:12:03
I don't think anyone saw this coming.
:12:05
I should have, I suppose,
I knew him 20 years.
:12:09
Alfred practically invented Robotics.
:12:11
He wrote the three laws...
:12:14
But I guess brilliant people often have
the most the most persuasive demons.
:12:19
- So, whatever I can do to help just...
- sugar
:12:22
- I'm sorry?
- for the coffee.
:12:25
Sugar?
:12:27
Oh, you thought I was
calling you "sugar".
:12:30
- Hey, you're not that rich!
- It's on the table.
:12:32
Thank you.
:12:37
When Lanning fell, he was holding the, uh...
a little green...
:12:41
- The holographic projector.
- Right, right.
:12:43
Why do you think Lanning's
hologram would have called me?
:12:46
- I assumed you knew him.
- Ya, I knew him.
:12:50
Holograms are very simple programs
for just pre-recorded responses...
:12:54
designed to give the
impression of intelligence.
:12:56
Apparently this one was programmed
to call you upon his suicide.
:12:59
- death.
- I'm sorry?
:13:01
The hologram, it was programmed to call me
in the event of Lanning's death.
:13:05
Yes, suicide is a type of death, detective.
:13:11
- Look, please don't misunderstand my impatience
- Oh, no... go go go.
:13:16
A really big week for you folks around here.
:13:19
- Ya.
- You gotta put a robot in every home.
:13:22
look, this is not what I do, but...
I got an idea for one of your commercials.
:13:27
You can see a carpenter making a beautiful chair.
and one of your robots comes in and makes a better chair...
:13:33
twice as fast.
And then you superimpose on the screen.
:13:37
USR... shittin' on the little guy.
:13:41
That would be the fade out.
:13:45
I suppose your father
lost his job to a robot.
:13:48
or maybe you would have simply banned
the Internet to keep the libraries open.
:13:53
Prejudice never shows much reason.
:13:56
I suspect you simply don't like their kind.