NOV 7TH, 2038
AM 01:19
Hank: Nice view, huh?... I used to come here a lot before...
Connor: Can I ask you a personal question, Lieutenant and Officer?
Pippa: Do all androids ask so many personal questions or is it just you?
[HANK AND PIPPA slight_decrease]
Maddie: I saw a photo of a child... on your kitchen table. It was your son and Pippa's brother, right?
Hank: Yeah... His name was Cole.
Connor: Before what?
Pippa: Hm?
Maddie: You said "I used to come here a lot before". Before what?
Hank: Before... Before nothin'...
Connor: We're not making any progress on this investigation... The deviants have nothing in common. They're all different models, produced at different times, in different places...
Pippa: Well, there must be some link.
Maddie: What we have in common is this obsession with rA9... It's almost like some kind of... myth. Something we invented that wasn't part of our original program...
Hank: Androids believing in God... Fuck, what's this world coming to?
Connor: You seem preoccupied, Lieutenant and Officer... Is it something to do with what happened back at the Eden Club?
Pippa: Those two girls... They just wanted to be together... They really seemed in love...
Maddie: They can simulate human emotions, but they're machines. And machines don't feel anything.
Hank: What about you, Connor?... You look human, you sound human, but what are you really?
[HANK AND PIPPA slight_increase]
Connor: I'm whatever you want me to be, Lieutenant and Officer. Your partner... Your buddy to drink with... Or just a machine... Designed to accomplish a task.
Pippa: You could've shot those two girls, but you didn't. Why didn't you shoot, Connor? Hm? Some scruples suddenly enter into your program?
[SOFTWARE INSTABILITY slight_increase]
[HANK AND PIPPA slight_increase]
Maddie: No... he just decided not to shoot, that's all...
Hank: What will happen if I pull this trigger? Hm? Nothing? Oblivion? Android heaven?
Connor: I doubt there's a heaven for androids.
Pippa: Having existential doubts, Connor? Sure you're not going deviant too?
Connor: I self-test regularly. I know what I am, and what I am not.
Maddie: Where are you going?
Hank: To get drunker. I need to think.
Maddie: I'm heading to find Kara. Bye, Connor.
Connor: Bye, Maddie.
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