The Big O (1999–2003): Season 2, Episode 6 - Eyewitness - full transcript
Okay, Phil! We'll call
it a day after this one!
Sounds like you're
low on oil.
Yes. If I operate another 25 hours,
I will have insufficient lubricant oil.
Don't worry, I'll top you off
after we're done.
Phil!
Phil!
It's the same M.O.
The weapon is probably a pipe bomb
fired from the same crossbow.
The owner got a look at it
before the explosion.
Where is he?
The hospital. But he didn't
get a look at the attacker.
Colonel!
An inspector from the Paradigm home office.
To what do we owe the honor?
I'm not here to interfere with your
investigation, Colonel Dastun.
You're a...!
R. Frederick O'ReiIIy.
Please, call me Freddy.
This is a city of Amnesia.
Humans and androids alike lost their memory
and live here side by side.
Forty years ago, did humans and androids
have the same relationship that they do now?
The oil doesn't need
to be high grade.
Also, rumor has it that there's an android crusher
running loose in town, so be extra careful.
I understand.
Well, well...
An android inspector.
I'm the first.
The first in these past
40 years, at least.
I see.
In other words, Paradigm is so
concerned about this case...
...that they're willing
to do the unprecedented.
Yes, but it also means
that I am competent enough...
...for them to trust me
to be able to do the job.
I'd like to accompany you.
I'm told that you take
a hands-on approach.
Does the fact that you can't leave things
to your men mean that you can't trust them?
They're a bunch
of slackers, all right,
but everyone here puts their life
on the line to protect this city,
both inside and
outside the Domes!
-Yeah!
- That's teIIin' him!
That'll be 980 credits.
On your card, huh?
Heavy, huh?
I can have it delivered.
Of course, the delivery
fee is extra--
Sign here, please.
Thank you, come again!
Of course, I ain't got
what it takes to fix him.
But you never know.
You never know...
Maybe I got Memories that can repair
androids in this rusted head of mine.
Nobody can prove
that I don't.
I understand.
I'll handle negotiations between
you and the Military Police.
It never really bothered me
that Bowman was an android.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Did Bowman ever talk to you
about his own lost Memories'?
It's something Bowman
and I often joked about.
About how we were friends
because we must have been...
...poor forty years ago, eking out
a living with each other's help.
You must have been close.
I hope it'll be the same
for the two of you.
Mr. Simmons, let's go over the events
of the day before the incident again.
Will listening to an old man's
sentimental stories solve the case?
Apparently, androids that hang
around humans long enough...
...eventually come to
understand human emotions,
but I think it'll take more than another
forty years for you to manage that.
These crimes mustn't
be allowed to continue.
Paradigm's top executives hope
for a speedy resolution to this case.
Go to hell!
Excuse me?
You're recording everything I say into
your memory, aren't you, Mr. Android?
That was for the people who'll
be listening to the recordings.
This city is surprisingly safe.
Don't you think so, Negotiator?
People don't even have to worry about being
killed, unless they do something stupid...
...like saying that they've recovered
memories from forty years ago.
But androids are different.
Not even Paradigm's Science Group
can reawaken an android's lost Memories.
That said, it doesn't mean that
those Memories aren't there.
You think that's the motive behind
the serial android destructions?
Humans get déjà vu, right?
Who's to say
that androids don't?
Ah, Dorothy.
I was growing worried.
Don't worry, Norman.
Norman, stand clear.
I beg your pardon?
Dorothy!
Norman.
Norman, get clear.
Norman!
Oh, my!
Dorothy!
What the hell?
Dorothy...!
What's the meaning
of this, Dastun?!
R. Dorothy is our only eyewitness.
She's seen the culprit.
Then just copy her
visual data Memories!
Why have you taken her
into custody?!
We hate to do it.
But our top priority is to apprehend
the android crusher...
...and make sure
he doesn't strike again.
It's necessary to gain a deeper understanding
of why R. Dorothy was targeted.
Dorothy is my--
Roger Smith.
I'm told that you left the Military Police
under less than honorable circumstances.
As a citizen of Paradigm City,
isn't cooperating with our investigation...
...one way to wipe clean
your disgrace?
I don't know what's in Paradigm's records,
but I quit of my own free will!
I can offer no excuse.
I was right there, and yet...
Don't worry about it, Norman.
We'll send her home
as soon as possible.
It's hard to believe there's an
inspector here from Paradigm.
Do you know something?
I can think of one person
who enjoys destroying androids.
Huh? What do you--
Dastun. I've taken
a job from someone.
I'd like to claim the wreckage of the android
that was destroyed at the junkyard.
Hold off on that
for a while.
So, a proud man like you
is taking orders from an--
Thank you for
your cooperation.
Dorothy, if you--
Don't worry, Colonel.
