- [first lines]
- Rem: Hmm. Interesting. I'm beginning to get an impression of some sort of force up ahead. My heat sensors are definitely reacting. Let's see what the scanner shows.
- Logan: It's some kind of electrical system, wouldn't you say, Rem?
- Rem: It would appear so.
- Jessica: Out here away from everything?
- Rem: Perhaps that's why it's here, my dear Jessica - to be *away* from everything.
- Jessica: How are you going to treat her?
- Dr. Rowan: There are several steps. I've already made good progress deadening her emotional system.
- Jessica: Deadening?
- Dr. Rowan: Yes.
- Jessica: You mean you've deprived her of her human feelings?
- Dr. Rowan: Well, yes - and the ability to think for herself. Now the only emotions she can feel are my own which I feed to her by computerized amplifier.
- Jessica: That's shocking!
- Dr. Rowan: Why?
- Jessica: She's a human being. She has the right to feelings, to emotions!
- Dr. Rowan: My dear Jessica, believe me it is for her own good. She was a woman of strange ideas - a militant independent. She had a total disregard for authority. She had a restless, inquiring mind. In every way, she was different.
- [to Rem as he monitors Rowan and Jessica's conversation on a computer]
- Logan: That sounds like a description of Jessica.