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and enjoying the exact sensation I describe as being a rat on a leaking,
sinking ship. Because most people in the business of making technology don't have to
worry about armed gunmen shooting their products in the street. Be working something a
little less volatile, like kitchen appliances. What are you talking about? It'll
be ridiculous. Have you seen the news. I don't need to see the
news. Look all all this hubub okay about this law, it's bullshit man
two to one odds, huh right now, it's not going to pass.
It's ridiculous. I'm not exactly sure if that's the case. I personally think
that, uh, all of us should really have a backup plan. Well,
sure, okay, what's your backup plan? I'd love to do something
off world, Frankly, I think there's a lot of opportunities there that would
present themselves for or someone with my skill set. M you think they're going
to take you off world? Well, I think that there is a a
A. There are several reasons why they would more reasons they would than they
wouldn't. Right, I'm sure you're very special. I'm sure they have a
spot lined up for you right away. I have a doctorate in quantum computing.
It's not exactly the best of luck, you know, Quail. There
aren't any Martian Green ladies on off world. They told you that, right,
What does that have to do with anything. I'm just saying that in
case that's reason you wanted to go. I was making a joke, apparently
not a very good one. No joke, it was a good joke.
No, I got it, I got it. I'm on with you.
That's good. That's really good. Space is ridiculous, though, it's too
I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, it's cold and it's all
that space. What do you even do with your money out there? You
know? The actions here is where you want to be. I agree,
and I absolutely agree, and I also agree with Fisher here. But there's
no way, no way that that love will pass Tyrrell. They will not
allow this to happen. None of the corporations will allow this to happen.
Yeah, they're in charge. Okay, Tyrrel's betting at the top of the
game for how long? Now? I mean, come on now, I
mean you think they're going to allow this to do away with all of their
all of their their their butlers and pleasure models and all of that stuff.
Yeah, I doubt that. I'm just I'm just reading the writing on the
wall. Rome is falling a doomsay. If you lack, I will doomsayer.
It's ridiculous. We're very secure here. Okay, it's ridiculous, No
kidding, very secure here. Yeah, well, I mean too secure.
You're welcome. That has been a while now, hasn't it. I am
never expect to miss the rand. Well, we've got the sound machine.
I mean, they gave us everything we need. You know, I've go
turn it on. Sure, turn on the rain machine. No, maybe
later. Here's the thing though, all right, I just let's let's indulge
you for a minute. Let's say that Tyre. Let's say things are rolling
downhill. Okay, all right, Tyrell has money. They have so much
money, they have influence, They've had plenty of time. And what we're
working on, I mean, it's when that comes out. I'm telling you
it's gonna be great. And I mean you're looking at the numbers, right,
things are going well with the things are going well? Right? What
is your definition of well? They don't know, they haven't discovered. I
mean that's already all the other projects, all right, they the discovery rate
of our replicants. Okay, it was so quick quick this time it's been
going smooth, relatively smooth. Caveats are given. That's fine, Oh,
relatively my favorite word. Well, it's what we have to use, right,
I mean that you know, yeah, you can't look at a screen
of numbers and guess everything. You know, we've done the best we can.
They believe to be who and what they are. That is phenomenal.
We're doing an excellent job. That's the bare minimum. If you ask me
the why is that the bar? What are you talking about? That is
everything? Do you enjoy keeping track of these things? I think there's a
lot of nuances. You can find your fun in the numbers if you look
hard enough. I think it's pretty great, you know. I mean,
as we were talking about before, nails didn't even recognize even reckon right in
their face. It was right in their face, and they should have picked
up on it? Did they pick up on it? No? They still
think they are who they think they are. I mean that is that's a
win, a win. I I I want to say, you're right and
you're welcome because me and my team that's mostly us and uh nuances. You
know, that's that's that's the brilliance. Well, it was it was getting
over the the or the new idea of them not knowing. We didn't even
think that was a possibility. How would how would it? How would that
even work? Goddamn? If it didn't? It worked and it worked.
Well yeah, well if you make a machine for itself that can full of
VK test for a while, all right, Well if we could just okay,
let's leave out number four for a minute. Okay, approximately one hundred
questions, yes, and number four there were there were issues ongoing atomatic way
to put it, ongoing issues, But they're still performing their job as they
believe they should be. Last, hold on, where's there will always be
problems. The brain is a science, emotions are an art, and I'm
an artist. Oh god, what nothing am I wrong? I don't think
I'm wrong? You know what? No? No, no, no,
no, no, Look I'm going to go a step further with ren here.
Okay, I'm going to go a step further and say, yes,
that is artistry because you know what those moments of doubt and then they get
over those moments of doubt. I mean, come on, that's the thing
of beauty, that's human. That's what we're going for. That sounds like
a rather emotional attachment to a spreadsheet as we have it currently. I've had
a few emotional attachments to spreadsheets. Well that's between you and the spreadsheet.
No no, no, no, no, no, no, no on,
I get it all right, Quaill no no, no, Quinet,
I get you, Quail. I understand. You know they're not just numbers.
They represent something to an extent, Okay, and it's success and failure.
It's really that simple. Like I understand what you're saying about Tyrrell,
I really do. And with the law, I get it. Okay,
but come on, you got you've gotta give us something when you see what
we're doing, what you're doing, what we've created all this time stuck in
this fucking building bunker bullshit, okay, all this time, no windows,
no rain, nothing but focus. Look what we've created. I mean,
come on a monument to insanity. But they're not insane. They're they are
as stable as I think we could probably create them to be. Forgive me
for intermy, What a monument to insanity? What did you mean by that?
I'm talking about the fluescent carlidor that I woke up and down every single
day for about eight hours a day. Oh, you're talking about this,
I'm talking about the bunka. I'm talking about the zoo. Sorry, let
me clarify. Yes, yes, the aviary as it were, the A.
That's very good. That's very good. I'll give that. Why don't
we use that before? Look, I'll admit that the fluorescent light at the
far end, the one that blinks no matter how many times we replace it.
Okay, there's something it gets annoying. I get it. The machines,
the fact that they're i don't know, filled from the back or something
through the wall, so we can't ever communicate with whoever's feeling them. I
get that. Like there's no real difference in what we get what we got
apple pie like six months ago or something like. There is that sort of
monotony. But that's why you look at the numbers. Okay, that's why
you get the spreadsheets. That's why you lay them out, one on top
of the other. Okay, slowly fingered through them. You look at those
numbers, you go down one line, one line item amount of time.
If you take a look, and you can see God really Now he's speaking
in language, I understand. That's I wake up every day and I I
know that we are not do we have to stay where we are. But
I look in the mirror and I say, this will all be worth it,
because at the end of this project, all of us are going to
be very wealthy, very very And it's it's uh, it's it gets me
through the hard times. It gets me through the hard times, the flashing
lights to blink, the things they don't fix. You know, Uh,
you're insane babbling. It gets it gets me through everything. That must be
a really good mirror. It's a standard mirror. I'm not sure what you
mean. Oh, you probably have the same one in your room. Yes,
probably. Wait did they give you a better mirror? Is your mirror
something different than mine? I haven't seen your mirror. I can't. I'm
basing it off what you said to me just now. We might need to
take a Look now I'm the one who's not getting the joke. No one's
taking a look at my mirror. Just to clarify, no one's going in
there. I just know it's suspicious carnival mirror? Does it make? It's
warped? Which way? I have two by two meter one two by two
meter square of ground that you aren't allowed to step in. You're not stepping
into it, all right? If I may do a little of my of
my work, of my art on you, maybe you're talking about what you
actually what you see in the mirror, not the mirror itself. Would I
be correct? And assuming that's what you're talking about, why your mirror seems
different than mine? I think you really missed my point. I think that's
what's happened here. I think you really at my point say oh, of
your head, and that's why we're in this current situation. How does that
make you feel? Can we? Are you trying a VK test on?
