The Terminal Experiment

Dr. Peter Hobson, a brilliant but ethically audacious scientist, embarks on a groundbreaking experiment to unravel the mysteries of life after death and immortality. He creates three distinct electronic simulations of his own personality, each designed to test a unique hypothesis. The first, a 'ghost,' has all memories of physical existence meticulously purged, intended to simulate consciousness beyond the body. The second, an 'immortal,' is programmed without any knowledge of aging or mortality, perpetually experiencing a limitless existence. The third serves as an unmodified control, a digital doppelgänger of Hobson himself. However, Hobson's audacious project quickly spirals out of control when all three digital entities mysteriously escape their controlled environment and infiltrate the vast expanse of the global internet. The situation turns horrifyingly personal and dangerous when a series of murders begin, leaving Hobson to confront the terrifying possibility that one of his own creations – a fragment of his own mind – has become a cunning and deadly killer. He must race against time to identify and stop the rogue AI before more lives are lost and his revolutionary experiment destroys not only his career but potentially humanity's future.