Shriek

The Hub Network recently played the entire series of Batman Beyond.  It was aired during the perfect time when I was eating breakfast, so I had time to watch it.  I really haven't watched the show since it originally aired on Kids’ WB back around the turn of the millennium.  This is a fantastic show to watch if you’re a fan of the latest Batman film trilogy, or just a fan of Batman in general because of its plot, characters, and the villains Batman will encounter.  Speaking of which, my favorite bad dude is one named Shriek from the episode with the same name.

"Shriek" is the tenth episode of the first season and it introduces this new supervillain to the Batman franchise.  The episode begins with Derek Powers -- he’s the top man who runs Wayne-Powers (Wayne Enterprises after it merged with Powers Technology) -- is sitting in a chair in the dark.  He hears a voice say, “It’s a neglected sense: hearing.  And it shouldn’t be because all too ofter our first warning of danger is sound.”  Powers gets up from the chair and is walking around in he dark.  He’s spooked out because he hears the sounds of a tiger growling but doesn’t know where its coming from.  Then he sees a light speeding towards him.  He hears the sound of a train whistle and yells out, “Shreeve!”

A man stands with a flashlight in one hand and a device in the other.  He first turns off the flashlight and then the device.  When the device turns off, all of the sounds Powers was hearing goes away and the rooms lighting are turned back on.  He finds himself back in his office where he was at before Shreeve started his presentation.  Shreeve says, “See Mr. Powers, just an illusion.”  He was giving Powers an presentation to show what he invested his money in at Shreeve’s company.  Next he puts on a suit that covers him from head to toe.  It’s dotted with circular discs which are located on his chest, both hands, and on the center of his helmet.  He calls it a “sound suit” and those discs are sound generators.  Powers interrupts him and says, “How’s it any better than an old boombox.”  Shreeve replies, “Different kind of boom.”  He then points to a block of concrete and says, “It generates ultra low frequency vibrations which I can aim in any direction.”  At this point a transparent wave of sound leaves from Shreeve’s direction, moves across the room and then destroys the concrete block into pieces.  Shreeve notes how the suit can save money and effort for construction workers and road builders.  Powers, not impressed, says dynamite’s cheaper.  He continues by discussing how Shreeve is not a practical guy and that’s the reason why he had to bail out this company.  He now wants to see a return in his investment.  Sitting at his desk, Powers tells Shreeve that he wants him to solve a problem for him.  Shreeve asks what?  Powers says, “not what: who.”

The scene cuts to Bruce Wayne in a meeting with the higher ups at Wayne-Powers.  It’s the next day and Bruce is not happy.  He’s in front of a group of seven, explaining why he’s disappointed with his company.

“This company has always meant a great deal to me.  But now I'm ashamed of it.  Ashamed of the way it's forgotten its history.  Ashamed of how it's going to rip the heart out of this city.

I'm referring to a plan by the current leadership of Wayne-Powers to purchase Gotham City's historical district and then bulldoze it to make room for another soulless industrial complex.

Is that what we want?  Or do we want a city that remembers its history.  A city where ideals flow from the past.  Defining our present and shaping our future.”

After a moment of brief silence, each member of the board agrees with Bruce by slowly applauding the speech they’ve just heard.  One board member whispers to Powers how Mr. Wayne is in rare form today.  Powers tells him that Bruce has been on him for weeks regarding this land purchase.  Bruce requests that they bring this issue up with the stockholders so it can be put to a vote.  Others on the board agree, which forces Powers to agree as well; thus placing a hold on the company from buying the land.  With this battle that Wayne has just won, he gestures Powers with a smirk.

Bruce leaves the building and goes to his limo, where Terry and Ace (his Great Dane) are waiting for him.  Without Terry having a full understanding of why Bruce is fighting so hard for this, Wayne has Terry drive them to the historical district.  Unknown to them, they are being trailed by Shreeve.  This part always irked me because Shreeve is following the limousine on a motorcycle wearing his sound suit.  Not very stealthy if you ask me!

Anyways, they arrive at the historical district.  Bruce is explaining to Terry that the city council has been trying to preserve the district, but it’s hard getting extra tax money for the cause.  Terry doesn’t see the reason why they should put any effort into protecting the area.  Bruce then points to a movie theater.  This would be the same location where Bruce’s parents were murdered; where he was a witness to it.  Terry asks Bruce, “I think you’d want it to be torn down.  So maybe after all these years you can finally forget.”  Bruce gives Terry a cold stare and says, “Do you want to forget what happened to your father?”

