Logan's Run (TV Series)

Crypt (1977)

Donald Moffat: Rem

Quotes 

• Logan : We have three choices. First, we could leave and allow them to make their own decision.

  Jessica : Which they couldn't do.

  Logan : All right. Second, we could write all their names down and draw three at random.

  Rem : Isn't that a little like a coward's way out?

  Logan : It is.

  Jessica : What's the third choice?

  Logan : Find out more about them. Talk to them. That's the only way we can know if there are any who really do deserve to live than the others.

  Jessica : Don't they all deserve to live?

  Logan : Probably - but only three of them can.

• Victoria Mackie : I'm amazed at the difference.

  Rem : The difference, Miss Mackie?

  Victoria Mackie : The difference between you and a robot.

  Rem : The robot is my remote relative - as the ape is yours... human beings, I mean.

  Victoria Mackie : Touché.

• Rem : But don't you see, Doctor, what the murderer did was vital to his purposes. The murderer believes, just as you all believe, that your particular branch of knowledge, your special skill, is the one most important for the reconstruction of the world. And what was Mr. Lyman? Merely an inferior obstacle. The killer removed it.

  Jessica : That's horrible, Rem.

  Rem : On the contrary, my dear Jessica. To the murderer, it was a logical justification.

  Rachel Greenhill : Not logical, Rem - pathological.

• [there is only enough serum to save three of the six plague victims' lives and Logan and Jessica are asked to decide who will be innoculated] 

  Logan : Rem is included in any decision we make.

  Victoria Mackie : We would prefer him *not* be included in this one.

  Rem : The logical judge is the best judge, Miss Mackie.

  David Pera : I don't want a machine to be my executioner.

• [an earthquake rattles the building] 

  Rem : Merely an aftershock.

  Logan : Are you sure?

  [earthquake stops] 

  Rem : Now I am.

• Victoria Mackie : Tell me... can an android lie?

  Rem : By lie, you mean the transmission of false or incomplete data.

  Victoria Mackie : That's what I mean.

  Rem : It's against my basic programming.

  Victoria Mackie : Good. Then if I asked you to tell me where the flask of serum was hidden, you'd have to tell me, wouldn't you?

  Rem : I'm sorry, Miss Mackie.

  Victoria Mackie : Sorry?

  Rem : To reveal to you where the serum is concealed would be harmful to others and as you know my fundamental directive...

  Victoria Mackie : ...Is not to harm human beings.

  Rem : Correct. You must forgive me, Miss Mackie. I'm not responsible for my own programming.

  Victoria Mackie : You're not an android, my friend - you're a fox!

• David Pera : Logan, we'll name a city after you. Rem, maybe you, too, huh?

  Rem : Remsville? Rem's Corners? Remsylvania? Difficult choice...