Amy Louise Pemberton: Gideon

Here I Go Again

Gideon

Gideon: It's an impressive piece of software you designed, Ms. Tomaz.
Zari Tomaz: Is that a compliment, Gideon?
Gideon: Don't let it go to your head. Are you ready to wake up now?
Zari Tomaz: One last question. Gary; why even have him in the time loop if he was just gonna be stuck in the trash compactor the whole time?
Gideon: Thought it'd be funny.

Gideon: Are you sure about this, Ms. Tomaz? Captain Lance did not give you authorization to initialize this program.
Zari Tomaz: That's because I didn't ask for authorization. Now fire up the auxiliary generator.
Gideon: Even with the reserve power, I don't believe my system can run your simulation software.
Zari Tomaz: Gideon, trust me.
Gideon: Trust is something that grows over time between friends. As far as I'm concerned, we are still acquaintances.

Zari Tomaz: So, the interactions, the... the things I learned about the team, they... they were all fake?
Gideon: Everything you experienced was extrapolated from my current knowledge of the Legends. While not real, what you saw was true. It doesn't take a supercomputer to predict that those two would wind up dinky-tickling once Amaya returned to the team.
Zari Tomaz: [in a representation of Mick's quarters, seeing him writing] Uh, this one seems less plausible.
Gideon: We'll have to ask Mr. Rory.
Zari Tomaz: I am terrified and in awe of you, Gideon. Who knew you were such an evil genius? And a bit of a perv.
Gideon: You never bothered to ask.

Zari Tomaz: Who the hell are you?
Gideon: You know who I am, Zari. Even though you may have never seen my face.
Zari Tomaz: Gideon? You're real?
Gideon: Of course I'm real. Just because I'm an artificial intelligence doesn't mean I don't exist.
Zari Tomaz: What's happening? If you tell me I've been dreaming this whole time, I'm gonna kill you, real or not.

Gideon: You're not dreaming, but you're not awake. In real life, you're actually in the medbay. Unconscious and healing.
Zari Tomaz: What happened to me?
Gideon: After your fight with Sara, you went into the engine room to make repairs, and there was an accident.
Zari Tomaz: Right, I was hit with that time sludge.
Gideon: This "sludge," as you call it, is a highly volatile substance, which helps power the ship through time. You're lucky to be alive.

Zari Tomaz: So if my body's in the medbay, then where is my mind?
Gideon: Your mind is here, with me in my matrix. I was able to upload your subconscious via the neuro-monitor.
Zari Tomaz: Well, so none of this is real?
Gideon: Not in the way you're used to.

Zari Tomaz: Why did you bring me here?
Gideon: When you posed the question about changing 2042, your simulator went into overdrive searching for an answer. And a sampling of those trillions of possible answers showed me that there was one constant: you. In order to save 2042, to find your so-called loophole, you must work with the Legends.
Zari Tomaz: Hold up. You're saying my simulator works?

Zari Tomaz: Did my program predict that I'd bail on the team?
Gideon: In almost every variation of the timeline, your fight with Captain Lance precipitated your leaving the ship.
Zari Tomaz: So your goal was to get me to choose to stay with the Legends.
Gideon: I put you into your own program, and devised a scenario where the only way to successfully complete the simulation was to grow closer to the team and develop a bond.
Zari Tomaz: What about the bomb?
Gideon: It was just a plot device I incorporated. A problem to solve. But the real problem was you. If you stayed angry after your fight with Sara, you would've left the team. And without you and your totem, there would've been no chance in the coming days to defeat Mallus or save 2042.

Zari Tomaz: Oh, man, I have such a Gideon hangover.
Sara Lance: What do you mean?
Zari Tomaz: While I was out, Gideon transported my consciousness into her matrix.
Ray Palmer: [skeptical] Okay.
Sara Lance: I think you dreamt that.
Zari Tomaz: No, it wasn't a dream, it was real. Right, Gideon?
Gideon: Unfortunately, I don't know what you're talking about, Ms. Tomaz.
Zari Tomaz: Oh, that is cold, Gideon. After all that, we're still not friends?