(The Sex, Lies and Negatives episode) Entry from Tom’s Diary:
There’s a certain anonymity to the city, a certain coldness, distance—I remember sometimes trying to shake that feeling off.
Dr. Moen, an academic rival to Dr. Bellamy, uses an advanced system of drugs, pulsating lights, the power of suggestion, stage scenery, virtual reality and actors to break his subject’s spirit.
When Thomas Veil’s attempted hijacking of a plane backfires on him, he awakes in a city called New Phoenix, which is completely populated with other “disenfranchised” people, in other words, every citizen has had his or her... Read more
An award-winning photo-journalist specializing in war-torn and poverty-stricken areas, Tom made the mistake of taking a photograph of a private military group dressed as US army soldiers secretly executing four young rebels deep in the jungles... Read more
Thomas Veil’s loving and supportive wife, Alyson, is the reason he wants his life back, at first. But clues about her start to surface and she may not be who he believes her to be.
The Organization (which is never referred to as anything else), is a privately-funded research group with extensive political and military ties but no particular loyalty.
Tom’s psychiatrist when he is first taken to Calaway Psychiatric Hospital for kidnapping Alyson after he is erased. Bellamy is working for the Organization, he also appears to be working with Alyson.
A method of memory triggering and enhancement used by the Organization to break particularly difficult subjects. Flash regression requires a controlled environment.
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teaching and behavioral subliminal induction tool which is used to condition subjects through repetitive subliminal messages broadcast at low volume while they sleep.