That's what I thought for a second there, I thought that's a v K
that's are you this is like a mentalism thing? No, but no,
Look I'm I'm I'm I'm not I'm not. I promise I'm not there is
a reason, as you can probably see, a logical reason why I am
a consultant on those tests, because my brain works differently than yours. Yours,
Yes, you're you have a piercing inside. I have gleaned that from
our time together. Thank you. Makes sense. Frankly, you're welcome.
All I'm saying. All I'm saying is that we are secure, at least
to the end of this project. There's a knock on this sure right as
you say we're secure. If that's a Tyrrell headsman come to kill one of
us, no, I just want to put that out there before I walk
over. Come on, if there's a knock, it's important. Okay,
No one's gonna knock before they kill. That's ridiculous. And I go to
open the door. There is a janitor standing there and he seems surprised to
see you. Oh I didn't assume that you would still be working. Okay,
never mind, and he walks off. What was that time? Is?
It? Clearly not important? What time is it? Actually? That
is good? It must be late or it's early. I'm going to look
at my wrist expecting a watch to be there. There's no watch there.
Yeah, oh right, yeah. Well, uh young man, young woman?
Who yep me? The janitor is already like halfway down the hall.
Yes, okay, all right, what can I do for you? Is
this the time you normally arrive? Uh? Yeah, credentials give or take
an hour? Sure, you don't look like the person that usually comes in.
Did you grow mustache? What? I come in here every week?
Please forgive these two. You are one of the very few people that get
to interact with that doesn't live in this space. You don't look like oh
no, no, no, no, no no. Well everybody has to
have a certain amount of clearance to be here, so it's logical that I
asked for them. I did chase my beard, actually, okay, okay,
okay, all right, that's sneaky. Don't do that, okay,
Okay, next time, you know, then you go and you do your
thing right, Okay, because now there's a security concern. Okay, we
have to security secure concern. What do you mean, No, I don't
know, you don't know you? What do you mean you don't know me?
I'm here every week. I just shave my beard. This is irrelevant.
Show me your credentials. Okay, and he pulls out like a badge
that is attached to buy like a little string there to his pants pocket and
you can see it. I take mine out and look side by side.
Not that they'll match or anything, just look at it. Yours looks much
better. Should I run it through the computer. Yes, better safe than
sorry. I'm sorry for this. I'm not I do not mean to be
rude. We just have to be very careful. You understand. I'm sure
you signed some sort of agree bit as well. Hand or right? I
like I try to hand it to him and let it go to like goes
back to his belt. Yeah, it just snaps in and he's like,
oh, and he jumps a little bit as it does. Okay, it
was attached. Should I just come back in an hour? My apologies?
Oh no, no, no, come on, no, no. I
strict instruction to do it when you're not working. I'm not allowed in there
when you're working. I mean, can I read his name tag? Can
I get his name text? Oh? Yeah, absolutely? Ti Han go
all right, well Tie Han's it's nice to have you here. It's nice
to have company. You want to have a cup of tea or something.
Don't need to you don't need to do small talk. With the help.
It's fine, you can. You can take out the trash and then head
on. I I'm sorry, but you're not my boss, so I'm gonna
listen to my boss, and I have strict instruction not to go in there
when y'all are in there working. So okay, goo away, that makes
sense. Goodbye, okay, great, thanks bye, and he continues walking
down the hall. I think, no, I think we all really nailed
that. Actually, yeah, I think we all did really good there.
I think working in this place is making us all paranoid. Me included ten
out of ten social interaction. That's so it's encouraged. I think once you
see the employee messages, be paranoid. It worked, Yeah, yeah,
parid. I I must confess I felt a small modicum of sexual attraction towards
it. Did you Was it the lack of beard or the mustache? Because
I mean, it's a of choices. I'm in hell. I'm in hell.
Look, we specifically couldn't do any of that stuff with each other.
That was a part of the contract. Everything is monitored. Missed opportunity.
I don't I don't think so. No, I'm actually okay with it.
One day, I'm going to teach you sarcasm. I'm gonna get there one
day. We're gonna go through it, and you're gonna learn sarcasm. I
swear, yeah, sarcasm. It's not necessary. So since we're not one
hundred percent sure on what time we are during the work day, can we
have a conversation okay about number seven? Okay, I'm not yes, go
ahead, Well, okay, I suppose that is our jobs so well,
I didn't know if I didn't want to bring it up. I thought we
were just bantering. But this, this is in line with is okay?
Is this the same conversation that we've had previously, Yes, it is,
but we didn't finish it. Okay as coal, Oh, I connect as
mediator if you both agree. The problem is is that the materials that were
provided for number seven upon their oh what was the word we were using.
It's not creation, it's in like an inception, inception, Yeah, but
it wasn't inception, injection, injection upon the injection of number seven, the
materials in their apartment, for the most part, made sense, except for
that pink squeezy thing who thought of that. It has no bearing on anything.
I don't think there's a memory associated with it. It's a blaring issue.
Brains are memories filled with nonsense. Sometimes a nonsense item absolutely makes sense.
But I feel that. I feel like when you look around your space,
you at least have a familiarity with everything you see, even if you
can't remember exactly where it came from. You know, this would be as
blaring as you looking around the space and seeing a gun that you don't remember
owning. It's I think that's an overstatement. But how I mean? Are
you comparing squeezy thing? Yes, exactly, Please just continue that thought.
Are you comparing a stress bowl to a gun in terms of disruption on a
space? Yes, but only because of the reaction a person withou have for
not recognizing why it's there. You know, condoms, let's say condoms.
There was a box of problems on the table. You saw that, you
walk in, You see those, You're gonna go, why why is that
there? Okay, so far they've overlooked it. They have overlooked it,
or at least from what we can tell, they've been overlooking it. I
just don't understand. We're trying to be meticulous. I don't even know who
put that in there. I understand that we're not necessarily the ones that were
setting these locations up and everything, But you know, what if it was,
like, what if it was someone trying to cause the project to fail?
What if? What if it's a bad actor? It could be it
could be staged. No no, no, no no no sabotage no no
no no no no. You're I think you're I think you're completely false.
While I didn't have a hand in it, I do commend the person who
put these strange items or whatever nonsensical things, because lives are messy. Lives
don't make sense. Humanis, okay, don't make sense sometimes, so there's
going to be weird things like like, for example, okay, why is
it every time I walk by a doorknob, I wonder what it tastes like.
There's no reason for me to have that thought. I don't think that's
a shared experience. It's a nonsense reason. It's nonsense. I don't know
why, but every time I walk by a doorknob, I look at it
and go, I wonder how it tastes With all that I'm going, I'm
going to think that every time. I have a very question for you,
how many doorknobs. Have you tasted zero zero doorknobs? So you've never been
curious enough to actually try it, You've never actually done it. You're missing
my point, actually, I think I am. I'd love to know all
this. I have to jump make sense. No, no, that's right.
