Then we get to see how these people of the future live their lives at home. Logan 5 is dressed in this hilarious kimono relaxing in his futuristic pad. He saunters over to this enclave in his living room and checks what they call the circuit. At first a man appears and he laughs and shakes his head no. Then a scantily clad female finds herself in Logan's love lair. She is rockin' this enormous ankh pendant on a choker. He is ready for love, but she is not. He wonders why she was on the circuit, she thinks she was mistaken. Logan's friend and fellow Sandman, Francis, busts into the living space with two swinging chicks. The ankh girl leaves. Logan looks after her, but then his attention is turned toward his friend and the two foxy ladies. Francis throws some red dust in the air covering the gang and they raise their faces up to the dust in a lustful fashion.
Back at work, Logan gets an assignment from a computer. The computer has a female voice. She tells him that there is a place called Sanctuary and that is where he will find some runners that have successfully escaped. The computer shows him the ankh symbol and tells him basically that this is the key to find Sanctuary. Then he gets the most unsettling news that he must act as a runner in order to infiltrate the society of this underground movement. To his dismay the computer turns his life clock (the jewel in his hand) from red to blinking red, meaning it's his time to renew. He fears for his life when he asks if he finds Sanctuary will his life clock be turned back. For chrissake he has 4 more years! The computer goes blank.
Logan hides his blinking life clock and decides to find the ankh girl. He realizes that she can lead him to Sanctuary. Ankh girl meets him, her name is Jessica 6. He shows her that he's a runner and her eyes grow wide. He asks her about Sanctuary and she sorta feigns ignorance. In the middle of this exchange, Logan gets a call on his 1970's space age walky-talky. There's a runner at the plaza. The plaza is in the bad part of town where children under 16, called the cubs, live. Without parents, these cubs are left free to brutalize, rob and basically live like savages. Jessica 6 decides to go with Logan to catch the runner. While gliding in a pneumonic tube shuttle system, they talk about society's ills and Jessica waxes philosophical that she wishes that she knew her mother. They find the runner in the Plaza and Logan lets the runner go. Unfortunately, Logan's friend and fellow Sandman, Francis, got the same call and got to the Plaza just in time to see Logan letting the runner go. Francis did not follow suit and begins the chase of his friend turned runner. For some reason, my husband and I couldn't figure it out, Logan decides he has to get a new face. Jessica takes him to a doctor she knows. Farah Fawcett-Majors is the doctor's secretary. She is, like, far out.
Even though the doctor is on Jessica's/Runner's side he decides to let the lasers go haywire all over Logan. Logan escapes miraculously and the doctor ends up getting lasered to death. Farah is in shock and hovers over the doc with tears in her eyes. Jessica and Logan again start their run. Francis as always, is just behind them. Somehow they decide that the way to Sanctuary is through the sex shop. They get separated for a second by writhing naked people; the women take Logan, the men take Jessica. Logan and Jessica make some kind of communication through eye contact and slight head movements and they get away. Ah! They were right! The way to Sanctuary is through the sex shop! They enter a frozen room and meet a robot--oh, strike that, an android that looks like a poorly made robot. His name is Box. Box freezes all the seaweed, fish and other food that comes in (it's never explained who brings in the food to Box) for the inhabitants of the city. Well, Box used to freeze the food, until the food stopped coming. The only thing that came after while were the runners so Box froze them instead. Looks of horror from Jessica and Logan at their frozen comrades. Does that mean that the people of the city were eating people? Soylent Green is pee-pul!! They never say. Logan is the only runner to have a gun so he uses it on Box and the place explodes. Logan and Jessica narrowly escape the see-through ice crystal special effects. Here comes Francis and this is last we see of him for awhile (he must run like the 6 million dollar man). An opening out of the dome! Also, Logan doesn't believe in Sanctuary any more, he thinks that Sanctuary was built on belief and hope. Jessica doesn't agree and thinks that this new warm place must be Sanctuary. They find a lake, get naked and skinny dip. They look at their life clocks. What?! Ha! They are renewed! Wow!
After trampling many miles through an overgrown forest, they see, well, they see the Lincoln Memorial, overgrown with weeds, of course. The two look at the statue of Lincoln and wonder aloud that this. must. be. what. it. looks. like. to. be. old. (Kind of Capt. Kirk like). They see tombstones and wonder what they are. They wander into the US Congress Chambers. They hear a sound. In walks Peter Ustinov as a scraggly old man. He talks in T.S. Eliot cat riddles and conveniently has a lot of cats. Jessica asks him if his wrinkles or the cracks on his face hurt. She asks to touch them. Ustinov obliges and giggles when she touches him. They start asking him more questions. Whoa! He doesn't have a life clock. Wow! He knows his mother and father.
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