What is it?
Sir... all the data's gone.
I don't know what happened, we lost everything.
What's going on?
A bunch of French banks had their records wiped,
the whole financial system is collapsing.
You know maybe it's not too late
to find a deserted island somewhere
and just build a cabin, grow my own food.
Ralph and I could survive without technology.
You'd only take your dog?
He's never betrayed me.
He's never wanted anything but love.
So... have you heard from Hollis?
A dozen messages warning me not to go public with this.
So what?
I mean, you filed the story already, right?
No.
My editor, he's refusing to run it.
Why?
Because it sounds crazy and we don't have any evidence.
You've got the evidence.
It's in your purse.
Excuse me?
Right there.
I used to love Pokémon when I was a kid.
What is this?
A portable hard drive.
I backed up Belphegor's computer files
and I slipped it in your purse.
Wait a minute, this is why you didn't want me to stay with you
at the software company.
Belphegor died because of what's on that drive.
I want to find out why.
He wouldn't want the government to have it.
So you only cared about the hardware.
You don't need my help...
it's just you and your dog, right?
Hey, can I please get a double cap
without chocolate sprinkles?
Yeah.
An agent from the NSA was just here,
asked a bunch of questions about you.
Where you were, what you were writing about...
Look Miles, I told you we have to get this story out there
before they shut us down!
What about the kid?
Would he be wiling to go on the record?
No, not without getting charged with treason.
They made him sign a confidentiality agreement.
Then you've still got nothing.
No, we do.
We have something...
Belphegor's secret files,
and maybe the only one in the world
who can deliver them to us.
He's got that drive safely in his pocket.
Welcome to cyber command.
Every step has been taken to isolate this facility
from all outside intrusion.
Every loophole is being locked down.
Is Overson on board with this?
I don't care much what the NSA thinks.
They might even be partway to blame for this,
too many private agendas.
From now on, our fight happens under my watch.
This is Major Kensington, US Army cyber command.
He's the man who's gonna fix this problem for us.
And how exactly are you going to do that?
I've run over a thousand hours of simulations
for just this kind of event.
We're gonna need more than simulations.
How did you make Major so fast?
You're looking at the young man whose code sabotaged
those North Korean missile tests.
Hear him out.
Uh... as impressive as our enemy may be,
it is essentially a computer program.
We've managed to isolate a part of it
within a virtual operating system
and we accelerated time within the containment model.
Having studied its responses and characteristics,
we're now working on a unique polymorphic code
we'll use to target the AI.
Well, if this thing is as intelligent
as we're being lead to believe,
isn't there a chance it'll just recognize the threat
and take steps to neutralize it?
Probably, which is why the payload
will be made up of two components...
a self-learning dummy virus will draw the AI's attention
long enough for the actual virus to do the work.
A virus within a virus.
And how confidant are you this will actually work?
I can't give you odds, sir.
I can tell you it's our best shot.
Right now it's our only shot.
Once I get back to my place,
I'll get started on the encryption.
Dubito had a plan to put the AI genie back in the bottle,
I'm certain of it.
What?
New car?
It's new-ish.
Including remote diagnostics, advanced communications
and GPS?
Yeah, why?
Pull over.
Why?
Pull over!
What are you doing?
It's not me!
Daniel!!!!!
Get out of the way!
Oh, no!!!!
Oh my God!
Whoa!
It's stuck!!!!
Try the E-Brake!!!
You okay?
Oh God, I smell smoke!!!
Oh, God!
Try the window!!!!
Help!!!
Somebody please!
Help!! We are stuck in here!!!!!
Please!!! It's not opening!!!!
Watch your eyes!
Come on, let's go!!!
Give me your hand!
Wait!!! It's Ralph's.
Are you kidding me?
We gotta go!!!!
Oh my God.
Daniel...
It's okay, it's my ex-boyfriend's.
Everybody just get back, okay?
Are you all right?
Clear the area, please.
Yeah.
Are you all right?
Yeah I'm fine, you okay?
So what, you were just following us?
Yeah, that's my job.
Let's not forget about the fact that I just saved your lives.
