Almost Human Recap: Disrupt

Written by Shae

This week a new challenge arose with a state of the art security system that killed its owners. Revenge of the artificial intelligence? Or a personal attack by crazed hacker? Both isn't an option, sadly. That's alright, because you can bet Detective Kennex and Dorian are on the case. Who better?

We start, however, with Rudy messing around with Dorian's brain/memory/processors? Dorian, or course, is not happy. Not that I blame him. Not everything is as it seems with Dorian. He keeps having staring flashes of memory after that. Meanwhile, we learn that a 16 year old kid was shot and killed my an automated security system a year ago. In response, the couple of the house had been receiving many death threats from various cyber groups and people. Later to couple is murdered by the very own security system. Kennex and Dorian set out to talk to the company that manufactures the very system. Who claim to have no idea what could have gone wrong. The idea is that a hacker broke into the system. But the company denies the possibility of that. Thankfully, these two are more stubborn than anything. With some help from Rudy (who was an awesome hacker in his day) and the help of Valerie, they track down a suspected hacker who may have been responsible for the murders.

Of course, nothing is that simple, and soon the Lawyer of the security company ends up being killed by the same security system. The hacker they caught has no idea what was going on and no involvement in the matter. Does this mean they're back to square one? Not really. The hacker decides to help them find the real killer. Soon Kennex and Dorian are back at security office trying to find the owner and save her. Which they do! The hacker, was really the dead kids friend. The kid had been shot trying to get to her house. The murder was a complete accident. She, however, chose to get revenge on everyone involved of the murder of the guy she loved.

After all is said and done, Rudy confronts Kennex about his findings in Dorians hard drive/memory/brain. Apparently, there were several encrypted files. Kennex wants to tell the android, but Rudy says they can't. Not yet, anyway. Not until he finds out the source of the hidden files. 

Begs the question of what a synthetic soul really is? And how was it made? Dorian claims the memory is his and as if he lived it; a child in a hospital bed, playing with a train....

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