Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV Series)

Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point (2008)

Shirley Manson: Catherine Weaver

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• Catherine Weaver : We call the project 'Babylon'. It's a sophisticated computer program - an artificial intelligence. During the blackout, the AI reserved generator power for itself, and in doing so shut down the building's other systems.

  James Ellison : This AI - it has control over the building?

  Catherine Weaver : You make it sound like a monster movie. The facility in the AI are interconnected only to the extend that the AI needs the facility's resources to help it grow.

  James Ellison : And does 'growing' involve allowing the agonizing death of an otherwise healthy man?

  Catherine Weaver : I don't know what his intentions were.

  James Ellison : Intentions? Now it does sound like a monster movie.

• James Ellison : [about John Henry, the AI]  It has no feeling for what it did. It has no opinion. That's what it's telling you. Sure, you taught it procedures, you taught it rules; but it's got no ethics, no morals. Whether it had any feeling about Dr. Sherman shouldn't matter. If you had taught it to value Sherman's life. Someone killed the man. And it wasn't John Henry. Excuse me.

  [about to leave] 

  Catherine Weaver : What would you teach it? What would you teach it if you could?

  James Ellison : You want to teach it commands? Start with the first Ten.

• Catherine Weaver : In folklore, John Henry raced a steam drill through a mountain. One man alone challenged the machine, armed with an iron hammer. They say he was born with it in his hand.

  James Ellison : His heart gave out, he died, I know.

  Catherine Weaver : John Henry defeated the machine. But he couldn't stop progress.