Semi-Human Rights story
Lennart's escapade ends badly when Odi drives recklessly, bringing the police in pursuit. When Odi runs the car off the road, a panicked Lennart sends Odi off to hide in the forest, and Lennart is arrested for dangerous driving. Therese, Rick, Pilar and Bo go on a couples' night-out, but after the Hubots are refused entry to a club, Therese and Pilar hire Inger to act for them in suing the club. Lennart returns to the forest but cannot find Odi, who has wandered away and become lost. Leo continues searching for Mimi in the Hubot underworld, but he collapses again, and we see that the entry site for his charger cord is injured and bleeding. He experiences another flashback to his childhood - Mimi had rescued him from drowning, but he is taken to hospital in a critical condition. Roger tracks down Therese at her new apartment, but they argue, and Roger again loses control and hits Therese. Inger's boss Henning agrees to let her take on Pilar and Therese's case. After Pilar suggests that she can have Bo reprogrammed, Therese visits the same black-market Hubot sex shop where Leo is working. Leo reprograms Rick, removing his Asimov constraints, and enhancing his sexual functions. Roger meets again with Malte and Bea; he learns of Malte's violent outlook, his stash of weapons, and his plan to bomb the Hub-Market, but when Bea leaves the room, it is revealed that she is actually another of the freed Hubots, in disguise. Later Bea secretly meets with Niska to discuss their plans. Leo, now armed with a pistol, tracks Mimi to Silas' workshop and demands to know where Mimi has been taken. Enraged, he suddenly draws his gun and kills Silas' associate, Jim, in cold blood, but he is then seized by Silas' Hubot assistant, who strangles and apparently kills him. As he loses consciousness, there is another flashback to his childhood - after being told that Leo's condition is hopeless, David begs the doctors to save Leo's life with Hubot implants, but they refuse, so David takes Leo away to perform the operation himself. Directed by: Harald Hamrell. Story by: Lars Lundström.
23 total · 8 major · 15 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| AI companion | major | Lennart was devastated when he lost Hubot companion, Odi, for the second time following the car accident. |
| anti-technology way of life | major | Roger joined Real Humans and took up with a militant cabal within the organization. |
| coping with being separated from someone you love | major | Roger was desperate to reconnect with his estranged stepson Kevin. |
| facing organized pursuit | major | The renegade Hubots hid out from the police in a parsonage attic. |
| family affairs | major | Much of this installment is centered around the Engmann family. One storyline follows Inger's efforts to have the family treat their Hubot maid Anita more and more as a human being. Another follows Tobbe as he makes an abortive attempt to have carnal relations with Anita. |
| human AI relationship | major | Therese and Pilar were in romantic relationships with their respective Hubot man-servants. |
| legal occupation | major | Inger threatened that she would quit her job at the law firm unless she was allowed to lead the Hubot discrimination case. |
| master and servant | major | The Engmann's were increasingly treating their Hubot maid, Anita, more as a member of the family than as a servant. Lennart was much bothered by the presence of his meddling Hubot maid, Vera. |
| AI safeguards | minor | Leo disabled Rick's "Asimov constraints" so that the Hubot could better satisfy Therese's needs. |
| black markets | minor | Leo was working in a black market Hubot sex shop. |