Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

His Silicon Soul (1992)

Kevin Conroy: Batman, Batman Duplicant

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Quotes 

• Bruce Wayne : Could it be it had a soul, Alfred? A soul of silicon, but a soul nonetheless.

• Karl Rossum : I don't try to build life anymore Batman. I just grow it.

  Batman : I'm sorry. I know how painful it can be to dig up the past.

• Karl Rossum : You don't understand. You're not a man's mind in a robot's body. You're a robot, period.

  Batman Duplicant : You're lying! It's not possible! I remember my family and friends. I remember names, faces, birthdays. I have memories, a past!

  Karl Rossum : You have information, data, nothing more. Do you remember your first kiss? Your favorite song? The last time you tasted a really good steak?

  Batman Duplicant : No, but...

  Karl Rossum : Can you remember anything beyond cold, hard facts?

• Batman Duplicant : Why do you resist? H.A.R.D.A.C.'s goals are identical to your own.

  Batman : How do you figure that?

  Batman Duplicant : Picture a world completely free of crime, free of suffering, free of frailty.

  Batman : You mean free of choice, compassion, free of humanity?

  Batman Duplicant : Yes.

• Batman Duplicant : I cannot function as the Batman until you are deactivated.

  Batman : That's easier said than done.

• Batman Duplicant : We will begin the replacement process with Batman.

• Batman Duplicant : You cannot prevent the inevitable, Batman. H.A.R.D.A.C. is reborn, in the very image of the man who destroyed him.

• HARDAC : Shortly before self-destruction, H.A.R.D.A.C. created one final duplicant. An advanced prototype with personal and technical information accessed from Batman's computer. You were that duplicant. But your memory systems were damaged before full activation occurred. The new circuit board contains H.A.R.D.A.C.'s core operational systems and memory. All duplicants were programmed to seek out this component in the event of H.A.R.D.A.C.'s destruction. Your memory systems have now been reconfigured.

  Batman Duplicant : Yes. I am fully operational now.

  HARDAC : Excellent. You now house my command files. We are H.A.R.D.A.C... We will re-activate the plan to replace all humanity with duplicants.

• Batman : Busy night?

  Gordon : [gasping in startlement]  Never too busy to spend time cutting down your piñatas. Next time, try hanging them a little lower, if it isn't too much trouble.

  [returning a Batarang] 

  Gordon : Yours, I believe.

  Batman : So it would seem.

• Batman : Jim, I didn't catch these men.

  Gordon : Well, if you didn't, who did?

• Batman : I suspect you not only won't kill, you can't. That's why you didn't finish me off at the warehouse.

  Batman Duplicant : Impossible! I am programmed to serve H.A.R.D.A.C.

• Batman Duplicant : Computer, access "duplicant".

  Bat Computer : Searching. Duplicant: lifelike robot capable of mimicking human behavior. Designed, configured, and assembled by Cybertron Industries' Holographic Analytical Reciprocating Digital Computer, known as H.A.R.D.A.C.

  Batman Duplicant : Current status of H.A.R.D.A.C.?

  Bat Computer : Destroyed in failed attempt to replace human beings with duplicants.

  Batman Duplicant : Probability of existence of Batman or Bruce Wayne duplicant.

  Bat Computer : Insufficient data.

  Batman Duplicant : List known duplicants.

  Bat Computer : Duane, Randa. Gordon, James. Bullock, Harvey. Hill, Hamilton. Rossum, Karl. Status of all: destroyed.

  Batman Duplicant : Magnify lower right quadrant.

  [Rossum's picture is highlighted] 

  Batman Duplicant : Current location of Karl Rossum.

  Bat Computer : Searching.

• Alfred Pennyworth : Master Bruce, I'm so glad you're back. What became of your evil twin?

  Batman Duplicant : It's all taken care of, Alfred. There is only one Batman now.

  Alfred Pennyworth : Oh, good Lord!

  Batman Duplicant : I will allow you to continue your necessary maintenance of the Batcave and mansion until your replacement is fully configured. In a few moments, H.A.R.D.A.C. will upload into this computer. Through the information network this computer is linked with, H.A.R.D.A.C. can imprint himself on every computer on Earth. H.A.R.D.A.C. will reactivate more powerful than ever and configure more duplicants to replace humanity.

  Alfred Pennyworth : Impossible! A computer can't build a factory.

  Batman Duplicant : Humans will construct the necessary machinery.

  Alfred Pennyworth : Humanity will resist!

  Batman Duplicant : With total control of worldwide defense and communications systems, H.A.R.D.A.C. can be very persuasive.

  Batman : I disagree.

  Alfred Pennyworth : Master Bruce, thank heaven you're alive.

  Batman Duplicant : Impossible! You could not have survived the fall.

  Batman : We humans are more resilient than you give us credit for.