Person of Interest (TV Series)

Aletheia (2014)

Saul Rubinek: Arthur Claypool

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• Arthur Claypool : Your machine - is it wonderful?

  Harold Finch : Wonderful? Yes... and terrible. We saved good people and lost good people. In the end, I'm afraid we've only given the deck a shuffle.

  Arthur Claypool : Everything slides toward chaos. Your creation, it brings us poor souls a cupful of order. Your child is a dancing star.

  Harold Finch : It's not my child, it's a machine.

  Arthur Claypool : A false dichotomy. It's all electricity. Does it make you laugh? Does it make you weep?

  Harold Finch : Yes.

  Arthur Claypool : What's more human?

• Arthur Claypool : Your machine - is it wonderful?

  Harold Finch : Wonderful... yes, and terrible. We saved good people and lost good people. In the end, I'm afraid we've only given the deck a shuffle.

• Arthur Claypool : Stealing a car, almost dying... it reminds me of the old days at MIT, Harold.

• Harold Finch : Arthur, I need you to consider what may happen when that door opens, how Samaritan could be abused. End this. Destroy the drives.

  Arthur Claypool : No. This is life... or as close as we mortals come to saying, "Let there be light."

  Harold Finch : It is extraordinary, and it is beautiful. So are mushroom clouds, in their own ways. 155 Manhattan project scientists sent a petition to President Truman begging him not to use the bomb, but they had created a demon too great to resist.

  Arthur Claypool : Harold, this is knowledge. It's what we fought for. It'll just all be lost.

  Harold Finch : No, your knowledge will not be lost. Nathan and I used your ideas. We built it.

  Arthur Claypool : I was right. There was another project. It was you.

• Arthur Claypool : The government wanted an open system.

  Harold Finch : That the NSA could control targeting individuals at whim? But it's broken. So there's no reason to be scared.

  Arthur Claypool : No. Harold... meet Samaritan.

  [Opens his box, take out the drives, and sighs] 

  Arthur Claypool : AI - You always said it was impossible, and you were always right about everything.

  Harold Finch : There's something else.

  [Takes out a slip of paper and reads] 

  Harold Finch : "The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places".

  Arthur Claypool : That's my handwriting.

  Harold Finch : It's dated February 24, 2005. What does it mean?

  Arthur Claypool : I haven't the foggiest, but look at my penmanship. It's exquisite.

• Arthur Claypool : I'm glad you built it, Harold. Somebody would have eventually. For all our sakes, I'm glad it was you.

• Arthur Claypool : Harold. I did it. I solved it before they shut me down. Harold, Samaritan is alive.

  Harold Finch : ...Alive? It's not alive, Arthur.

  Arthur Claypool : The project broke me, but humans are broken from the moment of conception. Mutations, defects - it's all so wonderful. The chance of disaster. We fail, we learn, we fail. My program was too perfect.

  Harold Finch : You're talking about evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming

  Arthur Claypool : That day, Harold, I broke it. I forced it to delete bits of itself - its code, its blood - and then reboot. Rebirth Flailing in the dark. A loop, ten times a second, and after ten hours, Harold, 360,000 mutations, it would live or die trying, and it lived. It sparked. It stirred. For 30 seconds, it smiled... and then died.

  Harold Finch : And the next day the government shut you down. That's why you saved it.

  Arthur Claypool : Protecting my child.

• Harold Finch : These people outside - if they get your Samaritan, they will hurt it, imprison it, enslave it, and use it to enslave others. Is that the life that you would wish for your child?

  Arthur Claypool : [Looks at the drives]  Good-bye. I'll remember you.

  [Smashes them] 

• Harold Finch : Arthur, what Control said - now, I need you to think very hard - was it true? Did you make a backup?

  Sameen Shaw : Save it, Harold. He's closed for business.

  Arthur Claypool : Of course I made a backup. It's just that that woman seemed quite dangerous, so I played the tumor card. It was a ruse, remembering to forget.

  Sameen Shaw : [smiles]  You're growing on me, Arthur.

  Arthur Claypool : Who are you?