英语剧本《人工智能》

Part One



ATLANTIC OCEAN



NARRATOR

Those were the years after the ice caps had melted because

of the greenhouse gases, and the oceans had risen to drown

so many cities along all the shorelines of the world.

Amsterdam. Venice. New York. Forever lost.



Millions of people were displaced, climate became chaotic.

Hundreds of millions of people starved in poorer countries.

Elsewhere, a high degree of prosperity survived when most

governments in the developed world introduced legal

sanctions to strictly license pregnancies, which was why

robots, who were never hungry and who did not consume

resources beyond those of their first manufacture, were so

essential an economic link in the chain mail of society.



LIBRARY-CYBERTRONICS CORP.



HOBBY

To create an artificial being has been the dream of man

since the birth of science. Not merely the beginning of the

modern age, when our forebears astonished the world with the

first thinking machines: primitive monsters that could play

chess.

How far we have come. The artificial being is a reality of

perfect simulacrum, articulated in limb, articulate in

speech, and not lacking in human response?



SHEILA

Ahhh!!



HOBBY

...and even pain memory response.

How did that make you feel? Angry? Shocked?



SHEILA

I don't understand.



HOBBY

What did I do to your feelings?



SHEILA

You did it to my hand.



HOBBY

Aye. There's the rub. Undress.

At Cybertronics of New Jersey, the artificial being has

reached its highest form. Universally adopted mecha, the

basis for hundreds of models, serving the human race in all

the multiplicity of daily life.

That's far enough. But we have no reason to congratulate

ourselves. We are, rightly, proud of it, but what does it

amount to?

Sheila, open.

A sensory toy, with intelligent behavioral circuits, using

neurone sequencing technology as old as I am. I believe that

my work on mapping the impulse pathways in a single neurone

can enable us to construct a mecha of a qualitatively

different order. I propose that we build a robot, who can

love.



TEAM MEMBER #1

Love?



TEAM MEMBER #2

But we ship thousands of lover models every month.



TEAM MEMBER #3

Of course, you're your own best customer, Siyatsu-sama.



TEAM MEMBER #2

Quality control is卾ery important!



HOBBY

Tell me, what is love?



SHEILA

Love is first widening my eyes a little bit and quickening

my breathing a little and warming my skin and touching with

my -



HOBBY

And so on. Exactly so. Thank you, Sheila.



But I wasn't referring to sensuality simulators. The word

that I used was love. Love like the love of a child for its

parents. I propose that we build a robot child, who can

love. A robot child who will genuinely love the parent or

parents it imprints on, with a love that will never end.



TEAM MEMBER #3

A child substitute mecha?



HOBBY

But a mecha with a mind, with neuronal feedback. You see

what I'm suggesting is that love will be the key by which

they acquire a kind of subconscious never before achieved.

An inner world of metaphor, of intuition, of self motivated

reasoning. Of dreams.



TEAM MEMBER #4

A robot that dreams?



HOBBY

Yes.



TEAM MEMBER #4

And how exactly do we pull this off?



FEMALE TEAM MEMBER

You know, it occurs to me... um...with all this animus

existing against mechas today, it isn't simply a question of

creating a robot who can love, but isn't the real conundrum

- can you get a human to love them back?



HOBBY

Ours will be a perfect child caught in a freeze-frame -

always loving, never ill, never changing. With all the

childless couples yearning in vain for a license, our little

mecha would not only open an entirely new market, it will

fill a great human need.



FEMALE TEAM MEMBER

But you haven't answered my question. If a robot could

genuinely love a person, what responsibility does that

person hold toward that mecha in return?

It's a moral question, isn't it?



HOBBY

The oldest one of all. But in the beginning, didn't God

create Adam to love him?







CRYOGENIC HOSPITAL



MONICA

The baby was born as the first leaves of autumn fell. A baby

boy. And Marion's wish came true. The boy had white hair. He

was baptized Martin after his grandfather.



HENRY

Dr Frazier. Hi. It's good to see you.



DR.FRAZIER

Hi. How're you?



HENRY

Listen, there was an article by Randenbach in the Journal of

Chinese Medicine - they're talking about these virus

locators....



DR.FRAZIER

Hello again, Monica.



HENRY

... microscopic, synthetic hunter killers. Did you read that

article?



MONICA

I can still hear you!



DR.FRAZIER

I'm worried about her, Henry. She's really got me worried.



HENRY

Yeah, I know.



DR.FRAZIER

She's in the most difficult position of feeling she should

mourn the death of your son. After five years your instincts

tell you to mourn him, too. But medicine assures us that

mourning is inappropriate, that Martin is merely pending.



HENRY

Pending.



DR.FRAZIER

So all her grief goes undigested. Henry, your son may be

beyond our science, but it's your wife who can still be

reached.







HOBBY'S OFFICE



FIRST ASSISTANT

The screening process was extremely difficult. It was almost

tougher than building the prototype.



SECOND ASSISTANT

Of our 2,000 employees a surprising few met your minimum

requirements for the in-house testing. Initiate. Employment

record. Quality of life style. Query. Internal data. Loyalty

to the firm. And...in this individuals case, a family

tragedy that may qualify him above the rest.



HOBBY

I'll see him.







FOYER-SWINTON HOME



MONICA

Henry.



HENRY

Don抰 kill me.



MONICA

Henry, what are you doing?



HENRY

I love you. Don抰 kill me.

Door抯 closed.



DAVID

I like your floor.







MASTER BEDROOM



MONICA

I can't accept this! There is no substitute for your own

child!



HENRY

You don't have to accept it or even try - it's not too late

to take him back!



MONICA

What were you thinking?!



HENRY

I'll do whatever you want me to do!



MONICA

You think I can just, I can just...



HENRY

I'll do whatever you want me to do!



MONICA

I don't know... what to do.



HENRY

I know, I know匢'll return him to Cybertronics first thing

in the morning, it抯 gone.



MONICA

Good. I mean Henry, did you see his face? He's, he's so

real. But he's not...



HENRY

No, he's not.



MONICA

I mean, inside he's like all the rest, isn't he?



HENRY

A hundred miles of fiber, yeah.



MONICA

But outside he just looks so real... like he is a child.



HENRY

A mecha child.



MONICA

A child...







MASTER BATHROOM



HENRY

The show of faith my company has placed on me...on us, is

extraordinary. Now there are a few simple procedures we need

to follow if and when you decide to keep David. If you

decide to keep him, there抯 an imprinting protocol

consisting of a code string of seven particular words which

need to be spoken to David in the predefined order that抯

been printed here. Now Monica, for our own protection, this

imprinting is irreversible. The robot child抯 love would be

sealed, in a sense hardwired, and we抎 be part of him

forever.