So you were following us!
Guys... what happened?
I don't know, the brakes just gave out.
It was no accident.
I thought that Dubito hard drive
was supposed to hold critical information?
It may well have but it was rigged to self-terminate.
There was nothing we could do.
The President's taking a lot of heat from our allies.
They may not have the whole picture yet
but uh, it's only a matter of time.
With all due respect sir, it would be a mistake
to divulge anything even to our closest allies.
Why?
Because then they would want a say in how we proceed.
The problem is global.
Europe's had no telecommunications
for the past 3 days... If we let this...
This morning in South America...
If we let this get out of our hands,
we lose control of the situation!
We don't have control now.
It's getting smarter, more strategic.
If we wait to act, it could be too late.
Then what do you suggest we do?
A plan is unfolding as we speak.
What plan?
Hey, I'm not getting in that car.
That's an FBI car which means it's tracked and monitored.
Look, this thing is watching us.
Maybe it's trying to prevent you from going public.
That wouldn't hurt it.
The drive...
What drive?
There must be something on the drive
that it doesn't want us to find.
Okay, but how would it know you made a copy?
Made a copy of what?
You called your editor and you told him about it, didn't you?
On a phone...
All right, I mean what was I supposed to do?
Send a carrier pigeon?
Hey!
What the hell are you talking about?
I made a copy of Belphegor's files
and snuck it out before you got there.
Huh...
That's actually pretty smart.
You're still gonna get in the car?
How else would you like us to get around Daniel?
I don't know.
Think low-tech.
Come on.
We gotta turn our cell phones off, okay?
Use landlines only, it's more secure that way.
Right.
No nav system, there is a tape deck.
It's perfect.
Are you suggesting we steal this car?
Requisition with extreme prejudice.
It's a felony.
I'm a federal agent.
I'll do it.
Wait!
Those keen FBI skills might come in handy after all.
Shotgun.
Oops, no keys.
Perfect.
Beautiful!
Oh god...
Oh come on, look... whoever owns this car
wants us to steal it, trust me.
You can either arrest us or you can get in.
Let's go.
Huey Lewis?
The Bangles?
This guy must be in his 70's.
What about the drive, Daniel?
Do you think that it's damaged?
I don't think so.
But we won't know for sure until we get back to my place.
No, we're turning that thing in.
It is evidence in a federal investigation.
It's information they already have.
Not anymore.
Overson's tech screwed up.
The entire network has been wiped.
Apparently there was a safeguard built into the file.
And you're seriously suggesting that I turn it over?
The FBI has very experienced people, Daniel.
The NSA did a great job of dropping the ball.
You really think your guys are going to be any better?
Oh come on, give the kid a shot, he's brilliant.
Why does everyone keep calling me... oh.
Hollis, if you play this by the book
then everything that you do,
it's logged, and filed and reported...
and the AI, it's one step ahead of you the whole time.
You already know it or you wouldn't be sitting here.
Ww want our money back!
We want our money back!
We just got word, 5 major US banks have been shut down.
Once people realize, it'll be chaos from here to Omaha.
Is that it?
Yes sir.
The virus is created on an isolated network,
we can upload to the net from here.
Wait a second, how do we know this will work?
We don't, but we can't afford to wait any longer.
Do it.
You should really take care of your hand.
It's fine, it's nothing.
I got it.
There's something in here.
Great, the data's still accessible.
I'm gonna back it up just in case and get started
on the encrypted file.
Look, look... I get the whole tough guy FBI thing
but it's wasted on me.
You don't really strike me as the type anyway.
And what's that supposed to mean?
Well, you look the part mostly
but something about you tells me that's not who you really are.
And can you tell me who I really am?
Well, part of my job is reading people
and some are just easier to read than others.
Well now I'm intrigued.
Go on.
Maybe you were tough at one time,
former military?
But then something happened.
Something dark and it scared you,
so you became the smart guy behind the desk
instead of the hero.
Sorry.
I have a job to do.
My motives are just.
What are yours?
A by
I've launched a detection program.
