Dr. Fredrik Peterson was a research scientist and a complete pervert. He would be the first to admit this. Being a fairly small man and not very attractive to women, his usual sexual experiences were limited to solo masturbation whilst watching porn movies, his favorite movies being always concerned with non-consensual sex and humiliation.
For some time Peterson had been working on Subliminal Perception; the ability to control a subjects mind through invisible one frame pictures inserted into material such as TV commercials. For his latest, and he hoped most successful experiment, Peterson had selected a small town with one local TV station. He had proceeded to bribe one of the night-shift technicians to allow him to edit in a quantity of subliminal messages to a series of commercials due to go on air over a course of six weeks. The messages were simple and consisted of one question and answer. Peterson would say "You are the lock", the subject would respond "You are the key". This simple "trigger" accomplished, the subjects mind would then be in Peterson's total control. Peterson had already experimented with this "trigger" system under laboratory conditions, but the TV commercials would allow him to test his theories on a much wider scale.
Peterson had decided to hedge his bets a little until he was sure that his system worked. He would select a subject's house, knock on the door and announce himself as a market researcher doing work for the local TV station. He would thus be able to find out how much of the commercials the subject was likely to have seen.
Peterson approached the door of the selected house and rang the bell. A woman in her mid thirties answered the door. She was tall, around 5'9'' with long black hair. She wore a housecoat over a white blouse and red mid length skirt and looked very much the suburban housewife.
"Good morning" smiled Peterson, "I am doing some research for our local TV station, I wonder if I could ask you just a few questions regarding your viewing habits?"
"Sure" responded the woman, "would you like to come in?"
Peterson sat in the offered armchair as the woman settled herself opposite.
"Now, firstly you are Mrs.......?"
"Rayner" responded the woman, ""Jane"
"Good... Now Jane, tell me, how much TV do you and your family usually watch in a week?"
"Ummm... well I suppose around 3 hours a day for my husband and myself. Julie, our daughter watches a little more"
Peterson continued "And how much of that time would be spent watching our local station?"
"Oh almost all.... we only watch the other stations for a movie or something like that."
Peterson smiled to himself. "This could work" he thought.
Peterson continued to ask Jane some more meaningless questions, and then with a deep breath went for the kill!
"You are the lock" he said to her in a shaky voice.
Jane's eyes glazed slightly as she responded immediately "You are the key"
For a moment Peterson just stared at the woman as she sat looking back at him with a vacant expression on her pretty face. Could it have worked? Perhaps one more quick test.
"Tell me your husband and daughters names and ages"
Jane responded immediately in a flat tone "David is 38, Julie is 18"
Peterson continued "I have complete control of your mind - do you understand?"
"Yes, I understand" replied Jane
Suddenly Peterson heard a noise from upstairs
"Are your family here?"
"Yes, David and Julie are both in today" replied Jane
"Call them down please"
Jane called out to her husband and daughter who both came trotting down the stairs. As soon as they entered the room, Peterson lost no time in subjecting them to the same trigger. As soon as this was completed, Peterson had all three members of the family sitting side by side on the sofa all with glazed expressions.
"Now", thought Peterson, "time to see how my theories test out"
