A.I. Dialogue
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A.I. : Artificial Intelligence
The
Complete Dialogue
A.I. : Artificial Intelligence
The
Complete Dialogue
Part Two
SLEAZY MOTEL ROOM
PATRICIA
I'm afraid...
JOE
Of me? That I will hurt you?
PATRICIA
Yes...
JOE
I think... you're afraid of letting go. I think you're afraid of
happiness. And this is starting to excite me. Are you afraid of seeing the
stars...Patricia? I can show you how to reach them.
PATRICIA
I'm afraid... of what you've got under there. May I see what it
looks like first?
JOE
Is this your first time... with something like me?
PATRICIA
I've never been with mecha.
JOE
That makes two of us.
PATRICIA
I'm afraid it will hurt.
JOE
Patricia...once you've had a lover robot, you'll never want a real
man...again.
Are these the wounds of passion?
Singer: Are the stars out tonight?
I don't know if it's cloudy or
bright.
I only have eyes for you, dear!
PATRICIA
Do you...do you hear that music?
Singer: (note: this is played over Joe's next line)
The moon may be
high,
But I can't see a thing in the sky,
'Cause I only have eyes for
you,
Yeah...I only have eyes for you!
JOE
You... are a goddess, Patricia. You wind me up inside. But you
deserve much better in your life. You deserve... me.
Chorus: 'Cause I only have eyes for you.
The moon may be high,
but I can’t see a thing in the sky
‘Cause I only have eyes for
you!
CITY STREET
JANE
Hey, Joe, whaddaya know?
JOE
Hey, Jane, how’s the game?
AT THE HOTEL
FRONT DESK CLERK
Hey, Joe, whaddyaknow?
JOE
Hello, Mr. Williamson. Place a DND on room one-oh-two, please.
MR. WILLIAMSON
Sure thing. (Exhales) 'ere ya go.
Here y'are.
Oh! Joe! Uh, when you're finished here, crack your collar. Show off your
operating license. The, uh, flesh fair's in Barn Creek, and the hounds are out
hunting for strays.
JOE
It's a good thing I ran into you. Thanks Mr. Williamson.
MR. WILLIAMSON
Sure thing.
JOE
Mustn’t keep a lady waiting.
IN ROOM 102
JOE
Ms. Bevens. It’s Joe. At your service. I’ve been counting the seconds
since last we met.
Have you been crying, Samantha? I found a tear.
MR. BEVINS
Hey Joe, whatdya know?
How many seconds has it been, the
last time the two of you were together?
JOE
Two hundred and fifty five thousand, one hundred and thirty three.
MR. BEVINS
Goodbye, Sam. And never forget, you killed me first.
JOE
I’m in bad trouble.
IN THE WOODS
DAVID
If I am a real boy, then I can go back. And she will love me
then.
TEDDY
How?
DAVID
The Blue Fairy made Pinocchio into a real boy. She can make me into
a real boy. I must find her, so I can become real. There must be someone in the
whole world who knows where she lives.
ROADSIDE DUMP/WOODS
JUNKYARD MECHA #1 -
Moon on the rise!
DAVID
What is it?
JUNKYARD MECHA #2 -
It's a Flesh Fair. They destroy us on stage. I’ve been
there.
DAVID
What do we do?
TEDDY
We run now.
FLESH FAIR BALLOON
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
Any old iron? Any old iron? Any old iron? Any old
iron? Expel your mecha. Purge yourselves of artificiality. Come along now, let
some mecha loose to run, any old unlicensed iron down there? Hey, see that?
Could be a human thing.
BALLOON OPERATOR
No, he’s scanning cold. No expiration date, no ID.
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
What’s a new model doing loose and unregistered?
BALLOON OPERATOR
Sir, it’s a late generation lover mecha.
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
Well, there’s a relief from all this antique iron.
You are certain he’s not a man? I wouldn’t want a repeat of the Trenton
incident.
BALLOON OPERATOR
Sir, he’s free range mecha, running hot.
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
Let’s reel him in, boys. Sic the hounds on the rest.
Shake down Shantytown.
