Pluto Volume 1 Act. 4 North #2 (Part 1) - Page 87 - [Scotland, Euro Federation] - Page 88 - Duncan: (BANG) I'm working! Stop standing there, it's distracting me. - Page 89 - North: Forgive me for entering unannounced. There was no security to check in with... It seems rather careless, especially with your ailing eyesight. Duncan: No thieves are stupid enough to wander all the way out to the highlands to get me. North: Please, continue your work, sir. Duncan: You're the new butler...? North: Yes. Duncan: Hmph. I bet they gave me yet another worthless one. Well... what's your name? - Page 90 - North: My name is North #2. Act. 4 : North #2 (Part 1) - Page 91 - Duncan: Your name sounds tasteless. The man who introduced you to me... said you came from the military. North: Yes. During the 39th Central Asian Conflict, I was personal assistant to the British Chief of Staff, General Andrew Douglas. Duncan: A soldier's manservant, eh... I bet your entire body is outfitted with weapons. North: That is why I wear a cape in front of others, sir. Duncan: Make me some tea. - Page 92 - North: Very good, sir. Duncan: I always drink... North: I already have all of your data, Master Duncan. Duncan: Hmph! My "data"... North: Before I came here, I had the pleasure of watching "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress." - Page 93 - North: The juxtaposition of sound and images left a deep impression on me. Duncan: Another bit of your "data"? North: No, it was a true feeling. Duncan: That movie is over a decade old. I wrote the score, so it was a hit, and I won several music awards... "The brilliant, blind composer"... North: Your tea is ready. Duncan: Do you also have the media reactions? "Even Paul Duncan's well of genius has run dry"... Hmph. - Page 94 - Duncan: I could write a hundred more scores just like that. I still have the magic touch. When I write the music, the audience bursts into applause. They leave the movie theater in tears. It's not that I CAN'T write it... it's that I DON'T. It's such garbage! North: But you were still working, just now. It was a beautiful song. Duncan: That one's not for any movie. North: Oh? - Page 95 - Duncan: It's a piece for me... And only me... Just like your name. North: What? Duncan: This tea. It's as tasteless as your name. (splash) A "beautiful song"?! What would a trash-heap military weapon like you understand about my art?! - Page 96 - North: Forgive me, sir. Duncan: (BANG) - Page 97 - Duncan: How many did you kill...? North: Pardon? - Page 98 - Duncan: How many people did you kill in Asia, with that body of yours?! North: According to Robot Law, a robot is forbidden to harm any human. Duncan: So you killed other robots, then? How many did you destroy? Too many to count? My already bland supper is now tasting even worse! Begone! North: Pardon me. - Page 99 - Duncan: (clink)(clink) (BANG) - Page 100 - North: (plink) Duncan: Don't touch my piano! North: Forgive me, sir. You have such modern musical equipment, and yet you only compose with a piano. - Page 101 - Duncan: These things are just like you. A false violin... A false trumpet... A false orchestra... They can imitate, but they are still machines. I didn't have IT-Eyes installed, for the same reason. Using machines to help you see things is still a false sense. I don't need that. I can still see true sights inside my head. North: True sights... - Page 102 - Duncan: Of my homeland... when I could still see... North: During your childhood... Bohemia, then. Duncan: Hmph. More of my data, I suppose! Your data... doesn't contain any of the truly important things! The sights of my home... The green of the land... the gentle breezes... And... The golden, glittering... - Page 103 - Duncan: Those are what I'm putting into music... Leave me, now! I'm going to work. - Page 104 - North: (beep) (beep) - Page 105 - Door: (creak) Duncan: Oh... Oooh... Oooh... Ooh... Oooooh... Oooh... Oooh... - Page 106 - Duncan: I already told you not to touch my piano! North: Forgive me, sir... Duncan: I already made it clear. No matter how cleanly you can play, it's still nothing more than a machine's music. It is FALSE! North: Master Duncan... - Page 107 - North: Forgive me for saying this, Master Duncan, but last night I passed by your bedroom, and heard a voice... You were singing a song, in your sleep. And this song you are writing... In the part you always have difficulty finishing... the melody you were singing in your sleep connected perfectly with the part in question. It might not be precise, but it sounded like this... Duncan: Get out of here... - Page 108 - Duncan: I don't need any robots like you. Leave this mansion at once. North: But... Duncan: This is an order from your master!! Leave!! North: I want... to be able to play the piano. - Page 109 - Duncan: You what? North: As you say, Master Duncan, perhaps it will only be a false pretension of real music. But I hope I can get it closer to the real thing... Duncan: No weapon like you will ever play a piano! Stop that! Don't you dare touch my piano with your filthy weapon's hands!! You are made for the battlefield!! - Page 110 - North: That's why I want to learn to play. Because... I don't ever want to go back to the battlefield... - Act. 4 End -