Upgrade (2018)

Simon Maiden: Stem

Quotes 

• Grey Trace : See, you thought I was a cripple but you didn't know that I'm a ninja.

  Stem : While I am state of the art, I am not a ninja.

• Grey Trace : Stem, he's got a knife!

  Stem : [calmly]  I see that. We have a knife, too.

  [Grey, under Stem's control, takes the knife from the assailant and stabs him] 

• Stem : It does not make sense that humans deliberately malfunction.

  Grey Trace : Yeah, that's because your memories are filled with ones and zeros, pal, and our memories are filled with every fuck-up we've ever made.

• Grey Trace : [while being choked]  Help!

  Stem : I need your permission to operate independently.

  Grey Trace : Permission granted.

  [Stem takes control and fights the assailant] 

• Stem : I cannot allow us to be killed.

• Stem : You now have full control again, Grey.

• Stem : May I point something out?

  Grey Trace : Hello? Okay, who's saying that?

  Stem : I am Stem. The system operating your body for you. Don't be afraid.

  Grey Trace : [finally taking a breath, terrified]  You fuckin' kidding me?

  Stem : [in a deadpan tone]  No.

  Grey Trace : I've lost my mind. I've gone insane. I'm fucking insane.

  Stem : Your medical records indicated you with a mild case of PTSD, but you are not "insane".

  Grey Trace : [confused]  So what? Y-you've just been there this whole time?

  Stem : Since the completion of the operation. I have been observing everything you've observed.

  Grey Trace : D-do you have to talk?

  Stem : If you want me to, I do not have to.

  Grey Trace : Okay, then yeah, don't talk.

• Grey Trace : Stem, what do you think I should do?

  Stem : Move Grey!

• Stem : Grey's not here anymore, he's in a better place, in his mind, where he wants to be, I've taken over now. A fake world is a lot less painful than the real one. All I needed was for his mind to break, and he broke it.