ZETA: My name is Zeta.
I was built as a weapon to destroy...
but I will not destroy anymore.
RO: Come on, let's go!
ZETA: It's Bennet. Run!
This way.
RO: Quick, Zee. Change.
ZETA: Ro, look out!
[SCREAMS]
RO: We'll get you your freedom, Zee. I know it.
MAN [ON PA]: Now arriving at Gate 1, Hoverways Express from South Carolina.
All those meeting arriving passengers, please wait in the Gate 1 reception area.
Final boarding call for Gate 4, 2:15 to Spring City.
Will passengers for Spring City please proceed to Gate 4?
Bennet.
You've been looking for me. I wanna talk.
Who is this? How did you get on this line?
You think I wanna hurt people. I need you to believe me. I don't.
Zeta, where are you?
I know you're tracing the call. I'll tell you where I am.
You scan. I'll call into Ops.
Scout 4, routine check, Wood Valley, Maryland, bus depot.
I don't believe it. It's him.
I'll contact you later.
Zeta, wait.
Freeze, Zeta.
West, holster that weapon. West.
Target spotted, notify Bennet. We are in pursuit.
ZETA: Get down.
[GRUNTS]
[YELLING]
LEE: West, this way.
Federal agents.
[GASPS]
[PASSENGERS MURMUR]
WOMAN [WHISPERS]: What are they doing here?
All these people are people.
WEST: Ow! - Come on.
[PHONE RINGS]
This is Lee.
Agent Bennet. Yes, sir. I'm so sorry, sir. We lost him.
Yes. Wood Valley, Maryland.
Only one bus was departing and he wasn't on it.
He was making a vid-call. We're tracing it now.
Got it.
- Agent Bennet. - Where was the one bus headed?
[SIGHS]
Rosalie Rowan. That you?
No, these aren't my prints.
Says here you live at the girls' home over on Gaines Street.
I know they feed their guest.
- You a runaway? - Amazing.
How have you not made detective?
Look, it was my first time. I'll let you keep the chocolate.
[PHONE RINGS]
Yeah? Wait, let me bring it up.
Here it is. Reg number 16-A-7.
Heh. Yeah, I know. You owe me.
Now, charming as you are, kid, I gotta hand you over to Social Services.
- Whoa. - What a chick.
- Feisty. - I didn't think she'd do it.
BOY 1: All right, all right. BOY 2: Yeah, good job.
Good work, little Ro. Now you're ready for initiation step two.
Step two? You already made me get the food.
Yeah, but if you wanna crash at our house, you gotta cover the rent.
Our objective is to retrieve the synthoid in functioning condition.
He's an expensive piece of machinery. Remember that.
Agent West, who won't be wearing a sidearm this mission...
will instead be manning this servo-inhibitor.
If we can hold Zeta long enough to attach the inhibitor...
it will freeze his motor functions.
Agent Bennet's office.
Agent Bennet, please.
He's at another post right now. One moment, I'll put you through.
We got him. Phone booth at the corner of 8th and Merrill.
[ENGINE WHINING]
[HOVERCRAFT WHIRRING NEARBY]
SLAM: I'm making it easy, Ro. All you gotta do is watch the door.
Ahh, no, Slam. I'm not doing a holdup.
This isn't funny. Someone's gonna get hurt.
- You don't do this, you're over. - Fine. I'm done with you anyway.
Not what I meant, sweetie.
[LASER WHINES]
[GASPS]
- Hey. - It's him.
[SLAM GRUNTING]
[GASPS]
[CRACKLING]
[GASPS]
After him. Move it. Freeze, federal agents.
Run.
BENNET: Fire.
[SLAM YELLS]
[GRUNTS]
BENNET: After him.
[RO PANTING]
AGENT 1: He went this way.
[GASPS]
Come on, open.
No!
BENNET: Don't lose him. AGENT 2: This way. Let's go.
Please help. They will reprogram me.
I don't believe I'm doing this.
[GRUNTS]
LEE: Hurry.
[AGENTS YELLING INDISTINCTLY]
BENNET: West, give me that inhibitor.
I can make this.
Hey, robot. You alive?
[GASPS]
[RO CHOKING]
[PANTING]
Forgive me. You saved my life.
[IN HOARSE VOICE] It's all right. We'll call it even.
What are you?
My name is Zeta.
I'm a U.S. government infiltration unit...
designed to replace and destroy targeted individuals.
- Destroy? - But I don't want to destroy anymore.
Right. Sort of a new year's resolution, huh?
Well, good luck with that, but I really gotta run.
It's dark.
Are you hungry?
Nobody ever asks me that.
I was created to kill our enemies.
I discovered that one man I was sent after was innocent.
And that meant any of them could be innocent.
So I refused to hurt him and ran.
Now they think I am the enemy.
Mmm. How did they find you?
I tried to contact Agent Bennet to convince him I mean no harm.
- I must have exposed my location. - Hold it.
This guy has a whole army after you and you just walked up and said:
"You gotta believe me"?
Man, for a super-techno robot, you're not too bright.
I had no choice. He thinks I'm a killer.
Yeah. That's why you can't go near him.
Of course he's gonna shoot first, ask questions later.
For what it's worth, I believe you.
- Will you help me? - I'm not getting in trouble with the feds.
I've done enough already. Not eating that?
My human form is a hologram. I don't eat.
Well, more for me.
Hope that hologram's got pockets because I don't have money for this.
I'm equipped with a built-in cred card. I can generate as much money as I need.
- You know, maybe I can help. - But what about:
[IN RO'S VOICE] I'm not getting in trouble with the feds.