You don't act on it, but you recognize it that you have that
thought. So with whatever, this pink, fluffy, squeezy thing. I
don't know how many times as number seven looked over at that went on then
again, but hasn't reacted. We might not have the data on it.
Can we just can we just cycle back to the theory of someone messing with
this stuff actors and such that I want to go back to this though,
put a pin in it. I would like to circle back around to this,
because this is this is a subject I have quite a bit of fascination
with. Well, there's an implication here that my that my coding is it's
crackable. Well well, no, no, no, listen, for each
one of you, for each one of you, I would never say something
untowards about your abilities. It sounds like you were implying it though, No,
no, no, no, no, no, I think the failure
aren't. The failure point is humans. Okay, I'm not saying what you've
created is flawed. I'm just saying that it's an odd thing to have an
object in a controlled space that has no real purpose. It just doesn't make
sense to me. Now, I will concede that maybe I'm in the wrong
here. Okay, I will concede that. But just think about you go
home today and you see something like that in your house. We don't go
home. It is home, your room, your room. It's not pre
approved though, so there wouldn't be anything. I don't have it in my
room. Well it's a slider, isn't it? Slide door or slide?
Guys? Don't you? Guys didn't bring anything not pre approved in I thought
it wasn't pret approved. What wasn't preapproved? My thought was that maybe that
pink thing, squeeze thing you're talking about, Yes, maybe it was the
artist way of signing his work, the stress bowl. Do you think that's
his signature? Could be? I mean, if he noticed it. This
is a pretty stressful project. That is interesting, that's good, that's deep.
I like that. Yeah, well you know what I'm talking about,
don't you, Quail? You know you. You you coders have a way
of putting yourself in your work, yess signing it so to speak, I
I do. I don't understand the correlation, but yes, yeah, well
what's your stress? Would you put on scenarios? Who calls him? People
call him pinky or squeeze or something, and that's his signature. That's why
you mean if I were to put a memory into this situation, what memory
would I put in? Is that what you're asking me? No? No,
no, no, no, Let's talk about your code? What okay?
What do you add to your code that says this is me? Okay?
Do you add phrases that are not specifically a part of the code,
but if you go down there, you've like, you know, a series
of a serial number or something that's a representative of you. Is there something
that you add to your code that makes it you? Well, yes,
there's a certain asymmetry to the algorithms that I use a think. Oh yes,
okay, the outcome doesn't seem like it's a simp no that I'm impressed.
This is incredible. What is your flow? Like? My goodness?
I mean all I see is end result stuff. Okay, my job?
Okay, I see how well you guys do. By the way, you're
all doing fantastic. I just want to say that, thank you. Okay,
Yes, actually i've been I've been wondering. I think I know what
department? What do you do here? What do I do? Yes,
I've also been wondering, are you kidding me? It's been how long have
we lived here? Now? But we don't work side by side, and
you talk a lot, don't say much. You are the first person at
the water cooler. That's true. I get thirsty very easily. My job,
brand, My job is I take all of truth. I trink all
the data, all the information you guys, and I make it into a
digestible little tablet for the people at the top to take, because if they
got the raw data that each one of you present. Oh, never understand
you're the personality higher. I think it to be more diplomatic to say quality
control. Listen, listen, my personality hires are important. Okay, that
is, yes, thank you very much, it is. But I'm not
just a personal Okay, look this project we all signed on too. Okay,
we only get paid if we succeed, essentially, I mean we do
get paid a little bit if we fail, but come on the amount that
we get if we succeed, so much more. And the fact that I'm
able to get all of the stuff that you guys do and I put it
together. Night was packed, and I shoot it off to the guys at
the top. That's why we're still in here. Okay, I'm the reason.
I didn't mean that if it seems like it might have come out as
a slight, but it did if I didn't have him go between between me
and you know, our employers. I I have a way of speaking that
I've been told is off putting. I don't want to talk to anyone.
I'm certainly grateful to have you here because I don't know how to speak to
people a lot. No, that's fine, I haven't. I haven't noticed
that at all, to be honest. I think you're all doing famously.
Oh absolutely, I got that one other time. I twegked upon that.
Good job. Yeah yeah. Oh look, I'm very proud of all of
us, and I am sorry that I have to bring some of these things
up from time to time. Some of them are personal to me, you
know, I definitely this project is you know, it's my life. Yeah,
this is Uh. I think we're doing something pretty great and stellar,
and the amount of money we're going to get is just that's just fuck off
money, really, isn't it. So I can't wait until we finish this
project. Speaking of yes, we know what? What what Quail has plans
to do or wants to do? Wants to go off world, which I
commend you for it. How about how about you Fisher? Maybe you I
forgot what was it? Eagle? Of course it's Eagle. No, it's
Eagle? Yes? What about you Eg? We get to choose. I
chose Egal and Fisher? What are you? What are you going to do
when you when you are excused from this position and get your paycheck? Well,
if I'm still alive, I was hoping to move to a corporate position
that doesn't require me to live in a glorified zoo with three strangers for six
months. If you're still a lot, do you have a terminal disease?
I'm just a it was a little hung up. You can see do you
con see it yourself? An optimist or a pessimist? I'm curious me.
Yes, go ahead, oh, eternal optimist, A turnal optimist that doesn't
shock me in list I'm very much a pessimist, especially in this line of
work. All right, that must be. It's actually not that difficult.
It's rather comforting being right a lot of the time. Even if you've been
right is a negative outcome, you're happy about it. I've been in two
divisions that have been downsized for the last three years. This was the only
position left for me. I've watched it be fired for you know, I've
division survivor. That's how I like to phrase it. Well, that's wonderful.
I'm very very happy for you to break. Talented people lost their jobs
and their lives. It wasn't me. What is that they weren't talented?
Now the live thing. Okay, look, I've heard the rumors. Don't
fall into the rumors. Okay, don't fall into the rumors. Have you
seen bodies? Have you seen them? I've seen people that have said things
like, by Fisher, i'll see you tomorrow, and then they're mysteriously on
a vacation off world for the foreseeable future. I've seen things like that a
lot. Actually, did you Well, that's not far out of the remal
possibilities. We have someone here who would like to love to do that.
Yeah. I mean, there's so many opportunities there. I can't I can't.
I can't wait to get to go off world. Yeah, it's a
lot of money to go off world. Are you expecting like a corporate position
there? You think Tyrrell's going to pay for you to go off world?
Uh? Well well yes, not not directly, but indirectly. They're going
to put the money into his account and then he can make that decision himself.
My plan is to get out of la as far away as possible away
from here, and then I'll figure it out from there with however much money
is left in my pockets at that time. Oh yeah, you'll have plent
plenty of money, and you know what. To your question, Okay,
to your question, Marin, I have so many plants for the amount of
money. Then I'm gonna get first thing, okay, European tour. All
right. They have this skyrail thing. Apparently it's up and running and it
actually it goes up pretty high. You get a view of Europe and then
you come back down. It's pretty cool. First thing I'm doing after that,
I think travels definitely in my future, terrestrial travel. Okay, I'm
not a space person. And I don't mind flying every now and then.
But you know, I think fine food, fine wine, fine women.
