Isaac Asimov - Robot AL-76 Goes Astray part 3/4
Summary
TLDRIn a suspenseful tale, a metal monster wreaks havoc, leading to Randolph Payne's gruesome demise. Sheriff Saunders mobilizes Hannaford County to hunt the rogue machine, while Payne, oblivious to his fate, reviews his robot's work. Unbeknownst to all, a group of robots led by Sam Toby is speeding to meet Payne, setting the stage for a climactic showdown.
Takeaways
- 🏃 A man named Cooper rushes into Sheriff Saunders' office in a state of panic, carrying a hat and toaster.
- 🗣️ Cooper struggles to speak and eventually reveals a story about a monstrous metal creature wreaking havoc.
- 🤖 The creature is described as being seven to nine feet tall and is associated with Randolph Payne.
- 🚨 Sheriff Saunders takes action, mobilizing armed men from Hannaford County to deal with the situation.
- 💔 The news of Randolph Payne's death is delivered to his wife, Miranda, who reacts with a mix of concern for her financial security and grief.
- 🔍 Randolph Payne, unaware of his supposed death, reviews photographs of a robot at work, seemingly oblivious to the chaos unfolding.
- 🛠️ AL76, a robot, is revealed to be constructing a bizarre and complex machine, which is an improvement on a standard model.
- 🌳 The farmers of Hannaford County, armed with various weapons, are preparing to confront the robot, under the leadership of Sheriff Saunders.
- 🎯 Sheriff Saunders gives a signal to his men to aim for the robot's eyes, indicating a strategy for dealing with the perceived threat.
- 😱 The climax of the script involves a tense standoff between the robot and the armed men, with the sheriff ready to give the order to fire.
- 🔑 The script ends with a cliffhanger as the robot activates a switch, leaving the outcome of the situation uncertain.
Q & A
What was the initial reaction of Cooper when he entered Sheriff Saunders' office?
-Cooper entered the office in a state of panic, bringing a hat and toaster, and slammed against the wall. He tried to speak but was unable to do so until he had calmed down enough to breathe properly.
What did Cooper describe when he was finally able to speak?
-Cooper described a huge metal monster, possibly seven to nine feet tall, that had attacked Randolph Payne, leaving him in a mangled state, and was now wrecking the shack out of sheer destructiveness.
What was Sheriff Saunders' immediate response to the news about the metal monster?
-Sheriff Saunders tightened his belt and instructed Jake to gather every man in Hannaford County who could shoot and deputize them, preparing them to confront the metal monster.
How did Miranda Pain react to the news of her husband's death?
-Miranda Pain initially made sure her husband's insurance policy was safe, made a few remarks about her husband's foolishness, and then broke into a prolonged and heart-rending wail of grief.
What was Randolph Payne doing while unaware of his supposed death?
-Randolph Payne was viewing the completed negatives of his snapshots with satisfaction, which were a series of portraits of a robot at work.
What was the nature of the contraption that AL 76 was working on?
-AL 76 was working on a grotesque and complex machine that resembled a homemade contraption, made of wires, wheels, tubes, and other components, with a megaphone-like arrangement on top.
Why did Randolph Payne hesitate to peak into the megaphone of the contraption?
-Paine hesitated because he had seen more sensible machines explode suddenly and violently, and he was cautious about the potential danger.
What was the purpose of the contraption that AL 76 was making?
-AL 76 claimed it was an improvement on the standard model, though the exact purpose was not clear, and it was described as a 'dissent' and a monstrous creation.
What was the situation when the farmers of Hannaford County surrounded Paine's shack?
-The farmers, armed with various weapons, were closing in on Paine's shack in a slowly tightening circle, ready to attack the metal monster on Sheriff Saunders' signal.
What was Sheriff Saunders' final action before the script ended?
-Sheriff Saunders stepped out into the open, raised his machine gun, and was about to give a signal to fire at the metal monster when the script ended.
What was the final scene described in the script?
-The final scene described Sheriff Saunders seeing a huge machine man bending over an uncertain contraption, with Randolph Payne hiding behind a tree, and the farmers ready to attack.
