NightMan (1997–1999): Season 2, Episode 17 - Double Double - full transcript
[SIRENS WAILING]
A dark figure
will cross your path.
Now why would you break into
this Internet cafe
to play a card game?
This is no game, Night Man.
It'’s tarot.
It tells your future.
You know me?Sure.
You have the future.
We did it, man.
We did it.
Dude, we better buck.
[EVIL LAUGH]
JOHNNY: Keyes.
This time it ends.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
JOHNNY: It'’s Keyes.
The computers were mirroring
everything in the background.
Keyes has got
cutting-edge technology.
I'’m not making the connection
with something as primitive
as tarot cards.
He has the Ultraweb.
Right, right.
Which has the power
to connect reality
with virtual reality.
Remember the Bogey Man?Yeah.
Now the Knight of Swords.
He wants
the Night Man dead,
and I want him stopped.
But remember
the Chosen One?
Evil'’s worst nightmare?
Don'’t sink to Keyes's level.
I'’m not going to.
Keyes has something
up his sleeve.
We'’ve come up
against him three times,
and all three times
we'’ve come up short.
If the law can'’t touch him,
I have to go above the law.
But speaking of the law,
Briony already thinks
that Night Man'’s
a vigilante.
And so far,
we'’ve proved her wrong.
[BRIONY CLEARING THROAT]
I hear my name.
Hey.Hey.
JOHNNY:
What brings you here?
I thought I'’d catch
your first set.
Take my mind off my
ongoing Night Man problem.
He broke into an
Internet cafe last night.
Security cameras inside
show him thrashing the place.
There'’s something
I should know?
What we were just
talking about. Keyes.
How he'’s doctored
video before.
What, you mean that tape
that tried to frame you
for being Night Man?
Well, there was no evidence
that Keyes did that.
Well, someone did it.
So, what'’s it to you?
I mean, why are you
so concerned about Night Man?
[STUTTERING]
Like you said...
someone tried
to frame me.
[MAN OVER TV]
No more showing
your driver'’s license
every time you want
to write a check.
No more pulling out
your ATM card
instead of your credit card.
No more digging
through your purse
for that HMO card you know
you had someplace.
With the revolutionary
Keyes Key,
all your cards
are rolled into one.
♪ Life'’s so simple
♪ When you hold the key
♪ Let someone else
Keep track of your life
♪ While you
♪ Just live it
Ha!
MAN: For a limited time,
buy the beautiful new
Keyes Tarot Cards,
or exciting Keyes
Sports Cards,
and get a Keyes Key
for free...Oh, my God.
This guy is not gonna stop
'’till someone stops him.
Look, I admit there'’s
potential here for abuse.
Large potential.
But until something
actually happens,
there'’s not much we can do.
I'’ll say it again,
despite your fixation
on the guy.
Keyes has never
been indicted,
let alone convicted
of any crime.
The way
that you'’re talking,
makes me wonder
if you might be.
Do you always have to go
by the book?
Took an oath to.
So did your father.
My father'’s dead.
It'’s time
for the first set.
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to The House of Soul.
And without
any further ado,
we present Domino.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
♪ Oh
♪ Oh, ooh, yeah
♪ It'’s like the cover of a book
♪ When the looking glass
♪ Has a picture made of you
♪ Take another look
♪ Behind the veiled mask
♪ There'’s a story really true
♪ It'’s gonna be
A test of your faith
♪ If the picture slips
And reveals another face
♪ Can'’t believe what you see
♪ When your mind
Is seeing double
♪ Looks deceive
Best believe
♪That you'’re gonna... ♪
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
My name is Magda.
You obviously have a message
from Kieran Keyes.
[CHUCKLES] Not I.
The cards are the ones
who speak.
Why don'’t we go up
to my place?
As you wish.
This is your apartment?
Yeah, it is.
I thought you wanted
some privacy.
[CHUCKLES]
Not I.
You.
Although, if one assumes
that the cards know
all about one,
there'’s no such thing
as privacy.
Is there...
Night Man?
Ooh. We'’re quite high.
Yeah. Yeah, we are.
Listen, I just wanna hear
about Keyes.
Why not?
Have a seat
beneath the universe.
Hold the tarot
in your hand
and concentrate on what
is concerning you
at this time.
Virtual reality.
You'’re not real.
Like the Knight of Swords
and the Bogey Man.
Oh, come on, Night Man,
you know better than that.
I'’m as real
as anything else.
[HEARTBEAT]
MAGDA: The Page of Cups.
You, of course.
A young man involved
in the arts
who practices
improvisations
in the dark.
Crossed by another Page.
An equal.
Wands represents the mind
and electronics.
Keyes.
But you'’re not saying
he'’s superior.
[CHUCKLES]
He can do that.
The past.
But don'’t worry.
The past is past.
I don'’t worry.
The present.
It'’s just like you.
Hmm.
Also known as
The Brothers.
Something that could happen.
Something that must happen.
[MAGDA LAUGHING]
[WIND HOWLING]
[THUNDERCLAP]
[CREAKING]
Come on, Johnny.
Tarot was supposed
to raise your consciousness.
Surely you can
reach the rope.
[THUNDERCLAP]
[POLE CREAKING]
[GRUNTING]
So you'’re saying you saw
this whole thing break off?
I saw it, I felt it.
Lived it.
I was hanging right here
by my fingernails.
But there was no storm,
so it must have been
some kind of an illusion.
An illusion that
soaked me to the bone.
