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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.
The original children and replacement process are revealed
Laura discovers the real Mary restrained inside the Men's Association and sees the town's children undergoing the process by which they are replaced with obedient robot doubles.
The Stepford replacement facility explodes
Damage to the replacement machinery triggers an explosion that destroys the Men's Association and the ongoing artificial-child conversion operation.
Bishop's synthetic nature is revealed
During the crew meal, Bishop performs a rapid knife trick and is accidentally nicked, revealing white synthetic fluid and causing Ripley to realise that he is an android.
Bishop explains his protective programming
Ripley distrusts Bishop because of Ash, but Bishop explains that his model is governed by safeguards that prevent him from harming or allowing harm to humans.
The Alien Queen tears Bishop in half
After the survivors return to Sulaco, the hidden Alien Queen impales Bishop through the torso and violently tears the android into two pieces.
Bisected Bishop remains functional
Despite catastrophic separation of his upper and lower body, Bishop remains conscious and later reaches out to save Newt during the airlock confrontation.
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 seemingly destroyed Protector recovers
The survivors use a propane tank to blow up one robot, only to discover later that it has recovered and resumed pursuit.
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 final Protector is destroyed in the paint store
Allison traps the last robot in spilled chemicals and ignites the room, finally destroying the machine.
Paul implants BB's microchip into Samantha
After removing Samantha from the hospital, Paul implants the artificial-intelligence microchip recovered from BB into her brain and attempts to activate her.
Samantha awakens with mechanical behaviour
Samantha opens her eyes and begins moving mechanically after activation, initially holding her hands in a position resembling BB's pincers while Paul teaches her basic movements.
Paul deactivates Samantha
After finding the revived Samantha behaving independently, Paul uses his control system to deactivate her, demonstrating that her artificial component can override her body.
Samantha's face reveals BB beneath
In the final morgue sequence Samantha suddenly grabs Paul as her face tears apart, revealing a grotesque mechanical BB-like structure underneath while she speaks with a robotic voice.
Reeves orders the Mandroid dismantled
After the time-travel tests succeed, Reeves decides that the cyborg pilot should be scrapped.
Nora repairs the damaged Mandroid
Nora recognises her robotics work in his body and repairs damage caused during the escape.
Reeves is revealed as an advanced cyborg
The group discovers that Reeves has rebuilt himself as a more advanced machine with Roman-style armor.
The damaged Mandroid sacrifices himself
Reeves severely damages Mandroid, who uses the remains of his artificial body to free his companions.
Paco is programmed to assassinate Arthur Mosely
Turner's organisation sends Paco to kill the ecological leader as a cybernetic assassin.
Paco refuses to complete the assassination
The cyborg fails to kill Mosely and flees rather than continue obeying Turner's intended role.
Paco reveals how much of his body is artificial
Paco tells Linda that roughly seventy percent of him is implanted machinery and thirty percent remains human.
Carl is rebuilt as Project Frankenstein
ARC uses Carl's remains, a space suit and advanced prosthetic technology to construct a weaponised cyborg.
Removing the control unit causes Carl to activate
When the safeguard is removed during disassembly, a short circuit unexpectedly brings the cyborg to life.
The incinerator burns away Carl's outer suit
The flight suit burns off and exposes the cybernetic prosthetics underneath.
Carl removes his helmet and exposes the brain
Carl reveals the organic brain retained inside the machine body while confronting what ARC made him.
Carl reprograms himself to disable the rage response
Carl changes his own programming so contact no longer automatically forces him to kill.
The Master controls Kamelion remotely
The Master's mind remains lodged within Kamelion, allowing him to force the robot into different human forms and use it as his physical agent.
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.
Kamelion asks the Doctor to destroy him
Freed from the Master's control but badly damaged, Kamelion asks for destruction rather than continued suffering.
The Doctor destroys Kamelion
Kamelion returns to its true metallic form and the Doctor fires the Tissue Compression Eliminator, shrinking the robot into a tiny inert figure.
The firing squad shoots the Doctor and Peri duplicates
The two apparent prisoners are riddled with gunfire during the execution.
The bodies are exposed as android copies
Chellak discovers he executed two extraordinarily lifelike machines.
The Salateen duplicate remains embedded
Jek's facsimile of Salateen continues functioning as a near-perfect human replacement.
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.
Ramsay repairs Lois after Luther's attack
Ramsay returns home to find his domestic robot badly damaged, repairs her, and then discovers that his son has been kidnapped.
The spider robots activate around the elevator
Luther places small assassin machines at the construction site to kill whoever exits the elevator after the exchange.
The spider robots self-destruct
After Luther is killed by his own machines, the assassin robots destroy themselves.
The Terminator repairs its damaged eye
After suffering facial damage, the Terminator performs crude self-repair in its hotel room and removes the damaged organic eye covering, exposing the glowing mechanical optic beneath.
The Terminator exposes the machinery in its arm
The damaged infiltrator cuts into its own forearm and manipulates the mechanical tendons and components beneath the living tissue.