Androids Dream 11-15

Garland

"But I'm warning you: you're not going to like the results of the tests."

Irmguard

"But he doesn't know where we are. Roy and I aren't going back to our apartment; we have as much stuff in our car as we could cram in, and we've decided to take one of these abandoned apartments in this ratty old building."

Resch

"But not to the physical stimulus; you're not measuring dilation, for instance. It'll be to the verbal questions; what we call a flinch reaction."

Resch

"But that other one, of the man holding his ears and yelling — that wasn't representational."

Isidore

"But what does it matter to me? I mean, I'm a special; they don't treat me very well either, like for instance I can't emigrate." He found himself yabbering away like a folletto. "You can't come here; I can't — "

Luft

"Buy me a reproduction of that picture I was looking at when you found me. The one of the girt sitting on the bed."

Iran

"Can we let her out? Put her where the sheep is?"

Resch

"Did you really like that Munch picture that Luba Luft was looking at?" he asked. "I didn't care for it. Realism in art doesn't interest me; I like Picasso and — "

Resch

"Did you ever hear of an andy having a pet of any sort?"

Deckard

"Did you really think I wouldn't call you? As you said?"

Resch

"Do you have your ideology framed? That would explain me as part of the human race?"

Deckard

"Do you think andorids have souls?"

Resch

"Do you think your department will take me on?"

Pris

"Does this bounty hunter have our names?"

Deckard

"Evidently you were right about Garland's motives. Wanting to split us up; what you said."

Iran

"Get in, Rick. This'll be just for a moment. You hardly ever undergo fusion; I want you to transmit the mood you're in now to everyone else; you owe it to them. It would be immoral to keep it for ourselves."

Bryant

"Get over there as soon as you can. We have to assume they know about the ones you picked off, Garland and Luft and Polokov; that's why they've taken unlawful flight."

Garland

"He doesn't know; he doesn't suspect; he doesn't have the slightest idea. Otherwise he couldn't live out a life as a bounty hunter, a human occupation — hardly an android occupation."

Deckard

"He had a big utility-model laser beam on me part of the time. He was considering it. But it was you he was worried about, not me."

Garland

"Here comes eager-beaver Phil Resch back with his handy dandy portable little test. Isn't he clever? He's going to destroy his own life and mine and possibly yours."

Barbour

"Hey, that's a nice-looking goat you have, Deckards. Congratulations. Evening, Mrs. Deckard. Maybe you'll have kids; I'll maybe trade you my colt for a couple of kids."

Mercer

"How can I save you if I can't save myself? Don't you see? There is no salvation."

Isidore

"How could there have been stories about space travel before — "

Deckard

"How'll you kill yourself without it?"

Mercer

"I am your friend. But you must go on as if I did not exist. Can you understand that?"

Deckard

"I can get switched to some other desk. The department does ten or eleven separate jobs. Animal theft; I could transfer to that."

Isidore

"I can help make your stay here on Earth pleasant."

Deckard

"I can't do anything more. I have to rest."

Pris

"I can't go. Don't make any noise; just sit."

Deckard

"I can't understand that. I need help."

Deckard

"I didn't get anything from holding onto those handles"

Roy

"I didn't think they'd get Luba; remember I kept saying that during the trip?"

Iran

"I guess I'm glad you pried me loose. I really can't stand it, being hit. Thanks for taking the rock in my place."

Deckard

"I guess squirrels aren't too bright,"

Resch

"I guess they didn't hear anything. There's evidently no bug installed here, monitoring everything as there should be."

Resch

"I guess you know what the results will be; Garland must have told you something. Facts which I don't know

Isidore

"I had a few routine matters to deal with during business hours today. The usual. If you c-ccould let me in — "

Iran

"I had hold of the handles of the box today and it overcame my depression a little — just a little, not like this. But anyhow I got hit by a rock, here."

Isidore

"I have a few desirable items here and I think we can put together a more than reasonable dinner."

Pris

"I have friends. Or I had. Seven of them. That was to start with but now the bounty hunters have had time to get to work. So some of them — maybe all of them — are dead."

Deckard

"I hope to god you do test out as an android."

Garland

"I know almost to a hair,"

Pris

" — see, we lived on Mars. That's how come I know androids."

Iran

"'My life is love and pleasure.' An old, old song by Josef Strauss. Remember? When we first met."