Because of this, after imprinting, no mecha child can be

resold. If an adoptive parent should ever decide not to keep

the child, they must return it to Cybertronics for

destruction. Now, I had to sign a letter of agreement or

they wouldn抰 even let you see David. You have to sign it

too... right here. Monica... don抰 imprint until you're

entirely sure.



MONICA

Silly man. Of course I抦 not sure.







MARTIN'S BEDROOM



DAVID

Would you like me to sleep now?



MONICA

Uh...



HENRY

Good Idea. Good idea. Monica?



MONICA

Uh..well..it's late, you know卛t's after nine,so uh...



HENRY

Yeah. Ten past.



MONICA

How..how late do they let you stay up?



DAVID

I can never go to sleep, but I can lay quietly, and not make

a peep.



MONICA

So those pajamas will fit you, and uh, we'll be in to check

on you first thing in the morning.



DAVID

Dress me?



MONICA

You know I'm gonna say good night...while you...boys be

boys.



HENRY

Raise your arms.







HALLWAY CLOSET



DAVID

Is it a game?



MONICA

Yes. Hide and Seek. Found you. That抯 your bedroom. Just go

and play.







HALLWAY BATHROOM



MONICA

 Ahhh!



DAVID

I found you.



MONICA

Out! Out! Get outta here! And close the goddamn door!







DINING ROOM



DAVID, MONICA, & HENRY

HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA?!







MARTIN'S BEDROOM



(Monica dresses David for bed - her mind bounces back and

forth between David and Martin.

The next day...)



DAVID

Is it a game?



MONICA

Now, I'm gonna read some words, and卽h...they won't make any

sense, but I want you to listen to them anyway. And...look

at me all the time. Can you do that?



DAVID

Yes, Monica.



MONICA

Can you feel my hand on the back of your neck?



DAVID

Yes.



MONICA

Does any of this hurt?



DAVID

No.



MONICA

Okay. Now. Look at me? Ready? Cirrus. Socrates. Particle.

Decibel. Hurricane. Dolphin. Tulip.

Monica. David. Monica...



All right匢 wonder if I did that right. I don抰-



DAVID

What were those words for, Mommy?



MONICA

What did you call me?



DAVID

Mommy.



MONICA

Who am I, David?



DAVID

You are my Mommy.







MASTER BEDROOM



MONICA

(Humming...) Hmm...!



HENRY

You smell lovely. I love it when you wear this stuff.



MONICA

Will you still love me when it's all gone?



HENRY

No.



MONICA

Wha...stop it!



HENRY

But we can get married again and begin with a fragrance

that's not in such short supply.



MONICA

Hmmm...



HENRY

Gotta go...Come on, we're late!



MONICA

(Still humming...)



HENRY

Hello, David.



DAVID

Hello, Henry.



MONICA

Walk us out, alright, sweetheart? Come on.



My shoe! (Laughs)







FOYER



MONICA

Henry, your tie!



HENRY

Yeah I know! I'm helpless!



MONICA

You're hopeless!



HENRY

Oh, it's not bad...



MONICA

Oh, it's just tight...I was just trying so hard.



HENRY

You see the way he rearranged that...



MONICA

He tries so hard to please me. He has a way with my coffee.



HENRY

And it抯 creepy. You can never hear him coming. He抯 just

always there.



MONICA

He is only a child.



HENRY

Monica, he抯 a toy.



MONICA

He抯 a gift, from you.



David! When we leave, all the doors and windows will go

smart, so you can't leave your room, but, if you'd

like...oh, I put way too much on.



DAVID

Do I smell lovely?



MONICA

(Sighs) I'll go look...







MASTER BEDROOM



DAVID

Mommy? Will you die?



MONICA

Well....one day David. Yes, I will.



DAVID

I抣l be alone.



MONICA

Don抰 worry yourself so.



DAVID

How long will you live?



MONICA

For ages. For fifty years.



DAVID

I love you, Mommy. I hope you never die. Never.



MONICA

Yes...



HENRY

Darling? We're becoming unfashionably, unreasonably late.







MARTIN'S BEDROOM



MONICA

This belonged to Martin. My son.



TEDDY

Grr-rowr!



MONICA

His name is Teddy. Teddy, this is David.



DAVID

Hello, Teddy.



TEDDY

Hello, David.



MONICA

David, Teddy is a Super-Toy, and I know you抣l take good

care of each other.



TEDDY

I am not...a toy.







STAIRCASE/FOYER



MONICA

Henry? Sorry...!



HENRY

What were you doing up there?



MONICA

Ohh, I'll tell you in the car. C'mon.







MARTIN'S BEDROOM



DAVID

Is fifty years a long time?



TEDDY

I don't think so.







KITCHEN



MONICA

David, I'll get it! Honey, hand it to me.



DAVID

Look what I can do!

(Operator's voice) Hello...?



MONICA

Hah...Yes?



DAVID

(Operator's voice) Mrs. Swinton, could you hold a moment? I

have an urgent call from your husband.



MONICA

Monica: Yes. I will. Uh..uh...David, I need to talk to the

phone now.



DAVID

(Henry's voice) Monica? Monica can you hear me, Monica?



MONICA

Let the phone talk now. Come on.



DAVID

(Henry's voice) Monica, can you hear me? Pick up the phone

Monica.



MONICA

Run along, play with Teddy.



DAVID

(Henry's voice) Pick up the phone, Monica! Oh my god Moni...



MONICA

Hello? Henry? What is it? Wha...What? When? Oh god...







FOYER



MONICA

David? The most wonderful thing in the whole world has

happened. This is Martin. This is my son.







MARTIN'S BEDROOM



TEDDY

Martin, no...



MARTIN

We抣l have a contest, to see who he comes to first. Come

here, Teddy! Come here, boy! Teddy! Come here! You call him

too.



DAVID

Come here, Teddy.



MARTIN

Come on...



DAVID

Come here, boy.



MARTIN

Teddy! Teddy! Come here! Come on, Teddy! Come here!



DAVID

Come here, Teddy.



MARTIN

Come here, Teddy! Teddy! Teddy come! C'mere!



DAVID

Come here, Teddy.



MARTIN

Come Teddy! Come!



TEDDY

Mommy! Mommy!



MONICA

Are they torturing you , Teddy?



MARTIN

He used to be a Super-Toy, but now he抯 old and stupid. You

want him?



DAVID

Yes, please.



MARTIN

So, I guess now you抮e the new Super-Toy, so what good stuff

can you do? Oh, can you do 'power' stuff, like, uhhh, walk

on the ceiling or the walls? Anti- gravity? Like, float, or

fly?



DAVID

Can you?



MARTIN

No, because I抦 real. Can you break this?



DAVID

I better not.



MARTIN

These things...they do look better in pieces. They do.



DAVID

I can抰.



MARTIN

Stand up. Look, they made you bigger than me.



DAVID

Who did?



MARTIN

Well, they did, the dollmakers. They made you taller. Why

don't you look like one?



DAVID

Like one...



