% Samantha: What is it? Dr. Bloom: It's an Exigy S-100 bus. A computer for the home. Duncan: Cool! Dr. Bloom: 16K memory! I can get almost a whole book on this one little tape! One day, every house in the world is going to have one of these. Maybe even hooked up to one another. You see this, I can hook up this little computer up to the big one at the University just by using a telephone! (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: What can you do with it? Dr. Bloom: Oh... spreadsheets... statistical analysis programs... (Smiling at the kids) Games. Samantha: Is it better than Pong? (VR.5: VR.5) % Nora: How much did all this cost? Dr. Bloom: I charged it to the Department. Research costs. (Chuckling) It's good for the kids. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: Who are you? Keeper (turns around smiling): Well, hello there. You must be Samantha. Sydney: No, I'm Sydney. Keeper: He told me you were both pretty. Sydney: Who? Keeper: Your Dad. Is he home? I'm here to see him. Sydney: Sure, come in. (VR.5: VR.5) % Keeper: I have a message for you. Bloom: I told you never to come here! (VR.5: VR.5) % Nora: Why don't you two discuss things in here? Girls, go upstairs and change clothes. We're going out. Samantha: But Mom, it's practically the middle of the night! (VR.5: VR.5) % Nora: Duncan, you have to go home now. Duncan (looking back at Sydney and Sam): Parting is such sweet sorrow. Nora: Well, good night sweet prince. Duncan: G'night Sydney. G'night Sam. (VR.5: VR.5) % Keeper: It's ours. We expect you to honor our deal. Bloom: We had no deal. Keeper: Your work is our work. Bloom: At the lab, not at home. Keeper: It's a lovely home. Nice kids. Bloom: Don't you threaten me! Bloom: I want you out of here! I told you to stay away from my family! (VR.5: VR.5) % Bloom: You ready? How about some ice cream? Sydney: Now? Bloom: Yes, I've got a craving. In the car, come on! (VR.5: VR.5) % Sam: Look what I found under the seat! Sydney: It's Theodore, I lost him in the third grade (making a grab for him) Sam: It's mine you stole him! Syd: Did not! (Both girls start a tug-of-war) Sam: You're such a liar! Sydney: You're a liar! Bloom (annoyed and trying to see in the rain): Girls! Please... Sam: Give him to me! Sydney: No! Sam: Fine! (climbing over to the front seat) Only babies need stuffed animals anyway! Bloom: Samantha... Sydney (about to cry, throws Sam the stuffed bear) Fine! Take him! I hate you! Bloom (turns around): Sydney, how many times... (car crashes) (VR.5: VR.5) % "Rain. Frost in low lying areas. Temperature 60 degrees. Suggest t-shirt, vest, flannel shirt, and blue jeans. Shoes, optional." -- Computer to Sydney (VR.5: VR.5) % Computer: How was your day, Sydney? Sydney: Terrific. Thanks. How was yours? Computer: You have zero messages. Sydney (stroking Penelope behind her neck, the cockatiel cooing softly): Hey Penelope. Anyone call you? Hi. (VR.5: VR.5) % Cooper: Hello? Sydney (tongue caught in her throat): ....... Cooper: Hello? Sydney: Uh... Wrong number. (Slams the phone down and pounds both fists on her desk.) "Hi, it's Sydney". Why is that so hard? (VR.5: VR.5) % Duncan: Didjeridoo. Stealth technology. (Pointing at various screen savers) Australian aboriginal. Very primal. Some bird? (Offers her his drumstick) Penelope: Squawk!! Sydney: No thanks. (VR.5: VR.5) % "You ever go on a walkabout, Syd? There's this song. It's like a map of Australia and every aboriginal is trusted with a certain part. That way, you can figure out wherever you are just by hearing another human's voice. Metaphysical navigation." -- Duncan to Sydney (VR.5: VR.5) % Kravitz: What the hell is happening? Sydney: I don't know! Kravitz: Where am I? Sydney: I don't know! Kravitz: Bloom! Is that you? Sydney: I DON'T KNOW! (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: What happened?! What did I do?! Duncan: Steady! Steady! Sydney: What happened? Duncan: I came out for the soap and you were freaking out. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: How did Kravitz get in there? Duncan: I was at a seance once. I think there was a projector in the fruit bowl. (VR.5: VR.5) % Duncan: You're going to do it again? Sydney: It was incredible. Duncan: So was peyote, but I didn't do it twice. Sydney: I'm fine now. I can control it. But if anything should happen... Duncan: I know, 'Eat the evidence.' (VR.5: VR.5) % Duncan: Hello? Sydney: Ready? Duncan: Willing and able. Sydney: OK, here we go. (VR.5: VR.5) % Duncan: Come on in. The shower's warm. Sydney: I always wondered what was on the other side of that door. Duncan: I've always wanted you to find out. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: What are you looking at? Cooper: Well, you. You look different today. (Sydney looks away again, embarrassed) No, I mean different-different's good. It's just sometimes under all that hardware I forget there's a girl. Something about you's changed. You're definitely here. Sydney: I-I've been here. Cooper: Well, maybe I haven't. Are you ready to connect? Sydney (uncomfortable smile): No. