Memorable Quotes from Rus Blackwell
3 quotesStruggling with Identity and Pain
Agent Gorman
Put the plumber to work.
Scientist
Your memories, John, they give you pain. But I can release you from them. I can release you from your pain. Would you like to be freed from pain?
First John
I get up every morning, I go to work. I come home, I go to sleep. The next day... repeat. Feels like a life, but I'm not sure. Something feels strange. Then one day I got sick. I can hear this voice, telling me that I gotta find him and kill him. So I go. But then he showed me the truth. My thoughts, they're not my own.
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Resilience and Loyalty in Programming
John
How did you know I'd find him?
Agent Gorman
You always find each other. You're like dogs that way. You know, I suppose I should be grateful, but... I can't help but feel proud.
John
How's that?
Agent Gorman
Because we were right this time. Your memories triggered emotional responses that made you resistant. You acted on your own behest, not ours. You were designed with selfish motivations; loyalty to family, not to country. The John that came before you? Sent on the same exact mission. And he came the closest, but he disappeared. We made the necessary adjustments, knowing that you'd pick upright where he left off.
John
What about me?
Agent Gorman
We'll take you in, erase some memories and you'll be free. Truly free. You seem disappointed. Come on, I know you, John, like a father knows his child. You might not know me as well as you think. I know that if you didn't stop them, they would've reproduced by now. Once that door is open, that's how much you mean to me, everybody.
John
So you created me to find the one who killed my family and put them to death.
Agent Gorman
That is correct.
John
You killed my family.
[aims a gun at him]
Agent Gorman
See? That's what makes you so special. You feel so intensely.
John
You killed my family.
Agent Gorman
No, quite the contrary, I created them for you. I created them, to fill your void.
John
And then you killed them.
Agent Gorman
I didn't kill them, John. Luc Deveraux did.
John
Maybe, but you put him up to it.
[shoots him]
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Identity and Accountability in Tragedy
Agent Gorman
You ever see this man? Was he the man who murdered your wife and daughter?
John
Yes.
Agent Gorman
His name is Luc Deveraux. His prints were all over the crime scene.
John
Who is he?
Agent Gorman
Once a highly-decorated serviceman, but now he's best classified as a deserter.
John
Why did... Why did he kill my family?
Agent Gorman
Can you think of a reason?
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