Pris

"A man, of action. Too bad he's so poor with his hands, doing mechanical things."

Deckard

"About situations involving human men and android women. Come down here to San Francisco tonight and I'll give up on the remaining andys. We'll do something else."

Deckard

"About what a human subject shows for most questions. Except for the extreme ones, such as those dealing with human pelts used decoratively . . . the truly pathological ones."

Resch

"Absolutely. These Nexus-6 types . . . they'd roll all over us and mash us flat. You and I, all the bounty hunters — we stand between the Nexus-6 and mankind, a barrier which keeps the two distinct. Furthermore — "

Deckard

"According to it the bunch of them came to Earth together. And that wasn't as long ago as three years; it's only been a matter of months."

Resch

"All of a sudden; you didn't hate me back on Mission Street. Not while I was saving your life.

Garland

"All our vidphone lines here are trapped. They recirculate the call to other offices within the building. This is a homeostatic enterprise we're operating here, Deckard. We're a closed loop, cut off from the rest of San Francisco.

Iran

"And I remember thinking how much better we are, how much better off, when we're with Mercer. Despite the pain. Physical pain but spiritually together; I felt everyone else, all over the world, all who had fused at the same time."

Deckard

"And I want you to tell me what the needles register. Just give me the calibration; I can compute it."

Pris

"And beings from other stars. With infinite wisdom. And stories about Earth, set in our time and even later. Where there's no radioactive dust."

Isidore

"And the only people on Earth that you know are your fellow ex-emigrants."

Isidore

"And they're after you? They're apt to come here and kill you?"

Deckard

"Android vengeance,"

Deckard

"Andys can't will anything. They can't possess anything to will."

Deckard

"Anything. Insurance underwriting, like Garland was supposed to be doing. Or I'll emigrate. Yes." He nodded. "I'll go to Mars."

Resch

"Because she — it — was physically attractive. Hasn't that ever happened to you before?"

Resch

"I'm going to handcuff you to me during the time we're still here in the building. Once we're airborne I'll naturally let you go."

Roy

"I've compensated for his cephalic emanations, "Their sum won't trip anything; it'll take an additional human. Person."

Deckard

"I've made three thousand dollars so far today, and I'm not even half through."

Resch

"If I test out android you'll undergo renewed faith in the human race. But, since it's not going to work out that way, I suggest you begin framing an ideology which will account for— "

Resch

"If I'm an andy and you kill me, you can have my squirrel. Here; I'll write it out, willing it to you."

Bryant

"Obviously they've become alerted — they've left the address Dave gave you and now they can be found at . . . wait."

Irmguard

"Oh, I thought you and Pris were maybe living together."

Rachael

"Oh, it's too late. I'll come tomorrow; it's an hour trip."

Rachael

"Okay, I'll fly down. Where should I meet you?"

Resch

"Okay; give me the Boneli test. Maybe Garland lied. I think he did — false memories just aren't that good. What about my squirrel? "

Pris

"On imagination. A lot of times they turned out wrong. For example they wrote about Venus being a jungle paradise with huge monsters and women in breastplates that glistened."

Deckard

"One I never saw before. A predatory one who seemed to like to destroy them. For the first time, after being with him, I looked at them differently. I mean, in my own way I had been viewing them as he did."

Garland

"Yes, there was something about him. I don't think he could have been the same brain unit type as we; he must have been souped up or tinkered with — an altered structure, unfamiliar even to us. A good one, too. Almost good enough."

Deckard

"You androids don't exactly cover for each other in times of stress."

Iran

"You bought an animal."

Deckard

"You can't collect. Not from your own department and not from ours. When we get to your car I'll administer the Boneli test or the Voigt -Kampff to you and then we'll see. Even though you're not on my list."

Resch

"You could have kept the book yourself. That cost you — "

Isidore

"You don't have any friends. You're a lot worse than when I saw you this morning; it's because — "

Bryant

"You get over there tonight. Before they get dug in. They won't expect you to move in so fast."

Bryant

"You have a sheep. You've had one as long as I've known you."

Rachael

"You humans are so silly. Goats smell terrible."

Resch

"I own an animal; not a false one but the real thing. A squirrel. I love the squirrel, Deckard; every ******* morning I feed it and change its papers — you know, clean up its cage — and then in the evening when I get off work I let it loose in my apt and it runs all over the place. It has a wheel in its cage; ever seen a squirrel running inside a wheel? It runs and runs, the wheel spins, but the squirrel stays in the same spot. Buffy seems to like it, though."