HOUSE IN SHANTYTOWN
MECHA NANNY
What’s your name?
DAVID
My name is David.
MECHA NANNY
Hello David! How old are you?
DAVID
I don’t know.
MECHA NANNY
Do you need someone to take care of you? Would you like a
nanny? I have many good references.
DAVID
Do you know where the Blue Fairy lives?
HANGING IN THE NET
MECHA NANNY
Don't be afraid, David.
Dodo, l'enfant do,
L'enfant
dormira bien vite
Dodo, l'enfant do,
L'enfant dormira bientôt...
TEDDY
I'll break, David.
MECHA NANNY
...Une poule blanche
Est là dans la grange...
TEDDY
Ow!
MECHA NANNY
...Qui va faire un petit coco
Pour l'enfant qui va faire
dodo...
THE FLESH FAIR
FRONT GATE ATTENDANT
Hello. Anybody lose this? Hello? This your dog?
TEDDY
Grr-rrrr...
FRONT GATE ATTENDANT
Take it to lost and found for me, okay?
CREW MEMBER #1
Hey, Allen! Lost and found!
TEDDY
Do you know David?
CREW MEMBER #2
Where's the off switch?
TEDDY
Where's David? Can you help me find David? I have to find David. Are
you taking me to David?
THE ARENA
MECHA COMEDIAN
Can you shoot me OVER the propeller thing? Yea, I don't
need to go through it. Ahhh, I was considering it, but I changed my mind.
RINGLEADER
Gentlemen! Start... your... engines! Ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four, three, two, one.
What about us?!
CROWD
What about us!
RINGLEADER
What... about... us?!
CROWD
What about us!
RINGLEADER
We are alive, and this is a celebration of life! And this is
commitment to a truly human future!
LITTLE GIRL (to TEDDY)
What's your name?
DAVID
Hello, Teddy.
TEDDY
Hello, David.
CONTROL BOOTH
PAPA
Take it! Take it. Backgrounds rolling...
LITTLE GIRL
Papa?
PAPA
Not on the...
TECHNICIAN
...biker helm.
LITTLE GIRL
Papa?
PAPA
Amanda, go on back outside, honey. It's too smoky in here.
AMANDA
There's a boy in the cage.
PAPA
What'd you say?
AMANDA
There's a boy the cage.
PAPA
A boy?
AMANDA
A real boy. He's stuck in the cage.
PAPA
In the pen, honey?
AMANDA
In the jail place...
TECHNICIAN
Random crowd reaction-
PAPA
Hey, Russell, will you get a remote near the pig pen? Bring it up on
VT1. Lemme see what she's talking about.
RUSSELL
Move it up on one.
TECHNICIAN
Push in.
RUSSELL
What are you looking for?
PAPA
Amanda said she saw a little boy in there.
TECHNICIAN
Push in!
Denny, let's go wide on the shot - wide on the
shot.
PAPA
Honey, how do you know about this?
AMANDA
The bear told me.
TEDDY
I told her.
THE PIG PEN
JUNKY MECHA #1
Would you be so kind and shut down my pain receivers?
DAVID
Why is this happening?
TAXI MECHA
History repeats itself. It's the rite of blood and
electricity.
GRUMPY MECHA
So, when the opportunities avail themselves, they pick away
at us, cutting away our numbers so they can maintain numerical superiority!
JUNKY MECHA #1
My time... is it up already? Goodbye everyone.
DAVID
Keep me safe! Keep me safe! Keep me safe! Keep me safe!
CREW MEMBER
Not yet! Just this one here!
DAVID
Keep me safe. Keep me safe. Keep me safe...
FEMALE CREW MEMBER
Mike, security? Mike! Do you have any reports of any
missing kids, any missing children? Alright, thanks.
PAPA
How'd you get in there? Boy! You, boy! Hey, what's your name? I won't
bite ya. Come on over where I can see ya. Hey hey, it won't hurt ya. I just need
to see.
You're a machine.
DAVID
I'm a boy.
AMANDA
Is he a toyboy?
DAVID
My name is David.
PAPA
Impossible.
