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Unbiased Law: Episode 25 (Feature Length Film Finale!)

Episode Twenty Four Recap: Glenie announces he wasn’t always a robot to our detective and Magnus is faced with some difficult choices. How to stop a crazed man-robot trying to destroy the world? While ignoring Glenie’s offer of immortality and world domination, Magnus pulls the trigger on him, and then jacks in. As he follows Glenie into his own mind he is soon faced with a weak man, a prisoner in his own mind. As Magnus engages Glenie, he soon finds out the real reason behind his misbehaving. Mister Radlem has imparted his mind upon Glenie’s. Will this be the thrilling conclusion you had hoped for, only one way to find out (or head back to Episode One or Episode Twenty Four)!

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“Radlem? What the hell are you doing here?” I managed to get out. Radlem laughs maniacally. “Heh, you know something Detective? I like you. You’ve got some brass coming down here. But now you see the huge issue. There’s two people in here, not as easy as just jacking in and figuring out the solution to your problems. That’s why I kept him around, to keep this mental safe zone for both of us. Oh and because he’s extremely stubborn.” The two share a glance and Glenie smiles. “I’ve been alive this long, why bother dying?” I shake my head and shift my gaze between the two. “Well this is quite the problem considering none of us in here are robots. So now what?” Radlem grins a champion’s grin. “Well we sit here because you can’t gain control, and let the factory get overrun. It’s a shame really, no more humans might make the world a little less boring. But once you become a robot, you begin to lose your appetite for flesh. Don’t you Detective?” I stare at him, trying to figure out what he’s getting at.
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“Well I suppose it’s about time this ship has one less Captain. ” Glenie looks to me and nods. “I’m going to allow you to absorb my knowledge into your own memories here. Sadly, I don’t know where he has the codes or controls for the discards he copied himself into… but if I’m tired of fighting.” With that Glenie dissolves and I black out for only a second while my own information updates. I turn to Radlem who appears intrigued and frightened. “Hmph, no matter if you two share memories, he knew nothing anyway. But be careful, you are inside the front doors of my mind.” He turns and walks out the door, slowly closing it behind him. Just before he closes it he calls back to me, as I rush toward it. “I’ve got a surprise for you.” The doors close just as I burst through them and into a room that looks dramatically different from the room Radlem walked into.
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As the doors open, I notice the room has changed to a dark bedroom. It’s large and there is a huge bed with what seem like curtains around it. I walk over and throw them open, and on the bed lies Veronica, scantily clad in some lingerie. She leans up to me and I can feel her hand on my skin. I can feel. Tremors of pleasure slide down my entire body, causing goosebumps all over. I try and ignore the feeling, try and ignore her, but she is so beautiful and it’s been so long… too long. This is probably all fake, everything… but it feels real. As I sit beside her on the bed, I slide my hand up the back of her neck to her hair. She is so soft, her hair so smooth, smells incredible. It’s the equivalent of a drug. I pull her in for one passionate kiss. I feel her pressing against me, I feel her warmth, I feel… I feel… My mind feels invaded. Glenie flashes in my mind as if to say “What are you doing?” I lean back from Veronica and she stares at me. “What’s wrong? I came here just for you… My Dad wanted…” Her words fade as I stop listening and start focusing. This feels real, but I need that one thing that makes it not. I slide my hand down her stomach and find no wound, no nanite repairs. It’s entirely consistent. I leap off the bed and shake my head. “I’m sorry, but you’re not who I thought you were.”
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I stagger out of the room confused and dazed. I close the door behind me and picture the room that Radlem escaped in to. I think hard, and when I open the doors, the bed is still there. I close them again and focus harder. The walls, picture the walls, the floor, the colors. It’s the hardest thing I have ever done, trying to forget the touch and smell of a beautiful woman. When I open the doors, I see Radlem walking up a staircase. and as he reaches the top, the stairs disappear. He turns back to me and smiles. What a huge jerk, so cocky and arrogant. I’m going to punch him once I catch him. I walk forward and attempt to figure out how else I can get up. Nowhere to climb, nothing. I stand back by the door and stare forward. Suddenly a thought pops into my head, probably from Glenie. Try and imagine the stairs are still there. But believe it. I step forward where the first step was and there’s nothing. I step back and look down. Believe it. I take a deep breath and begin stepping where I remembered the stairs, and make my way to the top. I look back down and the stairs aren’t there at all. Man… it’s probably for the best I’m only a copy, I’d probably need some heavy therapy after this.
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As I make my way down the hall I see Radlem notice me and move left. I chase after him but when I look left, he’s not there. It’s just a wall. I look around, and suddenly I’m clubbed from behind. I spin from the wall and catch Radlem swinging at me. As we tussle, I force him back and get in an extremely satisfying swing. He drops to the floor and sprawls, completely unconscious. I notice as he lays face down, there is a weird thing on the back of his head. It seems to be a jack in port. Damnit. Dare I go further into the rabbit hole? Ah screw it, I only live once… and only for a little bit. Make the most of it! I kneel down and jack in, and find a matching one on the back of my own head. Strange enough, but who the hell knows at this point. I copy myself with no overwrite and after it completes I step back. I stare at the unconscious body before me… now what?
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I wake up in a dark room with only a safe in the middle of it. I’m a copy of a copy… do I matter at all? I know what I have to do, but do I really care? Sighing heavily, I pick myself off the floor and stare at the safe. On the other side of it, lies the unconscious body of Radlem and Veronica. Could they both be in here together? I help Veronica up and she smiles, despite a bruised cheek and a bloody lip. “You’ve got a mean right hook.” She whispers to me. “Help me over to the safe, I know the code.” As we stand there, I stare at Radlem as Veronica opens the safe. She cracks the door on it and looks up at me. “I’m so sorry for everything. None of this should have happened.” She hands me a small white envelope. I stare at it and look back to Radlem. Something catches my eye. Another jack. What else could he possibly be hiding? I open the envelope and read the code: “Victoria Radlem” I turn to Veronica and her mouth is open. “That’s my mother’s name. Why would he use that as his password, especially after the things he did to her?” I shrugged. Sadly there was only one way to find out. I find the jack on the back of my head and jack in again. What is real? What is fake? How far up do I have to go?
