"Workforce" Line-by-Line

[Ravoc's consulting room]

KADAN: How could she just walk out?

 

RAVOC: She was a voluntary patient. There was no reason for security to stop her. She accessed 64 restricted files, all of them for people diagnosed with dysphoria syndrome. According to the records, those patients were all admitted on the same day, and you're listed as the attending physician in every case.

 

KADAN: Oh, yes, I remember. Quite, quite an outbreak.
RAVOC: You've never mentioned it.

 

KADAN: Well, I'm sorry if I haven't kept you properly informed about my patients.

 

RAVOC: Everyone of them was discharged to the main Power Authority. That supervisor you were talking to, that's where he worked.

 

KADAN: I explained that to you. I was informing him about a potential health threat.

 

RAVOC: That plant worker, Amal Kotay. He claimed that his friends had been abducted and put to work after having their memories altered.

 

KADAN: What are you implying?
RAVOC: You're making false diagnoses. Selectively changing what people remember, and then sending them to work at the power plant.

 

KADAN: Very good, Doctor.

 

RAVOC: Why?

 

KADAN: A physician with more experience would be able to see this in the larger context. The true public health threat is the labor shortage and the only cure is to find more skilled workers.

 

RAVOC: We're doctors. We're not supposed to harm patients.

 

KADAN: We're helping them to lead productive, happy lives.

 

RAVOC: By altering their memories?

 

Kadan: The treatment I provide improves their lives and makes them better workers. In turn, our economy benefits.

 

RAVOC: You're profiting from this, aren't you?

 

Kadan: Doesn't a physician deserve to be compensated for his services?

 

RAVOC: I'll report you.

 

Kadan: To whom? My research is funded by the ministry of health.

 

RAVOC: Well, Criminal Investigations, then.