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In the intervening years after the events of the first film, Delta City has become fully owned and operated by OCP, while Robocop/Alex Murphy (Fletcher) has remained in service for over a decade. Murphy's also showing his age, and is scheduled to be retired by OCP because his parts are out of warranty. In addition, his now-grown son James has become an OCP executive, and his old partner John Cable has returned to the city to become the company's new security commander. By the end of the first episode, Robo is forced to kill Cable, who is subsequently reborn as Robocable, the second prototype for the once-defunct Robocop program. Murphy teams up with an anarchist group led by Ann R. Key ([[
The production was filmed and produced in [[California Doubling|Toronto, Canada]], and featured a number of well-known Canadian actors. Richard Eden (who played the title character on ''Robocop: The Series'') was asked to reprise his role, but backed out. The producers hired Page Fletcher instead, who devised his own movement system to reflect where the character was at that point in his life.
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* [[Darker and Edgier]]: After the 1994 television series, the creators of ''Prime Directives'' went the other way and loaded the miniseries with just as much violence (implied/on-screen) as the films, including such instances as an extended sequence where Murphy and Cable discover a man who's been butchering young women and many other people being blown to pieces, shot and vaporized.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Kaydick was fired by OCP for illegal experiments, so he decides to get back at them by creating a nanite virus and killing all organic matter in Detroit.
* [[Drunk
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Detroit is now stuck in total darkness (thanks to {{spoiler|Robo-Cable activating the EMP}}), and several people have died to stop the corrupted S.A.I.N.T. computer program from destroying the city, but Murphy does get to make up for lost time with his son and continue in his role as a protector, free of his overriding directives.
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]
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