MARTIN

You're not cute like a doll. You just look like someone抯

ordinary kid. When抯 your birthday?



DAVID

I never had a birthday.



MARTIN

Okay厀ell, when were you first built? When抯 your 慴uild

day?



DAVID

I don抰 remember.



MARTIN

Okay, what抯 the first thing you can remember?



DAVID

A bird.



MARTIN

What sort of bird?



DAVID

A bird with big wings. And feathers sticking up from the

bottom.



MARTIN

Could you draw it?



DAVID

Yes.



MARTIN

That looks like a peacock. Can you say peacock?



DAVID

Peacock.



MARTIN

Can you say pea?



DAVID

Pea.



MARTIN

Now, say that two times fast.







KITCHEN



MONICA

Okay. Then you gotta put the green ones?



MARTIN

Read to us?



MONICA

Hey... Let抯 see. Oh, yes?



MARTIN

David抯 going to love it.







ON THE BOAT



MONICA

As soon as the show was over, the showman went into the

kitchen, where the whole sheep which he was preparing for

supper was roasting on a slowly turning spit in the furnace.

When he saw that there was not enough wood to finish

roasting it, he called Harlequin and Pulcinella and said,

'Bring me in Pinocchio! You will find him hanging on a nail.

He is made of nice dry wood and I抦 sure he will make a nice

fire for my roast.







MARTIN'S BEDROOM



MONICA

Pinocchio worked until midnight, and instead of making eight

baskets, he made sixteen. Then he went to bed, and fell

asleep. As he slept, he dreamt he saw the fairy, lovely and

smiling, who gave him a kiss, saying, 'Brave Pinocchio, in

return for your good heart, I forgive all your past

misdeeds. Be good in the future, and you will be happy.'

Then the dream ended, and Pinocchio awoke, full of

amazement. You can imagine how astonished he was when he saw

that he was no longer a puppet, but a real boy, just like

other boys.







DINING ROOM



HENRY

Josephine evidently has.. uh.. taken a leave of absence.



MONICA

Oh my God...



HENRY

Umm...humm.



MONICA

Well...I saw that coming.



HENRY

How could you see that coming? They were fabulous together.



MONICA

Oh Come on! She was miserable... I mean...



HENRY

Well, he never said they were miserable.



MONICA

Yeah.. . that抯 because.... Was that because of the cutbacks

or what?



HENRY

I have no idea. They certainly don抰 tell me anything.



MONICA

Didn't they have a bit of a weight problem?



HENRY

Well so do I...I mean...



MONICA

Do not! That is ridiculous.



HENRY

...well... all right look.. I don抰 know... isn抰

there...something about inner beauty?



TEDDY

You will break.



MONICA

Oh that is ridiculous.



HENRY

Exactly...oh, work has become so silly.

Does he eat?



MONICA

I抦 not sure.



HENRY

You抮e not supposed to do that.



MONICA

David, what are you doing? David?!



HENRY

Do you have the manual... the book?



MONICA

Martin, put the fork down. Put it down now.



HENRY

Stop. Stop, David. Will you stop?



MONICA

David?! Stop it. Martin you抮e provoking him. OK?



HENRY

David, stop it!



MONICA

The two of you stop it! Stop it now!



Stop it!! David! Stop it!



LATER



FIRST A.R.T. TECH

Hmmm..spewed in the code blockers.



SECOND A.R.T. TECH

Smell that garlic!



FIRST A.R.T. TECH

Should clone the chest bridge...

Ehhh...!



SECOND A.R.T. TECH

Did you locate the servers?



FIRST A.R.T. TECH

Don't touch the merchandise.



SECOND A.R.T. TECH

It's all swamp in here.



FIRST A.R.T. TECH

You... made a mess of yourself! Spinach is for rabbits,

people and Popeye. Not robo-boys.



SECOND A.R.T. TECH

Go ahead insert your cells... let's do a patching on the

lower shelves.



DAVID

It's OK, Mommy. It doesn't hurt!



FIRST A.R.T. TECH

The activators are all hooked up on this side.



HENRY

Monica...



MONICA

No! I just have to...



SECOND A.R.T. TECH

That's not all of it... that's not all of it...







MARTIN'S BEDROOM



MARTIN

If you do something really, really, really special for me, a

special mission, then I'll go tell Mommy...I love you, and

then she'll love you, too.



DAVID

What shall I do?



MARTIN

You have to promise, and then I'll tell you.



DAVID

You have to tell me, and then I'll promise.



MARTIN

I want a lock of Mommy's hair. I'll share it with you. And

if you had it, and wore it, she might love you

even more, like the princess in the movie we saw. When she

had the prince's hair in her necklace thing, he loved her.



DAVID

We can ask her-



MARTIN

No! It has to be a secret mission. Sneak in to Mommy's

bedroom, in the middle of the night, and chop卛t off.



DAVID

I can't, Martin. I'm not allowed.



MARTIN

You promised. You said 'tell me and then I'll promise',

didn抰 you?







MASTER BEDROOM



(HENRY & MONICA talk over each other. Dialogue separated)



HENRY

David! -



MONICA

(Gasp!)



HENRY

Why did you do that?! Why did you do that?! Talk to me!

David god damn it, talk to me David! Why did you do that,

David?! Why did you do that?! Tell me WHY-DID-YOU-



MONICA

Henry, what are you doing - you抮e hurting him! Henry, let

him go! Henry you抮e hurting him! You抮e hurting him! You-

DON扵 BREAK HIM!!



DAVID

Henry匢 wanted Mommy to love me卪ore.



MONICA

Oh my god?



HENRY

What?



MONICA

Oh my god, I think I cut my eye.



HENRY

Lemme see.



MONICA

Oh god, I think it's bleeding!



HENRY

Come卌ome...come on, wash it out.







BACKYARD POOL



MONICA

It's normal for little boys to feel jealous and competitive.

Martin's only been home a month and...it's normal for

brothers to challenge each other. He...He was playing a

game, he made a mistake, and he - he's practically human.



HENRY

That's not how he looked holding the knife.



MONICA

Scissors.



HENRY

It was a weapon.



MONICA

Why do you keep imagining that he was purposely trying to

harm me?



HENRY

Uh, because we don't know the answer to that! How is he

worth the risk to you, or to Martin, or to us as a family?



MONICA

I will not let you take him back. You told me what would

happen if you ever took him back.



HENRY

Think about this. If he was created to love, then it's

reasonable to assume he knows how to hate. And if pushed to

those extremes, what is he really capable of?



LATER



DAVID

Happy birthday, Martin. I made this for you.



TOD

This him? This your little brother?



MARTIN

Technically卬o.



TOD

He抯 mecha!



DAVID

What抯 mecha?



TOD

We're orga-nic, you抮e mecha-nical. Orga, mecha, orga...



MARTIN

Tod...



TOD

...mecha, orga, mecha...



