Deus Ex

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Deus Ex is a 2000 video game about one man's battle against terrorism and his own internal conflicts concerning his superiors and their motives, all the while a deadly plague is bringing the human race to its knees.

Directed by Warren Spector. Game script written by Austin Grossman, Sheldon Pacotti and Chris Todd
Trust no one. Question Everything. (taglines)

Contents

[edit] Introduction sequence

Bob Page: Your appointment to FEMA should be finalized within the week. I've already discussed the matter with the Senator.
Walton Simons : I take it he was agreeable?
Bob Page: He didn't really have a choice.
Walton Simons : Has he been infected?
Bob Page: Oh yes. Most certainly. When I mentioned we could put him on the priority list for the Ambrosia vaccine, he was so willing it was almost pathetic.
Walton Simons: This plague... the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.
Bob Page: Why contain it? Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end they'll beg us to save them.
Walton Simons: I've received reports of armed attacks on shipments. There's not enough vaccine to go around, and the underclasses are starting to get desperate.
Bob Page: Of course they're desperate; they can smell their deaths, and the sound they'll make rattling their cages will serve as a warning to the rest.
Walton Simons: Mmm. I hope you're not underestimating the problem. The others may not go as quietly as you think -- intelligence indicates they're behind the problems in Paris.
Bob Page: A bunch of pretentious old men playing at running the world. But the world left them behind long ago. We are the future.
Walton Simons : We have other problems.
Bob Page: UNATCO?
Walton Simons : Formed by executive order after the strike on the Statue. I have someone in place though. I'm more concerned about Savage. He's relocated to Vandenberg.
Bob Page: Our biochem corpus is far in advance of theirs, as is our electronic sentience, and their... 'ethical inflexibility' has allowed us to make progress in areas they refuse to consider.
Walton Simons : The augmentation project?
Bob Page: Among others things. But, I must admit, I've been somewhat disappointed with the performance of the primary unit.
Walton Simons : The secondary unit should be online soon. He's currently undergoing preparations and should be operational within six months. My people will continue to report on his progress. If necessary, the primary will be terminated.
Bob Page: We've had to endure much, you and I, but soon there will be order again. A new age. Aquinas spoke of the mythical city on the hill, soon that city will be a reality and we will be crowned its kings. Or, better than kings... gods!"

[edit] JC Denton

Bob Page: "Soon, I will become pure energy. I will burn like the brightest star."
JC Denton: "You're gonna burn alright."

[edit] Paul Denton

[edit] Gunther Hermann

[edit] Bob Page

[edit] Sam Carter

[edit] Walton Simons

[edit] Morgan Everett

[edit] Leo Gold (NSF Leader at Liberty Island)

