Writer: John Broome

Penciller: Mike Sekowsky

Inker: Bernard Sachs

Synopsis: Star Hawkins tells Ilda that he got a case from the government of Earth to find the ambassador from the Mercurian Galaxy, who had been in town to negotiate peace with Earth, but who disappeared from his hotel room the previous night. Shortly after Star leaves, Ilda receives a message programmed into her that her ten-year period of service is over, and that she is now obsolete and must have herself junked. She puts her affairs in order and heads for Junkyard 18, where the message told her to go. When she gets there, the manager of the junkyard tells her he's busy and will junk her in a while. She listens into the room that the manager is in and discovers that it is he who is holding the ambassador captive in order to perform a scientific experiment on him to turn him into gold. Ilda plugs herself into a large power generator in order to expand her telepathic power and contact Star, who's out of her normal range, to tell him the whereabouts of the Mercurian ambassador, but in the process, she shorts out both herself and the generator. She falls to the ground, fully expecting to never wake up again, but some time later, she does wake up, to find Star telling her that he answered her summons and rescued the ambassador and that her shorting out the generator stopped the gold-making experiment and saved the ambassador's life. He then gives her the better news: that as a reward for her heroism, all robots of her class have been granted ten extra years of life.

Notes: According to Who's Who # 22, this story takes place in the year 2089.

Detective rating: Total, complete, wild coincidence. 1 on a scale of 1 to 10.

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