Alexander Hartdegen
Über-Morlock
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We weren't always like this. After the moon fell from the sky, the Earth could no longer sustain the species. Some managed to stay above; the rest of us escaped underground. Then centuries later, when we tried to re-emerge into the sun again, we couldn't.
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And what is time travel, but your pathetic attempted to try to control the world around you?! Your futile effort to have a question answered?! You think I don't know you, Alexander? I can look inside your memories, your nightmares, your dreams. You're a man haunted by those two most terrible words:
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You built your time machine
because of Emma's death. If she had lived, it would never have existed, so how could you use your machine to go back and save her? You are the inescapable result of your tragedy, just as I am the inescapable result of
you.
Others
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Vox 144: Can you even imagine what it's like to remember
everything? I remember this six-year-old girl who asked me about dinosaurs 800,000 years ago. I remember the last book I recommended:
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. And yes, I even remember you. "Time travel, practical application."
Dialogue
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Phillby:
[looking at a futuristic picture] I wonder if we'll ever go too far.
Hartdegen: With what?
Phillby:
[pointing at the picture] With this. With all of this.
Hartdegen: No such thing.
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Jogger (credited as such but actually a bicyclist): Hey.
Hartdegen: Hello.
Jogger: Nice suit. Very retro.
Hartdegen: Thank you.
Jogger: Bet that makes a hell of a cappuccino.
(Indicates the time machine) That thing.
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Hartdegen: How did this happen?
Soldier #1: The moon. Come on, move it.
Hartdegen: That's impossible. What happened?
Soldier #1: What, you been living under a rock?
Hartdegen: Yes, I've been living under a rock! Now tell me...
Soldier #1: The demolitions for the lunar colony screwed up the orbit, okay? The moon's breaking up, all right? Now, come on.
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Vox 144:
[darkly] So, relic - you want to open Pandora's box, do you? See all the mysteries exposed?
Alexander: Yes.
Vox 144: And if the truth is so horrible that it will haunt your dreams for all time?
Alexander: I'm used to that.
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Uber-Morlock: We bred ourselves into castes. Some to be our eyes and ears, others to be our muscles and sinews...
Hartdegen: You mean your hunters?
Uber-Morlock: Yes. Bred to be predators, but bred also to be controlled. You see,
my caste concentrated on expanding our
cerebral abilities.
Hartdegen: You control their thoughts?
Uber-Morlock: Not just theirs.
Hartdegen:
[realises] The Eloi. So it's not enough that you hunt them down like animals?
Uber-Morlock: That's their role here.
Hartedegen: To be your food?!
Uber-Morlock: Yes. And for those who are suitable, to be breeding vessels for our other colonies.
[indicates Mara in her cage] You see, I am just one of many.
Hartdegen: I don't understand how you can sit there and speak so coldly about this.
[the Uber-Morlock rises] Have you not considered the human cost of what it is your are doing?
Uber-Morlock: We all pay a price...
Alexander.
[other Morlocks roar in the distance] Don't worry, you're safe. I control them. Without that control, they would exhaust the food supply in a matter of months.
Hartdegen: Food supply?! They're human beings!
Uber-Morlock: Who are
you to question 800,000 years of evolution?
Hartdegen: This is a perversion of every natural law!
Uber-Morlock:
[grabs him by the throat] And what is time travel... but your pathetic attempt to control the world around you?! Your futile effort to have a question answered?!
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