Chapter 6, State Prison
Chapter 6: State Prison.
Dr. Juliette Faxx once a brilliant psychiatrist that worked for OCP; is spending her days at the women’s state prison. It was her ambitions and her lack of ethics that made her want to escalate positions at the company without caring who she had to step on her way to the top.
Faxx is calculating, cold blooded and manipulative. She was the responsible one of choosing the brain of Cain, a convicted drug addict to be put inside the new RoboCop 2 unit the old man had approved to build. Everything turned out to be a major disaster and Faxx was the scapegoat Highland and his executives used to evade justice and brush off all the criminal charges pressed against OCP after RoboCop 2 killing dozens of innocent civilians at the Civic Centrum the night of its presentation.
Juliette was once romantically involved with the old man, but at the same time, she was also involved with Schysler. Doctor Faxx has never been faithful to any man in her life, men are just the tools used by her to achieve her purposes faster.
Despite the fact Faxx has remained imprisoned somehow has managed to maintain a relationship with Schysler; her lover has tried to get her out several times, with no success. Oscar Schysler is as incompetent as an executive as he is as a lawyer and more than two years have passed by and Juliette is still locked in her cell dreaming of the day she can get her revenge against Highland and OCP. Being in prison has been anything but a fun ride for her. Especially after that night, the one Faxx acknowledges as the worst night of her life.
Among a year ago, some of the female prisoners thought Juliette needed to be taught a lesson for being pretentious and arrogant; Faxx looked at everyone down her shoulders, so one night, the “Welcome party” for the doctor was planned.
Faxx remembers taking a shower in the evening when she felt someone was pulling her hair back in a violent way, all of sudden four women were surrounding her, the bullies that always get together to beat up everyone, they were tall and robust and outnumbered her, but still, Faxx didn’t change her arrogant attitude and demanded to be left alone:
“Don’t you idiots know who I am? And what would happen to you if you dare to do anything to me?? I work for OCP!! I will get you killed, all of you”
Her presumptuous statements were music for their ears. It was the reassurance they needed to teach her a lesson, the four of them started beating her up, hard, Faxx tried to helplessly defend herself, just to end up lying on the floor, writhing her body in pain; although the tough women didn’t stop there; they made her stand up in front of a mirror, so Juliette endured the traumatic moment to see up close how one of them was slicing her face with a sharp knife.
The woman made a clean cut on her cheek in between the cheers and applauses from her accomplices. Faxx screamed so hard, she fainted for some minutes. The women dropped her on the floor and walked away laughing out loud.
Once Faxx regained consciousness, there were two male officers around turning all the showers on, the noise of the water started banging inside her head. Juliette thought they were there to help her; after all, those men were police officers.
Little she knew that those two male guards were vicious and corrupt and they were there to rape her, the four girls had given them heads up, that the lady was already naked on the floor and that it was their turn to have fun with her.
Juliette let it happen; no strength was left in her to fight back. The men had turned the showers on in advance, so nobody could hear her screaming for help.
When everything was over, Faxx remember being pained lying on the cold floor, hearing the water hitting the tiles violently, whilst she observed how her own blood was going down the drain.
The memories of that night, haunt Juliette in her nightmares, scenes of the rape plague her mind when she wakes up in the middle of the night, scared and agitated, sometimes, she can still hear the laughter of the depraved guards in the back of her head.
Faxx has sworn to get revenge of everyone that put her in jail. Her new motivation in life is figuring out ways to see the old man die for everything he did to her, that’s the first thought she has in the morning and the last one before she goes to sleep.
Schysler and Faxx have been planning to murder Highland and Faxx has been planning her own escape. When the old man is dead and Johnson becomes the new OCP CEO, Schysler thinks of pursuing the Vice Presidency position. Faxx plans to get a physical facial reconstruction after escaping prison, to be able to infiltrate into the corporation under a new identity and have the power to destroy her second target:
RoboCop. Faxx also dreams to see the day when RoboCop is finally deactivated, dismantled, torn into pieces. Nobody knows what makes RoboCop function and Faxx knows that the valuable information that RoboCop stores in his brain could be useful for her undisclosed plans. Schysler is naive and unaware that Faxx has her own hidden agenda. She’ll never change.
Schysler: Babe, did you like the flowers?
Faxx: They’re nice, but that’s not what I expected you to bring me today…
Schysler: Bringing you the head of RoboCop is more difficult than you think, he is one lucky motherfucker, he always escapes or survives, I am running out of ideas here, give me break for once!
Faxx: What about my children? Why hasn’t the old man deployed them as we had planned?