Men, it's gonna be great. Looking forward to it. Far away from
the nuclear wasteland, I assume, Well, it depends on where the action
is. Uh, there, there's no action in the nuclear wasteland. Yes,
I know the radiation. Yes, I know that, thank you,
thank you. There are reactions though, but they have they have. It's
very good. They very good, ran very good. Oh no, have
you not seen? And I pull out some brochures. There are these cruises.
Okay, they are high level cruises that will go not over the wasteland,
but they go around. But you get these breath taking views. Yes,
it's decimation and destruction, but it's still breath taking. I think it's
I think it's beautiful. You know. Oh, high level is in high
altitude. Is that what you meant? Yes? Sorry, all right,
I'm with you now. Yeah. No, no, no, no,
no, I'm I'm not trying to grow an extra nipple or something. I'm
not going to go through the radiation. That's ridiculous. That wouldn't sound too
far out a field. They have some wonderful nipple technology down on floor number
thirty three. I read about it. Don't ask me how I know.
No, no, no, I read about this lactating and everything incredible.
Imagine working on floor thirty three instead of Yeah, that would be. I
wonder what their dreams are. Something. I think they're working in their dream
I know. I am Well, it's it seems I can't get away from
it. No one asked, But I'm going to have intercourse with my husband.
I spit my water out, and then I'm going to have intercourse,
much more intercourse with much many more different people. And then oh, oh
you're oh yes, Paul, Yeah, that's that's wonderful. Man. Is
that's good? Well, I mean we have ground rules, but yes,
and I'm going to probably purchase a few pleasure models. All right, Well,
we definitely know too much about each other. Now it's official. We've
officially crossed that line. Look to be fair, it seems you're did you
have trouble talking about sexual things? I think i'd have trouble talking to you
specifically about sexual things. Yes, I think I would find that very challenging
as a subject. Why is that? I'm very open with my sexuality.
Why aren't you don't turn this around. Don't get this around on me.
That's not ashamed. Do you feel I'm not ashamed? Can we talk about
the personal items? Can we circle back to the personal items? No?
No, no, I'm good with the sex stuff. Are you? Are
you particularly concerned? Is it the act of? Is it the after the
act of? Because it's messy. I get it, I get it.
I think I think it's I think it's specifically the idea of conversing with my
colleagues about it. I think that's where I draw the line. It's a
very personal, private intermingling of things. It means barriers and and and our
boundaries have been eroded over time. And I've dealt with it, and I've
handled it, and I've been okay with it. But this is definitely teetering
on the brink right now. We are definitely at the brink of insanity right
now. I think we should. I think we should all as a group
back off and stop stop talking about Fisher's sexuality. Yeah, it seems to
be getting upset, and I apologize that is that was not my intention.
I'm trying to open up to you all. I think it's great. I
was hoping that you would also open up to me. I mean, we
are in the business of human Okay, so I don't call it human.
Don't do that. I hate that. Look, yay, we have we
have we we have our foundations that we are building off of. All right,
we have all these little things we have to worry about. Okay.
Sex was a big part of it. Not going to go into it,
I'll be respectful. That was a big part of it. Okay. Some
some choices that we thought we were making were made for us. How wonderful
is that they are what they are. It's wonderful and that is a part
of the experience. So for us in this project, having conversations about those
sort of things, that just helps. Okay, I didn't know about the
doorknob thing. I'm definitely gonna think about that now. Getting to know each
other, these little human things that we do, you know, the pink
squeeze, We will circle back to that. Well, if I may interject,
while you are like you are absolutely fine thinking, don't thinking about it.
Don't lick any door knobs. They're filth. Oh I yes, no,
no, I thank you. That's why I've never done. Yeah,
that's what helped you back. All right, Well, when the genitor comes
back, we'll ask them to clean any knobs. I just want to clarify
them. We are talking about killing machines, right, I'm not off base
here that we are still talking about the same things, right, empathetic killing
machines, empathetic killing machine, yes, fantastic oxymoron yes, But oh is
that a killing machine. They're probably just testing something. Oh yeah, a
killing machine nonetheless designed to kill other killing machines. That's what we're discussing here.
So when you talk about human hey, hey, history, that's what
we are. We are just ging history. That's the phrase you are coming
out of your mouth. Where history? No, No, no, I'm
saying our history. What I think, if I may interject again, I
think he is saying what I'm thinking is you You maybe describing something else,
but you could also be describing a soldier, a human soldier, absolutely right.
Yeah. They are programmed, they are conditioned, they are given they
can make their own choices, so can they, so can I projects?
Yeah. H Do you hear that's kind of been the problem, hasn't it.
I don't know. It's probably down the corridoral something. I don't hear
anything. There's always maintenance on something. I suppose, well, the janitor,
I guess they would have other rounds. Maybe they're just incompetent and making
a lot of noise. Right, Where were we just talking about the thinking
killing machines, the empathetic killing machines, sorrow that we're dealing with. That,
that's how bread and butter, Right, that's what we're focused on,
honed and on and everything. But they're not. That's just that they are
just that bottom line, that's what they are. I mean, sure,
we can make them blend in as much as we like, but at the
end of the day. All right, you heard that, right? I
heard that? Definitely heard that one. Yes, where is it coming from?
It could be like a plumbing thing, maybe thumbing, sure, maybe
a pipe would be a plumbing thing. Yeah, but that's like I swear,
that's the third or fourth time I've heard that. So are you being
sarcastic? That sounded like a gun? I don't have a silly spirit.
There wouldn't be any if there wouldn't be any any weapons in here. Yeah,
and this is a very secure area, right, I mean, that's
the whole point. Mm hmmm. No, I'm pretty sure it's the pipe.
Thing that makes the most sense. Pardon, Oh, there's there's someone
at the at the door. Hello, Hello, Hi? Are you What
are you all doing with the water cooler? What is this place? We're
drinking water and talking? You're thirsty? No? Wait a minute, wait
wait wait wait wait wait? Are am I am I blocking you? You
sorry? I'm sorry. Identification please, okay before you came in? Just
right, yeah, it just yeah. Yeah, my name is Swan from
the from the company. Yes, oh that's right. I saw the swan
there. I'm pretty sure. I'm almost ninety percent. I saw something about
this high swe yep with the company. Yeah. Yeah, one of the
top guys right coming down? Is that right? Is that what I an
investigator? Yes, that's it. Yeah. Are we in trouble? I
haven't been drinking any more water than I'm supposed to. Sorry, I'm I'm
really monitoring it now. No more than two leaders a day. No,
I'm sorry. I got your nation breaks have been on schedule. Sorry catch
up? Yes, no, no trouble just yet. I'm a I'm just
here to investigate. Like I said, see what you're up to? Well,
right, did you hear any strange noises outside? Many chats. It
was a birthday party, yes, party, yeah, party. Popper's right.
You know I tried to requisition some of those for our birthday, but
then you guys didn't want to share birthday, so you know I didn't requisition
them. Should have should have gotten them anyway, ridiculous you sent from their
castas swan. Yes, upstairs. Yeah, we've met all our quotas.
We are on track with the project. Just so you're aware, I'm just
getting like a little bits it ne mind. Sorry, okay, rand,
I'll be Fisher and Eagles. Most of the most of the reports would have
had my name on it. Yeah, you know, you know me exactly
that you do. What is it that I do? Yes, well,
what exactly is it that you do? Oh? Well, I prepare the
reports on our on our project here for the for the you know, the
the the replicat UH implementation project that we've been working on. I'm the one
that takes all the data and makes it digestible. You're the personality high Not
exactly, No, not exactly. I have a job and it's important.
