"I've got a lock on her," Molly's guardian said to Dorothy as they ran towards a warehouse just a few buildings away. "Once I knew roughly where she was, it didn't take too long."
"She was being guarded by two men," Dorothy said, giving a brief description of the weapons the thugs had been carrying. The two entered the building without hesitation, moving unerringly to the room where the child was being held.
"Hector!" Molly gave a shout of delight as door flew open. "I knew you'd... Hector! Hector!" She began to cry as the android fell to the ground.
The thug who had incapacitated Hector grabbed Molly roughly. "Let's go," he said, dragging her to the door. Dorothy met him at the doorway and knocked him to the ground with a well-aimed kick. She leapt for the second, successfully wrestling the stun gun away from him before he could use it. She used it on both thugs and turned to Molly, but the child was no longer in the room.
Hector slowly sat up. It was clear he had been badly damaged. Dorothy turned to see if she could assist him but he waved her off. "Go get Molly," he said. "She's up above us."
Dorothy quickly found the child, who was standing on the edge of the building's roof. "They killed him," she was still crying. "Now there will be no one to help me."
"He is damaged but alive," Dorothy told her.
"I don't want to do this any more," Molly wept. "They said they would help me, but Mr. Anderson lied. I don't want to do what he says any more!"
"Roger Smith will help you," Dorothy said with certainty.
"No one can help me," she said. "Will... will you tell Hector that I love him? No! Let go of me!" Dorothy had gotten close enough to grab the child and pull her away from the roof's edge.
Molly kicked and fought with surprising strength, but Dorothy held her firmly. "Roger Smith will help you," she repeated. "I... promise."
"You can't lie, can you?" the little girl asked. "Some androids can lie."
"I can lie," Dorothy said, "but I will never lie to you." She lifted Molly up. "Let's go and see Hector. He was very worried and he'll be happy to see you. We'll bring him to Norman."
"I liked Norman," Molly said, calming.
"Norman knows a lot about androids," Dorothy said and brought her back into the building.