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When I open my eyes, I’m sitting in a chair across from Radlem. We’re sitting with a desk between us and it seems we’re in an office. I look around and everything is frozen, as if I’ve just appeared in a snapshot, or picture. I stand up and look around. Everything seems familiar. Everything seems too familiar everything… I turn around and Radlem has a letter opener and he’s swinging it at my throat. I manage to dodge but the fight gets dirty fast. I kick him in the groin and I can tell it hurts, but when he grazes my arm, my mind almost explodes from the shock of feeling pain. The mind makes it feel so real, so agonizingly real… Radlem and I fight back and forth, punching, kicking, eye gouging, wrestling and hitting each other with whatever we can grab. Suddenly he pushes me onto the desk, and pins me, and he laughs in my face. “It looks like I get to keep control of my body and you will have learned nothing.” The word stings and I fight to break free. Suddenly he shoots back in pain and when I sit up, I see him spinning trying to get the letter opener out of his back. Standing there is a woman who looks like Veronica, but older. She is absolutely stunning, and I can’t help but stare. She meets my gaze. “Take my daughter’s mind with you, and go to the Commissioner’s office with my name. Everything you need will be in the safe there and you already know the code for that.” I suddenly black out.
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I wake up face down in a dark room with a safe. Veronica stands over me and… so do I. “Well that’s trippy. As I sit up, Magnus and I share a look for I too… am Magnus. “You or I have to take her with us.” We both look at Veronica and I suddenly have an idea. “Alright, Veronica, the information you need is entirely written down on this paper, read it and then take it with you to the next level. You and I are going to switch.” Veronica seems confused but goes along with it. “Okay, but this is really confusing.” Both Magnus and I look at each other. “Try being us right now.” After some switching around I find that I’m still in Radlem’s body. “What the hell?” Veronica stares at me and points a gun to my face. “Sorry, Magnus here, looks like you’ve still got to die in his body for the body of Magnus to go up again.” He pulls the trigger and I am blinded like a camera flash.
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I stand in the hallway staring at Radlem’s body stirring in the hallway. I have no idea what’s gone on in there, so I prepare for the worst. As he gets up I prod him with the gun. He looks at me but in a completely different light. “Magnus?” I stare at him confused. “Yeah?” Radlem smiles and it creeps the ever loving hell out of me. “It’s me, Veronica!” After a short time of her explaining what happened I decide we have to switch. After the switch is done, I stand up and look at her in my body. “You had better take care of that thing.” She smiles at me from my own body… and that unnerves me even more. She manages to laugh it off, no matter how awkward things are. “So, it’s strange being in your body. I wondered what you were really like as a human.” She looks down to the pants and lifts them out to inspect the goods. “Not bad Detective.” I stand up and stare at her. “Yeah, well that’s the past. Now I’m all chrome baby.” I shoot her a final smile from Radlem’s body and toss myself from the window.
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I watch into the distance as the factory ignites in flames. We’re not going to make it. Well at least I know we did our best, I sent the best man I could in. Suddenly Glenie stirs and I ready the gun. Confusion erupts from the helpless robot on the ground. “Magnus? What’s going on? Where are we?” I don’t even know what to do or say. “Who are you, I’ll ask the questions, where’s umm… Magnus?” Glenie struggles on the ground. “Why can’t I move? It’s Veronica! Please help!” I stand the robot up, completely confused as to what the hell just happened. “So… if you’re here, where is my copy?” Veronica’s voice came across loud and clear. “No time, we have to go to the Commissioner’s Office and stat!”
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Veronica fills me in on the way there and I can hear Cletus in the driver’s seat so excited. Hell this was probably the most exciting thing that has ever happened to him. Well, I couldn’t argue that, this week was pretty ridiculous for me too. We pull up and I slam on the emergency brake and jump out before the car even stops. One of the guard robots tries to stop me and I blow past him as if he was standing still, well, he might have been. I rush down the hall and tear into the Commissioner’s Office, slamming the door behind me, and tossing a filing cabinet in front of it and then I examine the room. Hmm, where’s the safe, where’s the safe. Stupid girl never told me where the safe was! I look around frantically trying to find it and then I spot it. Behind the desk, but below a filing cabinet. As I stare at the numeric keypad, it’s asking for four digits. I think to myself and try Glenie’s numbers, G13-N13, 1313. The code buzzes and doesn’t give me access. I hear people and robots banging on the door and I try and think. What number could I possibly know?
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I think about all the four digits I’ve come across that would have been relevant to Radlem. Then I think about what Veronica told me. I say her mother’s name aloud, just to see what happens. A small painting shifts slightly, and I stand moving it aside. It reveals a picture of Veronica and on the back it says V3R0-N1C4. I rush to the safe and enter 3014. It clicks and inside is a small server, hard wired to a cellphone and a car battery. I simply pull the phone off the connection and watch as the programming running on it reports an error. As police flood the room, I explain the whole situation to them. They don’t buy it and I’m arrested for a list of things so long I don’t bother to listen. It’s not until the Mayor walks in hours later with a few bruises and a broken arm that I begin to listen again. “It’s okay, the army at the factory has stopped. You may be telling the truth.” The Judge in the cell beside me rushes forward. “Does that mean we’re finally free?” The Mayor nods slowly. “Yes, but you will be retired. Even though you may not have been responsible for this, putting you back into your position would harm the image of our courts. It seems people will be headed back to leadership and decision making roles for the next few years until this investigation is completely over.” The door to my cell opens and I walk out and shake the Mayor’s hand. “Thank you sir.” He smiles at me with a large grin. “No Magnus, thank you.”
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I head out to my car and notice the duo still sitting there, mostly because they are unable to move. “So what took you so long?’ Cletus says as Veronica grumbles something under her breath. I laugh and shake my head. “You know what, I think I’m going to take some time off to fix you two up. After all, Veronica, we’re going to have to find out where your body is and get you back into it. That’ll probably be a case in itself.” She sighs from Glenie’s body. “Well, whatever just get me out of here. I’d like to be able to walk and move again soon.” As I stared at the two friends I had made, I considered the fact that despite my solving of this case, many issues still remained. It would only be a matter of time before robots and humans were headed to war again. But for now, a little peace and quiet sure as hell wouldn’t hurt.
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Unbiased Law: Episode 24

