Dick Rekkard sank low into his pleather couch and winced as the whiskey touched his bloody gums. He was in front of his futuristic high-definition television, his Toshiba SD-5000 Upconverting DVD Player with HDMI humming away on the shelf below. As all cops knew, the Toshiba SD-5000 Upconverting DVD Player with HDMI could play DVD-Video, - and +, as well as R and RW. It could also show pictures with a special HD JPEG mode, making them crisp and clear in High Definition. With the confident eye of a master painter, Rekkard scanned and zoomed, slowly noticing details he had never noticed before. This was his job: finding the android-style characters that were forbidden to come to Earth due to movie studio copyright issues. Remakes, they called them.

Rekkard had a file on all of them, a file stuffed with the Video CDs, DivX discs, audio CDs, CD-Rs CDRWs, MP3 discs and discs of WMAs, all of which his beloved Toshiba SD-5000 Upconverting DVD Player with HDMI was capable of handling with ease. And with the built in 3D Surround system, it was like those remakes were right in the room with him, standing just behind him, their warm breath against the back of his neck, ready to-

Rekkard turned without thinking. He stood for a moment, taking shallow breaths. He lowered his gun. There was nothing there behind him except the included remote control. He walked to the window and took another drink of his whiskey and thought about that remake with the pretty nose who lived across town. Maybe he was getting too old for this.

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