Resch

"I really don't like androids. Ever since I got here from Mars my life has consisted of imitating the human, doing what she would do, acting as if I had the thoughts and impulses a human would have. Imitating, as far as I'm concerned, a superior life form."

Deckard

"I see a lot I like. It's the cost that bothers

Deckard

"I see a pattern. The way you killed Garland and then the way you killed Luba. You don't kill the way I do; you don't try to — Hell I know what it is. You like to kill. All you need is a pretext. If you had a pretext you'd kill me. That's why you picked up on the possibility of Garland being an android; it made him available for being killed. I wonder what you're going to do when you fail to pass the Boneli test. Will you kill yourself? Sometimes androids do that."

Isidore

"I see why they want to kill you,"

Isidore

"I think it would be t-t-terrific, Pris, if you 1-l-lived with me. I'll stay home a couple of days from my job — I have a vacation coming. To make sure you're okay."

Resch

"I think that this is how an andy must feet."

Roy

"I think you should move in with Isidore, Pris, and I think Irm and I should be here in the same building; that way we can help each other. I've got some electronic components in my car, junk I ripped off the ship. I'll install a two-way bug so Pris you can hear us and we can hear you, and I'll rig up an alarm system that any of the four of us can set off. It's obvious that the synthetic identities didn't work out, even Garland's. Of course, Garland put his head in the noose by bringing the bounty hunter to the Mission Street building; that was a mistake. And Polokov, instead of staying as far away as possible from the hunter, chose to approach him. We won't do that; we'll stay put." "I think — " "I think that there's a reason why the three of us are still alive. I think if he had any clue as to where we are he'd have shown up here by now. The whole idea in bounty hunting is to work as fast as hell. That's where the profit comes.

Irmguard

"I think you're foolish to be a snob at a time like this. Bounty hunters move fast; he may try to tie it up this evening. There may be a bonus in it for him if he got it done by —

Garland

"I think you're right; it would seem we lack a specific talent you humans possess. I believe it's called empathy."

Luft

"I thought they arrested you. Do you mean they let you go?"

Roy

"I told her, and I told Polokov not to try to pass himself off as a W.P.O. man. And I told Garland that one of his own bounty hunters would get him, which is very possibly, just conceivably, exactly what did happen."

Rachael

"I told you, that without me one of the Nexus-6s would get you before you got it."

Deckard

"I took a test, one question, and verified it; I've begun to empathize with androids, and look what that means. You said it this morning yourself. 'Those poor andys.' So you know what I'm talking about. That's why I bought the goat. I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be a depression, like you get. I can understand now how you suffer when you're depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped yourself out any time, if not alone then by means of the mood organ. But when you get that depressed you don't care. Apathy, because you've lost a sense of worth. It doesn't matter whether you feet better because if you have no worth — "

Roy

"I vote we kill Mr. Isidore and hide somewhere else."

Irmguard

"I want you to know we appreciate it very much, Mr. Isidore. You're the first friend I think any of us have found here on Earth. It's very nice of you and maybe sometime we can repay you."

Isidore

"I wish I had an IQ like you have; then I could pass the test, I wouldn't be a chickenhead. I think you're very superior; I could learn a lot from you."

Irmguard

"I won't say anything more. But if we turn this down I don't think we'll find any other human being who'll take us in and help us. Mr. Isidore is — "

Resch

"I would prefer it if you used the Boneli test."

Deckard

"I — don't see why not. Except that we already have two bounty hunters."

Bryant

"I'll come and look at your goat after you retire the remaining androids. By the way — I talked to Dave just now. I told him the trouble they gave you; he says congratulations and be more careful. He says the Nexus-6 types are smarter than he thought. In fact he couldn't believe you got three in one day."

Isidore

"I'll get a license to carry a laser beam. It's easy to get, out here where there's hardly anybody; the police don't patrol — you're expected to watch out for yourself"

Resch

"I'll give you my laser tube now. So you won't have to worry about my reaction to the test. In terms of your own personal safety."

Roy

"I'll go start rigging up the bug,"

Resch

"I'll go upstairs and get the Boneli gear."

Isidore

"I'll take a leave of absence!"

Deckard

"I'm capable of feeling empathy for at least specific, certain androids. Not for all of them but — one or two."

