I’ve done questionable things
| Tyrell: | I’m surprised you didn’t come here sooner. |
| Roy: | It’s not an easy thing to meet your maker. |
| Tyrell: | What can he do for you? |
| Roy: | Can the maker repair what he makes? |
| Tyrell: | Would you like to be modified? |
| Roy: | I had in mind something a little more radical. |
| Tyrell: | What seems to be the problem? |
| Roy: | Death. |
| Tyrell: | Death. Well, I’m afraid that’s a little out of my jurisdiction, you… |
| Roy: | I want more life, fucker (father). |
| Tyrell: | The facts of life: To make an alteration in the evolvement of an organic life system is fatal. A coding sequence cannot be revised once its been established. |
| Roy: | Why not? |
| Tyrell: | Because by the second day of incubation, any cells that have undergone reversion mutations give rise to revertant colonies like rats leaving a sinking ship; then the ship sinks. |
| Roy: | What about EMS recombination? |
| Tyrell: | We’ve already tried it. Ethyl methane sulfonate is an alkylating agent and a potent mutagen. It created a virus so lethal the subject was dead before he left the table. |
| Roy: | Then a repressor protein that blocks the operating cells. |
| Tyrell: | Wouldn’t obstruct replication, but it does give rise to an error in replication so that the newly formed DNA strand carries a mutation and you’ve got a virus again. But this – all of this is academic. You were made as well as we could make you. |
| Roy: | But not to last. |
| Tyrell: | The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly, Roy. Look at you. You’re the prodigal son. You’re quite a prize! |
| Roy: | I’ve done questionable things. |
| Tyrell: | Also extraordinary things. Revel in your time! |
| Roy: | Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn’t let you into heaven for. |
Blade Runner
