The Outer Limits (TV Series)

I, Robot (1964)

Howard Da Silva: Thurman Cutler

Quotes 

• Thurman Cutler : Too bad, Sheriff. Adam just cheated the executioner.

• Thurman Cutler : Barclay never did have brains enough to pour water out of a boat, and the D.A. has the taint of ambition, which makes him no better.

• Thurman Cutler : Your Honor, this trial - if we can now call it that in summation, since it is a devisement based on a compact between Miss Nina Link and the prosecution - still is binding on the life or death of Adam Link. I am not now entering a plea for mercy or extenuating circumstances, because that would imply guilt, and under no circumstances does the defense admit guilt. Of course, the district attorney is not really trying a robot for murder. We both knew from the beginning that he is trying all of society on the concept of a robot itself, on progress, on science, on the future, on the ability of society to control what it creates. If you find Adam Link guilty, you are convicting society of irresponsibility. You are telling society to put away its yearning for a better world, its hunger for a better way of life, its... reaching for the stars.

• Thurman Cutler : When you get to be my age, death doesn't seem to be all that important somehow.

• Thurman Cutler : [in court]  Can you remember what happened?

  Adam : I remember everything, Mr. Cutler. I am incapable of forgetting.

  Thurman Cutler : Yes, well, that's something I forgot.

• Thurman Cutler : Oh, I'd do anything in the pursuit of justice. Hadn't you better draw up those papers before I think of something else?

• Judson Ellis : Oh, come off it. All you wanted was another shot at Coyle and Barkley and that whole crowd of entrenched stupidity.

  Thurman Cutler : "Entrenched stupidity." That's not half-bad, but tell me something. Is that confined to small towns, or do you find it in big cities, too?

  Judson Ellis : Sure, but we have a better class of stupidity.