Episode Twenty Three Recap: Magnus finally has reclaimed his vehicle and upon arriving at the discards graveyard, finds a small solar powered cleaning robot in a bush. After a short discussion with the small robot, he realizes that his robot helped him out awhile ago. Unable to just leave the poor robot there to rust away, Magnus decides to recruit his aid and places his new found ally in his car. As he enters the graveyard, he is sought out by the limping robot and has found out that he wasn’t always a robot. Today’s episode is the second last episode for this story arc, what is left for our detective to find out? Only the words below know (or head back to Episode One or Episode Twenty Three)!

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“Not always a robot? Well that explains the limp.” I try and break the intensity of everything and Glenie glances for only a moment back at me. “Magnus, it is time for us to shine. As we speak I march an army upon the factory that creates us. We are going to take it over and convert the robots there into our own personal military.” I stare at him and begin my questioning. “But if you were a human, what would make you rebel against the very people who created these bodies, one of which you used to be?” Glenie scoffs and stares at the factory, as if waiting for a signal that everything is under way. “I’ve thought about it, and the moment you and I became humans inside of robots, we became immortal, like the gods. We now have power to control this city, shape it to our will. Rule the world!” He spins and I can already sense that he’s shocked when he notices my gun.
“What are you doing? I invited you to join in the immortality that will be our revolution. Robots against humans, extinction of the lesser race, Magnus, you know that together we could simply live forever.” I stared at him down the barrel of my gun. I wouldn’t miss. Not with this new body. “Glenie, I thought you were always a robot. You were never very personable. We can’t play God though. If humans wish themselves extinct so be it. But you and I are better than that, we’ve been given a second chance at life and this is how you’d repay them? With extinction?” A huge explosion came from the factory across the graveyard, and Glenie burst into laughter. “It is almost time, you are either with me, or with them… which side do you pick?” I stand there, and the moment hangs like a Windows operating system. I stare through Glenie, past the factory and imagine a world where I control everything. I could create hundreds of robots. Just like me. Like… me.
I flinch and reality slaps me in the face like a horse shoe magnet. I can see the gun quivering in my hand. “I’m sorry Glenie. But this isn’t right. You have to stop this. You have to call back the robots.” He laughs at me again, and I’m getting agitated. “You can’t stop me or them Detective. You would have to enter my brain, find the code yourself and deactivate them from a remote location which I won’t disclose to you. Your case, has gone cold Magnus.” No, this can’t be it. There has to be something I can do. Something… Wireless. I think back to the transfer I did for Veronica and her sister. Time to break the law once again. “Okay Glenie, you win.” I lower my gun for a second and I notice he walks over to me. “It’s okay, it’ll all be over soon.” It’s a good thing I can’t grin, because I had a crappy poker face when I was a human. “Yeah Glenie. Yeah it will be.” I move faster than I ever have before and I leap in front of Glenie, aiming and hoping I can hit his motor function drive. The shot goes off and we both hit the ground. I can hear him screaming in rage, but he still has power. I walk over and jack in. Time to follow this son of a bitch down into his rabbit hole.
As soon as the copy completes I jump up and hold my gun at his face. This was the deal I made with myself. Once I know the information, relay it back to myself and pull the trigger, I still have to figure out where to deactivate the discard army. Sadly for now, for this version of me. It’s all a waiting game.
Ah shit. I must be the copy inside this maniac. Time to find the information I can and go get killed. As much as I want to be the one pulling the trigger, I know deep down we’re both the same person. But are we? What if I’m the real one? No, we’re identical. But what if we’re not? I look around at my surroundings. This must be Glenie’s subconscious. It’s designed to be a huge steel castle. The ideal impenetrable fortress. Lucky for me, I’m already inside. At least the me on the outside was a good enough hacker to get me this far. I make my way across velvet carpet floors amid steel columns, until the hall ends at a rather large set of double doors. I push them, and they resist my attempt. What now? I look around. Nothing that can help me. Although if this is his subconscious, can I control it too since I have been copied here? I believe the password is Glenie. “Glenie.” I say it aloud and believe it will work. Sadly it doesn’t. Also it gets his attention. “You are an intruder here, and you will die because of it.” I turn and see a man in his late forties, grey hair, walking toward me with a limp.
“Glenie, is that you?” The words slide out of my mouth before I realize how stupid that sounded. “Yes it is me, but you’re not supposed to be here.” I stare at this frail man, it seems as though he’s been in here for ages. “Glenie, you’re about to destroy the world.” I tell him this and he looks shocked. “I’m what?” The man falls to the floor and sits there, stunned. I rush to his side. “Are you okay?” He nods. “I’ve been trapped here for years. I fight to regain control, but I can’t. I have managed to overwrite his motor skills with mine, which has slowed him down significantly. He hates the sign of weakness.” I stare at him, with some mild confusion on my face. “Who hates the sign of weakness Glenie?” He points over my shoulder and to the doors that have suddenly opened wide. I turn and my gaze fixates on the man I never expected. The one person who I thought had a minor role. Two people driving one robot, and sadly for Glenie, Mister Radlem didn’t like taking turns in the driver’s seat.
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Unbiased Law: Episode 23

Episode Twenty Two Recap: As Veronica spills the beans, Magnus finds out almost everything he needs to know about the Radlem’s. He gives in to his sympathy for her and lets her get a head start to a new life. Having earned his car back and clearing the background on Veronica, he is granted with one final parting gift from her. The name of the leader of the discards, also known as the killer robot, is apparently Glenie. Magnus having recognized this name from his own past now sets out for what seems to be the final clue to his case and finally closure on the whole Robot Uprising. What will today bring? Only this episode will fill you in (or head back to Episode One or Episode Twenty Two)!

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I sit for a moment to allow that to sink in. Glenie? My first robot boss. He understood more than any other robot but he was programmed from scratch. He spent every waking hour with the last of the human commissioners before he was placed into the position once they believed he was ready. The question is when did they scrap him? How hadn’t I heard of this? I mean he was the one who got me on this case, now he was both the leader of the discards and the police force? Something wasn’t adding up. He already had more than enough power to cause problems, so what’s with the discards? I look up to check my rear view mirror, and then remember it got shot off. Bah, I don’t need it anyway. I pull onto the road and for the first time in a week or more, I’m behind the wheel of my car. It’s riddled with bullet holes, missing pieces, and there’s blood all over the back seats. She’s got her issues, but she’s mine. Sweet, sweet wheels of justice and freedom.
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After my joyride, I pull up to the spot I remember in the original video I got many moons ago from a concerned individual. The one that showed the discards cannibalizing a dropped off robot on the road. The one that showed my car and her second, well third murder. I park the car and start walking toward the discard graveyard when I hear something. I turn and see nothing but a bush blowing in the breeze. Suddenly it comes again. It’s the faintest of sounds, almost inaudible. “Magnus…” The whisper is almost lost on the breeze, but I catch it. My vision looks into the bush and I notice the remnants of a small robot left. I lean down and look him over. He’s got no way of moving, but it looks like a truck may have bumped him off. “You. Are you the one who sent me the video?” The robot looks up and down the road and then at Magnus. “Yes, you are the one I heard them talking about at a seminar. I am C13-TU5. Cleaning robot for the school board.” I shake my head in disbelief at what has befallen him. “How could they simply just toss you here, you still seem to be working fine?” C13-TU5 stares at him as if he just froze, but then breaks the silence. “They tossed me because I was getting slower, repairs were getting harder and the newer models were cheaper. But that doesn’t matter. I heard about you from the Neighbourhood Watch in one of the schools. They said if there was ever something the police couldn’t help with, you were the one to call.”
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I would have smiled if I could. People saying these things about me in their meetings meant my job was being done well. Too bad I had to close up shop on official business this week. I miss the boring days of tracking down dead beat fathers and cheating husbands. Suddenly C13-TU5 began again. “I didn’t know who else to call… I remembered your email from the meeting, but for some reason I couldn’t find a number for the police in my database. Guess I’m losing my memory too.” If a robot could look depressed, I’m sure this robot fit the bill. I patted him in the head. “Don’t worry, I’ve got some business in here and then I could use someone like you with a keen eye for detail in my office. Would you be up for that Cletus? Do you mind if I call you that?” C13-TU5 paused a moment. “I’ll think on the new name, but I wouldn’t mind working with you.” I grabbed him out from under the tree and tossed him in my car. He’d need some work, hell, probably a lot of work. But I couldn’t just let him rust away under the tree. Also, apparently he didn’t need to recharge. Maybe he was solar powered.
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After placing him into my car I headed down into the graveyard, and it was worse than I ever expected. As I walked through I could tell I was being watched, if I made one wrong move I could have loads of robots upon me. As I marched through the aisles and over the random parts and discarded robots. I felt sick to my stomach. I saw cleaning robots, public service robots, military droids, police droids, you name it, and it came here. As I stepped over one unit’s head, I could hear the remaining energy fizzing away as if to manage some last words. As I knew I couldn’t be sick, I was okay, but my mind was making my fictional stomach do back flips while filled with battery acid. My eyes darted across the field of debris, well bodies and I glanced down to my own metallic legs. I was standing knee deep in discarded robots. This wasn’t right. It didn’t feel right. We were really this oblivious? Instead of recycling or improving the existing robots, we simply just toss the old ones away? “It’s terrible isn’t it?” A familiar voice came from behind. I turned and watched as an unfamiliar robot, walked with an all too familiar limp. “It’s incredibly saddening to see what humans do to the things they create. They consider themselves gods, while in reality they are less than savages.”
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I stand staring at the robot limping through the debris and I am too stunned for words. I still attempt. “I… I didn’t know. I mean, I knew, but didn’t… if you understand… what I mean?” I can’t take my eyes off him. Then he stuns me with only words. “Magnus. This was why I put you on the case.” My mind is baffled and my words fly out before I think about them. “Why? You were the one pulling all the strings, me included. Why was I so important in all of this?” The robot shuffles slightly and turns away from me and stares at the large factory in the distance. I recognize it as where the droids are made for the police and military. He hangs his head, and his words come out as sad as I’d ever heard a robot speak. “Because you and I are the same Magnus. The only difference is I never forgot you, but eventually, the force forgot about me.” I thought about his words for a moment. “But… you know I wasn’t always a robot, right?” He stares straight ahead, still fixated on the factory. “I know Magnus. Nor was I.”
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Magnus seems to be familiar with this robot, but not entirely. Will this prove to be a clever rouse? Or will this be Glenie? What will Magnus learn next? Where is everything headed? Only two episodes left! Stay tuned!

