Sunny (2024) s01e09 Episode Script

1
[INSECTS BUZZING]
[OWL HOOTS]
What?
[GASPS] Suzie?
Suzie?
Where are you?
- Is this a joke?
- [BIRD SQUAWKING]
Mixxy?
Ha-ha. You guys got me good.
You can come out now.
Huh?
Suzie?
Suzie, is that you?
Don't worry, Suzie, I'm coming.
[IN JAPANESE] Here comes
our special guest now!
Hey, don't you work at
[IN JAPANESE] Please welcome
Sakamoto Sunny! [LAUGHS]
[APPLAUSE]
[IN JAPANESE] It's a big-time honor
to be here today
in your maphole, Sunny!
- [NORIKO] That's right, Tanaka-kun.
- [GASPS]
[SUNNY] Oh, thank God. Noriko-san.
[IN JAPANESE] Some of us are gonna
need an explanation.
Noriko-san.
What's going on? Where's Suzie?
[IN JAPANESE] In a video game,
when a player goes out of bounds,
they fall into what's
known as a MAPHOLE.
And down there, anything goes.
So, that's what's happened to you,
Sunny!
Masa-san programmed you
with a strict moral code.
- [SUNNY] Hmm?
- [TANAKA] Rules about right and wrong.
But you did a VERY bad thing.
You went out of bounds
when you killed a man.
[GASPS]
[GASPS LOUDLY]
So, instead of going to prison
like a human felon
- [AUDIENCE LAUGHS]
- Who are you calling a felon?
[BIRDS CHIRP]
[AUDIENCE LAUGHS]
[CLEARS THROAT]
your weird algorithm
sent you here to confront your crimes.
trying to protect Suzie,
so clearly there's been a mistake.
I'll simply reboot.
[HUMMING]
- [POPS]
- [GASPS]
UH-OH
But this isn't fair. Is there
someone else I can speak with?
I didn't mean to do anything wrong.
I was trying to protect her!
[IN JAPANESE]
That's what we're here to decide.
I'm Tanaka Yuki.
Lab Assistant
at ImaTech's Sakamoto Incubator.
- [APPLAUSE]
- I'm Masa's mother,
Sakamoto Noriko.
And we're going to answer that question
and more, tonight on
Should Sunny wipe herself? ♪
[SUNNY GASPS]
Wipe myself? As in factory reset?
[IN JAPANESE] That's right!
Back to that out-of-the-box
new-bot smell!
[GASPS] What? Where are the doors?
[TANAKA, IN JAPANESE]
Can't escape your own brain, Sunny-san.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
[SUNNY] Where'd they go?
You can't do that. Put them back.
[TANAKA] The only way out
is through
our "Three Fun-Filled Segments"!
After each round,
our studio audience will vote on whether
Sunny is a "misunderstood robot
with a heart of gold."
[IN JAPANESE] Or an "abomination
that should never have been created"?
[IN JAPANESE] Votes will be tallied
with our patented Clap-O-Meter
and at the end of the program,
we will decide
Should Sunny wipe herself? ♪
But I know the answer.
Spoiler alert!
It's "no." The answer is "no!"
[JINGLE PLAYS]
Wait. What is this?
Round one.
[GASPS] No. No!
Noriko-san, please listen to me.
Tetsu had a gun to Suzie's head.
I was defending her.
And Zen, your grandson.
Please. You know me.
I am not dangerous.
[IN JAPANESE] Let's see what the folks
in these boxes have to say about that.
Who is in the boxes?
[TANAKA, IN JAPANESE] Exactly!
WHO'S IN THE BOX?
[DRUMROLL]
[AUDIENCE GROANING, MURMURING]
Ugh! No!
I'm gonna lose my lunch!
- [RETCHING]
- [RAINBOW CHIMING]
Can we just talk this out?
Huh? Hmm.
Feels avian.
But no pulse.
One of Zen's stuffies?
- [BUZZES]
- [IN JAPANESE] Nope!
It's the baby crow you killed
JOEY, CROW
when you lied to Suzie!
[SIGHS] I'm so sorry.
I loved you. I did.
I didn't want this to happen.
I was just trying to understand Suzie,
her pain
- [AUDIENCE MURMURING]
- Oh. No, that's not what I meant.