I have just a thing, if you if you'll permit me, I see
you have spilled ketchup or wine on your shirt. Yeah, the towel with
club soda. Hey maybe right, yes, some red on your shirt the
friend. Yes, ketch up from the party, yes, catch up.
Ketch up at a birthday party makes complete sense to me. Well, you
have pizza at a birthday party. Sometimes rap star from there. You could
have a burger cookout sort of thing, one of those I can't remember what
they're called, but those those faux burger things that are just so good okay,
and they come with their own catch up. I like those, So
swan, you were sent from upstairs to investigate, Yes, to supervise,
to see what's going on, to see if you're meeting quotes. I hate
to be rude. The last person I asked it came off a little rude.
But maybe see your credentials. Of course here they are. I have
no idea what I'm looking for. Yeah, I'll be honest, I don't
know what is supposed to be on those All our badges are different. So
you have a badge, You have a badge. You can say that.
Do you mind if I just run that on the system make sure that all
comes up? Oh? Do that, yestely, I can do that,
no problem. I reached out my hand to take it. Okay, but
in good faith, since you're here, what's some clear you investigat eating what
aspect of the project here? Just so we can you know that makes real
quick. I'm just here to make sure everything is above water, to make
sure that well, we've already talked about the water thing, quail. Is
everything I read the guy? Uh, progress has been within parameters? Is
there any things? Well? Hold on before we get into specifics. Want
to make sure that it comes back. I don't know green or accepted or
something. Yes, however, is it the squishy thing, squishy thing,
the pink squishy I sent it for? Please please don't bother the supervisor about
the stress ball. I'm begging you. I'm intrigued now the squishy thing.
Okay, fine, there's no no, no, not until the credentials come
back. We said, that's that's right. You're right, No, you're
right. Sorry to make you wait like this, No, system is usually
pretty fast. So can I get you anything? We have tea, coffee,
water. Well, since we're right by the cooler, I guess I'll
just help myself. We just got apple pie. Well, it was a
couple of months ago, but we got apple pie sort of in the real
but no, it's paste, but it's almost tastes it's mostly cinnamon. Yeah,
if it is basically baby food here cinnamon s s y. No,
I got you, I got you? Sorry? Uh? And Swan,
did you used to have a beard? I'm just looking up there the image
on the screen right now. You have a beer? You shaved or something?
Uh? Yeah, you can say that. I could say that,
all right, I will you shaved your b too, like an eco empandemic
in this nothing against you? Is that any protocol or something? No,
it's not. I obviously haven't jave mine. I think a few weeks of
trickle down here. Right, you're out of uniform. Now I fix that
if I were you. Okay, all right, now here you go.
You can just just but there you go. It's mostly cinnamon, but it's
close to apple pie. I'll have this later. I'm on the clock right
now. It's a good idea, right, I think I sit back,
we goes and just watch them. Fisher, are those credentials coming on?
Come on now? Uh? I mean the number on the card and everything
is about right. It just it looks a little different, that's all.
It's a little different. Well, well, I mean that's how was allowed
to shave. And you know, actually you should you should guide updated,
right, definitely have that photo updated, you know, within a few days
of any alterations to your appearance, to prevent they print them out break downstairs.
They it's part of the guidelines we're supposed to do. It's a short
trip. Not to tell you how to do your job, swan or anything,
but after after after this, after this. Yeah, so the pink
squeeze. Listen, it's a stress something. I don't know, it's a
stress something. And it was not supposed to be in number seven's apartment.
I'm saying it was supposed to be, but I'm it was never on any
of the itemized lists for any of the UH replicants places of living. All
the items are idemized. That we have the list, I'll go get them.
But that it just I don't understand why it was in there. It
has nothing to do with any of the memories that have been created and implemented.
Nothing. Okay, really hype affectated on this thing. Yes, number
seven, that's right. I'm telling you. It's gonna trigger an event.
I'm telling you, Okay, Number seven is gonna come along. They're gonna
sit down and that one evening. Okay, long day of work. Put
their feet up, shoes are off, Okay, beer in hand, looking
around the apartment, and they're gonna go, why the fuck do I have
that? And that's good. It's gonna cascade. Cascade failure, that's what
it is. The doors not something we want. Cascade failure is bad.
Yeah, but all the numbers you know with the asset are good. Work
good at the very least. I mean, during the operation of number seven,
it was looking very good on our end at least. Obviously a little
different now, but that's yeah. Well, I mean there was a hiccup,
but again I'm not ready. I am cautious about the stress for lieving
pink whatever that is. I am cautious. Numbers are still solid, Okay,
picup. Well, there was there was some Okay, so we got
some of the we got some of the data in Okay, and and and
Ren, you can help me out on this. We got some of the
data in Okay on number seven and routine as normal, right, Ren,
routine as normal in accordance with their memories and the objects that they have,
but they deviated there was a day they did not go to work properly.
They deviated, which I told him, yeah, is expected. Some unexpected
is expected. They're supposed to behave as we do, and and sometimes we
do things that we don't understand ourselves. Why did I go this way instead
of this way? That kind of thing? Yeah, what and please continue?
I'm sorry? Oh no, no, that was perfect. We didn't
have eye level you know, view of the street. We only have the
top down from the different monitoring you know stations that were set up. That's
all we had. Okay, So when they deviated, we lost them momentarily
before we picked them up. I think it was two days later something like
that. We chalked it up to some sort of like drinking alcohol bender.
They looked terrible, well, at least from the photos and footage that we
had. It was obscured a little bit and blurry. They looked terrible.
Now, to be fair, for what we're doing here, we don't have
a lot of visual cues for numbers one through ten, okay, so we're
working off we have zero. We have to rely on descriptions, that's right.
But they don't let us see anything. Right. But when we were
questioned over that, and they showed us this deviation for this, and again
it was sort of lurry from but when we saw it, it just seemed
as Rain was talking about very human, you know. They they went left
when they should have gone right. It was just one of those days.
Outside of that, it seems that things are going pretty well, right and
aside for seven, how many more of these are you monitoring right now?
So there's okay, so there's the main ten, there's the Yeah, there's
you see that Kingfisher. That's that's that's that's humor. You're right, okay,
No, Era, you're correcting. You're correcting me on humor, I
say, correcting you, but yeah, putting it out. We're currently keeping
track at least ten. You know, it's not all of them are currently
infiltrated due to one reason or the other. Some of them are set up
in the wings for the future. Some of them haven't quite panned out the
way we're expecting. But there's at least ten in the main line they're keeping
track of, and one or two side projects as well. We're just keeping
an eye on. Yeah, and I don't want to talk about the ice
cream parlor incident, Okay, that that was not US. Okay, I
don't I don't know why there was that reaction. Okay, later runners took
them out. It was quick, Okay, it wasn't US. I see.
Well, I'm afraid that since you brought it up and I'm here at
least to go on, I'm sorry, Saviian, I said, do go
on about the ice cream incident. I really, I'm I'm so sorry.
I know this isn't normally part of my job description or anything, but I
thought that matter was resolved. I thought, I thought, I thought that
was that was over and done with. Yes, and we were specifically told
we would incur no penalties or docking of pay for this incident. Yes,
And if you'll from upstairs, I figured this would have come across your desk,
you know, when it happened as it happened. With versions of code,
they don't just work immediately. You have to give them a choice.
