The Flash (TV Series)

Therefore She Is (2018)

Neil Sandilands: Clifford DeVoe, The Thinker

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• Marlize DeVoe : Since the age of Enlightenment, when reason, debate, and the search for truth flourished, the world has improved by nearly every measure in human advancement, and continues to do so. There is no doubt in my mind that as technology continues to bloom, so will all of humanity.

  Clifford DeVoe : [Chuckling] 

  Marlize DeVoe : Professor DeVoe? You disagree?

  Clifford DeVoe : Well, uh, yes, I guess. Just, I have a more realistic view of humanity whenever technology is concerned.

  Marlize DeVoe : What do you mean?

  Clifford DeVoe : Well, you spoke of the Enlightenment. One only has to look at history to find the answers.

  Marlize DeVoe : Okay, let's. Life expectancy over the past two centuries has increased from 30 years to nearly 70 years.

  Clifford DeVoe : And-and we should assume that's a good thing? Each new day, we have to share very limited resources with anything up to 200,000 newborn babies, most of whom will end up living in abject poverty and famine.

  Marlize DeVoe : Well, thank you very much, Professor Doom and Gloom. Remind me never to take one of your history classes.

  [Crowd Laughs] 

  Clifford DeVoe : Perhaps you should. There's much I could teach you.

  [Crowd Murmurs] 

  Clifford DeVoe : The Taoists, in pursuit of immortality, discovered gunpowder. Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize so he wouldn't be remembered as the man who invented dynamite. History has shown us time and time again that whenever a technological advancement can be used to hurt humanity, it will be.

  Marlize DeVoe : You can't blame technology for the way men choose to use it, Professor.

  Clifford DeVoe : You can't ignore that the best of ideas by the smartest of men often have a way of becoming corrupted.

• Marlize DeVoe : Initally, we set out to enlighten the world. Now you want to rule it. I am leaving you, Clifford.

  [he realizes a force field surrounds her] 

  Marlize DeVoe : Nothing can get in or out.

  Clifford DeVoe : You dare orchestrate an exodus on the eve of humanity's greatest reckoning? You made a vow.

  Marlize DeVoe : To my husband! But my husband is dead. The Thinker's first victim.

  Clifford DeVoe : The Enlightenment will come for you, too, Marlize. I will be all that remains.

  Marlize DeVoe : Oh, Clifford. You are nothing without me.

• Clifford DeVoe : When the line cut out, I came. Immediately. I thought I'd lost you.

  Marlize DeVoe : You'll never lose me, Clifford. You were right. Technology has become a cancer. Driving civilization to consume itself. A militia group found out abotu the water purifier that I created. Any they just killed dozens of... of people to take it. Women and children slaughtered. For a simple piece of technology. Your journal wrote of a world where humanity forgot that this technological menace was capable. But what I didn't tell you was that I saw the truth in it even then. And it frightened me. And that's why I ran. And I'm not frightened anymore.

  Clifford DeVoe : You believe.

  Marlize DeVoe : I believe in you. Enlighten them, Clifford. You're the only one who can.

  Clifford DeVoe : I'm nothing without you.