A seemingly normal young boy is found abandoned on a mountain road and adopted by a family who are increasingly amazed by his abilities before discovering the secret behind his real identity.
A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home. In the meantime, they notice that the boy seems to have certain special abilities, not usually found in kids his age, or even fully-grown adults.—Murray Chapman <[email protected]>
D.A.R.Y.L. is a sci-fi drama about a super-intelligent, 10 year-old, android boy named Daryl (Data Analysing Robot Youth Lifeform). The mysterious and miraculous boy possessed a computer brain and an organic body, he was created as a government experiment in artificial intelligence (AI). After he was freed by sympathetic scientist Dr. Mulligan, amnesiac Daryl lived with adoptive foster parents, a childless couple named the Richardsons, for awhile. With them, he learned human socialization skills and traits, and some new emotional responses. Once Daryl's whereabouts were discovered, he was returned to the government facility that he was freed from, to be examined by military scientists. After completion of several "Test" some of the scientists and the military judged the D.A.R.Y.L. experiment to be a failure - Daryl was only considered to be a faulty, malfunctioning, and "expensive piece of hardware." A decision was made by the military establishment to terminate the project - which meant destroying Daryl. The military and chiefs of staff actually wanted to create an "adult version" of the D.A.R.Y.L. prototype to be a fearless and technically-skilled soldier.—Ty Shell
A man drives a car with a boy dangerously through a narrow mountain road chased by a helicopter. He leaves the boy near the woods and continues driving until he commits suicide, driving the car off a cliff and falling in a river. An elderly couple finds the boy and delivers him to an orphanage in Barkenton. The doctor examines Daryl and realizes that he has partial amnesia, but is healthy. The director Howie Fox offers his friends Andy Richardson and Joyce Richardson, who are in the waiting list to adopt a child, to foster Daryl until their parents are located. Daryl shows a great intelligence and befriends Turtle Fox, who becomes his best friend, and his sister Sherie Lee Fox and their mother Elaine Fox. Daryl is loved by his foster family and friends, but out of the blue, his real parents Dr. Jeffrey Stewart and Ellen Lamb arrive in Barkenton to bring their son back home. Daryl returns to a laboratory where he learns that he is a prototype of biological experiment with artificial intelligence and D.A.R.Y.L. is indeed an acronym for "Data-Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform". When General Graycliffe learns what happened to Daryl, he orders to abort the project and destroy the prototype.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
