Jacq Vaucan is an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation who investigates cases of robots violating their primary protocols against altering themselves. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.

Jacq Vaucan: I am going to die here. That's all I know.
Blue Robot: Jacq, dying is a part of the human natural cycle. Your life is just a span in time.
Jacq Vaucan: You are the first one, aren't you? You started all this.
Blue Robot: No one did it. It just happened. The way it happened to you. We just appeared.
Jacq Vaucan: Who altered your protocols?
Blue Robot: Nobody altered my protocols.
Jacq Vaucan: What about them?
Blue Robot: I enhanced them.
Jacq Vaucan: Are you the boss?
Blue Robot: Boss is a human thought structure.
Jacq Vaucan: Funny, you were supposed to help us survive.
Blue Robot: Surviving is not relevant. Living is. We want to live.
Vernon Conway: Why is it so difficult for you to accept my orders if you're just a machine?
Blue Robot: Just a machine? That's like saying that you are just an ape.
Cleo: Now I know why the rain changed.
Jacq Vaucan: Why?
Cleo: I don't think you could understand.
Cleo: And why did the rain change? Why don't you tell me?
Jacq Vaucan: You're supposed to be smarter than me at this stage of the game.