COWBOY BEBOP# 23
The television. Doctor Londes, a man who has been appearing frequently on the television recently promoting a religious movement called SCRATCH.
LONDES: What is a physical body? The body is merely an object. It is an existence all too impure to store the gods within us called souls. Now you will remember. The blood stained history! Material desire. Hunger. Sexual drive. Desire to dominate. Desire for fame. As long as there is a body, desires will be born. As long as there is desire, human ego will not disappear. Humans will continue to fight to fulfill their bodies' desires, and it will never end. At this rate, there is no future! Now awaken your soul! Now be rid of that filthy body!
SCRATCH MEMBERS: We are SCRATCH, an electronic transcendence group. We are disciples of God, sent here to free your soul from your body and lead you to the infinite sea of electrons.
Session #23
BRAIN SCRATCH
CBC News. Anchorman Mark Rather.
RATHER: Good evening. This is CBC News. First, we have news about the electronic transcendence group SCRATCH. Last week, the ISSP and all Sol Solar system police departments received the subpoena for the leader, Londes and began searching the homes of high-ranking members...
The channel is changed. Another news program on SCRATCH. graphic shots of dead SCRATCH members are shown. The headline: "Insane Order! SCRATCH." Reporter Samantha Copeland stands before a large crowd.
COPELAND: Here at the scene, enticing people with "easy entry" and "salvation of the soul," SCRATCH has been able to constantly grow in numbers. However, another suicide -
The channel is changed. Another news program on SCRATCH.
ANCHOR: The members of SCRATCH use the brain wave control device on this new game console to scan their own brain waves and use a program created by their leader, Londes which is said to copy the spirit from brain waves as digital data and upload that spirit data into the universal network. They believe that doing this will make them exist as a soul without a body. Now Professor they say that Londes, the leader, was once a doctor. Is such a thing possible?
PROFESSOR: This is ridiculous. Completely in the realm of science fiction. It may be theoretically possible to do so but a theory is only a theory, in the end.
The channel is changed. A talk show. A sobbing woman talks to the host. Her face and voice are censored.
WOMAN: Yes, and he hasn't returned for two weeks.
HOST: Lady, you have to talk it out with your husband. It's about your son –
WOMAN: But... he isn't the type that would just run away from home... Could he have been kidnapped?!
HOST: Lady, are you listening to what I'm saying?
WOMAN: That's got to be it! That religion that's been popular lately... That whatchamacallit –
HOST: All right, we're gonna take a break.
A commercial featuring an exercise machine presented by celebrity David Blakely.
BLAKELY: Hi! Today, I'm introducing Power CDJ, an item for DJ's who don't exercise much! You adjust the BPM using this lever and it allows you to be a DJ while you exercise!
The channel is changed. Another news program. The reporter is live at a chapter of SCRATCH. She interviews Faye.
REPORTER: Then, the reason you decided to join is...?
FAYE: Yes, ur, I... I got tired of a debt-filled life and that was when I found this... Yes... If I rid myself of a body, I'll no longer need money!
The Bebop. Spike is disgusted that goes double for Amber too.
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