Weird. You'’re sure
that the fortune teller
was only virtual reality?
As soon as she set me up,
she'’s vanished, like Keyes.
You still have her cards?
Yeah. Why?
Keyes must have found a way
to intermingle reality
with virtual reality.
The fortune teller
wasn'’t real,
but her cards are.
The storm
obviously wasn'’t real,
but you got soaked.
Maybe the answer
is in the cards.
Here are the cards
I got from the kids.
Whoa. Is this safe
to have this thing on
when Keyes is around?
After what
we'’ve been through,
I'’ve built the ultimate
firewall around this thing.
It'’s probably
the only computer
Keyes can'’t get to.
I think.
[PHONE RINGING]
Lieutenant Branca.
JOHNNY: Briony.
Hey, John.
Sorry I couldn'’t stay
for your next set.
Like I told you,
I was only taking a break.
No problem.
Listen, Briony, do you know
any experts on tarot cards?
Yeah. Hang on a sec.
I'’ll punch up
our consultants list.
I got experts here
on everything,
from artworks to zip guns.
Uh...
Here we are.
Jason Lot, 3715 Sutton.
So, uh, what'’s
your problem, John?
Didn'’t the gypsy at the club
give you the future you wanted?
[STUTTERS]
Thanks. I owe you one.
3715 Sutton.
[INTERCOM BUZZES]
Hey, Quilio.
Yes, Lieutenant.
Come in here a minute,
will you?
Sure, Lieutenant.
Lieutenant?
Whoa. Johnny,
check this out.
There are microcircuits
sandwiched between
the cardboard layers,
like a radio receiver.
So each card functions
as part of a network.
[BEEPING]
Keyes.
Keyes.
Thanks for seeing me
so late tonight, Mr. Lot.
That'’s all right.
I'’m a night person.
JOHNNY:
Yeah, so am I.
Uh...
You don'’t have
a computer?
I don'’t need one.
What I know
about the world
came from books
and cards
a long time ago.
Good. I like that.
So...
You'’d like to learn
about tarot, Mr. Domino?
Johnny.
Johnny.
Some people have devoted
their lives to that.
Yeah, I'’ve heard.
Tonight I just wanna
learn the basics.
All right.
There are 78 cards.
Fifty-six of them...
represent a deck
of playing cards,
since playing cards
descended from tarot.
Four suits.
Ace through ten.
But instead of
King, Queen, Jack,
we have...
King...
Queen...
Prince...
and Princess.
These cards
represent people.
Ace through ten
represent events.
Those are called
the Minor Arcana.
The lesser mysteries.
The other cards...
are the Major Arcana.
The greater mysteries.
They represent...
shall we say...
the building blocks
of existence.
The forces...
that shape our destiny
and our reality.
Everything will be
explained by them.
Everything?
What about virtual reality?
[CHUCKLING]
It may be virtual,
but it is real.
Reality is reality, Johnny.
That'’s, uh...
That'’s my problem.
What does The Tower mean?
A sudden awakening.
Humans have the habit
of thinking
they understand the world.
But every so often
their ideas
are violently shaken.
Evidently you'’ve seen
The Tower tonight.
Tell me about
the rest of them.
[BEEPING]
Raleigh?
KIERAN: Johnny.
Calling Johnny, Johnny.
[KIERAN LAUGHING]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[ELECTRIC CRACKLING]
[HORNS BLARING]
[LAUGHS MANIACALLY]
♪ Life is so simple
♪ When you hold the key
♪ Life is so simple
♪ When you hold the key
♪ Let someone else
Keep track of your life
♪ While you
♪ Just live it
[BEEPING]
MAN: ... buy the beautiful new Keyes Tarot Cards...
or exciting
Keyes Sports Cards,
and get a Keyes Key
for free...
JOHNNY: Lockdown.
[GRUNTS]
Ooh, Night Man.
Keeping fit, I see.
Don'’t you care what Keyes
is trying to do?
Kieran Keyes
is a great man
with the right vision
for America,
and for the world.
Yeah, right.
You think I'’m kidding?
[SHRIEKS]
You must be
brainwashed, or blind.
[BEEPING]
The Smothers Brothers.
[BEEPING]
Orville and Wilbur Wright.
Dizzy and Paul Dean.
Brothers.
Where are you, Keyes?
Show yourself!
KIERAN: I'’m right
where I should be.
I'’m in my domain.
I'’m all warm and crazy cozy.
Otherwise known as one vast,
seamless reality.
In here and out there.
In here, out there.
And always the twain
shall meet.
KIERAN: Welcome back, John,
to hell in the web.
Right now you'’re dying to be
an exclusive member.
That'’s the spot you lost
your daddy, isn'’t it?
Back, back,
I suppose I can'’t
expect you to cool down
when you'’re in hell.
Night Man, have you seen
my new Kieran Keyes Key
advertisement yet?
You'’ll never get away
with it, Keyes.
It'’s too obvious.
Well, that'’s the point,
Night Man.
You see,
in my previous ventures
I'’ve run in some enemies.
These enemies
I'’m sure will go
to the US government
and have them prohibit
the Keyes Key,
but not my tarot cards.
Not my sports cards,
or other collectibles
or merchandise.
That just wouldn'’t be
very nice.
What'’s the scam?
Oh, I got so much
to tell you, brother.
The scam, well...
Keyes Key,
what does it do?
It also marks
the bearer'’s movements.
And I should have
complete dossier
on 91.7 percent
of humanity soon.
What do you want, Keyes?
