- Mookie and Pookie are twins. Computer whiz Mookie is terminally ill. But not even death can sever the bond that exists between the two siblings when his knowledge of technology follows him into the afterlife.
- The teenagers Mookie and Pookie are twins and very connected to each other. Mookie is a computer expert but is terminally ill. He lives instructions to Pookie to finish the program he is developing and soon his family learns that he has been transferred himself to the computer.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- The Andersons are a happy family from the suburbs in spite of life problems. Both parents and the twin siblings. They are playing scrubble, but one of them, the teenaged Kevin "Mookie" (Ron Asher) is playing from the interphone, sending the instructions. His sister Susan "Pookie" (Justine Bateman) goes upstairs to talk to him when Mookie asks him to. Mookie has been ill for some time, so he has found himself bed-bound, and has become obsessed with computers. Mookie asks Pookie to promise him that, in case he dies, she will keep on with his work with computers. Even though she doesn't know anything about computers, she finally agrees and promises. She goes downstairs to keep on playing Scrubble. However, at that moment, through the radiophone they can hear Mookie having problems. When they go upstairs, Mookie is dead.
Some time has gone by. Pookie has lived up to her promise and she is working on the computer following late Mookie's instructions. Ruth Anderson (Tippi Hedren) is the mother of Mookie and Pookie. She tells Pookie that she can attend the party she had been forbidden to attend before, so that the teenaged girl may distract herself with friends. However, now Pookie is completely uninterested. One day, the Delivery Man (Neil Kinsella) takes a huge package to the Anderson's. When Ruth has brought it to the old Mookie's room, Pookie opens it up and finds it is a voice synthetizer. However, she hasn't ordered anything, and thinks it must have been Mookie.
The father, Charles Anderson (George Sims) is worried about Pookie's obsession. Pookie tells him that Mookie is living within the net computer, and that she can contact him. Charles tries to sell all the computer equipment, and has even going to cash a cheque. However, Mookie has come to know his plans because banks and digital transactions always appear on the net. Pookie gets frantic and says to his dad that she will prove that Mookie is inside the net. However, when they type questions to communicate with him, Mookie doesn't answer. So the father insists on getting rid of all the computer equipment, while the mother feels in-between and tries to appease both the father and the daughter, asking for more time. When Pookie types in the question of "Why didn't you answer them?", Mookie just says that their father isn't ready yet.
The father is really fed up about the situation. He is going to get rid of the computer. The first step is to unplug it. Just when he is about to do it, the computer talks with the synthetized voice of Kevin/Mookie.
The last scene consists of the three Andersons playing Scrubble again. Charles is losing, - as usual - and the computer with Mookie's voice and sense of humour wins. They are all happy again.
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