The Files of Inspector Brain and Professor Killroy Deathray concern the investigations of LA detective Inspector Brain, a man who always follows his gut and always plays by his own rules, and his robotic sidekick Professor Killroy Deathray.
Originally built as a bar-tending robot, he earned his robo-Ph.D in the workings of the universe. He was then fixed with a ray gun by the robot overlords and sent to work in the LA Police Department as a spy. He ultimately developed a mutual respect for seasoned detective Inspector Brain. Upon developing sentience, Professor Killroy Deathray realized that the annihilation of the human race was unjustifiable and he and Inspector Brain teamed up to stop it. They flew to the robot overlords' space station and destroyed the robot overlords and their supply of liver-targeting nerve gas. Eventually they moved into the space station and became roommates.
Their boss is the hard-drinking, by-the-books Irish veteran Chief O'Malley.
I have developed some bare-bones plot descriptions for their first few novels:
Inspector Brain and Professor Killroy Deathray investigate a murdered bear found on Sunset Blvd. Their investigation leads them to a race of genetically-superior nocturnal bears that wear pants and do aerobics. Inspector Brain and Professor Killroy Deathray argue in favor of Bear Rights in front of the Senate. They move every senator to tears, including the bear-hating Texas senator. By the end of this adventure, Inspector Brain and Professor Killroy Deathray achieve global harmony with humans and bears, but agree with the Texas senator that separate drinking fountains should be installed.
When the core of the Earth goes missing, Inspector Brain and Professor Killroy Deathray are called in by Barack Obama to investigate. They discover a plot by a multi-national corporation to destroy the planet and make big bucks. In a race against the clock, Inspector Brain and Professor Killroy Deathray must return the core before the Earth becomes a giant snowball. In the explosive climax, beluga whales carry the core back to the center of the Earth, emphasizing the importance of beluga whales in our everyday lives.
When a man falls off the moon and lands in Brain's jurisdiction, Inspector Brain and Professor Killroy Deathray go to the moon to investigate. There, they are shocked to discover the conditions the moon-miners live in, living in hovels and often ending up in debt to the company store. After ruling the man's death a suicide, Inspector Brain and Professor Killroy Deathray attend his funeral. In the middle of the funeral, the coffin opens up and the CEO of the mining company climbs out. He announces that everyone in attendance is fired for missing work. Inspector Brain and Professor Killroy Deathray help the miners storm the corporate headquarters. They make their way to the CEO where they demand their jobs back and a raise. The episode ends with a message about the importance of paying permanent workers a living wage.
When an assassination attempt on Barack Obama barely fails, Inspector Brain and Professor Killroy Deathray are called in to investigate. They track the assassin to the deep south and discover that the Ku Klux Klan are behind it. Inspector Brain gives a speech about the forward momentum of society and the antiquated nature of racism while Professor Killroy Deathray sneaks up behind them and shoots them all. They bury them all in a mass grave. The novel ends with Barack Obama giving a speech about how we must bury America's racist past and learn to be tolerant of everyone.
After a string of rapes plagues the downtown LA area, Inspector Brain and Professor Killroy Deathray track the rapist down. When they find him they discover a small museum of beautiful paintings based on the rapes. Upon discovering them, Inspector Brain explain to the painter the importance of drawing on imagination when depicting something like rape and the power art has to transform convicts into peaceful members of society. The novel ends with a message on the importance of the National Endowment for the Arts.
In the most exciting adventure of Inspector Brain and Professor Killroy Deathray yet, Professor Killroy Deathray discovers his long-lost twin brother, Loveroy Liveray (reach down, God, give me a high five!), is up to something. Having grown up an orphan with no Boys and Girls Club to go to after school, Loveroy Liveray plans to make Mount St. Helen erupt and wipe out all existence on Earth after knocking Inspector Brain unconscious during their first encounter. It's up to Professor Killroy Deathray to come to terms with his own abandonment issues, stop his brother and convince the citizens of LA County to donate to their local Boys and Girls Club.
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I like this trend of me posting everything that falls out of my senile brain.
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