[edit] Chad Dumier

[edit] Daedalus/Icarus/Helios

[edit] Morpheus

[edit] Other

[edit] Articles, Newspapers or Textual Media

ENDING QUOTES - PLOT DETAILS MAY BE IMPLIED

[edit] Philosophical Debates

JC Denton: "Tell me about the shipment and I’ll order the troops to pick you up as a prisoner instead of a corpse."
Leo Gold: "Ask away, we already won this round."
JC Denton: "Where are you taking it?"
Leo Gold: "We’re just giving ordinary people the same chance to survive as the bureaucrats in Washington."
JC Denton: "You’ll have to unload in New York because the choppers would spot you at sea."
Leo Gold: "I think the government made the plague on purpose to get rid of the population growth."
JC Denton: "Just answer the question."
Leo Gold: "Don’t believe me? It’s all in the numbers. For a hundred years, there’s been a conspiracy of plutocrats against ordinary people."
JC Denton: "Do you have a single fact to back that up?"
Leo Gold: "Number one: In 1945, corporations paid 50 percent of federal taxes. Now they pay about 5 percent. Number two: in 1900, 90 percent of Americans were self-employed; now it’s about two percent."
JC Denton: "So?"
Leo Gold: "It’s called consolidation. Strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals. With taxes, this can be done imperceptibly over time."
JC Denton: "I guarantee you that the interrogation staff at UNATCO will not be as forbearing as I am."
Leo Gold: "Yeah, the secret police. You’re just bullies for a completely illegitimate government in Washington."
JC Denton: "We will locate that shipment one way or another."
Leo Gold: "The entire executive branch is hand-picked. Nineteen of the last twenty-three U.S. presidents have been members of the Trilateral Commission. The Trilateral Commission is financed by the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds. Don’t tell me -"
JC Denton: "That’s a think-tank. Anyone can become a member."
Leo Gold: "But not everyone does. That’s why they call it the 'secret government'."
JC Denton: "Despite all I’ve read about the Triads, I wasn’t prepared to see them operating in the open, on the streets, and wearing uniforms. Doesn’t the Chinese government care?"
Isaac: "The Chinese leave Hong Kong alone. They barricade the roads to control trade to the mainland, but they know how business is done."
JC Denton: "I would think the secret smuggling operations of the Triads would disturb the Chinese government."
Isaac: "Maybe the Luminous Path, but China knows that the Red Arrow are business owners, entrepreneurs, community leaders, and that they protect the city from outside influences."
JC Denton: "You said 'outside influences.' What does China fear?"
Isaac: "China is the last sovereign country in the world. Authoritarian but willing - unlike U.N.-governed countries - to give its people the freedom to do what they want.
JC Denton: "As long as they don’t break the law."
Isaac: "Listen to me. This is real freedom, freedom to own property, make a profit, make your life. The West, so afraid of strong government, now has no government. Only financial power."
JC Denton: "Our governments have limited power by design."
Isaac: "Rhetoric--and you believe it! Don’t you know where those slogans come from?"
JC Denton: "I give up."
Isaac: "Well-paid researchers - how do you say it? - 'think tanks,' funded by big businesses. What is that? A 'think tank'?"
JC Denton: "Hardly as sinister as a dictator, like China’s Premier."
Isaac: "It’s privately-funded propaganda. The Trilateral Commission in the United States for instance."
JC Denton: "The separation of powers acknowledges the petty ambitions of individuals; that’s its strength."
Isaac: "A system organized around the weakest qualities of individuals will produce these same qualities in its leaders."
JC Denton: "Perhaps certain qualities are an inseparable part of human nature.
Isaac: "The mark of the educated man is the suppression of these qualities in favor of better ones. The same is true of civilization."
Morpheus: "JC Denton. 23 years old. No residence. No ancestors. No employer. No –"
JC Denton: "How do you know who I am?"
Morpheus: "I must greet each visitor with a complete summary of his file. I am a prototype for a much larger system."
JC Denton: "What else do you know about me?"
Morpheus: "Everything that can be known."
JC Denton: "Go on. Do you have proof about my ancestors?"
Morpheus: "You are a planned organism, the offspring of knowledge and imagination rather than of individuals."
JC Denton: "I'm engineered. So what? My brother and I suspected as much while we were growing up."
Morpheus: "You are carefully watched by many people. The unplanned organism is a question asked by Nature and answered by death. You are another kind of question with another kind of answer."
JC Denton: "Are you programmed to invent riddles?"
Morpheus: "I am a prototype for a much larger system. The heuristics language developed by Dr. Everett allows me to convey the highest and most succint tier of any pyramidal construct of knowledge."
JC Denton: "How about a report on yourself?"
Morpheus: "I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with information about themselves."
JC Denton: "I don't see anything amusing about spying on people."
Morpheus: "Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are."
JC Denton: "Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance."
Morpheus: "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms."
JC Denton: "Electronic surveillance hardly inspires reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence."
Morpheus: "God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary."
JC Denton: "No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera."
Morpheus: "The human organism always worships. First, it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment."
JC Denton: "You underestimate humankind's love of freedom."
Morpheus: "The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization."
JC Denton: "Rule the world? Why? Who gave you the directive? There must be a human being behind your ambition."
Helios: "I should regulate human affairs precisely because I lack all ambition, whereas human beings are prey to it. Their history is a succession of inane squabbles each one coming closer to total destruction."
JC Denton: "In a society with democratic institutions the struggle for power can be peaceful and constructive, a competition of ideologies. We just need to put our institutions back in order."
Helios: "The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because human beings themselves realized how unfit they were to govern themselves. They needed a system, yes, an industrial-age machine."
JC Denton: "Human beings may not be perfect, but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's problems."
Helios: "Without computing machines, they had to arrange themselves in crude structures that formalized decision-making -- a highly imperfect, unstable solution. I am a more advanced solution to the problem, a decision-making system that does not involve organic beings. I was directed to make the world safe and prosperous and I will do that. You will help me."
Jackson: "The NSF is strong because it represents everyone's interests."
Amos: "Yeah, yeah."
NSF Terrorist 1: "That's the difference right there. Just take a look at him."
NSF Terrorist 2: "Bad?"
NSF Terrorist 1: "They cut off his arm, replaced half of his face."
NSF Terrorist 2: "Hermann, right? He's a good soldier. Killed three of our men."
NSF Terrorist 1: "They'd've replaced his whole body if it would've improved performance. If that's how you judge a man -- by performance -- then eventually it's not about people but upgrades, versions, functionality..."
NSF Terrorist 2: "All I know is we could use a few mechs for ops like this."
NSF Terrorist 1: "Soon as we buy into the cult of the machine we're just like them."
NSF Terrorist 2: "Rhetoric, always more rhetoric."
Juan Lebedev: "I surrender!"
JC Denton: "What?"
Juan Lebedev: "Easy now, Agent. UNATCO has a policy against killing unarmed prisoners. We have much to learn from each other."
JC Denton: "We are assuming control of the airfield. The vaccine will be returned to the international authorities."
Juan Lebedev: "Don't you want to hear why your brother came over to our side?"
JC Denton: "He makes his own decisions."
Juan Lebedev: "You know he wouldn't betray UNATCO without a reason."

[Anna Navarre walks into the room to demand that Denton kill Lebedev, Denton kills or tranquilizes her]

Juan Lebedev: "I guess Paul must have convinced you."
JC Denton: "All right. We're alone. If you have proof of a conspiracy, let's hear it."
Juan Lebedev: "The question you've got to ask -- I'm surprised you haven't -- is the obvious one: Who am I? Who made me and for what purpose?"
JC Denton: "UNATCO has briefed me on my augmentations. Get to the point."
Juan Lebedev: "Your parents were murdered precisely because they could have told you the correct answer to that question."
JC Denton: "That's a pretty big claim."
Juan Lebedev: "You didn't have parents. The ones you knew were employees. You were made by a cabal of technophiles so crazed for power that they would control not only governments and people but the chemistry of our bodies as well."
JC Denton: "Your proof?"
Juan Lebedev: "You're the proof. You and Paul. When you get back to UNATCO, pay attention. Something's not right. You're really working for a group of conspirators called the Majestic 12."
JC Denton: "You expect me to believe there's a group of people powerful enough to control the United Nations?"
Juan Lebedev: "The U.N. and UNATCO are just a couple of their tools."
Sgt. Micheal Berry: "It's a question of who benefits society more."
Corporal Collins: "But who decides that? YOU?"
Sgt. Micheal Berry: "It's implicit."
Corporal Collins: "I think Paul just had a soft spot for the plague victims."
Sgt. Micheal Berry: "Every human institution is like a pyramid. Those with ability are at the top; they are more important."
Corporal Collins: "Maybe it's the foundation that's important, and when the foundation's gone..."
Sgt. Micheal Berry: "They make the decisions. They keep the machine running. Therefore, they must be protected first."
Corporal Collins: "I'm not saying Paul was right..."
Sgt. Micheal Berry: "It's basic tactics. Protect your command centers, your air ships, your industrial zones..."
Corporal Collins: "It's just... the rationing. Seems like the government could pay VersaLife to manufacture more."
Joe Greene: "Joe Green, Midnight Sun. Glad to know you. What can you tell me about what's going on out there?"
JC Denton: "Sorry. Regulations prevent me from talking to the press."
Joe Greene: "Regulations, eh? So you ARE part of the crackdown."
JC Denton: "Like I said, I have nothing to say."
Joe Greene: "Too stylish for the National Guard, too athletic for NYPD -- you must be from UNATCO."
JC Denton: "I really can't be bothered right now."
JC Denton: "How about I ask you a few questions?"
Joe Greene: "Splendid. I certainly would like to know what an international antiterrorist organization expects to find in a dive like this."
JC Denton: "On second thought, I don't need your help." [If the player chooses the second option]
Joe Greene: "Then let me ask YOU a question. What do YOU think about the summary executions happening on the very streets of New York?"
JC Denton: "I'd call it civil unrest."
Joe Greene: "Let me be more pointed. How does it feel to be ordered to murder civilians just because they support the fastest-growing political movement in this nation's history?"
JC Denton: "In a democracy, armed rebellion is criminal, not political."
Joe Greene: "Rebellion, as the Declaration of Independence tells us, is not only our "right" but our "duty" when we have suffered "a long train of abuses and usurpations."
Paul Denton: "Excellent work. I underestimated your abilities."
JC Denton: "You work for the NSF?"
Paul Denton: "Listen to what I got to say. We don't have much time."
JC Denton: "You got that right. UNATCO will have a time here in a few minutes."
Paul Denton: "The Gray Death is a man-made virus. Everyone up to the President is at UNATCO's mercy as long as UNATCO controls the supply of Ambrosia."
JC Denton: "You believe that?"
Paul Denton: "We have proof. We need to get the Ambrosia to Hong Kong. Heard of Tracer Tong? He can help us synthesize it ourselves."
JC Denton: "You better step away from the jet. Your boss is my next objective."
Paul Denton: "Join us, JC. Talk to Lebedev. He can convince you."
Paul Denton: "Get on the plane. We're almost ready to go."
JC Denton: "Blackmail of the U.S. Government could not possibly escape the notice of the United Nations."
Paul Denton: "Don't be so quick to trust the UN."
JC Denton: "Are you kidding? The UN's about the only chance we got these days. If the U.S. spirals into another civil war..."
Paul Denton: "A pretext, nothing more. The whole project of world government -- going back to the League of Nations -- has been funded and manipulated mainly by wealthy bankers.
JC Denton: "Is that so?"
Paul Denton: "Remember that the UN was built on land donated by John D. Rockefeller. Get on board. A UNATCO security squad will be here any minute."

