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Attendant: Newcomers must be interrogated
Alpha 5: Alpha 5
What is your name?
Johnson: Ivan Johnson
Alpha 5: Where were you born?
Johnson: Nueva York
Alpha 5: How old are you?
Johnson: I don’t know... forty-five
Alpha 5: What make and model is your car?
Johnson: Ford Galaxy
Alpha 5: What do you love above all?
Johnson: Money and women
Alpha 5: What are you doing in Alphaville?
Johnson: An article for Figaro-Pravda
Alpha 5: You seem to be afraid
Johnson: I’m not afraid... not the way you think
Anyway, you wouldn’t understand
Alpha 5: Rest assured that my decisions...
...always have in view...
...the ultimate good
I shall now..
...ask you some test questions...
...as a control measure
You have come from the Lands Without
What were your feelings...
...when you passed through galactic space?
Johnson: The silence of infinite space appalled me
Alpha 5: What is the privilege of the dead?
Johnson: To die no more
Alpha 5: Do you know what illuminates the night?
Johnson: Poetry
Alpha 5: What is your religion?
Johnson: I believe in the inspirations of conscience
Alpha 5: Do you make any distinction...
...between the mystery...
...of the laws of knowledge...
...and the laws of love?
Johnson: In my opinion, there is no mystery of love
Alpha 5: You are not telling the truth
Johnson: I don’t understand
Alpha 5: You are hiding certain things
Johnson: I admit I might have reasons to lie...
...but how can you differentiate between lies and truth?
Alpha 5: You are hiding certain things...
...but I do not yet know what they are
Alpha 5: Alpha 5
What is your name?
Johnson: Ivan Johnson
Alpha 5: Where were you born?
Johnson: Nueva York
Alpha 5: How old are you?
Johnson: I don’t know... forty-five
Alpha 5: What make and model is your car?
Johnson: Ford Galaxy
Alpha 5: What do you love above all?
Johnson: Money and women
Alpha 5: What are you doing in Alphaville?
Johnson: An article for Figaro-Pravda
Alpha 5: You seem to be afraid
Johnson: I’m not afraid... not the way you think
Anyway, you wouldn’t understand
Alpha 5: Rest assured that my decisions...
...always have in view...
...the ultimate good
I shall now..
...ask you some test questions...
...as a control measure
You have come from the Lands Without
What were your feelings...
...when you passed through galactic space?
Johnson: The silence of infinite space appalled me
Alpha 5: What is the privilege of the dead?
Johnson: To die no more
Alpha 5: Do you know what illuminates the night?
Johnson: Poetry
Alpha 5: What is your religion?
Johnson: I believe in the inspirations of conscience
Alpha 5: Do you make any distinction...
...between the mystery...
...of the laws of knowledge...
...and the laws of love?
Johnson: In my opinion, there is no mystery of love
Alpha 5: You are not telling the truth
Johnson: I don’t understand
Alpha 5: You are hiding certain things
Johnson: I admit I might have reasons to lie...
...but how can you differentiate between lies and truth?
Alpha 5: You are hiding certain things...
...but I do not yet know what they are