Murphy's dream

I had two babysitters as a kid: the television, and my brother. Whenever my parents would go out for work every 2 days a week after I had come back from school, my brother would usually be the one to babysit me while they were out of the house, usually coming back around 7:00. In that amount of time, my brother would usually leave the tv on cartoon network or nickelodeon while he was doing whatever in his room, either playing counter strike or something else teens would usually do in the mid 2000s. Since no ipads existed back then, watching cable tv or playing with toys usually preoccupied the time that kids these days would spend watching whatever garbage that kids youtube channels pump out on the basis. I’m only telling you this because I want you to understand the situation and climate I was in as a kid, and to put into context of the events would transpire one august night.
One tuesday evening, I had come home to our tv’s broadcast being down at the time, and since playing with my bionicles without tv wouldn’t cut it, I went off to go ask my brother why the tv wasn’t working. As usual he was in his room, playing from what i could remember unreal tournament, and when I had told him about my situation he begrudgingly afk’d and went to go find something to put on the dvd player to preoccupy me. He pulled out his old stack of dvds and started laying them out for me, movies like spiderman 3, batman begins, aliens and other movies were some that I could remember. One of the movies that had caught my eye was robocop 2, mostly coming from me thinking robocop’s design was awesome. Though my brother hesitated a bit i’m pretty sure he remembered that robocop 2 was more catered to younger audiences, and he most definitely wasn’t going to show me the first movie, and he eventually popped the dvd into the disk tray and went back to playing his game, leaving me alone in the living room with only the movie to accompany me. 
Surprisingly enough, I liked the movie. Though some scenes like kane’s surgery and robocop’s writhing robotic carcass got me a bit, I actually enjoyed the movie despite me not knowing anything about robocop prior, though the obvious issue would arise once the movie ended, and that issue would be the fact that the movie ended. After about 10 minutes of me not having anything to do or anything to watch, I resorted to doing what an 8 yr old me could do at the time and took things into my own hands. I grabbed the remote and started going through the dvd menu’s features, with the features being the mundane special features, subtitles, options, scenes and the such, and I ended up going into the special features section, and started watching some old behind the scenes featurette which I quickly got bored of.
Eventually, I found myself going into a deleted scenes section which only had about two actual scenes, and after watching both of them I had readied to exit from the section and go pester my brother again when I accidentally pressed the down button on the remote, causing the menu to go down and highlight something that was very clearly meant to be clicked on. It was completely unnamed and effectively hidden for whatever reason. With curiosity and excitement that this was some kind of easter egg hidden by the manufacturers, I clicked on it and the scene began playing.
The scene began in what appeared to be an eerie cemetery at night, the camera slowly panning down to reveal robocop walking through it at a slow but also steady pace. The entire scene looked as if it had been recorded on vhs and transferred digitally. As murphy made his way across the cemetery, it cuts to his point of view as he slowly made his way towards a marked gravestone. Eventually he reached his destination and it cuts away to him staring down at the grave, and he began to take his helmet off revealing his face. Now helmetless, he got a better view of what was inscribed on it, and his face went from the usual neutral blank face to a face of pure shock as he dropped the helmet. It then cut to what he had saw, the name “Alex James Murphy” were written on the headstone. Robocop would drop onto his knees in front of the grave as a loud, eerie chorus began to crescendo and heighten in pitch. It cut to his face once again, now in absolute horror at what he had witnessed as pictures of murphy before becoming robocop flashed on screen at a rapid pace. He began to attempt to get up, but as he did so, parts and pieces from his armor had begun to fall off of him, exposing his mechanical innerworkings and causing one of his arms to come off. Thinking about it now it eerily mirrors what happened to murphy in the first movie.
As this was happening, the graveyard went from a mellow blue to a disturbing shade of red, murphy’s body was now rusting and the metal and parts surrounding his body were now shedding to reveal rotting flesh under the layers of mechanical parts as he attempted to get to his feet. I could tell that he and the scene were now being animated via stop motion, as the trees wilted away and the gravestones crumbled, and murphy now being reduced to a disgusting skeleton with bulging eyes being held up by hydraulics. Eventually murphy’s grave dug itself up and his coffin opened up, and he fell into it, cutting to what remained of murphy writhing in the coffin in fear. It cut then cut to murphy’s point of view as someone slowly began to approach the coffin, the person being revealed to be the old man, the ceo of OCP (and the only one not being animated in stop motion). It cut to a closeup to him, a smile on his face, as he said in an echoed voice, “you’re no use to us anymore, murphy.” With that, he pulled out a shovel from the side and had raised it to close the coffin. It cut to a quick zoom in shot to the skeletal murphy letting out a guttural scream before the old man presumably closed the lid on him.
I don’t remember much after that, but I do remember beginning to loudly cry after the scene had concluded, as I what I had seen freaked me out pretty badly. This alerted my brother and he ran into the living room to see what had happened, and of course, seeing my in my state he asked what was wrong and I tried telling him what I had saw. At some point I tried to show him what I had seen and attempted to do what I tried earlier to access it. To my surprise however, it didn’t work, and my brother either had assumed that I either had a bad dream about it or I had seen the scene where kane’s brain was in the tube. When my parents came home, they scolded my brother for letting me watch a movie like that, despite me not minding the movie whatsoever, and grounded him for about a week. I tried explaining to them that I actually found the movie fine to save my brother’s back, but the dried up tears on my face and robocop 2 menu on the tv was evidence enough for them.
Many years later, my mom would sell a few of the old dvds he left behind when he left college to a goodwill, and I would be reminded of what happened to me as a kid and tried looking up the scene now that I was 16. I would come to learn that the scene I saw indeed did exist, and was meant to be a dream sequence that would have happened shortly after kane’s gang dismantled robocop, presumably when he was hooked up to all of the wires. The scene apparently hasn’t been released as of yet and only about 3 apparent photos were made. It feels very odd knowing that i’m the only one who has watched this scene in full, and as much as I hope it is found, at the same time, I understand why a scene like this would be cut from the movie and never shown again, most likely due to it being too scary for younger audiences. The thing I don’t understand though is how something like that could end up on some random dvd of robocop. I assumed it was likely a leftover at first, but even if it was then why does it disappear after viewing? Why would you specifically design it to do that if it wasn’t one? I still don’t know the answer, and just maybe it’s better off not knowing.
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