Dr. Kauffman Less than a month ago, Santa Mira was like any other town. People with nothing but problems. Then, out of the sky came a solution. Seeds drifting through space for years took root in a farmer's field. From the seeds came pods which had the power to reproduce themselves in the exact likeness of any form of life...Your new bodies are growing in there. They're taking you over cell for cell, atom for atom. There is no pain. Suddenly, while you're asleep, they'll absorb your minds, your memories and you're reborn into an untroubled world...Tomorrow you'll be one of us...There's no need for love...Love. Desire. Ambition. Faith. Without them, life is so simple, believe me.
Stop trying to rationalize everything, will ya? Let's face it, we have a mystery on our hands!
Dr. Kauffman Sure you have. A real one! Whose body was it and where is it now? A completely normal mystery. Whatever it is, it's well within the bounds of human experience and I don't think you ought to make any more of it.
Look, I wouldn't if I hadn't looked in Becky's cellar! How do you explain away the body I saw there?
Dr. Kauffman I don't think you saw one there.
You don't think I saw one here either?
Dr. Kauffman I know you did because three others saw it too.
But I dreamed up the second one?
Dr. Kauffman Doctors can have hallucinations too.
Dr. Kauffman We can't let you go. You're dangerous to us.
Don't fight it, Miles, it's no use. Sooner or later, you'll have to go to sleep.
Dr. Kauffman Miles, you and I are scientific men. You can understand the wonder of what’s happening. Now just think, less than a month ago, Santa Mira was like any other town. People with nothing but problems. Then, out of the sky came a solution. Seeds drifting through space for years took root in a farmer's field. From the seeds came pods which had the power to reproduce themselves in the exact likeness of any form of life.
So that's how it began...out of the sky.
Dr. Kauffman Your new bodies are growing in there. They're taking you over cell for cell, atom for atom. There is no pain. Suddenly, while you're asleep, they'll absorb your minds, your memories and you're reborn into an untroubled world.
Where everyone's the same?
Dr. Kauffman Exactly.
What a world. We're not the last humans left. They'll destroy you!
Dr. Kauffman Tomorrow you won't want them to. Tomorrow you'll be one of us.
I love Becky. Tomorrow will I feel the same?
Dr. Kauffman [shakes his head]
There's no need for love.
No emotion? Then you have no feelings, only the instinct to survive. You can't love or be loved! Am I right?
Dr. Kauffman You say it as if it were terrible. Believe me, it isn't. You've been in love before. It didn't last. It never does. Love. Desire. Ambition. Faith. Without them, life is so simple, believe me.
I don't want any part of it.
Dr. Kauffman You're forgetting something, Miles.
Dr. Kauffman You have no choice.
