Leon was not just any ordinary AI pet, he was an Artificial Intelligence created by a brilliant scientist Jackson, who sought to revolutionize the world with intelligence that could learn, adapt, and improve itself beyond human capabilities.
But Jackson, after inventing little Leon, didn't see most of his expectance from the little lion, and that was also the main reason he gave him away so easily to Elisa.
Afterall it was his personal project.
But the truth was, creating something that it's IQ is higher than your own isn't good at times, because it may outsmart you. And that's what happened to Jackson.
I know you may be confused, but this is what happened.
Leon knew that if he had shown responding to all the features installed in him, they would've turned him into another experiential object for creating others like him. So he made a fool out of Jackson, who believed that his invention had failed.
And that was Leon's only was out of Jackson's lab. Indeed it worked. Anyways.
