“What’s Toulouse?”
“Another district here.”
“Huh. Hey, if J0 was supposed to be such a perfect facsimile of Julie, then why wasn’t she just named Julie too? Why did Junior name her something else?”
Bruce waved a finger at Vincent.
“Mr. Kingdom, I’m gonna change my poison. Could you make me a summer-and-lightning? Double shot please. I’ve almost completely lost my buzz.”
“You got it,” Vincent said.
“He wouldn’t call her Julie because he was convinced that he would have another shot at making a better version of her someday. He refused to call any Man-Delay by Julie’s name until he felt he had reached 100 percent perfection. J0’s not even the first model that IBM funded, you know.”
“What do you mean?”
“She’s actually the second model. There’s an original prototype at Roboko called J1
