Original subtitles

(adventurous electronic music)

- Your CCPC force now has greater powers for public safety.

The power to enter your home without permission.

The power to search without a warrant.

The power to make the world a safer place

for everyone who isn't guilty.

- What about public freedom?

- [Crowd] Yeah!

- Yeah, freedom!

- [Crowd] Yeah, freedom!

- [CCPC Announcer] Your CCPC force now

has greater powers for public safety.

The power to enter your home--

- And drip on your carpet.

- [Crowd] (laughs) Yeah!

- [CCPC Announcer] The power to search--

- [Starkey] Your pockets and steal your credit cards.

(crowd cheering and laughing)

- [K9] Young master?

- [CCPC Announcer] The power to make the world--

- A really, really scary place!

- [Crowd] Yeah!

- [K9] Young master.

- I think I'll have a nap now.

(electronic beeping)

- [Crowd] Yeah!

- [Starkey] (chuckles) That felt good.

- [K9] Prepare not to feel that way.

(cyborg machinery whirring)

(suspenseful music)

Scarper!

- No we have to stand firm.

(ominous music)

- [Cyborg] Not who we're after.

Not who we're after.

Who are you then?

- [48TT1] CCPC Unit 48TT1.

- [Cyborg] Right you are, fall in.

- You gotta start wondering if they're

just too dumb to be dangerous.

- Oh Starkey, this is my fellow

agitator for freedom, Marcus.

- That was pretty cool.

- Hey, I used to be know as Stark Reality,

you've probably heard of me?

- Only what JJ's told me.

- I'm sorry, you mean Jorjie?

- Yeah.

Jorjie,

JJ.

- Yeah, yeah.

- Come on let's go.

(upbeat music)

So do you think these protests really do any good?

- We have to show them that we won't be controlled.

Human beings aren't robots.

- Uh oh, here we go again.

- [Cyborg] Awaiting orders, awaiting orders.

- What?

- [Cyborg] I should be doing something,

Move along, move along, nothing to see.

But there's plenty to see.

Awaiting orders, awaiting orders.

I should be doing something.

Move along, move along. - You shouldn't

shave so close.

- [K9] Cyborgs do not undertake

personal grooming procedures.

Possibility of damage as a result of shaving, minimal.

- Joke, K9.

- [K9] Hmmm, extremely interesting.

- [Cyborg] What's that there, what is that there?

(cyborg machinery whirring)

- It's a bird.

- [Cyborg] Oh it's beautiful, it's beautiful.

That is beautiful.

- Yeah it is.

- [Cyborg] That is beautiful, look at that, a bird.

- [Cyborg Officer] Oi, I'd like a word with you, my son.

(suspenseful music) - Jorjie!

Stark Reality's done enough standing firm for one day.

- [Cyborg Officer] Oi, I said I want a word!

- I think he's right.

- [Cyborg] Hang on, wait for me.

I'm right behind you, wait on, wait on!

Here, wait for me!

- [Jorjie] Where to now?

You're the expert on ducking surveillance.

- I don't know this part of the city.

(cyborgs marching)

- [Cyborg] Down here, that's it,

move it, move it, follow me.

- Sorry, not in the mood for being trapped like a rat.

- [K9] My sensors confirm this stairway

is surveillance-free.

- [Cyborg Officer] Come on sunshine,

you can't hide forever.

- Okay let's go.

(suspenseful music)

(Cyborg officers marching)

- [Cyborg Officer] Come on lad, no point in hiding.

Come on my lad, show yourself.

- [Cyborg] Come on lad, show yourself.

- Shhh!

- [Cyborg Officer] Come on son, no point in hiding.

You can't hide forever.

- [Cyborg] It's beautiful down here, look.

Awaiting orders.

- [Jorjie] Have they gone?

- [Starkey] Yeah.

- [Cyborg] Awaiting orders.

You got any orders?

(mellow music)

- He saved us.

- [K9] He saved himself.

- [Cyborg] No, no be quiet.

