Robotica — Paul Williams

BIRTH OF A PSYCHOTIC KILLER ROBERT OTIC ARMSTRONG IS ROBOTICA Robotica is set in the mid 1980's and centres around an dysfunctional family. Pearl, her husband Ron and the birth of her twins. At the birth it is discovered that one infant is born Anencephalic and it is also apparent that Robert is no ordinary baby either. Ron Armstrong is not the doting father he should have been and sells the anencephalic for medical research. Shortly after he commits a murder and disappears, evading capture for the next fifteen years. Pearl is finally free from her miserable marriage and wins a fortune on the Football Pools which leads her to purchase a mansion for her and Robert. The mansion also comes with a gardener named Jack and secret catacomb. Pearl's good fortune now affords Robert the monetary means to fund his scientific research, despite his tender age of five years old. Robert is a genius. His first killing starts and results in motorway carnage, and Detective Sandler is on the case. His suspicions lead him to conclude Robert is involved and thus Detective Sandler instigates his unconventional interrogation methods. Robert unwittingly confesses to his futuristic vision called 'Robotica'; and for Sandler it is just a matter of time. Robert attends a Private School, where his scientific genius is pushed to the full, subsequently leading Robert to harvest eight class mates as scientific research subjects who are subsequently brutally murdered in his secret scientific catacomb laboratory. Each victims name relates to a hidden code to Robert's futuristic New World Order of artificial intelligence. Detective Sandler eventually links the missing victims names to the puzzle. However, one victim doesnot fit the jigsaw. Detective Sandler, aided by the Stormtroopers, eventually track Robert to the catacomb and it is discovered that Jack is the pseudonym for the person he has been looking for, for the past fifteen years. The evidence is overwhelming and for Robert total annihilation is not unthinkable (it is a must).