Logan's Run (TV Series)

Man Out of Time (1977)

Paul Shenar: David Eakins

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Quotes 

• White : They mustn't know who you are or what you're after.

  Fontaine : Because if we succeed in finding out what caused the war, we can stop it now and our civilization will go on.

  Gold : And theirs will never have existed. Not a one will have been born.

  David Eakins : It's not a great choice, is it - save our lives or destroy theirs.

• Logan : Why bother showing him how to use the computers or teaching him how to read? If you can stop the war then none of this will even be here.

  David Eakins : Then maybe I can't stop it, but at least I'll have accomplished something by being here if it has made things better for these people. Maybe Sanctuary and the whole thing won't be just for nothing. Maybe that's what my time trip was about - not changing, but helping.

• [Eakins has sent a video tape to Logan, Jessica and Rem in a time machine from the 22nd century as the nuclear was is beginning] 

  David Eakins : I could have come back to you instead of sending this, but I know that I don't belong there. Your time belongs to you. Too much of my civilization is inside me. Don't give up. Keep looking for your Sanctuary. I wish that things... I wish that I could help... Goodbye.

• [reading a computer projection that nuclear war will break out on December 25, 2118] 

  David Eakins : Merry Christmas. Only 12 more shopping days till Armageddon.

• [viewing a video tape brought back from in the future] 

  Fontaine : Now, David, that's what this place looks like 200 years from now.

  David Eakins : It's in ruins.

  Gold : And has been for quite some time, which means everything we projected is correct. There is going to be a war and it will destroy most of the world as we know it.

  Fontaine : When - that's what we have to know.

  White : If we knew when and how it started, we'd at least have a chance to prevent it.

• David Eakins : None of the earlier probes showed any signs of life.

  White : No. We're guessing that the people that survived went underground. It had to take a hundred years for the air to clear. There's no telling how long it was before they came outside again.

  Fontaine : The people you see show a fairly high degree of technology. Their clothes; their weaponry and they speak English well. Obviously some kind of sophisticated society must have survived.

  Gold : She's right - the gun proves that. It blew a hole in the wall of the ballistics lab when we were testing it.

• David Eakins : I'm David Eakins... but who are you?

  Logan : I'm Logan and this is Jessica. We're from the City of Domes. This is Rem.

  Rem : Reclective Entity - Mobile.

  David Eakins : Reclective?

  Rem : Reclecitve Entity - self-programming, problem-solving... in human form.

  David Eakins : An android!

  Rem : [glancing at Logan]  Thank you, sir, for not saying "a robot" as some have done.

• David Eakins : Do you know what "sanctuary" really means? I don't mean a place you're trying to find, I mean the definition of the word. Sanctuary: a place of refuge and protection... that's what this was supposed to be. In here is a record of everything we've done wrong, how it happened, why it happened so that someday people could look at it and learn from our mistakes.