When his takedown of longtime nemesis Simon Phoenix results in a massive number of civilian casualties, he and Phoenix are sent to the same cryo-prison. ![]() The Demolition Man is John Spartan, a cop from 1996 Los Angeles who doesn’t play by the rules but still gets results. But Reich, a man of singular genius and willpower, finds a way around their powers. No one has successfully committed a murder for over seventy years. The only catch: the Espers Guild, a professional association of telepaths that occupy all levels of industrial society. Already plagued by insanity, in the form of waking nightmares where a Man With No Face tries to murder him, Reich hatches a plot to murder Craye D’Courtney. Monarch has steadily lost business for the last decade to Reich’s rival, the D’Courtney Cartel. The Demolished Man – or rather, the protagonist of Alfred Bester’s 1951 novel of that name – is Ben Reich, owner of interplanetary conglomerate Monarch Enterprises. I come out of cryo-prison and I’m Betsy-fucking-Ross. ![]() Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you’ve got left are the sheep. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. If a man’s got talent and guts to buck society, he’s obviously above average.
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