Orphan Black (TV Series)

Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est (2014)

Matt Frewer: Dr. Aldous Leekie

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : Rachel, you don't need to see this.

  Rachel Duncan : I demanded to. Now, move.

• Paul Dierden : Are you asking me if I'm interested or reminding me I have no choice?

  Rachel Duncan : It's a promotion, Paul. A very handsome one, if you have the starch for it. Where are you with the new stem-cell line, Aldous?

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : My in vitro tests have been very promising. Promising enough to treat Cosima.

  Rachel Duncan : Shut down the tests. Until Sarah comes to heel, Cosima will suffer.

• Sarah Manning : Professor Ethan Duncan, alive.

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : Where?

  Sarah Manning : It's vital my brother goes free. All charges dropped.

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : Find him, I can pull the levers to countermand Rachel, and guarantee Cosima will be able to continue the treatment.

  Sarah Manning : What - what treatment?

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : Ah, so you don't share everything.

  Sarah Manning : What? What is she sick?

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : Unfortunately, yes.

• Rachel Duncan : I'm in need of a new monitor.

  Paul Dierden : [Surprised]  You have a monitor?

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : She did. Daniel.

  Rachel Duncan : I've been self-aware since I was a child. I'm not exempt from the program. I simply enjoy a unique vantage, one with privilege.

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : She needs full-time personal security. And you submit data to me on her health and well being, like any other subject.

  Paul Dierden : Are you asking me if I'm interested or reminding me I have no choice?

• Dr. Aldous Leekie : I'm going to tell you something that only a handful of people know. Twenty years ago, there was a fire in one of our labs. Several scientists died, reams of data lost, and the original genome was destroyed.

  Cosima Niehaus : So all of this secrecy around the original genome is because it doesn't exist?

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : Yes. The entire project is essentially an orphan. We lost your prehistory, Cosima, and, with it, all record of several synthetic sequences embedded in your DNA.

  Cosima Niehaus : What kind of synthetic sequences?

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : The sequences that make you possible. That overcame the viability issues that have haunted us ever since.

  Cosima Niehaus : So you lost the map. So finding the sequence in the genome is like looking for hay in a haystack.

• Dr. Aldous Leekie : Here we go. Just an intradermal test to see how your body responds.

  Cosima Niehaus : Yes, if my arm falls off, then we know.

  [laughs] 

  Delphine Cormier : Or if you grow another limb.

  Cosima Niehaus : Yeah. Ew.