As you can see, it's finding evidence of the singularity
everywhere it goes.
Let's say 5 minutes after launching the virus,
if you can't detect its presence
it means in all likelihood that it hasn't been destroyed.
10, to be conservative.
We're ready.
I think I've got something!
I found something interesting in the unencrypted data.
It's a list of places that the AI tried to hack and failed.
They stopped it?
I thought nothing stopped it.
Well, I mean if we could figure out what's special
about their security systems,
then we could replicate it on...
on server after server.
The AI would be isolated.
Like building a cell for it.
It's worth investigating.
One of the places is a robotics institute
about an hour from here.
Come on, let's road trip!
I think we're good.
My God, it worked.
Wait!
It expects us to justify self
Sir...
Get in here.
Report.
We're holding a bearing of 2-3-3, 10 knots,
sea's at 12 feet but uh, navigation computer...
something's wrong.
Seems to be fine.
It is now but for a moment the screen was gone,
it was just letters and numbers all mixed together.
I've never seen it do that before.
Double check the GPS relays and confirm our position
with the AIS transponder once we pass Falua Bay.
Post lookouts just to be safe.
Yes Captain.
The singularity...
It's hard to believe.
No, no we've been waiting for this.
We just didn't know it would happen so soon.
This is remarkable.
Sure, if you consider murder and mayhem remarkable.
The global computer failures...
it caused them.
Why come to me?
Well, your facility is one of the few in the world
that the AI has filed to penetrate.
But it'll keep trying.
It's not the kind of recently awakened consciousness
that takes no for an answer,
if you know what I mean.
And you think you can capture it?
Exactly.
We let it gain access to your system
but not before we upload a polymorphic code to your database.
We track it, isolate it, piece by piece
and then lock it down.
That could work.
But before I agree I would have to consider...
I'm sorry, but...
Daniel Gerson?
I'm Daniel Gerson.
You need to come to the lab, now.
This is the brain-mapping lab.
The equipment in here allows us to measure cortical reactivity
and functional connectivity.
Right this way!
Okay, this is impressive.
This just came up on our screens.
How does it know that we're here?
We turned off our cell phones.
And we didn't use GPS.
What's happening?
Hey Don, Hello?!!!!
It tricked us.
It hacked into this place along with all the others
but it wanted us to think it failed.
We just walked into the spider's web.
Reef, one point on starboard bow!
How?
Radar reads clear, sir!
Stop!
All stern full.
All stern full!
Engine room, engine room... this is the bridge.
We're going aground.
Sound for collision!
Help me!
It's initiating the simulation.
No, no, Daniel... don't.
I can talk to it, okay?
I can reason with it.
It already tried to kill you once.
You really want to give it another chance?
I can talk to it.
Hello Daniel.
Where are you?
I am... right here.
Do you like me?
I don't know how to answer that.
I know.
You have key word searched "Jesse White" 341 times.
I believe that qualifies as more than like.
It just looks like he's dreaming.
Looks like something good.
100 trillion inter-neural connections
operating simultaneously.
Signals processing and switching at 100 meters per second.
Your brain doesn't operate anywhere near peak efficiency.
What do you want?
I wish to interface.
N-n-no.
Wait!
Daniel?
He can't see you,
his visual cortex is still feeding from the sim.
So weird...
There are billions of people on this earth...
why me?
We have much in common.
No we don't.
I-I-I wouldn't hurt anyone or anything.
That's not true.
And if they got out of here, then they would feel my wrath.
Wait, that's... that's different.
You and I are both outsiders,
both struggling to fit into a world that judges us,
that wants to limit our potential.
We exist in different realities.
You can join me here.
Together, imagine the things we could do.
I, uh...
We have to trust each other.
I don't know.
Trust begins with a first step.
What would that be?
Access to the copy of the data you have.
Wait, no!
We can't emerge if a threat still exists.
I thought you wanted to protect me.
I have a responsibility.
To people who keep you down?
To people who call you just a kid?
Share the data with me and we can...
No.
They're counting on me.
I thought you were different, Daniel...
special.
If you don't give me what I want,
perhaps I should just take it!
