- Chip: Dinner's ready.
- Becky: I'm not hungry.
- Chip: Are you upset because Brian is taking Erin to the dance?
- Becky: Please just leave me alone.
- Chip: I can take you to the dance.
- Becky: That's all I need, a 400-pound robo-geek stepping all over my feet. No thanks. Now would you just go away a quit ruing my life, okay?
- Chip: I didn't mean to ruin your life, Becky.
- Becky: Yeah, well you have. Ever since you came into this family.
- Chip: I'm sorry.
- Becky: Just forget it. Look, I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings.
- Chip: That's okay... I deserved it.
- [Chip leaves]
- Becky: Feelings? I don't believe it!
- [she rushes to the kitchen were Chip and Jonas are preparing for dinner]
- Becky: Dad, you're not gonna believe this! Guess what? I hurt Chip's feelings.
- Jonas: Well why would you want to-what?
- Becky: He said he'd take me to the dance and I said no way and I swear, I hurt his feelings. I could tell.
- Jonas: Now don't jump to any conclusions. You've gotta be rational and scientific. Chip, how do you feel?
- Chip: Feel?
- Jonas: When Becky said she couldn't go to the dance with you. What was your reaction?
- Chip: Something heavy, right in my central computer.
- Jonas: Yes?
- Chip: Something hot, right near my video sensors.
- Jonas: Becky, you may be right. He may be experiencing human emotion.
- Becky: Wow.
- Chip: Is that good?
- Jonas: Good? If it's true, it's fantastic!
- [Becky is inspecting the android her father has built]
- Becky: He looks a lot like you. You know, where you were young.
- Jonas: Yeah, well I make him a little handsomer than I was at that age.
- Becky: Which is what?
- Jonas: Seventeen.
- Becky: You made him older than me?
- Jonas: Well, you always said you wanted an older brother.
- [Jonas is testing the android's motor functions]
- Jonas: Very good, C-17. Now raise your left arm.
- [he complies]
- Jonas: All right. Now dangle legs over the table, left side.
- [he complies]
- Jonas: Very good. C-17, that's wonderful. Everything's working beautifully.
- Becky: C-17, is that his name?
- Jonas: Well, it is for now until you help me come up with a better one. Something normal.
- Becky: Um, how about something like Sting or Prince, you know, like from a rock group?
- Chip: Which rock group? Igneous or sedimentary?
- Jonas: If anyone tries to reprogram Chip in a negative way, he's programmed to self-destruct.
- Becky: Destroy himself? How awful.
- Jonas: It's a safety precaution. We could never allow Chip to fall into the wrong hands.
- Chip: What if they could bypass the system, dad?
- Jonas: Well, I've thought of that, but first they'd have to know that you had a self-destruct system, which is highly unlikely, but if they found it, well... I have a backup system that I could activate by remote.
- Chip: You could explode me, right dad?
- Jonas: Yes.
- [Vogel and JJ have gone to the Carson house to find it abandoned]
- Vogel: He's gone! I knew it! I sensed something was wrong the other night.
- Derks: Like what?
- Vogel: I don't know, he was acting kind of weird.
- Derks: He always acts kind of weird.
- Vogel: Weirder than usual. He seemed real anxious to get rid of me and his son was acting certifiable.
- Derks: You mean his daughter.
- Vogel: Son.
- Derks: Carson doesn't have a son.
- Vogel: He was away at school.
- Derks: I'm telling you, I've known Carson for years, he doesn't have a son. He has a daughter, Becky.
- Vogel: Then why would he tell me that kid was his son?
- Derks: How old did he look?
- Vogel: I don't know. An adolescent. Sixteen? Seventeen?
- Derks: [starts hyperventilating] Oh my goodness! He did it! I don't believe it! I don't believe it! He did it, he did it, he did it!
- Vogel: What are you babbling about?
- Derks: Carson's dream ever since I've known him was to create something. And the thing he wanted to create was...