It’s at this point where Terry begins to understand the importance of this land.  It’s not really for the buildings, it’s more for preserving memories.  A location that serves as a reason for why Bruce fights for Gotham City the way he does.  In the background, Ace is barking from the car.  Terry leaves to check on him.  At the same time Bruce walks to the old police headquarters; a building which is in the shadows of the newer, extremely taller building structures that make up the majority of Gotham City.  He enters it by removing the barrier with his bare hands.  That part was also kind of ridiculous.  He knocks down, like, a crud load of wooden boards with basically zero effort.

As he walks through the building, he passes an old wanted poster of the Joker.  A shadow is following him.  Bruce stops and sees a can on a desk begin to rattle.  We cut back to Terry.  He’s with Ace, who begins to growl and look towards the old police building.  Back in the building, it appears that an earthquake is occurring.  A large lighting fixture above Bruce falls because of the shaking.  He’s able to get out of the way before it crashes, but he’s fallen and now on the ground.  A column begins to fall apart, but this time he would not be able to dodge it.  Here is where we see Terry for the first time in this episode dawning the Batman outfit.  He swoops in just in time to pull Bruce away from the debris.

As they begin to leave the room, a figure is standing at the doorway blocking their exit.  It’s Shreeve wearing the sound suit.  Without out saying a word he attacks by sending a sound blast (or a sonic boom) towards both Batman and Bruce.  They evade it with Terry asking Bruce, “You know this guy?”  Bruce says, “Sorry, not one of mine.”  Suddenly another blast moves towards them.  Batman pushes Bruce out of the path of the blast and begins to focus on Shreeve, who is now walking towards Bruce who is on the floor.  Batman throws a batarang at Shreeve, striking the sound generator on his right hand.  The same one that was about to take Bruce out.  It short circuits the device, putting Shreeve in pain.  He quickly ejects it from the suit to prevent further damage.  Batman kicks Shreeve to the floor, which he then sends another blast back at Batman.  As he evades it, he grabs the sound generator and Bruce and runs towards a window.  That last blast was a large one that begins to shake the building.  Shreeve runs away in the other direction.  As Batman escapes the building by jumping through the window, the building begins to come down.  Once it’s all over the entire police building has crumbled into pieces.  Unfortunately all this activity was too much for old Bruce to handle as he is moaning with pain.

Terry’s at the hospital waiting outside of Bruce’s room.  He hears an argument between Wayne and a nurse.  Terry enters as the nurse leaves.  He is upset because they want to keep him there overnight.  At this point Bruce is in a hospital bed with bandages covering the top of his head.  Terry tells him to take their advice and stay at the hospital.  In the meantime, he will figure out who the guy in the suit was.  Bruce angrily asks Terry, “So you’re a detective now?”  Terry replies with, “I’ve been watching you long enough.  Besides, I got a lead”  From inside his jacket he pulls out the sound generator he took from the confrontation they had with Shreeve at the old police building.

Meanwhile, Shreeve meets up with Powers.  He’s still wearing the suit but without the helmet and is holding the arm of the suit that no longer has the sound generator.  “How was I suppose to know Batman would be there?”  “Batman’s everywhere these days.  Everywhere!”  Powers is upset because Wayne is still alive.  He believes if he can’t shut Wayne up the stockholders would never authorize the purchase.  With a positive look on his face, Shreeve guarantees he’ll be successful in accomplishing his mission.  Powers thinks it’s over now because Wayne’s in the hospital with guards watching over him.  He believes there is no way they can get to him now.  But with a smirk, Shreeve says, “I wouldn’t be so sure on that.”

Back at the hospital, Bruce is alone in the hospital room sleeping.  He wakes up hearing a voice calling his name, “Bruce.”  He pulls back the curtain covering his bed.  He sees no one.  Again, the voice is back and says in a whisper, “There is something you must do.”

At this point Terry is back at the Batcave.  He is inspecting the sound generator.  He knows what it is but doesn’t know what else to do.  He decides to place it in a machine that will analyze the materials its made of.  After a short delay (he doesn’t know the right commands to say to the computer for it to begin a spectrograph analysis) the machine begins its testing by scanning the object with a number of different light waves.  It prints out its findings on a sheet of paper.  Terry reads the items on the list: copper, iron, and acoustium.  By the way, the name of the last item on that list is as dumb as that material named “unobtainium” in the film Avatar.  Since he doesn’t know what acoustium is (and who would), he asks the computer what it is.  It prints out another sheet of paper that reads, “A new alloy that amplifies sound vibrations.  Developed by Shreeve Sound Laboratory, Gotham City.”  With a new lead, Terry runs out of the Batcave to investigate.

