FAQ

Logan 5 is a "Sandman". In the domed city where Logan 5 lives and works, the Sandmen are elite policemen and their mandate is to kill "Runners". In the domed city due to overpopulation, the people of the domed city are only allowed to live for 30 years and on their 30th birthday, they are willingly executed in a public ceremony called Carousel which they are promised to be reborn. However, the Runners, those who refuse to die on their 30th birthday set out to escape from the domed city which they risk getting killed by the Sandmen. Logan is sent undercover as a Runner and is ordered to go outside the domed city and seek out and destroy a mysterious place called Sanctuary which is the reason why the Runners are escaping from the domed city. Aided by a woman called Jessica 6, Logan gets hunted by his partner Francis 7 and Logan and Jessica gets outside the domed city and they arrive in the ruins of Washington DC which they meet a nameless old man and they learn about the outside world and what life was like before the domed city was built. Logan begins to question Carousel, Sanctuary and being a Sandman and he decides to return to the domed city to free the population and to create a new world, a new society where everyone won't have to die at the age of 30 and they can live and grow old.

After Logan and Jessica (and, subsequently, Francis) escape the "Domed City," they wind up in what was shown to be the ruins of Washington, D.C.

If they travel about a day and a half to reach the city, the Domed City could be located in two places, as given by clues in the film:

1) They are shown approaching Washington, D.C. from Virginia (noting the position of the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument and reflecting pool), traveling from west to east. Given they could probably cover 20 - 25 miles in a day and a half on foot, this would put the Domed City roughly at the current location of the present-day Dulles International Airport.

2) Near the end of the film, Logan, Jessica and the Old Man are shown walking along an ocean beach, coming FROM Washington, D.C. TO the Domed City. Furthermore, Logan explains that he thinks the Domed City is powered by the rising and falling of ocean tides, which places at least part of it near the ocean. This would contradict their approach to Washington, D.C. from the west earlier in the film. So, this could place the Domed City either on the lower Potomac River, or in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay.

Yes, by authors William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, published in 1967

Many. One is the age limit before Lastday/Sleep: 21. Logan works for Deep Sleep and his palm flower is grey and about to start blinking red/black as the story begins in 2116. Armed Sandmen are the primary enforcers armed with guns loaded with multipurpose rounds from Tanglers to Vapor to Homers to Nitro to Rippers to Incinerating Blister charges. Guns (6 shooters resembling Colt Peacemakers) are kept under palm flower lock at DS headquarters. "Doyle 10's" palm flower color sequence: Yellow = child; Blue = age 7-14; Red = age 14-21. "Jessica 6" is the sibling of "Doyle 10," first hunt of Logan's work shift. "Doyle 10" is killed by amped up feral "cubscouts" in the jungle called Cathedral. His last word is "sanctuary," and "Lilith 4's" key falls out of his clenched hand for Logan to collect. Tobacco is a controlled substance(!). A Risky night film camera (Peep) voyeur mission with Lilith 4 leads to a kind of underground railroad to Sanctuary. Logan's gun tips off Doc and Holly 13 to the presence of a Sandman. Doc and Logan's fight to the death occurs after the New You surgical table self destructs. After Holly 13's suicide, Logan finds a half-awake "Jessica 6" in another New You room. With maze car key in hand, Jessica and Logan begin their journey to Sanctuary, which ends at Cathedral. They meet Mary-Mary 2, who hands them a key and tells them to use it...soon. Jessica sums up doubts about nursery practices that led her to seek out information about Sanctuary. After the battle with the cubscouts, Logan and Jessica take a maze car to an undersea city. Having used his gun, Logan's Sandman status sparks heated arguments with Jessica, as her palm flower turns black. In a panic, Jessica runs through the complex, crashing into a door release. Her struggles to open it are halted by a harpoon hurled by the mutant, Whale. Disarming Logan, Whale leads the two runners through "Molly's" crumbling compartments. Logan is left in a compartment with a failing wall, while Whale advises Jessica on the next part of the journey to Sanctuary. Jessica rescues Logan, and they take the next maze car. An electrical fault sends them to an icy North Pole prison facility called Hell, where the Warden outlines the rules of survival. After the death battle with Harry 7, Jessica and Logan hear of Box, and decide to brave the Arctic wilderness. After falling into exhausted sleep on the ice, Jessica and Logan wake to find the seal-oil-smoky lair of Box. In his ice sculpture studio, Box invites the pair to pose for him, to be immortalized in ice forever. Logan demands that Box tell them how to leave Hell before they pose for him. After the session, Box knocks Logan unconscious and puts him into an ice cage, then, using ice chains, sets Jessica on an ice slab and suggests that she beg for her life before an ice block crushes her. Logan breaks out of the cage, fences with Box, burying the man machine in a pile of his ice creations. Following Box's singsong directions, Logan and Jessica find themselves on the undersea city maze car platform. (There is more, but stopping at page 67 of 148 is quite enough.)

Yes, but in 1967 terms.

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