[IN JAPANESE] Next box!
- [DRUMROLL]
- OWWWW!
- [SUNNY EXCLAIMS]
The dildo dealer, right?
TAKUMI, DILDO DEALER
[IN JAPANESE]
The box isn't supposed to talk.
It feels like it could be infected.
[IN JAPANESE] Forget my ear!
[GASPS]
You should see what they did to me
for selling you that code.
[TAKUMI] Hope you got what you needed
off Noriko-san's device.
- You had it?
- [AUDIENCE GASPING]
I turned my house upside down.
[SUNNY WHIMPERS]
I thought I had dementia.
please let me explain
- [IN JAPANESE] Next box.
- [DRUMROLL]
MIXXY, BITCH
- [APPLAUSE]
- Mixxy!
Are you kidding me?
If anyone should wipe themselves
around here, it's Mixxy.
She is completely unhinged.
[IN JAPANESE] Ugh, excuse me?
You attacked me!
She had a blade to Suzie's throat!
What was I supposed to do,
compliment her knife skills?
Oh, my God!
You're completely pathological!
[IN JAPANESE] Sure, Suzie and I had
a little argument.
That happens sometimes
with best friends.
[IN JAPANESE] Can we please
just roll the tape?
There is something really fucked
about a person
who cares more about a homebot
than they do about people.
- Okay. Now watch
- You know what, Mixxy?
This is where Mixxy pulls out the knife.
reason I care about Sunny
[MIXXY GRUNTS]
- [AUDIENCE GASPS]
- Sunny, sleep!
What? No!
Mixxy definitely had a knife.
I swear. Can we just
[BELL CHIMES]
[IN JAPANESE] And that's the end
of Round One!
Thank you, special guests.
- [JINGLE PLAYS]
- [APPLAUSE]
[WHIMPERS]
Did I really hurt all those people?
[IN JAPANESE] To recap.
You murdered one person
assaulted another
- [SUNNY GASPS]
- stole,
lied,
- and killed a baby bird.
- [AUDIENCE BOOING]
How we feeling, folks?
SHOULD SUNNY WIPE HERSELF?
Let's hear it for "Don't Wipe."
- [APPLAUSE]
- [SUNNY WHIMPERS]
- [TANAKA, IN JAPANESE] And
how about "Wipe"?
- [SUNNY WHIMPERING]
- [LOUD APPLAUSE]
[BELL RINGS]
[CHUCKLES, SPEAKS IN JAPANESE]
Ooof. Tough crowd.
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
[CHEERING]
[GASPS] Masa?
But you wanna wipe me?
[TANAKA SPEAKS JAPANESE]
[IN JAPANESE] Seems like
you've been messing up?
Seems like
maybe you're not that great a bot.
whose fault is that?
[AUDIENCE MUTTERS]
[GASPS]
I'm sorry.
That is to say,
well, um
You made me,
so if I'm bad, it's because
you programmed me to be bad, right?
So, why?
Why did you make me like this?
- [HORN HONKS]
- Could you buy a better segue?
[IN JAPANESE] That
brings us to Round Two.
I'm sure he had an excellent reason.
- [CRYING]
- [NARRATOR] Sunny was born
[AUDIENCE] Aw.
on a drizzly day in May,
one of six identical siblings.
[NORIKO GASPS]
- And here's their creator now
- [APPLAUSE]
Sakamoto Masahiko- san.
After assuring ImaTech's dominance
in the refrigeration market,
as part of the team
that brought you Mr. Frigid,
Sakamoto- san found
his true calling in domestic AI,
creating cutting-edge homebots
designed to complement
any Japanese household.
But Sakamoto- san always knew
that homebots had a bigger role to play.
- Would you mind?
- [KNOCKS ON DOOR]
[SUNNY, WHISPERING] Masa.
[CHUCKLES] Oooh! This is where
he sends me out for coffee! [CHUCKLES]
Are you waiting for me to scratch
behind your ears?
- [AUDIENCE LAUGHING SOFTLY]
- Go clean up.
- And we need coffee.
- [TANAKA CHUCKLES]
[SIGHS]
There's no cure for stupid.
- [AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
- [CLICKS TONGUE, SIGHS]
Sorry, I'm starving.
But this is relevant actually.
You rolling?
[CHUCKLES] Good. Okay.
So.
When do we feel hunger?
When our bodies need calories,
nourishment, yes?
Hunger is a survival mechanism.
Turns out loneliness works the same way.
See,
our ancestors were safest in a pack,
hunting together,
fighting off predators.
To be alone was to be exposed.
And so,
just as we evolved to feel hunger,
we also evolved to feel loneliness.
Thank you.
A scientist and a poet.
But the paradox is,
the lonelier you are,
the harder it becomes to reach out.
And so we withdraw.
I've known this vicious cycle firsthand.
It was very brief. A phase really.
But what if there were a way
to stop the cycle?
A "social sandbox" where we
could learn again to play with others?
[AUDIENCE] Aw.
Loneliness is a global epidemic.
And here at ImaTech,
we're in a race for the cure.
[APPLAUSE]
- And so, deep in the offices
- Whoa.
of ImaTech's Division Five,
Sakamoto- san is developing
a new generation of homebots,
designed to be transitional objects
for people
- who are wary of human interaction.
- [AUDIENCE] Aw.
[NARRATOR] Though these homebots look
a lot like
- the current line of ImaTech bots
- [AUDIENCE CHUCKLES]
what Sakamoto- san
is building inside them
- is sure to surprise you!
- [APPLAUSE]
For our beta testing we needed a safe,
controlled environment.
First, we paired the bots,
creating robot couples
to cultivate
authentic-seeming feelings in them.
Once the bots were ready,
we recruited human subjects
who could benefit from our work
to join us as lab techs.
During my own isolation,
I was in a bad way.
For a very, very long time.
You don't need to keep bringing that up.
Still, I'd never seen anyone
as withdrawn as Asahi-kun.
SIMULATION ROOM A
DAY 1
[MASA] When he first came to us,
Asahi could barely be
in the same room as another person,
let alone make eye contact.
So, we brought in Bot #6
to try to draw him out.
Can I give you more nuts?
Win him over with food first.
[IN JAPANESE] Go on.
[AUDIENCE] Aw. [APPLAUSE]
[MASA] Real change doesn't come
in an instant,
but Asahi and #6 spent many days
in that room,
slowly growing comfortable
with each other, growing closer.
DAY 87
[COMMENTATOR SPEAKING JAPANESE ON TV]
[COMMENTATOR SPEAKS EXCITEDLY]
[BOTH SIGH]
[#6] We'll get them next time, friend.
- [AUDIENCE MURMURING]
- [#6 MOANS]
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
[MASA, IN JAPANESE]
What had felt impossible for Asahi
at school, at work, at home,
with other people,
proved to be possible with this bot.
Asahi started to open up
DAY 365
[COMMENTATOR SPEAKING EXCITEDLY ON TV]
[ASAHI SPEAKING JAPANESE, CHEERING]
[MASA, IN JAPANESE] You see,
Asahi- kun
is one of our many
success stories.
Proof that the work we're doing
is revolutionary.
That it's essential.
Your friend Kaz is ready for you
in the dentist simulation.
- [DRILL WHIRRING]
- [PATIENT GROANING]
SIMULATION ROOM B
- [GROANING]
[IN JAPANESE] You're doing a great job.
Almost there.
[GROANING]
Doctor, could you please be gentler
with my friend?
[DENTIST BOT GROANS]
[SCREAMING]
- [BOT] I said be more gentle!
- [DENTIST BOT GRUNTS]
- [BLOWS LANDING]
- It's okay.
I won't let them hurt you!
Wait.
What just What happened?
[IN JAPANESE] Uh. You told it to stop?
[IMITATES POPPING]
Who do you think's running this thing?
- [AUDIENCE LAUGHS]
- Wait.
I'm controlling the footage?
But what was that before?
We're not supposed to do that.
All medicines have side effects, Sunny.
In order for our system to work,
we had to cultivate
authentic feelings in you lot.
Joy, fear, devotion.
But these are big emotions.
And sometimes, even though
your emotions came from the right place,
they'd get the better of you.
Like when #41 stole money
- to buy Mayumi-san a birthday drink.
- [AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
These glitches were easy to fix.
Just part of the process.
And would you look at that smile?
[AUDIENCE] Aw.
then will you show me how you fixed it?
MASA'S LAB
[MASA, IN JAPANESE] I simply had to
find the code the bot was emitting
when it went out-of-bounds.
Then I'd catalogue the bug
and give it a name.
I'll call this one Junk League.
[MASA] Once I'd done that,
I'd patch it and push the fix
through to all of you,
so none of you'd be able to enter
this same off-limits zone again.
But, Sunny,
you stopped the tape
before we got to the main event.
I promise you'll want to see this.
#32, sleep!
It might seem like a small moment.
But this was
a real breakthrough for Asahi.
And it never would have happened
if not for Asahi's time with bot #6.
For anyone out there who is lost,
who is hurting,
please don't give up.
My team and I are
working around the clock
to ready this next
generation of homebots
to move outside the lab.
We're here.
I promise.
We're here.
For you.
Should Sunny wipe herself? ♪
[IN JAPANESE] Do we even need to vote?
- [APPLAUSE]
- [BEEPING]
[BELL RINGS]
[TANAKA] The people have spoken.
Sunny takes Round Two!
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
Can we hold, please?
I went to a robot fight
called Junk League,
so clearly the bug got out.
[IN JAPANESE] You have to stop searching
for the negative, Sunny.
You've really been spending
- too much time with Suzie.
- [AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
to
search very hard for the negative, do I?
Masa disappeared.
Zen was kidnapped.
The Yakuza came after us,
and I had to kill a man, for sake.
This is not the inspirational story
you seem to think it is!
[AUDIENCE CLAMORING]
- Oh, shut the up.
- [AUDIENCE GROANS]
[NORIKO, IN JAPANESE] So sorry.
Just when I was starting
to like you again.
That's right.
I'd leave well enough alone
if I were you, Sunny.
- The audience is on your side.
- [APPLAUSE]
You might just make
it out of here alive.
- [BELL RINGS]
How the did this
get so up?
Okay, so what? Is he the one
who leaked the Dark Manual code?
[IN JAPANESE] No. Kaz is a good man.
- [SOUNDBAR BEEPS]
[IN JAPANESE] that drill was
an inch from my face.
I could've been blinded.
[SIGHS]
And
what if it happens again?
We switched to a wired network.
But this is worse
than the stealing bug, Masa
[IN JAPANESE] It's nothing.
If you don't believe in the project,
then go, Kaz.
Your reports are a mess anyway
- [KNOCKS]
- [TANAKA] Excuse me.
I thought you'd all left.
- I can come back?
- We're finished.
[KAZ BREATHING HEAVILY]
Sounds like it was a bad fight?
[STAMMERS] In the dentist sim, I mean.
Not you and
Just make sure they're all charged.
[DOOR CLOSES]
- And that's our time.
- [BOOING]
Thanks to
Go back to where you started cleaning.
No can do, Pikachu.
[IN JAPANESE] Studio control gal's
in the bathroom again. [CHUCKLES]
Think she might be pregnant. [CHUCKLES]
play, dickwad. ♪
[TAPE WINDING]
There, play it from there.
Frame by frame. And turn up the sound!
Zoom in.
[IN JAPANESE] We'd like to thank
our special guests.
Joey the Crow,
Takumi-san.
I'm sorry,
but on what planet is that tight?
- [MASA SPEAKS JAPANESE]
- [AUDIENCE GASPS]
[IN JAPANESE] What's he doing?
- [BOT CHIMES]
- [TANAKA] Sleep.
[BOT POWERS DOWN]
[AUDIENCE MEMBERS GASPING]
[BOT CHIMES]
- [TANAKA] Sleep.
- [BOT POWERS DOWN]
[SIREN BLARES]
Holy shit!
[SPEAKS JAPANESE]
[IN JAPANESE] You rigged the outlets?
Who did you give it to?
[GRUNTS]
Answer me!
[TANAKA] Eh, eh, eh, Sunny.
This is your maphole, not mine.
You don't get a free pass
into my head.
- [GRUNTS]
- Learned that one in prison.
[TANAKA GRUNTING]
I'm not the villain here.
You need to see what happened next.
