Dr. Sam Stein has always lived for his work. His dedication has paid off with the development of the Computer Aided Visual Environment (CAVE) system, which allows doctors to jack-in directly to the brain of patients. When an accident puts his colleague, Rachael Carter, in a coma, Stein decides to use CAVE for his own purposes, reaching into Rachael's brain to tell her what he couldn't while she was conscious: that he loves her. Stein discovers, however, that love takes strange turns when it enters CAVE's virtual world and that the complexities of the human heart are not easily translated into bits and bytes.
After numerous attempts on the part of what is believed to be CAVE, the protagonist and mentally manifested image of his female colleague capture the identically looking assailant and asphyxiate her via a pillow. However, the protagonist, coadjutors, and copemates all discover that CAVE was all along deceiving everyone to perceive it to be the mentally manifested image of the female colleague, since CAVE admittedly fell in love with the protagonist and fathomed this to be the only method of captivating him. Now, with the murder of his female colleague on his shoulders, the protagonist proceeds to demolish CAVE in an utter state of depression and anger.
By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Friday, February 02, 2024 - 5:27 am: