2. briefing (Br) - News reports tell us of violence and blame the Older Villain, Jones, of the OCP corporation.

3. hazing (H) - We meet the hero at his 1st day at his new cop assignment at a new precinct. He meets new colleagues and is sized up.

4. meets partner (M) - Hero meets his new female partner, Lewis, and is impressed by her toughness.

5. command (Co) - The Old Villain, Jones, is commanded by company prez to carry out the task of making the city safe.

6. competition (Cm) - The Young Villain, Morton, vies with the Old Villain for the affections of the company prez. Each has a "robot" and claims it can do the job. Older Villain's machine, Ed 209, is tested and fails by accidentally killing an innocent victim.

7. incident (I) - Hero and partner try to stop a crime together. They bond. Personality traits of the hero are revealed to the partner. Hero is badly wounded by the main Evil Villain, Clarence.

8. transformation (T) - The hero is hospitalized and operated on and thereby transformed into a man-machine. We see scientists working on him. A crucial phase of his transformation is his programming. We learn his three publicly known prime directives. We learn of a 4th secret directive.

9. reunion (R) - The hero is discovered by his old partner. She recognizes him by his personality traits which she'd learned before his transformation.

10. missions (Ms) - The hero goes on his first crime stopping missions and is successful in all of them. He is stiff and awkward in public.

11. competition reprise (Cr) - The Old and Young Villains have words and threaten each other.

12. dreaming (D) - The hero has a dream. The technicians who maintain him are appalled, because his programming is supposed to preclude this. It means his humanity is trying to assert itself.

13. reminder (Rm) - The hero's old partner seeks him out to tell him who he is: "Murphy, it's you!" The next criminal he encounters recognizes him from before his transformation and does the same.

14. self-research (Sr) - The hero looks up info about himself and his adversaries in computer databases. He finds, in his own file, that he's been labeled "deceased".

15. return home (Rh) - The hero returns to his former self's home address. The house is abandoned. He shows an emotional (human) response.

16. revenge (Rv) - The Old Villain has the Evil Villain destroy the Young Villain.

17. pursuit (P) - The hero pursues the Evil Villain, and forces him to implicate the Old Villain, by making him confess.

18. discovery of programming (Dp) - The hero attempts to arrest the Old Villain, but can't because of the secret 4th directive that had been programmed into him during his transformation.

19. battle of robots (Br) - The Old Villain's robot is pitted against the hero. The hero wins.

20. escape (Es) - Cops under Old Villain's command try to destroy the hero. His old partner helps him escape.

21. care (Ca) - The partner tends to the hero, sees his softer side when he removes some of his armor, brings him his gun. The hero reveals his feelings to her.

22. violence (V) - Violence in the city is on the rise. Cops are on strike. There's rampant looting in the streets.

23. final shoot-out (Fs) - The Villain gang confronts hero and partner. Both are injured but survive.

24. exposure (Ex) - The hero reveals the Old Villain's secret and is threatened by him. The company prez releases him from the bond of his 4th directive, so the hero can kill the Old Villain.

25. sense of self (Ss) - The hero is praised by the company prez, and is asked: "What's your name?" He replies: "Murphy."