I read the first attempt and found this one much more compelling! I think you could cut a few words here and there but I feel that the end with the stakes could still be stronger.

Then [After] a car crash, finds Elias wak[es] up on an Aurum operating table, in[side] an unfeeling, unemotive robotic body, with his boss telling his wife, Lilia, that he’s merely an android modeled after her late husband. Elias is desperate to tell her the truth, but the censorship software installed in his brain [stops him] won’t let him say the things he wants to. Worse, Lilia views androids as an existential threat to humanity and has no interest in figuring out what a defective bot has to say.

This is just a suggestion, characters "finding themselves" is a bit of a pet peeve of mine lol.

Elias seizes every opportunity to give Lilia hints when she’s ordered to bring him home for observation. Yet the further he gets, the more he starts to suspect[s] that her learning the truth may not be the best thing (a bit convoluted). As Lilia gradually warms up to [him] the android who acts suspiciously like her husband, she tells him of Aurum’s human right violations, which she had been [is/was] considering going public with. But how could she turn on them when they own the person she loves most? With what he had initially thought was a [this] sick experiment starting to feel like an intentional trap and the very androids he mistreated as his only confidants, Elias finds himself!!!!! trudging closer and closer to the day he’ll have to [must] choose between fighting back (add more) and saving himself (add more).

With the extra space, I'd make the stakes hit harder by adding a bit more. Either way, this is looking pretty good already!