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THE BIAS VIRUS

THE BIAS VIRUS
By Paul Alan Spreadbury

GENRE: Sci-fi, Comedy
LOGLINE:

Symptoms of the dreaded Bias Virus (hate, prejudice, greed, fear) threaten to destroy the human race until an event occurs that gives a quirky band of benevolent aliens an opportunity to save it. 

SYNOPSIS:

From the day the first two earthlings decided to hate each other over a difference in skin color the benevolent Bodegan’s (from the planet Bodega) have been trying to eradicate the dreaded Bias Virus before it destroys the entire human race. The time is now and the Bodegan’s are about to throw in the towel when the overturning of Roe v. Wade gives them an idea. The reversal of the law means America can expect millions of babies no one will want or miss. Babies yet to be infected by the virus!

They enter in a contract with the Earth’s most brilliant specialist in artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics. His job is to build a ‘virus-free’ AI robotic husband and wife and get them an unwanted baby to raise as part of a beta-test for the plan. If the beta-test succeeds the Bodegan’s will order thousands of more couples and take them and all the babies to another Earthlike planet so the human race can start from scratch. The specialist builds Arnie and Irene Beta, sets them up with jobs and a home in San Fernando Valley and arranges for them to receive a Black unwanted baby to raise.

The specialist doesn’t know his clients are aliens with plans to restart the human race on another planet. The aliens don’t know the specialist is a fascist white supremacist with a plan of his own. He’s programmed Arnie and Irene with ‘dormant fascism software’. They’ll pass the beta test, no problem. The order to build thousands more AI robo-couples will come in. All of them will be programmed with the software too. Then, when the kids reach toddler age, the software will kick in and all the robo-parents will brainwash all the kids to accept the white race as the master race and the specialist will rule the world.

Both plans are threatened when Irene’s fascism software springs a leak and the once ultra-WOKE quirky White suburbanite exhibits moments of Karen-like behavior. The specialist and his evil band of fascist lab rats must upload a new hard drive into Irene (effectively killing her). The Bodegans learn of the evil plan and try to save their plan by activating Irene’s artificial intelligence to self-correct the problem. The two sides do battle but in the end, it’s the love Arnie and Irene feel for the baby that causes her artificial intelligence to overwhelm and conquer the virus within her.

(The script includes an original song: How Could Someone Not Want, Someone Like You?)

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