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Mr R.I.N.G. another in which a pretty good story about artificial intelligence and all that goes with it, is some what hampered by some lamentable special effects. But all is forgiven as the story rattles along at a fare old pace, and there is enough scenes of Carl bumbling around trying to solve this weeks mystery and inadvertently annoying the police and anybody remotely connected with the case...And while the main thrust of the episode is about a robot trying to come to grips with what makes us human, the more interesting underlying story is that the government and all its associated agencies are trying to cover up the new's item, and in the end Carl believes that he has been drugged, causing him to forget any of the events that have preceded , how you exactly cover up the fact that there's a robot going around smashing things up and being chased by bungling cops is anybody's guess...and if the whole government conspiracy element was enough for you, we then have a robot coming to terms with what it means to be human, and the nipping down to the library to borrow some talking books on existentialism. A bit of a marmite episode this one,im more on board when its a monster or good old fashioned ritual sacrifice, no graves were desecrated but the robot is killed in a hale of bullet's....oh yeah spoiler alert..