in the book Surrogates,there is a human like robot that is trying to take down the surrogates.surrogates are like a real life avatar they walk and talk like a real person, accept we control them. there is a man that wants to make the world real again. he is constantly trying to find a way to restore humanity so he creates an EMP. this electro magnetic wave can disrupt any kind of electrical signal in the area without effecting humans or structures. He believes that he is cleansing the world.
the main character is a detective with a wife who uses a surrogate and he keeps telling her he loves her not the surrogate.he finds out that the man wants to stop surrogates he is happy but needs to stop him.so he stakes out on the roof top of the EMP station and waits. finally he comes and they fire every thing at him. its too late before they could pull the trigger and it ends all surrogates even himself.
when he goes home he goes to his wife's room to only find out she had committed suicide because she didn't like her real self.