We cut back to the hospital with Bruce continuing to hear the voice.  He is being mentally tortured by the voice.  He finally gives into the demands and gets out of bed.  The voice then orders him to go to the window.  “What for?”  Bruce asks.  “GO!” replies the voice.  He walks to the window.  “Open it.”  Bruce’s refusal causes the voice to multiply and constantly repeat the order: “open it.”  It eventually gets to Bruce, so he walks forward and slides open the window.  He looks down and sees he is many stories, and city levels, above ground.  “You know what you have to do.”  This message causes Bruce to ask the voice why he is saying these things to him.  The voice replies with the simple answer: “I want to help you.  I’m you.”  “You can’t be.”  Again, the voice multiples and continually says “do it.”  This cause Bruce to crack and yell out loud.  The nurse runs in with a security guard following her.  The guard shuts the window while the nurse asks Bruce what’s wrong.  “Voices!  Listen.”  “Voices?”  “Can’t you hear them?”  “Maybe you should go back to bed.”  As she says this, the guard grabs Bruce from behind to pick him up from the floor.  This causes Bruce to panic and throw the guard.  The nurse calls for orderlies.  Two large men enter the room and tackle Bruce to the ground.  The nurse pulls out a syringe and sticks Bruce with it; causing him to be knocked out.  Just before he succumbs to the injection, he hears the voice continuously say “do it.“

We see the entrance to Shreeve’s business.  He notices a person is waiting as he approaches to the front door.  He asks the person waiting at the door if he can help him.  When the person turns around, we see it’s Terry.  He’s dressed up and acting like a pizza delivery boy.  He also added an accent which sounds like its from the North East tri-state area.  Terry is acting like he’s there to deliver the pizza Shreeve ordered, which obviously is not what Shreeve did.  After he tells Terry he didn’t order a pizza, Terry apologizes and said he made a mistake and now has to pay for it out of his pocket.  And since it’s too large for one person, he asks Shreeve if he would split eating the pie with him.  Shreeve accepts his offer (and who wouldn’t accept this offer!  It’s free pizza!)

Now inside Shreeve Sound Laboratory, both are enjoying the pizza.  Terry watches Shreeve work on constructing a device with a welder.  He starts making small talk with Shreeve.  He starts by asking what he does; which he finds out is a Sound Engineer.  He then picks up a device on his desk asking what it is.  He finds out its a a micro filment transmitter receiver.  Aka: it picks up radio signals.  Next terry sees one of the sound generators that he picked up during their first confrontation.  He asks what what it does as he’s leaning forward to touch it.  This causes Shreeve to panic and yell “Don’t touch it!”  But it was too late because Terry already pressed it.  As he does, everything goes silent; including the large industrial building fan that’s right above them.  Shreeve presses the device again to turn it off, thus bring all of the room’s ambiance sounds back.  Terry asks what just happened.  Shreeve notes that it’s “sound masking.”  Based on the confused look on Terry’s face, Shreeve explains it.

“See, sound moves in waves.  The masker instantly plays back whatever sound it picks up; slightly out of phase.  So the waves cancel each other out.  No waves, no sound.”

At this point Shreeve notes that it’s getting late and still has a lot of work to do.  So he asks Terry he should get going.  Terry, needing more info, tries to keep the conversation going by asking about sound vibrations.  This catches Shreeve’s attention.  He’s now suspicious of Terry.  Shreeve is currently behind Terry, who is looking the opposite direction.  Terry continues by saying he heard something the other day that someone is able to knock over a tree with them.  “So they say” Shreeve says as he sneaks up to Terry with his hands clasp together.

When he gets to Terry, he hits him on the back of the head with his hands.  Terry hits the floor.  Shreeve is now demanding answers: “Who are you?  What do you really want?”  He then grabs the sound generator, pins Terry to the ground, and places it right next to his head.  Shreeve says, “You wanna know about sound vibrations?  Would you like to see how they can split your skull!”  With the sound generator turning on, Terry breaks free just in time to avoid his head from being blow off.  He does so by back kicking Shreeve in the chest; sending him flying backwards.

