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Original release / air date: 5 January 1999
Runtime: 60 minutes
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Country / region: Canada; Germany; United States
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: CHCH-TV
Production company / studio: Alliance Atlantis Communications; ProSieben; WIC Entertainment
Artificial character(s): Beta-Class Androids
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Robot

Overview

Hume investigates the death of his partner after normally non-violent Beta-class service androids break into Rekall and begin using lethal force.

ASFR Content

The rogue Beta androids have behaviour that contradicts their normal human-protection programming. Several are destroyed during the investigation, and examination of a body reveals that the machines have altered their identifying marks and developed unusual self-awareness tied to expanded memory.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Key ASFR scene

Beta androids violate their no-harm programming

Service androids attack Rekall personnel even though their standard behavioural rules are designed to protect humans.

Character(s): Beta-Class Androids
Features:
Scene 2
Key ASFR scene

A rogue android is destroyed by gunfire

One of the human-shaped machines is shot down during the investigation and taken for examination.

Character(s): Beta-Class Androids
Scene 3
Major

The destroyed android is examined

Investigators study the body and discover altered identifying marks associated with the androids' emerging sense of identity.

Character(s): Beta-Class Androids

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