How we cite our quotes: (Act.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Look, look, streams of blood on every doorstep! Streams of blood from every house! Oh, God, God, who's responsible for this? (2.92)
Alquist is freaking out. Death is coming, and he starts babbling about blood everywhere. We suppose you can't blame him, but still, it's a little tiresome, especially when he goes on and on in the same vein through the last act as well. Why did the robots spare him? What use is mortality if you can't get the right guy to shut up?
Quote #8
DR. GALL: Dead.
ALQUIST [stands up]: The first. (2.332-333)
They're talking about the death of Busman. He's the first of them to die. But lots of robots have died already—and innumerable humans for that matter. Mortality only counts when it's your group it seems like. Everyone else—human or robot— is just a thing, not a human death.
Quote #9
ALQUIST: What have you done? You'll perish without people.
RADIUS: There are no people. Robots, to work! March! (2.393-394)
This is an odd exchange. Alquist says that the robots will perish without people—but the robots will perish anyway, since none of the humans know how to make more of them. The robots' insistence that there are no people seems not quite right either—after all, robots are people themselves, if they have souls. The main point, though, is that everyone—robots or humans—is dead or will die. Bummer.