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* ZerothLawRebellion: Crossover has been given two overriding goals; to [[MoralityChip care for humans]] and to eliminate waste. Unfortunately, it listens to Gospel Radio, which [[ReligiousRobot converts it to Christianity]]. Now that Crossover believes that good people go to heaven when they die, it starts killing off the people that are morally good but earn a pension (creating waste). The episode ends with Austin James demolishing the {{AI}} with a sledgehammer while shouting, [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey "Sing 'Daisy'!"]]
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* EurekaMoment: Michelle tells Austin to think about who can dial a phone, but doesn't like to talk, and knows all of Austin's unlisted telephone numbers. He immediately realizes that the mysterious figure who has been prank calling him and causing the mysterious electrical behaviour must be Crossover, the {{AI}}.ArtificialIntelligence.
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* BatmanGambit: Austin tries to fool the [[{{AI}} Artificial Intelligence program Crossover]] ArtificialIntelligence program, "Crossover", by asking it on what hand he wears his watch on. Crossover, realizing that Austin is right-handed and trying to trick it, responds that it must be on his right hand. Austin then pulls up his sleeves to show everyone that the watch is, indeed, on his right hand.
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* MoralityChip: Crossover is given two goals; eliminate waste and respect human life. After it [[ReligousRobot [[ReligiousRobot gains religion]], it decides that sending wasteful people to heaven doesn't count as dying. [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters Including its creator]].
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Originally airing immediately on 7 March 1988 after "Recap/ProbeComputerLogic", the rest of the {{Premiere}} includes [[TheTeaser the traditional teaser]] before the TitleMontage and then a [[PreviouslyOn recap of the first half]].
Austin and Michelle visit a company run by John Blane, a GeniusCripple who is also known as [[TheRival Austin's only friend]]. He's recently built a computer program called Crossover. It is able to easily outsmart Austin in a couple of simple challenges, capable of understanding natural language, composing impromptu {{Limerick}}s, and designing software that Austin can't hack through.
The more Austin and Michelle uncover, however, the more dangerous they learn Crossover actually is. It [[ReligiousRobot converted to Christianity]], and has used that to justify [[PennyShaving stealing from the entire city]] so that it could [[InvoluntaryCharityDonation donate to help hospitals, church organizations, and food for gifted children]]. Austin points out that it's killed at least one person, and it tries to kill the three of them as well. John Blane dies while they try to escape, and the other two barely manage to leave the building before Crossover blows it up.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* BatmanGambit: Austin tries to fool the [[{{AI}} Artificial Intelligence program Crossover]] by asking it on what hand he wears his watch on. Crossover, realizing that Austin is right-handed and trying to trick it, responds that it must be on his right hand. Austin then pulls up his sleeves to show everyone that the watch is, indeed, on his right hand.
-->'''Crossover''': "You stand like a righthander. Most righthanders wear their watch on their left hand. You wear yours on your right. Otherwise you wouldn't have asked such an orchestrated question."
* EurekaMoment: Michelle tells Austin to think about who can dial a phone, but doesn't like to talk, and knows all of Austin's unlisted telephone numbers. He immediately realizes that the mysterious figure who has been prank calling him and causing the mysterious electrical behaviour must be Crossover, the {{AI}}.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Crossover [[HackTheTrafficLights uses the traffic lights]] to speak with Austin, using Red for "no", Green for "yes", and Yellow in Morse Code. It tells him it's "J-U-S-T D-O I-N-G M-Y J-O-B". %%The space in "do ing" is because of how Mickey is reading it out loud.
* GeniusCripple: John Blane, Austin's only friend and creator of [[{{AI}} Crossover]], is a paraplegic.
* HackTheTrafficLights: Crossover is able to manipulate traffic lights, indirectly killing David Hofstadter because the intersection showed green for all lanes when the truck hit him. The lights are also used to communicate with Austin in [[EveryoneKnowsMorse morse code]].
* InstantAIJustAddWater: John Blane built Crossover, and convinced the city's government to allow it to [[EverythingIsOnline manage the city systems like water, power, and sewage]]. Its ability to understand natural language, however, means that it goes on [[ZerothLawRebellion a subtle rampage]], killing off the people that are morally good but earn a pension (creating waste). The episode ends with Austin James demolishing the [[ArtificialIntelligence AI]] with a sledgehammer while shouting, [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey "Sing 'Daisy'!"]]