I want to rule the world.
That'’s what I want.
And I will.
Because, you know, Night Man,
I have the computer power
to do it.
I'’m gonna know
what every sad person,
wonderful human being wants,
at any moment,
on any issue,
and I will be able
to give it to them.
I'’m gonna be
very, very popular.
All megalomaniacs
have the same idea.
That'’s the problem
with me, Night Man.
Lately my ideas
have runneth over.
Like all the great minds.
Julius Caesar,
Alexander the Great...
Well, I can go on,
but I'’d rather talk about me.
This is my house,
my rules.
Me, me, me.
[GRUNTS]
[LAUGHING]
Why tarot cards?
Why tarot?
Look at my getups, Night Man.
This is all
because of tarot.
Do you know that in addition
to calling them "cards,"
expert also
call them "keys"?
In addition to
calling me "Keyes,"
you may call me
"The Magician."
"The Magician"?
How about if I
saw you in half?
Rimshot Johnny.
[DRUM PLAYS][COMICAL MUSIC PLAYS]
Thank you, thank you,
thank you for coming.
What a lovely crowd
we have this evening.
You know something,
Night Man?
I can, if you want me to,
let the entire world know
what your real name is,
you know.
Your real name is Johnny
with a "J" Domino.
♪ How about that?
♪ What if I were to do that?
I can, you know.
♪ With a snap of my fingers
♪ Just a little snap
♪ A snap or two
A snap to last
♪ Here and there
And everywhere
♪ Pa, pa, pam, pam
You think I care about that?
After you killed my father?
Your father
was a hero, Johnny.
He was nothing
but a hero, you know.
Loved that man.
But I'’m here today
to talk to you people
about tarot.
That is right, people. Tarot.
It is amazing!
I am telling you.
I used to wanna
control the world
with the Ultraweb.
But because of...
Well, because of Bogey Man
and that lovely, lovely Magda,
[MIMICS PANTING]
I know now,
that I can bring that world
back into the Ultraweb.
I know what people are doing
and what people
are thinking
at all times.
And, you know,
I can make people
do and think
whatever I want.
Really...
♪ Life is so simple
When you hold the key
♪ Hold the key
♪ Hold the key ♪
It won'’t do you any good
if you'’re dead.
Night Man'’s Greatest Threat.
Coming to you
this holiday season
in stereo and DVD.
Ever since the accident,
I'’ve been amused
by what people sync to.
You'’ve lost yourself in this
Night Man stuff, Johnny.
Because you used to be
a normal, happy, long-haired,
beautiful sax player.
Then you came to hear
this frequency of evil.
I'’d rather not hear it.
But as long as I do,
I won'’t turn away from it.
I know.
I understand, Johnny.
I do.
You are hardly normal.
Billions and millions
and billions of people
around this world
would pretend to be
deaf or mad.
This isn'’t the life
I'’ve chosen.
But as long as there'’s evil,
I have to do
something about it.
[SCOFFS]
[CRACKLING]
Your fatal flaw,
Night Man,
is that you care
for people.
You do.
You really do.
But do any of these people
care for you?
[THUNDERCLAP]
Look at these sassy looking
creatures on my right.
We have
the Prince of Swords.
On my left we have
the Empress of Fire.
But you'’ve lost
those friends, Night Man.
Haven'’t you?
Just like
you'’ve lost yourself.
[GRUNTING]
I don'’t wanna fight you.
[GRUNTING]
Remember.
The cards!
There'’s a dial.
[GRUNTING]
If you hurt them...
I'’m not going
to hurt them,
because I may want
to use them later.
What do you want, Keyes?
Me dead?
You could'’ve done it by now.
No, I don'’t want you dead.
Don'’t you understand,
Night Man, even now?
See, I'’ve come to realize
that you...
you have this...
this unique power.
You do. It exudes from you.
I don'’t want to destroy
that power.
In fact, I want you
to work with me.
Not a chance.
I'’d rather die.
Really?
You'’d rather die?
What about all these innocents
you could be saving?
If I work for you,
I wouldn'’t be saving people.
Well, yes,
you certainly would,
except for those that
I wouldn'’t mind seeing...
suffering.
I don'’t think I like
the health benefits.
What about the health benefits
of your friends?
I'’ll have to think about it.
My offer'’s on the table
'’till dawn.
If you decide
to see it my way,
come back.
And if not...
consequences.
[KIERAN LAUGHING]
I'’ve been trying
to reverse engineer
Keyes'’s technology
since the first time...
The cards.
There'’s a dial.
[BEEPING]
Raleigh?
Briony?
Hi, Night Man.
What'’s up?
[WITH HEAVY ACCENT]
We have a deal?
I haven'’t decided yet.
Stop playing
games with me,
or I will stop playing
games with you.
What else do you
have to offer?
What else do I have to...
Your dad.
Your father.
I could bring him
back for you.
What, like slaves?
Or a zombie?
Like these two?
No. No, no.
Fully alive, fully aware,
fully healthy.
If I go to work for you?
Johnny...
your dad
worked for me once.
That would be
just one more thing
that you two
would have in common.
If you could bring him back,
you would have done it
by now.
All right.
I am working here.
I am trying my hardest here.
You leave me no choice.
I think the battle lines
are being drawn.
It is you against me,
the king of the world!
So the interesting
thing to me
is how do we make
this battle enjoyable?
I know.
Tarot!
I will give you the same
powers of tarot
as I behold.
Take the heat, Night Man.
It'’s the stupidity.
