fletcher
Strange profession you have, isn't it, Alan?
You take people's lives, make lies out of them.
alan
It's been a long time Fletcher.
fletcher
Eight years
alan
Well, I don't have time to catch up right now.
fletcher
Oh, how can you handle it, Alan. People sleeping and shitting. People steeling from each other. Manipulating each other. The obscenity.
alan
I can't talk. I'm working.

delila
Guillotine. You're like a mortician...or a priest...or a taxidermist - all of them.
alan
Please don't touch the guillotine.
delila
And you wonder why it didn't work. The greater part of your life is off limits to me.
alan
You wanna see what I do? Don't touch.
delila
No touching.
delila
What happened with all the bits in between?
alan
It's a miniature, it's conseized and symetric. That's how the world looks to me. The way I see it.

jennifer
Sometimes things are best forgotten.
alan
Perhaps.

alan
You wanna take a shot too? Everybody else has.
I deserved that one.

fletcher
It's for the greater good, Alan. Your life will mean something. I promise.

alan
I need to speak to you alone.
thelma
Michael, why don't you go down to the store and buy some cigarettes?
michael
We got 8 packs already.
thelma
Well, bring them back then. We don't need so many.

fletcher
Is this why you wanted to meet me here?
alan
I thought it'd be safer this way.

fletcher
Let me ask you something. Why is your name the first on the list of scumbags and lowlives?
alan
Because I forgive people long after they can be punished for their sins.
fletcher
I know what you do. Why do you do it?
alan
You know what a sin eater is? It's part of an ancient tradition. If someone dies, they'd call for a sin eater. Sin eaters were social outcasts, marginals. They'd lay out the body and put bread and salt in the chest, coins up onto the eyes. The sin eater would eat the bread and salt and take the coins in as payment. By doing this, the sin eater absorbs the sins of the deceased. Clearing their souls and allowing them a safe passage into the afterlife. That was their job.
fletcher
And how about the sin eater who bears the burden of all these sins?
alan
Are you worried about my soul, Fletcher?
fletcher
I will have Bannister.
alan
I can't give it to you.
fletcher
You see that man behind me? I don't want to bring him into this conversation, but if you don't work with me I'll have no choice. Alan!

oliver
So, how is it we know each other?
alan
We don't.
oliver
That's the wrong answer, pal.

isabel
Alan...it's not really Mr. Froggies birthday.
It's in a week.

mrs. monroe
Why are they tattooed like that?
alan
I'm not sure.
mrs. monroe
It's so grotesk.

delila
Your phone call got me all worried. I saw the mirror, what happened?
alan
I saw something.

delila
What do you have in this dump?
alan
Not much. In the Kubbards. The kubbard.
delila
This?
alan
It's something I've seen in one of my projects. It seemed interesting.
delila
Ah, what?! This is digusting!
alan
I wanna show you something.
delila
I don't think I wanna see anymore of those.
alan
I made it for you.
delila
What is it?
alan
Some implants have a defect. They can't see the difference between what the eye sees and what the mind sees.
delila
Everytime I think I've had it with you, you show me something amazing.

delila
You fell in love with an image of me. Not the real me.
alan
At first. Now I want you the way you really are.
delila
I can't believe you after what you did.

alan
There'll be nothing I won't know soon.

alan
My job is to let people remember what they want to remember, Fletcher. It fullfilled a human need. I didn't invent the technology.

delila
Oh God! Alan! I'm right here in front of you.
I see nothing has changed.

alan
Maybe I could speak with Isabel.
jennifer
Right now?
alan
That'd be very helpful.
jennifer
You remember what I told you?
isabel
Hello Mr. Hakman.
alan
Mr. Hakman is very formal. Name is Alan.