Act 2 – Sammy September 15, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Unsatisfied with the answer from Sammy in the previous episode, the next new day Rikuo continues to questions Sammy where she have gone to in the past few days and did anything out of the ordinary other than being instructed to. But fail to get anything out of the ordinary from Sammy.
At school Rikuo still in the disappointing mood and keen to digging out the truth and accidentally slip out his house android name Sammy to Masaki as if he don’t want Masaki to know about it. Masaki then recap Rikuo about the 3 law of an android (robots). 1st Law “Robots do not inflict harm to humans”. 2nd Law “Robots cannot disobey commands from human”. 3rd “Robots must engage in self preservation”. Masaki make a point that there are not law to prevent robots from lying and but he said that does not mean Rikuo cannot trust Sammy. Since Rikuo know that Sammy is going shopping in the afternoon, Masaki suggest that they go back to the café and wait if Sammy will turn up.
Both Rikuo and Masaki return back to the Time of Eve café and find a spot in the café to sneak out to find the truth and wait for Sammy to turn up. But their spying mission was disturb by Chie as small little girl who wants to play with Rikuo then they try to socialize with the other customer in the Café, to know that Chie care taker was an old man. While Rikuo waiting nervously for Sammy appearance but instead Akiko turn up in the café. So Rikuo then decided to have a conversation with Akiko but later was disturb by Chie who later took Rikuo glasses for the fun of it and run away with it. Mean while Masaki was hinted by a stranger in the café that his surveillance effort is noticeable and advice Masaki not to break the rules of the café or else he won’t enjoy it. Akiko and Rikuo chase after Chie for Rikuo’s glasses but fail to find it and don’t know where Chie had hid it. After that fooling around with the glasses Masaki got bored and decided to leave the café to follow the stranger he meet moments ago that have just left the cafe. Masaki then realize that he is unable to open the door to follow the stranger and then inform by Nagi the door will be lock for a few minutes to give privacy for its customer. So Masaki waited until the door is unlock then he rushed out. While in the café Rikuo also notice that Akiko also kept secret and the old man told Rikuo that some secret are meant to be kept as to benefit other people. Then Rikuo realize it is in conjunction with the 1st law of robots not to harm human and so they lie. The old man then told Rikuo that Chie had give his glasses to someone else. This actually triggers Rikuo that someone else is Nagi. Then Rikuo went to the counter get back his glasses from Nagi only find that Sammy is also at the counter talking to Nagi. At first glance after putting on his glasses Rikuo notice Sammy but still not certain then decide to pull Sammy hair ribbon off to confirm her face without the hair ribbon. Sammy and Rikuo are in a state of shocking surprise then Sammy run off and out of the café. Rikuo tried to chase of after Sammy but fail due to the privacy system door lock timer of the Cafe. Nagi then told Rikuo to get back to the counter to have a one to one pat talk and treat Rikuo with a cup of coffee. She explains the situation about Sammy while in the Time of Eve and told Rikuo that Sammy is worry about Rikuo and not sure whether she is doing the right thing or not.
Back at home Rikuo have a telephone conversation with Masaki and was told that he failed to find the stranger who left the café to find out whether he got a digital ring above his head. Rikuo try to ask Sammy about the café but to no conclusion then feedback that Sammy’s coffees in these few days are good.
The last scene is a conversation between Dr. Ashimori with an unknown person over the phone talking about android started developing individual personality and also mentioning the restraining circuit issues. The conversations also hint another person with the name of Shiotsuki who also have hand in it.
Chie a new character introduce in this episode which I find her annoying because she does not have any role other than making fun of people. It was only matter of time when Rikuo will find out that Sammy hang out at the Time of Eve, so not surprising but it was interesting see their reaction. Since Rikuo knew about Sammy secret activity and the truth about her concern, Rikuo also have learn to change his character to be nicer to Sammy which will develop their relationship in the future. It is very clever idea to have a door exit lock timer concept of privacy, I like the ideaJ. Finally the mysterious Dr. Ashimori seems to be responsible to enable android to have individual personalities and by having a restraining circuit to prevent the android from developing individual personalities. What this mean that most of the android comes with the ability to poses individual personalities but it is just disabled by the restraining circuit. Also note that there seems of have issues with the restraining circuit and not sure whether Dr. Ashimori purposely disable it to for social experiment or not, all that and unknown character Shiotsuki will be reveal in further episode to come.
Episode Rating: 3.5 out of 5
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