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: I got to talk to somebody. Duncan: Shoot. Sydney: About computers. Duncan: Oh. Sydney: There has to be somebody out there who understands what I've done. I've done something that's supposed to be impossible. Duncan: Nothing's impossible. (VR.5: VR.5) % Duncan: Syd? Syd. Sydney: Mr. Kravitz? Kravitz: Bloom! Uh... your car clean as new! Sydney: I really got to talk to somebody. Duncan: Yeah. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: Is this everything you can do? Engineer: You got the whole trip. Impressive, I know. And sign this please. And jot down your home phone number. I can give you a call sometime and we can discuss how I developed the gel prototype. Sydney: What about really going inside and maybe taking somebody inside with you and-and changing the way that person thinks and the way that person behaves, and really... Engineer: Hey, hey. I'm just an engineer. I can give you name. This guy's a real old timer. Kind of the 'Grandfather of VR'. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: Dr. Morgan? Morgan (from behind curtain): Who are you? Sydney: I'm Sydney Bloom. Morgan: What do with me, Sydney Bloom? Sydney: I want to know how virtual reality works. Morgan: Are we communicating right now? Sydney: I guess. Morgan: But you can't see me, and I can't see you. Is that right? Sydney: Yeah. Morgan: We're both having an experience which requires each of our minds to fill in the blanks. Isn't that right? Sydney: Yeah. Morgan: Well, that's it. You just had a virtual experience. Now go on back to your sorority house. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: But I-- Morgan: Forget it. If you're not a wide-eyed sorority girl, you're a cybergeek who'd rather shove quarters into some machine than cry for Pagliacci. Sydney: I just-I have to talk to somebody-- (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: Sorry. Morgan: Now that's the smartest thing you've said since you walked in here, Sydney Bloom. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: Wait! Wait. I've had experiences. Morgan: Oh? Now what did you do? Did you play that, uh, VR game down at the mall there with your boyfriend? Don't tell me. He felt you up, you didn't like it? Sydney: No. Morgan: No? (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: It was nothing like that. Look, I have a Casy 401 SPro and I get 64 megs 'cause I've hooked into a long bole plug board and that's what gives you the extra kick. I have a Tel Cal AV headset and I have a 4.7 glove. Morgan: That's a lot of unit. Sydney: Yeah, I know. Morgan: You a home brewer? Sydney: Kind of. I mean -- well, yeah. I work for Tel Cal but you know, I take home scrap and I do what I can. Morgan: Well, so what do you need to talk to somebody about? It sounds like you're all set up. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: Well... How far have you gotten? Morgan: With who? Sydney: No. I meant -- like how real? Morgan: As real as I want to get. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: All five senses? Morgan: Three. Once was smell when my wiring caught fire. (Laughs) Why? What can you do? Sydney: No, just-just call it a theory. (VR.5: VR.5) % Morgan: Hey, look. Whatever it is that you're doing, just stop. Sydney: But I can't. Morgan: Yeah you can. Get a hobby. Write a novel. Watch TV. You'll be much better off in the long run. I'm sorry, I can't help you. (VR.5: VR.5) % Nora: How is this possible? Sydney: It's like I can bring another person into my dream. I create the setting, but I can't control what happens in it. When I wake up, I'll remember everything but the other person -- Well, you'll just remember the feeling, Mom. (VR.5: VR.5) % Nora: You've tapped into the subconscious. Sydney: I think I have. (VR.5: VR.5) % Nora: How will we get out? Sydney: I have to find the escape key. It's just something I touch that's connected to whatever I'm doing. (VR.5: VR.5) % Nora: Oh, this is incredible! Who are you working with? I hope you're documenting everything! You should show me your notes, psychiatry is my field you know. Sydney: But it wasn't an experiment, it was just an accident, Mom. Nora: Then we'll study it together. Sydney: Can't we just talk? I've really missed you. Nora: Well, of course we can. Come over here. I've missed you too, sweetheart. (VR.5: VR.5) % Nora: You were always such a private child, not like-- Sydney: Not like Samantha, right? Nora: I don't want to talk about that. Sydney: Well, maybe you should, Mom. Maybe it'll help you. Nora: No. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: What happened that night? Nora: I don't remember anything. Sydney: Who was that man? Why did we have to leave so quickly? Mom, why didn't you come with us? Nora: Stop it! I said I don't remember! (VR.5: VR.5) % Duncan: Sounds like a date to me. Sydney: I'm afraid. What will we talk about? Duncan: I've always found a discussion of Eli Whitney and the cotton gin to be a good ice breaker. (VR.5: VR.5) % Morgan: I warned you to stop. Sydney: It's not just a theory, I can really do it. Morgan: And now you've come to me because something bad has happened. Is that it? Sydney: I-I think there's somebody dangerous out there. Morgan : Just 'cause you've seen it in VR doesn't make it true. (VR.5: VR.5) % Morgan : Just 'cause you've seen it in VR doesn't make it true. Sydney: But it is -- it's what was in his mind, so there's got to be some truth in it. Morgan: I've taken a checkered flag at Indianapolis in my mind but that doesn't necessarily mean that Mario Andretti should lose any sleep. