Don Doolittle: Dr. Raven
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Dr. Raven : [turning to address camera] Of course the operation was a success... or *you* wouldn't be here.
"Title Card" : end - - point of beginning, Webster
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Dr. Raven : When I perfected the "Thalamic Transplant" technique, these 'clickers' knew about it in a day and a half.
Capt. Kenneth Cragis : [to Acto] But if you robots had the process, why did you risk using Raven? Why didn't you just do it yourself?
Acto, a clicker : We tried. But the shock of dying, and being resurrected as a robot, was too severe: they Re-Died.
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Mark : This may be our last transplant for a while. Our supplier was caught.
Dr. Raven : I didn't hear anything on Telefax.
Mark : The Ministry of Information doesn't want it known that robots are dealing in robots. It would only give the Flesh & Blooders something more to yell about.
Dr. Raven : They're a minority.
Mark : A loud minority.
Dr. Raven : Your supplier, will they take his identity?
Mark : His memory will be dispersed tomorrow. What a waste.
Dr. Raven : Why don't they just kill him? The effect of personal cessation is the same in either case. They just leave a hollow shell walking around.
Mark : He can still perform his duties.
Dr. Raven : But he's without a past, without hope, the dream gone.
Mark : Almost like being a robot, isn't it?
Dr. Raven : No offence.
Mark : I'm incapable of taking offence. But why is it the more we become like men, the more some of them hate us for it?
Dr. Raven : Men hate what they fear. You have perfect memory. Infallible logic. You never tire. You're circuited against anger and violence.
Mark : And in your world that leaves us pretty helpless.
Dr. Raven : We have to study for years what you pick up just plugging into a brain for two hours.
Mark : We don't refer to the Father-Mother as a brain.
Dr. Raven : Your Father-Mother is an electronic computer, nothing but a machine!
Mark : Your parents were machines. It's just that they were engineered with flesh and bone. Neither are ideal components.
Dr. Raven : You came off a production line.
Mark : I know who created me: Hollister Evans and the Mark-47. You have to accept your Creator on faith.
Dr. Raven : Who created your creator?
Mark : Yours. You see, we are brothers, aren't we?
Dr. Raven : I ought to know better than to argue with you Clickers.