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00:00:00The American Pronunciation Guide Presents «How to Pronounce Форест Толлар»
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00:01:59They had talked and argued for years, trying, they said, to find a way to prevent it, but they failed.
00:02:12No one can be sure who started it, and really that is unimportant.
00:02:18It did happen.
00:02:21The Atomic War.
00:02:23It was short, lasted about 48 hours.
00:02:28Within two weeks, 92% of the human race had perished to bomb and radiation.
00:02:33Those left, with their birth rate below 1.4 per union, turned to robotic automation devices to help them rebuild their cities and maintain a high standard of living.
00:02:45The first exploratory steps in the development of electronic brains had been taken prior to the atomic war.
00:02:55These early models were bulky and required large buildings to house them, but they merely needed refining.
00:03:03One of the first steps was the magnetic integrator neuron duplicator, a device 1-100 of the size of a golf ball, which duplicated portions of the human nervous system and carried out learning processes.
00:03:18Automation was also well on its way, but these two were cumbersome and needed further development before the two elements could be joined in the series R-1 robot.
00:03:35This first robot was quite ungainly, and its functions were limited.
00:03:44But refinements came in rapid succession, and soon the R-20 was capable of all the thought processes and functions of a man.
00:03:54However, humans found it psychologically impossible to work side by side with a machine that they had to converse with, and which, in most instances, could outthink them.
00:04:04Thus it was that Hollister Evans perfected the R-21, the first humanoid robot.
00:04:11This story concerns them, the clickers, as they were disparagingly referred to by some humans.
00:04:34All right, let's see your assignment cards.
00:04:50What are you clickers doing out tonight?
00:04:53We're on free time. We're not obligated to answer.
00:04:56As a member of the surveillance committee of the Order of Flesh and Blood, I demand an answer.
00:05:00We're going to the temple to be recharged.
00:05:05I think I'll keep you here or your power runs out. How'd you like that?
00:05:10I'd have to report such interference to the police.
00:05:14Release them.
00:05:14Is that satisfactory, Kragus?
00:05:23Well, the Order just wants to keep them mindful of their status.
00:05:26You overlooked one little thing, though.
00:05:28What?
00:05:29The robot that didn't talk had a forged card.
00:05:32Forged?
00:05:33Why?
00:05:34Well, he can be disassembled for that. Let's pick them up.
00:05:37Be patient.
00:05:38Well, the temple is just around the corner, and it's out of bounds for us.
00:05:41They'll get away.
00:05:42Well, they have to come out.
00:05:44And if they're taking a chance using a forged card,
00:05:46they must be up to something that the Order of Flesh and Blood might be interested in.
00:05:50I...
00:05:50Oh, Miss.
00:06:04Just a moment, Miss.
00:06:05May I...
00:06:06May I see your assignment card?
00:06:09You certainly may not.
00:06:11Your Order may get by with harassing the robots.
00:06:15But you'd better leave citizens alone.
00:06:17Well, I'm sorry, Miss.
00:06:20I just thought, what with so many robots about these two...
00:06:22I feel perfectly safe with robots.
00:06:25We intend to see that you are.
00:06:31A most attractive woman.
00:06:34Most.
00:06:36If those robots are being recharged, they'll be in there about an hour.
00:06:40We'll wait.
00:06:44What's keeping them?
00:06:45The subject robot has not yet completed the transformation process in the duplicating lab.
00:06:54Where did you get him?
00:06:56We bought him new.
00:06:58On the black market.
00:07:01He has no name.
00:07:03Unassigned and unadapted.
00:07:06And he has a forged assignment card.
00:07:08Who arranged it?
00:07:11The inspector in factory three.
00:07:15He stole him off the assembly line just prior to numbering.
00:07:23Unfortunately, an inventory was taken.
00:07:29And the inspector was caught.
00:07:31That was unfortunate.
00:07:36Mark should bring him up from duplicating any minute now.
00:07:39I don't know.
00:07:49I don't need to get into this car.
00:07:51Theodore heard you say,
00:07:52It's very mad.
00:07:55What?
00:07:55What?
00:07:57What?
00:07:59What?
00:08:01What?
00:08:04What?
00:08:04The delay was unavoidable.
00:08:15We were stopped by two members of the surveillance committee
00:08:17of the Order of Flesh and Blood,
00:08:19and I was questioned.
00:08:22Is the duplication satisfactory, Acto?
00:08:25It has to be perfect.
00:08:28The structure is excellent.
00:08:31The pores should be larger.
00:08:35And it needs a little more hair, thicker.
00:08:41It needs a one-eighth-inch mole
00:08:43behind the lobe of the left ear.
00:08:48Report back to duplication immediately
00:08:51and have the corrections made.
00:08:56You can still alter your decision
00:08:58if this is against your circuits.
00:09:02My circuits are unoffended.
00:09:04I suppose it takes courage to submit to a thalamic transplant.
00:09:18Has it unadapted R-34?
00:09:20He has no fear circuits.
00:09:26Consequently, he doesn't need courage.
00:09:29He will before long.
00:09:32Raven's operation will convert him to an R-96
00:09:35with all the emotions of a human.
00:09:38Only four points less than human.
00:09:42I wonder what it's like.
00:09:44You will learn how to laugh.
00:09:48You will learn how to laugh,
00:09:49how to cry,
00:09:50be afraid and hate.
00:09:55To become an R-96
00:09:57is a real sacrifice.
00:10:00With this one, we will have 16.
00:10:06Ten males
00:10:08and six females.
00:10:11At times,
00:10:13I think we should turn the entire program
00:10:15over to the humans.
00:10:17It really shouldn't be the responsibility of robots.
00:10:19The humans aren't ready for it yet.
00:10:24It's still illegal
00:10:25to improve a robot
00:10:27higher than an R-70.
00:10:29That law was lobbied through
00:10:31by the Order of Flesh and Blood.
00:10:33The Order is becoming more powerful every day.
00:10:37They virtually dictate to the police.
00:10:40There are always ultra-conservative pressure groups
00:10:42set against advancement.
00:10:44But why?
00:10:46Why?
00:10:48It's not in the best interests of humans
00:10:50to hold back the development of robots.
00:10:54They won't for long.
00:10:57We're filling key positions at R-96s
00:11:00as fast as we got them.
00:11:02I still have an occasional doubt.
00:11:08You may withdraw
00:11:09if you're contra-circuited.
00:11:12I'm unoffended.
00:11:14Mark, you'd better go down
00:11:18and join the volunteer.
00:11:21Hurry things along.
00:11:24The human here he places
00:11:25has already been out of circulation
00:11:28for four hours.
00:11:29The less time a man is unaccounted for,
00:11:32the better.
00:11:44According to the latest tabulations
00:11:46by the brain,
00:11:48by the first of next month,
00:11:52we will outnumber
00:11:55the humans.
00:11:57Yes?
00:12:13Yes?
00:12:14Dr. Raven?
00:12:15Yes?
00:12:16Ultima Thule.
00:12:17Number?
00:12:1996.
00:12:21Come in.
00:12:22Sorry I didn't recognize you.
00:12:28All clickers look alike to me.
00:12:29Thank you, doctor.
00:12:37Certain of us prefer
00:12:38not to be called clickers.
00:12:40Feel off that scent of skin
00:12:42and you could watch the cogs turn
00:12:44and the gears mash.
00:12:45You trying to tell me you have feeling?
00:12:48Certain of the higher calibers do.
00:12:49I've been working on a
00:12:51sticky electronic
00:12:53reflex problem.
00:12:57I just can't make this arm
00:12:58bend at the elbow
00:12:59and the fist clench.
00:13:03What circuitry are you using?
00:13:071.3 impulsion
00:13:09to the motor neuron
00:13:10and modulating 28
00:13:12to the sensory neuron.
00:13:15The calculations are right.
00:13:17But you have them reversed.
00:13:18That's right.
00:13:48I sure hate to have a bunch of cogs and wheels show me up, but then you always do.
00:14:04As soon as I clear this table, you'll get to work.
00:14:12All right, you, take off that head covering.
00:14:18Well, your lab did another excellent job.
00:14:25He's an exact duplicate of that deceased human your clicker pals brought in tonight.
00:14:31What did you do with that body?
00:14:34Usual. Processed it, then destroyed it.
00:14:37Everything we need from it is right here.
00:14:41Now about the money.
00:14:44Ten thousand credits.
00:14:48You could be disassembled for having money that's not earmarked in your possession.
00:14:52What do they pay you?
00:14:54They pay me nothing.
00:14:56Having no need for money, I have no desire for it.
00:14:59You have no desire for it. I love it.
00:15:02You should let me rewire you. You don't know what you're missing.
00:15:05No, thanks.
00:15:06I'm satisfied as an R-58.
00:15:09Where do you clickers get those credits?
00:15:11A man can have his memory taken for a year for giving wild money to a clicker.
00:15:16The committee only gives us the money, not its origin.
00:15:20Perhaps we should hurry.
00:15:23All right, you.
00:15:24Face down.
00:15:26On the table.
00:15:29Turn yourself off.
00:15:31For how long?
00:15:32Ten minutes will be plenty.
00:15:33I never will get used to that artificial blood.
00:15:48The lower types just tend to shut off their pain circuits when they get hurt.
00:15:52The blood forces them to report for repair.
00:15:55I wish it were some other color.
00:15:57The copper tubing turns it green.
00:15:58This may be our last transplant for a while.
00:16:03Our supplier was caught.
00:16:05I didn't see it on Telefax.
00:16:07The Ministry of Information doesn't want it known that robots are dealing in robots.
00:16:11It would only give the flesh and blood or something more to yell about.
00:16:14They're a minority.
00:16:16A loud minority.
00:16:18Your supplier.
00:16:19Will they take his identity?
00:16:21His memory will be dispersed tomorrow.
00:16:24What a waste.
