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== Synopsis ==
== Synopsis ==
Taxi driver ([[Tim Jerome]]?), driving his cab too fast, points
out the power plant; because it sells all its electricity they use
candles inside.
2:00: Vorst (sp?) and Funk (sp?) menacingly interrogate Alex.  They want
him to confess to setting off a bomb in the industrial district.
12:00: Alex talks about missing something from his life.
12:50: Someone talks about the futility of questions.
14:30: Someone talks about how an alternating current of physicality
and spirituality creates a tension.
16:40: Guy makes waking-up noises.
18:10: Guy with accent ([[Tim Jerome]]?) talks about interrogators
trying to get him to confess.
19:30: Vorst and Funk interrogate Alex, ask about his sick
mother, summer camp.
25:30: Alex wonders what's important in life.  Another fellow
tells him there are 5 important things: a clean mind, a strong heart,
soap, almonds, and manganese.  Then that fellow lists things we have
to do before other things.
28:50: A psychologist (a Black man?) talks to someone whom police
officers allege threatened to kill his wife and children.  He prays
that he not do anything crazy. <ref>re-used in [[Predator]]</ref>
33:00: A guy ([[Tim Jerome]]?) loves to drive a cab (from the
sound effects, at very high speed)
34:20: Vorst tells about going horseback riding with a woman.
35:50: Vorst tells about how talking in person, appearances
distract; on the phone, there are no distractions.
36:30: Vorst tries to get Alex to confess, talks about how great
confession is, cites Galileo and Augustine.  Vorst tries to stop Funk
from getting violent.
41:50: A woman talks about what she likes.  Another woman says
she's better off without a lover.
45:10: Vorst tells Alex life is not a progression of events,
then talks nonsense for a few minutes.
50:20: A guy had a dream that he realized he had a final exam
for a course he never attended.
52: Music (<i>Six Marimbas</i>) and scat singing - 'dee-dee-dee' and
nonsense syllables.
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Rhythmic humming.  Tour of the city: electric plant lit by candles.  A power plant worker is interrogated about a bombing, his job, his life, his childhood.  Something is missing dialog.  Religious counselor type asks his subject to guess at the solution to resolving the tension between the physical and the spiritual. The five things which are important in life.  Confession.  The prison psychologist recording: don't trust angels and the save my ass daily declaration.  A woman talks about what she likes.  Life as a series of forgetting.  A disappearing girlfriend.  A man in the street talks about a final exam nightmare, the life and death box.  Rhythmic humming and nonsense verse.
Rhythmic humming.  Tour of the city: electric plant lit by candles.  A power plant worker is interrogated about a bombing, his job, his life, his childhood.  Something is missing dialog.  Religious counselor type asks his subject to guess at the solution to resolving the tension between the physical and the spiritual. The five things which are important in life.  Confession.  The prison psychologist recording: don't trust angels and the save my ass daily declaration.  A woman talks about what she likes.  Life as a series of forgetting.  A disappearing girlfriend.  A man in the street talks about a final exam nightmare, the life and death box.  Rhythmic humming and nonsense verse.
 
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== Interesting Facts ==
== Interesting Facts ==
Shares material with [[Black Hole]] and [[Tour Of The City, A (Part 1)|A Tour Of The City]]. Leaves out references to Voltgen and city scenes. Also shares brief material with [[Reprise]].  
<i>Nightride</i> takes place in the same world that [[Tour Of The City, A (Part 1)|A Tour Of The City]] does; Alex is the same person - but it doesn't re-use any specific words.   [[Black Hole]] re-uses much of it; [[Reprise]] re-uses a little.


== Music ==  
== Music ==  
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== Commentary ==
== Commentary ==
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== Footnotes ==


[[Category:Scripted_Actors]]
[[Category:Scripted_Actors]]

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