I’ll replace these later.” She slammed, the cabinet door shut. “Never mind,” she said to the unseen observer. Impulsively, she took the bottle of pills that THX had used a few minutes earlier. “What’s wrong?” asked a male observer’s voice. She opened the medicine cabinet, then hesitated. Will they give me another one when I turn twenty-one? She didn’t notice her expressive eyes, or the curve of her cheek. She stood in front of the cabinet, staring into its mirror. It was a gleaming chrome cubbyhole, with showerstall, depilatory mask, sink and medicine cabinet. With a worried frown she walked the four steps from the holoroom’s door to the sanitary. Down on the lowest level of the city, closest to the warmth of the Earth’s core, safe and protected. It was a good apartment, three functional immaculate white rooms. She stood in the little hallway outside the holoroom, under the flat glareless light of the overhead panels, wearing the standard white pajamas that everyone wore. Her shaved head gave her face a child-like, innocent appearance. She was twenty years old, slim and very lovely except for a barely noticeable small red “S” branded on her left cheek. Her name - in the style of the underground society - was LUH 3417. She stood at the door and stared at him for a long empty moment With every thud of the nightsticks she winced. He pulled tighter together, knees under chin. THX could see that the policemen were chrome, like their clubs.
But the holopicture was bright and sharp. The room was dimly lit in a sullen red glow that came from the walls.
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“For more rapid results use your new D code on your Mercicontrol card. Somewhere he heard a female voice saying: THX 1138 watched the policemen beat the old man, and felt the soothing glow of the pills taking effect. The old man was still alive he gave a sighing grunt with each impact.
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Listened to the soft whistle of the long chrome nightsticks that ended in the solid thunk! of flesh being pounded, blood vessels bursting, skin ripping, bones shattering. Watched the three policemen beating the old man. He curled into a fetal position, thumb in mouth, eyes glazed, and watched. He was dressed as always in loose-fitting white pajamas. He curled up in the deep soft relaxer chair. Popping the two pills into his mouth, THX 1138 made his way back to the hologram room. He took two pills from the nearest bottle and returned the bottle to the cabinet. He stood in front of the medicine cabinet and somehow knew that the observer was no longer paying attention to him.
“If you have a problem, don’t hesitate to ask for assistance. There were fifty viewscreens on the observer’s panel all of them clamoring for attention. The observer frowned at his viewscreen picture. Encyclopedia of World Writers, Beginnings To 20th Century.
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