Vale tracks down Obrist and attends a meeting, but Revok's assassins strike again only Vale and Obrist survive. Revok's assassins shoot Pierce to death, but Vale reads Pierce's dying brain and learns of a group of scanners, led by Kim Obrist, who oppose Revok's group. Revok dispatches assassins to follow Vale as he visits an unaffiliated scanner named Benjamin Pierce, a successful yet reclusive sculptor who copes with his abilities through his art.
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Ruth, Keller is working for Revok as a mole and informs him of Ruth's infiltration plan. Guided by Ruth, Vale learns to control his scanning abilities. Ruth explains that Vale's uncontrolled powers drove him mad and asks him to help infiltrate Revok's group. Ruth brings in Vale and injects him with ephemerol, which restores his sanity by temporarily inhibiting his scanning ability. Paul Ruth, who believes the scanners' abilities are the next stage of human evolution, disagrees and notes that the assassination demonstrates Revok's danger. ConSec security head Braedon Keller advocates shutting down ConSec's scanner research program but program head Dr. Revok, who is killing all opposing scanners, infiltrates a ConSec marketing event and psychically causes ConSec's other scanner's head to explode before escaping. Vale is one of 237 super-powered individuals known as "scanners" capable of telepathy and psychokinesis which ConSec is attempting to recruit to stop a malevolent underground ring of scanners led by Darryl Revok, a former mental patient who trepanned his own skull to cope with an uncontrollable stream of thoughts which also drove Vale insane. In a shopping mall, homeless social outcast Cameron Vale telepathically causes a woman to have a seizure before being chased down, sedated, and captured by the private military company ConSec. It is particularly well known for a scene of Revok psychically causing a rival scanner's head to explode. It brought Cronenberg and his controversial style of body horror attention from mainstream film audiences for the first time and has since been reevaluated as a cult classic. Scanners premiered in January 1981 to lukewarm reviews from critics but became one of the first films produced in Canada to successfully compete with American films at the international box office. Another scanner, Cameron Vale (Lack), is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok (Ironside), a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec.
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ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. In the film, "scanners" are psychics with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers. Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan.