Ghosts In The Machines

A guy named Marcus, a girl with short hair, and myself were staying at some sort of lab where they were experimenting with putting the souls of the deceased inside of machines. One of these machines was my mother. It wasn't a fancy machine like a humanoid robot or anything, just a robot arm like in factories. Apparently it talked and everything though. At first I had been up for the idea until I realized that it was wrong and shouldn't be going on. I told my mother that she could "go" if she wanted to, that she could move on to the next life, and Marcus, myself, and the dark haired girl made plans to escape and save our deceased loved ones. We went to grab some fast food at a drive through (Marcus and I got in my Dodge Neon, and the girl drove a white car) and Marcus went to get some new shoes. Later on, a cop was asking us about Marcus as he had stolen some shoes. We eventually went back to the lab and the head lady was having a fit because someone had interfered with the experiment. She yelled at myself and Dark Haired Girl and said we aren't allowed to eat together. Later, she tried to butter me up and took me into a room full of every stuffed animals I'd ever owned, and I was feeling very nostalgic. I picked up several and hugged them and looked them over. My favorite was a puppy, I think. I got a call later on that was supposedly from my mother. She talked to me and was supposedly feeling better, but I happened to peer around a corner and see that it was either the security guard or the head lady who was faking the voice. I made up my mind then and there to get out and to save my mother. I took one look at my stuffed animals, and probably was going to take the favorite (and a couple more with me), and began plotting my escape.