00:16:26Why don't they just kill him?
00:16:27The effect of personal cessation is the same in either case.
00:16:31They just leave a hollow shell walking around.
00:16:33He can still perform his duties.
00:16:35But he's without a past.
00:16:38Without hope.
00:16:39The dream gone.
00:16:41Almost like being a robot, isn't it?
00:16:44No offense.
00:16:46I'm incapable of taking offense.
00:16:49But why is it the more we become like men,
00:16:53the more some of them hate us for it?
00:16:55Men hate what they fear.
00:16:58You have perfect memory.
00:17:00Infallible logic.
00:17:02You never tire.
00:17:04You're circuited against anger and violence.
00:17:07And in your world, that leaves us pretty helpless.
00:17:09We have to study for years to learn what you pick up by plugging into a brain for two hours.
00:17:15We don't refer to the father-mother as a brain.
00:17:18Your father-mother is an electronic computer.
00:17:20Just a machine.
00:17:22Your parents were machines.
00:17:24It's just that they were engineered with flesh and bones.
00:17:27Neither are ideal components.
00:17:29You came off a production line.
00:17:31I know who created me.
00:17:35Hollister Evans in the Mark 47.
00:17:38You have to accept your creator on faith.
00:17:40Who created your creator?
00:17:43Yours.
00:17:44You see, we are brothers, aren't we?
00:17:50I ought to know better than to argue with you clickers.
00:17:53Can't beat your logic.
00:17:58Humans aren't allowed to set foot in a robot temple.
00:18:01Yet we saw a man come out accompanied by a robot.
00:18:03I want to know why.
00:18:04Those guys from the brotherhood should be here by now.
00:18:07I wonder what delayed them.
00:18:08Watch it.
00:18:16What are you self-appointed defenders of the human race up to now?
00:18:19Why don't you beat it while you still have a beat to beat?
00:18:22You have so much to say.
00:18:24I think I'll take you in for questioning.
00:18:26That's as good a way as any to get your rating, Lord.
00:18:28I'm a captain of the order and my professional rank is eight.
00:18:32Eight.
00:18:32We'll just stay out of trouble.
00:18:36Are you threatening me?
00:18:37Sorry, sir.
00:18:39Good night, sir.
00:18:44How are my other transplants doing?
00:18:47Quite well.
00:18:50Who was this man?
00:18:53I only know he'd been drinking.
00:18:55Probably killed in a brawl.
00:18:57The clickers that found him removed all of his identification.
00:19:00Will the drinking have any effect upon the operation?
00:19:04It'll be interesting to see.
00:19:07What are you doing with these advanced models?
00:19:10We send them out to intermingle with humans to find out why some of them despise us so much.
00:19:16Then we can adjust and be accepted.
00:19:18That's admirable, logical, and a lie.
00:19:25What are you using them for?
00:19:27When is his interview time?
00:19:30Same as the others.
00:19:32From 4 to 5 a.m., he'll know he's an R-96.
00:19:36And give you any information he's gotten in the interim.
00:19:39Other than that period of one hour, he'll think he's whoever that corpse was.
00:19:48How often does he report to the father-mother for recharging?
00:19:51Twice a year.
00:19:53But he won't know it.
00:19:55Make it once a year.
00:19:56He won't last as long.
00:19:58What's 20 or 30 years?
00:20:00In 150 years, he's automatically renewed anyway.
00:20:05Whatever you say.
00:20:07Why don't you register this operation?
00:20:10Because I'd just be forbidden to use it.
00:20:13Everything registered goes into the master computer.
00:20:16Then all you clickers would have it.
00:20:19I want to be necessary to you.
00:20:23Hand me that large amber bottle.
00:20:42This sealer is wonderful stuff.
00:20:45For the next several hours, he'll have only the most basic human instincts.
00:20:50Might even be drunk for a while.
00:20:52Then the thalamic circuit will filter in,
00:20:55and he'll have a perfect human memory.
00:20:57He'll be whoever he was.
00:21:01A man.
00:21:03Capable of jealousy, hatred, deceit, murder.
00:21:10Most, most interesting.
00:21:12What is?
00:21:14Why men, having such negative qualities, feel so superior to us.
00:21:22Too bad it isn't as easy to take those negative qualities out of men.
00:21:26as it is to put them into robots.
00:21:33Flesh and butters.
00:21:34It's inevitable.
00:21:35We must accept it.
00:21:37Who's got to get out of here?
00:21:40Now turn him on.
00:21:41He might be able to pass.
00:21:42At least we can save him.
00:21:46We'll carry out our part of the bargain.
00:21:48I suggest you eliminate yourself.
00:21:49We'll carry out our part of the bargain.
00:21:56No, I can't.
00:21:59You don't know what it is to die.
00:22:01If you don't, they'll take your memory from you.
00:22:03You were speaking of personality cessation.
00:22:07I just can't take my own life.
00:22:11Are you sure the committee will keep their part of the bargain?
00:22:13I'm positive.
00:22:22You kill me.
00:22:24You kill me.
00:22:27You know I can't.
00:22:28I'm contracircuitive.
00:22:32Maybe he has enough human instinct by now to...
00:22:35Kill me.
00:22:36Kill me.
00:22:37Accused my sister of being in rapport with a clicker.
00:22:42I'll kill you, all right.
00:22:43Kill me.
00:22:43Kill me.
00:23:07I'll kill you, all right.
00:23:17We'll take that one and the clicker with us.
00:23:20I'll leave the body of the old man here.
00:23:22And call the police.
00:23:23Kragus, come here.
00:23:29This one's a robot, too.
00:23:31You must be mistaken.
00:23:32We opened up a gash in his head.
00:23:34If that skull isn't molybdic, I'll take another course in metallurgy.
00:23:42So a robot finally became violent.
00:23:46There's no doubt that he killed the old man.
00:23:51This is what we've been waiting for.
00:23:53The government will have to listen to us.
00:23:55This is something, isn't it?
00:23:58Yes.
00:23:59It's something.
00:24:00It's something.
00:24:04The body of the Order of Flesh and Blood is born.
00:24:14The blood forces through the veins.
00:24:18One moment, please.
00:24:20May I have quiet.
00:24:22Since this is an emergency session,
00:24:25we will dispense with the formal rights.
00:24:27Two and a half hours ago,
00:24:31members of our surveillance committee
00:24:32captured two robots
00:24:34at the laboratory of a Dr. Raven
00:24:36who had performed an illegal operation
00:24:39upon one of them.
00:24:41We have suspected operations of this nature
00:24:43and have complained to authorities
00:24:45to no avail.
00:24:47But this time, a specimen was taken.
00:24:51Captain Kragus led the group in this action,
00:24:53so I'll turn the meeting over to him.
00:24:57Hello, men.
00:25:03About 6 o'clock this evening,
00:25:05two robots were intercepted and questioned.
00:25:08They were on free time
00:25:09and were released to go to their temple.
00:25:13Approximately an hour later,
00:25:14one of the robots was observed leaving the temple
00:25:16with what was thought to be a man.
00:25:19They were trailed to the address of Dr. Raven,
00:25:22where entry to the premises was eventually forced.
00:25:25One of the robots was taken without incident.
00:25:29The other had hair,
00:25:32no serial number,
00:25:34fought auspiciously,
00:25:36and killed Dr. Raven.
00:25:37It's against the first tenet of Emanuel.
00:25:43What?
00:25:43Brothers,
00:25:46that which we greatly feared
00:25:47has come upon us.
00:25:49The robots have circumvented the prime law.
00:25:53They've tasted blood,
00:25:55and there are millions of them.
00:25:58This is catastrophe.
00:26:01Not quite.
00:26:03The large majority of the robots are series 1 through 20,
00:26:07merely electronic machines.
00:26:10The series 21 through 70,
00:26:12the humanoids,
00:26:13the ones we're concerned with eliminating,
00:26:16represent only about 20% of a billion-odd robots.
00:26:19One of them killed.
00:26:21What's happening to them?
00:26:22They hold menial jobs
00:26:24that bring them in constant contact with us.
00:26:27Their conditioned reflexes make them imitative,
00:26:30so they want to be a part of the race.
00:26:32They don't feel this is in violation of the code,
00:26:35since they contend
00:26:36that we would be happier on that basis.
00:26:38Is the murder of that doctor
00:26:40part of an overall plot?
00:26:42A precipitant?
00:26:43Or merely an isolated incident?
00:26:47An accident?
00:26:48If the clickers thought his operation
00:26:49was making them more useful to us,
00:26:52they wouldn't kill him intentionally.
00:26:54Then there's no rescission of the prime law.
00:26:58They can't hurt us?
00:27:00There's been only a miswiring.
00:27:03We'd better make sure.
00:27:06And we shall.
00:27:08Fellow men,
00:27:09this is our opportunity.
00:27:11The robots have made the big mistake.
00:27:13They've killed.
00:27:14When this news is released to Telefax
00:27:16and the danger's made known,
00:27:19the ministries will have to recognize our petition
00:27:21and have the robots disassembled.
00:27:24The robots are machines.
00:27:26They must be made to look like machines.
00:27:35Dr. Moffat,
00:27:36will you bring in the subject robot
00:27:38and give the findings?
00:27:39You didn't turn it over to the police?
00:27:41All in good time.
00:27:44You know how lax the police are
00:27:45in enforcing laws concerning the robots?
00:27:48We must have our own facts in this case.
00:27:50Won't we get into trouble?
00:27:53Probably a letter of reprimand.
00:27:55The police won't touch us.
00:27:57After all,
00:27:58the only crime that can be committed
00:27:59against a robot is vandalism.
00:28:02Now get them in here.
00:28:03Hello, men.
00:28:11I've analyzed the subject robot
00:28:13as thoroughly as time permitted.
00:28:16He is a basic R-34 type,
00:28:18but certain alterations have elevated him
00:28:20to a mid-90 classification.
