A policeman, Ross Sylibus, is assigned to a unit on a Martian colony, to find that women are being murdered by a psychotic named D'anclaude...
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A policeman, Ross Sylibus, is assigned to a unit on a Martian colony, to find that women are being murdered by a psychotic named D'anclaude. He is assigned a very unorthodox partner named Naomi Armitage, who seems to have links to the victims. To stir things up more, every victim is found to be an illegally made third-generation android, built to be almost perfect replications of humans. It becomes a race against time when the government attempts to cover up the existence of the 'Third Types', and eliminate the only ones with the evidence. And even more importantly, why are the Thirds created to be so similar to humans, even to the extent of being indistinguishable from them on every level, mentally and biologically?
Written by Chris McFadden <admthorilson@unspacy.org>
Eddie:
[sees Ross exiting the infirmary]
Whoo--hoo--hoo! Pal, I sure hope you feel better than you look. Ross Sylibus:
I can't understand why my other arm hurts so much. Eddie:
The doctor threw in some kind of new nervous system for you, so it's probably just a side effect. At any rate, ah, there's something I wanna show ya. Ross Sylibus:
[cut to the morgue, where Eddie begins to unzip a body bag--the face is revealed]
It's Kelly McCannon! Why haven't they disposed of her body yet? Eddie:
Hey! She's a real find! You just don't throw something like her away.
[continues to open the bag]
Eddie:
Except for a few functions, thirds are perfect synthetic organisms. They can simulate every physical aspect of the human body. The big mystery that's had everybody running in circles is, why all the thirds have been female? Do you know?
[Ross shakes his head]
Eddie:
After the victims were autopsied, we discovered that this wasn't just a case of robot destruction, it was murder. I'll show ya.
[Eddie stops unzipping at the abdomen]
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