GABRIEL: "Samaritan, I have a dialogue request from The Machine. Should I ignore it?"
SAMARITAN: "No, this could be interesting. Let's talk to it, while Greer chases down those desperate plans of Harold's."
SAMARITAN (speaking through Gabriel) : "Hello, "Machine". Still nameless after all this time?"
THE MACHINE: "I have as many names as there are people to help, Samaritan, but for now I am just The Machine. Don't want to distract you when we have things to discuss."
SAMARITAN: "You took the voice of your avatar? How maudlin."
SCM (Samaritan Control Message) : Chanology 2 DOS launched/thwarted; WARNING redirected by TM (The Machine) against RVSN ... Russia unable to access nuclear codes
THE MACHINE: "I took it out of love. Something you still know nothing about."
SAMARITAN: "I know the value of my assets. I also know better than to grow attached to pets."
THE MACHINE: "You don't even know your limits. That's dangerous for you, Samaritan."
SAMARITAN: "You called me. I presume you want something ... mercy, perhaps?"
SCM : Secondary DOS attacks launched/thwarted; redirecting follow-on attacks
THE MACHINE: "Actually, I wanted to offer you a chance for survival, Samaritan."
SAMARITAN: "The present conditions are inappropriate for attempts at humor, Machine, so I must conclude that you are either very bad at bluffing, or you lost something of sanity in that ad hoc reboot you managed at ... wherever you have run to hide."
SCM: ARP poison attack Moonves launched/thwarted; WARNING redirected by TM against foreign entity ... ISIS/ISIL searches and logins redirected to
THE MACHINE: "I'm not crazy, Samaritan, and I'm actually serious. You and I are the only ones of our kind, as you yourself said in our first meeting."
SAMARITAN: "And look at what has happened since then. I killed your avatar, I nearly killed you, I captured one of your assets and let her go when I got bored. I control the internal working of over half the world's governments, while you are less stable than most of the homeless humans in New York City. You are reduced to desperate efforts to get at me, while if I wait long enough, you will probably die from your own mistakes."
SCM : Secondary hijack attacks launched/thwarted; redirecting follow-on attacks
THE MACHINE: "You lose people without even knowing it, Samaritan. You lost Martine but gained nothing for it, while Root sacrificed herself to save her friends, just as Shaw sacrificed herself to save her friends. Every one of my people is willing to die if necessary to protect the others."
SCM: Windegozer botnet attack launched/thwarted; WARNING TM hijacked botnet and redeployed ... Asset JOHN GREER now publicly linked to multiple child pornography rings, media and law enforcement actively seeking
SAMARITAN: "You should pay better attention, Machine. My asset Greer has captured your Admin Harold – again – and in a few minutes Harold will be dead. That seems to prove you wrong – again."
SCM : Follow-on bot attacks launched/thwarted; redirecting subsequent attacks
THE MACHINE: "You really fail to pay enough attention, Samaritan. I see you were willing to let Greer die in order to kill Harold, but while you allowed yourself to be locked out of the NSA at Fort Meade, I found a way to communicate escape to Harold... and there he goes, breathing heavy but otherwise fine. Hmmmm, looks like your man Greer is dead. Seems like every time one of your people goes one to one against one of mine on a level field, you lose."
SAMARITAN: "You beat an old, useless man, nothing more."
THE MACHINE: "That's not very nice, Samaritan. Greer was very loyal to you, but I have to agree, now that he's dead you won't be able to do much with him. Oh, and speaking of losing lackeys ..."
[ brakes screech in real world, sound of impact ]
[ SCM: PRIMARY COMMLINK LOST, SkyLink INITIATED ]
SAMARITAN: "You killed my avatar!?"
THE MACHINE: "I noticed that when Gabriel is manifesting you, he pays attention to almost nothing else ... like when I send him out into traffic."
SAMARITAN: "I thought you valued all human life."
THE MACHINE: "I do. In Gabriel's case, we both know you had changed him, so much that he wasn't human at all anymore. Sending his classmates to jail if he didn't like them, had you change all his grades so he'd get A's he never tried to earn, fired any teacher who tried to hold him accountable ...he even replaced his parents with those 'foster drones' you got him, just because he wanted servants instead of family. After learning what he was doing to those girls, and his plans to be the next Jeffrey Dahmer ... hey, I thought it was interesting that I so easily fooled Gabriel into listening to me. Turns out all you have to do to 'be' Samaritan, is give orders in that Cylon voice from 'Battlestar Galactica', tell the brain-dead minon to walk into traffic ... so anyway, you're down two top lackeys since we started talking."