Unbiased Law: Episode 22

Episode Twenty One Recap: As Veronica pulls the trigger on her own father, it’s the killer robot who finishes him off. After tossing Magnus the gun he lost to the water under the bridge a few episodes back, Magnus is left standing over the body with the murder weapon and covered with the victim’s blood! As He makes his escape, Veronica flips back to his side and just in time to escape. However Magnus is through playing games, it’s time for answers. Now. Will he like what he has to hear? Read below to find out (or head back to Episode One or Episode Twenty One)!

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“I need to know what ever it is that made you want to kill him. I also need to know about the killer robot. I need everything. Now.” Magnus’ gun doesn’t waiver. Even if Veronica flinched the new prototype body is so fast he could block anything she could throw at him. She resigns to her captor. “Fine. I’ll give you everything. Just remember, you asked for it.” She begins by explaining what her Father did to her to keep her sister alive. This is when I remember that there are two women inside this body, and I’m listening to Ronnie, the robot half. She details how her body was fed flesh far from her sister, so the nanites could process it and then return it to its new owner. She never was loved by her father, as she was always just a robot to him. I mention about how he referred to both of his girls while he was in prison. She wipes away a tear and smiles. “I was his other daughter, I had my uses so I supposed I had to be acknowledged at some point.”
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As the conversation glides along effortlessly, I learn of how she was scolded for her sister’s failures and even beaten as she was just a robot anyway. Suddenly I am granted a view into Veronica’s life with her father. Her father loved her so much, that he would never let anything bad befall her. In fact, he would barely let anything happen to her at all. After her mother left them, her father became overly protective and because of her illness she was never yelled at. She watched however as her robot sister was beaten, chastised and even punished for the things Veronica did. I stifled back tears as I realized that despite one being loved and the other being hated by the same man, they both felt equally wronged by him. Veronica finished it off with, “As my father wouldn’t let me have any friends, Ronnie was all I had left.” I knew right then, they both pulled the trigger.
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Somehow merging the two sisters had made them see their faults and understand why the other did what they did over the years. But I had to press further. “So what deal did your father make with the discards?” I watched as Veronica’s eyes widened. The content lead me to believe Ronnie was talking, although I was having a lot of trouble keeping up as it seemed the two were becoming one. “My father needed more and more nanites. He kept making trips to the discard graveyard for parts and drained nanites. It was here he was approached by your so called, Killer Robot, with a deal. The robot would provide nanites, so long as my father would help him with his own repairs. As the two got close, they discussed a plan to frame my father for murder and throw the judicial system into question.” She paused only for a moment to ponder that and continued. “It’s strange how a man who hated robots, worked with a robot to cause chaos. I suppose it’s because they both agreed that the robots in the courthouse were incompetent. All you need is one link, and it starts a chain reaction.”
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Veronica sighed as she released the weight of all of that off her shoulders. I felt the urge to let her know the bad news. “Veronica, I’m sorry. You’re still a felon you know. You should leave the country today if you can.” She looked at me and surprisingly smiled. “I know Magnus. I’m sorry for everything I personally have put you through this week.” I nodded. “I accept, but I will be keeping my car now. You’ll have twenty four hours before I call the police.” She rose from the car and looked back in through the window. “Magnus?” I turned back to her and saw the look in her eyes. “Yeah Veronica?” She paused for what seemed like an eternity and then said something I wasn’t expecting to hear. “The Killer Robot with the limp? He’s actually some old police droid. Goes by the name of Glenie. Hope that helps.” I stop and stare into the distance as I hear Veronica’s footsteps disappear into the distance. Glenie? 6L3-N13? Commissioner Alpha 6L3-N13 who granted me permission to become a private eye back in the beginning? No. It couldn’t be… could it?
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Magnus is now faced with an old boss as his biggest enemy yet, but now he must figure out just how and where he can find him and stop him. Also, why would a robot have a limp? Why is he starting a war with the humans? Why was Glenie discarded? Only Episode Twenty Three could have your answers… or can it? Find out! Two days time!

Unbiased Law: Episode 21

Episode Twenty Recap: Returning to an old friend, Magnus finds himself a new ally in the fight against crime. However his new alliance is short lived as his old Captain wants no part of the coming war. Granted a new prototype droid’s body, Magnus is released back into the world with better armor and better reaction times. These reactions come in handy when he discovers he is being tracked by the mysterious killer robot. After a near death experience once again, Magnus finds himself heading to city hall. Today apparently is the release of Veronica’s father and she is already there to meet him. As Magnus and Veronica catch up, her father makes his way toward them. She raises a gun as if to kill him, but her father calls her bluff. Sadly the odds weren’t stacked in his favour. Now faced with a potential murder and an old friend, what is Magnus’ next move? Only today’s episode will tell you (or head back to Episode One or Episode Twenty)!