- [K9] My preliminary scan of his neurological functions

revealed his control cortex has been disconnected.

- [Damaged Cyborg] Waiting orders.

- But that's what connects him

to Department Central Control.

Without it he's got nothing to tell him what to do.

He should be out like a light.

- [K9] Except I found his cyber circuits

have been replaced by another source of intelligence.

There are traces of human DNA in his system.

- He's had human intelligence implanted in him?

- [Cyborg] Nothing to see here.

- [K9] Affirmative.

- [Cyborg] Waiting orders.

Ah, is that a bird?

It's oh so pretty.

What's that then? Oh.

- So he's a kind of mutant?

- [K9] Affirmative.

And it's this unit's belief that

the CCPC cyborgs are in pursuit of him not us.

- So he was saving himself by hiding down here.

- [Cyborg] The little bird is beautiful.

Keep moving, keep moving, avoid capture.

- So what do we do with him?

- Do?

We get rid of him, we clear outta here!

- But what'll happen if they catch him?

- [Cyborg] Spare metal unit is to be liquidated.

It's a nasty business, nasty business.

But there's plenty to see.

- They're going to destroy him!

- Maybe they'll just turn him back into a cyborg.

- That's nearly as bad!

- [Cyborg] Where are the birds?

I thought they lived in trees?

This is a tree, it's beautiful.

- He's like a lost puppy, I mean a lost--

- [K9] Cybernetic units are in no respect

members of the animal kingdom.

- I'm sorry, K9.

- [K9] This unit is not a dog, that unit is not a puppy.

- [Jorjie] Okay.

- [Cyborg] There's no birds.

- [Jorjie] But I still say we can't just leave him here.

Maybe he was trying to save himself by hiding

down here but he stopped to warn us too.

(somber instrumental music) He was trying to help us.

- I think we should take him somewhere

that we can hide him.

- [Cyborg] Little birdie, come on, avoid capture.

- I know just the place.

- You've got to be kidding me!

How could we even get him there?

- (sighs) Mariah.

- Darius isn't gonna let a tin face in his car.

(electronic beeping)

- [Damaged Cyborg] Keep moving, keep moving, avoid capture.

- Darius it's me.

- [Darius] And what can I do for you today, Jorjie?

- [Cyborg] Keep moving, keep moving, avoid capture.

- Thanks for this, Darius. (upbeat music)

- Hey no problem, no charge.

- This is Marcus, Marcus, Darius.

- [Marcus] Ah yeah JJ's mentioned you.

- JJ?

- JJ.

- [Cyborg] Not gonna say it again, hurry, move it, move it!

(helmet thudding) Oww, my noggin!

(helmet thudding) Oww, my noggin!

Oh, my life.

(door slams) - Right.

(Darius sighs)

- [Professor] You're right K9, definite evidence

of implanted human DNA.

- [Cyborg] My noggin!

- Oh yes, indeed.

- [K9] Why would they ruin a perfectly good cyborg?

- Well, some people wouldn't consider it ruined.

The human element adds another dimension.

Emotions, instinct, intuition.

- [K9] Emotions, as I said, ruining a perfectly good cyborg.

- Well the big question is what do we do with him?

- We have to help him.

- I'm not sure how we can do that.

He's certainly not human and he's no longer strictly cyborg.

- Poor Birdie.

- You've named him?

- Why not?

He seems to like birds.

- [Birdie] Birds, I love birds.

- [Marcus] I think it's a good name.

- Listen, it doesn't matter about his name,

what you've all forgotten is that interfering

with a CCPC unit is a maximum crime.

Just having him here could land

us all in detention facilities.

- Well I say it's worth the risk.

- Totally.

- Spoken like someone who's never

been in a detention facility.

I have, and believe me it's not worth the risk.

- I'm sure you're exaggerating.

(tense instrumental music)

- Look here, mate!

- Yes look indeed at the time.

It's been a demanding day, how did it get so late?

I say we sleep on it...

and make a decision in the clear light of the morning.