I'm not embarrassed.
You're a work of art,
R. Dorothy.
And what are you?
I... exist to carry out the
missions assigned to me.
It's him!
Mr. Rosewater is away on vacation at
the moment, so he is unable to see you.
That's why I'm asking you
to tell me where he is!
I'm not allowed to give
out that information.
Alex isn't in
Paradigm right now.
How refined of him.
But the person I actually
want to see right now is--
Alan Gabriel?
Alan is with Alex.
So he has an alibi for the serial
android destruction case.
Where are they?
Probably... someplace far away.
I see.
So that means it wasn't Alex himself
who dispatched that android investigator.
I'm not so sure.
Is the place where Alex is now
the same place you were born at?
My, whatever do you mean, Roger Smith?
I'm a Paradigm City girl.
You lie constantly.
You've even given up your own name.
Did you ask to live
your life this way?
Yes, I did.
Is that pity I hear? I don't think
we're all that different, you and I.
What do you mean by that?
You haven't forgotten that the question of why
you're able to freely pilot a Megadeus...
...has been shelved so long
it's gathering dust, have you?
I haven't forgotten.
I'm just thinking that maybe it's time I blew
off the dust and took it out in the open.
Me, too...
This can't be good.
Huh?
It's my credo to treat all young,
beautiful women with the utmost respect.
With you, though, it's been nothing
but trouble since the moment we met,
so I've been making exceptions to that
credo where you're concerned.
Or more to the point, you're someone
I've needed to be on my guard against.
But?
But we seem to be two people
with something in common.
We're two people who
don't run from trouble.
Is this a good idea?
What is?
Confiding in me like this.
Good question.
I don't know.
Please pardon the interruption,
Master Roger.
What is it, Norman?
Colonel Dastun and his men
just left to make an arrest,
saying they had identified the culprit
in the serial android destroyer case.
What? That was a lot faster
than I expected.
Let me ask you something.
Why did you center
your dragnet on this bar?
The day before he was destroyed,
the Simmons android...
...placed a delivery order
for high-grade OR-7 oil.
R. Dorothy was attacked on her way home
from buying the same oil from here.
Plus, the day before Phil was
turned to scrap, Sam also bought oil.
That junk dealer out in the slums on
the outskirts bought it for an android.
Our culprit has been choosing androids
with high-order Memories as victims,
using oil to track
them down.
I'm impressed, Colonel.
We've cut off the oil supply inside
the store and have finished removing it.
Send in an unmanned
strike robot first.
That won't be necessary.
What? Hey, wait a minute!
Inspector O'ReiIIy!
Innocent robots mustn't go on being deprived
of both their free will and their Memories.
He's going after androids!
That includes you!
The culprit has been identified,
hasn't he?
I would like to take
Miss Dorothy home with me.
I'm sorry, sir, but orders
haven't come down yet.
Nevertheless, I--
They're about
to close the case?
Dastun...
O'ReiIIy!
O'ReiIIy!
Please stand back.
Dastun!
He isn't working alone.
What have you done?
Were you malfunctioning?
Son of a...
You junk heap!
He may have been a criminal, but androids
can't go around attacking humans!
It goes against the fundamental
laws governing android behavior.
That's what you want
to say, isn't it?
Are you trying to say that
it's okay to murder criminals?!
Dastun, he didn't
kill a human.
W- What?
An android...
You had a feeling that
an android was the culprit?
This completes the mission
that was assigned to me.
Analysis of the unit that caused
the android to go insane...
...will be conducted
by our Science Group.
You think this is over?
You've got to be kidding!
Why didn't you tell us
this in the first place?!
If I've offended you,
I apologize.
You son of a...
Dastun.
What is it?
Terrible-- Master Ro--
Doro-- Have-- but...
I'm not reading you, Norman!
Colonel Dastun!
Headquarters is under attack!
It's what?!
Let's go home, Norman.
Oh, my.
There was more
than one culprit.
It looks like someone's
misusing androids and robots.
Delphi...
What was that you said?
Someone has come to the city who is trying
to collect the Memories of advanced androids.
And will stop at nothing
to get them...!
Big O!
It certainly seems to be
after you, Dorothy.
It's after my Memories.
Oops!
What fun would it be
if we did nothing but run?
Roger...
You have my sympathies for
having to obey a mistaken master.
You aren't my real enemy!
My real enemy...
Who is my real enemy?
Paradigm has decided that
misconduct by androids...
...should be dealt
with by androids.
Dealt with?
You yourself came here
as an android killer?
Don't worry.
We don't have emotions.
Not normally.
I'll be able to report that you were
of great help in resolving this case.
In other words, your orders
didn't include filing a report.
Freddy...!
You knew that you were
sent here to be a target?
Thank you
for your cooperation.
Colonel Dastun!
