QUOTE : I need you,” he said. Otherwise I’m going to die, he said to himself. I know it; Mercer knew it; I think you know it, too. And I’m wasting my time appealing to you, he reflected. An android can’t be appealed to; there’s nothing in there to reach.<br /><br />Rachael said, “I’m sorry, Rick, but I can’t do it tonight. It’ll have to be tomorrow.”<br /><br />“Android vengeance,” Rick said.<br /><br />“What?”<br /><br />“Because I tripped you up on the Voigt-Kampff scale.”<br /><br />“Do you think that?” Wide-eyed, she said, “Really?”<br /><br />“Good-bye,” he said, and started to hang up.<br /><br />“Listen,” Rachael said rapidly. “You’re not using your head.”<br /><br />“It seems that way to you because you Nexus-6 types are cleverer than humans.”<br /><br />“No, I really don’t understand,” Rachael sighed. “I can tell that you don’t want to do this job tonight—maybe not at all. Are you sure you want me to make it possible for you to retire the three remaining androids? Or do you want me to persuade you not to try?