Well, someone sure has been
cramming for his finals.
A little bit of wisdom
goes a long way.
Look at the fool.
Balancing on the edge
of the cliff.
A little bit of jeopardy.
Careful. Careful.
Not if he keeps
his balance.
Like the Scales of Justice.
Justice.
I thought you
wanted to kill me?
This is real justice, Keyes.
Just because I give you
power, Night Man,
that does not make you
the same as me, you know?
Because I am
king of the world!
King of the World,
but it'’s your own world.
And now you'’re alone in it.
No real women,
no real anything.
[STAMMERS]
What about Ali?
Ali?
You keep her
at a distance,
so she won'’t know
the real you.
Uh, a professional
relationship.
Really?Yes.
Well, perhaps you'’re right.
I mean, I have...
spent so much time
with myself lately,
I haven'’t had a lot
of time left
to play the female card.
What?
No, no, no.
What are you
talking about?
I can'’t believe
that you'’re saying that
after all that
I have done for you!
Ali, what are you
doing here?
Night Man, you did not
play a card for her!
JOHNNY: Not everything
goes by your rules, Keyes.
Not even here.
I knew she would follow me
to protect you.
That was my job!
But I thought I meant
more to you than that!
[SOBBING]
I know, I'’m sorry.
I'’m sorry.
I really am sorry,
because I...
I really do love...
I love my costume
and I love the world.
[GUNSHOT][SCREAMING]
Now why would
you do that?
KIERAN: She'’s napping.
It'’s a little game
that we play, okay?
It'’s called
Soap Opera Theater.
Lightning, please.
It'’s time to call it
a night, man.
[HEARTBEAT]
Hey, that'’s not fair.
I had Death first.
You don'’t make
all the rules.
Don'’t I? It doesn't make
any difference.
You can block my card
all you like.
It doesn'’t affect me.
No? How about now?
[BEEPING]
Yeah. Oh, boy.
All right, well...
Okay. The opposite.
The counter to death
is life. Yes.
The Empress of Nature.
You don'’t have that.
I got all the power
in the world, pal.
I got all the power
at the web.
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
What are we doing here?
There'’s nothing like returning
to a man'’s castle, is there?
This is not your castle.
You know, Johnny,
it is, in a way now.
It is and it isn'’t.
But it is.
This is my father'’s house.
The man you murdered.
No, there was no murder.
Did you ever think
for one second
that your father'’s death
might'’ve been an accident?
Accident?Uh-huh.
You'’ve traveled
through cyberspace.
You know how stressful
it can be.
This isn'’t gonna
work, Keyes.
I brought you here
for a very, very important
reason, Johnny.
Please, please,
hear me out.
What harm is there
in you dispassionately
listening to all the facts
surrounding your father'’s death?
None.
Thank you.
Fact number one.
I gave him
a very prestigious job
as head of security
of the entire web.
JOHNNY: Dad, what have they
got you doing there?
Well, the nature of my job
is confidential, Johnny.
Unless Mr. Keyes
wants to tell you about it.
Dad, there'’s something
very wrong going on.
You gotta get out of there.
Johnny, I'’m having the time of my life here.
He loved it.
The joy!
I heard it in his voice,
you could see it in his face.
You saw it in his face.
Because you fooled him.
Please. Please.
You agreed to hear me out.
Yes? That was one.
Two.
I was under extreme duress
when I sent him back
through cyberspace
Do you remember that?
Send him back or die.
Don'’t do that.
KIERAN: Remember that?
You were choking me.
I couldn'’t breathe.
All my calculations
were probably wrong
when I sent him through
the cyberspace travel.
It'’s me, Johnny.
No, I know you'’re bad.
'’Cause you're sure as hell
not my Johnny.
Send him back!
KIERAN: He was under strain.
The adrenaline was pumping.
COMPUTER: Delete. Delete.
You think all this dialog
is gonna save you?
You know, Johnny,
you have plenty of reasons
to want me dead.
But murdering your father
is not one of them.
It was a total accident.
I liked Frank.
I really liked Frank.
He was a great guy.
You know something?
He was like a father to me.
Don'’t.
The crystal ball told me,
and crystal balls don'’t lie.
Is it possible that
you and I are brothers?
What do you think?
Orcus hinted that.
Remember that?
Remember he hinted
at that, didn'’t he?
That was all an illusion.
No. No, he hinted at us
being brothers. Remember?
The battle against
your dark side.
My own brother.
What if your dark side
was really your dark brother?
Take us back.
If you wish...
brother.
Look in you mind, Johnny.
Open your mind
and you will see
that I am telling the truth.
We, you me, we are parts
of the same whole.
Just like the Bible,
good and evil,
Cain and Abel.
Cain killed Abel.
But Abel
never would be able
to kill Cain.
You know, I am defenseless.
If you do this,
this will be murder.
Nice job!
You cannot reverse
the polarity of the cards,
Night Man.
Now death is mine again.
It was a lie,
wasn'’t it?
No, it wasn'’t.
I don'’t need cards
to deal with you.
Well, then you'’ll never know
the truth, Night Man.
You lose, Keyes.
If I lose,
so do your friends.
[KIERAN LAUGHING]
Keyes.
I have to know.
Are we brothers?
Some other time, Night Man.
Ciao.
Whoa. Where...
Don'’t worry, we're back.
Night Man.
What the hell?
Where'’d he go?Uh, who?
Who? Night Man.
I didn'’t see anyone.
But then again...
I'’m a little spaced.