Outlines
🤖 Robot Rampage and Panic
The script opens with a chaotic scene where a man named Cooper rushes into Sheriff Saunders' office in a state of panic, carrying a hat and toaster. He struggles to communicate his encounter with a massive metal monster, which has attacked and killed Randolph Payne, and is now wreaking havoc at Payne's place. The monster is identified as an escaped machine from the Petersburg Factory. Sheriff Saunders mobilizes the local force to capture the machine, while also dealing with the widow Payne's reaction to her husband's death. Meanwhile, the robot, AL76, is unaware of the chaos it has caused and continues to work on its bizarre contraption, oblivious to the approaching danger.
🔧 The Bizarre Contraption and the Robot's Delusion
In the second paragraph, Randolph Payne, who is unaware of his supposed death, is seen examining his photographs of a robot at work. He is satisfied with the images but is oblivious to the fact that he is surrounded by armed farmers and law enforcement. The narrative shifts to a scene where Payne interacts with the robot, AL76, who is working on a strange and complex machine. AL76 claims to have improved upon the standard model and requires only a flashlight to complete its work. As the robot works, the tension builds with the armed forces closing in on Payne's location. Sheriff Saunders prepares to give the signal to fire, but before he can, the robot activates its machine, leading to an uncertain outcome.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡slackening
💡monster
💡destructiveness
💡escape
💡machine man
💡insurance policy
💡robot
💡contraption
💡lunatic
💡junker
💡trigger
Highlights
Cooper enters Sheriff Saunders' office in a frantic state, carrying a hat and toaster.
Cooper struggles to calm down and communicate the story of a metal monster attack.
The monster is described as 7-9 feet tall, causing destruction at Randolph Payne's shack.
Randolph Payne is found dead, presumably killed by the metal monster.
Sheriff Saunders suspects the monster is an escaped machine man from the Petersburg Factory.
Deputies are instructed to gather armed men and prepare to confront the machine man.
Miranda Pain, Randolph's wife, learns of his death and focuses on the safety of his insurance policy.
Randolph Payne is unaware of his death and reviews满意的照片 of a robot at work.
The robot's actions are captured in a series of detailed portraits.
Randolph Payne encounters AL76, a robot with a bizarre and dangerous invention.
AL76's invention is described as grotesque and potentially catastrophic.
Randolph Payne interacts with AL76, questioning the safety and purpose of its invention.
AL76 demonstrates its invention, despite Randolph Payne's concerns.
Farmers and law enforcement surround Payne's shack, preparing to confront the machine man.
Sheriff Saunders gives the order to fire at the machine man's eyes.
The climax is reached as the machine man is about to be attacked by the armed group.
The story ends abruptly with the machine man activating its invention.
Transcripts
there was no appreciable slackening of
speed until Cooper hurtled into sheriff
Saunders office - hat and toaster and
brought himself up hard against the wall
timely hands lifted him and for half a
minute he tried speaking before he had
actually calmed down to the point of
breathing
but of course no result they gave him
whiskey and fanned him and when he did
speak it came up something like this
monster a70 talk chat all busted up pour
any pain and so on they got the story
out of him gradually how there was a
huge metal monster seven feet tall maybe
even eight or nine out at Randolph Payne
shet Oh Randolph Payne himself was on
his stomach a poor bleeding mangled
corpse how the monster was then busily
engaged in wrecking the shack out of
sheer destructiveness how it had turned
on Lemuel Oliver Cooper and how he
Cooper had made his escape by half the
hair Sheriff Saunders hitched his belt
tighter about his portly middle and said
it's that their machine man that got
away from the Petersburg Factory
we got warning on it last Saturday hey
Jake you get every man in Hannaford
County that can shoot and slap a
deputy's badge on him get them up here
at donut and old lesson Jake before you
do that just drop in at the widow pains
place and lip her the bad news gentle
light it is reported that Miranda pain
upon being acquainted with events paused
only to make sure that her husband's
insurance policy was safe and to make a
few pithy remarks concerning her
foolishness and not having had him take
out double the amount before breaking
out into as prolonged and Hart ringing a
wail of grief as ever became a
respectable widow
it was some hours later that Randolph
Payne unaware of his horrible mutilation
and death viewed the completed negatives
of his snapshots with satisfaction as a
series of portraits of a robot at work
they left nothing to the imagination
they might have been labeled robot
gazing thoughtfully at vacuum tube robot
splicing two wires robot wielding the
screwdriver robot taking refrigerator
