An Electric Sleep

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A homeless teenager, Margot,
refuses her fatal diagnosis from a

man-made disease and steals con-
fidential information on the scien-
tist couple responsible. This sends

a mercenary, Craig, and his team
to kill Margot and the scientists.
The scientists, Wallace and Amber,
enjoy dinner while the baby sleeps
upstairs, discussing a cure for
Amber’s infection-- the same as
Margot’s! While they eat, a masked
soldier trips a perimiter alarm as
a diversion, sending Amber to the
baby and Wallace to check the
cameras. The soldier then poisons
their food, then hides, waiting.
After finding nothing, Amber and
Wallace finish their meal when--
Amber passes out. Wallace rushes
to help while the soldier knocks
Wallace out from behind.
Wallace wakes up to the masked

soldier studying a screen project-
ing Wallace’s thoughts. Wallace

demands the soldier reveal them-
self-- it’s Margot. Margot contin-
ues to use Wallace’s prototypical

thought projecting device looking
for a cure. Wallace offers to help
if his wife and baby are kept safe.
Margot reveals she hasn’t seen a
baby in the house. Amber appears
behind Margot with a gun, still
groggy from the poison.

Amber wants their secrets to
stay hidden, but Wallace wants to
know where his baby is. Amber is
forced to explain there never was
a baby, he has been hallucinating
since they lost the baby years ago.
Amber makes Margot wear the

thought projection device reveal-
ing she was orphaned and has

been homeless most of her life.
Through her projected memories
Amber reocgnizes Margot as their
estranged baby girl.
Wallace is confused and demands

Amber project the truth. Am-
ber shows Wallace had disease

and sent the baby away before
he died; he’s a synthetic android

clone. The only cure for the dis-
ease they created is a conscious-
ness transplant using the thought

projection device; to live, they
must die.
As Craig’s soldiers are closing in,

Amber dies from the disease, forc-
ing Wallace to save her conscious-
ness in the thought projection

device. Margot must follow Amber
before the house is destroyed by
the mercenary team now outside
readying rocket launchers.
An epilogue shows the family is in

another country, using their tech-
nology to help others.