EPISODE 1: "Human beings can be manufactured"

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child-sizes android body is sitting. Its fingers twitch as power flows through it, and when we get to its face, its eyes glow a robotic red.

A woman places a lifelike replica of a human boy's face onto the android, which is now dressed and covered in synthetic skin. It opens its eyes and introduces itself: "Hello. I am an AI robot, Nam Shin-I."

Tears fill the woman's eyes as she gasps, "Shin-ah. I've missed you so much. But..." Nam Shin-I steps forward and puts his arms around her neck, and she hugs him as she lets her tears fall.

One year earlier.

The same woman, Oh ro-ra, stands on a stage in front of a projection calling her "The Korean Einstein of Artificial Intelligence." She gives a speech explaining her goal to create an android that can't be distinguished from a real human being, displaying a picture of a boy on the protector behind her.

A tiny voice rings out from the front row... "No!" The boy whose picture is on the screen stands to protest that he's a person, not a robot. Ro-ra affectionately introduces him as her son, joking that she sometimes wishes he were an obedient robot.

Shin says cheekily that he's a person who doesn't obey commands, and she fondly threatens to make a robot that looks like him someday, but he just retorts that he likes Daddy more anyway. After her speech, he asks if she's mad, but she says she's not because Daddy likes her the most.

Ro ra's phone rings with a call from her husband, but it suddenly stops, and they look up to see a man standing nearby. Ro-ra's smile drops and she hugs Shin protectively. They're surrounded by several more men, who wrestled Shin from her grasp and throw him, screaming, into a car.

As he's driven away, the first man, Seo jong-gil, explains that the chairman requested Shin. Ro-ra asks why, when he'd said he'd never accept them as family. She says that's why they don't live in Korea, and that they're only in the country for this lecture.

She belatedly realizes that Jong-gil is holding her husband's phone. When she asks why, Jong-gil tells her thats her husband committed suicide, and was cremated last night. In shock, Ro-ra gasps that he was just visiting his father for a few days, then realizes that her son is currently being taken to that very same man.

Jong-gil says dispassionately that the chairman has decided to raise his grandson, and that Ro-ra's new bank account balance will be comforting to her. He leaves her crumpled on the pavement, clutching her husband's death certificate.

Later she finds her husband's ashes at the columbarium and cries that he must be lonely. She sobs that Shin must be lonely, too, and she vows to get him back no matter what it takes.

The following day, Ro-ra drives her car right through the closed gates to the chairman's home, a sprawling mansion overlooking the ocean. She's met outside by Jong-gil and throws the payoff money at his feet. She screams for her son, and Jong-gil motions for his thugs to let her through.

Shin comes out, but instead of being happy to see his mother, he says he likes it here and wants to stay with his grandfather. He says he hasn't been threatened, but when Ro-ra tries to take him with her, he yanks away and yells, "I don't want to die like Daddy! He died because of you. I know everything. Daddy had a hard time because of you." He tells her not to come back, or he'll die, too.

While Jong-gil's thugs hold Ro-ra back from following him, Shin goes back to the house and joins his grandfather, Chairman Nam. Shin says meekly that he said what he was told to say, asking for confirmation that his grandfather won't do anything to his mother. Chairman Nam growls, "That's right."

Ro-ra fights to get to her son, until Jong-gil warns, "Shin will get hurt, too. Does the chairman ever not get his way? That happened to Jung-woo while fighting him. It's more important that he's alive, than being by your side." Understanding dawns, and Ro-ra forces herself to leave and fly home alone, without her husband or son.

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