As Becky claims the book predicted several incidents such as the 1986 BSE outbreak and the assassination of Indira Gran, she is cut off when the publisher asks why she has shifted focus from her medicinal studies to the book's funding. The book's author, Mark Dane, was a mental patient who committed suicide following its completion. He crouches down and offers the boy some raisins, and tells Lee "don't put the gas away yet." Outside the closed shop, someone in a rabbit costume dances around.Ī young woman named Becky tries to pitch an underground graphic novel known as The Utopia Experiments so as to get it funded and enter it into the mainstream, describing it as about a scientist who deals with the devil for increased knowledge, the devil appearing in a number of disguises, but always as a cross between human and animal, primarily a rabbit. As Arby eats from a box of raisins, he notices something: a little boy hiding under a table, having seen the whole thing. Lee forces him to inhale the rest and ruptures a gas line to make the murders look like a fatal leak. Lee gasses him, again telling the clerk it will just put him to sleep, which he realizes is not true when he sees his friend not breathing on the floor. Arby repeatedly asks the clerk for the location of a " Jessica Hyde", who he does not know. As the clerk tells Arby he sold it and gives him the name of the buyer, Lee takes out a canister of gas and gently convinces another man to inhale from it, assuring him it will just put him to sleep. Lee kills a man by bashing him over the head with a pipe as Arby gives the clerk a post-it note that asks for the location of the " UTOPIA MANUSCRIPT". When five strangers from an online comic book forum agree to meet after gaining possession of the original manuscript for the cult graphic novel " The Utopia Experiments", they find themselves pursued by a shadowy organization known as The Network who are in pursuit of the manuscript-and they are prepared to kill to track it down.Īs a newscast reports on the rising costs of food in the United Kingdom, two men, Arby and Lee, enter a comic book shop that is about to close for the night, ignoring the staff's protests.
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