcasting, he pops up here and there, querying the viewers about the effects of this mindless violence on the mindless. Since the whole world is television to him, he doesn't realize that "Missile Mike" is a violent TV show - part of Network 23's children's programming - and not reality. Max has become concerned about the homicidal madman he sees running around and laying waste to 100 people an hour. A young "raker" stops to look at a TV, and finds himself talking to Max. And when the sports promoters got ahold of it, it turned into an underground blood sport where the "rakers" are armed with steel claws to enhance the damage while gamblers wager on their bouts. Then it was a rougher street sport where the accidental collisions became deliberate moves as skaters worked to knock each other off their boards. Then it was boarding on crudely motorized skateboards. ![]() A Fringer woman mutters instructions into a microphone - to whom, we don't yet know.Īt first, it was skateboarding. We're 20 minutes into the future in a Fringer wasteland at night, with montage-stacks of tvs showing eerie sequences of images. ![]()
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