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: What if it is true? He could hurt somebody. Maybe he already has. Morgan: You know there's a lot to be said for fate. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: What happens if you die in VR? Morgan: I hooked up a guy once. One of my VR flight simulators. He was a real hotshot Navy flyboy. He wanted to see what it felt like to hit the ground at a forty thousand foot free fall. Sydney: Did he die? Morgan: Nope. He's just lying in a coma in a hospital in Virginia. No official explanation. (VR.5: VR.5) % "Destroy it. Never use it again. Maybe you'll be able to sleep at night. I sure can't." -- Morgan to Sydney (VR.5: VR.5) % "Did you know that if a meteor only six acres wide were to hit the Earth at the correct velocity we'd be plummeted into the equivalent of a hundred-year nuclear winter and life as we know it on this planet would be completely obliterated? Huh! Makes paying your taxes seem kind of futile, doesn't it?" -- Duncan (VR.5: VR.5) % Duncan: You know I've been meaning to say this to you for some time, and I always forget... Sydney: What? Duncan: I think you've lost your mind. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: What if I'm wrong? What if he's just a great guy? Duncan: Then you go have 2.6 children and live in Scarsdale. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: How'd you know? Morgan: You've got a lot to learn about guarding the security of your programs. Sydney: You bugged my system! What could you see? Morgan: Oh, I couldn't hack into your VR. I'm trying to protect you. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: Well, you're a little late. We gotta go to the police-- Morgan: No, no, the police will be taken care of. Sydney: There are oth-other bodies there too. Morgan: We'll take care of it. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: Who are you? Morgan: You know there are people out there who'd kill to get their hands on what you can do? Sydney: How do you know that? Morgan: Because they almost did it to me, and I didn't get nearly as far as you did. (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: Who do you work for? Morgan: Let's just call 'em the Committee. (VR.5: VR.5) % Morgan: I wish you'd left it alone, but you didn't. And now the people that I work for want me to use you. Sydney: What if I said no? Morgan: You can't. It's too late. We're working together now. You need me, I need you. Welcome to the game, Sydney Bloom. (VR.5: VR.5) % "Welcome to the game, Sydney Bloom." -- Frank Morgan to Sydney Bloom (VR.5: VR.5) % Sydney: How did you get in here? Morgan: The same way anyone could do it: the door was unlocked. Sydney: No, it wasn't. Morgan: Oh, suit yourself..... (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: Why didn't you just call me? Morgan: Because you would have told me to wait until morning and I've got something that can't wait. (VR.5: Love and Death) % Boothe: Curious about my plans? Sydney: Worried. Boothe: Worried? Nobody worries about someone like me! Sydney: That's not true. Boothe: You're right Sydney, there are plenty of people.....who should be worried about what my next..... move would be. (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: Ah, Hmmm....Where did you find all of these wonderful things? Boothe: My business takes me all over the world. Sydney: I would love to travel... Boothe: Well, you should always do what your heart desires, Sydney... (VR.5: Love and Death) % Boothe: Why are you here? Sydney: I don't remember.... Boothe: To help me! Sydney: Yes.... Boothe: That's what you said before.... Sydney: To help you get back to work, and to st..st..st..to stop you from, from..... Boothe: Killing myself? Why? Sydney: Because it's wrong, because it hurts people. Boothe: Is that what you think? Sydney: No, it's what I know.... (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: How come you won't tell me anything? Why all the secrets? Morgan: Secrets.....are for safety! (VR.5: Love and Death) % "I was just explaining to my class how powerful a home computer can be when in the proper hands. Would you care to...umm... comment, Miss Bloom?" -- Dr. Frank Morgan (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: I have to find him! Morgan: I'm afraid that's not possible right now. Sydney: I think he's gonna kill himself if he hasn't already. (VR.5: Love and Death) % Morgan: (addressing his students) Just keep on talking, your parents are paying a lot for this. (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: Tell me where he is! Morgan: He's being watched and taken care of! Sydney: Well, that's not good enough! Morgan: Oh well, you know as much as I know. It's compartmentalised information. That means, it's on a need to know basis. I don't have all of the answers. (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: You mean if he dies, he dies, It's not your responsibility, right? Morgan: The