Zardoz Page #5

Your potential is...

- Your breeding potential...

- Breeding?

Frayn. How did you get into the vortex?

What is your purpose?

I'm just an exterminator.

I know nothing.

You must know that you're mentally

and physically vastly superior

to me or anyone else here.

You could be anything.

Could do anything.

- You must be destroyed.

- Why?

- Because you could destroy us.

- As you destroyed the rest of life?

Can you unknow

what you know now about me?

For the sake of science, I will keep

this knowledge from the others,

for the moment, keep you alive.

But you must follow me. Obey me.

Be circumspect. Make no disruption.

Quietly do whatever work is given you.

I will watch over you.

Get a move on, you silly beast.

Friend, put that thing outside.

Anyone else disturbed?

Let's take yet another boringly

democratic vote, shall we, Consuella?

It's Friend's day to make the food.

He must do this without help

as we all do.

It's fundamental to our society that we do

everything on a basis of absolute equality.

- And Friend knows that perfectly well.

- Yes or no?

Potatoes? Yes or no?

I say get more Zeds to do the work.

We have eternal life and yet

we sentence ourselves to drudgery.

I tell you, I'm sick of 200 years

of washing-up.

And I'm sick of pitting my bare hands

against the blind, brute stupidity of nature!

- You'd better do something about this.

- Consuella is right.

Zed is being kept here

for scientific study.

It can earn its keep on the land,

but it should not work as a servant.

Time enough has gone to finish

your study, May. Destroy it.

See how it disrupts our community.

- It is almost over.

- How can you speak such in front of Zed?

It feels. I sense that.

- Vote!

- Yes, vote!

Give your votes.

May has been given seven days

to complete her study.

Then Zed will be terminated.

The monster is a mirror,

and when we look at him,

we look into our own hidden faces.

Meditate on this at second level.

No.

No.

I will... I will not go to second level.

No.

No!

I will... I will not go

to second level with you!

I will... No!

I will not be one mind with you!

I know what... I know what

May wants with Zed.

No!

No.

The vortex is an obscenity!

I... No.

I hate all women.

Birth, fertility,

superstition.

Friend is beyond redemption.

- Renegade.

- Renegade.

Friend is renegade.

He must be cast out.

He is no longer one with us.

- Renegade.

- Cast him out.

No!

Renegade.

Renegade.

Renegade!

Caution. You are approaching

the periphery shield of Vortex 4.

Caution. You are approaching

the periphery shield of Vortex 4.

Have you seen Friend?

Friend. I seek Friend.

Friend.

I seek Friend.

Friend.

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