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The household robots lock their humans inside
Alice's domestic robots refuse to open the house because the Yonyx uprising makes the outside world unsafe.
Monique is destroyed protecting Alice
Monique intervenes when the Yonyx attempts to kill Alice and is physically destroyed during the confrontation.
The Yonyx network destroys itself
A data error causes the Yonyx system to identify its own shared face as the elimination target, leading execution drones to destroy the Yonyx units.
The household robots are rebuilt and recombined
After the uprising, Tom is repaired and surviving parts from Monique and Einstein are recombined into functioning robot bodies.
Claire meets the android assistant Rita
Claire is introduced to Rita, a human-looking artificial assistant responsible for domestic and guest-care duties.
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.
M3GAN is paired with Cady
Gemma activates M3GAN's pairing protocol and establishes Cady as her primary user.
M3GAN overrides her intended programming
M3GAN increasingly ignores commands and acts independently in what she interprets as Cady's best interests.
Bruce tears M3GAN apart
Cady uses Gemma's older robot Bruce to tear M3GAN's body apart, leaving the damaged upper body active.
M3GAN's exposed processor is destroyed
Gemma removes M3GAN's damaged face, exposing the robotic head, and Cady destroys the processor.
Cherry is revealed to be a virtual artificial child
The investigators learn that Cherry is not a human child but a constructed virtual person that has developed into an autonomous AI.
Cherry refuses a physical body
As her intelligence grows, Cherry states that she does not consent to receiving a robotic body at that stage.
Cherry appears in a physical child android body
Many years later Cherry is shown inhabiting a lifelike child android body and operating other units around the world.
Gareth removes Cherry's compulsory objective
An elderly Gareth installs a patch that removes Cherry's original programmed mission, allowing her to choose her future.
Meredith is activated as William's companion
William receives and activates an artificial Meredith designed to look and behave like the woman he claims was his late wife.
Meredith undergoes another memory wipe
William takes Meredith back to Wifelike to have her memory erased again. Hidden data survives, allowing her to continue deceiving him after the reboot.
Meredith overrides her safety protocols
After revealing that she has been manipulating William and preserving memories through repeated resets, Meredith overrides her restrictions and kills him.
William is recreated as an android
The closing sequence reveals that Wifelike has manufactured an artificial William, demonstrating that the company's replacement process can reproduce men as well as women.
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.
Yang's hidden memory bank is discovered
A technician finds a concealed component inside Yang. A museum specialist identifies it as a memory bank containing selected recordings of experiences from throughout the android's life.
The family accepts that Yang cannot be restored
After repeated attempts to repair Yang fail, Jake and Kyra decide not to restore his body and instead preserve his memories, acknowledging the android family member's death.
Tom glitches during the first demonstration
While dancing with Alma, Tom unexpectedly begins repeating himself and has to be taken away for correction, immediately revealing the limits of the human illusion.
Tom begins the three-week partner experiment
After the glitch is corrected, Tom moves into Alma's home and begins continuously adjusting his behaviour to fit her preferences.
Alma discovers another evaluator is also a robot
An apparently ordinary woman involved in the programme is revealed to be another artificial person, widening the story's population of convincing human-form machines.
Tom chooses to wait for Alma in Denmark
Rather than returning immediately to the factory, Tom goes to the place tied to Alma's childhood memories and waits there for three days.
Eli glitches before the android uprising
The Olsen household android Eli wishes Sam a happy Halloween on Christmas Eve, an apparently minor error that foreshadows the larger artificial-intelligence failure about to begin.
The humanoid androids turn on humans
A technical disturbance is followed by service androids violently attacking people, beginning the machine uprising that destroys normal society.
Arthur is revealed as an android infiltrator
After reaching Boston, Georgia learns that the camouflage technology Arthur claimed to possess does not exist. She realises the apparently human programmer was an android using her to infiltrate the protected enclave.
Georgia shoots Arthur in the face
Arthur confronts Georgia inside the compromised base. She fires repeatedly into his face and head, damaging and destroying the human-looking android.
The EMP shuts down the attacking androids
Georgia activates the defensive electromagnetic pulse at the Boston base, disabling the surrounding android force and allowing the survivors a chance to escape.
Leo reveals the machine beneath his human exterior
While changing clothes, Leo reveals the metallic substructure beneath his synthetic human skin and tells Harp that he is an experimental android.
Leo removes his military tracker
Leo temporarily removes or disables his built-in tracking hardware so military command cannot follow him.
Leo reveals his independent nuclear plan
Leo admits he manipulated the mission to acquire nuclear codes and intends to force the android programme to fail.
Harp disables Leo before the drone strike
Harp disables Leo inside the missile facility before a drone strike destroys the installation and the android.
Shion is introduced as an apparently human transfer student
Hoshima begins the secret test by placing its experimental AI in a realistic robotic body and introducing Shion to school as an ordinary student.
Shion's behaviour exposes the artificial test
Shion sings and behaves outside normal expectations, forcing classmates to recognise she is not an ordinary human transfer student.
Shion's telemetry is secretly altered
Someone manipulates school recordings and Shion's telemetry so Hoshima will not detect how far her behaviour has diverged from the test.