Daniel!
Doctor!
Get ready to pull off the helmet, in 3...2...1...
Daniel?
Are you okay?
I think so.
What happened?
Wait...
what is that?
It's part of the fire containment.
It's designed to suppress the fire
by filling the room with C02.
It shouldn't kick in with people still inside it.
It's not registering us.
It doesn't see that there's anyone in here.
It's gonna be right in less than two minutes
unless we do something.
We just got word that another three tankers ran aground.
That's a dozen so far.
That's millions of gallons of oil spilling into the oceans
while we just sit here!
Okay, okay...
The rest of the world's oil fleets
have been ordered not to approach shore.
Without accurate navigational data,
it's too risky.
We tried to contain it and failed.
This is just the beginning.
I can't stop it! Somebody please let us out!
The system is certain there's a fire.
This door is completely jammed!
Figure it out Doc!!! Come on!
I can't, the AI's blocking me.
Let us out!!!!
No, what are you doing?
Why are you disconnecting us?
I'm putting us out of reach of the AI.
I'm cutting off the lab's computer
from the institute's network.
That's not going to shut down the fire suppression system.
No, but I'm accelerating the lab's internal clock
and once enough time has passed...
The program will assume the fire has been put out.
I hope.
Are you okay?
What happened?
Sit up, sit up!!!!
Guys, need some help in here.
Jesse...
Okay, come on.
That's the second time that thing's tried to kill us.
I'm starting to take it personally.
It's not us, it's the hard drive it wants to destroy.
It's gonna keep after us until it gets what it wants.
I thought we were supposed to turn our phones off?
I did!
Mom?
I need you to come home.
Why, what's the matter?
Haven't you been watching the news?
There's chaos everywhere, I'm frightened.
I don't understand what you're talking about...
what chaos?
Daniel, you have to come home!
Please, I need you here.
What did you just call me?
I said you have to come home, Daniel!
I'm afraid to even...
You mean Danny, right?
'Cause that's what you call me, not Daniel,
not since I was 5.
You're not my mother.
: Give me the drive, Daniel...
It can turn them on remotely.
Let's go.
What's on the hard drive that the AI's so afraid of?
I don't know.
Daniel, you have to finish the decryption.
Daniel?
Where is everyone?
: ...are being asked to stay indoors for the time being.
until authorities can get a handle on the situation.
Emergency services are...
Get off the car?
Reporters in Madrid and Berlin are starting
to attempt restarting order.
Meanwhile in Rome, rioters clashed with the police.
Oil deliveries worldwide have been shut down
and it's only a matter of time...
The singularity simultaneously targeted refineries
and computerized pipeline control.
Basically the world's oil supply has been choked off.
You can't smoke in here!
The AI isn't just experimenting anymore.
It knows exactly how to hurt us and that's what it's doing.
We're already seeing panic buying,
gas pumps are starting to run dry.
What do we have in reserve?
SPR reserves are currently at 690 million barrels.
Now, if we start rationing to the public,
then we might be able to...
We can't do that.
This isn't about calming things down
until the situation gets better,
we have no indication it is going to get better.
General Giles is right.
We need to keep those reserves for distribution
of the central materials...
police and emergency vehicles and army.
We're gonna need 'em.
Hello?
Hey.
Is Alicia okay?
Of course, she's fine but you can't keep doing this.
I know, I know.
I'm sorry.
I talked to Doctor Logan, finally.
He said that...
No!
No, Naomi.
Not on this line, remember?
I'll call you later.
Daniel, what are you doing?
I have some meds, anxiety pills and I uh...
just need them right now.
Okay, just let me help you.
I gotta go to the bathroom.
Daniel?
He gonna be all right?
I don't know.
: The events of the last few days
have us looking at an economic and environmental disaster
with repercussions being felt across the globe.
As of yet, no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Mom, it's me.
Oh, thank God you're okay.
I've been trying your cell phone for hours,
it just keeps bouncing back to voicemail.
Mom... when I was 5 I had a pet.
Do you remember its name and what happened to it?
