Zoe Page #3

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No press release about you being hired

to run the Machine division at the lab.

Nothing about who you are.

Why do you have keys to my apartment?

The apartment belongs to the lab.

I rented it only a few months ago.

What are you talking about?

Do you ever wonder

why theres no food in your fridge?

Why everything in here is so new?

This isnt gonna be easy to say,

and, um

its gonna sound a bit crazy,

but you dont oversee

the Synthetics division at the lab.

Youre a creation of it.

The reason you scored zero with me

was because the Machine

could see that you were synthetic.

Why would you say this to me?

It was a test.

To see how people would connect with you,

if they would connect with you.

To see how Ash would react to you.

To see if anyone would be able to tell.

Go and look in the mirror.

Look at your eyes really close,

and youll see.

Youll see.

Youve only been online

for a couple of months.

- Oh, my God.

- Im so sorry, Zoe.

I should have told you sooner.

[sighs]

Zoe.

Zoe.

[horn honks]

To tell you the truth,

Im a little jealous.

- Why?

- You got to be human.

- But it was a lie.

- Not to me.

You know,

I read that you know when youre in love

because you cant fall asleep.

Because your reality

is better than your dreams.

Sounds like Freud.

Eh. Dr. Seuss.

Zoe.

It was a mistake.

I should have told you so much sooner.

I had no idea you would evolve like this.

I didnt.

Was I designed to have feelings for you?

No.

No. You have tendencies,

just like people, thats all.

Are you going to deactivate me now?

No. Thats not what you want, is it?

I mean, you know

this is my life.

I realized Ive never done anything real.

Ive never stayed up late

with girlfriends.

Ive never talked on a

phone with a boy.

Ive never worn perfume.

Id like to show you

some of the things youve done.

Okay?

[Zoe] I started here when I was 15.

I was overweight, terrified.

But its like

all the memories you gave to Ash.

It didnt happen.

They happened.

You had real emotional experiences.

How you store those memories or how you

remember them doesnt make them less real.

- [Cole] What else happened here?

- Mmm.

- Daydream.

- Mm-hmm.

Study on nice days.

I wrote a whole paper once

on my laptop under that tree.

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah.

I would sit there

and wonder

how it was going to turn out for me.

Imagining all the possibilities

of what I could be.

I hated school because I always felt

that I was one among many.

I can understand that feeling

of feeling alone with lots of people.

Yeah.

Some people peak there.

Theyre the coolest people at school.

Then the rest of their lives

are very mundane and ordinary.

Like a misfit.

Nerd.

- I felt like that too.

- Nerd, is it?

- No. I said I felt like that too.

- Yeah.

- I didnt think you were a nerd.

- No, I was just...

Nerd! That would be a bit cruel.

I felt like a misfit. Nerd!

No, Im not a nerd. A misfit.

[laughing]

Miss, I have a question.

What are... What body functions

are we gonna learn today?

This little thing.

Its a little camel toe.

[both laughing]

I dont think thats

gonna reproduce anything, really.

Spermatozoid will go in the camel toe.

- It goes in it.

- Go on.

Creates another human being.

Very easy.

Thats the story of humanity.

Youve been so thorough,

I dont have any questions at all.

Youve covered all bases, I think.

- Youre not supposed to be here.

- [Cole] Oh, sorry.

- Sorry.

- Yeah. Sorry. Right.

Right. [laughing]

[no audible dialogue]

[Zoe] Its a private research library.

Its not even open to the grad students.

- Its nice.

- Yeah.

- Its got a good smell to it.

- Yeah.

- Smells like old.

- It does have a very old...

- Like an old grandma.

- Like an old grandma?

Thats right.

[laughing]

What was she like,

the person whose memories I have?

Well, it wasnt just one person.

It was several.

They were mainly students.

And is there anything

from your past inside me?

Anything from what happened with Emma?

No.

The idea was for you to be completely you.

To have your own thoughts and hopes,

flaws.

- I dont have any flaws.

- No, of course. You dont have any flaws.

- Well, hopes and thoughts anyway.

- [laughing]

You never answered my question.

About whether you ever think of me.

Well, of course I have.

But I cant unsee some of the ways

Ive seen you, in the beginning.

In some ways, I think it makes me

even more in awe of who you are now.

Yeah.

[Zoe] Everyone walks by here.

I used to watch them all the time.

[Cole] Hmm.

[Zoe]

Coming and going and, you know, waiting

for the person they loved.

But none of it was real.

I never saw those people.

I was never even here.

Whos going to love someone

whos not real?

Zoe, you cant think like that.

Whats happening to me?

Why are there no tears in my eyes?

Th-There wont be any tears.

When you were designed,

we couldnt have imagined

how your emotional life would grow

with these highs and lows.

We didnt see that coming.

The reason you cant produce any tears

is your body literally cant make them.

And I know thats not fair. Im sorry.

Im sorry.

[chattering, faint]

[chatters]

Anyway, Im gonna go upstairs now.

Anyway, Im gonna head off. Bye.

- Hey.

- Hey.

- Where did you guys go?

- We just talked.

You know, I read that dating in the office

is a sure path to heartbreak.

You guys gonna be a couple?

I dont know.

Yeah.

- [crowd chattering]

- [woman on PA, faint]

Want to see the future?

You can find it in our pavilion.

Want to see the future?

You can find it in our pavilion.

Another one like there,

which is the opposite of that one.

They didnt even tell me about this.

[Cole] Shes just captivating, isnt she?

- These people have no idea.

- Yeah. They dont know.

[man] Like the Tin Man over there?

Like, thats what people are expecting.

- [Cole] No. Thats right, yeah.

- They have no idea.

[Cole] Wheres Ash? Whens he on?

- What time is it?

- Its 9:
45.

Probably getting ready for his big speech.

- You think hes rehearsing the speech?

- I bet he is.

Is he nervous?

Want to see the future?

You can find it in our pavilion.

[man on PA] Accelerated breakthrough

Want to see the future?

You can find it in our pavilion.

How many of you have considered

the actual possibility

of a relationship with a synthetic?

- [crowd chucking]

- Of course you havent.

Because they are your dog walkers

or maybe a gardener, maybe a housekeeper.

Because theyre primitive, right?

Theyre robotic.

Theyre not real.

But what if they werent?

What if I told you

I am a synthetic?

[murmuring, exclaiming]

What if I told you I could improvise

when I play piano?

That I feel pain? That I can make jokes?

That I can gauge your emotions

and sense what youre feeling

better than anyone in this room?

Right now, Im feeling curiosity. Maybe.

[laughing]

Ill never break your heart.

Ill never leave you.

And I am designed to love you

and understand you

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