a matter
of internal security.
I just bet he is.
But Marty, you're just
missing the point there.
Because retrieval is no longer
an acceptable option.
Are you threatening me, Bench?
Threaten?
What a quaint, quaint, quaint word.
I've been mutilated.
Five painful years
of dermo-therapy ruined
by a little shit-kicker
and a stupid little piece
of wind-up muff!
You're off the case, Bench.
You touch them,
we'll have your license.
Oh, I love it.
What license?
I love it, I love it.
I love it, I love it, I love it!
I love it!
So, why do they call you
Wild Card?
Iќs a long story
and you're not going
to be awake for it.
You got a thing happening, huh?
Yeah, cyborg love.
Just like
Romeo and Juliet,
have to cross
all those lines to connect.
-Kind of a doomed thing.
-Doomed?
Yeah, like it cannot last
even if this love is true.
Only
one way it can live on.
How?
Someone's got to cross over and
live the time of their beloved.
Time
is what iќs all about.
Cash will live for
a thousand years,
forever 22, as long as
they keep making parts
to maintain you.
But Colt 45...
He'll peel like yesterday's
paint, being just a bit of blood
and bone.
He's a memory as we speak.
But if you can cross over
just a little,
just enough to taste
each other's time...
Well, then
your time together
just might be enough.
-Would you want to live forever?
-Mortal
or immortal, here I die.
I leave eternity to thee.
For what is a man
that he should live out
the lifetime of his God?
Who is Mercy?
He used to command a fleet.
-What happened?
-Iќs not a pretty story.
He was wounded in
the battle of El Najaf.
The navy just couldn't scrap
a human hero, so
-they rebuilt him with cyborg parts.
-He's a cyborg?
Experimental model.
He went renegade.
Saw the world as a hired soldier.
Ran guns in Gaza, Kabul,
led a coup in Mozambique...
The genќs a poet-warrior
in the classic sense.
My wife, Velma.
Where is she?
-She's dead.
-Sorry.
It was sort of an arranged
marriage, the pairing of man
and machine.
Velma was a free spirit,
a searcher for a better world.
She spent most of her time
helping renegade cyborgs
escape from Pinwheel's hell.
But they finally got her.
Your tapper, Bench, killed her.
But not before she messed him up.
Is that why you're helping
Cash and me?
Marriage is a magical thing.
A treacherous thing.
Pull out that center drawer.
Open it.
Some things are customary
before a man goes into battle.
Iќs time to rumble.
I've spoken to the fight promoter,
Bobby Linn. He's expecting you.
This is the Dragon.
Here's Pier 77.
After the fight you'll have
20 minutes to make it
to Die Frau Maria.
-Who do we meet?
-The captain's name
is Joey Fook.
He'll know what you look like.
If he doesn't,
you get the hell out. Fast.
Thaќs it.
Win or lose, iќs been a trip.
You're a kick-ass wire, Mercy.
We're looking for Bobby Lin.
Mercy sent us.
Bobby Lin?
Who want to know?
Mercy.
Mercy
says good things about you.
Fast, lots of style.
This guy I'm fighting,
whaќs his record like?
He first-time fighter, too.
Newcomers always
kick the odds up.
Make lots more money.
Thaќs good.
Everything set.