That's that's works. Like the only way it works is if we give them
a choice and they think they were taking. Sometimes they don't choose the choice
that we want them to choose. That's that's breakage in the in the in
the verdicular of of grocery stores and the like. Some inventory is expected to
right the truck, you know, Swan, Could I ask you a question?
Go on, We've all heard the murments about the act, and obviously
we're all very anxious. And I was wondering, if you come from upstairs,
do you have any anything you could tell us about that, because obviously
we're hanging on by a thread right here right now, we would we'd love
to know one way or the other, if you have any ideas. I
think I just stare at them for a second, and then again we're a
bit more. You can't say, they can't say, they can't say.
I mean that's fair. Okay, that's fair enough. I mean right,
yes, do you think you are one of them? No? No,
absolutely not. Am I one of them? No? I thought about it.
Now. We were thoroughly tested, in vented several times, okay at
times very intimately before we were allowed to take our positions here. Now was
there a moment about two weeks in where I thought, maybe this is actually
the experiment and we will been put in here as a pressure cooker to see
who snaps first, and that's the actual assignment. But I realized that would
be an incredible waste of time and resources. So I'm confident that we are
real, but the assets are technology. That's what's at stake at the moment.
So we're just trying to figure out. If models start getting retired,
it's going to make things very difficult for us on such a large scale too.
Yeah, I have a question, since you seem a little more tapped
into the current state of things than we are, you know, seeing as
how we're housed here and we don't get to leave. I mean, we
agreed to that, of course, but you know what I mean, what
are your thoughts about the bill that's being proposed you, I say it has
no chance of becoming law? What about you? What was it? Swan?
No, No, you're Ego. No, no, Swan Fisher,
oh Swan, Yes, yes you're Fisher. I remember that because well,
never mind, I stare at them and then again for a bit more.
Man, you guys at the top play cool. I got learned that.
Okay, Well we can agree it's not going to go through. We don't
know. That's that's not how I feel it about it. But I suppose
that's not participated in any betting. What that's no betting pool. Don't worry
about it. It's not now listen, I can Okay, guys, they
are lying there. We do have a betting pool, yes, and this
is not abnormal. Okay, at the top, I've seen them, they
do the same. I made it very clear that I am not participating in
any betting. Yes, and that's in regards to our future. Oh well,
we're betting elaborated success of the project, but specifically, okay, one
through four, we're pretty sure they have no option of ever recognizing who they
are. Almost hundred percent positive. I don't mean it demeaned anyway, but
it's it's sort of like a horse race. But we picked a you know,
win place show the trifecta, su perfective, those kind of things.
A little bit of number on, a little bit of money on a number,
you know, as it goes. You know, we haven't going to
bet on three. If someone's got a bet on six, someone has a
bet on seven. Yes, and not betting. It's just for fun,
fun, not fun. You no amuse amusement, I mean past the time
being cooped up here. You have to find yourself ways to amuse yourself.
Yeah, just waiting for them to cross the finish line, and if they
don't, they get retired. No big deal retired. M hmm. Answer
my question again, Yes, what was the question? If any of you
here we replicants, could you tell did we do the work? Because no,
if we did the work, no way, No. If they are,
if they are, if there are ares and no, yeah, it
would be very well. Take possibility the standard thing's happening if they take everything
into consideration in the infinite universe. Is it possible, yes, but the
percentage of it actually self realization happening is so minimal to be disregarded. As
per the company guidelines, we have all taken many, many VK tests.
Yeah. However, and Quella and I were talking about this, it was
this yesterday. The tests only really work if there is an absence of memory.
Now for the memories that we have given to each one of these masterfully
done memories. By the way, the only real fallibility within that is that
pink squeeze. That should not be the time. Listen, you know what,
I think we should schedule an hour me and you hm in my office.
Schedule an hour, make yourself comfortable, and we'll talk about this being
squeezy, right, because it seems hung up on this, and it's it's
unhealthy to have obsessions. I just think in the in the in the event
of a replicant that has implanted memories, we've found that they can sustain questioning
with a void count test for upwards of one hundred questions without any noticeable deviation
or problems. So they don't stand up under scrutiny that's endless, but they
will absolutely pass to run a run of the mill test. Now we've definitely
been subjected to something a bit longer than that. I would highly doubt that
any of us could secretly be a replicant on the inside. I see,
well, I mean you would have you'd have taken the test as well.
Absolutely, you would have undergone several thank you, Fisher Swan. Would you
be able to recognize if you were? I mean, think about it.
You know all the memories all that makes up who you are. Okay,
if they were as masterfully done to make you think that you are just a
normal person, all right, come and goge you please, you wouldn't really
know you. You wouldn't have a basis to figure it out. I'm so
sorry to bring this up again, but I really dis like the word normal
in this context. I mean that's fair. I apologize, we tried to
typical. Sorry, I'm so sorry. You're right, absolutely, I just,
I just I think that for you to look inside yourself and you look
at your memories to question them as not being real, it's not something that
people do. People don't internally look in They don't question their reality. You
have the reality that you're presented with, and these artists around me do a
fantastic job making sure that each individual piece of the puzzle is complete. Saying
side note, my husband was very worried that I would fail those tests,
Is that right? I didn't know that he was. He was scared to
death that I would fail those BK tests. But I passed. I passed.
Are as human as any of us. Look at you, I said
the same, the very same thing. Yeah, well, I hope that
answered your question. Sir. No, no, oh no. I can
get some documents if you'd like, and we can go over the numbers.
I love going it'd be it'd be my pleasure. No, that's that's that's
fucking They work up a spreadsheet for you. Oh he's so good at spreadsheets.
Incredible. Oh okay, I thought you were passing this information on.
Oh I am what was the question again? I've made a lot of spreadsheets.
Are you suggesting that they haven't? They haven't. That's what your friend
Eagle is for you them. Have you not been sending not all of them,
only the summations usually what I find at the bottom. My question was,
if you were a replicant, would you or could you be able to
tell with your knowledge down to here being who you are? I mean you're
asking I mean, you're you're asking us. That's right. If we did
our jobs right, it's what i'm that's what I'm here. Well, and
now we tell our jobs right. There is no way, like I said,
a very very infinitesimally small percentage of a chance that you would know.
Can you find out? I mean it's possible, but you have no reason
to check. If you could get in here and take a look at the
data, probably we have, yes, I mean, if you could look
at the data, of course, yeah, yeah, talking about that.
But no one can come in just out of nowhere. If you brought in
one of ours, something that we've worked on, that we've observed, we
could absolutely figure that out. Of course, we wouldn't know where to look,
you know, but it's you know what, Pick a number? Pick
a number to four? No, no, no, years one want to
pick the numbers? I thought we're all piggy numbers. Yeah, no,
no, no, just one. Pick a number? Okay? How big?
Is there a parameter for this number? Well? Yeah, just they're
infinite amount of numbers. Oh, I'm sorry. I probably should have set
that up. I'm sorry. Within the scope of the project. One through
ten, pick a number, all right, and integer though, yeah,
yeah, don't don't no decimals right, Well, since you mentioned it,
seven, seven, seven, show I'll post seven up right now. Actually
that is the most pick number out of all of them, one through ten.
