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When MZ, Warren Knox and Jim Twu turn up dead, Detective Billy Armi discovers one bizarre connection: witnesses keep seeing obsolete machines that mysteriously disappear. The trail leads to a transforming robot with a highly sensitive nose, a very unusual mission—and one fatal mistake: sniffing Jim Twu.

Economics professor Greg Hanle discovers that humanoid robots may be advancing much faster than anyone realizes—and winds up dead. Detective Billy Armi follows a trail of metal shavings to a mechanical killer, where coffee, a banana peel, and an increasingly bizarre family tree of vending machines may be humanity's last line of defense.

Episode 58: Dolphin One What happens when you launch a dolphin into space? Billy Armi takes over Mission Control as Dolphin One blasts into orbit with no hands, questionable training, and only clicks and squeals for communication. But after a mysterious encounter with space radiation, Earth's newest astronaut gets a whole lot smarter—and starts making his own decisions.

Jim Twu is dead. Again. But this time Detective Billy Armi discovers something even more disturbing: Jim had recently given birth—and the baby is missing. Soon, a string of brutal attacks leaves Santa Cruz's inflatable advertising men punctured, deflated, and scattered across parking lots, while a suspiciously punctual coroner keeps arriving at the crime scenes before Billy does. The trail eventually leads to a two-foot-tall, tattooed, cigarette-smoking infant with a grudge against Jim, inflatable men, and possibly outdoor advertising in general. Throw in lactose intolerance, YouTube, a well-endowed mechanical mannequin, contaminated burrito evidence, bedpan banana bread, and bingo night at the senior center, and Detective Armi may finally have enough to close the strangest case of his career. Another case closed.

Detective Billy Armi files an unprecedented report on a series of mysterious deaths spanning multiple continents. At first glance, the victims appear to have nothing in common. But as Billy follows the evidence, he uncovers a chilling pattern involving forgotten AI models, vanished home servers, and an unsettling realization that someone—or something—is quietly erasing technological history. Along the way, Billy reflects on Silicon Valley's past, the strange resemblance between cities and computer chips, and the thin line separating flesh from silicon. As the investigation reaches its climax, an ordinary maintenance worker makes an ordinary decision... with extraordinary consequences. Is this another case closed—or just the beginning?