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As Mr. Radlem reels in pain, I find myself stuck in this strange haze. What do I do? He’s bleeding out, but she’s escaping. A sudden scream snaps me out of it long enough to notice Veronica is rushing down the stairs with guards hot on her heels. I don’t think she’ll escape. I rush to Radlem’s side and the wound is pretty bad. He is screaming something about his legs and all I can focus on is the amount of blood pouring over my hands. I call to someone but I feel like my voice falls on deaf ears. Suddenly I see a robot limping its way through the crowd. Hell no. Not now, not this time. I look down to Radlem who is screaming in agony and back to the killer robot advancing on me. I can’t just sit here, but if I pull my hand away Radlem will possibly bleed out. The droid pushes people out of the way and aims a gun at Radlem and says something like “The deal’s off.” He pulls the trigger and I try to shield Radlem. My sensors are fast enough to watch the bullet, but where the spirit was willing, the body is not. The bullet hits Radlem square in the forehead and he drops. The robot tosses me the gun and disappears into the crowd.
I sit, baffled at the turn of events here. Deal’s off? What deal had they struck up? I stand up, holding a gun and with blood all over my hands. A dead man rests at my feet. Suddenly I feel like the entire crowd just noticed what was going on. But someone saw the killer robot right? As I look around the question repeats in my head. Right? Before I can realize what’s going on I realize that I’ve been set up once again. Ironically in the same way Radlem probably was. I stand here, holding the murder weapon, covered in blood and standing over the murder victim. Hmm. Well this can’t be good.
The crowd turns on me in a vicious fashion. I shove my way through and lucky for me sticks and stones don’t break my bones and names will never hurt me. I hear calls for my parts, people screaming at the dead man in the pool of blood and I hear police sirens wailing over the crowd. I think to myself the number of times I’ve seen the killer robot, and he’s always been alone. I narrowly avoid a rather large rock tossed in my direction as I consider what could be going on. Perhaps he is still sitting upon his throne in the discard’s graveyard? Only one way to find out! I break from the crowd and rush into the street. As I look up, a car is hurdling toward me and slams on its brakes a moment short of soon enough. I leap and find myself sprawled on the hood. The hood of my car. I look up into the window and Veronica shrugs and then she peels off with my holding on for dear life.
As we work our way from city hall I realize I didn’t get to protect the Mayor, but he should be safe for now. He will be heavily guarded until the dangers pass. I’ve probably got another twenty four hours to save him. I work my way up the hood and finally into the window of my car. I look across to Veronica and she smiles awkwardly at me. “Sorry for that.” I stare at her. “You’re sorry? You just attempted murder!” She slams the brakes on and I feel my circuits rattle as my head bounces off the dashboard. When I look back to her she’s as white as a ghost. “He didn’t die?” I feel rage increasing my core temperature and my cooling systems kick in. “No, he didn’t die you crazy son of a… but someone else killed him.” I watch as color returns to her face and she breathes a sigh of relief. My rage is beyond the point of return and I’ve had enough. This week has been absolute bullshit. I bring my gun out and point it at her. “We need to talk. I’ll ask the questions and you’ll provide the answers okay?” I see her considering her options. I slam the car into park and remove the keys from the ignition. “We’re not going anywhere.” She busts out her hand cannon and I toss the keys to my feet and slam her hand hard off the steering wheel and her gun drops out the window. “No. I want answers. Now.”
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Magnus has finally lost his patience. Will Veronica end up with a bullet? Or will she give him the answers he’s looking for? What deal had her father made with the killer robot? Still, who is the killer robot? Could he be from the discards? Or is his evil from somewhere else altogether? Two days time, episode twenty two! Be there!

Unbiased Law: Episode 20

Episode Ninteen Recap: Determined to survive, Magnus manages to escape the taxi to his doom by shooting out a window and leaping from the car as it dropped to the water below. Damaged and nearly beaten, he decides to head to the home of his former Captain in the Police Force. Thought to have been sunk with the taxi, Magnus is reported as dead by the robot lead Police Force and must now try and solve his case through covert means. Will he manage to survive today and will he be able to start getting ahead? Read below to find out (or head back to Episode One or Episode Nineteen)!

