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The last thing Edison sees before he loses consciousness is a sign in the parking lot reading: "Max Headroom 2.3 m."īryce obtains Edison's unconscious body. Edison is chased through the Network 23 building by security, which terminates when Bryce sends him careening off a motorcycle into unconsciousness. Edison views the rebus tape and attempts to record it, but Bryce cuts his video feed. Bryce is alerted to Edison's presence and calls Network 23 security. That night, Theora helps Edison break into Bryce's lab, located in a secret section of the Network 23 building. She demonstrates her skill by accessing a security camera in the Network 23 executive bathroom, where she and Edison overhear Grossberg and Ben talking about the blipvert incident and how Edison got "too close to the truth." When they mention Bryce's rebus tape, Edison decides to investigate further. One of the executives, Ben Cheviot, demands that blipverts be pulled from the air, but Grossberg refuses, as it would cost them their deal with the sponsor employing the blipverts.Įdison's controller is replaced by a new controller, Theora Jones, whom Edison greets coldly. However, the sudden influx of stimuli to a person's neurons has a small chance of overloading their nervous system with an electrical charge, hence the explosion. Bryce explains that it was caused by a new form of advertising employed by Networt 23 called "blipverts." Bryce invented the blipvert to compress a 30-second advertisement into 3 seconds in order to prevent channel switching. He shows a "rebus tape," a video recorded using spy technology built into a television set, to show the circumstances of the murder Edison was trying to expose: it displays a man watching a football game apparently spontaneously exploding. The Network 23 executives hold a meeting and are joined via videophone by Bryce Lynch, a boy genius in the employ of Grossberg, the CEO of Network 23. He blames his "controller," Gorrister, for the failure and tells his producer Murray that he wants "the best" controller possible. When Edison protests, he is beaten by the police and barely makes it back to the station with his life. Edison Carter, a reporter for Network 23, attempts to cover a news story about a mysterious murder in an apartment complex, but the police and the higher-ups at the network conspire to pull Edison from the story. The episode, set "20 minutes into the future," portrays a dystopian society where television networks dominate the world, the most prominent of which is Network 23.
#Max headroom tv show series
The pilot of this dramatic television series about Max Headroom, a computer-generated television host in a dystopian future where television networks rule the world.