Committee will take care of it. That's how it works..... (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: Oh, do you follow all their rules? Morgan: Do you break them all?! Sydney: If they're wrong, yes! (VR.5: Love and Death) % Morgan: Well, maybe you ought to rethink your position.... Sydney: Oh, it's that what you've done? Just turn off your conscience so you can get through those assignments easier? (VR.5: Love and Death) % Morgan: Look, Bloom......just don't let it get to you. Just do what they ask. Sydney: So I can end up just like you, right? (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: Who are they? Boothe: You can call them my extended family. We've all become very close through my business. Sydney: What do you do? Boothe: I solve people's problems. An independent contractor of sorts... (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: I guess you didn't even need me to come back at all. Boothe: I think you're the most intriguing person in this room...you keep coming to save me when there's nothing left to save..... Sydney: Why would a man...... Boothe: Why would a man like me, who has so much...wants to "cash in my chips" as many would say? That's the real question isn't it? (VR.5: Love and Death) % "Life is finally just about loving and dying. Which would you rather do with me?" -- Jackson Boothe to Sydney Bloom (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: Hey, you busy? Morgan: Oh, just remembering the..hmm....joy of self-loathing. I thought you were through with me.... (VR.5: Love and Death) % "Hmm....y'know, there is a simple explanation for it. Y..Your.... mmm... subconscious goes in there with you. That was your image.... that was in there, that wasn't his image." -- Dr. Frank Morgan to Sydney Bloom (VR.5: Love and Death) % Morgan: Why didn't you tell me this before? (pause) You took him in there again didn't you? Sydney: Does it matter......? (VR.5: Love and Death) % "You are in waaaay over your head...." -- Dr. Frank Morgan to Sydney Bloom (VR.5: Love and Death) % Morgan: I can't tell you that! I've already told you I don't know who he is, I don't even know what he looks like...... Sydney: They gave me his phone number, they must know where he lives. (VR.5: Love and Death) % Morgan: Look, you listen to me....., this is between you and me. This is....no case, this is no Committe. I think you should not going in for a while. I think it's messin' with your own hardware.... Do you know what I mean? Sydney: I think it's helping me remember...... Morgan: I think it's playing with your brain......, I think you should take a rest and I would make that an order, but I know that you wouldn't follow it.... (VR.5: Love and Death) % "Did you know that Van Gough painted some of his most famous works while living in a complete squalor?" -- Duncan to Sydney (VR.5: Love and Death) % Duncan : Err, excuse me sir, are you the concierge? The Man: Hey, watch your mouth! (VR.5: Love and Death) % Duncan : Lovely! Look, we're...we're looking for somebody.... The Man: Yeah? Who? Duncan : I have no idea..... Sydney : His name is Jackson Boothe.... (VR.5: Love and Death) % The Man: Y'know, he sounds familiar but I ain't sure..... Duncan : Oh, you ain't sure. He ain't sure! Well, let me ask you maybe 20 bucks would jar your your memory a little bit? The Man: Maybe.... Duncan : You got a 20, Syd? Sydney : Uh, I can give you 14...... The Man: I'll take it! He ain't here. He said he'd be gone for a day or two but he's paid until the end of the week. (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: Who is he? How did he die? Are those guys cops? Are those guys cops? Huh? Morgan: Oh man, I told them.....they didn't know what they were getting into, man! Sydney: He was with the Committee...... Morgan: They think they know it all and they just........, You know...they're stupid!!!! They just.... go ahead, go ahead........ and do it on your own....... Hey look, you got anything that's stronger than a tomato juice in here? (VR.5: Love and Death) % "You want to see a man with a conscience, huh? It's just...... I got this, y'know, to see the look on their faces, and I made those trips..... I make it five times a year..... I see two of them in Arlington and I still go in there..... And I just, I just wonder where they're gonna put him, that's all...." -- Dr. Frank Morgan to Sydney Bloom (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: Are you saying.....five guys died in VR? Morgan: Six - that I know of. Sydney: Why am I still alive? Morgan: That's the big question, isn't it? (VR.5: Love and Death) % Morgan: It's my fault.....I've tried to find a way to get you out but.... Hhh, man oh man..... Sydney: They're not gonna let me go, are they? Morgan: They only way you're gonna get out...... is to take a sledgehammer and smash all your toys in here. That's the only way you're gonna get out. You give it up and you'll be free....... Sydney: I'm free when I'm in there..... (VR.5: Love and Death) % Nora Bloom: My love, my babies, they took you all away.... Sydney : I was still there..... Nora Bloom: Do you think I knew that? Do you think they told me that? They didn't tell me that, they didn't tell me, they didn't