Maybe you are too.
Nice outfit, Lieutenant.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
A dark figure
will cross your path.
Now why would you break into
this Internet cafe
to play a card game?
This is no game, Night Man.
It'’s tarot.
It tells your future.
You know me?Sure.
You have the future.
We did it, man.
We did it.
Dude, we better buck.
[EVIL LAUGH]
JOHNNY: Keyes.
This time it ends.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
JOHNNY: It'’s Keyes.
The computers were mirroring
everything in the background.
Keyes has got
cutting-edge technology.
I'’m not making the connection
with something as primitive
as tarot cards.
He has the Ultraweb.
Right, right.
Which has the power
to connect reality
with virtual reality.
Remember the Bogey Man?Yeah.
Now the Knight of Swords.
He wants
the Night Man dead,
and I want him stopped.
But remember
the Chosen One?
Evil'’s worst nightmare?
Don'’t sink to Keyes's level.
I'’m not going to.
Keyes has something
up his sleeve.
We'’ve come up
against him three times,
and all three times
we'’ve come up short.
If the law can'’t touch him,
I have to go above the law.
But speaking of the law,
Briony already thinks
that Night Man'’s
a vigilante.
And so far,
we'’ve proved her wrong.
[BRIONY CLEARING THROAT]
I hear my name.
Hey.Hey.
JOHNNY:
What brings you here?
I thought I'’d catch
your first set.
Take my mind off my
ongoing Night Man problem.
He broke into an
Internet cafe last night.
Security cameras inside
show him thrashing the place.
There'’s something
I should know?
What we were just
talking about. Keyes.
How he'’s doctored
video before.
What, you mean that tape
that tried to frame you
for being Night Man?
Well, there was no evidence
that Keyes did that.
Well, someone did it.
So, what'’s it to you?
I mean, why are you
so concerned about Night Man?
[STUTTERING]
Like you said...
someone tried
to frame me.
[MAN OVER TV]
No more showing
your driver'’s license
every time you want
to write a check.
No more pulling out
your ATM card
instead of your credit card.
No more digging
through your purse
for that HMO card you know
you had someplace.
With the revolutionary
Keyes Key,
all your cards
are rolled into one.
♪ Life'’s so simple
♪ When you hold the key
♪ Let someone else
Keep track of your life
♪ While you
♪ Just live it
Ha!
MAN: For a limited time,
buy the beautiful new
Keyes Tarot Cards,
or exciting Keyes
Sports Cards,
and get a Keyes Key
for free...Oh, my God.
This guy is not gonna stop
'’till someone stops him.
Look, I admit there'’s
potential here for abuse.
Large potential.
But until something
actually happens,
there'’s not much we can do.
I'’ll say it again,
despite your fixation
on the guy.
Keyes has never
been indicted,
let alone convicted
of any crime.
The way
that you'’re talking,
makes me wonder
if you might be.
Do you always have to go
by the book?
Took an oath to.
So did your father.
My father'’s dead.
It'’s time
for the first set.
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to The House of Soul.
And without
any further ado,
we present Domino.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
♪ Oh
♪ Oh, ooh, yeah
♪ It'’s like the cover of a book
♪ When the looking glass
♪ Has a picture made of you
♪ Take another look
♪ Behind the veiled mask
♪ There'’s a story really true
♪ It'’s gonna be
A test of your faith
♪ If the picture slips
And reveals another face
♪ Can'’t believe what you see
♪ When your mind
Is seeing double
♪ Looks deceive
Best believe
♪That you'’re gonna... ♪
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
My name is Magda.
You obviously have a message
from Kieran Keyes.
[CHUCKLES] Not I.
The cards are the ones
who speak.
Why don'’t we go up
to my place?
As you wish.
This is your apartment?
Yeah, it is.
I thought you wanted
some privacy.
[CHUCKLES]
Not I.
You.
Although, if one assumes
that the cards know
all about one,
there'’s no such thing
as privacy.
Is there...
Night Man?
Ooh. We'’re quite high.
Yeah. Yeah, we are.
Listen, I just wanna hear
about Keyes.
Why not?
Have a seat
beneath the universe.
Hold the tarot
in your hand
and concentrate on what
is concerning you
at this time.
Virtual reality.
You'’re not real.
Like the Knight of Swords
and the Bogey Man.
Oh, come on, Night Man,
you know better than that.
I'’m as real
as anything else.
[HEARTBEAT]
MAGDA: The Page of Cups.
You, of course.
A young man involved
in the arts
who practices
improvisations
in the dark.
Crossed by another Page.
An equal.
Wands represents the mind
and electronics.
Keyes.
But you'’re not saying
he'’s superior.
[CHUCKLES]
He can do that.
The past.
But don'’t worry.
The past is past.
I don'’t worry.
The present.
It'’s just like you.
Hmm.
Also known as
The Brothers.
Something that could happen.
Something that must happen.
[MAGDA LAUGHING]
[WIND HOWLING]
[THUNDERCLAP]
[CREAKING]
Come on, Johnny.
Tarot was supposed
to raise your consciousness.
Surely you can
reach the rope.
[THUNDERCLAP]
[POLE CREAKING]
[GRUNTING]
So you'’re saying you saw
this whole thing break off?
I saw it, I felt it.
Lived it.
I was hanging right here
by my fingernails.
But there was no storm,
so it must have been
some kind of an illusion.
An illusion that
soaked me to the bone.
Weird. You'’re sure
that the fortune teller
was only virtual reality?