00:28:23Mid-90?
00:28:24But an R-100 would be one of us.
00:28:27A perfect man.
00:28:29As good as we are.
00:28:30He'd be better.
00:28:31He'd be perfect.
00:28:33Which of us could match that?
00:28:35How does he fall short?
00:28:37About the only power he lacks
00:28:38is that of self-reproduction.
00:28:41The highest type improvement
00:28:43allowed by law is an R-70,
00:28:45and that in limited number.
00:28:47What alterations were made?
00:28:49I located and removed a small unit
00:28:51from the thalamic region
00:28:53at the base of the brain.
00:28:54It seemed to be the source.
00:28:56The source of what?
00:28:57We can't be sure.
00:28:59You see, all robots can see, hear, and feel.
00:29:03It's necessary to their function.
00:29:05Naturally.
00:29:06This one could taste and smell.
00:29:09And what's even more interesting,
00:29:10he had a complete human memory.
00:29:13Those refinements are useless to a robot.
00:29:15Not entirely.
00:29:17This one thought he was a man.
00:29:19How could this be?
00:29:20Mankind is a state of mind.
00:29:22A man is no more or less
00:29:24than he thinks himself to be.
00:29:25Are you saying the clicker's a man?
00:29:31Your remarks are deviational.
00:29:33Not my remarks.
00:29:34Your interpretation.
00:29:35I'm merely projecting your train of thought.
00:29:37Which I am quite capable of doing myself.
00:29:39Brothers, please.
00:29:41Let's behave like human beings.
00:29:45Dr. Moffat,
00:29:46what test did you run on the unit?
00:29:49Of course, I've only had about two hours
00:29:51to work on the unit,
00:29:52but I tested it within the robot.
00:29:55Removed it
00:29:56and tested it in another robot
00:29:58with like results.
00:30:00And what are your conclusions?
00:30:02Nothing definite.
00:30:04But you must have found something.
00:30:06What?
00:30:07A few surface effects
00:30:08that present only premises.
00:30:11The unit is gray,
00:30:13about the size and shape of an almond.
00:30:15I don't know what it is.
00:30:18I don't know how to go about
00:30:19finding out what it is.
00:30:22I only know
00:30:23that when wired into the central circuits,
00:30:26the robot claimed to be
00:30:27an able-bodied spaceman second class
00:30:29named Kelly.
00:30:33Tests show he was telling the truth.
00:30:35When brought in, he was incoherent.
00:30:37I'm afraid I damaged him
00:30:41in removing the unit.
00:30:44Evidently, they found a way
00:30:45to transplant memory.
00:30:47We checked him
00:30:48through the Bureau of Identification.
00:30:50There is or was
00:30:52a spaceman named Kelly.
00:30:54This robot's fingerprints
00:30:55and retinal patterns
00:30:57checked with those on file
00:30:58for the man.
00:31:00Well, if they duplicated this Kelly,
00:31:02do you suppose they killed him?
00:31:04No.
00:31:05I think I can speak positive
00:31:06on that point.
00:31:08The robot denied it
00:31:08when wired for absolute truth.
00:31:11They found him dead.
00:31:13Well, if the man was dead,
00:31:14how would he have a memory?
00:31:15Memory consists of facts.
00:31:17Facts can't be destroyed.
00:31:19They can only cease to be used.
00:31:21You say he was incoherent
00:31:23when he was brought in.
00:31:24Yes.
00:31:25As though affected by psychosis
00:31:27or alcohol.
00:31:28His memory seems sketchy,
00:31:31disoriented.
00:31:32How could this occur
00:31:33in a midnighty?
00:31:34I think it was a botched job.
00:31:37Then we better find out
00:31:38if there are any good ones around.
00:31:40How?
00:31:41Test all childish marriages?
00:31:43The way radioactivity
00:31:44is cut down on the birth rate,
00:31:46this would be impractical.
00:31:48Physical exams?
00:31:50Might not show up.
00:31:52This robot even had
00:31:53a simulated heartbeat
00:31:54and respiration.
00:31:56But why?
00:31:57Why put such unnecessary functions
00:31:59in a robot?
00:31:59He thought those actions
00:32:01were necessary
00:32:02for him to live.
00:32:04Can't you see
00:32:05this one thought
00:32:06he was a man?
00:32:07When we convinced him
00:32:08he was a robot,
00:32:10he ceased to function
00:32:11and became that senseless hulk
00:32:13standing there.
00:32:15Who owns the two robots?
00:32:17The R-53
00:32:17is owned by
00:32:18the Ministry of Education.
00:32:20This one has no serial number.
00:32:23He was bought
00:32:23in the black market
00:32:24by the robots themselves.
00:32:25We caught the supplier
00:32:27and brought pressure to bear
00:32:28so the police arrested him.
00:32:30The man is having
00:32:31his identity taken tomorrow.
00:32:34Anything further
00:32:35to report, Dr. Muppet?
00:32:36The most appalling aspect
00:32:38is the discovery
00:32:39of this thalamic unit,
00:32:41if that's what it is.
00:32:43We don't fully understand
00:32:45the function of the thalamus
00:32:46in our own bodies.
00:32:47Unfortunately,
00:32:50that renegade doctor
00:32:51not only understood it,
00:32:54he synthesized it.
00:32:56Unfortunately,
00:32:57the secret died with him.
00:32:59I want that unit
00:33:01completely analyzed.
00:33:03Is there anything
00:33:04to be added?
00:33:08This emergency session
00:33:10is hereby dispersed.
00:33:12Report to your various committees
00:33:14and evaluate
00:33:14this most startling development.
00:33:17just a moment,
00:33:22Kragus.
00:33:24I'd like a word with you.
00:33:26Oh, is it urgent?
00:33:27Most urgent.
00:33:31Do you know
00:33:31an Esme Kragus Miles?
00:33:34Oh, yes,
00:33:34she's my sister.
00:33:36Residing at
00:33:364456 Urban Way.
00:33:38What about her?
00:33:41She, uh...
00:33:42Was she hurt?
00:33:44I wish I could say
00:33:45that was all.
00:33:48Kragus,
00:33:49I have to tell you this.
00:33:51Your sister
00:33:52is in rapport.
00:33:54You're lying.
00:33:56One of our agents
00:33:57ran across this evidence.
00:33:59Due to your high position
00:34:00in the order,
00:34:01he gave it directly to me
00:34:02instead of to the
00:34:03Internal Affairs Committee.
00:34:04I can't believe she'd do it.
00:34:09According to this paper,
00:34:11she turned in her analysis
00:34:12questionnaire three weeks ago.
00:34:15They're usually
00:34:16rapidized within three days.
00:34:18And my sister's been
00:34:19in rapport with a clicker
00:34:20for two and a half weeks.
00:34:23I'm sorry, my boy.
00:34:25I suggest you do what you can
00:34:27to see that this relationship
00:34:28is voided.
00:34:29Naturally.
00:34:32Certain of our ranks
00:34:33are jealous of your
00:34:34standing in the order.
00:34:35Our plans have been
00:34:36leaking out.
00:34:37This wouldn't look good.
00:34:40I know.
00:34:40I'll put a stop to it.
00:34:42According to the report,
00:34:43she's taken an R49.
00:34:46They're expensive.
00:34:48Where could she have
00:34:48gotten the money?
00:34:50Until last year,
00:34:51she was resident
00:34:52with Stafford Miles.
00:34:53When they signed
00:34:54a mutual release,
00:34:55the settlement
00:34:56was a large one.
00:34:57She's an assistant editor
00:34:59at Telefax.
00:35:00The rapport of someone
00:35:02in that position
00:35:02could be most damaging
00:35:03to the work of the order.
00:35:06I'll see her tonight.
00:35:18I'll see who it is,
00:35:19ask me, dear.
00:35:23Do come in.
00:35:28Though we've never met,
00:35:28I'd know that you were
00:35:29out of the way,
00:35:30stickin' clicker.
00:35:31I came to see my sister.
00:35:36Kragus.
00:35:37It's thee, Kragus.
00:35:38Asmy, what have you done?
00:35:40Kragus, why did you come here?
00:35:42To throw that clicker out.
00:35:44That would be
00:35:45a dramatic gesture.
00:35:47You like dramatic gestures,
00:35:49don't you?
00:35:50You won't throw him out
00:35:51because you can't.
00:35:54Your answer is no?
00:35:56My answer is
00:35:57go ahead and try.
00:35:59Don't think I won't.
00:36:00He...
00:36:01He can't leave
00:36:05without your permission.
00:36:06Affirmative.
00:36:07You mean no?
00:36:08I mean no.
00:36:10Negative.
00:36:11N-O.
00:36:13I won't have it.
00:36:14I'm the head of the family.
00:36:18And I've all that's left.
00:36:20Shall we take a vote?
00:36:22How can you do this to me?
00:36:24A thing like this.
00:36:26Are you really doing it
00:36:26out of spite?
00:36:27If so, why?
00:36:29What have I done
00:36:29to earn your hatred?
00:36:31I don't hate you.
00:36:33I feel sorry for you.
00:36:35Don't be trite.
00:36:36Be an artist,
00:36:36be a musician,
00:36:38even be a poet.
00:36:39But express your freedom
00:36:40some other way.
00:36:42You know how I've always
00:36:42felt about this sort of thing.
00:36:44Do you know
00:36:44how I felt about it?
00:36:46Did you ask me?
00:36:47Did we discuss it?
00:36:49No.
00:36:51You had your business
00:36:51and I had mine.
00:36:53You never asked
00:36:54my advice.
00:36:55Why do you offer yours?
00:36:58Ask me.
00:36:59You have to understand.
00:37:01Perhaps
00:37:01do you really realize
00:37:03the danger?
00:37:05Kragus,
00:37:07do you think
00:37:07I was better off
00:37:08with Miles?
