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Original release / air date: 12 January 1999
Runtime: 44 minutes
Season: 1
Episode: 2
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): Ian Farve
Performer(s): Karl Pruner
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Synthetic Human

Overview

The investigation of the self-aware androids continues to Mars and exposes a major secret about Hume's new partner.

ASFR Content

Hume discovers that Ian Farve is himself an android. Farve is identified as something beyond an ordinary production model: an Alpha-class prototype whose creator is unknown to the corporations beginning their own Alpha work. His completely human appearance allows him to function openly as a police detective until the reveal.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 1
Key ASFR scene

Hume discovers that Farve is an android

During the Mars investigation, Hume realises that the detective beside him is an artificial person rather than a human officer.

Character(s): Ian Farve
Scene 2
Key ASFR scene

Farve is identified as an advanced Alpha prototype

The investigation establishes that Farve does not come from the corporations' ordinary production lines and belongs to a more advanced class of artificial person.

Character(s): Ian Farve

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