Schysler: Juliette, he didn’t like the project…how many times do I have to tell you, he just wants them as traffic officers and building guards, he said TDX-1000s looked like “Some metallic frogs from hell” so, it’s not going to work, we can’t have them in Splatterzone as you and I had planned to, getting them to blow up RoboCop in pieces would be more difficult than we thought
Faxx: He is senile, he can’t appreciate the great work Dr. Moore and I did on those units
Schysler: By the way, Moore wants more money…
Faxx: Just give it to him, he is developing a new little something for me…
Schysler: You think I am a bottomless source of money? If I keep writing checks to Moore, that dickhead of Johnson will eventually find out…
Faxx: Distract him with something else…what about that tactical team he has been obsessing over?
Schysler: Well, he is investing a lot of money on it…he still thinks Delta city will happen someday
Faxx: Another delusional idiot…and what about the robot freak’s operating system? Is there any chance you can talk Johnson into erasing his memory? Getting the administrative permissions to install a new program on his OCS? Have there been any complaints on him recently?
Schysler: The old man won’t let us touch him, after the Prisma city incident he seems to have grown a weird affection for him and no, that sergeant from Metro West hasn’t reported anything unusual on him anymore…then that chick Tyler doesn’t give away much information either, I just find closed doors when it comes to that metallic freak of nature…
Faxx: I would like to cut him open, his brain, I mean, I would like to know what the hell makes him function...and I would like him to slowly die whilst I do it
Schysler: Once we finally blow him up into pieces, I can save the brain for you…
Faxx: It’s either that, or how about we let the police force do the honors for us? Why if it’s the cops the ones that shoot him to death, because he has recently lost it and has started to kill cops himself? Get it why, you have to pay Moore for his services now?
Schysler: I like where this is going…
Faxx: And you will love it even more, once I explain to you everything I have in mind for that ugly creepy, robotic freak
Schysler: So, what do you think he is doing at the moment?
Faxx: Probably eating that disgusting baby food they feed him…is not like he can do much with his life, right? He is useless and obsolete…and creepy as hell, wonder why do they even keep him alive…
Schysler: Well, so far, he is the only robot police officer that has worked well on the streets…
Faxx: But that will change…he can’t remain sane forever, can he? Go back to that shit hole police station and find out everything you can about him…talk to the technicians, talk to the cops…merge with them, he is gotta have his weak points, like all of us do…once Highland is dead, there will be no daddy to protect him anymore then we’ll have our fest tearing him into pieces and throwing him into the junkyard…
Schysler: You really hate him, don’t you…by the way, talking about junkyards; did you know that the Nuke for Christ gang managed to steal the spare pieces of what was left of…your beloved project?
Faxx: Its body was intact…why did they have to crush him into pieces afterwards…I could have put another brain inside that perfectly functional cybernetic body if they had given me the chance, he was way more advanced than anything that OCP has ever produced…then the waste of money…
Schysler: The old man was emotional about it…he had his rant and decided that crushing millions of dollars in parts was going to make him get over you…ha ha, besides, why do you even care…it wasn’t your money, Highland’s money was never yours, come on, just admit you miss the expensive gifts and trips, the old geezer reaaally spoiled you huh…?
Faxx: Then he put me here to rot…the old bastard…
A few days later, Schysler starts to loiter around Metro West making Reed nervous. The sergeant thinks that OCP might suspect of his secret investigation to track down the police items that keep appearing at crime scenes, Reed is unaware Schysler is there to try to break into the private files of the RoboCop project to find out what his weaknesses are.
Schysler knows that Dr. Tyler won’t volunteer much information, but maybe the other technician will. Also, the executive has spoken to some of the officers, trying to find more information about the police robot; nobody has been able to kill yet.
Johnson has no clue on Schysler’s plans. Donald is busy putting his new tactical team together: The Rehabilitation team.
Johnson has hired Commander Mc Daggett to organize and train the new recruits outside the police academy. They have a hidden facility where they are being trained. Johnson chose each one of those candidates and made sure, all of them had criminal records, that way he will assure their obedience once the team is displayed on the streets to evict people from their homes and Johnson proves Highland that the construction of Delta city can still happen, the project the old man seems to have forgotten by now.
After Highland finding out what Faxx was really doing with his RoboCop2 project and the blatant manipulation he was victim of, the CEO was depressed and detached from OCP for a while, putting the construction of Delta city aside.
Those were hard lessons for Highland and ever since, the old man has learned to appreciate RoboCop even more. After all, RoboCop is the only successful project OCP has ever developed to fight crime.