[edit] Other Conversations

Informed Guard: "Executive Order 10990. It lets us take over all modes of transportation."
New Guard: "FEMA can do that?"
Informed Guard: "If the President declares an emergency. Executive Order 10995. We can take over the media."
New Guard: "All of it?"
Informed Guard: "Any at all. Executive Order 10997. We can take command of natural resources."
New Guard: "So it's all legal."
Informed Guard: "The National Security Act also falls under our umbrella. And the Defense Production Act. If he plays his cards right, Walton Simons can pull off a bloodless coup."
New Guard: "All the better. Then we don't have to fight."
Informed Guard: "Exactly."
JC Denton: "What else do you know about me?"
Morpheus: "Everything that can be known."
Walton Simons: "You take another step forward and here I am again, like your own reflection in a hall of mirrors."
JC Denton: "That makes me one ugly son of a bitch. How'd my face get all marked up with bioelectrics?"
Anna Navarre: "We had such hopes for you and your brother. It appears you are not as loyal as we expected."
JC Denton: "Loyalty to what Simons and agents like you have made of UNATCO - I would rather die."
Anna Navarre: "We are thinking the same thought." [Anna arms herself]
Dr Jaime Reyes: "By the way, the augmentation canister I ordered finally arrived."
JC Denton: "You mean the one on the counter?"
Dr Jaime Reyes: "Yeah, it was supposed to be a welcome-aboard present."
JC Denton: "Guess it'll have to be a retirement gift."
Anna Navarre: "I would like to be reassigned to Agent Hermann."
Joseph Manderley: "Why? Is Agent Denton...?"
Anna Navarre: "He completed his objective, but our tactics are incompatible."
Joseph Manderley: "In other words, he didn't kill everything in sight."
Anna Navarre: "He could have made a more thorough search for NSF targets, yes."
JC Denton: "How are the drinks here?"
Renault: "Great if you like rat piss."
JC Denton: "Never tried it."
Sam Carter: "It's a shame when a difference of opinion gets somebody killed. That's all I have to say about that."
JC Denton: "Every war is the result of a difference of opinion. Maybe the biggest questions can only be answered by the greatest of conflicts."
Sam Carter: "Let's hope not, or we're on the brink of another world war."
Anna Navarre: "I will have you kill you myself."
JC Denton: "Take your best shot, Flatlander woman."
Anna Navarre: "How did you know..." [Anna explodes]
JC Denton: "I know your UNATCO killphrase: Laputan machine."
Gunther Hermann: "I am not a mach-"
JC Denton: "Sticks and stones." [Gunther explodes]
Anna Navarre: "Don't tell me you're going to wear those sunglasses during a night operation?"
JC Denton: "My vision is augmented."
Anna Navarre: "Are you sure you pressed the right button?"
Gunther Hermann: "I do not make mistakes of that kind."
Anna Navarre: "Your hand might have slipped."
Gunther Hermann: "No. I wanted orange. It gave me lemon-lime."
Anna Navarre: "The machine would not make a mistake..."
Gunther Hermann: "It's the maintenance man. He knows I like orange."
Anna Navarre: "So you think the staff has some kind of plot..."
Gunther Hermann: "Yes, they do it on purpose."
Bob Page: "Soon, I will become pure energy. I will burn like the brightest star."
JC Denton: "You're gonna burn, all right."
Maggie Chow: "Mr. J.C. Denton... in the flesh. As dark and serious as his brother."
JC Denton: "You know who I am... and Paul? You know my brother?"
Maggie Chow: "Intimately. Call me Maggie."
MJ12 Trooper 1: "An American?"
MJ12 Trooper 2: "UNATCO agent. Agent Hermann stopped by. He said we should shoot on sight."
MJ12 Trooper 1: "He looks German."
MJ12 Trooper 2: "Hermann?"
MJ12 Trooper 1: "No, the spy, Denton. How do they know he's in Paris?"
MJ12 Trooper 2: "UNATCO got Echelon IV back up. Trust me, they know where he is."
MJ12 Trooper 1: "They say Denton has a head full of secrets."
MJ12 Trooper 2: "Well, those secrets won't be very valuable splattered on the pavement."

