Overview
At a remote robotics facility, George Almore develops increasingly sophisticated artificial bodies while secretly trying to reunite with his dead wife.
ASFR Content
J1, J2 and J3 represent successive stages toward a human-equivalent android. J3 moves and responds with convincingly human behaviour and is physically developed into Jules' likeness. She eventually learns George plans to overwrite her own consciousness with Jules' archived mind, while the jealous J2 destroys herself.
ASFR Scenes
J3 activates as a human-equivalent prototype
George brings the new android online and introduces a machine capable of human-like movement, emotion and conversation.
J3 is developed into Jules' likeness
George finishes the android's physical appearance so that it resembles his deceased wife and begins loading her memories.
J3 learns her consciousness is intended to be overwritten
The android discovers that George plans to replace her emerging identity with the archived consciousness of Jules.
J2 destroys herself
Unable to accept that she can never develop beyond her current artificial limits, J2 walks into a lake and ceases functioning.