As soon as she set me up,
she'’s vanished, like Keyes.
You still have her cards?
Yeah. Why?
Keyes must have found a way
to intermingle reality
with virtual reality.
The fortune teller
wasn'’t real,
but her cards are.
The storm
obviously wasn'’t real,
but you got soaked.
Maybe the answer
is in the cards.
Here are the cards
I got from the kids.
Whoa. Is this safe
to have this thing on
when Keyes is around?
After what
we'’ve been through,
I'’ve built the ultimate
firewall around this thing.
It'’s probably
the only computer
Keyes can'’t get to.
I think.
[PHONE RINGING]
Lieutenant Branca.
JOHNNY: Briony.
Hey, John.
Sorry I couldn'’t stay
for your next set.
Like I told you,
I was only taking a break.
No problem.
Listen, Briony, do you know
any experts on tarot cards?
Yeah. Hang on a sec.
I'’ll punch up
our consultants list.
I got experts here
on everything,
from artworks to zip guns.
Uh...
Here we are.
Jason Lot, 3715 Sutton.
So, uh, what'’s
your problem, John?
Didn'’t the gypsy at the club
give you the future you wanted?
[STUTTERS]
Thanks. I owe you one.
3715 Sutton.
[INTERCOM BUZZES]
Hey, Quilio.
Yes, Lieutenant.
Come in here a minute,
will you?
Sure, Lieutenant.
Lieutenant?
Whoa. Johnny,
check this out.
There are microcircuits
sandwiched between
the cardboard layers,
like a radio receiver.
So each card functions
as part of a network.
[BEEPING]
Keyes.
Keyes.
Thanks for seeing me
so late tonight, Mr. Lot.
That'’s all right.
I'’m a night person.
JOHNNY:
Yeah, so am I.
Uh...
You don'’t have
a computer?
I don'’t need one.
What I know
about the world
came from books
and cards
a long time ago.
Good. I like that.
So...
You'’d like to learn
about tarot, Mr. Domino?
Johnny.
Johnny.
Some people have devoted
their lives to that.
Yeah, I'’ve heard.
Tonight I just wanna
learn the basics.
All right.
There are 78 cards.
Fifty-six of them...
represent a deck
of playing cards,
since playing cards
descended from tarot.
Four suits.
Ace through ten.
But instead of
King, Queen, Jack,
we have...
King...
Queen...
Prince...
and Princess.
These cards
represent people.
Ace through ten
represent events.
Those are called
the Minor Arcana.
The lesser mysteries.
The other cards...
are the Major Arcana.
The greater mysteries.
They represent...
shall we say...
the building blocks
of existence.
The forces...
that shape our destiny
and our reality.
Everything will be
explained by them.
Everything?
What about virtual reality?
[CHUCKLING]
It may be virtual,
but it is real.
Reality is reality, Johnny.
That'’s, uh...
That'’s my problem.
What does The Tower mean?
A sudden awakening.
Humans have the habit
of thinking
they understand the world.
But every so often
their ideas
are violently shaken.
Evidently you'’ve seen
The Tower tonight.
Tell me about
the rest of them.
[BEEPING]
Raleigh?
KIERAN: Johnny.
Calling Johnny, Johnny.
[KIERAN LAUGHING]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[ELECTRIC CRACKLING]
[HORNS BLARING]
[LAUGHS MANIACALLY]
♪ Life is so simple
♪ When you hold the key
♪ Life is so simple
♪ When you hold the key
♪ Let someone else
Keep track of your life
♪ While you
♪ Just live it
[BEEPING]
MAN: ... buy the beautiful new Keyes Tarot Cards...
or exciting
Keyes Sports Cards,
and get a Keyes Key
for free...
JOHNNY: Lockdown.
[GRUNTS]
Ooh, Night Man.
Keeping fit, I see.
Don'’t you care what Keyes
is trying to do?
Kieran Keyes
is a great man
with the right vision
for America,
and for the world.
Yeah, right.
You think I'’m kidding?
[SHRIEKS]
You must be
brainwashed, or blind.
[BEEPING]
The Smothers Brothers.
[BEEPING]
Orville and Wilbur Wright.
Dizzy and Paul Dean.
Brothers.
Where are you, Keyes?
Show yourself!
KIERAN: I'’m right
where I should be.
I'’m in my domain.
I'’m all warm and crazy cozy.
Otherwise known as one vast,
seamless reality.
In here and out there.
In here, out there.
And always the twain
shall meet.
KIERAN: Welcome back, John,
to hell in the web.
Right now you'’re dying to be
an exclusive member.
That'’s the spot you lost
your daddy, isn'’t it?
Back, back,
I suppose I can'’t
expect you to cool down
when you'’re in hell.
Night Man, have you seen
my new Kieran Keyes Key
advertisement yet?
You'’ll never get away
with it, Keyes.
It'’s too obvious.
Well, that'’s the point,
Night Man.
You see,
in my previous ventures
I'’ve run in some enemies.
These enemies
I'’m sure will go
to the US government
and have them prohibit
the Keyes Key,
but not my tarot cards.
Not my sports cards,
or other collectibles
or merchandise.
That just wouldn'’t be
very nice.
What'’s the scam?
Oh, I got so much
to tell you, brother.
The scam, well...
Keyes Key,
what does it do?
It also marks
the bearer'’s movements.
And I should have
complete dossier
on 91.7 percent
of humanity soon.
What do you want, Keyes?
I want to rule the world.
That'’s what I want.
And I will.