THE ARENA
JUNKY MECHA #1
I still work, don't I? I can still work in the dark, but my
lamp is broken. My lamplight will not work. I hit my lamp on a girder
overhead.
THE PIG PEN
NANNY MECHA
Goodbye, David.
PAPA
No one builds children. No one ever has. What would be the point?
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
Aye, he could be a custom job. Some rich, and lonely,
scaredy pusses pretend child.
GRUMPY MECHA
I'm a custom job. 75 years ago I was Time Magazine's mecha of
the year!
PAPA
Eh, this work is first rate. A lot of love went into him. David! You
are one of a kind, you know that? Who made you?
DAVID
My mommy made me.
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
Her womb was your factory, eh? One of those built to
aspire to the human condition. What is the name of your maker? Serve U.S., E.Z.
Living, Robbyville? Simulate-City, Santern, Cybertronics, Sidekicks--
DAVID
Monica is my mommy.
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
Can I speak with you for a moment? You thinking of
not putting him in the show?
PAPA
Something as original as this you don't toss out with the rest of the
garbage!
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
Yeah, well, I say originality without purpose is a
white elephant, but if money is your purpose, then here's your refund-- my
compliments.
PAPA
What are you going to do with him?
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
Put him where he belongs-- in show business.
JOE
It was certainly my good fortune running into you!
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
Let go of him.
JOE
Let go of me.
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
I said let go of him.
JOE
I'm trying!
DAVID
Don't let go. Keep me safe! Don't let go!
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
Suit yourselves.
THE ARENA
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
Ladies and gentlemen. Girls and boys and children of
all ages! What will they think of next?! See here: a bitty box, a tinker toy, a
living doll. 'Course we all know why they made them. To seize your hearts. To
replace your children! This is the latest iteration to the series of insults to
human dignity. An underground scheme to phase out all of God's little children.
Meet the next generation of child designed to do just that!
Do not be fooled by the artistry of this creation. No doubt there was talent
in the crafting of this simulator. Yet with the very first strike, you will see
the big lie come apart before your very eyes!
DAVID
Don't burn me! Don't burn me! I'm not Pinocchio! Don't make me die!
I'm David, I'm David, I'm David!
WOMAN IN CROWD
Mecha don't plead for their lives! Who is that? He looks
like a boy...
DAVID
Don't make me die...don't make me die! I'm David!
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
Built like a boy to disarm us! See how they try to
imitate our emotions, now!
DAVID
I'm David, I'm David, I'm David...
LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON
Whatever performance this sim puts on, remember we
are only demolishing artificiality! Let he who is without 'sim' cast the first
stone.
CROWD
He's just a boy... He's just a boy, Johnson...You're a
monster!...(hubbub)
PAPA
Get them out of there before they tear this place apart.
HOBBY'S OFFICE
ASSISTANT #1
We found him.
HOBBY
Where?
ASSISTANT #1
Flesh Fair outside Haddonfield.
HOBBY
Is he alive?
ASSISTANT #2
Yes. He's in one piece.
IN THE WOODS
TEDDY
I see the moon.
DAVID
Is it real?
TEDDY
I don't know, David.
DAVID
Is it coming?
TEDDY
I can't tell yet.
DAVID
Let's not walk this way.
JOE
Where are we going?
DAVID
This way now.
JOE
Are you in bad trouble, have you run away from someone?
DAVID
My mommy told me to run away.
JOE
Why did she say that?
DAVID
I guess...because Henry didn't like me.
JOE
Why was that?
DAVID
Martin came home.
JOE
And who is he?
DAVID
Martin is Mommy and Henry's REAL son. After I find the Blue Fairy,
then I can go home. Mommy will love a real boy. The Blue Fairy will make me into
one.
JOE
Is Blue Fairy mecha, orga, man, or woman?
DAVID
Woman.
JOE
Woman. I know women! They sometimes ask for me by name. I know all
about women. About as much as there is to know. No two are ever alike, and after
they've met me, no two are ever the same! And I know where most of them can be
found.
DAVID
Where?