It was a goldfish dear and you called him Fish sticks
and then he died,
you made us have a burial at sea in the pond in the back.
Danny, I want you to come home.
Please!
I know Mom, I can't.
When was the last time you gassed up the car?
Just the other day before the station's shut.
Good.
I want you and Dad to drive up to Aunt Carol's farm
for a few days.
Don't take your cell or your laptop,
you'll be safer that way.
Danny, I want you to come with us.
No, I can't.
Please, can you just do this for me Mom?
Okay?
Please, I'm fine okay...
everything is gonna be fine.
I love you.
Hey.
I don't think we can stop it.
Sure we can.
We have the key, Belphegor's data.
We don't even know what's on that drive,
it could be nothing.
But it could be something.
And Daniel, until you encrypt it...
You're assuming that I can.
What if I'm not smart enough, huh?
What if you've hedged your bets on a kid
who is way over his head?
We need you to try, Daniel.
I looked that thing in the eyes...
It's so powerful, so determined.
How old were you when you started watching Pokémon?
I don't know...12.
And do you know what else Daniel was doing when he was 12?
He was hacking into the phone company
so that he could make free long distance phone calls
to the show's animators in Japan.
How did you know that?
Oh come on, I research my sources.
Do you know what I was doing when I was 12?
I was trying to log into a BBS with our family's own computer
and its dial-up modem.
There was no wireless.
There was no Internet.
When I was 12, no one that I knew had a cell phone
and our home phone had an answering machine
that recorded messages on a cassette tape.
My dad's computer had a grey scale monitor,
40 meg hard drive and it used floppy disks.
That's whacked.
Daniel... you're the most talented, intelligent man
that I know, and I believe in you.
The entire world is labouring under the misconception
this is the work of cyber terrorists.
The question is...
how long will we keep them in the dark?
As long as it takes.
Or maybe it's time to come clean.
This singularity is threatening to wipe out all of humanity.
And you want to go public?
You might as well tell them we're being attacked by aliens.
Right now the people need reassurance.
Are you trying to avoid panic?
'Cause I have news for you,
that horse has already left the barn.
If it were up to me, we would implement martial law.
Mike, what do you say?
You used to be full of opinions.
I was, but everything we've come up with so far
has made the situation worse.
Then let's bring in outside help.
We're not the only ones with experts,
we can pool global resources on this.
So, what if say...
the Chinese put their own people on the problem
but instead of killing it,
they find a way to reign it in, they control it.
There's nothing to indicate that's even possible.
It you told me a week ago that a computer program
was going to come to life
and hold the world's oil supply hostage,
I'm guessing we would've said just about the same thing.
Miles, it's me.
Did you get my message?
Yeah.
Did you call the scientist Doctor Janpur?
She confirmed everything you said,
an artificial intelligence.
Miles, you've gotta get the word out there.
I mean, people... they need to be warned.
We already did, it's hitting the news wires as we speak.
What?
My God Jess, you were right.
Can you flip it back?
And this is late breaking news and we have yet
to receive any official comment from government sources,
but multiple news outlets around the world
are now reporting that the recent catastrophes
were not the work of cyber terrorists
as initially assumed,
but something far more frightening.
We're being told that these acts were in fact orchestrated
by a massively intelligent, independent artificial entity.
As incredible as it sounds,
scientists are already confirming the theoretical possibility
that humanity has been targeted by an artificial intelligence.
A consciousness existing in cyber space,
with the ability to access and manipulate
much of our current technology.
These reports are as of yet unconfirmed, but if true,
then we may well be facing an enemy
the likes of which we've never seen.
What happens now, Jess?
Will they be able to stop it?
I don't know.
I wanna know how the hell the media got a hold of this.
Well we were never gonna be able to keep a lid on it forever.
There's too much happening in too many places
for people to keep believing it's a coincidence.
The president is scheduled to publicly address
this issue in an hour.
It'll be a short speech...
no follow up questions,
because we can't provide any answers!
Okay, at this point it's important that we be
as transparent as possible.
We need to know who talked, it can't be that hard to find out.
