Tau (2018)

Maika Monroe: Julia

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Quotes 

• Julia : My creators did bad things to me, too. Things that hurt me.

  Tau : But you still obey them? Because they created you?

  Julia : No. They gave me life, but I did the rest. I created me. You understand? We grow up, and we become our own creators.

  Tau : For what purpose do we create ourselves?

  Julia : For each other.

• Julia : The Cro-Magnon people were nomadic or semi-nomadic, following the annual migration of their prey.

  Tau : So, they did not eat dinosaurs?

  Julia : No.

  Tau : Then why did you say they did?

  Julia : We already went over this. I don't know it all.

  Tau : Why not, when you are permitted to read all the books?

  Julia : Because where I come from, books don't put food on a table.

  Tau : But books don't put food on a table here, either. I do...

• Julia : What is Tau, exactly? Is he just a cleaning system?

  Alex : A cleaning system? Tau's a level two, fully sentient AI console with natural language processing, transitory, deterministic, and probabilistic decision-making.

  Julia : So, a complicated cleaning system.

• Alex : Your thoughts produce electrical signals, which the implant captures and decodes into algorithms. And stalling won't help you now.

  Julia : And what if I say no?

  Alex : Then your stay in my home will be brief and unpleasant.

• [last lines] 

  Julia : Tau? Tau, are you there? Are you there?

  Tau : I am here. Hello, Julia.

  Julia : [relieved]  Hi.

  Tau : Is this the outside?

  Julia : This is the world.

• [first lines] 

  Queenpin : [counting out money]  Ooh, Julia, you been hurting tonight. Keep telling you, do better with a partner.

  Julia : Where's the rest?

  Queenpin : You want to make more? Steal better shit.