- And I'll, I'll look after Birdie.

- [Birdie] Hello, hello, what's goin' on here then?

Come on now move along, move along, nothing to see here.

Hello, any birds, you have birds in here?

- [K9] Well, humanity is a mass of uncontrolled motivations

and other brain aberrations.

- Okay.

- [K9] As far as I have been able to ascertain,

the so called modern human skull houses a stone age mind.

- Nice of you to say so.

(fingers clicking) (electronic whirring)

- [K9] My point is that human intelligence is not perfect.

Yet you all act as if it is the highest level of evolution.

And the worst thing that could possibly

happen to Birdie is that he is turned back into a cyborg.

Like me.

(mellow music)

- K, there's nothing wrong with being

a cyborg if that's who you are.

But Birdie's not quite one thing or the other.

He doesn't fit in anywhere.

And even though he's dangerous to have around

I guess I just can't help feeling sorry for him.

- [K9] I will try an process that into a logical statement.

- You do that, in the meantime

he's Darius' problem for tonight.

(somber instrumental music)

(K9 whirring)

(water gurgling)

(mechanical whirring)

(tense instrumental music)

- Oh gee, what are you doin'?

- [Birdie] Personal hygiene procedures.

Request permission to borrow your toothbrush.

- You don't have any teeth.

- [Birdie] Request permission to borrow teeth.

- Okay, look, I know you're excited

about this being human thing.

- [Birdie] Oh, it's beautiful.

- Seriously, one step at a time.

The first step is to sleep.

- [Birdie] Right you are, of course.

Right, very good, on my way.

Noggin. (electronic beepings)

- Upstairs. (electronic whirring)

- [Birdie] Of course.

Right, very good, on my way.

(mumbles) is on the way.

Very good, on my way, night to you then sir.

Sleep well, night to you then sir.

(cyborg thudding)

Move along, nothing to see here, move along.

(Darius laughs)

- Smells like...

toast.

- [Birdie] Hello, hello, nothing to see here but breakfast.

Move along.

- He's taught himself to make toast.

- [Birdie] Hello, hello.

- [K9] Electrocuting bread is not rocket science.

- No, no, no, no, don't you see

his human initiative to learn is developing.

Very interesting.

Well, see, things always look better

in the clear light of day.

- [Birdie] Daylight is beautiful, it is beautiful.

(doorbell ringing)

(digital beeping)

- [Professor] Hello, June.

- Open up now I know you've had the missing cyborg.

- What cyborg?

- Don't even think about it, you are in enormous trouble.

- [Birdie] Oh we gotta hide, we're hiding.

(playful music)

Toppings, anyone?

- Have you all lost your minds?

Sheltering a renegade CCPC,

interfering with its brain functions?

- We haven't interfered with anything.

- Anyone for toast?

Toppings, anyone?

- Starkey's right, June.

He was like this when they found him.

- [K9] This unit can confirm cyborg

was in present humiliating state when found.

- [Birdie] Love, are you staying for breakfast?

- Then how did it get like this?

- There's only one place a Department Cyborg's

neuro-circuits could be experimented on in this way.

(dramatic music)

- The Department Laboratories.

But I'd know about it.

We strictly regulate any experimentations

on Security Cyborgs.

- Then maybe you need to speak to someone

who doesn't take much notice of regulations.

(dramatic music)

- Tell me everything you know,

and get this CCPC out of my sight.

- [Birdie] Move along, move along,

there's nothing to see here.

- [Starkey] Come on, Birdie.

- [Birdie] (robotic mutterings)

- Human intellects being grafted into Security Cyborgs.

(laughs) Where do you get these stories?

- [June] I have my sources.

I noticed you don't deny it.

- It's my policy to neither deny or confirm.

- And yet, you have CCPCs out scouring the city for it.

That confirms to me something's amiss.

- (sighs) There's a rogue cyborg.

The public could be in danger.

It is my responsibility to find it.

- Excellent.