We're with Paradigm Press!
Could we get a statement?
it a day after this one!
Sounds like you're
low on oil.
Yes. If I operate another 25 hours,
I will have insufficient lubricant oil.
Don't worry, I'll top you off
after we're done.
Phil!
Phil!
It's the same M.O.
The weapon is probably a pipe bomb
fired from the same crossbow.
The owner got a look at it
before the explosion.
Where is he?
The hospital. But he didn't
get a look at the attacker.
Colonel!
An inspector from the Paradigm home office.
To what do we owe the honor?
I'm not here to interfere with your
investigation, Colonel Dastun.
You're a...!
R. Frederick O'ReiIIy.
Please, call me Freddy.
This is a city of Amnesia.
Humans and androids alike lost their memory
and live here side by side.
Forty years ago, did humans and androids
have the same relationship that they do now?
The oil doesn't need
to be high grade.
Also, rumor has it that there's an android crusher
running loose in town, so be extra careful.
I understand.
Well, well...
An android inspector.
I'm the first.
The first in these past
40 years, at least.
I see.
In other words, Paradigm is so
concerned about this case...
...that they're willing
to do the unprecedented.
Yes, but it also means
that I am competent enough...
...for them to trust me
to be able to do the job.
I'd like to accompany you.
I'm told that you take
a hands-on approach.
Does the fact that you can't leave things
to your men mean that you can't trust them?
They're a bunch
of slackers, all right,
but everyone here puts their life
on the line to protect this city,
both inside and
outside the Domes!
-Yeah!
- That's teIIin' him!
That'll be 980 credits.
On your card, huh?
Heavy, huh?
I can have it delivered.
Of course, the delivery
fee is extra--
Sign here, please.
Thank you, come again!
Of course, I ain't got
what it takes to fix him.
But you never know.
You never know...
Maybe I got Memories that can repair
androids in this rusted head of mine.
Nobody can prove
that I don't.
I understand.
I'll handle negotiations between
you and the Military Police.
It never really bothered me
that Bowman was an android.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Did Bowman ever talk to you
about his own lost Memories'?
It's something Bowman
and I often joked about.
About how we were friends
because we must have been...
...poor forty years ago, eking out
a living with each other's help.
You must have been close.
I hope it'll be the same
for the two of you.
Mr. Simmons, let's go over the events
of the day before the incident again.
Will listening to an old man's
sentimental stories solve the case?
Apparently, androids that hang
around humans long enough...
...eventually come to
understand human emotions,
but I think it'll take more than another
forty years for you to manage that.
These crimes mustn't
be allowed to continue.
Paradigm's top executives hope
for a speedy resolution to this case.
Go to hell!
Excuse me?
You're recording everything I say into
your memory, aren't you, Mr. Android?
That was for the people who'll
be listening to the recordings.
This city is surprisingly safe.
Don't you think so, Negotiator?
People don't even have to worry about being
killed, unless they do something stupid...
...like saying that they've recovered
memories from forty years ago.
But androids are different.
Not even Paradigm's Science Group
can reawaken an android's lost Memories.
That said, it doesn't mean that
those Memories aren't there.
You think that's the motive behind
the serial android destructions?
Humans get déjà vu, right?
Who's to say
that androids don't?
Ah, Dorothy.
I was growing worried.
Don't worry, Norman.
Norman, stand clear.
I beg your pardon?
Dorothy!
Norman.
Norman, get clear.
Norman!
Oh, my!
Dorothy!
What the hell?
Dorothy...!
What's the meaning
of this, Dastun?!
R. Dorothy is our only eyewitness.
She's seen the culprit.
Then just copy her
visual data Memories!
Why have you taken her
into custody?!
We hate to do it.
But our top priority is to apprehend
the android crusher...
...and make sure
he doesn't strike again.
It's necessary to gain a deeper understanding
of why R. Dorothy was targeted.
Dorothy is my--
Roger Smith.
I'm told that you left the Military Police
under less than honorable circumstances.
As a citizen of Paradigm City,
isn't cooperating with our investigation...
...one way to wipe clean
your disgrace?
I don't know what's in Paradigm's records,
but I quit of my own free will!
I can offer no excuse.
I was right there, and yet...
Don't worry about it, Norman.
We'll send her home
as soon as possible.
It's hard to believe there's an
inspector here from Paradigm.
Do you know something?
I can think of one person
who enjoys destroying androids.
Huh? What do you--
Dastun. I've taken
a job from someone.
I'd like to claim the wreckage of the android
that was destroyed at the junkyard.
Hold off on that
for a while.
So, a proud man like you
is taking orders from an--
Thank you for
your cooperation.
Dorothy, if you--
Don't worry, Colonel.
I'm not embarrassed.
You're a work of art,
R. Dorothy.
And what are you?