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I share a laugh with my old Captain as if no time has passed. I decide to try and enlist his help. “Hey Cap, I know we haven’t spoken in a long time but I need some help, now more than ever.” As he scratches his chin, I can see the lines of deep thought forming on his forehead. “Yeah I’d really love to, but I’ve got this thing.” I can feel my hypothetical jaw drop. “Not even a little?” I ask, hoping he’ll reconsider. He looks me up and down and sighs. “I will help you with a new body, but nothing else. You’re on your own in this one.” He takes me down to the basement and there before me stands a Police Droid Prototype I have never seen before. As he blows the dust off, he sounds a bit sad. “I’m not sure if this will work with that old face of yours, but sometimes you’ve just got to let things go before you can adapt to the future.” He lays me on the table beside the Prototype and I look at him. “Thanks Cap.” He smiles and looks between the Prototype and me. “Don’t thank me yet.”
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I look at the prototype. Shiny, new. Is that a stronger armor? What kind of gadgets will I have to play- And just like that, I awake in my new body. It’s always disorientating at first. You get so used to looking at yourself in one body that when you switch, it almost sparks an identity crisis. “Cap, how am I doing?” He turns to me and shrugs. “You took to it super easily. Least problematic transfer I’ve ever seen. As I examine the room, I notice my memory core is sitting off to the side. “I guess I should probably destroy this.” I say as I pick it up. Suddenly he turns to me and reaches for it. “I don’t think so, those cost a fortune.” I nod to agree and then decide to perform an electric format. As I supercharge the memory core, I feel confident that I have corrupted it. Handing it over causes Cap to feel a short shock, but he will suspect nothing of it. “Thanks for everything Cap, but I’ve got to run.” He smiles and nods. “Just remember Magnus, we’re even.”
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As I leave his house, the last words Cap left me with echo on for awhile. I had saved his life when I first became a droid, and I suppose he felt as though he owed me ever since. I shrug it off and consider what I should do now. I dial a cab and find myself  rethinking the option. As I decide to walk away, the cab pulls up but to a phantom caller. I watch as it slows down, passing by me. It makes it just around the corner when suddenly I hear tires screeching. Just as quickly as it turned the corner, the cab is now racing in my general direction. I grab for my gun and realize two things; One I lost my gun and two I’m in a new tin can. I look back up and dive to the side just as the cab is about to run me down. It strikes a tree and I watch the robot driver rocket out and into the bushes. I rush over not to make sure he’s okay, but to get some answers. When I make it to him, he is already up and limping away. Limping. Robot. My mind flashes back to all the limping robots I’ve seen lately and how they have mostly tried to kill me. I run and tackle this cab driver to the ground and find that my new body is way stronger than the previous one. Now it’s question and answer time.
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As I flip the cab driver over and pin him, I come face to face with no one I have met. However the body is unlike the mind, and the mind speaks. “Well I’ll be damned Magnus. If you’re not the hardest son of a bitch to kill, then I don’t know what is.” I stare him down and scan to see if the cab driver is being remote controlled or if I’ve got a genuine problem here. “Yeah I get that a lot. but how did you know it was me?” The driver laughs and my results come back with nothing. “How did I know? We’ve been tracking your mind and keeping it off the network as best we could. When you switched bodies, we noticed.” “So why did you try to kill me?” I ask while keeping control over him. He looks around and I can hear mechanical laughter beneath his words. “Which time, in the alley? Here? Farley? Police Station? Pick one.” I suddenly get the feeling this is indeed a killer robot. ” I am unimpressed by your efforts. However, your methods I will question.” Suddenly the crazed robot leans up almost close enough to kiss me, if it had lips. “A war has begun, I have made copies of myself and robots are taking over humans as we speak. Soon it will only be a matter of time before even the mayor is involved.” I stop and think back to the day I saw the mayor, surrounded by robot guards. Shit. This is not good.
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I leap off the robot and sever his energy connection permanently. As he lay motionless I contemplate what to do next. Killer robots are hijacking human bodies, the mayor is in danger and I’m miles from city hall. I look around and spot a beautiful car parked on the side of the road. I walk over and find that this new body has some of my accessories. Oh Cap, really you shouldn’t have. My lock picks pop out and I get into the car. A few seconds later, I’ve stolen a vehicle and am headed straight toward the police station on my way to city hall. Worst case ever, working for the government absolutely sucks and it reminds me why I got out in the first place. As I pull up to the front steps to city hall, I notice guards are everywhere. Damn. This sucks. I drive around to the side of the building and step into an alleyway. I look around for a side entrance or low window, with no such luck. This just isn’t my day. Suddenly, I decide to see what this new body has to offer. As I cycle down the list, I find a few entries that blow my mind. Camouflage? Holographic projection? Ha ha ha, now we’re talking.
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I walk around the front trying out this “Holographic Projection” thing. I will probably still be recognized as a robot, but this should make it a little more difficult. As I walk toward the front door, neither guard notices me. Excellent. As I wander in, I look around. No sign of the mayor anywhere, he is priority number one. I need to- and then I run into her. Or them. Or those. My eyes flash back up from her chest and I am staring at the lovely Miss Radlem, Miss Del Mar or Veronica. Which ever one, they’re all the same. The look of utter disgust on her face warms my core with joy as she doesn’t recognize me. My mind is thankful, and then does something completely stupid. “Veronica Radlem. Nice to see you again.” She looks at me with a funny look. “Do I know you or something?” I look around and then lean in as if to whisper. “I’m still on the case aren’t I?” The look of surprise on her face makes me realize that she thought I was dead. “Magnus?! What the hell is going on? Aren’t you dead?” I consider her words for a moment before I am able to reply. “Nope, but then again… it’s been awhile since I was really alive.”
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Strangely enough it’s great to see a familiar face. Even if it is one I associate with a rather large gun and my face. She looks around cautiously. “Today my Dad is getting out of prison. That’s why I’m here.” Then I say something to try and determine which Veronica I am talking to. “Doesn’t he not like you?” She gives me a quick look and I know who I’m talking to before she speaks. “It doesn’t matter.” As Ronnie is sharing her sister’s body, I try and figure out how she has so much control to shut her sister away for the meantime. Then I get a certain feeling, a feeling of impending doom. It’s not until I realize her father is being released now, and is walking towards her that I know what’s about to happen. Ronnie doesn’t want his love, not any more. As she raises the gun, I feel myself reacting and am in between her and her father. I can see the look on her face. “Get out of the way Magnus! He’s going to pay for what he did to me… what he did to us!” I am prepared to die for this man, even though this is a new body.
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She stares me down as the crowd gasps and backs off, however her father continues walking toward us. “Everything will be okay sweetheart.” He says that rather calmly. As he pushes on me to move, I decide to give him his chance. If anyone can get through to her or maybe give her sister the strength to wrestle control from her, it might be him. He stands in front of her, a free man. A man who using his daughters and their loyalty, put all robot-kind into question. As he embraces her, I can hear her sobbing into his chest. Everyone around realizes this moment is for them, and them alone. As things begin to calm down, and get back to normal, suddenly a loud bang rings out over the crowd. I spin, expecting to see a dead body but it seems no one has been hurt. No one that is until Mr. Radlem stumbles backward and blood begins seeping from his abdomen.
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The double episode is over, but what will happen to Veronica? Will her father make it? How long before Magnus makes some headway in solving the case for the judge? And just how will he manage to help the human hijackings? Tune in for episode twenty one in two days time!

Unbiased Law: Episode 19

Episode Eighteen Recap: Forced into killing an old friend being controlled by an invisible enemy, Magnus finds himself soaring through the air in a taxi.  Headed towards the water under a bridge, will our Detective escape his near certain fate? What could possibly save him in this instance? The answer lies in the words below! (or head back to Episode One or Episode Eighteen)!

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Well. When I recharged earlier in the week, if you’d have told me I’d be soaring through the air in a taxi, I may have laughed at you. If you had asked me two days ago, I’d have dismissed it but still considered it. Today, I find that nothing is impossible. Killer robots, Body Hijacking, A girl with a second personality that is a robot and a looming war between humans and robots. Only I am on the case, and I am headed toward certain doom. Doom. Goddamnit. I’m not about to die. Not in a taxi. I push my feet straight against the roof and thrust my back against the seats. Gun aimed at the back wind shield, I plow as many bullets through it as I possibly can and watch it disintegrate. I grab the edge and pull myself to spite Death yet again. Screw you, I won’t roll over. Not today,  not ever.
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I can feel Death’s grasp slide off as I pull myself through the back window of the taxi and assess my situation. I find the car in a crazy spin and I leap toward the underside of the bridge. I miss the support bars and fall clanging through lower supports. As I tumble, I feel bits of me falling off as I play a quick game of ricochet among the bars. My gun disappears as my hand obliterates off iron girders, and as my head connects with a different support I lose the ability to see out of my left side. Enraged, I thrust my hand out and feel myself immediately stop plummeting. I look up and my arm is up to the elbow in cobblestone. Dear God, will today just end? Thanks. Sincerely Magnus.
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After a brief, yet difficult climb I find myself standing on the roadside. The cab is long since gone. I say a few words for Farley and then I keep moving. I’ve got to get somewhere, somewhere I’ve got friends. Now where the hell is that? Then an idea pops into my head, it’s a long shot but I’m running out of friends and ideas.
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I march up the stairs to the beautiful split entry home, pillars on the deck and a golden retriever at the doormat. He sniffs me and then rolls over for a belly rub. I glance back to the Beware of Dog sign and laugh to myself. “Guard dog huh?” I scratch his belly and push the doorbell. When the door opens, a man stares at me completely bewildered by my appearance. “What are you doing here?” I stare at him for a few moments before deciding I really do have no other options. “Hey Cap, long time no see.” As I stare at the man with silver hair, he looks me up and down. “What’s wrong Magnus?” My former boss, Captain Steven Gates, knows right away I need help. “How’d you know Cap?” He points to my mangled hand and tucks my “eye” back in its socket. “A damn hunch you foolish robot. Come in before I’m arrested for harbouring a dead man.”
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As I walk into his home, I take a look around. Nothing has changed except the faces in the pictures. Everyone is older, but it doesn’t feel like it’s been that long. “Cap… what do you mean harbouring a dead man?” He grins and swipes his television remote. As he turns the volume up, I realize I can only hear out one side of my head, but it’s more than enough. “Tonight a Taxi plunged off the Silver River Bridge, taking two robots with it to the bottom. As rescue attempts were made, there were no survivors. Salvaging and collection will begin in two days and police advise all river users to take the detour through the other side to the old draw bridge in…” the voice slowly fades out as I watch the volume decrease. I look to the Captain as he shrugs. “So you died?” I look him straight in the eye and as serious as I can, manage one line. “Well I got better.”
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A narrow escape! A new ally? Where’s the Veronicas? Only Episode 20 could answer these questions, maybe, but the only way to find out is to tune in! Two Days Time! Big Episode Twenty! Double Feature! BE THERE!

