Can she be Hannah? As it turns out, the static noise of the first tape is a cover for the hidden message – “I fixed them, I fixed them all.” Could the person making the video have made them into these human-machine hybrids? The woman is the android woman from the second video. Her android eyes come out of her head, and she bleeds diluted blood. In the penultimate moments, James hits a woman with his car. Hannah is most possibly dead, or has Hannah changed into a fragment of a memory? Is James missing something here? James finds a pattern here and deduces that the disappearance of Hannah may be linked to a possible psychopath who was also involved in releasing the tapes. The day that the incident took place was November 22, 1996, a day before the alleged third tape surfaced.įrederica Sexton disappeared on the day before the surfacing of the first tape, and such was the fate of Marie Bedford. Hannah, however, was nowhere to be found. Hannah’s car was found in the middle of a bridge. James checks the date tattooed on his wrist – the date of Hannah’s disappearance. James’ theory may have some truth, especially since the professor tells him about the third tape. The pattern fits, as Hannah went missing the day before the alleged third intrusion. James tries to establish his theory that women go missing a day before the intrusions. Back at home, the file is at the doorstep of James, and he gets a call from Dr. The guy warns James not to veer further into the rabbit hole. He has to deliver a package to a guy in Chinatown. Lithgow cannot help James much, but an anonymous phone call leads him to an antique store. James looks for the FBI file containing information about the Sal-e Sparks case.ĭr. James believes that the tapes are concealing some hidden message. ‘Sal-e’ stands for System analytic lifeform emulation. Sal-e Sparks is supposedly the inspiration behind the intrusion videos. The sitcom’s story entails a widowed robotic engineer inventing an android wife to take care of his adopted children. Asking Chester, James comes to know that the inexplicable phenomenon is named the “Sal-e Sparks” incident in niche internet chatrooms, after ‘Stepbot,’ the 80s sitcom. Although the channel does not have the tape since the authorities confiscated it, Chester has the video in Betamax, which is of better picture quality than VHS. After contacting the channel for the ‘Don Cronos’ tape, James reaches media geek Chester, whom he knew earlier as a business contact. Hannah’s disappearance propels James towards the quest, which, in turn, drives the story forward. Broadcast Signal Intrusion Ending: Is Hannah Dead or Alive? Who Is Sal-e Sparks? The so-called Nite Pirates (the name of the hacker group) are seemingly responsible for the disappearances of several women, and James believes that they may have something to do with the disappearance of Hannah. The investigation does not lead James far, and he feels pretty out of depth, but that is until he meets the hooded girl named Alice. Lithgow, who suggests that there may be a third such incident, but there does not remain a tape to confirm it.Īlthough, the professor’s source believes that the third broadcast intrusion took place on November 23, 1996. Stuart Lithgow, Professor of Media Studies at MIT, who wrote the FBI report of the broadcast intrusions. The video shows a person wearing a latex mask with apparent static noises in the background.Īs he probes into the mystery, he finds another tape dated May 10, 1987, during the night broadcast of the show ‘Don Cronos.’ James delves deeper into internet chatrooms to find the name of Dr. While checking old tapes, he finds a news broadcast interrupted by a strange video. After the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend Hannah, James also has a blank space in his life. James has a penchant for the analog visual medium – he repairs cameras and collects old tapes. Let us now revisit the final moments of the story in greater detail. However, upon further probing, some aspects become clearer. In the wake of the open-ended finale, questions rush into the audience’s minds, as it is difficult to make sense of the movie in hindsight. Guided by a cerebral score and painted with technological paranoia, this movie is retrospective of the era of VHS tapes and cable television, when technology was still an agent of paranoia in society. One clue leads to another, but the ending brings him back to square one. The quest for truth does not lead him to closure – it instead makes him further deranged. delivers a swaying performance in the role of the noir hero), who gets plunged into a rabbit hole after the surfacing of a tape. The movie’s story follows James (Harry Shum Jr.
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