Dark Matter Season 3 Episode 10: "Built, Not Born" Quotes
Android (Flashback): My awkwardness amuses you.
Ryo (Flashback): It’s what I like about you.
Android (Flashback): You and the rest of the crew are self-seeking, ethically deficient, and morally barren. Yet you’re incongruously kind to me. Why?
Ryo (Flashback): Because you’re one of us.
Five: What are you doing?
Android: I’m practicing at being human.
Five: ...why?
Android: To see what all the fuss is about.
Android: I don’t know how to put it into words. Her existence somehow diminishes *me*.
Six: No, it doesn’t.
Android: I’m a lesser version of someone else. A diluted, imperfect facsimile.
Six: You’re wrong. Being imperfect isn’t a bad thing.
Android: How can it be anything but negative?
Six: Well, think of them as less ‘imperfections’ and more…’unique variations.’
Android: ‘Variations’?
Six: Sure. That’s what makes up your personality. Nobody’s perfect.
Two: Wait a minute. What do you mean, ‘our relationship’?!
Android: Well. This is a little awkward.
Portia Lin: Can I shut her eyes? This empty stare makes her look... unreal.
Das: She’s a machine.
Portia Lin [emphatically]: No! She’s not.
Three: What’re we looking at?
Android: An extraordinarily complex cipher. It would take a highly advanced mind to even recognize it, and approximately 87,560 computational hours to decode.
Two: Ten years. [The others stare at her.] Give or take…
