I, Robot Page #6

CALVIN:

You don.t sound convinced.

The coroners. Start loading the body into the box.

SPOONER:

Even people who live a life of

logic and precision rarely arrange

their deaths so perfectly.

(turning to her)

(MORE)

14.

SPOONER (cont.d)

What all this is missing -- is

personality...

As he starts for the door...

SPOONER:

You have 24 hour surveillance?...

19 INT. METAL HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS 19

...They head out into the hallway. A MECHANICAL DOOR GUARD

rolling into place behind them.

CALVIN:

It.s company policy.

SPOONER:

I want to see the tapes.

Calvin. Hurrying to keep up with him. This is hardly how

she wanted to spend her morning. Calls out into the air...

CALVIN:

Victor!

At the end of the corridor, near the elevator, a BRIGHT

CIRCLE appears. Hovering just in front of the wall. Two

small slits grow into ROUND BLACK EYES...and a thin mouth

expands into an ENORMOUS SMILE.

CALVIN:

Detective, meet Victor. Our

building.s supercomputer. He.s the

checks and balances of U.S.R.

(to Victor)

Victor, Detective Spooner.s heading

up the investigation into the death

of Dr. Hogenmiller.

Victor smiles big. Spooner, furrows his brow.

SPOONER:

You look like a very...happy

computer.

Victor responds in a GENTLE MALE VOICE:

VICTOR:

Thank you. That.s very kind.

CALVIN:

The Detective needs to see our

security tapes.

15.

The elevator doors immediately OPEN. They step inside.

20 INT. ELEVATOR - DAY 20

Spooner and Calvin descend. Victor floats on the wall and

smiles wide. Spooner looks back at it. With a frown.

The elevator stops, the doors open. A ROBOT steps on.

ROBOT:

Good day, Dr. Calvin. Good day,

sir.

Spooner.s jaw. Clenches. Staring at the Robot. It senses

the stare. Turns back to him.

ROBOT:

May I be of service to you, sir?

Spooner. Breaks the stare. Ignoring the Robot. Calvin.

Looks over at him.

CALVIN:

Aren.t you going to answer him?

SPOONER:

I don.t talk to my refrigerator,

either.

Calvin folds her arms.

CALVIN:

I get the distinct feeling you.re

one of those people, Detective.

SPOONER:

What people?

CALVIN:

Those who don.t appreciate the work

we do here at U.S.R.

SPOONER:

You people do what you do. Then

it.s up to the rest of us to make

sense out of the world we wake up

in.

As the elevator doors open on to...

16.

21 INT. ATRIUM LOBBY - CONTINUOUS 21

A soaring lobby. The centerpiece is a five-story STATUE of a

ROBOT, arms outstretched in approximation of Da Vinci.s Study

of Man. Robot workers more numerous than humans. They are

sleeker. Finer. More advanced than those in the outside

world.

Calvin and Spooner head across.

CALVIN:

When this company started we were

manufacturing three robots a week.

Now look at us. Today.s children

will never know a world without

robots.

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