[Gemma, Sophie and Cady sitting at the table and eating dinner]
Gemma: Listen, girls, um... I have this project at work that's kind of overdue and with all the time that I had to take off last week, I'm not sure I'm gonna get it done. Anyway, it's not gonna take longer that a couple of hours, but if you could just hold down the fort by yourselves for a little while, that would help me so much. You can use my iPad, if you want. You can FaceTime a friend or play a game or something.
Cady: What about screen time?
Gemma: Hmm?
Cady: Sophie doesn't use iPad, but I do. How long before I have to turn it off?
Gemma: Oh, I don't care, as long as you want. I mean, I'm not gonna be gone that long. I'll just be down the hall. And, uh, when I'm done, we can go out somewhere. We can go to a playground or... get something to eat. Okay?
[Cady nodding]
Sophie: Can I... ask for something?
Gemma: Yeah, go ahead.
Sophie: I can draw kind of... nice, at least that's what Mom said, so... can I draw and show you some of my drawings?
Gemma: Of course you can. We'll watch it all together, if you want.
Sophie: Thanks.
Gemma: No problem.
[time skip, Gemma's in her home workroom, trying to prepare a Petz protype, Sophie comes in with a drawing, Gemma notices her]
Gemma: Oh, Sophie, I'm sorry. Come here.
[Sophie comes in, she shows Gemma her drawing]
Gemma: What is this? Did you draw a picture? Oh, my God. This is amazing.
Sophie: I'm still working on it.
Gemma: Tell me.
Sophie: It was actually supposed to be a different animal for each head.
Gemma: Mm-hmm.
Sophie: Like, this one was supposed to be a tiger.
Gemma: Mm.
Sophie: And this one was supposed to be a grizzly bear, but I can never seem to get the fur right.
Gemma: Mm. It's hard. I can relate.
[Cady silently coming into the room]
Cady: Gemma? Sophie?
Gemma: Oh, Cady. Nice to see you. Sophie drew a painting.
[Cady coming to them, Sophie showing her painting]
Cady: That's really good. I wish I'd draw like you.
Sophie: Thanks.
Gemma: I've actually been working with some furry creatures myself. Do you wanna see? Yeah?
[Sophie and Cady nodding]
Gemma: So, working on a version of the Perrpetual Pet that's cheaper. We still want it to be fun. So, what do you two think? Yeah.
[the girls notice Bruce standing on the left]
Sophie: What's that?
Gemma: Oh. That's Bruce.
Sophie: Is he a toy?
Gemma: Yeah, kinda. He's a proxy robot. I built him when I was in college.
Sophie: Why doesn't he have a face?
Gemma: Yeah, I know what you mean. It's a pretty obvious design flaw. Okay, hold on. Let me see what we have.
[Gemma looking in the cache, she finds a goggles, she puts it on Bruce' face]
Gemma: See about this. How's that?
[Cady and Sophie laughing happily]
Gemma: Would you maybe want to talk to him?
Cady: Yes.
Gemma: Okay.
[Gemma takes out gloves, she puts it on and activates Bruce, Bruce follows Gemma's moves]
Gemma: Hey, girls, what's up? Give me five.
[Cady and Sophie giving Bruce five]
Gemma: Ouch, not so hard.
Sophie: How does he work?
Gemma: Are you sure you want to know? It might freak you out.
Cady: We won't get freaked out.
Gemma: Okay.
[Gemma disactivates Bruce and puts the gloves to the cache]
Gemma: Let's see what we've got here.
[Gemma openes Bruce' face]
Gemma: Okay. These are stereoscopic cameras. That is a laser. That's radar. These are bump sensores, so he can tell the difference between a human and a hard surface. And this little block right here is where all of his thoughts go.
Sophie: It's his brain?
Gemma: Yeah. And this is a spectrometer, which means he can even smell.
Cady: I can't believe you made this.
Gemma: Yeah. He's pretty cool. But the problem with toys like Bruce is that they're so expensive that most kids can't afford to have one.
Sophie: If I had a toy like Bruce, I don't think I'd ever need another toy again.
[Gemma gets an inspiration to create M3GAN]