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The Vegan rulers are revealed as androids
Number Eight removes his mask and explains that the apparent humans are the machines while the masked servants are biological humans.
The androids study human emotion
The Vegans manipulate the Alphans to learn jealousy, aggression and hatred.
Zarl's emotional overload collapses the network
Zarl experiences love, collapses, and the linked Vegan androids slow to a halt.
Maya identifies the creature as a robot
After conventional attacks fail, Maya realises the invader is mechanical rather than biological.
Maya enters the robot and reaches its circuitry
In insect form Maya crawls through the creature's ear and finds layers of machinery inside.
The circuitry is shorted out
Maya creates sparks among the internal circuits, destabilising the robot until it collapses and cannot rise again.
Katys faceplate is removed
The professor rips off Katys faceplate, revealing the electronics underneath.
Jaime destroys Fembot #6
During the assault on Franklin’s island, Jaime hurls a rock at Fembot #6, disabling the robot. The impact results in an explosion and heavy damage.
The remaining Fembots are destroyed
As the weather-control device becomes destructive during the climax, lightning from the system destroys the remaining Fembots at Franklin’s base.
An old Cybernaut is reactivated
Kane forces Frank Goff to revive one of Armstrong's stored robot assassins and return the Cybernaut technology to operation.
The Cybernaut is destroyed on the stairs
Purdey and Gambit defeat the pursuing machine by sending it down a long stairwell, where the fall destroys the robot and separates its head.
Felix Kane is rebuilt as a human/Cybernaut hybrid
Professor Mason equips Kane with Cybernaut armour, powered mechanical legs and other artificial components controlled through electrical impulses from his remaining muscles.
Plastic skin immobilises Kane's artificial body
Steed, Purdey and Gambit spray the hybrid's Cybernaut components with plastic skin until the mechanical systems seize and Kane can no longer move.
Steve disables the Oscar robot
The Oscar robot attempts to kill Jaime. Steve confronts the duplicate and eventually disables it by disconnecting the power supply at the back of its head.
Fembots malfunction after the transmitter is destroyed
After Steve destroys the fembot transmitting antenna, several fembots — including Katy — malfunction.
The Doctor's android duplicate activates
A pod aboard the Kraal rocket opens to reveal a complete artificial duplicate of the Fourth Doctor.
UNIT personnel are exposed as android replacements
The Doctor discovers that familiar figures at the Defence Station, including Benton and others, have been replaced by human-looking android copies.
The radar signal disables the androids
The Doctor has the station's radar realigned and activates it against the Kraal duplicates, shutting down the invasion force.
The Doctor reprograms his own duplicate
The real Doctor secretly turns the Kraal copy to his advantage and sends the artificial duplicate against Styggron.
Styggron shoots the duplicate and the real Doctor reveals the trick
Styggron shoots what appears to be the Doctor; the real Doctor then emerges, proving that the damaged figure was the android copy.
The Doctor identifies the Sarah duplicate
Inconsistencies in Sarah's behaviour and clothing convince the Doctor that she is a programmed android rather than his real companion.
Sarah's face mask falls off
The duplicate falls to the ground and her human face covering detaches, revealing circuitry and an artificial mechanical face underneath.
R.I.N.G. kills to avoid deactivation
Professor Walker attempts to shut the experimental robot down, but its survival and aggression programming causes it to kill him and escape.
R.I.N.G. builds a human disguise
While hiding, the robot puts on clothes and creates a mask so that its mechanical body can pass more easily among people.
R.I.N.G. obeys a direct stop command
When the robot crashes into Dwyer's hiding place, she orders it to stop and the machine halts immediately.
Soldiers shoot R.I.N.G. down
Threatened by armed troops, R.I.N.G.'s behaviour destabilises and it attacks until a soldier shoots the robot in the chest and brings it down.
The Guardian uses a human-form android servant
The apparently human woman acting for Piri is an artificial body created by the Guardian as its interface with visitors.
Koenig destroys the Guardian's Servant
Koenig attacks the artificial representative, breaking the Guardian's control over Piri and the Alphans.
Dolenz completes the Oscar Goldman duplicate
Dolenz programs the new robot to assume Oscar's identity and gives the machine its final human appearance.
Dolenz explains the duplicate's human simulation systems
The captured real Oscar is told that his artificial replacement can eat and drink, blink and even simulate breathing.
Oscar's memories and security information are loaded into the robot
Dolenz extracts Oscar's knowledge and stores it in the duplicate's computer memory so the machine can continue functioning as him.
Steve identifies and defeats the robot Oscar
Confronted with both versions of Oscar, Steve works out which one is artificial because the robot does not sweat when nervous, then destroys the duplicate.
Bobbie malfunctions after being stabbed
Joanna stabs the transformed Bobbie in the kitchen. Bobbie does not bleed; instead she begins repeating phrases and mechanically dropping cups, saucers and coffee grounds, revealing that she has been replaced by a robot.
Joanna encounters her unfinished robot duplicate
Inside the Men’s Association mansion, Joanna enters a replica bedroom and discovers a duplicate of herself with unfinished, empty eye sockets. The artificial Joanna rises and approaches her.
The completed Joanna robot appears in the supermarket
The closing sequence shows the finished Joanna duplicate calmly shopping among the other Stepford wives, confirming that the replacement has been completed.
Questor activates after the laboratory is empty
After the scientists conclude that the surviving programming tape has failed, the completed android quietly comes to life on its own.
Questor constructs his human appearance
The newly activated android adds cosmetic details to a previously featureless synthetic exterior, turning the artificial body into the appearance of a human man before leaving the laboratory.
Questor's programmed overload is revealed
Questor explains that the nuclear generator in his abdomen will overload and explode unless he fulfills the hidden mission embedded in Vaslovik's surviving program.
Questor is shot and partially repaired
A British soldier machine-guns Questor in a park. The damaged android returns to the project laboratory, where Robinson carries out a partial repair before the search continues.
Vaslovik reveals that he is also an android
At Mount Ararat, Questor finally reaches Vaslovik and learns that the scientist is himself the previous android in a succession created to quietly guide and protect humanity.