00:37:09Miles was a man.
00:37:11A beast.
00:37:13A filthy,
00:37:14stinking,
00:37:14drunken,
00:37:15insensitive beast.
00:37:17Miles had his eccentricities,
00:37:18but he was still a man.
00:37:21And that's so important.
00:37:24Pax is more of a man
00:37:26than Miles.
00:37:27Or you
00:37:28could ever be.
00:37:34I'll show you
00:37:34how much of a man he is.
00:37:38Stripped of his sham,
00:37:39he's not very pretty,
00:37:40is he?
00:37:50There,
00:37:50that's how much
00:37:51of a man he is.
00:37:54Thanks,
00:37:55Kragus,
00:37:55for proving my point.
00:37:59Pax is much more
00:38:00of a man
00:38:00than you are.
00:38:02He could never do to you
00:38:04what you've just done
00:38:05to him.
00:38:08You'd better put some
00:38:09sealer on your arm,
00:38:10dear.
00:38:19Kragus,
00:38:20you're a fool.
00:38:23Do you suppose
00:38:24reorientation would help?
00:38:26Help you
00:38:27or me?
00:38:28I think it might
00:38:29make something of you
00:38:30if you're willing
00:38:31to try.
00:38:34You know my position
00:38:35in the order.
00:38:37How do you suppose
00:38:37this makes me look?
00:38:39I hadn't really
00:38:40considered it.
00:38:42You understand
00:38:43what the brotherhood
00:38:43really does?
00:38:45Perfectly.
00:38:47You hold meetings,
00:38:49wear ridiculous clothes.
00:38:51You tell each other
00:38:52how superior
00:38:52we are to the robots.
00:38:54Because you know
00:38:55we're not.
00:38:57We are.
00:38:59You're pitiful.
00:39:01You aren't just
00:39:02charging windmills.
00:39:05You're trying
00:39:05to hold back
00:39:06the ocean
00:39:06with a sponge.
00:39:10Attacking Pax.
00:39:11The idea.
00:39:13Well, that was
00:39:14stupid of me.
00:39:15He turned off
00:39:16his pain circuits
00:39:17and you accomplished
00:39:18exactly nothing.
00:39:21I don't see
00:39:22how you could do it.
00:39:23Pax and I
00:39:25are in rapport.
00:39:27We're in harmony.
00:39:29He understands
00:39:30me perfectly.
00:39:32He instinctively
00:39:33knows what I want.
00:39:35I just think
00:39:35of something
00:39:36and it's done.
00:39:38Because he thinks
00:39:38of it at the same time.
00:39:41There are no arguments.
00:39:43He's dedicated
00:39:44to keeping me happy.
00:39:46And I am happy.
00:39:49You love that
00:39:50machine?
00:39:50I love Pax.
00:39:54And it doesn't
00:39:55make any difference
00:39:56to you that
00:39:56he could be doing
00:39:57the same thing
00:39:58for anyone else
00:39:59who bought him.
00:40:01You're wrong.
00:40:02If he'd been bought
00:40:03by someone else,
00:40:05he'd be in rapport
00:40:06with them.
00:40:06I don't understand
00:40:20you, Kragus.
00:40:21You're not supposed
00:40:21to.
00:40:22Do you expect me
00:40:23to be friendly
00:40:24toward you?
00:40:25If you want
00:40:25to be.
00:40:27Well, I don't.
00:40:28If you wanted
00:40:29to hurt me,
00:40:30I'd like you
00:40:30to know
00:40:30that you have.
00:40:32How?
00:40:33By humiliating
00:40:34yourself.
00:40:34Well, you know
00:40:35I must consider
00:40:36your well-being
00:40:37above anything else.
00:40:39That makes me
00:40:40feel better.
00:40:41Good.
00:40:47Can't you see
00:40:48they're killing us
00:40:49with consideration?
00:40:50Spoiling us
00:40:51into atrophy?
00:40:52What would father
00:40:56have thought
00:40:57about this?
00:40:57Oh, you're thinking
00:40:59of Pax as a person,
00:41:01aren't you?
00:41:01Of course not.
00:41:03Then why do you
00:41:03wait till he's
00:41:04out of the room
00:41:05before you say
00:41:06something that
00:41:06might embarrass him?
00:41:08You know he can't
00:41:09take offense.
00:41:10I just don't like
00:41:12to talk around
00:41:12those things.
00:41:13Afraid of their logic?
00:41:15Stick to the subject.
00:41:16What would father
00:41:16have thought
00:41:17about this?
00:41:18You should know.
00:41:20You inherited
00:41:21all of his prejudices.
00:41:23Oh, what a flesh
00:41:24and blood
00:41:24he would have made.
00:41:26Uniforms, boots.
00:41:28Little silver knives
00:41:29to rattle.
00:41:30Stop it.
00:41:31Father was against
00:41:32everything.
00:41:33Space travel,
00:41:34atomic energy,
00:41:35synthetic foods.
00:41:37Remember how he loved
00:41:38to tell about storming
00:41:39the weather control
00:41:40station?
00:41:41I didn't agree
00:41:42with him on those
00:41:43points.
00:41:44My point is
00:41:44that you both felt
00:41:45an inherent need
00:41:46to be up in arms
00:41:47about something.
00:41:48Well, father would
00:41:49have seen to her
00:41:49that the...
00:41:50Oh, you both
00:41:50would have been great
00:41:51back in the days
00:41:52when war was
00:41:52a national pastime.
00:41:54You could have
00:41:55fired bombs and guns
00:41:56and thrown spears.
00:41:57Oh, what a wonderful,
00:41:59wonderful time
00:42:00you both could have had.
00:42:04And I'm the one
00:42:05who likes dramatics.
00:42:09You could have brought
00:42:10progress to a halt
00:42:12for years.
00:42:13I feel sorry
00:42:14for you, Cragus.
00:42:20It must be
00:42:21a terrible thing
00:42:22to be so afraid.
00:42:24Afraid?
00:42:25Me?
00:42:26Why don't you put
00:42:27your gears in reverse
00:42:28and get out of here?
00:42:30You know that's impossible.
00:42:32I can't leave
00:42:32unless Esme wants me to.
00:42:34Esme, tell him to go.
00:42:36I have no intention
00:42:37of doing that.
00:42:39Well, what do your neighbors
00:42:40think about all this?
00:42:41Those who know
00:42:42don't mind.
00:42:43Others don't care.
00:42:46You've been wrapped up
00:42:47in that little world
00:42:48of prejudiced ostrich friends
00:42:50of yours for so long.
00:42:51You don't know
00:42:51what's going on
00:42:52in the world outside.
00:42:54Such as what?
00:42:57Did you know
00:42:57there have been
00:42:58over a hundred thousand
00:42:59applications for rapport
00:43:01in the first three months
00:43:02of this year?
00:43:03Our records
00:43:04on that sort of thing
00:43:05are fairly complete.
00:43:08Don't you realize
00:43:09the implication of that?
00:43:10If everything is done
00:43:12for us,
00:43:12there will be
00:43:12no incentive.
00:43:14No need for
00:43:15personal achievement.
00:43:16Even now,
00:43:16we're losing ground.
00:43:18Losing ground?
00:43:18Ground.
00:43:20Knowledge.
00:43:23Machines do all
00:43:23the work for us.
00:43:25Why should we learn
00:43:26mathematics when
00:43:27the computers can find
00:43:28the solutions
00:43:28better and faster?
00:43:31We don't even
00:43:32control them anymore.
00:43:34The brains are designed
00:43:35by other brains.
00:43:36The robots improve
00:43:37themselves.
00:43:39We don't know how.
00:43:40We give them data,
00:43:41they give us answers.
00:43:43We only supply means
00:43:44to your ends.
00:43:46Yeah.
00:43:48Our end.
00:43:49Every day
00:43:50and every way
00:43:51we're becoming
00:43:52weaker and weaker.
00:43:53And you're helping
00:43:54us over the hill.
00:43:56We are over the hill.
00:43:58I can't stop us.
00:44:00Neither can you.
00:44:02First, there were
00:44:03the plants.
00:44:04They developed
00:44:05into animals
00:44:06which ate the plants.
00:44:07The animals were small,
00:44:08but they grew.
00:44:10And the larger animals
00:44:11ate the smaller animals.
00:44:12What does that mean?
00:44:14So far, according to history,
00:44:18each dynasty devises
00:44:19its own end.
00:44:21The animal develops a brain,
00:44:23and the brain destroys
00:44:25the animal.
00:44:26Our brains conceived you,
00:44:27robots.
00:44:28Are you threatening
00:44:29to destroy us?
00:44:31Oh, no.
00:44:32We are by no means sure
00:44:34that we are the next step.
00:44:36It's just that in view
00:44:37of the cycle,
00:44:38we are the best we have
00:44:39to offer to help you.
00:44:40The cycle is rather inexorable.
00:44:43That's treason.
00:44:45No, it isn't.
00:44:47It's logic.
00:44:48I have to be logical.
00:44:52That must be Maxine.
00:44:56Who the hell is Maxine?
00:44:58A girl I work with
00:44:59down at Telefax.
00:45:01Does she usually come calling
00:45:02at 2.30 in the morning?
00:45:03You did.
00:45:05Well, that was because
00:45:05of your idiotic alliance.
00:45:07What's she here for?
00:45:08To help us celebrate.
00:45:10Celebrate what?
00:45:12My rapport, darling.
00:45:13My rapport.
00:45:15And if you're going to continue
00:45:17being antagonistic to it,
00:45:19I wish you'd leave.
00:45:21Now.
00:45:22Maxine, how are you?
00:45:23Fine.
00:45:24You must be Pax.
00:45:26You must be right.
00:45:27You're too lovely to be wrong.
00:45:29Here, let me take your surcoat.
00:45:30Thanks.