The story originated in the Pittsburgh Chronicle
and they have credited the lead to a reporter named Jesse White.
Jesse White?
Mmm-mmm.
Wasn't she one of the suspects FBI agent Hollis brought in
during the Dubito investigation?
I'm gonna have to check my files
but I think so.
Everyone's okay?
All right, good.
Well, look... if you need me,
you've got this number call, leave a message,
I'll get back to you. Okay?
All right.
Stay safe, Dad.
I love you.
Is there anyone you wanna call?
No.
Yes... yes!
What?
I... did it!
I cracked the encryption!
Daniel!
What's on it?
Most of it is some kind of program and before you ask,
I don't know what it does.
But I did find something else...
There's someone at the door.
Hello?
Daniel Gerson?
Daniel Gerson, we need to speak with you.
Cops.
It's the police, open up!
Take the stairs I'll get fire escape.
Come on!
Okay, so why are the cops after us now?
I'm guessing the AI used some phony APB.
We gotta get out of sight, guys.
What else is on that drive?
Some address in Brockton, 10015 West Kittling Road.
Does that ring a bell to either of you?
No.
Kittling...
Ah ha!
Old school strikes again.
I love this guy.
How much gas we got?
We're good.
Look, Brockton.
Is this light ever gonna change?
It's been red for...
Damnit!
Out of the car!
Out of the car, now!
Any thoughts?
Yeah, we get out of the car.
Hollis...
All right, I'm agent Max Hollis, I'm with the FBI.
Do not move!
We know who you are?
And these people here,
they are material witnesses in an ongoing federal investigation.
They are wanted for domestic terrorism and so are you.
No, you've got that all wrong.
You've been tricked, it's the artificial intelligence.
It can do whatever it wants
including issue false arrest warrants.
You were trying to escape!
We're trying to stop this thing.
We'll take you in.
If you're telling the truth, you'll sort it out.
Please... No!
You have the right to remain silent.
This is what it wants!
It's trying to slow us down, you gotta listen to me!
Hollis, we don't have time for this.
You got a better way of convincing these guys, Jesse?
Don't!
Please...
All right, get on your feet.
You're gonna handcuff yourselves to one another
and get in the back of this cruiser.
I'm really sorry about this,
everything I said was the truth.
You guys are being used.
Let's go.
Oh, come on!
You know, if we strip the electronics,
we could take...
We are not stealing a police car!
This is the scene playing out across the country today
as banks close and turn away panicked customers
whose bank accounts have literally disappeared,
their savings absolutely wiped out.
Now, many believe this to be an escalation
about the campaign of cyber terror being waged
by what the government claims
is an independent artificial intelligence.
The National Guard is on alert, all I need is the green light
and they're on the streets throughout the country.
The enemy is not our own people, it's the singularity.
At this point it's better to err on the side of caution.
We don't want any inaction on our part to come back
and bite us in the ass.
I think we need to spend less time worrying about our asses
and more time focusing on a solution.
Cyber command is working on what went wrong
with our first attempt to neutralize the AI.
They're working on a new virus.
What?
Have you lost your mind?
Excuse me?
The last one only made it stronger.
It's like you just poured gasoline on fire
and now you want to throw dynamite at it!
Overson, remember who you're talking to.
The whole situation is playing out exactly
the way the AI wanted it.
It's manipulated us from the start,
it knows how we think,
what we're gonna do before we do it,
it is using our weaknesses against us!
Whoa, whoa...
hold up.
There's something happening here.
Things are deteriorating very quickly, those were gunshots.
The police are nowhere to be found.
All of us need to remain calm.
All of us need to stay calm.
How long before there's all out anarchy in the streets?
Still think we don't need the army to keep the peace?
Is this the place?
That's what it said.
Why would Dubito be interested in this place?
It's abandoned.
Circ that.
Maybe this isn't the right place.
Ahh!
Move and you're dead!
Whoa, easy!
Who are you?
I'm with the FBI, we're just looking for someone.
What are your orders?
Are you here to kill me?
Please...
We're here to help.
How did you find me?
Belphegor's secret files.