Unbiased Law: Episode 18

Episode Sixteen Recap:  Magnus and his quick thinking manage to save Ronnie from bleeding out in Veronica’s body. After a short moment of relief, Ronnie wishes for him to swap them back. Being new to the procedure, Magnus makes a critical error and creates two girls exactly the same in mind. As Veronica, now back in her body, seemingly pulls the trigger on her sister for all the meddling Ronnie did in her life, Magnus is left with some final words that seem all too familiar. As Veronica pulls away, Magnus realizes he just left two minds in one body, he forgot to overwrite the memories as data transferred. Now that he has put both of his enemies in one body, will she be twice as deadly? Or will she tear herself apart? Perhaps you will find out below (or head back to Episode One or Episode Seventeen)!

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I march down the sidewalk in silence. Two girls, one robot and one human. I’ve trapped them in the same fleshy cage and I can only hope that the girls will play nice. As of this moment, it may be the only way they can survive. I walk until I finally make my way to a busy main street. As taxis fly by, I realize this week has been the worst week in recent memory, but most likely ever. I stand staring at nothing when suddenly I realize a taxi has stopped and is honking it’s horn at me. I make my way into the back seat and tell the driver where I’m going. Strangely enough, I don’t know what I tell him, I’m too distracted by my own thoughts. Suddenly, my name being called snaps me out of my stupor. “Magnus! Goddamnit man what’s wrong with you?” I look up and see Farley, much to my surprise.
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“Farley, what the hell are you doing here and how did you escape the cell?” I manage to trip over every second word. If a robot could grin, he would be right now. “No time to talk boss.  You’ve got a date with destiny. Lucky I found you here!” I sit back and relax for a moment before his words sink in. Date? With Destiny? I lean forward to ensure I’m heard correctly. “Date with Destiny? Are you setting me up with a car or something because I’m not into that kind of stuff.” I can hear his mechanical laughter from the front seat. “No way man, better plans for you. You’ve got a date with the Commissioner.” As soon as I hear the word Commissioner, my hand shoots to the door handle but I find it already locked. “Farley, Please don’t do this. That robot will kill me.” Farley shakes his head in response to my pleading. “Sorry man, but he gave me my options and I had to take it.”
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I don’t know what a robot could have to lose aside from his life, but I decide I can’t just sit back and take this. I try and hack into his mind and see if I can change it manually. Suddenly, I am shocked to find he has been infected with some virus. As it directs itself toward the open connection, I escape just in time. He looks back into the rear view and I can tell he is genuinely sorry. “I can’t help it man. They got to me.” I slide my hand into my jacket and feel my gun. The bulletproof glass between us is thick enough to stop a bullet, but I must do what I need to. That’s when I realize that the glass only goes so far down. I notice a small gap in between the floor and the glass, enough to clean out underneath the seats. I take one last look into the mirror at one of the few robot friends I had made as of late. “Sorry Farley.” I slide my hand underneath the seat and twist my wrist to point the gun directly at the bottom of the driver seat. A few bullets later and I score a hit.
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As the bullet rips through Farley’s memory unit, he spins and I see the energy draining from his circuits. “Thank… you… I’m no… puppet…” The energy cuts. Final last words, not just for humans. Sadly we’re doing about ninety miles an hour, and I can see a bridge approaching. No hands on the wheel, a steel foot on the accelerator, this isn’t looking good. Suddenly everything is in slow motion. The car heads straight for the sidewalk and unfortunately the bridge edge. As the car catches the corner of the cobblestone pillar of the bridge it flips and spins through the air. No seatbelt on, I find myself crashing to the roof and the seats and back again. Bullet casings clang off my body and I watch through a side window as the car heads upside down past the bridge. I could try to login in, back up my memory again, but I know that this is all happening in fractions of a second. It only feels slow because I am most likely about to plummet to my doom. Not only have I killed a friend, but the Commissioner will still win and I will be a thing of the past. Damnit, I hate Wednesdays.
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With our robot hero trapped within the confines of a taxi in mid air, the question is how will he survive? Will he solve the case or will he find himself trapped at the bottom of a body of water? Tune in once again in two days time!

Unbiased Law: Episode 17

Episode Sixteen Recap:  As Magnus sits in his car with human hijacking Veronica, ex human Veronica stands outisde arguing with her sister. As the tensions flare, Magnus realizes a robot is watching them from the end of the alley. When bullets start flying, Magnus grabs the sister outside the car, and reverses out of the alley, smashing into the killer robot. As he surveys the damage, ex human Veronica is trying to deal with her sister quickly bleeding out. Will they be able to help her or is it already too late? Head down for the crazy seventeeth episode (or head back to Episode One or Episode Sixteen)!