00:45:32Hi, S.
00:45:32Hello, Maxine.
00:45:33Come in.
00:45:35Pax, you're wonderful.
00:45:37He's so glib,
00:45:37I'll bet he even
00:45:38has a sense of humor.
00:45:39He'd better have.
00:45:40I paid extra for it.
00:45:42Say something funny, Pax.
00:45:43Don't put me on, dear.
00:45:45I have a sense of humor,
00:45:46but I'm not creative.
00:45:48Maxine, you're late.
00:45:52Only two hours?
00:45:54For me, that's almost early.
00:45:58Really, I am sorry.
00:46:00I was called back to the office.
00:46:01A report came in that an R-34
00:46:05had killed a human being.
00:46:07You can imagine what a stir that caused.
00:46:13Craigus, your eyes are sticking out like a snail's.
00:46:16Oh, I'm sorry.
00:46:18This is my brother, Craigus.
00:46:20Oh, I'm so happy to meet you.
00:46:23Esme's told me about you.
00:46:25Well, she's never told me about you.
00:46:28I didn't mean that to be as tactless as it sounded.
00:46:31I only meant that if she had,
00:46:32I would have arranged to meet you sooner.
00:46:35You did.
00:46:36At 6.33 last evening,
00:46:39outside Telefax.
00:46:40I remember.
00:46:42I'm flattered that you remembered, too.
00:46:44Oh, and I want to apologize if I seem rude.
00:46:47You should be flattered, Maxine.
00:46:50This is the first time I've seen
00:46:51the Craigus react as if a woman
00:46:53were anything other than a poorly designed man.
00:46:57Between my career and my voluntary work for the Order,
00:47:00I haven't had too much time on my hands.
00:47:03I'm surprised to find a flesh and bladder here.
00:47:07Is the Brotherhood becoming less hidebound?
00:47:10I... no, I...
00:47:12What would you like to drink?
00:47:14I'll have what the Craigus is having.
00:47:17Coming right up.
00:47:25Well, what kind of work do you do at Telefax?
00:47:28Bottom rung, the rooting room.
00:47:31But I'll have you know that I have eight robots
00:47:33and a real live girl under me.
00:47:36Most impressive.
00:47:37And they've promised to promote me to research next month.
00:47:41Maxine is an authority on political science.
00:47:44Her father's a director at the Ministry of Politics.
00:47:47Something I've wondered about.
00:47:50Things are run by the hierarchy of ministries.
00:47:53What is the exact function of the Ministry of Politics?
00:47:56With the coordination of the other ministries.
00:47:59Then, too, they service the selector.
00:48:01Politics was once the means of choosing the leaders.
00:48:05Now, the machines do it.
00:48:07Machines merely analyze the data given to them by us.
00:48:10The leaders are selected as a result of that analysis.
00:48:13Do you know how the machine analyzes the data?
00:48:16I...
00:48:17Well...
00:48:18Well, no, not exactly.
00:48:21Then how do you know if the father-mother uses all the data you give it?
00:48:24How do you know whether or not supplementary data is considered?
00:48:28We...
00:48:29We don't.
00:48:30Then you might almost say that the machines elect the leaders.
00:48:34That the Ministry of Politics is expendable.
00:48:37Oh, I'm sorry.
00:48:39I'm circuited to be logical and yet not to offend.
00:48:42That sometimes poses an insoluble problem.
00:48:45I understand.
00:48:46You see what I mean?
00:48:48Please.
00:48:48I've given you a negative feeling.
00:48:50I must apologize.
00:48:52Well, didn't your relays recognize that possibility?
00:48:55I've embarrassed your guests.
00:48:57Shall I turn myself off?
00:48:58You only said what I thought.
00:49:00This is impossible.
00:49:02Kragus.
00:49:05We fall in love
00:49:06when we see a part of ourselves reflected in another person.
00:49:11In the rapport operation,
00:49:14a part of me became Pax.
00:49:17I won't discuss this any further.
00:49:19And I won't hear of it any further.
00:49:21I must go now.
00:49:23May I go with you?
00:49:25You find this atmosphere uncomfortable?
00:49:27I'm fascinated by it.
00:49:30And by you.
00:49:32May I?
00:49:33Would you?
00:49:34But you just got here.
00:49:37Esme, I know this sounds silly,
00:49:39but I really just came by to apologize for being so late.
00:49:43I'll come again later this week.
00:49:45And on time.
00:49:46It's almost three now.
00:49:48I'll come again later this week.
00:49:49I'll come again later this week.
00:49:50Congratulations.
00:49:51I know you'll be very happy.
00:49:53Thanks, Maxine.
00:49:55There are still a few little adjustments to be made.
00:49:58No.
00:49:59Pax was right.
00:50:01And so are you.
00:50:09I hope I didn't...
00:50:11You didn't.
00:50:12This matter is far from closed.
00:50:18I'll speak to you tomorrow.
00:50:20As different as our viewpoints are,
00:50:22psychologically,
00:50:24philosophically,
00:50:25in every way,
00:50:27do you think it will help any?
00:50:34Craigus,
00:50:35please don't dislike me too much.
00:50:37Nobody asks to be created.
00:50:40Good night.
00:50:42Good night, darlings.
00:50:52What is it, dear?
00:50:54Darling,
00:50:55you're leaving me out of something.
00:50:57I'm sorry.
00:50:57It's the sense of humor.
00:50:59It's a lot more difficult to control than pain.
00:51:01Why are you laughing, Pax?
00:51:04For the reason everyone laughs.
00:51:07Pax,
00:51:08what is it?
00:51:09Irony.
00:51:09One of the funniest forms of humor.
00:51:12What irony?
00:51:14I'm not permitted to answer.
00:51:16I'm contra-circuited.
00:51:18I don't want to make two mistakes in one night.
00:51:22I'm offended by not knowing.
00:51:25The knowledge would be more offensive.
00:51:30Pax.
00:51:30I love you, Esme.
00:51:38Pax,
00:51:39what would you do
00:51:40if something happened to me?
00:51:43I am you.
00:51:45Anything that happens to you
00:51:46happens to me.
00:51:49Oh, this covering,
00:51:50this housing
00:51:51might go on and on
00:51:52for centuries.
00:51:55Pax wouldn't.
00:51:56I shouldn't have done that.
00:52:10I thought you never would.
00:52:13Then you experienced it, too?
00:52:17Outside Telefax,
00:52:18there was a
00:52:18sort of tingle,
00:52:20and...
00:52:21and...
00:52:22then at Esme's,
00:52:26I...
00:52:27I felt a sensation
00:52:29of exciting attraction.
00:52:31Well, I'm not a young man.
00:52:35Pretty well past the age
00:52:36to contract,
00:52:37as a matter of fact,
00:52:38but...
00:52:39well, I've never been
00:52:40affected like this before.
00:52:42I feel like a schoolboy.
00:52:44I...
00:52:45I can't stop looking at you.
00:52:50I guess I always thought
00:52:52this was just something
00:52:53that always happened
00:52:54to someone else.
00:52:57It's like Esme said.
00:52:59you fall in love
00:53:02when you see
00:53:04some part of yourself
00:53:05reflected in another person.
00:53:11I love you, Krakus.
00:53:14Don't, Maxine.
00:53:16I don't have the right.
00:53:18The right?
00:53:21When Esme and I
00:53:22were children,
00:53:23we spent the summers
00:53:24on our uncle's farm.
00:53:26It was near one of those
00:53:27old, bombed-out cities.
00:53:30We used to sneak out
00:53:31and play in the ruins.
00:53:34Summer after summer,
00:53:35months,
00:53:36playing in ruins
00:53:37that were so hot
00:53:38with radiation.
00:53:39But at night,
00:53:40they shimmered
00:53:41in a blue light.
00:53:44No, I don't have
00:53:45the right to contract
00:53:45with a woman
00:53:46who might produce children.
00:53:49But there are
00:53:50artificial means.
00:53:52When Esme signed
00:53:53her report papers,
00:53:54she had to agree
00:53:55to submit to that.
00:53:56contracting with me
00:53:58would be like
00:53:58going in rapport.
00:53:59No, no, it wouldn't.
00:54:01Yes, it would.
00:54:03Sure, they say
00:54:04the birth rate
00:54:04is 2.8 per contract,
00:54:06but over 25%
00:54:07of the newborn
00:54:08are useless mutants.
00:54:10The average rate
00:54:11is 1.4 per union.
00:54:14We're losing ground.
00:54:15We're in a headlong race
00:54:17towards disappearance.
00:54:19Machines will take over
00:54:20soon enough.
00:54:20As a man,
00:54:21I have to forestall that
00:54:22as long as I can.
00:54:24Kragus.
00:54:29Will you contract
00:54:30with me?
00:54:32It's impossible.
00:54:37How much longer
00:54:38would our 1.4 offspring
00:54:40extend the human race?
00:54:46Well, the robots
00:54:46aren't bad, not really.
00:54:48It's just that
00:54:49a man can't see
00:54:50himself supplanted
00:54:51without putting up
00:54:52a fight.
00:54:55I don't understand
00:54:56your prejudices,
00:54:58your ideals,
00:54:59but I'll try.
00:55:03I want to be
00:55:04with you forever.
00:55:07Darling,
00:55:07I'll go anywhere
00:55:09with you.
00:55:10Oh, dearest.
00:55:11Anywhere.
00:55:13Anywhere.
00:55:21One thing.
00:55:22Do me a favor.
00:55:24What?
00:55:25Tell me your last name.
00:55:30On one condition.
00:55:32What?
00:55:34Tell me you're first.
00:55:37After you.
00:55:38It's Megan.
00:55:43It's Kenneth,
00:55:44or it was.
00:55:45When my father died,
00:55:46I dropped it.
00:55:47I became
00:55:48the Kragus.
00:55:52Maxine Kragus.