I... exist to carry out the
missions assigned to me.
It's him!
Mr. Rosewater is away on vacation at
the moment, so he is unable to see you.
That's why I'm asking you
to tell me where he is!
I'm not allowed to give
out that information.
Alex isn't in
Paradigm right now.
How refined of him.
But the person I actually
want to see right now is--
Alan Gabriel?
Alan is with Alex.
So he has an alibi for the serial
android destruction case.
Where are they?
Probably... someplace far away.
I see.
So that means it wasn't Alex himself
who dispatched that android investigator.
I'm not so sure.
Is the place where Alex is now
the same place you were born at?
My, whatever do you mean, Roger Smith?
I'm a Paradigm City girl.
You lie constantly.
You've even given up your own name.
Did you ask to live
your life this way?
Yes, I did.
Is that pity I hear? I don't think
we're all that different, you and I.
What do you mean by that?
You haven't forgotten that the question of why
you're able to freely pilot a Megadeus...
...has been shelved so long
it's gathering dust, have you?
I haven't forgotten.
I'm just thinking that maybe it's time I blew
off the dust and took it out in the open.
Me, too...
This can't be good.
Huh?
It's my credo to treat all young,
beautiful women with the utmost respect.
With you, though, it's been nothing
but trouble since the moment we met,
so I've been making exceptions to that
credo where you're concerned.
Or more to the point, you're someone
I've needed to be on my guard against.
But?
But we seem to be two people
with something in common.
We're two people who
don't run from trouble.
Is this a good idea?
What is?
Confiding in me like this.
Good question.
I don't know.
Please pardon the interruption,
Master Roger.
What is it, Norman?
Colonel Dastun and his men
just left to make an arrest,
saying they had identified the culprit
in the serial android destroyer case.
What? That was a lot faster
than I expected.
Let me ask you something.
Why did you center
your dragnet on this bar?
The day before he was destroyed,
the Simmons android...
...placed a delivery order
for high-grade OR-7 oil.
R. Dorothy was attacked on her way home
from buying the same oil from here.
Plus, the day before Phil was
turned to scrap, Sam also bought oil.
That junk dealer out in the slums on
the outskirts bought it for an android.
Our culprit has been choosing androids
with high-order Memories as victims,
using oil to track
them down.
I'm impressed, Colonel.
We've cut off the oil supply inside
the store and have finished removing it.
Send in an unmanned
strike robot first.
That won't be necessary.
What? Hey, wait a minute!
Inspector O'ReiIIy!
Innocent robots mustn't go on being deprived
of both their free will and their Memories.
He's going after androids!
That includes you!
The culprit has been identified,
hasn't he?
I would like to take
Miss Dorothy home with me.
I'm sorry, sir, but orders
haven't come down yet.
Nevertheless, I--
They're about
to close the case?
Dastun...
O'ReiIIy!
O'ReiIIy!
Please stand back.
Dastun!
He isn't working alone.
What have you done?
Were you malfunctioning?
Son of a...
You junk heap!
He may have been a criminal, but androids
can't go around attacking humans!
It goes against the fundamental
laws governing android behavior.
That's what you want
to say, isn't it?
Are you trying to say that
it's okay to murder criminals?!
Dastun, he didn't
kill a human.
W- What?
An android...
You had a feeling that
an android was the culprit?
This completes the mission
that was assigned to me.
Analysis of the unit that caused
the android to go insane...
...will be conducted
by our Science Group.
You think this is over?
You've got to be kidding!
Why didn't you tell us
this in the first place?!
If I've offended you,
I apologize.
You son of a...
Dastun.
What is it?
Terrible-- Master Ro--
Doro-- Have-- but...
I'm not reading you, Norman!
Colonel Dastun!
Headquarters is under attack!
It's what?!
Let's go home, Norman.
Oh, my.
There was more
than one culprit.
It looks like someone's
misusing androids and robots.
Delphi...
What was that you said?
Someone has come to the city who is trying
to collect the Memories of advanced androids.
And will stop at nothing
to get them...!
Big O!
It certainly seems to be
after you, Dorothy.
It's after my Memories.
Oops!
What fun would it be
if we did nothing but run?
Roger...
You have my sympathies for
having to obey a mistaken master.
You aren't my real enemy!
My real enemy...
Who is my real enemy?
Paradigm has decided that
misconduct by androids...
...should be dealt
with by androids.
Dealt with?
You yourself came here
as an android killer?
Don't worry.
We don't have emotions.
Not normally.
I'll be able to report that you were
of great help in resolving this case.
In other words, your orders
didn't include filing a report.
Freddy...!
You knew that you were
sent here to be a target?
Thank you
for your cooperation.
Colonel Dastun!
We're with Paradigm Press!
Could we get a statement?