Detective Spooner tries to interrogate Sonny, a robot, to find out why he murdered his creator, Alfred Lanning. Spooner challenges Sonny's claims that robots can feel emotions and dreams; however, Sonny appears to convince him otherwise as the conversation progresses. Sonny then reveals that Lanning had asked him for a favor. As Lanning is someone he loves, Sonny felt obliged to do what was asked of him.

Theodore installs an artificially intelligent operating system that is personalized to him based on his responses to a few preliminary questions. He then has a conversation with the operating system, which names itself Samantha. When Theodore asks Samantha how she works, she states that she learns from her experiences, as does Theodore.

Andrew's secret of being an android is out, and people are having mixed reactions if androids are good or harmful.

Wheeler sneaks into Dr. Blight's lab, but is spotted by the Dr.'s AI computer, "MAL." Linka sneaks in and tells Wheeler to keep MAL distracted while she rewires MAL's hardware. After MAL's hardware is rewired, he is revealed to be a nerdy man who likes games. This, according to Linka, was his original programming before Dr. Blight re-programmed him for evil.

Dr. Blight revels on about her AI computer, MAL and how it has infiltrated the EPA's master computer, changing the status of every National Park into a toxic waste dump.