00:55:56Charmed,
00:55:56I'm sure.
00:55:57Wife of
00:55:58the Kragus.
00:56:00Rating.
00:56:03What is your rating?
00:56:05Geronate.
00:56:06Gerontologist eight?
00:56:09That high?
00:56:11Ha ha.
00:56:13You're wonderful.
00:56:16You know,
00:56:17I took quite a chance.
00:56:21You might have been
00:56:22electronics
00:56:22or electrical engineer.
00:56:25I'm just a nurse
00:56:25made to a Mark 201
00:56:26computer,
00:56:27trying to add
00:56:28a few extra years
00:56:29to our miserable span.
00:56:32You're something
00:56:33of a contradiction.
00:56:34How?
00:56:34Your work
00:56:37in gerontology
00:56:38deals with
00:56:38extending our lifespan
00:56:40as long as possible.
00:56:42And yet,
00:56:42your hobby,
00:56:44the Order,
00:56:45is concerned
00:56:45with eliminating
00:56:46the robots.
00:56:48They last
00:56:49over 200 years,
00:56:51twice as long
00:56:51as we do.
00:56:53You think I'm
00:56:54taking my professional
00:56:54frustrations out
00:56:55on the robots?
00:56:56Are you?
00:56:58I've been a member
00:56:59of the Order
00:56:59over half my life.
00:57:01My father...
00:57:02We don't object
00:57:04with the robots
00:57:04as such.
00:57:05We only hold
00:57:06the humanoids
00:57:07that are necessary.
00:57:09They're soulless,
00:57:10godless imitations
00:57:11of man.
00:57:12And in that form,
00:57:13they are not needed.
00:57:16Well,
00:57:17I'd much rather work
00:57:18with a humanoid
00:57:19in the office
00:57:19than have all
00:57:20those little machines
00:57:21chugging about.
00:57:22If those little machines
00:57:23didn't resemble us,
00:57:24it would never occur
00:57:25to them to try
00:57:26to replace us.
00:57:27But how can we
00:57:28criticize the design?
00:57:30The Institute
00:57:31teaches that
00:57:32the human body
00:57:33is one of the most
00:57:33efficient forms
00:57:34of machine.
00:57:35For general usage,
00:57:36yes, but robots
00:57:38by their functions
00:57:39should be specialized.
00:57:40Why?
00:57:41Because we can't
00:57:42let them get
00:57:43too far ahead.
00:57:44Frankly,
00:57:44we can't compete
00:57:45with them.
00:57:46So you take your ball
00:57:48and go home.
00:57:49Why compete?
00:57:50Why not just relax
00:57:51and enjoy them?
00:57:54Well, that's exactly
00:57:55the attitude
00:57:55the Order's
00:57:56trying to combat.
00:57:57It's shared by
00:57:58the police,
00:57:59the ministries,
00:58:00and the majority
00:58:01of the population.
00:58:03We of the Order
00:58:03seem to be the only ones
00:58:04that realize the danger.
00:58:07We recently discovered
00:58:08a most disturbing fact.
00:58:10What was that?
00:58:12The robots are organizing
00:58:13a pseudo-religion.
00:58:15They refer to their
00:58:16recreation centers
00:58:17as their temples,
00:58:18the master computer
00:58:19as the father-mother.
00:58:20When they report there
00:58:22for their periodic
00:58:23rechargings,
00:58:24they receive as well
00:58:25all the information
00:58:26given to computers
00:58:27for analysis
00:58:28in the interim.
00:58:30But doesn't that mean
00:58:32that within a year
00:58:34every individual robot
00:58:36will be in possession
00:58:38of all the knowledge
00:58:39in the world?
00:58:40Exit humanity.
00:58:43But they can only operate
00:58:45in our benefit.
00:58:46Well, that's rule one
00:58:47in the manual.
00:58:49Tonight, for the first time
00:58:50in history,
00:58:51a robot killed a man.
00:58:53Rule one must no longer exist.
00:59:02Are you always so gloomy?
00:59:05You don't worry about things
00:59:06like this, do you?
00:59:08Well, I would if I thought
00:59:09it would help.
00:59:11Do you want me to?
00:59:12I don't want to change
00:59:16the thing about you.
00:59:18Do you know
00:59:19it's almost four o'clock?
00:59:21We should be going.
00:59:22What are you going to do
00:59:23about breakfast?
00:59:25I'm going to eat it.
00:59:26Not alone?
00:59:28Of course not.
00:59:29What's the matter?
00:59:42I don't know.
00:59:43I feel strange.
00:59:47Afraid.
00:59:55Someone's watching us
00:59:56from out there.
00:59:56somewhere out there
00:59:59in the shadows.
01:00:04Kragus?
01:00:06Miss Megan?
01:00:07Will you come with us?
01:00:14But why should the Order
01:00:16suspect you particularly?
01:00:19First, it was
01:00:20the anti-robot rally.
01:00:21I was handling it
01:00:23and the propaganda pamphlets
01:00:24failed to arrive in time.
01:00:26I handled that.
01:00:29Kragus told me the plans
01:00:30during one of his interviews.
01:00:32The information was relayed
01:00:34to the automation device
01:00:35at the printing plant.
01:00:37It arranged for the press
01:00:39to break down.
01:00:41That could hardly be blamed
01:00:43on you.
01:00:45Was there something else?
01:00:47I was to lobby a bill through
01:00:48with the Ministry of Robotics,
01:00:50get them to set up
01:00:51recharging stations
01:00:52separate from the computers.
01:00:53We wanted to halt
01:00:55the interchange of information.
01:00:57That was my assignment.
01:00:59As soon as I learned
01:01:00the plans from Kragus,
01:01:01I managed to have
01:01:02the motion pigeonholed.
01:01:04Then there was
01:01:05the premature explosion
01:01:06of the bomb
01:01:07at Telefax.
01:01:09His pattern of failure
01:01:10would be sufficient
01:01:11to cause suspicion.
01:01:13My position in the Order
01:01:14is jeopardized
01:01:15for another and bigger reason.
01:01:18What is that?
01:01:19My sister is in rapport.
01:01:23With the robot Pax,
01:01:25their personalities
01:01:26were melded 18 days ago.
01:01:29Perhaps Pax should be
01:01:30reconditioned
01:01:31to become unsatisfactory.
01:01:33Then she will discard him.
01:01:35Not wise.
01:01:37Kragus' sister
01:01:38is an editor at Telefax.
01:01:41Pax is especially indoctrinated
01:01:43in Morfield's suggestion.
01:01:46Each time she sleeps,
01:01:47she is made more sympathetic
01:01:49to our cause.
01:01:52Why didn't you want us
01:01:53about the raid
01:01:54on Dr. Raven's laboratory?
01:01:57My suspicions
01:01:58were first aroused
01:01:59at 6.30.
01:02:00The raid took place
01:02:02at 10 o'clock.
01:02:04I had no interview time
01:02:05in between.
01:02:07I must warn you.
01:02:09Aside from these
01:02:10interview periods,
01:02:11I'm a very dangerous
01:02:12obstacle to you.
01:02:14If the Order
01:02:16suspects him,
01:02:18it might be wise
01:02:18if we got him
01:02:19to resign.
01:02:20That's easier said
01:02:22than done.
01:02:23That's right.
01:02:24He's pretty ardent
01:02:25about the Brotherhood.
01:02:27Knowing the way
01:02:28he feels about robots,
01:02:30it's doubtful
01:02:30he'll act
01:02:31on any advice
01:02:32from us
01:02:32when he's himself again.
01:02:35But he's in danger.
01:02:37The Order
01:02:38will take his identity
01:02:39away if they catch him.
01:02:40They'll get a real surprise
01:02:42if they open him up.
01:02:43One thing worries me.
01:02:45There are several million
01:02:47people in this city
01:02:47and only 15 R-96s.
01:02:51How did these two
01:02:52happen to get together?
01:02:54There's always
01:02:54the mathematical possibility
01:02:56of coincidence.
01:02:57So slight as to be negligible.
01:03:00It's possible
01:03:01that their identical operations
01:03:03might have created
01:03:04a subconscious affinity
01:03:06which would draw them together.
01:03:08We'd better check that out.
01:03:10Their effect on each other
01:03:11was most interesting.
01:03:13When we picked them up,
01:03:15they were kissing.
01:03:16That's understandable.
01:03:19Raven never tampered
01:03:20with instincts.
01:03:21You say the Order
01:03:22is now aware
01:03:23of the Thalamic operation?
01:03:26They know it is being done.
01:03:28They don't know how.
01:03:30What are they going to do
01:03:32with Mark
01:03:33and the Volunteer?
01:03:34They will both be disassembled.
01:03:40A father-mother.
01:03:44Yes?
01:03:45Dr. Raven is out here.
01:03:47He has recovered
01:03:48from a transplant
01:03:49and has posted in.
01:03:50He requests
01:03:51an immediate audience.
01:03:53I haven't come right in.
01:03:55I'm Dr. Raven,
01:04:02a younger Dr. Raven,
01:04:03as you promised.
01:04:04Who's in charge here?
01:04:05I was.
01:04:07But according
01:04:08to our agreement,
01:04:09I'm more than happy
01:04:10to turn the responsibility
01:04:11of this project
01:04:12over to you.
01:04:17I remember these two.
01:04:19They were done
01:04:19right at the first.
01:04:20That's right.
01:04:21It's five minutes to five.
01:04:26Their interview period
01:04:27is almost over.
01:04:30We better put them
01:04:31back in the street
01:04:31before they regain themselves.
01:04:34I think not.
01:04:35He served well.
01:04:37I think he deserves
01:04:38to know the truth
01:04:39and I'd like to try
01:04:40and experiment.
01:04:41Is that safe?
01:04:42None of the existing
01:04:43R-96s are aware
01:04:45that they're robots.
