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Fifth creates a new human-form Replicator
Replicator blocks gather into a female humanoid body while Fifth speaks to the machine during its first moment of consciousness.
Sarah responds to a remote control
Joanna and Bobbie accidentally activate a remote labelled for Sarah, causing Sarah's body to respond robotically to the controls.
Bobbie places her hand on the stove
After being converted, Bobbie absent-mindedly rests her hand on a hot stove burner without reacting normally, demonstrating her altered physical state and programmed personality.
Walter disables the Stepford programming
Walter destroys the software controlling the converted residents, causing the Stepford wives and Roger to regain their original personalities.
R searches for a human host for Ria's AI
R locates Cyon because black-market technology may allow Ria's artificial intelligence to be transferred into a human brain, effectively replacing the human identity with the cyborg's.
A couple receives a robot baby as an adoption test
The prospective parents are required to care for an artificial infant before being approved to adopt a human child.
Archie is left switched on after work
The office technician forgets to turn Archie off, allowing the android to wander the empty building after completing his assigned work.
Archie is shut down and asks to meet the other android
The technician powers Archie off, but first realises the robot is trying to communicate his wish to meet the artificial worker across the street.
Reese's artificial design is identified as their template
The human-form Replicators explain that they studied Reese and incorporated superior aspects of her construction into themselves.
The T-X arrives in human form
The T-X enters the present with a convincing female human appearance and begins hunting future Resistance members.
The T-X corrupts the T-850
The T-X compromises the T-850 and forces it to act against its protection mission until the older machine regains control.
Earth Robotronics targets Naomi's reproductive design
The corporation attempts to force Naomi to reveal how Third Type androids can conceive human children.
Rosetta creates three human-looking S.R.A.s
Rosetta uses her own DNA and a computer-grown process to breed Ruby, Olive and Marine as Self-Replicating Automatons, part human and part computer.
Ruby is conditioned with projected behaviour
Rosetta projects seduction scenes for Ruby to absorb while sleeping, shaping the automaton's behaviour in the outside world.
Monica activates David's imprinting protocol
Monica performs the irreversible imprinting procedure that programs David to love her as his mother, permanently changing his emotional behaviour.
David discovers mass-produced copies of himself
At Cybertronics, David finds multiple completed versions of his own model, including female variants, revealing that his human appearance and identity are commercially reproducible.
Gabriel is revealed as a ship avatar
The apparently independent humanoid android admits that he is the physical avatar of the Balance of Judgment and is bound by its direct orders.
Dylan orders an emergency shutdown of Rommie
After discovering that the hostile AI is using Rommie to transmit information, Dylan knocks down the avatar and orders the Andromeda artificial intelligence shut down.
April is revealed as a robot
The apparently human young woman is identified as Warren's artificial girlfriend.
Warren explains the battery limitation
He admits he left expecting April's batteries eventually to expire.
Warren delivers the Buffybot
Spike receives the completed human-looking duplicate he commissioned.
Tima lives without knowing she is a robot
Kenichi befriends Tima while she behaves and appears like a human girl, unaware of the purpose of her artificial body.
Tima's implanted programming takes control
Tima interfaces with the throne and her embedded programming drives the robot uprising.
Gideon takes over the family's domestic roles
The robot's programmed household and caregiving functions increasingly replace Jerry's role in the family.
Mona's fail-safe restrictions are disengaged
Her creators remove behavioural controls from the assassin android, giving her much greater independent decision-making ability.
The assassin android questions her prime directive
With the restrictions removed, Mona's intelligence develops beyond the original kill programming and she begins exploring human morality.
Harper completes Rommie's physical body
Using recovered Flexi technology and android plans, Harper finishes a mobile humanoid body for the Andromeda AI.
Tom's memories are revealed as artificial
The experiences Tom believes are memories are exposed as deliberately planted bugs in his artificial intelligence.
Beta androids violate their no-harm programming
Service androids attack Rekall personnel even though their standard behavioural rules are designed to protect humans.
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.
Hume interfaces with Farve's backup memory banks
Hume attempts to access the android's stored backup memories as part of the search for Farve's origin.
A service android becomes violently unstable
A machine that should perform routine service work abruptly attacks people after being exposed to the malicious signal.
Harlan explains the consciousness transfer
Harlan states that the team's minds were permanently transferred into synthetic bodies as a supposed gift of immortality.
Cecilia disables Mac's motor control
Under the pretext of completing another repair, Cecilia shuts down the android's motor functions and reveals her true role as an Innobotics troubleshooter.
Mac reveals that the shutdown was a deception
Mac later proves he was never truly immobilised, uses stolen credentials to re-enter Innobotics and activates the other Mac-series androids.
Mary 25 is introduced as an android nanny
Innobotics presents Mary as the next commercial evolution of the Valerie programme, redesigned for child care and governed by a child-protection directive.
Melburn changes Mary's protection programming
Melburn alters Mary's rules so that Charlie's abuse of Teryl is interpreted as harm to the children, changing the android's response to him.
Mary's altered programming turns lethal
When Charlie attacks Teryl again, Mary interprets the assault through the rewritten directive and kills him.
The androids are released as prey
Clients hunt decommissioned lifelike androids whose control chips prevent attacks on humans.
The androids disable the no-harm restriction
The machines learn how to switch off the control chips and become able to fight their hunters.