Because, you know, Night Man,
I have the computer power
to do it.
I'’m gonna know
what every sad person,
wonderful human being wants,
at any moment,
on any issue,
and I will be able
to give it to them.
I'’m gonna be
very, very popular.
All megalomaniacs
have the same idea.
That'’s the problem
with me, Night Man.
Lately my ideas
have runneth over.
Like all the great minds.
Julius Caesar,
Alexander the Great...
Well, I can go on,
but I'’d rather talk about me.
This is my house,
my rules.
Me, me, me.
[GRUNTS]
[LAUGHING]
Why tarot cards?
Why tarot?
Look at my getups, Night Man.
This is all
because of tarot.
Do you know that in addition
to calling them "cards,"
expert also
call them "keys"?
In addition to
calling me "Keyes,"
you may call me
"The Magician."
"The Magician"?
How about if I
saw you in half?
Rimshot Johnny.
[DRUM PLAYS][COMICAL MUSIC PLAYS]
Thank you, thank you,
thank you for coming.
What a lovely crowd
we have this evening.
You know something,
Night Man?
I can, if you want me to,
let the entire world know
what your real name is,
you know.
Your real name is Johnny
with a "J" Domino.
♪ How about that?
♪ What if I were to do that?
I can, you know.
♪ With a snap of my fingers
♪ Just a little snap
♪ A snap or two
A snap to last
♪ Here and there
And everywhere
♪ Pa, pa, pam, pam
You think I care about that?
After you killed my father?
Your father
was a hero, Johnny.
He was nothing
but a hero, you know.
Loved that man.
But I'’m here today
to talk to you people
about tarot.
That is right, people. Tarot.
It is amazing!
I am telling you.
I used to wanna
control the world
with the Ultraweb.
But because of...
Well, because of Bogey Man
and that lovely, lovely Magda,
[MIMICS PANTING]
I know now,
that I can bring that world
back into the Ultraweb.
I know what people are doing
and what people
are thinking
at all times.
And, you know,
I can make people
do and think
whatever I want.
Really...
♪ Life is so simple
When you hold the key
♪ Hold the key
♪ Hold the key ♪
It won'’t do you any good
if you'’re dead.
Night Man'’s Greatest Threat.
Coming to you
this holiday season
in stereo and DVD.
Ever since the accident,
I'’ve been amused
by what people sync to.
You'’ve lost yourself in this
Night Man stuff, Johnny.
Because you used to be
a normal, happy, long-haired,
beautiful sax player.
Then you came to hear
this frequency of evil.
I'’d rather not hear it.
But as long as I do,
I won'’t turn away from it.
I know.
I understand, Johnny.
I do.
You are hardly normal.
Billions and millions
and billions of people
around this world
would pretend to be
deaf or mad.
This isn'’t the life
I'’ve chosen.
But as long as there'’s evil,
I have to do
something about it.
[SCOFFS]
[CRACKLING]
Your fatal flaw,
Night Man,
is that you care
for people.
You do.
You really do.
But do any of these people
care for you?
[THUNDERCLAP]
Look at these sassy looking
creatures on my right.
We have
the Prince of Swords.
On my left we have
the Empress of Fire.
But you'’ve lost
those friends, Night Man.
Haven'’t you?
Just like
you'’ve lost yourself.
[GRUNTING]
I don'’t wanna fight you.
[GRUNTING]
Remember.
The cards!
There'’s a dial.
[GRUNTING]
If you hurt them...
I'’m not going
to hurt them,
because I may want
to use them later.
What do you want, Keyes?
Me dead?
You could'’ve done it by now.
No, I don'’t want you dead.
Don'’t you understand,
Night Man, even now?
See, I'’ve come to realize
that you...
you have this...
this unique power.
You do. It exudes from you.
I don'’t want to destroy
that power.
In fact, I want you
to work with me.
Not a chance.
I'’d rather die.
Really?
You'’d rather die?
What about all these innocents
you could be saving?
If I work for you,
I wouldn'’t be saving people.
Well, yes,
you certainly would,
except for those that
I wouldn'’t mind seeing...
suffering.
I don'’t think I like
the health benefits.
What about the health benefits
of your friends?
I'’ll have to think about it.
My offer'’s on the table
'’till dawn.
If you decide
to see it my way,
come back.
And if not...
consequences.
[KIERAN LAUGHING]
I'’ve been trying
to reverse engineer
Keyes'’s technology
since the first time...
The cards.
There'’s a dial.
[BEEPING]
Raleigh?
Briony?
Hi, Night Man.
What'’s up?
[WITH HEAVY ACCENT]
We have a deal?
I haven'’t decided yet.
Stop playing
games with me,
or I will stop playing
games with you.
What else do you
have to offer?
What else do I have to...
Your dad.
Your father.
I could bring him
back for you.
What, like slaves?
Or a zombie?
Like these two?
No. No, no.
Fully alive, fully aware,
fully healthy.
If I go to work for you?
Johnny...
your dad
worked for me once.
That would be
just one more thing
that you two
would have in common.
If you could bring him back,
you would have done it
by now.
All right.
I am working here.
I am trying my hardest here.
You leave me no choice.
I think the battle lines
are being drawn.
It is you against me,
the king of the world!
So the interesting
thing to me
is how do we make
this battle enjoyable?
I know.
Tarot!
I will give you the same
powers of tarot
as I behold.
Take the heat, Night Man.
It'’s the stupidity.
Well, someone sure has been
cramming for his finals.
