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Job Competition in a Dystopian Society
Det. Thorn
You know, there are 20 million guys out of work in Manhattan alone just waiting for my job and yours too.
The Burden of Truth and Forgiveness
Priest
Forgive me. It's destroying me.
Det. Thorn
What is?
Priest
The truth.
Det. Thorn
The truth Simonson told you?
Priest
All ].
[[truth]
Nostalgia for a Lost Culinary Experience
Sol
Son of a bitch. I haven't eaten like this in years.
Det. Thorn
I never ate like this.
Sol
And now you know what you've been missing. There was a world, once, you punk.
Det. Thorn
Yes, so you keep telling me.
Sol
I was there. I can prove it.
Det. Thorn
I know, I know. When you were young, people were better.
Sol
Aw, nuts. People were always rotten. But the world was beautiful.
Search for God in a Dystopian World
Sol
Oh, my God.
Presiding Librarian
What God, Mr. Roth? Where will we find Him?
Sol
Perhaps "at home". Yes: "at home".
[hesitates]
Corruption and Accountability in Soylent Green
Det. Thorn
Something stinks here.
Hatcher
Look. You'll sign this. And I'll bury it.
Det. Thorn
Like hell you will. A member of the board of the Soylent Corporation was torn apart with a meat hook! You can't sweep that carcass under the rug. Who bought you?
Hatcher
You're bought as soon as they pay you a salary.
Det. Thorn
Yeah, well, who is "they?
Hatcher
High and hot, and they want this case closed permanently, their way, now you sign this!
Det. Thorn
You sign it! If my name closes this case and someone higher and hotter wants to know why, it's my job!
Hatcher
Sign it, I'll cover for you!
Det. Thorn
I won't put my job on the line for you, Hatcher...
Hatcher
But...
Det. Thorn
Not my damn job!!
Promoting Soylent Green: A Nutritional Announcement
Announcer
Governor Santini is brought to you today by Soylent Red, and Soylent Yellow, high-energy vegetable concentrates, and new, delicious Soylent Green: The "miracle food" of high energy plankton, gathered from the oceans of the world. Due to its enormous popularity, Soylent Green is in short supply, so remember—Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
Det. Thorn's Thoughts on Smoking Habit
Det. Thorn
You know if I had the ] I would smoke two... three of these every day.
[after smoking a cigarette at a party; [money]
Human Nature in a Dystopian Future
Taglines
It's the year 2022... People are still the same. They'll do anything to get what they need. And they need SOYLENT GREEN.
Nostalgia for a Lost Food World
Sol
You know. When I was a kid food was food. Before our scientific magicians poisoned the water, polluted the soil. Decimated plant and animal life. Why, in my day you could buy meat anywhere. Eggs, they had. Real butter. Fresh lettuce in the–
Det. Thorn
I know. Sol. You told me before. A heat wave all year long. A greenhouse effect. Everything is burning up.
Investigation of a Planned Assassination
Hatcher
What's the story with the Simonson homicide?
Det. Thorn
It was carefully set up to make it look like he was killed after he caught some punk burglarizing his apartment.
Hatcher
What do you think it was?
Det. Thorn
It was an assassination. A well-planned assassination.
Hatcher
You know this for a fact?
Det. Thorn
Four reasons. One: the alarm system in the building was out of order for the first time in two years. Two: the bodyguard who was supposed to be protecting him was conveniently out shopping. Three: the punk that broke into the apartment didn't take anything. And four: the punk who killed Simonson was no punk because he used a meat hook instead of a gun to make it look like a punk.
Hatcher
Well, if the punk didn't take anything from the apartment, what did you take?
Det. Thorn
Everything I could lay my hands on.
Urgent Message About Hidden Truths
Det. Thorn
Hatcher, get to the Exchange. You gotta tell them they're right.
Hatcher
But let's take care of you first.
Det. Thorn
You don't understand. I've got proof. They need proof, I've seen it. I've seen it happening. They've gotta tell people.
Hatcher
Tell them what?
Det. Thorn
The ]'s dying. The plankton's dying. Soylent Green is made out of people. Don't you see? It's people. They're making our food out of people. Next thing, they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!
[[ocean]
Hatcher
I promise, Tiger. I promise, I'll tell the Exchange.
Det. Thorn
You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher! You've gotta tell em! SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE! We gotta stop them! Somehow!
Unreliability in Human Relationships
Simonson
What do you want?
Gilbert
You. Mr. Simonson.
Simonson
I knew soon.
Gilbert
Uh... they told me to uh... to say that they were sorry, but that you had become... unreliable.
Simonson
That's true.
Gilbert
They can't risk, uh... ], they say.
[[catastrophe]
Simonson
They're right.
Gilbert
Then, uh... this is right?
Simonson
No, not right... Necessary.
Gilbert
To who?
Simonson
To... ].
[[God]