World on a Wire (1973)

Gottfried John: Einstein

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• Einstein : He was on the verge of a breakdown.

  Fred Stiller : Why?

  Einstein : He knew.

  Fred Stiller : What did he know?

  Einstein : Somehow he'd found out - what he was.

  Fred Stiller : You can't just find that out. Did you say something?

  Einstein : You know my circuits prohibit it.

• Fred Stiller : You're not Fritz Walfang. You're Einstein. My God, what is this?

  Einstein : [Disguised as Fritz Walfang]  Let me go, please! Don't send me back. It's my only chance. I want to be a human being. And I will. This is the first step. I'll make the next one, too. Into the real world.

  Fred Stiller : What do you mean? This is the real world...

  Einstein : That's what you think. But the truth is this world, which you take for reality, is only a simulation model of the real world. Fred Stiller, the big computer boss. You're nothing but a mass of electrical circuits. The identity unit Fred Stiller. You're a number, like everyone here. A number in a research laboratory. Admittedly, in a highly advanced one. Professor Vollmer knew it. That's why he had to die. And now you know.

  [laughs hysterically] 

  Einstein : It can't be, Einstein. Tell me it's not true.

• Fred Stiller : My time's up. Good-bye, Einstein.

  Einstein : Come on, show me. Come on, show me. Come on, show me. I can't bear it. Please take me with you.

  Fred Stiller : You know that's absurd. I'll be back.