A little bit of wisdom
goes a long way.
Look at the fool.
Balancing on the edge
of the cliff.
A little bit of jeopardy.
Careful. Careful.
Not if he keeps
his balance.
Like the Scales of Justice.
Justice.
I thought you
wanted to kill me?
This is real justice, Keyes.
Just because I give you
power, Night Man,
that does not make you
the same as me, you know?
Because I am
king of the world!
King of the World,
but it'’s your own world.
And now you'’re alone in it.
No real women,
no real anything.
[STAMMERS]
What about Ali?
Ali?
You keep her
at a distance,
so she won'’t know
the real you.
Uh, a professional
relationship.
Really?Yes.
Well, perhaps you'’re right.
I mean, I have...
spent so much time
with myself lately,
I haven'’t had a lot
of time left
to play the female card.
What?
No, no, no.
What are you
talking about?
I can'’t believe
that you'’re saying that
after all that
I have done for you!
Ali, what are you
doing here?
Night Man, you did not
play a card for her!
JOHNNY: Not everything
goes by your rules, Keyes.
Not even here.
I knew she would follow me
to protect you.
That was my job!
But I thought I meant
more to you than that!
[SOBBING]
I know, I'’m sorry.
I'’m sorry.
I really am sorry,
because I...
I really do love...
I love my costume
and I love the world.
[GUNSHOT][SCREAMING]
Now why would
you do that?
KIERAN: She'’s napping.
It'’s a little game
that we play, okay?
It'’s called
Soap Opera Theater.
Lightning, please.
It'’s time to call it
a night, man.
[HEARTBEAT]
Hey, that'’s not fair.
I had Death first.
You don'’t make
all the rules.
Don'’t I? It doesn't make
any difference.
You can block my card
all you like.
It doesn'’t affect me.
No? How about now?
[BEEPING]
Yeah. Oh, boy.
All right, well...
Okay. The opposite.
The counter to death
is life. Yes.
The Empress of Nature.
You don'’t have that.
I got all the power
in the world, pal.
I got all the power
at the web.
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
What are we doing here?
There'’s nothing like returning
to a man'’s castle, is there?
This is not your castle.
You know, Johnny,
it is, in a way now.
It is and it isn'’t.
But it is.
This is my father'’s house.
The man you murdered.
No, there was no murder.
Did you ever think
for one second
that your father'’s death
might'’ve been an accident?
Accident?Uh-huh.
You'’ve traveled
through cyberspace.
You know how stressful
it can be.
This isn'’t gonna
work, Keyes.
I brought you here
for a very, very important
reason, Johnny.
Please, please,
hear me out.
What harm is there
in you dispassionately
listening to all the facts
surrounding your father'’s death?
None.
Thank you.
Fact number one.
I gave him
a very prestigious job
as head of security
of the entire web.
JOHNNY: Dad, what have they
got you doing there?
Well, the nature of my job
is confidential, Johnny.
Unless Mr. Keyes
wants to tell you about it.
Dad, there'’s something
very wrong going on.
You gotta get out of there.
Johnny, I'’m having the time of my life here.
He loved it.
The joy!
I heard it in his voice,
you could see it in his face.
You saw it in his face.
Because you fooled him.
Please. Please.
You agreed to hear me out.
Yes? That was one.
Two.
I was under extreme duress
when I sent him back
through cyberspace
Do you remember that?
Send him back or die.
Don'’t do that.
KIERAN: Remember that?
You were choking me.
I couldn'’t breathe.
All my calculations
were probably wrong
when I sent him through
the cyberspace travel.
It'’s me, Johnny.
No, I know you'’re bad.
'’Cause you're sure as hell
not my Johnny.
Send him back!
KIERAN: He was under strain.
The adrenaline was pumping.
COMPUTER: Delete. Delete.
You think all this dialog
is gonna save you?
You know, Johnny,
you have plenty of reasons
to want me dead.
But murdering your father
is not one of them.
It was a total accident.
I liked Frank.
I really liked Frank.
He was a great guy.
You know something?
He was like a father to me.
Don'’t.
The crystal ball told me,
and crystal balls don'’t lie.
Is it possible that
you and I are brothers?
What do you think?
Orcus hinted that.
Remember that?
Remember he hinted
at that, didn'’t he?
That was all an illusion.
No. No, he hinted at us
being brothers. Remember?
The battle against
your dark side.
My own brother.
What if your dark side
was really your dark brother?
Take us back.
If you wish...
brother.
Look in you mind, Johnny.
Open your mind
and you will see
that I am telling the truth.
We, you me, we are parts
of the same whole.
Just like the Bible,
good and evil,
Cain and Abel.
Cain killed Abel.
But Abel
never would be able
to kill Cain.
You know, I am defenseless.
If you do this,
this will be murder.
Nice job!
You cannot reverse
the polarity of the cards,
Night Man.
Now death is mine again.
It was a lie,
wasn'’t it?
No, it wasn'’t.
I don'’t need cards
to deal with you.
Well, then you'’ll never know
the truth, Night Man.
You lose, Keyes.
If I lose,
so do your friends.
[KIERAN LAUGHING]
Keyes.
I have to know.
Are we brothers?
Some other time, Night Man.
Ciao.
Whoa. Where...
Don'’t worry, we're back.
Night Man.
What the hell?
Where'’d he go?Uh, who?
Who? Night Man.
I didn'’t see anyone.
But then again...
I'’m a little spaced.
Maybe you are too.
Nice outfit, Lieutenant.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]