
Equilibrium
In the first years
of the 21 st century...
...a third World War broke out.
Those of us who survived knew
mankind could never survive...
a fourth...
that our own volatile natures
could simply no longer
be risked.
So we have created
a new arm of the law...
...the Grammaton Cleric,
whose sole task it is
to seek out and eradicate
the true source
of man's inhumanity to man.
His ability...
to feel.
Police!
You know what to do.
Get down!
We have an unknown number
barricaded in the southeast end
of the compound.
Read that.
Tetragrammaton team en route.
Cleric, lights out.
Maybe more than a dozen inside.
When the door's down,
blow the bulbs.
Yes, sir.
Go.
Where is he?
Shut up.
Anybody get him?
Did anybody hit him?
Shut up!
Listen.
This is it.
Where?
There.
It's real.
Burn it.
Why didn't you just leave it
for the evidentiary team
to collect and log?
They miss things sometimes.
And I thought
I'd take it down myself...
get it done properly.
How long, Preston,
till all this is gone?
Till we've burned
every last bit of it?
Resources are tight.
We'll get it all eventually.
Libria...
I congratulate you.
At last...
peace reigns
in the heart of man.
At last, war is but a word
whose meaning fades
from our understanding.
At last...
we...are...whole.
Librians...there is a disease
in the heart of man.
Its symptom is hate.
Its symptom...is anger.
Its symptom is rage.
Its symptom...is war.
The disease...is human emotion.
But, Libria...
I congratulate you.
For there is a cure
for this disease.
At the cost of the dizzying
highs of human emotion,
we have suppressed
its abysmal lows.
And you as a society
have embraced this cure.
Prozium.
Now we are at peace
with ourselves,
and humankind is one.
War is gone.
Hate, a memory.
We are our own conscience now.
And it is this conscience
that guides us to rate EC-10
for emotional content
tempt us to feel again...
and destroy them.
Librians, you have won.
Against all odds
and your own natures...
you have survived.
Every time we come
from the Nethers to the city,
it reminds why we do
what we do.
It does?
I beg your pardon.
It does.
The following items
have been rated EC-10...
condemned...
seven works of two-dimensional
illustrated material,
seven discs of musical content,
computer programs.
Seven works
of two-dimensional...
Thank you
for coming, Cleric.
I assume you know who I am.
Yes, sir. Of course.
You are Vice-Council Dupont
of the Third Conciliarly
of the Tetragrammaton...
Father's voice.
Quite frankly, Cleric,
I am told that you are
very nearly a prodigal student,
knowing almost instantly
if someone is feeling.
I have a good record, sir.
Why, do you imagine,
that is, Cleric?
I'm not sure, Vice-Council.
Somehow...
I'm able, on some level,
to sense
how an offender thinks,
to...put myself
in their position.
If you had ceased
your interval,
if you were
a sense offender...
I suppose
you could say that, sir.
You're a family man, Cleric?
Yes, sir...
a boy and a girl.
The boy's in
the monastery himself,
on path to becoming a Cleric.
Good.
And the mother?
My spouse was arrested
and incinerated
for sense offense
four years ago, sir.
By yourself?
No, sir...by another.
How did you feel about that?
I'm sorry.
I don't...
fully understand, sir.
How did you feel?
I didn't feel anything.
Really?
How is it
that you came to miss it?
I...
I've asked myself
that same question, sir.
I don't know.
A nearly unforgivable lapse,
Cleric.
I trust you'll be
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