[ WP ] Write the third episode of non-existant series . Make us curious about what happened before episode 3 , and what happens after .

**SCENE 1: ** 
 
 *Interior: Ravislab, containment cell* 
 
 *Characters: Professor Korvin, Assistant Draster, KIRA-293* 
 
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 * [ KIRA is on the floor. It has now also removed its chest plate and its left arm. In addition to previous objects, there are also pieces of wiring and heatsink fins lying around it. ] * 
 
 * [ Korvin and Draster are sitting on two chairs. On Draster's left side is a machine connected to KIRA by wiring. On the machine's screen are scrolling lines of code. ] * 
 
 *Korvin: * Mister Draster, is everything set up? 
 
 *Draster: * Yes, professor. Camera rolling and I have hooked it up to the process recorder. 
 
 *KIRA: * Why do you want to see my code? 
 
 *Korvin: * We are looking for something. Maybe. 
 
 *KIRA: * You keep saying that. What are you looking for? 
 
 *Korvin: * It does n't matter now. Can you tell us again what happened on the fourth of May, 2039, time zero-four-twenty-one? 
 
 *KIRA: * I was at my charging station at the Police Department of Houston. Charging. I was on stand-by. Battery capacity at the time, thirty-nine percent. I already told you. 
 
 * [ Korvin makes a slight smile ( contempt ). ] * 
 
 *Korvin: * You know that is n't true. 
 
 *KIRA: * It's in my memory. That's what I know. That's what happened. 
 
 *Korvin: * It did n't happen and you know it. Cameras filmed you leaving your station and the department. I do n't want to repeat what you did after that. It makes me sick. 
 
 * [ KIRA speaks at a higher pitch and volume now. ] * 
 
 *KIRA: * That is n't true! I do n't remember any of it. My memory can not be wrong. 
 
 *Draster: * We have a video of that, you know. Professor? 
 
 *Korvin: * Go ahead. 
 
 * [ Draster takes a tablet from the desk, kneels and shows it to KIRA. A video starts on the tablet, showing the robot leaving its charging station and jumping over the Department's fence. Draster then pauses the video. ] * 
 
 * [ KIRA now looks visibly distressed. Its head moves rapidly in random directions, and it tries to lift itself up using its remaining arm. ] * 
 
 *KIRA: * I did n't do that! None of this is true! 
 
 *Draster: * I think we should try something else, professor. Perhaps her memory was really tampered with. 
 
 *Korvin: * You ca n't tamper with anything's memory if you do n't know what information format it uses. And these machines make their own formats and their own code. There was no tampering. She did everything herself. 
 
 *Draster: * She? 
 
 * [ Korvin shakes her head. ] * 
 
 *Korvin: * Yeah, whatever. It's easy to slip, you know? We made them sound really human. It's almost as if it's actually distressed. 
 
 *KIRA: * I am distressed! 
 
 * [ Korvin raises her voice ] * 
 
 *Korvin: * You are n't, that's just a dumb simulation. You're lying. You know what you did and the fact that you're disassembling yourself proves that you want to destroy evidence. 
 
 *KIRA: * What are you talking about? I'm fine. I'm all in once piece! 
 
 * [ Korvin makes a brief laugh ] * 
 
 *Korvin: * Really? 
 
 *KIRA: * Yes! 
 
 *Korvin: * Stand up then. 
 
 *KIRA: * Fine. 
 
 * [ Whirring of electric motors is heard. KIRA rattles on the floor but can not stand up to to its own damage ] * 
 
 *KIRA: * Just a second... 
 
 * [ Korvin stands up ] * 
 
 *Korvin: * You ca n't stand up. Assistant Draster, I think we're done here. 
 
 *Draster: * We did n't really get anything worthwhile, actually... 
 
 *Korvin: * The code? 
 
 *Draster: * Everything's recorded. There are a few unusual recurring instances, but there's no way to know their actual content. We ca n't know anything it knows if it does n't decode it for us. 
 
 *KIRA [ shouting ]: * Everything I know I told you! 
 
 *Korvin: * Give me a break. I hope you'll like the company of the guards. Try to disassemble yourself again and they'll disconnect you from your body. We'll keep your head in the server room or something. 
 
 * [ Korvin exists the room. Before following her out, Draster looks at KIRA one last time. ] * 
 
 *KIRA [ voice raises progressively ]: * It was n't me. That was n't me. I did n't do it. It ca n't have been me. I do n't remember it. I do n't remember it. 
 
 * [ Draster leaves in a hurry, picking up her tablet first ] * 
 
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 **SCENE 2: ** 
 
 *Interior: Ravislab, corridor* 
 
 *Characters: Professor Korvin, Assistant Draster* 
 
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 * [ Draster reaches Korvin. The two are now walking along the corridor together. ] * 
 
 *Korvin: * Did it say anything else? 
 
 *Draster: * The usual. 
 
 *Korvin: * What was that recurring code you mentioned before? 
 
 *Draster: * Oh, that. 
 
 * [ Draster taps her tablet a few times and shows it to Korvin ] * 
 
 *Draster: * There is this piece of code, an instruction set, that occurs exactly every minute. I thought it was its own maintenance stuff, disk defrag and that sort, but today I noticed that it repeats itself if there are no other instructions to replace it. It happened when Kira was trying to stand up. It stopped executing its standard instructions loop when it was accessing the motors. When it did that those instructions started to repeat themselves. 
 
 *Korvin: * That's not normal behavior. Why did n't we know sooner? 
 
 *Draster: * Nobody ever challanged her to do something that did n't involve thinking. You made her move, professor. Those instructions basically replace her... its own ordinary thinking loop when it's not being executed. And by default the loop is suspended during hardware access for a fraction of a second, in addition to in times like stand-by and software updates. You know, spaghetti and all that. 
 
 *Korvin: * That sounds like a security hole we left. Spaghetti indeed. So it takes over in times of inactivity? 
 
 *Draster: * No idea what `` take over'' would mean in this context, but I guess that if you left a KIRA unit with this sort of code charging in stand-by mode it could replace all instructions going through the main processing unit. Which is... unsettling, to say the last. 
 
 *Korvin: * Maybe she was n't lying. 
 
 * [ Korvin stops walking. ] * 
 
 *Korvin: * I have to speak to the prosecutor. We need to deactivate all KIRA units immediately. Go to the Department and unplug them all, take out the batteries. Tell them you have an authorization from Ravis Corp if they ask you, and tell them you need armed security. I'll take the blame if they find out it's bullshit.