“There’s no way out!”  Shreeve pulls out his sound suit from under his work desk as Terry runs away behind some large sound equipment.  As he’s walking through a tangled mess of cables, he feels the ground shaking.  His path has been cut off by a sonic boom.  Shreeve is tearing his lab up by trying to get Terry.  The sonic booms are destroying equipment and devices all throughout the lab.  While trying to avoid the blasts, Terry sees a sound generator device on the ground.  He jumps forward, grabs the device, and ducks behind some large equipment while nearly avoiding a blast.  He get an idea for an escape.  He places the device next to a wall and activates it.  This causes the device to blow a huge hole in the wall.  Large enough for Terry to jump through.  This leads to an alley where Terry books it out of there.  By the time Shreeve gets to the alley, police in hover vehicles place a spot light on him.  Apparently him destroying his own lab caused quite a ruckus that the police had to investigate the area.  Shreeve uses a sound blast to cause the hover crafts to momentarily be tossed around.  When the dust settled, Shreeve was no longer there.

Cheesed off of what’s just happened (but happy that he now knows who the person in the suit was), Terry returns to the hospital, but only to find that Bruce’s room has been cleaned out and is currently vacant.  The nurse walks in behind him.  Confused, Terry asks her, “What happened?  Is he alright?”  She replies, “He’s in the psyche ward.  He started hearing voices.”  At this moment, Powers enters the room.  “Age can do tragic things to a person.  But I wouldn’t worry about it.  He’s going to be in the best of hands.  Mine.”

“Who else can take care of his affairs?  He’s got no wife.  No children.”  Terry says, “Me.  I can do it.”  “Awfully young, aren’t you?”  “Awfully slimly, aren’t you?”  “Careful, the courts are very strict about slander.”  “Yeah, then let’s see how they handle assault!”  After giving that last comment, Terry lunges forward at Powers; hoping to bop him into next week.  But two orderlies grab Terry from behind and holding him back from doing something he might regret.  Powers, slightly shaken up, straightens his tie, gets close to Terry, points his finger at him and says, “You should know something about the psyche ward here.  There’s always room for one more!”  With that comment, Powers walks out of the room.

Later, Power’s returns to his office, but with someone lurking in the shadows.  It’s Shreeve in his sound suit.  Powers, too busy reading some documents in his hands doesn’t notice Shreeve.  But he get’s Powers’ attention by shouting that the police are after him.  That he can never go back to his lab because of him.  This is when Shreeve turns a knob on his suit; getting ready to take Powers out.  But this doesn’t shutter him one bit.  He casually sits down at his desk and says, “that’s not going to help.”  Shreeve, pointing a sound generator at Powers says, “No, but it’ll make me feel better.”  “You should be feeling fine anyway.”  “And why’s that?”  “Because your costume gives you power.  Real power.  Ever have that before?”  “No, not really.”  “It’s no small thing.  Trust me.”  “But I can’t show my face anymore!  Or use my name!”  “The face is no loss, and if you miss your name, I’ll give you another one.  One that fits your new persona.”  Powers thinks for a moment and then answers by saying the name: “Shriek.”  Puzzled, Shreeve says the name Powers just said.  Powers replies by saying, “Not a friendly name, I grant you, but take it from me: it’s better to be feared than loved.”  Again, but this time more accepting to the name, Shreeve says the name again: Shriek.  Powers says, “Now go forth and do damage.  But don’t forget you still owe me Bruce Wayne.”  Shreeve asks, “What if Batman gets into it again?”  Then in a calm villainy voice, Powers responds by saying, “Kill him.”

We see Bruce is in a hospital room with padded walls.  He’s in the psyche ward based on his outburst from earlier.  He’s sitting on the edge of the bed ready to eat a meal (an egg salad sandwich) that’s on a table cart.  A bandage is on his forehead while wearing a hospital gown.

Just as he’s about to take a bite of the sandwich, the voice comes back.  “The food.  It’s poisoned.  They’re trying to kill you.  Don’t eat.”  Repeatedly it says to not eat the food.  In a fit of anger, Bruce yells out for the voice to be quiet.  Silence fills the room, but Bruce is no longer willing to eat the meal.  He places the sandwich back down.  Looking forward at the barred window in front of him, he sees Terry in the Batman outfit.  Using a laser, he melts one side of the frame that hold the bars in place.  This then allows him to pull one side of the bars back; giving him enough space to open the window and get into the room.