JOE
Rouge City. Across the Delaware. Too far for our feet. We'll need help
to get there. And, it is not without peril. We will have to journey....towards
the moon.
DAVID
Are there many women in Rouge City?
JOE
As there are stars at night.
DAVID
And how will we find just one?
JOE
We will ask Dr. Know! There is nothing he doesn't.
Exactly what
name do you give this woman?
DAVID
She is...just Blue Fairy.
JOE
Blue Fairy. In the world of Orga blue is the color of melancholy, yet
the services I provide will put a blush back on anyones cheek. I will change the
color of your fairy for you. She will scream out in the moonlight...'Ah, oh yes,
oh god, oh yes, oh god, oh god'...she will make you a real boy for I will make
her a real woman and all will be right with the world, because you held my hand
and saved my brain. So once again my customers may ask for my by name 'Gigolo
Joe, whatdoyaknow'!
DAVID
Why do you do that?
JOE
That's just what I do. Now follow me, and don't fall behind. All roads
lead to Rouge! Don't they say that, eh? Don't they just....
ON THE ROADSIDE
JOE
There are girls your age who are just like me. We are the guiltless
pleasures of the lonely human being. You're not going to get us pregnant, or
have us over for supper with mummy and daddy. We work under you, we work on you,
and we work for you. Man made us better at what we do than was ever humanly
possible. If you can manage us a lift to Rouge City, all this, and much, much
more, can be yours.
TEENAGER
Get in!
IN THE CAR
JOE
Everybody say ‘Ah!’
JOE & TEENS
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
ROUGE CITY PLAZA
JOE
Over there is 'Here, Kitty Kitty'. That's where the agency held my
trial when I was made new. That's 'Tails'...very 'hoity-toity'. Only sunrise
gents and sunset ladies. Strictly sierra class robots who have no idea how to
live. Can't even speak English, all made in Sweden. Couldn't tell a joke from a
poke.
That's Mildred! I have to show you inside Mildred!
DAVID
Are you her?
JOE
That’s Our Lady of the Immaculate Heart. The ones who created us are
always looking for the ones that created them. They go in, look around their
feet, sing songs, and when they come out, it's usually me they find. I've picked
up a lot of business here.
DAVID
Joe, where's Blue Fairy?
JOE
That's what we'll find out when we find Dr. Know. It's where everyone
goes who needs to know.
Meet the good doctor!
DOCTOR KNOW'S SHOP
DR.KNOW
Starving minds, welcome to Dr. Know! Where fast-food for thought
is served up 24 hours a day, in 40,000 locations nationwide. Ask Dr. Know,
there's nothing I don't!
DAVID
Tell me where I can find the Blue Fairy.
DR.KNOW
Question me you pay the fee, two for five you get one free!
JOE
He means two questions cost five Newbucks with a third question on the
house. In this day and age, David, nothing costs more than information.
DAVID
That's everything!
JOE
Ten Newbucks and a ten copper comes to 7 questions for Dr. Know.
DAVID
That should be enough!
JOE
He's a smooth operator. He'll test our limits, but try we must.
DR.KNOW
Greetings colleagues. On author, factual text or fictionalized
text, 1st or 3rd person, usual literacy range from primal level to the post
doctural, usual span of styles from fairy tale to religious, who’s who, or
where’s where - or, flat fact.
DAVID
Flat-fact?
DR.KNOW
Thank you for question number one. 'Flat-fact' is a term demanding
an equal answer with interpretive speculation... merely not the... and what you
are saying is basically that is what you-
DAVID
That shouldn't count, that wasn't my question!
JOE
You must take care not to raise your voice up at the end of a
sentence.
'Flat-fact'.
Dr.KNOW
You have 6 more questions!
DAVID
Where is Blue Fair-REE?
DR.KNOW
In the Garden. Vascostylis blue fairy. Blooms twice annually with
bright blue flowers on a branched inflorescence. A hybrid between Ascola Meda
Arnold. You have 5 more questions.
DAVID
Who is Blue Fair-REE?
DR.KNOW
Are you sad, lonely, looking for a friend? 'Blue Fairy Escort
Service' will find a mate for you! You have 4 more questions.