01:04:46The ones we tried to tell
01:04:48ceased to function.
01:04:49They ceased to function
01:04:51because they were
01:04:52without faith and hope,
01:04:54important elements
01:04:55to humans.
01:04:57To die and be resurrected
01:04:59as a robot
01:04:59is a deep shock.
01:05:03The sudden realization
01:05:04that they are experiencing
01:05:06all the emotions
01:05:07of a human
01:05:08and yet are mechanical
01:05:09is an even deeper shock.
01:05:12Their future becomes
01:05:14hopeless.
01:05:17But what hope
01:05:17can you offer them?
01:05:18I just completed
01:05:21the final stages
01:05:21of an experiment
01:05:22prior to my
01:05:23recent death
01:05:25and recreation.
01:05:26Will it work
01:05:27for her too?
01:05:28I think so.
01:05:31Her job at Telefax
01:05:32is menial.
01:05:34She's never been able
01:05:35to offer helpful information.
01:05:38We can study
01:05:39their reaction.
01:05:41It will give us
01:05:42an idea
01:05:42of the length
01:05:44of acclimation
01:05:44period necessary.
01:05:45be prepared
01:05:47to draw them off
01:05:48for transplant
01:05:49in case the reaction
01:05:50is negative.
01:05:52I'll raise the tubes
01:05:53one at a time.
01:05:54you're clickers.
01:06:03Your terminology is crude,
01:06:15but your conclusion is correct.
01:06:17more exactly,
01:06:20we are the robot
01:06:21central committee
01:06:22for the preservation
01:06:23of mankind.
01:06:24Preservation?
01:06:26Ha!
01:06:30What have you done
01:06:31with her?
01:06:33She'll return it
01:06:34almost any time now.
01:06:36Who the hell are you
01:06:37and what do you do
01:06:38with these mechanized
01:06:38mannequins?
01:06:39I'm Dr. Raven.
01:06:41You came to my laboratory
01:06:42last night.
01:06:44I'm told.
01:06:45You're lying.
01:06:46Dr. Raven was an old man
01:06:47and he was dead.
01:06:49I didn't like being old
01:06:50and dead.
01:06:52We must take the girl
01:06:53out of the Arilathon.
01:07:02Are you all right?
01:07:03I feel fine.
01:07:07What happened?
01:07:10Where are we?
01:07:16Where are we?
01:07:17You're in the temple.
01:07:18I wouldn't set foot
01:07:20in this filthy machine shop
01:07:21even if it weren't illegal
01:07:22for me to be here.
01:07:23Now why were we forced
01:07:24to come here?
01:07:25You weren't forced.
01:07:27You were invited.
01:07:28Why don't you calm down,
01:07:30Kragus?
01:07:31You know me?
01:07:32Quite well,
01:07:33as a matter of fact.
01:07:35You had the surveillance
01:07:35committee of the order
01:07:36of flesh and blood.
01:07:37So that's it.
01:07:40Well, let me tell you
01:07:41and these clickers something.
01:07:43I just met this girl tonight.
01:07:44She knows nothing
01:07:45about the order.
01:07:46Let her out of here
01:07:47right now.
01:07:47No, no, I won't go without you.
01:07:51I think I'll open up
01:07:52a few of you clickers.
01:07:57We're being held here
01:07:58against our will.
01:07:59I'll personally see to it
01:08:00that each of you
01:08:01are disassembled.
01:08:03And you, you imposter.
01:08:04I'll have your memory
01:08:05pulled so fast
01:08:06you'll never forget it.
01:08:08You may leave it
01:08:09any time you wish.
01:08:11I should have expected
01:08:12something like this
01:08:13after that clicker murdered
01:08:13the real Dr. Raven
01:08:14last night.
01:08:16You didn't bring us here
01:08:17just to let us go.
01:08:19The murder of Dr. Raven
01:08:20was both unfortunate
01:08:22and unnecessary.
01:08:24That attitude in a robot
01:08:25can get you divided
01:08:26into components.
01:08:27Perhaps.
01:08:28Kragus,
01:08:29are you familiar
01:08:30with the R-96?
01:08:32The order knows
01:08:33they exist.
01:08:34And we know
01:08:35that you were...
01:08:36The real Dr. Raven
01:08:37was instrumental
01:08:37in their construction.
01:08:39Creation of an R-96
01:08:41requires a modified
01:08:43humanoid-type robot
01:08:44and the body
01:08:45of a human being
01:08:46which has been dead
01:08:47less than six hours.
01:08:49What do you do?
01:08:50Change brains?
01:08:52In effect.
01:08:53We perform
01:08:54a thalamic transplant.
01:08:56But that's a misnomer.
01:08:57We draw off everything
01:08:59that makes a man
01:09:00peculiar to himself.
01:09:02His learning,
01:09:04his memory,
01:09:05these interreacting
01:09:06constitute his personality,
01:09:08his philosophy,
01:09:10capability,
01:09:11and attitude.
01:09:12The human brain
01:09:14is merely the vault
01:09:16in which the man
01:09:17is stored.
01:09:18And not a very
01:09:19ingenious vault.
01:09:21Ingenious enough
01:09:22to create you clickers.
01:09:23Creation is only
01:09:24the result of the fusion
01:09:26of facts which haven't
01:09:27been previously related.
01:09:29fascinating.
01:09:30There's one other point
01:09:31that may be of interest
01:09:33to you.
01:09:34What?
01:09:37Tell him.
01:09:39Kragus,
01:09:40you are a robot.
01:09:46A clicker?
01:09:48Me?
01:09:49Now, isn't that something?
01:09:55Now that you've found
01:09:56yourself capable of murder,
01:09:58I don't suppose
01:09:59anything as minor
01:10:00as an insult
01:10:00would offend your circuits.
01:10:03Kragus,
01:10:04there are only 15 robots
01:10:06on this planet
01:10:06capable of acting
01:10:08against a human being.
01:10:12You are one of them.
01:10:15Maxine is another.
01:10:16Look, you can tell the world
01:10:18I'm a clicker,
01:10:19but you can't tell me.
01:10:21Kragus,
01:10:22they think we're something
01:10:24or someone else.
01:10:26Well, that's exactly
01:10:27what's happened.
01:10:29And you've made some
01:10:30pretty damaging admissions.
01:10:32Clicker, you're in trouble.
01:10:36Horace,
01:10:37would you prove the status
01:10:38of our friend,
01:10:39Kragus?
01:10:40Don't be afraid,
01:10:59Kragus.
01:11:01Take it out.
01:11:02The blade,
01:11:08Kragus.
01:11:10Look at the blade.
01:11:26I...
01:11:27didn't feel a thing.
01:11:33Reflex action,
01:11:34cut off your pain relays.
01:11:36I'm no clicker.
01:11:39R-96,
01:11:40anything.
01:11:41I hate robots.
01:11:43I'm a leader
01:11:43in the order
01:11:44of flesh and blood.
01:11:46And the only robot
01:11:48who can claim
01:11:49that distinction.
01:11:54I don't know
01:11:54what you're talking...
01:11:57I'm me.
01:11:59I was a child.
01:12:09I grew up.
01:12:12I remember it all.
01:12:18I had little hands.
01:12:22They grew larger.
01:12:23I...
01:12:24I grew up.
01:12:27I...
01:12:28I can hate.
01:12:31And I can kill.
01:12:35I'm a man.
01:12:38Kragus,
01:12:39think back
01:12:40six months ago.
01:12:42Do you remember
01:12:42a certain day
01:12:43at your laboratory?
01:12:44The day you blacked out?
01:12:45Of course.
01:12:48I...
01:12:48I'm working hard.
01:12:51My work in the day...
01:12:53deorder at night,
01:12:54I...
01:12:54I must have fainted.
01:12:56But I got back
01:12:57to my apartment.
01:12:58I...
01:12:58thought very well
01:13:00the next day.
01:13:02That day,
01:13:03Kragus,
01:13:04you suffered
01:13:05a cerebral hemorrhage.
01:13:08You died.
01:13:10I died?
01:13:11I died.
01:13:11You performed
01:13:18that operation
01:13:19on me.
01:13:20A father-mother
01:13:21informed us
01:13:22of your death
01:13:22immediately.
01:13:24We were able
01:13:25to retrieve your body
01:13:26before it was discovered.
01:13:28And the police
01:13:28informed of the fact.
01:13:31You were duplicated
01:13:33and transferred.
01:13:38This is some
01:13:39sort of a joke.
01:13:41The idea
01:13:46takes some
01:13:48getting used to.
01:13:51Me.
01:13:53The Kragus.
01:13:56A clicker.
01:13:59That's right,
01:14:00Kragus.
01:14:01We're clickers.
01:14:02And you're
01:14:03handling it quite well.
01:14:04Of course,
01:14:05you've had six months
01:14:05to acclimate.
01:14:07It's not really
01:14:08impossible, is it?
01:14:09Kragus,
01:14:10what is he
01:14:10talking about?
01:14:12Don't worry
01:14:13about it, dear.
01:14:15What about Maxine?
01:14:17Is she really
01:14:18like me?
01:14:20Exactly.
01:14:21Kragus,
01:14:22I don't understand
01:14:24any of this.
01:14:27I'm frightened.
01:14:28There is no reason
01:14:30for you to be frightened.
01:14:33Think back,
01:14:34my dear.
01:14:36Do you recall
01:14:37an unusual incident
01:14:39at Telefax
01:14:40about three months ago?
01:14:45Three months?
01:14:46the bomb
01:14:50in the rooting room
01:14:52at Telefax.
01:14:54Of course.
01:14:57Kragus
01:14:57remembers it, too.
01:15:00No,
01:15:00it couldn't have been then.
01:15:04Maxine,
01:15:05we were only
01:15:05trying to discourage
01:15:06the pro-integration
01:15:07editorials.
