The Outer Limits1995

Carrie Emerson:
Miss Link, how do you know that the robot was actually reading the material you provided?

Mina Link:
He looked at it, and he remembered it. I don't know how else...

Carrie Emerson:
Wasn't he merely scanning the documentation, like any photocopying machine, storing it like any laptop computer?

Mina Link:
Laptop computers don't enjoy poetry. Adam liked to hear the sound of poetry, particularly when I read it to him.

Carrie Emerson:
Wasn't the robot merely reacting the way you wanted it to, the way it was programmed to?

Mina Link:
You don't get it. Shortly after my mother died, Adam and I were in the lab together, and I started to cry. And Adam came over and asked me what was wrong. I told him to go away. And then Adam said something to me that I will remember as long as I live. He said to me, "Mina, I will never leave you." Look, don't you see? He was trying to console me. He saw that I was in pain, and he wanted it to stop. That is not something that can be programmed, Miss Emerson. That is something that comes from inside, deep inside. It's what makes us human.