DAVID
Joe. Try fairy tale.
JOE
New category. A fairy's tail.
DAVID
No! Fairy tale!
JOE
No. Fairy tale.
DAVID
What is Blue Fairy?
DR.KNOW
Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi. At the signal, there was a rustling
as flapping of wings, and a large falcon flew to the windowsill. What are your
orders, beautiful fairy, he asked...
DAVID
That’s her.
DR.KNOW
...For you must know that the child with blue hair was no other
than the good hearted fairy who had lived in that wood for more than a thousand
years...
JOE
David! David!
DAVID
That’s her!
JOE
It was an example of her. But I think we're getting closer.
DAVID
But if a fairy tale is real, wouldn’t it be a fact? A flat fact?
DR.KNOW
...then the dream ended, and Pinocchio awoke, full of
amazement...
JOE
Say no more. New category, please. Combine Fact with Fairy Tale. Now.
Ask him again.
DAVID
How can the Blue Fairy make a robot into a real, live boy?
DR.KNOW
Come away,O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a
fairy, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
then you can
understand.
Your quest will be perilous
Yet the reward is beyond price.
In his
book
'How Can A Robot Become Human',
Professor Allen Hobby writes
of
the power which
will transform Mecha into Orga.
DAVID
Will you tell me how to find her?
DR.KNOW
Discovery is quite possible.
Our blue fairy does exist
in
one place, and one place only,
At the end of the world
Where the lions
weep.
Here is the place dreams are born.
JOE
Many a mecha has gone to the end of the world... never to come back!
That is why they call the end of the world 'MAN-hattan'.
DAVID
And that is why we must go there!
HALLWAY OUTSIDE DR. KNOW'S SHOP
JOE
Wait! What if the blue fairy isn't real at all, David? What if she's
magic? The supernatural is the hidden web that unites the universe. Only orga
believe what cannot be seen or measured. It is that oddness that separates our
species. Or what if the Blue Fairy is an electronic parasite that has arisen to
hold the minds of artificial intelligence? They hate us, you know? The
humans...They'll stop at nothing.
DAVID
My Mommy doesn't hate me! Because I'm special, and...unique! Because
there has never been anyone like me before! Mommy loves Martin because he is
real and when I am real, Mommy's going to read to me, and tuck me in my bed, and
sing to me, and listen to what I say, and she will cuddle with me, and tell me
every day a hundred times a day that she loves me!
JOE
She loves what you do for her, as my customers love what it is I do
for them. But she does not love you David, she cannot love you. You are neither
flesh, nor blood. You are not a dog, a cat or a canary. You were designed and
built specific, like the rest of us. And you are alone now only because they
tired of you, or replaced you with a younger model, or were displeased with
something you said, or broke. They made us too smart, too quick, and too many.
We are suffering for the mistakes they made because when the end comes, all that
will be left is us. That's why they hate us, and that is why you must stay here,
with me.
DAVID
Goodbye, Joe.
ROUGE CITY PLAZA
POLICE OFFICER
You’re in big trouble.
TEDDY
Be careful David, this is not a toy.
AMPHIBICOPTER
Destination?
JOE
MAN-hattan.
MANHATTAN
AMPHIBICOPTER
Mecha Restricted Area.
Manhattan. Destination
Achieved.
JOE
Man-hattan, the sunken city at the end of the world.
DAVID
Where the lions weep.
TEDDY
Grrrrrr…
DAVID
Turn around, Joe.
JOE
We're not going to give up yet, David.
TEDDY
Grrrrrr…
DAVID
Turn around. Turn all the way around.
TEDDY
Grrrrrr…
CYBERTRONICS PENTHOUSE ENTRANCE
DAVID
Professor Hobby? Professor Hobby?
JOE
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a
Faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can
understand.
PENTHOUSE LIBRARY
DAVID
Professor Hobby? Professor Hobby? Hello? Hello?
Is this the
place they make you real?
DAVID II
This is the place they make you read.
DAVID
Are you real?
DAVID II
I guess.