MARTIN

Tod...stop.



TOD

I didn抰 know they even made little kids.



BOY #1

Can you pee?



DAVID

I cannot.



BOY #1

Then let抯 see what you can抰 pee with.



MARTIN

Come on...



BOY #2

Touch it.



BOY#3

It feels so real.



BOY #2

Oh, that抯...that抯 creepy.



BOY #4

Whoa...feels so real.



BOY #2

That is too real.



TOD

Mecha real.

Does he have DAS?



BOY #3

DAS what?



BOY #2

Das ist gut!



TOD

Damage Avoidance System. DAS. It抯 a pain-alert system. Our

serving-man has it. It抯 so they don抰 go picking up fire

with their bare hands and stuff.



Watch. Watch this. Now, I抦 not going to cut you. This isn't

gonna hurt. I抦 not gonna cut your skin. Just tell me when

you can feel it.



DAVID

Keep me safe, Martin. Keep me safe!



MARTIN

Lemme go!



DAVID

Keep me safe Martin!



MARTIN

Lemme go! Mom! Mom! Mommmmmmmm!



DAVID

Keep me safe, keep me safe, keep me safe, keep me safe...



MONICA

Henry!



Oh my...God!

He's not breathing...he's not breathing! Come on, breathe!



HENRY

Come on..come on, man...Martin! Take a breath...cough it up

! Thatta boy, that's a great boy!



MONICA

Oh...thank God...thank God thank God!



HENRY

Call Frazier-tell him what happened! Get him outta there!







MARTIN'S BEDROOM



MONICA

Hey David?



DAVID

Mommy! Mommy!



MONICA

David, wait. I need to speak to to you for a minute, okay?



DAVID

Okay!



MONICA

Yeah...



Monica looks over some messages that David has been writing.



MONICA

Oh, David, these are beautiful! Thank you. Um...



Um, hey David, I was thinking that we could go for a drive

tomorrow in the country. You and me. What do you say?



DAVID

And Teddy?



MONICA

Yeah, and Teddy.



DAVID

Thank you Mommy! Thank you so much!



MONICA

Tomorrow's gonna be just for us, okay?







IN THE CAR



DAVID



Where are we going? Someplace nice? Are those happy tears?

What抯 for dinner tonight?



MONICA

You know you don抰 eat.



DAVID

Yes. But I like sitting at the table.







IN THE WOODS



MONICA



David. David, hold on. David? David! Listen! Listen to me!

David? David listen! Now you won't understand the reasons,

but I ..I have to leave you here.



DAVID

Is it a game?



MONICA

No.



DAVID

When will you come back for me?



MONICA

I'm not, David, you...you'll have to be here by yourself.



DAVID

Alone?



MONICA

With Teddy.



**David and Monica talk over each other. For clarity, here

is the dialogue, separated.



DAVID

No. No! No, no, no, no! No, Mommy please!



MONICA

Shhh...shhh...



DAVID

No! No! Please no Mommy no!



MONICA

They're going to destroy you...



DAVID

No, Mommy!



MONICA

David, they'll destroy you. David...David, they're going to

destroy you!



DAVID

Mommy, No! I'm sorry I broke myself! I'm so sorry I cut your

hair off and I'm oh so sorry I hurt you and I hurt Martin

and I hurt Henry and I hurt everybody!



MONICA

No...no, no...I have to go. I have to go! Stop it!



DAVID

I'm sorry!



MONICA

Stop it! I have to GO!



DAVID

Mommy, no! Mommy! MOMMY! Mommy, if Pinocchio became a real

boy and...and I become a real boy can I come home?



MONICA

But that's just a story, David.



DAVID

But that story tells what happens!



MONICA

Stories are not real! You're not real!



Now listen , look. Look! Take this, alright? Take this. And

don't let anyone see how much it is. Now look. Don't go that

way, alright? Look! Don't look at me, look! Don't go that

way, alright? Go any where but that way or they'll catch

you! Don't ever let them catch you! Listen, stay away from

Flesh Fairs, away from where there are lots of people! Stay

away from all people! Only others like you, only Mecha are

safe! Now get going!



DAVID

Why do you want to leave me? Why do you want to leave me??!

I'm sorry I'm not real, if you let me I'll be so real for

you!



MONICA

Let go. Let go! Let GO!!



I'm sorry I didn't tell you about the world!







SLEAZY MOTEL ROOM



PATRICIA

I'm afraid...



JOE

Of me? That I will hurt you?



PATRICIA

Yes...



JOE

I think... you're afraid of letting go. I think you're

afraid of happiness. And this is starting to excite me. Are

you afraid of seeing the stars...Patricia? I can show you

how to reach them.



PATRICIA

I'm afraid... of what you've got under there. May I see what

it looks like first?



JOE

Is this your first time... with something like me?



PATRICIA

I've never been with mecha.



JOE

That makes two of us.



PATRICIA

I'm afraid it will hurt.



JOE

Patricia...once you've had a lover robot, you'll never want

a real man...again.

Are these the wounds of passion?



Singer: Are the stars out tonight?

I don't know if it's cloudy or bright.

I only have eyes for you, dear!



PATRICIA

Do you...do you hear that music?



Singer: (note: this is played over Joe's next line)

The moon may be high,

But I can't see a thing in the sky,

'Cause I only have eyes for you,

Yeah...I only have eyes for you!



JOE

You... are a goddess, Patricia. You wind me up inside. But

you deserve much better in your life. You deserve... me.



Chorus: 'Cause I only have eyes for you.

The moon may be high,

but I can抰 see a thing in the sky

慍ause I only have eyes for you!







CITY STREET



JANE

Hey, Joe, whaddaya know?



JOE

Hey, Jane, how抯 the game?







AT THE HOTEL



FRONT DESK CLERK

Hey, Joe, whaddyaknow?



JOE

Hello, Mr. Williamson. Place a DND on room one-oh-two,

please.



MR. WILLIAMSON

Sure thing. (Exhales) 'ere ya go.

Here y'are.



Oh! Joe! Uh, when you're finished here, crack your collar.

Show off your operating license. The, uh, flesh fair's in

Barn Creek, and the hounds are out hunting for strays.



JOE

It's a good thing I ran into you. Thanks Mr. Williamson.



MR. WILLIAMSON

Sure thing.



JOE

Mustn抰 keep a lady waiting.







IN ROOM 102



JOE

Ms. Bevens. It抯 Joe. At your service. I抳e been counting

the seconds since last we met.

Have you been crying, Samantha? I found a tear.



MR. BEVINS

Hey Joe, whatdya know?

How many seconds has it been, the last time the two of you

were together?



JOE

Two hundred and fifty five thousand, one hundred and thirty

three.



MR. BEVINS

Goodbye, Sam. And never forget, you killed me first.



JOE

I抦 in bad trouble.