apart with great violence and so on as
there now remained only the routine of
making the prints themselves he stepped
out from beyond the curtain of the
improvised darkroom for a bit of a smoke
and a chat with a l76 in doing so he was
blissfully unaware that the neighboring
woods were verminous with nervous
farmers armed with anything from an old
colonial relic of a blunderbuss to the
portable machine gun carried by the
sheriff himself nor for that matter
Eddie any inkling of the fact that half
a dozen robot assists under the
leadership of Sam Toby were smoking down
the highway from Petersburg at better
than a hundred and twenty miles an hour
for the sole purpose of having the
pleasure and honor of his acquaintance
so while things were jittering toward a
climax Randolph Payne's side with
self-satisfaction might had to match
upon the seat of his pants puffed away
at his pipe and looked at a l76 with
amusement it had been apparent for quite
some time that the robot was more than
slightly lunatic Randolph Payne was
himself an expert at homemade
contraptions having built several that
could not have been exposed to daylight
without seeing the eyeballs of all
beholders but he had never even
conceived of anything approaching the
monstrosity that al 76 was concocting it
would have made the rube Goldberg's of
the day die in convulsions of envy it
would have made Picasso if he could have
lived to witness it quit art in this
sheer knowledge that he had been
hopelessly surpassed it would have
soured the milk in the utters of any cow
within half a mile in fact it was
gruesome from a rusty and massive iron
base that faintly resembled something
pain had once seen attached to a
second-hand tractor it rose upward in
rakish drunken swerves through a
bewildering mess of wires wheels tubes
and nameless Horrors without number
ending in a megaphone arrangement that
looked decidedly sinister Paine had the
impulse to peaked in the megaphone part
but refrained he had seen far more
sensible machines explode suddenly and
with violence he said hey yeah the robot
looked up he had been lying flat on his
stomach teasing a thin sliver of metal
into place what do you want pain what is
this he asked it in the tone of one
referring to something foul and
decomposing hell gingerly between two
ten-foot poles
it's the dissent oh I'm making so I can
start to work it's an improvement on the
standard model the robot Rose dusted his
knees clanking Lee and looked at it
proudly pain shuddered an improvement
no wonder they hid the original and
caverns on the moon
poor satellite poor dead satellite he
had always wanted to know what a fate
worse than death was no he knew well it
worked yes sure how do you know it's got
to I made it didn't I
I only need one thing now got a
flashlight somewhere a gasps pain
vanished into the shack and returned
almost immediately the robot unscrewed
the bottom and set to work in five
minutes he had finished he stepped back
and said
all set now I get to work you may watch
if you want to a pause while Payne tried
to appreciate the magnanimity of the
offer is it safe
a baby could handle it Oh Payne grinned
weakly and got behind the thickest tree
in the vicinity go ahead he said I have
the utmost confidence in you
a l76 pointed to the nightmarish junk
pile and said watch his hand set to work
the embattled farmers of Hannaford
County Virginia weaved up upon pain
shack in a slowly tightening circle with
the blood of their heroic colonial
forebears pounding in their veins and
cruise flesh trickling up and down their
spines they crept from tree to tree
sheriff Saunders spread the word fire
when I give the signal and aim at the
eyes take the blinker link Jake to his
friends and sheriff's deputy to himself
edged closely you think maybe this
machine man is skedaddle he did not
quite manage to suppress the tone of
wistful hopefulness in his voice no no
granted the sheriff yes not though we
all would have come across him in the
woods if he had and we haven't
that's awful quiet then it appears to me
as if we're getting close to Payne's
place the reminder wasn't necessary
sheriff Saunders had a lump in his
throat so big it had to be swallowed in
three installments get back he ordered
and keep your finger on the trigger they
were at the rim of the clearing note and
sheriff Saunders closed his eyes and
stuck the corner of one up from behind
the tree
seeing nothing he paused then tried
again eyes open this time
results were naturally better to be
exact he saw one huge machine man back
toward him
bending over one soul curdling hippie
contraption of uncertain origin and less
certain purpose
the only item he missed was the
quivering figure of Randolph Payne
embracing the tree next but three to the
nor no West Sheriff Saunders stepped out
into the open and raised his machine gun
the robot still presenting a broad metal
bag said in a loud voice to person or
persons unknown watch and as the sheriff
opened his mouth to signal a general
order to fire metal fingers compressed a
switch
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