Robert Picardo credited as playing...
Ralph, Clean Room Technician
- Ralph, Clean Room Technician: The chips are a little sensitive to EMP.
- Irwin Wayfair: EMP?
- Ralph, Clean Room Technician: Electomagnetic Pulse. As in the kind generated by the detonation of a nuclear device? I doubt that the toy industry has become quite that competitive.
- Irwin Wayfair: So, Larry, let me get this straight, you used my password to order surplus military chips that might be dangerous?
- [Air blast's in the room they're in startling Irwin]
- Larry Benson: Hey, hey, hey, hey! It's okay, it's okay. That's supposed to happen. See? "Clean Room"
- Irwin Wayfair: Right.
- Larry Benson: Clean. Let's just go in. You all right?
- Irwin Wayfair: Yeah, yeah. Mhmm.
- Larry Benson: That's him. That's Ralph. Hi.
- Ralph, Clean Room Technician: Who are you? You don't belong here.
- Larry Benson: I'm Larry Benson. You supplied my division with some microchips.
- Ralph, Clean Room Technician: Oh, yes. Larry Benson. The X 1000. Worked out better than you dreamed, didn't they?
- Larry Benson: Actually there was a little bit of a problem.
- Ralph, Clean Room Technician: Then it's with your software.
- Irwin Wayfair: Uh, I don't think there's a problem with the software, Ralph.
- Ralph, Clean Room Technician: Oh, you don't? The X 1000 is a masterpiece. Imagine a microchip sophisticated enough to control the the guidance systems of ballistic missiles. Imagine it can be used to instantly upgrade any system that it's plugged into. Like a smart drug for machines. Then imagine it can learn.
- Irwin Wayfair: W-what are you talking about? Artificial intelligence?
- Ralph, Clean Room Technician: No. Actual intelligence. It's no wonder those philistines at the Pentagon couldn't appreciate it. One little flaw and they scrap the whole project.
- Irwin Wayfair: Aha!, so there is a flaw in the chips.
- Ralph, Clean Room Technician: Well.. they're a little bit sensitive to E.M.P.
- Irwin Wayfair: E.M.P.? Electromagnetic pulse?
- Ralph, Clean Room Technician: Yeah, you know, the kind generated by the detonation of a nuclear device? I doubt even the toy industry has become quite that competitive. They said adequate shielding wasn't cost-effective. Did the Medicis ever tell Michelangelo, ''Sorry Mike, but marble's not really cost effective. Here's a bag of cement'' I think not!
- [sneezes]
- Irwin Wayfair: Gesundheit.
- Ralph, Clean Room Technician: Thank you.
- Larry Benson: Look, they're really shouldn't be any problem right just 'cause the chips can learn.
- Ralph, Clean Room Technician: Am I not being clear? They can learn within the boundaries of their primary programming. Whatever the core programming, the X 1000 enhances it from within. So if you've got a problem, it's in your software.