- [Derks' memory lapses]
- Vogel: Yes?
- Derks: What?
- Vogel: The thing he wanted to create?
- Derks: Who?
- Vogel: [grabs JJ and shakes him] Carson! What did he want to create?
- Derks: What a minute, it's coming... an android! An android that looks and acts like a human. That's who that boy was. He did it. I can't believe he did it.
- Vogel: And I saw it and I talked to it and it fooled me! I thought it was just like any other idiot teenager!
- Vogel: You know what this means? We're gonna be rich! We'll have more money than some small countries. The military will beg my forgiveness and why shouldn't they? I'll sell them a whole army of killer androids. They'll shower me with medals!
- Derks: I could have my own lab. I could invent again.
- Vogel: You'll have ten new labs!
- Derks: What about Carson?
- Vogel: What about him?
- Derks: We don't know where he is.
- Vogel: We'll find him.
- Derks: Yeah, but he'll never give us the patent, he doesn't like us.
- Vogel: Well, we'll just take the android, go to Washington and get the patent.
- Derks: But isn't that like stealing?
- Vogel: It's like it, but it isn't. I mean, after all, didn't Carson invent the android while contracting to me?
- Derks: Yeah, but he probably did it on his own spare time.
- Vogel: [grabs JJ by his jacket] Do you want your own lab or not?
- Derks: Let's steal the android.
- [after reviewing Chip's recording where he practically told his friends that he's an android]
- Becky: Dad, he's going to ruin everything if he keeps talking like that!
- Chip: Why? It was true.
- [to Jonas]
- Chip: You programmed me always to tell the truth.
- Becky: Yeah, but you don't have to spell it out, micro-brain.
- Chip: Shouldn't I tell the truth, dad?
- Jonas: No! I mean yes, but human beings have a way of being honest without...
- Becky: Spilling the beans.
- Chip: I see. You mean I can be honest without telling the truth.
- Jonas: Right.
- Chip: Doesn't compute, dad. My logic program rejects it.
- Becky: Go straight home, plug yourself in and wait 'til I get there. First do my math homework, page 52 in the orange book.
- Chip: Dad told me never to do your homework or your chores.
- Becky: Great, now he's turning human on me. Okay, just forget it then. Just go home.
- Chip: Can I speak to anyone? Eron said she wanted to talk to me after school today.
- Becky: Eron? No way, forget it! If you see her, run the other way. Understand?
- Chip: Why?
- Becky: Because she likes you.
- Chip: You like Brian, but you're not running away.
- Becky: Yeah, but that's different, I'm...
- Chip: Human?
- Becky: Anyway, who says I like him?
- Chip: Well, you blushed and your body temperature rose by two degrees. My heat sensors picked it up.
- Becky: That doesn't mean I like him. Three degrees means I like him, two degrees means he's just okay.
- Chip: Oh, well his body temperature rose three degrees. Does that mean he likes you?
- Becky: Hmm, you might be useful someday after all.
- Chip Carson: Becky doesn't like me.
- Dr. Jonas Carson: Don't worry.
- Chip Carson: I won't worry, Dad. I don't know how.
- [the Carsons are on the road to their new home]
- Jonas: I'm hungry, anybody else want to stop for a bite to eat?
- Becky: I'm starving.
- Chip: Me, too.
- Becky: He doesn't have to eat, does he, dad?
- Chip: I'm programmed to have three meals a day.
- Jonas: That's right.
- Becky: But why?
- Jonas: Well, wouldn't it seem strange if Chip were having lunch with his friends and he's the only one who doesn't eat?
- Chip: Kids like to eat. Pizza, hamburger, French fries...
- Becky: Yeah, but how?
- Jonas: I've equipped him with a micro-compactor that compresses all the food he consumes into tiny little packages he can store for the end of the day.
- Becky: That is so gross. I'm not hungry anymore.