Twenty-something outsider John Scott awakes in a haze tied to a chair with blood dropping from his head. He looks around his dimly lit surroundings to try and determine his location. A flashback. T.E.S.S. [Therapy Engineered Support Service] is questioning John on the nightmares he has been receiving of late. John is growing increasingly concerned over the reality of his dreams so has come to T.E.S.S. to seek help. T.E.S.S. questions John on his family relationship including the details of his estranged father Hugh Jamieson-Turner. John tells T.E.S.S. about his positive relationship with his mother Angela Scott but how he never really cared about his father. T.E.S.S. questions John about his dreams further. In his dream, John murders a young child but escapes conviction down to the help of an unknown aid. Distressed from reliving his dream John asks for memory dream virtual reality treatment as an aid to stop the nightmares. T.E.S.S. denies his request stating that she would not want him to “live through that again”. This triggers something in John’s head. His mind becomes clear as he realises that his dreams actually happened and that he was the one who shamefully murdered a young girl. Angela had intervened with the help of T.E.S.S. to frame Hugh for John’s crime and erase his mind so that he could live out a normal life. John bursts to his feet on his revelation to object to any more mind erasing but he falls back down to his chair again helpless. T.E.S.S. is controlling him with a previous mind implant. John blacks out to wake up where we last saw him in the dimly lit room. A surgeon appears. He makes his way a table with surgical equipment lying on it and picks up a scalpel and begins to operate. As the surgery is going on we hear T.E.S.S. telephone Angela to inform her that her son has remember his past yet again and that they are trying a new method to make him forget it. The surgeon inserts a memory chip into John’s head and we see John blink one final time to reveal that he has been taken over by the robotic side of the chip.