An android home companion will clean the apartment, prepare dinner, and support the conversation on topics that interest you. And will fulfill any of your sexual fantasies. But the models are becoming more and more advanced and the line between a doll mindlessly carrying out programmed programs and a creature that can have its own opinion about what is happening is becoming thinner. I wonder how then it will react to the “cute pranks” of its owner? Here we have a mixture of science fiction and detective fiction on the theme of a murder committed by a robot. The identity of the killer is not in doubt, but the question remains: why did he kill? And the answer—in a text that not only pays homage to Isaac Asimov's robot stories, but also serves as a commentary on the world beyond those stories—will not only have broad implications for society at large, but will also create unexpected resonance in the investigator's personal life .