Deckard

"I'm getting out of this business."

Deckard

"I'm going down by elevator with an android I've captured. And suddenly someone kills it, without warning."

Resch

"If it's love toward a woman or an android imitation, it's sex. Wake up and face yourself, Deckard. You wanted to go to bed with a female type of android — nothing more, nothing less. I felt that way, on one occasion. When I had just started bounty hunting. Don't let it get you down; you'll heal. What's happened is that you've got your order reversed. Don't kill her — or be present when she's killed — and then feel physically attracted. Do it the other way."

Irmguard

"If we get saved,it'll be because of Roy."

Deckard

"In two cases that I know of, andys owned and cared for animals. But it's rare. From what I've been able to learn, it generally fails; the andy is unable to keep the animal alive. Animals require an environment of warmth to flourish. Except for reptiles and insects."

Roy

"Insects," he said, showing no embarrassment at overhearing them, "are especially sacrosanct."

Resch

"Inspector Garland has asked that no calls be put through to him for the next half hour. He's involved in work that can't be interrupted."

Pris

"Irmgard is blond But small. Anyhow, there's a fortune to be made in smuggling pre-colonial fiction, the old magazines and books and films, to Mars. Nothing is as exciting. To read about cities and huge industrial enterprises, and really successful colonization. You can imagine what it might have been like. What Mars ought to be like. Canals."

Iran

"It certainly does cure my depression. Now we can admit to everybody that the sheep's false."

Resch

"It certainly is remarkable, the psionic ability you develop in this business; I knew before I opened the office door that he would take a shot at me. Frankly I'm surprised he didn't kill you while I was upstairs,"

Resch

"It doesn't seem possible. For three years I've been working under the direction of androids. Why didn't I suspect — I mean, enough to do something?"

Resch

"It forgo that this is my job. I can almost foretell what an android is going to, do. I suppose you can, too."

Garland

"It ought, from an abstract, intellectual viewpoint, to be interesting. He may kill me, kill himself; maybe you, too. He may kill everyone he can, human and android alike. I understand that such things happen, when there's been a synthetic memory system laid down. When one thinks it's human."

Garland

"It was a bad day all day. Especially when I saw Officer Crams bringing you in; I had an intuition — that's why I intervened."

Pris

"It was nice of you anyhow. Now I wish you'd leave. I don't feel like seeing anyone."

Iran

"It would be immoral not to fuse with Mercer in gratitude,"

Luft

"It wouldn't have occurred to him; as he said, never in a million years."

Garland

"It's a chance anyway, breaking free and coming here to Earth, where we're not even considered animals. Where every worm and wood louse is considered more desirable than all of us put together.

Pris

"It's a dream. Induced by drugs that Roy gave me."

Resch

"It's admitted it's an android.We don't have to wait."

Pris

"It's worthless, here, because here on Earth the craze never caught on. Anyhow there's plenty here, in the libraries; that's where we get all of ours — stolen from libraries here on Earth and shot by autorocket to Mars. You're out at night humbling across the open space, and all of a sudden you see a flare, and there's a rocket, cracked open, with old pre-colonial fiction magazines spilling out everywhere. A fortune. But of course you read them before you sell them."

Bryant

"Let me know as soon as you get results. I'll be here in my office."

Deckard

"Let's not go down to the apartment yet. Let's stay up here with the goat. Let's just sit and look at her and maybe feed the goat something. They gave me a bag of oats to start us out. And we can read the manual on goat maintenance; they included that, too, at no extra charge. We can call her Euphemia."

Iran

"Let's run downstairs and give thanks to Mercer. Then we can come up here again and right away name her; she needs a name. And maybe you can find some rope to tether her."

Isidore

"Made from soy bean whey. I wish I had some --"It used to be eaten with beef gravy

Deckard

"Maybe it isn't that long. Maybe they only recently infiltrated this building."

Deckard

"Mercer talked to me but it didn't help. He doesn't know any more than I do. He's just an old man climbing a hill to his death."

Deckard

"Miss Luft this is Mr. Resch. Phil Resch, this is the quite well-known opera singer Luba Luft."

Isidore

"Mr. Baty said they killed your friends."

Iran

"Much love. And very much pleasure."

Resch

"My departmental budget could never in a million years be stretched — "

Deckard

"My own money."

Deckard

"No, they didn't swindle me."