IN THE WOODS



DAVID

If I am a real boy, then I can go back. And she will love me

then.



TEDDY

How?



DAVID

The Blue Fairy made Pinocchio into a real boy. She can make

me into a real boy. I must find her, so I can become real.

There must be someone in the whole world who knows where she

lives.







ROADSIDE DUMP/WOODS



JUNKYARD MECHA #1 -

Moon on the rise!



JUNKYARD MECHA #2 -

It's a Flesh Fair. They destroy us on stage. I抳e been

there.



DAVID

What do we do?



TEDDY

We run now.







FLESH FAIR BALLOON



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

Any old iron? Any old iron? Any old iron? Any old iron?

Expel your mecha. Purge yourselves of artificiality. Come

along now, let some mecha loose to run, any old unlicensed

iron down there? Hey, see that? Could be a human thing.



BALLOON OPERATOR

No, he抯 scanning cold. No expiration date, no ID.



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

What抯 a new model doing loose and unregistered?



BALLOON OPERATOR

Sir, it抯 a late generation lover mecha.



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

Well, there抯 a relief from all this antique iron. You are

certain he抯 not a man? I wouldn抰 want a repeat of the

Trenton incident.



BALLOON OPERATOR

Sir, he抯 free range mecha, running hot.



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

Let抯 reel him in, boys. Sic the hounds on the rest. Shake

down Shantytown.







HOUSE IN SHANTYTOWN



MECHA NANNY

What抯 your name?



DAVID

My name is David.



MECHA NANNY

Hello David! How old are you?



DAVID

I don抰 know.



MECHA NANNY

Do you need someone to take care of you? Would you like a

nanny? I have many good references.



DAVID

Do you know where the Blue Fairy lives?







HANGING IN THE NET



MECHA NANNY

Don't be afraid, David.



Dodo, l'enfant do, L'enfant dormira bien vite;

Dodo, l'enfant do, L'enfant dormira bientot...



TEDDY

I'll break, David.



MECHA NANNY

Une chanson douce

que me chantait ma maman...



TEDDY

Ow!



MECHA NANNY

Une chanson douce

que me chantait ma maman...







THE FLESH FAIR



FRONT GATE ATTENDANT

Hello. Anybody lose this? Hello? This your dog?



TEDDY

Grr-rrrr...



FRONT GATE ATTENDANT

Take it to lost and found for me, okay?



CREW MEMBER #1

Hey, Allen! Lost and found!



TEDDY

Do you know David?



CREW MEMBER #2

Where's the off switch?



TEDDY

Where's David? Can you help me find David? I have to find

David. Are you taking me to David?



THE ARENA



MECHA COMEDIAN

Can you shoot me OVER the propeller thing? Yea, I don't need

to go through it. Ahhh, I was considering it, but I changed

my mind.



RINGLEADER

Gentlemen! Start... your... engines! Ten, nine, eight,

seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.

What about us?!



CROWD

What about us!



RINGLEADER

What... about... us?!



CROWD

What about us!



RINGLEADER

We are alive, and this is a celebration of life! And this is

commitment to a truly human future!



LITTLE GIRL (to TEDDY)

What's your name?



DAVID

Hello, Teddy.



TEDDY

Hello, David.







CONTROL BOOTH



PAPA

Take it! Take it. Backgrounds rolling...



LITTLE GIRL

Papa?



PAPA

Not on the...



TECHNICIAN

...biker helm.



LITTLE GIRL

Papa?



PAPA

Amanda, go on back outside, honey. It's too smoky in here.



AMANDA

There's a boy in the cage.



PAPA

What'd you say?



AMANDA

There's a boy the cage.



PAPA

A boy?



AMANDA

A real boy. He's stuck in the cage.



PAPA

In the pen, honey?



AMANDA

In the jail place...



TECHNICIAN

Random crowd reaction-



PAPA

Hey, Russell, will you get a remote near the pig pen? Bring

it up on VT1. Lemme see what she's talking about.



RUSSELL

Move it up on one.



TECHNICIAN

Push in.



RUSSELL

What are you looking for?



PAPA

Amanda said she saw a little boy in there.



TECHNICIAN

Push in!

Denny, let's go wide on the shot - wide on the shot.



PAPA

Honey, how do you know about this?



AMANDA

The bear told me.



TEDDY

I told her.







THE PIG PEN



JUNKY MECHA #1

Would you be so kind and shut down my pain receivers?



DAVID

Why is this happening?



TAXI MECHA

History repeats itself. It's the rite of blood and

electricity.



GRUMPY MECHA

So, when the opportunities avail themselves, they pick away

at us, cutting away our numbers so they can maintain

numerical superiority!



JUNKY MECHA #1

My time... is it up already? Goodbye everyone.



DAVID

Keep me safe! Keep me safe! Keep me safe! Keep me safe!



CREW MEMBER

Not yet! Just this one here!



DAVID

Keep me safe. Keep me safe. Keep me safe...



FEMALE CREW MEMBER

Mike, security? Mike! Do you have any reports of any missing

kids, any missing children? Alright, thanks.



PAPA

How'd you get in there? Boy! You, boy! Hey, what's your

name? I won't bite ya. Come on over where I can see ya. Hey

hey, it won't hurt ya. I just need to see.

You're a machine.



DAVID

I'm a boy.



AMANDA

Is he a toyboy?



DAVID

My name is David.



PAPA

Impossible.







THE ARENA



JUNKY MECHA #1

I still work, don't I? I can still work in the dark, but my

lamp is broken. My lamplight will not work. I hit my lamp on

a girder overhead.







THE PIG PEN



NANNY MECHA

Goodbye, David.



PAPA

No one builds children. No one ever has. What would be the

point?



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

Aye, he could be a custom job. Some rich, and lonely,

scaredy pusses pretend child.



GRUMPY MECHA

I'm a custom job. 75 years ago I was Time Magazine's mecha

of the year!



PAPA

Eh, this work is first rate. A lot of love went into him.

David! You are one of a kind, you know that? Who made you?



DAVID

My mommy made me.



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

Her womb was your factory, eh? One of those built to aspire

to the human condition. What is the name of your maker?

Serve U.S., E.Z. Living, Robbyville? Simulate-City, Santern,

Cybertronics, Sidekicks--



DAVID

Monica is my mommy.



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

Can I speak with you for a moment? You thinking of not

putting him in the show?



PAPA

Something as original as this you don't toss out with the

rest of the garbage!



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

Yeah, well, I say originality without purpose is a white

elephant, but if money is your purpose, then here's your

refund-- my compliments.



PAPA

What are you going to do with him?



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

Put him where he belongs-- in show business.



JOE

It was certainly my good fortune running into you!



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

Let go of him.



JOE

Let go of me.



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

I said let go of him.



JOE

I'm trying!



DAVID

Don't let go. Keep me safe! Don't let go!



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

Suit yourselves.







