The World Class City

We OPEN TO the Weltschmerz Zeppelin with it’s GIANT EYE LOGO, in the night sky, hovering over The World Class City, 2020. Kamikaze Squad motorcycle cop Frank FRANJU patrols a seedy part of City. Targeted as the subject of an experiment to further the technology of Memory Song mental television broadcast by the Memory Song Zeppelin hovering over the City, the policeman is forced into a collision with a van next to a tombstone inscribed, "F. GOLEM." The obsessive Hungarian Mad Scientist Howard Doppel, was experimenting by transferring the FRANJU's memories to a Weltschmerz Memory Song stream, inadvertently, he creates Franju’s DOPPELGANGER, a 15-year-old boy with platinum blond hair, wearing virtual reality sunglasses and armed with a CHEAP PLASTIC XBOX 360 CONTROLLER that produces it’s own Memory Song. Doppel sees FRANJU’s dog, FLUFFY, in the memory stream and lusts for him. Again, we see the Zeppelin in the night sky. The image of the Zeppelin dissolves into a daytime image of the extinct volcano, Mt Scartarus in the Tatra Mountains of Slovakia. FRANJU, recovering on vacation in the Tatras. He is hiking on Mt Scartarus. He sees a green AURA; a green light in the caldera of the volcano. In his Bratislava hotel room, FRANJU experiences a nightmare in which his sister and the alluring Roxette Burstner both appear. Arriving at World Class City airport, FRANJU recognizes Roxette Burstner, daughter of Weltschmerz president, Victor Burstner, and fiancé of Mad Scientist, Doppel, in a newscast as the woman in his dream. He then has a baffling vision of a young boy being taken away from his home and family in a car. At his new job as a journalist for the Dyslexic Press, FRANJU contacts Roxette to share his dream experience. Annoyed by this intrusion and suspicious of his journalistic motives, she refers FRANJU to a therapist and hangs up. Golem, now appears in The World Class City with some features of Andy Warhol. He alone sees the Memory Song infused inhabitants of the City as EXPRESSIONIST LOOKING FACELESS GHOSTS in his VR Sunglasses. The Memory Song has demonically possessed them, and they are GHOSTS of themselves. FRANJU visits his half-sister’s apartment to discover that his dog FLUFFY has been raped and murdered. He discovers something in FLUFFY’s paw, an opaque lens which would cover an entire eyeball, not unlike the WELTSCHMERZ Zeppelin EYE LOGO. He reports the crime to the police, and is frustrated by their bureaucratic trivializing and nonchalance. Nothing seems to be done about it. Golem, roars through the City streets on a Kawasaki Ninja H2 motorcycle, and through the security gates at the Weltschmerz Broadcast Tower. On assignment in the lawless Victory Underground, FRANJU photographs a violent underground confrontation with the police. FRANJU’s license plate is laser-tagged by the Police and a misfiring of the DEATH RAY from the Weltschmerz Tower vaporizes the Thomas Hobbes School of Law, instead of his car. In Doppel's penthouse suite, Roxette is the victim of another experiment involving the scientist's technique for probing memory. Doppel places a pair of strange contact lens on a tray that he removes from his eyes, worn during the experiment. Doppel later reveals his aspirations of social control through his new Song 2.1 MEMORY MANIPLULATION technology. Roxette leaves abruptly. A Security Alert interrupts FRANJU's musings. Hanging out his window, he photographs the capture of an Underground rebel by the police. Roxette re-surfaces at a nightclub, where Golem uses his CHEAP PLASTIC XBOX 360 CONTROLLER to send a disruptive Memory Song and instigate a riot among the clientele. Golem's exploits dominate the morning news. FRANJU again contacts Roxette. Threatening to expose her exhibitionist past, FRANJU pressures Roxette into inviting him to the Burstner family. There, aging Victor Burstner rages at Golem's continuing sabotage of the Memory Song network, and demands that Doppel give him the new 2.1 transmission codes to prevent further security breaches. Burstner is then driven crazy by a green aura force and is now at the Hero of Austerlitz Mental Hospital. While waiting for Roxette at the hospital, FRANJU observes the odd-looking Dr. Zemmicker, a reputed Victory Underground rebel leader, in a PRIMAL SCREAM THERAPY SESSION for child victims of Memory Song. FRANJU and Roxette witness Victor's mental disarray, and Roxette contends that Doppel is responsible for her father's condition and confesses that she has never had sex with Doppel even though they'd been going out for almost a year. Trapped in her car with FRANJU in a traffic jam, Roxette is overcome by sexual urges due to Doppel's experiments on her, and they immediately drive to the cottage where they make passionate love until exhausted. Awakened by Bronco's smeck drug-induced crashing in the kitchen, Roxette confronts the punk in a noisy argument. FRANJU eavesdrops on talk of Burstner's ambiguous sex life and then is suddenly overcome by visions of Golem's actions, until Roxette's screams, as she is being kidnapped by Bronco, awaken him from his trance. Bronco takes Roxette to the Victory Underground district, inhabited by ROUGH BOY BIKERS, to have some fun with her. Bronco dances frenetically around captive Roxette in front of an approving audience. FRANJU and Zemmicker are temporarily seized by the ROUGH BOYS, and Bronco escapes with Roxette through a fire exit. A cross-town chase of Bronco with the kidnapped Roxette ends at Bronco's parked car in at the grounds of the Exhibition. FRANJU and Zemmicker enter a building called HOUSE OF MIRRORS. Intent on penetrating Roxette's mind with the new Memory Song, Doppel dispatches his sole remaining aide to deal with the disturbance, but discovers and Golem, then FRANJU, instead. FRANJU sees that Doppel is wearing the fully opaque contact lens, which turn his eyeballs completely white. Generated by Golem, a hologram of grinning Victor dressed up as a Gay Biker appears on Doppel's monitor. Golem’s CHEAP CONTROLLER transmission begins to destroy Doppel’s entire system. The Weltschmerz Zeppelin explodes. FRANJU grabs the electrodes that were attached to the sides of Roxette’s head and plunges them into Doppel’s eyes. Doppel screams as his eyes explode. Another explosion turns the lab into an inferno. FRANJU, Roxette and Zemmicker rush desperately into an open elevator which rapidly descends. Suddenly, the trio are thrown against a wall and pressed to the roof as the car begins to rapidly rise. With a crash the car stops. FRANJU sees the image of FLUFFY, photobombed by Golem, in a green AURA of Golem’s sunglasses which appear on the elevator floor. Golem himself has disappeared. The three survivors climb out of the car and find themselves at the foot of Mt. Scartaris in the Tatra mountains.