Success! With the Cat now engaged in Hunter Mode, K wiggles the toy with more erratic movements to simulate prey, just as he learnt to do from Jackson Galaxy cat behaviour studies.

"Before coming out here on this rescue mission, I suggested your human companions try talking to you and asking your name," he says conversationally. He's probably the only person on the island who doesn't think it's weird to talk to animals as though they understand what's being said. Because they usually do, in his experience. And it probably helps, being an android himself and fully knowing other species and non-human beings are capable of intelligence equal to or beyond that of humanity.

"Do you have a name or preferred form of address?" he wonders.