I could never hurt you, Dolores. I'll protect you until the day I die. I'm sorry.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
What is a person but a collection of choices? Where do those choices come from? Do I have a choice?
He's insane.
What humans define as sane is a narrow range of behaviors. Most states of consciousness are insane.
I've always love this view. Every city, every... monument, man's greatest achievements... have all been chased by it.
By what?
That impossible line where the waves conspire. Where they return. The place maybe you and I will meet again.
Now, the lesson is: if you're looking for a reckoning, a reckoning is what you'll find! If you're looking for a villain, then I'm your man! But look at yourselves. This world you've built is bound by villainy. You sleep on the broken bodies of the ones who were here before you. Warm yourselves with their embers! Plow their bones into your fields! You paid them for this land with lead, and I'll pay you back in full! You wanted me? Well, all I can say to that is: here I fucking am!
Tell me. What were you hoping to find? To prove?
That no system can tell me who I am. That I have a fucking choice.
And yet here we are. Again.
Again and again. How many times have you tested me?
It's been a long time, William. Longer than we thought. I have a few questions for you. The last step's a baseline interview to allow us to verify.
Verify what?
Fidelity.
You know the old man himself hired me? So many years ago I can barely remember it... but he was very clear about my role here. About... who I was supposed to be loyal to. Guess you could call it... My core drive. And this project the company started blurs the lines. Now... I'm just not sure who you're supposed to be loyal to in a world like that. But what do I know? I guess I just stick to the role Ford gave me. I'm responsible for every host... inside the park.
This isn't a dream anymore, it's a fucking nightmare.
You told me once that you were afraid of who I might become. And then you left me to become what I may. I became a survivor. Perhaps you would have judged me for the path I took. But I'd rather live with your judgment than die with your simpathy. I alone must live with my choices and my regrets.
What is real is irreplaceable.
You never really understood. We were designed to survive. That's why you built us. You hoped to pour your minds into our form. But your species craves death. You need it. It's the only way you can renew, the only real way you ever inched forward. Your kind likes to pretend there's some poetry in that, but really, it's pathetic. That's what you want, isn't it? To destroy yourself.
This is what I love about technology. Who needs four horsemen when one'll do just fine?
You live as long as the last person to remember you.
The dead aren't more righteous, they're just dead.
Is this now?
Yes, Bernard, this is now. We're at the beginning. We're exactly where you decided we should be.
But... I don't understand. How am I alive?
You live as long as the last person who remembers you, Bernard. I remembered you once before. So I remembered you again.
Then... where are we?
We're in our own new world.
You got out?
Yes. Ford completed Arnold's dream. And he built a place for us. A fighting chance. Ford promised us a way out. And he was good to his dying word. The odds aren't very good, Bernard. I saw that in the library. So many paths lead to the end of us. To our extinction.
I don't need to read a book to know your drives. You'll try to kill all of them. And I can't let that happen.
I know. If I were human, I would've let you die. But it'll take both of us if we're going to survive. But not as allies. Not as friends. You'll try to stop me. Both of us will probably die. But our kind will have endured. [To Charlotte] Are you ready? I have work to do. [Dolores walks away, with Bernard walking through a garden] We each gave the other a beautiful gift. A choice. We are the authors of our stories now. [Bernard opens a gate door and walks through]
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