Doctor Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell) has turned up dead, and it seems that the most likely suspect is the one being who can’t be a suspect at all. There are two reasons for this.

The first is that the law clearly states that murder has happened when one human kills another human, which leads directly to the second reason. The suspect isn’t human. It’s a robot. And according to the Three Laws, a robot should not be able to kill a human, which means that there shouldn’t be anything to investigate – even if the law were to apply here (which it doesn’t).

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David (Lochlyn Munro), an apparently struggling comedian, and his girlfriend Sylvia (Kristin Davis) have stopped in Blacktop for a gig. Blacktop seems to be little more than a truck stop, and it’s never really explained why they need a comedy club there.

But excluding that little gaffe, David hurls his insults in the general direction of the audience, which seems to love the jokes – except for Jack (Meat Loaf), who himself is a trucker, and seems to take particular insult to David’s comments, perhaps because of David’s little ditty when Jack starts to talk to Sylvia.

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