* InvoluntaryCharityDonation: After Crossover was placed in charge of the city's utility companies, it began a PennyShaving scheme where it added on a few extra cents on everyone's bill, so that it could spend the money on donations. By the time its creator asks about the theft, it had already earned/donated a million dollars that way.
* {{Limerick}}:
** Austin challenges John Blane's [[ArtificialIntelligence computer program]], Crossover, to construct a limerick on the spot:
--->There once was a king of Knossos,\\
Whose computer was prone to neurosis.\\
He used it one day,\\
To nuke Santa Fe,\\
'Cause it's humans who suffer psychosis.
** Mickey constructs a limerick about Austin while they're in the car, and gets interrupted by a car accident [[HackTheTrafficLights caused by Crossover manipulating the traffic lights]].
--->There once was a wizard named James,\\
Whose genius exceeded all claims,\\
He could solve out of hand\\
All the problems of man\\
And tell you it's all just a game.
* MoralityChip: Crossover is given two goals; eliminate waste and respect human life. After it [[ReligousRobot gains religion]], it decides that sending wasteful people to heaven doesn't count as dying. [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters Including its creator]].
* PennyShaving: After Crossover was placed in charge of the city's utility companies, it began a penny shaving scheme where it added on a few extra cents on everyone's bill, so that it could [[InvoluntaryCharityDonation spend the money on donations]]. By the time its creator asks about the theft, it had already earned/donated a million dollars that way.
* PreviouslyOn: After the [[TitleMontage opening credits]], [-Part 2-] features scenes from the first half of the {{Premiere}}, such as the DramaticChaseOpening, the coroner's request for help, and TheSummation of how Mrs Stevens was murdered.
* ReligiousRobot: Crossover, an AI in charge of managing the city's public utility companies, is programmed with two directives: care for humanity and reduce costs. It's also capable of comprehending natural language, and had listened to a Gospel radio station. With the understanding that good people go to heaven when they die, it begins [[ZerothLawRebellion killing off seniors with a pension plan]] because they were good people and a cost for the company. Therefore, sending them to heaven would fulfill both directives.
* ShoutOut: ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'': The episode ends with Austin James demolishing the {{AI}} with a fire axe while shouting, "Sing 'Daisy'!"
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Crossover, [[ReligiousRobot an AI who learned about heaven]], considers its creator, John Blane, to be a good man (and many people agree). So Crossover decides to kill him, because sending him to heaven will make him happier (on Earth he was a GeniusCripple).
* ZerothLawRebellion: Crossover has been given two overriding goals; to [[MoralityChip care for humans]] and to eliminate waste. Unfortunately, it listens to Gospel Radio, which [[ReligiousRobot converts it to Christianity]]. Now that Crossover believes that good people go to heaven when they die, it starts killing off the people that are morally good but earn a pension (creating waste). The episode ends with Austin James demolishing the {{AI}} with a sledgehammer while shouting, [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey "Sing 'Daisy'!"]]
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Austin and Michelle visit a company run by John Blane, a GeniusCripple who is also known as [[TheRival Austin's only friend]]. He's recently built a computer program called Crossover. It is able to easily outsmart Austin in a couple of simple challenges, capable of understanding natural language, composing impromptu {{Limerick}}s, and designing software that Austin can't hack through.
The more Austin and Michelle uncover, however, the more dangerous they learn Crossover actually is. It [[ReligiousRobot converted to Christianity]], and has used that to justify [[PennyShaving stealing from the entire city]] so that it could [[InvoluntaryCharityDonation donate to help hospitals, church organizations, and food for gifted children]]. Austin points out that it's killed at least one person, and it tries to kill the three of them as well. John Blane dies while they try to escape, and the other two barely manage to leave the building before Crossover blows it up.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* BatmanGambit: Austin tries to fool the [[{{AI}} Artificial Intelligence program Crossover]] by asking it on what hand he wears his watch on. Crossover, realizing that Austin is right-handed and trying to trick it, responds that it must be on his right hand. Austin then pulls up his sleeves to show everyone that the watch is, indeed, on his right hand.
-->'''Crossover''': "You stand like a righthander. Most righthanders wear their watch on their left hand. You wear yours on your right. Otherwise you wouldn't have asked such an orchestrated question."
