- Wrong, according to Wikipedia and its more reliable sources. The sequel planned to use mutant psychics as part of a law-enforcement agency (which Quaid joins), in order to stop crimes before they actually occur. This was based on another Phillip K. Dick novel and was eventually rewritten into Minority Report.
- So the sequel would be something else entirely.
- Total Recall 2: Hauser's revenge
- Cohaagen specifically tells Quaid that he screwed up their plans by finding his memories too early. They weren't expecting him to go to Rekall.
- And Quaid's "best friend" was assigned to make sure he doesn't do anything to get his memories to resurface too soon.
- Quaid's wish of doing the "deep cover secret agent" was from his repressed memories of actually being one, hence the dreams of Mars. The terms being "deep cover".
- Cohaagen claimed that he didn't want to kill Quaid, but not only was Richter going after him, but so was Lori, attempting to slash him with the knife.
- Hauser is brilliant, probably moreso than Cohaagen. He's the one with the deep-cover secret agent personality and should've anticipated if something went wrong (Quaid actually believing he was the good guy). For an incredibly complicated plan, this seems like a major oversight.
- Cohaagen was trying to use a Mind Screw on Quaid to believe that he was the mole to lead him to Kuato and showed him Hauser's voice clip. However, first, everything Quaid knows about Hauser and why he became Quaid is from Cohaagen. What if the clip of Hauser telling him how he led them Kuato is faked somehow? After all, this is a world with brainwashing, Latex Perfection robotic masks, and other things, so it's possible that Cohaagen had done that to make Quaid give up. He seems like the type to be The Chessmaster anyway.
- So how did the bad guys find out where Kuato was? Benny. He was the mole, otherwise, there really wouldn't be a reason to have him suddenly show that he was Evil All Along. Benny probably had a tracker to lead them right to it.
- Hauser really did figure out what would ruin Cohaagen's plans and volunteered to be brainwashed, because he's the Double Reverse Quadruple Agent that would do such a thing, while telling Quaid that "he got to me first". At some point, Cohaagen figured out what was going on due to a Gambit Pileup and had to revise his plans, making it first that he was still in Rekall to turn back to Hauser and figure out what the big secret was before Kuato got to him first, then using the Mind Screw tactic to believe that Hauser had "succeeded" and brainwashing him to close any loose ends. Unfortunately, when Cohaagen figured out what Hauser was up to and had to rapidly change plans on the fly (at least twice), that sort of information wasn't sent to Richter, Lori, and the other agents, which is why they had very real plans to kill him.
- 1) That the implanted person has to experience the memories in a dream-like state before they wake up with said memories.
- 2) That the implanted memories are so well crafted and inserted that anyone who purchases them cannot tell them apart from real memories.
- 3) That everyone is different, hence there is likely a fair bit of looseness in the memories so that people can 'fill in the gaps' on how they think they would react. It would be counter-intuitive if the package was a static set of experiences, because there would surely be people who would know that they would not react like that.
As a result, there's probably various tricks and effects Recall can use if issues arise while the process is ongoing. Doctor Edgemar appears after Quaid had seemingly hit a dead end: the woman he was seeking has rejected him and he doesn't know what to do next. To get the memory-plot back on track, Edgemar appears for some reverse psychology, similar to the suggested WMG above about Recall insulting itself to reinforce itself. Because if what he said was true that it was all a dream and Quaid shooting him would have no effect, there would NOT have been a faint but visible trickle of sweat that indicated fear. By performing the 'example' that brings back Lori as Quaid's supposed concerned wife and then giving Quaid a sign that it's a trap, causing him to shoot the doctor, the memory gets a jumpstart and Quaid continues on, now no longer in a dead end, without it seeming overt that his reality just got switched around some so that the 'memory-story' could fully complete. This also means at the end Quaid is not being lobotomized, but just waking up after the procedure is complete.
- Especially when you consider that there would be a whole host of factors to make Mars maintain an atmosphere, simply pumping a huge amount of air from a single machine would only work short-term, eventually it would run out of ice and then the lack of anything that keeps the air on planet would make Mars uninhabitable again, unless Turbinium somehow causes mass terraforming that we didn't see.