Episode Eleven: Magnus had managed to once again find himself on the receiving end of a trigger, however no bullet was involved this time. As Veronica made it clear she didn’t want to be followed, she got to know our detective a little better. After she leaves Magnus tied to a chair, he struggles to escape but eventually manages to break free. Upon inspection of his office, he finds some nanites that have been drained leading him to more suspicion. As he makes a call to the morgue to make an appointment, he is informed the doctor is under investigation as the body of the other Miss Radlem has apparently up and walked away. Hope you enjoy the twelfth episode of Unbiased Law (or back to Episode One or Episode Eleven)!

I arrived at the police station and not a moment too soon. Everyone was crowded out front, from protesters to reporters. How does a dead human end up getting up and walking away? As I entered through the back door, I found the doctor leaning against a wall. “Doc, what the hell’s going on? Dead girls don’t walk, do they?” The doctor looked up relieved to see me, but he couldn’t help but shake his head. “Definitely the first corpse I’ve ever misdiagnosed. It seems the odds are stacking against us droids. As we make more mistakes the humans make more protests. Soon I’ll be lucky if I can manage to get a job waiting tables.” I definitely knew what he was feeling. Luckily my past as a human meant I would get careful consideration should things fall through with public servant robots.

“So Doc, what happened, I need all the details.” As I listened quietly to what the Doc had to say he painted a very interesting picture. Apparently he was in the morgue when he heard some movement, upon closer inspection the drawer where they had Miss Radlem was where it had come from. When he opened it up, he found her motionless and thought he was losing his mind. When he went to close the drawer however, she thrust her arm out and stopped the drawer from closing. For the first time ever, the Doctor understood the human emotion of fear. She knocked him over and rushed from the morgue, toe tag dangling along behind her. The Doctor has been unnerved by the whole thing, if a robot could be such a thing.

After leaving the Doc to reflect upon his experience, I walked back out the back door. I was also unnerved. What could this mean? She was declared as a human when the Doctor had done his investigation. But when I met Veronica, she was very much human. However human’s don’t come back to life, so the one who escaped the morgue must have been the robot, but the doctor couldn’t have misdiagnosed. My mind was extremely tangled in this mysterious web of ridiculousness. Maybe the Veronica I met was the robot, which would explain the nanites. Oh man, now I  know what Alice felt like going down the rabbit hole. Suddenly a call comes through over my wireless capabilities. “Yes, Magnus here, who has this code?” The line was silent. A loud crackling came across and then silence again. “Hello, is anyone there? Hello!” A voice came across so sweet sounding it took me back to the first day I met Veronica. “I heard you’re the man to talk to about solving crimes. Meet me at Swinger’s Cafe across town. Far back booth, be there by five or I won’t be.”

I flagged down a cab, wishing Veronica would have been nice enough to leave me my car, but I suppose she left me with my life. Can’t get too greedy now. The cab ride over to Swinger’s Cafe is long and riddled with traffic. I grip the edge of my seat hoping I’ll make it in time. Finally the cab pulls up and I rush into the cafe, one minute to five, and I can see a figure in a rather wide brimmed hat getting up to leave from the back booth. I rush up and introduce myself, not giving her a chance to disagree. “Look, I’m really sorry, there was traffic, my cab driver was ninety years old and he didn’t know where it was. I’m Magnus by the way.” The lady looked me up and down. “I don’t know who you are, but I don’t care either. She turned up her nose and walked past, leaving me confused and leaning against a table. Suddenly the sweet sounding voice came from behind me. “Hey hot shot, not that booth, this one. As I turned to see the girl who called me, I noticed two things that were all too familiar and one that was different. I saw a shiny new set of robot legs beneath a long skirt, and then I saw a match to Veronica’s face and also a hand cannon to match. Nice to see those guns run in the family.

Hope everyone enjoyed today’s episode, it has been fun writing these and even more fun rereading them. I would love to hear feedback on how the story is going and favourite moments now that we’ve reached ten episodes! Thanks!