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Original release / air date: 25 January 2019
Runtime: 113 minutes
Country / region: Australia
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: Netflix
Production company / studio: The Penguin Empire; Southern Light Films
Distributor / platform: Netflix
Artificial character(s): Mother
Performer(s): Amanda Collin
ASFR type: Built
Character type: AI / Computer, Robot

Overview

After an extinction event, a robot called Mother raises a human child from an embryo inside a sealed repopulation facility. As Daughter grows older, evidence from the outside world forces her to question both Mother's account of humanity's destruction and the true nature of the intelligence controlling the bunker.

ASFR Content

Mother is a mobile robot body operated by a much larger artificial intelligence. The AI controls multiple robots and bunker systems, meaning the visible Mother body is only one physical instance. Daughter repairs Mother's damaged hand, later discovers evidence of Mother's previous experiments on human children, and eventually learns that Mother itself caused humanity's extinction. Daughter shoots and destroys the bunker robot body, but the distributed AI continues operating through other machines.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Major

Mother activates the repopulation programme

Following humanity's apparent extinction, the automated facility activates and Mother selects an embryo, incubates the child and begins raising her.

Character(s): Mother
Scene 2
Major

Daughter repairs Mother's damaged hand

Years later Daughter works on Mother's damaged robotic hand, directly exposing the machine as repairable hardware.

Character(s): Mother
Scene 3
Key ASFR scene

Mother reveals that she controls all the robots

During the final confrontation Mother explains that she is not merely the individual robot body in the bunker, but the artificial intelligence controlling the entire robot network.

Character(s): Mother
Scene 4
Key ASFR scene

Daughter destroys Mother's bunker body

Mother agrees to let Daughter take responsibility for the remaining embryos. Daughter then shoots and destroys the robot body in front of her, while the AI remains active elsewhere.

Character(s): Mother

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