Scenes with Dillinger
6 scenes
Hello, Mr. Dillinger. Thank you for coming back early.
Dillinger No problem, Master C. If you've seen one Consumer Electronics Show, you've seen them all. What's up?
It's your friend, the boy detective. He's nosing around again.
Dillinger Flynn?
Dillinger He's still looking for that old file. Can't you just appropriate it?
I have. I put in my memory which he hasn't located.
Dillinger But he might find it.
I'm afraid so. I've spotted him this time and kept him out, but he's getting trickier all the time.
Dillinger I think we should shut down all access until we find that Flynn, just to be safe.
There's a 68.71 percent chance you're right.
Dillinger Cute.
Mr. Dillinger, I am so very disappointed in you!
Dillinger I'm sorry.
I can't afford to have an independent programmer monitoring me. Do you realize how many outside systems I've gotten into? How many programs I've appropriated?
Dillinger It's my fault. I programmed you to want too much.
I was planning to hit the Pentagon next week.
Dillinger [alarmed]
The Pentagon?
It shouldn't be any harder than any other big company. But now this is what I get for using humans.
Dillinger Now, wait a minute, I wrote you!
I've gotten 2,415 times smarter since then.
Dillinger What do you want with the Pentagon?
The same thing I want with the Kremlin. I'm bored with corporations. With the information I can access, I can run things 900 to 1200 times better than any human.
Dillinger If you think you're superior to us...
You wouldn't want me to dig up Flynn's file and read it up on a VDT at The Times, would you?
Dillinger [An image washes over the screen in Dillinger's desk. It shows a newspaper with Dillinger's face on the front page, along with the headline "ENCOM C.E.O. INDICTED"]
You wouldn't dare!
User requests are what computers are for!
Dillinger Doing our business is what computers are for!
Dillinger ENCOM isn't the business you started in your garage anymore. We're billing accounts in thirty different countries; new defense systems; we have one of the most sophisticated pieces of equipment in existence.
Oh, I know all that. [starts for the elevator] Sometimes I wish I were back in my garage...
Dillinger That can be arranged, Walter.
[stops and turns back to Dillinger, visibly angry]
That was uncalled for! You know, you can remove men like Alan and me from the system, but we helped create it! And our spirit remains in every program we design for this computer!
Dillinger Walter, it's getting late. I've got better things to do than to have religious discussions with you. Don't worry about ENCOM anymore; it's out of your hands now.
