On 11 May 2001 as I do recall, Stephen Date wrote:
--- Jenny wrote:
Avon says the Limiter is "feeding scrambled impulses into [Gan's] brain."
It's not the *brain's* impulses that are scrambled. It's the limiter's.
I have to say, given the half a dozen or so times in the last couple of years that I've watched "Breakdown" (how sad is that !) That the impression I got from the script is that Gan's homicidal mania is caused by the scrambled impulses caused by the limiter. These impulses are removed by Kayn and hey presto Gan returns to normal.
Given that the purpose of the limiter is to prevent the implantee from killing, and that it apparently functions by inducing some kind of mental override when it comes to the actual deadly impulse, it always seemed natural to me that when it malfunctioned it was those precise impulses previously tampered with that were being affected. In other words, that a device intended to stop a man from being able to bring himself to kill at all, even in self-defence, instead made him *want* to kill.
Jenny is correct in saying that Gan is not merely lashing out in pain, though I'd guess from his reactions that he *is* probably suffering pain as well; he is clearly homicidal during the limiter malfunction.