Here Is the Idea: The Award-Winning Dog and Philip K. Dick's Robot Head Are Buddies Who Are Cops Who Fight Crime

Data point number one:

Show dog disappearance creates urban legend

In the nine months since escaping her travel cage at Kennedy Airport, Vivi the wayward whippet has joined the Central Park coyote, high-rise tiger, Harlem Meer caiman and Molly the fugitive feline in New York's ever-growing pantheon of urban animal legends.

She was reported dozens of times, roaming cemeteries with other dogs, or hanging around stores in the borough of Queens, in some cases miles from the tarmac where she disappeared while awaiting a flight home to California on February 15…

Ninja flip. Data point number two, somewhat older:

Google invited Hanson and Olney to demo the [Philip K. Dick] head at company headquarters in Silicon Valley. Hanson had been traveling for weeks, making two trips to Asia and pulling 15 all-nighters in 40 days. "I got on the plane in Dallas at 5 in the morning, after getting maybe 45 minutes of sleep the night before," he recalls. "I stuck the bag containing the robot head in the overhead bin and fell asleep. I didn't even know we were changing planes in Las Vegas. The flight attendant woke me up, and I walked off the plane in a fog — with the robot head still in the overhead bin"…

Hanson suspects the head was either stolen by an unscrupulous baggage handler or fell victim to an overzealous security guard who called in a bomb squad. "That would be a really strange ending," Hanson says, "if the head of a Philip K. Dick robot wound up being exploded by another robot."

In conclusion, I have an idea for a movie.