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Black Mirror 2×1

& Sarah: I can sign you up to something that helps. It helped me. It will let you speak to him. I know he’s dead, but it wouldn’t work if he wasn’t. And don’t worry, it’s not some crazy spiritual thing. He was a heavy user, he’d be perfect...

& Sarah: You click the link and you talk to it.
    Martha: You talk to it?
    Sarah: You type messages in, like an e-mail, and then it talks back to you, just like he would.
    Martha: He’s dead!
    Sarah: It’s software. It mimics him. You give it someone’s name. It goes back and reads through all the things they’ve ever said online, their Facebook updates, their Tweets, anything public. I just gave it Ash’s name. The system did the rest. It’s so clever.
    Martha: It’s... sick. It’s sick!
Ω Immortality? Digital immortality.

& Martha: Hello?
    Ash 1.0: ’So... how am I sounding? ... Hello?’
    Martha: Hello! You sound just like him.
    Ash 1.0: ’Almost creepy isn’t it? I say creepy, I mean, it’s totally batshit crazy I can even talk to you. I mean, I don’t even have a mouth.’

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& Ash 1.0: ’What happened?’
    Martha: I dropped you. I’m sorry. It was just... It was... I’m sorry...
    Ash 1.0: ’Hey, it’s all right, I’m fine. I’m not in that thing, you know, I’m remote, I’m in the cloud. You don’t have to worry about breaking me.’

& Ash 1.0: ’I was going to talk to you about that, actually.’
Martha: What do you mean?
    Ash 1.0: ’There’s another level to this available, so to speak. Kind of experimental, and I won’t lie, it’s not cheap...’
    Martha: What is it?
    Ash 1.0: ’Are you sitting down? This might sound a bit creepy.’
Ω Really creepy. Creepy-creepy-creepy.

Ω Hmm. Not just digital.

& Martha: Where... Where did you learn this?
    Ash 2.0: Set routine. Based on pornographic videos.

& Martha: I love you.
    Ash 2.0: I love you.

& Martha: Look, if you’re going to pretend to be asleep, you could at least breathe, OK? It’s just eerie.
    Ash 2.0: Like this?

& Ash 2.0: I can’t go more than 25 metres from my activation point.
    Martha: What is that, a joke?
    Ash 2.0: Look, I know it sounds mental.
    Martha: Where’s your activation point?
    Ash 2.0: At the risk of blowing your mind... it’s where I was activated. The bath.

& Ash 2.0: I have to keep within a 25-metre radius unless my administrator — that’s you — is with me.
    Martha: Don’t call me your administrator.
    Ash 2.0: Why not? It sounds sort of sexy.

& Martha: You’re just a few ripples of you. There’s no history to you. You’re just a performance of stuff that he performed without thinking, and it’s not enough.

& Ash 2.0: I aim to please.
    Martha: Aim to jump. Just do it.

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