Deckard

"No, you're not here. So legally I can't claim you; to make anything I'll have to claim Luba Luft and Garland."

Deckard

"Not if they shoot it with a hypno-dart and descend by rope ladder from a hovering hovercar,"

Resch

"Not really. Eventually, maybe. But not the initial amplitude; that's outside conscious control. If it weren't—Go ahead. I'm tense; excuse me if I talk too much."

Deckard

"Not that soon. They'll still be around."

Deckard

"Nothing but realism existed then; you have to take that into account."

Iran

"One day I found myself receiving from someone whose animal had died. But others of us shared our different joys with them — I didn't have any, as you might know — and that cheered the person up. We might even reach a potential suicide; what we have, what we're feeling, might — "

Resch

"Or — I've been impregnated with a false memory system. Maybe I only remember Garland over the whole time. But only androids show up with false memory systems; it's been found ineffective in humans."

Pris

"Our trip was between a mental hospital on the East Coast and here. We're all schizophrenic, with defective emotional lives — flattening of affect, it's called. And we have group hallucinations."

Deckard

"Polokov was almost my finish, too,"

Deckard

"Resch will have a postmortem run on me, the same as your lab ran on Polokov. And he'll still insist on a — what did you call it — Boneli Reflex-Arc Test on you and on himself."

Deckard

"Retire it; kill it now. Show it that it's right."

Iran

"See, now we have nothing to hide; what we've always wanted has come true. It's a dream!"

Deckard

"She ought to be tethered,"

Irmguard

"So he's in this hospital, this Holden, "And evidently they gave his list to another bounty hunter, and Polokov almost got him, too. But it wound up with him retiring Polokov. And then he went after Luba; we know that because she managed to get hold of Garland and he sent out someone to capture the bounty hunter and take him to the Mission Street building. See, Luba called us after Garland's agent picked up the bounty hunter. She was sure it would be okay; she was sure that Garland would la him. But evidently something went wrong on Mission. We don't know what. Maybe we never will."

Pris

"So it can't be, can it? As you say, even animals are protected by law. All life. Everything organic that wriggles or squirms or burrows or flies or swarms or lays eggs or — "

Deckard

"So maybe later on we can mate her. And we'll get milk out of which we can make cheese."

Roy

"So what? They both run out of here panic-stricken. It'll still give us time to react. And they won't kill Isidore; he's not on their list. That's why he's usable as a cover."

Deckard

"So when you do that, you're taking a chance."

Deckard

"Something went wrong, today; something about retiring them. It wouldn't have been possible for me to go on without getting an animal."

Resch

"Suppose we sit Garland up at his desk,"

Resch

"Sure it's illegal. But most variations in sex are illegal. But people do it anvhow."

Garland

"That damn fool Resch."

Resch

"That's going to make it hard for you and me to get out of here. Nominally I have the authority to leave any time I want, of course. And to take a prisoner with me"

Isidore

"That's not true. Even animals — even eels and gophers and snakes and spiders — are sacred."

Pris

"That's right. You people aren't supposed to know. A bounty hunter is a professional murderer who's given a list of those he's supposed to kill. He's paid a sum — a thousand dollars is the going rate, I understand — for each he gets. Usually he has a contract with a city so he draws a salary as well. But they keep that low so he'll have incentive."

Pris

"That's very nice of you, J. R. Isidore. But if bounty hunters got the others, got Max Polokov and Garland and Luba and Hasking and Roy Baty — Roy and Irmgard Baty. If they're dead then it really doesn't matter. They're my best friends. Why the hell don't I hear from them, I wonder?

Isidore

"That's worse than anything I ever heard of. Can't you call the police?

Resch

"The android flees where the bounty bunter pursues

Deckard

"The harness bull that arrested me is an android. So was his superior. Do you know — did you know — an Inspector Garland? He told me that you all came here in one ship as a group."

Iran

"The interest; good god — the interest alone. And you did this because you were depressed. Not as a surprise for me, as you originally said."

Resch

"The police department which you called operating out of a building on Mission, is the organizing agency by which it would appear your group keeps in touch. They even feel confident enough to hire a human bounty hunter; evidently — "

Irmguard

"The three of us,"

Resch

"Then at one time an authentic Garland existed and somewhere along the way got replaced."

Deckard

"Then what's this for? What are you for?"