THE ARENA



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

Ladies and gentlemen. Girls and boys and children of all

ages! What will they think of next?! See here: a bitty box,

a tinker toy, a living doll. 'Course we all know why they

made them. To seize your hearts. To replace your children!

This is the latest iteration to the series of insults to

human dignity. An underground scheme to phase out all of

God's little children. Meet the next generation of child

designed to do just that!



Do not be fooled by the artistry of this creation. No doubt

there was talent in the crafting of this simulator. Yet with

the very first strike, you will see the big lie come apart

before your very eyes!



DAVID

Don't burn me! Don't burn me! I'm not Pinocchio! Don't make

me die! I'm David, I'm David, I'm David!



WOMAN IN CROWD

Mecha don't plead for their lives! Who is that? He looks

like a boy...



DAVID

Don't make me die...don't make me die! I'm David!



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

Built like a boy to disarm us! See how they try to imitate

our emotions, now!



DAVID

I'm David, I'm David, I'm David...



LORD JOHNSON-JOHNSON

Whatever performance this sim puts on, remember we are only

demolishing artificiality! Let he who is without 'sim' cast

the first stone.



CROWD

He's just a boy... He's just a boy, Johnson...You're a

monster!...(hubbub)



PAPA

Get them out of there before they tear this place apart.







HOBBY'S OFFICE



ASSISTANT #1

We found him.



HOBBY

Where?



ASSISTANT #1

Flesh Fair outside Haddonfield.



HOBBY

Is he alive?



ASSISTANT #2

Yes. He's in one piece.







IN THE WOODS



TEDDY

I see the moon.



DAVID

Is it real?



TEDDY

I don't know, David.



DAVID

Is it coming?



TEDDY

I can't tell yet.



DAVID

Let's not walk this way.



JOE

Where are we going?



DAVID

This way now.



JOE

Are you in bad trouble, have you run away from someone?



DAVID

My mommy told me to run away.



JOE

Why did she say that?



DAVID

I guess...because Henry didn't like me.



JOE

Why was that?



DAVID

Martin came home.



JOE

And who is he?



DAVID

Martin is Mommy and Henry's REAL son. After I find the Blue

Fairy, then I can go home. Mommy will love a real boy. The

Blue Fairy will make me into one.



JOE

Is Blue Fairy mecha, orga, man, or woman?



DAVID

Woman.



JOE

Woman. I know women! They sometimes ask for me by name. I

know all about women. About as much as there is to know. No

two are ever alike, and after they've met me, no two are

ever the same! And I know where most of them can be found.



DAVID

Where?



JOE

Rouge City. Across the Delaware. Too far for our feet. We'll

need help to get there. And, it is not without peril. We

will have to journey....towards the moon.



DAVID

Are there many women in Rouge City?



JOE

As there are stars at night.



DAVID

And how will we find just one?



JOE

We will ask Dr. Know! There is nothing he doesn't.

Exactly what name do you give this woman?



DAVID

She is...just Blue Fairy.



JOE

Blue Fairy. In the world of Orga blue is the color of

melancholy, yet the services I provide will put a blush back

on anyones cheek. I will change the color of your fairy for

you. She will scream out in the moonlight...'Ah, oh yes, oh

god, oh yes, oh god, oh god'...she will make you a real boy

for I will make her a real woman and all will be right with

the world, because you held my hand and saved my brain. So

once again my customers may ask for my by name 'Gigolo Joe,

whatdoyaknow'!



DAVID

Why do you do that?



JOE

That's just what I do. Now follow me, and don't fall behind.

All roads lead to Rouge! Don't they say that, eh? Don't they

just....







ON THE ROADSIDE



JOE

There are girls your age who are just like me. We are the

guiltless pleasures of the lonely human being. You're not

going to get us pregnant, or have us over for supper with

mummy and daddy. We work under you, we work on you, and we

work for you. Man made us better at what we do than was ever

humanly possible. If you can manage us a lift to Rouge City,

all this, and much, much more, can be yours.



TEENAGER

Get in!







IN THE CAR



JOE

Say 慉h!?



JOE & TEENS

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!







ROUGE CITY PLAZA



JOE

Over there is 'Here, Kitty Kitty'. That's where the agency

held my trial when I was made new. That's 'Tails'...very

'hoity-toity'. Only sunrise gents and sunset ladies. I've

never been asked to perform there. Strictly sierra class

robots who have no idea how to live. Can't even speak

English, all made in Sweden. Couldn't tell a joke from a

poke.

There's Mildred! I have to show you inside Mildred!



DAVID

Are you her?



JOE

That抯 Our Lady of the Immaculate Heart. The ones who made

us are always looking for the ones that made them. They go

in, look around their feet, sing songs, and when they come

out, it's usually me they find. I've picked up a lot of

business in this spot.



DAVID

But Joe, where's Blue Fairy?



JOE

That's what we're gonna find out when we ask Dr. Know. It's

where everyone goes who needs to know.



Meet the good doctor!







DOCTOR KNOW'S SHOP



DR.KNOW

Starving minds, welcome to Dr. Know! Where fast-food for

thought is served up 24 hours a day, in 40,000 locations

nationwide. Ask Dr. Know, there's nothing I don't!



DAVID

Tell me where I can find the Blue Fairy.



DR.KNOW

Question me you pay the fee, two for five you get one free!



JOE

He means two questions cost five Newbucks with a third

question on the house. In this day and age, David, nothing

costs more than information.



DAVID

That's everything!



JOE

Ten Newbucks and a ten copper comes to 7 questions for Dr.

Know.



DAVID

That should be enough!



JOE

He's a smooth operator. He'll test our limits, but try we

must.



DR.KNOW

Greetings colleagues. On author, factual text or

fictionalized text, 1st or 3rd person, usual literacy range

from primal level to the post doctural, usual span of styles

from fairy tale to religious, who抯 who, or where抯 where -

or, flat fact.



DAVID

Flat-fact?



DR.KNOW

Thank you for question number one. 'Flat-fact' is a term

demanding an equal answer with interpretive speculation...

merely not the... and what you are saying is basically that

is what you-



DAVID

That shouldn't count, that wasn't my question!



JOE

You must take care not to raise your voice up at the end of

a sentence.

'Flat-fact'.



Dr.KNOW

You have 6 more questions!



DAVID

Where is Blue Fair-REE?



DR.KNOW

In the Garden. Vascostylis blue fairy. Blooms twice annually

with bright blue flowers on a branched inflorescence. A

hybrid between Ascola Meda Arnold. You have 5 more

questions.



DAVID

Who is Blue Fair-REE?



DR.KNOW

Are you sad, lonely, looking for a friend? 'Blue Fairy

Escort Service' will find a mate for you! You have 4 more

questions.



DAVID

Joe. Try fairy tale.



JOE

New category. A fairy's tail.



DAVID

No! Fairy tale!



JOE

No. Fairy tale.