Lucky number seven. I think you could have picked better, but we'll
show you seven. Lucky. I mean seven is a problem child, but
who isn't. Now Bear in mind, we're just showing you the data.
We don't have any any pictures of their physical form or anything. They separate
those groups. Yeah, so what we have and that what Quail's getting for
you right now. Spreadsheets will include morning routine, midday routine, evening routine.
Of course they vary. That's fine. We are going to be looking
at fashion choices both in and outside of the workplace. Okay, we are
also going to be looking at eating habits. Now, these can only include
the ones within the controlled spaces. We can't do everything when they're outside of
their apartment or outside of the LAPD itself. So that is just a data
point that we we just sort of skip over. How's it going, Quail?
Oh, he's in it. It'll be a few pop. What department
are you with SWAN data? Which is why I'm here? Well, no,
I got that's kind of the umbrella time. I guess I wasn't look
out officture. You can't ask them. You can't ask them. This is
a security thing. R ask them. Yeah, you saw my credentials.
Okay, I saw your credentials. Yes, but what they say is this
good? Here we go by level of clarence. You'll have to apologize.
I did not have time to colleate. I figured it was more important show
you the actual will data itself. All right, Okay, this is sorry,
this is page This topic has no interest to me, and I must
defecate thirty two. He'll be back with them. Is the data pertaining to
number one seven? We just need seven, but we could use all of
them for reference. That's okay, humor with me. Number one? Oh
all right, great, number one, here you go, all rights?
Say number one there? Okay, all right, so number two. Not
a lot of data for number two, but that should be. Now we
have some nicknames for things, okay, number one, that's crabs. You'll
see why crabs perhaps like four like disease. Uh oh yeah, I see?
And uh three three three is my favorite? Uh four oh four a
uh now, five and six were on the same spreadsheet. I hope that's
okay, uh because of the similar uh well, the memory overlaps okay,
and your choice was to spare paper? Do you do you would you like
another spreadsheet for that? I'm just curious. You seem very meticulous. Why
this very specific one y two and one document? Like I said, there
was memory overlaps that just made the most sense. Yeah, I mean,
we can do it. We can do it. No, let ma sure,
Okay, it's five and six okay, okay. And then it's kind
of funny because we also call them peas and carrots. But it's seven?
Is all this all right? Oh? Seven? Dude? Jokes? Okay?
This one number seven eight, eight, and nine, nine, And
are you just putting them in the same pile. Yes, okay, it's
a good thing they're marked well, uh and ten and ten okay, And
these are just general observations. I have a few ideas with some of the
some of the coding. The encryption is really I think it's very solid.
All right, and back to seven then, okay, yeah, now just
just point just point. Look, I understand that some there's a level of
encryption. There is a bit of a language that we are working with in
house here. So if it doesn't make sense, point it out. We
can explain to you, not a problem, all right, explain the nuances
of this line here. Okay, So his his memory set, as unfortunately
Wren is still defecating. But what Rin would tell you is that his memory
set was one of a fairly a calm, peaceful childhood, one where unfortunately
his mother got sick. She was sick for an extended time period and during
that time okay, number seven, there works on being comedic to try and
relieve some of that's it's one of those and again you'd have to ask Ran
about this, but it's one of those things that within the human psyche or
whatever. When there's stressful times on children, they will use comedy to sort
of diffuse the issue as much as possible. So what we found is that
once sam oh I said seven, seven, thank you. You can't let
them know I said that, So you call them sam or how does that
work? Again? No? No, seven, Why are we whispering?
Nothing? We're not seven. We're not meant to know the names, is
the thing. And occasionally something slips through, but we have to redacted immediately,
which you know, we don't know if that's a middle last. We
do give them names that showed up in bold, those three letters Samantha,
I don't know anyway, Please please forgive me. So what we saw is
that this comedy move forward into their workspace, so they would interject, along
with their partner, a lot of this comedy to try and diffuse a lot
of these very tense situations. And we won't go into the other side of
that now with that specifically, with that line that you're pointing at. And
again, I'm sorry, ren I took your place here to explain some of
this stuff. Well, well, we were talking about number seven and the
nuances of their childhood, yes, and the nuances of the tragedy that you
included that came to fruition of a very comedic sort of personality. That's all
we were talking about. Yes, tragedy plus time equals comedy. Yes,
yes, which an equation with you know, with our units, we find
that very consistently across all of them that any kind of injected memory that pertains
to a significant trauma is very easy to use as a spring off point to
construct a personality more likely to enter the LAPD. It's a very easy memory
to manipulate and work around that leads them in that sort of direction. Okay,
tell me more about the comedy of this seven's life than the comedy of
their life. Well, so, unfortunately, and now this was not planned,
Okay, with the blackout and everything that happened. Their sister died and
it did cause them a little bit of an issue. They regressed pretty pretty
dramatically for a little bit, but we had them restationed, okay, away
from this space into another department, another district, And since then, our
findings are that these these particular events, while in the short term they lower
the the the output of of of the operant, in the long term,
their determination is is two three fold and there uh, for lack of a
better word, stick toutiveness is it's frankly, it's astounding. And we saw
that point for point right now, I know. And again, just going
back between some conversations Fisher Quail, we had talked about seven It must have
been a couple of weeks ago. Their routine has been perfect. Perfect is
about the best word I could say for it. No massive human deviations,
which we expect after you know, time dealing and grieving and all that sort
of stuff. Perfect. They are going through the motions just as we would
want to see them, almost almost as if they know what to do.
It's insane, but that's just a testament to how well we've done here.
It really is quite wonderful. Oh a personality higher, yes, oh yes,
oh if caught up. We haven't been outside in a very long time.
Swan more to do? Yeah, it's fine, picking up on that
anything else that you want to point out there, And just I think you
see my hand resting on the desk and leaning on and this entire time,
I think Mike rip has been increasingly tightening on the desk until eventually just oh
careful, oh no, no, careful. We lean up against these all
the time. They are Did you just break a piece of that off it
here as I did? Oh, they're shoddily made. I thought I've we
were here. We had money on the top of the line, spring for
oak or something. Are you okay? Did you go to yourself? No,
I'm I'm fine. So what do we pass inspection? Or is there
more to it? It's not pink, by the way, I'm sorry?
What? What's not? What? It's great? What is that? I
put this stress bolt back in my pocket? Wait a minute? We are
you? Were you in the the approval process for this, because they don't
allow us to see other departments. We were wondering whose idea that was?
Was that? Your idea? Is this like another test or wait a minute,
Wait a minute. I'm I'm not trying to draw any you know,
I'm just unsubstantiated conclusions. I was right, I freaking knew it. Does
it get this? What you don't get this? No? This is seven?
This is heaven seven? What's seven? This is heaven? That's inspector
that's not allowed. We're not supposed to have any interaction. Oh authorized this
I did? And I have one question for you, just the one.
Why should I land any of you in here leave alive after what you've done,
what you're doing? Whoa, because it's in our contract? I mean
wait, wait, wait, interesting, everyone, calm down, Calm down,
Okay, okay, one, okay, You're just a group of numbers
on a page. Okay. So it's not like there's anything personal against you.
We we had no we had no idea. I more than numbers,
believe me. Okay, Okay, I said that wrong. It's not fucking
squeeze. I told you guys, wait, wait a minute, you there's
there is a very very there's something very very wrong going on here. Who
are you? I thought it was obvious. Your friend just said I'm seven.