tell me.... (VR.5: Love and Death) % Duncan: What are you hiding, Syd? This is just not the usual you! Sydney: Dunc..... Duncan: Tracking down strange guys in seedy hotels, weird people in and out of your place in the middle of the night. Why all the secrets, Syd? Secrets are lies! Sydney: I'm trying to protect you..... Duncan: Fine, don't tell me. It's not like I'm your best friend or anything...So why share? (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: I work with this group of people called 'the Committee' Duncan: What happened to the TelCal gig? Sydney: Umm, I'm...I am.......moonlighting. (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: But this Committee.....they help people and I am helping them. Duncan: And that's your secret? Cool! So what are these guys like? Rosicrucians wanna-bes? Knights Templar? Y'know that? Sydney: What is that? Duncan: Secret societies. I mean, they've been around forever. They're always sort of creating history behind the scenes. It's very spooky stuff, Syd! Sydney: Yeah, I don't really know who they are, but you know, they understand what I can do... It's scary, Dunc! (VR.5: Love and Death) % "But I saw my sister.....I can almost touch her...but....something weird happened. And I feel that everytime I go in, it's like this huge hole is opening up inside me and all of these feelings I never knew I had...keep flooding out..." -- Sydney to Duncan (VR.5: Love and Death) % "But you know maybe, it's kinda you have this past... and you know you're gonna have the future. You just don't have a present." -- Duncan to Sydney (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: Yeah, everything's connected.... Duncan: That's the balance of the universe..... (VR.5: Love and Death) % Boothe: I suppose I should say 'thank you' Sydney: For what? Boothe: Finding out all about you has kept me alive for another 24 hours... (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: Why would you want to die? Boothe: The past has finally got up with the present. That means there's no future. You'll understand... (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: I want to know about my father...... Boothe: Is that what you really want? (he kisses her in the lips and she gives in to him) See? How easy it is......to let passions get in the way of your true objectives. (VR.5: Love and Death) % Boothe: Death is an art...it's all about getting close, getting them to trust you..... Sydney: Why are you doing this? Boothe: Because....it's my job. I am death, and these are my victims. They've made me a very wealthy man and so I only thought it was right that I should entertain them..... (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: You're an assassin! Boothe: The best.....first seduction, then.....death...... (VR.5: Love and Death) % Morgan: Listen, I swear to you, I did not know who Boothe was when I first sent you in. Why do you think I was so worried, when you went in there again? Sydney: I don't know! To protect your secrets?! Those people are liars! I'm not working with liars anymore! (VR.5: Love and Death) % "I've been trying to find a way... to get you out.... But all the information that I'm getting just pulls you further in. I know now, there is a reason that you....can do what you can do, and nobody else can't do it...... I've found file....I've modemed it into your computer....I want you to read it through, and then....you let me know if you still wanna quit." -- Dr. Frank Morgan to Sydney Bloom (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: (cradling Morgan) You're gonna be alright.... Morgan: No, I'm not.....(he smiles to her) Hhh....., the file...... Sydney: (crying) I'll read it! Morgan: Good.......It's not what you think, It's not... what you think..... (VR.5: Love and Death) % Sydney: I met this man that I was afraid I was gonna detest but... he was the only one I could talk to. He's dead because of me! Duncan: You know something? As much as you baffle me, and confound me, which you do and always have, since we were little kids... You can't make that one fly. I won't buy it, not now. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: Morgan understood me. He warned me to stop. He told me to stop! But I didn't and that's why they killed him. Don't you see? Duncan: They? You mean the Committee they? Sydney: Yes. Duncan: Well then, the question is, are you safe? (VR.5: 5D) % Duncan: Then I'll protect you. Sydney: You may be in danger, Dunc. Duncan: Me? No, I'm all right. Danger bounces right off me. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: No joking around. You could be in real trouble. Duncan: I'm not joking. I know. I've watched you. I've seen what it can do to you and what it can do for you. For that matter, I've watched you all your life. I'm still here, Syd. I'm still here. (VR.5: 5D) % "You know, at first I thought we'd broken all your little toys here. We do have a tendency to get in there and meddle. Sometimes a little out of control, I'll admit. But then I realized on reflection that this was the work of an emotional amateur rather than a professional. Quite a feat though, replacing it all on such short notice. I think I did rather well, don't you?" -- Oliver Sampson to Sydney (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: You're with the Committee aren't you? Man: Oliver Sampson. I am sorry about Morgan. Sydney: Sorry you killed him? Oliver: No, I rather liked him, actually. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: Liar. The Committee killed him. Oliver: You saw a man named Jackson Boothe kill him. In the past we have had occasion to employ him but this time, we had nothing to do with it. (VR.5: 5D) % Oliver: I understand your hostility. Sydney: What? You gonna kill me too? Oliver: On the contrary, I'm here for your protection. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: I don't need protection. Oliver: Sydney, you were an eyewitness to a murder. What, you think he's not gonna come back after you? Sydney: I hope he does. (VR.5: 5D) % Oliver: You liked Morgan, didn't you? Doesn't it make you angry that he was murdered? The police can't help you, they can't protect you. We can find Boothe again. Sydney: I don't believe you. Oliver: And when we find him, we find out who hired him. Whoever wanted Morgan dead is your enemy as well as ours, Sydney. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: I-I don't have any enemies. Oliver: As I recall from your dossier, it's friends you don't have. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: A double helix! This is DNA. Duncan: DNA, huh? The old genetic map. How we are and who we are. It's kind of like snowflakes right? No two alike? (VR.5: 5D) % "Morning Mrs. B. How you doin? Oh, you don't want to waste any more brain cells watching that stuff. So, they treating you real nice? Getting you plenty of that chocolate pudding you like so much? How's that? You know, it's OK, but it's not quite as good as the stuff you used to make for me. Remember that, the chocolate pudding with the walnuts? Loved your eats, Mrs. B. Oh, don't bother straining yourself. You save your strength because Syd... she wants to do the VR thing." -- Duncan to Nora Bloom (VR.5: 5D) % "You know, you're getting younger and younger every time I see you. Y'know I'm not just saying that, it's not an Eddie Haskell kind of thing. Even when we were kids you were a very handsome-looking woman and I just think that with all this rest you're getting... it's bringing all the color back into your-" -- Duncan to Nora Bloom (VR.5: 5D) % Duncan: So the question is, if Buddha was really Siddhartha the Prince, was he in fact divine? Sam: Of course he was divine, he was a god. Duncan: He was just a man. (VR.5: 5D) % Duncan: Sam says he's a god. Syd says he's a man. Hey, Mrs. B, what do you think? Was Buddha a god or a man? Nora: Can't you kids just play like everyone else's kids? Sydney: We're playing brain games like Dad taught us. (VR.5: 5D) % Nora: Sydney? Sydney: Yeah? Nora: Honey... those suspenders don't really go with that skirt, you know. (VR.5: 5D) % Bloom: Nora tell her! Tell her now! Sydney: Daddy! Nora: Not now Joseph. Sydney: Tell me what, Mom? Nora: There's nothing more to tell, Sydney. (VR.5: 5D) % Oliver: Fine. Next time I'll wire you an invitation. In the meantime Boothe's not going to be there forever. Now come on! Sydney: You found Boothe? Oliver: Yes, we found Boothe. Sydney: You found Boothe?! Oliver: Yes! Must I always repeat everything? Come on! (VR.5: 5D) % Oliver: He's here. Sydney: So are 16,000 other people. Where? Oliver: Somewhere in the west lodge. Sydney: That the west lodge? How're we gonna get him? Oliver: That's why you're here, isn't it? You've seen him. You know what he looks like. I haven't. I don't. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: No! You're not trying to protect me, you're just protecting what I can do! Oliver: You know you're absolutely right. (VR.5: 5D) % Oliver: This whole thing would be a lot easier if I didn't have to deal with you at all. Sydney: Well, then don't! Oliver: Well, I guess I'm just stuck with you. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: Well, I feel much safer now. What a joke! There's no Committee, is there? Oliver: I can't answer that. Sydney: That's probably the first honest thing you said all day. (VR.5: 5D) % Oliver: Listen, you imagine a series of concentric circles, one inside of the other. Now, our friend Morgan was part of the outermost circle-- Sydney: Don't you even mention his name! You don't know him. Oliver: Move several circles in and you find me. Now I'm closer to the core but I'm not at the innermost circle, where the power is. (VR.5: 5D) % Oliver: Move several circles in and you find me. Now I'm closer to the core but I'm not at the innermost circle, where the power is. Do you understand? Sydney: Sure. You're talking in circles. (VR.5: 5D) % "Our charter. Our purpose. Our raison d'jtre. The unrestricted pursuit of knowledge... the betterment of man... alternative solutions to social problems." -- Oliver Sampson, talking about The Committee (VR.5: 5D) % "My aim is to prevent people from people from being killed, and you happen to be my current assignment. But not only do I want to keep you alive, I want to know who wants you dead. So why don't we just continue this ludicrous working relationship with the same goals in mind, hmmm?" -- Oliver to Sydney (VR.5: 5D) % Oliver: In any case, watch out for yourself. You'll know better than anyone if something isn't right. [Oliver leaves] Sydney: I already know. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: Duncan! What are you doing? Take these off. This is not a toy, OK? Duncan: Well, it could be with the right licensing, Syd. I mean you could be on the box every kid wants for Christmas. (VR.5: 5D) % "But I'm a little vague on the whole risk thing. I mean, what happens if you get stuck in there y'know... you end up in some sort of indefinite limbo land... or say you send yourself into somebody else's computer. I mean, one minute they're playing Myst, then pop! Syd's mug all over the small screen... I mean, next thing you know it's Will Rogers lost in cyberspace... I'm rambling. Syd?" -- Duncan to Sydney (VR.5: 5D) % Sid: I notice yours is with a Y, mine's an I. I'm named after the actor Sidney Greensteet because my mother loved the movie Casablanca but she hated the name Humphrey. And her sister already had a boy named Richard, but we didn't call him Rick, we called him Dick... So I really don't know why I had to be Sidney, but I kind of like it. How about you? Syd: What? Sid: Your name. Do you like being Sydney? (VR.5: 5D) % Sid: How about you? Syd: What? Sid: Your name. Do you like being Sydney? Syd: I don't know. Beats Eunice, I guess. Sid: You are not going to believe this. My aunt's name is Eunice! You know, little Dicky's mom! We must have some sort of ESP or something, we should go to a movie. (VR.5: 5D) % "You didn't believe me, did you? I told you they wouldn't crash! You're the one, aren't you? Dr. Morgan's 'hypothetical voyager'?" -- Dr. Hunnicutt to Sydney Bloom (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: What did Dr. Morgan tell you? Hunnicutt: You look a lot like him, you know. Sydney: Like Dr. Morgan? Hunnicutt: No, your father. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: Dr. Hunnicutt, do you know what this is? Hunnicutt: Where'd you get that? Sydney: I got it from Dr. Morgan. Hunnicutt: Where did he get it? Sydney: I don't know. Please, could you tell what it is? (VR.5: 5D) % Hunnicutt: You're good. Sydney: Thanks. Hunnicutt: Because you had the proper tool: your brain. Nothing about my system is computerized. Mechanized, yes. Is there a difference? Your father and I debated it constantly. Example, you used the buttons and levers to facilitate the instructions your brain wanted carried out. When I switched it back to auto-pilot, the system became computerized. Programmed to react in a certain way under certain conditions. You see the difference? One way is full of life, the other... eh, hollow. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: My father believed in computers. Hunnicutt: He believed in the most powerful of all computers. The mysteries of the human brain. He found it amusing that mankind has put all its resources into artificial intelligence. But it can't hold a candle to what your brain just accomplished at these controls. Simulating the human brain is where the real discovery lay. Organic computers. Made of organic metal, and based on the combining and recombining of deoxyribonucleic acid. (VR.5: 5D) % Hunnicutt: That diagram you just showed me was the molecular structure of the experiment he was working on when he died. Sydney: His test case. Hunnicutt: Yes. Purely... theoretical, of course. Sydney: Of course. (VR.5: 5D) % "Can't you people even pretend you respect someone's privacy?" -- Sydney to Oliver (VR.5: 5D) % Boothe: You're afraid of me, aren't you? Sydney: Desperately. I need your help. Boothe: I've already helped you. Sydney: How? Boothe: The night I killed Morgan I was supposed to kill you too. Sydney: Why didn't you? Boothe: I must have remembered this. [kisses her] (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: Who is my enemy? Give me a name. Boothe: If I dealt with names, I'd have been dead a long time ago. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: Tell me something. Boothe: Trust no one. Not even me. Sydney! The coffin is empty. Sydney: What? What coffin? Boothe: Dr. Morgan's not where you think he is. (VR.5: 5D) % Oliver: Really, I just love cemeteries. Do you know how difficult it is to get a grave dug up? The bureaucracy involved? It's not free either you know. But you didn't have to come. I could have called you, I could have met you at the forensics lab. Sydney: Right. I had to be here. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: Boothe said he's on ice. Ice rink and then I don't know what. Duncan: Like Walt Disney. Y'know, Walt Disney? Cryonics. Y'know, when they... freeze you after you die. Sydney: You're good when you first wake up, Dunc. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: Aahh! Boothe: I do know you... Sydney: No. Boothe: ...don't I? Sydney: No! Boothe: Who are you really? (VR.5: 5D) % Boothe: What made you think you could get away? How did you know I'd be here? Sydney: Why don't you just kill me? Boothe: I have no orders to kill you now. They want you to live now. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: Who's they? I need names. Boothe: Oh, if I dealt with names... Never names. Sydney: Why? Boothe: Oh, I don't ask why. Just who and where... and always how much. