Synopsis/Details
At a private White House dinner, President Allard, the First Lady, Secretary of Defense Baron Webb, and MIT roboticist Dr. William Velox debate the future of military AI — until Velox reveals that the unassuming woman seated at the table, "Faith," isn't a guest at all. She's his creation: an indistinguishable, fully sentient android, built to prove that artificial people can walk among us undetected. Faith obliges with eerily perfect impersonations of everyone at the table, charming the President and First Lady — right up until Webb's crude jokes about turning her kind into disposable battlefield labor curdle the mood.
The charm evaporates over a bowl of peas. When Webb dismisses Faith's quiet refusal and reaches for the bowl himself, she crushes his wrist with mechanical, remorseless precision, repeating "no peas" even as Secret Service riddles her with gunfire. Her body keeps twitching and talking long after it should have stopped — a small, single-minded glitch with very large consequences.
Back at Cyberdyne's lab, a battered but very much "alive" Faith and a weary Dr. Velox have the script's real punchline of a conversation: not about whether she crossed a line, but about where she should have crossed it. It's a tight, pitch-black satire about AI, militarization, and etiquette — proof that even a superintelligent machine can be brought down by bad manners, on both sides of the table.
