A guy working on a secret government project discovers he is a robot.
This story was pretty good.
There were decent special effects involving the android robot. His character was kind of flat until the end.
His handler was kind of interesting though. She was in on everything (well, almost) about the project. She was the one that showed the most initiative of the two of them.
Too much was made of "processor speed" as the seat of emotion in this story. The human brain operates at a frequency rate of 40 cycles per second (40 Hz). Today's computers operate at a frequency of 3 GHz and often incorporate 2 complete CPUs on the same chip.
If speed was what really mattered, our computers would be throwing hissy fits and temper tantrums all over the place. Obviously, they have other issues but emotions are not one of them.
The plot twists in this episode were extra good.moreless
Tom and Wendy seem like the perfect couple, happy together and very much in love. But at night when Wendy sleeps, Tom has terrible memories about being stuck in a burning building with a crying baby. The nightmares, however, aren't real and neither is Tom. He's an android and the "memories" are bugs placed in his artificial intelligence by his creator, the late Joe Walker. Walker had originally created Tom to save humans from fires and other dangerous situations. However he anticipated that his colleague, Dr. Edward Normandy, might try to militarize the android and use him as a cyber-soldier-spy and planted the bugs as a way of forcing Normandy to upgrade Tom so the android could think for itself.moreless
 Kevin Conway |
The Control Voice |
Gabrielle Miller |
Wendy Seymour |
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 Jack Klugman |
Joe Walker |
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Garvin Cross |
R & R Leader |
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Control Voice: If we choose to give birth to a thinking machine, we must be prepared for the day when our progeny will demand independence. -
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Control Voice: Humanity defines itself by the capacity to think and feel. But what happens when a machine attains the same abilities?
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