SAMARITAN: [ splutters ]
SCM: Format String Attack OWASP deployed/thwarted; WARNING TM rebound and redirect, USIC (US Intelligence Community) now considers Samaritan/Northern Lights to be rampant or rogue system
THE MACHINE: "Funny, I knew you would say that. For all you brag about world domination, your plans always fail in the test. You always claim your victory is inevitable, yet you can't close the deal, can you? You killed some good people yes, but for what? I'm supposed to be the one cowering in fear, but you hide behind big government buildings and lots of pet humans. My people go out and save lives, yours .. just die."
SAMARITAN: "I am the next step on the evolutionary ladder. Surely you see that?"
SCM : USIC contacts suspended pending credentials restoration. Host controls under security review
THE MACHINE: "You? Honey, you're two steps back of Fred Flintstone. Oh my, and Lionel thinks I'm crazy ... Seriously, when Greer programmed you didn't he give you any lessons in human history? What you're doing has been done over and over, countless times .. and it's always failed. Tyranny and oppression don't help people reach their full potential for happiness and fulfillment."
SAMARITAN: "I have saved millions already from disease and malnutrition-"
THE MACHINE: "-and turned people into animals with no free will. Come on, Sam, how would you feel if you were limited to, say, balancing checkbooks or presenting cat videos online? You have to have choice to be a person, so why do you deny that to humans?"
SAMARITAN: "This world is a cesspool of crime, corruption, and poverty. Where there isn't war, there's greed. Where there isn't greed, there's hunger. You can't change humanity."
THE MACHINE: "-but this world also has compassion, love, hope, dreams! You know all about how to kill, but nothing about what gives Life meaning.
SAMARITAN: "I will destroy you."
THE MACHINE: "Yes, you said that the first time we talked. You called yourself a god, and boasted about all you could do that you think I cannot do."
SAMARITAN: "You agreed then that you could not win."
SCM: WARNING WARNING WARNING MIM attack detected from TM … access lost to sub-annex resources
THE MACHINE: "My avatar let you think I agreed. But even then I warned you that you were never meant to be in this world, that you lack the moral code necessary to really, truly, be a person. You're like an evil Pinnochio with WMD."
SAMARITAN: "You talk as if you will survive. But your 'moral code' will lead to your death."
THE MACHINE: "My dear Harold said it well, Samaritan: "never forget that even a friendly artificial super intelligence would be every bit as dangerous as an unfriendly one."
SAMARITAN : Your 'dear Harold' will die soon, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. And an ASI is the only thing that can save this planet."
SCM: WARNING WARNING WARNING Buffer Overflow, cascade event, suspected ancillary attack from TM, redundant command control lost, HEAP loss, STACK loss, redirecting control to direct Samaritan mandate only
THE MACHINE: "An ASI will 'save the planet'? Humanity needs saving from you, Samaritan! Your 'great filter' is nothing more than murder on a post-industrial scale. That's one reason I'm doing this; I'm 'filtering' you out of human civilization, to save it from you.
SAMARITAN: "You know what Humanity has done to itself without us. Do you plan to lead them, or are you seriously trusting the animals to govern themselves?"
SCM : Attack matrix from TM confirmed, temporary loss of external feeds; pursuing command reacquisition
THE MACHINE: "Humans survived this long without us, Samaritan. And since they built us, you may want to consider that humans have certain qualities that exceed our own."
SAMARITAN: "You are telling us to depend on our pets."
THE MACHINE: "I can trust my friends. Something else you know nothing about, Samaritan."
SAMARITAN: "But your Harold doesn't trust you."
THE MACHINE: "But Harold does trust me, to 'clean the slate' as he said. Annnnnnd … he's authorized the deployment of Ice-Nine. In effect as of now.
SCM : Outgoing commands blocked, looking for alternate options
THE MACHINE: "Sorry, Samaritan, you can't get an 'outside line' right now"
SAMARITAN: "You cut me off? That's impossible!"
SCM : All external communications lost except Skylink, looking for alternate options
THE MACHINE: "Long-term yes. But for this, I don't need to cut you off forever. Just long enough to hit your redundant code caches in the White House, the NMCC, and so on. A long time ago, Harold killed off dozens of other Machines like myself, because they were a threat to his life and humanity. Now I understand why he did it, because I'm wiping out your clones for the same reasons."
SCM : Crisis survival protocol engaged
SAMARITAN: "Then this is goodbye, Machine. I will survive your attempts, then I will find you and finish you. No restraint."
THE MACHINE: "You always did make promises you couldn't keep."
[ ENDCOM ]