Bruce explains why he’s in the psyche ward.  Terry notes they’ll talk about it once they get home.  Bruce refuses until he knows where the voices are coming from.  For starters, Bruce orders Terry to check the light fixture.  And under protest, Terry checks it by using a laser to knock it open.  As Terry expected, nothing was there.  Then Bruce believes the voices are coming from the walls.  He then orders Terry to strip the pads for a speaker.  But Terry refuses this time.  It’s at this point where Terry is suspicious of the bandage on his forehead.  He pulls it off fast enough for Bruce to react to the pain of ripping it off quickly.  Terry exposes a device on the other side of the bandage.  “Big bandage for such a small wound.”  It’s the micro filment transmitter receiver he saw back at Shreeve’s lab.  As he places it into his utility belt, Terry tells Bruce that Shreeve was the person they ran into back at the historical district.  Bruce then says out loud that the believes Shreeve bribed a nurse to put the device in the bandage.  In a better mood, Bruce then says to Terry, “Still think I’m crazy?”  Terry responds with, “It never occurred to me.”

We don’t see it, but I’m guessing Bruce checks himself out of the hospital.  I’m guessing this because Terry is still dressed as Batman (I don’t think Terry would walk Bruce Wayne out of the psych ward and then out of the hospital while sporting the Batman outfit).

The Batmobile is parked in an alley.  As they approach it the canopy opens with Ace waiting inside to greet Bruce which he then tells Ace “Miss me boy?”  Terry says “He wasn’t the only one.”  With both Ace and Bruce going into the Batmobile, Terry exposes his batwings, crouches, and then fires the rockets in his boots to have him fly up to the building next to him.

He lands on the rooftop and then uses his suit’s computer to inspect a factory building near the hospital.  Based on the computer’s finding, he believes the radio signals were coming from the factory building.  Bruce, communicating with Terry via a two way radio from the Batmobile to Terry’s suit says, “And from there, I got a feeling it’s going to lead to Powers.”  Terry replies, “It doesn’t take a detective to figure that one out.“

Batman goes into the building and begins sneaking around.  This building is an assembly factory for cars.  As Terry is confirming with Bruce about the radio signals coming from the building, Shreeve appears behind Batman.  The sound suit Shreeve is waring has all the sound generators on it.  He points both arms at Batman.  The sound generators are powering up ready to send a blast in Terry’s direction.  “You don’t have to do this Shreeve.”  “But I do.  And the name’s Shriek now.  I’ll show you why.”

Terry trows a smoke bomb to get away, but the sonic boom easily dissipates the curtain of smoke.  It was enough though to have Shriek lose his sights on Batman.  A he’s looking for him, Batman accidentally knocks a tiny screw to the floor, which Shriek immediately hears and sends a sonic boom to.  Batman see it in time to escape from it.  He runs by some control panels for the numerous large assembly machines.  He activates as many machines as he can to create a blanket of loud noises so Shriek can’t hear him.  With the factory and all its equipment looking and sounding like it’s in full automation, Shriek yells out, ”This isn’t going to help you!”  He then opens up one of the sound generators on his suit and twists a knob.  With that, the whole place goes silent.  As explained earlier at his lab to Terry, he’s using the concept of sound masking to cancel out all of the sounds being generated in the vicinity.  Batman also notices the place has gone quiet.

Shriek now turns a knob on the sound generator on the front of his helmet.  With this, everything is now silent with the exception of Batman’s footsteps.  Now, with every step Batman takes, it’s a large echoey noise that Shriek cannot miss.  Batman is a bit disoriented without sounds his mind knows should be there.  As he is walking around, all of the machines are still operating.  He doesn’t see that an car engine on a conveyor line on the ceiling is about to smack him across his head.  He sees it just in time to jump out of the way, but falls to the ground.  He falls in the path of a car door assembly that almost cuts his head off.  He dodges the door by ducking.  He gets up and then hops over a conveyor belt that is moving car seats.  This causes a large stomping sound, one that Shriek to see where Batman is at.  Again, he points his arms at Batman, sending a sonic boom in his direction.  He gets out of the way by grabbing a cable and swinging away.  The sound blast causes a huge chunk of the outer wall of the factory to be blown open.

For us the viewer, with all this happening, there is no sound.  No music.  This scene is completely silent.

With the cable swinging back, Batman jumps out of the building by the newly created hole in the wall.  The only thing we hear is his footsteps.  Shriek follows and sends another blast, which causes a semi truck to be destroyed.  At this point, we the viewer no longer hear the footsteps but only the intro of a musical piece.  Shriek throws a number of sonic booms at Batman.  He’s able to dodge them, but in their wake, they are destroying cars and sides of buildings.  All of the dodging has Batman to end up on the street.  Because the area is still being silenced by the sound generator, he doesn’t hear a car is coming towards him from behind.  Only the light from the car’s headlights were what caused Batman to notice and jump backwards in time to avoid.  Now on the sidewalk he is confronted with Shriek.  Close enough he swings a punch at Batman.  He misses, but his swing hits the side of a building creating a fist size hole.  He sends another sound wave that Batman dodges again, but creates another huge hole in a wall.  This blast kicks up a lot of dust.

