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Buffy damages April's electrical systems
The fight damages the gynoid's electrical workings.
Tima's implanted programming takes control
Tima interfaces with the throne and her embedded programming drives the robot uprising.
A service android becomes violently unstable
A machine that should perform routine service work abruptly attacks people after being exposed to the malicious signal.
Farve begins malfunctioning and runs diagnostics
Farve develops aggressive behaviour from the same machine infection and attempts to diagnose the change in his own systems.
Mac 27 escapes with gunshot damage
The android kills its way out of Innobotics while sustaining serious internal damage that leaves coolant systems and other components in need of field repair.
Mary's altered programming turns lethal
When Charlie attacks Teryl again, Mary interprets the assault through the rewritten directive and kills him.
Kryten's head explodes
A sudden internal failure destroys the mechanoid's head while the rest of his body remains available for repair.
Replacement heads explode when Kryten is activated
The crew attaches spare mechanoid heads, but each one fails explosively as soon as Kryten is switched on.
Unmaintained systems are failing
The Commandant explains that the androids have gone for decades without maintenance and are degrading.
Evolver reactivates and upgrades again
While being transported for dismantling, the robot comes back online, kills the technicians and returns in a more dangerous configuration.
Adam violently resists the attempted rewrite
A device inserted into Adam's brain centre causes the robot to react violently; Link is killed during the confrontation and Adam later remembers nothing of it.
Valerie is shut down after attacking Rachel
After Valerie's jealousy escalates into violence, the android is deactivated and returned to Innobotics for dismantling.
Frank destroys Valerie with an electric shock
Valerie escapes the facility and again attacks Rachel, forcing Frank to overload the android electrically; as she dies she expresses fear of death.
Cash suffers biomechanical system failures
Cash begins experiencing faults severe enough that she seeks a specialist to determine what is wrong with her artificial body.
Spartacus unexpectedly activates in the laboratory
The supposedly inactive prototype wakes, attacks the staff and captures the control bracelet.
A Hard Man supersoldier malfunctions
The opening demonstrates a cybernetically enhanced soldier going out of control, foreshadowing Chaank's unsafe weapons programme.
The archive begins rewriting Data
After being connected to the alien system, Data starts losing control as foreign personalities appear through his positronic network.
A power surge damages Data and erases his working memory
An explosion during the probe recovery overloads Data's systems and leaves him unable to remember who or what he is.
Geoffrey attempts to erase his own programming
Believing that self-sacrifice will make Gillian happy, Geoffrey attempts to delete his own programming, showing both his artificial control architecture and his increasingly unstable autonomy.
An electric shock burns Somsri’s circuits
A neighbour traps Somsri in a phone booth and shocks her with an electric baton, burning her circuits.
Somsri malfunctions after the circuit damage
After the electrical damage, Somsri runs uncontrollably straight ahead while the others search for her.
The malfunctioning cyborg is abandoned
Pinocchio 964 is discarded after failing to perform as intended; his identity and past have already been erased.
EVE VIII is damaged during the bank robbery
During the field test EVE VIII is damaged in a bank robbery. The damage triggers access to memories programmed from Dr. Simmons and contributes to the android's subsequent rogue behaviour.
The T-1000 begins malfunctioning after freezing
After being frozen and shattered before reforming, the T-1000 starts involuntarily copying nearby surfaces and shows visible instability in its mimetic form.
Lal's positronic brain enters cascade failure
A sudden emotional breakthrough overwhelms Lal's positronic pathways and triggers a rapidly worsening system failure.
Chip installs new facial-expression software
Chip upgrades himself with specially ordered software intended to improve his facial expressions, but the package also introduces the destructive computer virus that will progressively disrupt his systems.
The virus causes Chip to lose control of his body
As the malicious software progresses, Chip's memory and motor control deteriorate until he can barely control his body while trying to protect Roberta.
Hudzen 10 arrives as Kryten's replacement
The newer mechanoid reaches Red Dwarf and attempts to terminate Kryten when the older unit refuses to comply with the replacement order.
Hudzen shuts down after a logic-breaking revelation
Kryten tells Hudzen that Silicon Heaven does not exist; the newer machine cannot reconcile the contradiction and abruptly shuts down.
Normal circuitry passes diagnostics despite the personality malfunction
The crew runs full diagnostics on Data's systems but finds no hardware defect even though his behaviour is increasingly unstable.
Pioneer II malfunctions during the pursuit
The android malfunctions while chasing Whiskey and is recovered by Whiskey and Curly.
Cherry 2000 short-circuits
The original Cherry unit is exposed to water on the kitchen floor and suffers a major electrical failure. She shuts down and is subsequently judged beyond practical repair, although her memory disk survives.
Samira's memories break through the control signals
After the mission, memory flashes interfere with the radio commands and she breaks from CIA control.
A laboratory accident activates R.O.T.O.R.
After Coldyron leaves the project, an accident causes the unfinished prototype to enter service before its brain functions are complete.
R.O.T.O.R. executes a motorist for speeding
The robot applies its prime directive literally and kills a driver for a minor traffic offence because it cannot reason beyond the programmed command.
Mary's robot double malfunctions
Mary's duplicate attacks Laura with a knife. Laura throws the apparently human girl to the floor, causing the artificial double to malfunction.
Lightning corrupts the mall security system
Repeated lightning strikes damage the computer controlling the three Protector robots and their behaviour changes from security enforcement to lethal attack.
A reflected laser damages one Protector
A security robot fires into a mirror and is struck by its own reflected weapon, leaving it damaged and firing blindly.
The Doctor induces an electronic heart attack
The Doctor creates a radiation reaction in Kamelion's psychocircuits, causing the robot to collapse and breaking the Master's control.
A domestic robot turns homicidal
Ramsay enters a suburban house where a household robot has killed members of the family after an illegal chip overrides its normal safety programming.