Daily Dialogue — October 16, 2017

BRETT: You don’t exist! The code created you!
COTTON: I am the code.
BRETT: I cracked your code!
COTTON: I cracked you. … Come with me. Be immortal.
BRETT: Immortal?! You’re dead!

Brett reaches to close the laptop. Cotton takes another tack.

COTTON: You understand what you’ve done, don’t you?

Brett stops.

COTTON: Of course you do. You’ve helped them. All the people you hate. The CIA, the NSA…
BRETT: I’m just doing a — 
COTTON: You pretend they want ROPER just for criminals, but you know better. It’s for everyone. Everywhere.
BRETT: It’s a commercial application.
COTTON: Right. And they’ll magically wipe away your legal troubles after you serve their needs.
BRETT: That’s…that’s the deal.

Cotton laughs derisively.

BRETT: Alex would never betray me.
COTTON: Alex is dead.

— Nightmare Code (2015), screenplay by Mark Netter and M.J. Rotondi, story by Mark Netter

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Computer. Today’s suggestion by M.J. Rotondi.

Trivia: The movie won at the 2015 Philip K Dick International Science Fiction Film Festival.

Dialogue On Dialogue: What’s intriguing here is this is the first feature film told from the perspective of a sentient AI.