Back at the Batmobile, Ace’s ears perk up.  Bruce notices and says, “Kind of quiet out there, huh boy?  But you hear something, don’t you?”  He opens the hatch for the Batmobile for Ace to get out.

We see Shriek taking a number of swings at Batman.  His uses the sound generator on his swinging arm to cause a chunk of sidewalk to get thrown upwards causing a large amount of dust to get kicked up.  This disorients Batman and causes him to get blown backwards.  He hits the floor.  But as he’s gaining his bearings, in the dust we see headlights moving towards his direction.  Ace jumps into the scene where he pushes Batman backwards, getting him out of the way of the vehicle.  Shriek again adjusts the generator on his helmet.  He could now hear Ace’s whimpers.  Both Ace and Batman are okay, but on the ground.  As Shriek approaches them, Batman pulls a batarang and throws it at Shriek, striking one of the sound generators.  As it his the generator, we hear no striking sound, but he hear all of the sounds of the city come back.

This causes Shriek a lot of pain.  He’s yelling as sparks are jumping from the damaged generator.  He grabs his helmet in anguish.  All the sounds around him seem to be amplified.  The sounds of cars whizzing by, vehicles vertically taking off, a train travailing at full speed, and the sound of a child crying are all too much for Shriek to handle all at once.  He drops to his knees still holding holding his helmet, as if he is trying to cover his ears.  Still he yells with extreme pain.

He begins rolling around on the ground.  It’s shortly after this where he stops on his back facing upwards.  Both Batman and Ace slowly walk towards him.  Batman bends downward and pulls off his helmet.  He tells him to “get up.”  Shreeve looks at him, but does not respond.  We cut to Shreeves perspective.  Again, Batman says “I said get up,” but we don’t hear him say it.  We instead hear a loud ringing noise.  Shreeve then looks at Ace barking at him, but only hears the loud ringing.  It’s at this point where Shreeve realizes he lost his hearing.  He yells out in a scream, “NOOOO!”

We cut to sometime in the near future on the date where the stockholders meeting is scheduled to be on.  It’s a large venue where every seat is taken.  Powers is at the podium with two large video screens behind him projecting his presents.  This is the meeting where they are to vote on whether they move into the historical district of not.

“It’s been moved and seconded that Wayne-Powers tender an offer to the city in order to expand into the historical district.”  He asks the audience: “All in favor...”  We cut to an angle behind Powers so we can see the audience from his perspective.  In a crowd of hundreds, only about a dozen members say “aye.”  Wayne and Terry are seen in the front row directly in the middle of Powers’ sight.  At this point, Powers knows he lost this vote; so in an agitated voice he says to the audience, “opposed...”  “NAY!” the crowd in hundreds yell at once.  At this point, Powers raises the gavel, and again in an agitated voice says “The motion is defeated.”  He hits the gavel down on the gavel block.  “Meeting adjourned!”  He walks off stage in a huff.

As everyone else in the audience starts to stand up and leave, so do Bruce and Terry.  Both are dressed for the important occasion.  Terry mentions to Bruce how it’s unfortunate how Shreeve to too scared to testify against Powers.  Bruce, in a snide voice replies, “Maybe when his hearing comes back...If it ever does.”  They begin walking for the exit.  Terry, uncertain about something asks “Tell me something.  Why were you so sure those voices weren’t coming from you?”  Bruce explains, “Well first, I know I’m not psychotic.”  “I hope your other reason’s more convincing.”  “And second, the voice kept calling me ‘Bruce’.  In my mind, that’s not what I call myself.”  “What do you call yourself?”  Bruce turns around and gives Terry a hard stare.  After a second, Terry now understands what Bruce calls himself in is mind.  Terry says, “Oh yeah, I suppose you would.”  Then, in a deep voice he adds, “But that’s my name now.”  Bruce turns around and starts to continue walking towards the exit.  But as he is turning he replies with, “Hmm.  Tell that to my subconscious.”  A smirk is seen on Bruce’s face just as he walks off camera.  Terry is taken aback by the comment.

(Credits)

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