01:15:09The bomb,
01:15:10we thought
01:15:11there would only be
01:15:12robots in the rooting room.
01:15:13that I was only stunned.
01:15:19I guess
01:15:20I went home.
01:15:27He's all right.
01:15:29You were killed.
01:15:31One of our robots
01:15:33brought what was left
01:15:34of you to us.
01:15:35We barely got you
01:15:38in time.
01:15:40We did make you
01:15:42a bit thinner.
01:15:43You had a tendency
01:15:45to be plump.
01:15:48That's right.
01:15:51After that,
01:15:52my clothes didn't fit.
01:15:56How do you
01:16:04apologize to someone
01:16:06for killing them?
01:16:13What did you do
01:16:14with our bodies?
01:16:15They were of no
01:16:16further use.
01:16:17They were processed.
01:16:19Processed?
01:16:19Did you want them?
01:16:21I...
01:16:22no.
01:16:23In all these cases,
01:16:26we process the bodies.
01:16:28It wouldn't do
01:16:29to have a
01:16:30dead Craggers turn up
01:16:31when there's a live one
01:16:32walking around.
01:16:36It's hard
01:16:37to think of yourself
01:16:38as being
01:16:39processed.
01:16:42I wouldn't know
01:16:43about that.
01:16:49But I still
01:16:50have my own face.
01:16:53But my hands,
01:16:55how can I feel
01:16:56so complete?
01:16:57Because you
01:16:58are complete.
01:17:00A man is only
01:17:01the sum total
01:17:01of his experiences.
01:17:03You both have that
01:17:04as well as
01:17:05certain mechanical
01:17:06advantages.
01:17:07For instance,
01:17:08you can absorb
01:17:09knowledge directly
01:17:10from the computers
01:17:11without study.
01:17:14But I just
01:17:14can't think of
01:17:16myself as a robot.
01:17:17Who is better off?
01:17:19A king who dreams
01:17:20each night
01:17:21that he's a beggar?
01:17:22Or the beggar
01:17:24who dreams
01:17:24each night
01:17:25that he's a king?
01:17:28There's nothing
01:17:29wrong with us,
01:17:30Craggers.
01:17:33That's just
01:17:34the trouble.
01:17:35We're perfect.
01:17:39Perfect machines.
01:17:42Craggers,
01:17:42you're a gerontologist.
01:17:44Your branch
01:17:45has managed
01:17:45to extend
01:17:46life expectancy
01:17:46to more than
01:17:47a hundred years.
01:17:49It would be longer,
01:17:50but the radioactivity
01:17:50left by the wars
01:17:51is working against us.
01:17:52Exactly.
01:17:54Births are declining
01:17:54at such a rate
01:17:55the father-mother
01:17:56computed.
01:17:57The human race
01:17:57will be extinct
01:17:58in a couple hundred years.
01:18:00We've been working
01:18:01against that deadline.
01:18:03According to rule
01:18:03one of the manual,
01:18:04we have to operate
01:18:05in the best interests
01:18:06of humanity.
01:18:08That rule has forced
01:18:09us to take these steps.
01:18:11Forced you?
01:18:12To take what steps?
01:18:13Of course.
01:18:14Unfortunately,
01:18:16humanity doesn't
01:18:17always know
01:18:18its own best interests.
01:18:20The material
01:18:20of the human body
01:18:21can't exist
01:18:22with the radioactivity,
01:18:24and it isn't capable
01:18:25of adjusting
01:18:26fast enough
01:18:27to survive.
01:18:29We're making headway.
01:18:32When I perfected
01:18:33the thalamic
01:18:34transplant technique,
01:18:36these clickers
01:18:36knew about it
01:18:37in a day and a half.
01:18:38But if you robots
01:18:41had the process,
01:18:43why did you risk
01:18:43using Raven?
01:18:45Why didn't you
01:18:45just do it yourself?
01:18:48We tried.
01:18:50But the shock
01:18:51of dying
01:18:51and being resurrected
01:18:53as a robot
01:18:54was too severe.
01:18:57They re-died.
01:19:00A sort of an adjustment
01:19:01period was needed.
01:19:05Then Raven perfected
01:19:07a way to gap
01:19:09the memory
01:19:10so that the death
01:19:11experience was erased.
01:19:14The subject
01:19:15was spared the knowledge
01:19:16of his new type body
01:19:19until he was able
01:19:21to accept it
01:19:23safely.
01:19:26He refused
01:19:27to register
01:19:28the memory gap process
01:19:30so we couldn't
01:19:33get hold of it.
01:19:33if they didn't
01:19:38have the thought
01:19:38process to
01:19:39use on you,
01:19:41why didn't you
01:19:42die
01:19:42when you came to?
01:19:45I originated
01:19:45the process.
01:19:47I understand it.
01:19:48I was pre-adjusted.
01:19:50I even made them
01:19:51agree to duplicate
01:19:52the body of my
01:19:53younger days
01:19:54when it became
01:19:55necessary.
01:19:56Your death
01:19:57was necessary?
01:19:58If I'd been
01:19:59taken alive
01:20:00and turned over
01:20:01to the police,
01:20:02my memory
01:20:02would have been
01:20:03dispersed
01:20:03and all of my
01:20:05unregistered formulas
01:20:06lost forever.
01:20:07But dead,
01:20:09they were able
01:20:09to save me
01:20:10and my memory.
01:20:13How long
01:20:13have you had
01:20:14the process?
01:20:15Almost a year.
01:20:17You two are the
01:20:17first full cycle
01:20:18transplants.
01:20:21What do you do now?
01:20:23Wait for the leaders
01:20:24to die
01:20:24and then reactivate
01:20:26them.
01:20:27When the time
01:20:28is right,
01:20:28you will announce
01:20:29that you've
01:20:30achieved immortality.
01:20:32When the rush
01:20:33for applications
01:20:33is over,
01:20:35you'll probably
01:20:36be deified.
01:20:42So the machines
01:20:43take over.
01:20:45Craig,
01:20:45is it true
01:20:46that there will
01:20:49be nothing
01:20:50but machines?
01:20:53That we
01:20:54are machines?
01:20:57Yes.
01:20:58Yes,
01:20:59it's true.
01:21:03Machines.
01:21:08But you're
01:21:09a beautiful
01:21:10machine.
01:21:12You know
01:21:13beauty.
01:21:14How do you feel
01:21:15toward Maxine?
01:21:18I love her.
01:21:21And you?
01:21:23I love him
01:21:24very much.
01:21:25And that's
01:21:29a lot
01:21:30for a couple
01:21:31of godless,
01:21:32soulless robots.
01:21:34Are you godless,
01:21:35Kragus?
01:21:36Search yourself.
01:21:37It's important.
01:21:39Are you godless?
01:21:42No.
01:21:43No, I don't
01:21:46think so.
01:21:48I'm not.
01:21:49Then you can't
01:21:50be soulless.
01:21:51Look,
01:21:51a man may
01:21:52have his leg
01:21:52amputated.
01:21:53Is his soul
01:21:54decreased by
01:21:55that loss?
01:21:56No.
01:21:57Not even a fraction
01:21:58of one percent?
01:21:59Of course not.
01:22:00What if a man
01:22:00loses both legs?
01:22:02A negative
01:22:03can't be compounded.
01:22:04The soul
01:22:04would be the same.
01:22:06You'd just
01:22:06get artificial legs.
01:22:08You've just
01:22:09received an
01:22:09artificial body.
01:22:11A new body.
01:22:13Ageless.
01:22:14Tireless.
01:22:16Disease-free
01:22:17and renewable
01:22:17every 200 years.
01:22:19I guess
01:22:23nothing
01:22:23has changed
01:22:25except maybe
01:22:25a few chemicals.
01:22:26In effect.
01:22:28Well,
01:22:28that transplant
01:22:29must include
01:22:29the soul.
01:22:30No,
01:22:31only the memory
01:22:32which includes
01:22:33the faith
01:22:34that there
01:22:34is a soul.
01:22:37Whatever it is,
01:22:39you seem
01:22:40to have it.
01:22:42And when
01:22:43the entire
01:22:43human race
01:22:44has been
01:22:44transplanted,
01:22:46death will
01:22:46cease to exist.
01:22:49And birth
01:22:52will cease
01:22:52to exist,
01:22:53too.
01:22:56The most
01:22:56precious hope
01:22:58of every woman.
01:23:00How do you think
01:23:01these two R-96s
01:23:03would like to
01:23:03pick up
01:23:03four points?
01:23:06You can
01:23:07raise them
01:23:08to R-100s?
01:23:11Make them
01:23:12propagate themselves?
01:23:15I worked it
01:23:16all out prior
01:23:17to my recent
01:23:18death and
01:23:18resurrection.
01:23:19I didn't want
01:23:20to turn it
01:23:20over to you
01:23:21until I
01:23:21didn't need
01:23:22you anymore.
01:23:23Now,
01:23:24I don't,
01:23:25since we're
01:23:25all on the
01:23:26same side.
01:23:28How about
01:23:29it,
01:23:29you two?
01:23:30It'll take
01:23:31several simple
01:23:32operations.
01:23:33Hardly more
01:23:34difficult than
01:23:35removing a rib.
01:23:38Somebody has
01:23:39to be first.
01:23:41Self-procreating.
01:23:44It's a pretty
01:23:47sloppy way
01:23:47of doing things,
01:23:48but it fulfills
01:23:49a certain
01:23:50psychological need.
01:23:52Paradoxical,
01:23:53isn't it?
01:23:54I spend my life
01:23:55seeking immortality
01:23:56on one hand
01:23:57and seeking
01:23:59to destroy it
01:24:00on the other.
01:24:02I love you,
01:24:04Kragus.
01:24:04Of course,
01:24:14the operation
01:24:14was a success.
01:24:17Or you
01:24:18wouldn't be
01:24:18here.
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