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* GreenEyedMonster: Colonel Butler admits to sabotaging [=McCoy=]'s transfer process out of jealousy, in a deliberate attempt to kill him.
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* LivingOnBorrowedTime: While [=McCoy=] is having his mind transferred into the android, he is hit with a surge of electricity, stopping his heart. Unable to return to his original body, he then learns that he only has 12 hours before his mind is erased.

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* LivingOnBorrowedTime: While [=McCoy=] is having his mind transferred into the android, he is hit with a surge of electricity, stopping his heart. Unable to return to his original body, he then learns that he only has 12 hours before his mind is erased.erased.
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* BrainUploading: The US military is able to temporarily transfer the mind of a soldier named Captain Cotter [=McCoy=] into an indestructible android body. Their long-term goal is to use hundreds, if not thousands, of these androids with human minds on the battlefield. Two other unspecified countries are conducting similar experiments.

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* BrainUploading: The US military is able to temporarily transfer the mind of a soldier named Captain Cotter [=McCoy=] into an indestructible android body. Their long-term goal is to use hundreds, if not thousands, of these androids with human minds on the battlefield. Two other unspecified countries are conducting similar experiments.experiments.
* LivingOnBorrowedTime: While [=McCoy=] is having his mind transferred into the android, he is hit with a surge of electricity, stopping his heart. Unable to return to his original body, he then learns that he only has 12 hours before his mind is erased.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' A great philosopher once said, "The endeavor to persist in its own being is the essence of the individual thing." But when the day comes that the mind and body can be separated... what will happen to the soul?

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-->'''The Control Voice:''' A great philosopher once said, "The endeavor to persist in its own being is the essence of the individual thing." But when the day comes that the mind and body can be separated... what will happen to the soul?soul?

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* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: In the final scene, Captain Cotter [=McCoy=] attends his own funeral in the body of Colonel Pete Butler.
* BrainUploading: The US military is able to temporarily transfer the mind of a soldier named Captain Cotter [=McCoy=] into an indestructible android body. Their long-term goal is to use hundreds, if not thousands, of these androids with human minds on the battlefield. Two other unspecified countries are conducting similar experiments.

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A soldier volunteers to have his mind implanted in a robot, but things go wrong.

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-->'''The Control Voice:''' Since our earliest beginnings, we have always believed in some form of transcendence. But when we finally discover how to transcend our own biological bodies, what exactly will we gain... and what will we leave behind?

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-->'''The Control Voice:''' A great philosopher once said, "The endeavor to persist in its own being is the essence of the individual thing." But when the day comes that the mind and body can be separated... what will happen to the soul?
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