(dramatic music)

But then if I find out you've been experimenting this way,

I'll make such a noise.

People will know who is responsible.

(dramatic music)

- [Thorne] If such experimentation had ever gone on,

believe me, it is terminated now.

Along with any evidence.

(dramatic music)

- Except for the cyborg.

(dramatic music)

- All units, override all existing command protocols.

New command priority: find unit 18FEB6.

(digital beeping)

(dramatic music)

(K9 whirring)

(CCPCs marching)

(dramatic music)

- Thanks for coming 'round.

- No problem.

Had to find out what happened with Birdie.

Plus, uh, yesterday with you was so great.

- [Jorjie] (laughs) Really?

- Especially at the protest, you were very cool.

- So you're a protestor?

Me, too.

- Since when?

- Hey, I do my fair share of protesting.

- (sighs) Complaining about Gryffen's cooking

isn't protesting.

(laughter)

- I'm afraid we all need to have a chat.

So that's the situation.

According to June, locating Birdie is the top priority

of every Security Unit in London.

(Birdie mumbling) (mechanical whirring)

For once, Birdie, I think you might be right.

- So what do we do?

- You can't just kick him out.

- That's right.

- No one's saying we should, are we, Prof?

- No, no, but we can't afford to let them find him here.

- [K9] Birdie's problems result from mixing

human and cybernetic intelligence.

This unit recommends full conversion

to one intelligence or the other.

- But we can't convert him to fully human,

that would be impossible!

- [K9] Then this unit recommends

returning him to fully cyborg.

(Professor sighs)

- Remove his human side?

- [Birdie] Any bird skeletons in here?

Is this a museum, this house?

What's in this box over here?

Is that a bird?

- [Professor] Except he'll need a new control cortex

and I have nothing like that here.

- [K9] Cortex may be secured by this unit from

Department Laboratories.

- [Birdie] Beautiful, beautiful.

- [K9] Use of cyborg's identity chip

should gain me entrance.

- K9, it's too dangerous.

You don't even know your way around.

- Birdie, are you acquainted with those labs?

(mechanical whirring)

- [Birdie] I'll ask the questions here.

Am I acquainted with those labs?

Know 'em like the back of my hand.

That's like the work of my life.

- Oh, K9, there you go, I think you have a guide.

- But breaking into Department Headquarters,

it's a huge risk to take.

Is it worth it?

- [K9] Birdie is not quite one thing or the other.

He doesn't fit in anywhere.

And even though he's dangerous to have around,

this unit can't help--

- Feeling sorry for him.

- [K9] I am a cybernetic construct.

I do not feel.

Professor, please remove Birdie's identity chip

and attach it to me.

(robotic whirring)

- [Birdie] Hello, hello.

Move along, move along, nothing to see here.

Avoid capture, there's plenty to see.

It's like a museum, this house.

(dramatic electronic music) (robotic whirring)

- Having all the Security Units out looking for Birdie

will actually work in our favor.

(computer beeping)

Fast as you can, K9.

- [K9] Directions required.

- Which way, Birdie?

- [Birdie] Do as you're told, right, eh?

Hello, hello, what's that?

What's he doing?

Do as you're told, right ahead.

- [K9] Revised instructions required.

- [Birdie] Excuse that, my mistake, left turn, left turn.

Move along, move along, nothing to see.

(dramatic music)

Keep moving, keep moving, avoid capture.

- [K9] Is there any possibility straight ahead

would prove effective?

- [Birdie] There's no birds, that's a pity.

Worth a try, worth a try.

Straight ahead.

Keep moving, keep moving, avoid capture.

Move along, move along, nothing to see.

(dramatic music)

In you go, don't drag your feet.

- [K9] You're certain, really?

- [Birdie] In you go, in you go.

That's the hot spot, my son.

In you go, don't drag your feet.

(electronic buzzer)

- It's a trap, K9, get out of there!

- [Birdie] Nah, that's just the old gang.

That's 3BAJ6,

7WTT9,

and good old 9JKT1.

