RoboCop (2014)

Jennifer Ehle: Liz Kline

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• Dr. Dennett Norton : He suffered 4th degree burns over 80% of his body. Lower spine has been severed. If he survives, he'll be paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. Mrs. Murphy, we... we don't have to do this.

  Clara Murphy : I need to know everything before I make a decision. Please continue.

  Dr. Dennett Norton : Vestibulocochlear, optical nerves have been critically damaged. He'll be blind in one eye. Most likely deaf.

  Dr. Alan : Frankly, Dr. Norton and the Omni Foundation are the leaders in this field. In my opinion, this is the only chance your husband has. I'd seriously consider their offer.

  Clara Murphy : I'm sorry, Doctor. I need time to think.

  Liz Kline : I'm afraid, Mrs. Murphy, time is one thing you don't have.

  Clara Murphy : You said you could save him, but what does that mean? What kind of life will he have?

• Raymond Sellars : We need to give Americans a product they can love, a figure they can rally behind.

  Liz Kline : Sir, I have dissected this bill. There are no loopholes. We can't put a machine on the streets.

  Raymond Sellars : Forget machines. You saw the polls. Americans don't want a machine. They want a product with a conscience. They want something that knows what it feels like to be human. We're gonna put a man inside a machine.

• Chief Karen Dean : We have a problem. Alex is breaking protocol.

  Liz Kline : What's he doing?

  Chief Karen Dean : He's off solving his own murder.

  Tom Pope : Oh, that is genius. Why didn't I think of that?

• Liz Kline : Dr. Norton, how... how is he doing this?

  Dr. Dennett Norton : His software is faster. His hardware is stronger. He's a better machine.

  Liz Kline : But you said humans hesitate.

  Dr. Dennett Norton : Only when they're making decisions.

  Liz Kline : He's not making decisions?

  Dr. Dennett Norton : Well, yes and no. In his everyday life, man rules over the machine; Alex makes his own decisions. Now, when he engages in battle, the visor comes down and the software takes over, then the... the machine does everything. Alex is a... he's a passenger, just along for the ride.

  Liz Kline : But if the machine is in control, then how is Murphy accountable? Who's pulling the trigger?

  Dr. Dennett Norton : When the machine fights, the system releases signals into Alex's brain making him think he's doing what our computers are actually doing. I mean, Alex believes right now he is in control, but he's not. It... it's the illusion of free will.

• Tom Pope : I give you Sergeant Jack Freeman, masculinity incarnate. Led Pittsburgh SWAT for five years, now confined to a wheelchair.

  Liz Kline : I think I can see the appeal.

  Dr. Dennett Norton : No.

  Tom Pope : What? Why?

  Dr. Dennett Norton : Well, check the psych evaluation. He's far too unstable.

  Tom Pope : He's trying to say that he has a temper.

  Dr. Dennett Norton : Have you any idea what we'd be putting him through? The psychological strain requires someone emotionally balanced. We have to be scientific. I mean, we're not exactly selling a soft drink here, are we?