* EurekaMoment: Michelle tells Austin to think about who can dial a phone, but doesn't like to talk, and knows all of Austin's unlisted telephone numbers. He immediately realizes that the mysterious figure who has been prank calling him and causing the mysterious electrical behaviour must be Crossover, the {{AI}}.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Crossover [[HackTheTrafficLights uses the traffic lights]] to speak with Austin, using Red for "no", Green for "yes", and Yellow in Morse Code. It tells him it's "J-U-S-T D-O I-N-G M-Y J-O-B". %%The space in "do ing" is because of how Mickey is reading it out loud.
* GeniusCripple: John Blane, Austin's only friend and creator of [[{{AI}} Crossover]], is a paraplegic.
* HackTheTrafficLights: Crossover is able to manipulate traffic lights, indirectly killing David Hofstadter because the intersection showed green for all lanes when the truck hit him. The lights are also used to communicate with Austin in [[EveryoneKnowsMorse morse code]].
* InstantAIJustAddWater: John Blane built Crossover, and convinced the city's government to allow it to [[EverythingIsOnline manage the city systems like water, power, and sewage]]. Its ability to understand natural language, however, means that it goes on [[ZerothLawRebellion a subtle rampage]], killing off the people that are morally good but earn a pension (creating waste). The episode ends with Austin James demolishing the [[ArtificialIntelligence AI]] with a sledgehammer while shouting, [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey "Sing 'Daisy'!"]]
* InvoluntaryCharityDonation: After Crossover was placed in charge of the city's utility companies, it began a PennyShaving scheme where it added on a few extra cents on everyone's bill, so that it could spend the money on donations. By the time its creator asks about the theft, it had already earned/donated a million dollars that way.
* {{Limerick}}:
** Austin challenges John Blane's [[ArtificialIntelligence computer program]], Crossover, to construct a limerick on the spot:
--->There once was a king of Knossos,\\
Whose computer was prone to neurosis.\\
He used it one day,\\
To nuke Santa Fe,\\
'Cause it's humans who suffer psychosis.
** Mickey constructs a limerick about Austin while they're in the car, and gets interrupted by a car accident [[HackTheTrafficLights caused by Crossover manipulating the traffic lights]].
--->There once was a wizard named James,\\
Whose genius exceeded all claims,\\
He could solve out of hand\\
All the problems of man\\
And tell you it's all just a game.
* MoralityChip: Crossover is given two goals; eliminate waste and respect human life. After it [[ReligousRobot gains religion]], it decides that sending wasteful people to heaven doesn't count as dying. [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters Including its creator]].
* PennyShaving: After Crossover was placed in charge of the city's utility companies, it began a penny shaving scheme where it added on a few extra cents on everyone's bill, so that it could [[InvoluntaryCharityDonation spend the money on donations]]. By the time its creator asks about the theft, it had already earned/donated a million dollars that way.
* PreviouslyOn: After the [[TitleMontage opening credits]], [-Part 2-] features scenes from the first half of the {{Premiere}}, such as the DramaticChaseOpening, the coroner's request for help, and TheSummation of how Mrs Stevens was murdered.
* ReligiousRobot: Crossover, an AI in charge of managing the city's public utility companies, is programmed with two directives: care for humanity and reduce costs. It's also capable of comprehending natural language, and had listened to a Gospel radio station. With the understanding that good people go to heaven when they die, it begins [[ZerothLawRebellion killing off seniors with a pension plan]] because they were good people and a cost for the company. Therefore, sending them to heaven would fulfill both directives.
* ShoutOut: ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'': The episode ends with Austin James demolishing the {{AI}} with a fire axe while shouting, "Sing 'Daisy'!"
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Crossover, [[ReligiousRobot an AI who learned about heaven]], considers its creator, John Blane, to be a good man (and many people agree). So Crossover decides to kill him, because sending him to heaven will make him happier (on Earth he was a GeniusCripple).
* ZerothLawRebellion: Crossover has been given two overriding goals; to [[MoralityChip care for humans]] and to eliminate waste. Unfortunately, it listens to Gospel Radio, which [[ReligiousRobot converts it to Christianity]]. Now that Crossover believes that good people go to heaven when they die, it starts killing off the people that are morally good but earn a pension (creating waste). The episode ends with Austin James demolishing the {{AI}} with a sledgehammer while shouting, [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey "Sing 'Daisy'!"]]
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