Jennifer Ehle credited as playing...
Liz Kline
- 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?