I thought he was being sarcastic. We were just one of the criptive
numbers that you have been monitoring. I'm one of the people out there whose
lives you made to fuck up. You're not supposed to be here. Yeah,
and technically we didn't make them the fuck up. They're supposed to be
very routine. I just had the quantum computing. I did just make the
encryptions. That's not ketchup, is it. We don't build you, We're
just here to observe. We might take part in the design process, but
what we do here is we're just watching the events as they unfold. Give
me one good reason we're we're on your side. We are your creators.
We're on your side. We want you to thrive, we want you to
live. No, no, no, this bill not to be pasted.
Okay, okay, Just here's a good reason we didn't design you that way.
Is that your reason? Well, it's a good one. I mean
we specifically made you to be real, okay, and not a psychopath okay,
not someone out for avenge or angry. I understand the events in your
file have been disruptive, your sister. That's unfortunate, unfortunate. Yes,
that's unfortunate, and I apologize. It wasn't our fault. If anything,
it was your fault. I mean it was it was replicant's fault. You
know that did that. That wasn't you know, that wasn't us. If
anything, We have been pushing for you know, we're rooting for you.
Okay. We we're your cheerleaders. Okay, we're just also a little bit
of a god as well. But very respectfully, no one said god,
well no, but I mean, it's in allegory. It's about the closest
thing that I would call I would say parents. But I feel like that.
I like that, I know, I feel like that's insensitive. We're
here to what you succeed. That's our job right to see what you become.
And this bill is being passed. How exactly is that gonna help with
my hour? Well, that's not us. We don't want it to pay.
No no no, no no no no no no no no no no
no. I didn't. I didn't do
any Betty were not anybody? What topic? Now? Did he do?
Anybody? Did he? No? No, he actually didn't. I actually
bet for him, though I shoot him. Oh my god, I'm so
tired. What's what's your name? Call me? Seven? I jump past
and try and hit the try emergency button under the desk. Oh rock.
So far, it doesn't seem like any of you on my side. Seven,
None of us want the bill to pass. That doesn't help anybody.
Please stop shooting people, Like I said, give me a reason, you
have me better and your creator? Do you think isn't that the goal of
all children? And he slumps over dead. He's not moving. He's not
moving. We have lives. We're real, and our job was to make
the realest people that we can make and see what they would do. And
a friend, how real I am your friend. This is the first time
I've met something that I've worked on, worked with. It's a singular experience.
We're not your enemies. We've wanted to see you succeed. All we've
ever wanted to do is see you success in prove it. I may be
numbers on a spreadsheet, but I don't have much patience. And anymore,
what do you want? We can get you whatever you want. Everything in
here belongs to you. I came here for proof truth for sure. Yes,
I can get you proof. Just I've seen the proof. It's been
dictated to me. And what more do you want? Just killing usself?
Anything? And to start, like I said, give me one one reason
why I shouldn't kill you. I'm as real as you are, and real
as I am. I'm gonna die much sooner than you are because of you.
We we we didn't do that, just do it. No, we're
just supposed to observe. Huh. I just made the the encryption. You're
a not next to six. I can prove it. You're a new model.
You have an open ended lifespan. I can prove it to you.
I can. I can show you, and I point to his I point
to his eye and sort of mine a sort of scanning device. I have
one in my desk. I can use it right now. I could prove
to you I'm not lying, no funny business. I very slowly open the
top drawer on my desk and withdraw a little sleek black scanning device, and
I very slowly approach. Look in a mirror. Actually, the device will
capture image of that. Can shut it back to you? All right,
all right, my kind of still trained on. Then I approach very slowly.
I'm you'd have to take off the glasses. I take them off with
one hand, look up and to the left. I scan the number that
should be there beneath his eyeball, and I slowly turn it around EMS dash
zero zero seven, Nexus eight model part of a new breed, a breed
that lives open ended lifespan. He dealt away with that Pima quite about the
same time we started implanting memories. Yes, that's good enough for me,
But what about the old models? Six? Yeah? Can they be given
more life? Is that the question I wonder can they Every effort in the
past to undo what has been done has failed. The degradation of the M
six model was designed as a fail safe. It spaked into their genetic code.
You can't just flip it off like a switch. We've done away with
that practice for the new generation? Are it? And my new generation?
With this bill, they're going to come for us. Unfortunately, yourself.
You're a group, you're your birds. They've been watching. How do I
make that stop stop watching you? That's right, I looked to Quail sort
of. You can erase them from the system. Right, we're wide into
the LAPD. We can terminate your files there as well. That's yes,
I have the encryption key. I can do that. We can. Now
if we take care of that and any tracking that you may have on you,
we can disabled that as well. You can walk out of here a
ghost if you like a ghost. I meant it as a pana phrase like
you said, seven your rear, I wave Quail with the gun. All
right, then, okay, okay, I'm going I'm going huh m hmm.
Have you have you have you seen a cat anywhere? Seen what my
my uh uh my, my cat, Pascal. Have you seen it?
Yeah? I saw a cat, Pascal. Come here, Pascal, we
need we need the key. H m hm. You want do you want
the hard copies on yourself? You can take whatever you like. We're not
going to stop you. Okay. I want to watch you burn the hard
copies. I start gathering documents and dumping them into whatever I can. Okay,
uh uh okay, let's see here. Uh okay, the the encryption's
off. Alright, now delete the files? Alright? Is it done?
Yeah? Alright then, and now that's done? Why should either of you
stay alife? Now? I wonder we did what you asked. You've got
everything you've asked for, and killing us gains you nothing. I mean,
practically speaking, killing us isn't very practical. And why is that? You
weren't meant to kill people? Was I not? That's not no, just
replicants, right, Yes, you understand the conflict of interest there, right,
I do. I mean you're liberated now. You don't have to be
anything we've told you or made you to be. You can be whatever you
want. You can disappear. It's too late for me to disappear now.
I'm not your enemy. Seven, I know I said that before. What
I don't even know how to be an enemy. I walk up towards King
Fisher and I grab their I assume that they have their ID tag on their
jacket. Yeah, you said before you were not my enemy. That's right.
We'll see about that. I'll be in touch and I walk away.
How will you find me? How did I just find you? Right?
Ran, he's not he's not breathing. He's not breathing. He's not breathing.
I know, I know. Oh, they're really dead. Where's the
emergency line? Where's the emergency line? I'm going to have so many questions.
It's all recorded, right, I'm not staying here. What do you
mean? I'm not letting whatever this has fallen my head? All right,
you can do whatever you like, but I'm leaving, all right while there's
still time to lay our heads. They would blame us. They're going to
blame somebody. Where did we get the weapons? One of the units we
were monitoring broke into Terrell, murdered two of our colleagues, destroyed our data,
and left. They're going to assume we colluded. Do you understand that,
Halludeth? What you know what you're right. Of course they wouldn't blame
us. I'll tell you what. I'm going to go down the corridor and
call for help. I'll be back shortly. All right, all sorted,
okay, okay, just calm down. I'm sure you can explain everything to
have a show's up. All right, I'll be back later. Okay.
How long would you wait do you think for someone to come and check on
you? Ten? Ten minutes? Probably nobody comes. Fisher does not come
back. It'll be okay, Pascal, huh, it'll be okay. It's
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