The System: Series 3: Method 1: Denial
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Five Methods for Overcoming Mortality.
Ben Lewis’ award-winning thriller returns for a third and final season.
Maya and Jake were once close siblings. Now they’re divided in an increasingly divided world.
Maya’s infamy as an activist fighting for social change and climate consciousness has pushed her to the margins, whilst Jake’s commitment to serve king and country has placed him at the centre of a society increasingly intolerant of people on the fringe. But Maya and Jake’s worlds are about to collide in what will become a fight for survival. For them. And for us.
Cast: Jake … Jack Rowan Maya… Siena Kelly Coyote…Divian Ladwa Carly…Lois Chimimba Ash…Ian Dunnett Jnr Matt Finch … Rhashan Stone Voice of the Game…Ryan Sampson
Original music and sound design by Danny Krass A BBC Scotland Production directed by Kirsty Williams
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. A man steps onto the stage of an auditorium. |
| 0:21.6 | Behind him a massive screen, blank apart from a huge A man steps onto the stage of an auditorium. |
| 0:38.3 | Behind him a massive screen, blank apart from a huge symbol, a V turned on his side like an arrowhead ready to fire. |
| 0:46.3 | His hair and teeth are immaculate and he wears a pair of retro glasses and a pristine white t-shirt fitted to his torso. But there's something slightly off about the way he moves, |
| 0:57.0 | not that the crowd cares. |
| 0:59.0 | Because this isn't just any middle-aged man with a personal trainer and expensive veneers. |
| 1:05.0 | This is Matt Finch, Emperor of the Vectorverse, |
| 1:10.0 | providing technology, security in media for the 21st century and beyond. |
| 1:14.6 | So, guys. |
| 1:16.6 | Ah, there's just so much content these days, right? So much to consume. |
| 1:24.6 | Sometimes it's hard to know where to start. Where do you put your precious attention? |
| 1:32.3 | Well, I'll tell you. You put it here. The future of gaming has arrived. |
| 1:41.3 | As he gestures at the screen, the V swoops off to the right and the blank space is filled |
| 1:47.0 | with HD color and hyperreal CGI characters. |
| 1:50.0 | Attention, heroes. You have a mission. |
| 1:54.0 | Rogue scientist Professor Elliot Kingfisher has discovered the secret formula to all life on Earth. |
| 2:00.0 | A formula so powerful that death will be a thing of the past. |
| 2:03.6 | This is the Grail Code. |
| 2:06.6 | But a cult of radical terrorists wants to kill him and destroy the Grail Code, |
| 2:11.6 | forcing Kingfisher to go on the run. |
| 2:13.6 | What happens now is down to you. |
| 2:16.6 | You must eliminate the cult, find Kingfisher, and secure the Grail Code. |
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