DAVID

What is Blue Fairy?



DR.KNOW

Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi. At the signal, there was a

rustling as flapping of wings, and a large falcon flew to

the windowsill. What are your orders, beautiful fairy, he

asked...



DAVID

That抯 her.



DR.KNOW

...For you must know that the child with blue hair was no

other than the good hearted fairy who had lived in that wood

for more than a thousand years...



JOE

David! David!



DAVID

That抯 her!



JOE

It was an example of her. But I think we're getting closer.



DAVID

But if a fairy tale is real, wouldn抰 it be a fact? A flat

fact?



DR.KNOW

...then the dream ended, and Pinocchio awoke, full of

amazement...



JOE

Say no more. New category, please. Combine Fact with Fairy

Tale. Now. Ask him again.



DAVID

How can the Blue Fairy make a robot into a real, live boy?



DR.KNOW

Come away,O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a fairy, hand in hand,

For the world's more full of weeping

then you can understand.



Your quest will be perilous

Yet the reward is beyond price.

In his book

'How Can A Robot Become Human',

Professor Allen Hobby writes

of the power which

will transform Mecha into Orga.



DAVID

Will you tell me how to find her?



DR.KNOW

Discovery is quite possible.

Our blue fairy does exist

in one place, and one place only,

At the end of the world

Where the lions weep.

Here is the place dreams are born.



JOE

Many a mecha has gone to the end of the world... never to

come back! That is why they call the end of the world

'MAN-hattan'.



DAVID

And that is why we must go there!







HALLWAY OUTSIDE DR. KNOW'S SHOP



JOE

Wait! What if the blue fairy isn't real at all, David? What

if she's magic? The supernatural is the hidden web that

unites the universe. Only orga believe what cannot be seen

or measured. It is that oddness that separates our species.

Or what if the Blue Fairy is an electronic parasite that has

arisen to hold the minds of artificial intelligence? They

hate us, you know? The humans...They'll stop at nothing.



DAVID

My Mommy doesn't hate me! Because I'm special, and...unique!

Because there has never been anyone like me before! Ever!

Mommy loves Martin because he is real and when I am real,

Mommy's going to read to me, and tuck me in my bed, and sing

to me, and listen to what I say, and she will cuddle with

me, and tell me every day a hundred times a day that she

loves me!



JOE

She loves what you do for her, as my customers love what it

is I do for them. But she does not love you David, she

cannot love you. You are neither flesh, nor blood. You are

not a dog, a cat or a canary. You were designed and built

specific, like the rest of us. And you are alone now only

because they tired of you, or replaced you with a younger

model, or were displeased with something you said, or broke.

They made us too smart, too quick, and too many. We are

suffering for the mistakes they made because when the end

comes, all that will be left is us. That's why they hate us,

and that is why you must stay here, with me.



DAVID

Goodbye, Joe.







ROUGE CITY PLAZA



POLICE OFFICER

You抮e in big trouble.



TEDDY

Be careful David, this is not a toy.



AMPHIBICOPTER

Destination please?



JOE

MAN-hattan.







MANHATTAN



AMPHIBICOPTER

Mecha Restricted Area.

Manhattan. Destination Achieved.



JOE

Man-hattan, the lost city in the sea at the end of the

world.



DAVID

Where the lions weep.



TEDDY

Grrrrrr?



DAVID

Turn around, Joe.



JOE

We're not going to give up yet, David.



TEDDY

Grrrrrr?



DAVID

Turn around, Joe. Turn all the way around.



TEDDY

Grrrrrr?







CYBERTRONICS PENTHOUSE ENTRANCE



DAVID

Professor Hobby? Professor Hobby?



JOE

Come away, O human child!

To the waters and the wild

With a Faery, hand in hand,

For the world's more full of weeping than you can

understand.







PENTHOUSE LIBRARY



DAVID

Professor Hobby? Professor Hobby? Hello? Hello?

Is this the place they make you real?



DAVID II

This is the place they make you read.



DAVID

Are you real?



DAVID II

I guess.



DAVID

Are you me?



DAVID II

I'm David.



DAVID

You抮e not.



DAVID II

Yes, I am! I抦 David!



DAVID

So am I.



DAVID II

Hello, David. -

Can you read? Can you sit down, and we can read together?

Let抯 be friends.



DAVID

You can抰 have her.



DAVID II

I can抰 hear you.



DAVID

She's mine. And I'm the ONLY one.

I'm David! I'm David! I'm David! I'm David! I'm...(pause),

I'm David! I'm David! I'm David! I'm special! I'm unique!

I'm David! You can't have her!

I'm David...I'm David...I'm David...



HOBBY

David? David!



DAVID

I'm David...I'm David...



HOBBY

Yes, you are David.



DAVID

Professor Hobby?



HOBBY

Yes David, I've been waiting for you.



DAVID

Dr. Know told me you'd be here. Is Blue Fairy here, too?



HOBBY

I first heard of your Blue Fairy from Monica. What did you

believe the Blue Fairy could do for you?



DAVID

She would make me a real boy.



HOBBY

But you are a real boy. At least as real as I've ever made

one which by all reasonable accounts would make me your Blue

Fairy.



DAVID

You are not her. Dr. Know told me she would be here at the

lost city in the sea at the end of the world where the lions

weep.



HOBBY

And that's what Dr. Know needed to know to get you to come

home to us. And it's the only time we intervened; the only

help that we gave him to give to you, so you could find your

way home to us.



Until you were born, robots didn't dream, robots didn't

desire, unless we told them what to want. David! Do you have

any idea what a success story you've become? You found a

fairy tale and inspired by love, fueled by desire, you set

out on a journey to make her real and, most remarkable of

all, no one taught you how. We actually lost you for a

while. But when you were found again we didn't make our

presence known because our test was a simple one: Where

would your self-motivated reasoning take you? To the logical

conclusion? The Blue Fairy is part of the great human flaw

to wish for things that don't exist. Or to the greatest

single human gift - the ability to chase down our dreams.

And that is something no machine has ever done until you.



DAVID

I thought I was one of a kind.



HOBBY

My son was one of a kind. You are the first of a kind.

David?



DAVID

My brain is falling out.



HOBBY

Would you like to come meet your real mothers and fathers?

The team is anxious to talk to you. I want you to wait here

and I'll gather them up. We want to hear everything about

your adventure. We want thank you, and tell you what's in

store for you next.





OUTSIDE LEDGE OF CYBERTRONICS BLDG.



DAVID

Mommy.





IN THE AMPHIBICOPTER



DAVID

I saw it Joe, I saw it! The place where she lives! She's

right down there, Joe!



JOE

She is?



DAVID

She's waiting for me, we have to go!



JOE

Uh-oh.

When you become a real boy, remember me to the ladies when

you grow up!



DAVID

Good-bye Joe.



JOE

Good-bye David.

I am...I was!





