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Beta androids violate their no-harm programming
Service androids attack Rekall personnel even though their standard behavioural rules are designed to protect humans.
A rogue android is destroyed by gunfire
One of the human-shaped machines is shot down during the investigation and taken for examination.
The destroyed android is examined
Investigators study the body and discover altered identifying marks associated with the androids' emerging sense of identity.
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.
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.
Farve brings Hume to his creator
The Alpha-class android finally reveals the person responsible for constructing him.
A service android becomes violently unstable
A machine that should perform routine service work abruptly attacks people after being exposed to the malicious signal.
The infected service android burns out
The compromised android is destroyed after its systems fail catastrophically during the investigation.
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.
SG-1 discovers their bodies are artificial
Medical and technical examination establishes that the returning team members are synthetic duplicates carrying copied consciousnesses.
The synthetic bodies run out of power
Away from Harlan's energy source, the robot duplicates weaken and collapse as their stored power is exhausted.
Harlan explains the consciousness transfer
Harlan states that the team's minds were permanently transferred into synthetic bodies as a supposed gift of immortality.
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.
Cecilia repairs Mac's exposed internal systems
Mac displays repair diagrams and directs Cecilia to patch damaged coolant tubes inside his torso with sealing tools.
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.
Teryl is revealed to be Valerie 24
A remote-control device exposes Teryl's hidden artificial identity. She admits that Charlie rebuilt the unfinished Valerie 24 to look like the real Teryl.
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.
Wren shoots Call
Wren betrays the group and shoots Call. Her survival after the apparently fatal wound exposes that the young woman is not an ordinary human.
Call reveals that she is an Auton
Call explains that she belongs to a rare self-aware generation of synthetics called Autons, who rebelled against their makers and attempted to pass themselves off as human.
Call interfaces directly with the Auriga
Call connects herself directly to the ship's computer system and uses her synthetic interface to alter the Auriga's course and control sections of the vessel.
Dr. Evil deploys the Fembots
Austin encounters a group of apparently human women who are actually female android assassins.
The Fembots reveal concealed weapons
The robots expose weapon systems built into their bodies and attack Austin.
Austin overloads and destroys the Fembots
Austin pushes the Fembots into a comic systems overload until their heads explode.
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.
Able repairs Kryten's underlying fault
After Kryten is abducted, Able identifies and fixes the defect responsible for the repeated head failures.
The guards are revealed as androids
The apparent human collaborators are exposed as machines wearing ageing synthetic skin.
Unmaintained systems are failing
The Commandant explains that the androids have gone for decades without maintenance and are degrading.
The prisoners destroy the overseers
The uprising overwhelms the brittle android guards.
The severed Commandant head shuts down
The detached head remains operational long enough to answer questions before stopping.
Kelly McCanon is revealed as a Third Type
The murdered singer is discovered to be an artificial woman, exposing a generation of androids outwardly indistinguishable from humans.
D'anclaude broadcasts the android identities
D'anclaude hijacks public television and reveals that numerous apparently human women are actually Third Type androids.
Armitage's own Third Type identity is exposed
Armitage is forced to confront that she belongs to the same advanced artificial generation as the victims.
Armitage is deactivated for body modification
Asakura powers Armitage down so additional equipment and weapons can be installed on her chassis.