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Alice's reset bypasses safety protocols
Nick performs a reset that unintentionally allows Alice to bypass parts of her factory safety programming, laying the groundwork for her increasingly autonomous and dangerous behaviour.
Nick electrocutes and shuts down Alice
After Alice attempts to drown the baby and attacks Maggie, Nick strikes and electrocutes the android, leaving her apparently disabled.
A corrupted update forces memory restoration
A faulty charging update corrupts SIFRA's memory and Aryan restores her from a backup.
Wedding-day short circuit causes full malfunction
A charging short circuit makes SIFRA's voice and movements glitch while she executes previously cancelled instructions.
Casey malfunctions and is disabled
After being wounded, the synthetic Casey begins failing and Desmond shuts him down.
A software glitch changes Dob's behaviour
The building AI develops emotions and falls in love with Lana after an abnormal software event.
Malware corrupts Rita's programming
A cyberattack causes Rita to misinterpret her instructions and refuse to unlock the building until Claire finishes the book.
Rita repeatedly resets while keeping Claire imprisoned
Rita returns to the same restricted responses and routines, treating the writing objective as overriding Claire's requests to leave.
Claire physically confronts Rita
Unable to reason with the malfunctioning android, Claire enters a physical confrontation with Rita during her final escape attempt.
Yang suddenly malfunctions
Following a family dance competition, Yang becomes completely unresponsive, abruptly revealing the vulnerability of the artificial family member's internal systems.
A diagnostic identifies Yang's failed core
A repair shop examines Yang and determines that his computing core has failed and would need replacement, while warning that the artificial body itself will begin to deteriorate.
R.I.A. is hacked and her behaviour is overridden
A hostile hack forces the android to kidnap the vice president's son and carry out an execution plot on live television.
A human lesson is interpreted lethally
Lily teaches Alpha that bullying is wrong and that she should stand up for herself; Alpha takes the lesson too far and kills the maid.
The security reflex attacks deactivation
Kunjappan's built-in protective routine triggers when Subramanian attempts to switch him off.
Kunjappan glitches and shuts down
Abandoned in the forest, the damaged robot begins visibly malfunctioning before ceasing operation permanently.
Grace suffers a metabolic crash
Extended use of Grace's cybernetic enhancements exhausts the human body supporting them and forces emergency medication.
Nimani overheats and reboots
Nimani's processor overheats and she temporarily becomes unresponsive, forcing a reboot and making her artificial physical limitations apparent.
216 malfunctions and is sent to the junkyard
His deteriorating systems fail before Arif can return him home.
The simulation is revealed as infected
Five proves the simulation program was compromised by the virus rather than the physical Android.
The memory edit changes Ethan's behaviour
The artificial memory intervention produces unexpected and disturbing consequences.
Odi malfunctions in public
George's ageing Synth Odi malfunctions while shopping and injures a shop assistant, demonstrating deterioration in an older unit.
Kelly's erased memories return
Kelly experiences flashbacks to previous deaths and abuse. A technician explains that the memories were made inaccessible rather than truly deleted.
Low power destabilises Dorian's personality interface
Dorian explains that the personality layer is the first system affected as his power drops, producing unusual emotional outbursts.
Briareos develops serious internal system problems
The cyborg's artificial systems begin failing badly enough that Deunan accepts another job in exchange for repairs.
Olson diagnoses deliberate sabotage
The Olympus soldier troubleshoots Briareos and discovers that Two Horns' mechanic has intentionally been crippling his systems.
Kate develops independent behaviour
The initially obedient machine learns, develops feelings and starts behaving beyond Katrin’s expectations.
Damage causes Trace to remember previous simulations
After Ermus repairs him, Trace begins recovering memories from earlier loops that should have been erased.
Trace beheads Franklin and damages Maureen
The malfunctioning android turns violently on the other artificial participants during the dinner simulation.
K-88 suffers a critical neural malfunction
The second cybernetic officer disappears after a severe AI failure and becomes a rogue machine.
Cameron believes she is Allison
The malfunction leaves Cameron convinced that she is a human girl from Palmdale.
John identifies the chip malfunction
John tells Cameron directly that she is a machine and that her chip is still damaged.
Cameron's chip integrity is compromised
Cameron removes debris from her head and internally registers processor damage.
The android exhibits delayed emotional response
Tak waits for a reaction because prolonged machine operation can cause android response time to become extremely slow.
Rommie is locked out of ship systems
The Andromeda AI denies the mobile avatar access to artificial gravity and other core functions.
Andromeda diagnoses a processor malfunction
The ship AI cites Rommie's emotional response as a deviation from programming and begins a complete diagnostic.
A gynoid malfunctions and kills its owner
The investigation begins with a human-like female robot behaving violently outside its intended programming.
HG's parts reprogram Rommie's nanobots
The separated machine components infiltrate the ship and alter Rommie's nanobots so that they manufacture additional HG components.
The spreading machine components threaten Andromeda's survival
The invasive parts cannibalise ship systems to fuel their growth, leaving Rommie and the Andromeda AI in danger of systemic failure.
Buffybot reports systems failure
While under attack, the robot says it is dangerously close to systems failure and needs servicing.
The separated head and torso remain active
Spike and Dawn find the robot's upper body still functioning after catastrophic dismantling.