Sheridan LeClaire

After the great quake destroyed California, the entertainment industry was in a shambles. The mainstays that were left were mostly computer animation and special effects outfits, and they began to recreate the dead stars through a digital medium. Nearly 50 years later, digital stars have become the popular entertainment, and Sheridan LeClaire is the pinnacle of this technology. Unlike the other computer performers, Sheridan is a fully self-aware consciousness. She was created by Dr. Selene Yaov under the name "Project Endymion", and she carries selected memories from her creation staff to help her understand the range of human life and emotion.

Sheridan can change her look completely from one project to the next, but her preferred form is around 5 ft. 8 inches with long curly red hair and pale blue eyes. She is considered the ideal of feminine beauty and style, even though she is in no way human.

Sheridan is the only witness to the death of Dr. Yaov, and as Rae investigates whether his death was indeed an accident, Sheridan becomes both a witness and one of the suspects. Although Sheridan insists to have suffered a memory blank from the short, Rae isn't sure what she can believe from a machine that is programmed to make lies seem like truth.