The Bionic Woman (TV Series)

Fembots in Las Vegas: Part 2 (1977)

Michael Burns: Carl Franklin

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• Jaime Sommers : Look, even your father knew when he was beaten. Now you happen to be in the same situation, I...

  Carl Franklin : Not exactly the same. My father was afraid to die. I'm not. I'm perfectly satisfied taking his three greatest enemies with me.

• Carl Franklin : It gives me enormous satisfaction having the three of you here. Of course, you've seen a place like this before, haven't you?

  Jaime Sommers : This machinery does looks a bit like your father's.

  Carl Franklin : Indeed, it is. He told me precisely how to structure it. In point of fact, everything that's happened has been to this design. I loved him very much, Miss Sommers. He was a remarkable, brilliant, sensitive man. There was a half-dozen turning points in his life when Mr. Goldman could've helped him, or at least tried to understand him.

  Oscar Goldman : I did, but I couldn't put up with his grandiose theories.

  Carl Franklin : Why not? Haven't I proved that his fembots are more effective than your bionics? The more opposition he got, the more desperate he became. But he was never the madman you made him out to to be, nor am I!

  Oscar Goldman : We're not gonna solve this problem today, Franklin. Machines are capable of certain tasks that humans aren't. But let's not forget. They have limitations. They are indeed, machines.

  Carl Franklin : Really? Well, I held a counterview.

  Oscar Goldman : Oh?

  Carl Franklin : Machines are capable of faster evolution than humans. Or haven't you compared a Model-T with a Grand Prix racer lately? However...

  [to Jaime] 

  Carl Franklin : nobody's improved on your kind since Helen of Troy.

  Jaime Sommers : Oh. Well, I still feel that there's a lot more to me than there is your glorified windup toys here. I mean, if you were to compare me to these ladies...

  [jumps over the fembots] 

  Carl Franklin : Get her!

• Oscar Goldman : You can kill us all with that gun, Franklin?

  Carl Franklin : With this? I don't need this.

  [crushes the gun with his hands] 

  Carl Franklin : Now so you see? I am proof that you're wrong. My father gave me a soul, Miss Sommers. His.

  [removes his face mask showing he's a robot] 

  Jaime Sommers : Oh, no. No, no. Come on, no. No.

  Carl Franklin : The doctor's human son died as a baby. When he created me, he knew he would never worry about that again. Through me, he made us both immortal. All my controls are internal as are my emotions and my desires.