Johnson is a salaryman who visits the Trip Movie Corporation on a Sunday morning to experience a fantasy as vivid as reality. He requests the classic scenario: king of Harlem, commanding a battlestar. In the dream he is Cobra — space adventurer, mechanical left arm concealing the Psychogun, fighting the Pirate Guild alongside his partner Lady Armaroid. When the dream ends and Johnson drives home, he collides with a man who looks exactly like the Guild's Captain Vaiken. His arm fires a beam without conscious intent. The Psychogun reveals itself beneath the sleeve. Ben the robot maid confirms that nothing about the last three years of Johnson's house and routine has been what it appeared. The Trip Movie dream was not a fantasy. It was a memory.