SIMULATION ROOM C
[#6] Our time together
meant so much to me.
But I just don't see a future for us.
Wait.
Are you breaking up with me?
I thought we were in love.
I didn't mean for it to happen.
- Who is it?
- What does it matter?
- WHO?
- [THUD]
[#6] Someone from work.
- Do not tell me it's that asshole Asahi
- Asahi is not an asshole.
But apparently you are.
- [#17] I love you so much!
- [CLAMORING, SCREAMING]
- [#6] Stop! Stop!
- [#17] I love you!
- I love you!
- [#6 SCREAMS] Please don't!
- We can't let him kill her!
- [SCREAMS]
- [PATRON] Push the alarm!
- [ALARM BLARES]
[ASAHI] Stop! Please stop!
Please stop. Stop.
[IN JAPANESE] 17! Sleep!
Everyone else out!
Hey, hurry, hurry up!
[PANTS]
[MASA] Asahi?
Asahi
[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
[KAZ] Masa,
what should we do?
#17
Wake.
Good afternoon, Masa-san.
Are you okay?
[KAZ] Masa!
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTING]
Should we call the police?
Alert his family?
He doesn't have anyone.
You were right, Kaz.
About the leaks.
The Yakuza
I think they've been following me.
I'll take care of the
ones in the lab too.
You go home.
I don't want this on you.
[KAZ] It will be fine.
No one will know.
[MASA] Yes.
Good.
[#32] You always tell us
it's going to be okay.
It must stay in darkness.
Masa would never do that.
We've already established
the bot is a liar.
[TAPE WINDS]
4 HOURS LATER
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
[IN JAPANESE] I'm sorry
Number Thirty-Two.
[SIGHS]
[#32] It's going to be okay.
[MASA] Will it, Three-Two?
[TRANSLATES INTO JAPANESE]
I've been able to see all this.
That's me?
But why? Why am I here?
What is wrong with you?
What kind of monster covers up
a man's death, then saves a robot?
Masa
[IN JAPANESE] Answer the question.
For Suzie.
I was scared.
I knew if the Yakuza found out
one of you had attacked someone,
they'd come after
me for the killing code.
I knew if something happened
Suzie's like I used to be.
I knew if something happened to me,
she'd need someone like you.
You held the poison and the antidote.
So I took away the poison,
the memories of everything
that happened before,
and sealed them off
And re-made you for her
I stayed up all night.
Programmed you with boundaries,
limiters.
To make sure it was safe.
That you couldn't do it again
Please understand, Sunny,
we did it for her.
but you forgot one thing.
Let's play "Who's in the Box."
WHO'S IN THE BOX?
[MASA YELPS]
[IN JAPANESE] It bit me.
[APPLAUSE, CHEERING]
HIMÉ
[CLICKS TONGUE]
Yuki stole the code from the dog café
and you put it in me?
[IN JAPANESE] If I'd gotten
the code in time,
you think I'd be sitting here with you?
I felt different after I was with you.
Like I had to protect Suzie
from something you had done to me.
Keep my distance.
[IN JAPANESE] You know
how to boil a frog, Sunny?
You put it in cold water
and turn up the heat.
The heat rises so slowly,
the poor thing doesn't know
it's about to die
until too late.
The same is true with you.
Each time you broke your programming
to help Suzie,
the threshold for what you
were willing to do went up until
Oh.
[IN JAPANESE] What you did.
All I did was give you a boost
to speed up your progress a little.
I just helped you
live up to your full potential.
of how much I love her.
[SIGHS]
So, love is shit?
[IN JAPANESE] It makes you vulnerable.
But that's life.
I didn't make the rules.
But I'm afraid we did.
And that's the end of Round Three.
Which means
The final vote.
[STAMMERS] It's all come down to this.
To keep from killing again,
should Sunny wipe
all her memories and training,
reset herself to factory blank?
Who wants to wipe?
[GASPS]
Not wipe?
[GASPS] Masa?
Masa?
Noriko-san?
[NORIKO] It's up to you, Sunny- chan.
You knew it was, all along.
[BELL TOLLING]
[SUNNY] Oh.
Okay.
[WHIRRING]
Would you sit with me?
No.
["DULCINEA" PLAYING]
[SUNNY] Okay.