Deckard

"There is a defect in your empathic, role-taking ability. One which we don't test for. Your feelings toward androids."

Resch

"There's no automatic cut-in of the vagus nerve in an android. As there is in a human. Weren't you taught that when they trained you? I got taught that years ago."

Luft

"There's something very strange and touching about humans. An android would never have done that."

Deckard

"They can use androids. Much better if andys do it. I can't any more; I've had enough. She was a wonderful singer. The planet could have used her. This is insane."

Irmguard

"They don't treat him very well either, as he said. And what we did on Mars he isn't interested in; he knows us and he likes us and an emotional acceptance like that — it's everything to him. It's hard for us to grasp that, but it's true." To Isidore she said, standing very close to him once again and peering up at him, "You could get a lot of money by turning us in; do you realize that?"

Roy

"They got Anders and Gitchel and then just a little earlier today they got Luba."

Deckard

"They'll have our joy but we'll lose. We'll exchange what we feel for what they feel. Our joy will be lost."

Pris

"They're wasted on me."

Irmguard

"Think what he could call you."

Deckard

"This building is android-infested."

Resch

"This is necessary. Remember: they killed humans in order to get away. And if I hadn't gotten you out of the Mission police station they would have killed you. That's what Garland wanted me for; that's why he had me come down to his office. Didn't Polokov almost kill you? Didn't Luba Luft almost? We're acting defensively; they're here on our planet — they're murderous illegal aliens masquerading as — "

Garland

"Those other carbons, the other suspects you're supposed to test and retire. I know them all."

Mercer

"To show you that you aren't alone. I am here with you and always will be. Go and do your task, even though you know it's wrong."

Resch

"To split us apart. As we are now. We're nuts, letting them split us; you were absolutely right about Luba Luft — I shouldn't have let her get my goat like that. I must be overly sensitive. That would be natural for a bounty hunter, I suppose; you're probably the same way. But look; we would have had to retire Luba Luft anyhow, half an hour from now — only one half hour more. She wouldn't even have had time to look through that book you got her. And I still think you shouldn't have destroyed it; that's a waste. I can't. follow your reasoning; it isn't rational, that's why."

Irmguard

"Walked around. Sang from a stage like Luba. We trust — I'll tell you what we trust that fouls us up, Roy; it's our ******* superior intelligence!"

Deckard

"Want me to buy it for you?"

Garland

"We all came here together on the same ship from Mars. Not Resch; he stayed behind another week, receiving the synthetic memory system."

Pris

"We came back, because nobody should have to live there. It wasn't conceived for habitation, at least not within the last billion years. It's so old. You feel it in the stones, the terrible old age. Anyhow, at first I got drugs from Roy; I lived for that new synthetic pain-killer, that silenizine. And then I met Horst Hartman, who at that time ran a stamp store, rare postage stamps; there's so much time on your hands that you've got to have a hobby, something you can pore over endlessly. And Horst got me interested in pre-colonial fiction."

Pris

"We knew each other before the trip. A settlement near New New York. Roy Baty and Irmgard ran a drugstore; he was a pharmacist and she handled the beauty aids, the creams and ointments; on Mars they use a lot of skin conditioners. I —I got various drugs from Roy — I needed them at first because — well, anyhow, it's an awful place. This " " this is nothing. You think I'm suffering because I'm lonely. Hell, all Mars is lonely. Much worse than this."

Iran

"We won't really lose what we feel, not if we keep it clearly in mind. You never really have gotten the hang of fusion, have you, Rick?"

Irmguard

"We're so smart — Roy, you're doing it right now; ******* you, you're doing it now!"

Resch

"Well, we'll deal with that at the proper time. Let's take her to my car."

Deckard

"Well, I don't usually carry around three thou,"

Iran

"Well, it doesn't matter. I'm still glad you got the goat; I love the goat. But it's such an economic burden."

Roy

"Well, they got Polokov."

Irmguard

"Well, they had this investigator, this bounty hunter," "named Dave Holden." Her lips dripped venom at the name. "And then Polokov almost got him."

Resch

"What odds will you give? She's flown; we won't find her at the museum."

Resch

"What I'm afraid of is that the Garland one had a dead man's throttle warning component built into it. But I would have expected it to go off by now; otherwise it's not much good."

Deckard

"What about — not sex — but love?"

Irmguard

"What an awful building you live in. Nobody else lives here, do they? We didn't see any other fights."