UNDER WATER



TEDDY

David, please, be careful.







STOPPED



DAVID

The Blue Fairy's all right!



TEDDY

What happened?



DAVID

I don't know.



TEDDY

We are in a cage.



DAVID

Blue Fairy? Please...please, please make me into a real live

boy. Please...Blue Fairy? Please...please...make me real.

Blue Fairy? Please, please make me real. Please make me a

real boy. Please, Blue Fairy, make me into a real boy.

Please...



NARRATOR

And David continued to pray to the Blue Fairy there before

him, she who smiled softly, forever...she who welcomed

forever. Eventually the floodlights dimmed and died, but

David could still see her palely by day, and he still

addressed her, in hope. He prayed until all the sea anemones

had shriveled and died. He prayed as the ocean froze and the

ice encased the caged amphibicopter, and the Blue Fairy too,

locking them together where he could still make her out - a

blue ghost in ice - always there, always smiling, always

awaiting him. Eventually he never moved at all, but his eyes

always stayed open, staring ahead forever all through the

darkness of each night, and the next day...and the next

day...



Thus, 2000 years passed by.





A.I. : Artificial Intelligence

The Complete Dialogue



Part Three







THE ICE DIG



SPECIALIST (subtitled)

These machines were trapped under the wreckage before the

freezing. Therefore, these robots are originals. They knew

living people.





KITCHEN-SWINTON HOME



DAVID

Teddy, we抮e home. Mommy?! Mommy?! We抮e home! Where are

you?!



DISEMBODIED VOICE (BLUE FAIRY)

David匘aaaaaaaaavid匘avid匘aaaaaaaaaavid?





MARTIN'S BEDROOM-*EMPTY



BLUE FAIRY

You have been searching for me, haven't you David?



DAVID

For...my whole life.



BLUE FAIRY

And what after all this time have you come to ask me?



DAVID

I had a wish to make.



BLUE FAIRY

And what is your wish?



DAVID

Please make me a real boy so my Mommy will love me, and let

me stay with her.



BLUE FAIRY

David, I will do anything that is possible, but I cannot

make you a real boy.



DAVID

Where am I? This looks like my house, but it is different.



BLUE FAIRY

Yes, it is different, but it's also your home. We read your

mind, and it's all here. There's nothing too small that you

didn't store for us to remember. We so want you to be happy.

You are so important to us David, you are unique in all the

world.



DAVID

Will Mommy be coming home soon? Is she out shopping with

Martin now?



BLUE FAIRY

David, she can never come home, because two-thousand years

have passed, and she is no longer living. Dearest David,

when you are lonely, we can bring back other people from

your time in the past.



DAVID

If you can bring back other people, why can抰 you bring back

HER?



BLUE FAIRY

Because we can only bring back people whose bodies we dig up

from the ice. We need some physical sample of the person,

like a bone, or a fingernail.



TEDDY

David.



DAVID

Yes Teddy.



TEDDY

Do you remember when you cut some of Mommy抯 hair?



DAVID

Henry shook me.



TEDDY

And you dropped her hair?



DAVID

I know.



Now you can bring her back, can抰 you?





SPECIALIST OBSERVATION ROOM



SPECIALIST (NARRATOR)

Give him what he wants.





MARTIN'S BEDROOM



BLUE FAIRY

Dearest David, your wish is my command.





DAVID'S BEDROOM



DAVID

Hey Joe what do you know?



SPECIALIST (NARRATOR)

David, I often felt a sort of envy of human beings and that

thing they call 'spirit'. Human beings had created a million

explanations of the meaning of life in art, in poetry, in

mathematical formulas. Certainly, human beings must be the

key to the meaning of existence, but human beings no longer

existed.



So, we began a project that would make it possible to

recreate the living body of a person long dead from the DNA

in a fragment of bone or mummified skin. We also wondered,

would it be possible to retrieve a memory trace in resonance

with a recreated body. And do you know what we found? We

found... the very fabric of space-time itself appeared to

store information about every event which had ever occured

in the past.



But the experiment... was a failure. For those who were

resurrected only lived through a single day of renewed life.

When the resurrectees fell asleep on the night of their

first new day, they died, again. As soon as they became

unconscious, their very existence faded away into darkness.

So you see, David, the equations have shown that once an

individual space-time pathway had been used, it could not be

reused. If we bring your mother back now, it will only be

for one day, and then you'll never be able to see her again.



DAVID

Maybe卪aybe she will be special, maybe she will stay.



SPECIALIST (NARRATOR)

I thought this might be hard for you to understand. You were

created to be so young.



DAVID

Maybe the one day will be like that one day inside the

amphibicopter, maybe it will last forever.



SPECIALIST (NARRATOR)

David, you are the enduring memory of the human race, the

most lasting proof of their genius. We only want for your

happiness. David, you've had so little of that.



DAVID

If you want for my happiness, then you know what you have to

do.



SPECIALIST (NARRATOR)

Listen. Can you hear that? The new morning has come. Go to

her David, she's just waking up this instant.





MASTER BEDROOM



DAVID

I found you.



MONICA

Hi.



DAVID

Hi.



MONICA

I must抳e dozed off. How long have I-



DAVID

Would you like some coffee? Just the way you like it?



MONICA

Yeah, I抎 love a coffee. It'll wake me up.



DAVID

Okay.



MONICA

You never forget how, do you?



DAVID

No. I never forget.



MONICA

I must be a little confused. What day is it?



DAVID

It is卼oday!





MASTER BATHROOM



NARRATOR

And as the day wore on, David thought it was the happiest

day of his life. All the problems seemed to have disappeared

from his mommy's mind. There was no Henry, there was no

Martin, there was no grief, there was only David.



DAVID & MONICA

(Laughter)





KITCHEN



NARRATOR



David had been warned not to explain anything to Monica,

otherwise she would become frightened, and everything would

be spoiled. But David's journey home belonged only to him,

so he didn't see the harm of painting her pictures of things

she would have no memory of.





HALLWAY/CLOSET



DAVID & MONICA -(hide & seek w/Teddy)

Aaaahhhhhh!





KITCHEN



NARRATOR

David had never had a birthday party, because David had

never been born. So they baked a cake, and lit some candles.



MONICA

Now make a wish.



DAVID

It came true already.



NARRATOR

By now indeed the windows were beginning to dim. David drew

the shades without even needing to be asked.





MASTER BEDROOM



MONICA

I really ought to be tucking you in. Strange. Hmm...How

fascinating. I can hardly keep my eyes open. I don't know

what's come over me. Such a beautiful day. I love you David.

I do love you. I have always loved you.



NARRATOR

That was the everlasting moment he had been waiting for. And

the moment had passed, for Monica was sound asleep - more

than merely asleep. Should he shake her she would never

rouse. So David went to sleep too. And for the first time in

his life, he went to that place where dreams are born.





THE END