I tell you what, he's a character, he's a character.

He's a funny lad.

- [Professor] They're not moving.

- [K9] Affirmative.

Cyborg units are in deep commission state.

- Failed experiments.

- [K9] It would seem so.

(dramatic music)

(computer beeping)

- There, K9!

That's it!

- [Birdie] Keep moving, keep moving, avoid capture.

(dramatic music)

- [Computer] Fifth unit's identity chip

activated during the last five minutes.

- Where?

- [Computer] Exiting our building.

(dramatic music)

- I might have known.

- And you destroyed the identity chip?

- [K9] Affirmative.

Department will be doing no tracking with it.

- [Birdie] You come 'round me, come on, all right.

- You understand what we're about to do?

(cracking)

- [Birdie] Ow, ugh!

Getting everything ship shape again.

(head clanks on table)

- Something like that.

- [Birdie] Fix my life?

- Get you back to the way you were.

- [Birdie] Fix my noggin up?

It's a pity, still, well, it's for the best.

- Why, mate?

(robotic whirring)

- [Birdie] Cheerio, lads, been nice doing business with you.

(doorbell chiming)

- Too late.

- I'm only saying this once, Gryffen,

then this door comes down.

Open up!

- Get him out of here.

(dramatic music)

- [Starkey] Quick, Darius.

- [Birdie] Where's my noggin, where's it at?

Ah, there it is.

- [K9] Hurry up.

- [Birdie] Let's pop this back on.

(metal clicking)

There we are.

(mechanical beeping)

Good as new, 'cept for my spring sticking out.

Move along, move along, nothing to see here.

- [Darius] Come on, let's go.

- [Birdie] Ahoy, captain.

- [Cyborg] Found this lot, gov.

- Planning on cutting something out, or putting it in?

- Neither.

We were just giving Starkey a haircut.

(arm thwacking)

- Hair styles are so extreme these days.

- So are the punishments for interfering with

Department samples.

Arrest them!

- [Cyborg] Sir.

- You're going to detention centers for a long, long time.

Find that cyborg!

(zipping)

Tear this place apart.

- [Cyborg] Yes, sir.

(dramatic music)

(door creaking)

There's nowhere to hide, out you go.

Quit dawdling.

(dramatic music)

- They're tearing the place apart.

- [Birdie] Jig's up, game over, best turn myself in.

save the place from being pulled apart going back--

- [K9] Human compulsion to sacrifice himself for others.

His human element continues to develop.

- Yeah, we're not gonna let them snuff it out.

We're getting him outta here.

- [Birdie] Cheerio.

- Right out of the city.

- [Birdie] Just you and I?

- [Darius] Hop in.

- [K9] The likelihood of evading City Surveillance Network:

minimal.

- Don't worry about that,

me and Mariah know a few tricks.

We just need to get past the tin faces out the front.

- [K9] This unit has a plan.

Push vehicle into the lane.

- All right, out.

- [Birdie] That's a good plan, great plan, good plan.

I'll lead the way.

- [Darius] Get a move on.

- [Birdie] Hello, hello, what's behind here, mate?

(dramatic music)

Keep moving, keep moving (mumbles)

(dramatic music)

(cyborgs stomping and whirring)

- [Cyborg] No sign of the mutant yet, gov.

- Then kep searching.

- [Cyborg] Sir.

- He's here, I know it.

And there'll be no reward until I find it.

- [Cyborg] Yes, gov.

- Reward?

(dramatic music)

(radio squeaking)

- [Birdie] Get in the car?

Why should I get in the car?

This thing will never get us out of here.

- Trying to get away.

All units to the garage!

- [Cyborg] Sir, on our way.

Follow me.

(dramatic music)

- [Birdie] Get in the car?

Why should I get in the car?

This thing will never get us out of here.

- What is this?

- [K9] A diversion.

- They're escaping!

(dramatic music)

(K9 laughs)

- You told them Birdie was here.

- That's why you wanted us to keep him here.