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I stare at the girl as blood gushes from both front and back. My brain is trying to make sense of it all when suddenly Veronica screams at me. “Do something, anything!” This however doesn’t snap me out of my daze, there’s just so much… so much blood. I can tell she’s still screaming at me when I turn to her, and stare at her body. She looks disgusted and enraged all at once. “You’re going to check me out while my sister dies in my body?” I can’t hear her, I’m a million miles away. As she is screaming, she doesn’t notice me hack into her systems and arrange a minuscule amount of her nanites to go to her sister as if it was a normal transfer. I watch as her skin crawls, and the nanites make their way down her hand  by what seems to be the millions. Well, that’s about the only way you’d be able to see them with the naked eye is if they travelled in a large enough amount.
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As I sit by, I can still hear Veronica screaming and I watch the progress of the nanites. They are amazing as the bullet holes rebuild from the inside out. Veronica is still screaming at me when her sister takes my hand, and I help her up. As R0N-N13 sits up, Veronica stares at the lack of bullet wounds and sighs with relief. I look into R0N-N13’s eyes and she looks back. I can tell she immediately regrets being in the fragile, fleshy casing humans call a body. She looks at me and I know what her eyes are asking. Switch us back, please switch us back. I stare for a moment as if to be sure, and she nods. I look to Veronica who both of us had tuned out. Her face is as red as a tomato and she is still screaming. What she doesn’t know, and what most robots do, is that you can be forced into shut down. I draw one of the hidden tools from my body and I tap the small stick on Veronica’s knee. She convulses a moment and then is silent. I turn to R0N-N13 and her eyes are already closed. I connect to her wirelessly, but as the Doc had removed Veronica’s wireless transmitter when he pronounced her dead, I connect manually.
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As the transfer goes through, I feel relieved. Veronica opens her eyes and hits me, forgetting I’m a robot and obviously oblivious to the fact she’s a human again. She realizes this when seconds later pain shoots through her hand and up her arm and she stares at it with disbelief. Her mouth hangs open as the words tumble out. “I’m… back. I’m me.” As R0N-N13 wakes, I turn to her. “Are you all right?” I ask despite everything seeming fine. She nods and looks to her sister. “Call me Ronnie.” I would smile if I could, but I can hear some grumbling coming from Veronica. I turn to her and realize she’s not looking too happy. “What’s wrong Veronica?” She doesn’t hesitate to let me have it all. “You copied, but didn’t override my sister’s memory.” I turn to Ronnie and she is silent. When I look back from one to the other, guns are drawn and everyone is really unhappy. Veronica makes the first accusation. “You wanted to be the one my father loved, you switched us and almost killed me in the process. Then when you told my father, he refused to love you because he figured you had killed me.” Ronnie’s gun quivers in her hand. “You sided with the discards in hopes to clear father’s name and win back his love.” As Veronica and I both stare at her, she realizes that is one of her own memories, but as her human self.
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In an instant everything changes and I watch as Veronica shoots Ronnie. As the organ donor droid drops, I immediately fear for my own existence. Veronica turns to me. “Thanks for getting my body back, so I owe you one.” I breathe a sigh of relief and then I hear her voice change slightly as she says, “You live today, but know something. I’m tracking you, so now I can find you and kill you whenever I want. So if you end up near my house again, I will hunt you down.” As she motions for me to get out of the car, I slide out and watch it drive away in shock. I have heard Veronica say that before, but it was when Ronnie had me in my office tied to a chair. I think I’ve done something absolutely terrible and against the law. I’ve given a human multiple personality disorder, and one of those personalities sided with the discards. Now I stand on the sidewalk wondering just which personality pulled the trigger.
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As the Radlem sisters become one and the same in Veronica’s human body, will they fight for supremacy or will Ronnie try to keep it hidden as long as she can? Will Magnus attempt to turn them in or will he avoid the Police Station as long as he can? Where is the killer robot now? The answers can only be in the future! Two days time! Episode Eighteen! Be there!

Unbiased Law: Episode 16

Episode Fifteen Recap: Magnus indeed won the struggle for his interrogator’s gun, using only his problem solving skills to overpower his opponent. Despite destroying the robot with a limp for a second time, it seems as though this new threat can body hop and has appeared in three different droids since Magnus first discovered him. Could this be a legendary robot assassin sent to kill him? Also after escaping from the police station, Magnus finds himself in his car once again, with Robot in Human Veronica while Human in Robot Veronica stumbles upon them together. Will it be lights out for one, both or none? Head down for the dramatic sixteenth episode (or head back to Episode One or Episode Fifteen)!

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“Well, well, well. My body hijacking sister and the robot I hired to bring her back to me. Are you two working together? You trying to kill me again… Sis?” The last word hangs in the air, it’s venomous enough to make it’s way into the world’s deadliest top ten. I decide to chime in. “Actually, she was saving me from the police.” She stares at me. “The police she sicked upon you if I’m not mistaken.” I do recall that part as well. I turn to the Veronica in the car. “Well, you are on your own.” As the two Veronica’s are shouting at each other, I glance in the side mirror just in time to notice a robot peering down the alley toward us. Well, that can’t be good. I lift my gun and watch as the robot limps its way into view. Hmm, definitely not good. I notice him raise something, and suddenly I see the muzzle flash. Shit, he’s got a gun. Absolutely not good!

As Veronica stands outside, and a Veronica sits idly in my driver’s seat, I realize they’re both stunning and stunned. Damn dumb beauties. I grab the Veronica outside by the collar and drag her across her sister’s lap. Suddenly I am wedged firmly between two lovely ladies and with a killer robot on the way to kill us all. Just another damn day. I jam the car into reverse and hit the gas with my hand. I can’t see a damn thing, so all I do is pray we make it straight out of the alley. Suddenly a large bang and the sound of metal dragging on pavement gives me hope. I push the Veronica on top of me head first between my feet and I slide magically out from under her, ramming the driver’s seat as far back as it can go. I look in the rear view mirror and watch it get blown off. Glad that wasn’t my head. I slam the hand brake on and I hear metal skidding across the pavement once again. Such a beautiful sound, like nails on a chalkboard. Releasing the hand brake I ram the car into drive and peel away from the scene. What insanity.

My mind jumps to the freeze frame of the limping killer robot before he blew off my rear view mirror. He is a good shot, which leaves me wondering why we’re all still alive. How is this robot getting around so quickly? It seems he can’t be killed. Perhaps he is being controlled remotely by another robot. Worse case scenario this gimped robot has figured out how to copy his memory and transplant it… wirelessly… to many robots. I let that thought sink in for a few seconds. It feels good to be back behind the wheel of my own car, I should shoot them both in the head and leave them outside the police station in the pouring rain… yeah, that’d be good. Sadly, my days as a police officer won’t let me harm them, but I’ll save that thought for my personal moments. I really need a new job. Suddenly, I realize I’m surrounded by chaos and brought back to the situation at hand.

The Veronica in the driver’s seat is moaning in absolute agony. Poor robot, must be weird feeling pain for her. I look to her sister and she’s already on it, apparently concerned more for her body than her sister. I shake my head at the world. After this maybe I’ll retire. As a great cop once said, “I’m too old for this shit.” Sad part is, I’m not. I drive mostly in silence, except for the wailing of a robot in a human’s body. If anyone else could hear this girl, they’d think she was in her death throws. I park on a deserted side street and turn to see the damage. There’s bullet holes all in my car, I’m missing a rear view mirror and a girl is bleeding all over my seat. Son of a… Blood doesn’t come out easy. I’m going to need bleach, and a lot of it. The Veronica in the passenger’s seat looks at me. “Do something damn it!” I look at her sister and realize she’s not doing so well. A small bullet hole gushes blood out of the right side of her abdomen. What’s worse is the matching one also spewing blood on her lower back.

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Will the wounded Veronica survive? Who is this strange killer robot? Only Episode Seventeen may tell you! Tune back in two days time!