Dr, Louise Banks: I know what it is.
Ian Donnelly: What?
Dr, Louise Banks: It's not a weapon. It's a gift. The weapon is their language. They gave it all to us.
Ian Donnelly: So we can learn Heptopod?
Dr, Louise Banks: If you learn it... really learn it, you get to perceive time the way they do. So you get to see what's to happen. But time, it isn't the same for them. It is not linear.
Ian Donnelly: What?
Dr, Louise Banks: It's not a weapon. It's a gift. The weapon is their language. They gave it all to us.
Ian Donnelly: So we can learn Heptopod?
Dr, Louise Banks: If you learn it... really learn it, you get to perceive time the way they do. So you get to see what's to happen. But time, it isn't the same for them. It is not linear.
Dr, Louise Banks : I know what it is.
Ian Donnelly : What?
Dr, Louise Banks : It's not a weapon. It's a gift. The weapon is their language. They gave it all to us.
Ian Donnelly : So we can learn Heptopod?
Dr, Louise Banks : If you learn it... really learn it, you get to perceive time the way they do. So you get to see what's to happen. But time, it isn't the same for them. It is not linear.
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