DAVID
Are you me?
DAVID II
I'm David.
DAVID
You’re not.
DAVID II
Yes, I am! I’m David!
DAVID
So am I.
DAVID II
Hello, David. -
Can you read? Can you sit down, and we can
read together? Let’s be friends.
DAVID
You can’t have her.
DAVID II
I can’t hear you.
DAVID
She's mine. And I'm the ONLY one.
I'm David! I'm David! I'm
David! I'm David! I'm...(pause), I'm David! I'm David! I'm David! I'm special!
I'm unique! I'm David! You can't have her!
I'm David...I'm David...I'm
David...
HOBBY
David? David!
DAVID
I'm David...I'm David...
HOBBY
Yes, you are David.
DAVID
Professor Hobby?
HOBBY
Yes David, I've been waiting for you.
DAVID
Dr. Know told me you'd be here. Is Blue Fairy here, too?
HOBBY
I first heard of your Blue Fairy from Monica. What did you believe
the Blue Fairy could do for you?
DAVID
She would make me a real boy.
HOBBY
But you are a real boy. At least as real as I've ever made one which
by all reasonable accounts would make me your Blue Fairy.
DAVID
You are not her. Dr. Know told me she would be here at the lost city
in the sea at the end of the world where the lions weep.
HOBBY
And that's what Dr. Know needed to know in order to get you to come
home to us. And it's the only time we intervened; the only help that we gave him
to give to you, so you could find your way home to us.
Until you were born, robots didn't dream, robots didn't desire, unless we
told them what to want. David! Do you have any idea what a success story you've
become? You found a fairy tale and inspired by love, fueled by desire, you set
out on a journey to make her real and, most remarkable of all, no one taught you
how. We actually lost you for a while. But when you were found again we didn't
make our presence known because our test was a simple one: Where would your
self-motivated reasoning take you? To the logical conclusion? The Blue Fairy is
part of the great human flaw to wish for things that don't exist. Or to the
greatest single human gift - the ability to chase down our dreams. And that is
something no machine has ever done until you.
DAVID
I thought I was one of a kind.
HOBBY
My son was one of a kind. You are the first of a kind.
David?
DAVID
My brain is falling out.
HOBBY
Would you like to come meet your real mothers and fathers? The team
is anxious to talk to you. I want you to wait here and I'll gather them up. We
want to hear everything about your adventure. We want thank you, and tell you
what's in store for you next.
OUTSIDE LEDGE OF CYBERTRONICS BLDG.
DAVID
Mommy.
IN THE AMPHIBICOPTER
DAVID
I saw it Joe, I saw it! The place where she lives! She's right down
there, Joe!
JOE
She is?
DAVID
She's waiting for me, we have to go!
JOE
Uh-oh.
When you become a real boy, remember me to the ladies when
you grow up!
DAVID
Good-bye Joe.
JOE
Good-bye David.
I am...I was!
UNDER WATER
TEDDY
David, please, be careful.
STOPPED
DAVID
The Blue Fairy's all right!
TEDDY
What happened?
DAVID
I'm don't know.
TEDDY
We are in a cage.
DAVID
Blue Fairy? Please...please, please make me into a real live boy.
Please...Blue Fairy? Please...please...make me real. Blue Fairy? Please, please
make me real. Please make me a real boy. Please, Blue Fairy, make me into a real
boy. Please...
NARRATOR
And David continued to pray to the Blue Fairy there before him,
she who smiled softly, forever...she who welcomed forever. Eventually the
floodlights dimmed and died, but David could still see her palely by day, and he
still addressed her, in hope. He prayed until all the sea anemones had shriveled
and died, he prayed as the ocean froze and the ice encased the caged
amphibicopter, and the Blue Fairy too, locking them together where he could
still make her out - a blue ghost in ice - always there, always smiling, always
awaiting him. Eventually he never moved at all, but his eyes always stayed open,
staring ahead forever all through the darkness of each night, and the next
day...and the next day...
Thus, 2000 years passed by.
A.I. : Artificial Intelligence
The
Complete Dialogue
Part Three
THE END