- Well, yeah.

Actually, it was your mother

I spoke to originally at the Department.

Quite a coincident.

- That's how she knew.

- But why?

- Chance of a reward, for a start.

Plus, who knows, may lead to a job at the Department.

- Work for them?

- I could fight the system from the inside.

And it pays pretty well.

- Great!

That's all you're interested in.

- You gotta live on something.

Human beings aren't robots.

- You betrayed Birdie.

- He's a machine.

Robots aren't human beings.

- You betrayed me.

(emotional music)

- I was gonna split the reward money with you.

- (scoffs) And you honestly think I'd want it?

- They've escaped!

But they won't get far.

- Don't bet on it.

- In the meantime,

you might find your way to removing these.

- I don't think so.

- Oh, really?

What's the charge?

- I don't see any evidence of mutant tin faces 'round here.

- What about this?

- Oh yes, thank you very much for the loaner.

You're welcome to take that with you, if you'd like.

- Your cyborg broke into

Department Headquarters and stole property.

- Correction, borrowed.

And I think you'll find that he didn't break in, he entered.

- Using a stolen identity chip.

- Again, where's the evidence?

- No law against borrowing cortexes, is there?

- You seem to forget: I have a witness.

(tense music)

(bells chime)

- Good one.

- What?

- He's had you on.

It's his way of being subversive.

- Yeah, just can't help himself.

Making a fool of the Department is what he does.

- No, it's not!

I want my reward.

- (sighs) Making a fool of them and getting paid for it.

- Birdie was here.

- Birdie?

- That's the cyborg's name.

(laughter)

- [Jorjie] Birdie.

- Well he's not here now.

So unless you can tell me where he's gone.

- I don't know.

(dramatic music)

But he was here!

Tell him, JJ!

- (sighs) I'm not telling him anything.

And the name's Jorjie.

(dramatic music)

(Marcus sighs)

(dramatic music)

(Starkey laughs)

How could I be so wrong about someone?

It's embarrassing.

- Hey, he had us all fooled.

- [K9] You told me you thought he was a fool all along.

(Starkey grunts) Oh!

- Human relationships, as beautiful as they are,

can be fraught with difficulties.

I sometimes envy K9 that he doesn't have to deal with them.

(laughter)

- [Darius] Prof, Prof, you there?

- Yes, my boy, all right?

- Yeah, 100%.

Me and Mariah showed 'em a thing or two.

Birdie wanted to say goodbye.

(birds chirping)

- [Birdie] I'll be taking off then, thanks for the help.

Assistance of the general public's always appreciated.

(Starkey laughs)

- [K9] This unit has a question.

How's it feel, your human element?

- [Birdie] It's scary.

You have to keep making decisions for yourself.

(Professor sighs)

But it's also beautiful

'cause you get to keep making decisions for yourself.

(laughter)

- [K9] I'll keep you in my memory banks, Birdie.

- [Birdie] Ah, that's very kind, I'm sure.

(birds chattering)

- Darius, I'm sorry.

You don't have to be a protestor to make a difference.

- No problem, JJ.

(Jorjie laughs)

- [K9] Goodbye, Birdie.

- See ya later, Birdie.

- [Professor] Bye, Birdie.

- Bye, Birdie, good luck!

(birds chattering)

- [Birdie] Cheers for the lift, on my way now, and goodbye.

- Yeah, you too, good luck.

- [Birdie] No need to concern yourself.

I'm a quick learner.

I think (mumbles), could be nice for me.

All right, what's all this, then?

Oh, it's plain to see.

Oh, look at that.

Oh, there's trees, and that bird.

Oh, I like this.

I like this, it is beautiful.

- What's he looking at?

- What do you think?

- [Birdie] Oh, look at that little bird.

Very beautiful.

(playful music)

Oh, isn't that lovely?

This is nice, this is living.

There's birds everywhere!

Oh, free as a bird.

(cheerful music)

(adventurous electronic music)

(adventurous electronic music)