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*** That still doesn't quite explain why there are spares of the central memory module in the NOVA vans. The ''one part'' that is essentially irreplaceable, and yet there's at least one in the van, because Number Five was able to build a complete duplicate of himself--albeit admittedly, it was only programmed to run away while screaming incoherently.
**** because it's ''not'' irreplaceable. They have no idea Number Five is sentient and they would need that part to repair him if me memory was damaged (which is their assumptions as to ''why'' he went rogue in the first place) but his body is basically intact.
**** Also I don't think the replacement even screamed, did it? Johnny may have just put together the outward parts, turned on the motor, and let 'er rip. It might not have had even basic programming. Unless it was turning and evading fire, which I haven't seen the movie in long enough to remember if it was, there's no need to believe it even had a computer on board.
* Oscar's diamond theft scheme is completely implausible; ignoring the obvious absurdity of actually ''digging'' your way into a bank vault and smuggling the gems in plastic dinosaurs, he's a ''bank teller'', and he has a ''computer expert'' that once ran a ''fraud scam''. Has neither of these guys ever heard of ''embezzlement''?
** By embezzlement, you mean stealing the money that the bank had on deposit? Yes, but they wanted the jewels for some reason. But considering that it was a well-known collection, they would have to get the gems out of the country, have them re-shaped by an illicit gemcutter (they couldn't be sold as-is, they were too famous), and filter them through multiple fences. It would have been easier to just steal cash or hold the jewels for ransom.
*** There exist plenty of underground buyers who will buy famous works of art for their own personal collection. They may have already had a buyer for the diamonds who wanted them just as they were. They didn't need to be unrecognizable to be resold because they wouldn't be leaving the buyer's private display room.
* Why doesn't Johnny 5 know that he's in a major metropolis until Frank told him? First, he's an input-hungry robot that has already read through the entirety of the encyclopedia and at least one map of the US, so he should be able to recognize if the city he's being sent to is a city. Second, the vast difference between being on a farm and being in a warehouse should've tipped him off that something wasn't right. Third, ''the sounds of city life coming in from just outside the warehouse'' should've been an obvious clue.
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** The military in movies, from the 60s on down, is almost ''proud'' of their nuclear deterrent force's lack of any such measure - which the Russkies might use to somehow thwart "Operation: Gotcha Last" - right up to the moment that The Unthinkable Happens and There's Nothing We Can Do To Stop It. The only difference between this and all the other times is that (they believe) the robot's off to laser some Americans rather than bomb Moscow and start [[WW 3]].
** Actually, if you watch, they try to have him do the shutdown command a few times when they remote link in. It doesn't work because #5 is working off his own programming now and doesn't want to shut down. They basically thought they had a working software failsafe and just didn't think a hardware one was necessary.
*** Besides a hardware one might have had more restrictions, and let's face it, it's a movie... if they'd built in a "shutdown box" Johnny would have just disabled it the first time he thought about it, just like he got rid of his tracker.
* Why does Ben's name change between movies (from Jabituya in 1 to Jahrvi which is pronounced "Javeri" in 2)? It can't be marriage: no ring. It can't be witness protection unless it's a very bad one: he talks openly about Nova Robotics in the second movie.
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