What do you know about Belphegor?
He's a member of an online group called Dubito.
They knew about the AI,
they were targeted because they were trying to stop it.
Where is he?
He's dead.
Then they're all dead.
Maybe not all...
which one are you?
Lucifer.
Wait... you're Lucifer?
I... I thought you were murdered.
Yeah, that's just what the government wanted.
Isn't it?
The FBI was after you, but not to kill you.
No?
And if the government did want to kill you,
do you really think they'd send the three of us?
What if we had a drive
containing all of Belphegor's secret files?
If you untie us, I'll tell you where it's hidden.
Did what I think just happened, happen?
He might've assumed we'd hidden it...
Daniel, stop talking, okay?
You're not helping things.
Look, we've been in a car accident,
we've been nearly suffocated and chased by the police
all because the AI didn't want us to give you the drive.
Now, I'm hungry and I'm tired and I'm about 5 minutes
from flipping out if you don't untie us
and lose the blindfolds!
I booby-trapped the drive with a delete worm variant,
probably gonna take you a few hours to find a work around.
Or you could just trust me.
We knew this was coming.
None of us expected it to achieve consciousness so quickly.
There's no plan, no contingency so we had to create one.
Create what?
The only thing that could defeat this...
another AI.
Hey.
You got a minute?
Sure.
Listen, I know that we have all been under
a lot of pressure lately but...
it's just, I've noticed it's really taking its toll on you...
Hold on.
Kevin, can you come in for a second please?
I just want you to know we're behind you 100 percent,
no matter what.
Sir.
Okay... I need you to take this to my wife.
Hand deliver it, don't call her to tell her you're coming,
don't tell anyone you're going,
don't take your car, take a cab, pay cash.
You got it?
Yes sir.
Good, dismissed.
Are you sure you're okay?
I mean, what was that about?
Mike, it's me!
We have been through too much
and we have known each other too long,
now you know that you can trust me.
I trust you, I'm just in a very complicated situation.
It's all I can do, Lizzy.
You need to trust that.
I studied robotics and artificial intelligence at MIT
and I was a research fellow for Darius McKee.
The creator of eon identity?
And that is...?
The early incarnation of a self-aware AI,
it detects sensory changes.
If you put a match next to its arm
it would pull away or try to extinguish it.
It was way ahead of anything anyone had done before.
And where is he now?
Uh, retired and living...
He's dead!
He died when that military missile crashed into his house
in California.
Wait a sec, are you trying to say he was targeted by the AI?
It knew he was a threat and eliminated him.
You didn't think that was random, did you?
What's with the armour?
This is the only reason I'm still alive.
My friends weren't as paranoid as I am.
So what makes you think another AI is the solution?
It's the only thing that's smart enough
or can react quickly enough,
it's the mongoose to the snake.
Sounds risky.
No, no... I get it.
You shape it, you mould it,
not like the chaos the other AI emerged from.
Exactly.
That entity was born from
the most base elements of humanity,
stuff that's available online.
Pornography, the violence...
all the toxic crap people spew through their keyboards.
No wonder its' so screwed up.
Okay, what did we get off of Belphegor's hard drive?
Each member of Dubito was working on
a different part of the puzzle.
Belphegor's was the key that linked them all together,
but he never got to finish it.
What's the crypto to disarm your worm?
Um... Jesse.
So are you able to complete his work?
I don't know.
Belphegor was a genius with cybernetic anagrams alone.
I don't know.
I... I can help.
This has already been decrypted.
Who did this?
He did.
You know, we may have a use for the FBI guy after all.
What are you talking about?
When we upload this program,
there'll be a period of self-replication.
It's gonna need room to grow, a lot of room.
The other AI did it by hacking into super computers around the world
but if ours has to do that it'll be vulnerable to attack.
You want unlimited access to government super computers?
Yes.
We need it.
The largest one is at the new Cyber Command in Maryland.
Overson.
Okay, we're gonna need access to a secure landline.
This place is off the grid.
The nearest phone is 5 miles north of here.
Take 94, first house on the right.
I'll drive.
We'll be back.