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one your son Jared was using.

I never really knew

Jarid as a child.

He grew up with his mother in California

Who kept him from me.

When he went to college I encourage him

to borrow my surrogates whenever he wanted.

How did you managed to do that?

A Surrie has to be coded

to your neural signature.

I am not exactly your

average VSI consumer.

This was just a way for me

to spend time with my son.

It's a felony to inhabit a surrogate

registered to another operator.

No offense Dr. Canter.

We're just trying to straighten out our facts.

What is this?

- Some kind of Good Cop, Bad Cop routine?

- No sir.

- You tryin' to handle me?

- No sir.

Because I'm not going to be handled.

Dr Canter...

- I know how you must feel.

- Do you?

Yes, sir.

I lost a son myself.

Do you have any idea why

someone might want to harm Jared?

No.

Or yourself?

Oh my God.

If it was me they were after...

I'm responsible for my sons death.

Well... I guess the interview's over.

No!

Robotic surrogates combine

the durability of machines

With the grace and beauty

of the human form

To make your life safer

And better.

Whether you're....

Get ready to live your life without any

risk or danger.

You can live your life

without limitations.

And become anyone you want to be.

From the comfort and

safety of your own home.

VSI, where it all began.

Do what you want.

Be what you want.

Agents Greer and Peters?

I'm Victor Welsh.

VP of corporate relations.

Please Sit.

- Thanks for taking the time to see us.

- No problem.

You uh... You must know Andy Stone?

Our immediate superior.

Do give him my regards.

- We're from the legal department.

- Hope you don't mind if we sit in.

Not at all.

The two of you might be interested

in a free software upgrade we're

offering all law enforcement officials.

Better night vision.

Improved pursuit capability.

You have any idea how a surrogates

head would explode from the inside?

Mr. Welsh isn't qualified

to answer that question.

What do the operators say?

Not much.

They're dead.

If you're trying to imply a link between VSI

products and an operators accidental death...

I'm not implying anything.

I just want to know how an operator

can be killed by signals from it's surrogate.

This idea itself is absurd.

If it were possible it would defeat

the entire purpose of surrogacy.

Surries have jumped from bridges...

Been shot....

Even... blown to bits without the

least bit of harm to their operators.

The failsafes always kick in.

I can assure you VSI's products have the most

stringent safety standards in the industry.

What about a human head?

What would cause one of them to blow up?

Agent Greer...

We're not doctors.

Honey...

I don't know WHAT you are.

I mean for all I know you could be

some big fat dude sitting in a stim

chair with his dick hanging out.

Interesting technique.

I hate lawyers.

What are you doing?

Mr. Steinberg?

Seth Steinberg?

Hello.

Sorry.

I was in the can.

Agent Peters, I'm Agent Greer with the FBI.

Really?

You know with any chip this damaged...

Every circuit must have fired off at once.

Kablooey!

Have you ever seen anything like this before?

Last week a truck load of GI Joes

did come back for re-conditioning.

And a couple of the

Surries were missing optics.

Mind if we take a look at them?

Here we go.

No bullet holes?

No blast damage?

No scratches.

No dirt. No mud.

Mind if I check out the identity chip?

- Heh. Yeah.

- Why not?

Didn't come back with one.

I'm down!

I'm down.

Damn things aren't free Polaski!

Take the snipers from behind this time.

Yes sir!

Back online.

Follow me.

- Keep an eye on Bravo Company.

- Go kick some ass sir!

Agent Greer you're wasting

your time with these questions.

Why on earth would the Defense

Department want to develop a weapon

that could wipe out our own troops?

So no such weapon exists...

If it did, I'd know about it.

And the soldier that we saw?

We routinely remove motherboards

and optics for analysis.

Now if you'll excuse me.

I've got to move a Peace Keeping operation.

- Check your screen

- What?

Myles Strickland.

Who?

Myles Strickland, beat that!

I did a run on criminal records

Guess what I found?

He's already in the system.

He was arrested a month ago

for multiple counts of armed robbery.

And what's really weird about this...

After he was busted...

They let him off.

Someone on the inside's protecting him.

But I put out an APB anyway.

Visual matching.

- Cameras caught your guy.

- Where?

Dorchester, Gore Park and Adams.

Not far from the reservation.

Boston PD is on its way.

Stay here.

Keep tabs on him.

Wait a minute where are you going?

Dorchester.

It wasn't too difficult.

I put his face in the system and... Bingo!

We found him in an alley.

K33 over there brought it to my attention.

Thanks Jerry.

He's one of our best watchers.

He's semi-retired.

So he gets to work out of

his beach house in Maine.

- Pretty sweet huh?

- Yeah, it's a nice setup you have here.

Yeah, we can access every

Surrie on the grid here.

Touch a button.

I can tap into anyone's feed.

It's kinda like being inside Gods head.

Ooooooh Boy... I felt that one coming.

My name's Saunders by the way.

Jennifer Peters.

Yeah... Yeah you are aren't you?

- Can I ask you a question?

- Hmmm?

Why no surrogate?

Me?

They've been trying to puppet me for years.

But they ain't built a machine

that can handle this big puppy yet.

Excuse me a second...

We have an assault and

battery in progress.

I need warrants to shut

them down immediately.

Charlie 4639er.

Sierra 7855

Let's see if they have a

security camera in the hotel...

Looks like there is one.

Warrant recieved.

Agent Peters...

Watch this.

Boom.

Boom.

Since when have you been

able to cut off operators?

It's brand new software.

I call it buffering.

Let's me disconnect anyone

from their surrogate.

Well that can't be legal?

Ahhh... It's a grey area.

They don't ask, we don't tell.

It's pretty cool huh?

Awww C'mon.

Relax, we're the

good guys.

Suspect on a bike heading east of

South Hampton up a mile from the Res'

Greer, be careful, you're heading

straight towards Dread territory. We

don't have jurisdiction to fly over there.

It's restricted air space.

Greer are you there?

Freeze!

What was that?

Agghhh!!!

Fire! Fire!

I ain't done nothin'!

I ain't done nothin'!

Give me the bag.

Throw it over here.

Throw it over here.

Now!

You're an abomination.

Oh god.

Maggie.

Maggie!

Lionel Canter is on the phone.

He's called for Greer a half dozen times.

I can't deal with this right now.

- He's pretty upset.

- Just tell him someone will call him back.

Peters!

You gotta believe me

I tried to stop him.

Well you didn't try hard enough.

You're done for the day.

Clock out.

Oh you're kidding!

God.

Tom?

Oh my God!

Call an ambulance!

Myles Strickland is it?

Why are you...

What's goin' on?

Who was it?

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