Sunny
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No one removes their suit jacket before commencing these exercises.
Excuse me, he interrupts.
Dont blame the machine.
You have to pay first.
I thought this was a silent restaurant, Suzie whispers.
Shes struggling to smooth out some paper currency so the pay-in-advance machine will accept it.
Near-future Japan runs on cash, evidently.
Bad idea, Masa says after Suzie makes her selection.
My name is Masa, and I make homicidal robots, he says.
She blinks, and we hear the line hereallyused on her years ago.
How does a baby learn to breathe?
is Sunnys too-philosophical reply.
Your inability to answer a question is pathological, Suzie says, introducing the episodes key adjective.
She wants to know what Masa was doing in his lab with bloodstains on the carpet.
But Suzies other question Did Masa program you for me specifically?
gets an obvious answer as the widow and her bot begin bickering like an old married couple.
I just want to make you happy!
If he were bad, then I would be bad too, because he made me, she reflects.
You dont think Im bad, do you?
The next scene finds Suzie having Sunny examined by an elderly robot mechanic.
He cant say more than that because the files are locked.
She even slurs her speech as she asks Suzie, Is this why you drink?
The guy is suddenly frozen with fear, all but throwing her out of his workshop.
A young woman, the granddaughter of the mechanic, runs after Suzie to tell her thereisa hacking guide.
The Dark Manual, the girl says.
No one knows who makes it.
She lifts up her shirt to show Suzie a red circular emblem of a wolf tattooed on her belly.
They use this as their signature.
The emblem looks chillingly familiar to Suzie.
She tells Sunny theyre going to see herokassan, Noriko.
What are you doing here?
is Norikos warm welcome to her daughter-in-law.
Suzie dismisses this hope theres something, Im trying not to saypathological, about her default pessimism.
It prevents dementia, Noriko reasons.
When Suzie presses her about the picture, Noriko says she threw it away.
Do you keep everything Zen makes for you?
Noriko asks Suzie of her own probably-dead child.
We already know these homebots are heavy, so this must be a strain for Suzie.
He seems offended that Suzie finds the thought of such self-imposed isolation attractive.
I think maybe you do not understand lonely, he tells her.
Masa says he came out of his shell when he made a friend through work.
Before that, he says, it hurt when people looked at him.
Masa speaks excellent English, but his difficulty expressing this idea sends him briefly back to his native Japanese.
I work in refrigerators, he says coldly.
Sunny joins in, taking decidedly humanistic offense to Suzies accusation that Sunny is afraid shell find something.
She tells her owner her inability to trust people is completely all together now pathological!
Youre not a person!
Hmm, person in the editorial sense, Sunny says.
Hes my best friend, Suzie says.
She says theyd even discussed having a second child because Zen turned out so good.
Its Sunnys suggestion that they seek answers from Masas office at ImaTech the following day.
Sunnys voice changes, sputtering, Division Five denied and Cant.
Restart before her face goes blank.
Suzie is on her own.
If he returns to work, what will he make of his subordinates refusal to help his wife?
Suzie seems surprised that this works.
Youre terrified of Masa, huh?
He is the nicest!
Within the forbidden halls of Division Five, Suzie finds all the windows covered with plywood.
Theres evidence of an unsuccessful attempt to bleach it out.
(Youd think ImaTech would have the resources for a more robust cover-up than just plywood and bleach.)
The same announcer we heard at the top of the episode orders another round of group exercises.
Suzie sees Sunny in a second-floor window overlooking the atrium.
Somehow, shes found her way into the complex or been allowed inside.
At home, Suzie describes what the man pursuing her was yelling.
Its something about not coming to light, Sunny says, struggling to translate Suzies dodgy command of Japanese.
The doorbell rings, and Suzie lets the instantly sober Sunny get it.
It was the airline, the bot reports in a consoling tone.
Theyve found and returned Masas yellow shoes.
Suzie wants to speak with the representative, but Sunny says they already left.
In a flashback, she revisits her first postcoital canoodle with Masa.
Bots spying on bots!
Suzie invites Sunny to lie in bed with her.
Sunny starts playing a sound effect of slow, restful breathing.
Suzie notes it with some surprise but allows Sunny to continue.
Theres a cut back to the yellow-carpeted room Suzie fled earlier.
Hes speaking to a colleague beside him with a laptop.
It will be fine, Masa, he says in Japanese.
No one will know.
Suzies possibly-dead husband draws that familiar red wolf emblem on the screen of his laptop.
It must stay in darkness, Masa says.
As Sunnys football-shaped animated eyes pop open, we discover this sinister revelation ishermemory.
Suzie, having fully anthropomorphized this sophisticated home appliance, asks the bot if shes okay.
Yes, Sunny answers.
Some androidsdodream of electric sheep.
And this one might be a killer.
