 Box, the "robot", describes itself as part human, part machine, and something more than the two.
Frozen runners waiting to be dethawed for dinner.
After destroying Box and his frozen meat department, Logan and Jessica emerge into the world for the first time. It's a big world out there and the pair are definitely not prepared for it. ______________________________________________ |
Finally, having
apparently gone as far down as they can, Logan and Jessica are lifted up a great distance
by an elevator platform into a place covered with ice. Here, the two discover the fate of
all the runners who fled to "sanctuary" before them -- the runners were
frozen by a confused robot-like creature that once had the job of freezing food from the
sea. As the robot explains, giving us the history of the city's turn into isolation and
mass murder in a single phrase -- "The other food stopped coming and they
started," they being the runners. For every runner before them, sanctuary, it
appears, meant being turned into a frozen dinner for a meal that would never arrive. Escaping the prospect of being fresh frozen, Logan and Jessica emerge through a cavelike opening into the outside world, which is once again habitable and overflowing with nature. They look at the bright sun, uncertain what it is, a future Adam and Eve expelled from their high-tech paradise into the world of the outside.
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