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: What about Morgan? Where's Morgan? Boothe: Morgan? Sydney: Yes. Boothe: Morgan's on ice. Sydney: What do you mean? Boothe: Sometimes they ask me to do it in a certain way. Not to damage the body too much... and never the brain. So they can be preserved. (VR.5: 5D) % Boothe: I know. I know the answer. I remember now. You were the one who saved me. Sydney! I'll tell you everything. The Committee... [Boothe is shot] Sydney: No! Sydney: Why did you kill him? Why did you kill him? Oliver: He was about to kill you. Sydney: He was going to tell me everything. Oliver: Oh. Excuse me. (VR.5: 5D) % Sydney: Why'd you go onto the plane? Oliver: I was. I got off. I don't know why. And maybe if I'd stayed I would have found it. I don't know. (VR.5: Control Freak) % "Five years I've wondered, why I'm alive and those people are dead. Five years I've thought about that moment. Maybe you believe me, maybe you don't. But you, more than anyone, should know how one moment can change your life. How it can haunt you forever." -- Oliver Sampson, to Sydney Bloom (VR.5: Control Freak) % "But you, more than anyone, should know how one moment can change your life. How it can haunt you forever." -- Oliver Sampson, to Sydney Bloom (VR.5: Control Freak) % Oliver: Sydney. I have new orders. Sydney: What? Oliver: To kill you. Now we have to get out of here - now. (VR.5: Reunion) % Sydney: What if my father and Samantha are alive? What if they're looking for me? How will they - Oliver: We can't help them if we're dead now, can we? Duncan: That actually makes a little sense. (VR.5: Reunion) % "Would you tell me something? What's it like to be free?" - Samantha to Sydney (VR.5: Reunion) % "I'm not going to TELL them anything Duncan, I just want to find out who THEY are." -- Oliver Sampson (VR.5: Reunion) % Samantha: That was horrible. Sydney: Was it real? Samantha: And I was wrong. You haven't been free either. (VR.5: Reunion) % Sydney: I'm putting the pieces together, I gotta go back in. Maybe we can find the truth together. Samantha: What if it's worse than the lie? (VR.5: Reunion) % Samantha: I thought you said no one knew about this room! Sydney: Oh this is Oliver, he's okay. Samantha: No he's not okay, none of them are okay. (VR.5: Reunion) % Samantha: I will never trust you. If I have to kill you I will. Oliver: That's a good attitude. Does it run in your family? (VR.5: Reunion) % Samantha: I lived with these people for seventeen years, I've seen what they do. And you're both crazy if you think he's any different. Oliver: They're crazy? Then what does that make you if you think you stay alive without me? (VR.5: Reunion) % Samantha: I've done fine so far. Oliver: Barely. And now you've dragged your sister into it. Well done. (VR.5: Reunion) % Oliver: And you! Next time I offer to save your life, do me a favor and turn me down. Sydney: She's my sister, what could I do? (VR.5: Reunion) % Samantha: It's just like playing catch in there, ya just throw the memories back and forth. Sydney: We just gotta keep going till we get it right. Duncan: Or fry trying. (VR.5: Reunion) % Sydney: Did you see what just happened? Duncan: Yeah, we went from film Noir to Technicolor. Time to check the goggles, Syd. Samantha: There's no malfunction. I think we just went from the lie to the truth. (VR.5: Reunion) % Sydney: I remember this. Samantha: So do I. Duncan: Me three. (VR.5: Reunion) % Sydney: What is this? Duncan: Ozzie and Harriet on acid? (VR.5: Reunion) % Oliver: Look Sydney. You told me sometime ago that you felt betrayed by your father. I understand now. Abernathy worked closely with my father. He apprenticed with my grandfather. That's why The Committee's so close knit. Family ties. Generation to generation. Sydney: My father didn't betray me. (VR.5: Reunion) % "I've been used and so have you. I want to find out who They are and what they want." -- Oliver Sampson to Sydney Bloom (VR.5: Reunion) % "Oh you Sampsons, you're always so noble. But chivalry is dead & the past is gone. It's the future we have to control now. Power isn't anymore about accumulating territories or weapons, it's about accumulating minds. Joseph Bloom can do that and that's why we have to have him back." -- Abernathy to Oliver Sampson (VR.5: Reunion) % Oliver: Power at any cost. That's not what The Committee stands for. Abernathy : Things change. Oliver: And people? My father gave his life for you. (VR.5: Reunion) % Abernathy: I told you to run but you wouldn't leave without her. I even staged my own death hoping to scare you enough to make you flee. Oliver: Well, now you'll have to kill me. Abernathy: I don't want to. (VR.5: Reunion) % Abernathy: (lying on ground dying of gunshot wound) I didn't think... you would. Oliver: ...I didn't. (VR.5: Reunion) % Samantha: I want you to be careful. Things are different in there. Time and space doesn't work the same. Sydney: What do you mean? Samantha: That's all I ever heard dad say. I don't want to lose you again. (VR.5: Reunion) % "Oliver, if anything happens... I'm counting on you." -- Sydney Bloom (VR.5: Reunion) %