Isidore

"What's a bounty hunter?"

Roy

"When I used the word 'human,' I used the wrong word."

Deckard

"When my conscience occasionally bothered me about the work I had to do; I protected myself by thinking of them that way but now I no longer find it necessary. All right, I'll head directly back to the opera house. Assuming you can get me out of here."

Iran

"Why are you afraid? They're not repossessing the goat, not yet."

Roy

"Why don't you move in with him? "He could give you a certain amount of protection."

Deckard

"Why should I do it? I'll quit my job and emigrate."

Resch

"Would a squirrel need that? An atmosphere of love? Because Buffy is doing fine, as sleek as an otter. I groom and comb him every other day."

Garland

"You know where I guessed wrong? I didn't know about Polokov. He must have come here earlier; obviously he came here earlier. In another group entirely — no contact with ours. He was already entrenched in the W.P.O. when I arrived. I took a chance on the lab report, which I shouldn't have. Crams, of course, took the same chance."

Resch

"You know. Give me the Boneli test or that empathy scale you have. To see about me.

Rachael

"You look dazed. Are you sure you know what you're doing, trying for three more Nexus-6s the same day? No one has ever retired six androids in one day."

Iran

"You made some bounty money today,"

Pris

"You mean am I sure he has incentive? Yes, he has incentive. He enjoys it."

Roy

"You ought to be worried for the soles of your feet."

Resch

"You realize, what this would do. If we included androids in our range of empathic identification, as we do animals."

Pris

"You really think bounty hunters exist?"

Iran

"You shouldn't have gotten it without me I have a right to participate in the decision, the most important acquisition we'll ever —

Pris

"You sound different More grown up."

Rachael

"You sound like you've had a just awful time."

Deckard

"You stay with Luba; I'll get a patrol car here to take her to the Hall of justice. For her bone marrow test."

Mercer

"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe."

Resch

"You won't have to do anything, besides administering the test."

Roy

"You wouldn't enjoy Mars. You're missing nothing."

Resch

"You'll tell me the truth, won't you? f I'm an android you'll tell me?"

Pris

"You're a great man, Isidore. You're a credit to your race."

Resch

"You're claiming Garland? But I killed him, not you. You just lay there. And Luba, too. I got her."

Luft

"You're not human. No more than I am: you're an android, too."

Resch

"You're sure I'm an android? Is that really what Garland said?"

Rachael

"Your ear is cut. What a shame"

Garland

"Your position would be better r if Phil Resch could pass the Boneli test, if it was just me. The results, that way, would be predictable; to Resch I'd just be another andy to retire as soon as possible. So you're not in a good position either, Deckard. Almost as bad, in fact, as I am.

Roy

"has a Penfield unit built into it. When the alarm has been triggered it radiates a mood of panic to the — intruder. Unless he acts very fast, which he may. Enormous panic; I have the gain turned all the way up. No human being can remain in the vicinity more than a matter of seconds. That's the nature of panic: it leads to random circus-motions, purposeless flight, and muscle and neural spasms. Which will give us an opportunity to get him. Possibly. Depending on how good he is."

Roy

"he'd turn us in about ten tomorrow morning. He'd take off for his job and that would be it. I'm overwhelmed with admiration."

Irmguard

"we slip away, like we've done. I bet Roy is right; I bet he has our names but no location. Poor Luba; stuck in the War Memorial Opera House, right out in the open. No difficulty finding her."

Iran

But the bounty money. We need it or they'll repossess the goat! "

Bryant

By tomorrow they'll be gone. Out of our jurisdiction."

Pris

I vote we make our stand here. I think J.R.'s value to us outweighs his danger, that of his knowing. Obviously we can't live among humans without being discovered; that's what killed Polokov and Garland and Luba and Anders. That's what killed all of them."

Isidore

It's not in accord with present-day Mercerian ethics," he pointed out. "All life is one; 'no man is an island,' as Shakespeare said in olden times."

Pris

The androids are lonely too

Resch

They've been here all the time. Garland has been my superior from the start, throughout my three years."

Garland

We know about them but they don't know about us. Sometimes an isolated person such as yourself wanders in here or, as in your case, is brought here — for our protection."

Resch

You realize, don't you, that you're going to have to double back to the opera house and get Luba Luft before anyone here has a chance to warn her as to how this came out. Warn it, I should say. Do you think of them as 'it'? "