Cliff Stephens credited as playing...
Bob Page • Cop • Ford Schick
- Bob Page: Your appointment with FEMA should be finalized within the week. I've already discussed the matter with the Senator.
- Walton Simons: I take it he was agreeable?
- Bob Page: He didn't really have a choice.
- Walton Simons: Has he been infected?
- Bob Page: Oh yes. Most certainly. When I mentioned we could put him on the priority list for the Ambrosia vaccine, he was so willing it was almost pathetic.
- Walton Simons: This plague... the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.
- Bob Page: Why contain it? Let it spill over the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end they'll beg us to save them.
- Walton Simons: I've received reports of armed attacks on shipments. There's not enough vaccine to go around, and the underclasses are starting to get desperate.
- Bob Page: Of course they're desperate; they can smell their deaths, and the sound they'll make rattling their cages will serve as a warning to the rest.
- Walton Simons: Mmm. I hope you're not underestimating the problem. Intelligence suggest they're behind the problems in Paris.
- Bob Page: Bunch of pretentious old men playing at running the world. But the world left them behind long ago. We are the future.
- Walton Simons: We have other problems.
- Bob Page: UNATCO?
- Walton Simons: Formed by executive order after the strike on the Statue. I have someone in place though. I'm more concerned about Savage. He's relocated to Vandenberg.
- Bob Page: Our biochem corpus is far in advance of theirs, as is our electronic sentience, and their 'ethical inflexibility' has allowed us to make progress in areas they refuse to consider.
- Walton Simons: The augmentation project?
- Bob Page: Among others. But, I must admit, I've been somewhat disappointed with the performance of the primary unit.
- Walton Simons: The secondary unit should be online soon. It's currently undergoing preparations and should be operational within six months. If necessary, the primary will be terminated.
- Bob Page: We've had to endure much, you and I, but soon there will be order again. A new age. Aquinas spoke of the mythical city on the hill, soon that city will be real and we will be crowned its kings. Or, better than kings... Gods!