Small Wonder (film Trilogy)
Small Wonder (film trilogy)
Film 1
Ted Lawson is an advanced robotics engineer who has achieved success with with his articifical intelligence applications. He lost his wife Joan who passed away due to complications with childbirth. Her life could’ve been saved, however they were out of town for a symposium and the state in which she (prematurely) went into labor was heavily pro-choice, convincing them to induce labor rather than terminate the pregnancy to save her life. She passed away leaving Ted to raise their daughter Victoria.
Ten years later, Victoria and Ted have planned an off-roading trip. Ted had been teaching her, but this was to be the first time she would be able to ride her own 4×4. Ted cancels at the last minute to meet a potential investor, assuring her that she’s skilled enough to try on her own. The investors are unconvinced that Ted’s artificial intelligence program to help communicate with vegetative patients is viable. They are also concerned about potential ethical issues raised by the technology. Ted makes an impassioned and slightly over-the top ple, which gets him fired. He returns home dejected to find policemen at his home. Victoria has suffered a horrible crash leaving Ted wracked with guilt.
Ted steals his programming codes and equipment and hacks into the medical support systems. Miraculously, he’s successful and is able to clandestinely speak with his daughter around the house via his laptop, smartphone and tablet devices. Taking it to the next level, he begins constructing an android. So that Victoria can “see and move on her own.” As the months pass, the android becomes more and more lifelike. Ted hires a RealDoll company to make a nonsexual model of the real Victoria (from photos) and wraps it around the android, effectively creating a near identical, robotic version of her called Vicki.
As Victoria’s life signs begin to fade, Ted visits her in the hospital. Communicating with Vicki through his smartphone, they devise a plan to transfer Victoria’s brain into Vicki the robot, so that she can still “live” while her physical body dies. Ted signs Victoria out of the hospital under the guise of transferring her to a hospice. Instead he takes her to Mexico and pays a cartel-connected man named Jaime to hire a surgeon to transfer the brain and a cleaner to dispose of the body.
The surgery is a success. Vicki is now autonomous and Ted returns home, using the cover story that an experimental treatment was able to revive his daughter. To keep up the ruse, Vicki must try to mimic humanity, although her enhanced strength, lack of appetite and immunity to pain, fatigue, illness, etc make it challenging, but life seems to be returning to “normal.”
Meanwhile in Mexico, Victoria’s body is discovered by US agents. Jaime is tracked down and arrested. Fearing retribution from the cartel bosses for being captured, Jaime tells the agents that he was hired to dump a package by an American named Ted, but claims he had no idea it was a little girl. The agents open an investigation on Ted and send Agents Juliana and Lynn to find him. They release Jaime to the corrupt local authorities, which are on the take from the cartel. The cartel bosses instruct Jaime that he must tie up loose ends and ensure that nothing can be traced back. Jaime is paired with cartel hitwoman, Harriet and they take off for the us to find and kill Ted.
Film 2
Ted and Vicki are on the run from Investigative Agents, Cartel assassins and must also hide the fact that Vicki is an artificial life form.
Film 3
Vicki’s secret is discovered. She and Ted now have to stop the word from getting out.