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murder within ImaTechs off-limits Division Five but was also consorting with the yakuza.
Who and to what end?
We dont even know who the lady to whom were introduced in the episodes lengthy cold open is.
We can infer she belongs to the management echelon of organized crime.
I was up, the younger lady says, terrified to offend her client.
So did Hime bring this guy along with her two henchmen on this errand with her?
I have to look my best at this funeral, Hime says.
Its sad, really, this unknown voyeur remarks.
Poor Masa-stan, stuck between worlds!
one of them says.
A spirit with no feet.
Back in the present, Noriko tries visiting Suzie in person to shake her from her torpor.
We see Sunny holding a string of pearls Noriko has brought.
hey tell her the funeral will be tomorrow, Noriko tells the dewy-eyed homebot.
(However, her tone remains bubbly and inviting.)
Before she goes, she leaves a wrapped gift for Sunny to give to her daughter-in-law.
That wrapped gift is Masas framed drawing of the wolf that Noriko told Suzie shed thrown away.
Its Masashanko, or personal seal.
The same insignia the girl who told Suzie about the Dark Manual had tattooed on her stomach.
You know I would never hurt you, right?
Mixxy gets Suzies name wrong in what is apparently their second meeting.
Mixxy offers to drop by Suzies place after her shift ends.
Thats enough for Suzie to ask Mixxy to be her guide into the realm of black-market robotics.
Here, Sunnys newly developed independent streak comes in handy.
Mixxys approval means more to Takumi than potential legal exposure.
Wanted turns out to be a Host Club where ladies pay for the company of attractive young men.
Suzie asks if Takumi played them, and Sunny has another caustic retort.
The guy who hot-wires teledildonic devices?
At Wanted, a young man invites Suzie and Nixxy to follow him once they mention Tendos name.
But Sunny, the man says, must stay behind.
Which one do you want?
Tendo asks the person on the other end of the line as Suzie and Mixxy walk into his office.
We dont hear their response.
Robot fights?Thatdoesnt seem especially forbidden or debauched.
it’s possible for you to seerobot fights in Las Vegasright now!
Shit, this extremely neurotic bot says to no one in particular.
A man in a suit tells Sunny in Japanese that her owner is looking for her.
Of course, the man says.
Sunnys source code does not include a familiarity with fairy tales, I guess.
Again, its deflating that the secret attraction here is some kind of fight club for bots.
Zen is correcting his moms Japanese pronunciation of Junko League.
This tender family scene from her memory is intercut with a present-day bot melee.
The robots attack one another with flame throwers, whirling chains, and a medieval mace.
The crowd cheers as they inflict massive damage on one other, but so what?
They dont appear to feel pain or have the emotional sophistication that Sunny does.
When a man steps into the ring to interfere, the bots cease their attack.
They cant hurt humans, someone says.
So again, why would this be illegal or illicit?
Only Baby Boi is Sunny, newly press-ganged as a combatant.
Suzie tries to pull Sunny out, but Hime intervenes, insisting Sunny must fight.
Oh shit, its fake!
Its unclear whether she understands in this instant that a person with a pinkie missing is likely a yakuza.
She steps on that fake finger on her way out of the club.
Outside, Mixxy asks if Suzie is okay.
No, she says.
Hime enters and kneels on the floor.
She bows to Suzie before fixing her with a stare to end the episode.
Subprime Directives
The scene when Mixxy visit Suzie at home gives us some major clues about Sunny.
Can you just get rid of it?
Finally, Sunny has a sarcastic exchange with Mixxy in Japanese, which she knows Suzie doesnt speak.
If all of this doesnotindicate Sunnys sentience, the facsimile thereof is uncanny.
Which I reckon is the point.
A Brief History of Deceptive Practices Among Specimens of Fictional A.I.
B2EMO, the domestic droid inAndor, complained that lying consumed more power than truth-telling.