I've done enough already.
- Please don't do that. - [IN NORMAL VOICE] Sorry.
Anyway, I'll make it a short gig. I'll figure out what you should do...
give you a push in the right direction and say goodbye.
- And you'd do this for me? - Absolutely.
And in exchange, maybe you could help me out with some cash.
I don't exactly have a lot and it's nothing to you, right?
So how about 5000 creds, plus a new outfit?
Been thinking I need a new look.
This hologram of yours, you can look like anyone you want, right?
So why would you pick Joe Robot?
You're so stiff you almost clank. You gotta be loose.
- Loose? - You know, caj and younger.
People pay less attention to you that way.
Makes it easier to sneak around.
- Like this? - Too young.
You couldn't even sneak into a movie like that.
Uh, lose the lip fuzz.
And more chin.
Dang. Now if you'd just relax those shoulders.
[RO SIGHS]
We'll work on it.
No sign yet. Maybe he's already left Spring City.
Give it 24 hours.
That girl in the car was either an accomplice or a hostage.
One way or another, we have to find out.
Uh, sir? What if Zeta's telling the truth?
About not meaning any harm, that he just wants to be free?
What if he really believes it?
Agent Lee, Zeta is a machine that stopped following orders while among terrorists.
If he suddenly thinks he's grown a conscience...
it's because they reprogrammed him to think it.
That's their cover, for whatever they really have planned.
Yes, sir.
But if he's working for terrorists, why not just blast him?
I'm holding your sidearm another day.
[MOANS]
We have plans for this synthoid, people.
Once we've wiped his memory clean...
we can put him back to work as a weapon for us.
That said, Zeta does pose a threat to national security.
And if it becomes necessary to neutralize that threat...
I'll destroy him myself.
[GROANS]
[CHITTERS]
[RO YAWNS]
- Zee. - Excuse me?
That should be your name. Zee.
"Zeta" is too weird.
Hello, my name is Zee.
[YAWNING]
Did you keep watch all night?
- Don't you get bored? - Oh, no. Look.
- Aah! - Periplaneta...
Oh, gross. That's a roach, Zee.
Yes. Periplaneta americana, the cockroach.
- Why is it gross? - It just is.
You should know that. Ugh.
Whoever programmed you left out some crucial plug-ins.
Who did program you? That's who you need to see.
I do?
Look, Bennet doesn't believe you could be peaceful.
- Right? - Right.
Well, whoever programmed you is gonna know better.
They made you what you are. They can tell Bennet you're telling the truth.
The Zeta Project was manned by a classified team of scientists.
Their names are highly protected.
Well, can't you hack into some computer and get them?
Maybe, but not any computer.
Only one with security clearance would have access.
Okay. So where do we find one of those?
Currently in Spring City, there is only one.
Tell me you're joking.
Look who I'm talking to.
Okay, this is where I get off.
I'm not breaking into any government van.
You wouldn't have to.
I will mimic an agent, enter the van and retrieve the data.
This is the part I'm good at.
Yeah, well, I'm not sticking around to see if you come out.
I gave you that push I promised.
Now, pay me my 5000 creds and you have a good life.
[BEEPS]
There's a way you could help. The agents take breaks one at a time.
When the next one comes out, if you'd stall him, I'd have more time.
Uh-uh. I saw those guys and they are not playing games.
[GRUNTS]
I'm fine.
Okay, him I can handle.
Listen, I know I've been kind of rough on you...
but I really do hope you come out of this okay.
You were nice to me. I don't get that much.
When I find the people who made me, I'll tell them about you.
Good luck, Zee.
[WHISTLING]
[WEST YELLS THEN RO GASPS]
Oh! Oh, no, I'm so sorry. Here, let me get that.
- What are you doing? - I'm sorry, I'm trying to help.
[GUN COCKS]
I'm back.
AGENT: He's back.
I'll take us to DEFCON 4.
- Why? - Just take your seat, Mr. West.
Here, take this off.
[GRUNTING]
Wait a minute.
- I'll have you fixed up in a jiff. WEST: Stop!
[GASPS]
You're the accomplice.
Ooh, the accomplice. I like it.
This is some kind of diversion. I have to warn my team.
Let him go, you got your cash. Let him go.
Forgot: I'm insane.
MAN: Hey! WOMAN: Huh!
[WEST GRUNTS]
Remember to charge me as a minor, okay?
Ugh, get away from me. You're insane.
I was just saying that.
[BENNET GRUNTS]
[LEE GASPS]
The girl.
[GRUNTS]
[AGENTS GRUNTING]
[YELLS]
BENNET: Let's move out.
[LEE GASPS]
[BENNET GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
[AGENTS GRUNTING]
I thought you were done once you had your money.
In too deep to stop now. I wanna see how this turns out.
I only had time to download a partial file and this image.
Both were damaged in the electric surge.
- It'll take a while to reconstruct the data. - But look at that picture, Zee.
One of those guys is gonna get you your freedom.
I know it.
I still don't think you should come with me.
It's too dangerous.
In case you haven't noticed, I don't have anywhere else to go.
That's dangerous.
Besides, you're in danger without me.
- Like that unlimited-cred-card thing. - What about it?
RO: You can't go telling people about that anymore.
Someone might take advantage.
ZETA: I told you.
RO: I know, but I'm different.
You know, I could use a new pair of shoes.
RO: What is that thing?
ZETA: An early electric device: A light bulb.
According to my files, they caused a lot of upset.
RO: Why? ZETA: No one could agree on...
how many people it took to change them.
[ENGLISH SDH]