Gall I just need to use it. (stabs Radius in hand, Radius winces sharply)  Alright, lad, gently.  You can go now.

Radius There was not any need to do that. (exit )

Helena What did you do to him?

Dr. Gall (sitting ) Hm, nothing.  His pupils are responding quitealright.  No!  This wasn't robot cramp!

Helena What was it.

Dr. Gall God knows.  Resistance perhaps, some kind of rage or defiance, I don't knowwhat it was.

Helena Doctor Gall, does Radius have a soul?

Dr. Gall I don't know.  But there's something rather ugly about him.

Helena If only you knew how he hates us!  Are all of your robots like this?  Allthe ones you started to make .. differently?

Dr. Gall Well, they do seem somewhat more excitable, but what can you expect?  They'remore like people than Rossum's robots were.

Helena And what about that ... that hatred?  Is that more like people?

Dr. Gall (shrugs shoulders ) Even that is progress.

Helena Where was that best one you made sent?  What was he called again?

Dr. Gall Robot Damon?  He was bought by a firm in Le Havre.

Helena And what about our Robot Helena?

Dr. Gall Ah, your favourite.  She stayed with me.  She's as charming and as sillyas a spring day, but simply no good for anything. 

Helena She is very beautiful, though.

Dr. Gall She certainly is very beautiful.  The hand of God himself never made anythingmore perfect than Robot Helena!  I wanted her to be like you, but what a failure that was!

Helena Why a failure?

Dr. Gall Because she's no good for anything.  She walks around in a daze, unsteady onher feet, lifeless.  Dear God how could anything be as beautiful as that robot when she can't feel love?  I lookat her and I shudder at the monster I've created.  Ah, Robot Helena, your body will never be a living thing, you willnever be anyone's lover, never anyone's mother; those perfect hands of yours will never dandle a newborn babe and you'llnever see your beauty in the face of your own children ....

Helena (covers face ) Oh, stop it!

Dr. Gall ... and sometimes, Helena, I imagine you coming to life for just a moment - and howyou would scream with horror!  Maybe you would want to kill me for having created you; maybe, with your feeble hands,you would throw stones into these machines, here, that give birth to robots and destroy women's ability to be women. Poor Helena! 

Helena Poor Helena!

Dr. Gall Well, what can you expect of her?  She's no good for anything.

(pause )

Helena Doctor Gall ...

Dr. Gall Yes.

Helena Why are there no more children being born?

Dr. Gall That's something we don't understand. 

Helena Tell me about it!

Dr. Gall Because there are robots being made.  Because there's an excess ofmanpower.  Because mankind is actually no longer needed.  It's almost as if ... er ...

Helena Say it.

Dr. Gall It's as if making robots were an offence against Nature.

Helena Gall, what's going to become of the human race?

Dr. Gall Nothing.  There's nothing that can be done against the force of nature.

Helena Why didn't Domin put a limit on ....

Dr. Gall Ah, forgive me, but Domin has his own ideas.  People who have ideas shouldnever be allowed to have any influence on the events of this world.

Helena And is there anyone who ... who is urging them to stop making them?

Dr. Gall God forbid!  That would be suicide!

Helena Why?

Dr. Gall Because all the people would lynch him.  Don't you think it makes life a loteasier to let the robots do all the work?  (Helena stands )  And what do you think would happen if wesuddenly did stop making robots?

Dr. Gall (standing ) Hm, that would be an enormous blow for the people.

Helena Why a blow?

Dr. Gall Because then they'd have to go back to where they'd been.  Unless ...

Helena Tell me.

Dr. Gall Unless it's already too late to go back.

Helena (by Hallemeier's flowers ) Gall, are these flowers sterile too?

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