Regurgitated Reminiscence

"**Regurgitated Reminiscence**" is the ninth episode of the first season of Elliott from Earth and the fifth episode in Chapter Two, written by Guillaume Cassuto, Mic Graves, Tony Hull, Joe Markham, and Joe Parham. It aired on April 1st, 2021 in the United States.

## Synopsis

Elliott and Mo go to great lengths to retrieve Frankie's old coffee machine.

## Plot

At home, Elliott reveals that he bought a futuristic new coffee maker for Frankie. Frankie is happy with it, but asks why got it in the first place. Elliott eventually reluctantly admits that he broke the old coffee maker, after dropping it on the ground when he tried to use it to help Mo discover "what an echo tastes like". Frankie tells Elliott that they could have fixed it and that something isn't useless just because it's a little broken, and says she wants the old coffee maker back.

Outside, Elliott returns to Mo and tells him that they need to find the old coffee maker. As they search for ideas on how to find it, the duo stumbles upon an Info Droid who can give them directions. The droid directs them to a business which can supposedly get their old item back. After Elliott and Mo carry the droid along with them into the city, due to being unable to memorize the long address of the store, they finally arrive at the shop and enter it.

Inside, the shop's owner Noam greets them theatrically, and explains that he can conjure up any old item they think of. Elliott tries thinking of favorite meal and a childhood toy, but thinks of both things at once, causing Noam to generate a toy made of meat. Noam then tells Elliott that he has to focus, and Elliott brings up the coffee machine. They try again, only to find that the copy of the coffee maker is blurry due to Elliott never paying attention to it before. Mo decides to give it a try, but thinks of the cactus next to the coffee machine instead. After many other failed attempts, all of which end up blurred or faulty, Noam tells them that they're better off trying to find the original item in the recycling area instead. As Elliott and Mo leave, though, Noam demands five million credits as payment. Elliott is able to trick Noam into using his own ability to create that amount of credits, and Noam reluctantly accepts it as payment before closing for the day.

Elliott and Mo head to the recycling center by entering the vehicle that collects recycling. Inside, Elliott sees that Mo spent his time in the recycling vehicle creating a fake makeshift set of armor for himself and pretending to be "Recyclotron" rather than searching for the coffee maker. Once Mo begins searching, Elliott introduces himself to the discarded droids, including a night light that glowed too brightly, a vacuum cleaner that sucked up everything, and a droid named Z-8 with a habit of lying. Elliott explains to them why he's there, and learns that all of the machines in there were thrown out because they were broken.

Just as Mo returns while happily declaring that he found the old coffee maker, the recycling vehicle begins moving, and Z-8 reveals that they're on the way to be vaporized at the recycling center. Elliott panics, but is surprised to see that the machines have all already accepted that they'll be thrown away and destroyed. Mo mentions what Frankie said before, that just because something is broken doesn't mean it's entirely useless, and Elliott is motivated by it to rally the machines to escape.

Using the defective abilities of the machines, the group attempts to escape through the entrance in the ceiling, but end up falling to the floor. They then manage to repurpose the broken coffee maker, and use it along with a defective night light to create a laser-like beam and burn a hole into the wall. The group all escapes together, jumping through the hole, only to land in a regular sorting center without any vaporizers. Z-8 reveals that he was kidding about everything he'd said about vaporization, leaving Elliott exasperated. Mo, meanwhile, asks the workers at the recycling center if they can fix the machines. The workers do so with ease, allowing for the droids to all work properly again. Elliott asks if Z-8 can be fixed too, only for Z-8 to mourn the fact that his inability to fly is unfixable—before promptly saying that he was just kidding again, and flying away.