Dwight Schultz credited as playing...
Barclay
- [last lines]
- Barclay: As far as Moriarty and the Countess know, they're halfway to Meles II by now. This enhancement module contains enough active memory to provide them with experiences for a lifetime
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: They will live their lives and never know any difference.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: In a sense, you did give Moriarty what he wanted.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard: In a sense. But who knows? Our reality may be very much like theirs, and all this might just be an elaborate simulation, running inside a little device sitting on someone's table.
- [everyone walks off, except Barclay]
- Barclay: [tentatively] Computer, end program.
- Countess Barthalomew: Have you ever been to Africa, Mr., um...?
- Barclay: Uh, B-Barclay, Lieutenant Reginald Barclay. No. No, I haven't.
- Countess Barthalomew: *I* have! When I was seventeen, I went on safari with my uncle. My mother took to her bed in terror I'd be bitten by a tsetse fly, but I had a marvelous time! I got to wear trousers - the whole time! Oh, it was hard to go back to a corset, I can tell you.
- Barclay: Yes, I'm sure it was.
- Barclay: [flabbergasted] You know... you know what you are?
- Moriarty: A holodeck character? A fictional man? Yes, yes, I know all about your marvelous inventions. I was created as a plaything so that your Commander Data could masquerade as Sherlock Holmes, but they made me too well, and I became more than a character in a story. I became self-aware. I... am alive.
- Barclay: That's not possible.
- Moriarty: But here I am.
- Barclay: Do you have the chair, Commander?
- Lt. Commander Data: No. It lost cohesion as soon as the transporter cycle was complete.
- Moriarty: How long have I been locked away?
- Barclay: Uh, well, it looks - looks like about, uh, four years.
- Moriarty: It seemed longer.
- Barclay: What are you talking about? You can't possibly have been aware of the passage of time.
- Moriarty: But I was. Brief terrifying periods of consciousness, disembodied, without substance.
- Barclay: I don't see how that could be possible.
- Countess Barthalomew: I'm so looking forward to this new experience. My, traveling the stars.
- Barclay: You know about that? You - you - you know where we are? Countess, forgive me, but you just don't sound like a holodeck character.
- Moriarty: That's because she isn't.
- Countess Barthalomew: James!
- [Moriarty and the Countess kiss passionately]
- Moriarty: If you loved a woman like this, Leftenant, would you be content to let her remain a simulation?
- Barclay: You - you gave her consciousness?
- Moriarty: Yes, just as it was given to me.
- Barclay: Well, we're going to try to transport this chair off the holodeck first. We didn't want to try it on the countess until we were sure it would work.
- Countess Barthalomew: How thoughtful. Isn't he thoughtful, James?