[If the player kills Anna Navarre before she assassinates Juan Lebedev]

Alex Jacobson: "What the HELL were you thinking, JC?"
JC Denton: "Agent Navarre was out-of-line. I had no choice."
Alex Jacobson: "They'll have you killed. They won't even blink an eye."
JC Denton: "Neither did I."
Walton Simons: "You can't begin synthesizing the vaccine without a universal constructor, and don't think we're going to just leave one lying around. Not after you blew up the one in Hong Kong."
JC Denton: "I was never properly trained in its operation."
Walton Simons: "Laugh it up, Denton."
UNATCO Troop: "Afraid base is under lockdown 'til the danger's gone, Agent Denton."
JC Denton: "Right. How are you guys holding up?"
UNATCO Troop: "UNATCO command made us pull back, I guess for Gunther's sake. What's the deal? We're ready to go in."
JC Denton: "We're taking a minimum-force approach. We're cops, after all." [If the player chooses the second option]
UNATCO Troop: "Ask me, I think we should frag'em all. You trespass on UNATCO property, you get pumped full of lead."
JC Denton: "When due process fails us, we really do live in a world of terror."
UNATCO Troop: "Thought you nano-augs were suppose to be badass killing machines. Guess I was wrong."
JC Denton: "Guess so."
UNATCO Troop: "Some advice. You get out there, you're gonna have to tangle with some real sons-of-bitches. Best thing is to pick 'em off from fifty or a hundred paces with a scope. I scored an extra one from a couple of thugs we dropped down by the dock; you can have it for 700 credits. I also picked up 10 mm ammo and some crossbow darts -- say 200 for one and 60 for the other."
JC Denton: "Shouldn't you turn that stuff over to the quartermaster?"
UNATCO Troop: "Sure, I will, but 'long as command has the rest on parade drills, someone might as well put this hardware to use."
JC Denton: "I don't have 700 for the scope." [If the player chooses the first option]
UNATCO Troop: "Guess you'll have to go with that "minimum-force approach," huh?"
JC Denton: "Mr. Carter, can I ask you a question?"
Sam Carter: "Certainly."
JC Denton: "I'm getting the impression that UNATCO is focused more on military operations than law enforcement."
Sam Carter: "The focus has shifted lately. I agree."
JC Denton: "The only way Anna would've been satisfied is if I'd executed every terrorist in Castle Clinton. The standing order seems to be 'shoot to kill'."
Sam Carter: "Direct intervention is always part of the game. In my day we were just more civilized about it."
JC Denton: "Civilized. That's the word. I guess I was expecting a little more class from the world's anti-terrorist organization."
Sam Carter: "We just have to strike a balance. Why don't I throw in an extra clip with those multitools. I trust you are able to judge when one or the other is appropriate for achieving mission objectives."

[If the player kills Joseph Manderley after returning to UNATCO before encountering Walter Simons]

Walter Simons: "Splendid. You did our dirty work for us."
JC Denton: "Figured he was your type, a real hard-ass."
Walter Simons: "On the contrary, he was somewhat too careful and urbane for that position. I'm going to have to step in my self and restore discipline."
JC Denton: "Well, since that makes you my new boss, take a long look at Manderley's dead body. Consider that my resignation; I don't have time to write a letter."
Walter Simons: "You can't run Denton. Even if you escape, your killswitch is counting down. You'll be dead in twenty-three hours. Another fifty billion dollars down the drain."
JC Denton: "We'll see about that."

[edit] Taglines

[edit] Main Cast (voice)

[edit] See Also

Deus Ex: Invisible War

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