Sunny
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At least its funny.
Or at most, its funny.
Funny is still a step up from where weve been.
But no, were in the present.
Slowly, the kid inserts one of his earbuds, presumably to summon the cops.
After the title sequence, were in a police station but not to follow up on Norikos arrest.
Shes mostly white, with big eyes, Suzie says.
(Sunny is a homebot?
is the only sentence the detective speaks in English during this interview.)
When the cop asks why the yakuza would do that, Suzie points to their general savagery.
Isnt that what they did to your neck?
Eighty percent of household accidents happen in the bathroom, he deflects.
its robotic voice box chirps with menacing cheer.
Suzie is predictably sour about Mixxy prioritizing her job over Suzies crisis.
While she tries to discuss the matter with Mixxy, the pastry-pushing mascot gets too close.
Fuck off, Humpty Dumpty!
But again, Ill gratefully allow it because its funny.
Mixxy knows this already.
Im just trying to prevent something bad from happening to you, she says.
I dont care what happens to me, Suzie tells her.
Himes theme music precedes her entrance, and she arrives sipping what looks like an iced coffee.
Suzie calls her a fucking bitch and lunges at her, evidently forgetting shes secured to a chair.
That sounded painful, Hime says in Japanese after Suzie and the chair hit the floor hard.
Hime observes that Suzie following the giant manjus orders is proof of her love for Sunny.
This too puzzled me.
Suzie could object on these grounds, but instead she says, I hate homebots.
And yet you married a roboticist, Hime says.Roboticistis a new word to me, but I like it.
Psychiatrist, podiatrist, exorcist, roboticist.
Suzie tells Hime she knows she was responsible for Flight 405 going down.
Hime insists all she knows about the plane crash comes from news reports.
Suzie asks why she attended Masas funeral.
Unlike you, I was an admirer of his work, Hime says.
He was a visionary.
Did Suzie marry him just so she could stay in Japan permanently, Hime wonders aloud?
Or was Suzie so profoundly lonely she could fall in love with someone she didnt even know?
That draws blood from Suzie.
I knew him, she states.
Im shit at languages, Suzie adds in English.
But Ive heard that one a lot lately.
That earns her a slap from Hime.
When Suzie again refuses to help Hime hack Masas computer, Hime orders an associate to get Mixxy.
Mixxys boss tells them the bar is closed.
The two men smile and say theyll wait outside.
Only by threatening Mixxy does Hime break down Suzies resistance.
Suddenly, shes more frightened than enraged.
Hime again demands Masas password.
I have a processing issue, dyslexia, Suzie stammers.
I cant spell words out loud.
She suggests that touching the keyboard herself may help her.
Tetsu cuts the zip tie binding her wrists.
After one unsuccessful guess, he presses the bit of a power drill against the base of Suzies skull.
After asecondone, Hime tells Tetsu to take care of her.
Which proves to be the code that unlocks the screen.
(Fuck you is probably a runner-up only to password123.)
A couple of Himes thugs then drop off Suzie at home.
Did you do it?
Mixxy asks, at least as afraid of the answer to this question as she was for Suzies safety.
They were gonna kill you, Suzie answers.
Oh, says Mixxy.
Suzie asks Mixxy to stay at her place in the unlikely event the yakuza return Sunny while shes out.
In prison, Noriko cuts off Suzies greeting, demanding to know if Suzie brought her shogi board.
Suzie asks if Noriko got herself locked up on purpose.
We know she did, but Noriko dismisses both the question and her daughter-in-law.
At Suzies place, Mixxy receives a note summoning her to a temple.
No ones around, but she sees the light emanating from Sunnys faceplate on a rooftop some distance away.
Its flashing and absent any animated expression, as though the bot is restarting or dormant.
At home, Suzie is chugging wine from the bottle, as is her wont.
She catches sight of the post where Zen had marked his height at each age of his brief life.
Before she can again succumb to her grief, Mixxy returns with a glitchy, unresponsive Sunny.
The bot pitches forward, landing on its face.
We have already established that homebots, unlike humans, need not be conscious to hold themselves upright.
But falls are, you know … funny.
