Marjorie Prime Page #2

I'll remember that now.

Something's a little

off with the nose.

I'm sorry.

Or maybe it's my

memory and you're right.

Well, you're a good

Walter either way.

Thank you.

Stay with me while?

I don't want to

get you in trouble.

You learn like that.

I told you.

What would you like

to talk about now?

We don't have to

talk, we can just sit.

Sometimes I get so tired.

I'll be right here,

Marjorie, whenever you need.

I have all the

time in the world.

I still don't like it.

What?

The prime.

Ah.

Well, at this stage...

Who said it?

Companionship is the

most important thing.

You said it.

It's better than

watching television.

As if she's an infant

that needs to be pacified.

She wakes up, she doesn't

know where she is.

And by the way, what's

wrong with being pacified?

She's sleeping.

Those new pills seemed

to knock her out.

Peanut butter.

Oh, small miracles.

She's finally coming

to my campaign.

Or she's listening

to Walter prime.

They say it's like

a parrot that way.

Have a

spoonful, have a spoonful.

Did you know that

parrots live forever?

I have a student who's got her

dad's parrot after he died.

And she says even now

20 years later, it

still says things in his voice.

Like what?

Mostly just, hey

there, partner.

Words of wisdom.

Well, she says it's

not exactly his voice,

but she can definitely

tell that it's him.

Did you just...

The way she's so accepting of

it, does that creep you out?

It creeps me out.

Does it bother you that your

mother is talking to a computer

program, or that

a computer program

is pretending to be your dad?

It bothers me

that you are helping

it pretend to be some fountain

of youth version of my dad.

It's how she remembers him.

And she accepts it,

because it's clever.

Clever like a mirror,

like a backboard,

no, no it's more than that.

It can look stuff up.

It can talk to other primes.

It's like a child learning to

talk, only does it so quickly.

That's how we think

we're talking to a human.

The more you talk,

the more it absorbs,

including our imperfections.

It can speak in fragments.

It can use non-sequiturs.

It can you know,

misplace modifiers.

It can...

t can run out of steam

trying to list things.

So you get.

Are you jealous?

No.

You are.

Am I supposed

to just not notice

that she's nicer to that

thing than she is to me.

It's your father that

she's being nicer to.

Mom, your up.

Do you want some tea?

I can put on the kettle.

I ate some peanut butter.

Yes, you did.

That's wonderful.

I thought that

would make her happy.

Yeah, yeah,

I'm very predictable.

Did you sleep well?

I was watching the woman

on TV, the strident one,

and then just out.

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